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Colorado high student who died by suicide was…
Colorado high student who died by suicide was threatened, encouraged to kill himself by “bullies,” mother alleges
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A Cherry Creek High School freshman who died by suicide in February was bullied on social media and at school by teenagers who encouraged him to kill himself and threatened to bring a gun to campus to shoot him, his mother said Tuesday.
Greenwood Village police confirmed the department opened an investigation after the teen’s suicide, but spokeswoman Crystal Dean said she couldn’t elaborate.
Jeanine Padilla told The Denver Post that her family did not find out about the bullying until after 15-year-old Jack Padilla’s death on Feb. 14.
“It’s just devastating to know he was probably so scared,” she said. “But still trying to stand up for himself.”
Now Jeanine Padilla and her family are calling on the school district to “expel the bullies” as they also raise awareness about, and funds to support, teen mental health advocacy.
“Our beloved Jack suffered from depression and took his own life at age 15,” the family wrote on a GoFundMe fundraising page for its nonprofit #JACKSTRONG. “We must be there for each other and end the stigma around mental health and teen suicide together.”
While police wouldn’t describe the nature of their investigation, Cherry Creek School District spokeswoman Abbe Smith said in an email that Greenwood Village’s investigators are looking at “any allegations of bullying related” to Jack Padilla’s suicide.
“However, we will not comment or provide any information about confidential student information,” she said, declining to discuss the bullying allegations.
Jeanine Padilla said she found out about the bullying, some of which happened through messages over the Snapchat social-media platform, after looking at Jack’s phone following his death.
The family has since discovered that at least five teenagers were bullying Jack. One sent him a message advising him to obtain an item that could be used to kill himself, Jeanine Padilla said.
“We don’t want this to happen to anybody else’s children,” she said. “It’s terrible.”
On Facebook, Jeanine Padilla has issued a public “Call to Action,” in which she says Jack’s family and friends want “appropriate action taken by the Cherry Creek School District to expel the bullies who repeatedly wrote to our son telling him to kill himself and told him they were bringing a gun to school to shoot and kill him.”
She said they also want police to “conduct a complete criminal investigation of the same bullies,” and listed phone numbers for school officials and the mayor’s office to encourage people to contact them about the issue.
In an interview, Jeanine Padilla said she would also like to see the high school implement a new policy on bullying.
“The school is missing an opportunity to teach them not to be bullies,” she said.
Nick Corsi, a friend of Jack’s and a freshman at Cherry Creek High, said students filed incident reports with the school detailing the bullying after the 15-year-old’s death. He said a group of students shoved, sat on and yelled at Jack.
The allegations of bullying and revelation of a police investigation come days after Cherry Creek High School canceled instruction following a second student’s suicide this semester. Instead, the school used class time on Friday to counsel students.
Officials at the Cherry Creek School District declined a request by The Denver Post for an interview with school officials regarding the two recent suicides.
“It does not matter if our children attend a public school, private school, religious school or some other type of school, they are impacted by suicide,” principal Ryan Silva wrote in a letter to students and parents.
“Anyone who thinks their school is immune from this issue is wrong,” Silva wrote in the March 31 letter. “I am confident that there is not one single way to combat suicide. I do believe, though, that we will only be successful in making progress if we all partner together.”
The rise of youth suicides in Colorado is being seen in schools across the state. Two middle school students in the Four Corners region killed themselves in January. Two seniors at Arapahoe High School in Centennial died within three days of each other last fall. And in August, a 9-year-old boy whose mother said was bullied in school killed himself.
Corsi and another student, Giovani Villagrana, are organizing a walkout at Cherry Creek High at 10:17 a.m. Friday to raise awareness about teen suicides. The two students, along with others, are running the #JACKSTRONG organization and the associated GoFundMe campaign with the Padilla family to raise awareness about teen mental health.
The walkout is being held April 5 to reflect the number of days Jack was hospitalized before he died and will last for 17 minutes. Jack’s jersey number when he played lacrosse was 17, Corsi said.
“The whole idea of the walkout is to spread awareness for suicide prevention and anti-bullying,” he said. “We’re just really worried about other kids.”
Jessica Seaman: 303-954-1593, jseaman@denverpost.com or @jessicaseaman
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State Lawmaker To Introduce Legislation To Remove Rep. Lebsock Over Sexual Harassment Allegations
By Bente Birkeland • Dec 1, 2017
Rep. Steve Lebsock (left) is the focus of numerous reports of sexual harassment. Rep. Matt Gray (right) plans to introduce legislation to remove him from office.
Photos Courtesy of the Office of Steve Lebsock/Office of Matt Gray
Originally published on June 30, 2018 10:59 am
A state lawmaker has drafted legislation to remove Rep. Steve Lebsock from office as Lebosck has refused calls for his resignation. It sets the stage for a battle, as allegations of sexual harassment continue at the Colorado Capitol. Lebsock is a Democrat running for state treasurer.
Rep. Matt Gray, also a Democrat, said he will introduce a resolution when lawmakers return to the legislature in January. Gray said he believes the accounts of the women who first accused Lebsock in our stories last month.
“I believe these women,” Gray said, “and I believe no other woman should have to go through what they went through.”
Gray said he would not run the resolution until the investigations triggered by the formal complaints are complete.
Lebsock’s response to the measure – and to two new allegations of verbal intimidation by two lobbyists – was to strongly deny every claim against him.
"The stories aren’t even true, so it’s very disappointing," Lebsock told us.
A two-thirds vote would be required in the House to remove Lebsock from office.
Only one lawmaker has ever been expelled in the state legislature and that was more than 100 years ago: Rep. William Howland was removed in 1915 for perjury, according to legislative staff.
“As members of the House of Representatives, it is our job to make sure everyone who comes to the Capitol never has to fear being assaulted or harassed.” said Gray. “I believe [Cassie] Tanner, [Holly] Tarry and Rep. [Faith] Winter when they say they were harassed or assaulted by Rep. Lebsock.”
Winter is a Democrat and Tarry is a former lobbyist. Both have formally complained in a process with House legislative leaders, alleging Lebsock sexually harassed them on separate occasions, making unwanted advances and using vulgar language.
Tanner, a former legislative aide, has gone public with allegations that Lebsock made repeated sexual advances and unbuttoned part of her blouse.
Last month, Gov. John Hickenlooper and House Speaker Crisanta Duran called on Lebsock to resign, but he has resisted that. Instead, he reiterated prior remarks that he expects “due process;” a chance to officially respond to the allegations made against him.
“Now what we have is a campaign to get me out of office before I even have an opportunity to tell my side of the story,” Lebsock said.
Meanwhile, on Friday (Dec. 1, 2017), two longtime lobbyists -- AnnMarie Jensen and Kristen Thompson -- came forward, willing to be named, saying that Lebsock was verbally hostile to them on separate occasions.
“He was definitely verbally and physically intimidating, a lot of screaming, getting in my face, pointing and yelling,” said Thomson, recounting several conflicts during the 2014 legislative session.
She alleges the incidents happened after or during in person meetings inside the state Capitol and “made it very difficult for me to do my job."
Lebsock disputed that characterization. His legislative aide at the time, Karen Spaulding, said Lebsock is being wrongly vilified and was not aggressive during her time at the capitol. She believes it’s politically motivated because people don’t want him to run for treasurer.
“I’m not saying he’s perfect, but none of the legislators are perfect,” said Spaulding. “Don’t just come after him and don’t make false allegations against him.”
Neither Thompson nor Jensen have filed formal complaints.
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A Fourth Formal Sexual Harassment Complaint At Colorado’s Capitol Names Sen. Tate
By Bente Birkeland • Nov 29, 2017
Another woman has decided to file a formal complaint alleging sexual harassment by a lawmaker at Colorado’s Capitol. The former legislative intern alleges that Sen. Jack Tate regularly leered at her and nudged her, making inappropriate comments during the 2017 legislative session.
That raises the number of formal complaints against lawmakers to four. Earlier this month, we reported that Rep. Faith Winter and former lobbyist Holly Tarry filed complaints against Rep. Steve Lebsock, a Democrat, alleging unwanted sexual advances and vulgar and inappropriate discussions.
Rep. Lebsock Alleges He Is Being Blackmailed, Harassed Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations
On Tuesday state Rep. Steve Lebsock went on the offensive regarding the sexual harassment allegations against him, claiming he was being blackmailed in an effort to force him to resign his House seat.
“This is a story about blackmail and coercion and extortion, is what this is,” he said.
New Allegations in Formal Sexual Harassment Complaint Filed Against Sen. Baumgardner
A former legislative aide has filed a sexual harassment complaint against Republican state Sen. Randy Baumgardner for inappropriately touching her.
The woman alleges that Baumgardner of Hot Sulphur Springs slapped and grabbed her buttocks about four times over a three month period during the 2016 legislative session when she worked at the State Capitol. She alleges that each incident happened inside the Capitol building during her workday, often while she was walking through a corridor next to the Senate Chamber.
Gov. Hickenlooper Calls For Resignation Of Rep. Lebsock Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations
Gov. John Hickenlooper is calling for the resignation of Rep. Steve Lebsock following allegations he sexually harassed 11 people, including three who are publicly named, one of them a fellow lawmaker.
"Now that the facts are apparent, he should certainly resign," said Hickenlooper.
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The Australian Health Practitioner’s Regulation Agency (AHPRA) is responsible for the registration and accreditation of 10 health professions across Australia. On behalf of the Boards the AHPRA manages investigations into the professional conduct, performance or health of registered health practitioners, except in NSW where it is done by the Health Care Complaints Commission.
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The functions of the Chiropractic Board of Australia include registering chiropractic practitioners and students; developing standards, codes and guidelines for the chiropractic profession; handling notifications, complaints, investigations and disciplinary hearings; assessing oversees practitioners who wish to practise in Australia; approving accreditation standards and accredited courses of study.
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The Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman safeguards the community in its dealings with the Australian Government. We also have oversight of some private sector organisations.
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The Recorder of Titles is the statutory officer responsible for providing the community with certainty of title to land. This is achieved by the development and administration of legislation governing land dealings in Tasmania. The Torrens title system provides people, commerce and industry with significant economic advantages when dealing with land.
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What You Need to Know About the Treatment of Transgender Persons in Custody
Under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Standards, transgender and intersex persons have some particular protections while in custody. Showers need to be private. There are some limits on searches. Jail and prison officials should give serious consideration to a transgender or intersex person’s own views on where they can be safely housed, including when assigning them to male or female facilities. In New York City, the Human Rights Commission has determined that housing should presumptively be based on gender identity. Birth anatomy should not be the determining factor in decisions on housing. In the New York State prison system, you can request housing in a gender-congruent facility by asking your counselor.
Read the PREA Standards here.
Basic protections for transgender people
Transgender people should have access to gender-confirming treatment. From a legal standpoint, “Gender Dysphoria” is a serious medical condition. Medical treatment should be consistent with accepted medical standards, and blanket bans on treatment, such as on access to hormones or to gender confirmation surgery, are illegal.
People should generally be allowed gender-appropriate clothing and grooming supplies, to allow people to present themselves consistently with their gender identity.
In New York City jails and New York State prisons, some progress in this area has been made, spearheaded by this office and the work of other advocates and the transgender community.
Progress has been too slow. Despite the legal requirements, too many transgender, non-binary and intersex persons in custody remain at extremely high risk of abuse. They are not treated in the same manner as cisgender persons, because of jail and prison officials’ claims that they cannot be housed consistently with their gender identity because of safety and security concerns.
We describe some basic information about filing a lawsuit for sexual abuse or a lack of needed medical care for people in jail or prison in other sections of our website. If the person is suing for discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the federal or State Constitutions or under the City or State Human Rights Laws, they should file a grievance and appeal it to the highest level in order to preserve their right to bring suit. Again, Notices of Claim must be filed within 90 days of the discriminatory to preserve the right to bring State law claims.
We are very concerned about the housing and treatment of LBGTQ persons in custody and urge you to contact us.
Treatment of transgender people in New York City jails
In the city jails, there is a transgender housing unit (THU) where many transgender women are housed safely. The THU is now in the women’s jail, so transgender women can program with, and on occasion be housed with cisgender women. Because they are housed in the women’s jail, they have access to the same clothing, commissary and packages as any other women. We continue to fight for gender-consistent housing, programming, and general treatment within the city jails.
If someone’s rights have been violated in the New York City jails, you or they can report the problem to DOC by calling 311 or by emailing the NYC Department of Correction at ConstituentServices@doc.nyc.gov. The person can also file a complaint with the New York City Human Rights Commission by calling 311 or 718 722-3131, online, or in person.
The person in custody can also file a grievance and appeal it to the highest level.
Treatment of transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and intersex people in New York State prisons
In the State prisons, progress has been slower and different than in the New York City jails. In the prisons, a very small number of transgender women are housed in women’s prison. They are, however, fully integrated into regular prison life and are not housed in a special protective housing unit.
State prisons now claim to provide people with gender-affirming clothing, including undergarments. The person in custody should report their gender identity to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (“DOCCS”), and can make a request to the Health Unit of their facility for a medical permit to possess gender-affirming clothing. That permit should be permanent, and issued without an expiration date.
Transgender persons can also request that pat frisks be conducted by an officer of the person’s preferred gender, and DOCCS maintains that it is their policy to “honor that request whenever possible.”
If someone’s rights have been violated in the prisons, who to contact depends on the problem. If it an issue of safety from another person in custody they can ask for protective custody, but it is very restrictive housing. They, or you, can contact officials at the prison, including the PREA Deputy Superintendent. If it’s a medical issue, you can contact the medical staff at the prison or Central Office Staff in Albany via:
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An employment contract is an agreement between an employer and employee that outlines the terms of their relationship, such as the employee’s salary and standard of service.
It should be noted that the relationship between an employer and employee is contractual even if no written document has been signed.
In Ontario, the relationship is governed by several statutes, including the Employment Standards Act, the Labour Relations Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act. These statutes establish some basic conditions of the employer-employee relationship, such as an employee’s minimum wage, maximum hours of work and minimum notice for dismissal. Furthermore, the relationship is affected by common law rules, including rules dealing with unfair bargaining power and an employee’s duties of loyalty, confidentiality and good faith.
Nonetheless, many employers require prospective employees to enter into formal written employment contracts. Such contracts add a degree of certainty about the terms of the employer-employee relationship and are useful if any disputes about the employment arise.
Creating a valid employment contract
An employment contract, like all contracts, requires that each party provide consideration to be binding. Consideration is something of value, such as money, or, in the context of an employment agreement, the employer’s promise of a job and the employee’s promise to provide a service. Furthermore, such consideration must be provided at the time the agreement is made. An employment contract that is made with an existing employee will not be binding unless the employer provides additional consideration. A promise to continue to employ an employee is not valid consideration. However, a promotion or bonus that would not have otherwise occurred in the normal course of the relationship would be sufficient.
Another requirement is that an employment contract must be entered into voluntarily by the parties. The employer has the onus to show that the employee was able to negotiate without coercion or undue influence, particularly if some terms in the contract are harsh or restrictive. An employer might require a prospective employee to obtain independent advice to establish that the agreement was freely made. At the very least, the prospective employee should have sufficient time to read and understand the contract before being required to sign it.
Essential features of an employment contract
An employment contract must contain a number of features. This includes:
the names of the parties,
the date when the contract begins,
the contract’s duration, and
a description of the employee’s duties.
In addition, the contract should set out the employee’s rate of pay and how and when such payment will occur. An employment contract cannot violate the minimum statutory standards for minimum wage, timing of payment, maximum hours of work and payment for overtime.
There are also minimum statutory standards for notice of dismissal or payment in lieu of such notice. An employment contract should provide for at least as much notice as that required by legislation. If a clause breaches the statutory minimum standard for notice of dismissal, a court may replace the clause with the common law notice period, which is a much longer period than that provided by the current legislation.
Finally, an employment contract should outline a standard of performance which the employee is expected to meet and provide an employer with some flexibility to change an employee’s job description.
Many employment contracts use restrictive covenants to protect the legitimate proprietary interests of an employer. Such clauses restrict the rights of a former employee to compete with their former employer and to disclose confidential information learned while on the job. The contract must outline the scope of information which is deemed to be confidential, the duration of the restrictions, and the geographic area which the restrictions cover. Furthermore, the restrictions must be reasonable, particularly in regards to geographic area and duration. An employer cannot restrict the right of a former employee to compete indefinitely.
When an employee’s position involves research or development, many employers use a clause in the employment contract which states that discoveries, improvements and other creative achievements by the employee during the course of the employment are the property of the employer.
In addition to these basic features, many employment contracts have more technical provisions that address the legal parameters of the contract. For instance, a clause might state that the contract represents the entire agreement between the employer and employee (which might prevent an employee from attempting to bind an employer to an oral promise that was not included in a subsequent contract).
Some other technical provisions sever an invalid clause from an otherwise valid contract and establish the jurisdiction for legal disputes about the contract.
There are many other aspects of the employer-employee relationship which can be addressed in an employment contract.
For more information about employment issues, refer to the Employment Law section of Legal Line, or visit the Ontario Ministry of Labour.
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Simone James said she was “fuming” when her young daughter Lexie Bacon came home last night holding a Monopoly-themed scratch card, and asked the youngster where she got it.
She claims her daughter, a pupil at Broad Oak Primary School, said she was sold it at Saints News and General on Newton Road, Parr.
The mum-of-five, who also has daughters Lillie, seven, Levi, six, Lottie-Lu, one and son Leon, five, said: “I am literally shaking, I am that fuming.
“I said to her ‘how did you get that?’ and she said ‘I just said I wanted a number two scratch card for my auntie and they gave it to me’.
The scratch card allegedly sold to Lexie
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“Lexie has been honest and told the truth, she said she just wanted to win a bit of money and I have shouted at her for it but it is the shop that are in the wrong.
“She is nine years of age.”
Nine-year-old Lexie Bacon
Simone, who has yet to check if the scratch card, said she contacted police on 101 and was told to contact trading standards, where she has now directed her complaint.
She added: “Something needs to be done about it. We always go to that shop and I spend a lot of money there and my kids go in after school every day.
“They won’t be going anymore, I have banned them from going in there.”
The ECHO has attempted to reach Saints News and General for comment.
St Helens Trading Standards said it will investigate the matter.
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LSU Alumnus Preston Kennedy named Incoming Chairman of the Independent Community Bankers of America
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NASHVILLE - At the annual convention of the Independent Community Bankers of America held March 18 - 22 in Nashville, TN, Preston Kennedy was named chairman of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA). Kennedy became only the third Louisiana community banker to assume the post in the ninety-year history of ICBA, the only national trade association dedicated exclusively to serving the interests of community banks.
Kennedy graduated cum laude from the College of Business in 1978 with bachelor’s degrees in real estate and general business. Kennedy currently serves as president emeritus of the Bank of Zachary, in addition to his role as vice chairman of the bank's board of directors.
Kennedy has served in many leadership roles at ICBA and is chairman of the Executive Committee and the board of directors. He is a member of ICBA’s Policy Development and Nominating committees. He also serves as Executive Committee liaison to the Agriculture-Rural America Subcommittee and the Minority Bank Council. He is past chairman of the Federal Delegate Board and previously served on the Cyber and Data Security Committee. Kennedy was treasurer on ICBA’s Executive Committee in 2014-16 and was an ICBA at-large director in 2011-12. He also served as ICBA’s state delegate for Louisiana.
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About The Bleeding
"The Bleeding" is a song by American heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch. It is the lead single from the band's first album The Way of the Fist (2007), released through Firm Music.
I remember when all the games began
Remember every little lie
And every last goodbye
Promises you broke, words you choked on
And I never walked away its still a mystery to me
Well I'm so empty
I'm better off without you and you're better off without me
Well you're so unclean
The lying
The screaming, was tearing me apart
The hatred
Deceiving
Paint the mirrors black (to forget you)
I still picture your face and the way you used to taste
Roses in a glass dead and wilted
To you this all was nothing,
Everything to you is nothing
Well you're so filthy
Well I'm so ugly
You're better off without me and I'm better off without
The beatings
As wicked as you are, you're beautiful to me
You're the darkest burning star, your my perfect disease
Five Finger Death Punch (also initialized as 5FDP or FFDP) is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 2005, the group's name is derived from classic oriental martial arts cinema. The band originally consisted of vocalist Ivan Moody, guitarist Zoltan Bathory, guitarist Caleb Bingham, bassist Matt Snell, and drummer Jeremy Spencer. Bingham was replaced by guitarist Darrell Roberts in 2006, who was then replaced by Jason Hook in 2009. Bassist Matt Snell departed from the band in 2010 and was replaced by Chris Kael in 2011. more »
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Soul Song [Bonus Track]
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David Patrick Wilcox (born 1958) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter guitarist. He has been active in the music business since the late 1980s. more »
If you let it get too quiet
There's a whisper in your bones
You can feel it more than hear it
But there's something close when you're alone
You turn up all the distractions
But the whisper still gets through
And you don't know what its asking
Don't know what this calls for you to do
You don't have to hear
It's only a sound
It's only your soul that's crying out
You don't have to feel what it's about
It's only your soul that' crying out
You hear it growing stronger
And it wakes you from your dreams
But you don't fear it any longer
'Cause at last you've heard just what it means
Now you can see
Look what you've found
It's only your soul crying out
You don't have to fear what it's about
You don't have to fear it's only a sound
It's only your soul
When you let yourself get quiet
You don't have to fear
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Published: August 1, 2018, 8:55 am
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Miami restaurant donates profits to relief effort in Greece
South Florida diners pack Mandolin Aegean Bistro for special cause
MIAMI – It's one of the hottest restaurants on the South Florida food scene. But Tuesday night Mandolin Aegean Bistro shined for its generosity, donating the evening's profits to the relief effort in Greece after last week's devastating wildfires.
On any given night, Mandolin Aegean Bistro in Miami's Design District is packed with South Florida foodies who flock there for the delicious Greco-Turkish fare. But Tuesday night was special. This was dinner for a cause.
"I thought the stories were tragic," regular customer Terence Riley told Local 10 News.
The owners and staff at Mandolin Aegean Bistro saw the desperate need in Greece. At least 92 people are dead and hundreds are homeless after last week's fast-moving wildfires engulfed the coastal towns near Athens, heavily damaging or destroying more than 3,500 structures.
"Greece is so close to our heart," assistant manager Krizia Vargas said. "I mean, we're a Greek and Turkish restaurant, so they're neighbors to us. They're family, and we all came together and decided that, you know, we had to do something to help all the victims and everyone (who) lost their homes."
The crisis in Greece is the worst since World War II and comes at a time when the Greek economy is struggling.
South Florida residents stepped up and packed the restaurant.
All the money raised goes toward the rebuilding of an orphanage that was destroyed in the wildfires.
The restaurant has hosted similar relief dinners after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico and an earthquake rocked Mexico City last year.
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Gurdwara Sahib Police Ipoh Tour & Turban Workshop
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Explore the history of one of the major religions in Malaysia and the place of worship for Sikhs with a one-day Gurdwara tour in Ipoh. You will visit Gurdwara Sahib Police Ipoh which is located within the compound of the central police station in Ipoh, Perak; a state where most of the Sikhs settled and it has the most number of Gurdwara in Malaysia.
Gurdwara means ‘door to the Guru’, a place of worship for Sikhs. Each Gurdwara has a main hall referred as Darbar Sahib, where the current and everlasting Guru of the Sikhs, with the holy scripture for Sikhs known as Sri Guru Granth Sahib, is placed on an elevated throne known as Takhat in a prominent central position. The Sikh flag, which is a flagpole bearing the Nishan Sahib is used as identification for Gurdwara. Gurdwara functions as a focal point for all Sikhs religious, cultural and community activities.
On this tour, you will learn via storytelling about history and function of Gudwara Sahib Police Ipoh by involving into activities such as prayers and visit around the temple with the aid of an experienced guide. Get along with the locals and get the chance to taste the traditional food prepared voluntarily by the Sikhs.
Learn about ‘Dastar’, ‘pagri’, or ‘pagg’ which is known as the Sikh turban, a headgear and tradition that is strongly associated with Sikhism. It plays an important role in the Sikhism until current time. You will get to learn on the history and functions, and how to wear Sikh turban under the proper guidance of professionals and experienced locals by participating into this workshop.
The Sikh turban represents as a part of Sikh identity apart from knowing as a well-known part of feature in Sikhism’s traditional attire, it has a strong connection related to Sikhism martial history. The turban carries both practical and spiritual significance. In the past, it was served as a flexible and convenient protection against enemies attack such as arrows, bullets, spears, maces, and swords. In addition, it was said to help the Sikh’s to keep their long hair out of his eyes and most importantly to avoid from enemies’ grasp. An interesting point which was mentioned by modern proponents of the turban, argued that turban provides better protection than a motorcycle helmet.
Come and experience the culture of Sikhs
Get your turban tied, you will be taught on the steps on tying turban before entering into Gudwara. Then, we will begin our tour around the Gudwara with our local expert.
On this tour, you will learn via storytelling about history and function of Gudwara Sahib Police Ipoh by involving into activities such as prayers and visit around the temple with the aid of our local expert. Get along with the locals and get the chance to taste the traditional food prepared voluntarily by the Sikhs.
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Turkey invests in wind energy
28 May 2012 | Çagri Yurddas, Marketing Chief, Cam Elyaf Sanayi AS
Camelyaf produces the WR6 single end glass roving for wind turbine blade manufacture.
Turkey's wind energy capacity is expected to reach 20 000 MW by 2023.
Turkish glass reinforced plastics market by application. (Source: Cam Elyaf.)
Almost 70% of Turkey’s energy requirement is supplied by imports. This dependency on foreign energy sources is an important reason behind Turkey’s current account deficit and reducing this dependency is a key part of the country’s economic policy.
Under these circumstances, Turkey’s great wind energy potential becomes more valuable. In order to exploit this potential, investors, raw material producers and some other segments of the industry intensively lobbied government officials to grant licences. The Turkish government is also supporting the local production of wind farm components.
Investors eye Turkish market
The following factors are accelerating the development of the Turkish wind energy sector:
Turkey plans to reduce its dependency on imported fossil fuels by utilising its renewable energy potential more. The country aims to have a 20 000 MW installed capacity generated by wind turbines by 2030. If it reaches this goal, Turkey will have the third highest capacity in Europe, after Spain and Germany. Current installed capacity is 1786 MW.
Turkey’s energy imports account for roughly 70% of the current deficit. Because of this, the Turkish government is encouraging investors to implement energy projects in Turkey with new incentives on renewable energy.
To speed up investments in renewable energy, the Ministry of Energy and Natural Sources and the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) promulgated Renewable Energy Regulations with some amendments on the RE (Renewable Energy) Law (Tariffs & Domestic components) recently.
The regulation on domestic components adjusts and increases the Turkish feed-in tariffs as follows:
wind: US$0.073/kWh tariff;
hydraulic: US$0.073/kWh tariff;
geothermal: US$0.105/kWh tariff;
biomass: US$0.133/kWh tariff;
solar: US$0.133/kWh tariff.
Tariffs are applied for a ten-year period to power generation projects completed in 2005-2015.
The RE Law (2010) also includes bonus payments for hardware components made in Turkey to support and boost domestic manufacturing. Bonus payments to wind investors, which are essential to promote locally produced equipment, are:
blades: US$0.008 /kWh;
generator and power
electronics: US$0.010 /kWh;
tower: US$0.006 /kWh;
all mechanical parts: US$0.013/kWh.
These developments make the Turkish wind energy sector a focal point for local and internat-ional investors and manufacturers of composite parts.
Enercon has had a blade production facility in Izmir, Turkey, since 2002. Alkeg Energy and Soyut Wind also manufacture blades in Turkey. The blades are generally produced using vacuum infusion technology.
Recently, TPI Composites Inc, a US headquartered supplier of wind turbine blades, and Turkish engineering, manufacturing and construction company Alke Insaat have formed a joint venture company in Turkey to manufacture large blades.
GE Energy, Gamesa, Nordex and Siemens are international investors which want to strengthen their position in the Turkish renewable energy sector. Vestas has delivered a cumulative capacity of 556 MW to the Turkish market, which gave it a 30% market share at the end 2011.
Duratek, located in Izmir, supplies epoxy resin supplier to blade manufacturers, and Cam Elyaf Sanayii AS is an important supplier of glass fibre for wind blade manufacture.
The use of domestic components in wind turbine blades, declared by EMRA through the RE law, delegates responsibilities to Cam Elyaf Sanayii AS as the sole glass fibre producer in Turkey.
Cam Elyaf, a subsidiary of SISECAM, produces direct roving glass fibre WR6 that is used in wind turbine blades in the form of woven textiles. All the wind turbine blade producers use glass fibre textile that is certified by Germanischer Lloyd (GL). WR6 is also certified by GL. Good unwinding properties, high process performance, fast and complete wet out, high mechanical properties and compatibility with unsaturated polyester resin, vinyl ester and epoxy resins makes Cam Elyaf direct rovings ideal for wind blade manufacture.
In recent years, following huge wind power investments in the US, EU and China, Turkey also took a historical step in this field. After a development period of more than for 2.5 years, Turkey’s first locally developed and produced wind turbine will start to roll out late next year. Developed by a team of experts and scientists from Sabanci University, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS-TAI), Istanbul Technical University (ITU), and Istanbul Ulasim AS, the National Wind Energy System (MILRES) project aims to promote the use of renewable sources in energy production and lay the foundation of a local wind energy industry. ♦
This article was published in the May/June 2012 issue of Reinforced Plastics magazine. To obtain your free copy of each issue of the magazine please complete the registration form.
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J.T. Miller Company has been providing businesses and lenders with quality insurance since 1926. The company works closely with lenders, banks, credit unions and financial companies, creating customized insurance packages that meet each customer’s unique set of needs.
Like many companies, J.T. Miller Company was maintaining its own servers and paying a flat rate per month for a service vendor to assist remotely or send a technician out to fix issues when they occurred. Without a dedicated IT staff, Vice President Daniel Miller took on the responsibility to troubleshoot IT issues. According to Miller, the company was having consistent back up issues and needing to reboot every week.
“It seemed like we were spending more and more time on connection issues or printing issues or that backup wasn’t running properly. I was spending probably five to 10 hours per week on that.”
J.T. Miller Company began to evaluate its IT expenses, looking at cost-per-year over the past two or three server cycles and comparing vendors. What Miller found was that based on the costs to replace equipment every three to five years, having to update software and all the technician time to transfer data and fix errors, it made sense financially to move to a cloud solution.
The company was an early adopter of the cloud back in June of 2010 - which to some, seemed like a strange thing. But to Miller, it didn’t feel like a risk at all. By using Marco’s cloud solution, J.T. Miller Company was able to have servers in a secure data center, an off-site backup and a team of technicians to take care of all its needs, without having to come out to their office.
According to Miller, the most notable benefit of the cloud is the company’s reduced downtime. Prior to the cloud, J.T. Miller’s system was down 30 minutes per week and staff was dealing with the long process and hassle of a full reboot. After implementing the cloud, J.T. Miller Company moved its office location. Because of the cloud, Miller says they experienced a seamless transition in the move - with only a half of a day of a technician on-site, the company was up and running smoothly that very same day.
As an insurance company with primarily financial institutions as customers, security is very important. Because of Marco’s cloud solution, J.T. Miller is able to provide documentation to its customers on the security of the off-site data centers where company information is stored.
J.T. Miller projected a cost savings of up to 20%, but the real savings was in the decreased time and energy spent in IT maintenance. The five to 10 hours a week that Miller used to spend dealing with IT issues can now be spent on running a quality company that focuses on business and marketing initiatives.
“We are not a tech company, it’s not what we do. We can handle basic stuff in house, but it has been nice to not have to worry about it. Less hassle and less time and energy spent on IT maintenance has increased our ROI more than expected.”
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Nia Butler with NZSD Contemporary Dancers
Students pursue performance opportunities
Some of our dedicated cultural students have been busy over the holidays, performing in workshops and competitions, here's what they've been up to:
Nia Butler
Nia Butler spent two weeks dancing full time. The first week was her annual Winter School at New Zealand School of Dance with over 250 students from throughout the country attending the 5 days training. Then, as part of her Associates Programme with the NZSD as a Senior Contemporary student, Nia was able to dance full time for a week with the first year full-time Contemporary students. The classes included improv, composition, hot yoga, ballet and a lot of contemporary classes with guest tutors from overseas. This was a particular highlight for Nia and an amazing insight into the life of a professional dancer.
Anabel Jamieson had a terrific time over the break. At the South Auckland Performing Arts Vocal Competition, she won two firsts and a second place and the Gwenneth Short Challenge Cup. Then at the Hutt Valley Performing Arts Vocal Competition, Anabel won five firsts, and many other awards, including the intermediate scholarship and the Maxwell Jarman Challenge Cup.
But it didn't stop there, she has also been named as a semi-finalists in the Unsigned Only worldwide songwriting competition. From 6000 entries, Annie is the only New Zealand entrant in her category making the semi finals with her song ‘By My Side'. Unsigned Only is the premier music competition in the world for indie and unsigned artists and we wish her all the best for the next step.
Jemma in Y13 also performed in the Hutt Valley Performing Arts Vocal Competition winning 1st place for NZ Composer as well as two other trophies and the award for the Most Versatile Performer. Jemma also won the Senior Scholarship.
Amy Nathanson
Performing in the same competition, Amy Nathanson in Y11 won the Jazz, Own Composition and Music Theatre categories, along with a number of second places and a very highly recommended.
Bravo girls! You have really made the most of your holidays pursuing your passions. Well done!
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April 17, 2011 Banquet
MHRD Hall of Fame Recipients
The <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Morris Hills - Morris Knolls Foundation is a non profit 501 (c) (3) organization that raises funds to benefit the students of the Morris Hills Regional District. Our primary goals include awarding scholarships to students and providing mini-grants to teachers for use in their classrooms. The establishment of an endowment fund is also under way.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
The Foundation’s main fundraiser is a banquet to honor the newest members of the Morris Hills Regional District Hall of Fame.
Corporate sponsorships of our banquet are welcomed. All sponsors will be appropriately recognized in the banquet program. Three levels of sponsorships are available:
Knight or Eagle - $ 2,000.00 includes Full Page Program Ad & Banquet Table for eight
Scarlet or Green - $ 1,000.00 includes 1/2 Page Program Ad & four Banquet Tickets
White or Gold - $ 500.00 includes 1/4 Page Program Ad & two Banquet Tickets
Program Ads (1/8 Page) are also available for $ 100.00 each.
Our fifth annual banquet was an unqualified success and we are looking forward to another memorable event. We are excited to once again honor a fine group of inductees. The selection process will begin in January and honorees will be announced before the end of the month. Brief biographies of last year’s notable individuals are attached.
On behalf of the Foundation, we would like to invite you to attend our tribute banquet on April 17, 2011 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Rockaway, NJ. The banquet will begin at 12 noon and end at 4:00 p.m.
Tickets to the banquet are available at the general offices of the Morris Hills and Morris Knolls High Schools and in the Superintendent’s Office. Reserved tables of eight will be available for $360.00. Individual tickets will be available for $ 50.00. Tickets will also be available by mail. Please make checks payable to Morris Hills-Morris Knolls Foundation and send to Morris Hills-Morris Knolls Foundation, 48 Knoll Drive, Rockaway, NJ 07866. Be sure to respond by April 7, 2011 so that we can include your sponsorship in our banquet program.
For more information, please call Joyce Semer at 973-664-2291 or Jerry Piernot at 973-989-9995.
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Jerry Piernot, MH-MK Foundation President
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MotoGP™: Márquez claims unchallenged win at Aragon
The 2019 Gran Premio Michelin® de Aragon – Round 14 of the 2019 MotoGPTM World Championship – was won by Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda Team) by a margin of almost five seconds over Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team). Jack Miller (Pramac Racing) was third. Márquez could settle this year’s title chase in Thailand in two weeks’ time.
Márquez hit the ground running at the Gran Premio Michelin® de Aragon to top the order in Free Practice 1, a full 1.6 seconds quicker than the rest of the field. Maverick Viñales (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) and Alex Rins (Team Suzuki Ecstar) were fastest in sessions two and three but couldn’t prevent the Honda rider from claiming his seventh qualifying victory of the season.
Racing on medium- and soft-compound MICHELIN Power Slicks front and rear, Márquez got away cleanly at lights-out and immediately set a blistering pace, positing his fastest race lap on the second of the afternoon’s 23 laps. By the midway point, he was more than five seconds clear and a fast, consistent second half helped him to celebrate his 200th grand prix start with his eighth victory of the campaign.
Competing on the same tyre combination as the day’s winner, Dovizioso had qualified 10th on the grid but a gutsy display saw him slice his way up the order in the race. By half-distance, he was up to fourth, and he went on to pick off Miller and Viñales on Laps 15 and 21 to take the flag in second spot, practically five seconds back.
Miller robbed Viñales of third place on the last lap, while Fabio Quartararo (Petronas Yamaha SRT) was fifth.
Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda), Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini), Valentino Rossi (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP), Rins and Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda) rounded out the top 10.
Four of the six tyre options provided by Michelin were used in Spain. All the riders with the exception of Mika Kallio (hard) went for the medium front MICHELIN Power Slick which they combined with either a soft or hard rear.
The MICHELIN Power Rain made two appearances, for Saturday morning’s Free Practice 3 and Sunday’s warm-up run.
The podium ceremonies in every class saw Michelin present personalised 3D-printed titanium trophies. These prizes were designed especially for the Aragon grand prix and were made by Poly-Shape which is already active in motorsport. Poly-Shape is a subsidiary of the French group AddUp, a leader in the world of 3D metal additive manufacturing and co-owned by Michelin.
Today’s result has taken Márquez 98 points clear of Dovizioso at the top of the provisional Riders’ standings. The Spaniard will make sure of the 2019 title if he succeeds in earning two more points than his rival in Thailand. Rins (+144 points) is third.
Next race: PTT Thailand Grand Prix, Buriram (October 4-6).
Rally Australia cancellation hands WRC crown to Hyundai, with Michelin*
Raging fires in New South Wales have forced Rally Australia’s organisers to cancel the curtain-closing round of the 2019 FIA World Rally Championship. Their decision has handed this season’s Manufacturers’ title to Hyundai which has earned Michelin’s 56th WRC crown in the process.
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Mustangs eliminated with 6-4 loss to Chukars
By Billings Mustangs | September 12, 2019 5:23 PM
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- The Billings Mustangs (1-2) were eliminated from the 2019 postseason with a 6-4 loss to the Idaho Falls Chukars (2-1) in game three of the Pioneer League North Divisional Series at Melaleuca Field.
Game three had previously been suspended due to weather twice, on both Tuesday and Wednesday nights, at Melaleuca Field. With the weather finally cooperating on Thursday, play resumed in the bottom of the second with the Mustangs leading 1-0. The first inning and a half was played on Tuesday when Victor Ruiz singled in Quin Cotton to give Billings an early lead.
Carlos Carreno took the hill for the Mustangs in the bottom of the second to resume play on Thursday. With two outs, Jimmy Govern reached on a throwing error to keep the inning alive. The Chukars capitalized on the mistake with an RBI double from Isaiah Henry and an RBI single from Stephan Vidal to take their first lead at 2-1.
James Free homered in the third to tie the game up, the first home run of the postseason for Billings. It was Free's eighth home run of the season.
Isaiah Henry's leadoff double in the fifth for the Chukars turned into a run later in the inning on a wild pitch. Henry finished the game 2-for-3 with two doubles, three runs scored, an RBI and a hit-by-pitch. Henry scored four runs and drove in three over the series for Idaho Falls.
Trailing 3-2 in the sixth, Leonardo Seminati would be the next man up for Billings to deliver a game-tying home run, his team-leading 10th of the season. Seminati went 3-for-4 in his final game of the year.
The key moment of the day came in the bottom of the seventh inning. In a 3-3 tie with two men on and two out, Clay Dungan drove a three-run home run to right to put the Chukars up for good. It was Dungan's first home run in nearly two months.
Trailing by three runs going to the top of the ninth, the Billings offense mounted a rally to inject some late hope into the game. Reniel Ozuna doubled to lead off the top of the ninth and Quin Cotton doubled him in two batters later. With a man at second, one out and the tying run at the plate, the Mustangs had their final two batters retired to end the game and fall just short of the comeback.
With the win, the Chukars will advance to the Pioneer League Championship Series to take on the Ogden Raptors in a best-of-three series for the 2019 title.
With the loss, the Mustangs' season comes to a close. They finished the regular season 39-37 and were a Pioneer League-best 24-14 in the second half.
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Pittsburgh airport gas drilling now official
By By Kaitlynn Riely and Of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Aug 25, 2014 | 8:21 PM
Gov. Tom Corbett was among the dignataries on hand for Monday's 'project kickoff' for Consol Energy's natural gas development project near Pittsburgh International Airport. (LARRY ROBERTS, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE)
PITTSBURGH — Ground was broken months ago near Pittsburgh International Airport for Consol Energy's natural gas development project, and drilling began Aug. 15.
On Monday morning, Gov. Tom Corbett, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and Consol President and CEO Nick DeIuliis gathered near at drilling site for the "project kickoff."
"It's an important milestone," said Tommy Johnson, vice president of government and public relations for Consol.
For Allegheny County, and especially for Pittsburgh International Airport, it's an important project.
Consol has built two well pads and plans to construct four more to drill 47 Marcellus Shale wells on a footprint covering more than 9,000 acres of county-owned land near the airport.
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The Washington County-based company expects the airport project will bring more than $1 billion to the region, including a $50 million bonus payment paid to the Allegheny County Airport Authority last year, 18 percent royalties to the authority over the next two decades, and $500 million in capital spending by Consol.
"This is a good way to utilize public lands, public assets, to benefit the public. This public-private partnership ... is going to be very beneficial," said Fitzgerald, who said the benefits will be especially significant for the airport.
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The airport, which once served 20 million passengers a year, has struggled in the decade since US Airways removed Pittsburgh as a hub, Fitzgerald said.
Now, with 8 million passengers a year, per-passenger landing fees have increased. Fitzgerald said gaming revenue from the state has helped somewhat, but he said the airport is strained by the annual $62 million it must pay to service the debt from building the airport.
