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The NTT Group is offering record pay to lure information technology wizards from Silicon Valley to help boost basic research prowess. | BLOOMBERG
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NTT offers researchers $1 million salaries in bid to lure top talent in cryptography, quantum computing
Online: Nov 20, 2019
Last Modified: Nov 20, 2019
Telecom giant NTT Group is offering record pay to hire top scientists as it looks to match some of the basic research prowess of global powerhouses including Alphabet Inc. and Apple Inc.
The former Japanese telephone monopoly has set annual salaries of as much as $1 million (¥108.45 million) for researchers at its labs in Palo Alto, California, said Kazuhiro Gomi, president of the company’s research arm. That’s more than the company pays its chief executive officer and 41-year veteran Jun Sawada, and a rare step for a traditional Japanese company like NTT.
The increased investment in basic science comes as NTT is regrouping its businesses to focus more on cloud computing services and data centers amid a dimming outlook for profit from its mainstay mobile phone carrier. Having star scientists on the lab’s payroll, backed by a ¥25 billion five-year budget, helps the group draw better technology workers and partners as it wages a global war for the top talent it needs to expand globally, Gomi said.
“We are competing with companies like Google and Apple,” said Gomi, explaining that the company had traditionally followed the Japanese norm of modest pay. “It wouldn’t be possible several years back.”
Tatsuaki Okamoto, director of cryptography & information security for NTT Research, is an example of a star that has helped draw in other top researchers in encryption, where interest in cryptocurrencies has led to surging demand for expertise. Okamoto, an NTT R&D fellow since 1999, is known globally as a key researcher on block-chain technologies for cryptocurrencies.
The talent NTT is gathering is focused on cryptography, quantum computing and medical informatics in a bet that these fields can yield breakthroughs on a horizon of five years or more, said Kei Karasawa, vice president of corporate strategy for NTT Research.
The lab also needs big name scientists because for most top researchers, high pay alone isn’t enough, said Karasawa. Scientists strongly prefer to work with the leaders in their field, he said.
Moreover, NTT’s pay isn’t at the top of the range in all fields. Oracle Corp., the software-maker racing to catch Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. in cloud computing, offered a pay package worth $6 million to hire a single expert in artificial intelligence, Business Insider reported. And while $1 million a year dwarfs the pay of many IT professionals, it’s far less than what most chief executives make at global companies of NTT’s scale.
That too is a contrast with Japan, where average CEO pay at top companies is less than $1 million, compared with more than 10 times that for the average U.S. boss of a big firm.
NTT is pushing for overseas growth while forecasting a 13 percent drop in net income at NTT Docomo Inc. this fiscal year, following a 16 percent decline in the previous year. NTT said it was forming a global technology and services provider by combining the capabilities of 28 of its companies including NTT Communications Corp., Dimension Data Holdings PLC and NTT Security Corp. The goal is to create a top 5 global technology and business solutions provider with $20 billion in revenue outside Japan, Sawada said at the time.
Cryptography, the science of encoding and decoding data to maintain privacy, is fundamental to the internet’s security and plays a role in blockchain and cryptocurrencies, two red-hot areas of research and development. Quantum computing, which uses properties of quantum mechanics to speed up processing, has the potential to help discover new drugs and improve the algorithms that shape industrial logistics and supply chains.
The third area, medical informatics, presents an opportunity to apply powerful computing technologies to mapping molecules in a way that can help scientists better understand viruses and how to combat them.
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The Ailing Planet – Nani Palkhiwala
Ailing Planet – Nani Palkhiwala is an article about the rapid degradation of the major elements of the environment – forest, grasslands, croplands and fisheries. The writer criticizes the uncontrolled growth of population. He also quotes people like Margaret Thatcher, Edgar S Woolard, LK Jha who have voiced and warned against global warming due to the high demand of natural resources.
More than ever the planet earth is losing its vitality (life) and freshness. Due to human development-activities throughout the globe, the earth has become highly polluted, highly irrepairable and highly damaged. We have taken out petroleum, coal and a lot of natural resources from the earth. We have removed more than half of world’s vegetation (plants and trees) and emitted large quantity of carbon and a lot of other chemicals. We have destroyed marine (fisheries) life and made rivers go dry. Moreover, our greed for more and more wealth resulted in depleting the protective ozone layer and invited all harmful rays to the earth’s surface. Besides, we have brought out a great imbalance between humans and the other species of the earth.
Opening – Our Fault!
The earth is an ailing, dying planet. Human development processes have brought the planet close to a state of extinction. Human beings are the most dangerous animals among the millions of other species that inhabit the planet. We have been exploiting this planet recklessly (carelessly) by building cities, by clearing forests and by a number of other activities including mining, fishing, etc.
For long, we hadn’t been aware of our responsibilities to the planet’s health but the Green Movement marked the beginning. The Green Movement corrected some of our incorrect judgment in connection with our understanding of the planet. We are not the owners of this planet. We are not the bosses but partners in survival. We should understand that it is our duty to leave the earth healthy. We don’t own the planet, not an acre of land. We live in a rented planet and therefore we have no rights to construction or destruction.
Why is the earth said to be an ailing planet?
Due to the insensitive exploitation by humans for their survival and development, the earth has lost almost all its vital/important resources. With drying rivers, depleting and polluted environment and deteriorating forests and greenery, the earth is now breathing hard for its survival and thus it is an ailing planet.
“We have shifted from the mechanistic view to a holistic and ecological view of the world.” Explain.
In the past, people were not aware of the pace of environmental degradation that the earth was undergoing.
What did the most dangerous animal on the earth learn in the recent time?
The most dangerous animal, man, has learnt in the recent years a new lesson – that he is not the master of the planet but just one among the rest of the animals and trees, plants and insects, who should live like a partner in survival.
The Ailing 4!
We have caused the depletion of the four major resources – forests, grasslands, croplands and fisheries. Fisheries collapse due to over fishing. Forest disappears because the need for firewood and timber has considerably increased. The arrival of the humans marks the end of forests and the appearance of deserts. We are losing 1.5 acres of forests per second. Grasslands are converted to barren wasteland, cropland deteriorates due to over cultivation and the construction of cities.
Why is it said that forest precedes mankind?
No animal on the planet earth ever caused damage to it but humans have been causing serious destruction upon the earth ever since they had evolved. By cutting down trees for their survival and development, humans have established their monopoly over the other species. Thus, with the coming of humans, the existence of forest was threatened and in their places humans constructed cities and mega cities, always at the cost of these forests. As a result, forests are forced to surrender to deserts – that is, the green forests gave space for deserts.
What are the four principal biological systems? How are they the foundation of the global economic system?
The four principal biological systems of the earth are fisheries, forests, grasslands and croplands. In addition to supplying our food, these four systems provide virtually all the raw materials for industry except minerals and petroleum-derived synthetics.
How do fisheries, forests, grasslands and croplands form the foundation of global economic system?
A majority of the world population depends on sea-food for its survival while forests provide firewood for cooking, raw materials for production and timber for construction. Grasslands are the destination of cattle and herds of animals and without them – domestic and wild animals – the global economic system cannot survive. Each one is depending on the other for survival. There are nations, except the gulf countries that depend on petroleum, that solely depend on forests and fisheries and croplands for trade and sustenance.
Why is tropical forest called the powerhouse of evolution?
It is in the heart of the tropical forests where newer plants and animals evolve to more adaptable forms. Evolution is an ongoing process. Tropical forests are the most suitable places for evolution due to the heat and moisture. Due to deforestation of the tropical forests, this evolution is not happening in the recent years.
“What goes under the pot now costs more than what goes inside it.” explain.
With a growing population and the pace of the global developments taking wings, the cost of food touched a new height, all time high. Amazingly, the cost of cooking-gas overtook that of food-grains, fish, meat and vegetables, thus the fuel to cook – gas, firewood and electricity – now costs more than the raw-food.
In what sense is it said that ‘forests precede mankind and deserts follow?’
Next – Blame Population
With rising population, space that nature assigned for forests and animals is occupied by humans for their development and survival. More population means less forests and animals. Unfortunately man’s first choice is nature and it is sadly vulnerable and an easy prey. When cities and mega-cities occupy the major portion of the earth, the ecological balance is said to be lost.
What does more children mean to the poor section of people of India?
Poverty is directly caused by illiteracy and lack of awareness. The illiterate and uninformed poor people of India believe that more children bring more income. In fact, more children means more responsibility and more poverty and an unhealthy family and an impoverished individual and society.
How is population-explosion the biggest threat to the existence of the ailing earth?
Human population is the biggest threat to the existence of the earth. Though it reached a billion in a million years, another billion was added to the world-population in just another hundred years. Every four or five days the world population increases by one million. The effects of this dangerous increase in world population are endless yet the most catastrophic one is our present struggle for existence.
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Environmental impact assessment of land use systems using emergy in Teresópolis-Brazil
Articles, Articles 2012, Original Research articlesagroecological evaluation, emergy, land use systems, TeresópolisEditor
Pages 06 - 14
DOI 10.5027/jnrd.v2i0.02
Keywords Emergy, Agro-ecological evaluation, Land-use systems, Teresópolis
Under a Creative Commons license
Torrico J C * a , Janssens M b
a University of Applied Sciences Cologne - Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, Betzdorferstr 2, 50679, Köln-Germany.
b University of Bonn, Unit of Tropical Crops. Sechtemer Straße 29, D-50389-Wesseling-Germany.
*Correponding author: juan.torrico@fh-koeln.de
This paper provides a set of indices based on emergy analysis for the Côrrego Sujo basin, Teresópolis-Brazil. Encompassing natural and agricultural systems, the Côrrego Sujo basin has been affected by destruction and fragmentation of natural habitats and unsustainable land use practices. The main objective is to evaluate the environmental impact of the land use systems, the load capacity and the use of natural and economic resources. The studied land use systems were: i) agriculture, ii) grassland and cattle, iii) rainforest and iv) forest in regeneration stage (fallow: 1, 2 and 3 years old). Emergy analysis integrates all flows within a system of coupled economic and environmental work in common biophysical units (solar emjoules – seJ). The main conclusions of the study are: the basin does not have dependence of purchased resources and the environmental impact is moderate; the efficiency of the basin as a system is highly positive and it represents a positive contribution to the economy; the emergy exchange ratio is moderate and; the biggest contributions to the system come from natural sources showing that the ecological sustainability is moderate to good.
After the UN Convention on Biological Diversity of Rio de Janeiro in 1992 there was increased concern and interest in internalizing environmental costs (Kumar et al. 2004 and Mota 2000). The intrinsic value of natural resources like soil as a contribution to national, regional and local economic productivity is not adequately recorded in financial planning and decision making. As a consequence, long-term sustainability is challenged by degrading natural resources (Cohen et al. 2006), and by improper functionality of ecosystems. There is also a need to develop quantitative tools that can be used to support policy makers (Bouman et al. 1999), to understand the functions of natural systems and to identify alternative state within agricultural systems.
The Atlantic Forest, or Mata Atlântica, is one of the worlds most outstanding and most threatened ecosystems (Myers 1990; Myers et al. 2000; Mittermeier et al. 2005). On the one hand it hosts an enormous structural, floristic and faunal diversity comprising a high degree of endemism at all levels of organism organization (Fonseca et al. 1999; Kinzey 1981; Morawetz and Krügel 1997; Mori et al. 1981; Prance 1987). On the other hand, its destruction since the beginning of the colonization of South America has led to a dramatic reduction and fragmentation of the ecosystem (Bertoni et al. 1988; Dean 1996; Leitão Filho 1987). Of the five South American biodiversity hotspots the Atlantic Forest is the most densely populated one and comprises the smallest portion of protected areas (Mittermeier et al. 2005). Today agricultural landscapes, different land use types and some of the biggest Brazilian urban agglomerations are embedded in the area once almost continuously covered by the Mata Atlântica.
The reduction and fragmentation of natural ecosystems by anthropogenic impacts have elevated the rate of species extinction by one thousand times the natural background rate (Pimm et al. 1995). Physical and chemical qualities of landscapes have been affected by the destruction and fragmentation of natural habitats and unsustainable land use practices. Soil erosion and landslides are natural processes but have been intensified by man made degradation (Augustin 1999; Coelho Netto 2003). Other parameters affected by anthropogenic landscape transformations are soil and air quality as well as surface and groundwater availability and quality. In turn, the negative effects of man made habitat destruction are impairing the productivity of land use systems. In spite of this, the importance of ecosystem services are not sufficiently recognized and appreciated by the society (Tonhasca Jr. 2005).Accelerating anthropogenic climate change is likely to magnify the effects of habitat destruction and fragmentation (Thomas et al. 2004). Its specific effects on biodiversity have yet to be assessed for most of the biodiversity hotspots (Midgley et al. 2002). In general, ongoing climate change is affecting the vulnerability of ecosystems and land use systems at economic, social and environmental level (Parmesan and Yohe 2003; Rahmstorf and Schellnhuber 2007). Therefore, the evaluation of related risk and resilience potential considering climate change scenarios is useful for developing concepts, strategies and instruments for sustainable natural and agricultural resource management and conservation. Trade-off and synergy analyses help to identify alternative sustainable states, as a multidisciplinary organizing principle and a basis for conceptual modelling to design and organise research and development projects in order to quantify and assess the sustainability of agricultural production systems (Crissman et al. 1998).
The objective of this paper is therefore to evaluate the environmental impact of land use systems; including the load capacity1 and use of natural and economic resources, using the emergy methodology in Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro.
Comparing agro-ecological systems
When comparing agricultural and natural systems, or mixed systems combining the latter two components it is difficult to find appropriate yardsticks. When using monetary methods in farming systems analyses one is left with a double difficulty, viz.; (i) only the saleable output of agricultural systems will be taken into account, leaving some of the production side effects unaccounted for like e.g. soil improvement or degradation, erosion control, biomass residues left in situ, rotation effects etc; and (ii) most of the ecosystem services are difficult to monetize.
When adopting biomass as a yard stick some comparisons are possible to do although the reduction of crops or vegetation to dry weight is somewhat clumsy as there is not such a thing as dry biomass to be observed on a farmer’s field or in natural vegetation, not to speak about the irrelevant reduction of animals or even human beings into dry weight “items”. However, biomass appraisals give us important information as to the photosynthetic potential of agro-ecological systems as e.g. litter fall, net primary production (NPP), carbon sequestration etc. Some comparisons are easier to do by using spatial parameters. Foresters like to use basal area of a forest stand as an indicator of growth and biomass capital. Other spatial parameters have been proposed like eco-volume, bio-volume contending that living plants and animals are acting as visible volume units. The bio-volume of plants and animals is closely related with their fresh weight. West et al. (1997, 2001) proposed the universal law of biology stating that there exists a universal relation, valid for all living organisms, between metabolic energy rate, E and fresh biomass, M as follows (West et al. 1997, 2001, also referred as the WBE model):
After log transformation, all organisms, plants or animals, line up linearly. However, this approach cannot consider inert components or physical attributes of the surrounding environment. This leads us into parameters of energy for comparing different agro-ecological systems. Energy is a relevant parameter to study the sustainability of systems. It is also, essential to most human activities, including agriculture. Too much energy means wastage, global warming and other environmental pressures (Simoes 2001). Energy might be more sensitive and a concrete indicator in guiding us for better resource allocation (Wilson 1974, Chou 1993). Resources of agricultural production can also be discussed in terms of land energy and labour (Doyle 1990). Agriculture can also be defined as an alternate process of concentration and dilution of energy and resources (Janssens et al. 2011). The increased productivity by hectare leads to a decline of energy use efficiency. Intensive production brought a high dependence on inputs from non-renewable resources. Systems analysis of agricultural production is the first step to study this situation (Hill 1976). Since life is basically, an energy transforming process, energy issues are central to sustainability. “Everything is based on energy. Energy is the source and control of all things, all values, and all actions of human beings and nature”, according to Odum & Odum (1976). While social and economic sustainability certainly are essential and highly desirable, energy processes and limitations set definite bottom lines (Jansen 2000). Energetic output to input ratios are widely used (Pimentel 1989). Many cropping systems have ratios being lower than one. However, it is difficult to incorporate values for eco-system services.
The emergy analysis method
The emergy analysis method was selected as a method to study the different agricultural systems in Teresópolis because it provides a general category i.e. emergy, for measurement of heterogeneous flows within the ecosystem, as well as an instrument to account for interactions between physical flows in nature and the economy and monetary flows within internal and external markets of natural resources and goods (Odum 1986, Odum 1996, Odum 1998). Emergy can be considered as the “embodied or embedded energy” for each component of a system i.e. the total sum of energy of a given kind required to achieve this component. For the sake of easy comparison, energy of solar origin is used as yard stick and expressed as seJ (solar embodied joule). Hence, the solar constant amounting to 1350 W m-2 i.e. the energy/time/area/wavelength vs. wavelength received at the top of the Earth’s atmosphere from the sun is equivalent to 1350 seJ and will release 1350 Joule of available sun light energy. This situation is for a portion of the Earth where the sun’s rays are straight overhead. Note that by far most of the energy occurs in visible wavelengths. Above solar transformation ratio between 1350 seJ and 1350 J has been called solar “transformity” (in seJ/J). Solar energy has a solar transformity of 1. Other examples of solar transformities are given by Vito et al. (2004). Emergy evaluation is an environmental accounting method that addresses the issue of environmental and economic sustainability by quantifying the total amount of natural resources that nature spends (i.e. dissipates) and the total amount of economic resources are consumed to produce a product or operate a service (Tilley 2010, Vito et al. 2004) . A history and review of applications of the emergy method was given by Brown and Ulgiati (2004).
Due to emergy’s ability to compare environmental and economic resources used in agricultural production, emergy analysis can assess a system’s sustainability based on indices that relate the free work of nature based on renewable inputs to non-renewable resource consumption, agricultural yield and economic investment. A fundamental assumption of emergy analysis is that the worth of a contributed resource to agricultural production is proportional to its solar emergy, i.e., the total amount of solar energy dissipated directly and indirectly (Brown and Herendeen 1996).
The emergy theory also has been criticized and observed by several authors like Spreng 1988, Mansson 1993, Ayres 1998, Cleveland et al. 2000 the most criticized points are (i) that emergy theory of value ignores human preference and demand. (ii) There seems to be much confusion about the relationship between emergy and other thermodynamic properties. (iii) It is difficult to know the inputs and processes over a long period of time like from the prehistoric period onwards. (iv) Problems of quantifying transformation units. (v) Tenuous physical and biological foundations to assign monetary values to ecological products and services.
The same critics have been refuted by (Patten 1993, Odum 1995a, 1995b), who says that emergy method provides a bridge that connects economic and ecological systems. The economic and ecological aspects can be compared on an objective basis that is independent of their monetary perception. Emergy analysis provides an ecocentric evaluation method.
It is scientifically sound and shares the rigor of thermodynamic methods. Emergy analysis recognizes the different qualities of energy or abilities to do work. Emergy analysis provides a more holistic alternative to many existing methods for environmentally conscious decision making. Emergy analysis can quantify the contribution of natural capital for sustaining economic activity.
There are not many methods to analyze agro-ecologically the farming systems and compare each other in a holistic form, some of the alternatives to emergy methods could be thermodynamic variation as energy and exergy analysis, discussed in Nilson (1997) and Bastianoni & Marchettini (1997), biomass balance (Janssens et al. 2009). Multivariable analysis combined with systems analysis, this method implies a lot of input data including some social, physical, economical, environmental, etc. (Grace 2006), information that are not available in the study region. Another common used method is the economical analysis, alone this method doesn’t say too much about the environmental behavior of the system. Other fast assessment method could be agroclimax evaluation, discussed in Janssens 2009.
Material and Methods
This study was carried out in the Côrrego Sujo basin, Rio de Janeiro, from April 2003 to December 2005. Emergy analysis was used to compare the main land use and natural systems in the municipality of Teresópolis within the mountain region of the Atlantic Forest. The studied systems were: i) agriculture, ii) grassland and cattle, iii) rainforest, iv)forest in regeneration stage (fallow: 1, 2 and 3 years old). The results of those analyses in the Côrrego Sujo Basin were extrapolated to the whole municipality of Teresópolis.
Procedure of emergy evaluation
The procedure for emergy evaluation is described and summarized by Haden (2003) in three steps: the first consists of drawing the energy system diagram (Figure 1).
The second elaborates the emergy evaluation table and the third is calculating the emergy indicators and the summary diagrams. The summary diagrams show all aggregated emergy inputs from the economy as service or materials and from natural systems in the form of renewable or non renewable resources.
In Figure 1, R is the sum of the renewable emergy flows supporting the economy (i.e. rain, waves, tide); N is the sum of non-renewable resources from within the system (national) boundary; M is the sum of all materials used by or paid for in the system; S is the sum of all services used by or paid for in the system; Y is the total consumed emergy; Ep is the total energy produced from the system and C is the natural capital of the system (biomass, biodiversity, water, soil fertility, etc). After tabulating the material and energy flow data for the system in question and calculating their emergy contributions using transformities, a number of emergy ratios and indices can be calculated. The indices are used as expressions of the sustainability of the “Côrrego sujo” are described in Table 1.
Description of land cover and land use in the Côrrego Sujo basin
Land cover: Forest occupies largest area with 36.2%, followed by the grassland (31.1 %), bushland (18.8 %), bare rocks, open areas, settlements (11.4%), with 2.6 % of the latter been crop area (Figure 2). In general the mountainous area is dominated by three vegetation types, the first being fragments of the Atlantic forest found in the higher parts or on steep slopes; the second being composed hillside pastures where Brachiaria decumbens dominates, and in some cases completely covers the hills; and the third being agriculture in the river-valleys. Much of the grassland features active regeneration and eventually ends up as schrubland (Capoeiras). The dominant land cover types are described in Table 2.
Land use description: The watershed that is the focus of this study, “Côrrego Sujo” has a surface of 5,323 ha, divided in 8 river basins to facilitate the data collection. The land use illustrated in Figure 2 was derived from digitalized satellite “Iconos” images.
Agriculture in the region is characterized by intensive, small (less than one ha) but often irrigated horticultural production systems. This horticultural system has little or no interaction with the grazing (cattle) or forest subsystems. Inputs such as organic and inorganic fertilizers are used in both grazing and horticulture systems. Most of the seedlings are produced locally in specialized nurseries. Products are marketed through different channels, primarily via agents who take the production to the surrounding markets. Most producers units generally diversify the production as a market strategy, because the prices on the markets are very fluctuant.
The average stocking rate is 11 cows per 10 ha. This was found in a range from 2 to 67 cows per 10 ha. In the humid season the average milk production is 7.5 l day-1, and in the dry season of 4.5 l day-1. After 40 months of fattening, livestock production is approximately 165 kg of clean meat/head that are marketed through agents and sold in local markets. The remaining 24% is occupied mainly by horticultural systems. The intensive horticultural system is the most important economic activity and occupies circa 403 ha. Mainly five types of horticultural systems exist in the region and are summarized in Table 3.
The organic system combines a variety of crops and forest species, annual crops such as cassava and sweet corn with vegetable crops such as lettuce, green onion and cauliflower.
Of the 2,954 horticultural establishments in Teresópolis a little more than 2,500 have viable conditions for agricultural production. Manpower is sufficient to increase cultivation area or intensify production. On average there are three people per farm unit, totally dedicated to production. The population growth in the region has remained constant in recent years at least 1% annual growth (IBGE 2010).
Some other agricultural systems and plant communities present in the region are:
Sylvopastoral systems: It is the combination of pastures with trees. In addition to live fences, trees dispersed in pastures are the most common and most traditional silvopastoral system found in Teresópolis. The density of trees in pastures varies from zero, to approximately 30 or more per hectare. Few farmers permit greater than 25% canopy cover in their pastures fearing that greater tree cover will diminish the amount of pasture produced. The most important species are listed in Torrico (2010).
Agroforestry systems: The studied agroforestry systems correspond to horticultural crops combined with some trees. The crops are mostly horticultural crops listed in Torrico (2010).
Ecological systems: Is a type of agroforestry system, which combines intensively trees and crops, we account for this system diversity index of H=3.19, richness index R=96, dominance index 1-D=0.93. Those indices indicate that the system manages more agrobiodiversity inside the system. Species are listed in Torrico (2010).
Short rotation crop: Crops that complete their agricultural cycle in less than three months. Examples are presented in Torrico, 2010.
Perennials crops: Plants that persist for more than 2 growing seasons, in the region Citrus, banana, piper.
Shrubland: Plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by bushes, including grasses, herbs, and geophytes, shrubland species are listed in Torrico (2010).
Grassland vegetation: Dominated by grasses (Brachiaria decumbens) and other herbaceous plants.
Emergy evaluation
The data for the Côrrego Sujo basin shows in general that the consumption of materials and services expressed in emergy terms is very low in comparison to the total emergy used in the basin. Figure 3 shows the pathways of emergy flows in the Côrrego Sujo basin - Teresópolis. This is explained by the area, approx. 1.8% occupied by intensive horticulture dependent on inputs coming from the small economy. The largest source of emergy is from natural renewable and not renewable sources, mainly in form of water, minerals and organic matter (Table 4). The basin has a high capacity to store biomass and in emergy terms its value is 2.1x1018 seJ2 . The loss of organic matter (3.5% average soil content) through soil erosion for the whole basin equals to 2.38x1019 seJ, which in economic terms this would represent between 1.7 and 4.9 million dollars per year.
The principal renewable flows are sunlight, rainfall and minerals. Purchased goods, fertilizers, fuels, and services are also shown. Internal production systems include forests and forests in regeneration (1 to 3 years old), citrus orchards, intensive and organic farming and livestock. The aggregated data are shown in Figure 4.
From Table 5 it can be deduced that in general the basin is not level dependent on purchased resources (EIR 0.001). The sources from the economy (material and services) increase the environmental load indirectly because great quantities of non-renewable sources are used to manufacture. The environmental impact is moderate (ELR 0.75) as the system makes high use of renewable resources. The efficiency of the basin as a system is highly positive (EYR 1234) indicating that it contributes considerably more emergy to the economic system than what it takes in form of materials and services. The EER of 3.05 indicates that there is a loss of natural capital from the system, as it exports emergy to the urban systems at a moderate to average level. In general, the basin considered as a system is characterised by a moderate renewability (% R = 57) indicating again that the biggest contributions come from natural sources, and showing that the ecological sustainability is moderate to good.
Table 5. Computed transformity and emergy indices for the Côrrego Sujo Basin.
From Table 6 it is possible to appreciate that the biggest positive impact assessed using emergy indices was achieved through the replacement of the cattle production by biological farm systems. In this case, the use of non renewable energies decreased considerably at a rate of 1.17 x1015 seJ ha-1yr-1. This value was derived primarily from reduced soil erosion with 3.5% of organic matter. In economic terms this means 0.3 to 0.8 million dollars year-1 are spent on non-renewable energy in the whole basin, which is considerable for such a small area, representing about 50% of the annual investment in the basin. Substituting these cattle systems for organic horticultural systems could improve many of their indices, e.g. from an economic aspect revenue is multiplied between 4 and 12 times, ecologically the negative impact decreases, and the stock of carbon and biomass increases considerably.
The ecological and organic systems increase the renewability (%R) of the whole system considerably, more than following the forestry or systems with a middle positive impact. The capital losses from the system (EER) increases when cattle production is changed to intensive vegetable systems, but remains neutral with a shift to citrus production. The use of natural resources (ELR) increases under ecological or organic systems and forestry.
In Teresópolis, annual agricultural crops and short rotation perennials (mixed systems) tend to have the greatest economic productivity per hectare per year but have marginal or even negative returns when expressed in emergy terms due to inputs for soil preparation, fertilizing and harvesting in accordance with Holgrem (2003) who studied crop rotation and its effect on emergy ratios. Long rotations and low input plantation and natural forestry (organic-farm) have lower economic productivity per hectare per year but can more easily be managed in a sustainable way and finally, can be grown on marginal land too poor for food production. These advantages show up as high emergy yield ratios Farmers that organize their operations by drawing on high yield emergy sources (vegetable systems) are able to displace their fellow farmers who continue to organize their farming systems around local renewable emergy flows.
The results from analyses of the vegetable systems demonstrated the increased yield per area resulting from investments in high energy resources (e.g. fertilizers, services). However, the dependence on these inputs reduces the fraction of renewable energy and increases environmental degradation, making these systems less sustainable relative to systems more dependent on renewable energies.
a. The landscape is dominated by three components: forest including (fragments, 36.2%), grassland (31.1%) and forest regeneration (18.8%). This landscape tends to change slowly, will being replaced pastures either by horticulture or in areas with steep slop, by forest regeneration. The cropped area is only 2.6% of the total available land.
b. The emergy exchange ratio is moderate as the largest contributions to the system come from natural sources, resulting in a level of ecological sustainability that is moderate to good. The largest contributors to sustainability are the organic or ecological agricultural systems they are the only ones that have the capacity to save capital in form of biomass. These systems use fewer resources from the economy and depend more on natural renewable resources, which guarantee its sustainability. They ensure the survival of the producer throughout the time and the preservation of biodiversity.
c. The substitution of cattle systems for any other agricultural or forest system represents clear gains economic and environmental. The best options were the organic and forest systems.
d. The basin is not dependant on purchased resources and the environmental impact of production systems is moderate. The efficiency of the basin as a system is highly positive and represents a positive contribution to the economy.
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April 23, 1899 "The Intersection At Injustice Boulevard In Georgia" The Story of Sam Hose and WEB D
Today my blog post (www.joesmokethoughts.com) goes back to April 23, 1899. On this date Sam Hose, a young black man was burned at the stake in the Georgia county of Coweta. This horrendous public lynching was viewed by some 5000 people many of whom came from the city of Atlanta, Georgia. The murder of Sam Hose was a vindictive white mob crime that was fed by the newspapers in that area of Georgia, especially the Atlanta Constitution. One of the most vivid accounts of that murder was written in the book, "At The Hands Of Persons Unknown, written by Phillip Dray. The Sam Hose murder is Chapter 1 of that book which I have already read cover to cover on The Blackman Read Aloud Hour,
Phillip Dray aligns the murder of Sam Hose with the effect that murder had on WEB Dubois. Who at the time of Sam Hose's murder was a professor on staff at Atlanta University, Phillip Dray's analysis of Sam Hose's gory murder details the tale of how racial hatred against blacks fueled by uncontrolled media can lead to a mob of whites to relish in a killing that should've turned to stomach and minds of everyone who participated and witness this public lynching.
Sam Hose wasn't an educated man, nor did his ultimate sacrifice lead to changes in the opinions of southern whites regarding black people's oppression. It should've changed the views of white Americans, but it didn't stop the mob from murdering two other black men as a result of the heightened level of racial hatred. Racial hatred drove the white communities surrounding to create a vengeful mob that burned Sam Hose alive. DuBois's thoughts on the level of racist hate were changed due to Sam Hose's murder, Dubois understood how racism and hate had totally consumed many southern whites. DuBois also understood that until those flames of racial hatred of blacks by southern whites were extinguished, Blacks in the south faced white enemies that would continue to stain the soil of the land with the blood of many other Sam Hoses's.
So, today I ask that you listen closely to my reading of Chapter One, A Negro's Life Is a Ver Cheap Thing in Georgia. If we as a black community do not vigorously work to keep our history alive than we stand the chance that stories like the horrendous public murder of Sam Hose will be covered up by a blanket of our own ignorance. Our Black History is in many ways the untold stories of men such as Sam Hose who was not allowed his day of justice in this country. His justice was rendered by a mob who carried cans of kerosene to douse his body and knives to dismember his body parts on April 23, 1899.
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D-B baseball among the district tourney favorites
Douglas Fritz • May 1, 2019 at 10:01 PM
It’s all about the postseason in spring sports, and district tournament time is here.
It’s the first step toward what some teams are hoping will be a trip to Murfreesboro for the Spring Fling, which is scheduled for May 21-24.
Here’s a sport-by-sport look at what to expect for District 1 baseball, softball and soccer tournaments.
Dobyns-Bennett won the regular season, thanks in part to a clutch late-season sweep of Tennessee High.
The Indians have the best pitching depth to make it through the district, so they enter as the favorite. But this is a beast of a league with Science Hill, Daniel Boone and Tennessee High all carrying a threat to win the title.
Predicted winner: Dobyns-Bennett
Elizabethton raced through the regular season without a loss, and is the clear-cut favorite.
However, the Cyclones ran into hard times in recent losses against Class AAA foes Dobyns-Bennett and Daniel Boone. Nestled between those setbacks, an important rivalry win over Science Hill softened the blows.
Sullivan South and Sullivan East are the main threats to Elizabethton.
Predicted winner: Elizabethton
Like Elizabethton, University High was flawless record-wise in its league.
But the Buccaneers could potentially see a pair of aces — Unaka’s John Ramsey and Sullivan North’s Braydon Wilhoit — on the road toward a title.
Predicted winner: University High
Daniel Boone’s overall record of 41-6 gives it the look of invincibility, but the Lady Trailblazers have endured their share of tight battles en route to an 11-1 league mark.
This title is up for grabs between Boone and Science Hill while David Crockett and Dobyns-Bennnet are both capable of pulling a surprise.
Predicted winner: Daniel Boone
Unicoi County enjoyed a nice run through the regular season, and the Lady Blue Devils are primed for a strong district tournament.
Sullivan East is the sticking point, however. The Lady Patriots have enough offensive weaponry to change a game in a swing. And East will be playing on its home field.
Predicted winner: Unicoi County
It should be a dandy tournament with Cloudland sweeping Unaka, Unaka sweeping North Greene, and North Greene sweeping Cloudland in the regular season.
So there’s no clear-cut favorite.
Predicted winner: Unaka
Even though Science Hill stood strong and clipped Dobyns-Bennett to split their regular season series, the Indians are still a strong favorite to win this title.
As it has been for quite a few years, Greeneville is standing head and shoulders above the crowd — even though Elizabethton gave the Greene Devils a push in a 2-0 regular season decision.
Predicted winner: Greeneville
University High outscored its league opponents this season by a combined margin of 38-4. But a recent 3-2 win over Chuckey-Doak suggests the Buccaneers still have work to do.
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Knauf Fiber Glass USA was formed in 1978 when the Knauf family purchased an existing plant in Shelbyville, Indiana.
In 1983, the Shelbyville plant doubles its capacity.
Knauf opens a second plant in Lanett, Alabama to produce light-density insulation.
Knauf opens a third plant in Shelbyville, Indiana, to manufacture pipe insulation.
An additional production line is added to the Lanett plant, doubling its capacity.
Knauf acquires the European activities of Owens Corning through a joint venture with Alcopor.
Early 2002, a new plant in Shasta Lake, California starts production of light-density insulation. End of 2002, Knauf obtains full ownership over Alcopor thereby acquiring the majority of Owens Corning’s European activities. Company is renamed ‘Knauf Insulation’.
Knauf Fiber Glass USA becomes part of Knauf Insulation.
Mid 2005, Knauf Insulation purchases Vunizol, a Rock Mineral Wool factory in Surdulica (Serbia).
Early 2006, Knauf Insulation acquires Heraklith, a significant manufacturer of Rock Mineral Wool (6 plants) and Wood Wool (3 plants) and a major player in Central and Eastern Europe.
Mid 2007, a new Glass Mineral Wool plant in Stupino (Russia) starts production. In September 2007, a new production line for Rock Mineral Wool manufacture opens in Surdulica.
In Shelbyville, four production lines are completely rebuilt and the capacity expansion finishes early 2008. Mid 2008, Knauf Insulation acquires Manson Insulation (Canada).
Beginning of 2009, capacity extension with new product line (L3) dedicated to binderless mineral wool in Skofja Loka (Slovenia). Mid 2009, Knauf Insulation’s revolutionary ECOSE® Technology binder is rolled out across all Glass Mineral Wool production. Capacity extension with new Rock Mineral Wool production line in St. Egidien (Germany) in August 2009.
New Glass Mineral Wool plant in Lannemezan (France) starts up production.
Knauf Insulation acquires a Glass Mineral Wool plant in Eskisehir (Turkey) and another Glass Mineral Wool plant in Tyumen (Russia) to start production in 2012.
Visé-based plant becomes the largest glass wool manufacturing site in Europe thanks to the capacity increase.
Knauf Insulation acquires the glass wool business of SCHWENK Daemmtechnik GmbH & Co. Knauf Insulation signs the agreement with Exeed Industries LLC (Abu Dhabi UAE) to acquire a holding Exeed Insulation LLC operating as a joint venture under Knauf Insulation management. New Glass Mineral Wool plant in Tyumen (Russia) starts up production.
Knauf Insulation reopens its Lanett plant in Alabama (United States) Knauf Insulation completes acquisition of Guardian insulation.
Thies Knauf takes over as CEO of Knauf Insulation.
Jean-Claude Carlin appointed CEO of Knauf Insulation.
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Renn Tolman Honored
Here is the original design by Alaskan artist Dan Coe, printed for the 22nd annual Wooden Boat Festival. This design honors Homer's beloved boat-builder, Renn Tolman, who passed from among us in April, 2014, but who lives on in the thousands of people worldwide who have built Renn's Tolman skiff.
Dan's design struck a chord of sympathy and love among our members and supporters: our original order sold out completely and so did our second order. We are now taking orders for a third batch of T-shirts, hoodies, and denim aprons.
Quote by Mrs. Tolman
"The reason they mean so much is my late husband and my son built a Tolman skiff. My husband had seen one when we were in Homer and fell in love with the design. He ordered either a book or a set of plans and he and my son spent one winter building the skiff in our garage.
When we were finally able to take the boat down to Homer, we happened to run into Renn and he complimented them on the finished boat. The guys were thrilled.
My husband moved to the east coast when my son headed off to college and they had to sell the boat. He passed away a few years ago and my son took his ashes up to Homer, his favorite place. While he was there, he happened to be walking through the harbor and saw the boat. It brought back so many memories for him.
So when someone showed me a picture of the shirts, I just knew I had to get them.
There's a picture of his skiff on this website."
Wooden Boat Festival Movie
We're fortunate enough to have a wonderful little video of our Wooden Boat Festival and wanted to share the 'history' that comes along with it.
Jim Lavrakas, of Far North Jim Lavrakas Photography, created the original video and graciously allowed Debi Bodett to edit it. Local musician, Johnny B., picked up the ball and wrote a custom little tune to accompany.
Thank you all for your generous support of the Wooden Boat Festival!
Big Marketing Push
Two of our dedicated volunteers spearheaded a big push forward in developing marketing materials for the upcoming Holiday Nutcracker Faire, produced by the Homer Council on the Arts.
Lindianne Sarno and Tricia Caron worked together with Debi Bodett to design and create a rack card, membership card and display banner. It took a lot of team and effort to write and collect all of the information and photos to best represent the Wooden Boat Society.
Many thanks to Lindianne and Tricia for making it happen!
2013 Festival Wrap Up
At the 21st Wooden Boat Festival, to celebrate the Year of the Kayak, many traditions continued: Sea Chanteys, Tall Tales and Fisher Poets at the Salty Dawg, High Seas Movie Night, and two days of wooden boat show on the Homer Spit.
At High Seas Movie Night, Corey Freedman of the Skin Boat School in Anacortes, Washington delivered a fascinating talk on kayak design. The Wooden Boat Society remembered Norm Griffin and honored George Hamm.
Thanks to Kevin Dee and Corey Freedman, many kayaks and an umiak were on display at the boat show. Thanks to John Miles and Pat Ladd, hundreds of toy boat hulls were transformed by kids into colorful boatlets. Quite a few people got out on the Bay to row boats and paddle kayaks.
T-shirts and hoodies were sold featuring the exciting logo by the Lind sisters, Three Kayaks. New members joined, old members renewed, and old friendships continued. Auction night at Alice's Champagne Palace was a great success, thanks to Tricia Caron and Trish Lillibridge. A beautiful ad in the Homer News thanked the many participants and supporters who made this festival happen.
Following the Festival, the Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Society voted to open a temporary headquarters in downtown Homer, at 158 West Pioneer Avenue. The phone number is 235-BOAT (235-2628) and visitors are welcome.
2014 will be the year of Build Your Own Boat. Stay turned for educational developments designed to offer the hundreds of Homer Youth who have built toy boats an opportunity to build real boats!
2013 Festival Artwork
This year’s exciting T-shirt art, “The Three Kayakers”, was drawn for the Wooden Boat Festival by Chelsea and Marissa Lind. The Lind sisters, 16-year-old twins, have been drawing since the age of 7; they joined the family artwork business at age 11. The Lind twins are proud to bridge from their Aleut and Alutiiq family heritage to the modern art world. “The Three Kayakers” will be available on T-shirts, hoodies, and denim aprons.
Festival 2012: "In The Books"
The 20th Annual Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Festival is in the books, and it sure was memorable! Our Thursday night we swarmed the Dawg with song and some incredible stories of seafaring derring-do, and some shoreside high jinks as well. Meezie Hermansen represented the fisher poets, our own Bumppo, Dan VeerHeusen, Findlay Abbott, and Olga Von Ziegesar entertained us with stories of old Homer, and the Rubber Bootleggers sang at their very best.
