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THE ARTIST BEHIND THE DESIGN
Careth Christine
Artist/Muralist
Careth Christine Arnold is a freelance artist and muralist. Her works explore the relationships that construct identity between the figure and its dreamed environment. Careth aspires to catalyze an embrace of environmental sustainability, community unity, and cultural diversity through public art.
Careth's design, "Awake", inspired the overall look and feel of The Destiny Portal, as well as a line of jewelry, soon available for sale. A portion of the proceeds will go directly to The Destiny Portal. To find out more about Careth and her work, visit her website!
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Holly Valance, DRI’s International Ambassador – and a UK based actress, singer and television host – and her husband Nick Candy, a developer and international entrepreneur, have been incredibly supportive and generous benefactors to the work of DRI for many years. They are both fiercely committed to the human rights of people with disabilities and have a special place in their hearts for the plight of institutionalized children.
Nick Candy and Holly Valance in an orphanage in Eastern Europe.
Holly and Nick have traveled with DRI staff to Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union to visit orphanages firsthand, where poor and disabled children are often left for a lifetime. And they support DRI’s Worldwide Campaign to End the Institutionalization of Children. Learn here why no child should grow up in an orphanage.
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In 2013, the pair hosted their first event for DRI, the “Summer in the City” dinner, held at their beautiful London penthouse, with views across the city. Ambassador Holly made an impassioned speech to her audience – which included 70 very influential guests – and then played a short video which she produced from the couple’s visits to orphanages with DRI. The event was a huge success!
And the pair continues to care deeply about children locked away and forgotten and their work with DRI. We are eternally grateful.
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Could this credentialing system set a new standard?
By Laura Devaney, Director of News, @eSN_Laura
Universities embrace new credentialing system with the University Learning Store
Six universities are banding together to offer a new form credentialing system that advocates say could set a new standard in career-focused, skills-based training.
Called the University Learning Store, the system aims to enable job seekers and working professionals to earn industry-validated micro-credentials in a range of business and technical skills.
The universities that launced the credentialing system include Georgia Tech Professional Education, UCLA, University of California, Davis Extension, University of California Irvine Division of Continuing Education, University of Washington Professional and Continuing Education and University of Wisconsin-Extension.
Micro-credentials earned online through the University Learning Store give employers confidence in learners’ capabilities because of a thorough, industry-based verification process, representatives say.
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Register for Show
Become a Show Clerk
TICA Members
Register a new cat
New Exhibitors info
February 1 -2, 2020 Showtime: 9 a.m - 4:00 p.m
Show Managers: Dr. Diane Swabby-Cahill
Entry Clerks: Kelly Thompson & April Leitte
Vendor Coordinator: Kelly Condie
FINAL CLOSING DATE: 1/26/2020
EARLY BIRD CLOSING DATE 12/31/2019
SHOW RULES & PRICING LOCATED ON TICA.ORG
tica.org/component/toes/shows#show1765
SHOW SERVICES:
This is a bench yourself show,
End of row (non-handicapped): $20
Grooming space/Extra double space (48 inches): $30
For Sale/Exhibition Only space (48 inches): $30
Ring Sponsorships: $30
Catalog Advertising:
Full page TICA show flyer: $10
Full page: $50
Half page: $25
Quarter page: $15
Business Card: $5
econo_12-19_revised_flyer__1_.pdf
Driving Directions to Adams County Fairgrounds (These directions all lead to Henderson Rd (124th Street)
From North of Denver, Go South on I-25 to hwy 7 East exit 229. Turn left onto Baseline Rd, go 0.3 miles and bear right to continue East on hwy 7. Go 8.3 miles to hwy 85 South, turn right. Go 4.7 miles South on Highway 85. Turn right (West) on Henderson (124th).
From North East of Denver, Go West on I-76 to hwy 51 North exit 17. Turn right (North) on Sable Blvd. Go 0.5 miles and turn left (West) on East 124th Avenue. Go 2.5 miles and continue west on Henderson (124th) across hwy 85.
From East of Denver, Go West on I-70 to I-270 West exit 279. Go West 36 4.0 miles to I-76 East. Go East 1.7 miles to hwy 85 North exit 12. Go 3.2 miles North, turn left (West) on Henderson (124th).
From South of Denver, Go North on I-25 to I-76 East exit 216A. Go East 6.6 miles, merge left onto 85 North (exit 12). Go 3.5 miles. Turn left (West) on Henderson (124th).
From West of Denver, Go East on I-70 , merge left onto I-76 East. Go 12.5 miles , merge left onto 85 North (exit 12). Go 3.5 miles. Turn left (West) on Henderson (124th). Go West 0.6 miles to the stop sign at Brighton Blvd. Continue West on Henderson (124th) past the stop sign; the fairgrounds are 0.6 miles ahead on the right hand side. The show hall is the exhibition building on the left.
From the Show Hotels: LaQuinta Inn & Suites: Enter I-70 West from Havana Street. Go West 1.5 miles on I-70 and merge right on to I-270 West. Go West on I-270/Highway 36 4.0 miles and bear right to get onto I-76 East. Go East 1.7 miles to Highway 85 North exit 12. Go 3.2 miles North on Highway 85 to the stoplight at Henderson (124th). Turn left (West) on Henderson, go West 0.6 miles to the stop sign at Brighton Blvd. Continue West on Henderson (126th) through the stop sign, the fairgrounds are 0.6 miles ahead on the right hand side. The show hall is the exhibition building on the left.
Other Pet Friendly Hotels:
Embassy Suites Denver-Aurora
4444 North Havana Street
Aloft Denver International Airport
16470 E 40th Circle
Show Site Amenities:
Fairground has 24 RV sites, Electric only, Free Parking,
Homemade Food Concessions supplied by Kitty Corner Cafe:
Breakfast, Lunch, and snacks.
ADVERTISING: Vendors and exhibitors are
encouraged to advertise in our Show Catalog:
Full page ................................$25
½ page.................................... $15
¼ page.................................... $10
Business Card (1/8 page).........$5
WE WANT EVERYONE AT OUR SHOW TO SHARE A HAPPY AND FRIENDLY EXPERIENCE,
AND WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF VENDORS WOULD FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES:
Please adhere to setup and breakdown times. Please leave your sites as clean as they were when you arrived.
Junior exhibitor must be under 18 years of age. The cat being shown must be owned and shown by the JE. The JE must be a member of a TICA club or be registered with TICA as a JE (EB fees must be paid within 5 working days.)
Photo Entry for cats not entered in the show: $20 (payable at the door.)
CAT SUPPLIES: Cat litter will be provided by Dr. Elseys.
Please bring your own litter pans and cat food.
CHECK IN/SHOW HOURS: Check in Saturday is 7:30 am –8:20 am. Judging will start promptly at 8:30 am. Exhibitors that are not present at the start of judging will be marked absent until they arrive. Advertised show hours for the public are 9:00 – 4 pm. Set-up at 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
both days. All cats MUST be present during the advertised show hours unless special permission to leave earlyis granted by the Show Manager.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS/FEES: You must be a TICA member to show. If you are not a member, please sign up on www.tica.org, then register your cat using the PAW on this page (or https://online.tica.org/), then register for the show. Payment must be made via PAYPAL within 24 hours of registering for the show.
All kittens in competition must be 4 calendar months old.
All adults in competition must be 8 calendar months old.
All Adult HHP's MUST be spayed/neutered. Please have your spay/neuter records available.
Per TICA rules, cats do not have to be registered to be shown in one show, however, unregistered cats do not earn points or titles.
Online entries will be officially entered when payment is received, which should be no more than 5 working days of submittal. Cats will not be benched unless fees are paid. No post-dated checks will be accepted. Returned checks will be assessed a $30 charge plus the original amount of the check.
CLERKS/STEWARDS:
Ring Clerks will earn a free two day entry and lunches.
Stewards will earn $15 per day plus lunch. Please indicate your availability on TOES.
Do not deduct your pay from your entry fees. You will be paid in cash at the show.
Kittens or cats may NOT be confined to carriers, either displayed or under the bench, during show hours.
NO cats/kittens may be left in the Show Hall overnight.
HEALTH RULES: This is a non-vetted show. All cats MUST be fully immunized and tested negative for Feline Leukemia. All entries MUST be free of any communicable disease including, but not restricted to, fungus, fleas, and ear mites. Exhibitors who have Cats suspected to be ill or pregnant (as determined by the Show Committee) will be asked to leave the show hall with ALL their entries with NO refunds being made.
It is advised that all cats be bathed and groomed prior to benching. All nails MUST be clipped prior to benching.
LIABILITY: All participants agree to indemnify and hold Econo Cat Club, TICA, and the Adams County Fairground harmless from injury, loss or damage to cats, exhibitors, or property of exhibitors or vendors, or other such persons in attendance.
For the safety of our exhibitors, their cats, and spectators, NO kittens/cats may be allowed "on leash" in or around the show hall at any time.
Per TICA Show Rules - Article 10 - Responsibilities of Exhibitors (210.3): Exhibitors shall not sit (or stand) in the ring area holding cats prior to or during judging except with the explicit permission of the Judge; these rules will be STRICTLY ENFORCED.
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Business End of the Season
Who said never mix business with pleasure?
The Football League Trust has teamed up with The Open University to bring business learning to life, in a partnership which presents a chance for you to use your football passion to fuel your graduation goals.
BA (Hons) Business Management (Sport & Football) is a business degree with a football focus in which you can select specific business and sports modules to match your career ambitions, as you apply business tactics to the multi-billion pound global game throughout your studies.
With the flexibility to tailor learning around your free time, regular workshops at inspiring Football League stadia, and developing business skills transferable beyond sport, the course offers a perfect platform for those destined to promote their career to a higher league.
Angus Martin, The Football League Trust's Business Development for Education Manager, said: "We are delighted to be working with The Open University on such an exciting project.
"Football has a tremendous power to engage people and we feel that by making much of the learning football related, many people will progress to achieve their Business Management degree and improve their career prospects.
"Some people may end up getting jobs in football through doing this degree but that is not our main intention here, the focus is on people achieving a respected Business Management degree that they can use in virtually any career."
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Kayla Snell
Science Says Biting Your Nails Has This One Big Health Benefit
By Talia Koren
Everyone has that one terrible habit. Mine is nail biting.
It's not favorable as far as habits go, but nail biting has benefits that actually explain a lot. I'm also not allergic to anything and have a rock solid immune system, and that may have something to do with nail biting.
Based on a new study published in Pediatrics, exposure to some germs when you're a kid strengthens the immune system. Researchers assessed 1,000 people over the course of their lives to come to this conclusion.
Around a third of the kids assessed bit their nails or sucked their thumbs in their early years. This group was least likely to have allergies compared to the kids who didn't have these habits by the time they hit their teens and adulthood. People who had the best immune systems were both thumb suckers and nail biters.
This study backs up the idea that exposure to germs early in life is more protective than hazardous. I don't know anything about parenting, but I guess science says that kids could develop allergies if you keep them too sheltered from germs.
That being said, it's definitely worrisome to parents when they see their kid sucking their thumb or biting their nails as these habits develop. The social issues around them, as well as health concerns, can be stressful to parents who don't know how to constructively help their kids break these habits. But with this new evidence, maybe they can worry slightly less.
Yeah, I've tried several times to stop biting my nails and I hate doing it. But I rarely get sick, I'm not allergic to anything and it's probably because of my gross nail biting habit. Take THAT, Mom.
Elite Daily on YouTube
Citations: Thumb Suckers and Nail Biters May Develop Fewer Allergies (Well / NY Times), Thumb-suckers and nail-biters have 'fewer allergies' (BBC)
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Operation Stall
March 5, 2014 /27 Comments/in Leak Investigations, Torture /by emptywheel
McClatchy has now posted an update to the tale of the CIA-SSCI spat.
It appears the following happened: Sometime around August, SSCI staffers working on a database at CIA discovered the internal CIA report, started under Leon Panetta, that corroborated the SSCI report. It also contradicted CIA’s official response to the SSCI Report.
Several months after the CIA submitted its official response to the committee report, aides discovered in the database of top-secret documents at CIA headquarters a draft of an internal review ordered by former CIA Director Leon Panetta of the materials released to the panel, said the knowledgeable person.
So having discovered even the CIA disagreed with the CIA’s response, the SSCI staffers took a copy with them.
They determined that it showed that the CIA leadership disputed report findings which they knew were corroborated by the so-called Panetta review, said the knowledgeable person.
The aides printed the material, walked out of CIA headquarters with it and took it to Capitol Hill, said the knowledgeable person.
Mark Udall raised the report in a December hearing. In January, CIA accused SSCI of absconding with the document.
After the CIA confronted the panel in January about the removal of the material last fall, panel staff concluded that the agency had monitored computers that they’d been given to use in a high-security research room at the CIA campus in Langley, Va., a McClatchy investigation found.
In response, the CIA asked DOJ to start an investigation.
Then there’s this weird question about the document. I’m not sure whether the issue is how the document first got included in the database at CIA, or whether it’s how it migrated to SSCI.
White House officials have held at least one closed-door meeting with committee members about the monitoring and the removal of the documents, said the first knowledgeable person.
The White House officials were trying to determine how the materials that were taken from CIA headquarters found their way into a data base into which millions of pages of top-secret reports, emails and other documents were made available to panel staff after being vetted by CIA officials and contractors, said the knowledgeable person.
My favorite part of this passage, though, is that contractors are helping choose with documents CIA’s overseers are allowed to see.
Because contractors should surely have more visibility into what the CIA does than CIA’s overseers, right?
All of which is to say the SSCI busted the CIA for lying in their official response to the Committee. And as a result, CIA decided to start accusing the Committee of breaking the law. And now everyone is being called into the Principal’s office for spankings.
This reminds me of what happened when Gitmo defense lawyers tried to independently identify the identities of their clients torturers. The lawyers got too close to the torturers, which set off a process that ultimately led to John Kiriakou, as the sacrificial lamb, going to jail.
But it seems that this is part of a larger CIA effort to stall. As McClatchy notes, CIA took 3 extra months to provide their initial response to SSCI. Then this erupted 2 months later. It has now been almost 3 months since Udall first revealed the existence of the Panetta report. Which brings us just 8 months away from an election in which the Democrats stand a good chance of losing the Senate, and with it, the majority on the Committee that might vote to declassify the report in defiance of CIA’s wishes. Which may be why Saxby Chambliss is fanning the CiA’s flames for them.
“I have no comment. You should talk to those folks that are giving away classified information and get their opinion,” Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) said when asked about the alleged intrusions.
Stall, stall, stall. It’s what CIA did with the OPR report, it’s what they did with the torture tape investigation, and now this.
CIA may well suck at doing their job — getting intelligence that is useful to the country. But they sure are experts at outlasting any oversight onto their real activities.
Tags: John Brennan, John Kiriakou, Mark Udall, Martin Heinrich, Saxby Chambiss
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Phil Perspective says:
But they sure are experts at outlasting any oversight onto their real activities.
Isn’t that their real job?
Jeff Kaye says:
CIA may well suck at doing their job — getting intelligence that is useful to the country.
No, that is not their job. That is their cover story, and has been for 67 years. The Pike Committee (whose staffers were as great as the SSCI staffers — who deserve a medal, by the way, for exposing the CIA’s subterfuge) revealed that the intelligence arm of the CIA was a joke. That’s why their report was suppressed.
Don’t believe me. Listen to what 25 year CIA veteran Ralph McGeehee wrote in his book on his time in the Agency. (He served in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and at Langley, 1952-1977. While retired for years, his analysis remains contemporary. McGeehee was also a recipient of the CIA’s Career Intelligence Medal for “exceptional achievement.” )
… the CIA is the covert action arm of the Presidency. Most of its money, manpower, and energy go into covert operations that, as we have seen over the years, include backing dictators and overthrowing democratically elected governments. The CIA is not an intelligence agency. In fact, it acts largely as an anti-intelligence agency, producing only that information wanted by policymakers to support their plans and suppressing information that does not support those plans. As the covert action arm of the President, the CIA uses disinformation, much of it aimed at the U.S. public, to mold opinion. It employs the gamut of disinformation techniques from forging documents to planting and discovering “communist” weapons caches. But the major weapon in its arsenal of disinformation is the “intelligence” it feeds to policymakers. Instead of gathering genuine intelligence that could serve as the basis for reasonable policies, the CIA often ends up distorting reality, creating out of whole cloth “intelligence” to justify policies that have already been decided upon. Policymakers then leak this “intelligence” to the media to deceive us all and gain our support…
Telling people that the CIA’s job is intelligence is to perpetuate (not consciously, I’m sure) a fairy tale.
Alan Willard says:
“helping choose with documents”
I’m sure you meant “which”
“And now everyone is being called into the Principal’s office for spankings.”
Funny, except that some staffers may have their professional lives destroyed
and face bankruptcy because of their legal bills.
TomVet says:
How does this
and other documents were made available to panel staff after being vetted by CIA officials and contractors, said the knowledgeable person.
square with the Smith ruling of “no expectation of privacy in data voluntarily given to a third party”?
These folks are like children playing one parent off against the other, always hoping to get a decision favorable to themselves.
jo6pac says:
@Jeff Kaye: Thank You
@Jeff Kaye: Personally, I think it goes beyond even that. They basically do the dirty work of corporations and other elites.
prostratedragon says:
The Hot Club of Detroit: “Nostalgia in Times Square” by Charles Mingus.
(Ref: Los Hermanos Macana Tango New York Times Square, a place that will convince you that there are doppelgangers.)
JohnT says:
Jim Harbaugh nails a half court shot at the Kansas Jayhawks BB practice
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john francis lee says:
It’s not a ‘spat’ John Brennan and his hand puppet, Barack Obama, are criminals. They need to be impeached, convicted, and jailed.
This was the part of the McClatchy story that leaped out at me:
“Even if the agency is technically correct on the legalities, it’s a real asinine thing to pick a fight with your oversight committee like this,” said a U.S. official who was among those who spoke to McClatchy. “You’ve got to be asking yourself why the agency would be willing to take such a risk. The documents must be so damned loaded.”
That’s certainly what I was asking myself. Staffers for one of the most secretive committees just don’t do something like this without extreme reasons, and picking a huge fight with an oversight committee over something minor is just plain stupid. Within the culture of DC, the opening and closing sentences here are both absolutely 100% spot-on.
And the end of the piece was entirely predictable (emphasis added):
“The CIA has gone to just about any lengths you can imagine to make sure that the detention and interrogation report won’t be released,” said Sen. Mark Heinrich, D-N.M., a Senate Intelligence Committee member who has pushed hard for the release of the report.
“As furious as I am about these allegations, I want to keep focused on getting that report out to the people so that they can read the truth and make up their own minds as to who made those decisions and why,” he said.
The committee has the legal power to decide through a simple majority vote to release whatever portions of the study it deems should be made public. If the executive branch continues to resist the release of the information, the committee’s action must then be approved by the full Senate.
Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., declined to comment while speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill except to confirm that CIA Inspector General David Buckley was looking into whether the agency had monitored her staff’s computers.
There’s the key to your stall, Marcy.
The CIA is happy to distract, dissemble, and delay, and as long as DiFi refuses to let the committee vote to push the report into public view, this will continue.
And isn’t there a majority leader who has some sway over this matter? This is just crazy. Why should DiFi have this kind of power, or does it go beyond her to protecting the White House as well?
bevin says:
For “DiFi” read “Barack Obama.”
@JohnT: Now if he would call a football game with a West Coast theme I might like him better;)
@bevin: Don’t conflate the two, please. DiFi has the authority to let this vote happen, and there’s not a damn thing that Obama can do about it. See Article I.
The fact that she is willing to carry water for Obama and the CIA is her choice. She’s not a pawn in this matter, though she appears happy to behave like one. But again, that’s her choice.
There is a new personal attack against Emptywheel by the Ratfucker known as Spandan C of The People’s View. Spandan C, slanders Marcy Wheeler by name, as being “Anti-American”.
The tweeter account emptywheel belongs to Marcy Wheeler, who is the Senior policy analyst for Greenwald’s new magazine.
It is already happening. Instead of condemning Russia’s aggression, Snowden’s chief defenders (and his chief benefactors) are already taking Russia’s side, gleefully celebrating the Russian actions as indicative of waning American influence.
The reason for this is simple. The people masquerading as the high priests of the anti-war, dogmatic Left aren’t liberals or leftists at all. What they are is anti-American. They celebrate anything they view as embarrassing or undermining to American influence and American power. Snowden’s revelations and Russian actions aren’t contradictory in their value system, since the only thing they value is the undermining of the United States.
It is not just about a “stall”. It is also destroying reputations and manipulating discussions with lies and black propaganda. That is OPERATION JTRIG. And there is hardly anyone more clumsy and inept than JTRIG’s funny clown, Spandan C.
But Spandan’s single virtue is persistence, as he has been catapulting neo-con propaganda against antiwar activists for years. Spandan is too young to have any knowledge of the Joe McCarthy and McCarthy’s attacks against American citizens. But Spandan uses the same “anti-american” accusation that Joe McCarthy used very successfully. Spandan is the true traitor.
And the irony is clownish since Spandan puts the tag “Professional Left” on his vicious Post. That is a White House insult that was first used against Jane Hamsher.
headlines for all versions of this story should read simply:
CIA LIES TO CONGRESS AGAIN
that seems to be what is at the heart of this conflict, nothing more – the cia lied to congress again.
all the rest is an effort by brennan and gang to distract from that central act of wilfully deceiving congress.
by report, staffers of the senate committee (ssci) found an internal cia report that criticized the torture “program” in the same scathing way that the ssci report would later do.
in the meantime, the cia’s officials have been appearing before congress and in public leveling objections about the report at the congress which implying the congressional report was unfairly harsh.
so brennan and the rest of the cia gang sought to confuse dopey congresscritters and mitigate or defuse the report. but ssci staff found that intetnal cia report that agreed in critical tone with the ssci report.
at that point brennan and the gang were up for lying to congress. the rest is all a cia psyops to change focus from the report to ssci behavior.
but why lie to congress in the first place?
why not accept the legitimate criticism and move on?
now there’s the question that needs answering.
ArizonaBumblebee says:
We are close to learning who really runs the executive branch of the federal government. For the past five years I have watched in amazement as a young, idealistic senator from Illinois has gradually morphed into a cheap imitation of Dick Cheney. Has the President become the captive of his national security establishment? Why does he continually take the side of the NSA and CIA whenever questions are raised about surveillance, torture, or the strategies employed in the so-called War on Terror? If I’m off base, the President can do all of us a favor and resolve the current imbroglio over the torture report by authorizing its release and firing his CIA Director.
On a related matter, I want to thank Marcy Wheeler for her work in creating this site. Exposing the guttersnipes living in the fascist sewer is not for the fainthearted, and she has demonstrated on numerous occasions her steadfast determination not to bow down to the dark forces seeking to undermine and destroy our constitutional republic.
Bill Michtom says:
“a young, idealistic senator from Illinois has gradually morphed into a cheap imitation of Dick Cheney.”
I didn’t follow O’s early career enough to have an opinion on his idealism, but “gradually”?
He voted for the FISA Amendments Act during the 2008 campaign, giving immunity to the telecommunications industry for committing felony after felony on behalf of the national security state.
The report is proof of war crimes.
Once the evidence is public, then what?
Can the US and partners ignore war crimes? The US might but the partners might not. Australia, Canada, NZ and the UK are signatories.
http://www.icc-cpi.int/en_menus/asp/states%20parties/Pages/the%20states%20parties%20to%20the%20rome%20statute.aspx#A
And there are already calls to prosecute: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/25/could-john-howard-be-citizen-arrested-for-his-role-in-the-iraq-war
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2014/jan/21/reward-attempt-citizens-arrest-tony-blair
This report IS Pandora’s Box. And all involved know it.
And that is why it must come out.
What Constitution? says:
@Frank33: Just a badge, just a badge. My bet is the only thing Marcy would like less coming from this guy would be an endorsement/compliment. Besides, who uses terms like “the People’s View”? Sounds like commie verbiage to me, certainly couldn’t be coming from a decent ‘Murikin.
Mick Savage says:
impeach.
prosecute.
convict.
imprison.
Muy facil?
Perhaps I am in error, but it seems to me that by de-classifying the report, the President could quickly solve the problem. Senator Feinstein would then be unable, I suspect, to continue to stonewall.
If I am right about this, and I may very well not be, then my comment @14 is accurate. If I am wrong, thank you for pointing it out.
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These tactics, used by goons such as Joe McCarthy in he 1950’s destroyed many patriotic Americans. Similar tactics were used in the 1960’s against opponenets of the Vietnam Cluster fuck which killed a million Vietnamese
Spandan C and his cohorts are attacking people today who oppose the Wars of the One Percent. Actually the majority of Americans oppose the wars that Spandan supports. Same old COINTELPRO. These sniveling sycophants are trying to protect a corrupt American Gestapo which also wants to destroy patriotic Americans now.
And Spandan C must be receiving an overtime bonus from Michael Hayden and the CIA/NSA/Military Industrial Complex. There is a whole new Post also with the Tag, “Professional Left”. Again it is the neo-cons in the White House who created that Tag against American Progressives and Patriots. The latest propaganda by Spandan C is
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Here are the latest lies by Spandan, who is supporting CIA torture as he also slanders more Patriots. But at least Spandan admits that the President does not control anything in this government.
Update: Funny stuff. He changed the title of the Post. Ha Ha and Lots of laughs.
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A quick look at that site, and its contents, lead me to believe the cow is quite contented, grateful even, to be giving the milk away for free.
@Jeff Kaye: Yep. Yep. Yep. One needn’t have read a Daniel Suarez novel to appreciate that, or to dislike the nickname, “Kermit”.
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Mark Chirnside
I have to agree with those statements, re.: the early stage of Titan's career compared with Titanic's story. If memory serves the Titan was supposed to be setting a speed record, presumably the 'Blue Ribband;' whilst Titanic was not capable of that, I am one of those who believes she was trying to beat Olympic's maiden voyage time (as *opposed* to Olympic's record). I also believe that the evidence against Ismay's belief in a Tuesday arrival can be combined with the evidence of his expectation on the voyage for such an occurance; but this is not the thread for discussing that.
Dave wrote: Where on earth did you get a 'Registered Displacement' of 77,780 tons?
My sources were Olympic's May 1911, Titanic's March 1912, and Britannic's December 1915, British Registry Entries respectively, filed by Harold Sanderson and Henry Concannon(sic?). These also mention something about a block co-efficient of 150 tons per inch, if memory serves.
such a displacement would sink her something like 14 feet (at a ballpark calculation) above her marks.
I calculated that 66,000 tons would sink the ship to F-deck; 77,780 tons would bring her down to D-deck. The problem here is that you are taking it too literally. We need a technical expert to help us, but I am reasonably sure that -- from memory -- the term 'registered displacement' is correct. Certainly the figures are.
Parks Stephenson
In reference to Taner's post above, the supposed Robertson short story about Japanese planes attacking Hawaii is pure myth. I have read the collection of Robertson's stories and can find no mention of a Pearl Harbour-style of attack. I would really like to know how this particular myth started, but I suspect it all comes down to wishful thinking. I would speculate that people simply want to believe in Robertson's prophetic ability.
Robertson's story, "Beyond the Spectrum" is the one oft quoted as the story which contains references to an aerial attack on Hawaii and the use of "sun bombs," which are supposed to be A-bombs. Well, I found neither in the story. In this case, though, the myth obscures what I would consider to be the greatest argument for Robertson's prophetic prowess. The story is about a Japanese submarine that blinds ship's crews by shining a coloured beam of light. When I was flying surveillance patrols over Soviet warships, they would often flash their range-finding lasers across our cockpit windows in an attempt to temporarily blind our pilots. Robertson's story seems to predict this tactic fairly accurately. By the way, Robertson's story ends with the hero capturing the Japanese submarine and using the new weapon to blind the crews of a invasion fleet of Japanese battleships and torpedo-boats headed not for Hawaii, but for San Francisco. The destination makes sense, as S.F. was our Pacific Fleet's home during Robertson's time. FDR would relocate the Fleet to Pearl several decades later, but Robertson shows no sign of having foreseen this, despite claims to the contrary.
Robertson was clearly taken with naval technology. In this thread, speculation was raised about Robertson's ability to project advancing marine technology into the future; in other words, was his "Titan" merely the result of his extrapolation of shipping trends and technologies, or was it prophecy? I think the answer lies in stories like "Beyond the Spectrum," "The Pirates" and "In the Valley of the Shadow." Robertson was very much taken by the concept of submarines, and talked much about their use in a practical sense, at a time when John Holland was submitting his designs for the world's first practical submarine to the U.S. Navy's design competition. Read his stories and you will get the sense that Robertson knew how to build upon current shipbuilding trends.
Thanks to Walter Lord's use of selected portions of "The Wreck of the Titan" in the preface for ANTR, Robertson's "Titan" has become legend. I don't blame Lord one whit for doing so...he wasn't trying to establish history with that excerpt, but rather to grab the reader at the outset with an effective "hook." It's a common and effective practice in the publishing world, and I admire Lord for his selective editing in this instance. But what about Robertson's "Gigantia," described in another story, "The Pirates"?
<font color="#000066">"...the mighty Gigantia...seemed to grow in size visibly as her speed, plus the destroyer's, brought them together. In a few moments Denman made out details -- six parallel rows of deadlights, one above the other, and extending from bow to stern, a length of a thousand feet; three tiers of deck houses, one above the other admidships; a line of twenty boats to a side along the upper deck, and her after rails black with passengers; while as many as six uniformed officers stood on her bridge -- eighty feet above the water line."
Is Robertson talking about the Gigantic, renamed Britannic? Maybe, given this description. I didn't mention, though, that Robertson's "Gigantia" had five funnels and one short mast (selective editing on my part). As importantly, the presence of Robertson's "Gigantia" makes his "Titan" a little less unique, as both appear to be of similar size (Gigantia appears to be a bit larger). So, was Robertson engaged in prophecy, or knowledgeable supposition? I think the latter, but it's up to you to decide. For heaven's sake, though, please read the primary source material for yourself so that you don't perpetuate myth.
Of course, given that Robertson had published stories that described the giant liners "Titan" and "Gigantia" by 1898 (publication date on my copy of Robertson's story collection), one must ask the question: Was either Ismay or Pirrie influenced by Robertson's nautical works? Is it possible that Robertson was more of an inspiration than a prophet? Something to mull over, but I suspect that there's no way to find out for certain.
Michael H. Standart
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My bet for knowladgable supposition. There's nothing supernatural about it. All it takes is paying attention to what's going on and some vision (Read that to mean...creative thinking) to see where it can go. In that sense, Futility was not some great prophetic work, but a study in the potential for disaster as ships grew far larger then did the technology and experience to control same.
And when you think about it, it didn't take a rocket scientist with a gift for precognition to see where the trends were going. The inadaquacy of lifeboat provisions was hardly a deep dark secret, nor was the risk taking that was routinely chanced to either meet schedules or break records
We do much the same "predicting" today when we take a look at current trends in shipping where minimum standards of safety are treated as the max, crews are ill trained on certain flag of convenience owned vessels, equipment is allowed to break down, structures are allowed to deteriorate and discrepancies are covered up...sometimes with the willing help of inspectors... (Ever hear of the Marine Electric?) and projects become ever more ambitious like those multi-million ton condo ships that have been proposed. It's no great strain on the imagination to see that there is one whopping big disaster looming somewhere in the future, and probably sooner then later.
Remember now, you heard it here first!
One last thought on the subject....maybe the coincidental use of names derived from Greek mythology by both Robertson and Ismay/Pirrie is not as far-fetched as we might think. Greek mythology was more popular during the Victorian/Edwardian era than it is today, judging by its prevalence in Gilded Age decor, literature, art, etc. When one thought "big" around the turn of the last century, one probably thought of the Olympians, Titans and Giants of Greek mythology. Today, those same names would just conjure up sports talk.
So maybe the coincidence with Titan/Gigantia and Titanic/Gigantic was merely the result of common interest and interpretation of a popular subject, taken within the context of a specific historical period.
Taner Tanriover
Thank you for correcting me on 'Beyond the Spectrum' and my apologies for passing on what I had read in Pellegrino's 'Her name Titanic'. I suppose he has more reason to be embarrassed as he published this myth in his book as a fact.
Since this other piece of information is from the same book, I am no longer certain of its accuracy but it seems to explain the Titan/Titanic name resemblance to a certain extent: According to an editorial published in the Belfast Morning News on June 1, 1911 "It is difficult to understand why the owners and the builders named this ship Titanic. The Titans were a mythological race who came to believe they'd conquered nature... and their final abiding place was in some limbo beneath the lowest depths of the Tartarus, a sunless abyss below Hades."
Can anybody verify a) the origin of the word b) the publication of this article in 1911?
Beatice Kaiser
I just read Futility ( here in Germany you call only "Titan"). I think it´s a little bit crazy but i suppose it´s really hard that Robertson wrote it before 1912 and it´s really like the true.
bye, Bea
John Hemmert
There's a really neat website on Morgan Robertson (Thumbnail biography) at: http://members.tripod.com/~rhazz/frobertson.html
A lot of his works can still be found on eBay for $3-$10 per book. (Except for "Futility", which runs a good deal more.) Most of them are actually a very good read. In my opinion, "Futility" - one of his earlier works - was really one of his more melodramatic and smarmy stories. But his books "Down to the Sea", "The Grain Ship", "Where Angels Fear to Tread", and "Sinful Peck" are great.
Ciao! John.
Gregory German
Is Morgan Robertson's book good? I wanted to buy it but I wanted some opinions from other titanic fans. Please give me some feedback.
I own copies of most of Morgan Robertson's works, and have read them all. (I'm something of a Morgan Robertson fan.)
"Futility - Or The wreck of the Titan" is one of his earlier works, and one of the least readable. His later works are MUCH better written. I'd have to say, that it really only should be bought if you seriously want to study the similarities between "Titanic" and "Titan"...
Mind you, I think Morgan's works are fantastic, but "Futility" is, perhaps, the least interesting work he ever wrote.
Beatrice Kaiser
I were you, i woudn´t this book,
maybe you can rend it in a library ( i done it this way).
bye Bea
are you saying this book is not very good, and i should not buy it.
Sorry, i forgot a word.
I wanted to say:
If you have the possibility to rent it, you shouldn´t buy it.
(If i hadn´t found the book in the library, i would have bought it. Because it´s interesting to read it.)
PS: I just want to say, that the book is okay, but
not the best (like John said). It´s not too bad.
Joshua McCracken
I recently bought a book called "The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold?" in which Robertson's "Futility" and Stead's "From the Old World to the New" are reprinted. I'd read "Futility" when I was younger and thought that the coincidence was pretty impressive, but after learning more about the Titanic and then reading the book again I think that the differences far outweigh similarities. For one thing, the Titan hit the berg on the port side, rolled up onto it, fell on it's side and then sank. If I remember correctly only thirteen people survived the disaster. The figures seem like they've been touched up in the version that I have (which is the 1912 version), so I think that right there alot of credibility is shot. The author of "The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold?" makes a very good case for coincidence in reference to the Titan, since it was becoming obvious in 1898 that ships would only be getting bigger and bigger. If you must read "Futility" (which, to be honest, I don't reccommend) you should get it in this book, there are some very interesting ideas in it, and Stead's story is definitely worth it!
Dave Gittins
"The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold?" by Martin Gardner is a book I strongly recommend. I'm not lucky enough to have a copy, but I recall that it includes several stories that prefigure the Titanic disaster, together with a look at the whole business of coincidence. The author was for a long time a writer for Scientific American.
THOMAS D DYER
There are a few differences between the real Titanic and the Titan like:
The Titan had broken all records .
The Titan was returning on her 3rd voyage.
The Titanic was on her 1st voyage.
The ice berg hit Titan on the port side.
The ice berg hit Titanic on the starboard side.
Only 3 people survived the Titan.
705 survived the Titanic.
Tarn Stephanos
Boston's Brattle bookshop has a copy of the 1912 British priniting of the Book- for $200.....
Give me the word and ill have them put it on hold...
What i would like is a copy of the 1898 edition and compare it to the 1912 edition, i think a lot of the text in the 1912 edition was changed to make it more like Titanic and to make the Titan sound even more powerful.
If anybody wants to read 'Futility' online (or download - it's well out of copyright) here's a link. Sorry, I don't know which version this is.
http://www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/effluvia/twott-t.htm
The version Bob mentions is the 1912 edition.
There's actually very little difference between the two. In Chapter 1, Titan originally had 40,000 Hp and displaced 45,000 tons. The book originally ended at the words 'women and whisky'.
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Jeong, Park, Kim, Lee, Chung, Kim, and Lee: Neuroprotective effects of erythropoietin against hypoxic injury via modulation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway and apoptosis
Ji Eun Jeong, MD1, Jae Hyun Park, MD2, Chun Soo Kim, MD2, Sang Lak Lee, MD2, Hai Lee Chung, MD1, Woo Taek Kim, MD1, Eun Joo Lee, MD3
1Department of Pediatrics, Daegu Catholic University Medical Center, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.
2Department of Pediatrics, Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.
3Department of Pediatrics, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.
Corresponding author: Eun Joo Lee, MD. Department of Pediatrics, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, 130 Dongdeok-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu 41944, Korea.
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Received December 30, 2016 Revised March 31, 2017 Accepted April 11, 2017
Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy is a significant cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Erythropoietin (EPO) is emerging as a therapeutic candidate for neuroprotection. Therefore, this study was designed to determine the neuroprotective role of recombinant human EPO (rHuEPO) and the possible mechanisms by which mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway including extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK1/2), JNK, and p38 MAPK is modulated in cultured cortical neuronal cells and astrocytes.
Primary neuronal cells and astrocytes were prepared from cortices of ICR mouse embryos and divided into the normoxic, hypoxia (H), and hypoxia-pretreated with EPO (H+EPO) groups. The phosphorylation of MAPK pathway was quantified using western blot, and the apoptosis was assessed by caspase-3 measurement and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling assay.
All MAPK pathway signals were activated by hypoxia in the neuronal cells and astrocytes (P<0.05). In the neuronal cells, phosphorylation of ERK-1/-2 and apoptosis were significantly decreased in the H+EPO group at 15 hours after hypoxia (P<0.05). In the astrocytes, phosphorylation of ERK-1/-2, p38 MAPK, and apoptosis was reduced in the H+EPO group at 15 hours after hypoxia (P<0.05).
Pretreatment with rHuEPO exerts neuroprotective effects against hypoxic injury reducing apoptosis by caspase-dependent mechanisms. Pathologic, persistent ERK activation after hypoxic injury may be attenuateed by pretreatment with EPO supporting that EPO may regulate apoptosis by affecting ERK pathways.
Key words: Erythropoietin, Apoptosis, Mitogen-activated protein kinases, Brain hypoxia-ischemia, Neuroprotection
Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is one of the most important causes of neonatal brain injury. Despite the introduction of hypothermia treatment, HIE still contributes to significant morbidity and mortality in newborn infants1,2). Recently, the progress in understanding the cellular cascades that mediate brain damage after HIE enables to identify the therapeutic target3,4). This advances led to active research for intervention to enhance neuroprotection2).
Among, erythropoietin (EPO) has attracted more attention as a neuroprotective agent because it is already used safely to treat anemia even in newborn infants5,6,7,8,9). EPO is originally a central regulator of erythropoiesis. However, EPO and its receptor (EPOR) also express in nonhematopoietic cells, such as cells of neural origin, and exerts neuroprotective effects5,10,11,12). EPOR is associated with Janus kinase 2 tyrosine kinases with cell-specific downstream transduction pathways including signal transducers and activators of transcription-5, phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase/protein kinase B, nuclear factor kappa B, and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)5,13,14). With EPO binding to EPOR, activation of these downstream pathways have been implicated in the regulation of gene expression leading to neuroprotection5,10,15). Among these pathways, the MAPK signaling pathways are less well characterized, and limited information on the involvement of MAPK in the mechanisms underlying the EPO-induced neuroprotection is available. MAPK pathways are also known to involve in neuronal cell injury including hypoxic-ischemia16,17,18,19,20,21). However, the effect of EPO on MAPK was little known.
Therefore, this study is designed to determine whether EPO has neuroprotective effects against hypoxic injury through cell apoptosis assays. Also, it examined how EPO regulates apoptosis in the MAPK signaling pathway including extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK1/2), p38 MAPK and stress-activated protein kinase/c-Jun N-terminal kinase (SAPK/JNK) in the cultured cortical neuronal cells and astrocytes.
1. Materials
Recombinant human EPO (rHuEPO) was purchased from CJ Cheiljedang Corporation (Seoul, Korea). Poly-D-lysine was from Sigma (Saint Louis, MO, USA), and 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) was purchased from Duchefa Biochemie (Haarlem, the Netherlands). Hanks' balanced salt solution (HBSS), Neurobasal medium, B27 supplement, glutamax I, and 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid were obtained from GibcoBRL (Grand Island, NY, USA). Dulbecco's modified eagle's medium (DMEM, high glucose-4,500 mg/L, low glucose-1,000 mg/L), fetal bovine serum (FBS), phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), penicillin-streptomycin, and trypsin-ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) were purchased from Hyclone Laboratories (Logan, UT, USA). Albumin bovine was obtained from Affymetrix (Santa Clara, CA, USA). Antibodies against phospho-p44/42MAPK (p-ERK1/2), p44/42MAPK (ERK1/2), phospho-p38 MAPK (p-p38 MAPK), p38 MAPK, phospho-SAPK/JNK (p-SAPK/JNK), SAPK/JNK were all purchased from Cell Signaling Technologies (Beverly, MA, USA). Secondary goat anti-rabbit IgG-horseradish peroxidase (HRP) was purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA, USA). Clarity Western Enhanced Chemiluminescence (ECL) Substrate was purchased from Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, CA, USA).
2. Primary culture of neuronal cells and astrocytes
This study was performed under the approved animal use guidelines of the Catholic University of Daegu, DCIAFCR-150910-6-Y. Primary neuronal cells from cerebral cortices were prepared as previously described22). Embryonic day 16 mice were harvested by cesarean section from anesthetized pregnant ICR mice. Cerebral cortices were isolated and dissociated by trypsin digestion at 37℃ for 1 minute. After washing with HBSS, the cells were triturated with a fire-polished Pasteur pipette. The cell suspension was centrifuged at 1,000 rpm at 25℃ for 5 minutes. The pellet was resuspended in Neurobasal medium supplemented with 2% B 27 and 0.5 mM glutamax, 100-U/mL penicillin, and 100-lg/mL streptomycin. The cell suspension was filtered through a 70-µm strainer. The cells were seeded at a density of 2×106 cells/mm2 in each dish precoated with 50-µg/mL poly-D-lysine. Cultures were maintained in a Neurobasal medium at 37℃ in 95% humidified air and 5% CO2. Three days after plating, the medium was changed. Fifty percent of the medium was changed twice per week.
Primary astrocytes were prepared from postnatal day 1 (P1) or 2 (P2) ICR mouse pups as previously described23). Cerebral cortices were isolated and dissociated by trypsin digestion at 37℃ for 5 minutes. After washing with HBSS, the cells were titrated with a fire-polished Pasteur pipette. The cell suspension was centrifuged at 1,000 rpm at 25℃ for 5 minutes. The pellet was resuspended astrocyte culture medium (DMEM, high glucose+10% FBS+1% penicillin/streptomycin). The cell suspension was filtered through a 70-µm strainer. Cells were seeded in T75 flasks precoated with 50 µg/mL poly-D-lysine. Cultures were maintained in culture medium at 37℃ in 95% humidified air and 5% CO2. After 7 to 8 days, the microglial cells were removed by shaking the T75 flask (at 180 rpm) for 30 minutes in a shaker water bath to obtain purified astrocytes. The supernatant was removed, and fresh culture medium was added to the T75 flask. Then the flask was shaken for 6 hours at 240 rpm to detach the oligodendrocytes from the astrocytes layer. The T75 flask was washed once with PBS and treated with 0.25% trypsin-EDTA. After the astrocytes detached from the T75 flask, they were plated in dishes and incubated at 37℃ in 95% humidified air and 5% CO2. The medium was changed twice per week.
3. MTT assay
In the first set of experiments, cell viabilities were measured by the MTT assay to determine the optimum concentration. Cells were plated in 96-well plates and treat with different concentrations of EPO for 48 hours before a hypoxic insult. The medium was removed and replaced with the 0.5-mg/mL MTT (final concentration). After incubation for 6 hours and 15 hours, at 37℃ in the dark, the MTT solution was removed, and the formazan dye was extracted with 100-µL dimethyl sulfoxide. Absorbance was measured with a microtiter plate enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay reader at 540 nm.
4. Hypoxia experiments
In the second set of experiments, cells were assigned into the normoxic (N, n=4) group, hypoxia (H, n=4) group, and hypoxia-pretreated with EPO (H+EPO, n=4) group. In the N group, the medium was replaced with DMEM with high glucose and then incubated under normoxic conditions (95% humidified air and 5% CO2) at 37℃ for 6 hours or 15 hours. This group was used as a negative control during the process. In the H group, the medium was replaced with DMEM containing low glucose. Afterward, the cells were placed in a hypoxia chamber (Billups-Rothenberg Inc., San Diego, CA, USA) and flushed with 1% O2 (premixed 1% O2, 5% CO2, 94% N2) at the rate of 30 L/min for 4 minutes. In the H+EPO, the medium was replaced with DMEM containing low glucose and then pretreated with 0.1 U/mL (neuronal cells) or 10 U/mL (astrocytes) for 48 hours. The chamber was sealed and incubated at 37℃ for 6 hours or 15 hours.
5. Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling assay
Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) analysis was performed to measure the degree of cellular apoptosis using an in situ ApoBrdU DNA fragmentation assay kit (BioVision, Mountain View, CA, USA), following the manufacturer's instructions. Cell pellets were harvested, washed twice with PBS, and fixed in 1% paraformaldehyde for 15 minutes on ice. After washing with PBS, the cells were incubated with 70% ethanol for a minimum of 30 minutes on ice. The ethanol was carefully aspirated, and the cells were washed with Wash Buffer. Then, the cells were incubated with DNA Labeling Solution for 60 minutes at 37℃. After rinsing with Rinse Buffer, the cells were incubated with the Antibody Solution for 30 minutes at room temperature (RT) in the dark. Thirty minutes after the incubation was complete, Propidium Iodide/RNase A solution was added to the cells, and the cells were incubated for 30 minutes at RT in the dark. Cellular fluorescence was then measured using the Gallios Flow Cytometer (Beckman Coulter, Brea, CA, USA). The 2 dyes in use were propidium iodide (for total cellular DNA) and fluorescein (for apoptotic cells).
6. Caspase-3 activation
The activity of caspase-3 was measured using a colorimetric assay kit (Biovision, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Cultured cells were concentrated at 300×g for 5 minutes. The pellet was resuspended in a cell lysis buffer and incubated on ice for 10 minutes. The cells were centrifuged for 1 minute in a microcentrifuge (10,000×g). 2X Reaction Buffer was added to the supernatant, and the supernatant proteins were incubated for 1–2 hours at 37℃ with 200 µM DEVD-p-nitroanilide (pNA). The color change was measured using a microtiter plate reader at 405 nm.
7. Western blot analysis
Cell extracts were prepared with radioimmunoprecipitation assay lysis buffer (ROCKLAND Immunochemicals, Pottstown, PA, USA) and protein concentrations were determined using the BCA Protein Assay Kit (Thermo Scientific, Rockford, IL, USA). Samples were diluted in 5×sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) gel-loading buffer (60 mM Tris-HCl pH 6.8, 25% glycerol, 2% SDS, 14.4 mM 2-mercaptoehanol and 0.1% bromophenol blue) and boiled at 95℃ for 10 minutes. Protein lysates (30 µg) were separated by 12% SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. After transferring to polyvinylidene difluoride membrane (Millipore, Bed ford, MA, USA) at a constant voltage of 10 V for 27 minutes, membranes were incubated with 5% albumin bovine in Tris-buffered saline plus 0.1% Tween-20 (TBST) at RT for 1 hour. The blots were incubated overnight with primary antibodies against p-ERK1/2, ERK1/2, p-p38 MAPK, p38 MAPK, p-SAPK/JNK, SAPK/JNK. Next, the membranes were washed in TBST and incubated with secondary goat anti-rabbit IgG-HRP at 1:2,000 dilution at RT for 1 hour. Detection of a signal was performed with the ECL plus kit. The intensities of the western blot bands were measured by densitometry using Multi Gauge Software (Fuji Photofilm, Tokyo, Japan).