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Revenues from Marcellus Shale development — Fitzgerald puts his estimate of the county's take at $20 million to $25 million a year for the life of the lease — will go to pay down the airport's debt. That will reduce per-flight costs to make the airport more competitive and attract flights back to Pittsburgh.
"We're sitting on a very valuable asset," he said.
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That asset already has started delivering. Fitzgerald said the airport authority has twice reduced fees at the airport thanks to the initial Consol payment.
Allegheny County Council approved the plan in February 2013, and approvals from Findlay Township, where most of the project will be, and the Federal Aviation Administration came through this spring. Construction and site preparation began soon after.
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Construction of well sites and three water impoundments will continue through 2015, Johnson said. Production also is expected to start next year.
Vertical drilling will continue through 2017, with horizontal drilling beginning in the fourth quarter and running through late 2018 or early 2019, Johnson said. The project will eventually include 10 miles of gas pipeline and 11 miles of waterline.
"I think we're going to point to this one as a good model for other areas of our operation," Johnson said.
In March, Allegheny County Health Department began monitoring air quality in Findlay's Imperial Pointe neighborhood, close to the drilling site, to establish a base line for comparisons after drilling starts. That base line has been established, and the numbers are posted on the county website.
Noise levels also are being monitored, and emergency responders have received training on responding to gas emergencies.
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Day Trips from the Lehigh Valley
Enjoy a Brooklyn pizza tour on the trip offered by Notre Dame of Bethlehem 55+ Club. (MORNING CALL FILE PHOTO)
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•"Mary Poppins," Paper Mill Playhouse, June 21. $98. "Newsies," Fulton Theater, July 12. $97.Operation Sunshine, 610-435-9155.
•Italian Festival, Ehrhardt's, Sept. 13. $79. St. Elizabeth Golden Agers, Barbara, 610-266-2874.
•Phillies vs. Diamondbacks, June 18. $65. Northern Lehigh Recreation Authority, Mike, 484-633-0093.
•9/11 Museum, Sept. 6. $62. Christmas Show, American Music Theater, Nov. 1. $65. Holy Trinity Seniors in Action, Julie, 610-262-6058.
•Cape May, Smithville Historic Village, Lobster House, more. May 6. $50. River Lady Lunch Cruise, Pier Village, May 24. $90; $85, ages 11 and under. Bronx Zoo, Little Italy, Arthur Avenue, June 11. $45, plus zoo admission. Street of Shops, Lewisburg, Roller Mills Antique Center, Aug. 9. $45. Cape May, Aug; 26. $50. Optional guided trolley, Physick Estate & Carriage House, $18.50. San Gennaro Italian Festival, High Line Park and Chelsea Market or 9/11 Museum, Sept. 21. $45. West Point Buffet Lunch, River Rose Cruise, History & Traditions Guided Tour, Oct. 25. $120. Miracle of Christmas, Sight & Sound, Nov. 15. $97. Christmas in New York City, Grand Central Terminal and Rockefeller Center, Dec. 6. $45. Celebrate Life, Camille, 908-387-0001.
•"My Fair Lady," Dutch Apple Theater, May 11. $77. "Magic of Las Vegas," American Music Theater, June 7. $78. Hershey Farms, dinner and show, July 20. $65. Lower Lehigh AARP, Doris, 610-966-3653.
•"Mamma Mia," Mount Airy, June 21. $62. "Home for the Holidays," American Music Theater, Dec. 13. $88. St. Elizabeth Golden Agers, Irene, 610-264-3721.
•"Legends in Music," Li Grecia's, April 25. $80. Martin & Lewis tribute, Penn's Peak, May 18. $70. Comedy & Ventriloquist Show, Eckhardt's, June 28. $75. Lower Macungie Seniors, Doris, 610-966-3653.
•"The Land We Love," Hunterdon Hills, July 12. $81. "Home for the Holidays," American Music Theater, Nov. 29. $90. Coplay Senior Citizens, Clara, 610-433-4063.
•"Shades of Buble," Mt. Airy, May 23. $64. "Pippin the Musical," Dutch Apple Theater, Sept. 13. $82.50. "Come Blow Your Horn," Hunterdon Hills, Oct. 11. $85. "Home for the Holidays," American Music Theater, Dec. 6. $86. Walnutport Senior Travel Club, Dianne, 610-767-5646.
•Yankees vs. Texas Rangers, June 24. $98. Mets vs. Phillies, July 1. $90. Phillies vs. Chicago Cubs, Aug. 26. $80. Corning Museum of Glass, Pa. Grand Canyon, Oct. 7. $110. Emmanuel United Methodist Church, Jeff, 484-264-6265.
•"Vegas Legends," American Music Theater, May 4. $85. "Guys & Dolls," Bucks County Playhouse, Aug. 3. $95. "Miracle of Christmas," Sight & Sound, Dec. 7. $104. Queenship of Mary Church, Margie, 610-262-3174.
•"Legends of Pop," Hunterdon Hills, June 10. $90. "Vegas Legends," American Music Theatre, July 23. $85. Assumption Travel Club, John, 610-767-3036.
•Frank Sinatra Show, Penn's Peak, May 11. $64. Las Vegas Show, American Music Theatre, June 7. $72. Rat Pack Show, Atlantic City, June 26. $78. "Sex @ Sixty," Rainbow Dinner Theatre, Sept. 6. $74. 9/11 Memorial Museum, New York, Oct. 18. $86. New York Gourmet Shopping, Zabar's, Little Italy, Trader Joe, Nov. 18. $38. Whitehall AARP 3115, Kathy, 610-799-2793.
•Brooklyn Pizza Tour, April 27. $90. Notre Dame of Bethlehem 55+ Club, Joyce, 610-866-0360.
•"Jonah," Sight & Sound, May 17. $97. Broadway, choice of "Miss Saigon," $155; "Bandstand," $145; or "Come From Away." $159, June 7. Lehigh Valley Active Life, 610-437-3700.
•"Mamma Mia," Mount Airy, June 21. $58. Frankie Vallie Tribute, Mount Airy, Nov. 7. $58. Christmas Show, American Music Theater, Nov. 29 and Dec. 6. $79. St. Thomas More Prime Time, Marie, 610-965-9960.
•Rail & Sail New England, Aug. 14-18. $798, double; $993, single. Sacred Heart Travelers, Bernie, 610-691-6054.
•Branson and the Ozarks, guided tour of St. Louis, seven shows, guided tour of Branson, Flight 93 memorial, more, Sept. 22-30. $975. Lehigh Valley Active Life, 610-437-3700.
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By Michelle M. Cain on April 02, 2018
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Among the provisions of the recently-passed 2,232-page federal budget bill, signed by President Trump on March 23, 2018, is an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) affecting employers with tipped employees. The amendment to the FLSA provides that an employer “may not keep tips received by its employees for any purposes, including allowing managers or supervisors to keep any portion of employees’ tips, regardless of whether or not the employer takes a tip credit.” The amendment also allows tip sharing between tipped and non-tipped employees, as long as the employer pays full minimum wage (rather than the tipped minimum) to its employees.
The amendment upholds part of Obama-era Department of Labor rules that restricted owners and managers from collecting or retaining tips earned by employees. Unlike those rules, however, it provides that if employees are paid full minimum wage, tipped employees such as servers and bartenders may share their tips with non-tipped employees such as cooks and dishwashers. It also nullifies the Department of Labor’s late 2017 proposed rule which would have permitted tip sharing and would not have prohibited members of management or employers from retaining employee tips.
The amendment also provides for civil penalties not to exceed $1,100 for each violation, and provides for employer liability to employees for all tips unlawfully retained, and the sum of any tip credit taken by the employer, as well as liquidated damages.
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Immunoglobulin treatment in post-polio syndrome: Identification of responders and non-responders
Gunilla Östlund, PhD, Lisbet Broman, CLS, Lars Werhagen, MD, PhD and
Kristian Borg, MD, PhD
From the Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Karolinska Institutet,
Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
OBJECTIVE: To define and characterize responders and non-responders in a group of 124 patients with post-polio syndrome who received a single treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin.
DESIGN: Open trial, prospective follow-up study.
METHODS: Clinical examination and data from medical records. Short Form 36 (SF-36), Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE) and visual analogue scale (VAS) measured quality of life, physical activity and intensity of pain, respectively. Data were obtained before treatment and at 6-month follow-up.
RESULTS: Two responder groups were identified with the outcome SF-36 Vitality and 3 with Bodily pain, respectively. Forty-five percent were positive-responders, identified before treatment by reduced physical function, muscle atrophy in the lower extremities, higher levels of fatigue and pain, and a VAS pain score above 20. Negative-responders were identified by good physical function and mental health, lesser muscle atrophy in the lower extremities, and low levels of fatigue and pain.
CONCLUSION: Intravenous immunoglobulin is a biological intervention, and therefore it is important to be able to identify responders and non-responders. In order to maximize a positive outcome it is suggested that patients with a high level of fatigue and/or pain and reduced physical function are selected.
Key words: post-polio syndrome; IVIG; responders; non-responders; fatigue; pain; VAS score; physical function.
J Rehabil Med 2015; 47: 727–733
Correspondence address: Gunilla Östlund, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Danderyd University Hospital, Building 39, 3rd Floor, SE-182 88 Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: Gunilla. Ostlund@ki.se, gunilla.ostlund@ds.se
Accepted April 14, 2015; Epub ahead of print Aug 18, 2015
Acute poliomyelitis infection may affect the anterior horn cells (1) leaving prior polio patients with residual muscle weakness. In some cases a late increase in symptoms or new symptoms may occur; a condition known as post-polio syndrome (PPS) (2).
The most common symptoms in PPS are muscle weakness, fatigue and pain in the muscles and joints (3–8). Physical fatigue is the dominant type (9), but general fatigue, described as a flu-like exhaustion worsened by physical activity, is also experienced (5). The dominant pain in patients with PPS is of nociceptive character (10). In a study by Vasiliades et al. (11) patients with PPS with muscle pain had a higher level of fatigue and a lower level of quality of life (QoL) than those without pain.
The main treatment options for patients with PPS are physiotherapy, muscle training and energy conservation techniques (12). PPS-related pain is treated by means of medication, bracing and weight reduction (8). An inflammatory process in the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral blood has been described (13–16). This process has been shown to be down-modulated by means of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), followed by a clinical improvement in vitality, muscle strength (17), pain (15) and mental well-being (18).
IVIG is an important treatment option for autoimmune and acute inflammatory conditions (19, 20) as well as for different pain conditions (21) that involve immune changes in the peripheral tissues or CNS (21). However, IVIG may act differently between different pain syndromes and between individuals within the same condition, i.e. there are responders and non-responders (22).
A study by Werhagen & Borg (10) showed that pain was decreased after IVIG treatment in younger patients with PPS, in those who had polio before the age of 10 years, and in those with pronounced paresis. In a study by Östlund et al. (23) improvements in vitality and pain were seen in patients with a visual analogue scale (VAS) score of 20 or more, in those under 65 years of age, and in those who had paresis in the lower extremities and had no concomitant disorders. These findings (10, 23) are in agreement with the finding in the study by Gonzales et al. (24), in which a decrease in pain was seen after IVIG treatment in patients with PPS with a pain intensity score greater than 20 according to a VAS before treatment. The present study is a further development of the study by Östlund et al. (23), in which an increased level of Short Form-36 (SF-36) scales Vitality and Bodily pain were seen 6 months after IVIG treatment, indicating that these outcome variables should be studied further. Parameters of value for a future characterization of responder groups were also identified (23).
The aim of this study was therefore to define and characterize responders and non-responders to IVIG treatment in a PPS population, using SF-36 Vitality and Bodily pain as outcome; and to characterize these groups pre-treatment using demographic and medical background, pain, physical activity and QoL variables.
A total of 124 patients from the post-polio out-patient clinic at Danderyd University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden were included in the study. All patients were diagnosed with PPS according to the March of Dimes (2) criteria. Inclusion criteria were: increased muscle fatigue and/or muscle weakness, or an increase in general fatigue during recent years. Exclusion criteria were: low levels of IgA, decreased peripheral blood circulation, cardiovascular disorders, including atrial fibrillation, and previous treatment with IVIG or other immune modulators. In order to be included in the present study the patients also had to answer an inventory both before treatment and at 6-month follow-up. The patients were treated with a total of 90 g IVIG (Xepol, Grifols, Barcelona, Spain) over a period of 3 consecutive days. The treatments were given between November 2005 and May 2012.
Background variables
All patients participating in the present study were clinically evaluated by 1 of the authors (LW or KB). All additional demographic and medical background variables were retrieved from medical files. Included in the present study are demographic and medical background data predicting a significant change in SF-36 Vitality and Bodily pain 6 months after IVIG treatment, as identified in the study by Östlund et al. (23). Some data were missing, but this was considered not to affect the outcome of the present study. Demographic and medical background variables were dichotomized. Age was divided into younger or older than 65 years, and age at acute polio onset into younger or older than 10 years of age. In the study by Gonzales et al. (24) pain intensity above 20 according to the VAS, was identified as significant pain. In this study pain intensity according to the VAS was dichotomized into a score of 0–19 mm and 20–100 mm. With the exception of nationality and civil status (Table I), the demographic and medical background variables were divided into yes and no.
Inventories and scales
SF-36. The health-related QoL inventory SF-36 comprises 36 questions on the following 8 scales: Physical function, Role-Physical, Bodily pain, General health, Vitality, Social function, Role emotional, and Mental health. A score of 0–100 is calculated for each scale, and better QoL is indicated by a higher score. The physical compound score (PCS) includes Physical function, Role physical, and Bodily pain. The mental compound score (MCS) includes Mental health, Role emotional, and Social function. The scales Vitality, General health, and Social function correlate with both PCS and MCS (25). SF-36 includes a question calculated outside the inventory about the patient’s concept of their general health one year previously. The 5 possible answers are: much worse, somewhat worse, the same, somewhat better, and much better health compared with one year previously (26–28). For the purpose of this paper these were combined into 3 possible answers: much/somewhat worse, the same, and somewhat/much better.
Physical Activity for the Elderly (PASE). PASE is a 10-question instrument especially developed for persons over 65 years of age in order to measure physical activity over a period of one week. Four questions concern paid or unpaid work and are recorded in hours/week. Six questions cover participation in leisure activities and are recorded as never/seldom (1–2 days a week), sometimes (3–4 days a week), and often (5–7 days a week). Duration is categorized as less than 1, 1–2, 2–4, and >4 h. Scores range from a minimum value of zero to a maximum value of 400 and are calculated from weight and frequency values. More physical activity is indicated by a higher total score (29).
Pain according to visual analogue scale (VAS). In order to assess pain intensity a 100-mm VAS scale was used, where zero represents no pain at all and 100 mm the worst imaginable pain (30).
Baseline and follow-up. A standardized inventory composed of SF-36, PASE and VAS measuring pain intensity was given to the participants when they had been included in the IVIG treatment study. The inventory was answered by the participants before the first IVIG treatment and at the first follow-up after a mean of 6 months (standard deviation (SD) 3).
The study and all procedures were approved by the Ethical Review Board in Stockholm (Dnr. Protocol 2010/1.3), Sweden, and were conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975.
Outcome variables
Pain in muscles and/or joints and fatigue are 2 of the most common symptoms in PPS (5–8). In a study by Östlund et al. (23), the SF-36 scales Vitality and Bodily pain were statistically increased 6 months after IVIG treatment in a sample of 113 patients with PPS. In the study by Östlund et al. (9) the Multi Fatigue Inventory 20 (MFI20) variable General fatigue accounted for 69% of the variation in the SF-36 scale Vitality in patients with PPS, indicating that SF-36 Vitality is assessing fatigue in this patient group. SF-36 Vitality and Bodily pain were therefore considered as suitable outcome variables after IVIG treatment in the present study. SF-36 Vitality is defined as how much you have felt strong and alert, full of energy or worn out or tired during the last 4 weeks. SF-36 Bodily pain is defined as how much pain was felt and how much this pain interfered with work during the last 4 weeks (28).
The sample power was calculated according to the SF-36 Swedish manual and interpretation guide, in which study design, effect size and sample size are taken into consideration with a significance level of p ≤ 0.05. The purpose of the present study was to detect differences within a single group of 124 participants. To detect a moderate difference with a difference of 10 points within a single group the recommended sample size for the SF-36 scale Vitality is 28 individuals and for Bodily pain 36 individuals (27, 28). The sample size in the present study was therefore considered sufficiently large.
Responder groups for SF-36 Vitality and Bodily pain
An increase of 11 points or more at 6-month follow-up on SF-36: Vitality and Bodily pain compared with before treatment defined a positive-responder group. No change, or a change of less than 11 points increase or decrease, was defined as non-responders. Negative-responders were defined as a decrease of 11 points or more.
All statistical analysis was carried out using IBM SPSS Statistics 20.0.
Demographics and frequencies were determined for all variables included in the study before treatment in positive-, non- and negative-responder groups. In the first analysis Mann-Whitney tests were used for comparisons of SF-36 variables, PASE and pain according to the VAS scale between groups before treatment. In the second analysis χ2 was used for a comparison of dichotomized demographic and medical background variables between groups before treatment. In both analyses the significance level was set at p < 0.05 (27, 28).
Responder groups
With Vitality as outcome 38% of the participants who had received IVIG were positive-responders, 45% non-responders, and 17% negative-responders. With Bodily pain as outcome 29% were positive-responders, 56% non-responders, and 15% negative-responders. Seventeen percent of participants had a positive response for both Vitality and Bodily pain, 17% had a positive response only with Vitality and a non-response for Bodily pain. Twelve percent had a positive response for Bodily pain and a non-response for Vitality. In total 46% of the participants were positive-responders for one or both of the outcome variables.
SF-36 Vitality and Bodily pain as outcome
In all responder groups, independent of outcome, the proportions of women and men were almost equal, the majority had had acute poliomyelitis before the age of 10 years, were married or co-habiting, were of Swedish origin, and were not participating in the working market (Table I).
Table I. Demographic variables for positive-, non- and negative-responders before intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) treatment with Short Form 36 (SF-36) Vitality or Bodily pain as outcome
Bodily pain
Positive-responders
Negative-responders
n (%)
> 65 years
Age at polio onset
Married/cohabiting
Non-European
Change of health before treatment
Much/somewhat worse than
The same as one year ago
Somewhat/much better than
SF-36 Vitality as outcome
Descriptive and frequency information about demographic variables in positive-, non-, and negative responder groups are presented in Table I. Fifty-two percent of the participants in the positive-responder group, 44% in the non-responder group, and 38% in the negative-responder groups were under 65 years of age. When answering the question included in the SF-36 inventory regarding change in health compared with 1 year previously the majority in the positive- and non-responder groups considered their health to be “much/somewhat worse”. None of the patients in the negative-responder group considered their health to be “much/somewhat worse” than one year previously.
Table II shows group differences and descriptive and frequency information for medical background variables. No significant differences between the 3 groups were seen for PPS syndrome without co-morbidity and paresis. Seventy percent of the non-responder group had a VAS-pain intensity score between 20 and 100 mm, which was significantly more (p = 0.019) than the 40% in the negative-responder group. Significantly more (84%, p = 0.042) in the positive-responder group had muscle weakness and atrophies only in the lower extremities, compared with 63% in the non-responder group.
Table II. Between-group comparisons for medical background variables in positive-, non- and negative-responders before intravenous immunoglobulin treatment with Short Form 36 (SF-36) Vitality as outcome
Positive-
vs negative-responders
p-value
vs non-responders
Only PPS
VAS-pain score
Only upper extremities
Only lower extremities
Atrophies
Significance level at p < 0.05.
PPS: post-polio syndrome; VAS: visual analogue scale.
Table III shows group differences in the SF-36 and PASE. In the positive-responder group significantly lower SF-36 scores were seen for Bodily pain (p = 0.045), Vitality (p = 0.0001) and MCS (p = 0.033) compared with negative-responders.
In the non-responder group Vitality (p = 0.017), Role emotional (p = 0.020), Mental health (p = 0.028), and MCS (p = 0.045) were significantly lower compared with the negative-responders. There were no significant differences between positive-responders and non-responders.
Table III. Between-group comparison for Short Form 36 (SF-36) and Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE) in positive-, non- and negative-responders before intravenous immunoglobulin treatment with SF-36 Vitality or Bodily pain as outcome
Positive vs negative
Positive vs non
Non vs negative
Mean (SD
Short Form 36
Physical function
Role physical
Role emotional
PCS: physical compound score; MCS: mental compound score; SD: standard deviation.
SF-36 Bodily pain as outcome
Descriptive and frequency information about demographic variables in positive-, non- and negative responders are shown in Table I. Fifty-three percent in the positive-responder, 45% in the non-responder, and 39% in the negative-responder group were under 65 years of age. The majority in the positive- (57%) and the non- and negative-responder groups (69%), considered their health as “much/somewhat worse” than one year ago.
Table IV shows group differences and descriptive and frequency information for medical background variables. No significant differences were seen between the 3 groups for PPS syndrome without co-morbidities, paresis and atrophies. Seventy-one percent of subjects in the positive-responder, and 65% in the non-responder group had a VAS score between 20 and 100 mm, which was significantly more than the 39% in the negative-responder group.
Table IV shows group differences for SF-36, PASE and pain according to the VAS. Significantly lower scores for Bodily pain (p = 0.0001), Vitality (p = 0.046) and PASE (p = 0.053) were seen in the positive-responder group compared with negative-responders. Significantly lower scores were also seen in the positive-responder group for Bodily pain (p = 0.014) compared with non-responders. Bodily pain scores were also significantly lower (p = 0.030) in non-responders compared with negative-responders.
Table IV. Between-group comparisons for medical background variables in positive-, non- and negative-responders before intravenous immunoglobulin treatment with Short Form 36 (SF-36) Bodily pain as outcome
Significance level p < 0.05.
Two significantly different responder groups were identified with Vitality as outcome, and 3 significantly different groups with Bodily pain as outcome. Forty-six percent of participants had a positive response with Vitality and/or Bodily pain as outcome. Positive-responders were identified by a higher level of fatigue and pain, scoring 20 or higher on a VAS pain intensity scale, and muscle weakness and atrophy in the lower extremities. Negative-responders were identified by a low level of fatigue and pain, good mental health, good physical function and, to a lesser degree, muscle weakness and atrophy in the lower extremities.
IVIG is a current treatment option in several conditions (19, 20) and has been used in chronic pain (21, 22). The problem of identifying responders and non-responders is therefore not unique to PPS. Since IVIG is a biological treatment that may result in side-effects, it is of importance to identify and characterize patients who have a favourable effect.
In patients with PPS there are several indications of an ongoing inflammatory process. One is the increased level of cytokines found both in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and in peripheral blood (13–16), a process dampened by IVIG treatment (14). In the study by Gonzales et al. (17) Vitality as well as muscle strength was increased in the treatment group compared with placebo one year after IVIG treatment. In the study by Bertolasi et al. (18) patients with PPS treated with IVIG had a significant increase in mental well-being compared with placebo at a 2-month follow-up, and in the study by Farbu et al. (15) pain was significant reduced after IVIG treatment in a follow-up. One aim of the current study was to identify responder groups. However the difference of 10 points in SF-36 Vitality chosen in this study seems not to be sufficient to identify a difference in fatigue between positive- and non-responders. The result is in accordance with the patient’s own subjective evaluation of their general health one year previously, in which two-thirds of patients, both in the positive- and non-responder groups, considered their health to be declining, whereas none of the negative-responders considered their health as worse. There is obviously a discrepancy between the increase in symptoms as reported by the patients when examined clinically and their report in the SF-36. This may indicate that negative-responders do not have a progressive course, and this should be taken into consideration in further studies. With Bodily pain as outcome the 10-point difference was sufficient to identify a significant difference between positive-, non- and negative-responders.
In addition, as with different outcomes, it is either mental or physical QoL factors that constitute the difference between positive- and negative-responders before IVIG treatment. With Vitality as outcome, positive-responders had significantly lower scores on mental variables, i.e. MCS, than did negative-responders. With Bodily pain as outcome, the positive-responders had lower scores on physical variables, i.e. PCS, than negative-responders. This is in accordance with the findings of Werhagen & Borg (10), that patients with PPS reporting pain had a lower PCS score than patients with PPS reporting no pain. These findings should be investigated further.
With Vitality as outcome significantly more positive- and non-responders had a VAS-score above 20 compared with negative-responders. With Bodily pain as outcome significantly more positive-responders had pain according to the VAS scale above 20 compared with negative-responders. This indicates that the cut-off of 20 mm for VAS pain may be sufficient to exclude negative-responders. It also indicates that positive-responders and non-responders with Vitality as outcome act as a single group and that positive-responders with Bodily pain as outcome are a distinct group different from non-responders. From these data it seems that a high pain intensity measured by VAS indicates a positive response to IVIG. This is in accordance with the results of the studies by Östlund et al. (23) and Werhagen & Borg (10). The lower level of fatigue and pain in negative-responders, indicates that an absence of these symptoms could be a valuable indicator in identifying patients with PPS who are not suitable for IVIG treatment. Muscle weakness and atrophy in the lower extremities only differed significantly between the positive-responders and non-responders with Vitality as outcome; no differences were seen with Bodily pain as outcome.
The results of this study show that participants had either a positive response in both outcome variables or an improvement in one but not the other. One might speculate that fatigue and pain in PPS are different phenomena, as has been suggested previously by Jensen et al. (31). One may speculate that the reduction in pain and/or fatigue after IVIG treatment defining the positive-responders may indicate an ongoing inflammatory process not seen in the negative-responder group. Increase in muscle fatigue and/or general fatigue were two inclusion criteria, it is possible that these fatigue types have different origins and that only one is improved by treatment with IVIG, for instance if one has a non-inflammatory origin and the other is related to an inflammatory process.
Positive-responders in the 2 outcome variables could be identified by a high level of fatigue and pain, a VAS score above 20, and muscle weakness and atrophy in the lower extremities. The opposite was seen in negative-responders. The results of the present study emphasize the importance of understanding the background of fatigue and pain in PPS. It is possible that the negative-responder group did not reach a critical level of fatigue. If this is the case, the cut-off of fatigue remains to be defined. For pain, this level seems to be a VAS-pain score above 20.
This study has some weaknesses. It has an open trial design, which leads to an increased possibility of a placebo effect. There was no control group, which reduces the generalizability of the results. The variables included in the present study were based on the significant predictors identified by Östlund et al. (23); however, the number of comparisons was relatively large, thus increasing the risk of finding significance of less relevance. In further studies all patients without a suspected progressive course of their symptoms should be excluded in order to eliminate negative-responders.
Bodily pain in particular, but also Vitality, seems to function as outcome after IVIG treatment of patients with PPS. A VAS-pain score above 20 before treatment may be a predictor of a positive outcome for fatigue and pain. Self-evaluation of own health one year previously compared with present health appears to be of value for prediction of positive-responders, as well as negative-responders, indicating a progressive and a non-progressive course, in which the latter may be related to a negative response. Lack of fatigue and pain as symptoms may be an indicator for exclusion from IVIG treatment. Different patterns of positive response were seen: less fatigue and pain or a reduction in fatigue, but not pain or a reduction in pain but not fatigue. Since IVIG dampens an inflammatory process, it may be that there are fatigue and pain that are either inflammatory or non-inflammatory, influencing the experience of fatigue and pain in the patient, and thus explaining the different combination of positive outcomes. Future studies should investigate fatigue more thoroughly, including its origin and the definition of cut-off scores.
The difference in response shown in this study is seen not only in patients with PPS, but also in those with other diagnoses (21, 22, 32, 33). The identification of negative-responders prior to treatment is important so that this group can be excluded. In this study responders were identified at the group level, the next step will be to identify responders at the individual level.
The authors would like to thank MS Gullevi Bramert at the post-polio outpatient clinic at Danderyds University Hospital and Xepol, Grifols, Barcelona, Spain. This research was supported by Karolinska Institutet, Stockholms Läns Landsting (ALF), grants from Grifols, Barcelona, Spain, and grants from The Swedish Association for Survivors of Accident and Injury.
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Home > Our Services > Orthopaedics > Conditions > Sports Medicine
Whether you are a beginner, recreational athlete or an elite professional, you can be sure to benefit from the fully integrated approach to recovery and maintenance of health and wellbeing offered by the MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center sports medicine orthopedic specialists. Our teams of medical specialists—including physicians, sports physical therapists, occupational therapists, and athletic trainers—are dedicated to helping you reach or return to your desired level of activity, as quickly and safely as possible.
What separates MedStar Health from other medical facilities is our unique understanding of athletes and other physically active individuals and the injuries they suffer. We appreciate the sense of urgency and the high level of expectations our patients bring to treatment.
Focus on Total Performance
We know that to manage injuries appropriately, we need to look at why they occurred. So, in addition to traditional evaluation measures, our assessment includes careful review of training techniques, inspection of equipment, and/or biomechanical activity analysis.
At MedStar Health, our goal is not simply to treat your injury, but also to integrate the injured joint or muscle into the total performance of the body. We emphasize early intervention, learning techniques to avoid complications, and maintaining good physical conditioning even during injury convalescence. Learn more about sports injury prevention and treatment.
A number of injuries are common in the sports arena, and, depending on the sport you play and how often you participate, often require specific treatments. The list of possible injuries is almost as long as the list of activities in which you can participate, but a number of injuries occur fairly frequently in all sports.
A sprain occurs when a ligament is stretched or torn, while a strain occurs when a muscle or tendon is injured. Most sprains and strains respond well to conservative therapy, which includes R.I.C.E. and rehabilitation.
R.I.C.E. therapy is best applied in the 48 hours after an injury and includes:
Rest and reduction in activities
Ice applied for 20 minutes at a time, four to eight times a day
Compression, such as with elastic bandages
Elevation above the level of the heart to decrease swelling. (Over-the-counter drugs, such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen, can help decrease pain and inflammation.)
Rehabilitation varies according to the injury, but may include special exercises and a gradual increase of activity until healing is complete. Some sprains or strains may be severe enough to require surgery to repair them.
Ligaments are the tough, flexible tissues that connect two bones or cartilages or hold together a joint. The knee has four main ligaments: the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments and the medial and lateral collateral ligaments. When the knee is suddenly twisted or directly impact, these ligaments can be injured.
Cruciate ligament injuries may respond to conservative treatment; however, most require surgery. The sports medicine surgeons at MedStar Health have significant experience and expertise in a number of surgical options and will discuss the best treatment choices with you.
Collateral ligament injuries are more likely to respond to nonsurgical treatments; however, severe injuries or ones that also involve the cruciate ligaments usually require surgery.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injuries
The most commonly injured of the ligaments is the ACL, and not just by athletes—over 250,000 ACL injuries occur annually within the general population. Tears in the ACL generally result in ACL surgery, extensive physical therapy, significant time away from recreational activities, and a likelihood of arthritis within 10 years.
ACL Injury Prevention
MedStar Health has developed a comprehensive program to reduce injury risk that involves proper dynamic warm ups, a targeted strengthening program, and a progressive plyometric program. Our mission is to help educate and train as many teams, coaches and parents as possible to help minimize the risk of an athlete suffering this common injury.
ACL Treatment
To initially manage ACL injuries, MedStar Health specialists focus on obtaining a full range of motion of the knee and allowing the swelling to subside. Once these have been achieved, both conservative and ACL surgery treatment options can be exercised.
Conservative treatment involves muscular strengthening and often bracing to help stabilize the knee. It is optimal for those who are older or less active, and those who do not plan to return to athletic or vigorous activity.
Surgical reconstruction offers a better alternative in preventing recurrent instability and allowing for return to function. More information about sports medicine and ACL surgery is available here.
The knee meniscus is a piece of cartilage that serves as a shock absorber between the ends of the leg bones, helps lubricate the joint, and distributes body weight across the joint. Meniscal tears are typically caused by twisting or hyperflexing the joint. These tears can also occur due to degenerative processes caused by aging. Occasionally, these tears may occur simultaneously with injury to the ACL. When the ACL is injured, these tears can result in pain, swelling, and often clicking or catching within the knee.
Minor tears may be treated with therapy and strengthening exercises. More extensive tears often require surgery to reattach the meniscus, replace it with donor cartilage or remove it. Most procedures can be performed using the minimally invasive arthroscopy techniques that allow shorter hospital stays and decreased recovery times. More information about meniscal surgery is available here.
The Achilles tendon, which joins the muscles of the lower leg, is the largest tendon in the body. A ruptured Achilles is a serious injury that typically requires surgery. MedStar Health surgeons now expertly perform this surgery with minimal incisions, ensuring less pain, faster healing, and excellent long-term results.
Torn Rotator Cuffs
The rotator cuff comprises the muscles and tendons that hold the upper arm bone it its joint. A torn rotator cuff may respond to non-surgical therapies, but often will require surgery. Arthroscopy often is used to repair small injuries, and minimal incision surgery is now an option to repair complete tears. Read more about rotator cuff conditions here.
A concussion is a type of brain injury caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head that can change the way the brain normally functions. Concussions can occur in any athletic activity, as well as from motor vehicle crashes or falls. MedStar Health orthopaedic and sports medicine specialists with expertise in concussion management urge you to have all suspected concussions evaluated—the primary risks of not receiving a medical evaluation may include:
Increased risk for severe brain injury or even death
Prolonged symptoms
Difficulties with schoolwork and other activities
Signs and symptoms of a concussion include
Appears dazed or stunned
Answers questions slowly
Loses consciousness (even briefly)
Exhibits moody behavior or personality changes
Can't recall events prior to hit or fall
Headache or pressure in head
Balance problems or dizziness
Double or blurry vision
Sensitivity to light or noise
Feeling sluggish or foggy
Concentration or memory problems
Does not feel “right” or is feeling “down”
Consistent with the Maryland and Washington, D.C., athletic concussion prevention laws, athletes suspected of suffering a concussion should remove themselves or be removed from the game or practice immediately, regardless of how mild it seems or how quickly symptoms clear. Continuing to play without medical clearance leaves athletes vulnerable to a more severe brain injury or, rarely, death.
Be aware that symptoms and signs of concussion may not appear immediately after the injury and can take hours or days to fully appear. Because athletes may not report their concussion symptoms, coaches, teammates, and parents need to be educated to recognize them and seek appropriate assistance.
If a concussion is suspected, seek medical attention right away and call 888-447-7678. Learn about concussion testing.
To find an orthopedic specialist at MedStar Southern Maryland, call 301-856-1682.
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Orthopedic Locations
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Game For Linux: 0A.D Review
By Abhishek Prakash – Posted on Jul 13, 2012 Jul 13, 2012 in Gaming, Linux
Real Time Strategy (RTS) game lovers may remember a game called Age Of Empires (AOE). The much awarded and loved game has inspired many other historical RTS games such as Rise Of Nations, Age Of Mythology etc. However, these games were Windows specific and Linux users always felt a void in the field of historical, ancient warfare RTS game. There seems to be a good news folks. 0 A. D. (read as Zero A D), a free and open source game is now available for Linux.
Hits and Misses:
0 A. D. is currently in final alpha stages and will soon go in beta. Latest alpha version “0 A.D. Alpha 10 Jhelum” has been released couple of weeks ago. Since it is not even in beta, it is not surprising to find several missing features. I do expect the game to be more fully developed completely in the near future.
0 A. D. has almost all the features (or there is a scope for it) what you would expect in an ancient warfare RTS game. Any new game starts with simple “how to play” tutorials and unfortunately 0 A. D. has just one page with some instructions and control keys. Since I already have considerable experience with AOE, I did not need that but it is a must for beginners. Neither does it have Campaign mode enabled though they have displayed it in the main menu which gives a hint that it will be available by final release. I hope it will have great campaigns similar on the lines of AOE.
I tried the single player mode to get the feel of the game. Apart from occasional bugs (it crashed once as well), the playing experience was satisfactory. Game’s graphics are not as great as of other games available but it is pretty decent for a RTS game. The game has six civilization to choose from, with each civilization having their own special units. There are a number of maps/scenario available. There is also scenario editor to create your own custom maps.
One of the major drawback is that 0 AD takes too much of resources. I can feel that while playing it on my Ubuntu 12.04 powered by core i3 laptop and 4 GB RAM (not a powerhouse but pretty decent, I would say). The developers are aware of this issue and trying to fix it in future releases. To get a glimpse of the game, you can watch a gameplay video uploaded by the developers:
How to install 0 A.D.:
If you want to try the alpha version in Ubuntu and other Debian based distributions, try this in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad
sudo apt-get install 0ad
And then search for 0ad in Unity dash (or Application Menu).
For instructions regarding installing it in other Linux systems, please visit this page. One more thing, 0 A.D. is a cross platform game and is also available for Windows and Mac as well.
Download link for 0 A. D. Windows.
Download link for 0 A. D. Mac.
An appeal from the game developers:
As 0 A. D. is a completely free and open source game (it doesn’t even have a freemium option), it relies heavily on contributors across the world. Wildfire is seeking contributors in sound contribution management, documentation, and in programming, art, sound, taking YouTube videos and more. If you are willing to contribute to free and open source culture, please get in touch with the Wildfire team.
How do you like 0 A. D.? Would you like to try it now or will you wait for the final release? Moreover, how excited you are about it? Do let us know your views in the comment section.
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High-end projects set to put Mulpha on profit track
MULPHA Land Bhd (MLB) (7889) is launching four high-end projects worth RM1.03 billion in Kuala Lumpur and Johor this year, in a bid to turn around.
MLB slipped into the red in the 12 months to December 2007, incurring a net loss of RM417,000 against a net profit of RM864,000 in 2006.
For the first nine months in 2008, MLB, the property arm of Mulpha International Bhd, posted a net loss of RM94,000.
Chief executive officer Lai Meng told Business Times in an interview that the way forward for MLB is to offer niche and sought-after products.
It is launching Bangsar Enclave in the next quarter, which features seven units of 3-storey villas in a gated and guarded community, worth RM70 million.
In the second half of the year, MLB will launch Menara Mulpha at Jalan Sultan Ismail, and a yet-to-be-named luxury development in Kenny Hills, offering eight unique villas with private pool, worth RM110 million, or RM15 million each.
Menara Mulpha is a 23-storey Grade A office building, worth around RM350 million. The property, which is the first iconic building with green features for the Mulpha Group, will be leased for recurring income, Lai said.
"These projects have strong unique product concept in superb locations and should provide impetus for growth. Nevertheless, we are mindful of the gloomy economic outlook and will adopt a cautious approach in our planning and execution," he said.
Also in the pipeline is Precinct 7 at MLB's RM1.2 billion Leisure Farm Resort project in Gelang Patah, located in Iskandar Malaysia, Johor.
It will offer 320 units of semi-detached homes and bungalows, surrounded by garden parks and canal waterways, worth a combined RM500 million.
"Precinct 7 will be developed in phases to enhance price positioning," added Lai.
MLB is also banking on its recently refurbished and restored project, opposite the Raintree Club in Ampang Hilir, to improve earnings.
Dubbed Raintree Residence, it has four semi-furnished 5-bedroom duplex penthouses, and eight units of 4-bedroom apartments, which will be leased.
"It will be our first rental product in Kuala Lumpur and should be favourable in this locality filled with expatriates and consulate staff," Lai said.
MLB's current projects are Bukit Punchor in Nibong Tebal, and Desa Aman in Padang Meha, Kulim, Kedah, worth RM706 million.
By Business Times (by Sharen Kaur)
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Labels: Kuala Lumpur, Landed / Terraces / Bungalow, Malaysia Property Listing / New Development
TA Ent mulls best way to structure property unit's IPO
Stockbroking firm TA Enterprise Bhd (TAE) may delay plans to list its property unit on the local bourse for the second time, due to a weak stock market, industry sources said.
TAE, which has the Securities Commission's nod to list TA Global Bhd (TAGB) on Bursa Malaysia's main board by March, may list it in the second quarter in view of current market sentiment, a source told Business Times.
Its earlier target was to list TAGB by December 2008, later postponing it to March this year.
When contacted, TAE group managing director and chief executive officer Datin Alicia Tiah told Business Times that the group is still aiming to list TAGB by March or April, but the plan will be guided by market sentiment.
"While we are optimistic to list the property business, we want to be sure the timing is right especially when the world economy is in a depressed situation. TAE is expanding its property business and the listing will give it more recognition overseas as it expands," Tiah said.
She said TAE is talking to underwriters for the placement of the shares, and exploring the best way to structure the initial public offering (IPO) so that the market will be able to absorb the listing.
"Our approval has an expiry of six months. In the event we do have to delay the IPO, we can always apply for an extension," Tiah said.
TAGB's listing exercise involves a proposed rights issue of 860 million new shares and a public issue of 350 million new shares at 50 sen per share.
TAE is proposing to sell its property units to TAGB in an all-share deal and raise about RM613 million.
It will inject its property assets held under TA Properties Sdn Bhd; Sanjung Padu Sdn Bhd; Wales House Trust, which owns the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Sydney; and Taman Duta Residences, in exchange for shares worth RM1.75 billion in TAGB.
TAE is also proposing a capital distribution to its shareholders that will cut its share capital, share premium reserve and retained earnings. As a result, its par value would be reduced to 50 sen from RM1 currently.
Upon completion of the proposed capital distribution and listing, TAE will hold at least 24.3 per cent equity interest in TAGB.
TAE will also use part of the proceeds to apply for an investment banking licence, and the rest for its future working capital.
Labels: REIT / Property Investment
Shenyang Islamic development project plan on track
The proposed RM11 billion commercial and residential development in Shenyang, China, that will utilise Syariah-compliant financing from Malaysian banks is on track despite the current global economic downturn.
Islamic Banking and Finance Institute Malaysia (IBFIM) managing director and chief executive officer Datuk Dr Adnan Alias said the report on the feasibility study of the project is nearly completed.
"We will present the report to the Shenyang Governor next month when we meet in Singapore," he told Business Times when asked about the progress of the project.
IBFIM is the syariah adviser to the proposed development.
Themed "Modern Islamic Lifestyle", the proposed development is expected to commence by the end of this year and be completed within five years.
The project would take place in the Shenyang Finance and Trade Development Zone. It will be developed on a 17.96ha site in one of the most centralised Muslim community living areas in China.
A special purpose vehicle, known as Shenyang-Malaysia Development Sdn Bhd (ShenMas), was formed in November last year to undertake the conceptual planning, land acquisition, funding issues and feasibility studies.