Friday night Glenn Caldwell stole the show with his raconterial skill. We owe him a lot for getting the whole Festival idea off the ground in the first place, back in 1992. He was followed be a wonderful movie, “Charlotte,” about the Gannon and Benjamin yard back east at Marblehead, a little burg reminiscent of Homer, where the whole town turns out for a launching. We still have copies for sale at the very reasonable price of $25.
Saturday the usual swarms of kids were hammering and painting and drying their boats on the big stove. Norm Griffin showed up and beamed at the fuss made over him. He’s done so much for us and others in his quiet steady way. We had net mending with Jim James, and bronze casting with Dan Young and Leo Vait. Good show, gentlemen! Dan is a steam guy and machinist, and Leo can do anything artistic. Saturday evening brought the sunshine, and our auction suffered significantly, but those who were there made out like bandits, yours truly included (I bought the wineglass wherry kit for $700 eat your hearts out!) My heart was sinking when our intrepid auctioneer Bumppo looked around at the (lack of) crowd and said, “OK, there’s gonna be some deals tonight! Later, the Rogues and Wenches pulled in a good crowd and we danced til we dropped. Great Show!
Sunday more sunny weather at the festival site on the Spit. Our hot dog guy from up the road was very popular. I had dogs for breakfast and lunch. The Smolt, Bristol Bay double ender from Seldovia, floated beautifully just off shore, unfortunately unavailable for rides due to a funny combination of falling tide on a flat beach and an onshore chop. Lots of nice boats were represented, and the canoes of Norm Griffin (supposedly his last boat, ya sure!) and Dave Brann’s Old Town got lots of conversation and accolades. Renn Tolman was his inimitable self, Ryjil Christianson did Ted Pedersen’s Whaleboat proud, and we had everything wrapped up by 9pm, for a last drink at the Dawg with those lucky enough to last that long. John Miles and Cam Forbes went beyond the call of duty towing the Smolt back to Seldovia the next day.
The 20th Annual Wooden Boat Festival, held in the unpredictable weather of a late September weekend, was a success! Participants carried on through some blustery, rainy first days, and were rewarded with a gorgeous Sunday to close out the Festival.
– Dave Seaman
The 20th annual Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Festival is here in a month. All the pieces in play for months now come together on the 6, 7, 8, and 9th of September. We’ve got a great festival planned for our 20th celebration. We’re honoring the 73’ M/V “Waters,” which, like the Boat Society itself, has had its ups and downs over the years. She was built for the army by Stephens Brothers in Stockton, CA in 1943 of 2 ½” Douglas Fir planking over bent oak frames.
Her original designation was USA ST (small tug) 413. After the war she was transferred to the Federal Aviation Agency, renamed the Fedair III, and survived sitting for 5 years, and through a succession of owners, until being purchased by John Rogers and converted for charters and bear watching tours. She has great tugboat lines and has warm and comfortable accommodations. We are planning to have her open for tours. More info at the Festival.
Our New Festival Dates
This year represents a big change for the Wooden Boat crew, the most noticeable of which is the move to holding the Festival in September instead of in May, as in years past. The change was made for a variety of reasons, but the most important one has to do with trying to reach more of the community by holding the Festival at a time when more people want to come out.
In the past, when more of us were actively engaged in commercial fishing ventures, it made sense to have an early spring party before salmon season began. Even now, one of the things we’ll miss about the May Festival is that sense of emerging from winter and kicking off the year on the water. However, we’ve had to admit that as much as we love the light in May, the weather has often left a lot to be desired. Many are the tales of huddling around the giant wood stove at one end of the tent while marveling at how much fun could be had in a thirty knot breeze...
With the passage of time, though, we’ve found that there’s something to be said for the warmer days of late summer, and the hope is that by moving the Festival to the weekend after Labor Day, we’ll keep the “local” feeling intact and have a chance at some summer weather as well, and the greater turnout that such weather could bring. The Pederson Rowboat races are just more fun when we can hold them in nicer weather (despite claims by some that tiny boats in six foot seas are what really separate the water rats from the lubbers!)
Fear not, though, we’ll still have that giant woodstove out and roaring. Some things are just too good to change. Have a great summer, and we’ll see you in the fall.
KBWBS Looks For A Home Ashore
Since its inception in 1992, the Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Festival has depended on living rooms, barns, yurts and yards to house its meetings, materials, vessels and supplies. While we’ve had a fine time and many potluck dinners, we’ve realized that our organization has outgrown its britches.
As a result, the KBWBS has begun the process of applying to the City of Homer to lease a small parcel on the Homer Spit to serve as a focus for our activities. After meeting with folks from the Harbor and City, we decided that the best location for us would be down by the Fishing Hole, by the Pier One Theater, where we can access the beach and be slightly out of the way of the daily bustle on the Spit.
Our plan is to erect a small structure there that can shelter our increasing collection of vessels, and also provide a location for the small boat construction and restoration classes that we’ve always dreamed of offering to the community of Homer.
We’re going to need help to make it happen, though, and you can be a part of that by becoming a member. Click on the link above to learn more about membership in your local Wooden Boat Society; it doesn’t take much, and it helps a lot. Thanks!
Bristol Bay Double Ender Restoration
Right: Marge Randlett and her daughter, Eric Pullman of the Pratt Museum, Larry Dunn, Clint Lillibridge, Dave Seaman, Bradley Dunn, and Dick Dunn at the Pratt Museum’s Bristol Bay Double Ender restoration site behind the museum. KBWBS President Dave Seaman of Seaman Boats will be leading the restoration over the summer of 2010, in conjunction with the Pratt Museum’s summer Double Ender exhibit. The boat hails most recently from Kodiak, where it resided for upwards of thirty five years. The KBWBS and the Pratt will be working this summer to fill in the blanks in the history of this iconic vessel. Stop by and check it out!
Dave Seaman, founder, is one of the many volunteer contributors to the KBWBS blog.
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Mandela Fellows tour Herbert Hoover Museum in West Branch
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Posted: Sat 4:12 PM, Jul 06, 2019 |
Updated: Sat 6:47 PM, Jul 06, 2019
WEST BRANCH, Iowa (KCRG) Twenty-five entrepreneurs from more than 20 countries in Africa toured the Herbert Hoover Historic Site in West Branch Saturday
The group is part of the Mandela Fellows program.
The University of Iowa sponsors the program, which receives federal funding.
The fellows spend six weeks at UI, taking online courses. They'll take the information to start their own businesses.
Fellows tell TV9 that Iowans are very welcoming and they enjoy learning about the Midwest culture.
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FAA nominee OK'd retaliation against pilot whistleblower, lawsuit says
A Senate committee is investigating President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, Stephen Dickson , for his involvement in a case in which a Delta Air Lines pilot alleged the company retaliated against her -- including sending her to a psychiatrist -- after she shared safety concerns with him.
The case, which has not been previously reported, involves Dickson's time as a senior vice president at Delta Air Lines and a Delta pilot who argues the company retaliated against her after she met with him in 2016.
Dickson did not disclose the case on his nomination questionnaire to the Senate Commerce Committee.
As Delta's then-head of flight operations, Dickson approved sending the pilot, Karlene Petitt, to a psychiatrist weeks after she gave him and another flight operations manager a report that listed what she described as FAA violations by Delta, according to documents.
The psychiatrist diagnosed Petitt with bipolar disorder and the company grounded her for more than a year. Two subsequent examinations found that she does not have that disorder, and she is currently flying for Delta.
Petitt is suing Delta in a Department of Labor administrative case that remains pending.
In a deposition, Dickson said he had ultimate responsibility over the decision to refer Petitt for a mental evaluation and called it a "sound course of action." Dickson retired from Delta last year.
Petitt's attorney, Lee Seham, told that CNN Dickson allowed what amounted to retaliation against his client.
"This was all a terrible mistake, but it was a terrible mistake that went on for a year and a half because of the lack of diligence that Captain Dickson accepted," Seham said.
Commerce committee staffers are currently examining the case, which they learned of after Dickson's confirmation hearing on May 15, according to two committee aides.
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"Since holding the nomination hearing with Mr. Dickson, new information has come to the committee's attention that merits further examination. The committee has been reviewing this information and I have asked the Department of Transportation and the White House to do the same," said Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, the committee's chairman.
A Democratic committee aide described the case as concerning, particularly because it was omitted from Dickson's questionnaire.
CNN made repeated attempts to contact Dickson but could not reach him for comment. The White House has not responded to request for comments.
On his Senate questionnaire , Dickson stated, "During my Delta employment, from time to time and in the ordinary course of business, Delta was involved in various judicial, administrative or regulatory proceedings relating to its business, although I was not a named party in any such actions."
On another section that asked for "additional information, favorable or unfavorable, which you feel should be disclosed in connection with your nomination," Dickson responded: "None."
Delta denies that the company retaliated against Petitt by referring her to a medical examination after she raised concerns.
"Our utmost responsibility is to provide safe and secure travel for our customers and our employees. The very core of our safety program is employee reporting. Every single Delta employee is encouraged and empowered to report potential concerns and we do not tolerate retaliation against employees who raise concerns," Delta spokesperson Catherine Simmons said.
Dickson, who is poised to lead the FAA in the midst of controversy surrounding the agency's prior certification of the Boeing 737 Max, has decades of aviation experience as a former Air Force and Delta pilot who became a senior Delta manager responsible for flight safety and pilot training until his retirement last year.
Initial complaint and bipolar-disorder diagnosis
Petitt's ordeal began more than three years ago when she compiled a list of concerns about Delta. In addition to being a pilot for decades, Petitt has a PhD in aviation.
Petitt had witnessed a variety of events and practices involving Delta employees, training and scheduling practices that she believed violated FAA standards.
She compiled her concerns into a report that described "numerous areas where safety culture and ... compliance conflict with the FAA's (2013) outlined requirements and the airline's core values," which she presented to Dickson and Delta's then-vice president of flying operations, Jim Graham, in January 2016.
In a deposition, Petitt said that Dickson said during that meeting, "Some people like to sit in the back of the room and throw spit wads," which she interpreted as dismissive of her claims. Dickson said in a deposition he did not remember making that statement.
A Delta employee-relations manager then conducted an interview with Petitt in March 2016 about some of her claims, during which Petitt became frustrated, and her eyes filled with tears, according to her attorney. That manager reported that Petitt believed "something bad eventually will happen either to her or to a Delta flight," according to documents.
Graham held a teleconference with that manager and others and decided to ground Petitt and mandate that she receive a psychiatric evaluation, with Dickson's approval, according to court documents and Petitt's attorney.
The mental health evaluation by a Delta-hired psychiatrist resulted in Petitt's bipolar-disorder diagnosis, which rendered her unable to fly.
During this time, the FAA sent Petitt a letter in September 2016 that notified her an investigation had substantiated one of her safety concerns. The FAA determined Delta had failed to count employee "deadheading," where the airline provides an employee with a flight to another location, as flight time for computing daily and weekly flight limits, which Petitt said could affect pilot fatigue. The FAA did not substantiate three of her other allegations.
While Petitt remained grounded, a panel of doctors from the Mayo Clinic rejected Delta's psychiatric evaluation. Due to the disagreement, Delta's psychiatrist and the Mayo Clinic doctors selected a neutral medical examiner who in turn determined Petitt was medically fit. She began flying for Delta again in 2017.
Petitt's attorney Seham said he has no doubt that the decision to ground Petitt, overseen by Dickson, was linked to the safety report she shared, which he said amounts to retaliation by Delta and sends a troubling message to the company's pilots.
"What's the impact of safety in terms of the message to 12,000 pilots that after you submit a safety report you're off to a psychiatrist?" Seham said. "Captain Dickson did nothing in terms of stopping what happened."
Seham added that he questions the thoroughness with which Dickson and Delta as a whole investigated Petitt's safety concerns.
During a deposition, Dickson said he took Petitt's safety allegations "very seriously" and that he appointed his colleague Graham to follow-up and oversee a review of her claims.
Dickson also said that his meeting with Petitt served as a catalyst for a company safety audit, though when asked during that deposition about specific determinations reached on some of Petitt's claims, Dickson said he did not remember or was not aware.
Delta said a third-party auditor reviewed the company's safety processes in 2016 and provided positive feedback, and that the issue raised by Petitt of not properly counting deadhead time toward flight limits had been addressed and corrected by the time the FAA investigated it.
A senior White House adviser tells CNN that Dickson has been cooperating with the committee.
"President Trump chose Steve Dickson to head the FAA because of his almost three decades of experience at Delta where he oversaw global flight operations," White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement. "The White House has complete confidence in his nomination and expects him to be confirmed."
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I Am Not Your Slave
by Tupa with Chris Lockhart Tjipombo
Lawrence Hill. Jan. 2020. 256p. ISBN 9781641602372. $27.99;. MEMOIR
Tjipombo (a pseudonym) relates her experience of being abducted and caught up in a complex human trafficking network and brutally, repeatedly raped as she was moved from her home to Dubai, where a wealthy man who “collected” beautiful girls from around the world had “ordered” a girl from the Himba tribe in Namibia. Tjipombo, at age 16, was forced to work in his household as a maid by day and a sex slave by night. Her tale of 21st-century slavery puts a shocking face to dry statistics. Tjipombo tells how her well-to-do “owner” in Dubai shared her “services” with other wealthy men from around the world, including an American man who worked for the United Nations World Food Programme. She makes clear that her searing story is not unique; her fate was shared by countless other girls who had no hope of escape. Only courage and rare luck allowed Tjipombo to get away and share her story, which will haunt readers.
VERDICT For readers who wish to understand more fully the grim reality of human trafficking.
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The House The NBN Forgot
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When the NBN rollout accidentally skipped Martin Bugeja's house, his ADSL was cut off and he was told he'd have no home phone or broadband for almost a year; all because no-one could sort out the paperwork.
Bugeja's broadband saga actually began back in 2013, when the paperwork for his TPG ADSL service in suburban Sydney mixed up the street name meaning his house didn't appear on Telstra's maps. This meant his home was overlooked this year when the NBN came down his street connecting premises to HFC cable.
Meanwhile, Bugeja received several warnings in the mail that his home phone and ADSL broadband would be cut off at the end of July, because the other address — where Telstra and NBN Co mistakenly believed he lived — was reaching the end of its 18-month migration window.
TPG repeatedly assured Bugeja that his connection was safe and the incorrect address had been fixed. But, come the end of July, his line went dead.
"You don’t know whether to laugh or cry when you find out that others think your home doesn’t exist," Bugeja says. "I estimate I've burned two full weeks of my time trying to sort this out over the last 18 months.
"TPG could not get our address correct despite many calls and emails and also providing physical proof multiple times, with utility bills, that we actually lived at our address."
At this point, TPG asked Telstra Wholesale to reconnect Bugeja's phone line and ADSL service. It refused, incorrectly insisting his home had reached the end of its 18-month migration window and couldn't be reconnected due to "Cease Sale" rules.
Bugeja was told he'd need to live with no home phone or broadband until July 2020, when the NBN could come back to connect his home to HFC cable.
Bugeja's pleas to TPG, Telstra Wholesale, the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman and even his local Member of Parliament failed to resolve the issue, each insisting that nothing could be done and he would need to spend 12 months in broadband limbo. All because the rollout map marked his house in the wrong street.
The decision to leave Bugeja with no home phone or broadband went against NBN's Service Continuity Standard. Introduced last year to break the Cease Sale Catch-22, it forces telcos to reconnect Australians to their old broadband service or mobile broadband within days if a home is disconnected by accident or an NBN installation goes wrong.
The Service Continuity Standard was introduced in part due to Telstra Wholesale's history of refusing to reconnect legacy broadband services, despite requests from retail providers like TPG and pressure from the ACCC.
Bugeja is far from the only Australian still languishing in Kafkaesque broadband limbo but, as is often the case, his unsolvable broadband problems quickly became solvable after he contacted the The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald at the end of August.
Within days of media enquiries into Bugeja's case, Telstra Wholesale had agreed to reconnect his home phone and ADSL service. Meanwhile, NBN managed to bring forward his HFC connection to October instead of next July.
With the NBN now only a few weeks away, instead of almost 12 months, Bugeja has decided to live without ADSL for a few more weeks and wait for the NBN to be connected.
As for who is to blame for his plight, Telstra Wholesale initially blamed Bugeja, insisting he didn't "raise the appropriate form" for his home to be acknowledged as a serviceable site.
Telstra Wholesale then shifted the blame to TPG, saying it failed to advise Telstra Wholesale of the reconnection request and follow the correct reconnection process.
Meanwhile, TPG blames Telstra Wholesale for failing to update its records with Bugeja's correct address. NBN relies on Telstra's records when rolling out the network, which is why it overlooked Bugeja's home when it went down his street and connected his neighbours to HFC cable.
Wherever the fault lies, Bugeja says that Australians are sick of the "NBN blame game" and that no-one deserves to be abandoned in limbo for 12 months.
"This whole process has been absolutely crazy and has left me exasperated and wanting to tear out my hair," he says.
"It's just left me thinking what a joke this whole process is, and that everyone involved would rather blame someone else than admit they screwed up and actually help you."
This article originally appeared in Digital Life, The Sydney Morning Herald's home for everything technology. Follow Digital Life on Facebook and Twitter.
spod12 @spod12
The fault lies with the Australian work ethic generally. Most Aussies do just enough to not get them fired, the bare minimum, and they just don't really care if they do their jobs properly or who suffers if they don't.
Hairy Drumroll @hairydrumroll
Sep 25, 2019, 1:22pm
"Most Aussies", except you of course.
NihlusGreen @nihlusgreen
Anyone who has been a customer of Telstra knows whom to blame.
qurious @qurious
And they get really nasty when that is shown to be the case.
Ahhh ... our "beloved convict country" ... the land of no worries, mate.
kene @kene
A similar thing happened to me when my home was left of the property database. The result was that couriers would not deliver, returning the goods to the sender. All they had to do was drive down the street and the house would have been obvious.
no-nbn-for-us Guest
The national broadband notwork: fibre -to-the-nothing.
My elderly parents are ailing and rely on the home phone. They were told the NBN was ready and warned that the adsl would soon be switched off. TPG signed them up to NBN50 home phone bundle, mailed out a modem, and sent a technician who installed a wall socket but refused to actually plug the modem in and check that the internet and phone were working. They weren't. None of the computer savvy members of our family could get the modem to work, however it still had a light indicating it was syncing to adsl. TPG refused to believe us and sent another technician to see if we had plugged the modem in correctly, which we had. The technician tells TPG that there is no NBN signal on the line. TPG refuses to believe it and a week later two NBN technicians arrive and again confirm there is no VDSL/NBN connection at all. Fully two weeks later somebody claiming to be the "head of engineering" at TPG suggests we try plugging in the old modem. Seriously? TPG did not even realise that adsl and vdsl does not co-exist in the same line. TPG offers a temporary username and password for the adsl to get the internet working for 3 days at a time, but does not reconnect the home phone and refuses to provision the VOIP to work with the adsl connection. All questions to TPG and NBN CO were outright ignored. The ombudsman was made aware of the situation and during a phone call with my father 2 weeks later proceeded to look at a computer screen and say the same thing every telco says: "oh I see you have NBN connected". No amount of emailing or calling made any difference. We were in an endless loop, no way forward and no way back. Nobody we spoke to or contacted over a six week period would acknowledge that NBN's database was wrong. No telco could hook us up, invariably looking at their computer screens and saying "I see you have NBN available". And when any of them appeared to consider the possibility that this information might actually be incorrect, proceeded to say "you can't go back from NBN". So we can't go back to adsl from a non existent NBN even though adsl is still syncing and thus was not disconnected? I explicitly asked NBN co to remove the erroneous information as it was preventing us from signing up with another telco. NBN co are not contactable, and the ombudsman only takes complaints from retail service providers.
We are in a situation where the NBN was rolled out but missed my parents address, and there is no process by which the problem can be resolved. TPG refused to provision VOIP, restore the adsl or offer a backup service via my father's mobile phone which is with TPG. Telstra refused to honour their service guarantee and reconnect the home phone, again using the excuse of nbn "rules" which prevent them from activating the phone.
After six weeks of unfathomable incompetence we gave up, cancelled the TPG NBN contract and bought a "home wireless" broadband service and a VOIP box. Then we find that we cannot port the old phone number which has been active for twenty years, as TPG threw it in the bin. We are told that to "port" a phone number one must have an "active" account, and that in spite of the fact that quarantining of phone numbers is for the very situation we are in, apparently no process exists for retrieving the number from quarantine. TPG and telstra, both with no knowledge of what obtaining this number actually means in terms of actual work, offer a workaround whereby we buy a home phone service from them, even though it will not be connected, so they can port the number. But although they wanted us to pretend to connect the service just to get the number, they didn't want us to pretend to pay for it of course.
What is the root cause of all of this? The lack of work ethics is definitely a part of it. There is a culture in this industry and perhaps others as well whereby workers are behaving like robots, fundamentally unable to think outside of or respond to issues within the system they are administering. Instead of noticing and acknowledging that the problem cannot be resolved by clicking on a screen and escalating the complaint to somebody with the authority to act, there simply is no no responsible person or group of people in the entire industry. Nobody cares.
I have learnt a lot from this clown show about human nature, and the lengths people will go to to simply get out of doing anything difficult. People will lie through their teeth and burn you if your circumstance represents a headache for them.
Cec R Guest
There are already 1,368,208 Service Class 0 premises... Class 0 SC10 (FTTN/B), SC20 (HFC) and SC30 (FTTC) is to difficult / Requires additional work / Sorry, we forgot, didn't know you existed... add to that the congested Fixed Wireless network and those over 400mt from a Node and the Abbott / Turnbull government have wasted $51 Billion of our money...
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Sexual identity, orientation school policy defamation case dismissed
Defence relied on past Fraser Valley case where Supreme Court of Canada expanded fair comment
Jeremy Hainsworth / Glacier Media
Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld
Photograph By Barry Neufeld via Facebook
Former BCTF president Glen Hansman
Photograph By File photo, Dan Toulgoet
A Chilliwack school trustee’s defamation case against a former B.C. Teachers’ Federation president over B.C.’s sexual orientation education policies has been dismissed in the interests of promoting public debate.
“The defence of fair comment is valid,” Justice Alan Ross said.
The case brought by trustee Barry Neufeld against BCTF former president Glen Hansman is the first case heard under B.C.’s new Protection of Public Participation Act. It’s designed to foster public interest discussion without fear of so-called Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation, or “SLAPP” suits.
“The public has an interest in protecting expressions that relate to public debate. In balancing those interests, I find that the interest in public debate outweighs the interest in continuing the proceeding on these facts,” Ross said in his Nov. 26 ruling.
The B.C. Supreme Court case involved statements Hansman made in response to Neufeld’s Facebook comments about provincial sexual orientation and gender identity policy.
“The materials were drafted with the stated goal of having age-appropriate tools for teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity [SOGI] available for teachers of children in Kindergarten through Grade 12,” Ross said.
On Oct. 17, 2017, Neufeld said on Facebook that SOGI was “a weapon of propaganda to infuse every subject matter from K-12 with the latest fad: Gender theory. “
He said the program instructs children gender is not biologically determined, but, rather, a social construct.
“At the risk of being labeled a bigoted homophobe, I have to say that I support traditional family values and I agree with the College of paediatricians (sic) that allowing little children choose to change gender is nothing short of child abuse. But now the B.C. Ministry of Education had embraced the LGBTQ lobby and is forcing this biologically absurd theory on children in our schools. Children are being taught that heterosexual marriages is no longer the norm. Teachers must not refer to “boys and girls”; they are merely students. They cannot refer to mothers and fathers either.”
The SOGI debate continued into the 2018 election, where Neufeld was re-elected as a trustee.
The post received widespread media coverage, with Hansman, a gay man, offering comment as BCTF president.
Former BCTF president Glen Hansman - File photo, Dan Toulgoet
The ruling said Hansman said Neufeld should step down or be removed, that some educators promote hatred, that Neufeld’s comments were bigoted or transphobic and “tip-toed quite far into hate speech” and that Neufeld shouldn’t be “anywhere near students.”
Neufeld said Hansman suggested he was allowing his religious views to affect his role as an elected official in a secular school system, the ruling said.
On Oct. 25, 2017, Neufeld issued a press release saying, “I want to apologize to those who felt hurt by my opinion, including members of the Chilliwack Board of Education … I am critical of an educational resource, not individuals.”
A month later, he spoke at a rally organized by a group called Culture Guard, a Fraser Valley Group operated by social conservative activist Kari Simpson opposed to any positive portrayal of a gay lifestyle. The group has organized other anti-SOGI events.
B.C. Supreme Court in 2004 dismissed a defamation act by Simpson against radio host Rafe Mair. The Supreme Court of Canada upheld a finding for Mair and expanded the definition of fair comment.
That court said Mair compared the implications of Simpson’s speech to that of Hitler against the Jews, or Governor George Wallace against the integration of schools.
Ross said the cases were similar.
“The nature of the public debate, the allegations of defamatory meaning, the employment of the defence of fair comment and the discussion of malice are very similar to the allegations in this case,” Ross said.
And, he said, Neufeld presented no evidence arguing against a fair-comment defence.
Controversy around Neufeld continued. In January 2018, the Chilliwack School Board and Ministry of Education requested he resign. He did not.
The teachers’ federation soon filed a human rights complaint against Neufeld.
Neufeld began to claim there was a smear campaign against him, citing involvement by transgender activist Morgane Oger and current Minister of Education Rob Fleming.
Hansman admitted some of his statements could be defamatory. But, he argued, Neufeld had been re-elected and that the trustee had failed to provide evidence of damage.
Neufeld claimed hearing the case under the new act would have the effect of sweeping an issue of public debate under the rug.
Ross disagreed.
“The purpose of his action should be the restoration of his reputation and the quest for damages from the defendant,” Ross said. “He should not be seeking further publicity or public debate by way of this action when he alleges that his reputation has been damaged by the defendant’s statements. “
Ross also noted defamation action shifts the onus in a case. The plaintiff does not have to prove harm alleged. Rather, the defendant has to prove the words were based on truth.
And, Hansman argued the points Canada’s top court found in the Mair-Simpson case: comments must be on a matter of public interest; be based on fact; must be recognisable as comment; must be an honest expression on proved facts and must be absent of malice.
Indeed, Ross said, “The plaintiff himself noted that, by posting his opinion, he risked being ‘labeled a bigoted homophobe.’ Hence, it is difficult, if not impossible, for him to argue that there was no factual basis for Mr. Hansman’s comments. The same reasoning also applies to the requirement that any person could honestly express the same opinion.”
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Home Financial Services Exchanges SIX Exchange Regulation appoints new heads of trading supervision and issuer regulation
SIX Exchange Regulation appoints new heads of trading supervision and issuer regulation
Exchanges April 5, 2017 —by Valentina Kirilova 0
The Board of Directors of SIX has selected Sabir Sheikh to head up issuer regulation and Jared Bibler to be in charge of trading supervision at SIX Exchange Regulation. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has approved the selection. This means that the Management Committee of SIX Exchange Regulation, led by Corinne Riguzzi, is now fully staffed.
SIX Exchange Regulation is responsible for trading oversight and issuer regulation at all trading venues of SIX. It thereby fulfills the regulatory responsibilities delegated to it by Swiss legislators under the self-regulation regime. SIX Exchange Regulation is independent of the trading venues it regulates both in terms of staff and organizationally. It reports directly to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of SIX.
SIX Exchange Regulation comprises two units: Listing & Enforcement (regulation and monitoring of issuers) and Surveillance & Enforcement (regulation and monitoring of participants and dealers).
Sabir Sheikh has been appointed as Head Listing & Enforcement. Aged 44, Mr Sheikh is a Swiss lawyer and has an LL.M. in Banking and Finance Law (King’s College, London). Most recently he worked for nine years at UBS AG in Asset Management, where he led a team of specialized lawyers as Head Legal from 2012. Prior to that, he spent seven years working as a lawyer at a Zurich law firm.
Jared Bibler
Jared Bibler has been appointed as Head Surveillance & Enforcement. Mr Bibler, aged 43 and from Iceland, is a CFA Charterholder and also studied engineering at MIT. From 2009 to 2012 he worked for the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority and the Icelandic Office of the Special Prosecutor, where he led investigations in connection with Iceland’s banking crisis. He subsequently worked for Deloitte Forensic in Zurich.
Dr Romeo Lacher, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SIX, commented:
SIX Exchange Regulation makes an important contribution to ensuring the integrity of the Swiss financial sector. It also plays a key role in the implementation of new financial market regulations. I am delighted that we have two experienced experts on board who will be able to bring their skills to bear on forthcoming projects to the benefit of the Swiss financial industry and of its participants.
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Revealed: how criminals are getting away with thousands of crimes in Leicestershire
Home Office figures show suspects were not found in 84 per cent of house break-ins
Ciaran FaganCrime Correspondent
Leicestershire Police is shelving thousands of investigations – more than 80 per cent for some crimes – because efforts to trace suspects led nowhere.
Home Office figures for the 12 months to March this year, show the force closed inquiries without identifying a suspect in 84 per cent of house burglaries, 70 per cent of vehicle thefts and 63 per cent of shoplifting cases.
The decisions to end inquiries were reached in the absence of evidence such as witness statements, CCTV footage or forensic clues.
A senior detective said the decisions were never ‘taken lightly’.
Police shelved investigations in 84 per cent of domestic burglary cases (Image: Getty)
Cases are reopened if fresh information comes to light, the force said.
Earlier this year, Leicestershire Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, warned that the smaller force was struggling to cope with rising crime levels.
The force has made budget savings and cuts of more than £38 million and lost more than 500 officers since 2009.
Now, fewer than 1,800 officers police the city and county, whereas at its height, the force employed more than 2,300 officers.
The 44 forces of England and Wales logged 106,334 reports of vehicle theft in 2017/18, the highest tally for an equivalent period since 2009/10, according to research by the Press Association.
On average, no suspects were identified in 77 per cent of cases.
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Nationally, the number of recorded shoplifting offences was 382,100 – the highest for a year since new recording practices were introduced in 2002.
Suspects were not identified in 47 per cent of investigations.
Across all forces, 81 per cent of the 249,235 recorded residential burglaries were closed without a suspect being identified.
Commenting on the national picture, Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Commons Home Affairs committee, said: “Too many investigations are closing without suspects being identified and we are hearing increasing reports of the police being too overstretched to investigate.
“Police forces are under immense pressure with rising serious and violent crime and changing patterns of crime alongside cuts in the numbers of officers and PCSOs.
“These figures suggest that investigations into volume crimes are now being hit.
“Failing to identify suspects gives criminals a green light to reoffend.”
Leicestershire Police was not able to identify a suspect in almost two-thirds of shoplifting cases (Image: Matt Short)
Alex Mayes, of charity Victim Support, said: “News like this could undermine confidence in the criminal justice system and prevent people reporting in the future.”
RAC Insurance spokesman Simon Williams said: “The fact fewer suspects are being identified is very worrying and no doubt a symptom of the declining number of police officers and the resulting reduction in time that can be dedicated to investigating these crimes.”
Detective chief inspector Chris Baker, of Leicestershire Police, said: “Each and every report of crime is reviewed by an investigator and an assessment made of the harm caused to the victim, the risk of further offending and threat posed by an offender in order to focus our resources appropriately and proportionately.
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“The decision to classify a crime with the outcome of ‘no suspect identified’ is not taken lightly and is only reached after an assessment is made of proportionate lines of enquiry based on objective solvability factors, the individual circumstances of the victim and the motivation for the offending.
“Leicestershire Police has a state-of-the-art crime and intelligence system which is capable of searching across hundreds of thousands of similar crimes from across the East Midlands to look for clues.
“All crimes are offered this search opportunity on an ongoing basis.
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"Significant focus is then given to working with a range of partner agencies and the communities to prevent and design out opportunities for crime to be committed.”
Deputy Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman, National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for acquisitive crime, said increased demand and fewer officer numbers have led to forces prioritising cases with a realistic prospect of prosecution.
She added: “Police investigate all cases of theft, burglary and shoplifting.
“Particularly for these types of offences, police focus on targeting prolific offenders, organised crime networks, and ensuring prevention measures by homeowners and businesses are in place.”
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A Home Office spokesman said: “We expect the police to take all reports of crime seriously, to investigate and to bring the offenders to court so that they can receive appropriate punishment.
“However we recognise that crime is changing and police demand is becoming increasingly complex.
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“That is why we have provided a strong and comprehensive £13 billion funding settlement to ensure the police have the resources they need to carry out their vital work.
“The Government remains alert to changes in trends and new methods used by criminals – and we will continue to work with the police, industry and others to consider the evidence and what more can be done to prevent these crimes taking place.”
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Sonic Breakdown
Sonic Breakdown: The Captain The Ship —
‘Drive to Hamilton Lake’
By Tyrel Kessinger
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from an area musician or band.]
Mickey Osthimer, the mastermind behind the indie folk project The Captain The Ship, knows that sometimes nostalgia has a dark side.
“‘Drive To Hamilton Lake’ is a story of someone failing to happily reminisce about an innocent and joyous time in their childhood,” Osthimer said.
While Osthimer fondly remembers the car rides his parents and brother used to take to an Ohio cottage and the natural beauty that surrounded that place, those memories also make him think about the religious values he’s separated himself from, as well as the government’s problematic attitude toward climate change.
“Naturally, things change,” he said. “I’ve since distanced myself from the evangelical influences that saturated many environments of my childhood. Having spent most of my childhood outdoors and developing a bond with the environment, I loathe all the destruction we’re seeing. And the inaction of those in power and the digital smoke-screen we use to communicate with each other. I initially didn’t intend for such a politically-driven aspect of the song to take shape but it seems to me that creating art within the last few years practically demands it.”
“Drive To Hamilton Lake” is a smooth song laden with haunting guitars and punchy backbone that drives the song (which, as the song title suggests, is exactly the point). Though it boasts a traditional structure, Osthimer surprises us with some unexpected vocal melodies in his aching, longing croon that could easily share a sonic shelf with early 2000s bands such as The Thrills or The Stills.
“Early on, the song was intended to be heavier,” he said. “At the same time, it was also never intended to sonically punch the listener in the face. When it got into the studio, my producer suggested toning back a number of moments and crafting the vibe of driving. It clicked that I had been forcing it a bit too much all along. Most of the song’s better elements, musically speaking at least, were made in that room.”
Fittingly, the song begins with the sound of an automobile starting up, which is something that Osthimer originally found overly literal.
“I told myself I absolutely would not include the sound of a car starting,” he said. “It just seemed too cheesy. But we recorded the acoustic guitar at the beginning of the song on a tape deck and found it kind of difficult to start on the first downbeat because we never did a count-in, and it reminded me how my car only plays cassettes and often won’t start a side at the beginning of the first track. So, we recorded the sound of my car starting. I’ve simply come to learn to appreciate the little things in life.” •
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Is (present) Torah like the Qur'an?
نشرت بواسطة: Waqar Akbar Cheema 1:45 AM في 28 48-49 , challenge , Previous Scriptures , produce , Quran , surah 28 , Torah , verse 48 49 1 تعليق واحد
Sam Shamoun and Jochen Katz in an article allude to the Qur’anic challenge about Torah in Surah 28 verses 48-49 and allege that it concludes, ’Torah (as it was readily available at Muhammad's time) is equal to the Quran in value of guidance and "is like it"’
The verses:
Here are the two verses;
“But (now), when the Truth has come to them from Ourselves, they say, "Why are not (Signs) sent to him, like those which were sent to Moses?" Do they not then reject (the Signs) which were formerly sent to Moses? They say: "Two kinds of sorcery, each assisting the other!" And they say: "For us, we reject all (such things)!" Say: "Then bring ye a Book from Allah, which is a better guide than either of them, that I may follow it! (do), if ye are truthful!”’ (Qur’an 28: 48-49)
The context:
Every student of the Qur’an knows these verses were revealed in Makkah and are addressed to the pagans there.
The background is that the pagans of Makkah although never believed in the previous scriptures, still had a certain degree of respect for the Jews and used to refer to them for confirming things about Islam from them. Knowing that before Qur’an there was a book said to be revealed from the same source they said they would believe if a book like that, i.e. Torah, was revealed.
Qur’an catches them for their cunning argument saying, did they not reject Torah itself? Means, how can their claim be considered to any effect while they are the ones who never believed in Torah even?
And meanwhile when they consulted some individuals of the Jewish religion and got the testimony of a certain degree of consonance between the message of the Qur’an and the Torah.
As these liars themselves quote William Muir, an orientalist, wrote;
‘A Jew, either residing in the vicinity of Mecca, or having visited it perhaps from Medina or elsewhere,—at any rate known at Mecca,—is quoted to the people of Mecca as bearing testimony to the correspondence of the Corân with the Jewish Scriptures, and accordingly believing in it. "Does not this," says Mahomet, "prove the divine inspiration of the Corân, and yet ye proudly reject it?"’ (The Coran: Its Composition and Teaching p.84)
But when the pagans find some testimony for the Qur’an from the Jewish scriptures they pronounce their belief clearly that they do not accept them both, the Qur’an and the Jewish Law. And thereupon Qur’an asks the Prophet, may Allah bless him, to challenge that if they reject Qur’an and the previous scriptures they should bring something better. Something better than both Qur’an and Torah that they reject!
What do the verses imply?
Does the Qur’anic challenge imply that the Torah revealed unto Moses, may Allah bless him, was preserved till the time of Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him, at least? No, it does not. Infact it has nothing to do with the veracity of the Torah as known to the Jewish contemporaries of the pagans addressed in the verse.
Keeping in mind all the other statements of the Qur’an on the previous scriptures, including Torah, the case may be better understood considering the following example;
An automobile company launched a limited edition of a certain model of their brand which was recognized as the best by the experts in the industry. The company also made known that they were working to improve upon its features and that they plan to launch the super-model. Some skeptics, as usual, refused to acknowledge its value even though it proved to be trend setter. And while the company worked on the planned model and waited for the ripe time to launch its master-piece some copycats took some features of their earlier limited edition model, blended it with some other features and produced their own series using their brand name. Gradually owing its lower cost the counterfeit version found its share in the market and for the smaller competitors it became a standard on its own. Later the original producer launched it’s much hyped and craved model. They claimed that although earlier model is obsolete now the fact that it was produced by them only and was the forerunner of their new launch testifies to its greatness in its time. But some skeptical critics still remained adamant not to admit the excellence achieved. They rather argued that if it had the characteristics of the previous model (whose even counterfeits were considered a standard) they could reconsider their position. In response to all such skeptics, who were also among the competitors, the company official’s response was, “While you never recognized the worth of the earlier model even, what moral standing do you have to argue like this? Given that you have so many observations and that you have rejected our claim testified by the saner competitors even, produce something better than both (i.e. previous and latest model)!”
Now this last statement does not mean that earlier model is actually present or is by any means equal to the latest one.
Similarly the Qur’anic challenge does not prove that Torah is actually present in its pristine form nor does it convey that it is equal to Qur’an. To assert this will only be a mistake.
For those who did not actually get the above rather long story from corporate world and its connection with the issue at hand, the ‘previous model’ can be taken to represent Torah (or any earlier scripture) and ‘latest model’ to represent Qur’an. With this in mind I hope those interested in the subject can easily get what the rest of the details stand for.
Indeed Allah knows the best!
first, I can't speak English.
Your argument is very good and all I have to do is translating into my own language if somebody speak ill about my religion or my prophet (SAW).
Thanks very much. Keep on posting.
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‘Ulama, Murabbis and two extremely weak hadiths
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Some of the Ahmadiyya leaders try to stereotype contemporary Islamic scholarship as a whole using some narrations recorded in Hadith works.
Before talking of the status of scholars (‘ulama) in the House of Islam and especially their role with regards to the Ahamdiyya cult, let’s first see the narrations that some Ahmadis use and scrutinize them to check their authenticity.
Narration 1:
Following is the translation of one such narration as it appears on an as it appears on the AlIslam.org website:
The Prophet once said, “There will come a time upon the people when nothing will remain of Islam except its name and nothing will remain of the Quran except its words. Their mosques will be splendidly furnished but destitute of guidance. Their divines will be the worst people under the Heaven; strife will issue from them and avert to them.”
In the following lines I will mention the wording of the narration as found in different works and dwell on the authenticity check for each narration in the light of scholarly works.
As a statement of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) narrated by ‘Ali (ra):
عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «يُوشِكُ أَنْ يَأْتِيَ عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ لَا يَبْقَى مِنَ الْإِسْلَامِ إِلَّا اسْمُهُ وَلَا يَبْقَى مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ إِلَّا رَسْمُهُ مَسَاجِدُهُمْ عَامِرَةٌ وَهِيَ خَرَابٌ مِنَ الْهُدَى عُلَمَاؤُهُمْ شَرُّ مَنْ تَحْتَ أَدِيمِ السَّمَاءِ مِنْ عِنْدِهِمْ تَخْرُجُ الْفِتْنَةُ وَفِيهِمْ تَعُودُ» .