Data were analyzed using the IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 22.0 (IBM Co., Armonk, NY, USA). Examined data were assessed using t tests and analysis of variance. In each test, the data were expressed as the mean±standard deviation with Excel 2007. Statistical significance was defined as when the P value was less than 0.05.
1. Cell viabilities
The MTT assay was performed and measure the relative cell viabilities after treatment with rHuEPO at different concentration to determine the most effective concentration of the drug for cell viability (Fig. 1). The results showed that the best cell viabilities were achieved at EPO 0.1 U/mL and 10 U/mL in the neuronal cells and the astrocytes respectively.
2. Detection of apoptosis in the neuronal cells and astrocytes
The TUNEL assay was performed by flow cytometry in neuronal cells (Fig. 2) and the astrocytes (Fig. 3) to determine whether EPO reduces apoptotic rates against a hypoxic injury. Hypoxia induces apoptosis in both neuronal cells and astrocytes. This results showed that the astrocytes were more resistant to hypoxic injury compared with the neuronal cells. While the apoptotic rates were 9.91% and 7.12% in the neuronal cells and astrocytes, respectively after 6-hour exposure to hypoxia, as time progresses till 15 hours, the neuronal cells undergo more profound apoptosis (61.07%) compared with the astrocytes (10.54%). After 6-hour exposure to hypoxia, the apoptotic rate was not reduced and rather increased with EPO pretreatment (9.91% in the H and 16.44% in the H+EPO) in the neuronal cells. However, after 15-hour exposure to hypoxia, the apoptotic rate was reduced by about two-third with EPO pretreatment (61.07% in the H and 42.93% in the H+EPO, P<0.05).
In the astrocytes, apoptotic rates were similar with EPO pretreatment after 6 hours after hypoxia exposure (7.12% in the H and 6.01% in the H+EPO). After 15-hour exposure to hypoxia, the apoptotic rate was decreased with EPO pretreatment (10.54% in the H and 6.43% in the H+EPO, P<0.05).
3. Activation of DEVD-specific caspase-3
The effects of EPO on neuronal apoptosis induced by hypoxia were evaluated by measuring cleaved caspase-3 activity (Fig. 4). In both neuronal cells and astrocytes, the caspase-3 activity was significantly increased after 15 hours exposure to hypoxia (P<0.05). Pretreatment with EPO attenuates significantly this increase of caspase-3 activity induced by hypoxia in both cell groups (P<0.05).
4. Activation of MAPK pathway in the neuronal cells and astrocytes
Western blot was performed at baseline, 6 hours, and 15 hours to examine the expressions of MAPKs and phosphorylated MAPKs to explore the relationship between the effects of EPO on survival and the MAPK pathways in the neuronal cells (Fig. 5) and the astrocytes (Fig. 6).
In the neuronal cells, the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and SAPK/JNK was gradually increased with a peak at 15 hours exposure to hypoxia. The phosphorylation of p38 MAPK has increased persistently both 6- and 15-hour exposure to hypoxia. Pretreatment with EPO did not affect the phosphorylation of p38 MAPK and SAPK/JNK whereas significantly attenuates a decreased of the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 after 15-hour exposure to hypoxia (P<0.05).
In the astrocytes, the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and SAPK/JNK was increased after both 6 hours and 15 hours exposure to hypoxia. The phosphorylation of p38 MAPK was increased after 6-hour exposure to hypoxia and then decreased after 15-hour exposure to hypoxia. Pretreatment with EPO did not affect the phosphorylation of JAPK/JNK whereas significantly attenuates a reduction in the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and p38 MAPK after 15-hour exposure to hypoxia (P<0.05).
In this study, the effects of EPO on hypoxia-induced neuronal apoptosis and the underlying mechanisms involving MAPK pathways are examined using cultured neuronal cells and astrocytes.
Hypoxia induced apoptosis in both the neuronal cells and astrocytes with caspase-3 activation. Since the caspase-dependent cell damage after neonatal hypoxic injury does not peak until 12–24 hours1), the degree of apoptosis was correlated with caspase-3 activation showing significant neuronal cell loss after 15-hour exposure to hypoxia. Although the astrocytes were more resistant to hypoxia-induced apoptosis, the concentration of rHuEPO for maximal cell viability was 10 fold higher than that of the neuronal cells. As the neuronal cells showed less viability at higher concentration, and the astrocytes did not show benefits at the lower concentration, the cytoprotective dose for the neuronal cells might not be protective for the astrocytes. However, astrocytes also have taken advantage from EPO treatment in oxygen-glucose deprivation model by AQP4 expression and by MAPK pathways24).
Pretreatment with rHuEPO decreased apoptotic rates in both neuronal cells and astrocytes after 15-hour exposure to hypoxia accompanying caspase-3 inactivation indicating that rHuEPO exerts neuroprotective effect via caspase-3 dependent mechanisms. Also, this study showed that rHuEPO attenuated ERK1/2 activation induced by 15-hour hypoxia suggesting the neuroprotective effect of EPO seems to be transduced via the ERK-mediated mechanism.
Since the activation of SAPK/JNK was not affected in both neuronal cells and astrocytes by rHuEPO pretreatment in this study, this result supports the SAPK/JNK pathways themselves may not be involved in the EPO-mediated neuroprotective mechanism. In agreement with this study, Kwon et al.25) also reported that pSAPK/JNK was not altered by EPO treatment in C6 cells.
In the case of p38 MAPK, rHuEPO decreased activation of p38 MAPK in only the astrocyte after exposure of 15-hour hypoxia. These results suggest that the response of each MAPK are cell-specific. The activation of p38 MAPK tended to decrease as time progressed regardless of rHuEPO pretreatment while the role of EPO in p38 MAPK pathway in astrocytes does not seem to be important pathways for EPO-neuroprotection.
ERK is one of the MAPK pathways, and activated by growth factors, mitogen stimuli, glutamate receptor activation and intracellular calcium increases26). The effect of ERK pathway on neuroprotection was diverse in different experimental models. Some reports showed neuroprotection with ERK activation1,25,27) and others showed neuroprotection with ERK inhibition28,29).
The role of ERK activation may be via multiple upstream signaling mechanisms depending on factors such as cell type, culture conditions, and the injurious mechanisms1). Neuronal apoptosis accompanied ERK activation in Perfluorohexane sulfonate induced injury with a persistent increase in intracellular calcium while intracellular calcium-mediated ERK inhibition reduced apoptosis28). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) showed neuroprotective effect through ERK activation against neonatal HIE brain injury in vivo1,30). They showed BDNF influenced on ERK pathways in only neuronal cells and not in astrocytes and oligodendrocytes. This result supports the cell-type specific ERK activation. In this study, EPO interfered with ERK activation after hypoxic injury in both neuronal cells and astrocytes. Yuan et al.31) reported that the ERK phosphorylation was significantly higher in the HI rats and significantly much higher in the HI+EPO rats. However, they measured ERK activation shortly after HI injury (at 60 minutes and 90 minutes).
Short, transient activation by growth factors under a physiologic condition, ERK activation are associated with neuroprotection while prolonged, persistent activation could induce cell death27). In ischemic tolerance model, neuronal EPOR activated only Akt pathways, not ERK or p38 pathways32) while hypoxic preconditioning involves ERK activation27). These results support the stimulus or injury-dependent ERK activation. Taken together, trophic factors such as BDNF or EPO might initiate transient ERK activation associated with neuroprotective mechanisms. In contrast, prolonged, persistent ERK activation after HI injury might initiate mechanisms of cell death. Indeed, alteration in ERK signaling after brain injury may be distinct from trophic factor stimulation. Due to lack of measurement for the baseline ERK activation after EPO pretreatment, the initial increase in ERK phosphorylation was not determined. However, the study suggests that pretreatment of EPO attenuated the pathologic ERK activation induced by prolonged, persist activation after hypoxic injury and led to improving cell survival.
Since this study did not use the ERK inhibitor, it was not determined whether the ERK inhibition initiated by EPO was direct causative mechanisms for neuroprotection or resultant indirect phenomenon. Kwon et al.25) showed that the inhibitors of pp38 MAPK and pERK abolished the EPO on cytotoxicity of staurosproine. Therefore, the possibility of ERK pathways in regulating apoptosis is still present.
In conclusion, rHuEPO exerts neuroprotective effects against hypoxic injury reducing apoptosis by caspase-dependent mechanisms. Pathologic, persistent ERK activation after hypoxic injury may attenuate by pretreatment EPO supporting that EPO may regulate apoptosis by affecting ERK pathways. This study may contribute to determining the possible mechanisms of the role of each MAPK pathways in the cytoprotective effect of rHuEPO.
This work was supported by the grant of Research Institute of Medical Science, Catholic University of Daegu (2016)
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Estimation of cell viability in neuronal cells and astrocytes. Cell viability was measured by 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl-tetrazolium bromide assay. Dispersed neuronal cell (A) or astrocyte (B) cultures were prepared with different concentrations of erythropoietin (EPO) (0.08, 0.1, 0.25, and 0.5 U/mL in the neuronal cells; 1, 10, 20, and 50 U/mL in the astrocytes) for 48 hours before a hypoxic insult for 6 or 15 hours. The effective dose was 0.1 U/mL in the neuronal cells and 10 U/mL in the astrocytes. H, hypoxic group; H+EPO, hypoxic group pretreated with EPO; N, normoxic group. *P<0.05, statistically significant vs. N group. #P<0.05, statistically significant vs. H group.
Apoptosis in neuronal cells. (A) Apoptosis assessed by the quantification of BrdU-FITC-labeled DNA breaks using a flow cytometry-based terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling assay in the neuronal cells. Two dyes, propidium iodide (total cellular DNA) and fluorescein (apoptotic cells), were used. (A) Apoptotic cells can be seen in the B2 gate. (B) The percentage of total apoptotic cells is shown in the histogram. N, normoxic group; 6H, hypoxic group that was exposed to hypoxia for 6 hours; 6H+erythropoietin (EPO), hypoxic group pretreated with EPO that was exposed to hypoxia for 6 hours; 15H, hypoxic group that was exposed to hypoxia for 15 hours; 15H+EPO, hypoxic group pretreated with EPO that was exposed to hypoxia for 15 hours. *P<0.05, statistically significant vs. N group. #P<0.05, statistically significant vs. H group.
Apoptosis in the astrocytes. Apoptosis was assessed by the quantification of BrdU-FITC-labeled DNA breaks using a flow cytometry-based terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling assay in the astrocytes. Two dyes, propidium iodide (total cellular DNA) and fluorescein (apoptotic cells), were used. (A) Apoptotic cells can be seen in the B2 gate. (B) The percentage of total apoptotic cells is shown in the histogram. N, normoxic group; 6H, hypoxic group that was exposed to hypoxia for 6 hours; 6H+erythropoietin (EPO), hypoxic group pretreated with EPO that was exposed to hypoxia for 6 hours; 15H, hypoxic group that was exposed to hypoxia for 15 hours; 15H+EPO, hypoxic group pretreated with EPO that was exposed to hypoxia for 15 hours. *P<0.05, statistically significant vs. N group. #P<0.05, statistically significant vs. H group.
Activity of cleaved caspase-3 in the neuronal cells and astrocytes. Caspase-3 was assayed using a caspase-3/CPP32 colorimetric assay kit in the neuronal cells (A) and astrocytes (B). Neuronal cells and astrocytes were plated 24 hours before the induction of apoptosis. The cells were pretreated with EPO for 48 hours before a hypoxic insult at 0.1 U/mL in the neuronal cells, at 10 U/mL in the astrocytes. H, hypoxic group; H+erythropoietin (EPO), hypoxic group pretreated with EPO; N, normoxic group. *P<0.05, statistically significant vs. N group. #P<0.05, statistically significant vs. H group.
(A) Western blot results of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway in the neuronal cells. Expression of antibodies against phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase (pho-ERK1/2), p38MAPK (pho-p38MAPK), and stress-activated protein kinase/c-Jun N-terminal kinase (SAPK/JNK; pho-SAPK/JNK) was analyzed. (B-D) Expression of ERK1/2, p38 MAPK, SAPK/JNK was used as a loading control. Quantification of Western blot to determine the relative phosphorylation ratio of the MAPK pathway signals in the neuronal cells. The relative phosphorylation ratio of ERK-1/-2 was significantly decreased in H+erythropoietin (EPO) at 15 hours after hypoxia. H, hypoxic group; H+EPO, hypoxic group pretreated with EPO; N, normoxic group. *P<0.05, statistically significant vs. N group. #P<0.05, statistically significant vs. H group.
(A) Western blot results of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway in the astrocytes. Expression of antibodies against phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase (pho-ERK1/2), p38MAPK (pho-p38MAPK), and stress-activated protein kinase/c-Jun N-terminal kinase (SAPK/JNK; pho-SAPK/JNK) was analyzed. (B-D) Expression of ERK1/2, p38 MAPK, and SAPK/JNK was used as a loading control. Quantification of western blot results to determine the relative phosphorylation ratio of the MAPK pathway signals in astrocytes. The relative phosphorylation ratio of ERK-1/-2 and p38MAPK was significantly decreased in H+ erythropoietin (EPO) at 15 hours after hypoxia. H, hypoxic group; H+EPO, hypoxic group pretreated with EPO; N, normoxic group. *P<0.05, statistically significant vs. N group. #P<0.05, statistically significant vs. H group.
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Crystal and molecular structure of bis(4-bromo-N-(di-n-butylcarbamothioyl)benzamido) copper(II) complex
Gun Binzet (1,*) , Ulrich Flörke (2) , Nevzat Külcü (3) , Hakan Arslan (4)
(1) Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Education, Mersin University, Mersin, TR-33169, Turkey
(2) Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, D-33098, Germany
(3) Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Science, Mersin University, Mersin, TR-33343, Turkey
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Received: 06 Feb 2012 | Accepted: 13 Feb 2012 | Published: 30 Jun 2012 | Issue Date: June 2012
The title compound, C32H44Br2CuN4O2S2, was synthesized from 4-bromo-N-(dibutylcarbamothioyl)benzamide ligand and copper(II)acetate. The crystal structure of bis(4-bromo-N-(di-n-butylcarbamothioyl)benzamido) copper(II) complex was determined from single crystal X-ray diffraction studies. It crystallizes in the triclinic space group, P-1 (no. 2) with unit cell dimensions of a = 8.519(10) Å, b = 16.64(2) Å, c = 25.78(4) Å, α = 77.11(3)o, β = 85.59(3)o, γ = 89.46(2)o , Z = 4 and V = 795.8(6) Å3. The crystal structure is stabilized by weak C-H…N, C-H…S and C-H…Br hydrogen-bonding interactions.
Thiourea; Benzamide; Copper complex; Benzoylthiourea; Crystal structure; Single crystal X‐ray diffraction
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No one does the Great British summer quite like Edinburgh. Euro Hostel Edinburgh Halls is open from 5th June to 31st August, which couldn’t be better timing for soaking up the wide selection of events on offer.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Introduced as ‘the single biggest celebration of arts and culture on the planet’, the Fringe is a festival like no other. For three weeks, the city is overrun with artists, comedians, circus acts, musicians, thespians and poets from around the world. Last year’s edition featured a mammoth 53,232 performances in 300 venues around Edinburgh. 2018 is Scotland’s first ever Year of Young People, so the Young Voices: Fresh Perspectives strand of events will be expanded and advised on by a panel of 16-26-year-olds based in the area.
The hub of the street performances are based in the heart of the city, so you can get immersed in the carnival atmosphere on the Royal Mile (a 5-minute walk from Euro Hostel Edinburgh Halls) and the Mound Precinct (a 10-minute walk away). There’ll be world class street shows, as well as Arts and Crafts markets to give you a healthy dose of festival fever. The Fringe will run from 3rd-27th August, with the full programme launching on 6th June.
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Believe it or not, 2018 marks The Edinburgh International Film Festival’s 72nd edition. The annual event is the world’s oldest continually-running film festival, having established itself back in 1947. The EIFF prides itself on being pioneers for emerging British talent (including Danny Boyle), the Women’s Film Festival – with the first ever female Festival Director – and retrospective programmes on the likes of Martin Scorsese. Along with hosting UK premieres of Blade Runner, Alien, Taxi Driver, The Usual Suspects, The Hurt Locker, and loads more – the Festival has also welcomed huge industry names from Clint Eastwood to Sir Sean Connery and Ewan McGregor.
Innovation and discovery of new talent are at the heart of EIFF. This year, the event will run from 20th June until the 1st July. Scotland’s leading independent cinema, Filmhouse, is the home and headquarters to EIFF, only 16 minutes’ walk from Euro Hostel. To top your culture trip off to a tee, stop at The Elephant House on the way, for coffee and cake at the café where JK Rowling wrote the Harry Potter books. It’s either that or save your appetite for a Full Scottish at The Filmhouse Café Bar, complete with Ayrshire middle bacon and Campbell’s black pudding.
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Guaranteed to get you in the summer spirit, Edinburgh’s Jazz and Blues Festival sees both modern and old-school swing, soul and blues-rock acts jazz up local venues over 10 days in July. The event is one of the top 10 Jazz Festivals in Europe. This year’s line-up is yet to be officially announced, but the Festival is in charge of Edinburgh’s annual Mardi Gras event.
Each July, for a few hours, the heart of the city transforms itself into a miniature New Orleans Jazz Fest. The parade is short, but colourful – running from 1-4pm last year. During the afternoon, the party down in the valley of the Grassmarket is non-stop, as is the music! To wind down the next day, laid-back jazz and blues surround the cobbled streets. Relax and enjoy an informal afternoon of food, drink, good company and fine music.
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Edinburgh Art Festival is the largest visual arts festival in the U.K. 2018 will see its fifteenth edition and the program promises to be as powerful and entertaining as ever. Every year, over 40 exhibitions are showcased around galleries, museums and unique spaces, from both leading and emerging artists.
To whet your artistic appetite, check out Bobby Niven’s Palm House, 2017 inspired by the ideas of Patrick Geddes. From cinematography to sculpture and interactive pop-up exhibitions, get involved from 26th July – 26th August 2018.
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For the #foodies, your Instagram feed will be on form from 3rd-5th August if you head to the Edinburgh Foodies Festival, the biggest in the U.K. There’ll be brand new workshops -- including Prosecco and parmesan tasting, Gut Friendly Food and cocktail masterclasses, as well as cream pie throwing contests and chilli eating competitions! There’ll be craft beer in the Drinks Theatre, local produce in the Artisan Market, a very British Pimms Teapot, Vintage Tea Tent and – of course – a Street Food Avenue.
The festival is dog-friendly, as well as having plenty to do for the wee ones. The Kid Zone has giant garden games, cookery classes, and bouncy castles – which we’d suggest doing first, ‘cause let’s face it, burgers and bouncing don’t mix! You can also expect Great British Bake Off stars baking live, MasterChef champs and Michelin starred chefs, amongst some local heroes. Friday tickets start at £10, Saturday and Sunday tickets start at £14 for adults.
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Quite the opposite to the Fringe’s celebration of all that’s freaky and free-spirited, the Edinburgh International Festival that coincides with the same dates in August, contains high art, cultural connoisseurs and a breadth of classical music. The annual event was initially created as an antidote to war, “a platform for the flowering of the human spirit.”
Operatic and ballet productions take place in the Festival Theatre, Usher Hall and Edinburgh Playhouse amongst many others. The performances and exhibitions on offer are invite-only artists and companies, the world’s finest, making it a ‘curated festival’ unlike the freedom of the Fringe. The programme culminates with a sensational fireworks concert against the beautiful backdrop of the Edinburgh castle.
Edinburgh International Book Festival
For a breath of fresh air from the city-centre frenzy, the Edinburgh International Book Festival will run from 11th-27th August 2018. If you’re in the city during this time, take a wander through the leafy Charlotte Square Gardens, which will have transformed into a magical tented village.
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By Richard Good • last updated: 27/06/2019
Senator Elizabeth Warren was the standout candidate in the first TV debate of the Democrats’ Presidential election campaign, according to many observers.
Thomas Gift, Lecturer in Political Science at the University College of London, told Good Morning Europe that her attention to detail marked her out from her competitors, in the debate held in Miami.
“One of the things she really had to do was show command of the issues, show that she was serious about policy, because so much of her campaign platform has been based on very specific policy proposals,” he said. “And I think for the most part she did this. She positioned herself well going into future debates.”
25 candidates are standing for the Democrats’ nomination and a further 10 will be heard in a second debate on Thursday night.
“I think the candidates to look at tonight are Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden”, says Gift. “They are the ones with the biggest name recognition. I think where the opportunity lies is for some of the lesser known candidates - they really have to break out, because going forward it becomes more difficult for them to participate in the debates because the Democratic National Committee ups the threshold in terms of poll numbers that they need or donations that they need.”
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The Peters & the Pauls: The Fight for Sex Work Decriminalisation in Queensland
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Decriminalisation is being fought for in Queensland right now, with a symposium in Parliament next week, 21st August. Respect Inc, Queensland’s sex worker organisation, is challenging government to replace existing sex work legislation, with complete decriminalisation of the sex industry as we know it in Queensland. I am absolutely ecstatic about this! As a sex worker who has worked in Queensland on and off over the past eight years, decriminalisation will impact me and my colleagues in an extremely positive way.
The current regulation of sex workers in Queensland is fraught with problems and dangers. Queensland can learn from New Zealand and New South Wales history of
decriminalisation, and improve on the legislation in those places. Northern Territory and South Australia governments are also considering decriminalisation of sex work. The lives of sex workers will not only be safer, we will have legal rights and recourse to address violence in the workplace, discrimination at the borders, discrimination in the real estate rental industry, health, banking and insurance industries and in the employment sector, in the same way that every other citizen enjoys.
Firstly, at the moment we are heavily regulated by police. This makes it extremely unlikely that sex workers will contact the police if they are abused, stalked, harrassed or threatened in the context of their work. We run the risk of being arrested ourselves, our immigration status potentially affected, our identity exposed and our choice of employment permanently placed in police and health records like a keloid scar that never heals. In the meantime, real criminals go unpunished and continue to target vulnerable sex workers in society. Police and government organisations can not adequately serve to protect us and then dob us in and prosecute us with their next breathe. This is a travesty of justice.
Early in the life of the current Queensland laws, Queensland police sought and had passed, an Amendment Bill (2011) to insert Clause 101 into the current legislation, which allowed police to continue to practice entrapment and ask sex workers for Natural (without a condom) sex services, in a supposed attempt to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STI’s). A wholly dubious practice that has been largely shunned by almost all democratic countries in the developed world! Entrapment deliberately sets a person up to break the law where they would not normally do so. Police actually have the power to pretend to be clients, go through with services and then charge a sex worker. How inappropriate is that! Conditions can be manipulated in order to justify an arrest.
Entrapment laws tend to only target our young people, street workers and migrant sex workers the most. Our most vulnerable. Sex workers who may be naiive, mentally challenged, itinerant or not so great at speaking or understanding English and whom are unfamiliar with the current laws. I consider myself an educated woman and even I have difficulty complying with the current laws around sex work.
It is not sex workers who are the cause of Australia’s burgeoning sexually transmitted infection (STI) statistics either. It is the general public, people who hold antiquated beliefs about wearing or carrying condoms and our young people who enter into the world of nightclubs and bars, become intoxicated and go on to have impromptu unprotected sex. I take full responsibility for providing safer sex practices as do my colleagues and as a result we have less risk of developing a sexually transmitted disease than the general public. Sex workers have been at the forefront of STI best practice for at least the last thirty years and safe sex is the industry standard.
Similarly in New Zealand, sex workers are taking “all reasonable steps to ensure a prophylactic sheath (condom) or other appropriate barrier is used” (Prostitution Reform Act 2003 cited in NZPC website). Perhaps a humourous state-wide advertising programme could be implemented to educate people on the risks of unsafe sex, targeting youth in order to reduce the stigma of using condoms and increase awareness? Perhaps government funded, free condom vending machines in every bar would be more cost effective? After all, 99% of sex workers comply with safe sex practices (Donovan, Harcourt, Egger, Fairley, 2010).
Under the current regulatory framework, it is illegal for me to work or associate with another sex worker. This means that I am not able to let a colleague know where I am if I’m doing an outcall, what time and for how long the booking is or when I will be expected back home. I can be arrested for attempting to keep myself safe. I am not allowed to share accommodation with another sex worker to minimise costs or have anyone else on the premises while I work. This is considered to be running a brothel. I am not allowed to ask a colleague to work with me when a client requests two sex workers during the booking. This is considered to be procurement. Clients have to source additional sex workers themselves. How ridiculous!
Presently, different Australian states have different degree’s of decriminalisation and regulation and it is an absolute nightmare for touring sex workers who frequently travel interstate. New South Wales is the the only state where decriminalisation exists in Australia. Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia are all expected to follow suit. In Queensland, sex workers do not need to be registered if they are working as independents, however are required to undergo mandatory testing if they are working from a brothel. Brothel’s are completely illegal in Tasmania with no sign of decriminalisation on the horizon, although local law enforcement and the media continue to turn a blind eye to the numerous advertisements that are in the local papers and online. The double standards are very real. Private sex workers working alone or in pairs is decriminalised in Tasmania.
Secondly, we are monitored by the Prostitution Licensing Authority (PLA) whom serve as a kind of watchdog for anything to do with our advertising platforms. We are heavily regulated in what we can say about our services and what sort of images we promote. For example, we are unable to show our nipples or genitals or any images of ourselves. They only recently started to let us depict BDSM practices such as whips, canes and paddles. The problem of regulating, is that you only have to type in ‘sex’ on the internet and your browser will show a million different sites and services showing naked, pornographic images and acts. It is an impossible task. I am reminded of the days of the Truth, where the page three girls were often depicted semi naked, bearing their breasts for all those readers to see. We still have public titty bars in operation in Queensland which provides some free eye candy for our hardworking tradies.
Obviously, there are many double standards with monitoring these sorts of things and in my mind, the PLA is nothing more than a paper-shuffling organisation set up to appease right wing christian lobbyists influencing government, like the Australian Christian Lobby. Religion has no place in government! There are too many Peter’s and Paul’s and I am the wrong kind of Mary. I don’t want to see any more public and political attacks on sex workers just because we are an affront to their conflated moral’s and beliefs! Remember GK and her eviction from Ma and Pa Kettle’s motel in Moranbah? The then Queensland Attorney-General Mr Jarrod Bleijie, began a successful smear campaign to change the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 to allow legal discrimination to occur in Queensland. Sex workers across Australia have had enough! We don’t want any more exploitation for politicial gain (often accompanied with dodgy donations) to keep the dangerous status quo! More athiests exist in Australia than God fearing citizens and so the time has come for the rights and lives of sex workers to be respected.
Thirdly, I want to be able to enjoy the freedom of being able to work safely in the sex industry in Queensland without fear of persecution. As with any marginalised group, I live with stigma and discrimination on a daily basis. Lyon asserts that health outcomes of sex workers are directly affected by stigmatisation and marginalisation and that “It is described as the single biggest issue facing sex workers – even those who operate legally” (Lyon, 2011: 2.3.1, 45). I am at risk of being blackmailed, harrassed, stalked, threatened and outed by police, real estate agents, employers, disgruntled ex partners/husbands, friends, family and even from my own colleagues, whom for a variety of reasons choose to act or react with ignorance and a sense of entitlement that justifies their violence. Violence comes in many different guises.
My own personal story involves an ex husband who rang my landlord and outed me, just because I was leaving him and his abuse, only for him to attack my only source of income and ruin my career. I was left penniless, unable to access Centrelink because I am a Kiwi who came to Australia post 911 and when significant political changes to immigration laws occurred in 2001 (New Zealanders are now considered Permanent Temporary Residents), which meant I had no access to financial support when I fell on hard times. I am not alone in wanting to create the life I choose in the sex industry. I have hopes, dreams and aspirations and I hope to one day become a dual citizen of Australia and New Zealand. Sex workers are everywhere in society, and most of the time you don’t even know we’re there because we are so discreet.
Lastly to recap, licensing slash regulation of the sex industry in Queensland, has not worked. Licensing, as opposed to decriminalisation, makes illegal operations more attractive because the legal sector is often kept smaller than the number of sex workers available to work (Lyon, 2011:10). This kind of defeats the purpose doesn’t it? Current licensing has created an impossible framework for sex workers to work within and one that often sets us up to fail by having to break laws in order to survive and work safely. Research by Respect Inc found that the mental health issues were rife in licensed brothels due to bad working conditions. Decriminalisation is a vital part of addressing the stress, bad work conditions, rights and welfare of all sex workers in Queensland.
It has been 30 years since the 1989 Fitzgerald Inquiry exposed the heinous corruption, extortion and exploitation of sex workers by Police that was occurring during the Joe Bjelke-Peterson days. In response, the Prostitution Act 1999 (Qld) introduced a brothel licensing system, but left the 1899 Criminal Code unchanged. Sadly, 80% of sex workers continue to be subject to police regulation and monitoring as a result. Essentially, we are seen as second class citizens in the state of Queensland, deemed unworthy of receiving even the most basic human rights and protections that our friends, family and communities are afforded. It is about time that numerous evidence-based research in favour of decriminalisation, is taken seriously and fully implemented by our Queensland government representatives.
Decriminalisation of the sex industry is the only way forward and is championed by many international human rights groups including the United Nations. Since the UN made a press release advocating for complete decriminalisation of the sex industry worldwide, we have witnessed several countries, their sex workers and supporters, collectively rise up in the hope that they will see history in the making. We are watching activists and governments work side by side to raise awareness for others and pave the way for the removal of harmful Draconian laws. Activists and governments are working tirelessly to navigate their way down this path to freedom not only for sex workers but for the community as a whole. Decriminalisation will bring about so many positive changes for sex workers, that our voices will finally have been heard and included in a modern society.
The benefits of decriminalisation far outweigh anything that we have seen to date. Police will finally be able to focus on real crime and stop wasting taxpayer money chasing after ghosts. Decriminalisation of the sex industry is the only way to move forward on the issue of human trafficking, sex slavery and violent crime against sex workers in Australia. It is the only accepted course of action that the United Nations advocates globally because it recognises the overall positive impact on human rights, health and safety and addresses issues of harm minimisation in the area of disease prevention, violence and illegal activity (UNAIDS, 2009).
There is nothing wrong with offering or paying for sex services by consenting adults. I think there has been a general taboo about talking about or doing anything sexual for far too long. Slut shaming is a very real thing and begins from an early age. There is still time to make a difference and jump on the second wave of the sexual revolution bandwagon and advocate for complete decriminalisation for sex workers in Queensland. Lobby your local MP’s, write emails and letters in support even if you aren’t a provider, just because it’s the right thing to do. Let your friends and family know that you are in support of sex worker rights and tell them why. All we want is a safer work place, the ability to ask for help and to receive support when it is needed. A win/win for everyone in my book!
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http://www.respectqld.org.au
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Motel Discriminated Against Prostitute by Refusing Her Room: Tribunal
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I agree with Janelle Fawkes of the Australian Sex Worker’s Association who states that ‘Systemic Predjudice’ is most definitely at the core of all anti-discrimination cases throughout Queensland. This huge win for GK and all sex workers, recently upheld in the Appeal by the Queensland Civil & Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) was reported in the Brisbane Times on 8th August, 2012. Sex workers everywhere will now be able to have their Anti-Discrimination Cases heard and be taken seriously. It is no longer acceptable behaviour to refuse a sex worker accommodation and discriminate against them just because you don’t agree with their choice of work.
In this instance, common sense finally prevailed and GK won her appeal. This case has huge ramifications for sex workers and their client’s as well as hoteliers and moteliers who will now have to re-think their discriminatory nature and join the 21st century!. It’s about bloody time! What peeves me the most, is how the owners of the Drover’s Rest Motel can casually state that they have no problem with ‘prostitutes’ working for a living but object if this work is being carried out on their premises. If they object to sex work then they must also object to all other types of work that is conducted within the confines of a hotel room. Sales people, accountants, police, anyone who uses the phone or internet or bed to conduct their legal and lawful business. Sex work is recognised as legitimate work.
The mind boggles as to how the owners ‘discovered’ she was working in the first place. One would like to think that Australian’s are entitled to have some sort of privacy when they pay for a room and not have their comings and goings monitored by the proverbial nosey neighbour. Obviously not in this case, but to then go ahead and ‘ban her’ as if they have some sort of moral obligation to do so, is downright offensive! I have a sense that the owner’s are more than a little bit Ma & Pa Kettle-like. I think they honestly believe they have the right to discriminate on some sort of moral high ground. I think not and so does the Tribunal. My advice to them is that they mind their own business and behave according to the laws of this land. God knows we don’t need more rednecks running around!
Fingers crossed that this case will pave the way for other sex worker’s who have also been discriminated against and who have been waiting in the wings to finally see if GK’s human rights are being taken seriously. It is blatant misrepresentation when Richard Munro states that “…hotel and motel owners must retain the right to refuse guests who might disturb the amenity…”. There are already laws in place that are based on moral attitudes and prejudices validated by the Criminal Code, Chapter 22A which is designed to cover an act of deviance rather than a business. However, the punishment must fit the crime. In this case, the legal sex worker GK did not break the law, however the owners Dovedeen Pty Ltd and Mrs Joan Hartley of the Drover’s Rest Motel in Moranbah, clearly did!
Sex workers have been flocking to the front lines to work alongside miners for centuries. This is not a new concept born out of a sudden influx of immoral sinner’s. Gold mining pioneers couldn’t wait to get to the Gold fields in the hopes of striking it rich. If you worked hard, the rewards came. In this case, sex workers are booking flights and looking to cash up by providing a sex service. Let’s face it, we all have needs, wants and desires that need attending to! They are both booming industries, full of hard working men and women with money who choose to see equally hard working sex workers for a conversation, lunch/dinner, perhaps some erotic relaxation and/or sex.
Thank you GK for finding the strength to stand up to the system and fight for our collective rights. I can only imagine the anxiety and stress that this must be causing you, your family, your business and every aspect of your life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are one hell of a woman! Jx
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Attorney-General Backs Hotel Sex Appeal
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Yes folks! We are witnessing first hand how discrimination is continuing to be perpetrated by political bullying agents at the highest level, as witnessed in Brisbane Times dated August 9th, 2012. The Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie has shown his true colours by publicly attempting to pervert the course of justice by using his public powers to “attempt to overturn” the appeal of the landmark Anti-discrimination case between the legal sex worker GK and the owners of the Drover’s Rest Motel in Moranbah. Make no mistake about it. We can begin to see the depth of corruption, personal bias and undue influence that is obviously still being exerted by Queensland’s politicians and power player’s. It didn’t take long for those key players to rear their ugly head.
Sex workers have been dealing with this sort of extortion for years, especially in Queensland. We only have to go back a couple of decades to see how far corruption can breed in politics with the likes of Sir Joe Bjielke-Petersen! Here we go again. Have you noticed the uncanny similarity between the last names of these two political figures? Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen and Mr Bleijie. Perhaps they are related? It would certainly explain why sex workers are continuing to fight an up-hill battle, just to have their basic human rights upheld. This political tickling is spreading like a festering disease throughout politics in Queensland despite laws to the contrary to protect and serve.
How can a significant political figure like Mr Bleijie get away with flaunting his bias political power’s publicly like this. Surely it is common sense not to interfere. Our Attorney-General is meant to be a respected impartial public figure. Similarly, so are the Queensland Civil & Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) members. Unfortunately a few bad apples have tainted this Anti-discrimination case. Is it any wonder people are afraid to stand up for their rights when a system is is openly flawed like this? What hope do we as citizens have? I am embarrassed and ashamed. How long will it be before Australians can feel truly proud that they have left their distasteful convict history behind?
There has to be a shift away from the pre-existing moralistic viewpoint, to one that supports a public health and human rights approach such as New Zealand’s. It is apparent that there needs to be more constructive discussion and debate between sex workers, the government, lawmakers and public opinion in Australia. This is not going to happen when we have sensationalised public Anti-discrimination cases and individual’s being put through the political ringer. It just makes our justice system look like a Christmas dinner – full of turkey’s and really bad jokes.
The fact remains that the owners of the Drovers Rest Motel did discriminate by breaching the Anti-Discrimination Act by denying GK a room. What right did they have to ask her to leave when she had been there 17 times during the past 2 years? What rights do law abiding legal sex workers have, who pay their tax, keep a low profile and go about their daily business, earning a decent living. We thought we had the Anti-discrimination law on our side that protected our right to practice ‘lawful sexual activity’. Sex work is work after all. I find I am holding my breath waiting for the next debacle.
Mr Bleijie says he stands on the side of business owners. OK, so what about the rest of Australia who don’t happen to own a business? Actually I have an ABN number and I pay tax, does this mean I am a respected business owner? Or am I just a sex worker? I do not think hotel and motel owners should be given more rights than they already have. Mr Bleijie says he will change the laws to suit. There are already adequate laws in place that protect against unruly, noisy or abusive guests. Why didn’t the owners use this already existing defence? They couldn’t because no offence had been committed, and not in the entire 2 years that GK stayed at the motel. It doesn’t take a genius to see that they want these additional law changes to give them more powers so they can discriminate!
Insinuating that hotel’s are at risk of becoming illegal brothel’s is ludicrous. There are no similarities what-so-ever between the two. The differences between a brothel manager and a motel manager are crystal clear. Do motel owner/manager’s answer my phone, put my adds on, take care of the extra laundry without extra charge, provided security, negotiate bookings or provide my condoms? They don’t because they are not brothel’s!
Consider that the former Attorney-General, Honourable Nicola Roxon, released a media statement on the 4th of January, 2012, reminding us that the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011 is now in effect. Human Rights will be “…bought into sharper focus in Parliament this year with all new laws to be checked to see if they stack up against human rights obligations”. New laws must consider “… protection and promotion of human rights”. The principles of freedom, respect, equality, dignity and a fair go, apply to everyone including sex workers.
In Queensland, it was found that sex workers who were working legally (i.e. service providers in licensed brothels, legal sole traders) had better mental health than those in illegal settings (Seib et al 2009). Harcourt et al (2005) suggested that decriminalization seemed to provide the best outcomes for sex workers health and welfare and that this is a desirable outcome that affects the community as a whole. Where are human rights for sex worker’s here in this case?
I am concerned that in this day and age, Australians are being controlled by a very powerful elite who will stop at nothing short of murder, to keep their false sense of control from slipping away. We need to stand up as a nation and right these wrongs Nip them in the bud and say enough is enough. The rest of the world is looking at us and I can feel their contempt. I want to feel proud to be an Australian. I support human rights for all.
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Sex Worker Wins Right to Work from Motel
Hoo rah! Put your hands in the air, there’s a party in the club tonight! I seem to recall I told you all so in no uncertain terms that the legal sex worker GK would win her Appeal against Dovedeen Pty Ltd and Mrs Joan Hartley of the Drover’s Rest Motel in Moranbah, as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald on August 7th. The original ludicrous Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) decision was successfully overturned and brought in line with existing Queensland and Federal Law and recognised global best practice.
It had to happen. Blatant discrimination on behalf of the learned member in the initial QCAT decision was an embarrassment to QCAT and the Anti-discrimination Commission of Queensland (ADCQ) as well as to most Australian’s. Shame on her! The recent decision finding in favour of legal sex worker GK has shown that common sense does prevail but at what cost to GK and other sex workers who live with this kind of discrimination on a daily basis. The case should never have gone this far.
Sex worker’s now have to wait a further 28 days for the right to appeal the appeal to expire. How many countless other cases will never make it to the ADCQ’s attention for actual fear of the legal system that opts to make poor, corrupt decisions like the one we just witnessed. Why would anyone want to put themselves through a process of unrelenting scrutiny at the hands of weak kneed, religious zealots, I suspect, who succumb to bullying tactics or their own bias world view in order to influence decisions at this level?
Many sex workers experience discrimination and don’t report due to barriers to access including internalised stigmatisation, fear of information being used for other purposes, fear of disclosure of personal information being provided to the perpetrator or media, lack of understanding of legislative coverage by sex workers, fear of retaliatory action by the perpetrator or others. Perhaps we will soon see just how many pending cases have been waiting in the wings for this long awaited positive outcome that actually stands up for our human rights.
This case has become one of the most significant public landmark cases in Queensland’s anti-discrimination history. Queensland is finally saying loud and clear that human rights violations will not be tolerated and no amount of bullying from fanatical Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) type politics will interfere with a fair and just process. A far cry from the days of pandemic corruption Queenslander’s suffered under Joh Bjelke-Petersen. This is a huge win for Queensland and legal sex workers Australia wide.
The Tribunal wrote an exemplary comprehensive legal explanation of their decision which systematically used appropriate law to back-up the true spirit and meaning of ‘lawful sexual activity’. There are no obscure, grasping at straws findings here. QCAT can feel pleased that they have successfully vindicated theselves and done so with huge integrity. The case has now successfully been brought back into focus; it is illegal in the State of Queensland to discriminate against another person seeking accommodation just because they are a sex worker.
In fact the QCAT findings were so comprehensive that an appeal of the appeal seems highly unlikely. However, I am well aware of the depth of ill-feeling within members of the moral police. Sadly, I expect nothing less than more inappropriate bullying tactics and political interference on this case. It will be interesting to see just who these redneck players are, what power’s they think they wield and to just what lengths they are prepared to go to keep Queenslander’s in the Dark Ages.
In Queensland, sex workers have been accessing the ADCQ for over fifteen years in responding to the high levels of discrimination that are perpetrated against sex workers within the community. Not all situations are covered by the Anti Discrimination Act but commentator’s have found that by having some degree of coverage, sex workers have a sense of justification to stand up for their rights. However, most cases of discrimination go unreported alongside violent crimes being perpetrated against us from clients who understand their risks of being prosecuted are low.
Most cases of discrimination because of lawful sexual activities, are based on moral attitudes and predjudices which are validated by the Criminal Code, Chapter 22A which is designed to cover an act of deviance rather than a business. With the introduction of the Prostitution Act 2000, the government recognised sex work as legitimate work but this has done little to improve the situation for sole traders. Other forms of discrimination which have been addressed through the ADCQ have included;
Refusal to provide accommodation by real estates, lessors, etc
Eviction from rented premises both within the short and long term accommodation providers with or without refunds
Banking facilities such as eftpos, loans, insurance coverage not being provided
Insurance companies not providing coverage for life insurance or income protection. As Workcover Qld still does not provide coverage to sex workers within brothels, these sex workers continue to be recognised as sole traders.
Schools refusing children of sex workers to be enrolled
Training providers refusing to acknowledge the skills and knowledge gained as a sex worker or refusing enrolment by ‘out’ sex workers
Churches and clubs refusing enrolment or membership
Community services refusing to provide assistance in particular homelessness services where evictions on discovery of status or activities outside of the housing provided occur regularly
Children’s community services disadvantaging sex workers families
I am convinced the ADCQ could provide a more comprehensive list of areas in which their legislation provides coverage. Unfortunately it does not cover all forms of discrimination such as the predujudicial attitudes of Magistrates within the Family Law Courts within custody battles that are not covered either due to it being a federal jurisdiction. I am ever hopeful that after this hugely important win, we might finally begin to see significant law changes emerging finally righting decades of wrongs.
But for now, I am basking in the glory that sex worker’s are finally being heard. There is definitely a party in the house tonight! Thank you GK for having the courage to do what many sex workers are afraid to do. You have my continued, ongoing support. There is no doubt that you will go down in whore-pride history! Jx
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Motels Not Happy About Hookers
Again, another shoddy attempt at journalism. Poorly written and bia’s. The Morning Bulletin published an article in Rockhampton titled ‘Motels not happy about hookers’, dated 18th November, 2011 by Kerri-Anne Mesner. In this article I am offended by the language that has been used to refer to legal sex workers and the total lack of consultation with sex worker organisations, such as RESPECT Inc.
The derogatory word ‘prostitute’ has been used eight times, and the word ‘hooker’ twice, including in the title. The correct title ‘legal sex workers’ has not been used at all. There is also a lack of counter-argument from sex workers in the article. I have no doubt in my mind that Kerri-Anne Mesner made little or no attempt to consult with sex worker organisations for comments. If she did, I expect she would have sent an email at 4.45pm on a Friday afternoon, when most people have already left for the weekend.
It doesn’t take a genius to see the obvious bias in the article. Unfortunately, a lot of Australians are ignorant of the arguments for or against sex workers and rely on the media for facts. Sadly, media articles like this one do more harm than good and are no more than inflammatory. Journalists need to be educated about how to write and research their stories and at the very least, have their stories read by an editor to ensure high reporting standards are maintained. Kerri-Anne Mesner’s article is embarrassing and insulting to the general public who are educated who can read between the lines. I feel I have to fill in some of the gaps in order to develop the story into one worth reading.
It is important to add that the recent Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) decision ruling against the legal sex worker known as GK in favour of the owners of the Drovers Rest Motel in Moranbah, is being appealed. It is highly likely to be overturned and bought in line with current anti-discrimination laws and modern business practice. Unfortunately people in positions of power are also human and prone to letting their own personal bias interfere with ethical decision-making, as is evident in this particular ruling.
Following on from this, is the weak interpretation of the Liquor Licensing Act that QCAT based their decision on. In my opinion, if it is all of a sudden found to be illegal to operate a business from your motel room, which has a mini bar, in a hotel/motel that holds a liquor license, then wouldn’t that also apply to all the other businessmen and woman who use hotels and motel’s? Consider ‘business’ conferences conducted for all sorts of businesses across Australia where alcohol is served or available.
The assertion that lawful sex workers are now moving into unlicensed premises is a misnomer. We have always been there. The comment by yet another motel owner is blatant evidence that he has been practising discrimination against lawful sex workers for at least four years by ‘turfing them out’. How has he been able to get away with this illegal behaviour? The idea that there are also legal sex workers who are male or transgender seems to completely baffle the owners. They appear ignorant that the sex industry is not a woman only service provider. I would like to know how they ‘discovered’ how much money the male sex worker was earning? I can only assume he had been stalked. What disgusting language to refer to a legal sex worker as a ‘male-on-male’!
Further more, I would like to know how they can tell the difference between one legal sex worker and another? How do they know which lawful sex workers will behave questionably? My guess is that they don’t and they have made an unlawful policy by labelling all sex workers as problematic. All this does is create an even bigger problem by not addressing the actual behaviour, on a case-by-case basis, as you would with any other guest. I suspect that there is an irrational fear of legal sex workers which has resulted in whorephobia.
In conclusion, although these articles frustrate and annoy me for there poor reporting, they are useful for highlighting what the actual issues are. Gender discrimination, sex worker discrimination and sexism. They encourage debate, and in my opinion any debate is better than complete denial of the issues. It is clear in the article in question, that Kerri-Anne Mesner has not really thought about what the real story here is. She has missed her opportunity to really make a journalistic impression on those of us with learned intelligence.
It is about time the media took some pride in their stories and did Australians a service instead of slapping us in the face with bigotry. Kerri-Anne Mesner could be forgiven for taking the easy road, but in this instance the implications of her negligence on the community is too great. It is important that Australians are educated about facts about sex work, sex workers and the law. Only then will the general public be fully informed about the pro’s and con’s of all aspects of the sex industry. It is simply an injustice to write about moralistic assumptions based on what a small group of hostile hoteliers are saying without hearing what key experts have to say on the real issues.
I am carefully considering making formal complaints about media articles like this that discriminate in their own words. It is about time we take a stand and insisted that journalists are university educated and supervised before their stories can be published. Australia needs information to be based on fact rather than speculation. Anything less, is nothing more than bullshit. Jx
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8 Prettiest Places to Go Ice Skating With Kids
Big Kids: 7-9 • Tweens: 10-12 • Teens: 13-17
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by Maxwell Barna
Big Kids: 7-9 Tweens: 10-12 Teens: 13-17
Gingerbread cookies, cackling warm fireplaces, mistletoe, the smell of fresh pine needles, snowmen, downhill sled races, red noses; all of these things embody the holiday spirit, and each are integral pieces of what makes winter time so great. But no winter is complete without a couple of good family ice skating sessions. And whether you live in festively frozen Vienna or in the sunny hills of southern California, we’ve found the best ice skating rinks to enjoy with your kids.