A consortium of Malaysian builders, including Bina Puri Group, will be involved in the development of the project.
Shenyang is the capital city of Liaoning Province. The province is located south of northeast China, which has about 100,000 Muslims.
China, one of the world's fastest growing economies, plans to woo Islamic banking and finance institutions to the country by establishing an Islamic finance hub.
By Business Times (by Hamisah Hamid)
Labels: China
Surprise rise in existing home sales in December
A home sits for sale on 25 July, 2007 in Batavia, Illinois a suburb outside of Chicago. The pace of sales of previously owned homes rose for the first time since September and inventory declined — AFP
WASHINGTON: An unexpected improvement in US home sales provided a rare dose of good economic news on Monday, but companies continued to wield the axe on jobs as the year-long recession inflicted more pain.
The pace of sales of previously owned homes rose for the first time since September and inventory declined, a bit of positive news amid a US housing market crash that has chilled growth, sent unemployment soaring and sharply eroded household wealth.
Sales of previously owned US homes increased 6.5% to a 4.74-million-unit annual rate in December, the National Association of Realtors said. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected sales to set a 4.40 million unit pace.
Analysts said the uptick was encouraging and might be a signal the worst housing bust in decades was finally nearing a bottom following government steps to slow foreclosures and cut interest rates on home loans.
“Though unlikely to mark the bottom of the housing downturn, the report at least suggests the market is not spiraling downwards in response to mounting job losses and tightening credit standards,” said Sal Guatieri, an economist at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.
“An upward trend in home sales that gobbles up supply and stabilises prices would be an important signpost of economic recovery, but that is likely still some ways off.”
US government bond prices and the dollar fell as the housing data eroded their safe-haven appeal, encouraging investors to seek riskier assets.
Stability in the US housing market, the root cause of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, is seen key to any recovery in the domestic economy which has been stuck in recession since December 2007.
December existing-home sales were largely driven by distressed sales, which dragged the median national home price down 15.3% from a year earlier to US$175,400.
The chief economist of the National Association of Realtors, Lawrence Yun, said it was the largest price drop since NAR started keeping records in 1968 and probably the largest since the Great Depression.
“There is pent-up demand, which could be unleashed with the right stimulus. The Obama administration and Congress need to move fast … to stabilise home prices and set the foundation for a sustainable economic recovery,” Yun said.
US President Barack Obama is drumming up support for an US$825bil spending package, which he hopes will kick-start the economy and create or preserve three million to four million jobs.
Analysts were also heartened by the 11.7% drop in the inventory of existing homes for sale to 3.68 million units from 4.16 million in November.
That translated into 9.3 months of supply at December’s sales pace. The supply stood at 11.2 months’ worth in November.
“It suggests we are working through some of the inventory, which is the first thing to happen before we see any kind of housing recovery,” said Frank Lesh, futures analyst at FuturePath Trading in Chicago.
“Until we work through the supply that’s out there, it’s going to be hard to see anything turn. The low rates the Fed has engineered is starting to create some demand, which is what we wanted to see.”
Separately, the Conference Board said its index of leading economic indicators rose 0.3%, beating analysts’ forecast for a 0.3% decline.
Economists attributed the rise to the improvement in credit markets, thanks to the action by the Federal Reserve.
The Fed has cut interest rates almost to zero and pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into financial markets to keep them operating.
The Fed is expected to hold its target range for the key overnight federal funds rate steady at zero to 0.25% at the end of its two-day meeting today.
Tony Crescenzi, chief bond market strategist at Miller, Tabak & Co, reckons that given the recent uptick in government bond yields and mortgage rates, the Fed could place emphasis on its plans to buy mortgage securities and possibly Treasuries.
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"It was a very horrific time": Candice Warner on miscarrying during the ball tampering saga.
'At 24, my unplanned pregnancy ended in miscarriage. I was told to "just try again later."'
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Forget your people – real leaders act on the system
By John Seddon John Seddon - Reluctant Management Guru at www.thesystemsthinkingreview.co.uk
June 18, 2010 at 1:08am
Owen Buckwell
Vanguard Method
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A real story of a curious public sector leader, a pugilist and a contrarian, who chose to do the right thing and design his system entirely around the needs of the customer - against the advice of Government inspectors. What happened? Costs fell, morale soared and best practice got better.
How would you feel being responsible for 17,000 blocked toilets and 100,000 dripping taps? Owen Buckwell, a public sector leader from England has both on his to-do list. Over 40,000 people in the city of Portsmouth rely on Owen Buckwell for warm, safe and comfortable homes.
Owen is the head of housing at Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the 11th largest urban area in England, more densely populated than London and once home to both Charles Dickens and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Neither of these men would have lived in what we call a council house. Council houses were built and run by Local Government to supply uncrowded, cheap- to- rent, well built homes to working class people. It is also known as 'social housing'. The majority of council housing was built in the mid 20th century making it over 50 years old. This means repairs always need doing, particularly of bathrooms, kitchens, windows and doors.
Owen has been managing the upkeep of 17,000 council houses for Portsmouth City Council for 6 years. He’s a curious man who likes to get to the bottom of things. In 2006, everything appeared to be going great for Owen; his management reports were stuffed full of encouraging numbers, he got good ratings from the Central Government inspectors and his customer survey results were among the best in the country. So what made him scratch his head? It was this: if the service he provided was so damn good, how come tenants were always complaining?
The Trigger was Curiosity.
Owen wanted to find out what was really going on. He chose the Vanguard Method to help him dig deeper. He chose this Method because a member of his team suggested he read an article I had written about the problems with inspection. Owen liked what he read. My work made sense to him intellectually.
The Vanguard Method
The Vanguard Method changes organizations from command and control to a systems approach to the design and management of work. Command and control management is characterised by a top down hierarchy, functional specialisms, the use of targets and a focus on managing people and budgets. Command and control in this context does not mean bossy managers. I am referring to the management logic. Command and control is the management logic at work in most (but not all) organisations across the world.
The first stage of the Vanguard Method, known as ‘Check’ involves managers listening to phone calls from customers over a period of several weeks. This isn’t a ‘back to the shop floor’ stunt. And it isn’t about managers listening to bright ideas from staff. Nor does it mean managers asking customers questions. The managers are silent. They simply listen, logging the reasons that customers call (in the customer’s own language).
Listening to Demand
In Autumn 2006, Owen and his team spent many hours listening to people complain over the phone and at reception desks. What was wrong with these people? Didn’t they know a good service when they saw one? Owen went home at weekends a broken man. Would he be sacked if the truth got out?
To Owens’s relief, he learnt that what he uncovered was typical. He learnt that his service, like many others, was stuffed to the gills with preventable or ‘Failure Demand' – calls that keep coming back because the service hasn’t done something, or has done it wrong. An example of Failure Demand would be a customer ringing to say, "A Plumber came last week but my tap is still dripping" or, "You've sent me the wrong form". An astonishing 60% of all contact made by customers was preventable. Wow. Preventable? This was the trigger. Owen was hooked.
Key Innovations & Timeline
A New System Design
Owen was to become the architect of a new system in 2007 - one that was designed entirely around the good kind of demand that we call ‘Value Demand’. Value Demand is a name for the calls and visits from customers that are necessary – this is the demand that service organizations want and exist to meet. For example, Value Demand placed on a hairdresser would be a person asking for a haircut, not someone complaining about yesterday's haircut.
The Cause of Poor Service
Owen and his staff learnt that the main cause of Failure Demand was the so-called ‘Best Practice’ from Government that staff were diligently following. Meeting Government standards guaranteed poor quality workmanship, missed appointments for repairs and half finished jobs. This led to repeat calls and visits by tenants to the council offices. Owen decided to do the right thing. He would stop trying to please the Government and would instead turn his attention to what mattered to his tenants.
New Purpose
The new purpose of the system is no longer to get glowing reports from Government. It is now “to carry out the right repair at the right time” for the tenant. This change of purpose shouldn’t be underestimated. It re-orientates the entire operation towards the tenant instead of towards Central Government. Measures are now linked directly to this purpose instead of to performance against arbitrary targets. Crucially, the data are now plotted in time series and used by the people doing the work on the job. In the old system, the data were reported up the management hierarchy months later when it was too late to do anything.
The Most Exciting Innovation
The most exciting innovation is that Owen's service does repairs on the day and the time when the customers want them! Jaw-dropping, amazing service. Just stop and consider that: wouldn't it be amazing if BT* could learn to do that? My bet is most managers would think it can't be done. And all this at half the cost.
The system is a massive advance in understanding how to use demand data to drive service design. First of all, understanding the predictability of demand volumes and major types of repairs has enabled them to plan resources effectively. Very clever. The system works as single-piece flow; the tradesman gets one job at a time, they have a visual system showing the jobs with when the customers wants them done; and another visual system showing when the tradesmen will come free from their current job.
How the innovation works (the techies will like this bit)
If you just sit and watch you see tradesmen coming free and getting the next job in the queue. It works because of the next startlingly obvious (when you see it) innovation: When the tradesman arrives at the job, he tells the office when he expects to be finished. Brilliant, because it designs out the perpetual problem with 'work management' systems; they work to 'standard times', and as any systems thinker would tell you, that is a big mistake. As soon as you hit variation, as you always will, these 'work management' systems don't work; they send the system out of control.
Every tradesman has his own van stock, worked out by taking data on actual materials usage over time, the cost of van stocks is now less than 25% of the original cost and failures in van stocks are minimised. Again, simply brilliant.
And now for the most amazing innovation. When a tradesman needs material he calls the logistics arm (Multi Trade Supplies - MTS) and the people there ask him when he'd like it delivered! They know that if you are taking out a bath, you want the new bath to arrive just as you take out the old one. And they measure against that nominal value. By studying both 'early' and 'late' variations they are able to further improve the system. For example, you soon learn that it takes only a few minutes to take off a door and more time than that to supply one, so it makes better sense for those tradesmen who will predictably need doors to carry them. As time goes by the van stock changes, things go in and out. It is a system designed for perfect. Of course it isn't perfect, but they are miles ahead of the competition and they have designed a system to manage or perfect.
Comserv/MTS has set an economic benchmark. With the City Council, they deliver this amazing service at half the original cost. It is extraordinary.
Owen followed the sequence below, known as the Vanguard Method, redesign the system. The Vanguard Method reliably achieves the change to Systems Thinking and fast. Owen and his team used the method over a period of 6 weeks from August 2006. After this time, the team experimented with the re-design of their service achieving previously unimaginable leaps in performance for several months. Now, in October 2010 they achieve incremental improvements on their long journey to perfect.
What is the purpose of this system?
What are its core processes?
Capability - what are the system and its processes predictably achieving?
System conditions - why does the process or system behave in this way?
What needs changing to improve performance?
What action could be taken with what predictable consequences?
Against what measures should action be taken (to ensure the organisation learns)?
Take the planned action and monitor the consequences versus prediction and purpose.
*British Telecom
Challenges & Solutions
The biggest challenge is to change management thinking from command and control to systems thinking - even with the consistent, proven and reliable results achievable with the latter. It is normal for managers to design services with no knowledge of what is really going on for customers. The pull of doing what is normal is strong.
The Biggest Solution
The solution to this is to get managers to listen to demand as Owen did. It is a powerful lever. To begin with, Systems Thinking offended Owen. It went against everything he thought he knew about leadership. Owen is known as a practical, common sense, no nonsense man - not easily persuaded. He is proud to say he has never fallen foul of 'new fangled ideas' or the latest management fad. Owen knew that to get a radical change in service he had to do more than just tinker. He knew his staff didn't need coaching. There was nothing wrong with them. This was much harder than that. He had to change what was going on in his own head. The starting point for Owen, as it is for many systems thinkers, was curiosity.
It's a Fundamental Challenge
Systems Thinking is a fundamental change and a fundamental challenge to the current management orthodoxy. It is diametrically opposed to command and control thinking. Gone are the functional specialisation and procedures. You no longer hear “that’s not in my job description” or “the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing”. In the place of procedures, Owen has learned to study demand, value and flow. Owen’s relationship with his customers is no longer contractual, it is about what matters to them. Decision making no longer takes place in ‘strategic’ management meetings separated from the real work. Decision making is integrated with the work. The old targets, activity measures, and standards have gone.
The new measures relate to the purpose from the customer’s point of view. Staff now understand variation including how to differentiate between ‘noise’ and ‘signals’ in the data. Owen’s relationship with his suppliers is no longer contractual. It is a cooperative relationship which means good service for Owen’s customers. It also means good business for his suppliers.
The new leadership ethos is no longer about controlling budgets and managing people. The new leadership ethos is about learning through taking action on the system. It is not about the people anymore. Owen always had a sneaking suspicion that people go to work to do a good job and it turns out he was right.
This table summarises the change in Owen's thinking from command and control to Systems Thinking:
Command and control Thinking
Top-down hierarchy
Outside-in system
Functional specialisation and procedures
Design of work
Demand, value
and flow
Attitude to customers
What matters?
Separated from work
Integrated with work
Output, targets, activity, standards:
Related to budget
Capability, variation:
Related to purpose
Attitude to suppliers
Control budgets, manage people
Management ethos
Learn through action on the system
Assumptions about motivation
Back in Portsmouth
The first and biggest challenge remains at Portsmouth City Council. Owen and his staff have changed their thinking because they have listened to demand. They understand what performance really used to be like. Owen is a pugalist and a contrarian. He likes a challenge. Other senior managers in the organisation still think command and control. They have not been through the same normative learning experience so although unable to deny the results, they are not yet prepared to change the way they think about the job of leadership.
A Global Challenge
Fortunately Owen Buckwell is not alone. There are now many thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of Systems Thinking leaders across the world all achieving outstanding results, all challenging conventional management thinking.
My mission is to help these people. And make many more curious.
Benefits & Metrics
60 days to complete a repair
60% of all contact from customers was ‘failure demand’ (i.e. people ringing back again and again)
Tenant satisfaction rate of 50%
Cost per repair from start to finish £258
Disbenefits
Tenants queued up at their local councillor's surgery to complain about the repairs service
This service got a glowing score of 3 out of 4 from the Audit Commission (the Local Government watchdog)
There was a culture of learned helplessness and compliance among staff and widespread cheating to meet targets
Problems got 'fixed' in the management factory
Services were designed remotely against theory
People in the organisation left their brains at the door
People were afraid to be wrong or highlight issues
Motivation was extrinsic
7 days to complete a repair
13% failure demand
Tenant satisfaction rate of 9.93 out of 10 (measured differently because the old measurement was flawed)
Tenants now get the right repair done at the right time
Tenants bring flowers and chocolates in for staff
Dramatic decrease in the number of complaints to councillor's surgeries
Staff motivation is intrinsic - for the work itself
Service is designed against customer purpose and demand
Staff are encouraged to be imaginative, to alert mangers to issues and work together to solve them
Audit Commission inspectors are unable to recognize the improvement because it isn’t on their checklist (only a benefit if you like irony!)
Customers are Astonished
All this means that tenants can get a repairs appointment exactly when they want one. Not half-day slots. Not two-hour slots. Not even fifteen-minute slots. Instead the customer calls, getting quickly through to a real person, someone who actively listens and dispatches the right workman who turns up at exactly the time the customer has requested. When they turn up, they do the job there and then and ask if anything else needs doing while they are there. Can you imagine?
A Beautiful Housing Service
Owen Buckwell says "When I went to a resident conference recently and spoke, I got cheers and rounds of applause. Afterwards, a tenant came up to me and said, "I just want to tell you that you run a beautiful housing management service". The previous conference I went to, all I got was people putting their hands up wanting to shout at me and complain"
The Social Benefit
The redesigned service means an improvement to the lives of around 51,000 people - the number of housing tenants in Portsmouth.
There has also been a rise in the numbers of tenants willing to get involved in the management of their local area. This was an unintended consequence of the improved service. Now residents know that things will get fixed, they are willing to report things when they go wrong. The trust between housing tenants and the council is slowly being restored.
Mankind invented management. Current management works but not very well; it needs re-inventing urgently
We can reinvent management from command and control to a systems approach. Owen Buckwell in Portsmouth and thousands of others are doing it
Forget your people. Real leaders act on the system. Real leaders redesign the system to meet demand. When leaders act on the system, customers cheer, costs fall and the culture change comes free.
Owen Buckwell and his team and Portsmouth City Council
Everyone at the repairs contractor Comserv and the logistics arm MTS
John Little, Lead Housing Practitioner at Vanguard Consulting
Mireille Jansma for introducing John Seddon to the MIX
Howard Clark from Vanguard for shooting the video
Charlotte Pell, Campaigner for Systems Thinking in the public sector, for helping to write the story
Everyone who asked questions, left comments and help build this story on the MIX
Guardian Newspaper article, Nov 2009 on Owen Buckwell’s approach to leadership
Systems Thinking in the Public Sector, A Manifesto for a Better Way John Seddon's manifesto for real public sector reform and Freedom from Command & Control: A better way to make the work work
Welsh Audit Office report on Vanguard’s systems thinking including the Portsmouth story
Localis_For Good Measure_WEB.pdf
The ownership state FINAL_0.pdf
Owen Buckwell: A real leader from The Systems Thinking Review on Vimeo.
A view of the work from The Systems Thinking Review on Vimeo.
The man who created the Vanguard method from The Systems Thinking Review on Vimeo.
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October 15, 2010 at 1:30pm
Michael Newton Michael Newton
A lot of the stories and hacks on here focus on the people -as if they need something doing to them.
The assumption in this story is that the people are already good enough - they do not need coaching, mentoring, empowering or inspiring.
It reminds me of the Frederick Hertzberg quote, "If you want people to do a good job, give them a good job to do".
Maude Blaine Maude Blaine
This is very interesting. I live in in a place where we have nothing like this.
I know we dont have this in my local authority (north tyneside) as I keep getting adverts through the letterbox telling me how good the council is, but I can't see that from anything they do, seems like they are fibbing.
If only they spent half the amount of time or effort on systems thinking instead of "engaging" with me, i might just feel i was getting that value for money they keep going on about.
October 6, 2010 at 6:08am
Maria Brunning Maria Brunning
A brilliant example of innovation in the public sector. This is genius!
October 5, 2010 at 12:45pm
Laurence Barrett Laurence Barrett
Well done Owen you are a true leader!
It takes guts and b*lls to redesign a service not because the Vanguard methodology of Systems Thinking is difficult to do or understand it is because traditional management thinking and training teaches managers to only think in a command & control way. You have to unlearn this disabling command & control management thinking and then learn how to redesign the system from a customer perspective using the systems thinking methodology. For managers to do this requires stamina and great leadership as many CEO’s, Managing Directors and Financial Directors are obsessed with targets and they just don’t see or don’t want to see anything that takes this crutch away from them so keeping them happy while you do this is challenging.
As someone that has been on the roller coaster of an systems thinking intervention all I can say is that it was a fantastic journey with some great highs in seeing how we can deliver exceptional customer service and some lows when I saw just how stupid some of the things I had done in targeting front line staff that caused the exact opposite of what I was trying to achieve. A valuable lesson learnt thank you Stuart Corrigan, Vanguard Scotland.
Congratulations John in developing your methodology and for sharing this great story with us and congratulations to Owen and his front line team in making it happen and we shouldn’t forget the Vanguard consultants who were on hand with help and advice.
I am sure that we all look forward to reading more stories like this one that will save the public sector millions of pounds something we definitely need in these challenging economic times also, it not a bad way of working in the private sector!
Tabitha Middlemiss Tabitha Middlemiss
This sounds like exactly the kind of innovation this forum was designed to unearth.
David Oldham David Oldham
I have a similar expereince to Frank Wilde.
As an ex director of housing (also health and planning) I fought hard to get rid of targets and to provide a truly customer facing (and professional) service. (The CIH was very supportive of this.) Unfortunately, the Chief Executive and politicains were wedded to tagets etc. and, even though I fought very hard (almost on my own), I lost! (in 1992) I feel as Frank does. If only I had then known about John's Vanguard, I would certainly have found some way of getting it in to back me up in my battle! The main problem seems to be that, at first, it is counter-intuitive, especially to politicians because it involves trusting directors and other leader/managers. In my case the (Labour) politicians wanted to do the managing! Anyway, all a long time ago and it is very reassuring to know that now, at least, support is available for those prepared to 'think' more deeply than silly targets etc.
This is very clever, particularly the way the repairs contractors work. I have never heard of a customer being able to choose when they get the repair done. How can this be cheaper?
October 11, 2010 at 8:30am
John Seddon John Seddon
It's counterintuitive isn't it? When I discuss this case with managers they assume it will be more expensive. But it is cheaper because they have increased the frequency with which they fix things on the first visit from around 45% to 99%. It is a great lesson on how cost is driven out by managing value.
October 4, 2010 at 2:27pm
Barney Courvoisier Barney Courvoisier
I have enjoyed reading this.
" It is normal for managers to design services with no knowledge of what is really going on at the interface between staff and customer."
I work in a foreign university where, in effect, I have been wanting the student learning experience to be put at the centre of political decisions.
Whilst I still bristle at the idea of a student being thought of as a customer, the point holds good. All our language teaching and resource provision is only worth anything if the students' learning is somehow improved. Perhaps not such a revolutionary idea in the UK, but on the Old Continent, egos, hierarchies and a wholly different view of the status of the university and the teacher are my daily lot.
Still learning and trying to get over character clashes to see the wood for the trees.
David Mason David Mason
Its so easy for me to tell that the approach in this story is a successful one as while reading it I found myself jealous of the good people of Portsmouth. I now want to forward this on to quite a few companies and services of which I am a customer. Thanks for sharing this.
July 8, 2010 at 1:59am
Tim Brooks Tim Brooks
"Hardly profound stuff" says the brave 'John Doe'. Firstly - why? Where's your argument?
Secondly - actually it has a profound effect on the people receiving housing services as well as those delivering them. Service users get a service that works, and makes some sense. This is so good a service many had suggested just it just wasn't possible for a public sector organisation. Those delivering a service are finally doing work that makes sense, makes a difference, makes customers happy, and provides job satisfaction because the ludicrous and insane target based, hierarchical command and control structures are dismantled. And it all costs less to the tax payer!
It is also represents a new philosophical paradigm, which apparently is not visible from where our John Doe stands - which is almost certainly deep in the bowels of the old paradigm with its tacit acceptance of crusty old management ideology, and its blind faith in hierarchical control and command.
Here's a chance for you John Doe, coming blinking into the light - it'll hurt your eyes at first but you'll soon realise you had never really seen the world before. In your cave everything you knew to be real was in fact an illusion, a trick of the light.
So apart from helping those that need most help, liberating those that want to help (to remove the shackles that prevented them being able to help), entirely changing the way we think about management and organisations and reflecting a wider understanding that our organsiations, society, politics, ecology and universe are interconnected systems and systems of systems - this is hardly profound stuff.....if you happen to be profoundly stupid!
July 8, 2010 at 11:08am
James Hill James Hill
I am lucky enough to work with Owen and been on the journey with him. It is true to say that our services and thinking have been transformed in the last four years. As the housing manager for the service there have been many counter intuitive moments and there are elements of our service which continue to challenge colleagues and inspectors alike (imagine for a second having no pre-void inspection and seeing an empty property for the first time with the prospective tenant, imagine a cleaning service with no specification or an out of hours service where you get the same service you would get during office hours). I always thought I was customer focussed but have had the opportunity to use the method and review our rental income system and now truly understand what customer focus really means. This method provides the opportunity to understand the real performance of a system from a customers perspectivce and provides the foundation to transform services by designing them to meet the demands your customers place on your service. The change in thinking is the most challenging but the distinction between this method and other methods is that they change the system but dont grip the thinking or culture of an organisation. With Owens leadership and the application of the method we have achieved more in the last four years than ever before. I couldnt return to my old management practices and fortunately sense a momentum building in government that supports this method in the public sector .... I just hope more leaders and managers use it to unlock the true efficiencies within thier organisations.
Sophia Stravoravdis Sophia Stravoravdis
"Hardly profound stuff"? I beg to differ. I have
worked in public sector housing for almost 10 years
and was lucky enough to participate in a Vanguard lead
project to improve services for residents. As soon
as we reached "Do" I saw an immediate impact on
residents' lives for the better, less confusion and
more valuable work. The effect on staff was a little stressful at first
because immediate supervisors were not on board
and had not gone on the journey from "Check".
But as a customer services officer on the front line
I felt empowered and able to get things done for sometimes
very vulnerable people in dire need, which the system would
not previously have helped quickly or easily.
Might not seem profound to you, might not look profound on paper,
but the difference in people's lives was huge and the cost in both
time and money fell dramatically
for the organisation.
More to the point the mindset changed. You can't put a price on that.
Frank Wilde Frank Wilde
Wish I had known about John Seddon when I was running a Local Authority revenues division then I could have persuaded my managers that what I was thinking was right and I wouldn.t have been called a maverick, out of step with the inefficient way local government was being run.
Keep going John. We are getting there.
Frank Wilde
Paul Buxton Paul Buxton
We also have a housing department that has used Vanguard to transform its services. We started after Portsmouth so are a little behind them, but we too have vastly improved services; for example our average time to complete a repair was 40 days and now is 11. We have also saved money at the same time and have staff that are enthusiastic and engaged with the job of making their work better. So yes John, people do pay for this and it is worth it.
Paul Buxton
Sue Glenton Sue Glenton
I worked in LA Housing with a deeply incurious maintenance dept, delicate attempts were made to tweak, and were thwarted by those resistant to change, improvement, delivering a better service and having happy customers and staff. Portsmouth City Council deserve acknowledgment for being 'curious' enough to find a better way.
Sam Ritchie Sam Ritchie
It is often said that the quality of new thinking can be judged by the amount of opposition it receives. So good news for John Seddon that within hours of this entry, a John Doe pops up!
Raj Kumar Raj Kumar
A delightful story. And that is because the leader had the courage to progress it to a happy ending. Most leaders, even after getting the right idea, would have submitted to the measurement and reward system, as indeed Mr. Buckwell's colleagues did. Shows that knowing the way is not enough. The energy to follow it is essential.
In the three step 'Check - Plan - Do' method recommended may I suggest a fourth step called 'Feedback'. Not only is Feedback the heart of a control system for getting what one wants but the word itself focuses activity on the results desired instead of some 'intelligent' thinking. I acknowledge elements of ‘Feedback’ have already been incorporated in the Plan step with thoughts like ‘measures’, ‘improve performance’ and ‘consequences’ but they cannot precede the third step ‘Do’ unless “Feedback’ is incorporated. The conceptual element of Feedback would theoretically raise it over the Define-Measure-Analyze-Design-Verify methodology of Six Sigma.
Conceptually, there is a similarity between Nayantara’s Barrier 'The Need to Progress From People To Their Knowledge' (http://www.managementexchange.com/barrier/need-progress-people-their-kno...) and this story. Both are on the theme that people muddle reality and a System, powered by reliable energy, is needed to emerge the reality consistently. However, while John’s System – Vanguard method - deals with transactions her concept refers to interactions. As the creator of the System emphasized by Nayantara, I would like to add that there is a bridge between John’s transaction System and her interaction System: the exceptions of John’s System would be dealt with by her System concept.
Agree. Feedback is essential and, as you noted, the measures to be used are established during 'check' then confirmed during 'plan' and employed in 'do'.
July 30, 2010 at 5:23am
John Hanley John Hanley
Very cool approach but it all starts with listening to your customers. To make his point the author downplays the importance of people but nothing good or bad will happen without them!
Ellen Weber Ellen Weber
What I especially like about this keen story is the way leaders held on and broke through the barriers to innovation. Thanks for sharing its delightful success for innovators globally! Interestingly, research now suggests that human brains come equipped with mirror neurons - so that folks emulate what they see around them. While that's sad for the tired traditions that hold innovation back - it's terrific for breakthroughs like you describe here.
Have you considered how your work might help to move resources from places that hold onto broken systems, in ways that promote and foster innovative new approaches such as those listed here?
I guess what you are saying is that people hold on to broken systems because they cannot see beyond their current frame of reference? [and I am not sure about that] But if so we have found the best way to shift a paradigm or challenge a strongley held convention is to study the work from a systems perspective. You cannot deny what you then see, even if it hurts a bit.
Mario Veraldo Mario Veraldo
Outlining how people get the desire to change is probably the key element in transformation efforts. If we are able to determine how that is transition happens in people's mind - from linear to systemic approach - then the impact will be much bigger.
Mireille Jansma Mireille Jansma
Hi Marga,
Did you watch this video? You may like it, although the porte is a bit different from your idea of training minds to mindfulness. http://vimeo.com/10278907
Best, Mireille
Marga Odahowski Marga Odahowski
I have read a few books on systems thinking and it relates to the work of training the mind for mindfulness- greater awareness, nonjudgemental view and compassion.
Mindfulness skill training allows for the shift of an open awareness and interconnectedness that systems thinkers have.
Howard Clark Howard Clark
I used to work in the Uk public sector and after I came across John Seddon's work it transformed how I viewed management and work.
Ever since them I have been learning about a radically exciting and proven approach and method that helps organisations study their organisation as a system instead of focusing change upon people (targets, one-to-ones etc). The method that Seddon has pioneered helps organisations to transform the experience of customers and services users sustainably.
It has been a privilege to be deeply involved in this work.
July 7, 2010 at 12:15pm
More video and examples - but brilliant
Great that you have posted a story here! I have been following your work for about 5 years now and I really feel that if someone deserves a prize for management innovation, it is you and the team of people you work with.
Mireille Jansma
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How to reach: By bus: You can reach Marsa Alam by a bus from Cairo and it takes about 12 hours. By plan: You can fly from Cairo to Marsa Alam , the flight takes about One and half hour.
Sightseeing: Marsa Alam is a village with a small harbor and stone quay; it is the ideal base for a fishing holiday. The Dokki Shooting Club has a rest house there and can arrange deep sea fishing trips. Sharks, lobsters, turtles and muraena are among the catches. There are some fine offshore coral reefs and good diving facilities, for which the area has become well known.
The city is from the major region to be visited in the Red Sea because of its unique beaches, it is also the starting point of deep fishing. Marsa Alam is definitely unique in itself, because it is the best in the world as a whole where you can enjoy diving, snorkeling and the different water sports and desert Safari. You are offered the opportunity to make a wonderful excursion aboard one of the nicest boats.
There, you can practice all your favorite hobbies of diving and snorkeling You are going to have lunch in an oriental style. Food will be served before your eyes and served hot.
Reference: (Best of Egypt) Volume III
Tour to Edfu and Kom Ombo from Marsa Alam
Day Trip to Luxor from Marsa Alam
Overnight Trip to Luxor from Marsa Alam
Cairo Tour from Marsa Alam by Flight
2-Day Trip to Cairo from Marsa Alam
Nile Cruise Journey from Marsa Alam
History of Sinai
Tiran Island
St. Catherine City
St. Catherine Monastery
Sharm El Naga
Ras Mohamed
Moses Springs
Colored Canyon
Gifton Island
Bedouin Dinner
Red Sea Diving Holidays with Memphis Tours Egypt
St. Antony Monastery
St. Pauls Monastery
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Caroline’s Historical Notes
St Swithun’s Articles
01:The East Grinstead Protestant Martyrs
02: Church Mice
03: Constance Kent
04: The Memorial and Grave of John Mason Neale
05: The Crucifix and Prayer Desk of John Mason Neale in St Swithun’s Church
06: The Oxford Movement Window
07: Monument to Dame Katherine Grey
08: Fall of the Tower 1785
09: Rebuilding St Swithun’s Church
10: Changes to St Swithun’s church in the 1870s.
11: The East Window
12: The Pulpit
13: The Organs in St Swithun’s
14: The Nevill and Crawfurd Vaults
15: St Cuthman Window
16: Two Very Old Iron Graveslabs Inside the Church
17: Two More Very Old Iron Grave Slabs
18: The Memorial Tablet to the Victims of the Whitehall Bombing in 1943
19: 1944, The Flying Bomb in East Grinstead
20: The Chancel Screen
21: St Swithun in St Swithun’s Church
22: The Lectern in St Swithun’s Church
23: Lieutenant-General Sir George Fletcher MacMunn
24: Monument to Mary Newnan 1737
25: Inscription to Robert Christian, 1660
26: Memorial Tablet to the Reverend John Netherton Harward
27: Heraldry on the Pew Ends in St Swithun’s Church
28: Funeral Hatchment for Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and Lady Mary Compton
29: Charles Abbot, Baron Colchester
30: Nevill Pelham Funeral Hatchment
31: A Gloomy Funeral and a new Sisterhood
32: The Font in St Swithun’s Church
33: The Altar
34: Crucifix and Figure on the Rood Screen in St Swithun’s Church
35: Remembrance in St Swithun’s Church
36: More Military Memorials in the Church
37: Stir-Up Sunday
38: The Visitation
39: Angels in St Swithun’s Church
40: More Angels in St Swithun’s Church
41: Angels on High, and a Donkey
42: Nativity Windows
43: A Window Showing Scenes from the Early Life of Jesus
44: Epiphany and Gifts
45: The Baptism of Jesus
46: Water into Wine
47: Presentation at the Temple- and a Guinea Pig
48: Images of the Young Jesus
49: The Transfiguration in Two Windows
50: Valentine
51: Vicarage Fire February 1908
52: Monuments to Douglas Blakiston in St Swithun’s Church
53: Images of Mothers in St Swithun’s Church
54: Lazarus and an Anointing
55: The Road Towards the Cross
Off Road Cycling round East Grinstead, West Sussex, UK
Forest Way
Worth Way
Please expand “St Swithun’s Articles” on the menu to see a list of current articles
These articles about St Swithun’s Church, its history, buildings, contents and some of its more famous people came about in March 2015.
Geraldine Durrant, Editor of East Grinstead Online emailed me
‘I found the 1946 history of St Swithun’s online today and it was a treasure trove of interesting stuff…I wondered if you fancied doing a little series on some of the more interesting odds and ends there– graves, memorial stones, windows etc…Nothing too long – a picture and three or four sentences…Artefact of the week…We could run it on a Sunday.’
I asked the Vicar at the time, Clive Everett-Allen, for his permission. His reply, which is so characteristic of Clive, was:
‘Of course you are free to write for East Grinstead On Line. I would strongly encourage it. Is the retiring Vicar among the artefacts? Possibly a relic?’
What follows is a cross between a walk round the church and some connections to the Gospel reading of the day or the season of the Church’s Year.
This collection is offered for interest to those on Church Watch, to Visitors, Church Guides and to the Ministry team and Parishioners of St Swithun’s church.
There is still so much more to be examined and so much more to learn.
Please let me know if you have more information that you would like to pass on.
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Dive into Summer
Hike, bike, climb, float, swim, soak in a hot tub: 34 great ways to experience the state’s sweet season
Rachel Hutton and Joel Hoekstra
Sure, you could spend your vacation revisiting the same tourist traps en route to the same lakeside resort you’ve visited every year since elementary school. But the House on the Rock will probably survive without your $20. So maybe this year you could do something different—push your boundaries a little. Leave the tried-and-true behind and explore the Apostle Islands, the Cuyuna mine pits, Voyageurs National Park, or any of the other extraordinary destinations described here. Go hiking, biking, kayaking, or scuba-diving . You don’t have to be an Eagle Scout or triathlete. All that’s required is a sense of adventure.
Luxury on the Lake
Floating through Voyageurs National Park on a houseboat
By Rachel Hutton
I’VE PADDLED THE BOUNDARY WATERS in a canoe and the Indian Ocean in a kayak. I’ve water-skied Lake Pepin, floated the Apple River, and sailed the Mekong. I’ve traversed Minnehaha Creek on a raft cobbled together from lawn furniture, and shot rapids on a 20-foot log, bobbing like a sodden buckaroo.
Why, then, am I so intimidated by the ultimate in water-borne comfort, a trip though Voyageurs National Park on a houseboat? Slap some pontoons on a hotel suite, shove off on an enormous lake near the Canadian border, and…then what? Will I capsize the cushy cabana? Will hungry campers storm the ship and pillage our stash of boxed wine and baguettes?
We launch from the dock at Ebel’s Voyageur Houseboats, quizzing returning couples as they come down the gangplank. The wives tell how they spent their days fishing, spotting wildlife, eating well, and motoring around Kettle Falls. The men cooked: steaks, tagine, French toast (gentlemen, this is how you get your girl to spend a night in the wilderness). There may even have been skinny-dipping. “What happens on the lake stays on the lake,” a husband interjects. “Anything they say is exaggerated—except for the cooking.”
A new boat arrives and men with three-day-old beards unload bait, booze, tackle boxes, and those turf-covered ramps for playing “cornhole.” They had fished, kayaked, and water-skied. They played cards when the weather was lousy. “You have everything you need,” says a guy in a Packers T-shirt. He turns on his cell phone, signaling his return to civilization.
We board our 60-foot Boatel, which looks like a small apartment with a captain’s wheel in the living room (including the pull-out couch, the boat sleeps six). The stern reminds me of a train car, with bunk beds on one side and the “head” (nautical-speak for toilet) on the other. A spiral staircase leads to the upper deck, where there’s a hot tub and, yes, a water slide.
Joe Ebel takes the captain’s seat and motors us into Sullivan Bay. The boat rides as smoothly as my grandmother’s Lincoln, though it corners like an elephant. Houseboats are Joe’s heritage: His father built them, two of his siblings are in the business, and he and his wife, Katy, have been in it since the ’70s. “There’s one thing you need to know about a houseboat,” he says, as he cedes control to me. “The slower, the better—in the rental business, anyway.”
Nothing about the experience is rustic. We scamper up the houseboat’s stairs, teeth chattering, and plunge into the hot tub. It’s bathing meets bling in the middle of the wilderness.
I feel surprisingly comfortable behind the wheel, but all I really do is hold ’er steady. We flatten other boats’ wakes as if we’re a glacier. At 5 mph, I could walk faster than I’m driving—and I like it that way.
Thomas Strand
Voyageurs is unique in that nearly all of its shoreline is accessible only by watercraft. Joe parks the boat (a tricky maneuver, but easy enough to learn with some instruction) on a tiny island and offhandedly mentions the time a curious bear lumbered up a boat’s gangplank in the middle of the night. “They honked the horn to scare it,” he says as he hops in a small boat and waves goodbye. What had he said about the radio’s emergency channel?
My friends and I spend the rest of the afternoon tooling around on a fishing boat we have towed along, trying to keep our bearings among the islands. Driving a houseboat in Voyageurs is as serene as canoeing in the Boundary Waters—we haven’t seen a soul—but with an added bonus: no packs to portage. As we cook up a batch of pasta, we remark how easily water boils on the kitchen stove, how simple it is to wash up in a sink, how we didn’t have to bring our own dishes. After dinner, we step off our Westin-on-the-water and find ourselves alone in the woods. We build a campfire, make s’mores, and decide on one more adventure before we tuck into bed. It’s too late in the season for swimming, but we dare each other to slip down the water slide. It’s the Everest of the trip; we do it because it is there.
No one hears our splashes or screams. If we were rustic campers, the cold water could be life-threatening; instead, we scamper up the houseboat’s stairs, teeth chattering, and plunge into the hot tub. It’s bathing meets bling in the middle of the wilderness: Where’s the Champagne? Where’s Fred Smoot?
Actually, we prefer the solitude. There are few things in life better than midnight on a silent lake, looking across the water, shadows of shore barely visible on the horizon, stars overhead—except taking it all in from a hot tub.
In Minnesota, houseboat season runs May through October. Rates range from $200 to $1,600/day, depending on boat size, with discounts in the spring and fall months and for week-long rental. Many operators require a three-day minimum.
Ebel’s Voyageur Houseboats
Orr, 218-374-3571, www.ebels.com
Northernaire Houseboats
International Falls, 218-286-5221,
www.northernairehouseboats.com
Rainy Lake Houseboats
www.rainylakehouseboats.com
Voyagaire Lodge & Houseboats
Crane Lake, 218-993-2266,
www.voyagaire.com
BIRCH LAKE
Timber Bay Lodge
Babbitt, 218-827-3682,
www.timberbay.com
Kinsey Houseboats
www.kinseys.com
LEECH LAKE
Hiawatha Beach Resort
Walker, 218-547-1510,
www.hiawathabeach.com
LAKE PEPIN/MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Great River Houseboats
Wabasha, 651-565-3376,
www.greatriverhouseboats.com
Cliff Climbing
Palisade Head, Minnesota’s most prominent precipice, is the only rock-climbing area in the state routinely described as “ominous.” A true sea cliff, it crests 200 feet above Lake Superior’s deep dark blue. Waves pound the boulders below its towering face. Sequestered in Tettegouche State Park, north of Silver Bay, it features dozens of climbing routes, some low-intermediate in grade, but many advanced and expert. Nicknamed the Phantom or Superior Crack, it starts on a ramp of rock in Palisade’s Amphitheater area, where high walls surround to form a horseshoe of vertical stone. At its dizzying crux, the region’s most revered route tapers to a single fist-size crack.
—Stephen Regenold
Palisade Head offers some of the most challenging climbs in the state—and some of the best views. To learn more, visit www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/tettegouche or call 218-226-6365.
Four Other Great Rock-Climbing Areas
Taylor’s Falls: More than 50 established climbing routes on the basalt stone along the St. Croix River in Interstate State Park
Blue Mounds: A unique Sioux quartzite cliff that rises 100 feet above the prairie of southwestern Minnesota
Shovel Point: This 150-foot precipice, in Tettegouche State Park, is Minnesota’s second-highest sea cliff, after Palisade Head
Red Wing: Bolted sport-climbing routes traverse the 100-foot cliff atop Barn Bluff in Red Wing
Epic Paddle
Kayaking in the Apostle Islands
By Erin Peterson
THERE ARE TWO TYPES of people in this world: those who enjoy spending time in nature, and those who enjoy nature as it is represented in motivational posters and Ansel Adams engagement calendars. I have always fit into the latter category.
I don’t mind the idea of outdoorsiness. Indeed, I own all manner of clothing suggesting that nature and I are good buddies: sweat-wicking T-shirts, socks made from high-tech fabrics, and jackets with pockets roomy enough to stow GPS gadgets and tent stakes. But the truth is, given a box of matches in the middle of a forest, I’d sooner point out grammatical errors on the package than start a fire.