Narrated ‘Ali, the Messenger of Allah –may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him- said: “There will come a time upon the people when nothing will remain of Islam except its name and nothing will remain of the Quran except its words. Their mosques will be splendidly furnished but destitute of guidance. Their divines will be the worst people under the Heaven; strife (fitna) will issue from them and avert to them.” (Mishkat al-Masabih 1/91 Hadith 276)
As it is known to the students of Hadith, Mishkat al-Masabih is not the original Hadith source book. It has narrations with reference to other works giving full chain of narrators.
For this narration, the author of Mishkat al-Masabih, Muhammad bin ‘Abdullah al-Khatib al-‘Umri (d. 741 A.H.) has quoted it from Shu’b al-Imam of al-Baihaqi.
Its chain of narrators is;
Al-Baihaqi – Abu al-Hasan Ali bin Ahmad bin ‘Abdan –Ahmad bin ‘Ubayd as-Safar – Muhammad bin ‘Eisa bin Abi Iyas – Sa’id bin Suleman – ‘Abdullah bin Dukayn – Ja’far bin Muhammad – Muhammad bin ‘Ali – ‘Ali bin Hussain – ‘Ali bin Abi Talib – Messenger of Allah, on whom be the peace and blessings of Allah
Dr. Abdul al-‘Aliy Abdul Hamid has classified it as Da’if due to the weakness of ‘Abdullah bin Dukayn and due to the fact of the chain being interrupted as ‘Ali bin Hussain did not meet ‘Ali bin Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him. See Shu’b al-Iman 3/317 Hadith 1763, Makteba al-Rushd, Riyadh, 2003
For those who are rather naive about the categorization of hadiths can have a introduction to this science HERE.
Muhammad bin Sa’d states that ‘Ali bin Hussain i.e. Zain al-‘Abidin was twenty-three of age at the tragic eve of pogrom at Karbala (See Tabaqat al-Kubra 5/212, Dar al-Sadir, Beirut 1968). We know the tragedy of Karbala took place in the year 63 A.H. and ‘Ali bin Abi Talib –may Allah be pleased with him- was martyred in the year 40 A.H. ‘Ali bin Hussain was therefore by any stretch of imagination no more than an year old when ‘Ali bin Abi Talib –may Allah be pleased with him- was martyred. This is enough to prove that ‘Ali bin Hussain –may Allah have mercy on him- could not report directly from the Pious Caliph.
The inqita’ (interruption) is mentioned by al-Baihaqi himself in his comment to a subsequent narration as we shall see below.
About ‘Abdullah bin Dukayn, Yahya bin Ma’in said: “He is nothing.” (See Lisan al-Mizan 7/260 No. 3503, Mo’assas al-‘Ilmi, Beirut 1971)
al-Dhahbi quotes the statement of Yahya bin Ma’in and then gives this narration pointing to its weakness. See Mizan al-A’itadal 2/417 No. 4296 Dar al-Ma’rifa, Beirut 1963.
Ibn ‘Adi mentions this report in the profile of ‘Abdullah bin Dukayn in his work al-Kamil fil Du’afa al-Rijal 5/377-378. This work was compiled to warn against the weak narrators. The chain also has the interruption (inqita’) problem as above.
Abu Tahir Muhammad bin Fazl al-Maqdisi Ibn al-Qaysarani (d. 507 A.H.) has quoted the narration from Ibn A’Adi. About ‘Abdullah bin Dukayn he says, “He is nothing.” See Zakhirah al-Huffaz 5/2808 Narration 6583, Dar al-Salaf, Riyadh 1996
Shaykh Albani has referred to its weakness in his first research on Mishkat al-Masabih by stating that it is given by Ibn ‘Adi in his above mentioned work. See Mishkat al-Masabih 1/91 Hadith 276 pub. Al-Makteb al-Islami, Beirut 1979
In 1985 the Shaykh Albani’s second research on Mishkat al-Masabih was published in which he categorically graded it as Da’if i.e. dubious.
With the same chain the report is mentioned in Abu ‘Amr al-Dani’s (d. 444 A.H. ) Sunan al-Waridah fil Fitan No. 236
Same narration with the same chain from ‘Abdullah bin Dukayn onwards is given by Ibn Abi Dunya in his work ‘al-‘Uqubat 1/23 Hadith 8, Dar Ibn Hazm, Beirut, 1996.
The report is also found in Abu Bakr Ahmad al-Daynawari’s (d. 333 A.H.) al-Mujalisa wa Jawahir al-‘Ilm 2/359 Narration 519. Its chain is same from ‘Abdullah bin Dukayn onwards so it adds nothing to the equation. However in this work between al-Daynwari and ‘Abdullah bin Dukayn is a narrator named Muhammad bin Masalama who is much criticized. al-Dhahbi quotes al-Khallal who said, “He is extremely da’if (weak).”(Mizan al-A’itidal 4/42 No. 8179) Shaykh Mashhur bin Hasan has graded the narration as “Extremely Da’if”. See al-Mujalisa wa Jawahir al-‘Ilm 2/359 Narration 519, Dar Ibn Hazm, Beirut, 1998
The report is also quoted in al-Suyuti’s Jami’ al-Kabir (No. 11451) with reference to Ibn ‘Adi and al-Baihaqi.
Moreover, the narration is found in a Shiite scholar Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi’s (d. 1111 A.H.) work Bihar al-Anwar (18/146 Chapter 12) as well. Its chain involves a narrator al-Sakouni who is Isma’il bin Abi Ziyad and he is a well known liar. Ibn Hibban said, “A great liar! It is not permissible to make a mention of him in hadith except by the way of condemnation.” (al-Majruhin 1/129 No. 50, Dar al-Wa’iy, Aleppo 1396 A.H)
In all the works the narration appears it has the same issues with its chain, so it remains Da’if and dubious. The point is mentioning all the works is to set the record straight lest someone may try to play clever by saying it is found in ‘other works’ as well.
As a statement of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) narrated by Ibn ‘Umar (ra):
In his Musnad (1/107) al-Daylami reports through al-Hakim the following, narrated by Ibn ‘Umar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, said:
سيأتي على الناس زمان لا يبقي من القرآن إلا رسمه، ولا من الإسلام إلا اسمه، يقسمون به وهم أبعد الناس منه، مساجدهم عامرة، خراب من الهدى، فقهاء ذلك الزمان شر فقهاء تحت ظل السماء، منهم خرجت الفتنة، وإليهم تعود
“Soon a time would come upon people when nothing will remain of Quran except its script, and nothing of Islam will remain except its name, they will divide and will be farthest from it. Their mosques will be furnished but devoid of guidance. The scholars of that age will be the worst people under the heavens. Strife will emerge from them and return to them.”
As Shaykh Albani mentions the chain of narrators of this report includes;
Khalid bin Yazid al-Ansari – Ibn Abi Zi’b – Nafi’ – Ibn ‘Umar -- Messenger of Allah, on whom be the peace and blessings of Allah
Shaykh Albani has commented to it in detail in Silsala Da’ifa. He writes:
“Khalid- it is evident that he is al-‘Umri al-Makki. He narrates from Ibn Abi Zi’b. Abu Hatim and Yahya described him as a liar. And Ibn Hibban said, “He narrates fabricated narrations from trustworthy people.” (Silsala Da’ifa wa Mawdu’a 4/410 No. 1936. Dar al-Ma’arif, Riyadh, 1992)
For the original reference to Ibn Hibban’s statement about Khalid bin Yazid, See al-Majruhin 1/284-285 No. 308.
As a statement of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) narrated by Ma’az (ra):
Shaykh Albani further mentions:
“Then al-Daylami narrated it through, Isma’il bin Abi Ziyad – Thawr – Khalid bin Ma’dan from M’az, likewise. I say: ‘It is –like the earlier one- a fabrication. The trouble with it is (the narrator) Isma’il and he is al-Sakouni al-Qadi. Ibn Hibban said, “A great liar! It is not permissible to make a mention of him in hadith except by the way of condemnation.” (Silsala Da’ifa wa Mawdu’a 4/411 No. 1936)
For the original reference to Ibn Hibban’s statement about Isma’il bin Abi Ziyad al-Sakouni, See al-Majruhin 1/129 No. 50
As a statement of ‘Ali (ra):
According to Shu’b al-Iman of al-Baihaqi ‘Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, mentioned almost the same while addressing the people in Kufa. Abu Wa’il reports that he heard him saying:
يُوشِكُ أَنْ لَا يَبْقَى مِنَ الْإِِسْلَامِ إِِلَّا اسْمُهُ، وَمِنَ الْقُرْآنِ إِِلَّا رَسْمُهُ .... مَسَاجِدُكُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَامِرَةٌ، وَقُلُوبُكُمْ وَأَبْدَانُكُمْ مُخَرَّبَةٌ مِنَ الْهوى، شَرُّ مَنْ تَحْتَ ظِلِّ السَّمَاءِ فُقَهَاؤُكُمْ، مِنْهُمْ تَبْدَأُ الْفِتْنَةُ، وَفِيهِمْ تَعُودُ "، فَقَامَ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ: فَفِيمَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ؟ قَالَ: " إِِذَا كَانَ الْفِقْهُ فِي رُذَّالِكُمْ وَالْفَاحِشَةُ فِي خِيَارِهِمْ، وَالْمُلْكُ فِي صِغَارِكُمْ فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ
“Soon nothing will remain of Islam except its name and of Quran except its script … In that day your mosques will be well furnished but your hearts and bodies will have no guidance. At that time the worst people under the sky will be your scholars, strife will originate with them and return to them.” A man stoop up and asked: “Why would this happen O Commander of the Faithful?” He said: “When the knowledge is the worst among you and when immorality spreads even amongst your best people and rule with the lowest amongst you, then the Doomsday will set in.” (Shu’b al-Iman, Hadith 1765)
Its chain of narrator is;
Al-Baihaqi – ‘Ali bin Ahmad bin ‘Abdan – Ahmad bin Abi Hassan Yahya bin Ahmad al-Dhibbi – Hafs bin Muhammad bin Najih al-Basri – Bishr bin Mihran – Sharik bin ‘Abdullah al-Nakhai’ – al-‘Amash – Abi Wa’il – ‘Ali bin Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him.
Just after giving the report through this chain, al-Baihaqi writes:
هَذَا مَوْقُوفٌ، إِسْنَادُهُ إِلَى شَرِيكٍ مَجْهُولٌ، وَالْأَوَّلُ مُنْقَطِعٌ وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ
“This is mawquf. Its chain up to Sharik is ‘majhool’ (i.e. contains unknown narrators) and the first one (i.e. earlier narration) is ‘munqati’’ (i.e. interrupted) And Allah knows the best!”
Practically expounding the above, Dr. Abdul al-‘Aliy Abdul Hamid mentions that Ahmad bin Abi Hassan Yahya bin Ahmad al-Dhibbi and Hafs bin Muhammad bin Najih al-Basri are both unknown. About Bishr bin Mahran, al-Dhahbi quotes Ibn Abi Hatim as saying, “My father (i.e. Abu Hatim) rejected his narrations.” (Mizan al-A’itadal 1/325 No. 1224)
The same report is quoted in Kanzul ‘Ummal (Hadith 44217)
As to the words of al-Baihaqi,
وَالْأَوَّلُ مُنْقَطِعٌ
“And the first one (i.e. earlier narration) is ‘munqati’’ (i.e. interrupted).”
It refers to the above discussed narration through ‘Ali –may Allah be pleased with him- attributing the words to the Messenger of Allah –may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.
Another narration that Murabbis use comes from Nawadir al-Usool of Hakim al-Tirmidhi (d. 320 A.H.).
It is narrated through Abu Umamah –may Allah be pleased with him. He said:
قَالَ رَسُول الله صلى الله عَلَيْهِ وَسلم تكون فِي أمتِي فزعة فَيصير النَّاس إِلَى عُلَمَائهمْ فَإِذا هم قردة وَخَنَازِير
“The Messenger of Allah –may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him- said: Terror and dismay will appear in my Ummah. The people will turn to their scholars while they will be (like) monkeys and pigs.” (Nawadir al-Usool 2/609 Narration 860, Makteba al-Imam al-Bukhari, Cairo 2008)
With reference to Nawadir al-Usool it is quoted in Kanzul ‘Ummal (Hadith 38727), al-‘Ayni’s ‘Umdatul Qari (21/177) and al-Tadhkirah (1/1256) of al-Qurtubi.
The chain of narrators for this narration is;
Hakim al-Tirmidhi – ‘Umar bin Abi ‘Umar – Hisham bin Khalid al-Damishqi – Isma’il bin ‘Ayyash – Laith [bin Abi Salim] – Ibn Sabit – Abu Umamah – the Messenger of Allah, may the peace and blessings of Allah.
This chain is full of problems.
In this report Ibn Sabit is reporting from Abu Umamah, while we find al-Mizi (d. 742 A.H.) quoting ‘Abbas al-Douri who said: Yahya [bin Ma’in] was asked, if ‘Abdul Rahman bin Sabit heard anything from Abu Umamah? He replied, “No!” (Tahdhib al-Kamal 17/125 No. 3822, Mo’assas al-Risalah, Beirut 1980)
About the other narrator Laith bin Abi Salim, it is to be noted that Imam Ahmad, Yahya bin Ma’in, Muhammad ibn Sa’d , Ibn Abi Shayba etc. all have mentioned that he is weak and not reliable. (Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 8/468 No. 835, Da’ira al-Ma’arif al-Nizamiya, Hyderabad Deccan, 1326 A.H.)
As to the narrator ‘Umar bin Abi ‘Umar [al-‘Abdi al-Balkhi] al-Suyuti mentions that he is majhool.i.e. unknown. (al-La’ali al-Masnu’a 1/89, Dar al-Kutab al-‘Ilmiyya, Beirut 1996)
So clearly the chain is interrupted and weak.
And in the first place the fact that report actually comes from Hakim al-Tirmidhi’s Nawadir al-Usool only is enough to maintain that it does not deserve a serious consideration.
al-Suyuti in his introduction to Jami’ al-Kabir writes that whatever comes from Nawadir al-Usool (alone) is Da’if and this knowledge suffices to speak of its weakness. See Jami’ al-Ahadith 1/6 Makteba al-Shamela ed.
Let’s not forget Ahmadiyya have themselves recognized al-Suyuti as a Mujaddid of his century.
So we see the reality of the narrations they use. But still see, how brave these people are and with what audacity they attribute these reports to the Messenger of Allah, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him!
Status of ‘ulama in Islam:
Much can be said about the high status that scholars (‘ulama) have in the House of Islam. But to keep the thing brief I will just quote one Hadith.
The Messenger of Allah, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said:
إِنَّ الْعُلَمَاءَ وَرَثَةُ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ
“Verily the ‘ulama are the successors of the prophets.” (Sunan Abu Dawud, Hadith 3641)
This report has been classified as Sahih by Ibn Mulaqqan (d. 804 A.H.) in Badr al-Munir 7/587. Al-‘Ayni also authenticated in ‘Umdatul Qari 2/40. Albani and Shu’aib Arna’ut too authenticated it.
Scholars, vis-à-vis Ahmadiyya-Muslim dialogue:
Now we come to the real issue. Where do, according to the Hadith, the Muslim scholars stand in the debate between Muslims and the Ahmadiyya? And if at all the two narrations discussed at length are to be accepted, who is their prime subject?
Now the situation is, while the Muslim scholars stand for the ideas established for last 1400 plus years, Ahmadiyya claim that through Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani “new truth” has dawned upon them which was somehow hidden from the Muslims of the past centuries. To the Muslims this “new truth” is the real strife (fitna) and Muslims scholars are trying to defend their faith against this fitna.
In this backdrop, the following narration says a lot;
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " يَرِثُ هَذَا الْعِلْمَ مِنْ كُلِّ خَلَفٍ عُدُولُهُ , يَنْفُونَ عَنْهُ تَأْوِيلَ الْجَاهِلِينَ , وَانْتِحَالَ الْمُبْطِلِينَ , وَتَحْرِيفَ الْغَالِينَ
The Messenger of Allah –may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him- said: “In every successive century those who are reliable authorities will preserve this knowledge, rejecting the interpretations of the ignorant, lies of the treacherous and the corruption of the extremists.” (Sunan al-Kubra, Hadith 20911)
It is also quoted in Mishkat al-Masabih (Hadith 248). It has been classified as Sahih by Imam Ahmad, See al-‘Alai’s (d. 761 A.H.) Bughyah al-Multamis 1/35, ‘Alam al-Kutb, Beirut 1985
Shaykh Albani also classified it as Sahih in his research on Mishkat al-Masabih
The two narrations, if accepted, refer to the Murabbis:
This Hadith plainly established that in “every successive century” people with sound knowledge will protect it against all kinds of attacks. So who defends the truth now? Those who stick to and speak for the established beliefs that have been defended in “every successive century” or those who stand for the “newly dawned truth”?
This brings us to the simple plain conclusion that the so-called “newly dawned truth” is only a fitna. Therefore if by any means either of the above discussed two reports is to be considered- especially with reference Muslim-Ahmadiyya dialogue- it applies to the Ahmadiyya and not the Muslims. The murabbis are the subject of these narrations and not the Muslim ‘ulama.
One has to say; even if we agree with the Ahmadiyya interpretation how do they conclude it not fall upon the murabbis as well? Or perhaps they are agreeing they are not part of the ummah?
Ahmadis basking upon these false narrations and running away from the real points of discussion, remind me of a narration attributed to the Holy Prophet, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Although it’s manifestly weak but aptly fits the murabbis narrative. It says:
“Soon you will see the devils from amongst the men. One of them would listen to a hadith and apply it to other than himself. And will thus delude people away from listening about the person about whom it is actually said.” (Kanzul ‘Ummal, No. 29125)
Indeed Allah knows the best!-
Here are further details about two of the many narrators discussed above:
1- Abdullah bin Dukayn:
Following are all the comments about Abdullah bin Dukayn given by Imam al-Mizi in his book, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib;
Abu Dawud said, it has reached me (balaghni) from Ahmad bin Hanbal that he graded him as trustworthy.
Abbas al-Douri narrated that Yahya bin Ma’in said: “There is no issue with him (la ba’sa bihi)”
Ishaq bin Mansur narrated from;
1) Yahya bin Ma’in,
2) Abu Zur’ah,
3) Mufaddal bin Ghasan al-Ghalabi,
4) Abu al-Fath al-Azdi:
That Abdullah bin Dukayn is Weak (da’if)
Ahmad bin Abi Yahya narrated, Yahya bin Ma’in said: “He is nothing.”
Abu Hatim said: Rejected in Hadith (munkar al-Hadith), Weak in Hadith (da’if al-hadith)
al-Nasai said: “He is not trustworthy”
At another occasion he said: “There is no issue with him.”
See, Tahdhib al-Kamal 14/469-471 No. 3250
As to the comment of Yahya bin Ma’in following is the detail;
According to Tarikh Ibn Ma’in narrated by Ibn Mahzar, Ibn Ma’in said: “He is not trustworthy (lays bi-thiqah)” (vol.1 p.57, Majma Lughah al-Arabiyya ed.)
According to Tarikh Ibn Ma’in narrated by al-Douri, Ibn Ma’in said: “There is no issue with him.” (No. 1908)
According to Ishaq bin Mansur, Ibn Ma’in graded him as; Weak (da’if)- See Ibn Abi Hatim’s al-Jarh wal Ta’dil vol.5 pp.48-49 No. 225
According to Ahmad bin Abi Yahya, Ibn Ma’in said about Ibn Dukayn: “He is nothing.” (Kamil fil Du’afa, vol.5 p.377 al-Kotob al-Ilmiyya ed.)
Hafiz Ibn Hajr has pointed out that last of the statements is most reliable. The above detail is enough to show that according to most – three out of four- narrators from Ibn Ma’in he did not consider him reliable.
As to Imam Ahmad’s comment narrated by Imam Abu Dawud, note that Abu Dawud never said that Imam Ahmad “told him” rather he said “it has reached him” (balaghani) which is quite ambiguous and the link in between for this statement is missing. It can therefore not stand against multiple scholars clearly grading the narrator as weak.
Imam al-Nasai’s one time authentication of him loses its weight as we find him grading Ibn Dukayn as weak according to other report and because other scholars have graded him as weak.
However, it is clear that at least five scholars have graded him as weak. This is without counting Imam al-Nasai due to conflicting reports from him.
2- Muhammad bin Maslama al-Wasty:
As stated above Abu Muhammad al-Khallal has graded him as extremely weak (da’if jiddan)
Abu al-Qasim al-Lalikai said: (He is) weak (da’if).
Ibn Jawzi quoted a narration in the chain of which he falls and then said: “Its narrators are trustworthy except (Muhammad) Ibn Maslama.”
Likewise al-Khatib al-Baghdadi commented to a narration involving him as: “Its narrators are trustworthy except (Muhammad) Ibn Maslama.”
See, Mizan al-A’itadal 4/41-42 No. 8179
Against all these testimonies solitary comment of Imam al-Darqutni that there is no issue with him cannot help Ahmadi fraudsters if they try to hide behind it.
The article was last updated on August 11, 2012 4:00 am GMT
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2019 season overview : 3,827 laps with 15,520 hp in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup
December 19, 2019 December 18, 2019 Tim Havermans 161 Views Michael Ammermüller, Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup
Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, Hockenheim 2019
2019 season review: Title hat-trick, debut wins and closest finish
Thanks to a close fight for the championship title, the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup again offered gripping motor racing in its 27th season. Michael Ammermüller (BWT Lechner Racing) had to wait until the final round of the international one-make cup in Mexico City to clinch his third championship title in a row. The German is just one Supercup title short of matching Patrick Huisman’s tally. The Dutchman set the benchmark, claiming four titles in succession between 1997 and 2000. In addition to the championship decision, the 2019 Supercup season as part of the Formula 1 support programme was distinguished by many other statistics.
Michael Ammermüller (D), BWT Lechner Racing, Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, Mexico 2019
• Five different drivers took home victories from the ten rounds this season. The high level of competition has been one of the keys to success in Supercup history since 1993. In addition to Ammermüller’s four wins, Porsche Junior Julien Andlauer (F/BWT Lechner Racing) climbed to the top podium step twice.
• Ayhancan Güven (TR/martinet by ALMÉRAS), Dylan Pereira (L/Momo Megatron Lechner Racing) and Larry ten Voorde (NL/MRS GT-Racing) celebrated their maiden victories in the international one-make cup. Over the season, ten different drivers celebrated on the podium.
Ayhancan Güven (TR), martinet by ALMERAS, Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, Silverstone 2019
• Over the course of the year, a four-way fight for the title developed between Ammermüller, Porsche Junior Andlauer, ten Voorde and Güven. The two Lechner drivers, Ammermüller and Andlauer, constantly swapped places at the top of the standings. The 20-year-old Frenchman moved to the top of the points table at Silverstone and remained there for five race weekends. However, after Andlauer’s retirement at Monza, Ammermüller reclaimed first place in the championship.
• Despite his four wins this season, Michael Ammermüller is still one victory short of setting a new record: In the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland, the ex-Formula 1 driver has so far won a total of 28 races. With this, the Bavarian is tied with the current DTM champion René Rast.
Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, Alberto Cerqui (I), Kantadhee Kusiri (T), Jesse van Kuijk (NL), Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, Monza 2019
• Over the season, an average of 30 drivers contested the race weekends at the wheel of their Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.
• Silverstone (Great Britain), Hockenheim (Germany), Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium) and Monza (Italy) hosted the largest grids. At these four rounds, 32 drivers lined up to compete.
• Identical vehicles as well as a control tyre from Michelin ensure equal chances and gripping racing. At all nine events as well as the two tests in Barcelona (Spain) and Silverstone, a total of 4,030 tyres from the French Supercup partner were run. In addition to 3,720 slicks, the teams also used 310 rain tyres.
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• The ten rounds of this year’s Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup were contested in nine different countries. Over the season, the drivers turned a total of 3,827 race laps with the 485-hp Cup 911.
• Measuring 3.337 kilometres in length, the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo is the shortest racetrack on the calendar. During the 30-minute sprint through the narrow streets of the Principality, the drivers turned a total of 16 laps in their nine-elevens. By contrast, the Belgian round in the Ardennes was run over just eleven laps. Measuring 7.004 kilometres, the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps was the longest track of the season.
• At the storied racetrack in the Wallonia region of Belgium, fans also witnessed the closest finish: Pereira beat Güven to the flag by a mere 0.268 seconds.
Charlie Eastwood (IRL), Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup Silverstone 2017
• The race weekend at Silverstone went down in the history books. A total of 353,000 fans travelled to watch the British Formula 1 Grand Prix – a record number during the 2019 Supercup season as well as for the Formula 1 event in the British Midlands.
• Drivers faced challenging midsummer conditions at round four in Hockenheim. Prior to free practice on Friday, temperatures reached almost 44 degrees Celsius in the Supercup paddock. No other race weekend had such high temperatures.
Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, Dylan Pereira (L), Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, Hockenheim 2019
• The longest journey for the Supercup teams was to the season finale in Mexico City. The distance from Stuttgart airport to Mexico’s capital is over 9,600 kilometres. More than 80 tonnes of freight were transported by air to Central America.
• Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup fans enjoyed comprehensive media coverage. A total of 38 TV stations broadcasted the Supercup in more than 110 countries on six continents.
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Exclusive Excerpt: Her Secret Agent by Paige Tyler
25 November 2014 Jackie Coastal Magic, Exclusive Excerpts, Paige Tyler 0
I am excited to welcome author Paige Tyler, who is celebrating the release of her new X-Ops novella, Her Secret Agent.
John Loughlin, Director of the Department of Covert Ops, is in New York City on a recruiting mission. Cree Forest is a clever fox shifter—and very foxy. John is keen to hire her brilliant mind onto his team.
But Cree isn’t what she seems. Just as John has been watching her, Cree has been spying on him. Now John is getting too close—both professionally and personally. On opposite sides of a lethal game, can they trust each other with their hearts?
Excerpt from Her Secret Agent
Cree abruptly realized that while she’d been busy gathering wool, John was sitting there apparently content to watch her sip coffee. That was another thing she liked about him. He didn’t seem to have the urge to fill every moment of silence with unnecessary talk. That casual, confident way of his made her wonder what kind of lover he’d be. A very good one, she was sure.
She forced herself to focus on something else in a useless attempt to get that all-too-vivid image out of her head.
“How did you figure out I was special?” she asked, refusing to use any of the crappy titles his organization seemed obsessed with applying to her kind. “Does the DCO have a big team of experts who pore over hours and hours of videos and records, looking for signs and tells?”
John shook his head, a small smile curving his lips. “Not really. We still don’t know enough about shifters for that to be possible.”
“How did you spot me then?”
Her boss had told her to make sure the DCO noticed her, but it would still be nice to know exactly what they’d keyed in on.
John shrugged. “With some shifters, there are physical and behavioral traits that give them away—overt demonstrations of strength and speed, aggressive or over-confident attitude. But in your case, it was more subtle and harder to put into words. It was just a sense I got from watching all the surveillance video. The way you move through a crowd like a graceful animal, the way you lift your nose just a bit like you’re testing the breeze for a scent, the way you constantly scan the restaurant when you’re eating. It all told me you were special.”
Huh. She had no idea she even did those things, but those were damn subtle signs. “It sounds like you and your team spent a lot of hours watching those videos to pick up all those things?”
He gave her a lazy smile. “No team—just me. And yes, I spent a lot of hours watching you.”
The idea that John had sat in front of a TV or computer monitor for hours on end gazing at her so intently that he’d been able to pick up the details he had should have creeped her out. But it didn’t. In fact, it was sort of a turn-on.
“So you’re saying the DCO didn’t peg me as a shifter—you did?”
He nodded. “But no one there knows yet. I haven’t told them. I thought it best to find out if you were interested before saying anything. Right now, the few who are aware of you think you’re simply a potential operative of the boring, everyday human variety.”
A grin tugged at her lips—he had a way of making her smile. But what could she say? This mission was turning out to be more fun than she’d ever imagined. And the fact that John was the only one who knew about her secret was like extra frosting on an already well-iced cake.
“Are you interested?” he asked again.
That was a loaded question if she ever heard one. She felt a warm rush suffuse her belly. “I’m very interested.”
“Excellent.” He grinned. “Does that mean you’re joining the DCO?”
She laughed. “I didn’t say that.”
He frowned. “But you just said you were interested.”
She leaned forward in her chair and fixed him with a sexy look, letting a little yellow-glow flash in her eyes. “I didn’t say I was interested in the DCO. When I said I was interested, I meant in you.”
He tilted his head to the side, giving her an appraising look that sent the rush of heat she’d felt earlier to pool between her thighs. “I can work with that.”
Meet Paige Tyler!
Paige Tyler is a USA Today Bestselling Author of sexy, romantic fiction. She and her very own military hero (also known as her husband) live on the beautiful Florida coast with their adorable fur baby (also known as their dog). Paige graduated with a degree in education, but decided to pursue her passion and write books about hunky alpha males and the kickbutt heroines who fall in love with them.
Contact Info: Website | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google+ |GoodReads | Amazon | Pinterest | Newsletter
Want to purchase Paige’s novels?
X-Ops
Her Perfect Mate
Her Lone Wolf
Her Secret Agent
Her Wild Hero (May 1, 2015)
Hungry Like The Wolf (SWAT: Special Wolf Alpha Team #1) (Jan 6, 2015)
Animal Attraction
Just Right (The Sexy Tale of Goldie and the Three Werebears)
Vampire 101
Ride of Her Life
Seducing Officer Barlow
Goddess with a Blade by Lauren Dane
Child’s Play 2014
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General Family Health
9 Surprising Reasons You're Tired All the Time
Lynette Arceneaux updated on January 8, 2019
Lynette Arceneaux
Based in Southern California, Lynette Arceneaux has worked as a writer and editor since 1995. Her works have appeared in anthologies, such as "From the Trenches" and "Black Box," in the magazine "Neo-opsis," and on numerous websites. Arceneaux, who holds a Master of Arts degree, currently focuses on the topics of health and wellness, lifestyle, family and pets.
Raise your hand if you've felt tired in the past week. It's safe to assume that approximately 100 percent of us have our hands up. Feeling tired occasionally is not unusual. We've all experienced it -- following a long day at work, during stressful times, after staying up too late. What is unusual, though, is when the feeling never subsides, when it seems as if you're always sleepy or exhausted. But there's no reason to continue feeling so drained. If fatigue is interfering with your daily activities and preventing you from fully enjoying life, it's time to find a solution. Start by taking a look at some possible reasons you might be feeling so tired all the time and what you can do to finally get your energy back.
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1. A Sedentary Lifestyle
Sitting at a desk all day (and night) might make you stir-crazy, but it's not helping your energy levels. "Inactivity not only zaps your energy level, but also hinders your desire to want to be active," says Scott Weiss, physical therapist and strength and conditioning specialist at Bodhizone Physical Therapy and Wellness in New York. To avoid this inactivity trap altogether, it's important to maintain some activity, even while recovering from an injury. And especially if you're not injured, a sedentary lifestyle can lead to poor health and must be corrected through proper diet and exercise, Weiss says. "It can often be a test of will to force yourself out of your own tired rut and into a healthy exercise schedule," he says, "but the good news is that after a week or so of regular exercise, the body should begin to feel more vigorous and re-energized."
Read more: An Easy Exercise With 31 Proven Health and Fitness Benefits
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2. Anemia
Here's quick biology-class refresher: Red blood cells contain hemoglobin, which helps carry oxygen from the lungs to tissues. When the number of red blood cells drops too low, or if they don't have enough hemoglobin, you develop anemia. It's a pretty common blood disorder that affects nearly a quarter of the world's population (and three million Americans), says the American Society of Hematology. Some of the most common causes are poor diet, certain infections, chronic diseases and intestinal disorders. The lack of oxygen leads to a fatigue, which is the main symptom of anemia, says exercise physiologist Scott Weiss. Other symptoms include shortness of breath, dizziness and headaches. Fortunately, anemia can easily be detected with a simple blood test. Though the treatment depends on the cause, many cases can be corrected with a healthy diet or dietary supplements.
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3. Neglected Sleep
In today's busy world, with its endless demands and distractions, sleep is often the first thing we sacrifice. But adults need at least seven to eight hours each night, says Nishay Chitkara, M.D., assistant professor at NYU Langone Medical Center. He recommends focusing on a basic set of habits to enhance good sleep. Begin with a consistent sleep schedule -- even on weekends and days off. Carl W. Bazil, M.D., director of the sleep disorder center at Columbia University Medical Center, agrees. "Sleeping later on weekends can lead to 'social jet lag' -- the equivalent of changing time zones every weekend -- which can clearly leave you tired." Both doctors recommend turning off electronics in the evening. Also, steer clear of caffeine and nicotine before bedtime, avoid daytime naps and don't exercise too late in the day.
Read more: Learn more about Dr. Chitkara's research at NYU Langone Medical Center.
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Your sleep problems might be more than a crazy schedule, though. Sleep apnea disrupts a sleeper's breathing for seconds to minutes at a time. While these events don't usually bring on a full awakening, they do disrupt slumber, affecting sleep quality and causing excessive daytime sleepiness. You'll need a sleep study. And if apnea is confirmed, the doctor will typically prescribe a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, device, which uses mild air pressure to keep the airways open and allows the sleeper to breathe properly, says Frank Farrelly, principal dentist and owner of Darlinghurst Dental in New South Wales, Australia. Research also shows that a mandibular advancement splint, a simple dental appliance worn nightly, might be an option for some apnea sufferers. "So while a CPAP device is the better treatment," Farrelly says, "for those who cannot or will not wear a CPAP device, a mandibular advancement splint offers some benefit."
Read more: 11 Habits That Are Ruining Your Sleep (and How to Fix Them)
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The sad truth about depression is that there's a good chance you or someone you love has experienced it. It affects an estimated 350 million people worldwide and touches nearly every aspect of life. Symptoms include unrelenting sadness, low energy or lethargy as well as sleep symptoms, such as insomnia, says Arthur N. Falk, M.D., sleep specialist at the Face and Skin Center in Albany and Saratoga, New York. Changes in your sleep pattern -- like periods of wakefulness throughout the night, decreased deep sleep and earlier-occurring REM sleep -- are hallmarks of depression, he says. Of course, most people feel sad or tired or can't sleep at some point, but with depression, these feelings usual persist at least two weeks). The good news is that, once diagnosed, depression can be treated with a combination of talk therapy and medication.
Read more: 10 Habits Keeping You Depressed (and How to Break Them)
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6. Low Blood Sugar
Your constant exhaustion might boil down to an issue with your blood sugar. If you're also experiencing other symptoms like shakiness, confusion and anxiety, you might have hypoglycemia, a condition in which your blood glucose level is extremely low, says exercise physiologist Scott Weiss. Our bodies need glucose for energy, so when it's in short supply, you might see symptoms like irritability, nervousness and, above all else, fatigue, Weiss says. If you're diabetic, hypoglycemia could be a side effect of your diabetes medication, which your doctor might need to adjust or change. If you're not diabetic, hypoglycemia can arise as a result of certain medicines or other conditions. If you suspect you have hypoglycemia, have your doctor run lab tests to determine the cause. The treatment will depend on what is causing your hypoglycemia.
Read more: Learn more about Type 1 diabetes symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.
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7. Hypothyroidism
You probably don't spend a lot of time thinking about your thyroid. Because, unless it's not working the way it should, there's really no reason to notice it. Your thyroid produces a particular hormone that controls the way the body uses energy. If your thyroid can't produce enough of this hormone, you have hypothyroidism, or underactive thyroid. This causes normal body processes to slow down, bringing on symptoms like weight gain, dry skin, an increased sensitivity to cold and, of course, feeling tired. It can be causes by an autoimmune disease, surgical removal of part or all of the thyroid or radiation treatment. A doctor can have your blood tested to measure your hormones. If you're diagnosed with hypothyroidism, you'll be given thyroid hormone replacement to try to reverse the symptoms, including the daytime sleepiness and fatigue, Dr. Arthur N. Falk says.
Read more: Could Your Thyroid Be the Culprit? Everything You Need to Know About Thyroid Disease
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8. Periodic Limb Movements in Sleep
Even if you're logging sufficient hours in bed, your sleep might still be the culprit. Periodic limb movements during sleep (PLMS) can disrupt your rest and leave you feeling tired. PLMS sufferers experience involuntary, repetitive movements, typically in the lower limbs, that occur every 20 to 40 seconds. The movements could be flexing, jerking movements or brief muscle twitches and can last anywhere from minutes to hours. Some people with PLMS may also experience restless legs syndrome -- an uncomfortable sensation in the calves or thighs. The exact cause of PLMS is still unknown, but it can occasionally indicate a serious medical condition. While some medications can be effective in managing PLMS, treatment is really only necessary if the condition results in insomnia, daytime fatigue or is accompanied by restless legs.
Read more: 6 Weird Ways Early Birds and Night Owls Differ
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9. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Fibromyalgia
Just like the name implies, chronic fatigue syndrome just might be the source of your constant exhaustion, says sleep specialist Dr. Arthur N. Falk. Or it could be fibromyalgia. The two conditions produce similar symptoms, including fatigue, weakness, chronic pain, insomnia and impaired memory or concentration. With CFS, fatigue is the dominant symptom, and with fibromyalgia, pain is the most prevalent. Because no lab tests exist for either condition, your doctor will try to rule out other causes of your fatigue first. There is no cure for either condition, so the treatment for both is complicated and multidimensional, says Dr. Falk. The aim is to find a combination of therapies that address the most debilitating symptoms.
Read more: Learn more about Dr. Falk's work at the Face and Skin Center.
Do you feel tired all the time? Have you discovered the reason why? What have you learned about managing or solving the problem? Has anything you've done helped? What are some tips you've learned from either self-treating or getting help from your doctor? Do you have any suggestions for others who might always feel tired? Share your thoughts with the LIVESTRONG.COM community in the comments below!
Read more: 10 Quick Ways to Boost Energy and Fight Fatigue
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The unprecedented 'BTHVN on Tour' exhibition has begun two years of travelling around the globe to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth in 2020.
With his timeless music, Beethoven is considered a radical and visionary artist to this day. And the ideals of liberty and fraternity, which he so passionately championed in his life and music, are as relevant as ever in our world.
In the wake of this big jubilee, Beethoven-Haus Bonn and DHL have joined together to develop the 'BTHVN on Tour' exhibition and put it on display around the globe.
Original exhibit pieces and high-quality facsimile reproductions created especially for the project have been combined with multimedia technology to give visitors a fascinating look into the life and work of Beethoven. Among the rare exhibit items are an ear trumpet used by the composer and an original print from Andy Warhol’s 1987 Beethoven Series. Multimedia displays – including an animated depiction of Beethoven’s hand writing the manuscript of his famous Diabelli Variations – will bring visitors closer to the composer and his creative processes.
From start to finish, DHL is handling all logistics for ‘BTHVN on Tour’, including transportation and setup. For each stage of the tour, DHL will be shipping seven tons of artifacts and materials by truck and by air, covering a total of 50,000 kilometers over two years.
As partner to a number of renowned orchestras and museums, DHL has extensive experience transporting highly valuable, delicate instruments and exhibit items. The original Beethoven pieces will be packed individually in tailor-made transport crates; these feature custom-fit padding and special seals/closures to protect items from damage due to shock, vibrations or changes in temperature. The special containers will be transported using DHL Smart Sensor tracking technology to ensure that constant temperature and humidity levels are maintained.
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Stroll - Circuit of the Tanygrisiau reservoir
A moderate circular stroll around the Tanygrisiau Reservoir.
Plenty opportunities for dogs to paddle. Great little (dog-friendly) cafe beside the station at Tanygrisiau.
The reservoir is part of the Ffestiniog Power Station complex. This installation was the first major pumped storage system in the UK. Pumped storage is a way of coping with rapid, short-term changes in the demand for electricity in the National Grid. At times of low demand and excess production elsewhere on the grid, water from the lower Tanygrisiau reservoir is pumped back up to the upper Llyn Stwlan reservoir. At times of sudden demand, water is released from Llyn Stwlan, to generate power as required. For this reason, the levels of both the Tanygrisiau and Llyn Swlan resevoirs can change significantly day-to-day.
The building of the lower reservoir flooded the route of the Ffestiniog Railway which had to build a deviation around the reservoir and power station.
From A496 to Blaenau Ffestiniog, follow brown signs to “Power Station”. You will reach Tanigrisiau Station at the top of the ascent, opposite the dam, and before you reach Lakeside Cafe.
Free parking in layby just before reaching the dam.
Further (free) parking in Tanygrisiau Station car park, and just beyond Lakeside Cafe.
2 short sets of stone/concrete steps. 2 stream crossings on stepping stones (but can be detoured). 2 stiles (both with holes large enough for a Labrador to wriggle through. 3 kissing gates. 200 yards on lead (preferably) on a quiet minor public highway.
Reservoir water levels can vary, which may affect exact route taken.
Slightly boggy underfoot in places, but easily detoured.