Written by Maxwell Barna
Eiffel Tower Ice Rink - Paris
The Eiffel Tower in Paris is the most visited paid tourist attraction in the entire world; it is the picture-perfect architectural cherry on France's cultural cake. And even though it didn't need to offer more incentives to get tourists to come come visit, it did so in 2004 with the introduction of its first-floor, family ice skating rink. While it's on the smaller side, allowing only for a maximum of 80 skaters at a time, the rink is absolutely worth the crowd (and lines). Suspended 60 meters above the ground on the tower's first level, the rink offers skaters a great opportunity to see one of the most beautiful centuries-old cities in Europe, while trying their hands -- well, feet -- at a perfect figure eight. Talk about memories to last a lifetime!
Recommended Hotel: Hotel Plaza Athenee
Vienna Ice Dream - Vienna, Austria
Every year, the square in front of Vienna"s city hall is transformed into an incredible 6,000-square-meter ice skating area. Aside from having the picturesque 18th century Rathaus building as its backdrop, the area is also immersed in a sea of bright and colorful lights and other decorations. The rinks (yes, there are two!) are absolutely gargantuan, each split by a walkway that's lined with vendors offering hot chocolate, tea, coffee and other snacks. There are also several connecting ice pathways that wind their way around the city hall's park.
Recommended Hotel: Hollmann Beletage
Natural History Museum Ice Rink - London
The ice skating rink for kids at London's Natural History Museum is the epitome of family-friendly. Aside from the 1,000-square-meter rink (with a beautiful Christmas tree at its center), there's also a smaller rink, geared specifically to young children. The main rink is particularly festive, with trees covered in sparkling bright lights and a fairground-style carousel. The museum, which spans the length of the rink (and then some), serves as a beautiful background, accompanied by the lights, decorations, trees and other surrounding architecture. When the kids get tired or your session is over, take a walk over to one of the rink-side vendors and let the kids take in the beautiful scene over a cup of delicious hot cocoa.
Recommended Hotel: One Aldwych
Place d'Youville - Quebec City, Canada
In a country where ice hockey is the undisputed number one sport, it should shock no one that there are ice skating rinks for kids everywhere in Canada. In fact, there are almost a dozen in Quebec City alone. Among them, however, one stands out -- the annual ice rink at Place d'Youville. The rink is right next to/in front of the famous Palais Montcalm theater, and in the winter months, the view is spectacular. The kids' ice skating rink is lit up with lights from surrounding trees, monuments and, of course, the beautiful holiday light display of the theater. The castle-like architecture is interesting and is sure to play into children"s imaginations, and families love this location's unmistakable charm. Oh, and did we mention that admission is free?
Recommended Hotel: Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac
Blue Cross RiverRink Winterfest - Philadelphia
A Philadelphia winter tradition for decades, the Blue Cross RiverRink Winterfest is an excellent way to spend an evening out with the family. This open-air, Olympic-sized ice skating rink for kids is located at Penn's Landing, right off of the Delaware River. Don't forget to take a look up from the ice every once in a while, as the views of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge and mighty Delaware River are pretty unique. There's also a heated pavilion, where snacks and drinks are available. The Delaware River Waterfront's annual Winterfest includes a pop-up holiday village, complete with nightly events, activities, a 400-person warming tent, a beer garden, fire pits, restaurants and holiday music.
Recommended Hotel: Hotel Monaco Philadelphia - A Kimpton Hotel
Ice Skating on the Las Vegas Strip
With its warmer climate, bright lights and unique electric charm in winter, Las Vegas is a family getaway hotspot. If you find yourself looking for a unique family-friendly experience in Sin City, take the kids over to The Cosmopolitan Hotel, which is transformed into a winter wonderland for the holidays.
The Cosmopolitan's famous Boulevard Pool is turned into a beautiful ice skating rink, surrounding guests with luscious palms and providing them with breathtaking views of The Strip. The rink is open from late November through early January. Keep an eye on the forecast, too, because on select dates, snow showers can be expected! When you're done skating, families are invited to enjoy some quality time around one of the arranged fire pits, where you can roast S'mores, enjoy warm drinks and cocktails, and take in all of the city's beauty.
Recommended Hotel: The Cosmopolitan Hotel Las Vegas
Ice Skating in New York City
We know we're bending the rules with this one, but New York City offers families so many wonderful ice skating spots for kids in the winter months that choosing just one would be criminal.
Rockefeller Center is the most idyllic of all of NYC's ice skating experiences, and children love skating around the 122-foot-long by 59-foot-wide rink. And with the breathtaking "30 Rock" building, international flags, world-famous Christmas tree, illuminated sculptures and all of Midtown Manhattan as your backdrop, who wouldn't? You're also right near a variety of other family-friendly attractions and restaurants. Be well warned, however, that the rink holds a maximum of 150 people, and lines can -- and will -- get very long, especially around Christmas.
If you're looking for more skating and less line-waiting, the Winter Village at Bryant Park ice skating rink is perfect. Admission is free, the rink is 170 feet by 100 feet, and there are onsite skate sharpening services, along with rentals, skate lessons, and hot snacks and beverages.
Along with a wonderful annual tree lighting ceremony, the South Street Seaport is home to another excellent ice skating rink for kids. Children age 5 and under skate free!
Last but not least, there's Wollman Skating Rink. Better known by its location -- smack dab in the middle of Central Park -- this rink first opened in 1949 and is another NYC classic. Kids and adults alike love skating in the middle of one of the city"s most popular attractions, complete with picturesque, panoramic views of Manhattan.
Recommended Hotel: The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park
Skating by the Sea at Hotel Del Coronado - San Diego, Calif.
The beautiful beach, the smell of salt in the air, the sound of a gentle ocean breeze rustling through luscious palm tree leaves and... a family ice skating rink? One of the [only] drawbacks to southern California"s year-round beautiful weather is snow never falls on the beach, and ponds never freeze over. Luckily for San Deigns, the kind people from Hotel Del Coronado bring a winter wonderland to their slice of the western shoreline every year, with their Skating by the Sea experience. From late November through early January, the hotel constructs an open-air ice skating rink practically right on the sand, overlooking the beautiful Pacific Ocean.
Recommended Hotel: Hotel del Coronado
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Blog Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery What Is A Runbook?
August 20, 2018 / Evolve IP
Don’t have a Runbook? Run, don’t walk to get one.
A runbook can help ensure your organization is prepared for a service disruption. The runbook establishes disaster recovery testing, planning, and processes.
Humans don’t like to dwell on the disasters that may befall them. So, it’s no surprise that businesses (run by those same humans) can be inclined to avoid thinking too much about things that could go wrong at the organization. However, not being prepared makes disaster recovery all the more difficult. Your business needs a runbook.
After all, Evolve IP’s 2018 survey of more than 1,000 IT professionals and C-level executives showed that 1 in 3 organizations have already experienced an incident that required disaster recovery. No matter how likely you think it is that you’ll be in that 33%, a runbook is essential to your IT resilience.
A runbook is basically an instruction manual for your business of what to do in the event of an emergency situation.
An effective disaster recovery runbook will consolidate all of your organization’s advance planning to address the technology, people, and process complexities your business may encounter in case of a system failure, network breach, or another form of disaster. The runbook outlines many elements, including:
What essential steps to take to recover systems and data
Who will be responsible for what actions in the event of a real-life disaster scenario
How change will be managed
Where backup systems and data will be held
When reporting to the necessary authorities or relevant stakeholders will be required.
93% of companies, that lost their data for 10 days or more, filed for bankruptcy within one year of disaster.
Readying a runbook
Disaster recovery (DR) recognizes the worst might happen, and that IT downtime interferes with customer service, taking orders, completing transactions, treating patients and more. No matter your industry, you need to be ready for technological or data disruptions, be they due to human error, device or power failure, malevolent attack, or man-made or natural disaster.
The runbook doesn’t have to be set in stone. In fact, it shouldn’t be, as it needs to be regularly updated to reflect changes in your infrastructure, personnel, and new threats. Yet, the runbook should be developed before a crisis occurs. After all, we all think much more clearly when trying to plan ahead as opposed to when we are racing against the clock to get computers and networks back up and running and to regain access to data.
There are many factors to consider in preparing a runbook:
Roles and responsibilities (internally, and also who has ownership of what if you are working with service providers)
Recovery priorities for business IT assets
Definition of a disaster, event thresholds
Disaster scenarios and causes of outage that might affect your business
Alert response procedures
Escalation procedures
Restoration processes
Backup configuration
Make the Runbook Readable
The more comprehensive the runbook, the clearer your organization’s thinking is likely to be in the event of a true situation. At the same time, make sure that the runbook is written in a logical, easy-to-read style. This is not the time to pen the technological equivalent of War and Peace. Keep it simple and direct. When possible, consider using decision trees and charts to help system administrators more immediately identify what they need to know.
Also, make sure that the relevant stakeholders know exactly where to access the runbook (is it on a shared drive or company portal or a hard copy document?) when under duress. Having multiple copies of a runbook is advisable. Ensuring one of those is offsite (so that it can actually be accessed in a disaster situation) is essential.
As we’ve noted in the past, “if testing a disaster recovery plan is a rehearsal, a DR runbook is the script….This script is not only important for the actors on stage in front of the audience, but also for the technology guys who are keeping the show running behind the scenes.”
While your particular runbook will be distinct to your organization, there are certain commonalities you can work from as a starting point. Evolve IP’s Disaster Recovery Runbook Template can jumpstart your preparations. Download the template today!
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The HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF) was developed to address the multitude of security, privacy and regulatory challenges facing healthcare organizations. The HITRUST CSF was developed by healthcare and IT professionals to provide an efficient and prescriptive framework for managing the security requirements inherent in HIPAA. HITRUST CSF rationalizes healthcare-relevant regulations and standards into a single overarching security framework. An important part of the “What is HITRUST” answer is understanding that the CSF is risk-based and compliance-based so that organizations can tailor the security control baselines and vendor management programs that they follow based on their specific organization type, size, systems, and regulatory requirements.
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Evolve IP’s business collaboration tools and IP phone system dramatically improve employee productivity in the office and on the road with a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform that fully integrates voice, video, instant messaging & presence (IM&P), desktop sharing, audio/web conferencing and more. The company also provides a sophisticated Web-based management portal, OSSmosis®, that allows administrators to easily configure system functions and quickly modify users without the need to reach out to a third party for changes.
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The story of this year's Inc. 5000 is the story of great leadership. In an incredibly competitive business landscape, it takes something extraordinary to take your company to the top," says Inc. President and Editor-In-Chief Eric Schurenberg. "You have to remember that the average company on the Inc. 5000 grew nearly six-fold since 2012. Business owners don't achieve that kind of success by accident.
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Evolve IP has achieved Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) compliance covering all 12 sections of the PCI DSS. The PCI data security standard is a comprehensive set of standards that require merchants and service providers that store, process, or transmit customer payment card data to adhere to strict information security controls and processes. It was created by the founding brands of the PCI Security Standards Council, which includes American Express, Discover Financial, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa Inc.
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Technology Fast 500 provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, life sciences, and energy the companies – both public and private – in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth during the period from 2012 – 2016.
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According to Entrepreneur, after evaluating approximately 10,000 U.S. based firms, the team of editors and researchers behind the E360 Performance Index collected more than 250 pieces of data from the finalists, focusing on growth drivers and challenges, goal setting, resource allocations, and reward systems. The analysis uncovered a class of leading companies, including Evolve IP, whose continued success is largely based on superior value creation for their customers, building an adaptive learning culture, and aggressive geographic expansion—placing them amongst the most dynamic firms in America today.
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Prince Harry ex girlfriend: Harry’s ex Cressida Bonas reveals downside to dating royal
PRINCE HARRY’S ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas has revealed how dating a prince had its “barriers”. The actress opened up about how her past relationship with Prince Harry has affected her career in a recent interview.
By Frederica Miller
Prince Harry and Cressida Bonas dated for around two years before finally splitting up in 2014. While their romance is a thing of the past and Cressida is due to tie the knot with property developer Harry Wentworth-Stanley, her dalliance with royalty left a lasting mark.
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Speaking to ES Magazine, Cressida said: “No-one likes to be labelled, no matter what it is about or where they come from.
“The hurdles and barriers for me are when I’m trying to do my work and people want to talk about him.
“I work very hard and love what I do - I just want to continue. But it is still something I have to contend with.
“It is what it is. People will perhaps always ask me about it.”
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Prince Harry ex girlfriend: Harry’s ex Cressida Bonas reveals downside to dating royal (Image: GETTY)
Prince Harry ex girlfriend: Actress Cressida dated Harry for around two years (Image: GETTY)
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Asked what she thought about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s current situation, given their plans to step down as senior royals Cressida said she “wouldn’t take a position on that because it would be a headline”.
She said: “I want to talk about my work. And also out of respect.
She expressed empathy for the couple when she said: “What’s the expression? How would I feel if the shoe was on the other foot and it was an ex talking about me?
“It feels like a long time ago, so when it comes up it feels strange because I’m in a very different place now - I’m getting married, I’ve learned a lot.”
Prince Harry ex girlfriend: In an interview with ES Magazine she revealed the lasting impact dating Harry had on her career (Image: GETTY)
Quizzed about her upcoming nuptials the actress confirmed they “won’t have a huge wedding.”
She added: “We aren’t traditional people, even though Harry proposed in a traditional way - I’ve never thought about how someone would propose to me.”
The whole interview with Bonas, who stars in ITV’s new crime drama White House Farm, is available in ES Magazine.
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As patron of the Rugby Football League (RFL) he hosted the World Cup 2021 draws at Buckingham Palace.
The Duke is expected to stay in Britain to honour some obligations until next week.
Meghan returned to a Canada a week ago to be with baby Archie, who the couple left behind with a nanny as they returned to Britain to make their shock announcement.
Despite their plans to step back as senior royals, Meghan has wasted no time in scoping out new projects.
On Tuesday she took a seaplane from Vancouver Island to the mainland where she visited a string of community-based women’s charity.
Prince Harry ex girlfriend: Cressida stars in ITV's new crime drama White House Farm (Image: GETTY)
Meghan is a vocal champion of women’s and seems to be searching out future collaborations with likeminded organisations over there.
Canada has a special place in Meghan’s heart as she lived there before she met Harry and was an actress on legal drama Suits.
The couple spent six weeks in Canada over Christmas and it seems they could make the Commonwealth country their permanent home.
While the Queen described Monday’s royal talks as “very constructive” there are still “complex matters” to be discussed.
The matter of funding and security costs could prove a sticking point as the couple intend to spend more time in Canada and become “financially independent.”
As “internationally protected people” The Sussexes’ security is currently paid for by the British Government and provided by the Metropolitan Police.
This is likely to change following their step back from the fold but it is unclear who will foot their security bill in future.
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DOJ charity probe claims another as Lundbeck inks $52.6M settlement with feds
Jun 7, 2018 10:21am
Lundbeck's $52.6 million tentative agreement is subject to further negotiation, the company said. (Pixabay)
Shortly after Pfizer reached a deal to put a copay assistance charity investigation to rest, the Justice Department has reached another tentative settlement with Lundbeck.
On Wednesday, the neuroscience-focused company disclosed an "agreement in principle" with the U.S. Department of Justice. Under the deal, it'll pay $52.6 million to resolve an investigation about its relationship with and donations to patient assistance charities, admitting no fault. The Danish drugmaker noted that the deal is subject to further negotiation.
Lundbeck is among a group of industry players under investigation for contributions to patient assistance charities. Pharma companies can donate to the groups under the condition that the charities remain independent. In their investigation, authorities seek to determine whether industry contributions are a "conduit" to help boost drug sales.
Pfizer became the latest drugmaker to settle on the issue last month, agreeing to fork over $23.8 million to resolve an investigation. The company admitted no wrongdoing.
RELATED: Pfizer inks $23.8M deal to settle Justice Department's charity kickback probe
In its latest annual report (PDF), Lundbeck disclosed that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston subpoenaed the company in May 2016 as part of an investigation into charity groups and marketing practices. Other companies involved in the probe include Johnson & Johnson, Astellas, Gilead Sciences, Celgene and Biogen. Jazz Pharmaceuticals reached a tentative agreement in April worth $57 million, according to a recent securities filing.
United Therapeutics late last year agreed to a $210 million deal with U.S. authorities to resolve its own probe.
Authorities are also looking into at least one big charity. Last year, the IRS started investigating Good Days, formerly known as the Chronic Disease Fund, to see whether the group is acting as a “conduit” for the drug industry to boost sales.
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Events and trainings
Recordings and Overview of Industry Event "Impact of PEPP on EU Capital Markets and Sustainable Pensions Income" on April 23
On April 23 Finance Latvia, European Commission and Nasdaq Nordic in partnership with Free Trade Union Confederation of Latvia and Estonian Banking Association organized industry event to foster action focused dialogue between industry and public sector experts regarding PEPP in the EU and its impact on capital markets and sustainable pensions income in the Nordic-Baltic region.
Welcome to see the short summary of industry event: "Impact of PEPP on EU Capital Markets and Sustainable Pensions Income" (in English).
Key highlights from:
Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice-President for the Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services, and Capital Markets Union, European Commission
Ingus Alliks, State Secretary of the Ministry of Welfare, Latvia
Henrik Husman, CEO of Nasdaq Helsinki
Kristīne Lomanovska, Co-chair, Finance Latvia Financial Instruments Market, and Investment Services Committee & Chairman of the Board of SEB Life, Latvia
Sanda, Liepiņa, CEO, Finance Latvia
Recording of speeches and the panel discussion:
The event was opened by Egils Baldzēns, President, Free Trade Union Confederation of Latvia (LBAS) (in Latvian).
The keynote speech was delivered by Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice-President for the Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services, and Capital Markets Union, European Commission (in English).
"The pan-European personal pension product is an important milestone towards completing the Capital Markets Union. It has enormous potential as it will offer savers across the EU more choice when putting money aside for retirement. It will drive competition by allowing more providers to offer this product outside their national markets. It will work like a quality label and I am confident that the PEPP will also foster long-term investment in capital markets."
Speech by Ingus Alliks, State Secretary of the Ministry of Welfare, Latvia (in English).
Speech by Henrik Husman, CEO of Nasdaq Helsinki (in English).
“The pan-European personal pension product as a voluntary scheme will complement existing public and occupational pension systems, alongside existing national private pension schemes, and will therefore address pension gaps and demographic challenges in Europe. We welcome any measures to help consumers to invest in retirement and widen the financial instruments offering available for them in Europe.”
After the keynote and all speeches, the panel discussion on such topics as governance of pension products, a mix of products - exchange-traded investment vehicles and alternative investment vehicles, the challenge of enabling adequate yield for pensions products etc. was moderated by Sanda Liepiņa, CEO, Finance Latvia (in English).
The Financial Instruments Market and Investment Services Committee at the Finance Latvia has drafted a working paper to facilitate discussions with partners from the public and private sector, aiming to attract more investment to Latvia and the Baltics: PROPOSALS FOR INCREASING INVESTMENT IN THE BALTICS
On June 2018 Association position on capital market development was approved by the Council.
Background (European Commission - Press release, 29 June 2017)
The PEPP is one of the key measures announced in last month's Mid-term Review of the Capital Market Union, the Commission's project to create a single market for capital in the EU. The PEPP supports the goal of the CMU, which is to create the right conditions to unlock funding so that it can flow from Europe's savers to Europe's businesses.
Currently, only 27% of Europeans between 25 and 59 years old have enrolled themselves in a pension product. PEPP would contribute to unlocking this vast potential and boost investment in our economy.
Today's proposed Regulation builds on almost 600 contributions to the Commission's public consultation on personal pensions in October 2016. Many respondents said the current supply of personal pension products in the EU was insufficient. It also took into account two reports from EIOPA in 2014 and 2016 and an external study by an external contractor.
The PEPP proposal will now be discussed by the European Parliament and the Council. Once adopted, the Regulation will enter into force 20 days after its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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Sri Lanka Trips
Why Sri Lanka?
Pristine wildlife, ancient temples, stirring mountainscapes; there’s a lot about Sri Lanka which remains untouched and authentic.
Surrounded by vast swathes of the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka’s coastlines are the stuff of adventure dreams. Further inland, you’ll find deep sierras spanning the likes of Horton Plains and the Knuckles Mountains, and picturesque tea hills shrouded by the mists of cloud forest. Yet beyond its stirring natural landscapes, Sri Lanka’s compelling beauty lies in its abundance of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
From the mysterious hilltop gardens of Sigiriya to the ancient temples of Polonnaruwa, there are cultural treasures in generous measure to be explored here. If you’re seeking history and culture, Sri Lanka is one of your best options.
In short, this is a destination offering epic landscapes, rich culture and beautiful beaches in equal measure.
Sri Lanka facts
Sri Lanka has a tropical climate with distinct wet and dry seasons. The average temperature in high season is 89F (31C), while in winter temperature averages 72F (22C).
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THE LEGO MOVIE WORLD set to open at LEGOLAND
The new area will open March 27
THE LEGO MOVIE WORLD set to open at LEGOLAND The new area will open March 27 Check out this story on floridatoday.com: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/entertainment/2019/02/25/lego-movie-world/2981119002/
Michelle Spitzer, Florida Today Published 1:58 p.m. ET Feb. 25, 2019
Emmet, Lucy, and Benny help announce THE LEGO® MOVIE™ WORLD opening March 27 at LEGOLAND® Florida Resort. (Photo: Chip Litherland, Chip Litherland)
Has your family seen the blockbuster hit The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part?
If the flick is a favorite among your crew, you might want to include LEGOLAND in your summer plans. Next month The LEGO MOVIE WORLD section will open inside the Winter Haven park.
“You literally get to go from the theater to the theme park,” said Chloe Boehm, a spokesperson for LEGOLAND Florida. “It’s definitely not like any other land we have had before because of how immersive it is.”
The 80,000-square-foot area is based off the new LEGO movie as well as the original, The LEGO MOVIE. Guests will feel as if they stepped into Bricksburg, the fictional city featured in the movies.
A replica of Emmet’s apartment is on display and fans will have a chance to meet the star of the franchise himself.
The area will have three new rides including the Masters of Flight Ride. This is a state-of-the-art attraction where guests will ride in gondolas made to look like Emmet’s Triple Decker Couch. The 4-and-a half- minute ride takes place inside a dome with a more than 65-foot screen. The gondolas are suspended giving a sensation of flying.
“This is unlike any other ride because you start with your back to the screen and then you’re turned around 180 degrees,” Boehm said.
The land also features Unikitty Disco Drop, where guests are raised 30-feet up and dropped while Unikitty goes through an array of emotions. There’s also the Battle of Bricksburg, which is themed around LEGO DUPLO aliens. Riders are tasked with stopping DUPLO aliens from invading and stealing LEGO bricks by spraying water at targets from their boats.
Aside from the rides, guests will also enjoy a spaceship themed, soft playground, and even a special knock knock door that will tell jokes when, of course, knocked on.
There’s also a new restaurant in the area. Instead of Taco Tuesday, guests can dine at Taco Everyday.
The LEGO MOVIE fun doesn’t have to end once you leave the theme park. Opening in April will be LEGO MOVIE-themed rooms at the LEGOLAND Florida Resort just steps away from the theme park.
The rooms will include movie-based artwork and Unikitty inspired rainbow shower. Like all rooms at the resort, these will have a playfully-designed children’s area with a bunk bed, pull-out trundle and TV. The adult side of the room has a king size bed, TV and lounge area.
“LEGOLAND Florida Resort is the park built for kids and THE LEGO MOVIE rooms mirror the whimsical fun and vibrant imagination that kids love so much from the popular LEGO® movies,” said Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Gillian Smith. “Staying in one of THE LEGO MOVIE rooms provides our guests with a unique room experience where it feels like they’re actually living in the movie.”
Guests can reserve the LEGO MOVIE WORLD Exclusive Vacation Package, which includes staying in one of the LEGO MOVIE rooms, one “skip-the-lines pass” per person (valid for one attraction in THE LEGO MOVIE World), valet parking, an in-room s’mores kit and free breakfast.
When: Opens March 27
Where: LEGOLAND Florida, 1 Legoland Way, Winter Haven
More information: https://www.legoland.com/en/florida/
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Loss of land is not the only challenge faced by Uganda’s Batwa women
Batwa woman in front of her burning home in Rubuguri, Uganda
United Organisation for Batwa Development in Uganda (UOBDU)
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When the Batwa’s traditional lands in southwestern Uganda were gazetted as national parks in 1991, they lost access to the forests that had been their home for millennia. Their livelihoods depended on this land; they hunted, gathered honey and medicinal plants, built shelters and held traditional ceremonies there. The forest was the source of everything.
Today, many Batwa remain homeless, and still isolated from their forests. For the women of the community, the situation is particularly challenging; rather than being able to gather foods from the forest, they must walk from one place to another in search of shelter, food and poorly paid work.
Batwa women in Rubuguri, Uganda
Violence and discrimination
Batwa women face domestic violence, including insults, beatings and rape by their own husbands. Non-Batwa men also rape and sexually assault Batwa women and girls; this can result in death or pregnancy. The babies may be abandoned after birth, left for other community members to take care of. There is a false belief amongst some non-Batwa men that having sex with a Batwa woman can cure AIDS and backache.
The Batwa endure marginalisation at all levels of society. For example, hospitals may fail to attend to Batwa women, claiming that they smell. And it is extremely difficult for a Batwa woman to marry to a non-Batwa man, as his family will disown their son for marrying a Batwa woman.
Child marriage is common among the Batwa girls, who drop out of school at a young age. Broken homes are common where a child has been forced into marriage too early.
Batwa homestead in southwestern Uganda
The literacy rate for the Batwa is extremely low – in 2012, just 12 percent of Batwa surveyed in one Ugandan region could read and write (compared with over 75 percent of non-Batwa in the same area). This results in a lack of representation at all levels, as the Batwa cannot compete with others to be elected to leadership positions.
UOBDU supporting the Batwa
Despite the many challenges that the Batwa women face, the United Organisation for Batwa Development in Uganda (UOBDU) has worked tirelessly to include Batwa women in their day to day activities. UOBDU is a Batwa-run organisation that works to ensure their land and human rights are protected. UOBDU has also improved and supported the livelihoods of Batwa women.
A third of the members of the UOBDU board are women, including the vice chairperson. Batwa women are employed at the secretariat level and hold positions as heads of department. Alice Nyamihanda, the first Mutwa to graduate from university in Uganda, is UOBDU’s Head of Education (Mutwa is the singular word for "Batwa").
UOBDU has trained Batwa women in handcrafts making, in order that they can earn a living through weaving baskets and other items. It has also trained women to defend their rights, so that they can work hand in hand with other local leaders at community level.
Throughout the years that UOBDU has worked with Batwa women, their self-esteem is visibly beginning to grow. They are able to stand up in public and express their views openly, they can earn money and save to support their families. Change is gradual and the struggle continues, but thanks to UOBDU’s efforts and the persistence of the participants, positive changes are taking place for Batwa women.
Batwa woman with her baby in Uganda
Press release - Ugandan Batwa issue declaration calling for their rights to be recognised
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Joe Biden consoles Megan McCain, while she discusses John McCain's brain cancer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Vice President Joe Biden consoled the daughter of ailing Sen. John McCain after she began crying while discussing her father's cancer on ABC's "The View."
McCain, an Arizona Republican, is battling the same aggressive type of brain cancer that killed Biden's son Beau in 2015.
Biden is promoting a new memoir, but "View" panelist Meghan McCain says she couldn't get through the book.
She says, "I think about Beau almost every day and I was told that this doesn't get easier but that you cultivate the tools to work with this and live with this."
Biden moved from his place on the set to sit next to Meghan McCain. He told her there's hope, and a medical breakthrough is possible.
Biden says, "And it can happen tomorrow."
Meghan McCain later thanked Biden, on a tweet she made on her verified Twitter page.
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New law would see hefty fines for things like driving while drinking coffee
TRENTON, NJ - Are you ready to face a four-hundred dollar fine, for drinking coffee while driving?
A bill making its way through the New Jersey legislature takes distracted driving to new heights.
"If it saves lives, it could save your own life or someone else's as well."
Texting and talking on your phone is already illegal, but Assemblyman John Wisniewski wants to go even further.
He wants to ban things like eating, grooming and even drinking non-alcoholic beverages.
Wisniewski said, "Driving distractions cause over 400,000 injuries each year and over 3,000 fatalities. These are injuries and fatalities there are easily preventable."
Violators would face fines in the hundreds of dollars.
"I mean, I think it's a little excessive."
Repeat offenders could even lose their licenses.
Many New Jersey drivers say Wisniewski's proposal goes too far.
"You're just taking a cup and drinking like this like I'm talking to you, or eating...I don't think it affects your ability to keep your eyes on the road," one driver said.
"That's ridiculous. Four hundred dollars?" another driver said.
Similar bills introduced in the past have failed--mostly because lawmakers couldn't agree on how severe they should be.
Utah and Maine are the only two other states with highly-restrictive distracted driving laws.
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Snyder blames bureaucrats, EPA faults state in Flint crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday blamed career bureaucrats in Washington and his own state for the Flint water-contamination crisis, while the head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency faulted him and other state officials.
At a contentious congressional hearing, the Republican governor repeatedly apologized for his role in the crisis, which occurred when state officials switched Flint's water supply to the Flint River two years ago to save money in the predominantly African-American city of 100,000 north of Detroit.
"Not a day or night goes by that this tragedy doesn't weigh on my mind — the questions I should have asked, the answers I should have demanded," Snyder said.
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, for her part, faulted state officials, noting that the impoverished city was under state management when the city's water supply was switched in April 2014.
State officials did not require that the river water be treated for corrosion, and lead from aging pipes and fixtures leached into Flint homes and businesses. About 8,000 children under the age of 6 were potentially exposed to lead, and elevated lead levels have been found in at least 221 children and 104 adults in Flint. Lead contamination has been linked to learning disabilities and other problems.
"The crisis we're seeing was the result of a state-appointed emergency manager deciding that the city would stop purchasing treated drinking water and instead switch to an untreated source to save money," McCarthy said. "The state of Michigan approved that decision."
McCarthy acknowledged that the EPA should have been more aggressive in testing Flint's water and requiring changes, but she said the agency "couldn't get a straight answer" from state environmental officials about what was being done in Flint. McCarthy refused several requests by Republican lawmakers to apologize.
"It was not the EPA at the helm when this happened," she said.
The nearly four-hour hearing produced no major revelations, although Snyder for the first time acknowledged that a state law, which allows state-appointed officials to take control of troubled municipalities, failed in the case of Flint.
Several Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee called for Snyder to resign, while Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the oversight panel's chairman, and other Republicans said McCarthy should step down.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said McCarthy understands how serious Flint's problems are, adding: "There's a strong case to make that the United States of America has never had a better administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency than Gina McCarthy."
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the panel's senior Democrat, said Snyder would likely face criminal charges if he were running a business — a dig at venture capitalist Snyder's oft-repeated claim to run state government like a business.
Besides facing charges, Cummings said of a corporate CEO in Snyder's shoes, "the board of directors would throw him out, and the shareholders would revolt."
Snyder told lawmakers that officials at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality repeatedly assured him that water being piped in from the Flint River was safe, when in reality it had dangerous levels of lead.
But Cummings said the governor should have pushed back against state experts. The committee has obtained documents "showing that people all around the governor were sounding the alarms, but he either ignored them or didn't hear them," Cummings said. He cited an October 2014 email from Snyder's top legal adviser warning that Flint should "get back on the Detroit (water) system" as soon as possible "before this thing gets too far out of control."
The warning came a year before Snyder says he became aware of the lead contamination on Oct. 1, 2015.
Dennis Muchmore, Snyder's former chief of staff, wrote emails in July 2015 warning that Flint residents who had complained about the smell, taste and appearance of the water were "getting blown off" by state officials.
Snyder said he took immediate action after learning that Flint's water was contaminated. He reconnected the city with Detroit's water supply, distributed water filters and began testing children and adults for elevated lead levels, he said.
The EPA deserves its share of blame, too, Chaffetz said.
He told McCarthy in one of several heated exchanges, "You had authority under the law (to fix problems in Flint) and you didn't do it."
Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., scoffed at the outrage from Chaffetz and other Republicans, noting that the EPA under President Barack Obama is a favorite target of GOP politicians who routinely accuse the agency of overreach.
In Flint, Republicans "now say the Obama EPA should have stepped in and overruled the Republican governor of a state," Clay said, his voice rising. "The irony is almost overwhelming."
Associated Press writers David Eggert in Lansing, Michigan, and Kevin Freking in Washington contributed to this story.
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News: CanCon Potrzebie – Rookie Blue, Living in Your Car, More
Posted on April 9, 2010 April 9, 2010 by Cameron Archer
Sorry for lumping stories in like this. I usually don’t, but Canadian television news hasn’t been this active since URBMN began talking about these shows back in 2008. I’ve fallen behind a bit. Apologies if you’ve read this before.
Rookie Blue, the cop show formerly known as Copper, will debut Thursday, June 24, 2010. The show will air on both Global and ABC at 9:00 PM ET/PT.
Rookie Blue focuses on five newbie cops learning the ropes in the generic world of “big-city policing.” It is unknown whether the show will contain vomiting.
Rookie Blue is an odd name for a show. Copper, while generic, makes more sense. I guess ABC and Canwest are banking on people remembering NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues. This show has never had a good name.
Yeah, yeah, Cra$h & Burn, but that’s different. See, the character’s named Jimmy Burn, and he’s an insurance claims adjuster. The title fits the show. What Canwest and ABC have done is swap ambiguities. It’s like taking Cybersix and calling it A Girl and Her Panther.
I don’t have high hopes for Rookie Blue. One doesn’t schedule a surefire hit in the middle of June. At least the show’s out. I hope it gets promoted.
Living in Your Car will debut on HBO Canada Friday, May 7, 2010, at 9:30 PM ET/MT. The show follows Steve Unger (John Ralston), a business executive charged with fraud, obstruction and racketeering. After cutting a deal to escape prison time, Unger loses everything aside from his sedan. This explains Living in Your Car‘s title and premise. See how this works, Canwest?
Here’s a ninety-second preview of Living in Your Car. Star John Ralston might be more familiar to viewers as Derek Venturi’s father on Life with Derek. He also played Ming the Merciless on the 2007-08 Flash Gordon reboot. Ralston gets around.
Continuing with the subject of HBO Canada, NSI Canada has announced that Less Than Kind will get a third season.
It’s not a detailed story, and HBO Canada hasn’t formally announced a third season for Less Than Kind. At the same time, I can’t see why the National Screen Institute would falsify the renewal of a show it helped develop.
Congratulations to Less Than Kind. I thought the show would die after its second season. It’s not often that I can write about a Canadian show’s renewal, rather than its untimely death.
Two upcoming shows in the pipeline: CTV/Bravo!/Showtime’s The Borgias and Showcase’s Lost Girl. Lost Girl is set to debut “Fall 2010” (*snort* heard that one before), while The Borgias will air in 2011.
Lost Girl is in production. It’s about a succubus on a path to self-discovery. The Borgias, which is still in pre-production, is about the Italian/Spanish House of Borgia and its path to self-destruction. I’m sure sex will feature heavily in both shows.
The Borgias‘ cast includes Colm Feore, Jeremy Irons and François Arnaud. Director/screenwriter Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Ondine) will write and direct The Borgias‘ first two episodes.
The Borgias intrigues me. I hate The Tudors with a passion, but this show might be different. Neil Jordan might focus The Borgias more on politico-religious themes than trying to sex up history for a premium-cable audience. As long as François Arnaud doesn’t eat up scenery like Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the show will do fine.
I’m not as sold on Lost Girl. It comes across as a gender-swapped Blood Ties. If the show is a detective drama WITH DEMONS!, I’m bailing.
Horror, fantasy and sci-fi themes are invading mainstream television with increased regularity. Supernatural, The Secret Saturdays, Ugly Americans, True Blood, Dead Set, Being Human…it gets to be a bit much after a while.
I’m not saying Lost Girl will suck, but the show might get lost in the shuffle. Add to that Canwest’s wanting to turn its cable channels into virtual Global clones…on second thought, I don’t want to think about that. I value my sanity. I hate Canadian television so much.
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Brandless wants to democratize wellness
by Emma Sandler
Brandless, the direct-to-consumer retailer that sells food, beauty and personal care products, wants to change the perception of wellness as only for the 1 percent.
On March 20, Brandless launched an expanded wellness collection of 15 premium products, featuring superfood powders, vitamins, supplements, essential oils and a seven-day herbal cleanse. This increased Brandless’s wellness assortment to 21 items. All products are between $4 and $15.
The pricing was a conscious attempt to democratize wellness as luxury-only need, said Rachael Vegas, Brandless chief merchant. Brandless, which launched in 2017 and has received more than $290 million in funding (at a $500 million valuation) declined to share any sales figures.
“The premise of Brandless really started from this [belief that] the system is broken,” said Vegas. “[Customers] think better costs more … and the retailer philosophy is that people are willing to pay more because there is a subset [of customers who are]. We believe that better doesn’t have to cost more, and our objective is to democratize access.”
But wellness is also a potentially lucrative category for Brandless, especially as the adoption becomes more mainstream. From 2015 to 2017 alone, wellness grew from a $3.7 trillion segment to a $4.2 trillion market, and mass retailers and grocers are increasingly expanding their wellness assortments. Target began making more moves within wellness in January 2019, and Thrive Market launched its own private-label line of vitamins and supplements in 2016. Even Costco sells essential-oil rollerballs. Brandless customers mostly reside on the East and West Coasts, Vegas said, but added that middle America is where the company is seeing the most growth overall. It’s an especially promising space for wellness, as existing wellness offerings are less accessible and affordable.
“Brandless’s deeper foray into the wellness space indicates how wellness is expanding beyond a luxury lifestyle to a mass-market trend,” said Anagha Hanumante, an analyst at CB Insights. “Though high-end wellness may not be slowing down, more options are emerging to meet the needs of consumers who can’t afford luxury-priced products.”
Vegas said she expects the new products to outsell the current assortment and that the superfood powders, specifically, will become hero products. Brandless’s subscription program, which debuted in January 2019, is also likely to get a boost, said Vegas, since products like powders and vitamin supplements are habitual items with frequent replenishment and reoccurring revenue opportunities. Brandless subscribers can choose to have any of of Brandless’s 500 products be delivered on a recurring schedule of between two and eight weeks. Vegas declined to state how many subscribers Brandless currently has.
According to data gathered by Edison Trends and published in September 2018, Brandless sees lower retention rates and lower order averages than established players such as Walmart, Target and Amazon, and e-commerce competitors like Instacart and Thrive Market. Vegas declined to provide current retention rates and order averages, but said the company’s figures are “very different” now, compared to 2017 when the brand launched.
“For Brandless, ensuring that this new line will entice consumers, who may have loyalty to existing brands offering similar products, will be crucial — especially as brand loyalty is becoming more important with the increasing saturation within the wellness economy,” said Hanumante.
Photo courtesy of Jen Siska. Not affiliated with Brandless.
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OC’s Top Chefs Raise Money, Awareness for Homeless Families
Thirty-two of the county’s top chefs came together at the county’s most exclusive culinary fundraiser at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel and Spa, to participate at Illumination Foundation’s 2017 OC Chef’s Table. This over the event raised over $680,000 for the construction of a new emergency house for homeless families with children.
“We promised last year that we are raising money for a house. We have that house now. It is a great honor and we are very happy that with your help we were able to fulfill one of our first dreams. Theriault House is ready to house only this year 180 families, over 400 children. But tonight we have even bigger dreams and plans,” says Paul Leon, Illumination Foundation CEO and president.
Over 320 of Orange County’s most elite guests attended the second rendition of OC Chef’s Table, including California State Senator representing Senate District 29, Josh Newman; 46th District U.S. Representative, Lou Correa; Anaheim Mayor, Tom Tait; Anaheim Mayor Pro Tem, James Vanderbilt; Orange County Supervisor, Todd Spitzer; Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem, Michele Martinez; Los Angeles Angels Chairman, Dennis Kuhl; Vice President, OC Hospital Association of Southern California, Whitney Ayers; President of Wells Fargo South County Community Bank, Ben Alvarado; President of the Disneyland Resort, Michael Colglazier; and Senior Vice President, Disneyland Resort and Illumination Foundation chairwoman, Mary Niven.
Every dish, libation and extravagant decoration was designed and donated by the chefs and restaurants with the intention of making the night unforgettable for every guest and raising funds for Illumination Foundation’s Emergency Home. Each table burst with colors, textures, decorations and smells. The tablescapes all ranging in shapes and sizes. Some restaurants chose simple yet meaningful centerpieces, such as Anchor Hitch’s Bonsai trees representing their environmentally conscious and one-with-nature cuisine style. Other restaurants exhibited extravagant 5-foot decorations filled with hanging fruits, vegetables and flowers. Some even displayed delicate and meaningful flowers, such as poppies, known as a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime. Antonello Ristorante even featured a plethora of live Beta fish in their magnificent centerpiece, while Nick’s Restaurants’ tall flower chandelier featured Illumination Foundation’s symbolic “IF,” representing the foundation’s mission of shedding light on the growing homeless population and a flame of hope those in the ballroom give to our most vulnerable homeless families and children.
“OC Chef's Table gives the opportunity to give back to our community. I want to help the community and contribute to this cause,” says Omar Gonzalez, Nick’s Restaurants regional chef.
At the entrance of the event, a large three-panel display of a family transitioning from living in their car during a dark, stormy night, then walking into Illumination Foundation’s Emergency House where they were offered stability, job search support and case management among other services, and last transitioning into their very own permanent home. As guests entered the foyer, they witnessed the Battle of the Chefs between Chefs Michael Doctulero of Waterman’s Harbor and Chef Jennifer Ravalo of SuShe Art. In a tight competition to find out who makes the most creative, beautiful and exquisite sushi, Chef Jennifer Ravalo and her all women staff took the winning title. During cocktail hour guests also participated in a silent auction with prizes ranging from an Anaheim Ducks VIP experience to exotic trips around the world. Guests also enjoyed the company of a glamorous Mickey and Minnie in a step and repeat setting, which gave each guest a special keepsake photo of their visit to the dynamic duo.
Once in the ballroom, guests were welcomed by Mary Niven, senior vice president of Disneyland Resort, followed by a special performance by IF’s Children’s Resource Center choir and former Broadway performer, Michelle London. Matt Rogers, American Idol finalist and television personality hosted the live auction, which featured extravagant experiences, such as a week at a Tuscan villa and an unforgettable behind-the-scenes music experience at the Country Music Awards.
This year’s table sponsors and guests included Disneyland Resort, Arcuri-Cutrell Coldwell Banker Commercial, Wells Fargo, Molina Healthcare, Guaranty Chevrolet and many others.
Illumination Foundation is currently working on acquiring the land and garnering partnerships to build the new emergency house in the coming year, which is expected to house over 200 homeless families with children.
“We are overwhelmed by the support of the community and we are all about giving back. The homeless community is still part of the community but they are usually forgotten. We are proud to be a part of a movement that sheds light on such a major issue that highly affects our community. You succeed by helping others succeed,” says Michael Pham, Anchor Hitch executive chef.
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Super Mega Baseball 2 Ultimate Edition Review: The All-Star Game
While Zelda and Mario rightfully sell Switches all on their own, for baseball fans, Super Mega Baseball 2 is a supreme mix of arcade and sim, and makes for an understated killer app for Nintendo's console.
by Mark Delaney
While the MLB's popularity has waned in recent years, losing ground to the NFL and NBA among stateside sports fans, there's still an intense desire for baseball video games. It doesn't help that there are so few baseball games coming to the various platforms.
If you're determined to only play with licensed pro teams quickly and easily, you'll have to try PlayStation's annual The Show. However, if you don't mind a game with studio-invented teams and a deep customization suite for more determined creators, you won't find a better mix of arcade and simulation baseball than Super Mega Baseball 2: Ultimate Edition.
There's a chance you've already played Super Mega Baseball 2. It originally launched in May 2018, though after a year of DLC and the welcome landing spot the Switch has become for indies, the game has been repackaged as an Ultimate Edition complete with all the DLC on a new platform. This review was conducted with the Switch version, and it was glorious.
While Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey are the system sellers for many people playing on Switch, for baseball fans, SMB2 is the killer app that is worth a Switch purchase all on its own. From top to bottom, the game is precisely what baseball fans would want, and to have that all on the go or docked is a supremely addictive fit.
In terms of modes and menus, SMB2 has most everything you'd want. You can play solo, in local play, or online. You can do so in pick-up games, season mode, and custom leagues. In these modes, everything from division and conference names and sizes to team names, jerseys, and fully customized logos is up to you. Names, looks, and even the eye-black and tattoos of every single player are customizable.
It does lack a derby mode, but competitive online play is integrated in several ways, like front and center leaderboards, that help round out the modes on offer. The options to make a league your own whether playing alone or with friends is stunning for an indie game like this. Heck, it would be impressive even as an annual big-budget sim.
Without MLB licensing, you'll not have the chance to drop in and play as the Red Sox, Cubs, or the league's 28 other teams, but for the most patient and dedicated, the customization suite is so absurdly deep that you can certainly make those teams from scratch. Many players already play the game this way. The DLC that comes with this all-inclusive version amounts to new logos and stadiums, taking the game's customization options that much farther.
On the diamond, the game's wide-ranging difficulty options mean virtually anyone will find the right resistance from AI opponents. Dubbed "Ego," this system allows players to tweak the skill level of their opponents from 1-100, offering incredible nuance. If the game is getting too tough or too easy, you can simply adjust the Ego accordingly and try out the new level until you find the right fit.
As you improve, your opponents can come with you, or you can keep them as pushovers and turn a season into a one-sided home run derby. In many of its most important areas, SMB2 is defined by its player agency.
There's also the dynamic mojo stat which measures a player's mental toughness. Players on hitting streaks will have higher mojo, while those hitting in the low .200s may be ice cold at the plate until a lucky swing turns it around. Pressure is also measured and works in tandem with mojo to deliver heroes and zeroes to every game. Step up in the bottom of the ninth with a high mojo player, and they may as well be David Ortiz.
All this agency wouldn't mean much without strong core mechanics, but again the game dazzles here, too. Pitching and hitting are very active systems, where you have to chase the spot of the ball whether you're at the plate or the diamond. Pitching feels phenomenal: you can really fake out opposing batters with intimidating control of the strike zone, while batters have to weigh contact versus power versus bunting. Complete control is also given to every baserunner individually or collectively, and each player is even given their own walk-up animations and songs. And yes, even these are customizable.
Nearly every strategy you'd expect to see in the most expensive AAA baseball games are here, too, which rewards smart players with challenging situations meant to bring out the coaches in them. How to play the base paths, adjust your fielders, and creatively use substitutions are key to winning on the highest Ego settings for the most thoughtful baseball minds.
The one area in which Super Mega Baseball 2 has not gone leaps and bounds beyond its predecessor and, for the matter, genre counterparts, is fielding fly balls. This system is largely automated, leaving you feeling like you've lost control of your vehicle in intermittent moments despite the awesome autonomy everywhere else. Whereas hitting, pitching, baserunning, and fielding with the ball in your glove cal all be as tough as you like them to be, with fly balls even at the highest settings, SMB2 holds your hand for seemingly technical but ultimately unexplained reasons.
Screenshots of the game cloak all of this deep customization and true to form baseball IQ in a cartoonish and fun aesthetic. Player models got a bit more realistic compared to the original game which featured ridiculous proportions, but they still look something more like Jimmy Neutron characters than real humans, and that's fine. Metalhead Software surely couldn't attain photorealism, so they smartly made this style work for them instead, turning a neutral or negative element of the game into a positive.
Impressive customization options
Great on-the-field play with wide-ranging difficulty options
Many modes and ways to play with friends locally, online, or alone
Creative mojo and pressure systems interact to alter athlete behaviors in fun ways
Fun, lighthearted visuals bring the world to cartoonish life
Fielding fly balls is curiously semi-automated, which stands out as the one area where players lose control
Super Mega Baseball 2: Ultimate Edition is the definitive killer app for sports game fans playing on Switch. More so, if you haven't played it on other platforms, it remains an excellent option there, too, even if you have access to PS4's The Show.