Though I lack outdoor cred, I am easily swayed by pretty pictures and good marketing (hello: iPod, iMac, and iPhone). After surfing through the photos and descriptions on Living Adventure’s website, I sign up for a weekend of kayaking and camping with the outdoor-adventure-programming company located in Red Cliff, Wisconsin, just outside of Bayfield. Beauty and inspiration are promised, and I am a sucker for such things. I cannot recite my credit card number fast enough.
Of course, I could have prepared for the weekend by testing a kayak on Lake Calhoun. Instead, I buy trail mix. It seems authentic, outdoorsy. It seems like something I could throw to distract a grizzly bear before it tries to shovel me into its mouth.
I arrive in Red Cliff early Saturday morning, where I meet my guide for the weekend, Danielle, and eight fellow kayakers. We change into wetsuits before heading into Lake Superior’s frigid waters. The gear is comforting. I imagine it’s similar to what Superman feels like when he comes striding out of the phone booth in his cape and tights: invincible and slightly ridiculous. We spend the morning at the edge of Lake Superior, learning kayaking techniques that all basically fall into the category of “how not to die.” When we finally push off, the lake is calm and the sun glints off the water. We fall into formation; our brightly colored kayaks make us look like a school of tropical fish.
It is three miles to our campsite on Sand Island, one of the dozen or so Apostle Islands. It’s a distance we can cover in about an hour, but we take time to explore. The water is deep and clear; sandstone bluffs tower overhead. Over thousands of years, the water has carved small caverns in the rock, and many of these sea caves are just large enough for a patient kayaker to paddle through.
Eventually we paddle back to our campsite and unload the gear we’ve stowed in our kayaks: tents and clothing, containers of food and cooking supplies. Unloading our gear is much easier than packing it at the launch site, where each item became a piece in a three-dimensional game of Tetris.
I am about ready to dig into my trail mix, but Danielle says she’s making us an appetizer before dinner, so I grudgingly set aside the bag. She then announces that we will need to put any food we brought into a bear box—a food-storage locker at the site that will keep the bears from sniffing us out. I am reluctant to part with what I regard as my only protection from grizzlies.
While Danielle prepares our snack, I leave the campsite with others to follow a trail through the woods. The only sounds are birds chirping and our footsteps. I’m someone who rarely leaves my apartment without headphones in my ear, but I can see the appeal of this silence: no traffic, no Muzak, no chatter.
When I return, Danielle has prepared the appetizer. I’m not sure what I was expecting—freeze-dried ice cream, maybe?—but she has started up a fire, freshly roasting some cloves of garlic to go with the crusty bread and Brie she’s set on the picnic tables. Dinner, she announces, will include whitefish with almonds, rice, and a salad with tomatoes and peppers. There is berry pie for dessert. Though we have no running water or electricity, the food is better than most of the restaurants I’ve been to recently.
As we sip hot chocolate and clean our plates, Danielle regales us with an epic tale involving a hungry bear, exasperated park rangers, and a gun. Like all good camping stories, it is funny and scary and poignant. By the time she finishes, it is growing dark. Danielle finishes cleaning up, and we crawl into our tents and say goodnight.
It is impossible not to wake up at the light of dawn, and before long, we’ve eaten breakfast, packed our gear, and headed back into the water. The weather is warm and we’re in good spirits. We paddle alongside the island, taking a break to visit a historic lighthouse and to eat lunch. By mid-afternoon, we decide to head back to shore. My paddle slices through the water, and I turn to take one more look at the islands.
As I drive home Sunday evening, with sore arms and sand still stuck to my ankles, I wonder if I’ve reached some sort of milestone. I may not be ready to buy out REI and Patagonia, but I will no longer limit my travel options to big cities and hotels with minibars. I dig out the trail mix from my bag. I look at it for a moment, then remember the crusty bread and roasted garlic. Maybe I’ll eventually acquire a taste for trail mix. Just not yet.
Many canoe outfitters rent and sell kayaks. Also: Wearing a wetsuit is highly recommended for venturing into cooler waters.
BAYFIELD, WISCONSIN
Living Adventure,
715-779-9503 or 866-779-9503,
www.livingadventure.com
Trek & Trail,
715-779-3595,
www.trek-trail.com
NAMEKAGON RIVER, WISCONSIN
Big Brook Paddlesports,
Cable, 715-798-3310,
www.bigbrook.com
Jack’s Canoe Rental,
Trego, 715-635-3300,
www.jackscanoerental.com
Bear Track Outfitting Co.,
www.bear-track.com
Superior Coastal Sports,
www.superiorcoastal.com
Piragis Northwoods Company,
www.piragis.com
River Point Outfitting Company,
www.elyoutfitters.com
One of five major sets of rapids on the Kettle River near Hinckley, Hell’s Gate sits pinched between towering sandstone walls, with swirling currents, eddies, and sloshing backwater. The stretch features some of the best whitewater in the state, with drops, tight chutes, rolling rapids and big waves that attract paddlers from all over the region.
The Minnesota Canoe Association (www.canoe-kayak.org) runs trips down the Kettle River each year.
Five Other Great Whitewater Spots
St. Louis River: Some of the most exciting whitewater in the state is found on the St. Louis, near Duluth. Rapids range from class II to IV. Superior Whitewater Rafting, Carlton, 218-384-4637, www.minnesotawhitewater.com
Vermilion River: Flaring north from Lake Vermilion to Crane Lake, the river features class I to class V rapids. LaCroix Outfitters in Buyck, 888-600-2842, www.lacroixoutfitters.com
Snake River: A beginner’s whitewater river, with class I and II rapids. Put in near Pine City. Wild River Outfitters, Grantsburg, Wisconsin, 715-463-2254, www.wildriverpaddling.com
Minnehaha Creek: Stretches of class I and II whitewater are found in Edina and Minneapolis during high water. Sea Wolfe Kayak Instruction, St. Louis Park, www.seawolfekayak.com
St. Croix River: There are short but dramatic stretch of rapids just below the dam in Taylors Falls, usually class II and III. Taylors Falls Recreation, 800-447-4958 or 651-465-6315, www.wildmountain.com
Diving deep and surfacing in the mine pits near Brainerd
By Joel Hoekstra
IT’S SUNNY and nearly 80 degrees, and I’m clad head-to-toe in black: hood, gloves, booties, a long-sleeved wetsuit—all made of thick neoprene and perfumed with the sweat of former users. The outfit puckers and pinches in all the wrong places. The mask I’m wearing bites into my cheeks when I inhale through my nose. I have no peripheral vision. Standing at the edge of a green lake, I look less like the Creature from the Black Lagoon than a potbellied cat burglar sporting blinders.
The lake is long, narrow, and oddly shaped. It is, in fact, man-made: a reservoir in a former iron mine, one of more than two-dozen that lie between Brainerd and Crosby in central Minnesota. Opened in 1904 and worked for nearly 80 years, the Cuyuna Range produced 106 million tons of manganese ore that were eventually alchemized into railroad ties, navy vessels, and skyscraper girders. Abandoned a quarter-century ago, the pits filled with rain and groundwater. Today, they attract swimmers, skinny-dippers, and—did I mention the flippers?—scuba divers.
“How deep is it?” I ask my instructor, Todd Matthies. A 40-something fellow with a reddish mustache and the build of Neptune, Todd grew up in Brainerd and owns the Minnesota School of Diving with his father, who started the business in 1959. He has been swimming in the pits since childhood, and has gone on dives in Micronesia, the Dutch Antilles, Mexico, and Honduras. He takes a drag from his cigarette before answering my question. “Some of the pits go 500 feet down,” he says.
Lots of Minnesotans get certified in scuba in area lakes or pools, then head off to look for starfish and manatees in some distant locale where umbrella drinks are served in coconuts. But I have no immediate plans to visit Cozumel or Guam. Sheer novelty spurred my call to Todd: None of my friends had “been there, done that.”
Todd and I wade into the water and slip below. I’m excited—but apprehensive. I’m also deeply skeptical of any sport that requires you to supply your own air. Still, knowing I’m in the depths of an abandoned mine does offer some comfort: I’m not risking an encounter with, say, a flesh-eating abalone or the sort of marine life that inspired Peter Benchley novels.
One of the basic skills first-time divers must master is neutral buoyancy—staying in one spot underwater. Water is denser than human flesh, so to sink below the surface, weights are necessary (see: Woolf, Virginia). To balance the extra pounds and avoid hitting bottom, the diver pumps compressed air from the tank on his back into the bladders of an inflatable vest. Too much air, and you rocket to the surface. Too little, and you’re the Titanic. Like a student driver riding both the brake and the gas, I manage to overfill and underinflate the bladders of the vest repeatedly in quick succession. A serpentine of bubbles trails behind me.
Todd and I descend to a platform 21-feet below the water’s surface and work our way through a battery of tests intended to prove my competence with compass skills, rescue techniques, and emergency-surfacing protocols. Then the fun begins: We tour the pit. We see snails and clam shells. We float through the branches of submerged trees. Moving deeper, we pass through the thermocline—a shimmering line that separates the sun-warmed surface water from the arctic bath below.
The pits are full of curiosities, from building foundations to mining equipment, from sunken boats to stolen cars. The water is clear, but there are constant reminders of human impact: not just old mining equipment, but also broken glass, plastic bottles, a splintered lawn chair. We’ve not only messed up the remotest corners of the earth—litter on K2, mercury in the oceans—we’ve also managed to reintroduce pollution into places we’ve already defaced and dug into. Sorry, Charlie, indeed. But then a baby bluegill races past—just inches from my nose. Nature, despite the scars and bruises, remains astonishingly capable of reasserting itself.
As I flounder, bob, and weave, Todd glides along. He extends a finger to point at the shadow of a nearby Northern pike, and I’m struck by how much he resembles—however briefly—the figure of God unfurling a hand to Adam in that famous painting by Michelangelo. A force, yet a feather. I will remember this weeks later, when I come across a quote from Jacques-Ives Cousteau, the father of modern scuba: “Buoyed by water, [a diver] can fly in any direction—up, down, sideways—by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.”
Todd signals that it’s time to surface. Before ascending, I collect a few plastic cups, intending to throw them away. My footprint on the environment is undeniable. Humans are not feather-light. But the least I can do while living in a world that I share with bluegills and birches and flesh-eating abalones is to open my eyes to the bits of paradise that haven’t yet been crushed. I can step carefully. I’ll never be an angel—in water or out. But I can strive for neutral buoyancy.
Scuba enthusiasts have long made the most of Minnesota’s lakes, slipping below the surface to look for muskies, Native American artifacts, lost jewelry, and more. Scuba shops that offer training and local trips abound. For a list of dive shops in Minnesota, visit www.mnscuba.com.
CUYUNA MINE PITS, CROSBY-IRONTON
Minnesota School of Diving
Brainerd, 218-829-5953,
www.mndiving.com
ISLE ROYAL, LAKE SUPERIOR
Scuba Dive and Travel
Minneapolis, 612-823-7210,
www.scubadiveandtravel.com
SQUARE LAKE, STILLWATER
Scuba Center
Minneapolis and Eagan,
612-925-4818, 651-681-8434,
www.scubacenter.com
Mt. Biking
Northwest WIsconsin
The 300 miles of trail that snake through the rolling wilderness in and around the Chequamegon National Forest in northern Wisconsin make up one of the Midwest’s premier fat-tire venues. These range from relatively easy (and gorgeous) undulating paths to precipitous leg-killers, and there are plenty of options for trailhead parking near Cable, Delta, Drummond, Hayward, Namekagon, and Seeley.
Visit the Chequamegon Area Mountain Bike Association’s website, www.cambatrails.org. Riverbrook Bike & Ski (715-634-5600, www.riverbrookbike.com), in Hayward and Spooner, rents and sells equipment.
Five more great mountain-biking locales
Eagan: Lebanon Hills Regional Park has some of the best riding in the state, including an expert loop with bridges, ramps, drops, and jumps. www.co.dakota.mn.us/LeisureRecreation/Parks, 952-891-7000
Minneapolis: A 4.36-mile off-road loop winds through Theodore Wirth, Minneapolis’s largest park. www.minneapolisparks.org,
Afton: Ride the eight hilly miles of Afton Alps, above the St. Croix River. www.aftonalps.com, 651-436-5245
Bloomington: Sandy trails line the Minnesota River in Bloomington Park at the terminus of Lyndale Avenue. www.morcmtb.org
St. Paul: Overlooking the Mississippi River, Battle Creek Regional Park has bluff-climb trails that ascend hundreds of feet. www.stpaul.gov/depts/parks, 651-266-8500
The Ice Age Trail
The Ice Age National Scenic Trail may be the world’s largest—or at least longest—tutorial on the power of global climate change. This humble hiking path, which meanders near the St. Croix River at Interstate Park in Wisconsin, tracks the scarred land and geographic abnormalities left by great glacial sheets of ice. A mishmash of moraines, tussled stone, talus, deep valleys, lakes, rushing rivers, ridgelines, and bedrock is evident along the trail, which will be 1,200 miles long when completed, connecting hundreds of trailheads within Wisconsin.
Trailheads abound in Interstate Park along the 1,200-mile route; download maps at www.nps.gov/iatr, or call 608-441-5610.
Other Great Day Hikes
Louisville Swamp: Oak savannas, prairie, and floodplain forests fill this 2,600-acre preserve near Shakopee. www.fws.gov/midwest/MinnesotaValley/louisville.html; or 952-492-6400
Carlton Peak: This dramatic, 1,526-foot peak in Temperance River State Park stands high above Lake Superior.
www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/temperance_river, 218-663-7476
Jay Cooke: Rushing rapids introduce the trail system at this state park, which centers on the gorge of the St. Louis River near Duluth. www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/jay_cooke or 218-384-4610
Kekekabic Trail: This remote 38-mile route heads west from the Gunflint Trail deep into the woods toward Ely. www.kek.org
Cannon Valley Trail: This paved but pretty-wild trail unfurls under the bluffs of the Cannon River near Red Wing. www.cannonvalleytrail.com, 507-263-0508
By Rachel Hutton, Joel Hoekstra & Erin Peterson
Rachel Hutton
Driftlessly Devoted to Lanesboro
Reed Fischer - April 25, 2019
International Festival of Owls Set for March 7-9
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MJA instructions for authors - types of articles published by the MJA
The following types of articles are published by the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA).
Perspective (1 page)
1. Medical Education
2. Lessons from practice
3. Snapshots
4. Teaching series
Key research skills
Ageing series
Reflection article
Book/media/app reviews
Competition entries
The MJA, MDA National Prize for Excellence in Medical Research
The Ross Ingram Memorial Prize
The MJA Christmas competition
The MJA Writing with Light Competition - digital photography from our subscribers
Study protocols
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Guideline reviews
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Please note: From July 2016, reference lists for selected articles only will be published in print.
1-page article
Maximum 750 words (main text only)
Maximum 10 references (online only)
"Introline" of up to 15 words
Maximum 3 authors - exceptions will be considered on a case by case basis
Please supply a 100 word (maximum) abstract. Note this is not for publication but may be used in correspondence with reviewers
Maximum 1500 words (main text only)
Perspectives are opinion pieces that discuss challenging and controversial questions relating to medicine and health. This also includes issues in developing or rapidly changing areas in medicine. Articles should be scholarly and well argued, and assertions must be supported by appropriate evidence that is referenced.
1. Medical Education (commissioned only)
Maximum 1500 words (main text)
At least one of any of the following: tables, figures, boxes
Maximum 3 authors
Maximum 5 references (online only)
“Clinical record” and “Discussion” headings
A separate box containing up to 4 brief bullet points highlighting the main “lessons”
MJA Patient consent form completed by the patient/s (or their next-of-kin or legal guardian) must be signed, submitted and dated within 18 months of time of submission and must be signed by the patient, guardian or next-of-kin, verbal consent is not permitted. Please note we do not accept institution patient permission forms
The senior clinician responsible for the patient's overall management should be included among the authors
We are interested in cases which describe conditions that are often missed, or that have serious consequences if missed. The lessons should be important for diagnosis or management and likely to lead to significant practice change. We are not interested in publishing cases which describe highly rare conditions, or cases that have been mismanaged. High-resolution clinical images are encouraged.
Clinical image
These are interesting or unusual clinical images accompanied by a very brief explanation. Please provide high-resolution images and copyright permission where applicable.
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Maximum word count:
Up to 750 words for Clinical skills (main text only)
Up to 1500 words for Innovations and Key research skills (main text only)
Maximum references:
Up to 5 references for Clinical skills (online only)
Up to 15 references for Innovations and Key research skills (online only)
At least one of any of the following: tables, figures, boxes or videos
a. Clinical skills
The Clinical Skills series focuses on how to perform bedside clinical tests. They describe how to correctly perform a test, its evidence base and its clinical applications.
b. Innovations
The Innovations in Medical Education series highlights new and emerging approaches to medical education and assessment, both nationally and internationally.
c. Key research skills
Manuscripts in the Key research skills series explain core skills in study design, research development and statistical analysis. Discussion of statistical concepts should be aimed at the MJA’s general medical readership.
“Introline” up to 15 words
These articles discuss ethical or legal issues related to patient care. They should have a clinical focus and case scenarios should be considered to help illustrate important points. Note that if a case scenario describes an actual patient, the MJA Patient consent form completed by the patient/s (or their next-of-kin or legal guardian) must be signed, submitted and dated within 18 months of time of submission and must be signed by the patient, guardian or next-of-kin, verbal consent is not permitted. Please note we do not accept institution patient permission forms
Ageing series (commissioned only)
The Reflections section contains items related to personal experience or the humanities with respect to medicine. Photographs are encouraged.
1. Reflection article
"Introline" of up to 15 word
Please supply a 50 word (maximum) abstract. Note this is not for publication but may be used in correspondence with reviewers
2. Medical history
History articles are scholarly essays on interesting aspects of the history of medicine. An Australian perspective is preferred but not essential.
Book/film/app/media reviews
An image of the book cover or app
Reviews of newly released books or other media are usually invited by the Editor. For book reviews, the usual types are textbooks and compendiums on various medical topics, especially those that focus on clinical practice. If you would like to suggest an item for review, please contact the Book Review Editor at mjabookreviews@mja.com.au. Reviews should tell readers something new or interesting about the subject in addition to appraising the book, app or media. Film reviews should be limited to documentaries/biographies with direct links to medicine/public health.
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Obituaries for the MJA are brief overviews of a medical practitioner's life and works. Please include the person's birth and death dates, place of birth, names and cities of the major institutions where the person trained, worked and obtained each qualification, positions of importance held, other interests outside medicine, personal traits that define their character and cause of death (with approval from the family). Quality of the image as described here. If you would like the MJA to publish the name of a deceased practitioner in a notice in the Journal, please email mja@mja.com.au with their name, affiliations and one or two sentences describing their achievements in their field of practice.
Maximum 50 lines
We now only consider poems which are of a humorous nature for our annual Christmas competition.
Please see the Awards section for information about submitting entries to the MJA’s writing and artwork competitions.
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Maximum 10 references (print and online)
1 figure (optional)
Editorial authors are invited to supply head-only photographs (JPG or TIFF: MINIMUM 300dpi resolution) to accompany their article
Editorials are peer-reviewed authoritative commentaries which are linked to research articles that are published in the same issue.
1. Original research
Maximum 2500 words (main text only)*
25 references* (print and online)
250-word structured abstract (see below)
Box containing dot-points using the following headings/content: “The known” [the starting point for your investigation], “The new” [your major novel finding] and “The implications” [the consequences of your finding] with maximum 100 words
*Randomised trials may exceed these limits, by negotiation with the editor.
The MJA considers original research directly relevant to clinical medicine and of interest to a general medical audience for publication. The MJA generally does not consider research that is primarily concerned with the basic science, statistical or social sciences without clear application to clinical practice or to health care delivery. Priority is given to work of interest to a general medical audience, or of relevance to more than one specialty. See also, “Is my research article suitable for the MJA?”
Research articles must include:
An IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion)
A structured abstract, which should contain the following headings:
Objective(s): a clear statement of the main aim or hypothesis of the study
Design: eg, prospective, randomised, placebo-controlled, case-controlled, crossover, etc; include study dates
Setting: include the level of care (eg primary care, tertiary referral hospital) and number of participating centres
Participants: include selection criteria and participation or response rate
Intervention (if applicable): what, how, when and for how long
Main outcome measures
Results: include absolute event rates (not just proportions), 95% confidence intervals, level of statistical significance, number needed to treat/harm, as appropriate
Conclusion(s): conclusions and their implications must directly relate to data in the study
Trial registration (if applicable): registry and registration number for clinical trials
Data that are original and as timely and current as possible
Signed patient permission if any patients are potentially identifiable in the text or images (download a consent for publication of personal material form). This form must be signed by the patient, guardian or next-of-kin, verbal consent is not permitted. Please note we do not accept institution patient permission forms
A statement that ethics approval was obtained for the study (or that it was not required), including the name of the ethics committee or institutional review board
A statement giving the details of all sources of funding for the study, outlining any role the funder had in any part of the study, and that the researchers were independent from the funder
A statement that the authors had full access to all of the data (including statistical reports and tables) in the study
A data sharing statement (for interventional trials). See example statements here.
Copies of any non-standard questionnaires used in the research
Copies of published articles based on the same research, especially if the methods have been published elsewhere
Randomised trials must:
follow CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) Statement guidelines including the checklist and flowchart
be registered prior to trial commencement in a public trials registry (see Clinical trials under editorial policies) and include the trial registration, and
include the original protocol or a reference to it, with a brief explanation of any deviations from the protocol.
The use of checklists for other study types is encouraged (see also EQUATOR Network).
GRADE approach for guidelines or articles including quality of evidence or strength of recommendations
PRISMA Statement checklist and flowchart for a systematic review or meta-analysis of randomised trials and other evaluation studies
MOOSE (Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology) checklist for a meta-analysis of observational studies
STARD (Standards for the Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies) Statement checklist and flowchart for a study of diagnostic accuracy
STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology) Statement checklists for cohort, case-control and cross-sectional studies
SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence)
PROSPERO an international prospective register for protocols of systematic reviews in health and social care
For guidance on qualitative research, see MJA article "Quality in Qualitative Research"
2. Systematic reviews
50 references* (up to 50 references will be published in print, if more than 50 the complete list will be published online as an appendix)
250-word structured abstract suitable for a systematic review (see below)
Maximum 3 tables and/or figures
The structured abstract for systematic reviews should contain the following headings:
Data synthesis
The use of the following is strongly encouraged:
A systematic review collates evidence from individual clinical studies and uses a methodology to minimise selection bias, including strict criteria for study inclusion and exclusion, to review a specific research topic. It presents a critically appraised review of evidence on that topic.
3. Meta-analysis
50 references (up to 50 references will be published in print, if more than 50 the complete list will be published online as an appendix)
250-word structured abstract suitable for a systematic review (see above)
The use of the following checklists (where applicable) is strongly encouraged:
A meta-analysis article reports on the methodology and findings of a meta-analysis which reviews and combines the results of multiple studies, integrating the findings into one outcome measure.
4. Study protocols
250-word abstract (for online only; see below)
Also, 750-word summary (for print only); download template here
A Study Protocol article is a report about a planned study or a study currently underway. The MJA invites protocols for studies which are likely to lead to significant changes in clinical practice. This will generally apply to large, multi-centre randomised controlled trials and cohort studies. If data collection is already complete, the article should instead be submitted to the Journal as a Research article.
The MJA publishes study protocols to facilitate awareness among researchers, clinicians and other interested parties of ongoing research activity elsewhere. The aim is to avert superfluous studies and also to promote broader cooperation. Publication of protocols prior to completion of the study also increases the transparency of research by making full details of investigations available for reference and comment, and to allow checking of any changes to the study protocol made between its commencement and its completion.
We encourage authors to use SPIRIT recommendations for randomised trials and PRISMA-P for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. We also strongly recommend that investigators register their study; prospective registration is mandatory for all clinical trials. Appropriate registries for investigations are listed on the WHO website.
Study protocol manuscripts should include the following elements:
Title: Concise but informative, including the specific study type; e.g. “The effects of Treatment X on the progress of Disorder Y in younger patients: a randomised controlled trial.”
Structured abstract with the following sections: Introduction; Methods and analysis; Ethics; Dissemination of results; Registration details (if appropriate).
Planned timetable and site(s) for the study.
Introduction: the background to the study, and the exact research or clinical question it seeks to answer.
Methods and analysis:
the overall study design;
the recruitment and selection of the sample population; interventions, including power calculations for determining the required sample size for detecting statistically and clinically significant differences in the primary outcome ;
the exact definition of primary and secondary outcomes, and the means and timetable for their assessment;
the data analysis plan.
Ethics statement on all required ethics approvals, including the names of the approving bodies and reference numbers.
Dissemination of findings: including storage of data, presentation at meetings, and publications in scientific and public media. Ethical and safety considerations should also be considered. We follow the ICMJE policy regarding data sharing.
References: formatted according to the MJA guidelines (https://www.mja.com.au/journal/reference-examples).
Statement of the specific contributions to of each author to the design of the protocol.
Funding statement: including details (organisation name, grant number where applicable) for all organisations that contributed to its funding.
Acknowledgements of specific organisations or individuals who contributed significantly to design of the protocol or who will contribute significantly to its implementation (apart from protocol authors and funders).
Competing interests statement.
Guideline summaries/consensus statements/position statements (hereafter referred to as guidelines)
Minimum 1 figure, table or box
250 word abstract using template headings: Introduction, Main recommendations, Changes in management as result of the guideline.
Text to have following headings: Background, Methods, Recommendations
Recommendations must include an assessment of quality and strength of evidence using the GRADE system, or an acceptable alternative system, should GRADE be inappropriate (article 1 and article 2, see also guidance by the NHMRC).
We recommend use of the AGREE (Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation) instrument for evaluating the process of practice guideline development and the quality of reporting.
Maximum 10 authors (if more than 10, remainder of group to be acknowledged collectively)
MJA will request all authors to sign the MJA copyright form for the summary only. Please note that this does not include the full guidelines, regardless of where these are hosted.
This manuscript type provides a concise description for the general medical reader of updates or changes in clinical management as recommended by qualified experts and/or relevant bodies.
It is optional for authors to publish the full version of the guidelines on the MJA website or their own organisation’s website.
If the full guideline is to be published on the MJA website it must be provided as a PDF document and will not be edited by MJA staff. If the full guideline is in the organisation’s website, it must be open-access and available from the date of publication in the MJA. The link to the guideline’s website must be given in the summary.
The summary should not contain any unpublished information or information that is not also contained in the full guideline.
Guideline reviews (commissioned only)
250 word summary, giving 4-6 dot-points which cover the key issues
A brief description of the sources and selection criteria used for your literature review should be included in the main text.
A guideline review presents the author’s synthesis of currently available local and international guidelines to formulate an evidence-based discussion on a particular clinical topic
A narrative review presents the author’s synthesis of relevant evidence and experience to formulate an evidence-based discussion on a particular clinical topic.
1 table and/or figure (optional)
Research letters should provide novel research observations. Research letters should be appropriately referenced in the same style and format as other MJA articles (see References in MJA style). Research letters should be submitted via our online manuscript tracking system ScholarOne and may be peer reviewed. Please note that the inclusion of a table and/or figure may require a reduction in word count in the main text.
NOTE: If we receive more letters than our print space permits, some letters may be published online only. Those selected for print will be at the Editor's discretion.
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Home MMO News SMITE Drops “God” Reveal For The Legendary King Arthur
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SMITE Drops “God” Reveal For The Legendary King Arthur
QuintLyn
Back in November, during Dreamhack/HRX, the SMITE team announced two new “gods” would be joining the lineup in the near future. These new additions are a bit unusual in that they’re not exactly part of a traditional pantheon, but they are two of the most mythological (and most beloved) beings in history.
Everyone knows the story of King Arthur and Camelot, and despite him not technically being a god, he’s pretty much god-like. So it was probably only a matter of time until the SMITE team decided to add him to the lineup.
Yesterday, the team dropped a God Reveal for Arthur, Wielder of Excalibur, offered a refresher on his lore, and gave players a look at his abilities. As expected, his abilities rely heavily on Excalibur.
Arthur will be available to play in the SMITE 5.24 update. The patch notes for that are available on the game’s site.
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QuintLyn is a long-time lover of all things video game related will happily talk about them to anyone that will listen. She began writing about games for various hobby sites a little over ten years ago and has taken on various roles in the games community. For the past five years she's been a writer at Gamebreaker TV.
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Memme January 11, 2019 at 12:11 pm
Arthur has already been out since Monday. Kinda late on the news.
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Democrats Don’t Fear Brett Kavanaugh; They Fear the Constitution
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By David Harsanyi
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Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh at the White House, July 9, 2018. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)
President Trump's second Supreme Court nominee will follow the law as it’s written. For the left, that’s a problem.
Sure, some of the anger aimed at Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is partisan bluster meant to placate the activist base. Still, most Democrats were going to get hysterical about any pick, because any conservative pick was going to take the Constitution far too literally for their liking. For those who rely on the administrative state and coercion as a policy tool — forcing people to join political organizations, forcing them to support abortion, forcing them to subsidize socially progressive sacraments, forcing them to create products that undermine their faith, and so on — that’s a big problem.
Some, such as former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, indulged in the histrionic rhetoric we’ve come to expect in the Trump era, claiming that Kavanaugh would “threaten the lives of millions of Americans for decades to come.” But almost none of the objections coming from leading Democrats have been even ostensibly about Kavanaugh’s qualifications as a jurist or, for that matter, his interpretation of the Constitution.
“Specifically,” prospective presidential candidate Kamala Harris argued, “as a replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy, his nomination presents an existential threat to the health care of hundreds of millions of Americans.” Surely, the former attorney general of California comprehends that “health care” is not a constitutional right but rather a policy concern whose contours are still being debated by lawmakers — and probably will be for decades.
What Harris probably meant is that Kavanaugh is an existential threat to the practice of forcing Americans to buy products in the private marketplace against their will. Kavanaugh, incidentally, upheld Obamacare as an appellate judge for jurisdictional reasons even though it displeased him on policy grounds. (He wrote that the law is without “principled limit.”) He did this because he has far more reverence for the law than Harris does.
Few things undermine the socialist agenda more than limiting our regulatory agencies’ ability to lord over the economic decisions of Americans.
Leading presidential contender Bernie Sanders, whose collectivist doctrine clashes directly with the Constitution’s goal of restraining the state and empowering the individual, worries about “workers’ rights, health care, climate change, environmental protection and gun safety.” He should.
Kavanaugh, with Justice Neil Gorsuch, is a critic of “Chevron deference,” the practice that allows administrative agencies to ignore their legal charge and have free rein to interpret statutory authority in virtually any way they please. Few things undermine the socialist agenda more than limiting our regulatory agencies’ ability to lord over the economic decisions of Americans.
Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand, another potential presidential hopeful, said Kavanaugh “can’t be trusted to safeguard rights for women, workers, or to end the flow of corporate money to campaigns.” To “safeguard” the rights of women means keeping abortion legal on the federal level, without any genuine restrictions. For Gillibrand and others, invented rights are sacramental, whereas other precedents, such as stopping the “flow of corporate money” — which is to say, the right of free expression codified by the Citizens United decision — should be conveniently discarded. There is absolutely no guiding principle to any of this other than political preference.
It seems to me that with another originalist justice, we inch closer to a time when the majority of the left will simply dismiss the court as an antiquated impediment to progress. We already see this happening — not only from progressives but from supposed moderates. It’s why flip-flopping partisans such as Ezra Klein are now lamenting the “anti-democratic” position of the court. By “anti-democratic,” he doesn’t mean the court legalized abortion or same-sex marriage without the consent of states; he means it has recently stopped the federal government from compelling individuals to act in ways he and many others approve of.
Normalizing the idea that the Constitution should be subservient to the fleeting will of politics and progressive conceptions of “justice” goes back to Barack Obama, who promised in 2008 to nominate justices sharing “one’s deepest values, one’s core concerns, one’s broader perspectives on how the world works and the depth and breadth of one’s empathy.” The Left hailed this position as proof of a thoughtful and moral temperament, when in reality it’s an ideological position that allows judges to arbitrarily create law and subordinate their constitutional duty to their personal worldview.
Of course, there are a number of legitimate debates about how we should interpret the Constitution. And all justices aren’t political on all issues. Nor are all conservatives pure. But it’s the Left that now embraces relativistic arguments about the intent and purpose of the Constitution.
I wish the Supreme Court were less important. But right now, it’s one of the only institutions preserving constitutional order. And that’s why the Left is about to go nuts again.
© 2018 Creators.com
David Harsanyi is a senior writer for National Review and the author of First Freedom: A Ride through America’s Enduring History with the Gun. @davidharsanyi
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You can find our press release here
The National Solar Tour is organized jointly by the American Solar Energy Society and Solar United Neighbors. Media inquiries related to the National Solar Tour can be directed to either organization:
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What is the National Solar Tour?
The National Solar Tour is the nation’s largest grassroots solar event. Across the country, homeowners, businesses, volunteers, solar installers, public officials, and grassroots organizations put out the welcome mat. They make open house tours of energy efficient and solar-powered buildings available to the public. The sheer numbers of those involved – and the enthusiasm and participation the tour gains each year – make the National Solar Tour more than an event; it’s a movement.
When does the National Solar Tour occur?
The majority of open houses are happening October 5 and 6, 2019. Some local ASES chapters organize tours to take place earlier in the year to avoid inclement weather. Others are scheduled on different dates so as not to conflict with perennial local events. Check out our comprehensive map to see the full list of solar open house locations across the country.
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Although the National Solar Tour is organized by ASES and Solar United Neighbors, it’s a grassroots movement. More than 400 organizations, installers, and non-profits locally coordinate, sponsor, and promote these open houses. The homeowners and businesses who share their personal stories to educate others about the benefits of energy-efficient living make this event a success.
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There are many reasons why solar energy matters. Billions of dollars have been invested to drive energy independence, national security, and job creation. Renewable energy allows homeowners to drastically reduce their monthly energy bills and benefit from various financial incentives. The solar and renewable energy industry creates jobs that are outpacing many traditional sectors of America’s economy. The National Solar Tour keeps these conversations current and helps inspire people to have a voice in how they get their energy. The Tour educates people about energy issues, the challenges we face, and the sustainable solutions we have within reach.
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Click here to see some of the coverage the Tour has received this year.
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De regreso al diario de Reptiles and Amphibians of California
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Watch For Rattlesnakes In East Bay Regional Parks, Officials Say.
Bites are rare and visitors are warned to avoid trying to capture or harm a snake since all wild animals in the parks are protected.
https://patch.com/california/pleasanton/watch-rattlesnakes-east-bay-regional-parks-officials-say
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New evidence that bullfrogs are to blame for deadly fungus outbreaks in western U.S.
In the 1890s, settlers crossed the Rocky Mountains seeking new opportunities -- and bearing frogs. A new study coauthored by a San Francisco State University biology professor draws a link between that introduction of American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) to the western half of the United States with the spread of a fungus deadly to amphibians. The work highlights the catastrophic results of moving animals and plants to new regions.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/sfsu-net050418.php
Anotado en mayo 08, martes 10:13 por biohexx1 | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario
Yolo Habitat Conservation Plan heads for final approval.
Western burrowing owls, valley elderberry longhorn beetles and giant garter snakes are among the dozen species protected under the 50-year conservation plan local governments will consider for approval over the next two months.
https://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/yolo-habitat-conservation-plan-heads-for-final-approval/
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Young girl bitten by rattlesnake while playing on Effie Yeaw playground.
A young girl became just the third rattlesnake bite victim in Effie Yeaw Nature Center's 30-year history last Saturday.
The girl, who Effie Yeaw Executive Director Torey Byington said was between the ages of 6 and 8, was playing on a park structure when she picked up a thick wooden disc. A baby rattlesnake hiding under the object bit her finger, sending her to a nearby hospital in an ambulance.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article210779794.html
Anotado en mayo 10, jueves 12:27 por biohexx1 | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario
Thousands Of Volunteers Help Scientists Crowdsource Urban Nature Photos Around the Globe.
Urban Nature Research Center co-director Greg Pauly and community scientist Hayden Kirschbaum study a snake in the NHMLA Nature Gardens for the RASCals (Reptiles and Amphibians of Southern California) community science project.
https://www.good.is/articles/inaturalist-urban-nature-app-lila-higgins
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Rattlesnake Sightings, Bites Spike In California.
GRIFFITH PARK (CBSLA) — California Poison Control officials are reminding Californians to keep an eye out for rattlesnakes after seeing a spike in snake bites.
“This time of year is when rattlesnakes are active, when people are active. And that’s during the day,” said the Los Angeles Zoo’s curator of reptiles Ian Recchio.
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/05/15/rattlesnake-sightings-bites-spike-in-california/
Ventura nonprofit Paso Pacifico takes on poachers with decoy sea turtle egg.
Paso Pacifico, based in Ventura, took up the challenge. With a nod to the TV series “Breaking Bad,” a plan formed to design a decoy egg that could be used as a tracker.
The idea and design for the InvestEGGator came from Kim Williams-Guillen, a conservation scientist who was part of the nonprofit’s staff at the time and has continued working on the project.
https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/special-reports/outdoors/2018/05/17/ventura-nonprofit-paso-pacifico-poachers-decoy-sea-turtle-egg-central-america-nicaragua/838240001/
Anotado en mayo 18, viernes 11:09 por biohexx1 | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario
Santa Rosa settles salamander dispute.
Santa Rosa reached a settlement with a litigious local environmental group that threatened to sue over the city’s management of land that may be habitat for endangered tiger salamanders.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8362344-181/santa-rosa-settles-salamander-dispute
Rattlesnake population rebounds in the county.
Just a year ago, snake sightings were down and rodent populations grew out of control throughout the county. But predators have rebounded as the summer sun replaces what’s left of the winter chill, and the reptiles emerge from hibernation. They are particularly noticeable at this time of year because so many are coming out of hibernation around the same time, said Gordon Long, executive director of the Calaveras Resource Conservation District.
http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/news/article_15d86e44-5fa7-11e8-8853-5f6de5b69bd7.html
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Have A Closer Look At The Ultra-Rare Koenigsegg Regera product 2018-07-22 18:00:02 https://www.motor1.com/news/258156/koenigsegg-regera-drive-goodwood-video/ Koenigsegg Supercars
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By: Jacob Oliva
More-than-a-thousand horsepower worth of fun in a video. Wow.
Swedish hypercar-maker Koenigsegg has a reputation to make extremely fast and equally rare cars that break the 1,000-horsepower barrier of being awesome. One of its greatest creations is the Regera, a super-limited-production plugin hybrid hypercar that was launched back in 2015 in Geneva.
Aside from its scarce production of just 80 units worldwide, what makes the Regera really, really special is the power plant that resides inside – a total of 1,800 hp coming from the biturbo 5.0L V8 and three motors mounted directly above the drivetrain and on each rear wheels.
Take A Closer Look At The Regera
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Now, with that amount of power available on tap, can you imagine how fun it is to drive the Regera, more so, at the Goodwood Festival of Sound? Well, there’s this video of an extremely lucky guy that have driven the hypercar in the famous hill climb.
You can see in the video the carbon fiber construction of the Regera, which is something that this hypercar is known for. The green livery suits the car well, as if telling the viewers to go ahead, sit in the cockpit, and drive this hypercar at its limits.
Another thing that the Regera is known for is the Koenigsegg Direct Drive System (KDD), which, in an effort to simplify things, means that the car has a single-speed fixed-gear transmission with a 2,73:1 ratio. So, what does that mean, really? Well, that means the 1,500 pound-feet of torque is always available on tap, and that’s what Mr JWW experienced in his video.
Evidently, he was pretty pumped-up with his hill climb with the Regera. Apart from that, he also had the chance to have a little chit-chat with Mr. Koenigsegg himself, just in case you weren’t able to reach that part of the video. Now, ultra-rare $2-million hypercar, extremely fast, driven at Goodwood, and a conversation with Mr. Koenigsegg – we can’t say we’re not envy.
Source: Mr JWW via Youtube
Gallery: Koenigsegg Regera Aero Package
Koenigsegg Regera with bare carbon fiber body
Koenigsegg Regeras At The Geneva Motor Show
Koenigsegg At Monterey Car Week
Koenigsegg Regera by Christian von Koenigsegg
Koenigsegg Regera clear carbon
2016 Koenigsegg Regera
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‘This Is The End Of It’: Meek Mill’s Long Legal Battle Over After Reaching Plea Agreement With Prosecutors
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Meek Mill’s case is finally closed. After more than a 10-year fight, the rapper’s legal battle has come to an end.
Mill, whose real name is Robert Williams, struck a deal with prosecutors on Tuesday morning and, as a result, will not serve any more time in prison. Mill entered a guilty plea to a single count of the possession of a firearm, which is a misdemeanor.
The judge announced, among other things, that there would be no further punishment.
“I know this has been a long road for you and hopefully this will be the end of it,” Judge Leon Tucker told the rapper.
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“I will continue to do what I do with the reform movement and help the people that help me,” Mill said.
Following the plea agreement, Mill spoke to a large group of supporters outside the Criminal Justice Center. Free and clear of the criminal justice system, Mill says he’ll focus on reform.
Since the day in Nov. 2017 when Judge Genece Brinkley ordered the entertainer to a state lockup for two to four years, Mill has become a symbol of what his lawyers call a broken system.
Brian McMonagle said:
“The beautiful thing about this is because of this case, we’re gonna look at things like we’ve never looked at them before and that’s the message and we’ll rethink everything we’ve thought before.”
Five months into his prison stint, Mill was ordered to be released on bail. He was picked up by helicopter and flown to a Sixers’ game, all while pledging to advocate for reform.
Jessica Jackson is with the Mill-inspired nonprofit Reform Alliance.
“He came out, went to his best friends and raised $50 million to form the Reform Alliance and really tackle this issue across the country,” Jackson said.
Prosecutors reached a deal to end the Mill criminal matter — a plea to a gun possession charge. While District Attorney Larry Krasner says no meetings are set, he believes he’ll cross paths with the entertainer.
“It is a case where someone isn’t completely innocent. It is about someone who was punished excessively and processes that lacked integrity and in my opinion, were unfair,” Krasner said.