Location: Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog LL41 3SN, UK
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In Australia 3.6 million people, or 19 percent of the population, have a disability, and more than half of people aged 55 years and over have difficulties with mobility, sight and hearing.
This Missed Business Guide is an initiative of the Macarthur Access Group for Inclusive Communities (MAGIC) and aims to help you, the small business owner, understand how to improve access and inclusion. Small changes in your business can lead to significant economic, commercial and social benefits for your business and for the lives of people with disability.
The MAGIC Project commenced in late 2013 as a response to consultations with families of people with disability which identified challenges accessing services, businesses and the broader community. The work of MAGIC is underpinned by the rights of all people to access and be included in a community that respects and accepts difference.
The MAGIC Project is encouraging businesses across Macarthur to apply to become a place of MAGIC, and through doing so commit to the MAGIC Charter, which you can find on page 4.
This resource provides information that can help your business become a place of MAGIC. It starts with a checklist to help you identify where you are currently at in relation to access and inclusion. It includes information about the benefits of improving access, your responsibilities, and lots of tips on how to improve access and inclusion at your business.
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FlyMHK 10th Anniversary
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De Gaulle/Eisenhower: Alliance & Friendship in War and Peace
September 23, 2019, 9:00 AM - February 2, 2020, 4:45 PM @ Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum & Boyhood Home
De Gaulle/Eisenhower: Alliance & Friendship in War and Peace2019-09-23T09:00:00
General de Gaulle and General Eisenhower both belong to the common national heritage of their respective countries. Their work is a source of reflection and inspiration for today’s world. The Charles de Gaulle Foundation and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, in partnership with the Eisenhower Foundation, strive to promote and honor the legacies of the great leaders. Together these institutions collaborated with the Musée de l’Armée (French Army Museum) to present this exhibition. With the generous support of The First Alliance Foundation, the exhibition will contribute to strengthen the bonds between France and the United States.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum & Boyhood Home200 SE 4th St. AbileneKS67410
John Steuart Curry: The Cowboy Within
September 24, 2019, 10:00 AM - March 21, 2020, 5:00 PM @ Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
John Steuart Curry: The Cowboy Within2019-09-24T10:00:00
Best known for his depictions of Kansas, the American West also reveals itself as a significant subject in John Steuart Curry's work. Curry's earliest drawings reveal a boy under the spell of Western artists, e.g., Frederic Remington. Through 38 works, to include paintings and magazine illustrations, this exhibition explores Curry’s depictions of the West as a romantic and real environment.
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of ArtKansas State UniversityManhattanKS66506
Field Station 4: Charles Lindsay
November 5, 2019, 10:00 AM - October 3, 2020, 5:00 PM @ Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
Field Station 4: Charles Lindsay2019-11-05T10:00:00
An installation by expedition geologist and artist Charles Lindsay, who directs the artist-in-residence program for SETI (Search For Extra Terrestrial Intelligence). The installation will delve into earth's geological and cultural pasts, using scientific equipment salvaged from space exploration archaeology. Specimens and artifacts in Field Station 4 provoke musings on human perceptions of time and space.
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art701 Beach LaneManhattanKS66502
$1 Off Admission with Donation to Flint Hills Breadbasket
November 1, 2019, 12:00 PM - December 31, 2019, 5:00 PM @ Sunset Zoo
$1 Off Admission with Donation to Flint Hills Breadbasket2019-11-01T12:00:00
On your next visit to the Zoo, bring a non-perishable food donation to the Flint Hills Breadbasket and Mayor's Holiday Food & Fund Drive, and receive $1 off Zoo Admission. $1 off discount must be taken at time of donation. Good through December 31, 2019
Sunset Zoo2333 Oak StreetManhattanKS66502
Teen Literary Zone: Spring Issue Deadline
November 19, 2019 - January 10, 2020
Teen Literary Zone: Spring Issue Deadline 2019-11-19T00:00:00
Teens 7th-12th Grade: Do you want to have your writing or artwork published in a short zine? We're starting a literary art zine! For our first year, each issue will have a seasonal theme. We'll accept any form of writing or art, including things like: poems, essays, comics, photography, scans of 2-d art, or photos of 30D art, or anything outside the box that you can create. The deadline to submit work for the spring issue is January 10, 2020. Submit digital files by emailing them to ya@mhklibrary.org.
Event LocationManhattanKS66502
Zoo In You: The Human Microbiome
September 21, 2019, 10:00 AM - January 12, 2020, 5:00 PM @ Flint Hills Discovery Center
Zoo In You: The Human Microbiome2019-09-21T10:00:00
Non-human organisms outnumber our human cells 10 to 1, as trillions of microbes colonize inside each one of us. Learn about our body’s constant microbial companions and ways scientists realize just how important these microbes are to overall health, Hands-on exhibit features: Meet the Microbes, Our Complex Ecosystems and Exploring Our Microbiome. Fun science and discovery in MHK!
Flint Hills Discovery Center315 S. Third StreetManhattanKS66502
Festival of Lights Celebration
November 29, 2019, 7:00 PM - January 10, 2020 @ Blue Earth Plaza
Festival of Lights Celebration2019-11-29T19:00:00
City holiday celebration stretches from Blue Earth Plaza to Downtown Manhattan shops along Poyntz Avenue, even City Park and Aggieville district. Lights ablaze with Blue Earth Plaza Christmas tree and surrounding plaza courtesy of Whoville merchants.
Blue Earth Plaza3rd & Colorado streetsManhattanKS66502
Manhattan Convention & Visitors Bureau
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Bridge collapses in Taiwan bay, 5 feared missing
By The Manila Times
Rescuers work near the site of a collapsed bridge in Nanfangao, eastern Taiwan on Tuesday, October 1. A towering bridge over a bay in eastern Taiwan collapsed sending an oil tanker truck falling onto boats in the water below. A disaster relief official said the collapse set off a fire and at least 10 people have been hurt. PHOTO BY TAIWAN’S COAST GUARD VIA AP
TAIPEI, Taiwan: A towering arch bridge over a bay in eastern Taiwan collapsed on Tuesday, sending an oil tanker truck falling onto boats in the water below. The search for potential victims involved an air force helicopter and more than 60 army and naval personnel, including divers.
Six people are believed trapped on one of the boats, the National Fire Agency said in a statement.
Interior Minister Hsu Kuo-yung told reporters about five people were feared to have been on the bridge when it collapsed. Ten people were sent to hospitals, six of them with serious injuries.
Fishing vessels were helping to search for the missing, Hsu told Formosa TV.
The bridge collapsed about 9:30 a.m. in Nanfangao, a tiny but often-crowded Pacific coast fishing village.
The weather at the time of the collapse was sunny, hours after a typhoon swept across parts of the island. Disaster relief officials would not say if the storm had weakened the bridge or give other details on the potential cause. Government-run Central News Agency said a bridge pier may have collapsed.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said she hoped all government departments would do everything possible to save people and “keep the number of deaths and injuries as low as possible,” CNA reported.
National Fire Agency spokesperson Su Hong-wei said the tanker’s fall smashed three boats.
Typhoon Mitag had brought high winds and heavy rain to northern Taiwan on Monday night before moving northeast. Flights and ferry services had been canceled Monday.
The 140-meter-long (460-feet) Nanfangao Bridge is a tourist attraction in Yilan. It was opened in 1998 and was built to replace a lower bridge that prevented large fishing vessels from passing underneath.
According to the company that designed the 18-meter-high (nearly 60 feet) high bridge, MAA Consultants, it’s the only single-span arch bridge in Taiwan supported by cables and the second single arch-cable steel bridge in the world.
Video footage on Twitter showed a large truck almost getting across the bridge and then tumbling backward as the bridge collapsed into the water. AP
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Updated: April 9, 2012, 5:06 p.m.
NEW YORK (AP) — AOL's $1 billion deal to sell and license patents to Microsoft is another in a series of "Antiques Roadshow" moments in the technology world. Faded companies have been rummaging through their assets recently, and some of them have found musty old patents that turn out to be worth a great deal.
Patents have become a hot commodity in recent years. They give the holder the exclusive right to use certain technologies or business processes in the U.S. Companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google and others are collecting large patent libraries and increasingly using them in lawsuits — to defend their businesses or to attack rivals.
A valuable patent is less like a forgotten Rembrandt and more like a rusty-but-serviceable gun.
"Patents have become legal weapons. They're not representing ideas anymore," says James Bessen, a lecturer at Boston University and the director of a nonprofit that studies patent issues.
Two big deals in the past year have pushed patents into the spotlight.
In July, a consortium that included Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. pledged to pay $4.5 billion for a collection of patents from Nortel Networks, a bankrupt Canadian maker of telecommunications equipment. By contrast, Nortel's once-prominent wireless networks business fetched just $1.13 billion in 2009.
The consortium outbid Google Inc. for the Nortel patents. But Google struck back in August, when it sealed a deal to buy cellphone company Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion. Motorola is well past its prime as a cellphone maker, but as a technology front-runner for decades, its engineers had accumulated 17,500 patents for the company. The deal with Google has yet to close.
Google wants Motorola's patents as a defense against lawsuits related to its Android operating software for phones and tablets. Motorola, Samsung Electronics Co. and other phone makers have been riding Apple's coattails with devices that are similar to Apple's iPhone and iPad. Apple is fighting back, using patent law in an attempt to delay competitors.
Google supplies Motorola and Samsung with phone software, so it doesn't want to see Apple succeed with its lawsuits. It's buying Motorola so it can use its patents to sue Apple, a threat that could force Apple to the negotiating table or avoid suing Google's partners altogether.
Because of their complexity, high-tech products are particularly susceptible to patent litigation. Hundreds of thousands of patents could apply to a smartphone, for instance. A competitor sitting on any one of those patents could ask a court to stop sales of the product. Things rarely get that far, however. Instead, the defendant usually ends up paying the patent owner ongoing royalties.
These royalties can add up: Analyst Pierre Ferragu at Sanford Bernstein estimates that Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. pays about 10 percent of its revenue to license patents from other companies.
Christopher Marlett, the CEO of MDB Capital, an investment bank that focuses on intellectual properties including patents, says he believes the AOL deal was driven by the rivalry between Google and Microsoft. AOL has Internet-related patents, including some that cover mapping, given that it owns MapQuest, one of the pioneers in that area. Google and Microsoft have their own mapping services.
Much as Google, Microsoft and Apple are doing, Facebook is also buying patents from technology veterans to use in tomorrow's battles.
As a young, successful company with few patents of its own, it needs protection. In March, IBM Corp. sold Facebook 750 patents. The companies did not offer details on what the patents cover or the amount of money exchanged.
Which other companies are sitting on potentially valuable patent portfolios?
Eastman Kodak Co. started shopping around its digital-imaging patents last summer, but didn't manage to make a sale in time to avoid a bankruptcy filing. It's now set to sell the patents under the bankruptcy proceedings.
Though best known for film-based photography, Kodak created some of the first digital cameras. At a time when cameras now go into every phone, Kodak's patents could be worth $2 billion to $3 billion, according to various estimates. Last fall, investors valued the entire company at just over $1 billion, including its debts.
Patents may also represent a big part of the value of Research In Motion Ltd., the struggling maker of the BlackBerry. The company has seen a steep slide in sales, which has pulled its market capitalization down to $6.8 billion. Its patents could be worth $2 billion to $4 billion, analysts say.
Yahoo Inc., like AOL an Internet pioneer, has valuable patents and an ailing business as well. But its straits are not as dire as Kodak's and RIM's. Still, Yahoo chose to wield its patents in March, suing Facebook for infringement on 10 patents. As is customary, Facebook retaliated with its own patent suit against Yahoo, shortly after acquiring the patents from IBM.
The recent trend doesn't mean that patents are on an unstoppable rise in value. Ferragu, the Sanford Bernstein analyst, believes that the smartphone fight is heading for a truce, where a "gentleman's club" of companies figure out the relative strengths of their patent portfolios and work out royalty rates in accordance.
But patents are likely to keep driving deals.
"Patents are a very important asset class that have been ignored way too long," says Alexander Poltorak, CEO of patent-management firm General Patent Corp. "Patents are the currency of the knowledge-based economy."
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Undeterred by the recent FDA panel finding that antibacterial soaps don’t work, Motorola is bravely forging ahead with… the antibacterial cell phone:
“We are excited to work with Motorola to incorporate AgION’s patented antimicrobial technology into the i870 handset,” said J. Ladd Greeno, president and CEO of AgION. “Silver has a centuries-long history of use as an antimicrobial and our compound has been incorporated into a variety of applications including apparel, pens and even medical devices.
The built-in antimicrobial coating of the i870 will help to ensure effective and long-lasting protection of the handset from damaging microbes.”
Sure, they’re using a different mechanism of bacterial repulsion, and for a different purpose, but is this really a selling point? More importantly: when will they make a version available in black?
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Many Muskegon Heights students dig the charter company’s curriculum: “It’s fun.”
By Lindsey Smith • Jan 4, 2013
Students at Edgewood Elementary School learn about philosophy through Mosaica's Paragon curriculum.
This story is the third in a four-part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district. Find part one here, part two here and part four here.
The decision to convert the Muskegon Heights Public School district into a charter school district was a financial one. But the officials who run the new system hope to improve academics too.
The on-air version of the story. An expanded online version is below.
From the outside, Edgewood Elementary School looks and sounds the same as any other year.
But this year, Mosaica Education, the charter company that’s running the school, hopes a new curriculum, longer school day and year round classes will improve student success.
5th grader Nia Merriweather has been going to school at Edgewood Elementary for years. I asked her how things are going so far this year, now that a charter school company is running her school.
“I think it is ok. I, like, care about who’s running it because what if one day, like, somebody who don’t know how to handle schools try to run it? I would care 'cause it would affect me too,” Merriweather said.
She's engaged at school. The Muskegon Chronicle/MLive.com featured Merriweather's recent anti-bullying effort a couple of weeks after I interviewed her for this story.
Merriweather “loves” school in general, before and now, she says. But when asked to pick her favorite part of this school year, in particular, she picked Paragon, Mosaica’s trademarked curriculum.
“It’s fun because we get to work with clay and all that,” Merriweather said. Many of the lessons have some sort of hands-on activity to pair with it.
Intro to Paragon, Mosaica Education’s trademark curriculum
Mosaica Education’s website (and a promotional video here) outlines Paragon like this:
In Paragon, students study history across continents, and gain a profound understanding of the manner in which many ideas develop at the same time in independent cultures unaware of the other’s breakthroughs. Through this, students develop a larger picture of history and the associated interrelationships. Rather than memorize names, dates, and events in isolation, students recall the sequential circumstances surrounding these events and remember more readily both factual information and conceptual relevance.
In a nutshell, I'd say Paragon is like social studies, but with a more worldly focus.
“Right now we’re studying Rome. Like the Roman Empire, how strong their army was. We learned about Julius Caesar and we learned about Cleopatra. I thought she was Egyptian but she’s Greek,” Merriweather informed me. She goes on for a little while about other things she’s learned in Paragon. Mosaica hosts special parent nights to show off all the Paragon material students make and learn in class.
After recess, I join a classroom of 3rd graders as they begin a Paragon lesson about Greek philosophers. Most students seem eager to participate throughout the discussion of “fascinating questions” such as “does the sun have an age?” and “why do zebras have stripes?” before coming up with their own fascinating questions. Then the class read a number of Greek epigrams from Homer, Euripides, Aristotle.
About an hour into the 90-minute long lesson at Edgewood Elementary, students at desks clustered together were noticeably more antsy; a number of them whispering among their groups, others climbing on their chairs. One student was removed for interrupting class.
Muskegon Heights Schools is paying $200,000 a year for Mosaica Education’s Paragon Curriculum.
Over the next five years, the for-profit charter school company will make at least $8.75 million in management and curriculum fees from Muskegon Heights schools. Like any school district, that money comes mainly from taxes that go into the state’s school aid fund, and in this district’s case, federal Title 1 funds.
Former teacher unsure of a one-size-fits-all approach to curriculum
Almost every student I talked to said Paragon was a positive change since the charter school took over. It’s a change that wouldn’t have happened without Mosaica.
But not all the teachers like it.
Craig Oliver has been a social studies teacher for decades. He left his longtime teaching job to work in Muskegon Heights' new charter school district. But he quit by October. He was not a big fan of Paragon or Mosaica’s scheduled lessons throughout the day.
“I compare it to the procedures at McDonalds. You only do things a certain way,” Oliver said. The desk arrangements, in clusters instead of rows, were required in each class, he said.
Oliver says he and other teachers got written warnings when they didn’t follow what he called a “strict schedule” with a certain number of minutes for math, science, and a certain starting time for Paragon.
“In all of my years of teaching it didn’t really matter if you taught math at 9 o’clock in the morning or 2 o’clock in the afternoon,” Oliver said, “As long as you got the lesson done.”
Craig Oliver talks about his experience with Paragon at Edgewod Elementary School this fall.
“(Mosaica) wanted every school and every teacher to function like that, to do the job in a certain way so that – from their point of view they were guaranteeing a product. Having dealt with little human beings for 21 years, it doesn’t always work out like that. You need to build rapport and relationships,” Oliver said. That’s been tough considering the high staff turnover since the emergency manager took over in April.
Oliver said students in his 3rd grade class had a hard time understanding a lot of the vocabulary in Paragon lessons (I’m thinking of “epigram” that tripped up the class I sat in) and that slowed things down.
Mosaica hopes to improve student achievement
The charter school company has plans to raise student achievement beginning this year. The head of Mosaica Education called this a “challenge” considering Muskegon Heights High School, Middle School and Edgewood Elementary are among the worst performing in Michigan.
State tests show practically no Muskegon Heights graduate has been considered “college ready” for years.
Mosaica’s tests show K-8 grade students have fallen between one and three grades behind. High school data will be available later this month. Mosaica wants to raise student achievement by 1.25 grade levels this year.
In the final part of our series on Monday, I’ll consider the next steps for Muskegon Heights schools and discuss how and if this could happen in other Michigan school districts.
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Muskegon Heights students hope for less "chaos" as they return to class today
Muskegon Heights students are heading back to class today to begin the second half of what’s been a very turbulent school year.
This story is the first in a four-part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district. Find part two here, part three here, and part four here.
Muskegon Heights Public School Academy mini series. Feature 1 of 4.
Old district “implodes” after years-long financial problems
The school board in Muskegon Heights battled a budget deficit for at least six years in a row. They gave up the fight a year ago and asked the state to just take over.
“The system that was in place imploded,” said Don Weatherspoon, the guy the state eventually sent in late April to be the emergency manager.
"Enrollment went down, costs went up, they borrowed more than they could pay back; you’re on a collision course with disaster and that’s what happened," Weatherspoon explained. Student enrollment is a big factor in how much money a school district receives from the state.
“Everything that you can think of basically broke down. Discipline, learning, record-keeping, financial accounting, etc,” Weatherspoon said.
By May, Weatherspoon discovered the district is more than $16 million dollars in debt; so much debt it couldn’t afford to open school in the fall.
"I couldn't accept that." Why Muskegon Heights teachers quit and how it impacts students
This story is the second in a four-part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district. Find part one here, part three here, and part four here.
At least one in four teachers at the new Muskegon Heights school district have already quit the charter school this year. That’s after an emergency manager laid off all the former public school teachers in Muskegon Heights because he didn’t have enough money to open school in the fall. That means there have been a lot of new, adult faces in the district.
Students say the high teacher turnover has affected them and top school administrators say it has held back academic achievement this school year.
1 in 4 teachers at Muskegon Heights schools quit during first 3 months of school year
By Lindsey Smith • Dec 3, 2012
Over the summer Muskegon Heights schools’ then emergency manager laid off everybody who worked at the district and hired Mosaica Education to run operations for 5 years.
Muskegon Heights has some of the lowest performing schools in Michigan and is dealing with a multi-million dollar deficit. The state appointed manager says he had no other option but to privatize operations.
Three months in, one in four (20 of 80 total) of the newly hired teachers has quit.
“It’s confusing because I go from this learning process to this learning process to that learning process and it’s just ridiculous how some teachers leave and we have to start all over and learn something new,” Muskegon Heights High School senior Tony Harris said, “It’s just, it’s crazy.”
Charter company faces challenges running public school district in first weeks of class
By Lindsey Smith • Sep 18, 2012
The first two weeks of class have presented some obstacles for Michigan’s first fully privatized public school district.
Muskegon Heights schools' emergency financial manager hired Mosaica Education, a charter school company, in July to run the K-12 system while he focuses on paying off the district’s debt. Highland Park schools’ EFM took the same option later that month.
Alena Zachery-Ross is the top administrator at the new Muskegon Height Public School Academy System. She’s very positive, but admits the first two weeks didn’t go “as smoothly” as she expected.
“There are all these things that you don’t think of. There are small details that we want to ensure are taken care of immediately but they take time,” Zachery-Ross said. She says these 'day-to-day' details are important but she must stick to a priority list.
Muskegon Heights will vote on renewing millage for privatized public schools
By Lindsey Smith • Oct 11, 2012
The emergency financial manager of Muskegon Heights Public Schools is asking voters to renew an operating millage for the next 16 years.
“The outcome of this millage will change the future of Muskegon Heights forever,” says a letter the school district’s emergency financial manager Don Weatherspoon sent home to parents this week.
Weatherspoon privatized the school district so he could focus on paying off its $16 million debt. That debt is mostly owed to the State of Michigan.
Check out the details of Michigan’s first privatized public school system
By Lindsey Smith • Jul 17, 2012
Parents in the Muskegon Heights Public School district are just starting to get an idea of what to expect for their children this fall.
The district is having major financial problems and is under the control of a state appointed emergency manager, Donald Weatherspoon.
Weatherspoon said turning over the entire district to a charter school operator was his only option to keep school open this year.
Last week, the three-member school board (appointed by the Weatherspoon) hired Mosaica Education Inc. to operate the schools in Muskegon Heights.
Muskegon Heights schools handed over to charter school company
The leader of a small, urban school district in western Michigan is completely privatizing the public school system there. The case may become an example for other school districts facing major financial problems.
The problems are academic and financial
The situation at Muskegon Heights Public Schools was dire. It ran $18,000 in the red each day school was open last year.
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Organigram stock soars 35% after earnings and boosts broader cannabis sector
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Canadian cannabis company Aphria Inc.'s shares rose 2.4% in premarket trade Wednesday, after CIBC upgraded the stock to neutral from underperform and said it is more constructive on the stock now that an inevitable cut to guidance has been announced. "There will be issues to contend with, such as ongoing elevated capex spend and substantial working capital investments," analysts John Zamparo and Krishna Ruthnum wrote in a note. "But the balance sheet is relatively strong and market share gains are encouraging." The analysts raised their price target on the stock to C$7.00 ($5.36) from C$6.50. The company's revised guidance--it now expects 2020 revenue of C$575 million to C$625 million versus earlier guidance of C$650 million to C$700 million--is "much more achievable" although it may not be conservative enough, the analysts wrote. But with consensus below the new range, future guidance risk has moderated, said the note. Aphria shares have fallen 25.5% in the last 12 months, while the ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF has fallen 41%. The S&P 500 has gained 26%.
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Aphria stock slides on weaker-than-expected earnings, but other cannabis shares shine
Aphria Stock Gets Hammered After the Marijuana Company Reports Sales Plunge
The Canadian pot producer blames a change in Germany’s reimbursement for medical marijuana, but says demand is strong. Shares are down 8%.
Jan. 14, 2020 at 10:39 a.m. ET by Barron's
Aphria's stock turns lower after in-line loss, revenue miss
Shares of Aphria Inc. slumped 4.8% in premarket trading, reversing an earlier gain of as much as 7.3%, after the Canada-based cannabis company reported fiscal second-quarter losses that were in line with expectations and revenue that missed expectations, but provided an upbeat full-year sales outlook. For the quarter to Nov. 30, Aphria swung to a net loss of C$8.2 million ($6.3 million), or 3 cents a share, from a profit of C$54.8 million, or 22 cents a share, in the same period a year ago. The FactSet consensus was for a per-share loss of 3 cents. Net revenue rose more than 5-fold to C$120.6 million ($92.2 million) from C$21.7 million, but was below the FactSet consensus of C$129.8 million. Kilograms sold rose 18% to 7,062 while cash cost to produce dried cannabis fell 22% to C$1.11 per gram. For fiscal 2020, the company expects revenue of C$575 million to C$625 million, above the FactSet consensus of C$571 million. "We are continuing to expand our capabilities internationally with solid progress during the quarter in Germany and South America and look to monetize non-core assets," said Chief Executive Irwin Simon. "We are confident in our market position and our ability to generate sustainable profit growth." The stock has rallied 25% over the past three months through Monday, while the ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF has lost 5.8% and the S&P 500 has gained 11%.
Aurora Cannabis now has a $1 price target from two analysts
Jan. 10, 2020 at 6:42 p.m. ET by Max A. Cherney
Cannabis stocks led lower by Aurora and Hexo
Jan. 6, 2020 at 3:49 p.m. ET by Max A. Cherney
Shorting cannabis stocks was a billion-dollar idea in 2019
Weed stocks rally on last day of a brutal year
Dec. 31, 2019 at 5:03 p.m. ET by Max A. Cherney
Aurora Cannabis stock slammed by executive departure and insiders selling
Dec. 28, 2019 at 8:47 a.m. ET by Ciara Linnane
Is the Pain Over for Pot Stocks? Investors Can Look Forward to a New Year.
Investors in marijuana stocks had a sour year. But 2020 will be better—at least for solid U.S. operators like Green Thumb Industries and Curaleaf Holdings.
Dec. 27, 2019 at 10:56 a.m. ET by Barron's
Aurora Cannabis stock slides 1.8% premarket as departing exec adds to recent woes
Aurora Cannabis Inc. shares fell 1.8% in premarket trade Monday, after the company said its Chief Corporate Officer Cam Battley is stepping down. MKM analyst Bill Kirk reiterated his sell rating on the stock on the news and lowered his price target to C$2.00 ($1.52) from C$3.00, noting that the move is the third major management shake-up in the cannabis industry this year, following the ouster of Canopy Growth Corp.'s co-Founder and CEO Bruce Linton and Aphria Inc.'s former CEO Vic Neufeld. "The sudden departure, during a period of insider selling, dwindling cash to cover payables, and sector turmoil does not send a strong message to investors," Kirk wrote in a note. Aurora, the most widely held stock on Robinhood, disappointed investors in November when it carried out a highly dilutive convertible debt swap. Shares have fallen 55% in 2019, while the ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF has fallen 31% and the S&P 500 has gained 28.5%.
Cannabis stocks slammed as analysts say Canopy’s new CEO faces big challenges
Can Canopy Growth Afford to Make Its New Cannabis Products?
The company is gearing up to sell its “Cannabis 2.0” products in Canada in January.
Dec. 9, 2019 at 11:49 a.m. ET by Barron's
Cannabis stocks fall for third straight day as market digests last of a weak batch of quarterly earnings
Dec. 2, 2019 at 2:42 p.m. ET by Ciara Linnane
Cannabis stocks boosted by expectations of a spike in spending on weed over holiday weekend
Nov. 29, 2019 at 7:20 a.m. ET by Ciara Linnane
Here’s how investors should think about the FDA’s warning on CBD
Nov. 26, 2019 at 11:09 a.m. ET by Nigam Arora
Aurora Cannabis stock slides after dilutive bond deal, drags broader sector lower
Canadian Pot Producer Aphria Rejects Takeover Bid
Dec. 28, 2018 at 3:57 p.m. ET on The Wall Street Journal
Stocks to Watch: Facebook, Children’s Place, Kroger, Lands’ End, Goldman Sachs, Caterpillar, Boeing and UPS
Dec. 6, 2018 at 9:13 a.m. ET on The Wall Street Journal
Cannabis Focus Shifting From Expansion To Profitability With Debra Borchardt (Podcast Transcript)
Jan. 20, 2020 at 7:50 a.m. ET on Seeking Alpha
The Green Organic Dutchman: Profits Unlikely In 2020
Jan. 19, 2020 at 12:24 p.m. ET on Seeking Alpha
Jan. 17, 2020 at 9:22 a.m. ET on InvestorPlace.com
Here’s How Aphria Stock Could Double in 2020
Aphria: Clearing The Deck
Jan. 16, 2020 at 7:27 p.m. ET on Seeking Alpha
How To Play The Canadian Cannabis Industry In 2020
Aphria Inc. Launches Plant Positivity Immersive Winter Garden to Help Combat Winter Blues
Jan. 16, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. ET on CNW Group
Aphria (APHA) Investor Presentation - Slideshow
Contrarians Should Rethink Aphria Stock
Jan. 15, 2020 at 11:59 a.m. ET on InvestorPlace.com
Big day for pot names after Organigram results
Cannabis Focus Shifting From Expansion To Profitability With Debra Borchardt (Podcast)
Here’s Why It’s Not Too Late to Buy Canopy Growth Stock
Aphria Earnings: APHA Stock Dips 7% on Q2 Miss
Jan. 14, 2020 at 3:08 p.m. ET on InvestorPlace.com
Avoid Aurora Stock, Buy Canopy Growth Stock for Cannabis Exposure
Aphria Inc (APHA) CEO Irwin Simon on Q2 2020 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Aphria Inc. (APHA) Reports Q2 Loss, Misses Revenue Estimates
Aphria Inc. (APHA) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 0.00% and -9.42%, respectively, for the quarter ended November 2019. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?
Jan. 14, 2020 at 7:30 a.m. ET on Zacks.com
Aphria up 2% premarket on FQ2 results
Aphria Inc. Announces Third Consecutive Quarter of Positive Adjusted EBITDA and a 46% Increase in Adult-Use Cannabis Revenue From Prior Quarter
Aphria Q2 2020 Earnings Preview
Aphria Stock Will Deliver Results Even If Cannabis 2.0 Disappoints
Cannabis Stocks Rebound Big: This Won't Last
Jan. 20, 2020 at 6:58 a.m. ET on Baystreet.ca
Cannabidiol (CBD) Market: Facts, Figures and Analytical Insights 2019-2024
Jan. 20, 2020 at 1:30 a.m. ET on AmericaNewsHour
Cannabidiol (CBD) Market Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast to 2025
Stocks in Play: Aphria Inc.
Jan. 16, 2020 at 12:13 p.m. ET on Baystreet.ca
Cannabis Market Size Growing at 34.5% CAGR to hit USD 153,689.9 million by 2027
Jan. 16, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. ET on PR Newswire - PRF
Latest Research on Medical Marijuana Market 2019 with CAGR 26.4% | Canopy Growth Corporation, Aphria, Inc., Aurora Cannabis, etc.
Slight Hike for TSX Futures
CBD (Cannabidiol) Market Overview 2020, Cost Estimation, Global Industry Size, Growth, Regional Analysis, CBD Product Growing Demand, Competitive Landscape, Top Companies, Strategy Profiling, Upcoming Trends
Jan. 15, 2020 at 5:16 a.m. ET on Heraldkeepers
Investor Ideas Potcasts, Cannabis News and Stocks on the Move
Jan. 14, 2020 at 2:28 p.m. ET on Investorideas.com
Medical Cannabis Market Global Insights, Trends and Huge Business Opportunities 2019 to 2024
Jan. 14, 2020 at 1:22 a.m. ET on Xherald
Cannabis Cultivation Market is Thriving Worldwide with Canopy, Aphria, Aurora Cannabis, Tilray
Jan. 13, 2020 at 3:35 p.m. ET on ABNewswire
Medicinal Cannabis Market to Witness Stunning Growth | Canopy, Aurora Cannabis, Tikun Olam, Cannabis Science
Medical Marijuana Market 2020 Analysis Focusing On Top Companies- GW Pharmaceuticals PLC, MedReleaf Corporation, Canopy Growth Corporation, Aphria Incorporation
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Will Big Cap Marijuana Stocks Return Stronger In The New Year
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Major Retailers are Rushing to Stay Ahead of the Demand for CBD
Jan. 9, 2020 at 10:58 a.m. ET on Baystreet.ca
Medical Marijuana Market Share, Growth, Analysis, Size, Outlook by 2019 - Trends, Opportunities and Forecast to 2025
Jan. 8, 2020 at 7:56 a.m. ET on AmericaNewsHour
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Bitcoin rises again, setting another record
By Ryan Vlastelica
Published: Aug 31, 2017 8:37 a.m. ET
Ether also rises, but remains below its own record
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The price of the digital currency bitcoin rose on Thursday, hitting the latest in a series of records.
A single bitcoin BTCUSD, -1.41% gained 2.4% to $4,742.91 on Thursday, near the all-time high of $4,747.15 hit earlier in the session. So far this year, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has surged nearly 400%, having ended 2016 below $1,000. To compare, the S&P 500 SPX, +0.39% is up 9.8% over the same period.
Read: Here’s how bitcoin is dwarfing housing and dot-com bubbles
At current levels, bitcoin has a market cap of $78.42 billion, larger than such companies as Starbucks Corp. SBUX, +1.12% and American Express Co. AXP, +0.74%.
Despite the record, bitcoin trading has been extremely volatile this year, albeit with a strong upward bias. It recently dropped more than 10%, briefly putting it into correction territory before it subsequently rebounded. The moves come as the industry has tackled so-called scaling issues, which are intended to increase transaction sizes in the blockchain network. Traditional bitcoin participants have coalesced around a new protocol known as Segregated Witness, or SegWit., which they believe solves bitcoin’s scaling issue.
Ether, bitcoin’s chief rival, runs on the Ethereum blockchain. It rose 1% to $382.21, bringing its total market cap to $36.1 billion.
While Ether remains below its intraday record above $400, hit earlier this year, it has been a far stronger performer than bitcoin in 2017, having soared more than 4,600%. It ended 2016 around $8.
Don’t miss: As bitcoin and rivals surge, so too have complaints to the CFPB
Bitcoin Cash, an offspring created in response to bitcoin’s transaction-size issue, rose 5.1% to $594.11 on Thursday, bringing its market cap to nearly $9.8 billion. The third-largest digital currency has struggled lately, and it is down more than 30% from an all-time high above $860 hit on Aug. 19.
The combined market cap of all digital currencies is above $170 billion, according to CoinMarketCap, a pricing and data website. That means the asset class has grown by more than $20 billion in about a week; it topped $150 billion on Aug. 23, having broke above $100 billion in early June.
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Ryan Vlastelica is a markets reporter for MarketWatch and is based in New York. Follow him on Twitter @RyanVlastelica.
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Mental Toughness Rock Star
by Mental Toughness Partners on Jun. 16, 2016
Professor Peter Clough’s Inaugural Lecture at MMU
Congratulations to Professor Peter Clough (one half of the rock stars of mental toughness with Doug Strycharczyk) on delivering his inaugural address at Manchester Metropolitan University on Tuesday 17th May 2016.
Speaking to a capacity audience he spoke about the journey taken to develop the 4Cs model of Mental Toughness. Peter traced the academic roots of the model, how it integrated well with a great deal of current thinking and is now breaking new ground in understanding human behaviour. Collaborations with universities from around the globe had, to date, produced 67 peer reviewed journal articles often taking the concept into new applications.
Peter also spoke about the remarkable growth in the application of the 4Cs model and the Mental Toughness Questionnaire, the MTQ48, into:
staff and leadership development
the world of sport.
A major recent development links sport to the development of those who are disadvantaged or disconnected in some way with some remarkable achievements with organisation as diverse as London Youth Rowing, MU Foundation and Career Connect. Case studies are available via our resources page.
At Mental Toughness Partners we’re delighted to be working with Peter Clough, Doug Strycharczyk and the AQR team on developing mental toughness within Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
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We want to make a difference in people’s lives. Building brighter futures for our clients, colleagues and communities is why we come to work each day.
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We’re dedicated to the promises we make to each other and to our clients. At Mercer, we’re committed to leading with economics and empathy, supporting our views with future-forward thinking driven by human insight and analytical rigor. We’re invested in shaping the future by innovating brighter solutions that uncover the unexpected and reveal the unrealized, considering the economic and human impact at every step. We’re driven by the power of our diverse global teams, bringing the winning combination of our people, strengths and capabilities to every challenge. And in everything we do, we commit to working with integrity and passion, relentlessly focused on delivering results that make a positive difference in people’s lives.
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Hear our CEO, Martine Ferland, and other Mercer leaders and colleagues talk about diversity at Mercer.
"By respecting, valuing and leveraging all aspects of diversity, we drive greater innovation, and offer a competitive advantage that differentiates our client teams, products, services and solutions."
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Metal Coaters offers RoHS compliant, chrome free pretreatments that are applied by either an immersion process or by a roll application process to meet specific customer requirements.
What is RoHS?
RoHS, also known as Lead-Free, stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances. RoHS, also known as Directive 2002/95/EC, originated in the European Union and restricts the use of six hazardous materials found in electrical and electronic products. Any business that sells applicable electrical or electronic products, sub-assemblies or components directly to RoHS countries, or sells to resellers, distributors, or integrators that in turn sell products to these countries, is impacted if they utilize any of the restricted materials.
RoHS specifies maximum levels for the following six restricted materials:
Lead (Pb): < 1000 ppm
Mercury (Hg): < 100 ppm
Cadmium (Cd): < 100 ppm
Hexavalent Chromium: (Cr VI) < 1000 ppm
Polybrominated Biphenyls (PBB): < 1000 ppm
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDE): < 1000 ppm
Additional information on RoHS compliance can be found at www.rohsguide.com or go to the National Coil Coatings Association website for the RoHS Tutorial
Metal Coaters will glad supply a letter of compliance to REACH regulations upon request.
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The aim of REACH is to improve the protection of human health and the environment through the better and earlier identification of the intrinsic properties of chemical substances. The REACH Regulation places greater responsibility on industry to manage the risks from chemicals and to provide safety information on the substances. Manufacturers and importers are required to gather information on the properties of their chemical substances, which will allow their safe handling, and to register the information in a central database run by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in Helsinki. The Agency acts as the central point in the REACH system: it manages the databases necessary to operate the system, co-ordinates the in-depth evaluation of suspicious chemicals and is building up a public database in which consumers and professionals can find hazard information.
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Home Tax Entrepreneurs Pay Too Much Business Tax In Britain
Entrepreneurs Pay Too Much Business Tax In Britain
Entrepreneurs selling large businesses could pay double the tax of a smaller business due to an unfair spread of capital gains tax allowances and reliefs.
A study by accountants UHY Hacker Young shows someone selling a business for £6.2 million would pay just 9% in tax after reliefs and exemptions.
However, a successful entrepreneur who had taken their business to a higher level, selling for £30 million, would pay almost 22% of the sale proceeds in tax.
The firm’s figures come from a review on the 50th anniversary of the introduction of capital gains tax in Britain.
The firm says reliefs and allowances are supposed to encourage and compensate entrepreneurs for their efforts in starting a business and creating jobs, but fail to help larger businesses.
Lifestyle businesses
In a G7/European Union comparison, the discrepancy between taxes paid on a small business compared to a large business is 12%, argues the firm.
Tax partner Roy Maugham said: “There’s a big difference in the tax treatment of owner-managed business sales depending on the value of the business.
“If the government really wants to help entrepreneurs move on from lifestyle businesses to create corporations, then they must do something to equalise the tax entrepreneurs pay that penalises them for their success.”
The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) both offer capital gains tax shelters to investors and entrepreneurs, but tend to help small companies rather than large enterprises.
Both schemes offer capital gains deferrals on raising cash for investment and CGT-free growth on equity stakes.
Entrepreneurs relief failings
“The capital gains tax system does not offer enough compensation for the financial risk entrepreneurs take,” said Maugham.
“To grow a company into a larger corporation, an entrepreneur would need to make significant investment in professional management and probably have to look for investment to promote and expand the business.”
Reduced capital gains tax available as entrepreneurs’ relief is meant to deal with these issues, argues Maugham, but only applies to a lifetime limit of £10 million of gains.
The relief reduces CGT down to 10% for qualifying assets – which would include most businesses.
“The next government will have to address this as lower taxes on the sale of businesses in other parts of Europe and emerging markets will encourage entrepreneurs to move away from Britain, which could affect growth and jobs,” said Maugham.
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800+ Tons
Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative
Alpine Power Plant - Gaylord, MI
Moran Iron Works was awarded the contract to supply design, engineering, fabrication, and installation of two exhaust systems for Wolverine Power. The exhaust systems were installed at Wolverine’s Alpine Power Plant located in Elmira Township near Gaylord, Michigan. The plant utilizes two General Electric Frame 7FA.05 turbines for natural gas to generate over 430 megawatts of nameplate electricity.
MIW’s exhaust system design employed noise abatement guidelines and resulted in two of the most efficient exhaust systems in use. The systems required approximately 800 tons of steel to construct.
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February 2013 - September 2014
3,382 Tons
JH Campbell Plant - West Olive, MI
In September of 2014, Moran Iron Works completed its largest project to date, which kicked off in February of 2013. Over the year and a half period, eight barge loads of fabricated ductwork were shipped to the JH Campbell Plant in West Olive, Michigan.