What's lost in MLB licensing is recovered tenfold in deep customization across the board, intuitive play on the field that rewards a high baseball IQ, and a lighthearted aesthetic which belies the game's as-serious-as-you-want-it design. Admitting it's an overused cliche, it also feels unavoidable; Super Mega Baseball 2 is a grand slam.
[Note: A copy of Super Mega Baseball 2 was provided by Metalhead Software for the purpose of this review.]
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Mark is the former Editorial Manager at TrueAchievements, now freelancing his way across the internet to write about the games he loves. He especially enjoys the latest and greatest horror, co-op, and battle royale games when he's not biking throughout Portland or enjoying a day with his family.
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Ingleby Barwick and Thornaby
'It's like The Purge': The Thornaby street where youths wreak havoc and terrify residents
Simon Morrison-Peacock says he now feels nervous and anxious in his Redcar Street home after unruly youths put his windows through
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Simon Morrison-Peacock, says his windows have been smashed, left, and a brick throw at his home, above
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A Thornaby resident - who is still dealing with the death of his partner from cancer - has compared his street to The Purge after being targeted by "outrageous" youths.
Simon Morrison-Peacock says he now feels nervous and anxious in his Redcar Road home after unruly youths put his windows through with bricks and smashed his door.
The 50-year-old says that other homes have been targeted in the street too, with other residents being threatened by the gangs of youths they confront.
"Last Friday night I had been quite poorly and so I had an early night", Simon told Teesside Live.
Man beaten on Thornaby street by 'gang of about 20 kids because he's gay'
"My step-son, Daniel, had been working so he went to bed too, it must have been about 9pm.
"Just after that I heard two almighty crashes, I went downstairs and there were two large holes in the window and two more at the top.
"I ran outside and there were a group of kids running off. It was a bit of a shock.
"I couldn't get anything done at that time of night so I patched it up best I could, it wasn't repaired until the Sunday."
But it wasn't the last time Simon's house was targeted.
The brick that was thrown through the window (Image: Teesside Live)
On Wednesday night his door was badly damaged after bricks had been thrown at it.
"The estate has been really bad recently, it's like that film The Purge, they're running riot", Simon said.
"The police are understaffed and the youths aren't afraid of the PCSOs
"More bricks were thrown, this time part of a door panel was smashed. It's just one thing after another."
The attacks are putting a strain on Simon's health too and he is still dealing with the death of his partner June, who died after a two year battle with bowel cancer last year.
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"I'm still struggling to come to terms with that and I took time off work to care for her.
"Then this happens, and it has knocked me for six.
"I'm more nervous now, and I get anxious too, there's really no need for it, it's like the Wild West."
Simon claims that homes have been targeted down the road too, with youths seen "jumping up and down on people's cars" and then throwing things at them when challenged.
Simon's partner, June, who died last year (Image: Teesside Live)
"It's outrageous", Simon added.
"We were no angels as kids, but we wouldn't dream of throwing bricks through people's windows. I'm on edge at night now.
"It was normally a quiet street, but the community spirit has been lost, it shouldn't be like this."
Cleveland Police is investigating the two attacks on Simon's home.
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Sandvik Coromant Sponsors Manufacturing Contest
Sandvik Coromant recently sponsored a contest at Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana where 21 students from the school's Advanced Manufacturing Program used Mastercam software to design and machine a NASCAR style gearshift lever and knob. The inspiration for the local competition came from Mastercam's Innovator of the Future event, a national student manufacturing contest that was judged by Stewart-Haas Racing's Tony Stewart, Ryan Newman and Brad Harris and won by Vincennes student Justin Small.
"Though our students participate in the national event each year, we wanted to host a contest that would showcase their talent and ingenuity to the local Vincennes community," said Doug Bowman, associate professor and director of the Haas Technical Education Center (HTEC) at Vincennes University.
Judges from Sandvik Coromant, Mastercam and Haas evaluated the entries based on originality, practicality, style and quality of workmanship. The top three overall finishers - Seth Cook, Mike Weisman and Tom Nuckol - received Sandvik Coromant Tooling Certificates valued at $1,500, $750 and $500. Other winners were Justin Small (Most Original), Wes Eberhardt (Best Racecar Shifter), Branden Updike (Best Show Car Shifter) and Heath Berry (Best Presentation).
"Our relationship with Sandvik Coromant began when we established the HTEC in 2005," said Bowman. "Their support over the last five years has been invaluable not only in terms of supplying reliable, effective cutting tools that meet our students needs but also providing strategies and techniques that will allow them to find success in the workforce."
Vincennes University's HTEC is housed in the school's state-of-the-art Technology Center, and includes 13 Haas machining and turning centers that Advanced Manufacturing students use to program and machine complex 2, 3, 4 and 5-axis parts.
"The Sandvik Coromant, Haas, Mastercam and Vincennes University partnership is a powerful way to prepare the next generation of CNC programmers and operators," added Bowman. "We are grateful that they are playing such strong roles in workforce development."
Students from Vincennes University's Advanced Manufacturing Program pose with their winning projects (pictured above).
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Elegant Minimalism
Purity of Design
Society Hill Townhouse
Award-winning architect and designer Kevin Yoder of k YODER design, Philadelphia, used a Geberit Duofix carrier system to creatively renovate a powder room and master bath in his Society Hill townhouse.
Society Hill is a historic neighborhood in the oldest part of Philadelphia. An urban renewal program beginning in the 1960s restored the area and its many historic buildings, including Independence Hall. Society Hill is now one of the most sought-after neighborhoods in the city, and the district is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Kevin Yoder and his firm, k YODER design , performed an extensive interior renovation of a Society Hill townhouse, originally designed by famed architect I.M. Pei in 1962. The renovation respects the purity of the original design and incorporates 21st century technology and luxury amenities into a compact, minimalistic footprint.
The outside of the townhouse maintains its original classic midcentury design, while on the inside Yoder used his talents to create an updated, spacious, and functional home with a similar modern aesthetic and today’s conveniences. The existing 1960s bathrooms were redone as part of the update. This required removing, replacing, and relocating all of the plumbing and fixtures.
Because of the limited space, plumbing restrictions, and the floor and wall structure of the townhouse, regular floor-standing toilets would not have allowed the same opportunities for design flexibility.
Yoder first became familiar with Geberit while working on the design and specifications for the guest room suites of the 5-Star luxury hotel chain Shangri-La, based in Hong Kong.
Yoder then used Geberit systems in his own home located in the Society Hill townhouse complex. “The Geberit in-wall system transforms the powder room into the modern, minimal look we wanted by concealing the toilet tank,” says Yoder. Minimalism in interior design means designing every room—even the bathroom—with a combination of simplicity, sophistication, beauty, and practicality.
Following the successful renovation of his own home, Yoder designed and renovated a second townhouse in his complex for a professional couple. Yoder presented many creative solutions to the clients, and the Geberit wall-hung toilet was one of them.
Yoder incorporated wall-hung toilets and Geberit in-wall systems for both powder rooms and the master bathroom in his clients’ townhome. “The ability to capture wall space makes Geberit systems very attractive when designing within existing conditions,” says Yoder.
“We wanted the powder room to complement our classic modern design concept. We recommend Geberit in-wall systems for our clients not only for the space saving, but also to accommodate the plumbing in the wall rather than tearing up the flooring. We won’t recommend a product we don’t use ourselves as in the case of Geberit in my own townhome,” says Yoder.
The Geberit Concealed Tank and Carrier System gives the powder room an entirely new look by mounting the toilet on the wall and concealing the tank and other functional components in the wall, creating a very clean, minimalistic design with flexibility for fixture placement. Yoder added that Geberit in-wall systems work especially well in high-rise residential or historic home bathroom renovations, where space for plumbing may be limited.
The Geberit System provides unlimited possibilities for bathroom design by allowing the plumbing fixtures to float above the floor. In Yoder’s townhouse, finishing off with Geberit Sigma 30 polished chrome flush plates complements the powder room with an elegant touch that combines simple and smooth lines, visual elegance, and effortless operation.
Design Firm: k YODER design
Interior Designer: Kevin Yoder, AIA
Bathroom Photo: © Jeffrey Totaro
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LastPass vulnerability potentially exposed passwords for Internet Explorer users
11:33 am, August 19, 2013
LastPass, the popular password management tool, has been patched to fix a security flaw that could have left the passwords of Internet Explorer users potentially exposed.
Regular readers will know that I am a big proponent of computer users protecting themselves with tools like Bitwarden, 1Password, and KeePass to help remember and generate unique passwords for every website they use.
It’s a lot better, for instance, than trusting your web browser to remember your password.
But it is essential, of course, that these password management programs are secure – and not leaking sensitive information.
As PC Magazine describes, a flaw was found in the Windows Internet Explorer version of LastPass that meant passwords could be read in plaintext if a memory dump was performed on Internet Explorer.
Fortunately, there are some mitigating circumstances, as the folks at LastPass described to PC Magazine:
“This particular issue would be extremely difficult to exploit – requiring that you be using IE, that you’ve logged in to LastPass to decrypt your data, perform a memory dump, hunt through the memory dump, and actually locate the passwords – we have made fixing this a priority because we value the privacy and security of our users’ data above all else.”
Nevertheless, LastPass responded quickly – and included a security patch for the problem (alongside other fixes) in an important update.
Although this incident is undoubtedly embarrassing for LastPass, I still recommend password management software for all internet users. Keep them updated, and you should find them a heck lot safer than trying yourself to remember secure passwords for every website you access.
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Graham Cluley Follow @gcluley Graham Cluley is a veteran of the anti-virus industry having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent security analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of computer security, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter at @gcluley, or drop him an email.
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3 Replies to “LastPass vulnerability potentially exposed passwords for Internet Explorer users”
So Graham
What password manager do you recommend/use? I'm currently using RoboForm, but I never see it mentioned in articles like yours which usually mention LastPass, 1Password, and KeePass.
This worries me a little as the lack of mentions of RoboForm implies that it's not that good…
I haven't ever used RoboForm myself, but I've also not heard anything bad about it. :) I would be surprised if it does a less than competent job as it has been around for a long time.
This doesn't seem much different than any other password vault solution. If you get a memory dump with the key in it you can decrypt anything that was in the vault.
Physical access makes plugging in a Firewire or Thunderbolt device to grab memory dumps easy.
About the only thing I could see doing different would be to make auto-lock a default option.
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SFGFF Recommends: Pelican Dreams
Green Film Fest audiences will remember the wonderful sneak preview of Pelican Dreams as a work-in-progress screening in 2012. We're thrilled that the film is now complete and hits the big screen this month at a cinema near you!
What's it like to try to get to know a flying dinosaur? Filmmaker Judy Irving (The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill) follows a wayward California brown pelican from her "arrest" on the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a wildlife rehabilitation facility, and from there explores pelicans' nesting grounds, Pacific coast migration, and survival challenges.The film is about wildness: how close can we get to a wild animal without taming or harming it? Why do we need wildness in our lives, and how can we protect it?
Tickets are available now for the World Premiere on October 24 at the Balboa Theatre, San Francisco, and Elmwood Theater, Berkeley.
Visit pelicandreams.com for details of additional screenings in Sonoma, San Rafael, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Sebastopol and more...
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Al Scorch
“Stormy, husky, brawling, City of Big Shoulders.” – from “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg
Al Scorch grew up in Chicago, with its storied history of corrupt power at the top and righteous fighters and big dreamers at the bottom. From the town that gave the world characters like Studs Terkel, Upton Sinclair, and the anarchists in Bughouse Square, Scorch adds his voice to the choir with the enthusiasm and charisma of a Maxwell Street preacher. He eyes the prize of that ever-elusive promised land that’s worth scrapping for, wherever or whatever it may be. With a stentorian bullhorn of a voice, he exhorts, not with a holy book in his hand, but a banjo and guitar. He’s a messenger and a conduit, a believer that a soul-stirring song will march you forward.
Balanced on wedges of punk, old-time string band, American and European folk, and soulful balladry, Al is an entertainer, road warrior, storyteller, and one helluva musician. His second album and Bloodshot debut Circle Round the Signs is built on a sonic framework sharing an intersection with the Bad Livers’ lawless next-gen take on traditional country & bluegrass, and Black Flag’s burn-it-all-down revolt and breakneck tempos. From the train-hopping tale of “Pennsylvania Turnpike” – updating steel rails to concrete ribbons – to the shout-along, late-night lament of “Insomnia” (“I toss and I turn in my bed every night/ I’m sober but my mind’s as high as a kite”), the aural dexterity is thrilling.
Woody Guthrie’s “Slipknot” gets a complex, Western swing cum prog-grass treatment, led by the angular fiddling of Felipe Tobar, that would make acoustic thrash godfathers Split Lip Rayfield grin demonically. And “Want One” blazes down the dirt track with a Stanley Brothers fireball energy driven by Scorch’s clawhammer banjoing, and the it’s-safe-to-laugh-now adventure of meeting an intensely inebriated fan while busking across the country.
But Scorch is far more than lightning for lightning’s sake. Through 10 songs of high wire musicianship, debilitating despair, wild-eyed hope, and sharpelbowed views of social (in)justice, he deftly maintains a balance of precise touch and texture, pop catchiness and frenetic intensity. That Minutemen inspired “jam econo” vibe embracing the freedom of art and community as long as you’re working hard and bringing your friends along for the ride?… Yeah, that’s here too.
He shows a keen ear for the Mekons’ trans-Atlantic roots and marries it to the Avett Brothers’ big stage sound on “Lost At Sea.” Likewise, there is depth in the song’s lyrics during the cliffhanging, reallife narrative of a best friend almost dying when the HMS Bounty sank in Hurricane Sandy:
“When I heard of the wreck my heart left my chest/ tears came rolling down/ the same sun shone through the window/ I thought of a world without you around”
DIY show shakedowns parallel a down-and-out-on-Clout-Street message (“Every bossman is on another bossman’s take/ There ain’t no free man except the one you make”) on the vaudeville-via-Eastern European klezmer door-kicker “Everybody Out.” With its bittersweet imagery and mournful harmonies, “Lonesome Low” goes beyond the blue grass and into the deep woods. While the elegiac french horn in “Poverty Draft” wouldn’t sound out of place if it was played in a WWI trench, nor would its message of the poor being the tools of war (“The fight for freedom pays more than minimum wage”).
A punk rock banjo-wielding John Prine or Billy Bragg, Al Scorch writes for the everyperson. Through his acrobatically poetic politics, hopeful tales of love lost (“Love After Death”), or cathartic takes on urban chaos (“City Lullaby”), he pens rowdy campfire stories, calls for action, and draws the epic from the ordinary. Celebrate, right a wrong, or find your path and go for it. It’s heavy shit, but so is life.
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22 Healthy Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide (and a Few You Should Avoid)
Medically reviewed by Dena Westphalen, PharmD on November 13, 2019 — Written by Rebecca Joy Stanborough, MFA
Better than bleach?
With caution
For at least a century, hydrogen peroxide has been widely used as a super cleanser by everyone from housewives to orthopedic surgeons. But which uses are still backed by solid science today, and which ones should you consider outdated — or even dangerous?
Spoiler alert: Hydrogen peroxide is no longer recommended for wounds or skin care because doctors have discovered it can lead to dangerous complications and can slow healing time, but there are still lots of ways it can be useful and beneficial to you.
What exactly is it?
Hydrogen peroxide may seem old-fashioned in its dowdy brown bottle — but it’s definitely not a natural home remedy. It’s a household chemical.
True, it differs from water only by the addition of one extra oxygen molecule. But that extra molecule turns it into a powerful oxidizer. It’s the reason hydrogen peroxide is such a versatile cleanser, and it’s also the reason you need to use it cautiously on people and pets.
Hydrogen peroxide breaks down quickly and easily when it comes into contact with air or water, so it’s considered safer than chlorine chemicals.
Can it really clean as effectively as, say, bleach?
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), hydrogen peroxide kills yeasts, fungi, bacteria, viruses, and mold spores.
The CDC lists specific concentrations you need and how long you need to let them sit to kill different organisms.
Here’s how to use this common chemical to cleanse your body and your home safely.
1. Clean your dishwasher
To eliminate mold and mildew in your dishwasher, spray the intricate parts of your dishwasher where moisture can linger long after a cycle is complete — in the pleats of rubber seals, traps, and crevices of the utensil basket.
A 2016 study of residential dishwashers found that 83 percent of the dishwashers they tested were positive for fungi, and 47 percent of dishwashers tested contained the black yeast E. dermatitidis, which can be harmful to humans. E. dermatitidis was detected primarily at the dishwasher rubber seals.
Or if you feel like giving this hardworking appliance a spa day, use hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and essential oils to make a scented dishwasher “bomb.”
2. Scrub your sink
Many home care blogs recommend this trick to clean your kitchen sink: Wet the surface of your sink, then scrub it with baking soda sprinkled onto a sponge. When you’ve scrubbed the whole surface, pour 3 percent hydrogen peroxide over the surface and allow it to sit before rinsing it clean.
3. Disinfect counters and cutting boards
According to The Ohio State University Extension, cleaning counters with undiluted hydrogen peroxide is effective at killing E. coli and Salmonella bacteria on hard surfaces like counters when it’s allowed to sit on the surface for 10 minutes at room temperature.
Renowned renovator Bob Vila’s website advises a 10-minute soak in 3 percent hydrogen peroxide to kill germs on wooden cutting boards.
4. Wash veggies — and extend their shelf life
Organic gardeners recommend using 1/4 cup of 3 percent hydrogen peroxide per gallon of water to help remove bacteria from vegetables. If you’re washing delicate-skinned vegetables like lettuces, just soak for 20 minutes and then rinse.
Carrots, potatoes, and other tough-skinned veggies can be soaked 30 minutes before rinsing and drying. Because bacteria can cause vegetables and fruits to turn brown, a hydrogen peroxide bath is believed to keep them fresh longer in your fridge.
5. Scour cookware
If your cookie sheets, pots, and pans have a baked-on layer of brown, Jill Nystul of the blog One Good Thing recommends sprinkling them with baking soda, then spritzing the soda with 3 percent hydrogen peroxide will restore them. Allow them to soak for 1 to 3 hours before wiping off the mess.
6. Get rid of garbage can germs
After washing the garbage can with soap and water, spray the whole container with a 1:1 solution of hydrogen peroxide and water. Let the trash can sun-dry for several hours. Just as peroxide cleans surfaces, it’ll help remove germs from your trash can.
In your bathroom
7. Deep clean your toilet
According to the CDC, hydrogen peroxide is effective at removing microorganisms, including bacteria, yeasts, fungi, viruses, and spores, making it a good choice for cleaning your bathroom.
To clean your toilet, add 1/2 cup of 3 percent hydrogen peroxide to your bathroom bowl to kill germs and brighten the surface of your toilet. You’ll need to leave it in the bowl for 20 minutes to get the full benefit.
8. Shine mirrors and glass surfaces
Spray a 1:1 solution of water and hydrogen peroxide onto glass surfaces, then wipe with paper towels, a lint-free cloth, or newspapers for a streak-free clean.
9. Kill mold and mildew
Mold and mildew can build up quickly in the moist environment of a shower stall.
To kill them without having to breathe in toxic bleach fumes, spray with undiluted 3 percent hydrogen peroxide and allow it to sit for 30 minutes. Rinse. The peroxide will kill the mold and mildew, but you may still need to remove the stains they left behind.
10. Whiten old porcelain
If your porcelain pedestal sink has yellowed, you can brighten it by scrubbing the dampened sink surface with baking soda, then scrubbing with a sponge saturated with 3 percent hydrogen peroxide.
11. Foam away soap scum
For weekly cleaning of a fiberglass shower and tub, make a foaming paste from 1 cup baking soda, 1/4 cup white vinegar, plus a tablespoon or two of hydrogen peroxide. When the bubbles subside, scrub the surface of the shower with the mixture.
Take care! If you’re using straight peroxide, wear gloves to protect your skin. Hydrogen peroxide can cause redness and burning.
In the laundry room
12. Remove stains
The Environmental Working Group recommends hydrogen peroxide as an effective way to remove grass stains, blood stains, and drink stains like fruit, juice, and wine. Try dabbing the cleaner on the reverse side of the fabric to start.
13. Brighten dingy whites
Nystul also has a solution if your T-shirts, sheets, and towels have taken on a grimy, gray hue.
Make your own oxygen-bleach by combining 1/2 cup washing soda — hint: It’s not the same as baking soda — and 1/2 cup hydrogen peroxide. Start the cycle, allow the washer to fill, and soak the clothing for a couple of hours before finishing the cycle to whiten and sanitize.
Wait! Swab a swatch first. Before you try hydrogen peroxide on any fabric, test a small, out-of-the-way section for color fastness. Use extra care with vintage fabrics: The Smithsonian Institution’s fabric conservation experts say peroxide can bleach and weaken fibers.
14. Sprout healthy seeds
Numerous studies have shown that soaking seeds in 1 to 3 percent hydrogen peroxide can soften the seed coat and start germination. If you want to increase the chances of a good plant yield, you can soak seeds in hydrogen peroxide for 20 minutes before planting.
15. Clear algae from your pond water
If you have a water feature or koi pond, you can safely treat the water to reduce or remove harmful algae. Gardening experts at Get Busy Gardening used 1/2 cup of 3 percent hydrogen peroxide to clear a 90-gallon pond.
16. Treat plants with fungal infections
If your garden vegetables are suffering from powdery mold or other fungal infections, you can spray them with a hydrogen peroxide solution to rid them of the fungus.
Mix 4 teaspoons of hydrogen peroxide in a pint of water and spray the plant. Stronger concentrations could burn delicate leaves, so don’t use it at full strength.
Most veterinarians no longer advise using hydrogen peroxide to clean your pet’s wounds, no matter how small the injury is.
17. Induce vomiting for poisoned dogs
If your pet has eaten something poisonous, your veterinarian may advise you to use hydrogen peroxide to make the animal vomit.
Because hydrogen peroxide is dangerous for your pet to ingest, it’s critical that you talk to your vet or a poison control center before attempting to induce vomiting with this method.
18. Clean out the litter box
To eliminate odors and disinfect your cat’s litter box, empty the litter, wash the container with soap and hot water, and then spray thoroughly with full-strength peroxide. Let it sit for 15 minutes before rinsing, drying, and replacing the litter.
Fish tank warning!
Some aquarium hobbyists use hydrogen peroxide to control algae and clean their tanks, but talk to a fish veterinarian before putting hydrogen peroxide in your tank. While hydrogen peroxide degrades rapidly in water, research suggests that some species of ornamental fish, including gourami and suckermouth catfish, can’t tolerate it.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies hydrogen peroxide as “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) for humans at low doses. But the FDA warns that getting hydrogen peroxide on your skin may cause irritation, burning, and blistering.
If you get it in your eyes, it could cause burning or abrasion of your cornea.
Breathing it in at higher concentrations could also cause irritation of your airways, tightness in your chest, hoarseness, or shortness of breath. And swallowing hydrogen peroxide, especially at higher concentrations, can cause vomiting, inflammation, or damage to hollow organs.
Science says no
Take it out of your first aid kit
Hydrogen peroxide was once used as an antiseptic on superficial wounds and injuries. It isn’t recommended for that purpose today. While it does kill bacteria, some studies have shown that it can be harmful to fibroblasts, which are cells your body needs for healing.
Medical opinions are mixed, but doctors at the Mayo Clinic now say we shouldn’t use it to clean cuts and wounds.
Don’t lighten your skin with it
Dermatologists might use hydrogen peroxide to treat some skin conditions, but it isn’t considered a safe way to lighten hyperpigmentation in at-home use. The risks outweigh any potential benefits, especially because there are other ways to lighten dark spots on your skin.
Don’t use it to treat acne
Yes, it bubbles and fizzes and kills bacteria, including the bacteria that can cause acne. But a 2005 study shows that hydrogen peroxide can also lead to scar formation, so using it directly on acne isn’t a good idea.
In general, it’s not a good idea to use hydrogen peroxide on your skin at all — even though there are plenty of websites that tout it as a health and beauty aid that can do anything from whitening your nails to softening calluses on your heels.
Science says yes
19. Do use it to sanitize your toothbrush and retainer
The American Dental Association says toothbrushes can be exposed to fecal coliform and other bacteria in the bathroom. Tiny amounts of these bacteria don’t usually cause health problems, but if you want to be on the safe side, soak your toothbrush in hydrogen peroxide.
A 2009 study found that rinsing in hydrogen peroxide reduced the bacterial count by 85 percent.
20. Do use it to sterilize makeup brushes
After washing excess makeup off your brushes with a gentle shampoo, soak the bristles for 10 minutes in a bowl of water with a teaspoon of 3 percent hydrogen peroxide. You can also use it to clean the pads on your eyelash curler. Rinse off any residue thoroughly to protect your eyes.
21. Do whiten your teeth
A bright smile is on just about everyone’s to-do list these days, and the market is teeming with products that use hydrogen peroxide to whiten teeth. Concentrations vary.
Some products available from dentists may contain 10 percent hydrogen peroxide. Studies show that these products are effective and safe when used properly.
Science says use caution
22. Do consider letting a professional lighten your hair
Hydrogen peroxide is generally considered safe in commercial hair dyes, although research shows that serious chemical burns can happen, even in a professional salon.
Hair dyes with peroxide can damage your hair if you use them too often, so talk to a trained stylist to work out a schedule that’ll protect your hair and skin.
The familiar brown bottle contains 3 percent hydrogen peroxide, but there are much stronger concentrations on the market, including a 35 percent food grade hydrogen peroxide.
While food grade hydrogen peroxide has been discussed widely as a cure for conditions like cancer, lupus, and diabetes, these uses aren’t supported by science or doctors’ advice.
Don’t use hydrogen peroxide to treat or attempt to cure any of these conditions. Doing so could cause serious health problems and could even be fatal.
Hydrogen peroxide is a household chemical that can be safely used for a variety of cleaning purposes in your home. Although it was once commonly used to disinfect cuts and wounds, it isn’t recommended for that purpose today.
Hydrogen peroxide can reduce the likelihood that you’ll get sick if you use it to disinfect surfaces, produce, and other items in your home.
Don’t use it on your skin, don’t swallow it, and don’t try strong concentrations of food-grade hydrogen peroxide to try to cure illness. When used properly, hydrogen peroxide is still a helpful household disinfectant and health aid.
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Google increases Chrome bug bounties, top Chromebook vulnerability now $150K
Google has long maintained bug bounties that pay researchers for discovering and submitting security issues directly. The Chrome Vulnerability Reward Program is now increasing amounts across the board, with a standing $150,000 prize for Chrome OS compromises.
Created in 2010, Google has received over 8,500 reports and paid $5 million out to researchers. The program is now tripling the max baseline reward from $5,000 to $15,000. Meanwhile, the maximum reward amount for high quality reports has doubled to $30,000.
Over the years we’ve expanded the program, including rewarding full chain exploits on Chrome OS, and the Chrome Fuzzer Program, where we run researchers’ fuzzers on thousands of Google cores and automatically submit bugs they find for reward.
The biggest sum is still for a Chromebook or Chromebox compromise with device persistence in guest mode, or “guest to guest persistence with interim reboot, delivered via a web page.” Previously $100,000, such a flaw will now net $150,000. Additionally, security bugs in firmware and lock screen bypasses are have their own reward categories.
This increase for Chrome bug bounties will be applied to submissions filed after today. For reference, the old table is below:
Google is also clarifying what it considers a high quality report so that applicants can maximize the reward potential. Bug categories have also been updated to better reflect the types of bugs that are reported, and what issues the company is especially interested in receiving.
Elsewhere, the Google Play Security Reward Program has increased amounts for remote code execution bugs from $5,000 to $20,000. All Google apps are included and third-party developers can opt-in. Theft of insecure private data and access to protected app components has been tripled to $3,000.
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Open Journal Club with Anupam Chander
“Breaking the Web”. At our next Open Journal Club, 5 May 2014 – 5pm, Anupam Chander is presenting his paper on “Data Localization vs. The Global Internet”, which will be followed by a discussion.
Record of the presentation
PDF ansehen Invitation – Open Journal Club with Anupam Chander
Anupam Chander
Anupam Chander is the Director of the California International Law Center and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar. His research interests are, among others, Cyberlaw, Intellectual Property and Public International Law. Anupam recently published his book “The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce”, which focuses on today’s electronic Silk Road and how the legal infrastructure for a global network can be designed.
Breaking the Web: Data Localization vs. The Global Internet
Anupam will present his paper “Breaking the Web: Data Localization vs. The Global Internet”, which is available on the Social Science Research Network. The paper addresses the intention of governments to increase control over the World Wide Web.
A BRICS Internet, the Euro Cloud, the Iranian Internet. Governments across the world eager to increase control over the World Wide Web are tearing it apart. Iran seeks to develop an Internet free of Western influences or domestic dissent. The Australian government places restrictions on health data leaving the country. South Korea requires mapping data to be stored domestically. Vietnam insists on a local copy of all Vietnamese data. The nations of the world are erecting Schengen zones for data, undermining the possibility of global services. The last century’s non-tariff barriers to goods have reappeared as firewalls blocking international data flows.
Data localization requirements threaten the major new advances in information technology — not only cloud computing, but also the promise of big data and the Internet of Things. Equally important, data localization requirements undermine social, economic and civil rights by eroding the ability of consumers and businesses to benefit from access to both knowledge and international markets and by giving governments greater control over local information. Legitimate global anxieties over surveillance and security are justifying governmental measures that break apart the World Wide Web, without enhancing either privacy or security.
The Journal Club is a weekly event at the HIIG where our researchers discuss interesting publications. Every once in a while, the Journal Club opens for a wider audience and becomes an Open Journal Club. You are welcome to join the Open Journal Club on 5 May 2014, 5pm.
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College of Natural and Computational Sciences
Department of Natural Science
Program Articulation Agreements
Environmental Science and Studies
Master of Science in Marine Science
Undergraduate Biomedical Research Opportunities
Early Acceptance Program in Medicine and Dentistry
Resources for Pre-Health Professions Students
Natural Science Faculty
Hawaii Pacific University | Shared Instrumentation Facilities
The Pre-Health Professions Program at HPU is proud to offer several specialized pathways for our students interested in Chiropractic, Pharmacy or Physical Therapy. These pathways allow students to begin their studies at HPU and finish their degree at a second prestigious while working towards their doctoral degree in a health field. We currently offer these "3+3 Programs" for Pharmacy, Physical Therapy and Chiropractic, and one additional special program for those pursuing a career in Physical Therapy.
The "3+3" Program Pathways
These pathways offer students the opportunity to enter into the doctoral program of their choice (Pharmacy, Physical Therapy or Chiropractic) after their third (junior) year at HPU after having completed all necessary doctoral pre-requisites, maintaining a certain GPA and meeting admission requirements. After the first year of the doctoral program, students may transfer back courses to HPU to receive a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Biology - Human Health Sciences. In order to qualify for this degree, students must follow the prescribed Program Pathway and obtain all classes. (Three Year Plan for Articulation Agreements)
HPU students will receive preferred admission status at our partner universities, and may even be guaranteed admission to the program (see each school program below).
Students should share their intent to be part of these articulating programs with both their academic advisor and the Pre-Health Professions Specialist early on to ensure they receive the best guidance and support.
The Pre-Physical Therapy Program at HPU begins with a solid grounding in core science classes as students work towards a degree in Biology - Human Health Sciences. As students enter their Junior year at HPU, they have two pathway choices into Physical Therapy.
3+3 Program at Carroll University
This 3+3 program is a great option for students who wish to proceed directly into the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program after three years at HPU. Carroll University will offer HPU students preferred admission into their program, providing that students have completed all the program pre-requisites with at least 30 semester credits taken at HPU. Applications must have a cumulative and science GPA of at least 3.0 (out of 4.0), submit all application materials to Carroll University by the first priority deadline (approximately Mid-January of Junior year) and obtain a Committee Letter from the Hawaii Pacific University Pre-Health Professions Committee.
In order to obtain a B.S in Biology - Human Health Sciences after the completion of the first year of the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at Carroll University, the student must transfer back the credits obtained and petition to graduate. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that he/she completes all the necessary courses required at HPU in order to qualify for this degree plan. (Three Year Plan for Articulation Agreements)
[See here for specific pre-requisites for Carroll University Doctor of Physical Therapy]
Reserved Seats at Creighton University
The Physical Therapy School at Creighton University will reserve seats for up to five HPU students each year who graduate with a B.S. in Biology - Human Health Sciences, have maintained a GPA of 3.5 (out of 4.0) or greater, and scored at least 300 on the GRE (combined quantitative and verbal.) Students are required to apply to Creighton University through PTCAS, complete a minimum of 60 hours of observation with a physical therapist, successfully complete the PT program admission interview requirements, and submit at least three excellent letters of recommendation.
[See here for specific pre-requisites for Creighton University Doctor of Physical Therapy]
HPU offers four different 3 opportunities for students interested in Pharmacy. All pathways offer students the option of proceeding directly into a Doctor of Pharmacy Program after three years at HPU. A B.S. in Biology - Human Health Sciences will be awarded after the successful completion of Year One in the Doctor of Pharmacy program. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that he/she completes all the necessary courses required at HPU in order to qualify for this degree plan. ( Three Year Plan for Articulation Agreements)
3+3 at Pacific university, oregon
Pacific University's Bridge Program is open to HPU students who have completed at least 60 credit hours and attained an overall 3.0+ GPA and C+ or better in all core science courses. Interested in students should work with their faculty advisor early on to plan their application and transfer to Pacific University.
3+4 at University of Hawaii, Hilo
The Daniel K Inouye College of Pharmacy at UH Hilo will welcome HPU students who have maintained a GPA of at least 3.2 (out of 4), achieved a 60 on the PCAT and have a successful interview with the College of Pharmacy admissions team. A minimum of a "C" grade is required for all program pre-requisite courses, and students must follow the "Three Year Plan for Articulation Agreements" in order to be eligible to receive their BS from Hawaii Pacific University after transfer ing to the Doctor of Pharmacy Program.
3+3 at Creighton University
Students entering the Doctor of Pharmacy Program at Creighton University must follow the “Three Year Plan for Articulation Agreements” and accumulate at least 90 semester hours of credit by the spring before enrollment at Creighton University. Participants need to maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.5 (out of 4.0) and achieve a PCAT score of at least 60. Students will apply to the program via PharmCAS no later than November 1st of the academic year prior to enrollment (Junior Year).
[ See here for specific pre-requisites for Creighton University Doctor of Pharmacy]
3+3 at University of the Pacific
The Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at University of the Pacific will welcome HPU students who have completed at least 90 semester hour credits (at least 75 of which were completed at HPU), have a minimum GPA of 3.5, and completed all the necessary prerequisites, including a full year of General Biology, General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. Students will apply via PharmCAS.
[ See here for specific pre-requisites for University of the Pacific Doctor of Pharmacy]
HPU and the University of Southern California Health Sciences, College of Chiropractic have partnered to offer students interested in a career as a Chiropractic Doctor a 3+3 direct entry program.
Southern California University of Health Sciences College of Chiropractic will offer HPU students preferred admission into their program and guarantee the acceptance of up to five HPU students each year. Applicants must have completed all the program (at least credits must be taken at HPU), and have a cumulative and science GPA of at least 3.0 (out of 4.0). Students are required to submit all application materials directly to Southern California University of Health Sciences. Note that the application fee will be waived for HPU students.
In order to obtain a B.S in Biology - Human Health Sciences after the completion of the first year of the Doctor of Chiropractic Program at Southern California University of Health Sciences, the student must transfer back the credits obtained and petition to graduate. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that he/she completes all the necessary courses required at HPU in order to qualify for this degree plan. (Three Year Plan for Articulation Agreements)
[See here for specific pre-requisites for the Doctor of Chiropractic at Southern California University of Health Sciences]
PARTNER SCHOOL
YEARS OF PROGRAM
Carroll University
B.S. from HPU, DPT from Carroll
3 years at HPU, 3 years at Carroll
3+3 Articulation
B.S. from HPU, DPT from Creighton
4 years at HPU, 3 years at Creighton
Preferred Admission for HPU Graduates
B.S. from HPU, DPHARM from U of the Pacific
3 years at HPU, 3 years at U of the Pacific
B.S. from HPU, DPHARM from Creighton
UH Hilo
B.S. from HPU, DPHARM from UH Hilo
3 years at HPU, 4 years at UH Hilo
University of Southern California Health Sciences
B.S. from HPU, Doctor of Chiropractic from USCHS
3 years at HPU, 3 years at USCHS
Lake Erie College of Medicine
B.S. from HPU, Doctor of Dental Medicine from LECOM
4 years at HPU, 4 years at LECOM
Early Admission Program/ Preferred Admission for HPU Graduates
B.S. from HPU, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from LECOM
Pre-Health Resources
Direct Entry Pathways: PT, Pharmacy, Chiropractic
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate
Pre-Health Club and Honor Society
Three Year Plan for Articulation
More Resources for Pre-Health Students
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Award Winners Changing the World Through Tech
The Tech Awards is an international program honoring innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. This year’s winners received their awards at a Gala yesterday in San Jose, CA.
The 2009 Tech Awards Laureates represent regions as diverse as Nigeria, Brazil, Great Britain, the United States and Bangladesh. And their work impacts people in many more countries worldwide.
15 innovators were honored for projects that address global issues on the environment, economic development, education, equality and health. A $50,000 cash prize was awarded to one Laureate in each category.
One Nigerian company with its Cows to Kilowatts program lowers pollution from the slaughterhouse, eliminates greenhouse gas emissions, while producing clean, cheap energy. The technology turns animal blood and waste into inexpensive, clean energy for consumers.
An innovation called Ultra Rice addresses the severe vitamin deficiency especially in women and children around the world with its product, which looks, cooks and tastes just like rice.
Watch the video below, and at the bottom read a description of the Laureates and their life-changing work.
The Tech Awards Laureates 2009:
Environment Award
Dr. Joseph Adelegan, Cows to Kilowatts (Nigeria): Slaughterhouse waste is one of the most significant sources of water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in most developing economies. The anaerobic fixed film reactor used in the Cows to Kilowatts project (link opens in PDF) decontaminates the waste stream from slaughterhouses and turns this organic waste into methane that can be used to generate electricity or as inexpensive cooking gas.
GRUPEDSAC Eco-techniques Toolkits for Self-Sufficiency (Mexico): Poor quality of life in rural Mexico includes loss of soil fertility, lack of access to clean water, adequate shelter, nutrition, and health resources. Customizable Eco-techniques Toolkits for Self-Sufficiency combine old and new sustainable technologies — from cisterns to solar ovens — to fit the needs of each community.
Sean White, Electronic Field Guide (USA): Plant species are disappearing at an alarming rate; mobile identification and classification of plant species may aid in conservation and cataloguing. The Electronic Field Guide uses mobile-augmented photo identification of leaves based on virtual reality and situated visualization.
Biosciences Economic Development Award
Alternative Energy Development Corp., Alternative Energy for Empowerment (South Africa): Fuel cell use largely avoids the lead-acid waste of solar or wind installation batteries. Inexpensive, zinc-air fuel cells can be used in poor communities lacking access to grid power. Fuel cell waste can even be recycled as fertilizer.
Solar Ear (Botswana and Brazil): Standard Western hearing aids cost an average of $750, with battery costs typically $1 per week. Solar Ear, an inexpensive hearing aid suited to local conditions and manufactured by deaf workers who train one-another, costs $100 and is paired with a solar recharging unit for the batteries.
Driptech (India): Hundreds of millions of people in the developing world face water shortages in crop production; drip irrigation delivers precisely the right amount of water and not more. Driptech’s unique laser technology drills holes in one main line, thereby reducing the number of parts and the cost of a drip irrigation system.
Education Award
Akshaya Patra Foundation, School Meals Program (India): High quality, nutrient rich meals are key to the education process in poverty stricken areas. The School Meals Program uses integrated and adapted high-performance kitchen technology and food delivery systems to serve millions of Indian children a nutritious daily meal.
GeoGebra: Dynamic Mathematics for Everyone is a free, open-source software to display and practice geometry and mathematics that will help achieve rapid diffusion of information and quicker comprehension. GeoGebra created web-based, open-source software to visualize and practice geometric-based mathematics.
The Khan Academy: High school students around the world need informal, clear explanations that can be reviewed at a leisurely pace to supplement their formal learning. The Khan Academy created hundreds of free educational videos in math, statistics, physics, and finance using drawing software. The “blackboard” style videos are accessible via the internet and hosted on YouTube.
Equality Award
World of Good Development Organization (International): Handicraft workers around the world are generally paid per piece, often at low hourly rates. World of Good‘s Fair Wage Guide Software provides localized pricing evaluation of handmade goods to improve wages of informal workers. The free web-based platform encourages ethical trade by comparing wages worldwide.
Kiwanja.net: kiwanja.net’s FrontlineSMS allows for SMS technology to be used by hundreds of NGOs worldwide, for activities as diverse as election monitoring and dissemination of agricultural prices. This free software for non-governmental organizations deploys two-way SMS messaging and provides easy-to-use communications infrastructure for outreach in rural and urban areas.
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha (Bangladesh): Providing mobile solar lighting can alleviate health problems due to smoke and CO2 emissions while establishing social enterprises. Retrofitting existing kerosene hurricane lanterns with CFL or LED lights can provide lighting for transient settlers in flood and hurricane-prone areas. SuryaHurricane also establishes women-oriented infrastructure for recharging lantern batteries using boats equipped with PV modules.
Health Award
mPedigree (Ghana): Counterfeit drugs are ubiquitous in the developing world; up to 80 percent of drugs in pharmacies are fakes with little or no active ingredients. Pharmaceutical manufacturers label packages with an alphanumeric code, which is later confirmed when consumers send free text queries in to the mPedigree database. This low-cost, instant method for reducing drug counterfeiting is expanding from Ghana to Nigeria, Rwanda, and India.
PATH, Ultra Rice: More than a billion people in developing nations suffer from dietary deficiencies in crucial micronutrients, including iron, zinc, folic acid, and vitamin A. Ultra Rice is an affordable, nutrient-fortified additive to standard rice, tailored to satisfy deficiencies common in the region where it is distributed.
Village Reach, Management Information System for Vaccine (Mozambique): Poor countries bear the greatest burden of infectious diseases, and have the least infrastructure for public health programs. Village Reach worked closely with the Mozambique Ministry of Health to implement supply chain logistics management systems, utilizing portable USB drives to automatically update and share information to improve the delivery of vaccines, drugs and critical medical supplies to rural clinics.
For more information about The Tech Awards, visit: www.techawards.org/
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Christians' Final Petition to Governor to Veto Pro-Homosexual Bills
Two most highly controversial pro-homosexual bills in the state of California are getting closer to the legislation book; Christians are therefore called to mount the final defence by urging the Gover
By Eunice Or ( [email protected] ) Aug 24, 2006 07:04 PM EDT Comment
Two most highly controversial pro-homosexual bills in the state of California are getting closer to the legislation book; Christians are therefore called to mount the final defence by urging the Governor to veto the bills.
SB 1437 passed the Democrat-controlled California State Assembly Monday by a 46-31 vote on the Assembly floor. SB 1437 would alter K-12 public education textbooks, instructional materials, and school-sponsored activities to positively reference transsexuality, transvestitism, bisexuality, and homosexuality, including homosexual "marriage."
Pro-family groups statewide such as the Campaign for Children and Families (CCF) has been diligently fighting against this sexual indoctrination bill. While the bill will now go to the state Senate for a concurrence vote, president of CCF Randy Thomasson said, "We call upon Governor Schwarzenegger to keep his promise to veto SB 1437, which micromanages public schools by forcing them to promote a gaggle of sexual lifestyles that disturb parents and confuse kids."
Chairman of a Chinese pro-family organization Traditional Family Coalition (TFC) Dr Bill Tam criticized that such education policy is "ridiculous", saying that "righteous biblical teachings are prohibited, anti-abortion stance is not welcomed, but everyone can speak about homosexuality."
In addition, on August 10, SB 1441 passed 42-25 in the California State Assembly. Authored by lesbian state Senator Sheila James Kuehl, SB 1441 has been sent to Governor Schwarzenegger. He must sign or veto it by 5 p.m. on Sat. August 26.
According to CCF, SB 1441 requires "any program or activity that…receives any financial assistance from the state" to support transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality or lose state funding. It contains no exception for religious colleges and universities, child care providers, or after-school programs. CCF commented it as "religion-squashing".
Tam suggested that SB 1441 has projected an ambiguous Church-State relationship, "If the Church and the State is completely separated, the government should not try to force the Church to teach principles that are unbiblical. This is totally unacceptable."
Tam further pointed out that many Chinese churches refused to be involved in politics, so they tend to keep silent on such issues concerning social policy.
"Indeed, we must protect the mind of the next generation," said Tam. "The voice of Muslims is too weak while Buddhists care for their self-training, only Christians are ready to speak against the falsity."
Tam repeatedly warned of the seriousness of the issues on pro-gay legislation, saying that Chinese pastors must be tense. He also hopes that more church leaders will rise up as they are the spiritual leader of this age.
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Avoiding panic key to McLaren recovery process - Gil de Ferran
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A Deep Blue State
By gq.com
Photo: Alexi Lubomirski
Home to Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate sculpture (a.k.a. The Bean) as well as Barack Obama’s victory speech.
Suit, $2,465, by Gucci. Shirt, $325, by Ralph Lauren Black Label. Tie, $95, by Emporio Armani. Pocket square by Paul Stuart. Watch by Tissot.
L Train, Chicago Avenue Stop
The train gained special infamy when Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay went for a ride on it in Risky Business.__
Suit, $998, by Brooks Brothers. Shirt, $150,by Black Fleece by Brooks Brothers. Tie, $120, by Michael Bastian. Shoes, $550, by Allen Edmonds Seven. Pocket square by Dion by Peter Tsihlias. Sunglasses by Tom Ford.
The newsmen’s joint that inspired Aykroyd and Belushi’s “Cheeburger, cheeburger, cheeburger—no Coke, Pepsi!“ skit—and the goat behind the Cubs’ hundred-year curse.
Suit, $1,600, by Paul Smith London. Shirt, $480, by Thom Browne New York. Tie, $125, by Hickey. Watch by Tissot.
330 N. Wabash
Part of the vaunted cityscape since 1971, this iconic modernist building, designed by Mies van der Rohe, looms over the Chicago River.
Suit, $2,595, by Dolce & Gabbana. Shirt, $325, and tie bar by Dolce & Gabbana. Tie, $185, byDG. Shoes, $630, by Church’s. Pocket square by Brooks Brothers.
Designed by Bertrand Goldberg in 1964, these twin towers (locally known as the corn cobs) were the city’s first residential high-rises.
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Steven Reid: Average display but great result maintains momentum in group
Republic of Ireland's Seamus Coleman. Photo by Matt Browne/Sportsfile
Steven Reid
It wasn't pretty but we got there in the end and at this early stage of the group, the result is far more important than the performance.
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It took a moment of brilliance from Seamus Coleman and that was a real captain's moment. There was an element of luck to his goal but you make your own luck and, on the balance of play in the second half, we deserved the win.
Seamus has been given the armband for this qualifying campaign and he really stepped up when it mattered most. It's difficult to underestimate how important last night's three points might turn out to be.
He found it difficult to get forward in the first half but then again, so too did our attacking players but he came into his own in the second half.
He has developed into one of the best right-backs in the Premier League and I can see him being a very good captain. We missed each other on the international scene but he has always come across as one of the quieter members of the squad and that isn't necessarily a bad thing as captain.
I've played for all sorts of captains and just because Seamus isn't roaring and shouting at people on the pitch, doesn't mean he isn't an effective leader.
Garry Flitcroft was similar when I played at Blackburn. He was never a ranter or a raver like, say, Barry Ferguson but he had an aura and a presence about him and I see that in Seamus as well.
In many ways, Roy Keane was the same. He would be very vocal at training and on the pitch but in the dressing-room, he was a calming influence. Believe it or not, I don't remember Roy really tearing a strip off anybody in the dressing room pre- or post-match - that was more his style on the pitch.
It's clear that Seamus sees himself as one of the senior members of the squad now but we cannot rely on just him. I know it's a bit of a cliché but we need more than one captain on the pitch. Guys have to step up to the plate.