The rapper also took to Twitter following his court appearance:
“I’m extremely grateful that my long legal battle is finally behind me and I appreciate that it has sparked a much-needed discussion about probation reform and the inequalities that exist within our two Americas. […] I’ll continue to use my platform to make communities safer and reform our criminal justice system. I want to express my gratitude to all of my supporters, especially JAY-Z, Desiree Perez, Michael Rubin, my legal team and everyone else who stood by me throughout the years. It’s important that we now channel our energy into helping the millions that are unjustly trapped in our criminal justice system. #Justice4Millions #Reform.”
Mill will launch his Legendary Nights tour in Chicago later this week.
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With lots of hormonal activity, pregnancy is an emotional time. The general expectation is that mums-to-be are happy and full of excited anticipation. However, some women suffer from depression during pregnancy (antenatal depression). We often hear lots about postnatal depression (which occurs after birth) but little about antenatal depression. A history of miscarriage or stillbirth can also cause negative feelings and the fear that the same thing will happen again. Please tell someone and speak to your nurse of GP so you can be supported.
Many Asian / Muslim women face additional cultural pressures when it comes to pregnancy such as:
Sometimes women may feel pressured to fast or may feel guilty for not fasting because fasting in the month of Ramadan is such an integral part of the Islamic faith. However, in Islam a pregnant woman or one that is breastfeeding does not have to fast. Despite this exemption many pregnant Muslim women choose to fast during Ramadan putting their own health and the health of their unborn baby at risk. Going without food and water particularly when Ramadan falls in the summer is hard anyway and for pregnant women, it is even harder. A foetus in its mother's womb, feeds and grows on the nourishment in her blood. A lack of nourishment can have an impact on the baby's health. For example, fasting has been linked to lower birth weights. It is important pregnant women should seek advice from health professionals if they decide to fast.
In many cultures including in Muslim and Asian cultures, the worth of a women is often judged by her ability to produce children. If she can't or chooses not have children, she is often viewed as a failure. In fact, infertility is often immediately blamed on the women; their husbands are often not even tested to determine if they are infertile. Please remember your worth transcends your ability to procreate.
In addition to coping with the enormous pressure to have children, couples facing infertility that wish to seek alternative solutions may then face further pressures on whether these are permissible in Islam. However, most religious scholars agree that many types of fertility treatment are allowed as long as the treatments do not go outside the bounds of the marriage relationship.
Pressure to Have Sons
In Asian / Muslim communities many women often feel there is a pressure on them to have boys. Some women are even abused and blamed for producing girls although it is the man who determines the gender of the child. Some women are even divorced for having too many girls. These cultural preferences for wanting sons may be resulting in some women feeling pressurised to abort female fetuses. It could be deemed illegal in Britain to have a termination on the grounds of the baby's gender. If you feel pressurised, please ask for help because no one should be forcing you to do anything that you don't want to do.
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Girls who fall pregnant out of wedlock and choose to have their babies may be forced to hide their pregnancies by their parents who also refuse to let them have medical and maternity care. They may also be forced to give up their babies for adoption or hand them over to another family member. If you are in this situation, it is important you ask for help.
Birth Trauma Association
Phone: Some women suffer from post traumatic stress disorder after a difficult birth. The BTA support women who have suffered difficult births and we aim to offer advice and support to all women who are finding it hard to cope with their childbirth experience.
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Many people are unaware that factory farming is one of the most inhumane ways to gather eggs. Of course, the female chickens are strictly used for laying eggs. But then, what happens to the male chickens? Well, since the male chickens can not be used for reproduction, they are often gotten rid of when they are young, that is if they’re not used for meat, such as chicken. Hundreds of thousands of male chicks are thrown into grinders every year, some are also gassed.
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Amy Adams Cast as Lois Lane
By Andrea Swalec • Published at 10:07 pm on March 27, 2011
Every Man of Steel needs his Lois Lane. Amy Adams will play the Daily Planet reporter in the upcoming "Superman" remake, director Zack Synder revealed on Sunday. Adams, 36, will play opposite realtive youngster Henry Cavill, 27, who appeared in Showtime's "The Tudors"
Snyder released a statement about the thrice-Oscar-nominated redhead to announce the news.
"Amy has the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois: smart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful," Snyder said, Hollywood Reporter wrote.
Kevin Costner and Diane Lane will play Superman's mom and dad, E! Online reported.
The flick is currently set to be released in December 2012.
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See a doctor if you have a bruise that lasts longer than two weeks without changing.
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May 29, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC / Source: NBC News
Most bruises happen when you sustain an injury that fails to break the skin, but crushes the small blood vessels underneath. Blood then leaks and becomes trapped under the surface, leaving the telltale mark.
How does toothpaste get rid of bruises?
There’s little evidence it does. Search online and you’ll find this tip listed as a “hack” for helping bruises disappear, which may be related to other advice recommending peppermint oil for the same purpose. But dermatologists say peppermint oil could irritate the skin, and toothpaste may have even more potentially skin-irritating ingredients. If you really want to put something soothing on the bruised skin, you may be better off trying aloe vera, though it won't get rid of a bruise.
How long do bruises take to heal?
Most bruises will heal within a week.
How to get rid of bruises overnight
Unless you put make-up or concealer on the bruise to cover it up, there isn’t much that can be done. Putting ice on a bruise can help minimize swelling.
What is easy bruising a sign of?
"Easy bruising" refers to bruising that appears without an injury, or bruising from minor trauma that wouldn't have caused bruising in the past.
Possible causes of easy bruising include taking blood thinners and steroids. The effects of chemotherapy can also lead to easy bruising. Aging is another factor, because blood vessels become more fragile as people get older.
Easy bruising might be a sign that a person isn't getting enough vitamin K, found in leafy green vegetables, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts, in the diet. In rare cases, easy bruising can be a sign of blood, bone marrow or lymph node cancers. Liver disease could also be a factor.
What if a bruise doesn't go away?
See a doctor if you have a bruise that lasts longer than two weeks without changing. It may not be a bruise at all or it may be caused by an underlying problem. Tell your physician if you have recurrent bruises without any clear causes.
A bruise accompanied by significant pain and swelling also warrants medical attention. That could represent a larger bleed under the skin, especially if you’ve had a significant fall or injury.
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J Clin Invest. 2009 Sep;119(9):2475-87. doi: 10.1172/JCI38605.
Coadaptation of Helicobacter pylori and humans: ancient history, modern implications.
Atherton JC1, Blaser MJ.
Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre Biomedical Research Unit and Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom. John.Atherton@nottingham.ac.uk
Humans have been colonized by Helicobacter pylori for at least 50,000 years and probably throughout their evolution. H. pylori has adapted to humans, colonizing children and persisting throughout life. Most strains possess factors that subtly modulate the host environment, increasing the risk of peptic ulceration, gastric adenocarcinoma, and possibly other diseases. H. pylori genes encoding these and other factors rapidly evolve through mutation and recombination, changing the bacteria-host interaction. Although immune and physiologic responses to H. pylori also contribute to pathogenesis, humans have evolved in concert with the bacterium, and its recent absence throughout the life of many individuals has led to new human physiological changes. These may have contributed to recent increases in esophageal adenocarcinoma and, more speculatively, other modern diseases.
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Phylogeography of H. pylori.
(A) Genetic diversity. Neighbor-joining tree (Kimura 2-parameter) of 769 concatenated sequences from H. pylori, color-coded according to population assignment by structure into the populations H. pylori Europe (hpEurope), H. pylori Asia 2 (hpAsia2), H. pylori North East Africa (hpNEAfrica), H. pylori Africa 2 (hpAfrica2), H. pylori Africa 1 (hpAfrica1), with subpopulations H. pylori West Africa (hspWAfrica) and H. pylori South Africa (hspSAfrica), and H. pylori East Asia (hpEAsia), with subpopulations H. pylori American Indian (hspAmerind), H. pylori Maori (hspMaori), and H. pylori East Asia (hspEAsia). (B–E) Parallel geographic patterns of genetic diversity in humans and H. pylori. (B and C) Genetic distance in humans (B) and H. pylori (C) between pairs of geographic populations versus geographic distance between the two populations. FST is the proportion of the total genetic variance contained in a subpopulation relative to the total genetic variance. (D and E) Average gene diversity (HS) in humans (D) and H. pylori (E) within geographic populations versus geographic distance from East Africa. r2 = 0.77 (B); r2 = 0.47 (C); r2 = 0.85 (D); and r2 = 0.59 (E). Confidence intervals are indicated by dotted lines. Reproduced with permission from Nature ().
Coadaptation of Helicobacter pylori and humans: ancient history, modern implications
J Clin Invest. 2009 Sep 1;119(9):2475-2487.
CagA phenotypes and variation.
Local and whole-cell effects of the H. pylori cag–encoded T4SS and its major effector protein, CagA. H. pylori, with an intact cag PaI, forms a T4SS, which injects CagA into epithelial cells (). The T4SS tip protein, CagL, binds to and activates integrin α5β1, resulting in local activation of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and then Src kinase (). Activated kinases phosphorylate CagA at specific tyrosine residues, in turn activating local Src homology 2 domain–containing tyrosine phosphatase 2 (SHP-2) and therefore local signaling (, , ). A soluble component of bacterial peptidoglycan, γ-D-glutamyl-meso-diaminopimelic acid (ie-DAP) also enters the cell and is recognized by the intracellular innate immune pattern-recognition receptor Nod1, leading to stimulation of NF-κB (). Furthermore, phosphorylated CagA itself, possibly when in excess or when trafficked deeper into the cell, also may activate NF-κB and have other whole-cell effects (, –). Blue arrows indicate H. pylori components, black arrows indicate epithelial cell components, and red text indicates cellular effects.
Mechanisms for generating genetic diversity in H. pylori.
(A) Slipped-strand mispairing in a homopolymeric tract, leading to phase variation in surface antigen expression. Lewis (LeX and LeY) expression in single colonies of an H. pylori strain were determined by ELISA, with transformed converted mean OD units (TCMO) calculated. Two major population groupings were observed, based on frame-status of futC, the gene encoding α-1,2-fucosytransferase. Reproduced with permission from Microbes and infection (S28). (B–D) Polymorphisms in the gene mutY, which encodes DNA glycosylase MutY. (B). Genotypes of 413 mutY homonucleotide tracts from the H. pylori multilocus sequence typing (MLST) database. (C) Chromatograph of the mutY homonucleotide with seven adenines (out of frame). (D) Chromatograph of in-frame mutY (eight adenines). When mutY is out of frame, the H. pylori cells have a mutator phenotype, augmenting genomic point mutation. Reproduced with permission from Journal of bacteriology (S29). (E–G) Effect of exposure to RNS and ROS in frequency of deletions involving DNA repeats. (E) Deletion cassette. Cells with this were exposed to RNS (F) or ROS (G) and deletion frequency was calculated. Asterisks indicate significant (P < 0.05) increases in point mutation frequencies when compared with those calculated for cells incubated in 0 nM of SNP or methyl viologen. aphA, gene encoding aminoglycoside resistance; CAT, chloramphenicol acetyl transferase; CmR, resistant to chloramphenicol; IDS, identical repeat sequence; KanS, susceptible to kanamycin. Reproduced with permission from FASEB journal (S27). (H) Proposed mechanism of RuvB/RecG Holliday junction resolution. Two H. pylori DNA processing pathways may compete for the same Holliday junction intermediate, which can branch migrate (left pathway) because of RuvAB and be resolved by RuvC, restoring replication fork, enabling loading of the replisome (small oval). Alternatively, (middle pathway) RecG (gray circle) can branch migrate Holliday junctions, but without resolution, leading to cell death. Addition of RusA restores the RecG pathway, leading to recombinational repair. The incomplete recG pathway reflects a tension between DNA repair and antirepair. Reproduced with permission from Journal of bacteriology (S26).
Variation of interactive factors.
(A) Model of alternative host interactions according to status of mutable loci, modeled on the cag PaI. The H. pylori genome contains multiple hypermutable loci, creating many contingency genes. The status of each gene confers a particular phenotype to the H. pylori cell, affecting its host interactions. The strain on the left has an operating genetic element, which induces a greater host response; on the right is the same strain with a deleted element, inducing a lower response. The host responses create environmental constraints that select within the H. pylori population, creating a dynamic equilibrium (). (B) Microevolution of cagA within a family. All four subjects in family F12 are colonized with strain 25, and subject D is also colonized with strain 26. Subjects C and D both have two clones of strain 25 with cagA with four and five type C (active) TPMs – these have evolved by simple duplication of the TPM-containing region. They are identical between these subjects, and so likely have been passed between them. Strain 25 in subject A possesses cagA with a variable region (VR) that is nearly identical to strain 26, implying these strains have recombined in subject D: strain 25 has acquired cagA from strain 26 and then been passed to subject A. Duplication of the TPM-C motif may have occurred within subject D or subject A. Strain 25 from subject B lacks the entire cag PaI and may have evolved by deletion from strain 25 from any family member. Solid lines indicate identical strains between hosts, whereas dashed lines represent proposed transmission. Adapted with permission from Clinical cancer research () (B).
Th subsets in H. pylori–associated health and disease.
H. pylori colonization is associated with strong Th1 and Treg responses. We speculate that historically the Treg response has been sufficient to downregulate the local gastric Th1 response thereby avoiding excessive gastric inflammation and gastroduodenal disease. Tregs are also induced by other microbes and through bystander effects may downregulate the H. pylori–associated Th1 response and disease. A low level of gastric Tregs is associated with an increased risk of peptic ulceration. We speculate that pre-19th–century humans had healthy levels of Tregs and thus that H. pylori–associated diseases (particularly peptic ulceration) were unusual. Either of two hypotheses could causally explain the rise in atopic and allergic disease with the disappearance of H. pylori. In the first hypothesis, loss of other infections common in childhood has led to reduced Tregs and thus to loss of Th2 suppression and increased Th2 diseases. Over the same time frame, the loss of Th1 suppression has led to the rise in H. pylori–associated diseases. In modern life, H. pylori is a marker for other childhood infections and a strong Treg response, explaining the negative association between H. pylori and diseases such as asthma. In the second hypothesis, loss of H. pylori itself has led to reduced Treg populations and a subsequent increase in Th2 responses; this could only be the case if H. pylori–associated Tregs had a systemic effect, which now has been observed. These hypotheses are not mutually exclusive.
Overviews of H. pylori relationships to health and disease.
(A) Ancient, premodern, and postmodern stomachs. From ancient times, normal human physiology in the presence of H. pylori pan-gastritis has avoided disease until the gastric cancers of old age. We speculate that premodern changes in the pattern of colonization and inflammation in the stomach resulted in changes in physiology and the rise of peptic ulcer disease (PUD). In the postmodern (current) era, the absence of H. pylori leads to distorted physiology, to which we have not fully adapted. This may have led to disease in some children and adults but avoids gastric cancer in old age. (B) A model of the proposed biphasic nature of H. pylori and human disease. Because we have coevolved with H. pylori, the changed physiology resulting from an H. pylori–free stomach may contribute to some modern diseases. Thus, from a postmodern viewpoint, H. pylori may confer benefits to humans early in their life span. Possible examples include reducing infectious diseases, controlling allergy, regulating gastric hormones such as leptin and ghrelin (benefits uncertain), and reducing gastroesophageal reflux disease sequelae. Later in life, H. pylori has biological costs, inducing ulcers, (possible) metabolic disturbances, anemia, and gastric cancers, all more prominent in an ageing population. In both A and B, black text indicates information for which there is strong evidence — for these, the balance is toward a net deleterious effect of H. pylori on human health — and red text indicates information for which evidence remains under debate. cag-negative strains are less interactive with humans, conferring smaller risks and putative benefits.
Adaptation, Physiological
Antigens, Bacterial/genetics
Antigens, Bacterial/toxicity
Bacterial Proteins/genetics
Bacterial Proteins/toxicity
Evolution, Molecular
Helicobacter Infections/history*
Helicobacter Infections/immunology
Helicobacter Infections/microbiology
Helicobacter pylori/genetics
Helicobacter pylori/immunology
Helicobacter pylori/pathogenicity*
History, 21st Century
History, Ancient
Host-Pathogen Interactions/genetics
Host-Pathogen Interactions/immunology
Host-Pathogen Interactions/physiology*
Hypersensitivity/etiology
Models, Biological
Peptic Ulcer/etiology
Peptic Ulcer/microbiology
Stomach Neoplasms/etiology
Stomach Neoplasms/microbiology
Antigens, Bacterial
VacA protein, Helicobacter pylori
cagA protein, Helicobacter pylori
R01 GM063270/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States
R01 GM63270/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States
Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom
American Society for Clinical Investigation
Helicobacter Pylori Infections - MedlinePlus Health Information
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J Am Coll Cardiol. 1998 Jun;31(7):1658-66.
Autoimmune-associated congenital heart block: demographics, mortality, morbidity and recurrence rates obtained from a national neonatal lupus registry.
Buyon JP1, Hiebert R, Copel J, Craft J, Friedman D, Katholi M, Lee LA, Provost TT, Reichlin M, Rider L, Rupel A, Saleeb S, Weston WL, Skovron ML.
Department of Rheumatology and Medicine, Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York University School of Medicine, New York 10003, USA. didonf01@mcrcr6.med.nyu.edu
The present study describes the demographics, mortality, morbidity and recurrence rates of autoimmune-associated congenital heart block (CHB) using information from the Research Registry for Neonatal Lupus.
Isolated CHB detected at or before birth is strongly associated with maternal autoantibodies to 48-kD SSB/La, 52-kD SSA/Ro and 60-kD SSA/Ro ribonucleoproteins and is a permanent manifestation of the neonatal lupus syndromes (NLS). Available data are limited by the rarity of the disease.
The cohort includes 105 mothers whose sera contain anti-SSA/Ro or anti-SSB/La antibodies, or both, and their 113 infants diagnosed with CHB between 1970 and 1997 (56 boys, 57 girls). Of 87 pregnancies in which sufficient medical records were available, bradyarrhythmia confirmed to be CHB was initially detected before 30 weeks of gestation in 71 (82%) (median time 23 weeks). There were no cases in which major congenital cardiac anatomic defects were considered causal for the development of CHB; in 14 there were minor abnormalities. Twenty-two (19%) of the 113 children died, 16 (73%) within 3 months after birth. Cumulative probability of 3-year survival was 79%. Sixty-seven (63%) of 107 live-born children required pacemakers: 35 within 9 days of life, 15 within 1 year, and 17 after 1 year. Forty-nine of the mothers had subsequent pregnancies: 8 (16%) had another infant with CHB and 3 (6%) had a child with an isolated rash consistent with NLS.
Data from this large series substantiate that autoantibody-associated CHB is not coincident with major structural abnormalities, is most often identified in the late second trimester, carries a substantial mortality in the neonatal period and frequently requires pacing. The recurrence rate of CHB is at least two- to three-fold higher than the rate for a mother with anti-SSA/Ro-SSB/La antibodies who never had an affected child, supporting close echocardiographic monitoring in all subsequent pregnancies, with heightened surveillance between 18 and 24 weeks of gestation.
Publication type, MeSH terms, Grant support
Autoimmune Diseases/complications
Autoimmune Diseases/congenital*
Autoimmune Diseases/epidemiology*
Heart Block/complications
Heart Block/congenital
Heart Block/epidemiology*
Heart Block/immunology*
Infant, Newborn
Lupus Erythematosus, Cutaneous/complications
United States/epidemiology
N01-AR-4-2220/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/United States
Congenital Heart Block - Genetic Alliance
Lupus - Genetic Alliance
Autoimmune Diseases - MedlinePlus Health Information
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In our most recent blogs, we’ve been discussing who uses commercial flag pole installation — car lots, golf courses, and many other businesses — as well as what you should look for when it comes to hiring a commercial flag pole installer and the reasons you shouldn’t hire just anyone to tackle the installation.
But like we mentioned in those blogs, it’s not really the flag pole itself that people are paying attention to; it’s the flag. Sure, people could stand at the base of the flagpole and marvel at how high it goes or how wide it is at the base, but 99 times out of a 100 they’re much more entranced with the flag. After all, it’s the flag that’s moving!
Okay, so we’ve established that all eyes are on the flag. But what if that flag is faded and torn? The harsh North Dakota wind whips flags so that they look nice waving in the wind, but it also causes stitching to break and parts of the flag to tear. This abuse causes problems that NDFlagPoleGuy.com is ready to handle, and we can provide flag maintenance to keep old glory flying. Let’s take a look at why it’s so important to respect your flag and what you can do to keep it in the best possible condition.
Show Respect For the Flag and Country
Here’s the first reason that you should do what you can to fly a healthy American flag: respect. While America itself is more important to the physical flag, the flag represents so much of what our country stands for, and it deserves our respect.
When you raise a sturdy, well-built and non-tattered American flag, you’re showing your respect for your country every day. Getting flag pole repair as necessary, whether to the pole itself or to the ropes and attachments that hold the flag, will also ensure that the flag doesn’t touch the ground. (Proper flag pole installation at the start also helps.)
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The American flag should be shown respect, no matter what someone driving by your business might think. But it just so happens that keeping your flag in the best possible condition goes hand in hand with public perception. Your potential customers want to see the flag flying proudly, and they don’t want to head to a business that has no interest in keeping the flag in the best condition possible. If your flag is tattered but the rest of your business is spotless, they’re going to think you have your priorities in the wrong place.
But let’s say that a customer doesn’t fully believe in the idea of the American flag being that connected to America itself. From a purely aesthetic point of view, a tattered flag simply looks like your business doesn’t care. They might think “if they don’t care enough to keep their flag looking good, will they care about their customers? Am I about to walk into a place that just doesn’t care?” Again, as just an aesthetic look, you want your flag to look as good as anything else in or around your building.
What Can Be Done?
What can be done in order to make sure that your American flag looks good and is treated with respect? We’re glad you asked!
Buy Quality the First Time Around
At our American flag company, we’ve seen what the winds here in North Dakota can do to a flag, both polyester and nylon. That’s why you want to start with the best flag possible. At NDFlagPoleGuy.com, we’re an American flag company that only sells American flags made in America. (As a side note, all of our flags — military branch flags, state flags, and POW/MIA flags for sale — are all made in America.) Buying US flags made in the USA simply ensures that you’re getting a high-quality flag in the first place.
But it doesn’t stop there. Before your flag even flies the first time, we reinforce it with a strong stitch pattern at the corners that’s specifically made to hold up to the motions a flag goes through when it’s moving in the wind. Why isn’t this standard on every flag you buy from any random store? Because it’s a lot of extra work…but it’s worth it!
Most people don’t realize that flag maintenance exists, but it’s a viable way to respect the flag while saving the owner money at the same time. With our flag maintenance program, we begin by washing to flag according to the type of material it is.
After the flag is washed, it’s time to hem it. Take a look at any flag that has flown too long and you’ll notice that the top and bottom are usually fine; it’s the edges that are frayed. Flag repair hems the edges and reinforces them, making the flag ready to fly again. Find out more about flag maintenance and repair right here.
You’re probably wondering “doesn’t hemming the flag make it less wide?” Indeed it does, which is why a flag can only be hemmed so many times until it’s no longer the proper proportions according to the flag code. Which leads us to…
Flag Retirement Completes The Circle
There comes a time when an American flag simply can’t be repaired anymore. Perhaps it’s due to a single destructive event, or maybe it’s just because it flew proudly for so many days.
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We know that flying a flag and keeping it looking nice is a big deal, and that’s why you should choose us for worry-free flag maintenance. Learn more about it right here.
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Teaser trailer and poster for Pixar’s ‘Finding Dory’
Ahead of the release of their next film, The Good Dinosaur on 27th November, Disney•Pixar have launched a teaser trailer for their next eagerly awaited movie, Finding Dory. Disney•Pixar’s Finding Dory reunites everyone’s favorite forgetful blue tang, Dory, with her friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. What can she […]
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CONTRACTED Stars: Najarra Townsend, Charley Koontz, Matt Mercer, Alice Macdonald, Katie Stegeman, Caroline Williams | Written and Directed by Eric England Contracted, originally screened at Frightfest back in 2013, stars Najarra Townsend as Samantha, a young woman who contracts something nasty after being date-raped at a party. Over the course of a few short days, […]
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‘Muppets Most Wanted’ Review
by Jack Kirby
Stars: The Muppets, Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, Ty Burrell, Tom Hiddleston | Written by James Bobin, Nicholas Stoller | Directed by James Bobin Muppets Most Wanted arrives in what feels like no time at all since the long-awaited previous film. I was honestly quite shocked to see the screening invite in my inbox. After the […]
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Video Interview: Rob Minkoff talks ‘Mr. Peabody & Sherman’
Mr. Peabody & Sherman is an an all-new comedy adventure for the whole family. Emmy Award winner Ty Burrell (Modern Family) voices Mr. Peabody, the world’s smartest person who happens to be a dog. When his “pet” boy Sherman, voiced by Max Charles (The Amazing Spider-Man), uses their time traveling WABAC machine without permission, events […]
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Film Top 5: October 2018
October 1, 2018 at 9:02 am by Ray Pride
by Ray Pride
October 1, 2018 September 13, 2018 Filed under:
(Siskel, October 5-6, 8)
A digital restoration to Barbara Loden’s only film: the rich, raw story of a Rust Belt wife on the road, turned adventurer and crook. Essential viewing.
Bisbee ‘17
(Music Box, opens Friday, October 5)
Robert Greene’s experiments with documentary form fascinate, and “Bisbee ‘17” is his most radical, combining collaborative documentary, music and reenactments as townspeople explore the town’s 1917 deportation of hundreds and hundreds of striking immigrant miners.
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable
(Siskel, opens Friday, October 26)
Curator John Szarkowski called Garry Winogrand “the central photographer of his generation,” and Sasha Waters Freyer’s documentary captures the vitality of this unstoppable street photographer; narrated by Winogrand (via archival audio) atop examples of his provocative photos and the witnesses from the art world, along with a selection of ex-wives.
(Opens Friday, October 19)
The dark-hearted duo of David Gordon Green and Danny McBride turn to a reinvention of John Carpenter’s classic.
(River East, October 10-21)
High-profile attractions for the fifty-fourth fest include Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War”; Mike Leigh’s “Peterloo”; Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Shoplifters”; Steve McQueen’s “Widows”; Joel Edgerton’s “Boy Erased” and Christian Petzold’s “Transit.”
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Ray Pride is Newcity’s film critic and a contributing editor to Filmmaker magazine.
His history of Chicago “Ghost Signs” in words and images is in the works. Previews on Twitter (twitter.com/chighostsigns) as well as photography on Instagram: instagram.com/raypride.
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Film Top 5: October 2019 One of Bresson's greatest; two versions of Hemingway's "The Killers"; Nina Menke's essential "Queen of Diamonds"; Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas; and an early 70s horror gem.
Film Top 5: October 2017 In October film events, start the month with Fassbinder's "Fox and His Friends" and finish it off with films at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival.
Film Top 5: May 2018 Cinema from Euro elders, including Philippe Garrel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders and a look at the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Film Top 5: November 2018 Vigo's body of work is small, but one of the most essential in all of cinema.
Film Top 5: September 2018 David Byrne's only directorial outing; Bergman's most beloved and most reviled; a "lost" 1986 feature by Godard; and Dennis Hopper's "Last Movie" regained in a glorious restoration.
Film Top 5: August 2018 Black Harvest turns twenty-four; a Nazi uniform transforms an escapee; a seventy-foot shark takes on Jason Statham; Spike Lee laughs at the Klan; and "Crazy Rich Asians" promises wild humor.
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Stephen Colbert to be new Late Show host after Letterman retires
Stephen Colbert has been named David Letterman's successor on the Late Show, according to CBS.
Stephen Colbert to be new Late Show host after Letterman retires Stephen Colbert has been named David Letterman's successor on the Late Show, according to CBS. Check out this story on news-press.com: http://newspr.es/PUOJjU
news-press.com Published 12:15 p.m. ET April 10, 2014 | Updated 12:50 p.m. ET April 10, 2014
FILE - This Jan. 31, 2014 file image released by Starpix shows Stephen Colbert at the Shape Magazine and Men's Fitness Super Bowl Party in New York. Comedy Central deleted a message Thursday from the ?Colbert Report? show Twitter feed showing a still from Wednesday night?s show where Colbert had joked about starting a ?Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever.? It was part of a skit where Colbert had talked about the Washington Redskins owner buying things for Native Americans upset with the team?s name. (AP Photo/Starpix, Amanda Schwab, File)(Photo: Amanda schwab AP)
CBS moved quickly to replace David Letterman after the late-night host announced his retirement last week. Confirming speculation, Stephen Colbert, ofComedy Central's Colbert Report, will take over theLate Show sometime next year.
Colbert, whose current contract expires at year end, signed a five-year deal to host the show, which will begin when Letterman decides to step down when his contract expires in August 2015, though he could choose to leave earlier next year.
"Simply being a guest on David Letterman's show has been a highlight of my career," Colbert said in a statement. "I never dreamed that I would follow in his footsteps, though everyone in late night follows Dave's lead. I'm thrilled and grateful that CBS chose me. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go grind a gap in my front teeth."
Colbert, 49, was an early favorite to succeed Letterman, 66, who last week announced plans to step down next year after a 33-year career in late night, including the last 11 on CBS, which he joined after losing to Jay Leno in his quest to replace another legend, Johnny Carson.
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Fort Myers comic shop Comics Cards and Stuff is on the brink of closing. But fans want to save it.
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Review: 'Hamilton' comes to Fort Myers. Finally. And it's awesome.
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Concerns Hover as US, China Sign Initial Trade Deal after 18 Months of Row
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and US President Donald Trump shake hands after signing "phase one" of the US-China trade agreement. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Key world stock market indexes climbed to record highs on news of the deal, before stalling on concerns it may fail to ease tensions, with numerous thorny issues unresolved. Oil prices rose, helped by expectations of more Chinese purchases of US oil and gas.
Last Updated: January 16, 2020, 11:07 AM IST
Beijing/Washington: China will boost purchases of US goods and services by $200 billion over two years in exchange for the rolling back of some tariffs under an initial trade deal signed by the world's two largest economies, defusing an 18-month row that has hit global growth.
While acknowledging the need for further negotiations with China to solve a host of other problems, President Donald Trump hailed the agreement as a win for the US economy and his administration's trade policies.
"Together, we are righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic justice and security for American workers, farmers and families," Trump said in rambling remarks at the White House alongside US and Chinese officials on Wednesday.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He read a letter from President Xi Jinping in which the Chinese leader praised the deal as a sign the two countries could resolve their differences with dialogue.
"While markets seemed to take this deal as a risk-on signal, we should all be aware that headlines about trade, particularly US China trade, are going to be a constant feature of 2020," said Hannah Anderson, Global Markets Strategist, JP Morgan Asset Management in Hong Kong.
The centerpiece of the deal is a pledge by China to purchase at least an additional $200 billion worth of US farm products and other goods and services over two years, above a baseline of $186 billion in purchases in 2017, the White House said.
Commitments include $54 billion in additional energy purchases, $78 billion in additional manufacturing purchases, $32 billion more in farm products, and $38 billion in services, according to deal documents released by the White House and China's Finance Ministry.
Liu said Chinese companies would buy $40 billion in US agricultural products annually over the next two years "based on market conditions" which may dictate timing of purchases in any given year.
Beijing had balked at committing to buy set amounts of US farm goods earlier, and has inked new soybean contracts with Brazil since the trade war started.
Although the deal could be a boost to US farmers, automakers and heavy equipment manufacturers, some analysts question China's ability to divert imports from other trading partners to the United States.
The deal does not end retaliatory tariffs on American farm exports, makes farmers "increasingly reliant" on Chinese state-controlled purchases, and does not address "big structural changes," Michelle Erickson-Jones, a wheat farmer and spokeswoman for Farmers for Free Trade, said in a statement.
Trump, who has embraced an "America First" policy aimed at rebalancing global trade in favor of US companies and workers, said China had pledged action to confront the problem of pirated or counterfeited goods and said the deal included strong protection of intellectual property rights.
Washington's insistence on enforcement mechanisms "with real teeth" could tear the deal apart if any tariffs are re-imposed for non-compliance.
US Speaker of the House of Representative Nancy Pelosi said Trump's China strategy had "inflicted deep, long-term damage to American agriculture and rattled our economy in exchange for more of the promises that Beijing has been breaking for years," in a statement.
Earlier, top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told Fox News the agreement would add 0.5 percentage point to US gross domestic product growth in both 2020 and 2021.
Aviation industry sources said Boeing Co was expected to win a major order for wide-body jets from China, including its 787 or 777-9 models, or a mixture of both.
The deal touted new wins for US companies looking to access China's $40 trillion financial sector, but many of the changes were already in the works with Beijing stepping up the pace of opening up in the past year.
China's central bank said Chinese financial institutions are completely capable of coping with foreign competition and it will strengthen financial supervisions as the sector is freed up.
Tariffs to Stay
The Phase 1 deal canceled planned US tariffs on Chinese-made cellphones, toys and laptop computers and halved the tariff rate to 7.5% on about $120 billion worth of other Chinese goods, including flat-panel televisions, Bluetooth headphones and footwear.
But it will leave in place 25% tariffs on a $250-billion array of Chinese industrial goods and components used by US manufacturers, and China's retaliatory tariffs on over $100 billion in US goods.
Market turmoil and reduced investment tied to the trade war cut global growth in 2019 to its lowest rate since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund said in October.
Trump, who has been touting the Phase 1 deal as a pillar of his 2020 re-election campaign, said he would agree to remove the remaining tariffs once the two sides had negotiated a "Phase 2" agreement.
"We've already begun discussions on a Phase 2 deal," Vice President Mike Pence said in a Fox Business Network interview.
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First Published: January 16, 2020, 11:07 AM IST
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Debate rages on about law change that will make it illegal to charge for adoption services
Brazil human rights minister denies illegal adoption
2018 ushers in a more ‘civilised’ MINI
Pupils taught the value of sharing
A debate is raging over a proposed amendment to the Child Care Act that would outlaw charging fees for adoption services. The amendment is expected to be passed by the end of the year, as part of a number of changes to the Act, GroundUp reports.
Adoption is currently overseen by the Department of Social Development. Social workers in the department process adoptions. The department also accredits adoption organisations and private social workers.
Lumka Oliphant, spokesperson for the department, said that it has accredited 102 organisations and 59 social workers.
She told GroundUp that the department supports the amendment because adoption “is not a business but a child protection measure”.
But adoption organisations and social workers say the removal of fees will worsen adoption, or even stop it altogether.
Katinka Pieterse, chairperson of the National Adoption Coalition of South Africa, an umbrella organisation with over 100 members, says “We are asking [the department] to simply talk about [the implications of the amendment and provide a] clear rationale for the decision.”
While the national department does subsidise some adoption organisations, Pieterse says most funding ”is not comprehensive” and a no-fee situation will force some of the organisations close and cut social workers.
Julie Todd, director of the Child and Family Welfare Society of Pietermaritzburg, says that adoption charges are often on a sliding scale and are not a “revenue generator” but rather there to cover the costs of a “complex process”.
But Oliphant told GroundUp that adoption numbers will not fall because besides accredited adoption organisations the department itself has social workers providing adoption services.
Western Cape Minister of Social Development Albert Fritz has written two articles criticising the amendment, posted on 22 January and 25 January. Fritz wrote that the removal of fees will result in a “total shutdown of all adoptions in South Africa”.
But Oliphant says the amendment does not make adoption services the sole responsibility of the department. Organisations “may render services the same way like all other areas in the Children’s Act where their services are required for free”.
How the clause was introduced is controversial. Both Pieterse and Todd said that the amendment was only introduced in the gazetted version of the Child Care Act, giving them very little time to respond.
But Oliphant says the clause was discussed at length at the National Child Care and Protection Forum (NCCPF) which was held on in November.
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No Jail for 18-Year-Old Accused of Raping 2 Teens
David Becker's lawyer says his client can now enjoy 'college experience' without sex offender 'stigma'
WWLP report on David Becker.
(WWLP, via the New York Daily News)
(Newser) – A Massachusetts teen accused of raping two unconscious teens at a house party in April has been sentenced by a Palmer judge to two years' probation, the New York Daily News reports. The case was ordered continued without a finding for two years, meaning if 18-year-old David Becker gets through his probation without flouting its conditions—including not contacting his victims and staying away from drugs and booze—he'll walk away with no recorded conviction and won't have to register as a sex offender, reports the Republican. "We all made mistakes when we were 17, 18, 19 years old, and we shouldn't be branded for life with a felony offense," says Becker's lawyer, Thomas Rooke, noting that a jail sentence would have "destroyed" Becker's life, including his reputation as a star athlete who performed community service.
The "mistake" Becker was accused of, per court documents: heading upstairs with the two 18-year-old female victims to go to sleep after the April 2 party ended, only for the women to wake up (all three reportedly fell asleep on the same bed) to find Becker assaulting them with his finger. Per the police report, Becker said he hadn't had sexual contact with one of the young women, and that the other teen hadn't stopped him, so he figured it was OK, WWLP reports. One of the victims told cops that she had heard rumors of Becker—called "David the Rapist" by some of her friends, she said—assaulting other women, claims that Rooke tells the Republican have been debunked. Thanks to his probation, Rooke says Becker can now lead a "productive life without being burdened with the stigma" of sex offender status and head to college. (This former CU student was found guilty of sexual assault but was spared prison.)
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Oct 18, 2016 8:02 AM CDT
Ahh, Massachusetts, where granny is busted by the National Guard for one pot plant, but a rapist is just making a "mistake". Liberal logic.
The Truth.
What do you expect when most women dress like a bunch of whores and are always insinuating SEX to all young and adult men constantly ? With the tight pants, half their tits sticking out and constantly seducing men but, God forbid you say something or try something with them, then its hell to pay with the authorities and they know and enjoy it with delight .. Women are the DEVIL in disguise and they also worship the devil which truly is the penis (snake) in The Garden of Eden, which Eve tempted Adam to bite the apple which is the scrotum and testicles and to reach the heavens when the climax is reached during sexual intercourse. The only thing i like about the Muslim women is that they have respect for all men to cover up and look decent not like a bunch of prostitutes walking around all over the place. Women are also the biggest hypocrites to make and give birth to all men to be attracted to their filthy and smelly pussies and a**holes then they have the nerve to call all men filthy pigs, rapists and disgusting, etc .. on top of sentencing all men to death as we are truly all on death row because no one gets out alive !! .. and that pretty girl walking down the street when she dies leave her in the sun for a couple of weeks and she will become the most putrid thing you've even seen and also smelled or experienced in your life time '' and '' getting women pregnant is the most vile and despicable thing to do to continue the existence of all sinners throughout the world, especially the continuation of women teasing all men and killing them mercilessly while enjoying doing so every minute of a man's life or existence so help us God from the snares of the DEVIL which are all women except for all NUNS and women that practice celibacy, and all murderers (sexually active women with men) will burn in the pool of fire and brimstone for ever and ever so help us God !! .. *** Amen.
dusty sneakers
Aug 24, 2016 11:21 AM CDT
He is a rapist.
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'If I can't come out, remember my articles': Secret letter released after Australian-Chinese writer detained
Photo credit: Reuters
A letter written by an Australian-Chinese political commentator in 2011 has been released to the media, after he instructed a friend to publish it if he disappeared.
Yang Hengjun, a political commentator and writer, was detained on January 19 and is being held in Beijing under suspicion he is endangering China's national security.
The letter, penned eight years ago, was given to Mr Yang's close friend, Australian academic Dr Feng Chongyi.
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When it became apparent Mr Yang was not being released soon, Dr Feng followed his instructions and released it to the media, reports 7 News.
It urges activists to "maintain belief in China's democratic future, and, when it doesn't put yourself or your family at risk, to use all your means to push China's democratic development to happen sooner".
He asks his supporters to push for "freedom, human rights, the rule of law and justice to occur sooner" in China.
Most ominously, he writes: "If I can come out, I will continue my work. If I cannot come out, or disappear again, remember my articles and let your children read them."
His letter also highlights the importance of democracy, and has a message of hope.
"I really believe that in China, spreading the philosophy [of democracy] is a vital task. I will definitely continue to use my methods to contribute to China's democracy."
Mr Yang was detained in Guangzhou earlier this month, and is believed to be under residential surveillance in Beijing.
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Tables for Two
January 20, 2020 Issue
In Cobble Hill, the HiHi Room Stands Alone
The duo behind Court Street Grocers bring the sandwich shop’s unmistakable brand of irreverence to their first full-service restaurant.
By Hannah Goldfield
On Smith Street, the playful and irreverently stylish HiHi Room all but stands alone.
Photograph by Yudi Ela for The New Yorker
The other day, outside the Lululemon on Smith Street, a woman wearing pearls spoke excitedly into her cell phone, which she was holding as though it were a walkie-talkie. “I guess Brooklyn is a hotter neighborhood now,” she declared. Cobble Hill has been hit hard, in recent years, by an influx of chain stores and the people who chase them. The Chipotle on Court Street sends shivers down the spine.
Flavors and ingredients of the Southeast United States, such as pimento cheese (top right), form the menu’s through line, but plenty of dishes and drinks adhere only to the instincts of HiHi’s restaurateurs and chefs, including the Spaghetti Cincinnati (left), a duck-based version of Ohio’s unofficial state dish.
And yet hope springs eternal at the HiHi Room, a promisingly off-kilter new restaurant from Eric Finkelstein and Matt Ross, the RISD-grad duo behind Court Street Grocers, an understatedly exceptional sandwich shop that opened in adjacent Carroll Gardens a decade ago and now has four locations and its own line of (delicious) bottled sodas. Their first full-service place broadcasts their unmistakable brand of irreverence from the front window with a neon sign greeting passersby in the same custom bubble font used on the menu: HI HI.
Inside, both food and décor are strung together by a loose motif—call it Southeastern American. The menu was developed with Walker Stern, one of two chefs at Battersby, which enjoyed a long reign as the area’s best restaurant before it closed, in 2018. Carolina shrimp are poached for cocktail and seared to top grits from Geechie Boy, a renowned mill in South Carolina; those grits are also used to make hush puppies, served with honey butter. Boiled peanuts share top billing with “Carolina caviar,” the euphemism of choice for pimento-cheese spread, which comes with a half sleeve of Ritz crackers.