This project was one of the most ambitious undertakings thus far, weighing in at over 3,382 Tons. More than 70,000 man hours in the shop were spent handling, processing, fabricating, and modularizing this Air Quality Control System Ducting. Our crews spent an additional 10,000 man hours at Port Calcite modularizing sub-assemblies and loading the barges.
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National Grid Generation, LLC
Barrett Plant - Oceanside, NY
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Moran Iron Works was awarded the contract to fabricate and deliver a new Frame 5 silencer. The work also included demo of the old silencer unit and installation of the newly fabricated one.
This unit was shipped via oversized load to Stock Key / Key West in one piece with lifting lugs installed for both rolling and lifting. Plenum repairs were also required due to years of degradation in the salt water environment.
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Moran Iron Works was awarded a contract to fabricate a replacement diffuser assembly for install at Universal AET’s customer.
This unit was fabricated using 304H, high carbon stainless steel, for durability in the extreme heat of a Frame 7B exhaust. Machined flanges to hold tight tolerances and shipped direct to the project site.
FRAME 5 SILENCER & TRANSITION
Moran Iron Works was awarded the contract to fabricate a complex silencer and plenum heat shields for a 40 plus year old Frame 5 unit. This silencer stack had three levels of baffles for maximum performance. The plenum heat shields were replaced due to age and replacements were installed without the removal of the diffuser.
This unit was shipped via oversized load to Douglas in one piece with lifting lugs installed for both rolling and lifting.
The project was completed and delivered in three months.
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Moran Iron Works is a HUBZone-certified Small Business Concern that was founded in 1978 by Thomas Moran and has their headquarters and largest manufacturing facility (125,000 total sq. ft.) in Onaway, Michigan, and access via their high-wire corridor to their Deep Water Port in Rogers City, Michigan.
MIW is dynamic fabrication facility that provides a full range of custom design, engineering, fabrication, installation, service, repair, and modification services throughout a number of industries including marine, power, industrial and hydro.
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Home News Morocco Morocco Issues International Arrest Warrant Against Aicha Ayach for Blackmail
Several victims in the "Hamza mon bb" case have accused Ayach, who lives in the UAE, of direct involvement.
Moroccan designer Aicha Ayach
Rabat – Moroccan police have issued an international arrest warrant against Moroccan designer Aicha Ayach for her alleged involvement in the “Hamza mon bb” case.
Several victims have accused Ayach of being directly involved in the case, along with Moroccan singer Dounia Batma and her sister Ibtissam who are both currently on bail.
Moroccan French-speaking news outlet Le360 reported that police are searching for Ayach’s aide, whose identity has not yet been revealed.
Ayach lives in the UAE.
If the news about the arrest warrant against Ayach is valid, the UAE is expected to repatriate the designer to Morocco under an agreement signed between the two countries in 2006 on the extradition of criminals.
Police have arrested six suspects involved in the case of Hamza mon bb, including a policeman. Police also summoned Dounia and her sister for their alleged involvement in the affair.
The Batma sisters are currently out of jail on bail but they are not allowed to leave the country pending the end of investigation.
The Hamza mon bb case refers to social media accounts active online since 2016. The accounts share indecent content about celebrities and public figures for blackmail.
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Steinberg CMC USB controllers review
By Bruce Aisher 2012-03-25T08:17:00.84Z
Interesting controllers, but only time will tell if they can wrestle users away from their mice.
Strong Cubase integration; small footprint; scalable system.
Stiff competition from iPad.
The fruits of Yamaha's ownership of Steinberg continue to bear fruit in the hardware realm with the arrival of the CMC range of controllers. These are aimed fairly and squarely, though not exclusively, at Cubase users.
The range consists of six similarly-sized USB-powered devices that each take care of a different set of mixing, production and control functions. Although the controls on each device vary according the task to which it is assigned - and it is worth noting that they are not all priced at the same point - we find switches, rotary encoders and touch faders, all with varying degrees of illumination and visual feedback.
"A USB hub is recommended when running more than a few controllers simultaneously - there is no way of linking units together internally."
The units can be used on their own or as part of a larger, multiple controller setup. However, the drivers for the devices, quite logically, allow for only one instance of each, with the exception of the MCC-FD Fader Controller where four concurrent units (16 channels) are supported.
It is worth pointing out here that a USB hub is recommended when running more than a few controllers simultaneously, as there is no way of linking units together internally - each has only one USB socket by way of connection. Steinberg can also provide (for a price) a couple of extension frames for bundling units together in something more solid that the plastic clips that come with each unit.
Software installation is straightforward and, as well as installing the relevant drivers, adds the units to the Cubase Remote Devices menu, where a degree of customisation of functions is facilitated.
Incidentally, Cubase AI6 (a trimmed-down version of the full DAW) is included with each controller.
The CMC-CH Channel Controller provides a good overview of what the range offers. Taking the Cubase Audio Channel strip as is its cue, the CH features one of Steinberg's new Touch Controllers for the fader.
This can be configured to jump to new values instantly or only move once the existing fader position is passed (represented by an LED beneath the fader strip). There is also a continuos rotary encoder assigned to Pan (this time with LED brightness indicating the value's extremities).
The rest of the unit is populated with buttons mapped directly to those in the software (such as various bypass switches, automation Read/Write and Mute/Solo) as well as Folder and Freeze buttons. The SHIFT button also provides access to each button's secondary role as a Function key for triggering Cubase Key Commands (which can be fully customised within the DAW itself).
The CMC-FD Fader Controller provides four of the aforementioned Touch Faders for levelling duties - they can also display channel level meters (though only in red) if required.
CMC-TP Transport Controller is dedicated to transport functions including locators, markers, jog, shuttle and zoom, as well as the obvious loop, play and record buttons.
The CMC-QC Quick Controller uses eight rotary encoders to access the built-in EQ, but their role can be switched to adjust the values of each Cubase channel's Quick Controls or those of the currently selected plug-in. The QC can also transmit standard MIDI CC data, which is fully configurable via the include CMC-QC Editor software.
The CMC-AI features Steinberg's now ubiquitous AI knob, which facilitates adjustment for any parameter beneath the mouse pointer, though fine control (à la Shift + mouse) is seemingly not supported. Like the QC, where 'parameter learning' is possible, plug-in control is restricted to Steinberg plug-ins (no third-party control here - shame). The range is rounded-off with CMC-PD Pad Controller - a 4 x 4 drum trigger matrix.
Of all the controllers in the CM range the CMC-PD is the only one that may be of interest to non-Cubase users. What we have here is a 4 x 4 drum pad matrix, somewhat akin to a mini MPC-style controller.
By default each pad is mapped to a different MIDI note, with a rotary encoder for switching between 'banks' of 16 MIDI notes. One of these banks is assigned to GM mapping of drums.
Each of the pads lights in green, orange or red depending on the velocity with which it is hit, although different velocity curve scan be selected to make process more flexible. The so-called '4Velocity' mode is intended to speed-up step-time not entry by assigning different velocities (but the same MIDI note) to four different pads. Adjustment can be made to key assignments using the editor software included with the unit.
Overall this is a useful little controller, which made programming drums a pleasure, though it does feel quite light in the midst of a good bashing!
The truth is, we desperately wanted to love these controllers - they look really good and they promise a lot - but they don't quite deliver on all fronts.
Despite their LED-driven visual feedback, you still need to move your eyes between screen and controller. This is perhaps a criticism of many remote controllers; even Focusrite's well-regarded Automap devices do not fully address this shortcoming.
The reality remains that screen-based touch devices, such as the prolific iPad, might point more realistically to where things are going, though mice will no doubt rule the roost until a unifying standard is arrived at.
In fact, if the cost of the CMC range was lower, making them a more impulsive purchase, the picture might have been different, but they do face competition, albeit from none that integrate so fully into the Cubase workflow.
It may not be love, but we'll certainly be friends with the CMCs.
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WikiLeaks suspect now 'medium custody' prisoner
by Joshua J. McElwee
An image of the front of the Joint Regional Correctional Facility in Fort Leavenworth, Kan. provided by the U.S. Army
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- Suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, whose treatment in custody has spurred protests from supporters and human rights groups, is now considered a “medium custody” prisoner and is allowed three hours of recreation a day, the U.S. Army announced this afternoon.
The announcement came at the end of a morning press tour of the facility here where Manning is being held.
NCR was part of the tour, which included about a dozen representatives from local, national, and international press organizations.
Manning was moved to the Joint Regional Correctional Facility here April 20 from the Marine brig in Quantico, Va. where he had been held since July, 2010.
The conditions of his imprisonment at Quantico spurred the wide-ranging protests. While at the Virginia facility, Manning was placed into solitary confinement for 23 hours each day and forced to wear only a suicide-proof smock each night.
The commandant of the Fort Leavenworth facility, Lt. Col. Dawn Hilton, said the suspected Army private’s new classification -- which “starts tomorrow morning” -- allows Manning to receive Army inspected mail freely, make phone calls, and meet with preapproved visitors.
Prisoners at the facility are housed separately depending on whether they have or haven't faced trial. There are currently ten “pre-trial” prisoners at the facility, said Hilton. Each are placed in individual 80 square foot cells and are connected by a shared common room to three other cells.
During the tour of the six-month-old facility, members of the press were able to see its indoor recreation center, work rooms, outside recreation area, medical facilities, and an empty cell block which Army officials said was similar to the one where Manning is housed.
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Keroche Breweries CEO Tabitha Karanja, Husband Arrested
By John Wanjohi Thu, 08/22/2019 @ 12:22pm 588 views 4 comments
Keroche Breweries Limited CEO Tabitha Karanja was on Thursday evening arrested over allegations of tax evasion.
Detectives from Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) picked Mrs. Karanja and her husband Joseph from their company in Naivasha, Nakuru County.
The two were apprehended a day after Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji ordered their arrest over accusations of evading taxes amounting to Sh14.4 billion.
Haji said an audit by Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) established that the two, through Keroche Breweries, failed to remit excise duty and value-added tax (VAT) on its various beer products between January 2015 and June 2019.
He further said there was sufficient evidence to charge the couple and Keroche Breweries Limited with 10 counts of tax fraud.
“Having independently reviewed the file and applying the provisions of the National Prosecution Policy, I am satisfied that there is sufficient evidence and that it is in the public interest to charge the suspects listed herein with 10 counts of Tax Fraud, contrary to section 97 (a) and (c) of the Tax Procedures Act, 2015,” Haji said in a statement.
In a statement to the press on Wednesday night, Mrs. Karanja said: “We are deeply shocked beyond imagination by both the allegations made and the manner at which the matter has been handled from the dissemination of the information. My shock is how a local investor can be, humiliated, embarrassed and denied the well-deserved respect…”
Mugikuyu
Thu, 08/22/2019 @ 01:12pm
This is totally NOT in good faith and perhaps taxes paid by Kenya Breweries should be made public. Looks to me like witch-hunt but then again what else is new with this gova. Catch and release agenda.
imkgoogo
In reply to This is totally NOT in good… by Mugikuyu
The DPP has earned the respect from many Kenyans. Every law abiding Kenyan should support him. This is about Keroche Breweries.
Settled Nomad
The Truth that the Law is not clear, about what they owe on taxes, or even if they actually owe anything, on taxes. It is unfair to embarrass them in public, this way, without any evidence.
Fri, 08/23/2019 @ 04:56am
The DPP & DCI have failed to nail the big fish involved in stealing cash meant for government projects,now they turn their anger on well managed companies earning what they deserve! When will this madness end! Shame on Kenya! You kill industries that offer employment & you dont have alternatives!
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15 March 2018 — 3 minute read
With so many retail collapses recently, it poses the question of what warning signs business leaders should look out for to determine whether a key supplier or customer is heading for disaster.
In a matter of just weeks, Aussie Farmers Direct, Doughnut Time, Zachary The Label and Kangaroo Tent City & BBQs have all gone under, while there have been concerns around the viability of ASX-listed companies Retail Food Group and Myer.
The good news, according to ASIC’s annual review of corporate insolvencies, is that the number of business failures fell by almost 18 per cent last financial year.
Yet that doesn’t mean business leaders can remain complacent. Their own business, or one that they operate closely with, may have telltale signs that a call for administrators may not be far off.
Additionally, insolvencies and bankruptcies are actually on the rise among private individuals.
According to Mark Hoppe, managing director, ANZ, of credit insurance and debt collection agency Atradius, there are 10 common warning signs that a business may be in trouble.
However, he said these are not guaranteed markers that a business is going to fold, and as such context is crucial in determining the relevance of some or all of these indicators.
1. Too much debt
“If a company’s operations are mostly funded by creditors instead of the business owners, and it may have some difficulty servicing that debt, then it is under stress and may not be a valuable business partner,” said Mr Hoppe.
2. Overexpansion
According to Mr Hoppe, overexpansion can quickly lead to cash flow troubles, even for experienced operators. This then leaves them running the risk of taking on large amounts of debt in a bid to keep the business going.
3. Lack of clarity
Clarity around what the business is trying to achieve is critical to its ongoing success.
“If it’s not clear what the business does or how it generates cash, there is likely to be a significant amount of risk,” said Mr Hoppe.
“These types of businesses should be avoided.”
4. Qualified accounts / going concern commentary
“Qualified accounts are audited accounts where the auditor has doubts or disagreements with the firm’s management,” Mr Hoppe noted.
“Going concern commentary is not as serious as qualified accounts but it can be a sign that the auditor is protecting themselves from litigation but is still signing off on the accounts.
“This is a huge red flag; don’t do business with a company showing these warning signs.”
5. Profit warnings
Profit warnings are most commonly the domain of listed companies. According to Mr Hoppe, they are “the clearest sign that a company won’t meet its earning expectations and could be a signal that the business may be in trouble”.
6. Profit versus cash flow
Mr Hoppe said that it is important to differentiate profits from cash flow, as current profitability is not an accurate measure for determining the ongoing viability of a business.
He suggested that strong profits but little cash flow could indicate problems lurking behind the scenes, and can even be “a sign of dodgy accounting practices”.
7. Irregular payments
Another common indication a business is in strife is its payments become irregular – even if they make sizeable lump-sum payments at ad hoc intervals.
“It’s a sign the company’s cash flow is compromised. Deciding to continue doing business with a company in this situation can depend on past payment history, current relationships, and the reasonable likelihood of the business getting its cash flow back on track.”
8. Unstable leadership
Aside from finances, instability among a business’ management team and senior employees can indicate problems. Beware of a significant turnover among senior member of staff and management.
9. Trappings of success
“When directors have high-end, brand-new cars, computer systems, and furnishings, it can be a sign that directors are rewarding themselves at the expense of the company,” warned Mr Hoppe.
“By itself, this isn’t necessarily a sign of trouble, especially if cash flow is strong and the company is meeting all of its payment obligations.
“However, taken in conjunction with other signs on this list, this could be a red flag.”
10. Late filing of accounts
Finally, Mr Hoppe suggested that it pays to dig into a company’s history of lodging documentation.
“If the company files its accounts late, it could be a sign of general disorganisation or it could indicate that the business had trouble getting an auditor to sign off,” he said.
Adam Zuchetti is the editor of My Business, and has steered the publication’s editorial direction since early 2016.
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Rams outlast Rio for doubleheader sweep
By Randy Payton - For Ohio Valley Publishing
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Marcus Espinal’s one-out sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth lifted Bluefield College to a 4-3 game two victory and a doubleheader sweep of the University of Rio Grande, Tuesday afternoon, in non-conference baseball action at Bowen Field.
The host Rams posted a 5-1 triumph in the opening game and improved to 8-1 with the sweep of the twinbill.
Rio Grande dropped to 8-7 with the losses.
Espinal’s sacrifice fly rescued the Rams, who had blown an early 2-0 lead.
Jordan Huntley opened the home ninth by drawing a walk from sophomore reliever Caleb Fetzer (Van Wert, OH), the last of three pitchers in the nightcap for the RedStorm. He was forced out moments later on Carlos Torres’ fielder’s choice grounder to shortstop, but Ozzie Millet’s triple to left plated Torres with the tying run.
Leyan Napoleon and Edgardo Bernard were issued consecutive intentional walks to load the bases and set up a force play, but Espinal followed with a flyball that was deep enough to right field for Millet to tag up and race home with the game-winning marker.
Bluefield led 2-0 after two innings, scoring once in each of the first two frames.
Huntley led off the home first with a double, took third on a flyout to right and then scored when Millet’s grounder to shortstop was booted for an error.
The second inning run scored on a one-out walk to Joseph Cardona and back-to-back two-out singles by Andy Pena and Huntley.
Rio Grande tied the game in the fourth inning when freshman Clayton Surrell (Carroll, OH) tripled and senior David Rodriguez (Santo Domingo, D.R.) followed with a two-run home run to right.
That’s how things stayed until a two-out, run-scoring double in the top of the ninth by Rio junior Dylan Shockley (Minford, OH) gave the RedStorm a 3-2 advantage and set up the dramatic finish in the bottom half of the inning.
Fetzer took the loss, allowing the two runs – along with two hits and four walks – over 3-2/3 innings. He also struck out six.
Justin Coleman, the final of four hurlers for the Rams, was the winning pitcher. He allowed six hits and one run over three innings.
Rio Grande out-hit Bluefield, 13-7, in game two.
Surrell, Rodriguez, junior Eli Daniels (Minford, OH), junior Caden Cluxton (Washington Court House, OH) and junior Walter Baker III (Louisville, KY) all had two hits for the RedStorm. cluxton’s total included a double.
Huntley and Millet had two hits each for the Rams.
In the opening game, Rio Grande took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a two-out home run by Rodriguez, but Bluefield responded by doing all of its damage in the home half of the second.
Napoleon led off with a triple and, after an infield hit by Bernard, rode home on a wild pitch by Rio senior starter Pierce Knisely (Chillicothe, OH) to knot the score at 1-1.
Espinal followed with a run-scoring single to give the Rams the lead and, two outs later, Pena drew a walk to keep the inning alive.
Espinal and Pena both scored moments later on an inside-the-park home run by Huntley to make it 5-1.
Rio Grande managed just three hits off of Bluefield starter Alex Perkins after the Rodriguez homer in the first.
Justin Coleman pitched the seventh for the Rams, allowing one hit and striking out two.
Freshman Cole Dyer (Wheelersburg, OH) had two of Rio’s five hits in the loss, while Shockley had a double.
Knisley took the loss, allowing seven hits and the five runs over four innings. He walked two and fanned four.
Huntley finished 2-for-3 in the win for BC.
Rio Grande is scheduled to return to action on Friday when it hosts Fisher (Mass.) College in a doubleheader at VA Memorial Stadium in Chillicothe.
First pitch for the opening game is set for noon.
By Randy Payton
For Ohio Valley Publishing
Randy Payton is the Sports Information Director at the University of Rio Grande.
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Inside a Fashion Designer's Fixer-Upper: From Bungalow to Dream Home
Hadley Mendelsohn
Hadley was the Associate Editor at MyDomaine for two and a half years before joining the House Beautiful team as the Design Editor.
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We've been fans of It girl Cydney Morris ever since we discovered her fashion line Stone Cold Fox (if you aren't already familiar with this Southern California–based brand, get ready to fall in love the ethereal, vintage-inspired gowns, boho-chic tops, and more). As the co-founder and designer, Morris embodies that coveted look of bohemian elegance like few can, and that extends beyond her wardrobe and into her home. So unsurprisingly, we were pretty excited here at MyDomaine HQ to find out that she recently bought her first home and is documenting the redesign process of the fixer-upper on Instagram.
Since we're always on the lookout for home makeover inspiration, we got in touch with the creative to hear all about her redesign plans, tips, and challenges so far. Ahead, check out our conversation with Morris, and then scroll through to see the before and after photos of the first few phases in the transformation. Stay tuned as we update this post each month with the latest behind-the-scenes updates of Morris's charming beachside bungalow, and follow her progress on @thefoxalow.
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MYDOMAINE: When was this house built?
CYDNEY MORRIS: The house was built in 1924. Ninety-three years ago—that just amazes me! It’s from before my grandma was even born. I’m sure if those walls could talk, they would have some pretty good stories.
MD: How would you describe its style of architecture?
CM: I would describe it as a craftsman style bungalow with architectural salvage accents. It has an interesting layout from the original 1920s design, which has made it challenging yet fun to design.
MD: Do you have a directive for the space, or are you trying to leave room for improvisation as things move along?
CM: My main goals are to have a beautiful open space that is welcoming, comfortable, and airy to accommodate friends who pop over. There’s also going to be an outdoor area for lots of wine/pasta parties. I want it to be a home to start a family in yet also a place to resell and profit off of one day. Eventually, I would love to work out of it a couple days a week.
MD: How would you describe your style? Is it similar to your sense of style with clothing, or is it different?
CM: My style is pretty laid-back. I’m a Victorian vintage white lace top–and-Levi’s kind of girl. Otherwise, you can find me wearing a beautiful Stone Cold Fox silk dress pretty much always. Our clothes are comfortable yet so feminine and timeless, which I want my home to reflect as well.
I think if someone walked into my house not knowing who it belongs too, it screams me and the Stone Cold Fox name 100%! The reason I love vintage clothes is the same reason I like putting time into antique furniture. It’s nice knowing that no one else has that piece, and it tells a beautiful story.
The First Phase of the Makeover
Since this is a fixer-upper, Morris decided to pace the redesign process over the course of a few years. She’s currently just getting started with what she calls “phase one” of the makeover. To amplify space and allow for more natural light, Morris “took out the ceiling in the living room to expose the beams and add four skylights.” Before, “it seemed super low and claustrophobic,” she tells us, so “the decision was worth every penny.”
She continues, “It completely changed the house for the best. I love windows and light—I think I almost cried when they first put the skylights in, I love it so much.” The other priorities during this monthlong phase are bathroom and kitchen redesigns as well as adding French doors to the side entrance. Phase two of the redesign project is all about increasing the resell value of the property. This phase will include working on the landscaping of the yard, enhancing the office, and potentially even adding another bathroom.
Selecting a Color Palette
Coming up with a color palette can be both the best and the worst part of redecorating. It creates a cohesive aesthetic, sets the tone for the overall mood of the home, and communicates your personal style. In other words, the pressure’s on. But once you establish the right color scheme, committing to it will be easy, even if it’s strict. “I always change my mind and love to redesign rooms every few months, so if I stick to white as the basics, that allow me to have fun with art, décor, and rugs,” Morris tells us.
Plus, “the house is tiny,” so a color palette that opens the space up rather than making it feel claustrophobic is essential, she says. As such, she chose to go with a total whiteout, which will make it feel a lot more fresh and spacious. Think wood floors, bright white walls, honed marble, white linens, polished nickel, unfinished oak, sisal, plenty of greenery, and plenty of French antiques.
Her Styling Tips
Considering that Morris is pretty much a pro when it comes to patience and style, we had to ask her what her main takeaways have been so far, as well as her best advice. Since she’s sticking to a relatively tight color scheme of neutral hues, she suggests bringing in more dimension and intrigue by mixing textures and high and low pieces. That being said, she plans on staying open-minded about color, since a coat of paint and new knobs can make anything new again.
She also advises anyone starting the design process from scratch to prioritize and invest in things that are essential to health and hygiene, like quality bedding, a good mattress, and cooking supplies. This way, you get to “have fun looking for antique pieces like tables, headboards, and outdoor areas at flea markets,” she says.
What Makes the Wait Worthwhile
When we asked Morris what the most rewarding element of purchasing a fixer-upper is, she emphasized the luxury of building a house into a home from scratch. Owning a home means having the freedom to create a space that’s completely your own and custom-designed around your interests, lifestyle habits, personal tastes, and emotional needs. You literally could not feel more at home anywhere else, which makes the effort feel totally worth it. But as far as the actual process goes, it actually seems a lot less stressful than we’d imagine.
In fact, Morris’s favorite part is going to the property every morning to check in, since she’s couch surfing until the project is completed. Plus, communicating and working closely with the team working on her house have made her appreciate “all that beautiful craftsman work” they do. She admits, though, that it definitely requires a lot of patience. “Maybe I watch HGTV too much, but I’m always begging to break down a cabinet or wall,” Morris jokes.
Have you ever transformed a fixer-upper? Share your tips in the comment section below, and don’t forget to check back in for more updates next month!
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No joke: Missouri lawmaker wants MoDOT messages to stick to road conditions
Rep. Tony Lovasco says MoDOT can do better than "puns about Santa Claus."
No joke: Missouri lawmaker wants MoDOT messages to stick to road conditions Rep. Tony Lovasco says MoDOT can do better than "puns about Santa Claus." Check out this story on news-leader.com: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/17/missouri-lawmaker-wants-modot-ditch-highway-sign-jokes/2675250001/
Austin Huguelet, Springfield News-Leader Published 6:23 p.m. CT Dec. 17, 2019 | Updated 10:35 p.m. CT Dec. 17, 2019
A Christmas-themed message on a MoDOT road sign east of Columbia. (Photo: Missouri Department of Transportation)
You know the signs.
If you were on an interstate around Thanksgiving, you might have seen one encouraging drivers to fasten their seat belts with the phrase "Buckling Up Can Save Your Giblets." Around Columbus Day, it might have read "Discover Your Turn Signal."
More generic roadside advice is delivered (via dad jokes) year round: "Camp in the Ozarks ... Not the Left Lane" or "Treat the Road Like a Cat Video ... Share It."
Rep. Tony Lovasco isn't laughing.
The Republican from O'Fallon filed a bill Thursday that would prohibit the Missouri Department of Transportation from using the "dynamic message signs" mounted along state highways to convey anything other than traffic conditions, weather or emergency alerts.
It's not because he hates fun, or at least, that's not what he said in an interview. Lovasco readily concedes there are more important bills for the legislature to consider, like one he's filed that he says would stop federal officials from bypassing the state's protections against police seizure of property.
He just thinks MoDOT should be sharing more useful information, like the up-to-the-minute data on road conditions that wowed him on a recent tour of department facilities.
"Those signs are hideously expensive, and MoDOT has a lot of incredibly detailed information they could share," he said. "But rather than sharing that information with people, they make puns about Santa Claus."
(It's not a pun, but a Dec. 9 MoDOT tweet shows a sign reading: "Santa's Coming ... Have You Been a Good Driver.")
He sees you when you're texting... He knows when you're buckled up. 🎅#BUPDpic.twitter.com/pdFhTbZKtk
— MoDOT (@MoDOT) December 9, 2019
Lovasco said he would rather see more of what he's seen in recent days with snow and ice complicating commutes around the state, including in his neck of the woods.
"They've done a good job with letting people know about accidents ahead," he said. "That helps drivers, and that's what I'd like to see more of."
Jon Nelson, assistant to the State Highway Safety and Traffic Engineer, said MoDOT displays that sort of information whenever needed.
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But he pointed out that when the roads are clear, there's no need for those kinds of warnings and MoDOT has an opportunity to promote safer driving.
"When it's not being used for those critical things, we take the opportunity to let people know about simple things they can do to make Missouri a safer place to drive," Nelson said.
Lovasco doesn't see it. When the skies and roads are clear, he said the signs don't have to say anything.
"They don't have to be on all the time," he said.
MoDOT has no plans to turn them off themselves, though.
Nelson said the public response to the signs has been "predominantly positive" and that federal research suggests drivers notice the messages and think about what they've read.
That's exactly what MoDOT wants.
"We like to think that it's making an impact," Nelson said.
The 2020 legislative session convenes Jan. 8 in Jefferson City.
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Novel buckypaper sensor could pave way for high-performance, affordable wearable technology
Researchers from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have developed a class of breakthrough motion sensors that could herald a near future of ubiquitous, fully integrated and affordable wearable technology.
In a paper published in the journal Materials and Design, engineers from FSU's High-Performance Materials Institute, in collaboration with scientists from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Lyon, France, detail the impressive properties and cost-effective manufacturing process of an advanced series of motion sensors made using buckypaper -; razor thin, flexible sheets of pure, exceptionally durable carbon nanotubes.
These new buckypaper sensors represent a marked improvement on current industry standards, with most sensors being either too crude or too inflexible to reliably monitor complex structures like the human body.
"Current technology is not designed for that," said Richard Liang, director of the High-Performance Materials Institute and professor at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. "For sensor technology, you need it to be flexible, you need it to be affordable and you need it to be scalable. This new technology is versatile and the sensors are affordable to print. It's a big innovation that presents many possibilities down the road."
At this stage, potential applications for the printable buckypaper sensors are limited only by the breadth of researchers' imaginations. The low-profile design could be integrated into bedsheets to monitor quality of sleep, shoes to track step count and posture or workout clothes to measure intensity of exercise.
Researchers also foresee potential applications beyond the realm of wearable technology. In the field of soft robotics, the material could facilitate advances in the production of responsive, self-correcting artificial muscles.
Moreover, the scalable sensors represent another step toward the long-predicted future of an "internet of things," where virtually all of an individual's computers, devices, garments, furniture and appliances are digitally connected to freely exchange information in the cloud.
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"Most projects don't have this many possible applications," said doctoral candidate Joshua DeGraff, the lead author of the study. "This material could be used in structural health monitoring, wearable technology and everything in between. I'm excited because this is something that can affect a lot of people in their everyday lives."
The novel sensor structure combines a strip of seven micron-thin buckypaper with silver ink electrodes printed from a common, commercially available ink-jet printer.
The result is a kind of perfect Goldilocks sensor: not as insensitive as common, flexible metallic sensors, but not as rigid or cumbersome as popular, more sensitive semi-conductor sensors.
The wearable buckypaper sensors are an ideal marriage of these competing qualities. They're flexible, seamless and sensitive to subtle movements and strains.
"We measure sensors by gauge factor, which indicates how much resistance value changes as a material is strained or bent," DeGraff said. "Our gauge factor has been up to eight times higher than commercial sensors and 75 percent higher than many other carbon nanotube sensors."
As development of the printable sensor technology continues, researchers hope to improve upon the already remarkable thinness of the material so that it can be integrated into comfortable and non restrictive clothing. Additional testing on complex model structures is required to ensure the material's ability to conform to the variable curves and crevices of the human body.
While the technology might not be ready for primetime quite yet, researchers are energized by its promising future.
"As engineering professors, we want to see the things we create in the lab become successful products," Liang said. "We're not quite there yet, but this is an important step. Consumers want great quality and affordable prices, and this material provides both of those things."
Source: https://news.fsu.edu/news/science-technology/2017/11/16/new-motion-sensors-major-step-toward-low-cost-high-performance-wearable-technology/
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Early-onset dementia: How mum’s ’awkward’ mistake led to diagnosis
Theresa Flavin was in a high-powered job when things began going wrong at work in the strangest way — but it took her years to find out why.
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Theresa Flavin.Source:Supplied
For Theresa Flavin, the path to being diagnosed with early onset dementia started when she began making “awkward” mistakes at work.
First Ms Flavin, who was then in her early 40s and working for the finance watchdog APRA, began forgetting to include important people in email chains.
Then she began to make more noticeable slip-ups, like forgetting the name of the Westpac CEO at one meeting.
Soon, rumours began spreading around the office about what was to blame for Ms Flavin’s mistakes.
“I think for some time there might have been a little bit of whispering that maybe I was drinking, because people grasp for a reason why someone who has always been good is suddenly off her game, and badly,” the Sydney woman told news.com.au.
“It was depressing and scary, because I thought how can this be? I try so hard and the harder I try, the worse it got.”
Finally, there came a lapse in memory with a colleague so bad that Ms Flavin knew she had to seek professional help.
“We sat together at the same table for literally two years (and) I couldn’t remember her name,” she recalled.
Theresa Flavin, 53, was diagnosed with dementia at age 45.Source:Supplied
“I’m sitting there about to have a conversation and there’s nothing. It’s like opening a drawer and there’s nothing in there.”
But the mystery didn’t end there as Ms Flavin saw doctor after doctor, who all claimed her memory loss was because of menopause or depression.
“That was even more frustrating, because I didn’t feel depressed,” she said. “I was irritated, angry even, but I wasn’t sad, I had everything in the whole world.”
It wasn’t until Ms Flavin sought the help of a doctor who had seen her annually for seven years as part of medical checks at her work that her memory loss claims were finally taken seriously.
A specialist then used an aptitude test Ms Flavin had taken years earlier at the beginning of her employment to diagnose her with early onset dementia.
Diagnosed at age 45, Ms Flavin said the news left her feeling “frozen”. It devastated her husband and five children, the youngest who was just seven at the time.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, it’s still not known what exactly causes adults to develop dementia early on.
“Alzheimer’s is not just a disease that affects older adults,” Alzheimer’s Association chief science officer Dr Maria C. Carrillo said.
“Younger or early-onset Alzheimer’s disease affects people in their 40s or 50s. We don’t have all the answers as to why yet, but we do know there are strong genetic factors.”
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Since getting diagnosed Ms Flavin has focused on “making memories now” with her family.Source:Supplied
With much of the data around dementia focusing on the elderly, the Alzheimer’s Association is funding a study in the US looking at early onset Alzheimer’s in people younger than 55 years of age.”
“The LEADS — or Longitudinal Early Onset Alzheimer’s disease Study — may provide information on what’s going on with late onset Alzheimer’s, as well,” Dr Carrillo said.
“It may very well be the same disease in younger and older people and that’s what we hope to find out in our efforts to find effective treatments and someway a cure.”
Determined to keep as much brain function as possible, Ms Flavin resigned from her job and now spends most of her day on home duties.
Ms Flavin has a support person with her during the day funded through the NDIS, who she says “comes in and scaffolds me”.
“I more or less have a day like anyone else at home, but she props me up with the little things … it means I can be a mum and wife as long as possible,” she said.
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Theresa Flavin and her familySource:Supplied
For many, Ms Flavin doesn’t seem like the typical persona with dementia, something she herself acknowledges.
“The way it effects me isn’t the way you’d expect, because I can still hold a conversation, I’ve still got intellect, I’ve still got all of that — but I could leave my handbag here,” she said.
The symptoms she struggles with most were having important tasks “drop off the edge” and have “no importance” in her memory.
“The biggest and most annoying thing is forgetting what I’m meant to do, and being unreliable that is just the worst feeling, you can’t control it … to all of a sudden not be meeting your obligations is confounding and destructive to your self esteem,” she said. “To feel that you can’t be relied upon any more is really hard.”
But there has been a silver lining to Ms Flavin’s diagnosis, which has seen her change her outlook on life to focus on how to “make memories in advance”.
“We hurried off and saw Egypt, which was amazing … and then maybe two years later we did a world cruise,” she said.
“Now we have these amazing memories of travelling together and seeing all these amazing places. So that’s the biggest impact, we don’t put things off anymore.”
Ms Flavin said she and her family were now trying to use getting her dementia diagnosis so early “to our benefit”.
“It’s like getting bad news early — at least you’ve got a chance to do what you can,” she said.
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Confident in his fight tonight, used his jab round after round and took his time and it paid off. After round four of eight scheduled, Supernova picked up win number 18 and knockout number 14.
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Closing out a two-game road swing, and riding a four-game winning streak, the University at Albany men's basketball team visited Stony Brook Saturday night, falling to the Seawolves 70-62 after going cold from deep in the second half.
Stony Brook scored first, but UAlbany responded with a 8-0 run to take an 8-2 lead with 17:13 remaining. During the streak, with 18:26 remaining, Cameron Healy hit his first three of the night, extending his made-threes streak to 51 games.
The Seawolves snapped the streak with a layup with 16:55 to go. Ahmad Clark next hit a three to put UAlbany up 11-4. The Great Danes hit four of their first five shots from the floor, but then hit a cold streak, sinking just one of their next eight.
Stony Brook closed within on with 11:45 to go after a three-pointer cut UAlbany's lead to 13-12. The Seawolves briefly took the lead on their next possession, hitting another three to go up 15-13.
Adam Lulka put UAlbany back on top 16-15 with 10:40 to go with a three pointer. Neither team scored for the next two minutes, when Romani Hansen hit a jumper to put UAlbany up by three. Lulka then put UAlbany up five with 7:57 remaining in the first half.
Over the final 7:09, Stony Brook outscored UAlbany 15-7. A 6-0 run put the Seawolves on top 21-20 with 5:45 to go. Their run extended to 11-0 before UAlbany scored again, with Healy hitting two free throws with 3:00 remaining in the first to cut Stony Brook's lead to 26-22.
UAlbany closed within one in the final minute, when Healy hit another three, bringing his first-half total to 10 points. Stony Brook pulled away slightly at the end of the half, and entered the locker room leading 30-27.
Healy led all scorers at the break with 10 points. Three other Great Danes, Clark, Lulka, and Trey Hutcheson, each scored five. Stony Brook saw three players score eight or more points. UAlbany outshot Stony Brook 7-1 off the bench, but shot just 10-29 from the floor in the first half, while the Seawolves shot 11-24.
Stony Brook scored the first six points of the second half, bookending halftime on an 8-0 run. Healy snapped the streak with a layup with 18:14 to go, bringing UAlbany within seven, 36-29.
The Seawolves took their first 10-point lead with 15:36 remaining in the second, 40-30, following a layup, snapping a combined two-minute scoreless streak. UAlbany responded with a 7-2 run to close within five just over one minute later.
UAlbany cut Stony Brook's lead to five two more times, first with 13:02 remaining and next with 11:09 remaining, before the Seawolves began pulling away for good. Stony Brook slowly rebuilt its lead to double digits, leading 60-50 with 4:58 to go. The Seawolves led by as many as 13 late in the game, before UAlbany's comeback attempt brought the Great Danes within eight, making the final score 70-62.
Clark led all scorers in the game with 21 points, but shot just 7-21 on the night. Healy finished with 15, and Hutcheson scored 11. UAlbany shot 3-16 from deep in the second half, while Stony Brook shot 16-25 overall, but just 8-17 from the line. The Seawolves committed 21 turnovers, leading to just 16 UAlbany points. Two Seawolves scored 20 points each.
Next: UAlbany returns to SEFCU Arena to host UMass Lowell on Wednesday, January 22. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
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Berlin - The comet lander Philae may be uncommunicative at the moment, but the pictures and measurements it took after it touched down on a comet in November have shown scientists that the comet is covered with coarse material, rather than dust, and is harder than expected.
European scientists celebrated an historic first when Philae landed on a comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November after a 10-year journey through space aboard the Rosetta spacecraft.
As it landed, Philae bounced and ended up in shadow, where its batteries soon ran out. But it still gathered unprecedented data, some of which the DLR German Aerospace Center said "amazed" scientists. A report on its findings will be published on Friday in a special edition of the journal Science.
"The experiments conducted on site have led to new and, at times, unexpected insights into the nature of the comet," Ekkehard Kuehrt, a planetary researcher at the DLR, said in a statement on Thursday.
For example, pictures taken by Philae as it came in to land showed the surface of the comet was covered with coarse debris, rocks and pebbles, measuring up to five metres across, rather than the dusty deposits expected.
Scientists suspect the surface is partly shaped by a form of hail that occurs when gas ejections from the comet push out coarse particles that then fall back to the ground.
Solid ice
The surface of the comet, which the lander tried to drill into, also proved to be much harder than expected. Under a few centimetres of dust, the lander's hammer encountered solid ice.
"This ice is similar to firn on Earth, which is old, solid snow that evaporates and re-freezes," said Tilman Spohn, planetary researcher at DLR.
Scientists hope samples drilled by Philae from the roughly 3-by-5 km comet will unlock details about how the planets - and possibly even life - evolved. The rock and ice that make up comets preserve ancient organic molecules like a time capsule.
According to the DLR, Philae's systems found a total of 16 organic molecular species, including four never before encountered in comets.
Philae woke up last month when more sunlight started falling on its solar panels as the comet approached the sun, but scientists have been unable to establish a reliable communication link.
With an eye to possible future comet missions, Stephan Ulamec from the DLR said one important lesson had been learned: "Bouncing is a bigger problem than a possible sinking into the ground."
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Best Shots Advance Reviews: MAGDALENA, MOUSE GUARD, More
By The Best Shots Team, Courtesy of Shotgun Reviews August 31, 2010 12:55pm ET
Top Cow Preview: MAGDALENA #3
Greeting, Rama readers! Your friendly neighborhood David Pepose here. Ready to read tomorrow's reviews, today? That's excellent, because we have some rockin' books from Top Cow, IDW and Archaia for your reading enjoyment! Looking for more? We got you covered, just check out the Best Shots Topic Page here! And now, let's let Lan start us off, with a look at that red-headed heroine of the Top Cow moo-niverse, Magdalena...
Magdalena #3
Written by Ron Marz
Art by Nelson Blake II, Sal Regla, and Dave McCaig
Lettering by Troy Peteri
Published by Top Cow
Review by Lan Pitts
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"The boy's not here. Most of the cult is gone. They just left behind some goons...and that thing. Need a hand?" -- Patience, the Magdalena
I have to be honest here, this issue doesn't really move the plot along as it is a sort of boss battle out of a video game. Kristoff passes as a lost traveler and finds a luxurious manor with a not-so angelic hostess. Though, as you might have guessed it, he was prepared as the mistress of the house, Anichka, shows her true demonic form and pumps several rounds into her. Lucky for him, he is quickly joined by Magdalena. They do their best to make quick work of the situation and still try to get information concerning Kid Anti-Christ, who is already a few steps ahead.