Last night's kind of game can often be difficult to play in. When it's not a sell-out and there's a half-full stadium, you need to give the fans something to get them off their feet and get the atmosphere going.
We've seen it plenty of times before in the past. A half-empty Aviva is a far cry from the days of a full Lansdowne Road. When you had the atmosphere behind you back then, it was a difficult place to go.
The first-half performance was underwhelming, to say the least. We were blessed to have gone into the break with the game still scoreless. That was certainly the only positive to take from it.
Georgia had the better of the possession and worryingly looked far more comfortable than we did on the ball. They looked far more likely to get a goal which was really disappointing.
They had a great passage of play that led to led to them hitting the crossbar and the post in a matter of seconds.
It was a really good flowing move - the kind of one I was expecting to see Ireland produce early on in order to set the tone. Instead, we sat back off Georgia and they dictated matters.
I spoke about it yesterday but teams struggle to live with our high intensity but we didn't see enough of that at all. Georgia slowed the game down and kept possession well and that really didn't suit us and what we wanted to do.
I was a little bit surprised that Martin O'Neill didn't stick with the tried-and-tested centre-half pairing of John O'Shea and Richard Keogh but you couldn't really have any complaints with the changes that he made.
The second half was much better and I have no doubt that Martin and Roy would have had a few choice words for the lads at the break.
We were far more aggressive and didn't allow them to settle. I think we showed them far too much respect in the first half.
I know Martin was reluctant to say it before the game but last night was a must-win game. So too is Sunday's game in Moldova.
It's no good getting a point at home to the lesser nations and I think that would have been the message at half-time.
Robbie Brady stepped up and James McClean came into the game more and more. He delivered some excellent crosses and got on the end of some from the opposite side. He was very unlucky not to score.
The squad depth is likely to be tested on Sunday if Shane and Robbie are out. With Jeff suspended, I can see Glen coming in and doing a job.
Wes could come in for Robbie and, if needed, we could push Jon Walters up top. We are a light on strikers but we certainly have enough in us to go to Moldova and get another three points. Last night was an average performance but a great result.
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Media & Entertainment Set for Slowdown, May Grow 12% in FY20
By Suman Chaudhary Aug 20, 2019
Mumbai, Aug 20 (PTI) Rapid growth in digital users, combined with growing regional demand and better monetisation, the media and entertainment industry grew 13 percent to reach Rs 1,63,100 crore in FY19, and is likely to clip at a slower rate of 12 percent in FY20, says a report.
The report by KPMG, however, noted had it not been for the uncertainties created by Trai’s new tariff order and the signs of economic slowdown, the industry would have grown by 1-2 percent more.
In FY20, the industry is likely to grow at a slower 12 percent to Rs 1.88 trillion, as it expects another round of regulatory changes.
“The growth would have even lower than 12 percent had not been for the gains from the higher ad spends during the April-May general elections and the cricket World Cup.
“TV faced major headwinds in FY19 and in fact grew at a lower rate than projected last year primarily on account of the delay in implementation of the new tariff order.
“TV ad spend was subdued as marketers waited for assessing the net impact on the number of subscribers, as also pick-up across various genres,” KPMG partner and head of media & entertainment Girish Menon said Tuesday.
Television revenue grew 9.5 percent to Rs 71,400 crore in the year.
He further said the new tariff order had initial implementation issues–higher bills, which pushed up the average revenue per user from Rs 150 to over Rs 200, shrinkage of the cable and satellite universe. But this has many consumers disconnecting.
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Although big broadcasters have gained due to higher share of end-consumer revenue, English and niche channels are struggling and have seen significant drop in uptake.
The media and entertainment industry is expected to grow 13.5 percent per annum during FY19-24 to reach Rs 3.07 trillion in FY24 on the back of greater focus on monetisation of emerging digital business models, strong regional opportunities and favourable regulatory and operating scenario across traditional businesses.
Television, is expected to grow at 11.2 percent per annum to touch Rs 1,21,500 crore by FY24.
Digital, which has caused disruption in television and print, is poised to become the second largest segment after television with 20 percent share, and also the maximum advertising spend by FY22.
“By FY24, we expect digital advertising to be the largest medium with 39.5 percent share of total ad pie, surpassing TV,” Menon said, adding digital is expected to grow 29.1 percent between FY19 and FY24 to reach Rs 62,100 crore.
The print industry, currently the second largest, has been buoyant largely due to growth in regional media growth, which is compensating for the slow growth in circulation.
Print grew 4.5 percent in FY19 to Rs 33,320 crore and is expected to grow 4.2 percent annually to touch Rs 40,850 crore by FY24.
“The English print circulation has declined in absolute numbers following growing digital migration, which is reflected with growing pressures on ad monetisation.
“More generally though, regional audiences and their demand for content in local languages has been one of the recent defining trends, also benefitting, besides print, almost every other segment of media and entertainment,” he said. PTI DS BEN
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School children in Jammu and Kashmir to get free health checkup twice a year
The Lt Governor also issued directions to the officials concerned to prepare health checkup calendars in consultation with the health department, the spokesperson said.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration will conduct at least two free health checkups a year for the school children in the union territory, an official spokesperson said on Thursday. During a review meeting of the school education department here on Wednesday, the authorities were directed by Lieutenant Governor Girish Chander Murmu to conduct the health checkups and provide health cards to school children, he said.
The meeting was attended by Commissioner/Secretary, School Education Department, Sarita Chouhan and other senior officials, the spokesperson said. Murmu suggested that the parents be present during the checkup so that they get to know about their child's health, he said.
Health check up in Jammu and Kashmir schools
During the review meeting, the school education department was directed to organise the first health checkup drive in December in the summer zone and in March in the schools under winter zone, he said. The Lt Governor also suggested regular training for teachers to improve the quality of education, the spokesperson said.
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Murmu directed the school education department to ensure 100 per cent availability of drinking water in all the schools by December 31 and complete survey of science and computer laboratories in the schools within the next 15 days, he said.
The Lt Governor asked the officials to fill up vacant positions in the department at the earliest and stressed on enhanced focus on schools having gross enrolment ratio less than 25 per cent.
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Cook County judge to decide whether to dismiss lawsuit over bail system
By Jeanne Kuang | September 11, 2017
Jeanne Kuang / Injustice Watch
Advocates supporting an end to Cook County’s use of cash bail gather outside the Richard J. Daley Center civil courthouse Monday, ahead of a hearing to decide whether a judge should dismiss a lawsuit filed over the county’s bond-setting practices.
Attorneys for Cook County judges on Monday argued that Cook County Circuit Judge Celia Gamrath should dismiss a lawsuit asking her to declare the cash bail system has unconstitutionally held some suspects in custody awaiting trial simply because they are poor.
Their arguments came at a critical hearing in a Richard J. Daley Center courtroom crowded with advocates who support bail reform and the class action lawsuit. In particular, the judges’ attorney said a new rule adopted in July by Cook County Circuit Court Chief Judge Timothy Evans has made the issue moot.
That rule orders judges throughout the county to ensure they set bail that is affordable for defendants who are deemed not to pose a danger if released. The rule is to take effect next week in felony cases, and by January for misdemeanor cases throughout the county.
Evans’s order, Assistant Attorney General John Wolfsmith argued, “provides the very relief” that former Cook County Jail inmates are seeking through the lawsuit, filed last October against several criminal court judges who make oversee pre-trial release and detention.
But the former inmates’ attorney Matthew J. Piers called the new rule “simply what one man thinks is a good idea,” which could be rescinded at any time by Evans or a successor.
Wolfsmith disagreed.
“There’s no proof the order is temporary,” he said. “There should be every expectation the order will be followed.”
The suit was filed amidst a nationwide movement to reduce the jailing of poor defendants simply because they cannot afford to post bond. Reforms to the bail system have taken place in states from New Jersey to New Mexico, and lawsuits have been brought in various jurisdictions. The U.S. Justice Department came out last year in support of bail reform, and former Attorney General Eric Holder issued a report saying Cook County’s bail system is “irrational, unjust, costly, and disproportionately affects minority communities.”
The issue has been brewing for years, spurred both by the cost of holding nonviolent suspects in the overcrowded jail system, and by the hardship imposed on those impoverished defendants awaiting trial.
Injustice Watch last year reported that hundreds of suspects arrested but not convicted of nonviolent crimes have been held in Cook County jail each month, unable to post bail, while some dangerous suspects with access to money have managed to post bond and be free from custody. An Injustice Watch study of the system found bail amounts widely from judge to judge, and courthouse to courthouse, around the county.
Evans’s order is one of several efforts by local officials to address the problems.
State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has directed prosecutors to seek the release of certain defendants locked up on low bail amounts. Public Defender Amy Campanelli has stated publicly the state Supreme Court should issue new rules for judges statewide to set affordable bail amounts. And Sheriff Tom Dart, who was initially named in the lawsuit but has since been dismissed, has advocated for an end to the money bail system and pushed for statewide bail reform bills in Springfield.
A new state law, passed this year, also directs judges to consider an inmate’s ability to pay when setting bail. But Piers told Gamrath that law is merely a restatement of existing state law, which he said Cook County judges are violating.
A coalition of Cook County advocates has also formed to push for the elimination of cash bail, and members of the group spoke outside the courthouse before the hearing on Monday.
Among them was Devoureaux Wolf, a Chicago artist who was jailed last year before the Chicago Community Bond Fund posted money for his release. “Cook County Jail is no place for anyone to be,” Wolf said.
Judge Laura Sullivan last April required Wolf to post $3,000 to be released on charges he hit a police officer, in an incident that began when police pulled him and his companions over for not wearing seat belts, according to court records. Wolf spent a month and a half in jail before being bonded out, because his family needed the money for a funeral. Being jailed put his career at risk and meant he could not care for his child, he said.
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The Stealth armour mod provides a number of bonuses designed to aid a player who prefers to remain unnoticed by their opponents. When sprinting, the Spartan will make less noise, allowing for stealthier movement around the map. The armour mod also provides a passive defense against opponents who are using Promethian vision; Spartans using Stealth will only show up as a red outline of themselves when viewed in Promethian vision in the same fashion as if they were behind a wall, rather than appearing as a bold red figure as they would normally. This allows Stealth users to easily confuse players attempting to use Promethian vision. The third benefit conferred by Stealth is that players using it will perform assassination animations slightly faster, resulting in a quicker kill. This can be crucial in situations where performing such an assassination may leave the Spartan vulnerable. However, Stealth has no effect on the functioning of the Active Camouflage armour ability, and no effect on how the user appears on enemy motion trackers.
This armor mod is unlocked by progressing to rank 10 of the Wetwork Specialization.
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A New Look at Juicing
Anita Mirchandani
I am a Registered Dietitian, Certified Fitness Professional, and a Prenatal/ Postnatal Exercise Specialist
08/19/2015 11:20am EDT | Updated December 6, 2017
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According to IBIS World, the juicing/smoothie industry had market size of 2 billion with an average of 2.9 percent growth over the last five years. At present there are at least 8 key "raw juice" brands active in the marketplace -- Suja, Blueprint and LUMI Organics to name a few -- and it doesn't look like there will be a shortage of options any time soon.
However, it's important to understand that consuming juice, similar to other food groups, should be done in moderation. While cold-pressed juices are "raw" in nature and contain a variety of vital nutrients from its fruit and vegetables, the juice form that results are easily absorbed sugars due to the elimination of the fiber and pulp. The recommended daily allowance of fruits (1.5-2 cups) per day and vegetables (3 cups) but drinking juices excessively could also turn into fat if not properly utilized as fuel (e.g., being active or exercising) and if you're at risk for diabetes or diabetic, all the more reason to proceed with caution.
At present, most commercial juice brands (i.e. Tropicana) undergo pasteurization -- a process by which foods are heated to a specific temperature for a specific amount of time to kill (or deactivate) a target number of potentially harmful bacteria. The most apparent downside to pasteurization with respect to cold-pressed juice is the loss of vital nutrients found in fruits and vegetables, thus minimizing the full health benefits. Studies have shown a loss of vitamin C and certain phytonutrients (especially phenols) due to pasteurization. Most raw juices do not undergo this process, and as a result, could potentially pose as a risk to pregnant, elderly or those with weakened immune systems.
Most recently, High Pressure Processing (HPP) has been making an appearance within a few different industries (e.g., deli-style fresh packaged meats, guacamole dips, seafood and ready-to-eat meals) including juicing. High Pressure Processing is a process that maintains the vital nutrients of fruits and vegetables while killing harmful bacteria -- maximum health benefits without the risk of getting ill. According to Hillary Lewis, founder of LUMI Organics, a cold-pressed, high-pressure processed fruit and vegetable juice brand, many juice brands do not engage in HPP due to the cost associated with the process. From the consumer's perspective, however, the 16-oz bottle of juice is not any more expensive for undergoing HPP.
Why choose HPP?
1) Bacterial Elimination -- Once bottled, High Pressure Processing (HPP) applies extreme water pressure to inactivate harmful bacteria, while preserving the vital nutrients. HPP is a natural way to preserve food because it eliminates the microorganisms that cause spoilage without the harmful effects of using chemicals or heat, which in turn, destroys the beneficial nutrients.
2) Extends shelf life up to 8 times -- Without some processing, cold-pressed juice safely lasts only 72 to 96 hours.
3) Extreme Cold Water Pressure -- HPP uses 87,000 psi (that is five times the pressure at the deepest part of the ocean!) to neutralize harmful bacteria; no heat needed!
4) A Natural Process -- HPP maintains the integrity of the nutrients because it does not require added chemical preservatives or heat.
So what should a consumer pay attention to when choosing a juice brand?
Lewis suggests the following:
1) Has the juice undergone HPP or heat-pasteurization? While it is not regulated to include "heat pasteurization" on the label, those who have undergone HPP will certainly note it as it is a selling point in comparison.
2) Are the ingredients organic? Take a look at the label to ensure the USDA Organic Seal is present. That seal is also your signal that the juice you are about to consume is non-GMO -- a strict standard for any product to be certified as organic. For produce such as leafy greens that have increased exposure to soil and water run-off, organic makes a difference.
3) Does the label say 100 percent juice? If the label doesn't state 100 percent juice, according to Lewis, it is likely that the juice may have water added or additives such as stevia.
4) What's the first ingredient on the juice list? The FDA regulates both the nutrition facts and ingredient list. The ingredients will be listed by the most predominant onwards. Therefore, try to choose a juice with the first ingredient as a leafy green like spinach or kale.
As a dietitian, my suggestion is to pay attention to your juice labels and of course, consume in moderation.
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Now It Gets Real…Last In the Nation In Past Defense? Painful Penalties? Horrible Game Management? Are You Kidding Me?
How the mighty have fallen. Nebraska no longer makes headlines for its gridiron glory. After yesterday’s debacle at Illinois, the program has reached a new low.
Today the program is “making news” as part of USA TODAY’s Misery Index: Week 5.
Poor, poor Nebraska. We aren’t even sure what to say anymore. Well, we can say this. Mike Riley’s honeymoon lasted all of a month.
…It’s inexcusable. And now Riley has dug a hole with the Nebraska fan base before his tenure has even gotten off the ground. You can’t lose games that winnable to opponents that mediocre in a fashion that crushing. Not at Nebraska. Not ever.
Rule number one for all players, coaches and fans of the Nebraska Cornhuskers: Thou Shall Not Embarrass The Program.
All the Huskers had to do was run the ball around either end, all day long. The Illini had no answer for that play. Yet, the game plan was never adjusted for the conditions on the field (windy and wet). That’s on the coaches.
One of the things I said before this season started is, “Nebraska will not be blown out under Mike Riley.” And what an improvement not being blown out is!
Of course, I had no way of knowing we would begin the Mike Riley-era by letting three inferior teams beat us in the last seconds of the game. Mental toughness is something I’m weighing in Riley’s favor, and we saw this on display early on against a tough BYU team and again in Miami. But the past two weeks have been pathetic. Nebraska goes up 22-0 in the first half against Southern Miss at home, only to lose the second half 14-28 and almost lose the game. This week the team goes up 10-0 at the half, and I say to myself I hope that’s enough of a lead to see the team through to victory.
It was not enough of a lead.
Illinois football isn’t even popular enough to fill the stadium with fans. Yet, the team is 4-1 under its new coach. Meanwhile, the Huskers are 2-3 for the first time since 1959’a year that interestingly pre-dates the nation’s longest sellout record, which didn’t commence until 1962. The ’59 Nebraska team went 4-6 that season, with a 7-6 win over Oregon State.
Okay, let’s compose ourselves and look at what’s coming. It ain’t pretty. Wisconsin will be the first big test this Saturday. This Nebraska team did mount an amazing comeback against Miami. Are they capable of doing it again, and showing up on Saturday in Lincoln as a team reimagined and reinvigorated? Anything is possible.
Go Big Red.
Posted byStaff Writer October 4, 2015 Posted inHusker Football
An Ugly Win It Was
Nebraska was up 22-0 at the half last Saturday against an outmanned Souther Miss team; yet, the Huskers managed to lose the second half of the game 14-28.
Luckily, the early 22-point lead was enough to overcome the lackluster performance in the second half, and the Huskers won the game by eight points on Homecoming Saturday.
This might be a good time to remind that Southern Miss did beat Nebraska. Once. The year was 2004’Bill Callahan’s first season in Lincoln. I mention this merely to remind ourselves of the recent past and just how bad it was.
I was glad to see Adam Carriker try to calm fans’ nerves on his Facebook page.
Several people left Memorial Stadium yesterday acting like we had just lost. The sky is not falling. We knew we most likely are a ways away from the national title. Everything that matters most, starts this week when we open Big 10 conference play against Illinois. The Huskers definitely need to improve in some areas, but they have some definite strengths as well. Like I’ve said before, the division is wide open with no clear front runner. I believe we’ll have the advantage at QB in most of our remaining games & our run defense is strong. QB is the most important position on the field & everybody in our division wants to run the ball first. I think 8-4 is a very likely record heading into the bowl game. Whether that happens & whether that gets us into the Big 10 title game, I don’t know. But we’re not Chicken Little & the sky is not falling.
If 8-4 is the outcome, that means we are about to go 6-2 in conference play. I like Carriker’s positive outlook a lot, but I don’t know if this team will win that many games. I think 8-4 is possible, but Nebraska will need to be a much improved team from here on out to beat Minnesota, Iowa, Northwestern and the rest.
One thing that encouraged me greatly against Souther Miss was the play of the fullback. Andy Janovich’s five runs for 68 yards, plus one catch out of the backfield, made a big difference in the game.
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Cornhuskers Are 1-2 for the First Time Since 1981. Be Not Concerned.
I saw something on Twitter this morning about how Tommy Armstrong doesn’t look at social media after a game. Smart man.
Husker fans are eternal optimists. Best fans in college football. Gracious hosts to visiting teams. That is the public face of Husker Nation. But there is also a darker, impatient and unhappy face to the program, and that ugly face lives and breathes online, where anonymity and remoteness play a large role in the outspoken, unchallenged nature of the content.
I also think our desire as fans to share joys and frustrations during an emotional game full of momentum swings leads to a fracturing of attention and impulsive split-screen posts that may be relevant to only a few followers. It’s material best suited to one’s living room, or if you must, group chat, not Twitter or Facebook.
Personally, I didn’t imagine this team would go 12-0 in 2015. What I hoped for is that we’d get our sense of self back, and we have. It’s been a long time since we’ve had genuine swagger as a football team. I’m encouraged right now with what I see. Sure, I see the deficits too, like no pass rush to speak of. Nevertheless, the good far outweighs the bad.
We have a team ready for battle. That was in too long in doubt, and now there’s no doubt. I thank the players for embracing change, swiftly. I thank the coaches for knowing what playing on the big stage in Lincoln is all about.
Mike Riley and his coaches are leading Nebraska back to glory right now. That’s what I see and what I believe. There’s reason to doubt it, but I’m done doubting. For me the clouds have lifted. We have our team back, after 11 painful years.
Love the reactions from the @huskerscarlets when the #Huskers tied the game. #GBR #gobigred #huskerpower #huskernation #hailvarsity #collegefootball #nebraskafootball #huskerfootball #CFB
A photo posted by Hail Varsity (@hailvarsity) on Sep 19, 2015 at 8:53pm PDT
By the way, HailVarsity is doing a great job.
Posted byStaff Writer September 21, 2015 Posted inHusker Football
These Huskers Are Tough
Composure. It’s something the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team has sorely lacked for 11 years.
Today, the team is just 1-2 after a rough start to the season, but Husker Nation has every reason to breathe easy. We are on the right track again. What’s been missing from the program is back: resilience, grit, heart, tenacity and leadership (on and off the field, from players and coaches). We have character again.
It’s funny how removing the “tough guy” from the head coach’s office and replacing him with a calm, cool and collected CEO of Football changes the dynamic for the better. The team on the field is now clearly tougher, particularly in the mental aspects of the game. Despite falling behind against BYU and Miami, the Huskers had their minds, hearts and bodies in both games the whole time.
The meltdowns of the Pelinihan era are over. We have our Cornhuskers back and I am grateful.
Huskers v. Hurricanes: The Kind of Week Three Match Up We Need
Nebraska hasn’t played a regular season game in the state of Florida since 1951. This changes in a BIG WAY this coming Saturday, when the Huskers travel (back in time) to Miami to face the ‘Canes on the their home field.
.@CanesFootball updated its Twitter name to #BeatNebraska | This is almost as good as playing the Sooners #GoBigRed pic.twitter.com/fCCJmML9y4
— David Burn (@davidburn) September 13, 2015
According to Winsipedia, this rivalry is eleven games in, with Nebraska owning six wins to Miami’s five (last Sept. 20th NU won 41-31 in Lincoln).
Historically, Miami is a speedy team that airs the ball out. Historically, Nebraska blows you off the line and runs up the gut. But this is 2015. Al Golden, the former Penn State tight end, will line up against former Alabama defensive back, Mike Riley. I’m hoping for a highly competitive game and a Huskers’ road victory.
The ‘Canes are 2-0 presently with wins over Bethune-Cookman and Florida Atlantic. I’m sure the players in Miami are looking forward to a higher degree of competition, and they’re going to find it on Saturday. So far, Nebraska’s offense has proven potent with a balanced air and ground game. We have lots of receivers with great hands and a deep bench of I-backs ready to bust through a hole.
Will the Blackshirts keep us in this big game? Will Armstrong’s leadership and confidence come shining through in a time of need? Will the coaches make the most of the situation? Will we once again find gridiron glory in the glaring spotlight of South Florida?
I’m excited to find out. How about you?
Heidi Merrill Is Cornhusker Strong
Heidi Merrill is Cornhusker Strong. The Nebraska native and current New York City resident is working to make a name for herself in Country Music. Her efforts may be helped conisderably by sewing up the home audience with a peppy song about The Heartland.
In this wild wild world out here, I keep plowing along
Long gone, but
Cornhusker Strong
Note the emphasis on her exodus from the state. People do move away, but the bonds remain. Roots run deep in Nebraska.
Posted byStaff Writer September 14, 2015 Posted inHusker Fans, Husker Football
The CEO of Nebraska Football Is Ready to Unleash A New Big Red
Coach Riley has friends in the media. What a difference a year makes.
The Winnipeg Free Press called Riley “coaching royalty,” in a recent feature. Also, Portland Tribune columnist Kerry Eggers was invited to travel to Lincoln and sit in on a football staff meeting on Monday, Aug. 10, during the Cornhuskers’ training camp.
Riley, his nine full-time assistant coaches, football operations director Dan Van De Riet, director of player personnel Ryan Gunderson, and director of football/recruiting operations Andy Vaughn take seats at the long table. Riley, like a corporate CEO, sits at one end, Van De Riet at the other. Perhaps 20 graduate assistants/managers and support staffers sit behind them around the room.
A CEO who is a calm, cool and collected leader of men. For the past decade, Nebraska teams lacked all composure when it was needed most. Now, we have a CEO of football, and I fully expect it to show on the field this Saturday and every Saturday for years to come.
Defensive backs coach Brian Stewart, who has worked in college and the NFL, said, “Riley is a level five management type from the book Good to Great. ‘He has a certain command presence when he talks, Stewart said. ‘You know he’s in charge ‘ but you also know he cares about you personally.
Nebraska’s starting QB, Tommy Armstrong, is one important player on board with the new program. According to the Chicago Tribune, Armstrong said:
He treats us like we’re grown men. That’s what we respect about him the most. It’s on the players. We have to decide if we’re going to be good or great or average. He’s there to lead us, but we have to do it on our own.
A coach who teaches you to take personal responsibility for your actions. Are you kidding me…what year is this?
Posted byStaff Writer August 31, 2015 Posted inHusker Football
Illegal gambling in college football still a huge problem
College football is no stranger to investigations into illegal betting. While few of the cases threaten the veracity of most football matches, game fixing can be very problematic especially to a fledgling football player’s career.
College footballers are very vulnerable to illegal betting as many fixers are experts on identifying pressure points. A little bit of a nudge using money, a favor, or a threat can undeniably manipulate a student’s performance.
2 JAN 1996: QUARTERBACK TOMMIE FRAZIER #15 OF THE NEBRASKA CORNHUSKERS BREAKS THROUGH THE FLORIDA GATORS DEFENSE DURING THE FIESTA BOWL AT SUN DEVIL STADIUM IN TEMPE, ARIZONA. Credit: Mike Powell/ALLSPORT
Justin Wolfers, a professor of business from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, studied over 44,000 NCAA division games and point spreads from 1989 to 2005. In his study’s conclusion, he asserted that about 500 games have been involved in gambling-related fraud and at least 6% of favored teams were willing to have their performance manipulated.
“It’s very difficult to say how common it is because you don’t know how many people are doing it and not getting caught,” said the director of the University of Nevada’s Center for Gaming Research.
An NCAA survey in 2008 revealed that 30% in about 20,000 college athletes have admitted to betting at least once on college sports, which is a direct violation of NCAA rules. College athletes cannot in any way bet via land-based and online sports books. Betfair, one of the biggest book keepers in the UK, reminds their patrons of its Terms and Conditions page that ‘Participation in the games (must be) personal and not professional. Thus, betting should not be intertwined with one’s career.
Further studies revealed that about 1% of the surveyed Division 1 football players in 2012 admitted that they’ve accepted money and/or favors as compensation for performing poorly. About 6% of male athletes have been classified by the NCAA as regular bettors, and the bulk of their gambling money has been obtained through illegal activities. Some athletes also confessed that they knew teammates who accepted bribes but were too afraid to tell the authorities. Data collected by Havoc Scope details that about $60 – $70 billion per year is obtained from illegal betting on college football.
The problem with fixing games is that some players get abused. Because they’ve accepted bribes, these players can be threatened with blackmails at any time even if they don’t want to participate in fixing games anymore. The NCAA, according to experts, must show a stronger hand against illegal betting and game fixers in order to make college games cleaner and safer for the athletes.
Posted byStaff Writer June 2, 2015 Posted inCommentary
Shawn Eichorst: From Farm To The Negotiating Table
Shawn Eichorst impressed the media with his handling of events this week. He also impressed fans. Not all fans, but this fan, for one.
This is no insignificant thing, impressing the media. Eichorst also declared, “I like you guys,” speaking directly to members of media in attendance at Friday’s presser. He added that he listens to all constituents, including the media.
Following a bitter mistrust between factions in the Nebraska media and “Pelinihan,” Eichorst’s commons sense and Riley’s nice guy approach are welcome upgrades in Lincoln.
Tom Shatel of The Omaha World Herald is perhaps the top dog on the Huskers football beat. Shatel asked,
“Who knew this was the Chuck Norris of athletic directors?”
Chop, chop, chop!
Shatel also noted Eichorst’s confidence in Riley, and how he has no worry about Riley’s record translating to NU:
I have zero concern about that. It’s not always about the outcome. It’s about people. We have an elite football coach who now has an incredible history behind him, incredible resources, a passionate fan base. I know there is uncertainty in our fan base, but we have a good football coach, and I think folks should be ready and excited to unite and take this program to where it should be. We’re going to have success. I know that and you can hear it in Mike’s voice. He is a football coach …
I heard Eric Crouch describe Nebraska as an “island” on The Big Ten Network the other day. It is an apt description. What we now know about one of the island’s leaders is how he thinks and how he works. Eichorst is an old school values guy, like Tom Osborne. That mindset has been sorely absent from Memorial Stadium for 11 years.
By the way, Eichorst grew up on a farm outside of Madison, WI. He played defensive end at Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he was captain of the team and an all-conference performer. These two facts are key to seeing why’s he’s a great fit at Nebraska. He’s also a lawyer who knows a thing or two about holding his cards. And what a hand he played this week. Hat’s off to the A.D.
Posted byStaff Writer December 6, 2014 Posted inHusker Football
“A New Era of Nebraska Football” Is Now Underway
Nebraska Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst introduced the biggest coach he’s ever hired this morning. I like what Eichorst had to say. He said we’re going to win championships the right way, “with class, sportsmanship and integrity.”
He added, “We will win with young men and women who want to earn their degrees and who will represent us the Nebraska way.” It’s a condemnation of what went before and also a strong statement about what it means to be a Husker today.
Coach Riley mentioned that the Nebraska job was the right opportunity at the right time. I can’t help but note that it’s also quite likely Riley’s dream job, and one it took him four decades to land.
While Riley didn’t take the job for money, he did get a $1.2 million raise to $2.7 million per year, according to The Omaha World Herald. An extra $100K a month is one heck of a bonus, especially in a market where it is hard to find a home priced over $1 million.
Riley is a young 61. He drives a Prius…when he drives. He prefers to ride his bike to work. He’s an energetic, but low key guy who happens to be an elite football coach. In Lincoln, he can be both of these things, which is one more indication that this is a genius hire by Eichorst.
Oregonians and Nebraskans share many commonalities. Both reside in agricultural states where “salt of the Earth” residents are the norm. I am sure the Riley family will miss living in the cozy hamlet of Corvallis. But, I also believe Mike and Dee Riley will soon learn to love Lincoln, and that Husker Nation will learn to love them back.
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Home » UAW bolsters financial controls after embezzlement scandal
UAW bolsters financial controls after embezzlement scandal
December 2, 2019 | Associated Press
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The United Auto Workers union has replaced its auditing firm, added four internal auditors and hired a big accounting firm to study its financial controls in an effort to prevent a repeat of the embezzlement and bribery discovered in a federal probe of the union.
The moves announced Monday by Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry come after last month’s resignation of President Gary Jones, who has been implicated in the scandal.
Several other union officials have been charged or implicated in the probe, which embarrassed union leadership and angered many of its 400,000 members when it became public starting in 2017.
Curry said the reforms will put checks and balances in place to prevent financial misconduct.
“This top-to-bottom assessment of our financial and accounting procedures and policies will result in a stronger and more stringent financial oversight of all expenditures,” Curry said in a statement Monday.
The new auditing firm, Calibre CPA Group of Bethesda, Maryland, which specializes in labor union accounting, will check the UAW’s finances for the past year. In addition, the Deloitte accounting firm will look into accounting and financial processes.
The scandal exposed weak financial controls at the union, which allowed a bribery scandal involving the Fiat Chrysler-UAW joint training center. Also exposed were embezzlement of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the purchase of 58,000 watches for union members by the UAW-General Motors training center, and a scheme at a union regional office in St. Louis involving the purchase of thousands of dollars of expensive cigars and booze, golf greens fees and rental of swanky villas for union leaders. Funds allegedly were falsely represented as regional conference expenses.
Matthew Schneider, the U.S. Attorney in Detroit who is heading the UAW investigation, told reporters Monday that the union isn’t fully cooperating, and said federal oversight including a takeover are possible.
“We’re not focusing on that per se. It is an option,” Schneider said.
Another option is having union leaders picked by direct election of members, rather than the current vote of delegates at a convention, he said.
Authorities will make a decision on a takeover or other government action after all the criminal cases are resolved, Schneider said. Authorities could also talk with the union and work out reforms, he said.
Authorities learned new information in union charges filed to oust Jones and Vance Pearson, a regional director in St. Louis, Schneider said. But the union didn’t report that to authorities, he said.
“We expect that if the UAW uncovers evidence of wrongdoing that they would report it to the FBI or they would report it to the U.S. Attorney’s office, or both,” he said.
Schneider wouldn’t comment on how long the investigation might take or whether more criminal charges are coming.
UAW spokesman Brian Rothenberg said that Rory Gamble has put reforms in place after just three weeks as acting union president. The union is cooperating and turning over all records requested by the government, he said.
“The UAW has, as recently as last week, expressed a willingness to further work with the government on the issues of concern. And we continue to cooperate in providing the government any and all records requested,” he said.
Stronger financial controls can help, but they can be evaded, so they must come with cultural changes at the union, said Shivaram Rajgopal, professor of accounting and auditing at Columbia Business School.
“It’s pretty easy to get around controls,” he said. “Culture is what you do when nobody is looking.”
Rajgopal said it’s likely that fraudulent expense reports went to lower-level people in the UAW accounting department, who probably suspected something was amiss. But lower-level workers have to worry about keeping their jobs if top officials are involved, he said.
The federal probe brought an unprecedented lawsuit from General Motors last month against Fiat Chrysler, alleging the company bribed union officials to get lower labor costs than GM. Fiat Chrysler says the lawsuit is meritless.
Under the reforms announced Monday, the union hired four additional internal auditors, and it’s reviewing financial training for all accounting employees.
The reforms come in addition to changes announced by Gamble. Last month he banned contributions from employers and vendors to charities run by union officers and hired an ethics officer to handle misconduct complaints.
Jones, who stepped down as president last month, was the regional director in St. Louis before taking the union’s top spot. He has not been charged, but his home was raided by investigators in August.
His attorney, J. Bruce Maffeo, said that all expenses for regional conferences were reported in detail and never questioned by the UAW accounting department or executive board.
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Man fled naked to granny's house after being caught with another man's fiancee
An Irishman had to flee naked to his grandmother's house after being found cheating with another man's fiancee.Getty Images
An Irishman ran naked to his granny’s house after being found in bed with another man’s fiancee and hit over the head with a Baileys bottle.
A court heard that Noel McGreen, 37, hit James Bracken, 29, over the head with a bottle of Baileys after finding him in bed with McGreene’s then-fiancee on February 12, 2017. The injured Bracken fled naked into the night to his grandmother’s house.
McGreene pleaded guilty at Ennis Circuit Court to assault causing harm at Cluain Na Mara, Kilkee, on the night, The Irish Times reports.
Brian McInerney, the counsel for the defense, told the court McGreen “found himself unexpectedly confronted with circumstances that no red-blooded man would wish to be confronted with.”
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His client was, he said, was “confronted with a large element of provocation.”
“Mr McGreene accepts that he over-reacted because he pleads guilty to a crime. He picked up the Baileys bottle and he ejected Mr Bracken from the premises in fairly short order.”
Det Gda Paul Heaslip told the court that after McGreene found Bracken at home in bed with his fiancee he picked up a glass bottle and hit Bracken over the head.
“Mr Bracken then proceeded to flee the bedroom down the stairs where Mr McGreene tried to punch him while he tried to flee.”
Bracken ran out the door “wearing no clothes and ran across Kilkee to the home of his grandmother.”
Later that day Bracken went to the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick. According to the medical report, he sustained a jagged 6cm-long wound to the back of his scalp. Bracken also reportedly had bruising around his right eye and a small wound to the left frontal region of his head.
When Bracken’s mother later came to McGreene's address to get her son’s clothing, McGreene threw the items out the window.
According to the defense counsel, Bracken knew McGreene over a long period and also knew the woman in question. However, Bracken did not believe the two were in a relationship at that point in time.
McInerney said that on the night in question, Bracken “was out socializing with the lady for a considerable period of time.” They returned to McGreene’s home, drank Baileys and brought the bottle to the bedroom.
McGreene returned to his bedroom unannounced and found the two in bed.
On Friday, during his victim impact statement, Bracken told the court he thought he had hypothermia as he fled naked into the freezing night. He also said he though McGreene was going to kill him, The Irish Times reports.
“I was hit repeatedly on my head and my face with a bottle of Baileys. I was thrown down a flight of stairs from the top to the bottom. I got stitches and staples to my wounds on my head.
“I really thought he was going to kill me. I ran from the house naked and bleeding from my head and eye.
“I was running trying to get away from him. I was terrified and ran. I kept falling and staggering and having to stop as I had lost a lot of blood and felt really weak.
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“It was freezing and I thought I had hypothermia.”
He said that the only place he could go for safety was to his 80-year-old grandmother’s house.
“She was very shaken after seeing the state I was in and to this day, she worries and stresses about me if I go out anywhere,” he said.
The woman involved declined to provide a statement for the court.
Judge Gerald Keys imposed a suspended six-month prison term for the assault after stating there was “a high degree of provocation in the case.”
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Son of murdered Troubles lawyer defeats DUP deputy leader in historic night for NI nationalists
Sinn Féin candidate John Finucane celebrates his victory over DUP candidate Nigel Dodds alongside Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Fein northern leader Michelle ONeill in the Belfast count center at the Titanic Exhibition center on December 13, 2019, in Belfast, United Kingdom.Getty
Sinn Féin's John Finucane defeated DUP Westminister leader Nigel Dodd in a massive upset in the North Belfast constituency in the British general election.
John Finucane is the son of murdered attorney Pat Finucane whose death in 1989 remains one of the most controversial killings of The Troubles.
Dodds has been a powerful leader in Northern Irish politics for decades and achieved a very high profile as a lead negotiator in talks with several British governments.
Finucane's victory was the highlight of a huge night for Irish nationalism as a pact between the SDLP and Sinn Féin helped nationalist parties take more parliamentary seats than Unionists for the first time ever.
My first picture with the new MP for North Belfast @johnfinucane pic.twitter.com/6ra4dcABw0
The DUP, once kingmakers in the British parliament when they propped up the Tory government, had a disastrous election losing North Belfast and South Belfast and seeing their vote share drop.
In North Down, they were defeated by Stephen Farry, an Alliance Party candidate, in a major shock. He took the seat formerly held by Lady Sylvia Hermon.
Early exit polls predicted a large Conservative Party majority in the UK general election, as polls closed across the country at 10 pm GMT and so it proved.
The result will pave the way for the UK to leave the European Union in two months' time, with leader Boris Johnson promising throughout the election campaign that he would deliver Brexit.
Thank you to everyone across our great country who voted, who volunteered, who stood as candidates. We live in the greatest democracy in the world. pic.twitter.com/1MuEMXqWHq
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) December 12, 2019
The predicted seat count at 3 am London time (10 pm) shows 357 seats for the Boris Johnson-led Tory party, with Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party only picking up 201 seats. Only 326 seats were needed for Johnson to claim 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister once more, giving him an 86-seat majority if the first predictions are true.
The Scottish Nationalist Party are predicted with 55 seats and the Liberal Democrats with 13. The SNP landslide in Scotland sparks a new debate about another vote on Scottish independence.
It would make it Labour's worst result since 1935.
Read more: On British Brexit election eve DUP is besieged within its own siege
The result is a massive blow for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern Ireland, who were previously propping up the Tory government but whose seats will not now be required to form the majority.
The DUP's insistence that a border not be placed down the Irish Sea, separating Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK when it leaves the European Union, had been a major factor in the stagnant Brexit negotiations.
Johnson will no longer need to keep the DUP onside to keep in government and is free to progress the backstop and Brexit without relying on DUP votes.
This is how the #exitpoll looks in Britain's general election—we'll have live results as they come in through the night https://t.co/q056Ofvbyy pic.twitter.com/HeYWIEN9pY
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) December 12, 2019
Calls for the resignation of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn were quick to emerge on Thursday evening as predictions showed a devastating defeat for the party.
The predictions also had an immediate effect on the Pound Sterling which shot up against the US dollar.
Do you believe that Boris Johnson can lead the UK through Brexit? Let us know in the comments section, below.
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Tax Relief in Disaster Situations
Tax Relief for Victims of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey
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Updated 2/4/13 The IRS announced additional tax relief, further extending certain tax deadlines until April 1 for Monmouth and Ocean counties.
NJ-2012-47, Nov. 7, 2012
MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ — Victims of Hurricane Sandy that began on Oct. 26, 2012 in parts of New Jersey may qualify for tax relief from the Internal Revenue Service.
The President has declared Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Salem, Somerset, Sussex, Union and Warren counties a federal disaster area. Individuals who reside or have a business in these counties may qualify for tax relief.
The declaration permits the IRS to postpone certain deadlines for taxpayers who reside or have a business in the disaster area. For instance, certain deadlines falling on or after Oct. 26, and on or before Feb. 1, have been postponed to Feb. 1, 2013.
In addition, the IRS is waiving the failure-to-deposit penalties for employment and excise tax deposits due on or after Oct. 26, and on or before Nov. 26, as long as the deposits are made by Nov. 26, 2012.
If an affected taxpayer receives a penalty notice from the IRS, the taxpayer should call the telephone number on the notice to have the IRS abate any interest and any late filing or late payment penalties that would otherwise apply. Penalties or interest will be abated only for taxpayers who have an original or extended filing, payment or deposit due date, including an extended filing or payment due date, that falls within the postponement period.
The IRS automatically identifies taxpayers located in the covered disaster area and applies automatic filing and payment relief. But affected taxpayers who reside or have a business located outside the covered disaster area need to call the IRS disaster hotline at 866-562-5227 to request this tax relief.
For a full description of the relief being provided by the IRS to the victims of Hurricane Sandy, visit IRS.gov.
Covered Disaster Area
The counties above constitute a covered disaster area for purposes of Treas. Reg. § 301.7508A-1(d)(2) and are entitled to the relief detailed below.
Affected Taxpayers
Taxpayers considered to be affected taxpayers eligible for the postponement of time to file returns, pay taxes and perform other time-sensitive acts are those taxpayers listed in Treas. Reg. § 301.7508A-1(d)(1), and include individuals who live, and businesses whose principal place of business is located, in the covered disaster area. Taxpayers not in the covered disaster area, but whose records necessary to meet a deadline listed in Treas. Reg. § 301.7508A-1(c) are in the covered disaster area, are also entitled to relief. In addition, all relief workers affiliated with a recognized government or philanthropic organization assisting in the relief activities in the covered disaster area and any individual visiting the covered disaster area who was killed or injured as a result of the disaster are entitled to relief.
Grant of Relief
Under section 7508A, the IRS gives affected taxpayers until Feb. 1 to file most tax returns (including individual, corporate, and estate and trust income tax returns; partnership returns, S corporation returns, and trust returns; estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax returns; and employment and certain excise tax returns), or to make tax payments, including estimated tax payments, that have either an original or extended due date occurring on or after Oct. 26 and on or before Feb. 1.
The IRS also gives affected taxpayers until Feb. 1 to perform other time-sensitive actions described in Treas. Reg. § 301.7508A-1(c)(1) and Rev. Proc. 2007-56, 2007-34 I.R.B. 388 (Aug. 20, 2007), that are due to be performed on or after Oct. 26 and on or before Feb. 1.
This relief also includes the filing of Form 5500 series returns, in the manner described in section 8 of Rev. Proc. 2007-56. The relief described in section 17 of Rev. Proc. 2007-56, pertaining to like-kind exchanges of property, also applies to certain taxpayers who are not otherwise affected taxpayers and may include acts required to be performed before or after the period above.
The postponement of time to file and pay does not apply to information returns in the W-2, 1098, 1099 series, or to Forms 1042-S or 8027. Penalties for failure to timely file information returns can be waived under existing procedures for reasonable cause. Likewise, the postponement does not apply to employment and excise tax deposits. The IRS, however, will abate penalties for failure to make timely employment and excise tax deposits due on or after Oct. 26 and on or before Nov. 26 provided the taxpayer makes these deposits by Nov. 26.
Casualty Losses
Affected taxpayers in a federally declared disaster area have the option of claiming disaster-related casualty losses on their federal income tax return for either this year or last year. Claiming the loss on an original or amended return for last year will get the taxpayer an earlier refund, but waiting to claim the loss on this year’s return could result in a greater tax saving, depending on other income factors.
Individuals may deduct personal property losses that are not covered by insurance or other reimbursements. For details, see Form 4684 and its instructions.
Affected taxpayers claiming the disaster loss on last year’s return should put the Disaster Designation “New Jersey/Hurricane Sandy” at the top of the form so that the IRS can expedite the processing of the refund.
Other Relief
The IRS will waive the usual fees and expedite requests for copies of previously filed tax returns for affected taxpayers. Taxpayers should put the assigned Disaster Designation in red ink at the top of Form 4506, Request for Copy of Tax Return, or Form 4506-T, Request for Transcript of Tax Return, as appropriate, and submit it to the IRS.
Affected taxpayers who are contacted by the IRS on a collection or examination matter should explain how the disaster impacts them so that the IRS can provide appropriate consideration to their case.
Taxpayers may download forms and publications from the official IRS website, irs.gov, or order them by calling 800-TAX-FORM (800-829-3676). The IRS toll-free number for general tax questions is 800-829-1040.
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Train from Pisa to Rome
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Venture between two of Italy’s most famous monuments, the Leaning Tower and the Colosseum. Learn about taking the train from Pisa to Rome.
Pisa and Rome are quite different Italian cities, though each is home to one of the country’s most visited attractions. It’s not surprising, then, that the two cities are easily reached ny Italy’s robust rail network.
Many of the train routes from Pisa to Rome require changing trains in Florence, though there are some direct routes as well. Either way, taking the train takes less time and involves far less of a hassle than driving the 220 miles (354 km) covered by the train.
Frequent Trains from Pisa to Rome
Trenitalia’s high-speed Alta Velocità (AV) trains serve both Pisa and Rome via the Frecciabianca line, the third-tier of the AV trains. The two stations are also connected by the slower InterCity trains, also operated by Trenitalia. Frecciabianca trains travel from Pisa Centrale station to Roma Termini station in as little as 2 hours and 35 minutes, while the InterCity trains can take over 3.5 hours.
The indirect option requires changing trains along the way, almost always at Firenze Santa Maria Novella station in Florence. These trips range from 2 hours and 45 minutes to 3 hours and 20 minutes, and involve taking a Regionale or Regionale Veloce train from Pisa to Florence, followed by an AV train from Florence to Rome.
Should you prefer the Italo network, your only option is to take a Trenitalia Regionale or Regionale Veloce train from Pisa into Florence, and then an Italo train to Rome. Italo connects Santa Maria Novella with both Roma Termini and Roma Tiburtina stations, which takes up to 1.5 hours.
There are 75 trains per day traveling from Pisa to Rome, including routes that require a change in Florence. The first leaves Pisa at 5:45am and the last at 8:51pm. Direct trains run roughly every other hour from Pisa to Rome, whereas routes that require a transfer in Florence run up to four times per hour. Ticket prices on this route range from $28-56.
Note that weekends and holidays typically mean less frequent service and sometimes longer travel times.
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Direct Trains from Pisa to Rome
Most of the trains linking Pisa with Rome are not direct, and require a train transfer in Florence. Even if changing trains, the indirect route is only 10-20 minutes longer than a direct train, so you can select an itinerary that suits you rather than focusing only on the direct trains. If you’d prefer a durect train, be sure you’re looking only at the “Direct Trains” option when you search on our site.
Amenities on Trains from Pisa to Rome
The top of the line AV trains are Frecciarossa, and these train cars are all equipped with air-conditioning and power outlets in your seat for your convenience. There are both 1st-class and 2nd-class cars. First class passengers get a free drink and a choice of newspaper). A cafe car is available to all passengers.
On the Frecciabianca trains, there are also both 1st-class and 2nd-class cars. As with Frecciarossa trains, 1st-class passengers get a free drink and a newspaper. Frecciabianca trains sometimes have a cafe car which all passengers can use, and power outlets are in both class cars at each seat.
Pisa, Florence, and Rome Train Stations
Pisa Centrale station is the city's primary station, located 1.4 miles (2.3 km) from some of the main attractions, including the leaning tower and cathedral. There is a luggage storage office at the station if you need to store your bags while you make a quick trip to see the tower. Take the No. 1 bus from the station to get to the Campo dei Miracoli.
Rome's Termini station is the city's largest train station, and also a major transportation hub within Rome. Many bus lines stop right outside the station, and there is also a Metro station inside Termini.
If you have a train transfer in Florence, you'll be at Santa Maria Novella station (sometimes abbreviated as S.M. Novella). It's close to much of the historic center, as well as a big hub for buses, so if you have some time to kill between trains and want to do a little sightseeing in the Tuscan capital it's relatively easy to do so. The luggage storage office is located on the ground floor.