HiHi Room is the first sit-down restaurant from Matt Ross and Eric Finkelstein, the duo behind the sandwich shop Court Street Grocers and a line of bottled sodas.
A prep-station butcher’s block in the middle of the dining room, where open bottles of natural wine are kept on ice, is fitted with a gingham skirt, and a succession of Johnny Cash and June Carter duets streamed out of the stereo one recent afternoon. (HiHi is open for lunch and dinner, and will start serving breakfast soon.) “Have a good night, y’all,” a server hollered as I left one night.
I can’t complain about any of this, but I will say that the theme, arch as it may be, seems like an unnecessary crutch. For the most part, the best things to eat fall outside of it, such as a salad of farro, pickled Habanada peppers, and hazelnuts, topped with thin slices of salt-baked celery root so luscious and translucent they called lardo to mind. The “Vegetable Curry!!!” is surprisingly worthy of the punctuation: a brightly colored bowl of steamed but still crisp vegetables—bok-choy shoots, romanesco, Tokyo turnip, delicata squash—awash in a creamy coconut-based curry and topped with fistfuls of bean sprouts and herbs.
A salad called crab Louise features Jonah crabmeat, ruffled leaves of lettuce, medium-boiled egg, avocado, Persian cucumber, and Castelvetrano olives, with a side of Green Goddess dressing.
The curry comes with buttery Carolina Gold rice and an array of exciting condiments, including crushed peanuts, crumbled banana chips, and makrut lime. If I were forced to choose one meal to eat every day, this would be a contender. Allowed two, I’d start with the crab Louise, a pile of cool green lettuce leaves, sweet Jonah crabmeat, Castelvetrano olives, jammy boiled egg halves, sliced Persian cucumber, and avocado, Green Goddess dressing on the side. And do I get a cocktail? The Root of All Beers, please, which mixes a licorice-and-sarsaparilla witch’s brew with rye, vermouth, and honey.
I wasn’t as sold on the Spaghetti Cincinnati, Stern’s take on the unofficial state dish of Ohio. Painstakingly perfected versions of iconic specialties are a Court Street Grocers calling card, but this one, made with duck, hand-cut pasta, and aged Cheddar, reads more like a condescending attempt at elevation than an homage.
From left: pimento cheese, also known as Carolina caviar, with a half sleeve of Ritz crackers; chicken tremolo, glazed in cane syrup and spices, with a side of baked beans; vegetable curry with Carolina Gold rice and assorted toppings; buckwheat waffle with whitefish salad and whitefish caviar. Drink at top: the Fresh Pond Road, featuring tequila, Cynar, and Grocers Bottling Company’s celery soda. Drink at right: the Root of All Beers, made with rye, vermouth, and a root-beer-inspired licorice-and-sarsaparilla concoction.
Still, I appreciate it as an example of Finkelstein and Ross’s daring yet disciplined eclecticism, which is much harder to pull off at a restaurant than at a sandwich shop. Easier is a cheeseburger and fries, which they’d always wanted to try their hand at, but which wouldn’t fit into the production line at C.S.G. The patty’s heavily salted, griddled surface gets incredibly crunchy even as the meat, from the nearby butcher Dellapietras, stays juicy and loose. New York didn’t need another burger, but Cobble Hill did. (Entrées $22-$32.) ♦
Published in the print edition of the January 20, 2020, issue, with the headline “The Hihi Room.”
Hannah Goldfield is The New Yorker’s food critic.
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'Child Neglect is Everyone's Business' - Achieving a Greater Sense of Shared Responsibility for Tackling Neglect: Findings from LARC6
Caroline Sharp, Claire Easton, Gill Featherstone, Helen Poet, Emily Buchanan
LARC6 focused on the question:
'How can we (local authorities) work differently to identify child neglect at an early stage and encourage effective, low-cost solutions drawing particularly on the strengths of the family network and the wider community?'
Nine authorities across England carried out the research, supported by the LARC researchers at NFER and RiP.
Most parents and community representatives thought they have a role to play in identifying and helping to address neglect. But there were mixed views about whether everyone in the wider community sees this as their role.
There are a number of challenging issues, including that some communities are fragmented and suspicious of outsiders. Also, neglectful behaviour can become 'normalised', so people may not recognise that their behaviour is causing harm. Practitioners do not know which community organisations exist, or what help these bodies can offer.
Practitioners and families felt that more help needs to be offered to families early on, before issues escalate. However, practitioners felt that most help was available when families encountered more complex difficulties, rather than offering them preventative advice and support.
The following strategies were suggested: promoting services more effectively; simplifying processes and reducing waiting lists; improving multi-agency working and information sharing; improving families’ knowledge about children's social care to help remove the stigma associated with getting help; considering opportunities for offering families peer to peer support within the community; putting support in place for the whole family; and ensuring frontline staff have core skills to help develop and enhance relationships with families.
In addition, the report identifies the need to achieve clear definitions, raise community awareness about different levels of neglect and provide training/support for those working with families.
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Cape West Coast
Amathole & Frontier
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Some say it was named after a burning fort, set on fire by a Sotho tribe during skirmishes with the Boers. Others say it was named to honour President J H Brand of the Republic of the Orange Free State. Whichever is correct, Brandfort in the Free State was proclaimed a town in 1874.
Today it can be reached via the R30, 50 kilometres north of the Free State capital, Bloemfontein. It falls within a region called the Lejweleputswa District, or the Goldfields.
Like most Free State towns, Brandfort has a Voortrekker heritage and was heavily involved in the second Anglo-Boer War. Interestingly, the existence of two concentration camps on the town’s outskirts reveals a wider involvement in the war than just Boer and British. While one of the camps, Dwyersdorp, housed white detainees, the second, Nooitgedacht, was for black inmates.
In recent history, Brandfort gained infamy as the town to which Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, then the wife of Nelson Mandela, was banned for nine years in the 1970s/80s.
Maize farming is essential to Brandfort’s economy. Farmers in the vicinity also farm livestock such as cattle and sheep.
A Great Trek Monument can be viewed outside the Dutch Reformed Church in town. It contains a memorial wall naming early settlers.
A Garden of Remembrance marks 15 500 deaths at Dwyersdorp concentration camp.
The Nooitgedacht concentration camp site is a National Heritage Site.
The farm, De Aap, belonging to the first President of the Republic of South Africa, C R Swart, is also a national monument.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s home at Majwemasweu now operates as a museum.
The Palmietfontein Dam attracts anglers.
There are quad-biking trails in the vicinity.
South Africa’s first aeroplane builder, M J L Weston, moved to Brandfort from the United States in the late 1800s. He built an aeroplane on a farm here, which took to the skies for eight minutes in 1911. His home, the Vice-Admiral Weston Home, is a tourist attraction.
For nature-lovers, the Soetdoring Nature Reserve is 50 kilometres west of town.
One of the Anglo-Boer War’s casualties was the brother of Vincent van Gogh, Cornelius, who died in Brandfort and is buried in the town in an unmarked grave. He was part of a group of 6 000 Dutch people who came to South Africa to build the railway line to Mozambique. When war broke out, he became an ambulance driver.
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Manda: Sarbu says Maior asked him to help Ghita with advice on how to run Realitatea TV and that Florian Coldea told him he has a solution for Voiculescu before the court passed sentence
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by Nine O' Clock November 3, 2017 November 2, 2017 0191
Claudiu Manda, Chairman of the parliamentary committee on the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), stated on Wednesday, after Adrian Sarbu was heard, that the latter told the committee that in 2010 the SRI was interested in controlling the leadership of Realitatea TV via Sebastian Ghita, that persons from the leadership of the Service got involved in the Intact Group, and that former SRI Deputy Director Florian Coldea told him he had a solution for Dan Voiculescu, before the court passed its sentence against the latter.
“He [Adrian Sarbu] referred to a situation from 2010, back when Mr Maior asked him to help Sebastian Ghita with advice on how to run Realitatea TV from a managerial standpoint,” Claudiu Manda stated after Mediafax owner Adrian Sarbu was heard.
“Mr Ghita looked for him, they had several meetings and Mr Ghita himself confirmed to him this involvement,” Manda added.
The PSD Senator also said that, in 2010, persons from SRI’s leadership wanted to take over the leadership of Realitatea TV, via Sebastian Ghita.
“It was the aspect pertaining to the intention to take over the leadership and, later, possibly the whole media institution, namely Realitatea TV, which persons from the leadership of the SRI at the time wanted to take over via Mr Ghita,” Manda added.
“He says that in his opinion the premises were created for the SRI to get involved more, at that moment (2010 – editor’s note), in what the takeover of a media institution means, the planting of undercover officers or the Service attracting journalists, including the right to place journalists under surveillance on national security warrants,” Claudiu Manda added.
The chairman of the parliamentary committee on the SRI said that Adrian Sarbu also explained SRI’s interest in the Intact Group.
“The second example he wanted to present was the involvement of persons from the leadership of the SRI in what is the Antena television station or the Intact Group, and he gave an example. He says he witnessed Mr Coldea saying he has a solution for Mr Voiculescu, before the sentence was passed, referring to what happened in court and all the aspects you know, aspects presented in the public space,” Manda said. “I asked him if he has evidence, if there were other witnesses too, which were the circumstances; he said he doesn’t want to give details before the Committee now but if he is sued for making this statement, his statement before the Committee being already a piece of evidence, if he is sued he will come up with evidence there,” he concluded.
Likewise, according to the Chairman of the SRI Committee, Adrian Sarbu claimed that back then the Service attempted to get involved in the editorial coordination of institutions, via persons close to the Service, and referred to a press article in which former SRI Director George Maior allegedly confirmed that there are undercover officers in the media.
According to Manda, Adrian Sarbu said that next time he will bring evidence, meaning that “he’ll show the talking points various persons received and how these elements were described in the public space, based on the talking points, including persons from editorial offices, persons who – he said – have close sources, receive indictments, receive documents and were somehow better informed than others.”
According to Manda, Sarbu added that this phenomenon of getting involved in the leadership, the management of media institutions – in the sense of dossiers, arrests, or problems created – certainly deterred very many journalists who sought various solutions or left the media, but in his opinion it was definitely an activity of destroying the fourth estate.
Asked whether Adrian Sarbu mentioned only Realitatea TV and Antena, Manda pointed out: “In this first hearing he referred to the episodes at Realitatea, the episode at Antena and also what was, in his opinion, an attempt to take over Mediafax.”
“We consider that hearing Sebastian Ghita is necessary”
SRI Committee Chairman Claudiu Manda stated on Wednesday that the committee members consider that it is necessary to hear Sebastian Ghita, considering his statements and the statements made by other persons heard.
“We consider it’s necessary to hear Mr Ghita, considering his public statements, and the mentions made about him not only today but in other hearings too,” Manda said, adding that the same type of means of communications used to hear Ghita in court could be used for this purpose.
He explained that, against the backdrop in which all the proceedings of the committee are classified information and are taking place in line with the law on classified information, all the other hearings can take place without using secure audio-video communications accredited by ORNISS.
“From what I know, in Romanian courts Mr Ghita was present via commercial line,” Claudiu Manda argued.
The Chairman of the SRI Committee said that a date for hearing the former Lower House lawmaker has not been established and neither he nor his lawyers have been approached in this regard.
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New marketing campaigns showcase more than menus
Wendy’s, Domino’s, Dairy Queen, Fazoli’s introduce new taglines, air new TV spots
Mark Brandau | Apr 07, 2012
The start of springtime and the start of the second quarter has opened new advertising windows for several of the restaurant industry’s largest advertisers.
In the past week, Wendy’s, Domino’s Pizza, Dairy Queen and Fazoli’s have introduced new television commercials showing a fresh take on sales-building initiatives that the brands have been brewing for months.
Each of the four brands is tying the new spots to the promotion of certain menu items, but each commercial also represents a new step in the brands’ marketing strategies, including a new tagline for Wendy’s, moving from “yes” to “no” at Domino’s, extending the “So good it’s RiDQlous” campaign for Dairy Queen, and unveiling “A Whole New Fazoli’s.”
Wendy’s, Domino’s and Dairy Queen began airing their commercials this week, and Fazoli’s will start broadcasting its new spots Monday.
Wendy’s gets ‘Better’ tagline
Wendy’s latest commercial for its Spicy Guacamole Chicken Club carries the brand’s new tagline, “Now That’s Better.” Brand spokesman Denny Lynch confirmed the slogan will be Wendy’s tagline going forward, though Wendy’s has not yet announced when a new marketing campaign will run.
At an investor conference in January, chief executive Emil Brolick first hinted that Wendy’s would debut a new marketing campaign in the second quarter. Brolick disclosed that the brand had run more than 55 commercials with the “You Know When It’s Real” tagline since October 2009, making it the most successful campaign since the passing of chain founder and spokesman Dave Thomas.
Up to his death in 2002, Thomas filmed more than 700 commercials for Wendy’s, and the chain struggled to find a coherent marketing voice after losing him. One attempt with a new spokesman, Mr. Wendy, lasted only nine commercials, and Brolick called the 24 “red wig” commercials from the middle of last decade “embarrassing.”
New commercials will advertise Wendy’s product quality, which Brolick said during the chain’s fourth-quarter earnings call would position Wendy’s to compete with fast-casual competitors and fend off McDonald’s attempts to outflank the brand with commercials focused on their suppliers.
Watch a commercial featuring the new tagline; story continues below
“We have to be in that space, sharing what makes us different and what makes us better,” Brolick said during the call, “and there will be a component of that in our new advertising campaign that is designed to deal specifically with that, along with the traditional need to drive sales through product innovation.”
Dublin, Ohio-based Wendy’s also recently hired Craig Bahner as its chief marketing officer.
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Putting the ‘no’ in Domino’s
Domino’s Pizza unveiled a new commercial this week to advertise the newest variety of its Artisan Pizzas line: the Chicken & Bacon Carbonara.
The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based chain has credited much of its sales growth the past two years to the brand turnaround chronicled in its “Oh Yes We Did” campaign. But unlike most of the spots Domino’s has run the past two years, this new commercial doesn’t feature Domino’s executives keeping it real on camera. Rather, the spot has a more lighthearted approach, in that the brand is saying “no” to any customer requests for modifications to the Artisan Pizzas line.
Chief marketing officer Russell Weiner said in a statement that Domino’s has always said “yes” to customers over the years, enabling 34 million ways to customize a pizza.
“But our Artisan Pizza isn’t just any pizza,” he said. “What makes our four Artisan Pizza recipes special is that each was meticulously designed by our chefs to have the perfect balance of ingredients. If we put anything else on this pizza, it wouldn’t be artisan.”
Spokesman Chris Brandon added in a call with Nation’s Restaurant News that previous ads for the Artisan Pizza line showed customers give the chain credit for being able to pull off a “gourmet pizza,” giving Domino’s the confidence to playfully tell them “no” only a month after asking for their input in the “Think Oven” campaign.
“The Artisan Pizza is more of a recipe than anything we do,” Brandon said. “We’re confident in these recipes.”
Domino’s also will promote the new Chicken & Bacon Carbonara option with a giveaway promotion on Facebook Monday. The brand plans to give away 75,000 Artisan Pizzas.
Dairy Queen copies winning formula
Dairy Queen is keeping its “So Good It’s RiDQlous” tagline from the commercials of the past two years, but new spots going forward will replace its mustachioed spokesman with ordinary people doing extraordinary things to eat at Dairy Queen.
The first spot, “Gary DQloned himself,” shows a man who clones himself so that his copy can hold down the job at work while he heads to Dairy Queen for the Minneapolis-based chain’s Chicken Strip Basket. Of course, the clone shows up wanting the same thing, and hilarity ensues.
Watch "Gary DQloned himself; story continues below
“The Dairy Queen brand is the difference between good and unbelievable, and that comes across in a big way in our commercials,” Barry Westrum, the chain’s executive vice president of marketing, said in a statement.
Similar spots will debut in May and June to promote the Confetti Cake Blizzard and Sweet Apple BBQ Grillburger, respectively, Dairy Queen said. The campaign runs through September.
Dairy Queen’s other key marketing initiative is the Oreo Blizzard 100, a social-media scavenger hunt celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Oreo, Dairy Queen’s most popular Blizzard mix-in. The contest runs through August on Facebook.
Fazoli’s picks four-prong turnaround spot
For Lexington, Ky.-based Fazoli’s, discussing all the initiatives of the past two years that have driven 20 consecutive months of same-store sales growth in a 30-second commercial required the chain to “show, not tell” customers about the “Whole New Fazoli’s.”
The ad, which will begin airing Monday, takes place in a newly refurbished restaurant and highlights the four prongs of the quick-service Italian chain’s turnaround: remodeled stores, an enhanced menu, new table service, and real plateware and silverware.
Watch the "Whole New Fazoli's" commercial; story continues below
“The last TV campaign we did was ‘The Return to Real Food,’ where the fork was the star, and we wanted some continuity with that,” chief marketing officer Cathy Hull said. “We had four strong messages to convey to our guests, and we needed to get inside a restaurant to demonstrate it.”
She added that the brand dropped a print advertisement March 29 to seed some awareness for the new marketing campaign and to pre-empt Easter. In the past week, same-store sales rose by low double digits and guests counts increased in the high single digits, said chief executive Carl Howard.
“We’ve seen guest frequency improve already because they’re getting a better product in a refreshed environment,” Howard said. “It’s a really unique environment we’re giving guests at our check average.”
The brand will look to retain the increased traffic from new advertising with a hospitality training program that coaches cashiers to become menu experts and help customers order as if they were casual-dining servers, he added. The upgrade also would have more managers on the floor, visiting with guests.
Hull said the new commercials did not represent a large incremental investment in marketing dollars, but did reallocate some funds to TV and shifted some media buying up into the second quarter.
Contact Mark Brandau at [email protected].
Follow him on Twitter: @Mark_from_NRN
TAGS: Quick Service Marketing News
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Nutella-Palooza is a celebration of all things Nutella and chocolate.
Nutella-Palooza is an independent free-entry community event run by a group of passionate Adelaide Nutella fans through their company Event Management & Planning (EMP). The event will feature cooking demonstrations, bakery stalls, chocolate stalls, food trucks and much more.
The history of Nutella-Palooza
The team behind Nutella-Palooza are two friends who share a love of Nutella. Find out more about them and how the idea came together...
David - Event Director (Pretty sure he thinks being the director just means he can direct Tash to do work.)
David is an entrepreneur who is forever coming up with crazy new ideas. His background in the food industry has brought a wealth of knowledge to organising Nutella-Palooza. David's favourite way to eat Nutella is on toast.
Tash - Event Manager and Personal Assistant to Event Director (Also creator of stupid over-the-top job titles for herself, such as Head of Documentation and E-commerce & Digital Project Supervisor.)
Tash is OCD-organised and even makes lists about making lists. With a background in administration, she handles the ever-growing mountain of Nutella-Palooza paperwork. Her favourite way to eat Nutella is straight from the jar with a spoon, but in moderation, of course.
This is the first event both David and Tash have organised. They are learning so much as they go along but, most importantly, they are having fun.
How did Nutella-Palooza come about?
On a lazy Sunday afternoon in May 2015, David was eating Nutella with friends and thought, "Who else just sits around with their mates eating gooey chocolate hazelnut goodness?" David then messaged Tash and ran the idea of a Nutella celebration event past her. Before he could even ask if she wanted to be involved, she'd already said, "Let's do this!"
Chances are they both regret this conversation now, for totally different reasons: David because he now has to put up with Tash contacting him 24/7 with crazy suggestions (the best ideas happen at 2am), and Tash because she now gets just four hours sleep a night.
David and Tash's first step was to contact Ferrero, the makers of Nutella, for permission to organise a Nutella event and to name it "Nutella-Palooza." David then applied to Splash Adelaide to run the event through its community activation program.
With the help of Splash Adelaide, David and Tash aim to ensure the world's first Nutella-Palooza is fun and exciting for everyone. They are volunteering their time and will not be making a profit from the event.
So why do it? 'Cos they simply want to share their love of Nutella with other fans and continue spreading the happy.
They are extremely grateful for all the support they have received, not only from the local community but Australia wide.
Nutella® trademarks and copyright belong to Ferrero S.p.A and are used under authorization of the Ferrero Group. Nutella-Palooza is not an official Ferrero event and Ferrero Group is not a sponsor. The Ferrero Group expressly disclaims responsibility for any loss or damnage that may be caused by or in connection with the promotion and management of the event.
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VIDEO: Channel One and Demopolis Middle Feb 20 2018 From Jim Metrock: This morning, Channel One News featured a video of students from Demopolis Middle School, Demopolis, AL. And just the other day I was bragging that Alabama schools have done so well ridding their classrooms of Channel One’s marketing scam. A school...
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From Jim Metrock: It seems there are more than a few schools that love to film videos for the controversial, kiddie marketing firm Channel One. Here’s one from Derby, Kansas. From Channel One’s transcript for Feb. 2, 2018: Students: This is Mr. Loop’s fourth-hour social studies class at Derby Middle School in Derby,...
From Jim Metrock: Here’s another school allowing its students to film a commercial (the students and teacher don’t know its a commercial, but it is) for the struggling youth marketing firm called Channel One News. Most schools have better things to do with their precious school time. Let’s hope the Waynefield-Goshen Local School district...
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From Jim Metrock: If you find it hard to believe a kiddie marketing company like Channel One is still in business, this 2006 video from the Media Education Foundation may help you understand why American classrooms attract the likes of Houghton Mifflin’s Channel One.
From Jim Metrock: If you are a company advertising on Channel One, what’s wrong with this picture?
From Jim Metrock: I’ve seen students film themselves doing a lot of silly things just for a chance to be seen on Channel One News. You see, Channel One is constantly asking students and teachers to send in classroom videos that can be used to kick off their daily show. Channel One requires students...
From Jim Metrock: Channel One News is pushing the envelope again. Today they shocked classrooms across the country with a story on young people eating laundry detergent pods. Teachers were given no warning about the nature of today’s show. They were not warned that Channel One, for some idiotic reason, decided to show students...
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Amec FW scores two long-term contracts in North Sea
UK’s oilfield services provider Amec Foster Wheeler has confirmed winning two long-term major services contracts.
The company said the contracts come as part of Repsol Sinopec Resources UK’s long-term transformation and long-term commitment to the North Sea. The contracts are both for an initial three-year term with up to two one-year extensions.
The new contracts are for the provision of maintenance and construction labor and engineering support services, covering its offshore operated assets and the terminal at Flotta. In each category, contracts have been awarded to at least two providers to ensure best practice and to incentivise and reward performance and innovation.
The first contract is a new, simplified labor supply contract, replacing the previous maintenance services model. Amec Foster Wheeler’s scope covers seven offshore assets: Arbroath; Bleo Holm; Buchan; Clyde; Claymore; Montrose; Tartan.
The second contract is for a tier 1 engineering services support, covering brownfield modifications and repair orders on a call-off basis, reflecting Repsol Sinopec’s asset-based structure and allowing assets to align engineering scopes with suppliers whose core competence makes them best placed to execute them efficiently.
Alan Johnstone, Amec Foster Wheeler’s Managing Director for Upstream Asset Solutions, said: “These new operations and maintenance contracts are all about efficient delivery, offering innovative solutions, and being accountable for what we do. I am delighted that we have been chosen as part of the supply chain to support Repsol Sinopec in its continued transformation, and I look forward to seeing us deliver long-term value to them.”
Posted on July 12, 2016 with tags Amec FW, contracts, North Sea, UK.
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Category Archives: JPIC News
Helping to Turn Strangers into Neighbors
Franciscan Friars Conventual Responding to Real Needs –
On February 21, 2017, Pope Francis in an address to the VI International Forum: Migration and Peace, felt compelled to address the nature of contemporary migratory movements, which increases challenges presented to the political community, civil society and to the Church, and which amplifies the urgency for a coordinated and effective response to these challenges. Our shared response, according to our Holy Father Francis, “may be articulated by four verbs: to welcome, to protect, to promote and to integrate.”
Have you ever wondered what it is like living in a world, city, or local neighborhood, where your very presence arouses contempt, suspicion, prejudice or common indecency? Where judgements are made of you based on the tone of your skin, the first language you speak or the accent present in your words? Where you as the stranger are literally untrusted, despised or rejected? Where your description begins with a negative – illegal? Where the term friend, neighbor, brother or sister are unspoken?
Sometimes we forget that the words we choose to identify another person do make a difference in whether they meet with our approval, are treated with respect and dignity or vilified and turned away.
Ever given a second thought, to what is to be in hand to enter your child’s school, pick-up a pharmacy prescription, enter a hospital, sit in a library or present when you use a credit card?
Ever question, why we do what we do to others who like ourselves are merely looking for opportunity and means to provide for themselves and those they love and care for?
Most of us perhaps fail to ponder and take for granted that when a person, be they an officer of the law, pharmacist, teacher, sports coach or cashier, ask for a picture identification we readily show a driver’s license, passport or BJ’s / Costco ID which has a picture, address and baseline information stating who we are and where we live. It is not so easy for everyone. Essentially, it is the reality of tens of thousands reaching into the millions now living within our country’s borders, cities, villages, towns and rural areas. They are the souls we greet in the market, on the streets, in our churches, work places and gatherings. They are the anawim of God, loved and cherished by Jesus, and named by him as our brothers and sisters.
As part of small but growing effort, the Blessed Sacrament Faith Community and the Franciscan Friars Conventual together with the local Burlington Police Chief, law enforcement officers, and a dedicated group of volunteers representing various religious traditions and families came together two years ago – May 2015 – hoping to make a meaningful dent into a lived problem. Namely, “How to help turn strangers into neighbors”. The result of our coming together was the formation of the Faith ID Card Task Force of Alamance County.
With financial and moral support from the Conventual Friars of Our Lady of Angels and Our Lady of Consolation Provinces and the approval of Bishop Burbidge, then Bishop of the Diocese of Raleigh, we setup a specialized FAITH ID CARD PROGRAM linked to an expanding program here in North Carolina known as the FaithAction Network.
So What Is A Faith ID Card Program?
An ID card is just a piece of plastic until a person gives it a face and story, and our community gives the card value. We believe each person in our community, regardless of race, culture, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, immigration or socio-economic status has inherent dignity and worth, and is deserving of a valid form of identification. At this particularly divisive time in state and national politics on issues of immigration and diversity, community ID programs bring greater dignity, access and hope to our newest neighbors, while building safer, more inclusive and united communities for all.
The Faith ID Card Program is a connected group of faith communities, nonprofits, and grassroots movements that recognize the urgency of valid ID cards for members of our community who may have limited access to government issued forms of identification, and the importance of creating a unified model and vetting process that community partners (law enforcement, health centers, schools, businesses, and other city agencies) can trust and use to better identify, serve, and protect all residents in cities across North Carolina and the United States.
The Blessed Sacrament Faith ID Card Program is part of the FaithAction ID Network. We are proud to say we are the first franchise so to speak. We call ourselves In the past two years the network has experienced tremendous growth and community ID programs now exist in Guilford, Alamance, Forsyth, Randolph, Orange, and Mecklenburg counties, and may soon be expanding to Wake, Moore, Montgomery, and other counties throughout North Carolina and there is a satellite sponsored by Catholic Charities in Cincinnati, Ohio. Network members agree to utilize the same community ID model to ensure the integrity and further the growth of new and existing programs. Shared hallmarks of FaithAction ID network programs include:
Ensuring each program has a strong home base that can effectively communicate and coordinate a community ID drive with staff and volunteers
Utilizing the same policies, procedures, and vetting process to receive an ID card
Ensuring partnership with local law enforcement and other community partners who formally agree to support the program and attend ID drives
Utilizing the 4 stage ID drive model in a large, safe space (welcome, orientation, document check, photo/computer intake)
Facilitating dialogue throughout the ID drive between ID participants and law enforcement and other community partners with the goal of building greater understanding, trust and cooperation
Providing the same or similar look as other network programs on the front of the card, and signifying you are a part of the FaithAction ID network on the back
Printing and distributing hundreds of ID cards within two weeks of each drive, and securing the personal information of all participants
Participating in monthly calls to share experiences and best practices with other network programs
*There may be some flexibility and unique characteristics of each program, depending on the needs of each community. *All participants must attend a mandatory orientation at an ID drive, and provide proof of photo identification (passport, foreign national ID card, driver’s license, matricula consular) and proof of address (utility bill, bank statement, current rental agreement, medical record) in order to receive an ID card from a FaithAction ID Network member.
Finally, network members believe it is crucial we continue to work for a driver’s license for all residents at the state level, as well as lasting immigration reform at the federal level. In the meantime, we believe community ID programs represent a very important step forward in creating safer, more inclusive, and united communities for all – a much needed example of positive collaboration at this divided time in our nation’s history.
In closing let me say, Thank You, to our Conventual Franciscan Provinces’ leadership and members for helping make this program possible. To date, the Faith ID Card Program here in Burlington, NC, has distributed over 5000 Faith ID Cards. Without your financial and fraternal support, the effort might never have gotten off the ground. The challenge now is to keep moving forward towards the realization of its mission and vision, a place where strangers become neighbors.
Respectfully submitted by,
Fr. Paul Lininger, OFM Conv.
Blessed Sacrament Church, Pastor
An article entitled, “Community ID Program Builds trust between migrants and police,” by Maria Benevento, appeared in the April 5, 2019 online edition of the National Catholic Reporter. To read the full article, click on the following link: ID Card Program
Posted in JPIC News, Uncategorized
Lenten Mission – St. Philip Benizi Catholic Church
In English with Fr. Michael Lasky, OFM Conv. – Our Lady of the Angels Province JPIC Chairman
St. Philip Benizi Catholic Church (under the pastoral leadership of Our Lady of the Angels Province friars, Fr. John Zoziol, OFM Conv. – Pastor, Fr. Vincent Gluc, OFM Conv. – Parochial Vicar, Fr. Luis Palacios Rodriguez, OFM Conv. – Parochial Vicar and Fr. Martin Breski, OFM Conv. – in Residence) celebrated a Lenten Parish Mission on March 23-27, 2019 with the theme: “Racism: Moving through Resistance to Reconciliation.”
The Parish Mission was presented in English by Friar Michael Lasky, OFM Conv. (Our Province Chairman of JPIC – Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation) and in Spanish by Fray (Friar) Fabián Esteban Arrieta Botero, OFM Conv. (Vocation Director for the Franciscanos Conventuales Friars – Columbia – and Parochial Vicar for Immaculate Conception Parish in Filandia, Colombia). Friar Michael and Friar Fabián began the Mission by preaching during all of the weekend Masses, then preached during the Morning Masses, Monday-Wednesday, followed by Mission talks after each Mass. The 7:00 p.m. evening presentations were followed by a reception.
In Spanish by Fr. Fabián Esteban, OFM Conv. – Franciscan Friars Conventual of Columbia Vocation Director
Day 1: Refining Our Images of Jesus –
Turning the Other Cheek and Non-Violent Resistance with Friar Michael
~ In Spanish with Friar Fabián ~
Day 2: Images of Reconciliation: The Cross and Mary –
Two Difficult Stories to Hear: The Lynching Tree, and Our Lady of Guadalupe with Friar Michael
Day 3: Seeing through Tears of Faith and Responding with Broken Hearts of Love –
MLK on Racism: An Examination of Conscience with Friar Michael
Photo and Video Credit:
Our Lady of the Angels Province friar, Fr. Martin Breski, OFM Conv.
who is currently in residence at the friary, assisting at the parish.
“We see the sun as our brother … and the sun is a gift of energy to give to us that’s meant to be shared.”
Posted in JPIC News
WYD2019 with Christopher M. Fernández
Reflection from the 15th international World Youth Day in Panamá City
Dear Friars, Family, and Friends,
What a whirlwind of a January! I am very excited to be writing you all about my recent pilgrimage to World Youth Day (WYD) in Panamá City! I got permission from my formators to attend this international gathering when I was applying to postulancy. I had registered to travel as an individual young adult with my home diocese, the Diocese of Arlington (right outside of DC in Northern Virginia), before applying to postulancy. Thanks to all of you who were praying for me on pilgrimage and especially prayerfully supporting us postulants during this first year of initial formation! You have no idea how important those graces are in the times we most need them!
Before flying out to pilgrimage in Panamá, all of us postulants were on our respective province tours. In a sense priming my pilgrimage with a fraternal/ministerial experience in our province, I found myself excited to interact with friars from around the world!
Thanks to the help of Our Lady of the Angels Province JPIC Chairman, Friar Michael Lasky, OFM Conv., and his connections to friars in Latin America in his travels through his Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) ministry, I was able to connect with Franciscan Friars Conventual present for the pilgrim festivities. There were in all about 10 friars from Central and South American custodies and provinces, in addition to 2 friars from Europe that I got to meet, not including a handful of others that were traveling as chaplains with pilgrim groups. The friars were helping with various events around Panamá city, alongside friars from the other branches of the order, in promoting prayer and conversations surrounding Laudato Si. In partnership with the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM), the friars were also able to participate in animating and singing to many young pilgrims from center stage after a couple of the main events with Pope Francis. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines gladly accepted the “Laudato Si Manifesto” on behalf of the greater church, this document presents the GCCM’s, Youth Franciscans (YouFra) and the friars’ challenge to the Church to actualize more action and consciousness in living out the lessons of Laudato Si and to reiterate (on the behalf of Young Catholics around the world) the need to incarnate and exemplify gospel values in our day to day lives as Christians caring for our common home—as promulgated by the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church (DOCAT). I was very fortunate to spend time with the friars and experience the graces of international fraternity, live out the missionary charism of Franciscan itineracy, and be present to the young church gathered before us.
Having experienced WYD once before in Madrid Spain 2011, it was exciting to be participating once again this year! It was actually back in Madrid where my experiences of the universal church really moved me to be more open to exploring my faith as a high school student. Little did I know that the graces I received on pilgrimage in 2011 cultivated the soils of my vocation today. Now returning on pilgrimage as a Franciscan Friars Conventual postulant made the experience all the more edifying.
Being functionally bilingual and further along in my faith life, it was neat to notice the details I was not aware of as a high schooler just eight years ago and even continue to unpack blessings from pilgrimage in Madrid. It’s funny, in English we call this pilgrimage “World Youth Day” but the majority of the other language groups and even the organizers refer to this pilgrimage as “la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud” (JMJ) which translates to “the World Journey of the Youth.” I have become a lot more fond of this title because I think it best encapsulates the experience and festivities. Getting to bump into youth of all ages—from middle school to young adult (<30’s)—and their accompanying family, Lay ministers and chaplains from all over the world and exchange fraternal cheers, songs, laughs, and even the few words that they can communicate in that moment (regardless of language) make the youthful energy very palpable. People from various walks of life journey to these youth pilgrimages all round the world to commune with the wider church and give witness that young people are still very much engaged as part of the mystical body of Christ and passionate about the gospel! Many fundraise and work real hard in the span of every two to three years to be able to travel on pilgrimage. Some have more arduous journeys than others to make it to respective JMJ sites. But in the end all return home convicted with the same drive to be missionary disciples and to live out our faith more authentically.
The Secretaries General for Mission Animation (SGAM) of the different obediences of the Seraphic Order encouraged the friars to participate in the youth festivities and pilgrim events with Pope Francis. The “Franciscan Ecological Village” hosted by the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate hosted friars, Franciscan youth, and volunteers on their school ground. Together they mobilized various activities throughout the week (several I was able to partake in) motivating pilgrims to take time to reflect on modifying their lifestyles to live more simply in solidarity with the poor and heed the call for an ecological conversation. One evening, I was asked by our friars to help facilitate a small group in a wider panel discussion with YouFra (Youth Franciscans) and Ministers General from the different Franciscan branches about how the friars can improve their ministry and support of youth around the world. At the close of the JMJ a document summarizing the major points of the dialogue was sent to the Curias of the Orders in Rome.
The Holy Father encouraged us throughout our days with him to look to Mary for inspiration in her a humble and fearless fiat for how to live and love God’s mission for us. He exhorted us “You, dear young people, are not the future but the now of God. He invites you and calls you in your communities and cities to go out and find your grandparents, your elders; to stand up and with them to speak out and realize the dream that the Lord has dreamed for you.”
Now a two time veteran of JMJ experiences, I can’t emphasize enough how empowering it is to attend these pilgrimages. Whether youth or youth at heart, we should encourage youth to embrace opportunities to take pilgrimages and spiritually prepare for the blessings our Lord grants on such powerful experiences. I for one am grateful for the influence pilgrimage has had on my life discerning a religious vocation!
Pray for youth today, they are as much a part of the Church as the rest!
Peace and all good,
Christopher Fernández
OFM Conv. Postulant (of Our Lady of the Angels Province)
Follow this link to read the English Translation of “HAGGLING FOR THE COMMON GOOD” written by Friar Michael Lasky, OFM Conv, the Director of the Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation Ministry for our province, as presented by the Seraphicum Press Office.
September 8, 2018: The postulants helped raise funds and awareness to end hunger, through the 33rd Annual Hunger Walk – supporting the Greater Chicago Food Depository’s network of soup kitchens, pantries, and shelters. It is Chicago’s largest annual anti-hunger rally and this year over twelve thousand participants raised more than $190,000.
The week after Thanksgiving, Friar Michael Lasky, OFM Conv. of our province’s Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation Ministry met with all of the postulants of the Conventual Franciscan Postulancy USA, in Chicago, IL for two days of JPIC workshops.
Here are some of their reactions :
Joshua (Our Lady of Consolation Province):
“We are all called to a life of poverty, so that all may live rich with dignity. ”
Roberto (Our Lady of Consolation Province):
“I can personally relate to a lot of what was being mentioned in the workshop. Coming from México and being raised in two different cultures was a challenge but it is certainly one that helped me to more fully understand our current political climate. Definitely learned a lot and am looking forward for what God and the world has to offer in my vocation. Gracias y que Dios los bendiga.”
Luke (Our Lady of the Angels Province):
“Social justice begins in our stories. As Christians our stories carry the power and presence of Christ, our Brother and Healer. Humanity today is ‘Doubting Thomas’ and we must show unbelieving Thomas our wounds, which have become scars by the life and light of Christ. Catherine Doherty says it well enough: the time of ‘mere talking is over.’ We must live the Gospel without compromise, because when we don’t, who will?”
Alex (Our Lady of Consolation Province):
“I gained a substantial knowledge on how to live out the vow of poverty in a way that supports the poor and the environment. Spending a little extra and investing a little more energy in order to support the poor is a part of our charism.”
Christopher (Our Lady of the Angels Province):
“In the past 10 years of my life I have been very humbled in encountering the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth around the world. It’s been really eye opening to meet people and explore places that experience varying dimensions of poverty—even here in the US. What a blessing it is now at this point in my life and my vocation to begin developing my understanding of JPIC in a Franciscan framework. With my continued exploration of foundational principles in caring for creation and for our common home I have become more confident in living out Laudato Si and integrating a more holistic lense and approach to matters of poverty and environment. I consider it an obligation in our world to use the privileges afforded me as a first-generation, Latino-American, Catholic, Ecologist, to aid in local and global discussions regarding JPIC and actually heeding the gospel calling to be Christ to others and renew the face of the earth for the glory of our Creator.”
The encyclical — as well as the government’s report — serves to remind the human family that the focus is not what’s best for an individual or one country, but what’s best for the entire planet, said Father Michael Lasky, a Conventual Franciscan who serves as director of Justice, Peace and Care for Creation Ministry for the order’s Our Lady of Angels Province based in Ellicott City, Maryland…
“We are brother and sister to one another. In that context, don’t you sacrifice for the one you love, especially if the one you love is hurting? That means we have to live differently. We have to do a radical shift,” Father Lasky said
Back in March of 2018, in preparation for the 2019, 800thAnniversary of the meeting of St. Francis and Sultan Al-Kamil, Our Lady of the Angels Province friar, Fr. Gerry Waterman, OFM Conv., who serves as Campus Minister for the Syracuse University / SUNY ESF Catholic community, joined the students he serves in welcoming the SU Muslim Student Association to share in a delicious Mediterranean dinner, followed by the viewing of the movie The Sultan and the Saint, at the SU Catholic Center on Walnut Place. Conversations at dinner and the dialogue that followed the movie were heart-warming as well as challenging. Muslim Chaplain – Amir Duric and Friar Gerry shared stories of their personal faith journeys as well as their collaborative inter-faith work in which they are engaged via the university’s Hendricks Chapel. Another inter-faith event is planned at the SU Catholic Center for Thursday, November 29th, when all three Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) on the Syracuse University campus will come together to make sandwiches for the poor in downtown and Northside Syracuse.
Back in April 2018, Fr. Michael Lasky, OFM Conv., Chairman of Our Lady of the Angels Province’s Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation (JPIC) Ministry hosted an Interfaith Forum and Symposium on Environmental Justice and Service to Vulnerable Populations, at our Shrine of St. Anthony, in Ellicott City MD. One of the relationships to evolve and flourish from the event was between our friars, Howard County conservation organizations and the area’s Presbyterian faith community.
On October 9, 2018, Friar Michael (at left) joined volunteers from our Shrine’s Garden Ministry, Earth Forum of Howard County and First Presbyterian Church of Howard County to plant seven Cherokee Brave Dogwood trees and three Rising Sun Redbud trees in the area around the Shrine’s Outdoor Stations of the Cross. Instrumental in this undertaking was Nancy Fayer, the Coordinator of Earth Forum of Howard County, at First Presbyterian Church. This organization partners with other environmentally conscious groups such as The Municipal Online Stormwater Training (MOST) Center and Howard County’s Restoring the Environment and Developing Youth (READY) program, which created and maintains the rain-gardens on the Ellicott City Complex. Nancy was able to obtain the ten trees donated through Sun Nurseries, while working closely with Friar Michael and Shrine staff members – Carol Derenge and Jared Luttrell to plan and execute the planting, including procuring the compost, leaf grow, or organic soil amendment needed to maintain an environmentally conscience planting process.
Posted on November 1, 2018 by
The majority of the friars of our province live and minister in North America. For all of the citizens of Canada and the USA, November 11th holds a special place in our hearts. We take a moment to remember.
Remembrance Day in Canada: Flanders Fields and the Poppy click here.
Veterans Day in the United States: Prayers for veterans, soldiers, their families, refugees of war, and more click here.