From the first page you'll notice a simplistic layout, but Nelson Blake II's use of sharp angles keeps the story at a nice pace as well as engages the reader. Showing how Magdalena moved around the building a la Batman, was a change of pace and I just wonder how easy it was to creep around with that armor on. Blake's action shots are drawn beautifully with a high impact feel. When somebody is shot, stabbed, or punched, you can sense the impact he was going for. His demonic designs are creative and feel they impose an actual threat, without them being over done. Sal Regla's inking style compliments Blake's pencils exceedingly well. The first six pages of Mags prowling around is evident of that. Dave McCaig's colors are brilliant as always. The use of reds and yellows is still dominant, but he has a chance to work with blues and purples.
Ron Marz is no stranger to the realm of supernatural superheroes having done stints on Thor, and of course the characters at Top Cow for the past five years or so. He's put more than this stamp on these characters, he's breathed new life into them and expanded so much of their world. So, naturally, he excels in telling this sort of story. While Patience has a job and duty to withhold as the Magdalena, she is still having to kill a young boy. Then again, who better to take down Satan's kid than Christ's daughter? The dialog is sharp and Patience has a unique voice that comes across as militant with a feminine edge.
To be truthful if you're not picking up this book or any of the great stuff Top Cow is putting out, you're sorely missing out. Magdalena is no exception.
5 Days to Die #1
Written by Andy Schmidt
Art by Chee
Lettering by Robbie Robbins
Published by IDW
Review by Amanda McDonald
Opening with a husband (Ray) and wife arguing, and the annoyance expressed by their teen daughter this book's first impression was certainly not my impression upon finishing it. During the argument, the family is rear-ended in a fatal car crash that results in the death of his wife. Upon waking, he learns there is debris lodged in his brain and any motion on his part drives the debris further in. Any mobility at all will cause him to only have five days to live, or to. . . die, depending on how you look at it. His daughter is in surgery. Convinced the accident was the result of a disgruntled criminal, he insists on taking action to right this wrong and get the guy who did this to his family.
The book has the expected elements of a fast paced crime tale. A mysterious man was watching Ray in the hospital. Ray keeps asking where's Hoverman? Of course we don't know who Hoverman is, but we can only assume he's "the bad guy." Rather than wait for daughter to get out of surgery, he goes hunting for him, resulting in shots being fired along the way. This guy truly believes that finding the one responsible is what is best for his daughter. Meanwhile she's woken up from surgery and has been asking for him while he's busy off hunting for the guy.
I enjoyed this read, thinking to myself that it's fairly standard for IDW fare. The art style is unique, and completely controlled by Chee. It manages to appear both hard and soft, with hard-hitting content and colors, but a soft watercolor-esque style. The David Finch cover is intricately detailed in contrast and very eye-catching. In fact, one of the aspects of this series I'm really looking forward to are the cover artists for each issue of the remaining four issues: Michael Avon Oeming, Ben Templesmith, Gabriel Dell'Otto, Pablo Raimondi. Not only is the run limited to five total issues, but IDW's release plan is a change from the ordinary, with one issue coming out each Wednesday in September. Five Wednesdays, five issues, and it's done.
Ok, so right there based on the art and the fact that I can read the whole series without committing to years of book-buying has me pretty into this title. And then... the issue ends with a letter from creator, Andy Schmidt. I literally had to take a moment. I had been multi-tasking away, reading this comic, chatting online, watching the local news, sneaking bites of cucumber salad in amongst all this -- but that all screeched to a halt and I had to just sit back for a few minutes to think about why his letter hit me so hard. I could tell you more about the letter, but I really feel strongly it's best read with no preconceived notions. Andy Schmidt has not only created a good crime story, but his personal explanation of his own story has added a level of emotional involvement that isn't usually as evident in this genre. For anyone on the hunt for a good noir style crime story, pick it up -- and from the look of this first issue, you'll get that plus a whole lot more.
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard #3
Written by David Petersen, Jason Shawn Alexander, Katie Cook, Guy Davis and Nate Pride
Art by David Petersen, Jason Shawn Alexander, Katie Cook, Guy Davis and Nate Pride
Published by Archaia Entertainment
Review by Erika D. Peterman
I never thought a panel of a grieving mouse could be so moving, but then again, I’d never experienced Mouse Guard. Believe the hype about David Petersen’s critically acclaimed creation. This is a ravishing book, and it reminded me of how much comic books enchanted me as a child. Which is not to say that Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard #3 is a kiddie book, though it is certainly appropriate for children. However, it would be a mistake to assume that this comic is less than sophisticated because of the storybook connotations. It’s simply a work of art.
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard #3 is a mini-anthology of fables, each bearing the distinctive mark of a particular writer/artist. The juxtaposition of David Petersen’s Old World illustrations and, say, Katie Cook’s charming, animation-style art is pretty genius. Each tale stands on its own and brings a different flavor to the comic. Take Guy Davis’ wordless chapter, which is both funny in a smart Saturday morning cartoon kind of way, and frightening in a childhood nightmare kind of way. Let’s just say that, from a mouse’s perspective, a cluster of gangsta owls is the most terrifying sight on Earth.
The most haunting contribution by far is Jason Shawn Alexander’s adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven.” You really feel the main character’s anguish over the loss of his dear Lenore — and the fact that he’s a rodent is wholly immaterial. It’s hard to go wrong with Poe, but Alexander’s shadowy, melancholy illustrations bring the story to life. And there’s more where that came from, thanks to this book’s assembly of talented writer/artists. Best of all, you don’t have to be familiar with the original series or the two previous installments of this comic to dive right into the bewitching world of these mighty mice.
G.I. Joe: Hearts and Minds #4
Written by Max Brooks
Art by Howard Chaykin, Antonio Fuso, Aburtov and Filippo Flores
Lettering by Neil Uyetake
Review by David Pepose
Do you want to dive into the mind of a monster? Max Brooks knows that you do, and it's this side of the coin that's the most interesting in his two-part tale on the doctors of Cobra and G.I. Joe.
Let's start with the good: Dr. Mindbender. It's interesting, because this story isn't so much character study on Mindbender, but a meditation on evil, a justification of monstrous behavior in the name of "freedom" and science. "Ethics... morality," Mindbender tell us. "The obsolete shackles of lesser minds." To see him push for human experimentation and the utter destruction of other human beings is a frightening concept, made all the more frightening by the fact that Brooks makes it organic as hell. This is human blasphemy on an epic scale, and Howard Chaykin's scratchy lines give Mindbender's "patients" a look of almost mutated pain. It's horrible. But it's absolutely a rockin' read.
But I can't say the same for the Joe's side, with Doc. Doc just comes off as... well, a boring character. I guess it's true about villains being the more fun to portray, because the only characterization I got from this guy was the fact that, yes, Doc is all about being a doc, and he's totally cool asking for help if he needs it and being sympathetic to others and all that stuff. Would I want him on my HMO? Absolutely. Do I really find that kind of existence dramatic? No. Which is a shame, because you'd think a globe-trotting war doctor would be plenty dramatic. Antonio Fuso really gets the short end of the stick with this -- he's got some fantastic composition, giving every image some great space, but the story behind it robs him of all his weight.
So ultimately the choice is yours: do you buy a book you know is a 50-50 venture? Well, it's your call -- honestly, as much as I dug Max Brooks' first story, I know you can read his other words to get his unique take on the degradation of the human mind. If you're a die-hard G.I. Joe fan, then you should definitely pick up this book. It's not to say that it's a bad book -- far from it, Brooks has his construction down pat -- but you ultimately read this book and feel it could have been something more. Sadly, no hearts or minds were won here.
Critical Millennium: The Dark Frontier #2
Written by Andrew E.C. Gaska
Art by Daniel Dussault
Lettering by Nina L. Kester
Think of The Aviator or The Right Stuff in space, told with the art of Neon Genesis Evangelion, and you've got yourself Critical Millennium: The Dark Frontier #2, a book that immerses you in political intrigue and a rich playboy's journey to the stars.
I think a lot of what anchors this book is the artwork, by Daniel Dussault. It's definitely in the manga style -- which may turn off some readers -- but I think Dussault's painterly colors give his fluid pencils a nice sense of heft and weight. This is a fully-fleshed world, with cybernetic tech pits and micro-singularities that really give character and tone to this story. And where Dussault succeeds best is with the sheer act of flight -- there's a moment in here, where a space prototype is launched for the first time, that you're really on the edge of your seat. It's fantastic.
Meanwhile, writer Andrew E.C. Gaska continues to flesh out Thomm Coney's life and times. He comes off as part Bruce Wayne in his foppishness, but all Howard Hughes in his intensity towards his mission: hitting the final frontier. Gaska does his best when he's not overwriting -- and yes, there are a few pages where there are some exposition bombs -- but again, it's all about the worldbuilding here. Seeing the environmental impact of this future world adds some real stakes to everything, and it keeps building upon the forward thrust of the narrative. Is this journey a rich kid's spending spree, or is it mankind's last hope?
That said -- down to the credits at the beginning, this book reads very much like a storyboarded film rather than a comic for a comic's sake. It's got some high production values, but it's like walking into a movie 25 minutes late -- you're going to be hitting a massive learning curve, and you'll have missed out on some of the most evocative images in the book. I want to know how Thomm's voyage could go so wrong -- and this second issue is well on its way towards delivering on that promise. If you haven't read the first issue, go pick that up, and then read Critical Millennium: Dark Frontier #2 -- it's an ambitious read that reaches for the stars.
Starkweather: Immortal HC
Written by David Rodriguez
Art by Patrick McEvoy
Lettering by Charles Pritchett
In a lot of ways, Starkweather: Immortal hits all the notes that comics do: there's the arrested development, the wish fulfillment, the hulking mythology. Think of an edgier Harry Potter, and you've got this book in spades.
The writing, by David Rodriguez, is the real draw of this book. He really manages to cram a lot into this book, ranging from spellcraft conspiracies to the immortal soldier Cartaphilus Longinus. But I think what the strongest part of this book is -- even if it's a little on-the-nose -- is the character arc of Starkweather himself. He's one of those characters that really is difficult to like, but you also have to take into consideration that he's broken in a very real way. Seeing him own up to his potential is something I think everyone can relate to, and it's those moments that the book is at its strongest.
That said, I don't know if Patrick McEvoy is necessarily the best fit for this book. I think Starkweather would have really gone for the throat more with a striking visual style, but McEvoy's painted panels feel more dull than gripping. The colorwork is particularly dark and muted, which I think robs a lot of the action of its energy -- and the character designs I think could have been a lot more consistent and a bit more imaginative, as Starkweather's long hair, trenchcoat and soul patch aren't really fooling anybody. Still, when he gets into the magical combat, he shines, with the rage just screaming from our traumatized hero's eyes.
But when you take the writing for what it is -- and you add on a nice Piers Anthony prose tale with Cartaphilus, who helps give this book a unique flavor -- there's definitely some magic to this book. With some powerful resonance for many a comics reader on top of a surprising balancing act of competing mythologies, if you're a diehard magic and fantasy fan looking for a modern twist, give Starkweather a read.
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Mika Calls Trump 'Base, Animalistic and Disgusting' over 'Horseface' Remark
By Mark Finkelstein | October 17, 2018 9:35 AM EDT
Veteran Morning Joe viewers were surely anticipating an emotional reaction from Mika Brzezinski this morning in response to President Trump having called Stormy Daniels "horseface." After all, Trump had once tweeted that Mika was "bleeding badly from a face-lift" when he met her at Mar-a-Lago. Mika and her fiancé Joe Scarborough have not forgotten, relishing every opportunity to take it to the President.
And Mika delivered as expected this morning, calling President Trump "base, animalistic and disgusting" for his "horseface" remark. Brzezinski took things a significant step further, wondering "what could the Russians have on him?"
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: During an interview with the Associated Press yesterday, Trump did not back down from calling Daniels "horseface." When asked whether it was appropriate to insult a woman's appearance, he said, "you could take it any way you want."
Jonathan Lemire [one of the AP reporters who conducted the interview with President Trump], we've got this situation with the Saudis, and some other things that are fairly pressing, as it pertains to the United States of America. And yet this president is calling a porn star on Twitter a "horseface."
I guess one would have to ask why he would pay $130,000 to someone he call that's to, why he would have sex with someone he calls "horseface" while he was married to his wife. That's sort of sad and disturbed. And you just wonder: what could the Russians have on him if he is this base, and animalistic and disgusting.
How this can be transformed into a Russian conspiracy is anyone's guess. At least Mika reported that Daniels mocked his allegedly "tiny" sex organ, even if that wasn't criticized. But Lemire was eager to please Mika: "As you said, this is hardly the first time he has negatively attacked a woman by going after her appearance. And he was eager to talk about this yesterday." The AP tried to shame him:
LEMIRE: In our interview with him, we pressed him on that, like, "Sir, do you feel like it's appropriate? As the president of the United States, yoiu know, even if this woman has come after you, you're involved with litigation with her, she has criticized you, but you're the president. Should you be talking about her this way?" And he didn't back down at all. As you said, his quote to us was "you can take it any way you want," and defiantly sort of called her a liar, suggested that she and her attorney Michael Avenatti have said about him, things that were not true and he was not going to apologize. He was not going to back down. In fact, suggested that more attacks could continue.
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New York Magazine: Politically Bribe Senator Susan Collins to Oppose Kavanaugh
By P.J. Gladnick | July 12, 2018 8:21 AM EDT
The opposition to the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice has evolved from the merely desperate to the hilariously desperate. A good example of the latter can be seen in the July 10 New York magazine in which writer Ed Kilgore suggests that the Maine Democrats politically bribe Republican Senator Susan Collins with a promise by their state chairman to endorse her when she is up for re-election in 2020.
Perhaps I am old school enough to believe that a bribe should be given in its traditional form as cash wrapped inside a brown paper bag but Kilgore somehow thinks that his political bribe could work as he reveals on July 10 in How Maine Democrats Can Save Roe v. Wade:
As I observed earlier today, the sad reality of the soon-to-be-intense fight over confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court is that if Senate Republicans stick together, he’ll be confirmed, period. And if it does become a party-line vote, Democrats will be forced to choose between (a) taking a dive and thereby angering the many rank-and-file members of their party who rightly fear Kavanaugh will, among other bad things, represent the fifth SCOTUS vote to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate the constitutional right to an abortion, or (b) placing pressure on their own Senate Conference to cast a futile vote against Kavanaugh, including several very vulnerable red-state senators who might thereby succumb to Republicans in November. It’s a classic damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation: surrender or frag your own wounded.
Remember how liberals use to portray President Donald Trump as some sort of idiot who didn't understand politics? Look who's screeching now over being placed in a political bind.
But there is an alternative, though it’s quite unconventional and a long shot to boot. There are two pro-choice U.S. senators who probably share (privately at least) the fears of abortion-rights supporters about Kavanaugh’s impact on Roe v. Wade. Susan Collins of Maine is up for reelection in 2020, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska faces voters in 2022, and we have no particular reason to think either is ready to retire any time soon. One of the main reasons each would have for supporting Kavanaugh is to head off a reelection bid in which they might face a right-bent anti-abortion primary opponent and then a viable Democrat. That’s particularly true of Collins; Murkowski probably doesn’t fear any general election opponent in strongly Republican Alaska. What if Maine Democrats took that incentive for party loyalty off the table by paving the way to an easy general election in 2020?
Let’s make this simple: Suppose Maine Democratic chairman Phil Bartlett called a press conference tomorrow and offered to endorse Collins’s reelection if she votes against Kavanaugh? If she took the bait, then Democrats would have it in their power to stop the judge’s confirmation by their own efforts, and that might justify endangering a Democratic senator or two if it meant forcing Trump to appoint a different kind of SCOTUS justice. And if Collins said “No thanks,” then Democrats would have at least demonstrated to their pro-choice supporters that they are willing to sacrifice their partisan interests to principle in so important a matter.
Perhaps we should conjure up the ghost of former Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania who, in exchange for switching from Republican to Democrat and pledging to vote for Obamacare, was promised he would be supported by Barack Obama in his next primary. You can find out how well that promise worked out for him at Specter says Obama ditched him after he provided 60th vote to pass health reform.
Now let me hasten to add that I don’t know Mr. Bartlett, have only been to Maine once in my life (many years ago), and do not possess a single clue as to whether Democrats in that state would even consider making this extremely unselfish Supreme gesture, and if so, whether it could be enforced on potential candidates. For all I know, the people that would be involved in this imaginary deal meet every night to vow eternal warfare against Collins.
I also don't know Mr. Bartlett but he would need extreme willpower to stifle his laughter as he makes this promise to Senator Collins.
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March 19, 2009 Music, Arts & Culture » Arts
THE ALTOS MEET MARTY STEWART presents Ernest and Julio Alto Winery, where guests will join Tony, Carmela, Sangiovese, and Nebbiolo Alto and Big Frankie Coppola for a hilarious evening of fun and mayhem as Tony calls a special meeting of the “families” to discuss a business deal. This spoof of The Sopranos features PG-13 content and may not be suitable for freakin’ kids. See it Sundays at 5pm through May 3 at the Spyglass Inn Restaurant, 2305 Spyglass Drive in Shell Beach. The $48.95 ticket price includes dinner, show, sales tax, and wait staff gratuity. Dress is casual or come as your favorite gangster. Info and reservations: 489-3875 or HYPERLINK "http://www.murderinmind.com/"murderinmind.com.
DOUBT—the original, Pulitzer Prize-winning stage version—comes to the Pewter Plough Playhouse in Cambria. A Bronx parochial school principal takes matters into her own hands when she suspects a new priest of improprieties and wrongdoing. Audiences are encouraged to stay after each performance and join a Q&A session and conversation. Performances take place on Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30pm through April 11. Sunday matinees are 3pm on March 22 and 29 and April 5. $15-$19. May 1-June 14 brings Love Town by Michael Kaplan. July 3-Aug. 9 features Same Time, Next Year. Info: 927-3877 or HYPERLINK "x-msg://514/xml/deref?link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewterploughplayhouse.org%2F"pewterploughplayhouse.org.
CENTRAL COAST PLAYERS present a comedy show performed by local comedians on the first Saturday of the month at the Grange Hall, 2880 Broad St. in SLO. Shows start at 8:30pm. $5 at the door. Reservations aren’t required. Refreshments will be available. Info: 543-0639.
BEST OF VEGAS, the Clark Center’s Gala event, takes place March 19-21. Info: 489-9444 or clarkcenter.org.
SAN LUIS OBISPO LITTLE THEATRE READERS’ CONVERSATIONS IN TUSCULUM shows March 20 at 8pm. Set in country villas outside of Rome in 45 BC in the months before Caesar’s assassination, Conversations in Tusculum imagines the frustrations of fiery senators and warriors: Brutus, Cassius, and Cicero. 888 Morro St. in SLO $7-$10. Info: slolittletheatre.org or 786-2440.
FROM THE MIXED UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL FRANKWEILER hits the stage on March 21 at 11am. Two siblings run away to MOMA. Info: 756-2787, 1-888-233-ARTS, or calpolyarts.org.
STAND UP COMEDIAN TOM CLARK, of Comedy Central's Premium Blend will perform on March 21 at the Grange Hall, 2880 Broad St. in San Luis Obispo. Also appearing is Shady Parker. 8pm, doors open at 7:30. $10. Refreshments will be available. Info and reservations: 712-8469 or 543-0639.
ST. PETER'S READERS' THEATER PRESENTS J. B. PRIESTLEY'S AN INSPECTOR CALLS, directed by Jonniepat Mobley on March 22 at 3pm at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 545 Shasta Ave. in Morro Bay. A champagne reception follows in the adjoining social hall. All proceeds will benefit St. Peter's music program and choir. Suggested donation is $15. Info: 528-4065.
BYE BYE BIRDIE hits the Clark Center stage in Arroyo Grande on March 24 at 7:30pm. Lots of laughs and great songs have made this hit Broadway show one of the most memorable musicals of all time. Chaos ensues when rock star and teenage heartthrob Conrad Birdie gets drafted. Info: 489-9444 or clarkcenter.org.
ARROYO GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE ENSEMBLE presents Seven Supermans, a new look at the Seven Samurai, March 26-29. Info: 489-9444 or HYPERLINK "http://www.clarkcenter.org" \t "_blank" clarkcenter.org.
CHESS: THE ROCK OPERA shows March 27-28 at 8pm, March 28-29 at 2pm. Chess is a HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theater"musical with HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrics"lyrics by HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Rice"Tim Rice and music by HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Ulvaeus"Björn Ulvaeus and HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Andersson"Benny Andersson, formerly of HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBA"ABBA, presented by the Atascadero High School Drama, Choirs and Jazz Band groups at the Spanos Theater at the PAC at Cal Poly in SLO. Info: ahschess.com or 756-2787.
LEADER OF THE PACK, a fun-filled ’60s musical, shows at Coast Union High School in Cambria March 27-29 and April 3-5. Info and tickets: 927-7068.
MADAMA BUTTERFLY plays March 27-28 at 8pm at the PAC in SLO with a pre-show talk at 7pm. Tickets are $25-$65, with students getting in for half price. Info and tickets: 541-5369 or HYPERLINK "http://www.propera.org/"propera.org.
ALTAR BOYZ comes to Spanos Theatre April 2-3 at 7pm. This award winning musical comedy follows a Christian boy band and their antics. Students get half-price tickets. $21 and up. Info: 756-2787, 1-888-233-ARTS, or calpolyarts.org.
SLO LITTLE THEATRE PRESENTS UNFORGETTABLE, A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO NAT KING COLE April 3-May 3. Follow the rise of Cole’s career from a shy, jazz pianist to one of the most beloved entertainers in history. The musical stars local legend Roy Henry reprising his performance as the legendary singer, accompanied by a live band on Friday evenings at 8pm with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2pm. Saturday nights are Martini Nights, beginning at 6:30pm with a no-host bar and a complimentary light supper before the show. 888 Morro St. in SLO. $50 for Martini Nights, $35 for all other shows. Info: 786-2440 or slolittletheatre.org.
THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE comes to the Spanos Theatre at Cal Poly in SLO on April 5 at 3pm. This musical is based on C.S. Lewis’ adventure story about four children in war-torn England who accidentally enter the magical land of Narnia by climbing through a wardrobe. $14 and up. Info: 756-2787, 1-888-233-ARTS, or calpolyarts.org.
PCPA SPRING LINE UP: Les Misérables shows April 9-May 10 at the Marian Theatre, Santa Maria. Performances are Wednesday-Sunday, with select Thursdays at 2pm and 7pm, and June 11-July 12 at the Solvang Festival Theater, with performances Tuesday-Sunday at 8pm. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee shows June 19-July 11 at the Marian Theatre in Santa Maria with performances Wednesday-Sunday, with select Thursdays at 2pm and 7pm, and July 17-Aug. 2 at the Solvang Festival Theater, with performances Wednesday-Sunday at 8pm. The Music Man shows July 17-Aug. 1 at the Marian Theatre, with performances Wednesday-Sunday at 2pm and 7pm and Aug. 7–23 at the Solvang Festival Theater, with performances Tuesday-Sunday at 8pm. The Spitfire Grill plays Aug. 7-23 at the Marian Theatre, with performances Wednesday-Sunday at 2pm and 7pm and Aug. 28-Sept. 13 at the Solvang Festival Theater, with performances Wednesday-Sunday at 8pm. Distracted plays Aug. 7-Sept. 20 at the Severson Theatre, Santa Maria, with performances Wednesday, Friday–Sunday, and Thursday Sept. 10 at 2pm and 7pm. Tickets and information: HYPERLINK "http://www.pcpa.org" pcpa.org or 922-8313.
NOISES OFF will be performed at the Black Box Theatre at The Clark Center in Arroyo Grande April 10-26. Info: HYPERLINK "mailto:chrysb52@hotmail.com" chrysb52@hotmail.com or 489-9444.
SOPA BLACK BOX THEATER presents Alice in Wonderland April 3-4, Willy Wonka on May 8, 42nd Street playing May 15-16 and 22-23, and Let's Go to the Movies June 5-6, 12-13, 19-20, and 26-27. Takin It to the Streets on April 26 is a performance by Competition Group Dancers. The SOPA Summer Stock Program will be held June 23-July 16 at 116 W. Branch St. in Arroyo Grande. Info: 473-0377 or HYPERLINK "http://www.thestudioofperformingarts.com" thestudioofperformingarts.com.
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE hits the stage at the Cohan Center at Cal Poly in SLO April 14-15 at 7pm. In another Central Coast “Broadway” debut, get ready to be transported to a wonderful, mad-cap world where a die-hard musical fan plays his favorite album, a 1928 smash hit called The Drowsy Chaperone, as the show magically bursts to life in his living room. $44 and up. Info: 756-2787, 1-888-233-ARTS, or calpolyarts.org.
WILLY WONKA warms your heart and tummy April 18–May 10: Sat. and Sun. at 2pm. $12-$16. Unity, 1490 Southwood Drive, San Luis Obispo. Info: 543-PLAY or kelrikproductions.com.
GILLIGAN’S ISLAND THE MUSICAL hits the stage on April 19 at 7pm at the Clark Center, 487 Fair Oaks Ave. at Arroyo Grande High School. Written by Sherwood Schwartz, the same man who created the TV series, this musical features 20 original songs written by Paul McCartney’s lead guitarist, Lawrence Juber. $38-$48. Info: 489-9444 or clarkcenter.org.
QUETZAL hits the stage on April 25 at 8pm at the Clark Center, 487 Fair Oaks Ave. at Arroyo Grande High School. In the early ’90s in a tiny cafe on the outskirts of Little Tokyo Los Angeles, Quetzal Flores formed the group to push the boundaries of Chicano music. $38-$48. Info: 489-9444 or clarkcenter.org.
ROBIN HOOD, presented by Ballet Theatre San Luis Obispo, shows April 24-26 at the Cohan Center at the PAC in SLO. Info: bt-slo.org, HYPERLINK "http://www.pacslo.org" pacslo.org, or 756-2787.
RHINOCEROS will be performed by the Cuesta College drama department April 30-May 10 at the Interact Theater at Cuesta College in SLO. Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into—you guessed it—rhinos. Info: 546-3195.
UNDER THE BOARDWALK by Erik Stein plays at the Great American Melodrama April 30-June 14. Meet the Clams, a gritty group of shellfish, and their life-long rivals the Gulls, the popular birds of the beach. Life in the sand is hip and happening, full of singing and dancing, until the unthinkable happens—a clam and a gull fall in love. See it on Highway 1 in Oceano. $17-$20, with $2 discount for seniors, students, and active military, and $4 discounts for children. Info: 489-2499 or americanmelodrama.com.
FOOTLOOSE comes to the Cohan Center at Cal Poly in SLO on May 7 at 7pm. 1984’s Kevin-Bacon-star-making film launched a nationwide dance craze. This full-scale stage musical is based on the movie. $33 and up. Info: 756-2787, 1-888-233-ARTS, or calpolyarts.org.
PISMO BEACH YOUTH THEAER PRESENTS The Ugly Bug Ball May 8-10, Grease Jr. May 29-30, and Grease June 5-7 at the Pismo Beach Veterans Hall, 780 Bell.. $8-$10. Info: 471-4976 or HYPERLINK "http://www.pismobeachyouththeater.com" pismobeachyouththeater.com.
SAN LUIS OBISPO LITTLE THEATRE READERS’ THEATRE performs The Lady in the Van on May 8 at 8pm. In 1974, Alan Bennett encountered Miss Mary Shepherd, an elderly eccentric living in a van in the street near his home in Camden Town. He eventually allowed her to park the van in his garden, the idea being she would stay three months—but those three months extended to 15 years. 888 Morro St. in SLO $7-$10. Info: slolittletheatre.org or 786-2440.
AN EVENING WITH GARRISON KEILLOR comes to Cal Poly in SLO May 12 at 8pm. The charming, witty, and always entertaining writer, storyteller, and humorist, best known for radio’s A Prairie Home Companion and his Lake Wobegon books, returns for an all-new engagement of touching anecdotes, comic monologues, and thought-provoking observations. $44 and up. Info: 756-2787, 1-888-233-ARTS, or calpolyarts.org.
ARROYO GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE ENSEMBLE presents Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night May 14-17. Info: 489-9444 or HYPERLINK "http://www.clarkcenter.org" \t "_blank" clarkcenter.org.
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH takes the stage May 14-17 and May 20-22 at the Spanos Theatre at Cal Poly. This musical, based on the classic children’s book, follows a bored Milo after a mysterious tollbooth materializes in his bedroom and reveals a grand adventure. See it May 14-16, 20-22 at 7pm, May 16 and 17 at 2pm. $12-$14. Info: 756-5361, 756-2787, HYPERLINK "http://www.pacslo.org/"pacslo.org, or cla.calpoly.edu/thtrdanc.
SLO LEGAL, a parody of Boston Legal, takes place Sunday evenings at 5pm from May 15-Sept. 6 in this unique dinner theater experience. The performances are at The Spyglass Inn Restaurant, 2305 Spyglass Drive in Shell Beach. $48.95 includes dinner, show, sales tax, and wait staff gratuity. Reservations are required. Dress is casual. Info and reservations: 489-3875 or HYPERLINK "http://www.murderinmind.com/"murderinmind.com.
NIPOMO HIGH SCHOOL’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST plays May 21-23 and May 28-31 at 7:30pm at the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande. $10-$15. Info: 489-9444.
GYPSY hits the stage May 22-June 21 at the San Luis Obispo Little Theatre located at 888 Morro in SLO. $23-$25. Join the ultimate stage mother, Mama Rose, as she manages her daughter’s tour across the United States during the 1920s, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born. Info: slolittletheatre.org or 786-2440.
HOUSELIGHTS THEATRE AND ALLIED ARTS present Always…Patsy Cline May 22-June 21 at the Old Grammar School in Cambria. The show features Amanda Baker as Patsy Cline. Performance times are Friday and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 3 p.m. 1350 Main St. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at the Cambria Chamber of Commerce or by calling 927-4667. Info: Houselightstheatre.org or 927-4667.
IMAGEN Y ESPIRITU MEXICO DE NOCHE, presented by Ballet Folklorico de Cal Poly, is May 30 at 7pm at the Spanos Theatre in SLO. Info: 756-2787 or pacslo.org.
INFUSION—JAZZ DANCERS IN CONCERT is May 31 at 6pm at the Spanos Theatre in SLO. Info: 756-2787 or pacslo.org.
ALCHEMY WITH THE VARIABLE VELOCITY PERFORMANCE GROUP plays June 4-6 at the Cal Poly Spanos Theatre at 8pm. Info: HYPERLINK "http://www.variablevelocity.org" variablevelocity.org or 756-2787.
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY features Santa Maria Civic Ballet and Everybody Can Dance and guest director Alexei Badrak of the Bolshoi Ballet of Russia June 6 at 7pm and June 7 at 3pm at the Clark Center, 487 Fair Oaks Ave. in Arroyo Grande. $10-$17. Info: 489-9444.
THE JUNGLE BOOK features Mowgli, who was raised by wolves and learns the ways of the jungle. June 6-28: Sat. and Sun. at 2pm. $12-$16. Unity, 1490 Southwood Drive, San Luis Obispo. Info: 543-PLAY or kelrikproductions.com.
ARROYO GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE ENSEMBLE PRESENTS a New Play Festival on June 8. Info: 489-9444 or HYPERLINK "http://www.clarkcenter.org" \t "_blank" clarkcenter.org.
GOLD FEVER AT THE ROUGH AND READY by Neal LaVine shows at the Great American Melodrama June 18-Sept. 19. A mining camp comes to life with heroic action, love, betrayal, deceit, and villainy. Set in the Sierras, this show offers loads of opportunities to boo the villain, cheer the hero, and laugh yourself silly at the crazy antics of the colorful characters that inhabit the rough and tumble world of the California Gold Rush! On Highway 1 in Oceano. $17-$20, with $2 discount for seniors, students, and active military, and $4 discounts for children. Info: 489-2499 or americanmelodrama.com.
PACIFIC DANCE CENTER PRESENTS THE LITTLE MERMAID on June 27 at the Cal Poly Spanos Theater. Info: 772-7119 or 756-2787.
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2, presented by Kelrik Productions, shows July 10-19 at the PAC in SLO. $22 and up. Fri. and Sat. at 7pm and Sat. and Sun. at 2pm. $22 and up. Info: 756-2787, 543-PLAY, or kelrikproductions.com.
CENTRAL COAST SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL PRESENTS A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM AND TREASURE ISLAND, alternating July 10-Aug.15 at River Oaks Amphitheatre, 800 Clubhouse Drive, Paso Robles. Evening performances begin at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees begin at 5 p.m. Tickets are $18 for students and seniors, or $20 general admission. Group rates for 10 or more are $16 per person. Tickets and more information are available online at centralcoastshakespeare.org or 546-4224. No outside alcoholic beverages are allowed. The box office will open a half hour before each performance. Picnics and the Bard: very cool. North County nights are typically balmy, but bring a jacket just in case.
SLO LITTLE THEATRE PRESENTS VEGAS, BABY! July 10-Aug. 2. See the history of the little town in the desert that became an oasis for the world at 888 Morro St. in SLO. $50 for Martini Nights, $35 for all other shows. Info: 786-2440 or slolittletheatre.org.
GOLD FEVER AT THE ROUGH AND READY AND RIP VAN WINKLE alternate at the Great American Melodrama July 16-Sept. 20. One of the most beloved characters in literature comes to life in this stage adaptation of Washington Irving’s classic story Rip van Winkle is a lovable, if lazy, villager who prefers a song and a drink to a farmer’s work. Evil landlord Derrick von Beekman plots to cheat Rip out of his property, and when Rip’s wife throws him out of the house in frustration, Rip climbs into the mountains. See it on Highway 1 in Oceano. $17-$20, with $2 discount for seniors, students, and active military, and $4 discounts for children. Info: 489-2499 or americanmelodrama.com.
THE PRODUCERS marks the second production from Sorcerer Productions. Sets, costumes, and props will be rented from the latest national Broadway touring company from New York, and the show will feature a live orchestra conducted by Dave Becker. The production will run for three weekends at the Clark Center for the Performing Arts, Aug. 21-Sept. 6 for a total of 10 performances. Info: Ryan Cordero at HYPERLINK "http://us.mc816.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sorcererproductions@gmail.com"sorcererproductions@gmail.com.
SCARY POPPINS by Ben E. Millet plays at the Great American Melodrama Sept. 24-Nov. 15. It’s Super-Nanny-Gone-Ballistic-Expialidocious! Young Jack and Jill Peabody live in Victorian London with their widowed father, a nutty inventor with little time to pay attention to his children. But when the children write to everybody’s favorite Super Nanny, they get more than they bargained for: Instead of Mary Poppins, they end up with her bizarre twin sister, Scary Poppins. See it on Highway 1 in Oceano. $17-$20, with $2 discount for seniors, students, and active military, and $4 discounts for children. Info: 489-2499 or americanmelodrama.com.
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SKATE SHAVINGS - News and Notes from Caps' Morning Skate 12/14
Dads and mentors in Tampa where the Caps must be disciplined vs. lethal Bolts power play, and the thinking behind Samsonov's start
by Mike Vogel @VogsCaps / washingtoncaps.com
Between Fathers And Sons - The Caps continue their Mentors' Trip tradition on Saturday night in Tampa when their dads and significant male mentors watch together from a suite above ice level as they take on the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena.
Saturday's game is the middle match of the three-game season's series between the Capitals and the Lightning, a season's series that will be played out in a span of just over three weeks. The Caps won a 4-3 overtime decision over the Bolts on Black Friday (Nov. 29) in the first meeting between the two former Southeast Division rivals, and the two teams will finish up for 2019-20 a week from tonight in Washington.
In its 11 previous Mentors' Trips dating back to the 2007-08 season, Washington owns a 15-6-0 record.
Video: #CapsDads 2019 | Day 1
"I think it's been great," says Caps coach Todd Reirden of this season's Mentors' Trip. "We adjust it a little bit every year, something I love to be a part of and share what goes on every day in our day in, day out routine for these guys on our practice day, and a time when we could get out and do something totally different by going on the boat the other day as a group.
"Then today, they're able to come in and see meetings on how we prepare for the opposition and be here for the morning skate. Then they'll probably have some fun this afternoon [before the game] I imagine, and then meet us at the game, and then we'll have dinner together after. This is a trip where, again, [we have] a little less structure than we've had in the past, with your itinerary every hour being planned, and you're going to go to see this museum for an hour and a half, and this one for two hours.
"This is something I talked to the players about, and you know I lean on our leadership group heavily. And they like just some more time to just hang out with dad or their mentors or father-in-laws or whatever it is, as opposed to them chasing over the town. They'd rather spend some time just hanging out, and I think that's proved to be a nice lesson and I think they're really enjoying themselves."
Video: Reirden Pregame | December 14
After Friday's practice, several medium-sized groups of players and mentors made their way to various local eateries for dinner, and many of us reconvened together afterwards for libations. Whether it's a dad or mentor on his first trip of this type or an old hand who has been on half a dozen or more of them, it's a trip the players and dads alike look forward to and savor. The group of mentors is a tight one that looks forward to renewing its own bonds every season, and to welcoming new mentors into their mix.
"Obviously the first couple are very special, especially the first one," says Caps goalie Braden Holtby. "Just to see it, it's more emotional that way, I think. Now, it's more fun and as years go on, you realize you can't take it for granted as much anymore, especially this year with him.
"Out west, it's been a real tough harvest, so it's nice for him to get a little break, and I think he's been really looking forward just to unwind, and talk to some of the guys that he's been around before, and meet some new guys, and just to catch up because we don't see each other except a little bit at the end of games and in summer. So it's good timing for him."
For ex-Lightning defenseman Radko Gudas, the trip is a return to his NHL roots; he was a Tampa Bay draft pick who began his NHL career here after winning a Calder Cup with the Lightning's AHL Norfolk affiliate, and some of his old Norfolk and Tampa Bay teammates are still here.
"This is the place that I started the whole career here, and it's always going to be special for me coming down here to play some games," says Gudas. "And obviously, I have a different home now. I haven't lived here for number of years, but there's [Lightning forward] Ondrej Palat that my family's very close with, and a lot of guys that I won the Calder Cup with.
"It is always special when you have a teammate that you won something with. So yeah, it's always going to be fun to come down here. But everything aside, we need two points tonight and that's my main focus. We're staying here tonight, so maybe we'll get to time after the game to catch up or something. But until then, they're enemies."
Video: Rinkside Update | Leo Gudas
Although Gudas is an eight-year NHL veteran, this is the first mentors/fathers trip his dad has been on. Leo Gudas was quite a hockey player himself - he was a 1990 Calgary Flames draft choice, though he never played in North America - and he still coaches the game back home, which has prevented him from participating in previous trips.
"I think it's great for him to see," says Gudas of his dad. "He's been through this his whole life, the hockey life. I believe he kind of has a little bit of feeling of how it how it goes, and what to expect, but for example the [pre-scout] meeting this morning, he was really amazed with the detail and with everything that was going around with it, and how everybody was focused on certain points, like what we're changing from game-to-game based on who we're playing.
"He is coaching right now - or he's going to be coaching back home - and I think that the team that he's going to be coaching at home might get some new views on things and some new trends going on, so I think that's a good thing, too."
Tampa Bay is a popular spot for the Mentors' Trip; this marks the fifth time the Caps dads have taken in a Caps-Bolts game as part of the trip. The most recent occurrence was four years ago this week when Washington edged the Lightning 2-1 here on Dec. 12, 2015, two nights after suffering a 4-1 setback to the Panthers in Florida in the opening game of the journey.
Washington has won each of its four previous Mentors' Trip visits to Tampa Bay, needing the shootout to win by a 2-1 count on March 7, 2011.
Fight The Power - On Wednesday night in Washington, the Caps' penalty killing outfit - with a primary assist from its crack video coaching staff - went 5-for-5 against a lethal Boston Bruins power play unit in a 3-2 Caps win. Three nights later in Tampa, the Caps will go up against an even more formidable extra-man unit.
In six of its 30 games this season, the Lightning has scored multiple power-play goals, including its 3-2 win over the Bruins here on Thursday. Steven Stamkos and Brayden Point both scored while the Lightning had the extra man in that game. Among all NHL teams, only the Edmonton Oilers (eight) have had more games with multiple power-play goals this season.
With Stamkos and Nikita Kucherov on the dots, Point in the diamond or bumper spot in the slot, and Victor Hedman up top, the Lightning boast some of the league's top extra man talent.
When Washington and Tampa Bay met on Nov. 29 in Washington, the Caps turned in a terrific first period, dominating the Bolts and limiting them to one shot on net - and none at 5-on-5 - over a span of 16 minutes and 57 seconds. But the Caps took a late penalty in the first, and the Lightning took advantage of that opportunity to grab a 1-0 lead on Point's power-play goal with 1:10 left in the first.