Journey Information
See below for details on traveling from Pisa to Rome by train.
(308 km)
Travel Distance
Pisa is 192 miles (308 km) from Rome.
It takes 2hours and 22min to travel from Pisa to Rome.
Daily Trains
There are 55 trains from Pisa to Rome every day.
Enjoy the lowest available fares on train travel from Pisa to Rome
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Train Travel in Italy
From seat assignments and luggage space to the different types of tickets, here are some of the most frequently asked questions about train travel in Italy.
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Arrival and Departure Train Destinations
Read on for information about Pisa to Rome train stations.
Pisa Centrale Guide
Pisa's main train station, with its grand archways, is also one of the central rail hubs for Tuscany, with 16 platforms.
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Types of Trains in Italy
From Trenitalia's high-speed Frecciarossa trains to old-world scenic rail cars, learn about the different kinds of trains in Italy.
Frecciarossa Trains in Italy
Frecciarossa high-speed trains, operated by Trenitalia, reach speeds of 300 km/h and offer maximum comfort, making trips between Italian cities as smooth and short as possible.
Cross-Border Trains in Italy
For travel to or from Italy and other nearby countries, a cross-border speciality train offers the long distance options needed to get travelers from point A to B.
Thello Trains in Italy
Trenitalia and a private French rail company combined forces to create Thello (pronounced tell-OH), which operates overnight long-haul trains between Paris and Venice, with six stops in between.
Regional Trains in Italy
Most cities and towns in Italy are served by what are called “regional” trains, which are slower and often older trains. These trains tend to stop at every single station between two larger cities—and can be a romantic way to explore lesser-known destinations.
More Popular Train Routes in Italy
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If you get arrested, police can likely access your phone or tablet
by Jun Kajita
Online: Sep 28, 2014
An inquiry from a reader:
On June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that police need warrants to search the cellphones of people arrested. The ruling almost certainly applies to searches of tablet and laptop computers, and its reasoning may apply to information held by third parties like phone companies.
What is the law here in Japan? May police search a person’s cellphone, tablet or laptop computer without a warrant, and would any privacy or civil-liberty protections provided by law apply to both Japanese and non-Japanese?
Unlike in the U.S., the law in Japan is silent on this particular issue. However, on a practical level, most Japanese lawyers are in no doubt that investigating authorities — essentially, police and prosecutors — have the right, absent a warrant, to search the cellphones of arrested suspects.
Before going any further, it’s important to understand that intangibles such as information are not covered by rules of seizure by investigating authorities under Japanese law. What this means is there is no such thing as a warrant issued specifically for the seizure of the information held on cellphones, tablets, laptops, desktop computers and so on. However, this doesn’t mean that investigating authorities have carte blanche to search such seized devices or gain all the information in them in every circumstance. Put simply, police and prosecutors can search a device only when there is the probability that information relating to a particular case might be stored there.
For example, if someone has been arrested on suspicion of selling illegal drugs, the police could seize and search the suspect’s cellphone because information pertinent to the case, such as the phone numbers of clients, could be stored on it. On the other hand, if a suspect has been arrested for shoplifting, apparently without accomplices, the investigating authority couldn’t seize or search their cellphone, unless that authority had a reasonable suspicion that the phone was somehow used in the act of committing the crime.
Now, do police and prosecutors have the authority to unlock a phone using the suspect’s personal passcode without a warrant? The answer is yes: Since criminal procedure law says that investigating authorities can take such measures as unlocking or unsealing seized articles, it follows that seized phones and other devices could also be unlocked electronically based on this clause.
Jun Kajita is an attorney with the Foreigners and International Service Section at Tokyo Public Law Office, which handles a wide range of cases involving foreigners in the Tokyo area (www.t-pblo.jp/fiss; 03-6809-6200). FISS lawyers address readers’ queries once a month. Questions: lifelines@japantimes.co.jp
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Fed-up Philippi East residents storm police station after killing spree
News / 8 July 2019, 07:40am / Okuhle Hlati and Chevon Booysen
Residents of Philippi gather at the Philippi East police station to voice concerns over the recent murders in the area and the lack of police presence. Picture: Armand Hough/African News Agency (ANA)
Cape Town – Fed-up Philippi East residents stormed their police station
demanding action after 11 people were killed in less than 24 hours.
The shootings forced police to place the area under a 72-hour lockdown by public order police, the K-9 unit, and Flying Squad. Five men, aged between 18 and 39, were shot and killed and another injured on Saturday night.
Police spokesperson FC van Wyk said two of the men were killed at a local tavern while the bodies of the three others were found in a nearby house.
The shooting came hours after the bodies of six women, aged between 18 and 26, were found with gunshot wounds in the Marcus Garvey informal settlement.
The young women were shot in the yard and main house of the property.
“The motive for these shooting incidents remains the subject of an intensive police investigation. From an investigation perspective, detectives with crime intelligence are hard at work following leads that could result in the arrest of the perpetrators of these incidents,” Van Wyk said.
Inside the Philippi East police station yesterday, disgruntled protesters, the majority women, from Lower Crossroads said the murders signalled inadequate policing and that crime was out of control. They believe that if the police could conduct foot patrols, it would help reduce crime.
The station falls under the policing cluster of Nyanga, dubbed the crime capital of South Africa because of its high murder rate, with Philippi’s Browns Farm fingered as the main area of concern.
This is the same cluster where six members of the anti-gang unit were wounded after being ambushed while tracing suspects wanted for murder last month. Nyanga Community Policing Forum (CPF) chairperson Martin Makasi said residents had lost hope in the police and were angry after the mass shootings.
“There is no honesty from the police management. We have been promised a lot of things since 2017.
"People are tired of lies and empty promises.
"We still have staff shortages and lack of resources which are contributing factors and have been pointed out for years.
"This cluster has been leading in crime in the country for about five years. The Philippi East police station has no leadership; their station commander has been on sick leave for months now,” Makasi added.
He said they were met with threats of being suspended as the CPF when they wanted to speak out about the situation.
“When we enquired about the additional Tactical Response Team members that we were promised, we were informed they failed training.
"We need police management that won't only respond with short-term actions after mass shootings but one that will implement a long-term action. Police Minister Bheki Cele’s plan to spread the AGU needs to be implemented soon.”
Councillor Siphiwo Nqamnduku, who visited the scene where the six women were killed, said the area was tense, with residents afraid to come forward with information that could assist with the investigation.
"What happened there is very sad. The eldest, 26, had a child aged three. Last Thursday, people were also killed, everyday we just hear gunshots.
"We really don't know what to do or say when families come to us as councillors for help.”
Nqamnduku said councillors also lived in fear after visiting the victims’ families. Police said that all information received regarding the incidents would be treated with confidentiality.
Anyone with information can anonymously call the investigating officer Warrant Officer Larry Arnoldus on 0798809822 or Crime Stop on 08600 10111, alternatively SMS Crime Line on 32211.
In Hanover Park, residents were also up in arms after three women were shot and wounded just hours apart yesterday.
Among them was community activist Mary Bruce, who was shot in the leg while hanging out her laundry.
About five years ago, Bruce lost her eldest son to gang violence which spurred her on to give youth in her community an opportunity to turn away from a life of crime and substance abuse.
Police spokesperson FC van Wyk said: “We are aware of the incident. Both victims, who were shot in their legs, did not want to lay criminal charges but police would be investigating two cases of attempted murder.”
A third woman was also wounded in a shooting in Kitty Walk. Police were investigating a case of attempted murder, said Van Wyk.
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Carbanak source code leak: What’s next?
The source code of infamous, billion-dollar malware was found on VirusTotal. Here’s what we know about it and what to expect next.
Recently, news about Carbanak broke on various media outlets. Security researchers had found the source code of the infamous malware on the open VirusTotal portal. Carbanak is known as the most successful financial cyberthreats to date, causing estimated financial losses of as much as $1 billion.
A look back at Carbanak history
Our experts initially discovered and analyzed Carbanak back in 2014. They had begun investigating numerous incidents of cash being stolen from bank ATMs, but discovered that those incidents were linked — it was a huge international campaign aimed at stealing a lot of money from various banks all over the world. Initially, our experts were investigating incidents only in Eastern Europe, but they soon found more victims — in the US, Germany, and China.
Like many other attacks, this campaign started with spear phishing. In this case, it was well-aimed e-mail armed with malicious attachments that installed a back door based on Carberp malware. That back door provided entry into the target organization’s entire network — in this case, banks’ networks — compromising computers that could give the malefactors an opportunity to extract money.
The perpetrators had several paths to the money. In some cases, they remotely instructed ATMs to dispense cash, which mules collected. In others, they used the SWIFT network to transfer money directly into their accounts. These methods were not widely exploited back in 2014, so the scale and the technologies Carbanak employed shook both the banking and the cybersecurity industry.
Since Carbanak’s discovery, our experts have seen several attacks (Silence, for example) attempting similar tactics and tracked other signs of the same criminal group, which remained quite active. But now that Carbanak’s source code has gone public, such incidents may become significantly more frequent; it’s now available to malefactors who lack the coding skills to produce such complicated malware on their own. Kaspersky Lab researcher Sergey Golovanov, who has investigated this case from the start, has something to say about that:
“The fact that the source code of the infamous Carbanak malware was available on an open source website is a bad omen. Indeed, the Carbanak malware itself was initially built on the source code of Carberp malware after it was published online. We have every reason to believe that this scenario is only going to repeat itself and that we will see some dangerous modifications of Carbanak in the future. The good news is that since the Carberp leak, the cybersecurity industry has evolved significantly, and can now easily recognize the modified code. We urge companies and individuals to protect themselves against this and future threats with a robust security solution.”
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[Akeley, Carl E.]
Taxidermy and Sculpture: The Work of Carl E. Akeley in Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1927. Hardcover. A portfolio of photogravures documenting the work of taxidermist and sculptor, Carl E. Akeley. Includes 48 plates of Akeley, his taxidermied animals, and bronze animal sculptures. Also with a one page essay about Akeley by Wilfred H. Osgood, curator of Zoology. All plates are present. Housed in a grey paper folder, inserted into a grey paper covered slipcase titled in black on the spine and front panels. Wear to the case including chipping to the edges and corners. Browning to the edges of the case. Slight browning to margins of plates, else in fine condition. Includes contents page. Plates are about 9 x 12 inches. NAT/011320. Very Good. More
Albert Jr., Thomas J.,
Ellicott City, MD: Thomas J. Albert Jr., 2014. Softcover. A delightful memoir by Eagle Scout Tom Albert about his experiences as a camp counselor for thirteen summers at the Goshen Scout Reservation, one of the largest Boy Scout reservations in the country. There are entertaining, humorous, and sometimes poignant stories throughout as Tom and the other counselors mentor, instruct, and protect the hundreds of young scouts who come each week over the summers. Trade paperback bound in glossy paper covers with title on spine and front cover and illustration on front. In fine condition. 229 pages. Fine. More
Allen, Grant
Vignettes From Nature (Humboldt Library No. 33 Vol. II)
New York: J. Fitzgerald and Company, 1882. Hardcover. SCARCE. Very good softcover rebound in red cloth backed brown paper covered boards. The textblock has become separated from the boards. Minor damp staining to top edge of end pages. A good reading copy. Nature. NAT109051. Very Good. More
Allen, Thomas B
Vanishing Wildlife of North America
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, (1974). Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth boards with silver title to spine and embossed illustration of animals to front board. Interior is very clean with many color illustrations. Tight binding. Red dust jacket with white spine panel and black title to spine. 207 pages. NAT/012105. Near Fine / Very Good. More
Altsheler, Brent [compiler]
Natural History Index-Guide: An Index to 3,365 Books and Periodicals in Libraries, A Guide to Things Natural in the Field
New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good+ in green cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine Slight yellowing to edges of pages. Else is clean and bright. 583 pages. Nature. NAT109291. Very Good+. More
[Antonio Valle]
Gli Animali e il Mondo Loro. Anno I, Nos 27, 28, and 29
Milano: Fabbri, 1968. Paperback. Three seperate side stapled sections, each with a full color cover depicting photographic images of animals including pages 521 - 580. Text in Italian. Each section includes full color photographs and black and white line drawings. They cover marsupials, monotremes, and birds. Occasional pen annotations and minor dampstaining to bottom edge of one issue. Clean overall. An amusing periodical just for the illustrations (even if you don't read Italian). NAT/082517. Very Good. More
Audubon, John James, Donald C. Peattie [editor]
Audubon's America. The Narratives and experiences of John James Audubon
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. LIMITED EDITION. Hardcover. SIGNED BUT THE EDITOR. 4to. 1 of 3025 copies. Beige cloth boards with black and gilt title to spine and front board. Browing to top portion of front board. Pristine interior with tight binding. Includes several illustrations. Glassine dust jacket with several large open tears and wear to edges. Housed in a good black paper slipcase with minor wear. 327 pages. NAT/070305. Very Good in Good dj. More
Bagby, Mona Lisa
The Art of Red in Nature
Richmond, VA: Mona Lisa Bagby, 2019. Hardcover. Number 6 of 10 copies. In this inventive and interesting work, book artist Lisa Bagby describes the importance of the color red in nature for animal, insect, and plant species. She writes that living creatures rely on color for protection, concealment, and sexual selection. The color red is one of the most distinctive. She offers many examples, from tree frogs to cardinals to red faced monkeys to various plants and fungi. She provides information on such phenomena as aposematism - the use of color by reptiles, amphibians, and fish to warn predators that they are toxic, dangerous, painful to attack, and difficult to eat. Red is not the only color used to display toxicity, but it is one of the more effective ones. The artist states: "The natural world as a companion marks my earliest memories and that status has never wavered. With maturity I came to appreciate the physical, psychological and emotional dynamics of the natural world. As a creative person, I can’t help but notice details of texture, scale and, of course, color in the environment. Color is a significant part of the equation that brings the natural world into our focus and may even persuade us to care. Color sharpens our senses and enjoyment of the environment, whether it is a spectacular sunset or the sight of a cherry tree laden with its fruit. It is part of Nature’s strategy for engaging us. My interest in eco-systems lead me to wanting to better understand how color is used in Nature so I began researching the purpose of red in the environment. The result is my handmade book, The Art of Red in Nature. I learned that Red was not dumped from a paint can over the globe and spread indiscriminately. It has been judiciously allocated across nature and each assignment is useful, if not essential, in the Plant and Animal worlds. Everything in nature, including color, is purposeful and this book explores the story of red in Nature. Not only is color, such as red, designed to support life in eco-systems, but red is also available for human beings to discover, in insects or in minerals, to advance our own creative efforts. The art of red in nature is a wonder indeed." Bagby has creatively illustrated her concertina book with cancelled postage stamps of different species, pen and ink drawings with watercolor applied, linoleum block prints, and cartoons. Additional stamps and descriptions are on the reverse pages. Bound in grey cloth with title label affixed to the front cover. With decorated endpapers and a red and white string closure. In fine condition. Measures 6 x 8 inches. ARTISTSB/121219. Fine. More
Balog, James.
Survivors. A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990. Hardcover. 4to. Fine in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt silhouette of tiger to front board and gilt title to spine. Pristine interior with full color photographic illustrations of endangered animals. In near fine illustrated white dust jacket with gilt title to front and spine panels. 144 pages. Nature. NAT/5093. Fine in Near Fine DJ. More
Erwin Bauer's Bear in Their World
New York: Outdoor Life Books, 1985. Linen Backed Paper Covered. 8vo. In green linen backed white paper covered boards with gilt title stamp to spine. In white and green illustrated slightly edgeworn DJ with brown title print to spine panel. Interior is clean and bright with many color illustrations. Index. 254pp. NAT/020305. Very Good in Very Good dj. More
Berridge, W.S.
Marvels of the Animal World
London: Thornton Butterworth, (1921). Hardcover. Very good in orange cloth covered boards with black tilte to spine. Minor soiling to exterior as well as minor bumping to spine ends and corners. Owner stamp on front flyleaf. Else is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. Index, 253 pages. Nature. NAT3/01301. Very Good. More
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A Masque of Extinction
Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2017. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. She also makes miniature pocket globes, astronomical instruments, orreries, tellurions, and occasional oddities. This book is from a small open edition, signed by the book artist. According to Pat Sweet: "Illustrations of humans wearing the skulls of extinct animals as masks, dinosaurs mostly, but later animals and hominids, as well. Costumes for a cross-species Dance of Death that extends backwards through time. As we are now, so once were they; as they are now, we soon will be. (The concept for this one is a little difficult to explain. The images certainly looks deeply meaningful, but mostly I just wanted to put big dinosaur skulls on people's heads. Who doesn't?)." Bound in black Japanese paper printed with red dragonflies, with paper title labels pasted on the front and spine. Decorative endpapers. Includes 24 illustrations. Size: 1 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches. 74 pages. ARTB/012418. More
[Bo Press] Sweet, Pat, book artist
Illustrations of Chinese Fish
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Highlights in the History of Whaling
Rosemead, CA: Bookhaven Press, 1968. Number 381 of 500 copies. This lovely miniature book was the second book to be printed at Pall Bohne's Bookhaven Press. As he states in the colophon, Bohne was the author as well as the illustrator, typographer, printer, and binder. "Pall W. Bohne (1935-2017) was an eminent member of the Southern California fine press and book arts scene who was known particularly for his expertise in letter press printing. As the operator of Bookhaven Press in Rosemead, California from 1967-1992, Bohne produced numerous works of ephemera and printed pamphlets, including a few miniature books, including Highlights in the History of American Whaling and Jabberwocky, the Famous Mock Heroic Epic. Bohne demonstrated his skills as an artisan through wood-engraving and bookplate production, and purportedly held a wide range interests in other fields such as beekeeping and blacksmithing" (from UCLA library finding aid for their Bohne collection). Bound in grey paper covers with black glossy paper spine with title in gilt. Small nick and repair to top of spine. otherwise very good. Interior pages near fine with many illustrations by Bohne of whale species, whaling tools, and products made from whales such as scrimshaw and corsets. 45 pages including bibliography. Measures 1 7/8 x 2 1/2 inches. MINIATURE/111418. More
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The Golden Sea. Man's Underwater Adventures.
New York: Playboy Press, 1974. Hardcover. 4to. Near fine in very good blue illustrated, price clipped dust jacket with white title to spine panel. Fading to spine panel and wear to edges of dust jacket. Interior is in lovely condition, clean and bright with no yellowing. Many full-color photographic illustrations. Ink inscription to previous owner opposite title page. Index, 214 pages. Nature. NAT/5093. Near Fine / Very Good. More
Buckland, Frank; Spencer Walpole; Archibald Young; J. Aloysius Blake; Joseph Hayes; and Thomas F. Brady
Reports on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries of England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland
London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1877. SCARCE. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. Bound in navy cloth covered boards with original blue paper wrappers bound in as second endpaper. Interior very clean and bright. Volume complete with three appendices, a frontispiece foldout map, and 8 folding illustrations to the rear. Period bookplate to front pastedown. A scarce item in beautiful condition. NAT/070106. Very Good. More
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Elephants. A short Account of the Natural History Evolution and Influence on Mankind
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1959. Hardcover. Very good in a very good black and yellow illustrated dust jacket with some small chipping and creasing to edges. White title to front and spine panels. Illustrated throughout with photographic illustrations and drawings by Maurice Wilson. Index, 272 pages. Nature. NAT/7222. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
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Easthampton MA: Cheloniidae Press, 2014. Hardcover. Number 15 of 150 copies. Signed and numbered by the book artist Alan James Robinson. This wildflower alphabet book is the first book issued by Alan’s highly regarded Cheloniidae Press in several years, and the first produced using the Giclee printing process, which he calls a “new direction” in our ever changing world. It is intended to be the first in a series of Natural History Abecedary Editions. There is also a Fine Art edition of Wildflowers with twenty-eight original watercolors. The illustrations for this Giclee edition are printed from the artwork created for the Fine Art watercolor edition. The illustrations in this edition show the lovely renditions of a flower, often accompanied by a butterfly or other insect, for each letter of the alphabet. Each page is headed by a calligraphic letter in red, designed originally by Master Calligrapher Suzanne Moore for the press’s A Fowl Alphabet in 1986. This accordion style book is bound in pale yellow cloth with the title in gilt to the front cover. It is housed in a green cloth slipcase with the title in gilt to the spine. In fine condition. 8.5 x 5 inches. Unpaginated. PRI/071817. Fine. More
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Bald Eagle [Original Print]
n.p. Cheloniidae Press, 1979. A stunning black and white print of a majestic bald eagle in flight. This is the last available print of a sold out edition of 50. Signed and dated by renowned artist and printer Alan James Robinson. He founded the Cheloniidae Press, later the Press of the Sea Turtle, in 1979. His books and art have won numerous awards and can be found in many public and private collections. The eagle is shown from the side with his head extended and wings held wide. In fine condition. Image is 17.5 x 23.5 inches; in mat it is 21.5 x 25 inches. ORIGART/072517. Fine. More
Beaching Loggerhead Turtle [Original Print]
Northampton MA: Cheloniidae Press, [1980]. Artist's Proof IV. Signed, titled, and numbered by Robinson. According to the artist this was an unpublished print with only two ever printed. It was created by renowned artist and printer Alan James Robinson. He founded the Cheloniidae Press, later the Press of the Sea Turtle, in 1979. His books and art have won numerous awards and can be found in many public and private collections. This striking black and white print depicts a loggerhead turtle looking down from over it as it transitions from water to sand. It appears to be emerging from the dark, moving toward light. Printed on a sheet of fine heavy paper measuring 21 x 28 inches. The image is 17.5 x 23.25 inches. In fine condition. PRINTS/080817. Fine. More
Flying Great Horned Owl [Original Print]
Northampton MA: Cheloniidae Press, n.d. State Proof signed by the artist. A stunning original print, never published and the only copy ever printed, created by renowned artist and printer Alan James Robinson. He founded the Cheloniidae Press, later the Press of the Sea Turtle, in 1979. His books and art have won numerous awards and can be found in many public and private collections. The image depicts an owl flying in the dark of night. Most of the surface is a profound black, with the hunting owl visible by moonlight. The print is 17.5 x 23 inches and measures 22 x 27 inches with the mat. In fine condition.ORIGART/072017. More
Hippo Walk [Original Print]
n.p. Cheloniidae, n.d. State Proof. This marvelous black and white etching of a walking hippopotamus is a one of a kind print signed by renowned artist and printer Alan James Robinson, particularly well known for his depiction of animals, birds, and nature. He founded the Cheloniidae Press in 1979, and his work can be found in many public and private collections around the country. The hippo appears to be walking toward the viewer with his head done in particular detail. In fine condition. 22 x 28.5 inches. PRINTS/072517. Fine. More
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A Blustery Windy Day on Quiet Island
Martinez, CA: Lucy Childs, 2019. A unique embroidered artists’ book. Lucy’s exquisite embroidered books are inspired by her “exploration of the history, craft, and culture of early American and British sewing samplers, made mostly by young girls to learn the practical craft of sewing but also to learn letters and spelling. Many old and antique samplers included text or images in memory of family members who had died.” Lucy’s beautiful and painstakingly created books are a fitting tribute to and continuation of the craft she honors. Her unique books can be found in several artists’ book collections. This beautiful work evokes the feel and mood of its inspiration - the windy day on a quiet island. The embroidery is stitched in blue, green, brown, and yellow threads on white linen cloth. The borders are stitched with intricate white designs. There are two covers. The inner cover is tan linen with a small cross on each side. The outer cover is blue felt with the title and border stitching in yellow thread. The folded book measures 6 x 11 inches. Unfolded the book is 22 inches. In fine condition. ARTS/031419. Fine. More
Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961. Hardcover. Very good in very good brown, yellow and white illustrated and price clipped dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Light edgewear and to edges and minor fading to spine panel of dust jacket. Very bright and clean text with illustrations throughout; 16 photo plates. Index, 162 pages. Natural History/Animals. NATHIS/12092. Very Good + / Very Good. More
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Looking at Photographs: Animals
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in glossy illustrated paper covered boards with white and blue title to front board and yellow title to spine. Pristine interior filled with beautiful photographic illustrations throughout. In near fine grey and blue illustrated dust jacket with white and blue title to front panel and yellow title to spine panel. 41 pages. PHOTO/072417. Fine / Near Fine. More
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‘Brexit shambles’: Cardiff MPs welcome Corbyn’s support for People’s Vote
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Cardiff Labour MPs have welcomed Jeremy Corbyn’s support for a People’s Vote. How does this reflect Cardiff’s attitudes towards another referendum?
People’s Vote protest in Westminster – September, 2018 (Image: ChiralJon, Flickr)
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced on Monday that his party would support a People’s Vote should their plan to pass an amended Brexit deal fail to get through Parliament.
Labour’s amended deal, an alternative to Theresa May’s own deal, did fail to pass through Parliament yesterday. This means the Party will now fully support a second referendum on Brexit.
“This is a significant and welcome announcement from Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn,” says Stephen Doughty, MP for Cardiff South and Penarth.
“It’s clear the PM’s Brexit shambles cannot continue – it’s time this issue went back to the people for a final say.”
“If I was Jeremy Corbyn, I would be thinking, ‘do I want to implement my manifesto?’” says Jo Stevens, MP for Cardiff Central (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
Corbyn’s announcement came after weeks of intense pressure from his own party, including from Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer and MPs here in Cardiff, to back another vote.
Doughty and fellow Labour MPs Jo Stevens (Cardiff Central) and Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North) have all made passionate cases for a second referendum, and their impassioned stance on Europe reflects shifting opinions within their constituencies and Wales as a whole.
“There’s some fantastic stuff in the [Labour Party] manifesto, but we won’t be able to do any of the stuff we want to do if we are out of the European Union,” said Jo Stevens at an event last week, “If I was Jeremy Corbyn, I would be thinking, ‘do I want to implement my manifesto?’”
“I warmly welcome this announcement,” says Anna McMorrin, “The only sensible and democratic way forward is to put this back to the people.”
“I’m deeply saddened by the state of politics, by this situation that we have got ourselves into” – Anna McMorrin speaks at an event organised by Labour for a People’s Vote last week.
These constituencies, plus the final Cardiff Labour constituency of Kevin Brannan’s Cardiff West, have polled in favour of another referendum.
A poll conducted by YouGov in November showed that support for a people’s vote in Cardiff was as follows: Cardiff Central – 70.3%, Cardiff North – 59.5%, Cardiff South & Penarth – 63.7%, Cardiff West – 63%.
Attitudes in Wales as a whole are similar, with 55% of voters indicating they would now vote Remain, while only 45% would vote Leave.
Doughty, McMorrin and Stevens are firmly in the Remain camp, agreeing that Brexit would have a negative impact in their constituencies.
The campaign for another referendum is gearing in Cardiff this weekend, with hundreds of campaigners expected to turn out for ‘March for Europe’ in the city centre on Saturday afternoon.
Support for a People’s Vote across Wales, according to the most recent YouGov poll:
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African American school guard in Madison fired for repeating racial slur student used against him
A black security guard who was fired after repeating a racial slur a student had called him filed a grievance seeking his job back.
African American school guard in Madison fired for repeating racial slur student used against him A black security guard who was fired after repeating a racial slur a student had called him filed a grievance seeking his job back. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2019/10/18/madison-schools-guard-fired-repeating-slur-used-against-him/4020528002/
The Associated Press Published 8:06 a.m. CT Oct. 18, 2019
MADISON – A black security guard at a Wisconsin high school who was fired after he says he repeated a racial slur while telling a student who had called him that word not to use it has filed a grievance seeking his job back.
The Madison School District has a policy forbidding employees from saying racial slurs. But, Marlon Anderson, 48, says he was just trying to defend himself after a disruptive student unleashed a number of obscenities on him, including that slur.
West High Principal Karen Boran sent an email to families on Wednesday saying that racial slurs are not acceptable in schools, regardless of context or circumstance, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
But Anderson told the State Journal, “We’re fighting this,” and the Madison teachers’ union filed a grievance with the district on his behalf.
“I just don’t understand getting fired for trying to defend yourself,” said Anderson, who worked for the district for 11 years. “As a black man, I have a right not to be called that word.”
Anderson said he was responding to a call on Oct. 9 about a disruptive male student who was being escorted by an assistant principal at West High. Anderson said the student pushed the principal’s hand off of himself, and the situation escalated, with the student, who is also black, calling Anderson obscenities including the slur.
Anderson said he told the student multiple times “do not call me that” and “do not call me that word,” and that Anderson repeated the slur during the confrontation while telling the teen not to use it.
During his time at East and West high schools, Anderson said he’s been called the slur by students “many times,” and that it has resulted in “restorative conversations” in which he explains the history, context and meaning of the slur.
Boran said the zero-tolerance approach on the use of racial slurs “has been applied consistently and will continue to be applied consistently.”
“I also want to ask for your partnership as we work to make our school climate the very best it can be for all of our students and our staff,” she said.
In a statement, interim Superintendent Jane Belmore said the expectation of staff to never use a racial slur “has been shared several times through communication and professional development.”
Last school year, there were at least seven cases in which a Madison School District staff member used a racial slur in front of students. All of those employees were either fired or resigned.
It’s not known whether the student faces disciplinary action.
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Audiovisually but in a different manner. Formats that narrate and portray the real world while stepping out of the screen and building unique worlds through distinctive aesthetic principles.
For the fifth time, Ji.hlava opens its Game Zone where it introduces computer games which address the pressing and complex issues of the contemporary world, use references to reality in unexpected ways, or seek exceptional visual solutions. We have been following certain game styles and approaches for some time already: games where the players’ actions contribute to the research and solution of scientific problems, games which explore political questions and contribute to the formulation of arguments in the social discourse, or the so-called slow games which motivate people to take a break from their frenetic daily routine.
A Polish independent game with a strong political message is a satirical simulator reflecting on the social debate on the 2016 law which banned abortions in Poland. Among other things, it points out there are pregnancies which endanger the mother's life, and opens fundamental questions regarding female reproduction.
An award-winning adventure game which takes on fake news by the means of developing knowledge and critical thinking. The player takes on the role of a news editor who defines the news and observes its effect on the society, his friends and his career. The player faces many ethical questions and discovers the process of news creation.
A scientific neurology game. Exploration of the brain is an incredibly complex discipline the results of which are crucial to medicine and other fields of science. Thanks to the involvement of thousands of participants in this game, scientists are gaining data which enable them to model various types of brain cells.
Path Out
An autobiographical adventure that takes players along the exciting and surprising path of the young Syrian artist Abdullah Karama, who under dramatic circumstances, but presented with humor, escaped civil war in 2014.
Pešiaci
The sidewalks of Bratislava are occupied by advertisement tripods, traffic signs, lampposts and garbage cans, while the rest of the territory is occupied by wildly parked cars. The game Pawns seeks to highlight the long-standing, unresolved problem of the quality of public space and, in a fun way, shows the most natural way to get around – by walking, which has turned into a frustrating and dangerous activity.
Procházka
This visually exceptional work which straddles the line between a slow game and an interactive animation invites the players to explore a landscape full of natural motifs and surprising artifacts depicted in a gentle drawing style.
Skill Lab: Science Detective
A series of crime-solving mini games which make the players use various cognitive skills to help the research community understand the evolution and the forms of cognitive abilities, ways of problem solving, and reactions to common stimuli. This also advances the understanding of cognitive anomalies and the possibilities to identify them at their early stages.
Telling Lies
Sophisticated investigative game in which a player searches for a true picture of events in narratives and contexts using exploration and connecting parts of the story. It works with a database of images and secretly recorded conversations that capture two years in the lives of four people, gradually revealing their intimate life and details of their common story.
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Trump vs. Red Hen restaurant: Eateries in Trump properties also dinged for violations
Some New York, Florida and other restaurants properties of The Trump Organization have been cited for similar or more serious violations than those for the Red Hen, the Virginia eatery that Trump called "filthy" after its owner booted White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Trump vs. Red Hen restaurant: Eateries in Trump properties also dinged for violations Some New York, Florida and other restaurants properties of The Trump Organization have been cited for similar or more serious violations than those for the Red Hen, the Virginia eatery that Trump called "filthy" after its owner booted White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Check out this story on knoxnews.com: https://usat.ly/2u5nhWv
Kevin McCoy and Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY Published 2:25 p.m. ET July 5, 2018 | Updated 9:15 a.m. ET July 6, 2018
Passersby gather to take photos in front of the Red Hen Restaurant June 23, 2018, in Lexington, Va. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday in a tweet that she was booted from the Virginia restaurant because she works for President Donald Trump.(Photo: Daniel Lin, AP)
As the Red Hen restaurant that booted Sarah Huckabee Sanders and received a lashing about cleanliness from President Donald Trump reopened, a USA TODAY review shows restaurants in Trump family business properties have a similarly mixed history of health inspection violations.
The review was conducted after Red Hen co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson asked Sanders, the White House press secretary, to leave the Lexington, Virginia, restaurant on June 22 because of Sanders' job in the Trump administration.
Three days later, the nation's commander-in-chief mounted a Twitter attack on the farm-to-table restaurant.
Panning what he characterized as the Red Hen's "filthy canopies, doors and windows," plus an urgent need for a "paint job," Trump tweeted a heretofore undeclared rule, one possibly learned during his career heading a business with fine-dining establishments at clubs and golf courses.
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For anyone who may have missed it, the Trump Rule is: "If a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it's dirty on the inside."
The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
The tweet prompted a two-fold question: Have restaurant inspections found the Red Hen to be unsanitary, and how have eateries in properties of The Trump Organization fared in similar inspections?
Here's a partial comparison, drawn from a review of inspection records in four states and Canada, that provides an overview of kitchen cleanliness at the eateries. Inspections capture snapshots on the day they are conducted and may not be representative of a restaurant's performance over time, regulatory agencies say.
The review focused on recent inspection records for Trump-related eateries that appeared to have no ownership or management links to outside chefs or restaurant companies.
For instance, inspection findings for Jean-Georges, the famed restaurant of Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten that's in the Trump International Hotel and Tower New York, were not included. Inspection results for BLT Prime, steakhouse restaurants in some Trump properties but run by an outside firm, were similarly excluded from the review.
The Trump Organization did not respond to messages on Tuesday and Thursday that sought information about the ownership and management of some other restaurants in the company's properties.
During inspections conducted after Trump's January 2017 presidential inauguration, his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, have handled the day-to-day operations of The Trump Organization and the family company's enterprises.
Red Hen
The Red Hen initially had been expected to reopen June 26, after its regular Monday closing the previous day. However, the restaurant has remained closed in recent weeks as it became a gathering point for protesters who criticized or cheered the decision to show Sanders to the door.
Some who phoned the eatery in the days afterward reached a recorded Verizon message that said "calling restrictions" had prevented the calls from being completed.
However, the restaurant reopened Thursday evening, with supporters and critics debating peacefully outside, and patrons who had reservations happily dining inside.
The Red Hen has had a mixed record with Virginia health inspectors. Its most recent inspection, conducted in February 2018, produced no violations. But an April 2014 inspection resulted in one violation for raw beef stored above cooked, ready-to-eat food, as well as thawing meats stored above cookie bars.
A second violation cited a ready-to-eat container of grits stored in a refrigeration unit without being properly dated.
Those violations, issued before a 2016 update of Virginia's inspection regulations, would have been classified as priority violations now, due to the possibility they could be a direct cause of illness for the restaurant's guests.
A January 2017 inspection cited Red Hen with a priority violation for having pickles or jams in a sealed container that did not come from an approved food-processing facility.
Unlike the Red Hen, there have been no publicly-reported incidents of restaurants in properties of The Trump Organization throwing out the president's critics. However, recent inspections of the facilities have cited a variety of health violations, some of them deemed serious.
File photo taken in 2016 shows The Trump Tower Grille inside Trump Tower in New York City. (Photo: AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
Trump Grill, a "classic American cuisine" restaurant, and Trump Café, which serves sandwiches, snacks and hot entrees, are in New York City's Trump Tower, the Manhattan skyscraper on Fifth Avenue where Trump lived before he was elected president in 2016.
Records for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Health list them as a single establishment. It currently holds the top grade of A, earned from the health agency during the most recent inspection cycle last year. Many diners check the ratings when they decide where to eat.
The first inspection in the cycle, conducted in November 2017, cited a critical violation for "filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies in facility's food and/or non-food areas," along with an infraction for "conditions conducive to attracting vermin."
The health agency's inspection grading system gives restaurants two chances to earn an A rating during each inspection cycle.
A follow-up inspection, conducted in December 2017, cited nine violation points. The total was below the health agency's 13-point limit that could have triggered a lower rating.
Trump International Hotel & Tower Vancouver
File photo shows Eric Trump speaking at a ceremony for the official opening of the Trump International Tower and Hotel in Vancouver, Canada. The tower is The Trump Organization's first new international property since Donald Trump took office as the U.S. president. (Photo: Photo by Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images)
A March 2018 inspection by Vancouver Coastal Health found "signs of rodent activity" in the convention prep kitchen of the Trump International Hotel & Tower that opened during the prior year in the seaport city of Canada's British Columbia province.
However, the kitchen was deemed to be in compliance with all other health regulations.
Vancouver Coastal Health spokesman Matt Kieltyka said there was no one immediately available to discuss the inspection results.
File photo taken in 2017 shows the entrance of the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP)
Trump National Golf Club Bedminster
A September 2016 inspection of the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, a New Jersey facility that hosts weddings and banquets along with golfing, gave the club an overall rating of satisfactory, according to a Somerset County Department of health report posted by NJ.com.
However, the report listed a violation for "cutting utensils and utensil holder with old and encrusted food buildup."
File photo shows a federal motorcade bringing President Donald Trump to the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach
A Florida inspection conducted in February hit the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach with a high priority violation for having cases of raw beef stored over commercially produced salad dressings.
Without discussing inspections of specific restaurants, Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation said in an email that high-priority citations "indicate direct concerns related to possible food-borne illnesses."
The violation was corrected during the inspection, and the restaurant conditions met the state's inspection standards during the visit, online state records show.
The state agency advised that Florida restaurants are not graded or rated because violations found at the time of the visit could change and "may not be representative of the overall, long-term conditions at the establishment."
Florida restaurant inspections for the March 2017 check of the main kitchen at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter and for the June 2018 review of the Trump Hollywood condominium tower found no high-priority violations.
The Mar-a-Lago resort owned by President Trump in Palm Beach, Fla. (Photo: Lynne Sladky, AP)
The Mar-A-Lago Club
Dubbed the Winter White House by Trump aides, The Mar-A-Lago Club emerged from the Palm Beach, Florida, luxury private facility's most recent restaurant inspection in April with zero violations.
However, a January 2017 inspection, conducted weeks before a Trump visit with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, cited three high-priority violations. They included raw or undercooked fish that had "not undergone proper parasite destruction."
Like many states and localities, Florida's Division of Hotels and Restaurants uses the 2009 U.S. Food and Drug Administration's food code, a three-tier category system for food safety and sanitation inspections.
State and local inspection agencies may modify or add to the system, said Roy Costa, president of the Florida-based food-safety consulting firm Environ Health Associates.
Inspectors assess every part of the eatery, including how well the building is maintained, how food is stored, pest control, and whether staff members move between raw and cooked food preparation without changing gloves. The four key areas, called foodborne illness indicators, are food temperatures and time, cross-contamination, improper cooking and personal hygiene.
“Which ones will kill you, I don’t know, but they’re all bad,” said Costa, who contrasted the group of four with non-critical violations, such as an unclean floor or utensils not stored with their handles up.
"Really good companies — and there are plenty of them out of there — have quality-assurance programs and they’re checking up on their (restaurants). They have rules. They have procedures. The ones that go the extra mile are the ones that are pretty safe most of the time,” added Costa, who was speaking in general about eateries.
Full-service restaurants with more elaborate menus and more complex processes, like the Red Hen and those in The Trump Organization properties, are more vulnerable to violations than fast-food eateries with limited food offerings and a streamlined kitchen production line, said Craig Hedberg, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Minnesota.
And those with repeated violations can get into even more trouble with their local health departments, said Hedberg. Those eateries will be flagged by inspectors, who bring copies of previous reports on their visits and can spot patterns of regulation flouting. How repeat offenses are handled differs by jurisdiction.
“It’s very rare to see a perfect score,” he said. “In general, things are getting better. There have been efforts to try to improve the sanitation in kitchens and (improve) the public’s access to inspection results, which then provides a feedback mechanism both to the inspectors and the operators that people are watching."
During the past three years, restaurants in Trump Organization properties have not been hit with shutdown orders — like the unanticipated outcome of a Nevada inspection in late 2012.
File photo taken in 2007 shows then-real estate developer Donald Trump delivering remarks as he celebrated the topping off of Tower I at the Trump International Hotel & Towers in Las Vegas. (Photo: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The DJT Restaurant, the upscale eatery that bears Trump's initials, was shut down for several hours following a November 2012 inspection at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.
That inspection, conducted four years before Trump won the White House, cited 51 demerits for such violations as keeping food items well past their expiration dates. For instance, the inspection found duck from as far back as June of that year, fish stock from October and caviar from September, the inspection report shows.
Additionally, raw beef was found stored over cooked chicken, the report said.
The restaurant was hit with separate fees of $716 and $459 for the violations. "In the future facility may be required to attend supervisory conference," the written inspection form cautioned.
However, DJT Restaurant was authorized to reopen hours later, after the violations had been corrected. Stephanie Bethel, a spokeswoman for the Southern Nevada Health District, said the agency does not comment on specific restaurant inspections.
"We take these situations very seriously and all adjustments were made immediately," the DJT Restaurant said in a statement issued afterward, according to media reports at the time.
The restaurant was cited for eight demerits and received an A grade after a July 2017 inspection, state records show.
Contributing: Alexa Imani Spencer and Caroline Simon, USA TODAY
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Report: FTC will say Facebook misled users about privacy
FTC will reportedly find that Facebook deceived users about how it handled phone numbers and provided insufficient information about how to turn off a facial recognition tool for photos. Photo: KTVU
The Washington Post is reporting that the Federal Trade Commission will allege that Facebook misled users about its privacy practices as part of an expected settlement.
The federal business watchdog will reportedly find that Facebook deceived users about how it handled phone numbers it asked for as part of a security feature and provided insufficient information about how to turn off a facial recognition tool for photos.
Advertisers were reportedly able to target users who provided their phone number as part of a two-factor authentication security feature.
The FTC didn't respond immediately to a request for comment. Facebook had no comment.
The complaints will reportedly be detailed in a settlement on Wednesday. Facebook won't be required to admit guilt but will have to submit to federal oversight, the newspaper reported.
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The Audi e-tron is an EV in Diguise
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Audi’s first fully electric production model debuts, latest shot fired in an EV SUV war that’s brewing
Story by Joseph Gonzalez
With the unveiling of the Audi e-tron, Audi’s first fully electric series production model, just days after BMWs unveiling of the BMW Vision iNEXT, one thing is clear: a war is coming! The electric SUV/Crossover market is looking to be the setting for perhaps the most contentious battle in the automotive industry right now besides Audi CEO job retention. How does one CEO from jail anyway?
Whether we like it or not government mandates all over the world are pushing for electric cars. In meeting this goal it was inevitable that the major manufacturers would be stepping up to the plate for one of their biggest markets: SUVs. While BMW presented us a dreamlike highly stylized Vision of the future, Audi has given us something more tangible. This isn’t just a prototype; the Audi e-tron is production car rolling off the assembly line late 2018!
The Audi e-tron will reportedly be able to be charged from both the driver and passenger sides.
One might be asking. “Who cares?” Why would anyone give up the ability to gas up my family hauling SUV just to deal with the inconvenience of finding a charging station and waiting more than an hour to be on their way? According to Audi, the e-tron has a reported range of 248.5 miles and is the first series-production model capable of 150 kW charging. That means an 80% charge is possible in 30 minutes. A 200 miles charge in the time it takes to eat a meal will get you from Los Angeles to Vegas with one charging pit stop!
The front grill is not a grill.
…at least not completely. Although it certainly looks like the typical Audi grill found throughout the Audi lineup, only 4 slats appear to provide actual airflow to an engine compartment that doesn’t contain an engine. As of yet, it’s not clear what function those slats will have if any. It is, however, consistent with an underlying theme: The 4 lines under the headlights and 4 lines across each spoke on the wheels reference Audi’s legendary quattro awd system. Nice touch, Audi!
The distinctive Audi grill on the e-tron looks like it would feed air to an engine that doesn’t exist.
The front grill is like the human tailbone: a remnant of our genetic past, made obsolete by evolution. The weaning off such traditional automotive design traits will take some time, especially from established manufacturers like Audi, BMW and Mercedes. Tesla doesn’t have years of tradition to hold them back; their cars never had grills and probably never will, so we will never miss something that was never there. Not so with Audi, they’re playing it somewhat safe for now. BMW, on the other hand, has been more brazen with a respectable level of success with the i8, which consists of merely an outline of its iconic kidney grill. What’s a BMW without a kidney grill after all? BMW might have to eat some humble pie however. The grill on the iNEXT hasn’t been met with the same enthusiasm.
The highly divisive kidney grills of the BMW iNEXT
The side mirrors aren’t mirrors!
According to Audi, for the first time in a series production model, the traditional side mirrors are replaced with “Virtual Exterior Mirrors”. Audi claims it reduces drag, and I’m sure it does, but one can’t help think that the “cool factor’ probably had more to do with the decision to include this feature than aerodynamic efficiency. It does look sharp, but are objects still closer than they appear in “Virtual” mirrors?
The e-tron’s slick and sleek side mirrors are almost invisible.
But Is it still an Audi?
For all the components on the e-tron that aren’t what they seem, one thing that Audi is promising is that this car not only looks like an Audi, under all the geeky electric vehicle tech, it’s still what we come to expect from an Audi: an excellent interior, high quality materials, sporty driving characteristics, expensive mainten– I mean meticulous German engineering and bodywork that, in my opinion, is an excellent expression of forward thinking high tech design merged with tasteful and traditional automotive aesthetic. Long has the car enthusiast derided the goofiness of electric cars that scream about how much of an electric car they are. Thankfully that’s not the case with the Audi e-tron. It looks like the next generation Audi Q5 or Q7, and that’s a good thing.
With a $74,00 starting MSRP, the e-tron will have a lot of competition in the segment in the Jaguar I-PACE, Mercedes-Benz EQC, Volvo XC40, the BMW iX3 just to name a few. Sold already? You can reserve your e-tron right now with a $1,000 deposit
This is a step in the right direction and hopefully the 2018 LA Auto Show debut of the Audi e-tron GT Concept, a high performance coupe developed in collaboration with Porsche, will likewise not disappoint.
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Open Badges for Totara 2.4 and Moodle 2.5
As we were outlining how the new features of Moodle 2.5 improve the user experience, we touched on the game-changing possibilities of Open Badges. This feature in particular could have huge ramifications for how we learn and how we put that learning to use when pursuing our developing our careers.
Our official partner, Totara LMS (like Moodle for corporate training), recently released a white paper, Open Badges: A Catalyst for New Learning Design, outlining the big-picture potential for finally matching learning paths with educational outcomes and ideal vocational results:
What if employers didn’t care whether applicants held a diploma or degree but instead asked what “badges” they had earned? Mozilla’s Open Badges project aims to provide a technically smart, web savvy, open access framework whereby any organization can offer tangible recognition to learners who demonstrate achievement in a given competency whether that be a soft or hard skill.
The badges can be described as “web savvy” - they are digital indicators of achievement with important machine-readable data embedded, including the capability to be verified and even cancelled by the issuing organization. Employers can easily access the bigger picture behind learner’s skills and achievements.
The potential for converting open badges from bleeding-edge innovation to market-changing technology disruptor is clear, given its backers and mix of early users, from Disney-Pixar to NASA and more than 600 other organizations that are already designing badges that are being used right now. Totara Learning Solutions is a leader in this sector developing a badge-issuing and management system for both Moodle and Totara Learning Management Systems (LMS).
We talked to Totara Vice President Willem Boom about this big potential. “Open badges are a new kind of tool that’s been well-received in terms of folks trying to get visual recognition for achievements, abilities and skills,” he explains. “If I’m a programmer with C++ coding experience or I’ve got project management skills from university, now I can have a visual representation of what that skill is. We developed this for Totara 2.4 but we’re pleased to see so much buzz around this for the Moodle 2.5 release.”