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Time Warner Cable Takes Viacom to Court Over iPad App
By Jared Newman
Prepare for an all-out war between Time Warner Cable and Viacom, an epic legal smackdown as two companies face off in court over the ability to watch live TV on an iPad.
Just kidding. Time Warner doesn't want you to think of its request for summary judgment against Viacom in hostile terms. "Of course we want our customers to know about this, but we also want to make sure that everyone understands that this is not combat," Time Warner spokesperson Jeff Simmermon wrote in a blog post. Fine, Jeff. It's just a peaceful trip to court over the future of television.
At issue is whether Time Warner's TWCable TV iPad app can stream live television within customers' homes at no extra cost to consumers or the cable company. Some networks are letting it slide. Others have sent cease and desist letters. In response, Time Warner pulled all Viacom, Discovery, and Fox Cable content from the iPad app, but then added 19 other channels.
Television providers are all getting into the iPad app race. Dish Network and Cablevision both let iPad users watch live TV. Comcast's Xfinity app gives users a selection of on-demand content, but no live TV. Verizon has shown off an iPad app with live TV, but hasn't released it yet. This is going to be a big area for competition among cable, telco, and satellite providers, and Time Warner won't want to fall behind.
Win or lose, Time Warner's request for summary judgment against Viacom is great PR. The company appears to be going to bat for its customers, while Viacom looks like a greedy network that's resistant to change. There is simply no way Viacom can argue that what it's doing is in the best interest of consumers.
But the court won't be deciding what's best for couch potatoes. It's only going to rule on whether Time Warner's existing carriage agreement with Viacom allows TV channels to play on any screen in the home. For once, customers should be rooting for the cable company, whether it's "a hostile lawsuit" or not.
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Like many mums in the UK Julia Hill, 36 from Andover, struggled to juggle a career and her family. Working as a Data Analyst Team Leader while looking after two young children, Julia felt that she was being pulled in all directions.
After the birth of her second child Julia knew things had to change. Although she’d been there 12 years, her job was no longer fulfilling her. Her youngest child was in nursery, and neither of them were happy.
Julia looked at the various aspects of her role as a Data Analyst Team Leader and realised that what she loved was working with numbers. As the saying goes, from small acorns grow big trees. Julia investigated roles including a large amount of numeracy which would also provide the flexibility to work around her children. Then, she looked at which providers would be best suited to deliver the bookkeeping qualifications she needed. After researching all options, Julia chose to study a bookkeeping course with Open Study College/ICB. Taking the bull by the horns, she signed up for ICB Levels 2, 3 and 4 Certificates in bookkeeping.
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A candid and richly detailed document of life in the spotlight, this long-awaited solo album suggests Offset is the Migo best-placed for solo superstardom
Every trilogy needs its final instalment to deliver a satisfying conclusion to make the whole exercise worthwhile. That objective may not have been top of Offset’s list of priorities when he was writing his debut solo album, but ‘Father of 4’ has almost unintentionally become the rapper’s best shot yet at stealing the show from those closest to him.
While none of the three Migos are likely to break rank from their tight unit to declare superiority over the others, hip-hop fans may never have had a better opportunity to decide which member – Offset, Quavo or Takeoff – reigns supreme. Independent releases from each of the Atlanta trio have emerged over the past four months. Quavo’s lengthy debut ‘Quavo Huncho’ came first, but it flexed and bragged far too much. Takeoff’s ‘The Last Rocket’, on the other hand, presented a rare chance to solely appraise the underrated talents of the group’s most phlegmatic member. Yet while the album itself was an intriguing and surprisingly eclectic listen, those qualities weren’t sufficient enough to rid Takeoff of his underdog tag in the long run.
All eyes, then, are on Offset. The past 12 months have seen the 27-year-old become easily the most talked-about Migo, primarily as a consequence of his very public marriage, break-up and reconciliation with his superstar wife Cardi B. Offset’s relationship with Cardi is naturally broached multiple times on ‘Father of 4’ (the title of which refers in part to the couple’s daughter Kulture, who is Offset’s fourth child), whether he’s expressing his gratitude to the Bronx Grammy-winner for “holding me like holsters” on the title track to sampling his own infamous Instagram apology to Cardi on ‘Don’t Lose Me’. He even yields the floor to Cardi on the domineering piano-loop of ‘Clout’, with the latter spraying knock-out punchlines referencing Destiny’s Child and Oscar the Grouch (obviously), demonstrating her show-stopping prowess.
Cardi is just one of the beneficiaries of ‘Father of 4’’s open-door policy to guest features: strong contributions from J. Cole (‘How Did I Get Here’), 21 Savage and Travis Scott (both on ‘Legacy’) are counter-balanced by a disappointingly phoned-in verse from Atlanta rap regal Gucci Mane (‘Quarter Milli’) and an unnecessary warble from the miscast CeeLo Green. Offset’s wisest move in terms of recruitment, though, is the appointment of Metro Boomin (who notably helmed Migos’ megahit ‘Bad and Boujee’) and Southside as executive producers, who together craft a tight and inventive soundboard which keeps the record ticking throughout without ever over-complicating things.
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But what of the leading man of ‘Father of 4’? Well, we refreshingly see Offset opening up like never before, with the rapper clearly intent on delivering on his pre-release claim that “I put my all in my album”. Ruminations on the responsibilities of fatherhood are placed at the top of the agenda as he acknowledges his own parental missteps and pledges loyalty to his children: “I’ma keep grindin’ for my kids, never gon’ let up,” he vows on the title track. “I’ma put the money up for y’all; I can’t be selfish.”
It’s a proclamation which evidently comes from an accumulation of experience and perspective, the latter of which was significantly impacted by the near-fatal car crash he was involved in last summer. “I like to throw up when I think about the crash,” he admits in reference to the memory of that traumatic experience on ‘Red Room’. “Not playing: when I hit the tree I smell the gas.” On this album, Offset frequently presents himself as someone willing to count his blessings and, while life may be good to him now, he’s still keenly tied to and respectful of his humble background. The rags-to-riches narrative on ‘Lick’, for instance, sees him lament about being “stabbed in my back a million times, this shit deep,” as well as losing his grandmother and a number of close friends while growing up. These sentimental expressions hit increasingly harder with each return you make to ‘Father of 4’, and, with those repeat listens, the sincerity of its creator becomes all the more credible.
As with most Migos-related projects, a good editor might’ve been a wise addition to the production process – the generic, Quavo-featuring ‘On Fleek’ and the autotuned I’m-gonna-prove-everyone-wrong exaggeration of ‘North Star’ should’ve been cut. Overall, though, ‘Father of 4’ is a fine body of work that builds a convincing case that Offset is currently best-placed to be Migos’ break-out solo star: once again, the final act of a trilogy proves to be the finest.
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Suspected drunk driver crashes into Kamloops Operation Red Nose vehicles
No serious injuries were reported after a speeding pickup truck crashed into the two vehicles on Highway 1
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A New Year’s Eve highway crash involving an alleged drunk driver has left Operation Red Nose volunteers shaken and further underscoring the need for the annual safe-ride service.
Thankfully, no serious injuries were reported after a speeding pickup truck crashed into two vehicles being driven by Red Nose volunteers.
On Wednesday, Dec. 31, the final day on which the service operates during the Christmas season, a team of red-vested Operation Red Nose volunteers were dispatched to drive a trio of New Year’s Eve revellers home to Barnhartvale.
En route east via the Trans Canada Highway, however, plans for a safe ride home were unhinged by none other than an alleged drunk driver.
“It’s just unfortunate that people are still making that decision to drive impaired,” Operation Red Nose co-ordinator Katie Klassen told KTW. “We have these wonderful volunteers who are trying to stop that, stop people from being impaired and driving, you know, donating their time, late into the night, until 3:30 in the morning because they really want to keep Kamloops safe. It’s just unfortunate we had one person make a bad decision and it’s too bad that it was our volunteers and clients, who did make the right decision, it affected them.”
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Kamloops Fire Rescue platoon Capt. Darryl Cooper said the fire department was dispatched shortly before 11 p.m. to Grand Boulevard at Orchard’s Walk, where a black Dodge pickup truck had struck a blue Ford Focus car from behind. Cooper said firefighters were on scene until after midnight.
Klassen confirmed the Ford Focus that was struck was being driven by an Operation Red Nose volunteer, who was following the car carrying a Red Nose driver and navigator and the people they were driving home.
“They were going at really high speeds,” Klassen said of the driver of the pickup truck that slammed into the car. “Our escort driver was thinking that they were going to pass them. But they just came and hit our escort driver from behind at really high speeds, took her off the road, then continued on to hit our client’s vehicle.”
The vehicle carrying the Operation Red Nose driver, navigator and three clients was a Subaru Forester.
Although no serious injuries were sustained, Cooper said firefighters were forced to remove the driver’s-side door of the pickup truck to extract the driver.
“Everyone’s been checked over,” Klassen said. “Just more sore, shaken up, but nothing major.”
Klassen said in her decade working for Operation Red Nose, she has never seen such a crash involving volunteers. Neither the organization, not volunteers or clients will be liable, courtesy an ICBC insurance policy that covers costs associated with the damage.
Klassen also expressed gratitude for a group of teenagers in the area who jumped in to help.
Kamloops RCMP issued a statement, noting the driver of the pickup truck, a 24-year-old Kamloops man who sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the crash, refused to provide a breath sample, but was suspected of impaired driving.
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He was subsequently issued a 90-day immediate roadside prohibition and charged with driving without due care and attention under the provincial Motor Vehicle Act.
Cooper also noted a smell of alcohol was reported by KFR crews on scene.
Kamloops RCMP are asking witnesses to call the detachment at 250-828-3000.
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NJ marijuana legalization could wipe weed arrests off your criminal record
New Jersey legislators are expected to institute automatic expungement for marijuana possession as part of any marijuana legalization law.
NJ marijuana legalization could wipe weed arrests off your criminal record New Jersey legislators are expected to institute automatic expungement for marijuana possession as part of any marijuana legalization law. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://on.app.com/2N0kjK6
Mike Davis, Asbury Park Press Published 4:20 a.m. ET Sept. 24, 2018 | Updated 11:20 a.m. ET Sept. 24, 2018
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As New Jersey legislators hash out the final details of a marijuana legalization bill, activists have continued to look backward: What will happen to the people arrested for marijuana possession while it was still illegal?
Intertwined with the legal weed debate is a discussion over expungements, the process by which an offender can have a crime retroactively and completely removed from their criminal record. An expunged crime is "considered not to have occurred," according to the New Jersey courts system, but requires a formal court petition and hearing.
But in the eyes of marijuana legalization advocates, placing the onus on the offender to get their slate wiped clean only continues the "drug war," American Civil Liberties Union New Jersey executive director Amol Sinha said in June.
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"To shift the burden of clearing the stain of an unjust law onto the people who have suffered from it unnecessarily already while others reap economic benefits contradicts the principles of equity, fairness, and justice that make legalization such an urgent racial and social justice priority to begin with," said Sinha, testifying in support of a bill that would make most marijuana arrests eligible for automatic expungements.
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Gov. Phil Murphy has been a vocal marijuana legalization proponent since the 2017 campaign trail, citing social justice concerns and the racial disparity among marijuana arrests.
"You can’t incarcerate somebody who did something on Friday and allow somebody who did it on Monday to do it legally," Murphy said during an appearance on WHYY radio in July. "That doesn’t work for me. Frankly it doesn’t work for most folks who look at this. It’s got to be a part of it.”
Here is a look at how New Jersey's expungement process works now — and what might change if marijuana is legalized.
What's the current process for expungement?
Currently, an offender must file a petition for expungement but it's left up to a judge to make the final decision, at a hearing that could involve a challenge from law enforcement against expunging the crime.
While Legal Services of New Jersey provides detailed instructions on how to self-file for expungement, many offenders hire an attorney to handle the process. The state Judiciary even recommends it: "The court system can be confusing, and it is a good idea to get a lawyer if you can," according to its guidelines on expungement.
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On Oct. 1, a new law will take effect that puts in place a six-year waiting period for expungements — instead of 10 years — and allows offenders to expunge up to four disorderly persons charges and three felonies.
Offenders who complete a drug court program will be eligible to have charges expunged immediately.
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Colorado Cannabis Tours offers a wide range of entertainment for tourists interested in cannabis. This bus tour brings customers to grow facilities, dispensaries, and other attractions while offering a legal means to consume the product. Mandy Ashby of Henderson, Kentucky enjoys the ride. Denver, CO Friday, April 13, 2018 @dhoodhood Doug Hood
Colorado Cannabis Tours offers a wide range of entertainment for tourists interested in cannabis. This bus tour brings customers to grow facilities, dispensaries, and other attractions while offering a legal means to consume the product. Mandy Ashby of Henderson, Kentucky looks on as tour guide Alayna Adair, aka Laynie Ganja, offers joints, bongs, and steamrollers to customers as they roll down the road. Denver, CO Friday, April 13, 2018 @dhoodhood Doug Hood
Colorado Cannabis Tours offers a wide range of entertainment for tourists interested in cannabis. This bus tour brings customers to grow facilities, dispensaries, and other attractions while offering a legal means to consume the product. Tour guide Alayna Adair, aka Laynie Ganja, offers joints, bongs, and steamrollers to customers as they roll down the road. Denver, CO Friday, April 13, 2018 @dhoodhood Doug Hood
Colorado Cannabis Tours offers a wide range of entertainment for tourists interested in cannabis. This bus tour brings customers to grow facilities, dispensaries, and other attractions while offering a legal means to consume the product. Denver, CO Friday, April 13, 2018 @dhoodhood Doug Hood
iBake Denver is a membership lounge where members can consume cannabis within the city limits of Denver without fear of breaking any laws. Members must bring their own supply. Denver, CO Thursday, April 12, 2018 @dhoodhood Doug Hood
iBake Denver is a membership lounge where members can consume cannabis within the city limits of Denver without fear of breaking any laws. Members must bring their own supply. Samuel A. Torres of Denver, formally, Middletown, NJ, gets high in the lounge. Denver, CO Thursday, April 12, 2018 @dhoodhood Doug Hood
iBake Denver is a membership lounge where members can consume cannabis within the city limits of Denver without fear of breaking any laws. Members must bring their own supply. Mary Carniglia gets high in the lounge. Denver, CO Thursday, April 12, 2018 @dhoodhood Doug Hood
iBake Denver is a membership lounge where members can consume cannabis within the city limits of Denver without fear of breaking any laws. Members must bring their own supply. Bud Jenkins of Denver, CO, fires up a bong. Denver, CO Thursday, April 12, 2018 @dhoodhood Doug Hood
iBake Denver is a membership lounge where members can consume cannabis within the city limits of Denver without fear of breaking any laws. Members must bring their own supply. Camaron Dial of Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ takes a hit off a bong. Denver, CO Thursday, April 12, 2018 @dhoodhood Doug Hood
What's the difference between an expungement and a conditional discharge?
While they largely serve the same purpose, a person arrested for marijuana possession is already entitled to a one-time conditional discharge, provided they have an otherwise clean criminal history and haven't gone through any other diversionary program, such as pretrial intervention, are eligible.
The municipal judge hearing the case usually places special conditions on the discharge, usually involving mandatory drug testing and a one-year probationary period.
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So if New Jersey legalizes marijuana, what charges would I be able to have expunged?
In March, Assemblywoman Annette Quijano, D-Union, introduced a bill outlining an expedited expungement process for marijuana offenders whose "past act is no longer considered to be a crime or offense."
The simple answer: Convictions for possession of one ounce or less of marijuana or possession of drug paraphernalia for use with marijuana would be eligible for automatic expungement.
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Why does marijuana legalization specifically pose a problem?
Marijuana arrests disproportionately involve offenders from low-income communities who could balk at the price of an attorney. One of the proposed amendments to the New Jersey marijuana legalization bill is to use part of the state marijuana tax revenue to defray some of the costs associated with seeking expungement for a marijuana possession charge.
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And the sheer volume of marijuana arrests could also make it impossible to ensure that everyone with a conviction eligible for expungement is properly notified.
According to the Drug Policy Alliance, only 5,000 people in California applied for an expungement in 2017 despite an estimated 1 million people who were eligible.
iBake Denver is a membership lounge where members can consume cannabis within the city limits of Denver without fear of breaking any laws. Members must bring their own supply. Denver, CO Thursday, April 12, 2018 @dhoodhood (Photo: Doug Hood )
Where does "automatic expungement" come in?
Automatic expungement, which is expected to be included in the marijuana legalization bill package, places the responsibility of expungement on law enforcement and the courts system. Instead of a marijuana offender filing for expungement, officials would proactively expunge their records.
Why isn't automatic expungement the norm?
There have been nearly 697,000 marijuana possession arrests in the Garden State since 1980. While not all of them would be eligible for expungement, the number of cases would undoubtedly be in the hundreds of thousands. That's a huge burden for the courts system or county prosecutors, who would have to investigate each conviction to determine which are eligible for expungement.
In other states with legal weed, legislators have included specific timelines for automatic expungement. A bill in California, for example, would give the state Department of Justice until July 1, 2019, to compile a list of marijuana cases eligible for expungement, estimated to top 220,000.
Prosecutors would have one year to decide which cases to challenge, while the Justice Department would expunge the rest.
The bill is currently awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown's signature.
How will this all work in New Jersey?
It's not clear yet. The bill introduced by Quijano does not detail any deadlines the courts or prosecutors would face in gathering cases for expungement.
A bill introduced last week by state Sen. Troy Singleton, D-Burlington, sets up a framework for automatic expungements — but doesn't specifically name marijuana — for "certain" fourth-degree crimes, disorderly persons offenses and municipal ordinance violations.
Under current state law, possession of under 50 grams of marijuana is considered a disorderly persons offense.
Singleton's bill would require the state Judiciary to collect cases eligible for automatic expungement on a quarterly basis, but requires a six-year waiting period.
But that six-year limit is a cut-off: An offender with a case that occurred longer than six years ago would have to file a petition for expungement the old-fashioned way.
"This general cut-off beyond a six-year 'look back' from the bill’s effective date is intended to prevent overwhelming administrative burdens ... in implementing the bill’s automated expungement process," the bill statement reads.
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CROSSROADS (Toward Philippine Economic and Social Progress) - Gerardo P. Sicat (The Philippine Star) - June 19, 2019 - 12:00am
Comparisons with other countries enable us to see ourselves in a fresh light. We get to understand and appreciate our problems and strengths in perspective.
While no two countries are truly alike, some traits, habits and fortunes might resemble or parallel each other. To that extent, they could present good lessons to learn from and bad ones to avoid.
Modi’s emergence. The reelection last month of Narendra Modi as prime minister of India brings to prominence the economic development and prospects of that country as it moves forward to upgrade its pace of modernization.
Modi surged into the national scene when he led his political party toward control of the Indian government. His pragmatic approach to reforms to turn India’s underperformance into an active agent of growth won him support in 2014 to become prime minister.
Modi’s election also diminishes the power of the dynastic hold of the Gandhis on Indian politics.
India’s recent history, politics and economy. India became politically independent in 1947. Its political structure is patterned after the British, a parliamentary government run by a prime minister. It is a democracy built upon a party system of representation.
After independence, one family had dominated the political scene until lately – the founding prime minister was Jawaharal Nehru and his daughter, Indira Gandhi, and her family, had ruled India through the Congress party
A massively written political constitution defines the various powers and rules of government, from the parliamentary government to the local institutions which are often in conflict.
Many political practices were enhanced by tactics of control learned from the British rule and transferred to the ruling elite.
Even as dynastic politics has ruled India since independence, there is a lot of divisiveness in its practice that often prevent decisive actions. Such fractiousness, in fact, serves as triggers for realignments of dynasties and families in the country and in the various regions.
Such narrow confines of interests has made it difficult for India to grow progressively in the past. Yet, over the long term, it has managed to grow at a low pace in most economic sectors.
The immense cultural legacy of ancient India also provides narrow guidelines in its own efforts to modernize, making it difficult to undertake change.
One of the major problems of Indian political and economic change is often the conflict of rules that protect various jurisdictions so that there is great difficulty for decisive actions to be made by the government (whether national, local (that is, federal).
One of the biggest problems of India’s efforts to attract foreign direct investments even after liberalizing its rules to open the economy to foreign direct investments is tied up with land cases that hardly get resolved in the judiciary. Not only is the judiciary accused of corruption. Many of its inactions on pending cases are determined by highly conflicted rules of ownerships and claims to it.
Members of its parliament (national and provincial) determine the ruling political coalitions that define political power. It is, however, also a federal structure with powerful leaders of big states or provinces.
India’s economic policy from the beginning of independence was more based on socialistic principles of giving priority to state planning, i.e. overseeing the provision of large basic industries and the planning of major infrastructure and transport and communications. But its fiscal resources could not keep up with the requirements of growth.
Industrialization was based on capitalist promotion of major industries which led to the pre-eminence of big family groups in private industry.
This was heavily protected: high tariffs and exchange controls, import controls, highly nationalistic investment promotions, very restrictive limitation of foreign direct investments.
India wakes up, 1990s to 2000s. During the 1950s, many observers of development compared India and China as exemplars of growth by democratic and communist political systems of governance.
The rapid growth of China from the late 1970s to the 1980s put India in poor light with its own laggard and erratic growth. These two countries are the largest countries in the world by population. (Today India’s population is 1.35 billion and China’s, 1.45 billion.)
This awakened the politics of India with the need for economic reforms. The government of P. V. Narasimha Rao, ably guided by its then finance minister, Manmohan Singh, changed course.
Curing first an impending balance of payments crisis, it managed to steer through a prudent combination of macroeconomic and institutional reorganizations, including fiscal reforms, privatization, and opening to foreign investments, and access to foreign markets.
These reforms provided fresh guidance to India’s economy and led to high growth, more dynamic domestic activities, the opening of India to more foreign technology and the entrance of significant new foreign direct investments.
Despite these gains, the new problems only further opened the need for more economic and institutional reforms. In India, these are deep and very difficult to initiate.
But India’s politics of development was changed forever. It is aiming for growth rates that are double its historical performance. Today, that objective is to grow at eight percent of the GDP. Recent records have shown underperformance.
To resolve the gap, the level of investments in infrastructure and education have to rise, very rigid labor and land laws eased, and the fiscal system needs to continue to meet growth requirements.
These remedies are easy to enumerate, but most difficult and challenging for India to put into a program of government.
Phl economic reforms parallel India. There are many things about India that remind us of our travails as a country aiming for a higher level of economic development.
Like India, we are on a track to overcoming past mistakes and misfortunes. As a smaller country compared to India’s bigness and difficulties to move forward as a nation, we have much more potential flexibility to adjust.
However, India’s bigness itself is a major reason why some foreign direct investments would like to move into India not only to raise their economic performance, but also to find new markets.
Yet, as smaller economies have demonstrated in the past, the Philippines could rise on its own if it tries harder.
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Sundelles – Dead Youth’ b/w ‘Waiting’ 7″
Review by Kaptain Carbon in Rock - Pop on 06 1st, 2010 | no responses
Sundelles - Dead Youth' b/w 'Waiting' 7"
Garage rock served as a midway point between Surf Rock and the budding psychedelic sounds in the American 1960’s. Noisy rambunctious and raw, Garage’s sound hearkened back to the energy heard in the golden days of Rock and Roll without the burden of studio polishing. This was the music of youth which glistened with sweat and chewed concrete. The Garage scene would go on to influence other important movements including the swirling days of Psych-Rock and the foundations of Punk Rock. Garage would be recognized with its first revival during the mid 1980’s with many great bands including the Mummies and the Gories. Many people, however, know Garage from its early 2000’s incarnation with The Strokes, The Hives and the Vines. From a revivalist standpoint, the group of bands could be congratulated on their admirable attempt in recreating the style and sound of mid 60‘s Rock and Roll. Many people, including the media, dubbed these bands as the “Saviors Of Rock and Roll.” In hindsight, these bands did nothing to save rock music; and if they did some may argue whether or not it needed saving in the first place. Rock music, or whatever one may call it, continued on its evolutionary path.
Today, artists who use the Garage sound have more of a sober and level headed approach to the genre. There is something charming about abandoning any sense of posturing. There is ease and a relaxed attitude about the future of music. Sundelles is a trio based out of Brooklyn who have made it a point to show they have little interest in saving Rock and Roll. The “Dead Youth” 7 inch is the only physical release from the band apart from a couple of music videos, and even its album art gives little indication of thesis or manifesto. Sundelles’ music takes more from pre-70’s popular music than most garage revivalists and does so with a sense of carefree playfulness. The ghosts of Velvet Underground, Trashmen and Kingsmen are brought out and spun like pinwheels. Whatever Sundelles lacks in grandstanding, they make up for with a recognizable sound and an abundance of lazy energy.
“Dead Youth” instantly jumps off of the record as a whirling one direction carousel of noise and reverb. Everything, including the rumored guitar solo, blurs to the periphery. The song glistens with sweat and smiles. “Waiting” on the b-side is as, if not more, accomplished as its vinyl brethren. Taking its template from 40’s Doo Wop, the song swings and sways in dizzying proportions. Waiting makes the listener fill with joy and perhaps push them to break things of moderate value.. The redeeming quality about both songs is the lack of fidelity. The drums on both songs pop out of the mix as if being pressed against a stone wall. The vocals feel as if they were screamed over the excitement of a 1950’s fraternity party. The Lo-Fi quality of this record gives it a sense of costume that some of the other Garage revival lacks. Mimicking the intentional and sometimes accidental production of the mid 60’s is a wonderful effect (whether intentional or accidental). Sundelles has all the parts in the right place to make a drop dead gorgeous record. Their nonchalance and no-style sets them up for whatever may come in the future .
It is sometimes disastrous to think of music in terms of seasonal experience. Waiting for the perfect summer Fall or Spring record can lead to many missed achievements and blundered opportunities. While I have no intention of claiming a “summer record,“ if I were too, this 7 inch would be first pick to be the anthem of hazy careless days and warm endless nights.
Sundelles - Dead Youth' b/w 'Waiting' 7", reviewed by Kaptain Carbon on 2010-06-01T03:32:00-07:00 rating 3.8 out of 5
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As soon as the welcome applause died down, Sakamoto began to play. Crouched over the prepared grand piano, Sakamoto rummaged in the upper register of the instrument, scraping the strings with various implements, plucking the hammers and brushing the keys. Something bounced on the wood and the metal, creating percussive sounds which were previously mum. Sakamoto barely sat behind the keyboard. Like a surgeon, fascinated with the mysterious insides of an alien life, he probed through the limits of sound the piano can make. Zorn echoed eccentric abstraction. The sax sighed with whispers and moans. Something thumped through the valves, rasping its way down its body without air. The howling was frequently muffled, as Zorn pressed the instrument's bell at his thigh. The two danced with a mystical language, often teasing the audience with music without resolve. The sound agitated the atmosphere with flustered trills and flickering keys. And after a chord pounding encore the audience clapped long after the stars left the stage.
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Jigsaw Bluebird: Mirrored Sculpture
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Last year Jigsaw opened a new concept store in the heart of Covent Garden. Located in the historic Carriage Hall, designers Dalziel & Pow set about transforming the Bluebird store into, as they called it, a “Playground of Wonders”. For the centre of the space, they designed a mirrored sculptured. This flawless mirrored icosahedron was to be suspended in atrium of the building. Adding to the already light and airy feel of the interior design.
Having worked with Jigsaw previously on various projects, they approached us to help realise this element of the design. Due to the height which the mirrored sculpture was being installed at, it was vital to come up with a light weight and durable design. We chose to move away from traditional glass mirror to a polyester (PET) mirrored film.
The final result was exactly as Jigsaw had hoped, incredibly striking.
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The cold returns for Winter Games in Pyeongchang
After two straight balmy Olympics, athletes and visitors alike will finally experience a serious chill in mountainous Pyeongchang.
The cold is back for the Winter Games.
After two straight balmy Olympics where some might have wondered if it was even winter, let alone the world’s pre-eminent freeze-dependent sporting event, athletes and visitors alike will finally experience a serious chill in their bones during the games in mountainous Pyeongchang.
How cold is it?
So cold that tears spring to the eyes. So cold the ink in a pen grows sluggish and fades as it scribbles over a page. So cold that South Korean men sometimes flash back to being posted for hours on the frozen frontline during mandatory military service. So cold at least six people were treated for hypothermia last month after a pop concert at the open-air Olympic Stadium.
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Vancouver and Sochi, where ski jumpers were landing in puddles, got complaints for being too warm, as might Beijing in 2022, but the weather in Pyeongchang will likely dazzle spectators, and confound organizers and athletes, in its bitterness.
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The weather will be on display, and maybe a major nuisance, at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in Hoenggye village. The much-criticized 35,000-seat open-air pentagon-shaped arena, which cost 118.4 billion won ($107 million), will be used only four times — during the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics and Paralympics — and then torn down.
On a recent blustery day, from the top of a nearby 17-story building, the white angular stadium looks a little like a giant discarded Lego piece. It rises isolated on a wide, flat plain, muscular mountains cascading down behind it. It looks vulnerable and exposed — all those thousands of orange and pink seats laid bare below the wide dome of sky — but also slightly magical as the sun glitters off millions of tiny ice flakes blowing across the plain.
The wind is brutal, and it pounds the entire area, including the stadium and the rooftop, where the gusts rattling through the big AC units sound like a doomed bomber plummeting out of the sky in an old war movie.
Despite the cold, organizers have done little to protect stadium visitors. Spectators will have to sit exposed for as long as five hours in the elements during the nighttime ceremonies. There are no built-in heating systems for the seats and the corridors, and it’s too late to build a roof and too expensive to install central heat, officials say.
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Many of the concertgoers last month where six were treated for hypothermia reportedly flocked to the arena’s toilets for a rare bit of respite from the cold.
Organizers plan to provide each spectator at the Olympics ceremonies with a raincoat, a small blanket and heating pads — one to sit on, one for the hands and a pair for the feet. They also plan to install polycarbonate walls above the highest seats across the two northwest sides of the stadium to block the strongest winds. About 40 portable gas heaters will be placed in aisles between the rows of plastic seats, and lots of hot coffee and tea, fish sticks and heated buns will be on sale.
Still, by the time the opening ceremony starts at around 8 p.m., the wind chill at the stadium could be minus 14 degrees Celsius (about 7 F). That is much colder than the wind chill at the ceremonies for the Vancouver and Sochi Games, which were 5 degrees and 4 degrees C, respectively, according to South Korean officials.
When Associated Press journalists visited the area earlier this month, it was minus 18 degrees C (a little below zero F) midmorning at a resort near Olympic Stadium.
Sochi temperatures soared at times. On Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, for instance, it was 16 degrees C (61 degrees F).
The coastal areas of Gangneung, where skating and hockey will be held, are warmer than Pyeongchang. But it’s still cold. Tourists can be seen in thick quilted coats standing on piers and posing for pictures as huge, frigid blue-green waves crash behind them; they run and laugh, trying to dodge the spray.
Locals often smirk when they see bundled up tourists waddle around Pyeongchang like penguins. Choi, after an interview, stands outside his restaurant, still in his short-sleeve shirt, smoking a cigarette while a well-layered-up reporter shivers nearby. “Sometimes I go out like this and the people in warm coats look at me like I’m crazy.”
A drive into the mountains twists through isolated former mining towns and past frozen fields, frozen rivers, frozen forests and dramatic granite peaks that look in places like they’re sliding into the valleys. The sun sparkles on the brittle ice covering the landscape; the wind roars through the pine trees like traffic on the interstate.
“It’s cold, and it’s going to get colder. But what can we do?” says Ahn Young Ju, 36, a restaurant owner in the remote town of Nammyeon in Jeongseon county, which will host the downhill skiing events. “We were born here, so we try not to think too much about it.”
Associated Press writer Kim Tong-hyung and video journalist Yong Jun Chang contributed to this report.
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Colorado Mountain College student pushes for plastic bag ban in Glenwood Springs
Local | April 8, 2018
Tatiana Flowers
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Janell Togno is a student in the sustainability studies program at Colorado Mountain College. One of her projects is to try to convince the city of Glenwood Springs to ban plastic grocery bags in town, same as Carbondale and Aspen have done.
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While on a hike last Wednesday, Janell Togno picked up two plastic bags that were littered on the side of a riverbank at a popular tourist destination in Glenwood Springs. She says she often sees plastic bags and other trash littered at Two Rivers Park, but now that the river is low, they’re especially easy to spot.
“There were two bags that I grabbed personally,” she said. “It’s a problem because our river is not just our river. We supply water to other states, and our water is not just our water. It’s not just for our own enjoyment.”
That’s part of the reason the Colorado Mountain College student is spearheading an initiative as part of her sustainability program studies that would gather community support for a citywide ban on plastic grocery bags in Glenwood Springs.
“How do I as a citizen take my passion and turn it into change?” asked Togno, a second-year student at the local community college. “If we wait for legislation for change we might be waiting for a long time,” she added.
“The big misconception is that people think plastic bags are recyclable, and they’re not. Not only are they hard on our recyclable MRF [materials recovery facility], but they release dangerous chemicals.”— Mike Hinkley,district manager Mountain Waste & Recycling
Togno is the first person in the city to start an initiative like this, according to Jonathan Godes, a city council member and 10-year resident of Glenwood Springs. Although neighboring Carbondale and Aspen have already banned plastic bags, Glenwood Springs City Council has never been asked to vote on such an ordinance.
“I would have to see the community come forward and say that this is a large priority for them before I would be enthusiastically supportive of this or any other initiative otherwise,” said Godes.
“I’m supportive of anything the community wants to do that advances the cause of environmentalism, prolongs the life of our landfill, and limits trash and litter throughout our community,” he added. “But it needs to be led by the community as well as the leadership.”
Togno says she’s grappling with the idea that the city’s government and citizens are preoccupied with more pressing issues like construction associated with the new Grand Avenue Bridge downtown and the development of South Canyon’s recreational area.
But she hopes for some support from the community because, she says, the current overuse of plastic bags is not sustainable long-term.
“The big misconception is that people think plastic bags are recyclable, and they’re not,” said Mike Hinkley, the district manager at Mountain Waste & Recycling, an organization that offers trash removal and recycling in the Roaring Fork Valley.
“Not only are they hard on our recyclable MRF [materials recovery facility], but they release dangerous chemicals,” he said.
Hinkley is referring to a special facility that takes all recyclables and separates them using a combination of machinery and manual labor. Although plastic bags aren’t recyclable, they sometimes end up in their recycling.
“Eight times out of ten, drivers are able to intercept plastic bags that are thrown into the garbage,” said Hinkley. But sometimes they slip through that diversion process and arrive at the materials recovery facility, tacking on ample, additional costs.
Once there, “they then go through a conveyer belt system, and whenever they go into that system, they bind up some of the processes and shut down some of the machinery,” Hinkley added.
When that kind of blockage happens, it holds up the assembly line because someone has to “really dangerously” cut the plastic bags out of the conveyor belt, said Alyssa Reindel, co-founder of a local advocacy group that collects yard waste and food scraps. “So it really makes recycling a lot less affordable.”
Togno met with council member Godes on Wednesday and plans to continue meeting with other City Council members in the coming weeks. Her next steps include visiting other communities that have already implemented plastic bag bans. She hopes to learn from others who were able to persuade their communities to join the cause and to gain insight on how such communities adjusted after the ban.
“Nobody really takes me seriously, but I’m going to keep doing what I have to do,” Togno said, adding that plastic bags are only one small part of the problem; it’s just easiest to tackle first. She says a river valley especially needs to protect its water supply and not just portions of it. Reindel agreed saying most coastal cities vote to ban plastic bags.
“Everybody should start packing their own bags,” said King Lloyd, manager of the city’s landfill and recycling center.
“Why does it have to take policy makers to make us good citizens? We should be able to take the initiative on our own,” he added.
Reindel says Glenwood residents should support this transition because it not only affects our environment and wildlife but it also affects us all directly.
“Plastic never breaks down. It only breaks down into smaller pieces,” which causes bioaccumulation, she said.
“That means that little bits of plastic end up in our soil and waterways, smaller animals ingest that, and eventually it works its way up the food chain,” Reindel said.
Togno’s project is due at the end of the academic semester in May, but she plans to continue working on the task long after its deadline.
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Islanders to play a leadership role in reviewing land ownership and use
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Islanders will soon have the opportunity to share their thoughts on how to improve land ownership and use in the province. Through the Department of Agriculture and Land, the province will be undertaking a comprehensive review of both the, Lands Protection Act, and the, Planning Act, starting...
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Prince Edward Island fishers and aquaculturists have an opportunity to develop new technologies and reduce their environmental impacts. The Department of Fisheries and Communities has developed two programs, the Research, Innovation and Growth Program and the PEI Fisheries and Aquaculture Clean...
Islanders invited to comment on the New Prince Edward Island Building Code Regulations
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Governments of Canada and Prince Edward Island provide support to potato and horticulture industry
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Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, on behalf of Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, and Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King, were at Wilfred MacMillan & Sons’ farm today to...
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The PEI Analytical Laboratories (PEIAL) plant diagnostic section has re-opened for the 2019 season and is currently accepting samples. The PEIAL serves all commodity farmers, agricultural representatives and greenhouse producers. Crop types accepted include potatoes, cereals, fruit crops and cole...
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PRISMA VISIONS
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created by James R. Eads © 2013 - 2020
THE COSMA VISIONS ORACLE IS COMING IN 2020
ABOUT PRISMA VISIONS
The Prisma Visions Tarot is a full 79 card tarot deck with an accompanying 100 page guidebook by James R. Eads. The Prisma Visions Tarot is modeled after it's predecessor, The Light Visions Tarot. Both The Prisma Visions Tarot and Light Visions Tarot are highly imaginative works of art that follow classic tarot symbolism with a fresh modern approach. The art in each deck is more or less the same, the Light Visions deck is two-toned, more simplified and has a classic old tarot feeling. Prisma Visions followed afterwards and is reimagined in full color.
The decks are a unique and whimsical play on the classic tarot deck and features hand-drawn highly detailed cards. Despite the small frame of the cards, each was executed on such a large scale that the cards have developed into individual works of art. Both decks combine borderless and bordered cards into one cohesive and enchanting work of art. The Major Arcana cards are with borders, which highlight the importance and weight of of each. The Minor Arcana cards are borderless and because of their panoramic story like design the flow beautifully together. All 79 cards in the deck share the same back.
THE MAJOR ARCANA
The Major Arcana is comprised of 22 cards that represent the core archetypes of human nature. When these cards show up in a reading they carry a greater weight. Because of their significance, the 22 major cards have elegant borders. Along with the 22 major cards is a bonus card that changes with each edition!
THE MINOR ARCANA
The Minor Arcana is comprised of 56 cards split up into four different suits: Wands, Chalices, Swords and Pentacles. Each suit is said to have specific ties to the four elements (Fire, Water, Air and Earth) as well as the four seasons. Both of these aspects can be seen in the Prisma Visions tarot, as well as other hidden meanings. Each of the four suits have been illustrated as continuous narratives which means when all 14 cards are lined up they form a complete panoramic image.
THE MAGIC OF WANDS
The suit of wands is coated in a very powerful magic. Ruled by the element of fire, these cards hold a primal energy and are connected to spirituality, creativity and ambition.
THE BALLAD OF CHALICES
A story of the heart. Ruled by the element of water, these cards explore passion, love, friendship, creativity and imagination.
THE SONG OF SWORDS
Be leery of the Song of Swords, it's weight can be dangerous. Ruled by the element of air, these cards explore power, change, ambition, courage and battle (of the mind, heart and body).
THE RISE OF PENTACLES
Ruled by the element of earth, these cards explore hard work, currency, poverty, prosperity and material possessions.
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New Study Reveals Widespread and Copious Use of Toxic Flame Retardants
Submitted by Rebekah Wilce on November 29, 2012 - 7:32am
A study published this week in the Environmental Science & Technology journal, "Novel and High Volume Use Flame Retardants in US Couches Reflective of the 2005 PentaBDE Phase Out," reveals that 85% of couches purchased in the United States between 1985 and 2010 contain chemical flame retardants. The most prevalent include polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), tris (1-3-dichloroisopropyl) phosphate (TDCPP), and the newer Firemaster 550 (FM 550) mixture, as well as tris (4-butylphenyl) phosphate (TBPP), which according to the study has not been reported to be used as a flame retardant until now.
Chemicals Used as Flame Retardants
The PBDE mixture PentaBDE was phased out of use as a flame retardant in 2005. Research linked it to developmental and neurological problems in children. Because a couch is a long-term purchase, many couches currently in homes still contain Penta.
TDCPP, or tris, is a suspected human carcinogen. Manufacturers voluntarily removed it from children's pajamas more than thirty years ago. But according to this and other recent studies, it is now the most common flame retardant used in furniture.
Firemaster 550 was touted as a problem-free alternative to Penta, but a series of articles in the Chicago Tribune this summer documented growing concerns over its health effects and environmental persistence.
Hazards to Human Health, Ineffective Fire Protection
Studies show that these toxic flame retardant chemicals don't stay in couches' upholstery foam but migrate into household dust. Humans and pets ingest this dust and it accumulates in their bodies.
In the United States, where a California furniture flammability standard called Technical Bulletin 117 (TB117) has led to higher than average use of chemical flame retardants industry-wide because the state is such a large market, concentration of Penta in human serum and breast milk is higher than in other countries, according to a 2008 CDC study (Figure 2).
Even worse, use of flame retardants in upholstery foam meeting TB117 standards doesn't actually increase fire safety, according to a test commissioned by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Changing an Industry of Injury
Updating TB117 to increase fire safety without the use of these toxic flame retardant chemicals would be likely to reduce their use across the country, just as California's 1986 voter initiative the "Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act" has led to reformulation of numerous consumer products to eliminate toxic chemicals.
The state of California is currently in the process of an update, according to the Green Science Policy Institute (GSPI). GSPI's founder and executive director, University of California at Berkeley chemist Arlene Blum, is a co-author of the study. The organization is asking those concerned about the use of these chemicals to write letters to the California Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation and sign a petition to Governor Jerry Brown.