The Caps killed three of four in that game in Washington, but they're definitely looking to be a bit more disciplined tonight in Tampa than they were on Wednesday in Washington.
"Our penalty kill has been good as of late," says Caps right wing Tom Wilson, "but we've been taking too many penalties. You don't want to be going to the box five, six times a game because in this league, one goal can be a big goal in any game. And if you give them that many opportunities to put the other team's best players on the ice, it's not a recipe for success.
"Same thing with these guys, we want to play disciplined. We want to play hard on them obviously, but stay out of the box because if you get the puck into their into their best players' hands, it helps them feel it, and it helps them create momentum for their team. If they score or they don't it, you don't want to be shorthanded. So we're going to have to be a little smarter with our sticks and stuff like that."
The Caps' penalty killing corps carries a streak of 19 straight successful penalty killing missions into Saturday's game with the Bolts. Washington's kill is at 85.3 percent on the season, third best in the circuit. But the Caps have gone shorthanded 116 times in 33 games this season; only the Sharks (123) and the Senators (117) have been down a dude more frequently.
In The Nets - Ilya Samsonov gets the net for Washington tonight, giving us a matchup of two of the best young Russian goaltenders in the game. In his rookie season in the NHL, Samsonov is 7-2-1 in 10 games (nine starts), with a 2.42 GAA and a .917 save pct. With his father Aleksei watching from above, he will face the Lightning and fellow Russian netminder Andrei Vasilevskiy for the first time.
"We want to try to get him involved in games a little bit more often," says Reirden. "So this was the one on the schedule that worked out right for us and we feel like it's a good challenge and a good situation to see where he's at. So we're excited about getting him in, obviously against a top notch team."
Reirden was asked whether Samsonov might draw extra motivation from going up against a fellow Russian in the opposition net.
"That's probably a little bit of a side note," says the Caps coach. "It's a great situation as his father is here as well from Russia, so a lot of things going for Ilya.
"To me, this is just another step and see where he is in terms of his development. We play him in back-to-backs and we've played him probably on at least three other occasions, and this is a time where it's not a back-to-back, but we feel like he's earned the game, and we'll see how it goes tonight against a very difficult opponent."
Aside from that, the Caps are also extremely mindful of getting Samsonov enough regular work - Washington only has a dozen sets of back-to-backs this season - and it also wants to keep No. 1 netminder Braden Holtby from being overworked. Holtby played extremely well in a pair of difficult assignments at home earlier in the week, against Columbus and Boston. And although Holtby owns a solid 11-4-3 lifetime mark against the Lightning, he has yielded three or more goals against in each of his last six starts against the Bolts, going 3-2-1 in the process. Holtby also pitched a shutout against the Jackets in his most recent start in Columbus.
"We don't really want [Samsonov] not playing any more than a week at a time," says Reirden, "and when we're in a situation like that it hurts his game overall. The other thing is we don't want to overplay Braden and he had what ended up being two difficult games this week where I thought he was a strong point both games to give us a chance against Columbus, and then I thought it was excellent against Boston."
Samsonov won each of his last two starts - at Detroit and at Los Angeles, respectively - and he permitted just three goals on 50 shots in the process. He has a 7-1-1 record in his nine starting assignments this season.
For Tampa Bay, we are expecting to see Vasilevskiy in net. On the season, he is 13-8-1 with a 2.78 GAA and a .910 save pct. But he has won four of his five December starts (4-1-0), posting a 2.20 GAA and a .926 save pct. along the way.
Lifetime against the Caps, Vasilevskiy is 4-5-1 with a 3.66 GAA and an .899 save pct. He has permitted three or more goals against in eight of his 10 career starts against Washington, including each of the last four.
All Lined Up - Here is a look at how we expect the Capitals and the Lightning to lineup on Saturday night when they meet for the only time in Tampa this season:
8-Ovechkin, 19-Backstrom, 43-Wilson
13-Vrana, 92-Kuznetsov, 77-Oshie
62-Hagelin, 20-Eller, 14-Panik
28-Leipsic, 26-Dowd, 21-Hathaway
6-Kempny, 74-Carlson
9-Orlov, 3-Jensen
34-Siegenthaler, 33-Gudas
30-Samsonov
70-Holtby
72-Boyd
18-Palat, 21-Point, 86-Kucherov
17-Killorn, 71-Cirelli, 91-Stamkos
14-Maroon, 13-Paquette, 37-Gourde
23-Verhaeghe, 67-Stephens, 7-Joseph
77-Hedman, 44-Rutta
27-McDonagh, 81-Cernak
98-Sergachev, 22-Shattenkirk
88-Vasilevskiy
35-McElhinney
9-Johnson (lower body)
55-Coburn (lower body)
2-Schenn
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Working at the Project Level
For many who work with the U.S. Forest Service, maintaining focus on the project level is of utmost importance since centralized agencies are built to work from the top down. We work on connecting Forest Service staff, community partners, and other individuals interested with each other to promote the health of our forested regions and grasslands in a project oriented manner. NFF created (or is sharing) the tools and resources in this section to aid collaborative groups engaging in collaboration at the project level.
Not finding what you need? Visit our Collaboration Tools Search to see all tools and resources.
Selected Peer Learning Sessions
Partnering for Success: Watershed Condition Framework (June 22, 2015)
This peer learning session featured the perspectives of a line officer and partner as they explained how partnerships and cooperation are critical to improving watershed health on national forests. Speakers shared their experiences and discussed lessons related to working with one another to develop and complete successful watershed restoration projects.
Aiming for Success: Watershed Condition Framework (May 27, 2015)
This peer learning session for Line Officers was designed to share the value of the Watershed Condition Framework and discuss successes and challenges of its implementation. Following a kick-off by Leslie Weldon, Deputy Chief of the National Forest System, two case studies were shared that explained how the Watershed Condition Framework has been used to improve watershed health on national forests. Speakers shared their experiences in the selection of priority watersheds, project implementation, and the role of partners.
The 2014 Farm Bill: Working Smarter through Strengthened Collaboration (June 18, 2015)
In this peer learning session, speakers focused on one element of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Farm Bill), the NEPA categorical exclusion (CE) for insect and disease treatments. Following an overview of the new NEPA tools from the Washington Office, Tera Little, Project Team Leader for the Jasper Mountain Project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest, discussed the Jasper Mountain project, which was one of the first projects completed under the new authority.
NEPA & Collaboration at the Project Level (May 14, 2015)
Focused on project-level planning and implementation, this session dug into the mechanics of collaborating throughout the NEPA process. Speakers shared barriers they had to overcome, strategies for success, and tips for nurturing collaboration throughout NEPA. The fantastic line-up of speakers includes specialists from the Washington Office of the U.S. Forest Service, Deschutes National Forest, and Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forest.
CFLRP Implementation Issues 2 (April 19, 2011)
This peer learning session focused on CFLRP implementation issues and financing.
Moving from Collaborative Project Design to Implementation and Monitoring (April 8, 2009)
In this peer learning session, presenters asked participants to discuss how collaboration can move into implementation
Stewardship Contracting: Updates, Overview and Examples (July 24, 2014)
In this peer learning session Forest Management staff at the Washington Office provided an overview of the stewardship authority. Next, agency staff and partners from Region 1, the Idaho Forest Group, and the Malheur National Forest discussed the processes they used to develop integrated resource timber contracts (ITRCs) and integrated resource service contracts (IRSCs).
Stewardship Agreements and Contracts - Important Tools for Accelerated Restoration (December 11, 2012)
In this session, participants learned about the latest status of stewardship tools and how the Bureau of Land Management is using the direction; received a basic "how to" for stewardship agreements and contracts; learned about recent improvements (most specifically, addressing fire liability in Forest Service stewardship agreements); and listened to lessons learned by two community-based partner groups.
Closing the Feedback Loop: Capturing Shared Learning for Adaptive Management (May 4, 2012)
This peer learning session is part of a project to explore shared learning processes and adaptive management tools that are being used by collaborative resource management groups. Presenters shared examples of collaborative group learning processes that lead to adaptive change and learned from participants’ experiences as well.
Evaluation and Adaptation in Collaborative Resource Management – A New Sourcebook (May 14, 2013)
This peer learning session discusses a newly-published sourcebook, Closing the Feedback Loop: Evaluation and Adaptation in Collaborative Resource Management. The sourcebook explores strategies and tools that collaborative groups use to systematically evaluate their work and adapt plans and management actions based on what they have learned. Presenters from around the country shared examples from the field, and discussed process tools from nine rapid assessments that are described in the sourcebook.
The Line Officer's View on Collaboration and Partnerships (September 5, 2013)
What is the forest supervisor’s role in collaboration and partnerships? Each line officer has his or her own leadership style and brings a different perspective to how they interact with community stakeholders. In this peer learning session, we heard directly from several experienced forest supervisors about their views on strategic approaches to partnerships and collaboration, and how partnership coordinators and other staff can help them and the forest succeed in working with their communities.
Tribal Relations & Partnerships (October 9, 2014)
The Office of Tribal Relations recently published a new guide for tribal governments, Start a Partnership With the USDA Forest Service or Obtain Federal Financial Assistance. The Guide is an excellent tool for Partnership Coordinators and Forest Service staff involved in partnerships. This session introduced and explained the Guide, plus much more.
Selected Tools & Resources
Adaptive Management Technical Guide
In an effort to make better decisions, learn mid‐stream from the impacts of those decisions, and involve communities of interest and place in stewardship efforts, the Department of the Interior developed a tool called “Adaptive Management: The U.S. Department of the Interior Technical Guide.”
Making Monitoring Count: Project Design for Active Adaptive Management
Citation: LARSON, A., BELOTE, T., WILLIAMSON, M., AND APLET, G. 2013. MAKING MONITORING COUNT: PROJECT DESIGN FOR ACTIVE ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT. JOURNAL OF FORESTRY
Partnership Resource Center
The Partnership Resource Center is the result of a true partnership developed through the shared vision of the National Forest Foundation (NFF) and the National Partnership Office of the U.S. Forest Service. Recognizing the many resources being developed about collaboration and partnerships, the Forest Service and the NFF gathered a group of people in 2009 to talk about how to renovate the Partnership Resource Center into an interactive portal. Those working collaboratively in the effort include the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, the Red Lodge Clearinghouse and Southwest Decision Resources, as well as the Forest Service's Ecosystem Management Coordination staff, the Chief Information Office, and Forest Service staff from forest and regional levels.
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Perfect Day At CocoCay, Bahamas
Upping the ante on what it means to thrill and chill on vacation, Royal Caribbean International today unveiled the first details of the new Perfect Day Island Collection, a series of unrivaled private island destinations around the world. The first in the collection, Perfect Day at CocoCay, Bahamas will boast a number of distinct experiences and iconic features, giving adventurous vacationers first-time experiences that will top any bucket list.
Port Canaveral is a cruise, cargo and naval port in Brevard County, Florida, United States. As a deep water cargo port, it has a high volume of traffic. Common cargo includes cement, petroleum. The port has conveyors and hoppers for loading products directly into trucks, and facilities for bulk cargo containers.
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NEW GENERATION OASIS-CLASS SHIP - HARMONY OF THE SEAS
Royal Caribbean International’s new generation Oasis-class ship, Harmony of the Seas, is set to launch in April 2016. The third in the Oasis class of ships – currently the largest cruise ships in the world – will continue the award-winning cruise line’s philosophy of innovation and imagination to offer a unique vacation adventure for guests. “We are orchestrating a medley of new exciting concepts with the best Royal Caribbean innovations to strike the perfect chord for adventurous vacationers. That is why we are calling our third Oasis-class ship Harmony of the Seas,” said Michael Bayley, President and CEO, Royal Caribbean International.
Harmony of the Seas, featuring the cruise line’s design of seven distinct neighborhoods for which Oasis class is known, will offer the most amazing collection of experiences, amenities and activities at sea. Guests can test their mettle on the ship’s three multi-story waterslides, all of which twist and turn over Central Park 10 decks below. One of the slides also will feature a champagne bowl that swirls guests around as they make their approach to the end of the ride. “The Oasis class ships continue to astound and delight both new and experienced cruisers. They shatter preconceived notions of what cruising can be and continue to stand in a category by themselves,” said Richard D. Fain, Chairman and CEO, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. “With Harmony of the Seas, we are making the most exciting experience at sea even better.” Harmony of the Seas also will feature a new Bionic Bar on the Royal Promenade. The Bionic Bar was first introduced aboard Quantum of the Seas, and feature robot bartenders serving up one-of-a-kind crafted cocktails while dancing to a fluid beat. Additionally, guests onboard Harmony of the Seas will enjoy RFID technology with Royal WOWBands that provide them access to their staterooms as well as make onboard purchases and reservations. Like her sisters, Harmony also will feature the fastest Internet connection at sea where guests can stream video; Skype with family and friends back at home; and share their vacation memories through social media instantly while at sea.
While Oasis and Allure offered some of the largest staterooms in the fleet, on Harmony of the Seas the company has made some stateroom categories even larger. Interior accommodations also will be outfitted with Royal Caribbean’s exclusive Virtual Balconies which offer a view in every stateroom, while single travelers will have studio stateroom choices. Suite guests also will have exclusive new areas to enjoy, from a well-appointed suite lounge and a private suites-only restaurant called Coastal Kitchen to an exclusive full-service Suite Sun Zone sun deck. Younger and young-at-heart guests can take a spin on the handcrafted carousel or enjoy a new classic games arcade on the ship’s Boardwalk neighborhood. While parents enjoy the newly relocated Starbucks café on the Boardwalk, kids can meet new friends at a new climbing play area.
Royal Caribbean’s Dynamic Dining will give Harmony of the Seas’ guests a culinary experience as vast and varied as dining in the world’s most cosmopolitan cities with more choice and flexibility than ever before. Those preferring a more traditional cruise dining style may select the “Classic” option which will offer two set seating times. Dynamic Dining’s “Classic” option allows guests to rotate through each of the main complimentary restaurants at an early- or a late-seating time throughout their cruise with their dining group and the same assigned waiter each evening.New specialty restaurant concepts will provide even more variety for guests including Izumi Hibachi & Sushi, with a new teppanyaki menu, and the Sabor Modern Mexican restaurant. The new Wonderland Imaginative Cuisine will give guests the chance to experience a unique culinary adventure for the senses when Royal Caribbean chefs twist their culinary kaleidoscopes in a whimsical setting that challenges the imagination with never-before-seen fare. Harmony of the Seas will span 16 decks, encompass 227,000 gross registered tons, carry 5,479 guests at double occupancy, and feature 2,747 staterooms.
The Oasis class is an architectural marvel touting Royal Caribbean’s exclusive seven neighborhood concept, including Central Park, Boardwalk, the Royal Promenade, the Pool and Sports Zone, Vitality at Sea Spa and Fitness Center, Entertainment Place and Youth Zone.
Gross Tonnage 226.000
Length 1.187 ft
Max Beam 154 ft
Draft 30 ft
Cruising Speed 23 knots
Decks 16
Guests 5.479
Staterooms 2.747
Message from Adam M. Goldstein, President and CEO
Welcome to Royal Caribbean International – a place where innovation and imagination reign supreme. From its very beginning, our company has been guided by the principles of designing ships and creating itineraries that lead to a cruising experience like no other – principles grounded on delivering the WOW to each and every one of our guests before, during and after sailing with us.
We take great pride in being able to introduce first-at-sea innovations such as the rock climbing wall, zipline and FlowRider® surf simulator to mention a few, as well as offering unparalleled entertainment experiences and to be the only cruise line to offer Tony Award®-winning Broadway shows. All of these onboard amenities offer us the opportunity to see how we can WOW our guests every time they cruise with us.
With more than 280 destinations worldwide and an amazing array of exciting shore excursions and cruisetour options, we provide our guests the chance to experience something new. Something only a Royal Caribbean cruise can offer – like glacier-trekking in Alaska; cave-tubing in Belize; biking through the vineyards of Dubrovnik, Croatia; experiencing the wonders of China; or simply doing nothing at all. That's just the beginning of the kind of exciting adventures and relaxing escapes our global cruises bring to vacationers around the world.
Our ships are also built to WOW. Our latest innovations on Quantum of the Seas, set to sail in November 2014, will feature such first-at-sea experiences like bumper cars, roller skating, simulated skydiving and The North Star, a jewel-like capsule that gently soars 300 feet above sea level. Plus, our Oasis class ships continue to WOW our guests with their unprecedented entertainment, dining and exclusive onboard amenities. We also continue to enhance the rest of our fleet and have already revitalized more than half of our 21 ships and will finalize the revitalizations with our Voyager class in 2014 and 2015.
All of this of course could not be accomplished without our most amazing asset – our crew. The men and women onboard our ships work tirelessly each and every day to ensure that all of our guests have the vacation of a lifetime.
We are committed to continue creating amazing new experiences for our guests in the years ahead. It’s our way of ensuring that we offer our guests the most innovative cruise ships, exciting and compelling itineraries around the world, and our renowned GOLD Anchor Service – what we call the Royal Advantage. We look forward to seeing you onboard and delivering the WOW to you and your family and friends.
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Nature. 2000 Dec 21-28;408(6815):961-4.
Disturbance and diversity in experimental microcosms.
Buckling A1, Kassen R, Bell G, Rainey PB.
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, UK. angus.buckling@plant-sciences.ox.ac.uk
External agents of mortality (disturbances) occur over a wide range of scales of space and time, and are believed to have large effects on species diversity. The "intermediate disturbance hypothesis", which proposes maximum diversity at intermediate frequencies of disturbance, has received support from both field and laboratory studies. Coexistence of species at intermediate frequencies of disturbance is thought to require trade-offs between competitive ability and disturbance tolerance, and a metapopulation structure, with disturbance affecting only a few patches at any given time. However, a unimodal relationship can also be generated by global disturbances that affect all patches simultaneously, provided that the environment contains spatial niches to which different species are adapted. Here we report the results of tests of this model using both isogenic and diverse populations of the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens. In both cases, a unimodal relationship between diversity and disturbance frequency was generated in heterogeneous, but not in homogeneous, environments. The cause of this relationship is competition among niche-specialist genotypes, which maintains diversity at intermediate disturbance, but not at high or low disturbance. Our results show that disturbance can modulate the effect of spatial heterogeneity on biological diversity in natural environments.
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Nemesis of the Roman Empire
Publisher: Enlight Interactive Inc.
Developer: Haemimont Games
Genres: Strategy / Real-Time Strategy
More vedi, vidi, vici in RTS land.
One of 2002’s quiet surprises was Celtic Kings: Rage of War, which threw real-time strategy and role-playing into a blender and dished up a game tasty enough for many fans of both. The sequel, unfortunately, backs off from the earlier game’s innovations. Nemesis of the Roman Empire drops many role-playing elements in favor of the base building conventions that we’ve seen many times before.
The setting is the third and second centuries BCE, the time of the Punic Wars. You muster huge armies and place them under the command of heroes, build siege engines to conquer enemy outposts, and establish supply lines to haul food and gold across your empire.
You do these things by overseeing various generals as they wage war at different periods over the course of a century. In the Battle of Saguntum, you help Gallic Indortes defend a city against the Carthaginians. In Hannibal’s Campaigns, you take on Carthage in the conquest of Hispania. In Numantia’s Siege, you defend Hispania with Culcas and Dictoras and their Iberian and Gallic tribesmen. Yes, just as you did in StarCraft, you’ll be switching sides more often than a Frenchman. Only in StarCraft, it was more fun.
This fractured focus made it difficult for me to stay motivated from battle to battle. Detailed graphics, distinct unit types, and politically-incorrect ethnic accents notwithstanding, I couldn’t get into the campaigns because I didn’t feel like I had enough time to form a strong bond with any single leader before moving on to the next.
This problem doesn’t crop up in the single-player skirmish and multiplayer modes, of course, since no story is required there. In these modes, battle tactics are at the heart of every game, and resource gathering is handled automatically so that you can become absorbed in the planning and execution of war without having to micromanage. Fortunes flow wildly: One moment I was defending city walls from trumpeting Carthaginian elephants, and the next I was building an expeditionary force.
At times, Nemesis’ tactical game almost offsets the scatterbrained feel of ping-ponging around through history. But even with its solid elements, Nemesis is considerably less adventurous than its genre-bending predecessor, making it much less engaging as a result.
System Requirements: Pentium II 400 MHz, 64 MB RAM, WinXP
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Living in the Past
By Nick Cross
I've always been suspicious of nostalgia - that intense yearning for the past that often seems to be an excuse for not engaging with the present. As a result, all of my five novels to date have had a contemporary setting. Writing in the now just felt right - I was engaging with the issues that directly affected child readers, I was keeping up with popular culture and also avoiding doing much in the way of research (which I found tedious).
Yet I seem to have spent the last six months living in and writing about the past. What happened there?
In a word: BREXIT
While the Brexit vote was, in many ways, a victory of nostalgia over common sense, it awoke a strange need in me to retreat into history. So, on the day after the referendum, I found myself watching a film about the 1968 Chicago riots. The present had become utterly confusing, and I found myself compelled to reach back to a time that was equally bewildering. That might seem masochistic to you, but I think I was searching for reassurance, a sense that other people lived through such times and came out the other side.
I don’t know why late 20th Century American history holds such a fascination for me, but as the news got steadily worse through the latter half of 2016, I spent more and more time watching documentaries and reading about the past. I was attracted to scenarios where life and liberty were threatened by repressive right-wing forces, and the people affected rebelled against it: the black civil rights movement, civil unrest in the late 1960s, Nixon and Watergate (a particular fascination), the 80s AIDS epidemic, third-wave feminism in the early 1990s.
Some of the films I've watched over the last six months
It’s not hard to see the parallels between these times past and the current dark days of Brexit and President Trump. There’s a paranoid nutjob in the White House; racial minorities are being victimised and sometimes killed; women’s rights are threatened; liberal democracy is in the midst of an existential crisis. But for me as a writer, the great advantage that the past has over the present is that it cannot change. Who would dare to predict what will happen in the world in even a month’s time? Fictional scenarios that once seemed utterly fanciful have become more like factual accounts of modern American politics.
However, if I’m writing about the past, all I have to do is find a gap in the true story where I can place my fictional one. A gap that can never be closed by current events, however volatile. As a storyteller, it’s also a fun challenge – can I weave real events around my narrative to provide verisimilitude, but then imagine how my own characters would react in that situation?
Research in progress
I am doing a lot of research – one source book in particular is looking increasingly dog-eared - and I’ve been writing out endless timelines and mind-maps to make sense of the chronology of events. As ever, I’m impatient to get on with the writing, but I also have a strong urge to get things right. This is a particular hazard when writing about the recent past, as the real-life people involved may still be alive and could read the book!
If you read my last post Drifting Away, you’ll know that 2016 was a tough year for me creatively. And I have to think that the turbulent political climate was in part responsible for that. It’s all too easy to get fixated on the news and feel powerless in the face of unstoppable global forces. In order to find myself again, I first had to get some distance from the here and now.
Sometimes, the only way to make sense of the present is to get the hell out of it
Beyond the escapism factor, the past offers us something else that’s in perilously short supply right now: hope. Things have actually got better – a lot better – since the 60s, 70s and 80s. On average, we are living longer, healthier, more fulfilling lives. Black people and women have moved much closer to equality. Gay marriage is a reality in much of the world. And homosexual men aren’t dying every day from an incurable disease.
All that said, I still feel the heavy burden of middle-class guilt. Even though I spend my working life at a non-profit company, directly contributing to education programmes across the developing world, I worry that I could be doing more. Shouldn’t I be making banners and joining marches against Trump? Isn’t it my moral duty to protest?
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When I look at our present-day struggles, I feel paralysed by the breadth of change needed to put the world back on an even keel. Yet, when I look at the past, I can see a blueprint for how that change could be achieved. My ability to affect politics - especially American politics - is limited. But by shining a light on the successful campaigns of the past to fight racism, sexism, social inequality and corruption, I hope to show young readers how they can join together and make a difference.
Nick Cross is a children's writer and Undiscovered Voices winner. He received a 2015 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award, for his short story The Last Typewriter.
Nick is also the Blog Network Editor for SCBWI Words & Pictures magazine. His Ten-Minute Blog Break column appears fortnightly on W&P.
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Labels: America , Brexit , contemporary , Donald Trump , historical , Nick Cross , politics , Research , Writing
Ana Salote 6 February 2017 at 09:47
You can see a blueprint! You're putting it into a book for young people. You've definitely got my interest, Nick. Best of luck with it.
Teri Terry 6 February 2017 at 10:02
I found myself reflecting on the Cold War after 9/11 in a similar way; there is some comfort to thinking how totally F$%£ed things have been in the past ... but I'm far too lazy to do the research to go there in a story.
Hope it goes well!
Candy Gourlay 13 February 2017 at 13:57
I'm really excited by your new project, having also been working on a historical wip. "When I look at the past, I can see a blueprint for how that change could be achieved" So true! Would love to learn more about it. And what your dogeared book is. Write well!
Nick Cross 14 February 2017 at 11:56
Thanks Candy. As you'll have guessed from my reticence, I'm not ready to talk about it yet, until I've got some more writing under my belt. But soon, hopefully!
Maureen Lynas 23 February 2017 at 08:41
I think I've been searching for reassurance too and in a weird way my book us being affected by what's happening in the world. I'm adding in the the things I feel are unjust or uncomfortable and trying ti find a way for the characters to deal with them. It's an 'interesting' time. I do have hope for the future though. Because of the oast. Good luck with the project.
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NRA Applauds Passage of Louisiana`s <br> Freedom to Hunt, Fish and Trap Amendment
FAIRFAX, VA -- In a nationwide trend to uphold the heritage of America`s outdoorsmen and women, the Louisiana Legislature overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment recognizing every citizen`s fundamental right to hunt, fish and trap. The National Rifle Association (NRA), as well as numerous other sportsmen and conservation groups, solidly supported "The Freedom to Hunt, Fish and Trap" (SB 2) amendment. It will now be placed before state voters on the November 2nd ballot.
"‘The Sportsman`s Paradise` has long recognized hunting, fishing and trapping as a vital component of Louisiana`s heritage and economy," said Chris W. Cox, NRA`s chief lobbyist. "This is a sound victory for outdoorsmen.
"To ensure the success of this important amendment, I am counting on every Louisiana NRA member and gun owner to fight for their hunting, fishing and trapping rights at the polls November 2nd."
The constitutional amendment acknowledges, "The freedom to hunt, fish, and trap wildlife, including all aquatic life, traditionally taken by hunters, trappers and anglers, is a valued natural heritage that shall be forever preserved for the people."
"On behalf of the numerous Louisiana gun owners and hunters, I want to thank the Legislature, Senator Joe McPherson (D-Woodworth), Representative Jack Smith (D-Franklin) and the Louisiana Wildlife Federation (LWF) for their work to secure the liberties of Louisiana sportsmen," added Cox.
Seven states, the most recent being Wisconsin in April of 2003, have included language in their constitutions to preserve the freedom to hunt, fish and trap. Similar proposals are pending in eight additional states.
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The National Rifle Association is the nation`s leader in protecting the right to hunt for all law-abiding Americans. Along with approximately 17 million American hunters and many national conservation organizations, NRA is working to preserve the American hunting tradition for future generations. Hunters and sportsmen play a pivotal role in America`s economy and society, and have been leaders in promoting wildlife management and conservation. Since 1939, hunters and shooters have paid over $4 billion in excise taxes on sporting equipment. Hunters and fishermen fund nearly 75% of the annual income for all 50 state conservation agencies. And, hunters contribute $21 billion to the American economy each year.
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The Outer Worlds is a new single-player first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division.
Lost in transit while on a colonist ship bound for the furthest edge of the galaxy, you awake decades later only to find yourself in the midst of a deep conspiracy threatening to destroy the Halcyon colony. As you explore the furthest reaches of space and encounter various factions, all vying for power, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the corporate equation for the colony, you are the unplanned variable.
The player-driven story RPG: In keeping with the Obsidian tradition, how you approach The Outer Worlds is up to you. Your choices affect not only the way the story develops; but your character build, companion stories, and end game scenarios.
You can be flawed, in a good way: New to The Outer Worlds is the idea of flaws. A compelling hero is made by the flaws they carry with them. While playing The Outer Worlds, the game tracks your experience to find what you aren't particularly good at. Keep getting attacked by Raptidons? Taking the Raptiphobia flaw gives you a debuff when confronting the vicious creatures, but rewards you with an additional character perk immediately. This optional approach to the game helps you build the character you want while exploring Halcyon.
Lead your companions: During your journey through the furthest colony, you will meet a host of characters who will want to join your crew. Armed with unique abilities, these companions all have their own missions, motivations, and ideals. It's up to you to help them achieve their goals, or turn them to your own ends.
Explore the corporate colony: Halcyon is a colony at the edge of the galaxy owned and operated by a corporate board. They control everything... except for the alien monsters left behind when the terraforming of the colony’s two planets didn’t exactly go according to plan. Find your ship, build your crew, and explore the settlements, space stations, and other intriguing locations throughout Halcyon.
OS: Windows 7 (SP1) 64bit
Processor: Intel Core i3-3225 / AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 650Ti / AMD HD 7850
Soundcard: DirectX compatible
Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Graphics: Geforce GTX 1060 6GB / Radeon RX 470
© 2018 Obsidian Entertainment, Inc. Obsidian Entertainment and the Obsidian Entertainment logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Obsidian Entertainment, Inc. The Outer Worlds and The Outer Worlds logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Obsidian Entertainment, Inc. Private Division and the Private Division logo are trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Puerto Rico full of lessons, love and pain Mission trip changes lives by Lisa Kelley | July 18, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.
I can't say I was fully awake when I boarded the plane at 5am with my first cup of joe in hand. My buddy, Kyle, was not similarly situated. Chatty by nature, he's one of those "morning people" who'd already guzzled 48 ounces of coffee. He was wound tighter than Dolly Pardon's girdle at the all-you-can-eat buffet.
I left Kyle with an unsuspecting fella in 13B who had no idea his ears were about to bleed and passed my other teammates to take my assigned seat at the back of the plane. As I tilted my backpack at a 90-degree angle to store it for the flight, I also tilted my coffee cup at a 90-degree angle, gracefully dumping its entire contents on the man seated beside me. The next few moments were spent awkwardly sponge-bathing a stranger, a mere foreshadowing of the week to come.
I'd never been on a mission trip. I'd always found an excuse -- never enough time, money or inclination. I'd said things like, "We have plenty of folks here in the States who need help, no need to go 'round the world and look for others." What ignorance!
Our team of 17 people from all over the United States landed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that afternoon. We were there with Samaritan's Feet, a nonprofit organization out of Charlotte, N.C. Over the course of the next week, we spent day after day washing the feet of the homeless, orphaned, abused, poor -- and wiggling on new socks, new shoes and a new hope that they are not alone in this world.
I anticipated being moved by our team serving those in need. I did not anticipate the life-changing moments that came from our team serving each another. There are no words to adequately describe how this motley crew from all backgrounds and ages -- 13 to 62 years -- banded together, transparently sharing their stories of brokenness, ended careers, legal troubles, illness, imprisonment, joy, love and redemption. Thrust together as strangers in a strange land, we soon knew one another better than many back home knew us. It's unlike anything I've ever done.
The flight back home was a turbulent one. I'm told that in less than one minute, we fell about 600 feet. A woman fell in the aisle. One member of our team was thrown from the lavatory. A teenager burst into tears. Kyle was eyes-shut-tight and white-knuckled. My beverages hit the ceiling and marinated us and another lady in a thick coating of orange juice, so I again spent the next few moments sponging those in my vicinity.
I learned many things during this week:
I use my 40-plus pairs of shoes as fashion accessories while others walk three hours for a single pair of new socks and shoes.
Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, but you wouldn't know it by how we treat them.
Many do much more with much less, and smile wider in the process.
A 9-year-old orphaned child can out-preach any mega-church pastor.
Petals of unconditional love grow rampant in fields of generosity.
You'd do best not sit next to me on an aircraft.
NAN Our Town on 07/18/2019
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Neighbourhood - Hastings (Series One, Episode Eight)
Hastings-bred former All Black Josh Kronfeld returns to the 'fruitbowl' of New Zealand to meet immigrants, in this series celebrating diversity. Adversity and sadness are key themes in this episode; an Indian "untouchable" caste family face being separated, after the parents overstayed, while Bosnian rapper Genocide draws on his war-ravaged childhood for inspiration. On a lighter note, Zimbawee-born Sandy Densem creates art using a mollusc shell design popular in her home country, and a South African family keeps tradition alive by making and selling boerewors (sausages) at markets.
Eve - Gloria's Story
Television, 1994 (Full Length)
In 1982 Eve Van Grafhorst contracted HIV via a blood transfusion she received after being born prematurely. Hysteria about the disease led to Van Grafhorst being cast as a pariah in her Australian community, and in 1986 she and her family fled to Hastings in New Zealand. She became an AIDS poster child and helped shift attitudes to the disease. This documentary, which screened on TVNZ eight months after her November 1993 death, tells her story through the eyes of her mother, who is interviewed by broadcaster Paul Holmes (a friend of Eve).
The Mighty Pride
Some of the great names of international rugby can be seen both playing and reminiscing in this hour long history of British and Irish Lions tours of New Zealand. 1930 Lion Harry Bowcott is the oldest player here, conceding his side were surprised by the toughness of the New Zealand style of rugby; tough like 1950 All Black captain Ron Elvidge, who came back on to crash through a tackle and score a try, despite a fractured sternum and stitches in his head. The documentary concludes with Gavin Hastings’ 1993 Lions team. It was made as a preview for the 2005 tour.
Kaleidoscope - Rita Angus
This 1983 episode of arts series Kaleidoscope profiles the life of Rita Angus, whose paintings won critical acclaim both in New Zealand and abroad. After growing up in Hastings and Palmerston North, Angus moved down to Christchurch, initially to study at Canterbury College School of Art. Later she spent more than a decade in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon. Featuring interviews with those who knew her at various stages of her life, and numerous examples of her work, this half-hour documentary provides a thorough overview of who Rita Angus was.
Pictorial Parade No. 91
This 1959 Pictorial Parade edition begins with the opening of the ‘Milson Deviation’: a rail bypass which diverted trains from the Palmerston North CBD. Then it’s to Hastings for the National Ploughing Championship, where the prize is a silver plough modelled on the first (Pākehā) plough used in NZ. Lastly, the Echo (a flat-bottomed Kauri scow that sailed between Wellington and Blenheim) turns a wetter furrow and sails up the Opawa River. With the onset of competition from ferries the Echo was retired in 1965; she’s now ‘on the hard’ on the Picton Foreshore.
If You're in it, You're in it to the Limit - Bikies
This notorious film looks at '70s bikie culture, focusing on Auckland's Hells Angels (the first Angels chapter outside of California). These not-so-easy riders — with sideburns and swastikas and fuelled by pies and beer — rev up the Triumphs, defend the creed, beat up students, cruise on the Interislander, provoke civic censure, and attend the Hastings Blossom Festival. After a funeral, Aotearoa's sons of anarchy head back on the highway. Bikies was banned by the NZBC — possibly due to the public urination, lane-crossing, chauvinism and pig's head activity.
Skin Pics
A bold reveal of a rose tattoo opens this 1980 documentary on contemporary Kiwi tattooing. Then, a potted history of the practice punctuates visits to parlours on K Road and Hastings, plus the studios of industry legends Steve Johnson and Roger Ingerton. Interviews with tattooists and their canvases roam from stigma, the perils of permanence, and motivations for inking; to design tropes (sailors, serpents, swallows) and tā moko. Commissioned by TVNZ for the Contact documentary slot, the Geoff Steven film chronicles a time when “folk art has become high art.”
Gather Round - Radar Goes to the Gathering
In this one-off documentary Te Radar takes his roving reporter skills to Takaka, and immerses himself in the groovy world of The Gathering. The New Year's dance music festival ran from 1996 to 2002. Radar proves the master of the quote, whether chatting to 'Lords of the Ping', electronic act Pitch Black or avoiding immolation from fire poi enthusiasts ("who doesn't love a fire poi", he says grimly). Watch out for Black Seed Bret McKenzie, laidback DJ star John Digweed and the earnest 'Jesus Food' crew, whose free dosh proves a bit too popular for rival food stalls.
The Five of Us – The Life of the Lawson Quins
On 27 July 1965, Auckland fish’n’chip shop owners Sam and Shirley Ann Lawson became parents of a boy — Samuel — and four girls — Deborah, Lisa, Shirlene and Selina. The birth made world headlines as the first set of quintuplets conceived using hormone treatment. But out of the public eye it wasn't happy families: Sam and Ann split up when the quins were six and in 1982 their mother was murdered by her abusive second husband. Director Mark Everton’s award-winning doco regathers the quins, who discuss the ‘quin bond’, tragedy, resilience and their tumultuous lives.
First Hand - Paradise Lost
Director Leanne Pooley heads to a struggling Hawke's Bay farm as part of a documentary series made by newbie filmmakers. The Hallgarths are selling up after years of financial difficulty at their 600 acre sheep farm, which has been in the family for three generations. Pooley interviews a sad yet optimistic Arthur and Helen Hallgarth as they prepare to leave, and on the day they depart. Within a year of filming this show, the family returned to farming on a small property nearby. Pooley later directed Topp Twins:Untouchable Girls and 3D Mt Everest ascent saga Beyond the Edge.
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Slide show: Surfer Munoz helps cystic fibrosis…
Slide show: Surfer Munoz helps cystic fibrosis patients find relief on waves
Emily Haager uses her inhaler before going surfing at San Onofre. She has cystic fibrosis. which is eased by the inhalation of salt water while surfing
Surfing legend Mickey Muñoz of Dana Point and Emily Haager prepare to go surfing at San Onofre State Beach.
Emily Haager waxes her surfboard as she prepares to go surfing at San Onofre State Beach on July 8. Haager has been surfing regularly for about a year. She has cystic fibrosis, which is eased by the inhalation of saltwater mist while surfing.
Mickey Muñoz gives apprentice surfer Emily Haager some tips as they wait for a wave at San Onofre State Beach.
Mickey Muñoz waxes his board before surfing at San Onofre.
Emily Haager crests a wave at San Onofre State Beach. She has been surfing regularly for about a year.
Mickey Muñoz, background, and Emily Haager prepare to go surfing at San Onofre State Beach.
Mickey Muñoz and Emily Haager stretch before surfing at San Onofre.
Mickey Muñoz catches a wave at San Onofre on July 8. Muñoz was surfing with a cystic-fibrosis patient whose condition is helped by the salt water of the ocean.
Emily Haager talks about the joy she finds in surfing and how it helps her breathe and feel normal. Her cystic fibrosis is eased by the inhalation of saltwater mist while surfing.
Mickey Muñoz and Emily Haager enter the water at San Onofre State Beach.
Jericho Poppler catches a wave at San Onofre State Beach on July 8. Poppler was surfing with a cystic-fibrosis patient whose condition is helped by the salt water of the ocean while surfing.
Emily Haager rides a wave at San Onofre.
Mickey Muñoz glides on the water off San Onofre State Beach on July 8.
Surfer Jericho Poppler applauds as she and Mickey Muñoz watch Emily Haager catch her second wave of the day at San Onofre State Beach on July 8. Haager has cystic fibrosis, which is eased by inhaling the salt water of the ocean while surfing.
Through surfing, doctors in Australia have discovered one of the most effective treatments available to cystic-fibrosis patients – salt water.
“It’s not a cure, but it is the most effective therapy that CF sufferers have ever had,” said Paul Motenko from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Cystic fibrosis, a genetically inherited disease, affects organs in the human body by interrupting the ability to carry salt and water to and from cells. This causes a buildup of mucus, eventually creating scar tissue and damaging organs and the ability to breathe.
Doctors observed CF patients who surfed were healthier than those who did not. Clinical studies were then completed with support of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and scientific data proved that surfing, or inhalation of the salt water, indeed helped patients. Hypertonic saline treatments are now regularly given to patients around the world.
Surfing legend and Dana Point local Mickey Muñoz discovered the breakthrough, and felt inspired to help.
“Surfing is the fountain of youth. I built a lot of boats and boards in my days and inhaled a lot of toxic fumes, so I could empathize on that level,” said Muñoz.
The foundation introduced Muñoz to CF patient Emily Haager, 24, from Diamond Bar. CF lessens Haager’s ability to breathe, leaving her with only 65 percent of the lung capacity compared to normal adults her age. She has been surfing regularly for about a year and was very excited to get the chance to surf with Muñoz.
” When I’m in the water my lungs clear out, I breathe a lot deeper and I feel great afterwards,” said Haager. “Mickey has years of knowledge and wisdom. I love hearing about his surfing adventures.”
Muñoz, Laird Hamilton, Jericho Poppler and Dave Kalama all backed the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s inaugural Pipeline to a Cure fundraiser held July 19 at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach.