Open badges are not a result of programmers throwing ideas at a wall of eLearning students and seeing what sticks, but was inspired quite a bit by the demand of HR departments looking for a solution to a gap between competencies and organizational requirements.
“HR departments are looking for a framework that gives the ability to take areas of a proficiency and map that into what new recruits or present employees are learning, whether those skills are big picture like ‘leading a sales team’ or something finer-scale like ‘using Microsoft Excel’. The other side of it is that when we issue the badge based on a skill or degree, the badge will have data showing authenticity; in other words, if you’ve got the badge, you really did demonstrate this proficiency.”
One of the biggest advantages of Open Badges is indicated in its name: “Open” – as in, open-source.
“Mozilla enables the production of open badges to be more systematic and regulated – and that’s a good example of how open source works,” Willem says. “A badge determines how companies allowed to show a particular skill. That’s important to have a formalized concept there so it can be widely adopted.”
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'Impossible' - Spurs reportedly made Brendan Rodgers approach before Jose Mourinho appointment
Latest Leicester City news | Spurs sacked Mauricio Pochettino on Tuesday night but quickly replaced him with the former Manchester United boss
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Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy (bottom) watches from the stands during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Watford at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (Image: GLYN KIRK/AFP via Getty Images)
Tottenham Hotspur have appointed former Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho as the club’s new manager.
Spurs sacked Mauricio Pochettino on Tuesday night, and named Mourinho as his successor less than 12 hours later.
The appointment was swift following Pochettino’s departure, but reports are suggesting that Mourinho was not the north London outfit’s first choice.
Leicester City star could snub Manchester United to sign new deal - report
According to the Daily Mail, Spurs chairman Daniel Levy made an enquiry to Leicester City over manager Brendan Rodgers.
They claim that Rodgers was Spurs’ first choice to replace Pochettino, but add that prizing the Northern Irishman away from the King Power Stadium would be “impossible”.
It is also being reported that Mourinho’s eagerness to take on the Spurs job made the process much more straightforward than trying convince Leicester to part with Rodgers.
Mourinho’s first game in charge as Tottenham boss is away to West Ham on Saturday, while Leicester are due to travel to north London to take on Spurs in May in their penultimate league fixture.
Rodgers replaced Claude Puel in the King Power dugout in February, and the club are currently in second place in the Premier League table in his first full season in charge.
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Jeremias Adams-Prassl
Magdalen College
High Street, Oxford, OX1 4AU
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Jeremias works in the fields of English and European law, with a particular interest in technology, innovation policy, and the future of work. He is a Fellow of Magdalen College, and Deputy Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law. Jeremias read law at Oxford, Paris, and Harvard Law School, and has held visiting teaching and/or research positions at institutions including Hong Kong University, the Max Planck Institute Hamburg, Renmin Law School Beijing, University College London, the University of Vienna, and Yale Law School.
His most recent book, Humans as a Service (OUP 2018), explores the promise and perils of work in the gig economy across the world, and was awarded the 2019 St Petersburg Private Law Prize. Jeremias’ research on innovation policy and labour market regulation is frequently drawn on by governments and international organisations, and has been cited by courts, policy documents, and news organisations in multiple jurisdictions. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the New Social Contract.
Together with Professor Abi Adams-Prassl of the Oxford Department of Economics, Jeremias also writes on the law and economics of fragmenting labour markets and access to justice. His work has been recognised by a number of prizes for teaching, research, and public impact, including the Wedderburn Prize and the Apgar Prize, an Oxford University Teaching Award, a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award, an O2RB Excellence in Impact Award, and an ESRC Outstanding Impact in Public Policy Prize.
Recent publications include The Concept of the Employer (OUP 2015; Paperback 2016), and The Autonomy of Labour Law (co-ed, Hart 2015). Jeremias is one of the editors of The Contract of Employment (OUP 2016), and an editor of Chitty on Contracts (32nd ed, Sweet & Maxwell 2015). His work in European law includes co-editing the EU Law in the Member States Series (Hart) with Advocate General Michal Bobek.
Jeremias welcomes supervision enquiries in employment and EU law, and tweets about the future of work @JeremiasPrassl.
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J Adams-Prassl, Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy (OUP 2018)
WHAT IF YOUR BOSS WAS AN ALGORITHM? The gig economy promises to revolutionise work as we know it, offering flexibility and independence instead of 9-to-5 drudgery. The potential benefits are enormous: consumers enjoy the convenience and affordability of on-demand work while micro-entrepreneurs turn to online platforms in search of their next gig, task, or ride. IS THIS THE FUTURE OF WORK? This book offers an engaging account of work in the gig economy across the world. Competing narratives abound: on-demand gigs offer entrepreneurial flexibility - or precarious work, strictly controlled by user ratings and algorithmic surveillance. Platforms' sophisticated technology is the product of disruptive innovation - whilst the underlying business model has existed for centuries. HOW CAN WE PROTECT CONSUMERS & WORKERS WITHOUT STIFLING INNOVATION? As courts and governments around the world begin to grapple with the gig economy, Humans as a Service explores the challenges of on-demand work, and explains how we can ensure decent working conditions, protect consumers, and foster innovation. Employment law plays a central role in levelling the playing field: gigs, tasks, and rides are work â and should be regulated as such.
A Lamine and J Adams-Prassl, 'Collective Autonomy for On-Demand Workers? Normative Arguments, Current Practices and Legal Ways Forward' (2018) 99 Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations 269
J Adams-Prassl, 'The Gig Economy before the Court of Justice: from digital service provision to work intermediation' in O Deinert, J Heuschmid, M Kittner, M Schmidt (ed), Demokratisierung der Wirtschaft durch Arbeitsrecht: Festschrift Thomas Klebe (Bund Verlag 2018)
J Adams-Prassl and M Risak, 'Working in the Gig Economy – Flexibility Without Security?' in R Singer and T Bazzani (eds), European Employment Policies: Current Challenges (Berliner Juristische Universitätsschriften – Zivilrecht Band 76 2018)
A Adams and J Adams-Prassl, Zero-Hours Work in the United Kingdom ((2018) ILO Conditions of Work and Employment Series 101 2018)
In this report, we provide a detailed study of zero-hours work in the United Kingdom. An initial section defines zero-hours work, emphasising key characteristics as well as overlaps between zero-hours work and other casual work arrangements, and draws parallels both with historic instances of on-demand work and current experiences of ‘if and when’ contracts in the Republic of Ireland. Section two presents the most recent available data on the prevalence and key characteristics of zero- hours workers and employers, explaining the evolution of such work arrangements as well as the technical issues which make measuring the phenomenon through official labour market statistics particularly difficult. Section three complements the empirical evidence with an analysis of the effects of zero-hours work for workers, employers, and society more broadly. Our focus is not limited to the legal situation of those working under such arrangements, but also includes questions of social security entitlements, and wider implications such as business flexibility, cost savings, and productivity growth. As the fourth section explains, a growing awareness of the growth of zero-hours contracts from 2011 onwards brought about a marked increase in public discussion of the phenomenon, leading eventually to (limited) legislative intervention. We explore the positions taken by the social partners, before analysing historical as well as recent legislative responses, and setting out a case study of Parliament’s response to a particularly egregious instance of labour standards violations in warehouses operated by the sports equipment chain Sports Direct. A brief concluding section, finally, turns to a series of policy recommendations and broader considerations, with a view to finding a model in which (some of) the flexibility of zero-hours work arrangements might be preserved, without however continuing to pose a real threat to decent working conditions in the United Kingdom’s labour market.
J Adams-Prassl, 'Are Uber, Mechanical Turk, and other ‘Crowdwork’ Platforms Employers? ' (2017) OxBLB
E Brameshuber and J Adams-Prassl, 'Die “europäische Säule sozialer Rechte"' in P Aschauer and E Brameshuber (eds), Jahrbuch Sozialversicherungsrecht (NWV Verlag 2017)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Reconsidering the Notion of “Employer” in the Era of the Fissured Workplace in the UK: Should Labour Law Responsibilities Exceed the Boundaries of the Legal Entity?' (2017) 95 Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations 81
Also published in H Nakakubo and T Araki (eds), Reconsidering the Notion of “Employer” in the Era of Fissured Workplace: Should Labour Law Responsibilities Exceed the Boundary of the Legal Entity? (JILPT Report No. 15/2016) 73-94.
J Adams-Prassl, 'The Abuse of Rights as a General Principle of EU Law' in A Hartkamp, C Sieburgh, and W Devroe (eds), Cases, Materials and Text on European Law and Private Law (Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe) (Hart | Bloomsbury 2017)
B Jones and J Adams-Prassl, 'The Concept of the Employee: The Position in the United Kingdom' in B Waas and G Heerma van Vosss (eds), Restatement of Labour Law in Europe: Volume I (Hart | Bloomsbury 2017)
J Adams-Prassl and M Risak, 'The Legal Protection of Crowdworkers: Four Avenues for Workers' Rights in the Virtual Realm' in P Meil and V Kirov (eds), Policy Implications of Virtual Work (Palgrave MacMillan 2017)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Uber devant les tribunaux' (2017) 6 Revue de Droit du Travail 439 [Case Note]
J Adams-Prassl, 'Uber: the Future of Work… Or Just Another Taxi Company' (2017) OxBLB
A Adams and J Adams-Prassl, 'Vexatious Claims? Challenging the Case for Employment Tribunal Fees' (2017) 80 Modern Law Review 412
Discussed in R (UNISON) v Lord Chancellor, UKSC 2015/233: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2015-0233.html
Coverage in The Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21719825-charging-employees-bring-employment-tribunalseven-if-they-winerodes-their-legal
Since July 2013, recourse to Employment Tribunals in the United Kingdom has attracted fees of up to £1,200 for single claimants. The impact of this reform has been dramatic: within a year, claims dropped by nearly 80 per cent. This paper suggests that this fee regime is in clear violation of domestic and international norms, including Article 6(1) ECHR and the EU principle of effective judicial protection. Drawing on rational choice theory and empirical evidence, we argue that the resulting payoff structures, negative for the majority of successful claimants, strike at the very essence of these rights. The measures are, furthermore, disproportionate in light of the Government’s stated policy aims: fees have failed to transfer cost away from taxpayers, have failed to encourage early dispute resolution, and have failed to deter vexatious litigants. The only vexatious claims, we find, appear to be those which motivated the reforms in the first place.
J Adams-Prassl, 'Who is a Worker?' (2017) 133 Law Quarterly Review 366 [Case Note]
Discusses worker status in a series of recent cases (Secretary of State for Justice v Windle [2016] EWCA Civ 459; [2016] I.C.R. 721 and Pimlico Plumbers Ltd v Smith [2017] EWCA Civ 51; [2017] I.R.L.R. 323 at the appellate level, as well as Aslam v Uber [2017] I.R.L.R. 4, and Dewhurst v Citysprint UK Ltd (2202512/2016) unreported 5 January 2017 ET).
M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl, ''Chapter 40: Employment' in H Beale (ed), Chitty on Contracts – 32nd edition, 1st Supplement (Sweet & Maxwell 2016)
J Adams-Prassl, 'A Fork in the Road for Freedom of Contract in EU Law: Joint Cases C-680/15 and C-681/15 Asklepios' in BJ Mulder, MJ Hotvedt, M Nesvik, and TL Sundet (eds), Sui Generis: Festskrift til Stein Evju (Universitestforlaget 2016)
J Adams-Prassl and E Albin, 'Employees, Employers, and Beyond: Identifying the Parties to the Contract of Employment' in M Freedland et al (ed), The Contract of Employment (OUP 2016)
M Bobek and J Adams-Prassl (eds), EU Law in the Member States: Air Passenger Rights, Ten Years On (Hart | Bloomsbury 2016)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Exceptionally Unexceptional: C-257/14 Corina van der Lans v Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV and the end of Regulation 261/2004’s Exceptional Circumstances Defence' (2016) 5 Journal of European Consumer and Market Law 136 [Case Note]
J Adams-Prassl, 'Flexible Arbeitsverpflichtung, Legitimierte Ausbeutung? Der ‘Zero-Hours Contract’ im Englischen Recht' in T Tomandl and M Risak (eds), Wie bewältigt das Recht Moderne Formen der Arbeit? (new academic press, Vienna 2016)
E Albin and J Adams-Prassl, 'Fragmenting Work, Fragmented Regulation: The Contract of Employment as a Driver of Social Exclusion' in M Freedland et al (ed), The Contract of Employment (OUP 2016)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Future Directions in EU Labour Law (Guest Editorial)' (2016) 7 European Labour Law Journal 323
Special volume to present results of my British Academy 'Future Directions in EU Labour Law' project
J Adams-Prassl, 'Intellectual Property and the Contract of Employment' in M Freedland et al (ed), The Contract of Employment (OUP 2016)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Migrants, citizens, aliens? Free movement rights for the economically inactive after Brey and Dano' (2016) 16 Rivista del Diritto della Sicurezza Sociale 311
N Countouris, S Deakin, M Freedland A Koukiadaki and J Adams-Prassl, Report on Collective Dismissals: A Comparative and Contextual Analysis of the Law on Collective Redundancies in 13 European Countries (International Labour Organisation 2016)
N Countouris, S Deakin, M Freedland A Koukiadaki and J Adams-Prassl, Report on Temporary Employment Agencies and Temporary Agency Work: A Comparative Analysis of the Law on Temporary Work Agencies and the Social and Economic Implications of Temporary Work in 13 European Countries (International Labour Organisation 2016)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Tackling Diversity Through Uniformity? Revisiting the Reform of Regulation 261/2004' in M Bobek and J Prassl (eds), EU Law in the Member States: Air Passenger Rights, Ten Years on (Hart 2016)
M Freedland (General Editor), A Bogg, D Cabrelli, H Collins, N Countouris, A Davies, S Deakin and J Adams-Prassl (eds), The Contract of Employment (OUP 2016)
J Adams-Prassl, 'The European Convention on Human Rights and the Employment Relation, edited by Filip Dorssemont, Klaus Lörcher, and Isabelle Schömann' (2016) 41 ELRev 301 [Review]
J Adams-Prassl, 'The Interaction of EU Law and National Law: Between Myth and Reality' in A Bogg, C Costello, and A Davies (eds), Research Handbook on EU Labour Law (Edward Elgar 2016)
B Jones and J Adams-Prassl, 'The United Kingdom' in M Ebisui, S Cooney and C Fenwick (eds), Resolving Individual Labour Disputes: A Comparative Overview (International Labour Organisation 2016)
J Adams-Prassl and M Risak, 'Uber, TaskRabbit, and Co.: Platforms as Employers? Rethinking the Legal Analysis of Crowdwork' (2016) 37 Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 619
One of the key assumptions underpinning the rise of ‘crowdsourced work’ – from transport apps including Uber to online platforms such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk – is the assertion put forward by most platforms that crowdworkers are self-employed, independent contractors. As a result, individuals might find themselves without recourse to worker-protective norms, from minimum wage and working time law to health and safety regulations and unfair dismissal protection. But is this account accurate? In this paper, we hope to challenge prevailing assumptions, arguing that in certain scenarios crowdworkers can, and should, be classified as workers within the scope of domestic employment law. The approach proposed, however, is an initially counterintuitive one: we advocate the adoption of a functional concept of the employer as a regulatory solution to crowdwork employment, with platforms, crowdworkers, and service users each shouldering their appropriate share of employer responsibilities.
J Adams-Prassl and M Bobek, 'Welcome Aboard: Revisiting Regulation 261/2004' in M Bobek and J Prassl (eds), EU Law in the Member States: Air Passenger Rights, Ten Years on (Hart 2016)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Work in the Gig Economy: TaskRabbit, Uber &Co as Employers?' (2016) OxCLC Blog
R Hunter and J Adams-Prassl, 'Worker Status for App-Drivers: Uber-rated?' (2016) OxHRH blog
M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl, 'Zero Hours, Zero Solutions' (2016) OxHRH blog
J Adams-Prassl, '영국의 군중 노동자의 사회 경제적 상황과 법적 지위 (The Socioeconomic Situation and Legal Status of Crowdworkers in the UK)' (2016) 국제 노동 개요 (International Labor Brief) 19
J Adams-Prassl, '제9장 크라우드워크에서 고용주는 누구인가: 오래된 문제, 새로운 관점 (Who are employers in crowd work: old issues, new perspectives)' in HD Soon, P Chanim, PJ Sung et al (ed), 고용관계 변화와 사회복지 패러다임 연구 (Employment Relations Change and Social Welfare Paradigm) (Korea Labor Insitute 2016)
J Adams-Prassl, The Concept of the Employer (OUP 2015)
Reviewed: D Cabrelli (2016) 79 MLR 364; B Jones (2016) 132 LQR 167; J Fudge (2016) 45 ILJ 270; M Risak (2016) 3 Zeitschrif für Arbeits- und Sozialrecht 199; DM Cairós Barreto (2015) 10 Revista Trabajo y Derecho 134; L Ratti (2016) 148 Giornale di Diritto del Lavoro e di Relazioni Industriali 581; C Fenwick (2016) 155 International Labour Review 164; E McGaughey (2017) 37 OJLS 482.
Reprinted with corrections (2015); Paperback (2016)
Employment law struggles to adapt to complex modern work arrangements, from agency work and service companies to corporate groups and Private Equity investors. This book argues that the cause of this failure can be found in our concept of the employer, which has become riddled with internal contradictions: English law searches for the unitary counterparty to a bilateral contract of employment by reference to a series of multi-functional tests. As a result of this tension, full employment law coverage is restricted to the narrow scenario where a single legal entity exercises all employer functions⎯a paradigm far from the fragmented reality of modern labour markets.
These problems can only be addressed by a careful reconceptualization leading to the development of a functional concept of the employer. The book draws on existing models in English and European law to develop a definition of the employer as the entity, or combination of entities, exercising functions regulated in a particular domain of employment law. Each strand of the received concept of the employer is examined in turn to demonstrate how this more openly multifunctional approach can successfully overcome the rigidities of the current notion without abandoning a coherent underlying framework. The book fills a crucial gap in employment law and corporate law by exposing the defects in our current understanding of the employer and by developing a new functional concept appropriate for both traditional and emerging work arrangements.
M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl, 'Chapter 40: Employment' in H Beale (ed), Chitty on Contracts (Sweet & Maxwell 2015)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Autonomous Concepts in Labour Law? The Complexities of the Employing Enterprise Revisited' in A Bogg, C Costello, ACL Davies, and J Prassl (eds), The Autonomy of Labour Law (Hart|Bloomsbury 2015)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Business Freedoms and Employment Rights in the European Union' (2015) 17 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 189
DOI: 10.1017/cel.2015.9
In this article, I explore the substance and operation of Article 16 of the European Unions Charter of Fundamental Rights, which recognises the freedom to conduct a business, in order to determine the extent to which the constitutionalisation of commer- cial interests as fundamental rights could pose a threat to the Unions worker-protective acquis. Having surveyed three important Directives which regulate employees rights in transfers of undertakings, collective redundancies, and the organisation of working time, I argue that future challenges based on Article 16 CFR are unlikely to succeed: even in situations where the Directives limit employers economic freedoms, such interfer- ence is justified and proportionate.
J Adams-Prassl, 'Employee Shareholder Status: Dismantling the Contract of Employment' in S Willborn and AC Neal (eds), Yearbook of Comparative Labour Law Scholarship 2014 (Lancaster House 2015)
Reprint of J Prassl (2013) 42 ILJ 307
J Adams-Prassl, 'European Employment Law at the Crossroads' (2015) British Academy Blog
A Bogg, C Costello, A Davies and J Adams-Prassl, 'Introduction: Exploring Autonomy' in A Bogg, C Costello, ACL Davies, and J Prassl (eds), The Autonomy of Labour Law (Hart | Bloomsbury 2015)
A Adams and J Adams-Prassl, 'Labour Legislation and Evidence-Based Public Policy: A Case Study' in A Blackham and A Ludlow (eds), New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research (Hart | Bloomsbury 2015)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Les seuils sociaux en Europe: Royaume-Uni' (2015) Revue de Droit du Travail 215
J Adams-Prassl, 'Liberalisation, Information, and Transparency: Three Tales of Consumer Protection in EU Aviation Law' (2015) 11 European Review of Contract Law 281 [Case Note]
J Adams-Prassl, 'Resocialising Europe in a Time of Crisis (Countouris & Freedland); Voices at Work (Bogg & Novitz)' (2015) 131 LQR 328 [Review]
A Adams, M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl, 'The 'Zero-Hours Contract': Regulating Casual Work, or Legitimating Precarity?' (2015) Giornale di Diritto del Lavoro e di Relazioni Industriali 529
A Bogg, C Costello, A Davies and J Adams-Prassl (eds), The Autonomy of Labour Law (Hart | Bloomsbury 2015)
Reviewed: B Mak (2015) 44 ILJ 289; R Dukes (2015) CLL&PJ 223; A Morton (2016) 54 BJIR 451;
To what extent is labour law an autonomous field of study? This book is based upon the papers written by a group of leading international scholars on this theme, delivered at a conference to mark Professor Mark Freedland's retirement from his teaching fellowship in Oxford. The chapters explore the boundaries and connections between labour law and other legal disciplines such as company law, competition law, contract law and public law; labour law and legal methodologies such as reflexive governance and comparative law and labour law and other disciplines such as ethics, economics and political philosophy. In so doing, it represents a cross-section of the most sophisticated current work at the cutting edge of labour law theory.
J Adams-Prassl, 'The Employment Impact of Private Equity Investors: A Return of the Barbarians?' (2015) 44 ILJ 150 [Review]
J Adams-Prassl, 'The Lisbon Treaty and Social Europe, edited by Niklas Bruun, Klaus Lörcher and Isabelle Schömann. (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012)' (2015) 52 CMLRev 310 [Review]
A Adams, M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl, The Zero-Hours Contract: Regulating Casual Work, or Legitimating Precarity? (Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper 00/2015 | ELLN Research Paper 05/2015 2015)
Zero-Hours Contracts have become one of the most high-profile employment law issues of recent years. In this article, we analyse the legal and empirical evidence of work under Zero-Hours arrangements and suggest that whilst a legal engagement with Zero-Hours Contracts as an unresolved labour market problem is long overdue, the current discourse surrounding these work arrangements is fundamentally flawed: there is no such thing as the Zero-Hours Contract as a singular category; the label serves as no more than a convenient shorthand for masking the explosive growth of precarious work for a highly fragmented workforce. Ongoing attempts at regulating Zero-Hours Contracts thus constitute a significant shift towards the normalisation of all but the most extreme forms of abusive employment arrangements, leaving a rapidly increasing number of workers without recourse to employment protective norms. In concluding, we indicate ways towards a more coherent approach to the de-normalisation and progressive regulation of this large and growing set of casual work arrangements. Also published as ELLN Research Paper 05/2015 at http://www.labourlawnetwork.eu/frontend/file.php?id=769&dl=1 (ISSN 2197-1102)
A Adams, M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl, 'The “Zero-Hours Contract”: Regulating Casual Work, or Legitimating Precarity?' (2015) 147 Giornale di Diritto del Lavoro e di Relazioni Industriali 529
Zero-Hours Contracts have become one of the most high-profile employment law issues of recent years. In this article, we analyse the legal and empirical evidence of work under Zero-Hours arrangements and suggest that whilst a legal engagement with Zero-Hours Contracts as an unresolved labour market problem is long overdue, the current discourse surrounding these work arrangements is fundamentally flawed: there is no such thing as the Zero-Hours Contract as a singular category; the label serves as no more than a convenient shorthand for masking the explosive growth of precarious work for a highly fragmented workforce. Ongoing attempts at regulating Zero-Hours Contracts thus constitute a significant shift towards the normalisation of all but the most extreme forms of abusive employment arrangements, leaving a rapidly increasing number of workers without recourse to employment protective norms. In concluding, we indicate ways towards a more coherent approach to the de-normalisation and progressive regulation of this large and growing set of casual work arrangements.
J Adams-Prassl and B Jones, 'Verpflichtende Außergerichtliche Vermittlungsverfahren im Englischen Arbeitsrecht: ein erster Erfahrungsbericht' (2015) 28 Zeitschrift für Konflikt-Management 36
J Adams-Prassl, 'Work in the Gig Economy: TaskRabbit, Uber &Co as Employers?' (2015) OUP Blog
J Adams-Prassl and M Freedland, 'Zero-Hours Contracts: Zero Problem, or Zero Choice?' (2015) OxHRH
M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl (eds), EU Law in the Member States: Viking, Laval and Beyond (Hart 2014)
Reviewed: N Reich (2015) 52 CMLRev 1135; A Ludlow (2015) 74 CLJ 361; JS Bergé [2015] RTDEur xv; S Lachnit et al (2015) 5 SEW 266; C Unseld (2016) EULawBlog; R Zahn (2016) 41 ELRev 440; K Ewing (2016) 132 LQR 683.
EU Law in the Member States is a new series dedicated to exploring the impact of landmark CJEU judgments and secondary legislation in legal systems across the European Union. Each book will be written by a team of generalist EU lawyers and experts in the relevant field, bringing together perspectives from a wide range of different Member States in order to compare and analyse the effect of EU law on domestic legal systems and practice.
The first volume focuses on the uneasy relationship between the economic freedoms enshrined in Articles 49 and 56 TFEU and the right of workers to take collective action. This conflict has been at the forefront of EU labour law since the CJEU's much-discussed decisions in C-438/05 Viking and C-341/04 Laval, as well as the Commission's more recent attempts at legislative reforms in the failed Monti II Regulation. Viking, Laval and Beyond explores judicial and legislative responses to these measures in 10 Member States, and finds that the impact on domestic legal systems has been much more varied than traditional accounts of EU law would suggest.
J Adams-Prassl, '"All in it Together?" Labour Markets in Crisis' (2014) 1 Hungarian Labour Law E-Journal 23
J Adams-Prassl, '"Mindannyiunkat egyformán érint? Az Egyesült Királyság koalíciós kormányának munkaerő-piaci reformjai' (2014) 1 Magyar Munkajog E-Folyóirat 26
J Adams-Prassl, 'Compensation for Delayed Rail Journeys: EU Passenger Rights on Track. Case C-509/11 ÖBB Personenverkehr AG' (2014) 4 Transportrecht 158 [Case Note]
J Adams-Prassl, 'Contingent Crises, Permanent Reforms: Rationalising Labour Market Reforms in the European Union' (2014) 5 ELLJ 211
J Adams-Prassl, 'EU Aviation Law before the English Courts: Dawson, Huzar, and Regulation 261/2004' (2014) 39 Air & Space Law 365
J Adams-Prassl and B Jones, 'Les tribunaux du travail au Royaume-Uni: une évolution très politique' (2014) Metis
J Adams-Prassl, 'Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi' in R Klugseder (ed), Cantare Amantis Est, Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Franz Karl Prassl (Hollinek 2014)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Lemploi multilatéral en droit anglais' (2014) 4 Revue de Droit du Travail 236
J Adams-Prassl, 'Members, Partners, Employees, Workers? Partnership Law and Employment Status revisited. Clyde & Co LLP v Bates van Winkelhof' (2014) 43 ILJ 495 [Case Note]
J Adams-Prassl, 'Montreal Convention Exclusivity and EU Passenger Rights: Exposing a Grave Injustice Stott v Thomas Cook' (2014) LQR 538 [Case Note]
J Adams-Prassl, 'Reforming Air Passenger Rights in Europe' (2014) 39 Air & Space Law 59
J Adams-Prassl, 'The United Kingdom' in B Waas (ed), The Right to Strike: A Comparative View (Kluwer 2014)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Three Dimensions of Heterogeneity: An Overview of Member State Experiences' in M Freedland and J Prassl (eds), EU Law in the Member States: Viking, Laval and Beyond (Hart 2014)
J Adams-Prassl and M Freedland, 'Viking, Laval and Beyond: An Introduction' in M Freedland and J Prassl (eds), EU Law in the Member States: Viking, Laval and Beyond (Hart 2014)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Die Suche nach dem Arbeitgeber im Englischen Recht' (2013) Europäische Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht 472
J Adams-Prassl, 'Employee Shareholder "Status"? Dismantling the Contract of Employment' (2013) 42 ILJ 307
J Adams-Prassl, 'Freedom of Contract as a General Principle of EU Law? Transfers of Undertakings and the Protection of Employer Rights in EU Labour Law (Case C-426/11 Alemo Herron v Parkwood Leisure)' (2013) 42 ILJ 434 [Case Note]
J Adams-Prassl, 'Implementing the New Employee-Shareholder Status' (2013) SJ 9
J Adams-Prassl, 'Montreal Exclusivity vs EU law Round II: Stott v Thomas Cook ' (2013) UK Supreme Court Blog [Case Note]
J Adams-Prassl, Reforming Air Passenger Rights in the European Union (EUtopia Law Blog 2013)
J Adams-Prassl, Regulating Sub-Contracting Through a Functional Definition of the Employer (NELP/AFL-CIO 2013)
J Adams-Prassl and M Freedland, 'Resolving Ownership Invention Disputes: Limitations of the Contract of Employment' in M Pittard (ed), Business Innovation A Legal Balancing Act (Elgar 2013)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Shares for Rights? The New Employee Shareholder Status in the United Kingdom' (2013) ELLN Working Paper No. 1
J Adams-Prassl, 'Sturgeon revisited - yet again (Case C-11/11 Air France v Folkerts)' (2013) EUtopia Law Blog [Case Note]
J Adams-Prassl, 'Tale of (Un?)Intended Consequences: Das Vereinigte Königreich in der Krise' (2013) 49 Gesellschaft & Politik 97
S Bright, H Glover and J Adams-Prassl, 'Tenancy Agreements' in E Simpson and M Stewart (eds), Sham Transactions (OUP 2013)
J Adams-Prassl, 'The European Union and The Montreal Convention: A New Analytical Framework' (2013) 12 Issues in Aviation Law and Policy 381
J Adams-Prassl, 'The Notion of the Employer' (2013) 129 LQR 380
J Adams-Prassl, 'Third Time Lucky? The Proposed Employee-Shareholder Status' (2013) SJ 19
J Adams-Prassl, 'Volcanic Ash and "super extraordinary circumstances" (Case C-12/11 McDonagh v Ryanair)' (2013) EUtopia Law Blog [Case Note]
J Adams-Prassl, 'A Kingdom No Longer United?' in B Karl et al (ed), Steirisches Jahrbuch für Politik (Schnider 2012)
J Adams-Prassl, N Countouris and M Freedland, Implementing Employee-Owner Status (IER 2012)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Industrial Action at British Airways: A Case Study' (2012) 11 Contemporary Issues in Law 113
J Adams-Prassl, 'Law, Corporate Governance and Partnerships at Work: A Study of Australian Regulatory Style and Business Practice' (2012) 41 ILJ 379 [Review]
J Adams-Prassl and B Havel, 'Reforming Civil Aviation Regulation in the United Kingdom: The Civil Aviation Bill 2011-12' (2012) 11 IALP 1 [Case Note]
J Adams-Prassl, 'Shared Baggage, Single Interpretation (Case C-410/11 Pedro Sanchez v Iberia)' (2012) EUtopia Law Blog [Case Note]
N Countouris, M Freedland and J Adams-Prassl, 'Social and Labour Law after the Financial Crisis: The UK' in S Laulom and E Mazuyer (eds), Le Droit Social des États Européens Après la Crise (Larcier 2012)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Interpreting Employment Protective Legislation: Gysda Cyf v Barrett' (2011) 40 ILJ 103 [Case Note]
J Adams-Prassl, 'To Strike, To Serve? British Airways v Unite the Union (Nos 1&2)' (2011) 40 ILJ 82 [Case Note]
J Adams-Prassl and B Gardner, 'Constitutional Resettlement and Popular Sovereignty: A Caribbean Experience' (2009) 4 Justicia - Tijdschrift voor Antilliaans Recht 259
J Adams-Prassl and B Gardner, Curaçao, the Netherlands Antilles and the Kingdom: A Look Through the Constitutional Prism (Van Eps Kunneman Van Doorne 2009)
J Adams-Prassl, 'Quistclose Trusts: In Search of Coherent Answers' (2007) 3 CSLR 51
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Home / MONEY / Contingency plans needed to prevent consumer harm from new pension freedoms
Contingency plans needed to prevent consumer harm from new pension freedoms
7 in 10 people with DC pots aged over 55 would prefer pension to deliver guaranteed income for life.
Half want a guaranteed income that is protected against inflation
Yet 3 in 5 people with DC pots of this age have yet to make a plan
And only half of those with DC pots say they understand what an annuity is
Just 1 in 5 say they understand what the term marginal tax rate is
1 in 10 aged over 55 wrongly believes that to limit their tax burden they should withdraw everything from their pot as one big lump sum.
New research published today by the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC-UK), finds that the majority of people approaching retirement want to use their pension pots to deliver a secure guaranteed income for life, with inflation protection being very important, but many may be too confused to know how to go about achieving this goal.
The new research, “Making the system fit for purpose” finds that consumers approaching retirement are ill-equipped for new pension freedoms. The research has been supported by a consortium of industry partners (EY, Just Retirement, Key Retirement, LV= and Partnership) and guided by pensions and retirement expert, Ros Altmann.
The research incorporates a representative survey of 5000 people aged 55-70 who are yet to retire or draw on their private pension wealth. The survey found:
Guaranteed income seen as “most important”
Nearly 70% of all those with DC pension savings favoured using their pot to deliver a guaranteed income, particularly an income protected against inflation, while just 7% said that paying for big ticket items such as holidays or a car was most important, and 5% said paying off debt was the priority.
Older consumers are risk averse
Three quarters of people (75%) across the entire survey agreed with the statement “I would prefer a secure guaranteed income over an income that might rise or fall depending on financial markets”.
When asked what proportion of their pension fund they could afford to lose, the most common answer amongst those with DC pots was none (35%). Just 7% thought they could afford to lose 20% of their fund or more.
While consumers want income security many are confused about options
Only half those with a DC pension said they understood what an annuity is quite or very well.
Only 20% of those with DC pots understood what an enhanced annuity was.
And just 35% said they understood what income drawdown was.
This compares to 9 out of 10 people who said they understood what a mortgage is.
Women were consistently less financially aware than men on all measures and are therefore most at risk of confusion from the new pension freedoms
Compounding the problem of confusion, many are yet to make a plan
Across the entire survey just 4 in 10 had made a plan. Those closer to retirement were more likely to have made a plan but even amongst those who were less than 1 year from retirement, more than 4 in 10 had still not made one.
It is a similar story for those with DC pots, with 4 in 10 of those who are less than 1 year from retirement having not yet made a plan.
Lack of understanding could lead to artificially high tax burden
Only 1 in 5 people with a DC pot said they understood what marginal tax rate was.
When pressed on how to reduce their tax burden when withdrawing money from the pension pot, only half gave the correct answer that you should withdraw it in small amounts over a number of years. 1 in 10 wrongly thought that the best thing would be to withdraw as one big lump sum.
Commenting on the results, ILC-UK Chief Executive, Baroness Sally Greengross said:
“These results underscore the significant challenges that lie ahead. By April 2015, we will need a fully functioning Guidance Guarantee which supports the high proportion of pension savers who have low levels of financial capability and who are confused about what to do in the face of these new freedoms.
“But Guidance alone will not be enough. An advice market that works for the many and not just the few is also needed – including mass market advice that meets the needs of those with limited to moderate net wealth. And critically, there is an urgent need to determine how we support those who fail to take Guidance or for those who take Guidance but are still liable to making poor decisions”.
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The successful conclusion of the SFO's first DPA
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The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced at the end of last week that its first deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) has been successfully concluded. The DPA, first agreed in November 2015, imposed a financial penalty of US$25.2m on Standard Bank for failure to prevent bribery, in contravention of section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010, as well as a compensatory payment of $6m to the Government of Tanzania.
Interestingly, this was also the first use of section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010 by any prosecutor. This brings together some interesting themes that I have been commenting on recently - we have seen senior figures at the SFO give guidance in speeches on how companies can increase their chances of agreeing DPAs and calls for an expansion of the "failure to prevent" offence to cover other areas of financial crime.
The SFO will undoubtedly view this as a victory and Lisa Osofsky (the director of the SFO) has previously made clear that DPAs will be key part of the SFO's strategy in the future. Making last week's announcement, Osofsky said:
"I welcome this successful conclusion of the UK’s first Deferred Prosecution Agreement. DPAs are… an important tool in changing corporate culture for the better".
However, this is also a success story for Standard Bank, who have met the six conditions agreed in their DPA and protected themselves from further criminal prosecution. We shall watch with interest to see if this emboldens the SFO to pursue more DPAs in the future and encourages companies to more pro-actively seek them when the opportunity arises.
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The Third To Die
Brennan, Allison
Brennan is well known for her psychological thrillers and this is another great addition that will be enjoyed by mystery and psychological thriller readers. [See Prepub Alert, 7/29/19.]
Crooked River
Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child
Preston and Child’s latest could be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel. Recommended for mystery readers who enjoy bizarre twists.
Dead to Her
Pinborough, Sarah
A mix of steamy sex, lies, secrets, betrayals, murder, and a dash of voodoo, Pinborough’s latest novel (after Cross Her Heart) will keep readers guessing until the very last chapter. A twisty thriller for fans of Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies, Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, and Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train. [See Prepub Alert, 7/29/19.]
Felicity Carrol and the Murderous Menace
Marcantonio, Patricia
Because of the change in setting, most of the characters from the previous book do not appear. Felicity retains her feisty spirit and wit and once again has to battle for acceptance and credibility in a male-dominated society. Readers will look forward to her next adventure.
The Aosawa Murders
Onda, Riku
A chilling and skillfully crafted mystery about the spellbinding spaces between evidence, facts, intuition, and the will of a killer.
The Other Mrs
Kubica (Every Last Lie) writes a mesmerizing tale with an unreliable narrator that draws attention to a less-understood mental health condition, but the story is wrapped up a bit too neatly. What is satisfying and most effective is the oppressive sense of unease that permeates this intense psychological suspense drama. For fans of A.J. Finn and Gillian Flynn.[See Prepub Alert, 7/29/19.]
This thriller is not only topical but beautifully driven by the intricacies of personal agendas, both obvious and hidden. Easily read as a stand-alone as well as part of the series, this is sure to captivate a new audience and bring them to the Joseph Finder backlist. [See Prepub Alert, 7/8/19.]
The Girls with No Names
Burdick, Serena
A well-plotted story with an excellent sense of time and place. Readers looking for historical fiction with emotional depth will enjoy. [See Prepub Alert, 7/15/19.]
Heart of Junk
Geddes, Luke
Readers hoping for a Carl Hiaasen–esque view of the antiquing world will be disappointed. The characters are drawn with too heavy a hand; most of them are borderline hoarders who are more interested in their stuff than they are in forming or maintaining basic human connections.
Dufault, Olivier
As a Western, there are a few notable missteps here: errors about horse coat coloring, a much-too-long description of cooking gnocchi, and not enough time devoted to actual cow punching or horse breaking. This is best for readers interested in a visceral take on a cowboy reinventing himself.
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A Beautiful Crime
Bollen, Christopher
Bollen links each of the two narratives in significant ways to the criminal adventure to offer skillfully wrought crime fiction plumbing LGBTQ romance and the meaning of love.
Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson
The dynamics of a brutal past encompassing violence and racial inequality is core here, but the narrative is significant for acknowledging that elements of that past are not completely past and for portraying two fearless women separated by time but both dealing with white women’s racism. Recommended for all collections.
The Wonderful
Sarginson’s (The Stranger) darkly atmospheric style evokes the mystery and tension at the heart of the Cold War, appealing to enthusiasts of Richard Condon’s The Manchurian Candidate and other Cold War–era thrillers.
Skunk Train
Clifford, Joe
Clifford (“Jay Porter” series) delivers a fast-paced, readable thriller. Readers of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders will enjoy this coming-of-age story; fans of Daniel Woodrell will appreciate its focus on family ties; and admirers of Richard Lange will delight in the California setting.
A must-read for fans of this prolific author, Michael Connelly, and John Sandford. Some pivotal series developments occur, but otherwise this reads well as a stand-alone. [See Prepub Alert, 7/8/19.]
Elgar, Emily
This character-driven book will appeal especially to those who enjoy thrillers featuring people who are not what they seem to be, and readers who appreciate flawed but sympathetic characters. [See Prepub Alert, 7/8/19.]
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Washburn, Kawai Strong
A more than noteworthy first foray into contemporary fiction by Hawaiian native Washburn. [See Prepub Alert, 9/9/19.]
Rader-Day, Lori
The award-winning author of Under a Dark Sky puts a new spin on unreliable narrators in a suspense novel with protagonists struggling to find answers. Fans of Rader-Day’s other compelling stand-alones will savor this riveting mystery. [See Prepub Alert, 7/29/19.]
Murder at the Opera
Quincy, D.M
This third “Atlas Catesby” mystery (following Murder in Bloomsbury) ties up several story lines. Fans of the series will welcome the latest developments, while readers of novels set in Regency England will relish the atmosphere of the period and well-developed characters.
Love's Secrets | Romance Reviews, Dec. 2019
LJ Reviews, Jan 08, 2020
Clayborn delivers an emotionally resonant love story filled with charming details of city life; Ferguson’s debut is a touch disjointed but ultimately a heartening read
Horror Author Darcy Coates Arrives Stateside
Becky Spratford, Jan 08, 2020
Hailing from Australia, Darcy Coates is the author of a number of USA Today best-selling horror ebooks, but her work has not been easily accessible to libraries—until now.
Oh, the Horrors! Read On...If You Dare
LJ’s inaugural horror column kicks off with truly terrifying tales from Scott Carson, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, Mark Matthews & Co., Richard Marsh, K.J. Parker, and Danielle Trussoni.
Barbara’s Picks (Slaughter, Tremblay, & Fiction Debuters DeWitt & Waite), plus More Big Names, Up-and-Comers, Supernatural & Sociopolitical Thrills, & Suspense Too Close for Comfort: Thriller Previews, Jul. 2020, Pt. 1 | Prepub Alert
Jasper Dewitt’s debut about a terrifying mental patient was an optioned film idea before it became a book, Karin Slaughter brings back Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent, Paul Tremblay gives us chills driven by a rabies-like epidemic, and Jen Waite's first thriller follows up her memoir of a manipulative husband. Note that supernatural thrills are becoming a standard on Prepub lists.
Police Procedurals, Private Investigators, & Dogs |Mystery Previews, Jul. 2020, Pt. 1 | Prepub Alert
In July, police officers and private investigators from ancient Rome to the Amish community to Spain’s Basque region swing into action, but mystery really goes to the dogs with Spencer Quinn’s Of Mutts and Men and David Rosenfelt’s Muzzled.
Murder at the Mena House
Neubauer, Erica Ruth
Stunning revelations, romance, adventure, and intrigue abound in this multilayered, delightfully entertaining whodunit. Neubauer’s debut dazzles, with a smart plot, remarkable scenery, and skilled execution.
Revolver Road
Daugherty, Christi
Daugherty has created a complex, likable heroine whom readers will root for, fully fleshed-out secondary characters, and a compelling plot. Fans of fictional newshounds created by Laura Lippman, Hank Phillippi Ryan, and Edna Buchanan will enjoy this series. [See Prepub Alert, 8/19/19.]
Murder at the Capitol
Gleason, C.M
Gleason follows Murder in the Oval Library with a riveting historical mystery set on the eve of the first major battle of the Civil War. Fans of descriptive historical mysteries will appreciate the mix of real people and intriguing fictional characters.
Please See Us
Mullen, Caitlin
Written in multiple first-person accounts, including the voices of several murdered women, this is a dark, gritty, and cathartic debut with well-developed characters and a compelling plot that will appeal to fans of Attica Locke, Lou Berney, and Jennifer Hillier. [See Prepub Alert, 8/25/19.]
The Holdout
The twists are sharp and the flashbacks that uncover what each juror knows are placed for maximum impact in this rollicking legal thriller. In this departure from his carefully plotted historical fiction, Moore (The Last Days of Night) expertly combines deft character work with mounting bombshell revelations in a story that will attract new readers and also seems primed for the big screen. [See Prepub Alert, 7/8/19.]
Jones, Tanen
Debut author Jones has created a taut psychological suspense with surprising developments and a shocking, jaw-dropping ending. Sure to be popular with fans of Ruth Ware and Gillian Flynn.
The Rabbit Hunter
Kepler, Lars
With a captivating detective, a hideous serial killer, and nonstop suspense, this confirms Kepler as a master of disturbing psychological crime novels, showing the darker side of humanity. [See Prepub Alert, 7/8/19.]
Careless Whiskers
James, Miranda
Fans of the series will welcome the return of all the quirky characters, from Charlie and his Maine coon cat, Diesel, to the Ducote sisters. However, readers who enjoy the theater can quickly catch up with this latest book that brings together the playwright, cast, and behind-the-scenes action. Charlie provides some laugh-aloud moments in this follow-up to The Pawful Truth.
Bound for Murder
Gilbert, Victoria
As with Cleo Coyle’s “Coffeehouse” mysteries, Gilbert’s library mysteries (Past Due for Murder) are darker than many cozies. The well-developed characters and complex issues will appeal to fans of Jenn McKinlay and Miranda James.
Rice, Luanne
Strong love overcomes pain in this latest from Rice (Pretend She’s Here), which combines suspense with stories of surviovors, sisterhood, best friends, and small communities shaken by violence or death.
Skelton, Douglas
Imbued with the stark beauty of Scottish island life, this atmospheric mystery pulls us into an exploration of human frailty, family loyalty, and the destructive power of secrets. For readers of Denise Mina or anyone seeking a relatable protagonist and a well-told story.
Eight Perfect Murders
The wintry New England setting and eerily cool narration, together with trust-no-one twists and garish murders, will satisfy thriller readers; fans of classic mysteries by Agatha Christie, Ira Levin, and John D. MacDonald will enjoy how Swanson (Before She Knew Him) repurposes the plots. While you may not warm to Malcolm, you’ll stay to the finish of this one. [See Prepub Alert, 8/25/19.]
Spindler keeps the pages turning with a taut plot and multiple suspects who appear suspicious right up to the end. Highly recommended for fans of romantic suspense authors Nora Roberts and Linda Howard. [See Prepub Alert, 7/8/19.]
Steadman, Catherine
Steadman (Something in the Water) strikes an engaging balance between character development and action in this satisfying, intricately plotted thriller that will appeal to fans of Sarah Pinborough and Ruth Ware. [See Prepub Alert, 7/8/19.]
The Burglar in Short Order
Enthusiasts of the “Burglar” series will delight in revisiting Bernie’s beginnings, his bookshop, and his introduction to Raffles. Readers new to the series will enjoy this introduction to a charming character.
Trouble in Mind
Wiley, Michael
Wiley follows the success of Monument Road with a violent mystery that introduces a singular character guided by his sometimes twisted thoughts. Readers of L.L. Bartlett’s “Jeff Resnick” mysteries may be intrigued by another sleuth who learns to cope with his brain injury.
Lourey, Jess
The atmospheric suspense novel is haunting because it’s narrated from the point of view of a 13 year old, an age that should be more innocent but often isn’t. Even more chilling, it’s based on real-life incidents. Lourey may be known for comic capers (March of Crime), but this tense novel combines the best of a coming-of-age story with suspense, and an unforgettable young narrator.
Engaged to the Earl
Berne, Lisa
Although Berne’s (The Bride Takes a Groom) dialog for female characters is often melodramatic and may not appeal to every reader, followers of the series will enjoy seeing a prodigal son returning home to find his match.
Simmons, Pat
Fans of Simmons’s books (“Love at the Crossroads” series) will probably want to pick up this first in a new series; others may wish to pass.
An Everyday Hero
Trentham, Laura
Though part of the “Heart of a Hero” series (following The Military Wife), Trentham’s romance with themes of family, music, and military can stand alone. Recommended for purchase where contemporary romance is popular.
Calling on Quinn
Saffire, Blue
Fans of romances featuring possessive alpha heroes may be the right audience for this one.
Wicked Cowboy Wolf
Ballenger, Kait
Series fans will enjoy Ballenger’s latest, as the heat between Maeve and Rogue smolders on the page. New readers, however, should start at the beginning of the series with Cowboy Wolf Trouble.