While changes are needed to the California standard, federal law regulating chemicals also needs an overhaul. The 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is woefully inadequate to protect consumers from toxic chemicals like these flame retardants. Of the 80,000 chemicals on the market in this country, the EPA requires testing for only about 200 because it only requires testing for newly introduced chemicals, not those "grandfathered in." Blum told the Center for Media and Democracy, "Although EPA has found dangerous flame retardant chemicals at high levels in consumer products, under TSCA they lack the authority to protect our health."
From 2005 to 2012, the chemical industry has given $39 million to candidates for federal office and spent $333 million on lobbying at the federal level in its successful campaign to prevent Congress from updating TSCA, according to an October report by Common Cause.
In response, GSPI and many other chemical safety advocates support the Safe Chemicals Act of 2012, which would bring TSCA up to date and address many of its shortcomings. Blum notes, "The continued replacement of one toxic flame retardant with another is a vivid example of why we need the Safe Chemicals Act." Although the bill is unlikely to move forward this year, the bill will almost certainly be reintroduced in 2013.
When buying new furniture, Blum recommends items with polyester, down, wool or cotton fillings, which are unlikely to contain flame retardants.
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When is Luther series 5 on TV? Who’s in the cast? What’s the plot?
Idris Elba has put the coat back on to play DCI John Luther in four more episodes
By Eleanor Bley Griffiths
When is Luther back on TV?
In the UK, the fifth series of the BBC drama aired Tuesday 1-Friday 4 January 2019 on BBC1.
The series kicked off on Sunday 3 February on international channel BBC First.
In the US, the latest series will be shown on BBC America, with the first episode airing on Sunday 2 June at 8/7c.
Idris Elba promises “classic Luther” as he drops cryptic clues about series 5
First look at the return of Luther in eerie new trailer
Is there a trailer for Luther series 5?
After a teaser trailer for series five, which shows the troubled detective breathing heavily and limping through a darkened corridor with the words “This. Will. Hurt.”, the BBC has released a new trailer featuring a terrifying encounter that will put you off taking the night bus forever.
Who stars in Luther series 5?
Elba will return as “near-genius murder detective” Luther, the maverick cop whose passion always seems to set him on a collision course with dangerous violence.
The actor also hinted to RadioTimes.com that Ruth Wilson’s enigmatic killer Alice could return, last seen in the series three finale four years ago. “There’s no point trying to make something unfamiliar,” he said. Her reappearance has now been confirmed – as the official trailer reveals a VERY brief glimpse of Alice’s bloodied face.
Wunmi Mosaku joins the cast as new recruit DS Catherine Halliday – which means the return of previous sidekick DS Emma Lane (played by Rose Leslie) seems unlikely.
Cold Feet star Hermione Norris will play a psychiatrist named Dr Vivien Lake who is called on to help Luther get to the bottom of a swathe of brutal murders.
What will happen in series 5?
“It’s classic Luther,” Elba told RadioTimes.com as he prepared to film series five. “We’re not reinventing the wheel.”
Announcing the four-episode series, screenwriter Neil Cross also gave us some clues about what’s to come.
“Now what? It’s a question Idris and I get asked a lot,” he said. “What happened to John Luther after we last saw him striding unbowed through the streets of his city, his blood red London? It can’t be over, can it? There’s so much we don’t know. So much unfinished business.
“The thing is, we’ve been asking ourselves the same question. Because we love John and wonder what he’s up to. And as for me, I’m scared of the monsters. The face at the window. The hand under the bed. The shadow at the end of the street. Who’s going to stop them, if not John Luther.
“In the end, we picked up the phone to some old friends and asked if they’d like to find out what happens next. It turns out, they would. So that’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to find out what happens next.
“Now what? Luther’s coming back. That’s what.”
Check out the official Luther series five synopsis from the BBC below:
When the moonless shadows of London give birth to a new nightmare, DCI John Luther played by Idris Elba is once more called to immerse himself in the deepest depths of human depravity.
While the monstrous and seemingly indiscriminate killings become ever more audacious and public, Luther and new recruit D.S. Catherine Halliday played by Wunmi Mosaku are confounded by a complex tangle of leads and misdirection that seems designed to protect an untouchable corruption. But even as the case brings him closer than ever to the true face of evil, a reluctant Luther is forced to confront the unburied demons of his own recent past. Striding back into the line of fire, he must choose who to protect and who to sacrifice.
Whatever his next move, it will have devastating consequences for those around him — and change John Luther forever.
Has filming for Luther series five finished?
Production on the fifth series began back in January with Elba marking his first day back on set with a Twitter video.
It’s good to be back in London, back in the coat. #Luther @BBCOne pic.twitter.com/4CkLyrJebj
— Idris Elba (@idriselba) January 11, 2018
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Icomera wins Norwegian wi-fi contract
NORWAY: Oslo airport express operator Flytoget has selected Icomera to provide passenger wi-fi on its fleet of 16 Adtranz-built Class 71 EMUs operating between Gardermoen Airport, Oslo Sentral and Drammen, the supplier announced on September 7.
Operating at up to 210 km/h, the four-car units cover the 48 km between the airport and Oslo S in 22 min, with the 100 km trip to Drammen taking 60 min.
With Flytoget looking to upgrade or replace its existing connectivity infrastructure, Icomera was selected through a competitive tendering process, offering what it said was ‘the most technologically advanced and cost-effective solution’. The firm will also supply its cloud-based management tools, facilitating the remote monitoring and maintenance of the onboard wi-fi equipment.
Installation is expected to begin later this month, with the whole fleet to be fitted by early 2017.
Flytoget Chief Information Officer Toril Dyrkorn said ‘our customers tell us that stable, fast and secure wi-fi provision is an essential part of their travel’. Icomera Vice President Saeed Bashirian added that the company was ‘pleased to enter into partnership with such a forward-thinking operator’.
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According to Northumbria University, a judicial precedent is a court ruling that is used as a source of future judicial decision making. A judicial precedent is authoritative and binding, meaning that once a decision has been made in court, future court cases must rely on this precedent when ruling.
Judicial precedent is a feature of common law legal systems, which develop laws through judicial practices rather than purely legislative processes or executive regulations. Northumbria University explains that judicial precedent is closely intertwined with the legal principle of stare decisis (latin meaning to stand upon decisions), which asserts that cases with similar facts must be treated in a similar manner. Judges must look to a judicial precedent to assure stare decisis is upheld in decision making.
Judicial precedents are subject to a rule of verticality. This rule gives preference to different courts in a hierarchy, ranging from the highest supreme court to intermediate appellate courts and the lowest trial courts. Judges are also bound by horizontality, which asserts that a judge must respect decisions made by other judges even on the same hierarchical level. Northumbria University points out that the highest courts can create what is called a "binding precedent." This ensures that all lower courts must abide by the decision in the precedent, rather than just taking it into strong consideration.
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You are here: Home | father yod | Despite Moon’s promise: a power struggle in the Unification Church
Despite Moon’s promise: a power struggle in the Unification Church
Religion News Briefs Friday May 3, 2013 Religion News Blog
Also: Rude Muslim cleric gets owned, and a look at the Source Family.
The late cult leader Sun Myung Moon, who brainwashed his Unification Church followers into believing he was the Messiah, was once quoted as saying “I will continue to lead the church from the spirit world.”1
In July 2002 the Moonies placed an ad in U.S. newspapers stating that there had been a Christmas Day meeting “in the spirit world” attended by Jesus, Muhammad, Confucius, Buddha, Martin Luther and John Harvard. During this meeting, according to the ad, Jesus hailed Moon as the Messiah, proclaiming, “You are the Second Coming who inaugurated the Completed Testament Age.”
The ad said Muhammad then led everyone in three cheers of victory.
The advertisement concluded with “A Letter from God,” which read in part, “You, the True Parents [Referring to Moon and his wife], have now succeeded in everything and have raised everything to its true level. So you are now the Savior, Messiah and King of Kings of all of humanity!”
That said, fantasist Moon — who was buried last September — appears to have little to no influence up there — and if he is leading his church, he’s doing it wrong.
A blog titled How Well Do You Know Your Moon, operated by ex-members, has posted an English translation of a recently released article in the Korean publication Shin Dong about the power struggle within the Unification Church after Moon’s death.
Among other things, Moon’s 4th and 7th sons have been overthrown, and Moon’s erstwhile secretary/butler has now become a “person above all institutions.”
Meanwhile, the Unification Church continues to preach complete nonsense. Theologically it is considered to be at best a cult of Christianity, since it rejects, denies or twists Christianity’s essential doctrines.
Rude Muslim cleric gets owned on TV
Egyptian Muslim cleric Yousuf Badri was paid 1,000 Egyptian pounds (about $114) by Al-Nahar TV in exchange for a televised interview.
But he got belligerent before the interview when the female host, Riam Said took off her hijab — the scarf many Muslim women wear.
These scarves are regarded by many Muslims as a symbol of both religion and womanhood, with some even saying it stands for modesty, privacy, and morality.
But there is debate among Muslims as to whether or not the Quran actually requires that women wear a hijab.
In fact, in some Muslim countries it is even forbidden to wear a veil in public buildings.
The cleric apparently insists that Said wear the veil during the interview, which she does.
However, when she asks a question regarding sexual harassment by clerics performing exorcisms, Badri gets rude again — to which Said takes exception:
How a Spiritual Commune known as the Source Famly became a cult
Here we go, back to the Seventies.
We quote the New York Times:
For anyone looking to teach a master class in brainwashing techniques, “The Source Family” might be an excellent place to start. Documenting the hippy-dippy lifestyle and hedonistic principles of Hollywood’s favorite 1970s cult — led by the self-professed guru and suspected bank robber Jim Baker, a k a Father Yod — Maria Demopoulos and Jodi Wille’s disturbing film is an object lesson in psychological manipulation.
A review, at FilmSchoolRejects.com, says that on the upside this is a “Solid slice of life documentary about an inherently interesting group of people and their complicated history; well-crafted combination of new and old material.”
On the other hand, the site says “it doesn’t provide some essential grounding – we’re never sure of just who Jim Baker was and how that made him who he became, and we’re never quite aware of the impact that the Source had on the era it seemed to so embody.”
Another review, published in The Daily (of the University of Washington) says, because “the Family’s story is so unique, it would be hard to make a bad documentary about it,” but that for a “film about spirituality, there is somewhat of a spiritual hole left in it.”
The reviewer concludes
The film commits the cardinal sin of documentary storytelling: focusing on the group as one entity rather than on its very human parts. In telling the story of the whole group, the film leaves out individual experience, personal growth, and emotion — exactly what mattered to the subject of the film.
The Hollywood Reporter’s review does go much in-depth, but the site carries a brief preview.
Wikipedia entry on Father Yod
The Source Family documentary
A Washington Post article published in 1997, quoted Moon as saying this when asked what will happen to his empire after he dies ↩
Topics: father yod, hijab, Islam, Religion News, source family, Sun Myung Moon, Unification Church
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The Rendon Group
ONS: 24 January 2012
Overnight News Summaries
By TRG Alerts Admin
Overnight News Summaries ,
Tags: Africa, Colombia, earthquake, Egypt, Egyptian, Facebook, Hosni Mubarak, India, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kenya, Middle East, Mubarak, Protest, protests, Tunisia, United States, Yemen, YouTube
KEY STORYLINES
AFRICA: Explosions were heard in Kano, Nigeria, following a week of violence
AMERICAS: A former CIA agent was arrested in the US for leaking classified documents
ASIA: Hundreds of rebels surrendered their weapons in northeast India
EUROPE: The French Senate adopted a bill criminalizing the refusal to acknowledge the Armenian genocide; Turkey condemned the legislation
MIDDLE EAST: Two bombs exploded in Baghdad, Iraq, killing eight
TECHNOLOGY: A YouTube video suggested Anonymous plans an attack to shutdown Facebook on 28JAN
Iran: Increased global pressure mounts
EU agreed to freeze the assets of the Iranian central bank
European foreign ministers agreed to ban oil imports starting 01JULY
Gold, precious metals, diamonds and petrochemical products from Iran were also banned
US vowed to continue to impose new sanctions on Iran
Japan and Australia considered cutting crude oil imports in an effort to align with the West
Coverage: Reuters, Bloomberg, NYT, Kyodo, Reuters-2
Nigeria: Explosions were heard near a police station in Kano, the site of suicide attacks earlier in the week. (AFP)
Sudan: UN Security Council condemned a deadly ambush that led to the killing of a UN peacekeeper of the joint UN-AU mission in Darfur. (Xinhua)
Tunisia: PM Jebali deplored security breaches indicating they are causing economic havoc. (AFP)
Region: Canadian and Colombian labor ministers met to examine the free trade agreement that took effect last August. (Xinhua)
Region: Due to the booming Brazilian economy, at least 4,000 Haitians have immigrated to Brazil since an earthquake destroyed Haiti in 2010. (DPA)
United States: A former CIA officer was charged with disclosing classified information to reporters. (AP)
India: Hundreds of rebels surrendered their weapons Tuesday as several local insurgent groups formally joined a cease-fire with the government in a step toward ending three decades of insurgency in the northeast of the country. (AP)
Korea, North: The air force conducted more winter training than normal despite Kim Jong-Il’s death. (AFP)
Pakistan: Police suspected a Kenyan aid worker was kidnapped in the Sindh province. (AP)
Pakistan: Pakistan released a report laying out its version of a cross-border airstrike by U.S. and coalition forces that left 24 Pakistani soldiers dead, repeating its disagreement with the U.S. version of events. (CNN)
Region: Turkey dismissed the French Senate’s passage of a bill criminalizing the refusal to recognize the mention of Armenian killings in 1915 as genocide. (Xinhua)
Hungary: PM Orban continued to seek European acceptance by stacking the government with party loyalists, drawing criticism from US. (Reuters)
United Kingdom: The government planned to cut penalties for small-scale drug dealers while increasing the severity of jail with more serious offenders. (BBC)
Iraq: Two car bombs exploded, killing eight and injuring 32 others, in a Shiite district in Baghdad. (AP)
Israel: Six Israeli diplomatic missions throughout the US and Europe received envelopes containing a white powder, initially thought to be anthrax. (AFP)
Syria: The GCC, in a joint statement with the Arab League, decided to pull its observers from the violence-laden country. (Reuters)
Yemen: Army forces killed six al-Qaida militants in Abyan during a heavy shelling operation. (Xinhua)
Cybersecurity: A YouTube video suggested Anonymous plans to shutdown Facebook on 28JAN. (Mashable)
Technology: Google introduced a new feature called “Hotel Finder,” which allows users to find lodging near popular landmarks. (Mashable)
Cyclones: Tropical Cyclone 08S (Funso)
Location: 550 nm NE of Maputo, Mozambique
Movement: S at 4 knots
Winds: 115 knots
Hurricanes: Nothing to report.
Earthquakes: South of the Fiji Islands
Depth: 582.8 km
Earthquakes: Offshore of Bio-bio, Chile
Depth: 29.7 km
Volcanoes: Nothing to report.
TOMORROW’S OUTLOOK (25JAN)
Global: Annual World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland.
Egypt: National day of celebration commemorating Egyptians’ initial protests against Hosni Mubarak – 2011.
Tunisia: US Deputies of State and Treasury visit to discuss economic issues and democratic reform.
United States: Department of Defense hosts Cybercrime Conference in Atlanta.
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Retained/ Released List 2016-17
Following the conclusion of the 2016-17 season, Manager Keith Hill has today confirmed his retained/ released list.
Out of contract players Conrad Logan, Matty Lund, Donal McDermott, Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, Reuben Noble-Lazarus and Joe Rafferty have all been offered new deals.
Matty Gillam has been offered his first professional contract.
Johny Diba and David Owusu, who are out of contract, will be leaving the club, while Jack Redshaw, Joel Taylor and Ben Wilson have returned to their parent clubs. We would like place on record our thanks to these players and wish them the very best of luck for the future.
All other players remain under contract.
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I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called The Weekly Sociable Lawyer Round Up and is located at https://www.rocketlawyer.com/blog/the-weekly-sociable-lawyer-round-up-5-9295.
The Weekly Sociable Lawyer Round Up
Lawyers / Ian Ferguson / 01 Oct 2010
The Sociable Lawyer Round Up features some of the best blog entries on e-lawyering from the past week. We’re always looking for new posts, so if you know any great lawyer blogs, feel free to let us know! Enjoy!
Do Your Social Networking Privacy Settings Matter If You Get Sued?
September 27 By Kashmir Hill
“Here’s a tale of two lawsuits: an artist who wants to get paid for his work and a university employee who wants to get paid for falling out of her chair. The former gets to keep his Facebook and MySpace communications private and the latter has to turn them over. Old electronic communications laws mixed with cutting edge electronic communication on social networking sites mean that individual judges have wide leeway in determining what online is private and what’s not…”
Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
September 27 By Malcolm Gladwell
“The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coordinate, and give voice to their concerns…”
Virtual Law Practice
Social Media for the Legal Professional
September 27 By Stephanie Kimbro
“This presentation covered the basics of social media how-tos with a healthy dose of “watch out for x” and “monitor y”. I also provided suggestions for creating consistent online reputations for law firms using social media and discussed how attorneys might implement social media policies for their firm and educate firm members and even clients about procedures the firm has adopted for the use of social media…”
The Rainmaker Blog
Law Firm Marketing: LinkedIn Upgrades Company Profiles
September 28 By Stephen Fairley
“LinkedIn, the most popular business social networking site used by attorneys, just announced that it has added new customization features to its Company Follow feature. You can read all the details from the LinkedIn Blog, but here are the highlights you should care about and act on:..”
Erin Blaskie
Help! I Need Clients!
September 29 By Erin Blaskie
“Once your business is setup and ready to go, people don’t start knocking your doors over (or at least, not always). The idea that “if you build it, they will come” turns out to be a bit of a farce. Marketing, selling and communicating out your new business to potential clients is time consuming and can sometimes feel a bit overwhelming. In fact, the marketing and selling part can be the hardest part for a lot of people…”
ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Formal Opinion 10-547: Lawyer Websites
September 30 By The American Bar Association
“Many lawyers and law firms have established websites as a means of communicating with the public. A lawyer website can provide to anyone with Internet access a wide array of information about the law, legal institutions, and the value of legal services. Websites also offer lawyers a twenty-four hour marketing tool by calling attention to the particular qualifications of a lawyer or a law firm, explaining the scope of the legal services they provide and describing their clientele, and adding an electronic link to contact an individual lawyer. This opinion addresses some of the ethical obligations that lawyers should address in considering the content and features of their websites…”
ABA Survey: Lawyers Profiting From Web 2.0
September 30 By Adrian Dayton
“In the 2010 ABA Technology Survey Report, 10% of respondents “had a client retain their legal services as a result of use of online communities/social networking.” While 10% may seem small, it represents a dramatic shift in law firm attitudes towards social media. So how are the successful attorneys doing it?..”
The Future of Blogging Might Surprise You
September 30 By Mitch Joel
“If you think about the advent of social media, blogging really was the first pin to drop. The ability for anybody to have a thought, be able to type it up and then publish it online for the world to see (for free) changed everything we know about publishing, journalism and the media. Along with the publishing component, the ability to subscribe to the content via RSS, and have the ability to comment on it publicly, link back to it or even start your own blog was a watershed moment in the history of humanity and evolution of publishing…”
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Charlie Countryman
Charlie Countryman (2013)
Shia LaBeouf as Charlie Countryman
Rupert Grint as Carl
Evan Rachel Wood as Gabi Banyai
Mads Mikkelsen as Nigel
Til Schweiger as Darko
Melissa Leo as Kate
Matt Drake
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Every now and then, one comes across an indie film that's so showily awful, so drenched in bathos and cliché, and yet features such a uniformly sharp cast that you have to wonder: "What is it with actors?" Or, if one already knows what it is with actors, "Did this material actually look good on paper?"
The heavy-sigh-inducing "Charlie Countryman" is just such a motion picture. It's a thoroughly queasy pastiche of magic-realism/coming-of-age/romantic-thriller/bloody-Chiclets nonsense (and when I say "nonsense" I am substituting a much stronger word). It starts on a note familiar to anyone familiar with Sundance Film Festival entries in the ten years that followed "Reservoir Dogs." A young man, his face beaten to a pulp, is hanging from a rope tied to his leg and attached to a crane hoist at the other end; he dangles above a body of water as men with guns observe him from dry land. We hear the report of a shot fired, and into the water he falls, and…
It's just a dream, or is it a portent? Out of the bathtub pops Charlie, coming to, face intact, roused by dad Vincent D'Onofrio to visit the hospital to see his mom, Melissa Leo, taken off life support. Charlie not only has vivid dreams, he seems to have a sixth sense, as dead mom then visits him in the hospital corridor to tell him to "Go to Bucharest." And yes, "are you sure she didn't mean Budapest?" does become a running "joke" in the movie. After a brief pause to bother an ex-girlfriend played by Aubrey Plaza, there's Charlie on a plane.
How he comes to meet non-manic somewhat-damaged pixie almost-literal Dream Girl Gabi is a scenario that would not be enhanced by synopsizing. But meet her he does. She's played by Evan Rachel Wood (who's fine, despite the fact that there are maybe a hundred actual Romanian actresses who would have been fine too), and she's all punky and dour of countenance, and she plays the cello. Charlie, of course, falls for her like several years' worth of output from a brick fantasy. Skeptical Gabi warns him off: "Perhaps you have some sort of fantasy about sad woman from distant land who plays the cello." Perhaps a smart producer might have informed writer Matt Drake and director Fredrik Bond that self-consciously pointing out the hoariest commonplaces in your dumb hipster romantic fantasy doesn't automatically absolve you from them.
And Gabi has a husband, who's a Very Bad Man With Poor Social Skills (Mads Mikkelsen, who need only glower a lot to achieve full Mikkelsen effect), and Charlie gets kicked over to a youth hostel (a really grungily utopian youth hostel, I gotta admit) where he kicks it with Harry Potter vet Rupert Grint, here playing a wannabe porn performer (that's ONE way to distance yourself from the franchise). Later, in a great "what are the odds" "twist," Charlie and friends get in trouble at a strip club run by a former associate of Mikkelsen's character (Til Schweiger, completely wasted), and the plot, as they say, thickens.
As you might have inferred by now, I found all of this pretty insufferable. And Shia LaBeouf, in the title role, only made it all worse. Over the years LaBeouf has transmogrified from an appealing teen performer (I really enjoyed him in 2003's "Holes") into a too-efficient delivery system for overamped Michael Bay smarm. His compensating attempts at indie cred, or something like it, seem less convincing every time out, and his performance here is particularly lame. He reminds me here of Chuck Jones' obnoxious cartoon character Charlie Dog, who aggressively seeks an owner by pointing out his own "soulful brown eyes," which he then widens to disarming-in-the-wrong-way effect. The rest of the cast does, I think, more sincere work, but again, as they do, you can't help but wonder why. Because this is bad stuff, from stem to stern.
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In this undated photo released by the Butte County Sheriff’s Office is Sam Koh. The Northern California man hid one of British Columbia’s most wanted fugitives in a 2008 killing in the days before his violent arrest, authorities alleged Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. Butte County sheriff’s deputies said Koh, 40, of Gridley, harbored Brandon Teixeira, 28, in the days before the Canadian man rammed his SUV into a sheriff’s armored van while trying to escape earlier this month. (Butte County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
Northern California man charged with aiding B.C. fugitive Brandon Teixeira
Sam Koh, 40, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to harbouring Teixeira
A Northern California man had been hiding one of British Columbia’s most wanted fugitives in a 2008 killing prior to his violent arrest, authorities said Wednesday.
Butte County sheriff’s deputies said Sam Koh, 40, of Gridley, harboured Brandon Teixeira, 28, in the days before the Canadian man rammed his SUV into a sheriff’s armoured van while trying to escape earlier this month.
Canadian police had described Teixeira as extremely violent and had offered a $55,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
ALSO READ: Surrey fugitive captured in California was motivated by revenge, $160,000: court documents
Sheriff’s officials said the latest arrest came after they served search warrants at Koh’s two residences and found multiple firearms, marijuana, and signs of illegal marijuana cultivation and sales.
Koh pleaded not guilty Wednesday to harbouring Teixeira, illegally growing marijuana, possessing marijuana for sale and using his residences to illegally sell narcotics and marijuana.
His attorney, Stephana Femino, did not immediately return telephone and emailed messages seeking comment.
Deputies had previously arrested a New York man at the same time as Teixeira on suspicion of harbouring a wanted felon and possessing drugs for sale.
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HomeUSA News
Czechs relieved of radar base and democracy, too
About 60 km south of Prague, the people in Trokavec say they can now rest easy after winning a 2 year fight against the planned US anti-missile defence system.
Feelings of relief and happiness have settled on this small Czech village in the Brdy mountains following the announcement by Barack Obama on missile defence, which was met with mixed reactions across Europe, where some politicians voiced anger and others relief that the U.S. missile defence was shelved.
Its radar base was going to be located just 2 kilometers from Trokavec, something villagers fiercely opposed.
Local residents told RT they are really happy and welcome the U.S. decision with open arms now that the radar will not be there, because “world problems shouldn’t be solved by placing radars” – near their homes and because, for them, “the radar would not bring anything positive”.
And they’re not alone in their opinion – around 70 other Czechs were against hosting the missile shield in their country.
The base was going to be built in a vast expanse of forest, which is actually a military zone, but nearby residents feared it was a threat to their health and safety and perhaps could make the Czech Republic vulnerable to attack from outside states. Unlike in neighbouring Poland, the Czech Republic never felt it needed the anti-missile defense system to boost their national security and, instead, felt they had all the protection they needed from being a member of NATO.
Despite strong objections, the Czech government chose not to hold a national referendum on the issue. So local villages took the matter into their own hands, to ensure their voices were heard.
“I created the League of Mayors which had 57 members from surrounding villages. We took our fight all over Europe to convince the governments and parliaments that we are totally against the AMD system, despite what our own leadership was saying,” says Jan Neoral, the mayor of Trokavec.
And while their cause has now been won, some still feel disappointed in the way their own government handled the issue.
Jan Tamas, from the “Non-Violence” movement, says “we are a little bit disappointed that it had to be the U.S. government that brought that project to an end and that it was not the Czech government that has been for years ignoring the will of the majority of Czechs.”
“This is really a sad day for democracy in our country, that our future had to be decided outside of our country,” Tamas declares.
But overall there’s been a smooth acceptance, both politically and socially, to the news that the radar base is no more.
So for the residents of Trokavec, its time to breath a sigh of relief and get back to more pressing matters at hand.
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NATO soldiers to march on Red Square with Russian troops for first time
Serbia is under endless pressure
French refuse to eat cake as pension showdown heats up
French Senate passes new retirement age bill, protestors block streets
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Cooper shareholders approve Apollo offer
Tire Business Report
Cooper Chairman, CEO and President Roy Armes.
CLEVELAND—Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. shareholders voted by a wide margin Monday morning to accept Apollo Tyres Ltd.'s $35 per share buyout offer, allowing the Indian company to move another step closer to completing its $2.5 billion acquisition of Findlay, Ohio-based Cooper.
Shareholders representing 78 percent of Cooper's outstanding shares voted. Of those, 96 percent voted to approve the deal.
"We are pleased stockholders endorsed this compelling transaction," said Cooper Chairman, CEO and President Roy Armes.
Apollo and Cooper still have a few obstacles to overcome, however. In line with an arbitrator's decision, Apollo must reach new labor agreements with United Steelworkers Locals at Cooper's plants in Texarkana, Ark., and Findlay before the deal can be concluded. Cooper's plant in Tupelo, Miss., is a non-union facility.
The deal will create a company with about $6.6 billion in annual revenue, making the new entity the world's seventh-largest tire maker.
The partners also are involved in a lawsuit in China brought by labor forces there at Cooper's joint venture plant in Rongcheng, China.
Most other regulatory hurdles have been overcome.
Apollo's $35 per share offer represents a premium of more than 40 percent over the share price's average trading value in the weeks and months prior to Apollo's June 12 offer.
Shareholders voted at a special meeting held Monday morning at the offices of the law firm Jones Day in Cleveland. The vote was open to shareholders of record as of Sept. 30.
Cooper shares have lost nearly 12 percent in value in trading during September after rising initially close to the offer price.
Pending Apollo-Cooper merger clears another hurdle
Double-digit growth in operating, net income for Apollo
Cooper reports decline in sales, operating and net profit
Cooper stockholders to vote Sept. 30 on Apollo merger
Cooper courted other suitors before accepting Apollo deal
Union holds meetings with workers at Cooper's Miss. plant
Cooper files complaint against Apollo
Cooper's Armes: It was clear Apollo wanted price reduction
Apollo 'pleased' with judge's ruling in case against Cooper
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The best gaming console should enable you to play different types of games at all times. It should be one that can be plugged into your TV or monitor. If you can get one that can also play music CDs and DVDs, the better. It should also connect to the internet with ease.
From this guide, you’ll also learn the different types of gaming consoles you need to consider before purchasing a gaming console. You’ll also get the chance to select the console of your choice from top gaming consoles listed below. We have also answered some of the FAQs to help you make a better purchase.
5 Best Gaming Consoles
Xbox One S 1TB All Digital Edition Console
Sony PS4 Pro 1TB Console
Nintendo Switch with Neon Blue and Red Joy-Console
Mitashi Game Handheld Gaming Console
REES52 HD HDMI/AV Output Mini TV Handheld Console
Types of Gaming Consoles
These consoles are ideal for gaming when one is on the move. They boast similar features and capabilities to other standard consoles and come with the same range of games. Nintendo 3DS is an excellent example of a handheld console.
Home Video Game Consoles
These are generally meant to be hooked up to a television or any other monitor. With power supplied through an outlet, it simply means that the only way to use the consoles is only in a fixed location.
Hybrid Video Game Consoles
Hybrid video game consoles have the features of both handheld and home video consoles. The only available example of this category is the Nintendo Switch.
The following are the things you need to look out for when going for a gaming console;
When going after a gaming console, think about the games you like. Are they available in this console? Some people prefer sports games, shooters or platformers. Research first to ensure that you get one with your favorite games.
If there’s one thing you’d preferably not experience is getting a console that doesn’t live up to your expectations. Always look out for one that delivers in terms of performance if you want to avoid future disappointments.
Backward compatibility simply means the ability to play games from previous generations on your current console. The first thing you need to do is consider whether backward compatibility is important to you. If it is, find out in what form it is available on the console you want to purchase.
Backward compatibility helps when you want to play the old generation classics, but you don’t want to keep on switching from one console to another.
Most consoles in the market today offer online services. Both the cost and what is included in the servers vary from one console to the other. What you need to do is consider the differences between the services and see which one works best for you.
If you are going to be playing online a lot, you’ll need the console with the best services available.
Some gaming consoles come with consoles with a built-in second screen while others have stickers that look like nun chunks. The console you choose to go for will determine the controller you end up with. Ensure that that controller is one that you are comfortable with.
You can also choose to purchase a third-party controller, although these are usually very expensive.
Peripherals add functionality to a console. The first thing you need to do is consider the peripherals available in your console. You might want to use them at first, but it is always good to know that you have options for expanding the functionality of your console.
You need to know the disk capacity of your console and think about how much storage space you might need. Also, check for the possibility of adding a hard disk in a bid to expand the disk capacity.
Game exclusives are those that are only released for one console. Check out for the exclusives for different models before you decide to settle on one. The good thing, however, is that most games are multiplatform, meaning that you can get them on almost every current console.
Of what use will the console be if you can barely use it? Test it first before paying for it to ascertain whether you can use it comfortably or not. Always go for products that you can use with ease.
Ask yourself about the amount you are willing to spend on a gaming console. Gaming costs money since you’ll not only spend much on purchasing it but also on the subscriptions for some games. Avoid spending more than your budget allows.
Check whether the console comes with a warranty period before purchasing it. Warranty will cover for any unnecessary repairs or a replacement under certain conditions. The warranty period can differ between brands and retailers as well. Check them out first to ascertain the one that suits you best. The longer the warranty period, the better.
Top 5 Best Gaming Consoles
1. Xbox One S 1TB All Digital Edition Console
We start our list with this console from Xbox, one of the leading gaming console brands today. It’s an instant digital library that includes here of the compelling games that include Minecraft, Forza Horizon 3, and Sea of Thieves.
It is equipped with 4K resolution for UHD Video streaming, HDR to enjoy brilliant graphic details and wide color gamut. The console does not play physical discs meaning that games are downloaded and ready to play whenever you are.
This console gives you the chance to enjoy all the convenience of a digital library with disc-free gaming. With it, your games saves, and backups will always remain safe in the cloud.
Includes the most compelling games; Minecraft, Forza Horizon 3 and Sea of Thieves
Gives you the chance to enjoy the convenience of disc-free gaming
Equipped with 4K resolution for Ultra HD Video streaming
Comes in a smaller and sleeker design yet more powerful than the original
Excellent backward compatibility
Perfect build quality
Upscale 4K gaming
Best for the price
Upscaling not very refined
Lacks many great first-party exclusives
2. Sony PS4 Pro 1TB Console
Experience incredibly vivid and vibrant colors with breathtaking HDR visuals when using this gaming console. It is 30% slimmer and 16% lighter than the original and can play internet content like YouTube and Netflix.
With this console, games, and movies shine with amazing 4K clarity, graphics become sharper and more realistic. It comes with a PS4 games display, is TV compatible, and with an intense range of colors that is close enough to the full spectrum that human eyes can see.
The console has an excellent library of games and some fantastic exclusives as well. It has highly responsive controls and also very comfortable and easy to use.
Can play internet content
Has an intense range of colors and PS4 display
Comes with an excellent library of games
Has amazing 4K clear graphics
Highly responsive controls
Awesome graphics and gameplay
Vibrant colors and HDR visuals
Comes with a year’s warranty
Heats up after continuous use
3. Nintendo Switch with Neon Blue and Red Joy-Console
If looking for a portable high-quality gaming console, you can never go wrong with this model from Nintendo. It is one of the most popular and unique consoles in the market today now that you can use it as a handheld or a home TV console.
It comes with a vast array of games and popular for several independent games like Celeste, Darkest Dungeon, Stardew Valley, and Hollow Knight. If you already have a PS4 Pro or Xbox One X console, this console acts as a great companion, and it can do things that most of its competitors can’t.
The console also comes with a disassembling controller with split-screen options that make it easy to play with friends. It has a long battery life, comfortable and very easy to use.
Comes with a disassembling controller
Has a huge array of games available, some of which are independent?
Both TV compatible and portable
Has comfortable joysticks
Portable and dockable
Handy and large enough
Huge library of games available
Comes with no warranty
4. Mitashi Game Handheld Gaming Console
Fourth on the list comes this console from Mitashi. It not only comes at a pocket-friendly price but also has a nice color and excellent grip. It can connect to the TV and too easy to carry around to keep you company when traveling.
The console comes in a new exciting design and two new colors to choose from. It has over 500 exciting inbuilt games and the ability to play cartridges. It has a 7.11 cm (2.8 inches) TFT LCD screen that is just enough for you to enjoy gaming while on the go.
It comes with a built-in rechargeable battery and a cable to help you connect it to your TV. Should you decide to go after this console, you’ll avail yourself of the chance to enjoy entertainment with friends and family.
Has a 7.11cm (2.8 inch) TFT LCD screen
Can connect to a TV and pocketable as well
Has over 500 exciting inbuilt games
Comes in an exciting design and two colors to choose from
Nice colors and perfect grip
Has games that are easy to play
TV compatible and portable
Comes at a reasonable price
5. REES52 HD HDMI/AV Output Mini TV Handheld Console
With this console, you don’t need to download and install any games now that it comes with built-in 500 games, which is quite a large variety for you to choose from. You’ll get all the fun and entertainment you want as soon as the console gets delivered to you.
It comes equipped with two flexibility and sensitive joysticks that ensure that your smooth hands are feeling the game. It supports high definition audio and video output as well as precise transmission without delaying.
The console applies to NTSC/PAL TV system, enabling you to enjoy vivid and exciting games on a big screen. It has the best controllers and makes the perfect gift for family and friends.
Has tiny joysticks that work limitedly
Supports high video and audio output
Applicable to NTSC/PAL TV system
Comes with 500 built-in games
Has very sensitive joysticks
Comes with a wide variety of games
Has high-quality controllers
Makes a perfect gift
No HDMI output connector
1. Is Ps4 better than Xbox
PS4 has better game capture features and supports VR but can’t compare to Xbox when it comes to controller options. Both consoles, however, have fantastic libraries full of exclusives, ports, and Indie games. Xbox one excels in media features as it has Extra HD Blu-ray support.
2. Which console has better graphics between Xbox one and Ps4 Pro?
Box one has greater power that gives it better graphics when compared to Ps4 Pro. It also has much higher visual customization.
3. Which console is more kid-friendly?
Nintendo is the clear winner when it comes to kids’ consoles. Nintendo 2DS XL, for instance, is the perfect starting point for kids. It is portable and has a huge catalogue of games that kids find easy to play and can save up.
4. What age is appropriate for an Xbox?
An Xbox console is only appropriate for kids aged seven and above.
5. Which is the most powerful console?
Play station 4 pro is the most powerful console in the world.
Having gone through the list, we hope that you’ve come across a console that you feel will suit you or your kid best. All of those listed work best, but our top picks are the Xbox One S console, Sony Ps4 Pro, and the Nintendo Switch.
The consoles are reasonably priced, come with an extensive library of games, some of which are exclusives. They are also easy to use and will, therefore, keep you entertained for the longest time possible.
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NAT FACT CHECK
Are newspapers hiding the truth about North Sea oil from Scots readers?
An opinion piece published in the Daily Telegraph in 2018 has resurfaced on Twitter, which argued that North Sea oil could be a ‘bargaining chip’ in Brexit negotiations.
SNP MP Dr Philippa Whitford has claimed the newspaper doesn’t want Scots to see this viewpoint. Is she right?
The Claim:
“Funny how the #Oil in Scottish waters is always seen as a benefit to Britain but a terrible burden for Scotland! Wonder why they didn’t want Scots to see this article. #SelfDetermination #ScotRef”
SNP's Dr Philippa Whitford MP
Twitter, 26th February 2019
The article in question is an opinion piece by writer Andy Critchlow, published in November 2018.
It was published in the business section of the Daily Telegraph, which is carried in all editions of the paper across the UK, and was therefore in the Scottish edition of the paper.
It was published on the newspaper’s website and can still be read online today by people in Scotland.
“This is bonkers - it is published online on our website here https://bit.ly/2Ozy8QK”
Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Editor of the Daily Telegraph.
Scotland in Union Fact Check Conclusion:
The SNP is always looking for a grievance, however contrived.
This particular opinion piece was published in the Scottish edition of the Daily Telegraph and is available online for readers in Scotland – but Dr Whitford chose to believe the conspiracy theories peddled by nationalists on Twitter rather than checking her facts.
It is not the first time that Dr Whitford has been caught out. In the run-up to the 2014 referendum she made the incendiary claim that a privatisation agenda in England was forcing a hospital to consider cancelling cancer operations.
It was described as the ‘most shameful, blatant lie of the campaign’.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/surgeon-exposed-spreading-bogus-claims-4103150
The Nationalists’ obsession with conspiracy theories about oil has been covered by our fact check service before.
https://www.scotlandinunion.co.uk/nat-fact-check-secret-oil
Official figures show that if Scotland became independent and was in receipt of all oil revenues, families would still be thousands of pounds better off as part of the UK.
Dr Whitford chose to believe the conspiracy theories peddled by nationalists on Twitter
rather than checking her facts.
email: info@scotlandinunion.co.uk
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Privacy Seminar
Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Gates&Hillman Centers
Reddy Conference Room 4405
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Chief Technologist
Center for Democracy and Technology
A Walk Through the Work of a Policy Technologist
I am a policy technologist: a person trained technically that applies those skills to affect law and policy. In this talk, I will explore the work of a policy technologist and cover a number of emerging themes that may be useful to you in your own work, or in thinking about possible career paths. First, I'll make the case that in a world of Moore's and Metcalfe's laws, sound technical input is increasingly necessary for making good policy; I'll cover the ongoing Crypto Wars (CALEA II), privacy in mobile devices against law enforcement (Riley v. California), and efforts to technically ground the often confused net neutrality debate (BITAG). Second, it is also increasingly important that human rights and public interest values be embedded in technology and infrastructure; I'll cover ongoing work at the IETF and W3C that aims to do this.
Finally, there are a number of efforts by technologists working across diverse communities or within relatively entrenched cultures to affect important change; here, I'll cover the HTTPS-Only work in US Federal Government -- almost all .gov domains will be strict HTTPS by the end of 2016 -- and US civil society's response to the potentially chilling Wassenaarexport control rules, which would have grave consequences for common privacy and security tools as well as discussing potential security vulnerabilities
Joseph Lorenzo Hall is the Chief Technologist and Director of the Internet Architecture project at the Center for Democracy & Technology, a Washington, DC-based non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring the internet remains open, innovative and free.
Hall's work focuses on the intersection of technology, law, and policy, working to ensure that technical considerations are appropriately embedded into legal and policy instruments. Supporting work across all of CDT's programmatic areas, Hall provides substantive technical expertise to CDT's programs, and interfaces externally with CDT supporters, stakeholders, academics, and technologists. Hall leads CDT's Internet Architecture project, which focuses on embedding human rights values into core internet standards and infrastructure, engaging technologists in policy work, and producing accessible technical material for policymakers.
Series Website
ttodd@cs.cmu.edu
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The Geneva Motor Show 2016 is currently being held in the Swiss city at the Geneva Palexpo as it is every year and is said to be one of the most influential events on the automotive calendar.
Amongst the amazing collection of new production and concept cars revealed are the Hyundai Ioniq and Toyota's C-HR concept which are both due to hit the UK market later in 2016.
Hyundai introduced the new alternative-fuel Ioniq model, the world’s first car to offer a choice of fully electric, hybrid and plug-in powertrain options at the Geneva Motor Show.
“We will continue to make technological strides in various areas to bring freedom and convenience in mobility for our customers with ever-improved mobility,” said Woong-chul Yang, Vice Chairman and Head of Hyundai R&D Center.
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Established in 1966, SDM Group is one of the longest standing and well respected Motor Groups in Central Scotland. We are a family owned business that now operates three new & used car franchises from two sites. Our Toyota dealership is located at our Ladysmill site, & we have Mazda & Hyundai dealerships at our Middlefield site.
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