Forbidden Promises
Williams, Synithia
Politics, passion, and family drama combine to make a deliciously soapy second-chance, brother’s-best-friend romance. Readers of Alisha Rai’s “Forbidden Hearts” series or Reese Ryan’s Engaging the Enemy will be tantalized and surprised by the many twists and turns.
Krentz, Jayne Ann
With romance, mystery, intrigue, and a host of paranormal elements, Krentz’s (When All the Girls Have Gone) latest will hook fans across genres. The gratifying denouement leaves room for series potential as well.
Ignite on Contact
Burton, Jaci
Despite overly descriptive passages that slow down the pacing, Burton (Hot to the Touch) delivers a steamy story with two relationship-shy neighbors whose stubbornness fans their passions. For fans of Erin McCarthy and Bella Andre.
To Have and To Hoax
Waters, Martha
Debuter Waters is off to a promising start with a rare historical romantic comedy that is sure to delight fans of either genre. [Previewed in Eve Stano’s Romance Preview, “Love for All,” LJ 10/19.]
Never Kiss a Duke
Frampton, Megan
An unmoored former duke trying to find his footing and navigate a new life and an independent woman confident in the world she’s built from the ground up are surrounded by an engaging cast of secondary characters in this excellent start to a bold and sensual new Regency series from the beloved Frampton (Never a Bride).
You Deserve Each Other
Hogle, Sarah
While many have compared this to Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game, die-hard fans of that work will be disappointed by the lack of passion here. Those seeking a hate-to-love romance, however, should enjoy, as will admirers of Christina Lauren’s Dating You Hating You.
The Eighth Life
Haratischvili, Nino
If it’s a family saga you’re seeking, look no further than this grand tale, ably translated by Collins and Martin. The author gracefully interweaves the historical backdrop of her novel with the lives of her characters, thus adding depth to her story. Heartily recommended.
Sisters by Choice
Mallery, Susan
If readers don’t mind the toxic relationships and heated arguments that dominate the story, there is still the happy ending to look forward to, and three endearing main characters to root for. [See Prepub Alert, 8/12/19.]
Adkins, Mary
Adkins takes on a complex subject just as it intersects with real events in our society. This thoughtful and engrossing novel will likely encourage genuine, heartfelt dialog among readers. Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, 9/16/19.]
The Convert
Hertmans, Stefan
Utterly spellbinding and brilliantly translated, this prize-worthy journey through time will pull readers in and won’t let go until the very last page. A great choice for discussion groups. [See Prepub Alert, 8/5/19.]
How did Evie White, the scrappy magician’s assistant and fiancée, end up with Jack Robbins, the small-time impresario, and where did Ronnie Deane go? The questions aren’t neatly wrapped up at the novel’s conclusion, but Swift’s (Mothering Sunday) beguiling tale makes the journey worthwhile. [See Prepub Alert, 11/4/19.]
Call, Justin
Call’s debut, which kicks off the “Silent Gods” series, takes its time coming to a boil, but by the final act there is plenty of action and conflict. Readers of Mark Lawrence’s “Book of the Ancestor” trilogy or Patrick Rothfuss’s “Kingkiller Chronicle” will appreciate the depiction of a young conflicted hero coming of age in a fantastic school.
Carved from Stone and Dream
Frohock, T
Each book in this series can be read as a stand-alone, but readers will enjoy the depth of the characters more if they read Where Oblivion Lives first. Recommended for fans of dark fantasy, supernatural beings interacting with humanity, and spy stories.
Race the Sands
Durst, Sarah Beth
Durst’s latest delivers the same sweeping prose and lush worldbuilding as her “Renthia” series, with strong female protagonists and lively supporting characters. This compelling fantasy will please fans and engage new readers.
Bivald, Katarina
In this follow-up to her popular debut, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, Swedish author Bivald weaves a charming tale that also examines serious issues and is populated with quirky yet eminently believable characters. For fans of literary small-town fiction including the works of Fredrik Backman and Elizabeth Strout. [See Prepub Alert, 7/1/19.]
Kashua, Sayed
Though gently told, this story has great depth and is broadly appealing, allowing readers to consider how the smallest actions, linked to the power of the written word, can adversely affect the future. [See Prepub Alert, 8/5/19.]
The Kissing Game
Harte, Marie
A first-tier purchase for all collections.
The Mountains Sing
Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Recalling Min Jin Lee and Lisa See, Nguyen displays a lush and captivating storyteller’s gift as she effortlessly transports readers to another world, leaving them wishing for more. This may be Nguyen’s first novel published here, but one can only hope it will not be the last. [See Prepub Alert, 9/9/19.]
Popkey, Miranda
Popkey writes in a stream-of-consciousness style that gives her novel a dreamlike quality. Though readers must make the connections among the narrator’s many changes in location and situation, the result is finally thought provoking. Fine for general fiction audiences.
The Great Unknown
Kingman, Peg
With its Victorian setting, elaborate plot, and score of quirky characters, this work is delightfully Dickensian yet maintains a modern sensibility. Kingman (Not Yet Drown’d) taps into an astounding breadth of knowledge, from stonemasonry and paleontology to Scottish history and politics, plus religion and metaphysics. Highly recommended.
Day, Sylvia & others
A well-curated selection of sexy, short, captivating romances from big-name authors investigating the unexpected twists of arranged marriages.
A SEAL Always Wins
Castillo, Holly
Castillo’s sultry suspense keeps the pages turning as the broader mystery expands in this satisfying second series entry (after A SEAL Never Quits).
The Freedom Artist
Okri, Ben
Like George Orwell and Margaret Atwood before him, the Booker Prize–winning Okri (The Famished Road) writes a passionate cri de coeur, a clarion call to activists everywhere to resist apathy and recognize that we are all on this beautiful globe together and that it is ours to lose.
Seduce Me with Sapphires
Feather, Jane
Readers who delight in a couple that sparks as much fire outside as inside the bedroom will devour Feather’s newest Edwardian romance (after Tempt Me with Diamonds).
The Worst Best Man
Sosa, Mia
Sosa (Acting on Impulse) delivers a steamy and witty enemies-to-lovers romance. Lina and Max’s relationship grows against a rich background of Lina’s Afro-Latinx culture, and readers will enjoy the complex cast of side characters.
The nonlinear time line may puzzle, and readers unfamiliar with late 16th-century European politics may find many of the references confusing. In the end, this retelling of a famous German legend will work best for niche readers who appreciate a challenge, portrayals of feudal society reminiscent of Jim Crace’s excellent Harvest, or, Game of Thrones–style gore.
House of Trelawney
Rothschild, Hannah
This modern-day Downton Abbey, full of family dysfunction and love, is just as addictive as the TV series. [See Prepub Alert, 8/12/19.]
This is a novel for fans of Ahern’s first title or for readers wanting an uplifting book about the power of love. Highly recommended for all public libraries.
The Words I Never Wrote
Thynne, Jane
Settings of Berlin, Paris, and London, and the inclusion of historical figures such as Joseph Goebbels and Kim Philby, make this a solid book club selection. “Clara Vine” series author Thynne’s moving, often heartbreaking story of two English sisters on divergent paths is perfect for fans of Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, or any readers who can’t get enough of novels about women’s lives during Word War II.
Miss Austen
For readers who enjoy Austen’s novels and wish to know more about her life and for those seeking excellent English historical fiction.
The Land Beneath Us
Sundin, Sarah
Sundin completes the “Sunrise at Normandy” trilogy (The Sea Before Us; The Sky Above Us) with the tale of the final Paxton brother, digging deep into why bad things to happen to good people against the backdrop of World War II and the biblical parable of the prodigal son and forgiveness. Libraries with the first two books will want to purchase.
Rainsford, Sue
In this exhilaratingly original work, lyrical prose gives voice to the strange and alluring Ada, whose spellbinding account alternates with the Cures’ testimonials. Seductive and finally horrific; highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, 7/15/19.]
The Grace Kelly Dress
Janowitz, Brenda
Janowitz’s (The Dinner Party) fun, frothy tale of women falling in love and dealing with family and tradition is tied up in the symbolism of an heirloom wedding dress that each bride tries to make her own. That iconic dress is a starring character as each woman finds her happiness. [See Prepub Alert, 9/16/19.]
The Authenticity Project
Pooley, Clare
Not only a charming story of strangers connecting in beguiling ways, this debut fiction by memoirist (The Sober Diaries) and blogger Pooley is a thoughtful meditation on authenticity in the age of self-promotion. Recommended for readers looking for a pick-me-up.
Saavedra, Carola
One of Granta’s Best of Young Brazilian Writers, Saavedra has produced an intense, beautifully nuanced examination of obsessive love gone seriously wrong and the psychological roadblocks that stand in the way of healing, though an abrupt, ambiguous ending may unsettle some readers.
Little Constructions
Burns, Anna
Readers looking for the logic of a linear plotline won’t find it here, but those who prefer their fiction edgy and their humor dark will take pleasure in the jivy rhythms of this unconventional early novel from the Booker Prize–winning Burns (Milkman).
Mercy House
Dillon, Alena
For readers looking for a passionate, if flawed, lead female character, Sister Evelyn delivers. Those interested in religious fiction will also appreciate a simple narrative tackling complex church events. Perfect for reading groups. [See Prepub Alert, 8/12/19.]
Van Meter, Crissy
Van Meter’s first-person debut novel is driven by the natural world of tsunamis, earthquakes, heat, hail, and wildfires, always with an overarching presence of the sea creatures surrounding the island. A compelling coming-of-age tale.
Brown, Karma
Brown (The Life Lucy Knew) kills it; her latest is a winner so captivating that fans of modern and old-fashioned stories about women could easily read it in one day. [See Prepub Alert, 7/15/19.]
Wife After Wife
Hayfield, Olivia
This story will resonate with readers, even those less familiar with British royal history. For fans of updated Jane Austen books, such as Soniah Kamal’s Unmarriageable and Curtis Sittenfeld’s Eligible, and those who are ready to branch out.
Sights, smells, tastes, and a strong sense of injustice as well as unexpected acts of kindness all inform the novel’s complex structure. Its powerful insights into Turkey’s past and present challenges and the world today make it highly recommended.
McGuire, Seanan
The ninth “InCryptid”novel is recommended for most collections. While not a good starting point for the series, it centers on series favorite Sarah and dives into a cryptid angle that fans have been waiting for with the Johrlac. Also included is the novella “Follow the Lady,” about Antinomy Price’s journey home after That Ain’t Witchcraft.
The Queen’s Bargain
Bishop, Anne
Bishop’s many fans will welcome this latest installment, but new readers should start with the first book of this high fantasy series to be fully immersed in the multilayered world- and character-building.
The Glass Magician
Stevermer, Caroline
Stevermer spends little time on worldbuilding, and the terms she employs may confuse readers. Characters are placed into intriguing situations but never seem to learn or grow. Fans would be better served with the YA novels of Anna Godbersen.
Upright Women Wanted
Gailey, Sarah
Gailey sets this adventurous novella that twists a historical trope into a singular story in an alternate future Southwest populated with bandits, shoot-outs, and fierce queer people. Readers will root for these rowdy librarians.
The Will and the Wilds
Holmberg, Charlie N
This slow-burn fantasy romance with one-of-a-kind worldbuilding is recommended for patient fans of fairy-tale retellings.
A Queen in Hiding
Kozloff, Sarah
While the worldbuilding is vast and the characters complex, the multiple points of view may cause some to get lost in this debut series opener. This is the first in a projected quartet that will publish through April 2020, giving readers hope for further action-filled plots and disparate story lines to come together.
Cipri, Nino
Cipri (Homesick) hits all the right notes in this fantasy novella packed with action and emotion. Part horror, part humor, and all heart, the story uniquely showcases two queer protagonists dealing with their own emotional separation while also being forced to work together. Highly recommended.
Knife Children
Bujold, Lois McMaster
Bujold’s delightful prose delves once again into the Lakewalker world. While not submerged in high-action conflict, the thought-provoking plot is centered on character growth, family ties, and personal responsibility, and will appeal to readers interested in stories focused on these themes.
The City We Became
Jemisin, N.K
Jemisin (The Broken Earth) writes a harsh love story to one of America’s most famous places. As raw and vibrant as the city itself, the prose pushes the boundaries of fantasy and brings home what residents already know—their city is alive. [See Prepub Alert, 9/16/19.]
Murray, Andrew Hunter
Murray’s debut novel depicts a thrilling future dystopia. The science of the Slow and the political breakdown that follows are alarmingly realistic, and Hopper’s flight through London as she unravels what could be England’s greatest secret is a ride not to be missed.
Heathcliff Redux and Other Stories
Tuck, Lily
This short collection takes a respectable look at the ways we evade our own truths but doesn’t engage as deeply as its subjects merit. [See Prepub Alert, 8/5/19.]
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BBK challenged us to show their social contribution through an awareness campaign that could draw attention to some of the programs they develop and issues they address in their foundation. We realized that only in Spain, more than 2 million people over the age of 65 live in a situation of undesired loneliness. An invisible reality that only becomes visible in the numerous cases of people who die in utmost solitude, only then receiving some attention from the media.
In an attempt to inspire social discussion, we created and installed a hyperrealistic sculpture in one of Bilbao’s busiest areas, in memory of Mercedes, ‘’the last person who died in solitude’’. After the social media debate that took place the days before, Mercedes was introduced to the media as the woman who inspired the sculpture, so that she could tell her story in her own words and explain how, in fact, loneliness is like being ‘’a living dead’’. We also told her story in a content piece, the success of which has enabled the continuity of the campaign with new actions to connect people who will dine together for Christmas with others who wish to invite them to share those moments with them.
Impact.
More than 250 media impacts reaching a potential audience of 63 million people. More than 14 thousand social media impacts with a positive sentiment of 99% and more than 47 million impressions.
"The main objective we established with this campaign was to encourage society and institutions to solve the problem while there is still time."
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Sanford Traffic School
Sanford Traffic School Online
Sanford Traffic School - If you received a traffic ticket in Sanford or Seminole County, you can take traffic school to:
Sanford Highway Risk and Traffic Citation Info
Sanford, Florida is found in Seminole County and has a population of about 57,500 residents. It's a very popular place for visitors to arrive into the Orlando area with the Orlando Sanford International Airport found within the city. It's also home to the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens, along with Seminole State College of Florida.
As a part of the Orlando Metro area, Sanford hosts millions of visitors every year. Many rent vehicles and add their unique style of driving to the roads, along with their unfamiliarity with the area roadways. This causes congestion on the main highways and plenty of dangers.
Receiving a traffic ticket in the Sanford area isn't fun. Before you get too upset, consider these stats:
Interstate 4 runs through the Sanford area and many visitors use this highway to get to Orlando's many attractions.
The Florida section of I-4 is rated as the 3rd most deadly in the United States.
About 250,000 traffic accidents happen throughout Florida every year.
Sanford provides one of the main airports for the Orlando area and many visitors come into the city.
With an influx of visitors, the roadways become even more dangerous.
If traffic laws were not enforced in Sanford, the crash stats would be far worse.
Seminole County Crash Stats
Total Number of Motor Vehicle Crashes 3,190 4,302 +34.86% 3,418
Fatalities 48 23 -52.08% 34
Injuries 2,253 2,820 +25.17% 2,473
Alcohol Related 278 252 -9.35% 279
Alcohol Related Fatalities 18 8 -55.56% 13
Alcohol Related Injuries 102 89 -12.75% 107
Seminole County Traffic Ticket Stats for 2015
Throughout 2015, more than 45,000 traffic tickets were given to drivers in Seminole County, Florida. About 12,000 of these tickets were for speeding and another 6,600 were for careless driving, which is the leading cause of traffic accidents in Florida. Judges dismissed only 13% of the total traffic tickets issued. Chances of getting out of a ticket are very slim.
Losing Your License in Sanford, Florida
Do you know what it takes to end up with a suspended license? If you become a habitual traffic law breaker, you will probably end up with a license suspension. Get caught driving on a suspended license and you may end up in jail for 90 days, along with racking up another $500 in fines.
Florida operates on a points system for traffic tickets. Points for each ticket range from 3 to 6 with the worst offenses costing you the most points. After you pay a traffic ticket, points are added to your license.
If you get 12 points over a 12 month period, you will have your license suspended for 30 days. Get 18 points in 18 months and that suspension goes up to 90 days. Make it worse and get 24 points in 36 months and you will end up with a one-year suspension.
Avoid Points with Traffic School in Sanford, Florida
The best way to keep your license from getting suspended is to obey the traffic laws. However, when you do get a ticket, you can use online traffic school to keep the points off your license. It won't help with the fine, but it will keep your insurance rates from going up and keep your license clean.
Start by pleading guilty or no contest to the ticket and pay the fine. Make sure to inform the clerk of the court you will be enrolling in the basic driver improvement course. Then, enroll online and complete the traffic school class. You will be issued a certificate of completion, which you need to turn into the clerk of the court.
Follow these simple steps and you will keep points from your ticket off your license.
Eligibility Requirements for Traffic School
As a driver in the State of Florida, you get five opportunities to use the basic driver improvement course to eliminate points. This course can only be used once every 12 months, however. If you haven't taken the course five or more times or in the past 12 months, you're eligible.
Seminole County Clerk of the Court
After a traffic ticket is issued in Sanford, the Seminole County Clerk of the Court takes care of the rest. You will make payment to the clerk of the court and turn in your traffic school certificate of completion, as well. Find out more information about the Seminole County Clerk of the Court on their website.
Directions to Seminole County Clerk of the Court:
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Mediamatic Magazine 3#2 Preikschat, Wolfgang 1 Jan 1988
Maria Vedder in Museum Ludwig Klaus vom Bruch in Museum Abteiberg
The critic who is used to looking thoughtfully out of the window during train journeys, will currently meet an astonishing number of works of the familiar rectangular format. Travelling from city to city he becomes, if he only wants to, the touring visitor
of one dispersed exhibition of video installations. Among the large number of bread-and-butter exhibitions, the video installations seem a real treat. I lately feel like a kid, looking for hidden Easter eggs.
In September I was particularly successful along my favourite route from Amsterdam along the Rhine: SIMON BIGGS' The Golum in Utrecht, MADELON HOOYKAAS' and ELSA STANSFIELD'S From the Museum of Memory VII in Arnhem, MARIA VEDDER'SPAL or Never the Same Color in Cologne and - a bit off the main track - KLAUS VOM BRUCH'S Radarraum in Monchengladbach.
Since I have been complaining so much, I almost felt obliged to say something positive
as encouragement which is always appreciated by artists, especially when expressed
with a certain conviction, as is the case with MARIA VEDDER and KLAUS VOM BRUCH.
(This is by no means a depreciation of SIMON BIGGS' or HOOYKAAS/STANSFIELD'S
work, since I have not been able to see the latter one, whereas I'd like to see SIMON'S
installation in a more apt space than the inconsiderate CONFERENCE CENTER in
Utrecht.)
However questionable the curatorial practices and the competence of the MUSEUM LUDWIG regarding video, it gave MARIA VEDDER another opportunity to expand her word into areas relatively new to her, such as performance and video installation.
Whoever had the confidence in MARIA'S (and everyone's, who worked with her) abilities,
should at least be satisfied with the result of the installation (I was not able to see the performance scheduled for October 5). It rises five sets high from the bottom of the
lower exhibition space to the ground floor level, attracting both the visitors of the photography-exhibition, to which it is the opening act, as well as the crowd, who's merely
out for a glass of wine or a piece of cake at the cafeteria. One of the 25 monitors is set
aside as if for repair. The rectengular wall is programmed so that the mosaic image is divided in two: a three-by-three square image stands out against the remaining monochrome screens.
The pictorial part of the installation consists of three sequences, each of which refers
to one of the three basic colors, red-green- blue, of the additive color-mix. The other screens show a consecutive shift in color through the spectrums of each basic color. The three-by-three image in the upper left corner shows a translation of colors into symbols signified through geometric forms or images of objects: thus red corresponds with a triangle and is related to love, fire and the peacock. Green is seen together with nature, the circle, water and the eagle. Blue is combined with a semicircle, air and an elephant, corresponding with the blue flower of romanticism.
Interspersed is historic Tv-footage such as the logo for color-broadcasts, when black
and white was still the common format. The logo consisted of an evolving flower ornament
with a character-insert in Farbe (in color). In spite of its conventional and simple form it reminds me very much of the flower-pop era of the sixties. In another sequence a woman demonstrates the difference between PAL(left half of the image) and NTSC(Never The Same Color)(right half), which was at that time considered as inferior to the European standard, because of its instable transmission properties. The installation was commissioned to remind of the introduction of the PAL-TV-standard some 25 years ago.
The sound (by UWE WIESEMANN and GERHARD ZILLIGEN) is ambient, while processed TV-sounds like the news-show-jingle and rhythm give it a prickly touch. My appreciation of the installation has to do with the many things that could have gone
wrong. VEDDER'S almost pragmatic approach to associate technique (turned into skill) with philosophy (as visual expression) guides her safely between blunt symbolism
and self-reference. With all its simplicity, visuality and taste it is a suitable introduction
into not only a photography-exhibition but also into videography - photography's probable
Compared to MARIA VEDDER'S in stallation, which was actually the bigger surprise
due to the expansion in format and scope which supports her recognition as an artist - KLAUS VOM BRUCHs Radarraum is much more a confirmation of continuity. The
subject matter of the radar room is the occupation of space by an invisible medium.
As in VOM BRUCH'S other transmitter-receiver- installations the medium consists of radio
signals , in this case ultrasonic impulses used for fish detection. The source is a canshaped device, integrated into a rotating radar antenna which hangs from the ceiling.
The reflexes of the signal are translated into color graphics on three monitors with
screens turned upwards. They indicate locationand intensity of objects/visitors. This
simplest of interactive set-ups makes the visitor appear as a disturbance or turbulence
of the existing invisible wave pattern.
Both MARIA VEDDER'S and VOM BRUCH'S installation are of a persuasive elegance.
The latter is, however, more technical and deals less with symbolization and metaphorization (thus giving the author of a short text for the catalogue a hard time). The ambiguity between the functional and the formal dimension of the work is increased by the scissor gratings of the radar construction and the monitor casing which contribute to the lightness of the objects and the transparency of the installation. The viewer is thereby left suspended between elasticity and volatility.
Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 2#4 1 Jan 1988
Fukui Video Biennale
The second Fukui International Video Biennale entitled Discovery of Resources of Our Time was held in March of this year. Fukui is a coastal city of 280.000 inhabitants to the west of Tokyo. Monique...
Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 2#4 Preikschat, Wolfgang 1 Jan 1988
Identitei/ä/y/ tsnomadism /e/us
After a three-day conference, the Marler Videokunstpreis will be awarded on June 5th to BETTINA GRUBER and MARIA VEDDER for their new production Der Herzschlag des Anubis . As a member of the...
Mediamatic Magazine 3#4 Stefaan Decostere, Chris Dercon, john wyver 1 Jan 1989
The New Museum
script for a television program
The six sequences published here have been taken from a script consisting of 19 sequences, they were written during the second half of 1988 by Stefaan Decostere and Chris Dercon, translated and...
Mediamatic Magazine 3#2 Glenn O'brien 1 Jan 1988
Dommelsch Is Really Gonna Make It
When I think about the possibility today of what used to be called an art movement, I think about what ROB SCHOLTE calls Business Art.
Mediamatic Magazine 3#4 Steven Bode 1 Jan 1989
The Apple of Your Eye
In the Beginning - by which, of course, we mean the beginning of the '80s - avant-garde film looked out on the world with an austere gaze: clear, unstinting, unblinking, committed to the...
Mediamatic Magazine 3#4 Friedemann Malsch 1 Jan 1989
KLAUS PETER SCHNUTTGER-WEBS
The artist KLAUS PETER SCHNUTTGER-WEBS started out in Cologne in 1981, developing from being a critic who attacked the commodity-based character of the art market to become a real cult figure who...
Mediamatic Magazine 2#4 Simon Biggs 1 Jan 1988
The Best Laid Schemes of Mice and Men
A recent retrospective of the work of GRAHAM YOUNG at the INSTITUTE OF CON TEMPORARY ART, London, allows the opportunity to see the completed cycle of six video's which belong to the series...
Mediamatic Magazine 3#2 Marie-Adèle Rajandream 1 Jan 1988
Work to Watch
Giny Vos (Rotterdam 1959) graduated this summer from the RIETVELD ACADEMIE in Amsterdam. She has become known for a number of large-scale conceptual works.
World Wide Video Festival / 3. Videonale
Recent developments in video had been marked by the fragmentation of the medium - into well defined styles and genres - the volume of production and their generally technically advanced quality. The...
Mediamatic Magazine 3#4 Henri - Pierre Peudy 1 Jan 1989
The Museum of the World
( The Museum of the World ) It may be lively, dynamic, didactic, hyper-modern, superattractive... but a museum remains a museum. The will to renovate, transform and modernise spaces used for the...
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The American News Media's Most Important Story Right Now
by Kaila Colbin on Sep 29, 11:07 AM
There is no debate that the media is not adequately covering the story of Puerto Rick after the hurricane, where there's no power, limited food, limited clean water and limited operational infrastructure.
Solving Advertising's Trust Problem
by Dave Morgan on Sep 28, 1:46 PM
When the choices of where to advertise were few -- local radio, local newspapers, local broadcast TV, magazines and Yellow Pages -- the issue of trust in your media partners was pretty straightforward: Did my ad run as promised? Was the copy OK? Did they charge me the right amount? Flash-forward to today. By far the hottest topic among Advertising Week attendees, panelists and pundits in New York City over the past few days has been advertising's big trust problem.
What's Going On Out There?
by Cory Treffiletti on Sep 27, 10:26 AM
We are arguing about whether our citizens have the right to protest peacefully (they do). We are arguing about whether sports teams should be engaged in politics or not, and whether politicians should be engaged with sports teams. We are arguing about whether sports teams should visit the White House or not. We are arguing so much that we are missing out on the fact that a few million people are in very dire straits and our country doesn't appear to be doing much to help any of them.
Together We Lie
by Gord Hotchkiss on Sep 26, 12:16 PM
Humans are social animals. We've become this way because, evolutionarily speaking, we do better as a group than individually. But there's a caveat here. If you get a group of usually honest people together, they're more likely to lie. Why is this?
Amazon's M&A Strategy Evolves
by Steven Rosenbaum on Sep 25, 2:28 PM
2017 is on pace to be one of Amazon's most acquisitive years ever, with eight transactions completed at the close of Q2. The general assumption is that acquired companies will be brought under the corporate umbrella, and the existing brand will be replaced by Amazon's powerful consumer brand. But on a closer look at a number of Amazon's largest acquisitions, it's clear that the highest profile ones have been given remarkable freedom to build independent brands and cultures rather than be subsumed by their powerful parent brand.
The Disappearance Of Advertising-Supported Media
by Maarten Albarda on Sep 22, 12:24 PM
We, consumers of media, have access to an ever growing number of platforms and providers all ready to entertain, inform and engage us. The biggest challenge seems to be not figuring out the limitations of what new technologies and creative minds can come up with, but how to make a decent living creating it all.
Who Will Own The 'Marketing Cloud' Of The Future?
Who will own the future of the trillion dollars or so spent on marketing every year? Many people believe this arena will be dominated by whoever controls the most and best consumer data, combined with the most and best opportunities to connect that data with massively scaled touchpoints These companies will have lots of consumer data and lots of chances to capture value from that data in the targeting, measurement and optimization of all forms of commercial communication, from email, digital banners, digital video and TV ads to e-commerce personalization, snail mail and telemarketing.
Are You The Smartest Person In The Room? (Hint: No)
Are you the smartest person in the room? I can pretty much never say yes - but more often than not, I can tell who in the room thinks they are. Inevitably, they want everyone else to think it, too. It's an unattractive quality in a co-worker and one that creates lots of unnecessary tension.
I, Robot....
by Gord Hotchkiss on Sep 19, 11:43 AM
In the year 1942, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov introduced the Three Rules of Robotics in his collection of short stories, "I, Robot." Asimov set the rules coming from the Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D. What was once an unimaginably distant time in the future is now knocking with increasing intensity on the door of the present. And Elon Musk, for one, is worried, noting, "AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization" Musk believes, Rules of Robotics or no, we won't be able to control this genie once it gets out of its bottle.
Why Facebook Can't Stop Anti-Semitic Ads Without Cultural Context
Journalist (and former 'MediaPost' columnist) Bob Garfield took to the stage in Philadelphia last week, sharing 90 remarkable minutes of his life story for his one-man show "Ruggedly Jewish." It was the abridged version -- to be sure. But along the way he covered artichokes, an armed abduction, a celery museum -- and anti-Semitism.
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Benson’s Family Ties, Embrace of Duggan, Cast Cover-Up Cloud over Redistricting Commission Announcement
Secretary of State Brazenly Features Detroit Mayor at Announcement, Days After Duggan and Friedrichs City Hall Cover-Up Scandal Explodes
LANSING, MI, October 24, 2019 – Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson today cast an ominous cloud of doubt and scandal over the state’s new redistricting commission, prominently featuring scandal-plagued Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan at a commission-related press event. The Commission was sold to voters as a move to bring transparency to Michigan’s map-drawing process.
According to a bombshell report this week from Detroit’s Inspector General, Duggan’s Chief of Staff Alexis Wiley, Chief Development Officer Ryan Friedrichs and Deputy Chief Development Officer Sirene Abou-Chakra engaged in an illegal cover-up attempt, pushing to destroy public records related to a Mayoral scandal involving his personal relationships and Wayne State University’s “Make Your Date” program.
Friedrichs, implicated prominently in the I.G. report, is Secretary of State Benson’s husband.
“Jocelyn Benson continued her stunning hypocrisy today, tainting the state’s redistricting commission by tying it to prominent Democrats – including her husband’s boss – who are the subject of an Attorney General investigation into cover-ups and the destruction of public records,” said Freedom Fund Executive Director Tony Daunt. “If Benson is willing to demolish the commission’s credibility to back her husband and her political ally during a cover-up scandal, voters are right to wonder how she’d react if officials or family members in her own office were ever caught destroying public records.”
Friedrichs and Abou-Chakra admitted destroying public records, according to the I.G. report. The Inspector General has formally recommended all three high-ranking officials receive “appropriate discipline.” Mayor Duggan has refused to hold any of the three accountable, and dismissed press questions and good-government-advocates’ criticisms. The Mayor has even claimed that the illegal destruction of public records to hide them from the press does not constitute a “cover up.”
Duggan’s office, Friedrichs, Abou-Chakra, and Wiley remain subjects of an ongoing legal investigation by the office of Michigan’s Attorney General.
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Ollie: I'm so proud
Boss delighted with Rams return
Lions boss Ian Holloway declared that he was 'proud' of the manner in which his side recorded Millwall's 1,500th Football League win with a 1-0 success at Derby County.
Steve Morison's solitary goal - a powerful header from Lee Martin's delicious delivery on 61 minutes - was just reward for a classic performance brimming with pride and passion.
"I am very proud of them, what can I say?" said boss Ollie afterwards. "That was a tough game. They beat us 5-1 at our place this season and Derby looked buoyant and full of themselves.
"We spoke about how to stop them but looked nervous. The longer the game went on the better we looked. We grew in belief in the second-half.
"We've done an awful lot of work. We scored a fantastic goal and that’s the first time we’ve been in front for quite a while."
However Millwall's rare awayday success - only the second this season - came at a price with a quintet of players picking up knocks in a match that saw The Lions play half of the seven minutes injury-time a man down having already used all three subs.
Danny Shittu (groin), Scott Malone (leg), Shane Lowry (knee), David Forde (finger) and DJ Campbell (hamstring) were all injured in Saturday's game, and as Ollie explained, two players are already non-starters for Tuesday's basement battle at a Blackpool side in freefall.
"I have two of my back four on the bus and they won’t be fit for Tuesday," he added. "They were on the floor and I was being criticised. Not in a million years will I encourage anyone to be anything other than honest or true."
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West Yorkshire Police searching for deadly firearms and a thousand bullets stolen in house burglary
Police are searching for guns and around a thousand rounds of live ammunition stolen by a gang of professional house burglars
Police have confirmed they are still looking for two weapons and around £4,500 worth of bullets and shotgun cartridges stolen in the raid.
Anthony Brown was locked up for six years and five months over the professional burglary in which firearms and ammunition were stolen from house in Gomersal
West Yorkshire Police launched an appeal for information after Anthony Brown was jailed over the targeted burglary at the house in Gomersal in which seven firearms were stolen.
The 28-year-old was locked up for six years and five months when he appeared before Leeds Crown Court.
The court was told Brown, 28, and three other men broke into the property in the early hours of August 20 this year while the owners were away on holiday.
They removed glass door panels to get inside and stole £24,000 worth of valuables including jewellery and watches.
Bashir Ahmed, prosecuting, said the house was ransacked and the burglars came across a safe and a cabinet containing the guns and £4,500 worth of ammunition
The owner had licences for the guns and ammunition which were being kept lawfully at the property.
The court was told the gang left but returned two days later and stole them.
CCTV footage was analysed and a Ford Focus in the area around the time of the first break-in was identified as a suspect vehicle.
The car was traced to an address in Bradford.
Further CCTV footage was found of four men getting into the vehicle shortly before the burglary took place and returning after it had been committed.
Brown was then seen getting into a Ford Fiesta and driving away.
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Inquiries over the Fiesta led police to Brown's partner's home.
Officers went to the address and found the gun cabinet, a safe and a gun silencer dumped at the back of the property.
Brown was also linked to the offences from mobile phone evidence.
Mr Ahmed said five of the guns have been recovered but two of the "most lethal" weapons remain outstanding.
None of the ammunition has been recovered.
Brown, of Woodrow Drive, Bradford, pleaded guilty to burglary and seven offences of possession of a prohibited firearm.
He has previous convictions for violence and affray.
Andrew Stranex, mitigating, said Brown had a partner and a child and was motivated to put his offending behind him when he is released from custody.
Judge Christopher Batty told Brown: "Those who commit dwelling house burglaries and those who circulate firearms to be used in serious crime must expect significant custodial sentences."
After the case, Det Chief Insp Fiona Gaffney of Kirklees CID, said: “We welcome the sentencing of Brown today and are continuing a number of enquiries into the theft of weapons from a property in the Gomersal area.
“Officers have recovered five of the seven weapons which were taken on that evening and have made a number of arrests in connection with the offence.
“Active enquiries remain ongoing regarding the outstanding ammunition and weapons.
“Firearms offences are taken extremely seriously by West Yorkshire Police and I want to assure residents that every effort is being made to trace the outstanding items.”
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Putting Metal Detection To The Test
Anthony Rowcliffe, a 42 year-old company that has its roots in Peckham, London, has grown over the years and is now operating out of two purpose-built BRC accredited sites at Paddock Wood in Kent, supplying over 1,000 different lines, including its own branded Clemency Hall product. The sites operate five day weeks with a same day delivery policy to a variety of major supermarkets.
Anthony Rowcliffe, a 42 year-old company that has its roots in Peckham, London, has grown over the years and is now operating out of two purpose-built BRC accredited sites at Paddock Wood in Kent, supplying over 1,000 different lines, including its own branded Clemency Hall product. The sites operate five day weeks with a same day delivery policy to a variety of major supermarkets. A combination of product integrity and a dedicated, skilled staff has enabled the company to achieve an annual turnover of £40 million, selling to diverse markets including delis, farmshops, butchers and the premium multiples.
The company prides itself on not only being able to provide quality cheeses, but also having a depth of knowledge and experience within its field, which allows it to consistently source new products and bring them to market both technically and logistically on time.
Anthony Rowcliffe is renowned for its luxury products, so maintaining an excellent reputation is key to the brand. The company is constantly striving to ensure the highest quality standards, and as part of this drive it inspects every product meticulously prior to despatch, so the next generation IQ3 Metal Detector from Loma Systems was an obvious solution for the company.
All of Anthony Rowcliffe cheeses are individually hand-cut with wire, so it was vital that Loma provided a machine that was sensitive enough to identify the smallest metal contaminants. As the company dispatches and inspects products in trays, Loma specified a carriage track reject conveyor, designed to push reject trays down a separate conveyor system to ensure trays with contaminated product are kept separate from trays that have been inspected and found to be safe.
Anthony Rowcliffe complies with the industry standard RFID tracking system to ensure their products are tracked throughout the delivery process to guarantee they arrive at specific locations through their identifiable metal tags. These metal RFID tags can cause significant problems when going through other brands of metal detector, as the tags give off a signal, which could be misinterpreted as metal contamination in and could cause a false reject.
Loma’s innovative variable frequency IQ3 Metal Detector provided Anthony Rowcliffe with the ideal solution. Loma’s variable frequency means the machine can learn the signal given off by the metal tags and then eliminate that signal to only find contaminates that are in the products.
The machine is able to automatically calibrate to the variety of cheeses on six cutting lines. Every cheese emits a different product reading; they vary in moisture levels, salt content, density and size, therefore, frequency levels vary enormously. With its class leading product memory offering space for 200 different products and frequency levels of between 31 and 882 KHZ, the versatility of the IQ3 provided a reliable solution for Anthony Rowcliffe. The systems Automatic Product Learn function ensures maximum sensitivity and accuracy without constant operator adjustment, resulting in one machine handling all six lines, allowing the company to avoid buying multiple machines to cope with various differing products. This function has saved the company a significant amount compared to purchasing several lesser metal detectors.
Jason Fisher, Head of Operations for Anthony Rowcliffe comments, “We chose Loma Systems due to the whole package they offered, from their knowledge, testing, product and price. We have a great relationship with Loma and it has been a pleasure to work with a company who are as quality-driven as ourselves. The machine is excellent and the variable frequency metal detector is invaluable.”
The IQ3 complies with Loma’s outstanding “designed to survive” ethos; it comes standard with the tough IP69K search head environmental protection and is highly reliable. Also the machine is easy to use, making it simpler for operators to achieve maximum functionality.
Kathy Pattenden, Cutting Room Supervisor comments, “Operating the IQ3 Metal Detector on a daily basis, has proved effortless. Having met our standards and adhered to our customers' strict code of practice, the IQ3 metal detector has recognisably increased production efficiency.”
Anthony Rowcliffe also took advantage of Loma’s Platinum Service Contract to ensure sustained production levels and for peace of mind that should a problem occur they can receive expert support quickly and efficiently. Jason continues, “We have not used this service so far as we have had no problems, but it is good to have this safety net should any problems ever occur.”
For more information, please e-mail sales@loma.co.uk or visit www.loma.com.
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Ian Phillips News
Partners Lead New Swarm Technology Research
in underwater robotics and sensor networks. Localization accuracy can be greatly improved by fusing estimates from multiple localization methods. This can enhance autonomous deployment and retrieval of underwater flying nodes for various subsea missions, including marine seismic surveys.”Ian Phillips, Chief Executive of OGIC, added, “These examples highlight the exciting technology which can be developed when we work with the expertise and knowledge that exists within Scottish universities. Supporting these university-introduced projects is just another way we are continuing to invest
Offshore Achievement Award winners Announced
& Subsea 7, and Connected Competence. SPE Aberdeen Section Awards were also presented to two members; Brenda Wyllie, for her transformation of the annual DEVEX conference and Graham Skinner, for his outstanding efforts visiting schools to promote careers in the energy industry. Ian Phillips, chairman of award organisers SPE Aberdeen said: “Last night’s award ceremony showcased the impressive work by some very talented people in our industry and highlighted the importance of celebrating achievement in the UKCS. “Award entries were received from across the
Finalists for 2017 Offshore Achievement Awards Announced
, organisers have also introduced an additional stage of shortlisting for this Young Professional category, which will see each finalist take part in a filmed interview with a panel of industry judges. From there, three finalists will be selected before the winner is announced on the night. Ian Phillips, chairman of SPE Aberdeen and chief executive of the Oil and Gas Innovation Centre, said: “The sheer quality and variety of entries we have received this year reflects everything that is great about our industry, particularly our ability to adapt to a volatile economic environment. It&rsquo
Finalists Announced for Offshore Achievement Awards
support of principal sponsor TAQA, celebrate exceptional performance across a range of categories including safety innovations, technology breakthroughs and company successes. The awards also recognize individual achievements, contribution to the offshore industry and collaborative working. Ian Phillips, director of energy business consultancy Pale Blue Dot Energy Limited and the SPE Aberdeen board member responsible for organising the OAAs, said: “The Offshore Achievement Awards once again highlight the pioneering work performed within the offshore oil and gas and renewables industry.
Deadline for Offshore Achievement Awards Approaches
. The ‘Inspiring Leader’ award recognizes someone who has inspired a team or organization as a manager or in a mentorship capacity, and the ‘Environmentalist’ Award recognizes outstanding environmental technology developed for and deployed in the offshore energy industry. Ian Phillips, director of business consultancy Pale Blue Dot Energy Limited and the SPE board member responsible for organizing the OAAs, said, “The Offshore Achievement Awards are an excellent platform for businesses and individuals to showcase the valuable contribution they make to the renewables and
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16/12/2008 Tue 16:17 in Hong Kong by Matt Eaton
Social media makes its mark on PR
Upstream Asia has launched a platform for social media PR releases called Views Release, as part of Viewpoints, a proprietary tool for clients.
Paul Mottram, chief operating officer for Upstream Asia, said Viewpoints has come about as the market is changing fast in a couple of ways particularly the internet, which has an impact on journalism and media as a whole.
He said markets looking for alternative marketing strategies had made it tougher for some sections of the media.
The dynamics of communications is also moving rapidly from the traditional “one-to-many” broadcast model to the “many-to-many” model of the conversation economy.
Additionally, online communication channels such as social media and blogs are creating alternative communication channels challenging the traditionally influential role of print and broadcast media that sits at the heart of most PR strategies.
All these factors have assisted in the disruption of traditional PR, and forced agencies to think of new strategies.
“Interruption marketing gets less return. Storytelling – to engage people in two way communications – that’s the future of marketing communications,” Mottram said.
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Transforming ACE into a household brand
Operating in an increasingly competitive household cleaning market, where price was a key driver in decision making, Robinson Young, the UK distributor of ACE, recognised the need to build brand awareness and build a programme of activity to convert trial customers into brand advocates.
Double digit year-on-year growth
53m people reached through PR placements
105% increase in social followers
Championing a point of difference
The UK laundry market has undergone a substantial change which resulted in two distinct challenges for Europe’s leading stain removal brand. The growth in own brand label cleaning products from supermarkets, coupled with an explosion of discount retailers on the high street, meant that Robinson Young needed a clear integrated marketing plan to communicate ACE’s point of difference to discerning consumers. The initial brief was to breathe new life and energy into ACE’s social media and PR activity, however this has been expanded significantly over the past four years to include an all-encompassing, strategically-led, integrated campaign.
Strategic mindset delivered results
Our strategic approach allowed us to pinpoint the most effective way to utilise the marketing budget to actively target repeat purchasers, namely new parents and those likely to require stain removal products regularly. This audience is highly attractive to FMCG brands, making them an expensive one to target. We therefore needed to be smarter to ensure we were able to break through and ensure customers clearly knew why ACE was different and why they should purchase it over own labels or competitor brands.
Improved brand awareness & increase in sales
By capitalising on the growth of influencers such as Mrs Hinch and the Queen of Clean, coupled with a dynamic new visual identity, we delivered a radically fresh approach for ACE which not only improved brand awareness but also saw a significant increase in sales. ACE has historically struggled to mirror it’s European success in the UK, but combining strategy, PR, social media, digital marketing, design and creative, Mobas has helped to elevate the brand to a standing it should be proud of in the UK market.
A sparkling finish
After an initial 12-month term, Mobas has subsequently been retained for a further three years and continues to be Robinson Young’s partner for ACE. With a significant increase in reach and impressions, resulting in greater levels of brand awareness and product positioning, ACE has seen double-digit growth in sales year-on-year in 2019. As the relationship goes from strength to strength, Mobas has continued to devise supplementary campaigns to promote new ACE products including a new powder and household cleaning products.
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James Murdoch’s attack on News Corp and Fox News has not been discussed by board, director says
The Guardian on January 15, 2020 The Guardian
Peter Barnes says board has not talked about Rupert Murdoch’s son’s attack on Fox News and News Corp’s climate coverageThe lead independent director of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, Peter Barnes, says the media group’s board has yet to discuss James Murdoch’s attack on the company over its stance on the climate crisis.On Wednesday James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch’s son and a News Corp director, issued a joint statement with his wife, Kathryn Murdoch, in which the couple said they were frustrated by coverage of the climate crisis by Fox News and News Corp. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/15/james-murdochs-attack-on-news-corp-and-fox-news-has-not-been-discussed-by-board-director-says
Author : Ben Butler and Anne Davies
Tags : The Guardian
Australian Open qualifying delayed again over ‘very poor’ air quality and rain
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Labour leadership: Candidates criticise ‘terrible’ format chosen by party for official hustings – live news
HS2 costs could rise to £106bn or more, warns government review
Unsettled status: EU citizens want card to prove right to stay in UK
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Sony offers trade-in on electrical goods
Sony has launched a new trade-in scheme where consumers can exchange their old electrical goods in return for money off Sony goods.
The scheme runs from 29 April until 11 July and accepts electrical items that don’t work anymore as well as ones that do. Sony operated a similar scheme last year which offered up to £150 off a new Sony Bravia TV set in exchange for an old TV set.
This year’s scheme is timed to coincide with the World Cup. As well as claiming that it saves consumers money, the scheme aims to help reduce the mounting problem of TVs and other large electrical equipment being dumped in landfill sites. Participating stockists include Sony Centres, Comet, Curry's, John Lewis, Tesco Extra and some independent stores.
Sony UK commercial director Andy Benson says: “We understand that consumers will undoubtedly want to upgrade their kit as they gear up for the World Cup this summer, but cost is still an issue for most of us coming out of recession. This campaign is not only timely in helping people take their entertainment to the next level, it is also a good way to encourage the responsible disposal of old technology.”
Sony isn’t the first electrical retailer to run such as scheme. Comet ran a similar scheme for a short period last year, as did Panasonic and Samsung. Under the Comet offer, consumers could trade in old fridges, freezers, washing machines and cooking appliances with free collection and recycling and get 20% off a new appliance.
Retailer Game is also currently offering trade-ins on old games consoles although the offer ends on 6th May. Shoppers can trade-in an old 120GB Play Station 3 for up to £200 or a Nintendo Wii for £90.
However, before you rush out to buy a new TV or games console and trade in your old one it’s worth checking that this will get you the best price for your old equipment. In many cases selling your stuff privately could result in a better deal.
For example, Game will give you £90 for a Nintendo Wii but the consoles sell on ebay for anything from £100 to around £200 depending on games and accessories.
Auction sites such as ebay are a good way to sell used electrical goods, especially games consoles and computer games. However, selling bigger items such as television sets this way can be tricky as you may have to sell on a pick-up only basis. Some retail websites such as Amazon also sell used electrical goods for as little as 86p per listing.
If you’re looking for a new TV set or other electrical items it’s a good idea to shop around to get the best deal. Price comparison websites such as kelkoo.com and pricerunner.com make this easy to do. When comparing prices take any trade-in value into consideration as well as the cost of disposing of old equipment.
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Montevallo and Wallace State-Hanceville announce partnership with ContinuUM program
The University of Montevallo and Wallace State Community College-Hanceville have announced a partnership to offer students an easy transition from the community college to the four-year public university. The formalized program, ContinuUM, offers Wallace State students guaranteed admission to UM and eligibility for scholarships after earning an associate’s degree or 45 transferable credit hours.
“We are thrilled with the success of our ContinuUM program and are excited to partner with Wallace State-Hanceville,” said Audrey Crawford, director of admissions at UM. “We feel it is important to eliminate barriers and create opportunities to support transfer students in their transition to a four-year university.”
The transfer pathway program allows students the opportunity to better plan for their future careers through pre-transfer advising at UM based on intended major. In addition to the ease in transferring and career services, the continuUM program also provides Wallace students with other resources at the University of Montevallo.
Students accepted into the continuUM program are issued a Montevallo student ID giving them access to online services including digital library resources through Carmichael Library. The student ID also allows Wallace students to utilize the McChesney Student Activity Center workout areas and to attend UM athletic and student life events. The Montevallo Career Development Center is also available to guide Wallace students through career assessment, internship resources, resume writing and interview skills.
To learn more, visit www.montevallo.edu/continuum.
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