“This is the first time that participation in a sport has been found to be beneficial to a fatal genetic disease. Once surfers understood the sport they loved – along with its healing and spiritual elements – also helped to relieve CF, they rallied behind us like you wouldn’t believe,” said Motenko.
The foundation’s event raises money to aid in the funding of research, treatment and an eventual cure that so many CF patients long for.
“This seems like such a natural cause for surfers to get behind,” said Muñoz. “Influence the sphere around you and it becomes exponential.”
Contact the writer: 919-492-5135 or cdaines@ocregsiter.com
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Top 10 Orthopedic Device Firms
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4. Smith & Nephew
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Arthroscopy Devices Global Market Expected to Reach $5.3B by 2022
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KEY EXECUTIVES:
Roberto Quarta, Chairman
Olivier Bohuon, CEO
Graham Baker, CFO
Michael Frazzette, Chief Commercial Officer
Rodrigo Bianchi, President, Asia Pacific and Emerging Markets
Brad Cannon, President, Europe and Canada
Glenn Warner, President, U.S.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 15,644
GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS: London, United Kingdom
Few announcements shake up a corporation more than the sudden illness of its leader. At the start of February 2016, Smith & Nephew plc released the type of news nobody wants to hear: the company’s CEO, Olivier Bohuon, had been diagnosed with cancer. The press release revealing this development made sure to mollify readers by stating he was afflicted with “a highly treatable form of cancer,” but emotions were surely running high both within and outside the company as many pondered how Bohuon’s treatment would fare, and what management changes may occur in the near future.
“Olivier will remain chief executive officer and be actively involved in running the company through much of his treatment period, which will begin later this month,” the release went on, somewhat satiating the worrisome masses. According to Smith & Nephew, the only governance measure taken during Bohuon’s treatment was calling upon Chairman Roberto Quarta’s executive oversight, if required. “The treatment will include chemotherapy, and is expected to be completed by late autumn,” the release assured readers.
News regarding Bohuon’s treatment and recovery was scarce, save for whatever hints about his health could be gleaned from his voice in earnings calls every quarter. Thankfully, Quarta’s statement in Smith & Nephew’s FY 2016 (ended Dec. 31) report brought happy tidings.
“In early 2016 we announced that our chief executive officer, Olivier Bohuon, had been diagnosed with cancer, and would require treatment across much of the year,” he explained. “We were delighted to welcome him back to work full time in October.”
“As you know I undertook medical treatment during 2016 and I want to thank shareholders and employees who sent me their best wishes during this time,” Bohuon said at the end of his letter in the company’s annual report. “Moreover, I want to thank all of our employees who continue to strive to deliver on our commitments, embodying a Smith & Nephew culture immersed in our values of innovation, trust, and performance. It is good to be back at work full-time amongst such inspiring people.”
The sentiment is surely returned, Mr. Bohuon. Congratulations on the successful recovery!
Revenues Remain Relatively Flat
Smith & Nephew did achieve revenue growth in FY16 with $4.7 billion in sales, but the $35 million increase from 2015 is a far cry from the year-over-year $200 million growth the company had been achieving in 2014 and prior. The largest hindrance to the company’s growth was cited by both chairman and CEO to be difficult trading conditions in the Gulf States and China. According to Bohuon, the market conditions in those areas alone lopped off over a percentage point from the year.
The company’s Sports Medicine, Trauma & Other franchise (which contains product lines for sports medicine joint repair, arthroscopic enabling technologies, trauma and extremities, and other surgical businesses) reported an increase of 1 percent from 2015 with $1.9 billion in sales. The most significant fuel for this growth came from the sports medicine joint repair portfolio, which includes a broad array of instruments, technologies, and implants necessary to perform minimally invasive surgery of the joints, including the repair of soft tissue injuries and degenerative conditions of the knee, hip, and shoulder. This division rose 7 percent in global sales to $587 million from the prior year, with double digit growth in the United States thanks to gains made from the 2014 ArthroCare acquisition.
ANALYST INSIGHTS: As a key player in orthopedics and related minimally invasive surgery, Smith & Nephew is under pressure to perform. “Bolt-on” M&A has only had minor impacts while pricing pressure is hurting the company’s financial performance—leading to investors to freeze the pay of CEO Oliver Bohuon in March. This may lead to some more dramatic M&A movement in the near future.
—Dave Sheppard, Co-Founder and Principal, MedWorld Advisors
Further broadening this division, in January 2016 Smith & Nephew acquired BST-CarGel, a first-line cartilage repair product that is used in tandem with microfracture and other bone marrow stimulation techniques for the initial treatment of most sizes of focal cartilage tears. BST-Cargel is a biopolymer-based solution mixed with a patient’s blood and implanted into the joint after a microfracture procedure. Delivered arthroscopically, it can treat damaged cartilage in synovial joints like the knee, hip, ankle, and shoulder. After implantation it functions as a scaffold, sticking to the cartilage surface to stabilize the blood clot while new cartilage is regenerated.
The arthroscopic enabling technologies business, which contains an array of minimally invasive surgery-enabling systems and devices, was flat in 2016, earning $631 million. Further diversifying the company’s offerings in this division, Smith & Nephew also launched the Werewolf Coblation System in 2016. The Coblation process creates and applies an energy field called “glow discharge plasma” to ablate molecules in the tissue, and operates at lower temperatures than other radio frequency-based technologies. Werewolf beefs up the technology with a new controller to support a broad variety of wands, and also adds a range of advanced safety features. The Trauma & Extremities division, which features technologies that stabilize severe fractures, correct bone deformities, treat arthritis, and heal soft tissue complications, fell 4 percent to $475 million from the previous year due to destocking in the China business as well as reduced tender activity in the Gulf States.
The Other Surgical Businesses franchise rose 5 percent from the previous year, exhibiting $214 million in sales. This section of the company undoubtedly faced the most changes of all in 2016, divesting one business and acquiring another.
The company closed the book on its acquisition of surgical robotics company Blue Belt Technologies Inc. in January 2016. Blue Belt’s Navio surgical system provides robotics assistance in partial knee replacement surgery through CT-free navigation software and a hand-held, bone-shaping device. One of Smith & Nephew’s goals in acquiring Navio was to expand into total knee, cruciate retaining knee, and revision knee implants—and thus far the company was able to accomplish one of those goals. The company’s Journey II BCS and CR total knee systems were implanted with assistance from Navio for the first time in July 2016, allowing precise and efficient placement without a pre-operative CT scan. Currently available for the Journey II total knee system, additional total knee systems are expected to be supported by the Navio system in future releases.
In August 2016, the company completed the sale of its Gynaecology business to Medtronic plc for $350 million. The business was built around Smith & Nephew’s resection technologies, mainly its Truclear System for hysteroscopic resection and removal of uterine tissue. The division had historically contributed a little over 1 percent to the company’s revenue, but is expected to strongly complement Medtronic’s existing portfolio.
In October 2016, the company also christened a $55 million manufacturing plant devoted to sports medicine orthopedic devices. Stationed in the Coyol Free Zone, Alajuela, Costa Rica, the facility will add up to 250 new job positions to the 1,700 existing ones, employing a total of 1,950 employees in Costa Rica.
The Advanced Wound Management franchise, which encompasses products for wound care, bioactives, and devices, dropped 3 percent in 2016, garnering $1.2 billion in sales. The Advanced Wound Care portfolio (which includes offerings for exudate management, infection management, and a cornerstone range of products) was the largest contributor to this loss, falling 5 percent to $719 million in revenue due to destocking in China and weakness in sections of the European market that the strong U.S. performance could not offset. The Advanced Wound Bioactives division also experienced a 1 percent loss.
The Advanced Wound Devices business is comprised of the company’s Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) and surgical debridement product lines. It exhibited the only reported gain in this franchise, rising 3 percent from 2015 with $172 million in revenue. The Pico system, the company’s pioneering single-use, canister-free NPWT solution, led the charge in this division’s strong performance. In 2016, Pico was used for the millionth time to treat a patient. Designed for both open wounds and closed incisions and leveraging Smith & Nephew’s dressing technology, it’s as easy to apply as a wound dressing and provides a discreet, unobtrusive means to carry on NPWT in daily life.
The Reconstruction franchise, which contains the company’s knee and hip implants, grew 3 percent to $1.5 billion in sales. Knee implants were the single largest revenue producer for the company, capturing 20 percent of total sales and rising 6 percent to $932 million from the previous year. The 2016 launch of the Anthem Total Knee System was one aspect driving growth here. Anthem’s launch caters to the growing trend of personalized orthopedic devices, designed from both intraoperative measurements and patient CT analysis to create a knee offering fit for a wide variety of patients. The limited market release of the Journey II XR bi-cruciate retaining knee implant and gains from the company’s 2015 purchase of the Zimmer Unicompartmental High Flex Knee for the U.S. market also fueled growth in this sector. The Blue Belt Technologies acquisition also began to add to the gain, as in July 2016 the Navio system was used for its first-ever robotics-assisted total knee replacement. Because less than 10 percent of knee replacements are partial (according to the company), moving Navio into total knee procedures stands to greatly increase the system’s utilization and grow this sector.
The Hip Implants division fell 1 percent from 2015 with $597 million of revenue. The franchise offers a range of specialist products for hip joint reconstruction, including the Anthology and Synergy Hip Systems, the Polarstem Femoral Hip System, the R3 Acetabular System, and the Polarcup dual mobility system. According to the company, every year more than 2 million patients worldwide undergo total, resurfacing, and revision hip replacement procedures.
During the 2016 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting, Smith & Nephew unveiled an intriguing addition to its hip portfolio—the Redapt Revision Acetabular Fully Porous Cup with Conceloc technology, which was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in November 2015. Meant for revision cases where compromised bone makes implant fixation and stability more challenging, Redapt is additively manufactured to create an entirely porous implant to mimic the structure of cancellous bone and facilitate ingrowth.
Redapt’s Conceloc Advanced Porous Titanium technology replaces external coatings—for example, sintered beads or fiber mesh—to promote osseointegration. Variable Angle Locking Screws also work within the implant’s geometry to provide both compression and a rigid construct to the acetabular shell.
“This fully porous cup gives surgeons flexibility in ways that simply weren’t possible before,” Craig Della Valle, M.D., professor of orthopedic surgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Ill., who participated on the surgeon design team for the new Redapt Cup, said in a company press release. “The locking screws, screw-in trials, purpose-built liners, and screw hole patterns optimized for hard-to-access areas really set it apart during a revision procedure. This cup builds on good technology and turns it into something spectacular.”
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ODT Staff 08.14.19
1. Stryker
AT A GLANCE Rank: #1 (Last year: #1) $13.60 Billion Prior Fiscal: $12.44 Billion Percentage Change: +9.3% No. of Employees: 36,000 Global Headquarters: Kalamazoo, Mich. KEY EXECUTIVES: Kevin A. Lobo, Chairman and CEO Glenn S. Boehnlein, VP and…
2. DePuy Synthes
AT A GLANCE Rank: #2 (Last year: #2) $8.88 Billion Prior Fiscal: $9.05 Billion Percentage Change: -1.91% No. of Employees: 18,000 Global Headquarters: Warsaw, Ind.; Raynham, Mass.; and West Chester, Pa. KEY EXECUTIVES: Alex Gorsky, Chairman an…
3. Zimmer Biomet
AT A GLANCE Rank: #3 (Last year: #3) $7.93 Billion Prior Fiscal: $7.80 Billion Percentage Change: +1.7% No. of Employees: 19,000 Global Headquarters: Warsaw, Ind. KEY EXECUTIVES: Bryan C. Hanson, President and CEO Suketu Upadhyay, Exec. VP and…
AT A GLANCE Rank: #4 (Last year: #4) $4.90 Billion Prior Fiscal: $4.76 Billion Percentage Change: +2.9% No. of Employees: 16,377 Global Headquarters: London, United Kingdom KEY EXECUTIVES: Roberto Quarta, Board Chairman Namal Nawana, CEO Graha…
5. Medtronic Spine
AT A GLANCE Rank: #5 (Last year: #5) $2.65 Billion Prior Fiscal: $2.67 Billion Percentage Change: -0.7% No. of Employees: 90,017 Global Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland KEY EXECUTIVES: Omar Ishrak, Chairman and CEO Karen L. Parkhill, Exec. VP and…
6. NuVasive
AT A GLANCE Rank: #6 (Last year: #7) $1.10 Billion Prior Fiscal: $1.03 Billion Percentage Change: +7.3% No. of Employees: 2,600 Global Headquarters: San Diego, Calif. KEY EXECUTIVES: Chris Barry, CEO Rajesh Asarpota, Exec. VP and CFO Matt Link…
7. Wright Medical
AT A GLANCE Rank: #7 (Last year: #8) $836 Million Prior Fiscal: $745 Million Percentage Change: +12.2% No. of Employees: 2,894 Global Headquarters: Amsterdam, The Netherlands KEY EXECUTIVES: Robert J. Palmisano, President and CEO David D. Stev…
8. Globus Medical
AT A GLANCE Rank: #8 (Last year: #8) $713 Million Prior Fiscal: $636 Million Percentage Change: +12.1% No. of Employees: 1,800 Global Headquarters: Audubon, Pa. KEY EXECUTIVES: David C. Paul, Exec. Chairman David M. Demski, CEO Daniel T. Scavi…
9. Össur
AT A GLANCE Rank: #9 (Last year: #10) $613 Million Prior Fiscal: $569 Million Percentage Change: +7.7% No. of Employees: 3,000 Global Headquarters: Reykjavik, Iceland KEY EXECUTIVES: Niels Jacobsen, Board Chairman Jon Sigurdsson, President and…
10. Integra LifeSciences
AT A GLANCE Rank: #10 $509 Million ($1.47B total) Prior Fiscal: $468 Million Percentage Change: +8.7% No. of Employees: 4,500 Global Headquarters: Plainsboro, N.J. KEY EXECUTIVES: Peter Arduini, President and CEO Carrie Anderson, Corp. VP and…
2018 Top 10 Global Orthopedic Device Firms
Robotics and leadership changes defined the 2017 fiscal year among the largest orthopedic firms.
1. Stryker Corp.
$12.4 Billion KEY EXECUTIVES: Kevin A. Lobo, Chairman and CEO Glenn S. Boehnlein, Vice President, CFO Lonny J. Carpenter, Group President and advisor to the CEO Viju Menon, Group President, Global Quality and Operations David K. Floyd, Group Preside…
$9.3 Billion KEY EXECUTIVES: Alex Gorsky, Chairman and CEO Dominic J. Caruso, Exec. VP and CFO Jennifer Taubert, Company Group Chairman, Johnson & Johnson Ashley McEvoy, Exec. VP, Worldwide Chairman, Medical Devices Sandra E. Peterson, Exec. VP,…
$7.8 Billion KEY EXECUTIVES: Bryan C. Hanson, President and CEO Daniel P. Florin, Exec. VP and CFO Aure Bruneau, Group President, Spine, CMF, Thoracic and Surgery Assisting Technology David A. Nolan Jr., Group President, Biologics, Extremities…
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Trump, Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama: TV guests
By Hal Boedeker
Bill Clinton said he is ready to take on the role of "1st Spouse." The former president also commented on Hillary Clinton's health, claiming she is doing fine and "just got dehydrated." Sept. 13, 2016. (CBS Miami)
UPDATED: Thursday late night will feature Donald Trump visiting Jimmy Fallon as well as former president Bill Clinton talking to Trevor Noah. Trump also visits "Dr. Oz" on Thursday morning and shares results of a physical exam done last week.
People who want fireworks are advised to tune to "Real Time With Bill Maher" on Friday.
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Non-Gaussian corrections to the Gordon–Haus distribution resulting from soliton interactions
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Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21228-5398
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In a soliton transmission system, spontaneous emission noise owing to optical amplifiers leads to timing jitter that is usually assumed to be Gaussian distributed. It is shown that the mutual interaction of solitons in neighboring time slots can lead to non-Gaussian tails on the distribution function and to a substantial increase in the bit-error rate. It is argued that the approach used here will also be of use in the study of non-return-to-zero systems.
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Supremes Rule Colorado Violated Baker’s Rights in Wedding Cake Dispute
June 4, 2018 by Rebecca Hamilton
Supremes Rule Colorado Violated Baker’s Rights in Wedding Cake Dispute June 4, 2018 Rebecca Hamilton
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First Amendment protections of religious freedom were affirmed in a narrowly drafted decision today.
The decision is a welcome move by the Court. But we should not confuse it with a landmark of any sort.
The Court rejected the state of Colorado’s attempt to force Jack Phillips, owner operator of Masterpiece Bakeshops to bake a wedding cake with a congratulatory message on it for a same-sex wedding. This is good news for those of us who support separation of Church and State and individual religious freedom.
However, the Court took this action in a narrowly defined decision that was based on the egregious religious bigotry that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission demonstrated in the way it conducted its hearings on this matter. The Supreme Court decision limits itself to the narrow question of unequal protection under the law and whether or not religious belief is protected by the First Amendment from overt government hostility in this specific case. It stops far short of affirming the right of individual Americans to refuse services based on their religious beliefs.
Both the Ruling and the Writ make clear that the Court will not tolerate direct attacks on a particular faith such as those the Commission members launched against Christianity. But the decision does not address the overall question of how individual religious freedom from government oppression will be balanced against civil rights’ claims of defined groups of people in future decisions.
In other words, the Court ruled that a government agency violates the First Amendment when it acts in accordance with what amounts to an attack against a particular religious faith. The Commissioners used language in the hearing involving the Masterpiece Bakeshop which, to any fair-minded person, was bigoted and an attack on Mr Phillip’s faith.
Here is the pertinent section from the Writ, emphasis mine:
… Phillips too was entitled to a neutral and respectful consideration of his claims in all the circumstances of the case. Pp. 9–12.
(b) That consideration was compromised, however, by the Commission’s treatment of Phillips’ case, which showed elements of a clear and impermissible hostility toward the sincere religious beliefs motivating his objection. As the record shows, some of the commissioners at the Commission’s formal, public hearings endorsed the view that religious beliefs cannot legitimately be carried into the public sphere or commercial domain, disparaged Phillips’ faith as despicable and characterized it as merely rhetorical, and compared his invocation of his sincerely held religious beliefs to defenses of slavery and the Holocaust. No commissioners objected to the comments. Nor were they mentioned in the later state-court ruling or disavowed in the briefs filed here. The comments thus cast doubt on the fairness and impartiality of the Commission’s adjudication of Phillips’ case.
The Court also noted in its Writ that the Commission’s handling of Mr Phillips’ case was an uneven application of the law, which raises the question of equal protection. Their reasoning was that the Commission had allowed bake shops to refuse to bake cakes with anti-gay messages on them, but that they did not give Mr Phillips the same consideration. Here is the pertinent section about that. Again, the emphasis is mine:
… State law at the time also afforded storekeepers some latitude to decline to create specific messages they considered offensive. Indeed, while the instant enforcement proceedings were pending, the State Civil Rights Division concluded in at least three cases that a baker acted lawfully in declining to create cakes with decorations that demeaned gay persons or gay marriages.
… Another indication of hostility is the different treatment of Phillips’ case and the cases of other bakers with objections to anti-gay messages who prevailed before the Commission. The Commission ruled against Phillips in part on the theory that any message on the requested wedding cake would be attributed to the customer, not to the baker. Yet the Division did not address this point in any of the cases involving requests for cakes depicting anti-gay marriage symbolism. The Division also considered that each bakery was willing to sell other products to the prospective customers, but the Commission found Phillips’ willingness to do the same irrelevant. The State Court of Appeals’ brief discussion of this disparity of treatment does not answer Phillips’ concern that the State’s practice was to disfavor the religious basis of his objection. Pp. 12–16.
(c) For these reasons, the Commission’s treatment of Phillips’ case violated the State’s duty under the First Amendment not to base laws or regulations on hostility to a religion or religious viewpoint. The government, consistent with the Constitution’s guarantee of free exercise, cannot impose regulations that are hostile to the religious beliefs of affected citizens and cannot act in a manner that passes judgment upon or presupposes the illegitimacy of religious beliefs and practices.
The bottom line of this ruling is that any laws regarding the provision of services and the civil rights of individual citizens must be written and enforced without prejudice. What that means is, basically, that what’s sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander. If a law requires bake shops to bake cakes for same-sex marriages, it must also require bake shops to bake cakes for anti-gay groups.
More to the point, no law may be enforced in an unequal or unfair manner based on an individual American’s religious beliefs. The law, whatever it is, must be indifferent to the religious beliefs of American citizens. Its enforcement must be the same for everyone.
I think that the major victory in this decision was the clear signal from the Court that First Amendment protections of religious practice free from government intrusion is a right that belongs to individual Americans. This flies in the face of recent claims by the Obama Administration that the First Amendment is limited to corporate faith practices inside church buildings.
However, in this same ruling, Justice Kennedy goes off on a hypothetical riff about the nature of First Amendment rights in which he says that, while clergy clearly have the Constitutional right to refuse to perform gay-weddings, individual citizens may not have similar broad rights of refusal. That’s an important sticking point which leaves the question of whether and to what degree the First Amendment rights to religious freedom apply to individual American citizens, and how much of it is a corporate right held only by organized religious bodies.
The current logic that is being used to attack our religious freedom as individual American citizens is that First Amendment guarantees of religious freedom from government oppression applies only to organized churches operating within church facilities, and not to individual American citizens. That makes it somewhat chilling that Justice Kennedy references this line of reasoning so favorably in this ruling.
It’s important to note that the Court limited this ruling to this specific case only. It stated a number of times that it might rule differently if the circumstances were different.
Here, from the Ruling, is what they said. Emphasis mine:
However later cases raising these or similar concerns are resolved in the future, for these reasons the rulings of the Commission and of the state court that enforced the Commission’s order must be invalidated.
The outcome of cases like this in other circumstances must await further elaboration in the courts, all in the context of recognizing that these disputes must be resolved with tolerance, without undue disrespect to sincere religious beliefs, and without subjecting gay persons to indignities when they seek goods and services in an open market.
The judgment of the Colorado Court of Appeals is reversed.
What this seems to mean is that the Court stands ready to rule differently when the government handles itself in a less prejudiced and sloppy manner. The Court seems to be hinting that what it wants to see is a neat, carefully-crafted set-piece case that will allow it to rule on hypothetical issues without having to mess with the misbehavior of local left-wing bigots. The language in this decision seems to signal that the Court, as it stands now, is eager to place gay people under 14th Amendment protections, along with African Americans.
To read the Ruling, go here.
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20 responses to “Supremes Rule Colorado Violated Baker’s Rights in Wedding Cake Dispute”
Theodore Seeber says:
One of the key points of despair for me is that I see ecumenicism to be a failure under the assault of identity politics. “You must believe this way and we can’t have a conversation about it” is the worst method of political science ever.
Even when we disagree, we should be able to respect each other. I really appreciate the rainbow badges at my work, even though I won’t wear one myself. It is a reminder that this is a person who feels they are underprivileged, and who needs support in meetings to have their voice heard.
And it’s a reminder that I now live in a police state, and that certain opinions should be kept to myself.
It was wonderful to win this, and certainly a positive step, but unfortunately Justice Kennedy couldn’t go the whole enchilada. Like a good Libertarian (he’s not a conservative) he’s a moral relativist. From what I understand Justice Thomas – God bless him – wrote the opinion that would have given us a complete win. It’s time for Kennedy to retire and get a real conservative in there.
Very well stated.
Judgeforyourself37 says:
Theodore, you are right. I find this to be true in the Protestant branch of Christianity as well as in the Roman Catholic branch.
I wear a safety pin on my jacket which indicates that I am a “safe person,” and do not discriminate, whether I agree with another person’s religious or political views or not, that person has a right to his or her opinion.
Sadly, I have lost two friends due to the fact that we do not hold the same views. One friend has her opinion on abortion and I have mine and they differ, but I certain respect her view, I just wish she respected mine.
The other friend I lost was over whether I was “proud to be white.” She was proud to be white, whereas I felt that we, who are Caucasians, have disrespected our Native American and African American sisters and brothers. I cannot be proud of the Caucasian’s past and present history.
Once identity politics enters in and starts to eat away at history itself, there is no recovery.
John Craft says:
Very clear article. I have been seeing this in the evangelical community as a major win when, as you made clear, this was a narrow ruling. I see them setting themselves up for trouble.
pagansister says:
Disappointing decision. If a person is running a business open to the public, not a religious institution etc. then, in my opinion, all should be served. To me it is the same as refusing to make a cake for a wedding of a Black couple or a Muslim couple etc. In the not to distant past Black people could be refused service in a restaurant, and in public transportation areas (bus, train etc,) they had to sit in areas reserved for them. I lived that in Alabama in the 1960’s—I saw the “colored” and “white” signs on water fountains. It is discrimination. Isn’t that illegal?
Lilly Munster says:
As a Unitarian, my FIRMLY HELD RELIGIOUS BELIEFS are these….
Discrimination, racism, bigotry, sexual abuse of children, greed and dishonesty are sins. BIG sins, that offend God.
Therefore, in our family bridal shop, where we practice the creative art of dressmaking, we will NOT be selling dresses to…
1. Catholics. You disrespect and demonize women. You have done nothing to stop Molester Priests.
2. Jews. You killed Christ, demonize Gentiles, and you promote genocide.
3. Atheists. You deserve nothing. And you know it.
4. Muslims. Don’t even ask, Abdul.
See how that works? Just fill out this little form when you ask for our services, because we are now allowed to enforce our own religious interpretations and judgments on YOU.
Tell us everything about your marriage, family and sex life. Everything. There must be something sinful about you that will allow us to discriminate against you.
Masturbation? A little gay experience? Not a Virgin before marriage? You downloaded porn? Lied to your mother? Had oral sex? Anal sex? Come on……we’re waiting…..because It really, really IS our business.
hamiltonr says:
Thank you, and I agree.
Lily, I have the impression that you are very angry about the ruling. Feel free to express your outrage and why you feel it. But don’t personalize it by attacking anyone on this blog. Make your case. I’d love to know more about why you feel so strongly.
What???? LOL. This has to be a joke. Peace.
Jeffrey Stuart (Stu) says:
This isn’t just about religion. It’s about free speech or being compelled to use your right of self-expression to promote something you don’t believe. That’s why these cases center around activities where there is an element of artistic expression involved (photography, floral arrangement, cake decorating).
There was never a problem with Jack Philips selling his products to homosexuals. In fact, he offered any cake off-the-shelf to them. What he couldn’t do was offer his artistic abilities to custom make something where his decorating was used to celebrate something with which he could not support in good conscience and that was a same-sex marriage. Incidentally, he also won’t decorate cakes specifically for Halloween because of his beliefs. This isn’t about refusing service to people because of who they are, it’s about not being able so support certain events because of what you believe. We should be able to have room for people who conscientiously object in society.
3vil5triker . says:
Its easy to forget that its cases like these that set the prescedent for proper procedure and determine how all of us will be treated going forward.
I think there will come a time when many of those against the ruling will be glad for it when the shoe is in the other foot, and vice versa.
Are you really a Unitarian? Just wondered, as having been one and still one, but no longer attending, you caught my attention by saying you were one. (that was a very poor sentence–sorry).
I disagree with you about his willingness to sell any cake off the shelf, but not make a special one for the couple. He sells to the general public—and gay couples are part of the “general public”. If Halloween is a problem, or the gender of the wedding couples etc. then why is he in business? Perhaps he should hire a person to do the decorating for things he doesn’t celebrate. He isn’t promoting anything by decorating a cake like someone wants it—-it is food—-it is an expression of the customer’s wishes—not his. It’s called business. Having said all that, I would think if a customer wanted hate messages on a bakery item, there might be a problem. However, in general, I suspect that wouldn’t happen often or at all. Messages for a wedding or Halloween etc. do not, IMO fall in that area.
Well, that’s the thing about free speech. We can’t just protect that which we support. If you are going to give people the right to conscientiously object to what they deem as “hate message” then you need to allow them to object to messages that don’t offend you. That’s the only way to be consistent in this.
Interesting point of view.
BTW, when this case comes up again in a more general sense I believe this will be the precedent upon which they rule for the artisans. SCOTUS has already ruled that license plates on autos are a form of speech by the government that is protected under the First Amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_v._Texas_Division,_Sons_of_Confederate_Veterans
David M Paggi says:
Mr Seeber’s point cuts both ways. While certainly “proud to be white” is beyond reasonable bounds, so is “ashamed to be white.” Being part of a majority group does have some benefits, which in turn give rise to greater obligations. In the U.S., the “melting pot” has greatly reduced the importance of tribe or ethnicity in favor of merit, which has had great societal and economic benefits. Sadly militant politics is having the effect of bringing back a very militant “us vs. them” mentality. Fascism and thought police are perennial hazards.
In considering historical wrongs, it is fundamentally unfair to judge past centuries by today’s sensibilities. Don’t forget that opposing groups had the same sort of identity politics going on as well.
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Please direct requests and suggestions for MPO presentations to civic organizations or exhibits at community events to Public Information Officer Malissa Booth.
MPO Funding Program Applications Due March 3
Online application forms and support materials are now available on the MPO website at PalmBeachMPO.org/funding for the MPO's Local Initiatives and Transportation Alternatives funding programs. Applications are due by 5:00 PM on March 3, 2017. The MPO staff is eager to work closely with potential applicants to ensure a strong field of competitive project applications for both programs. After careful review of the resources available on the MPO website, please contact the following staff members as soon as possible to discuss your proposed project applications:
Email Kevin Fischer or call 561-478-5747
(including Safe Routes to School)
Email Franchesca Taylor or call 561-478-5713
FHWA Road Diet Training
MPO Staff members took part in a Road Diets training conducted by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and organized by the Palm beach MPO on February 3, 2017.
Thank you to the Village of Tequesta for hosting the classroom training, and to Palm Tran for providing a bus tour for a local case study. The U.S. One corridor through Tequesta has been approved for a road diet with a reduction from six to four traffic lanes when construction begins in 2017.
"Road diets" are a name for a roadway reconfiguration that reduces the number of traffic lanes to achieve a "complete streets" environment to accommodate a variety of transportation modes. The primary benefits include enhanced safety, mobility and access for all road users.
The MPO website includes a Funding tab in the main navigation to more quickly locate MPO funding program details as well as non-MPO Funding and Related Opportunities. Examples include grants, internships and opportunities for technical assistance. Current listings include opportunities for summer paid internships with the US Dept. of Transportation. Please email website links for suggested opportunities to include on this page to Malissa Booth.
MPO Advisory Committee Meeting Highlights
Click on each link below to view presentations given to one or more of the MPO advisory committees at their February meetings:
Proposed Amendment #3 to the MPO's Long Range Transportation Plan - Florida's Turnpike
Bike Suitability Map
Florida Bike Month Updates
Dangerous by Design 2016 Report - Smart Growth America Report Review
Next Dates for MPO Governing Board and Committee Meetings
Thu. Feb. 16, 9:00 AM MPO Governing Board
Wed. Mar. 1, 9:00 AM Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)
Wed. Mar. 1, 1:30 PM Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC)
Thu. Mar. 2, 9:07 AM Bicycle-Trailways-Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BTPAC)
Thu. Mar. 8, 9:30 AM
Access online agendas, backup materials, presentations, minutes and audio recordings of past meetings of the MPO Governing Board, MPO advisory committees, and the Transportation Disadvantaged Local Coordinating Board: PalmBeachMPO.org/meeting. Members of the public are encouraged to attend all meetings of the MPO Governing Board and its advisory committees and ad hoc committees.
Public Notice: Please be advised that multiple members of the MPO Governing Board or any of its advisory committees may attend any of these meetings.
A complete 2017 calendar of all MPO meetings, events and related community activities is located at PalmBeachMPO.org/calendar
Please note that the calendar may be revised throughout the year. Confirming meeting details on the website is always recommended.
All Aboard Florida's construction calls for a temporary roadway closure at the FEC rail crossing at Palmetto Park Road in Boca Raton, Feb. 17-22, 2017. Click for current information on FEC grade crossing closures. For more information including an interactive map of all Palm Beach County grade crossings along the FEC corridor, click here. Construction continues on all three of All Aboard Florida's south Florida train stations including the West Palm Beach station where Brightline service is scheduled to begin this year.
Florida Automated Vehicles Website
www.AutomatedFL.com is the online home for the Florida Automated Vehicles (FAV) program, led by the Florida Dept. of Transportation (FDOT). Automated vehicle technologies hold unprecedented opportunities in helping to reduce congestion and improve safety. This site is designed to provide information on the Florida-specific initiative and the progression of automated vehicle technology nationwide.
Creative Placemaking Guide
The Scenic Route: Getting Started with Creative Placemaking and Transportation is available from Transportation for America.
Complete Streets Resources
Click for a collection of complete streets resources from Smart Growth America.
New Web Address for FDOT
FDOT has a new website address: www.fdot.gov is the new address that replaced www.dot.state.fl.us to streamline the agency's online presence. Click here for a complete listing of FDOT office web addresses that were also changed.
Transportation Statistics - There's an App for That!
The Pocket Guide to Transportation is an annual compilation of statistics that provides key information and highlights major trends for the U.S. transportation system. It is intended to make transportation statistics readily available to the public. Curious about the most congested urban areas or the busiest Amtrak stations? Now there's a smartphone app for the Pocket Guide. Click for information on the new app.
Public Notices for FDOT District 4
Click here for public notices for District 4 which includes the following counties: Palm Beach, Broward, Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River
Map of FDOT Construction Projects in Palm Beach County
Click here for the interactive map. Click on traffic cone icons for project names and information.
Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE) Weekly Construction Updates
Click for announcements regarding updated lane closures and work zones due to construction and maintenance projects in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties.
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Jack Ridsdale
Role queue will make Overwatch a kinder, fairer, better game
Role queue is a necessary step that will benefit snipers, Mercy mains, and everyone in-between
Nobody likes change, least of all gamers. We get a stark reminder of this whenever a major patch is rolled out to any popular ‘live’ game. Even when change is demonstrably for the better, there will always be fans that cannot let go of their past experiences with a game.
In the days since we heard that Overwatch will be adopting a role queue into its matchmaking process, we’ve seen Blizzard’s hero shooter once again become a touchpoint for outrage and elation, with hot takes pouring in about how the forthcoming changes will kill or save the game.
I believe that role queue is a necessary step in Overwatch’s evolution, but like most contentious topics, this one can’t be boiled down to a simple ‘good’ or ‘bad’ binary. There are certainly some cons to this change, but also a few misconceptions of it. So put down your pitchforks, and let’s take a look at the state of Overwatch.
Leagues apart
To understand the discourse around Overwatch’s latest changes, we need to look at the Overwatch League. It has been a massive project for Blizzard, with investment in the billions and regional franchises being set up across the globe. Blizzard’s commitment to the League continues to be a point of ire for fans who have no interest in esports, but for better or worse, the success of the game is inextricably linked to the League, just as the League lives and dies on the relevance of the game.
To blame role lock on the Overwatch League entirely is a fallacy
Viewership of the League has been in decline ever since the start of its second season back in February, due largely to the stale ‘GOATS’ meta. With some exceptions, the vast majority of team comps in the League have used three tanks and three healers, essentially rendering the damage roles, which are more conducive to flashy plays, irrelevant. Teamfights in the 3-3 meta are slow, almost laborious wars of attrition that are quite simply not as fun to watch.
While damage dealers have slowly been creeping back into the metagame, it’s not been enough to pull the League’s viewership out of freefall. Therefore, the switch to an enforced 2-2-2 composition has been on the cards for some time. What has caught some off-guard is Blizzard’s choice to apply the role lock to the game’s live servers so soon after the League. Understandably, this has led many fans to blame the change entirely on the League, but this assumption is a fallacy – one that has been dispelled by game director Jeff Kaplan himself.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
To blame role queue on the League is to assume that all is well in Overwatch’s ranked play, which as most dedicated players know, is far from the truth. Competitive Overwatch has never been perfect but satisfaction with what is supposed to be the most important part of the game has been in sharp decline over the past year.
Former pros including Seagull, Dafran, and XQC have vocalised the growing frustration at high levels of play. Many agree that no matter the technical skill of players on your team, there are overpowered compositions – of which GOATS is a prime example – that will simply roll over any opposing team. And it’s not just high-level play that is suffering: Silver, Gold, and Platinum tiers are plagued with their own sets of issues. Speaking as a very average player, I often find myself forced into roles that I’m not comfortable with to complete the makeup of a balanced team, and subsequently underperforming.
The state of Overwatch has also led to some heroes getting disproportionately hated for ‘ruining’ the meta. Scorn has been heaped on Brigitte for having too much offensive power for a support hero, which is a huge shame, because she is very fun to play. Role queue will lead to heroes having more clearly defined roles, starting with reworks to Brigitte and Reinhardt.
As Kaplan rightly points out in his developer update, 40 seconds is an unreasonably short time window to assemble a balanced team, and there is a tremendous amount of social pressure in that process. When SR is on the line, things can get very heated, very quickly. To put it bluntly, the way teams are currently laid out fosters toxicity. For some gamers, this isn’t a problem, but there are those of us that feel genuinely put off by this stressful environment and have resorted to staying in Quick Play to avoid it. Having everyone enter the game with assigned roles will go a long way to relieve these social pressures, as well as ensure that everyone can enjoy the game by playing the heroes they are most proficient with. It’s not a complete cure to toxicity, but a radical lifestyle change that will benefit the social experience.
Kaplan says that role queue is not specifically intended to stamp out the 3-3 meta, but a lot of fans aren’t buying it. It does seem likely that the dominance of this meta at least accelerated already existing plans. Without launching into a detailed analysis of why 3-3 has come about, it boils down to the fact that as the roster of heroes has grown, the game has become more difficult to balance – the sheer volume of buffs, nerfs, and reworks we’ve seen recently is testament to that. It’s the reason that games like Dota 2 and League of Legends have ‘pick and ban’ systems; without some limit on which heroes are picked, there are simply too many variables at play in a roster this large to ensure a balanced game every time.
No more tanking your rank
Alongside the matchmaking changes, there will also be an overhaul of the current ranking system. Currently, players have to complete ten placement matches at the start of every season to earn a skill ranking of Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, Grand Master, or Top 500. Which rank you land in is heavily determined by whether you win or lose your placement matches, so a lot depends on having a cooperative team. This means solo players are basically tossing a coin every time they enter matchmaking.
If you’re a team player, you will often find yourself having to fill roles that are required for a balanced composition. Damage, tank, and support have vastly different playstyles, and if you are simply filling any role that is required, your skill rating is going to vary greatly from match to match. Players who do this will typically find their skill rating suffers when playing heroes with which they are less confident, which leads to getting stuck in the same rank, season after season.
Now, you will be assigned a separate skill ranking for each role you play, so players won’t have to try and ‘instalock’ their main hero to ensure the highest possible skill ranking. They’ll be free to experiment with playing different roles without having to worry about their rank dropping. For example, I could easily maintain a Platinum rank in support, but would probably end up in Silver for DPS. Instead of averaging out in low Gold, I can now get an accurate assessment of my skills in each job. Your competitive points are now also separated by role, so it’s going to get a whole lot easier to grab those sweet golden guns.
Not-so quick play
One aspect to role queue that has raised eyebrows is that it is not only rolling out across competitive, but quick play matches as well. Many people have taken issue with this, which I can sympathise with, but Blizzard’s reasoning makes a lot of sense here, too.
Those lamenting the death of flex aren't looking at the bigger picture
Since season one, all gameplay changes in Overwatch have rolled out across both modes, with the aim of keeping parity between them. Blizzard’s goal here is to get as many players as possible playing competitive, so the transition for new players into ranked play needs to be as smooth as possible. The danger with only enforcing role queue in competitive play is that new players would get accustomed to an entirely different metagame, with different favoured compositions, and then be even more out of their depth in ranked.
Those who want a more free-form, casual style of play will still have the Overwatch Arcade. Quick Play Classic will be a permanent fixture there, allowing players to continue playing quick play without restrictions, with the added incentive of being able to earn extra loot boxes. The addition of endorsements to the Arcade means that Quick Play Classic will be just as feature-complete as the default mode currently is – in fact, it will be more or less identical.
To say that role queue limits the creativity of players is not only an oversimplification, it is also undervaluing the efforts that Blizzard has made to keep the game fresh throughout its life-cycle. Let’s also not forget about the Overwatch Workshop and custom game servers, allowing fans to take Overwatch into whole new genres and beyond.
The Overwatch team has thought long and hard about why and how they implement role queue and has made sure to address as many concerns as possible, providing solutions for every kind of player to have an overall better experience.
Role queue will create exciting new possibilities for Overwatch’s ever-expanding hero roster, as well as making it a fairer and more welcoming game. Those lamenting the death of flex aren’t looking at the bigger picture. As tank and support roles grow, the options for flexing will only get better. Though flexing mid-game produces exciting moments in the upper echelons of play, where the necessary game sense exists to pull it off, it’s not a crucial tactic for most players. Killing it is a shame, but a price worth paying for the positives that role queue will bring.
Role queue is vital for the ongoing health of this game, and might just give it a whole new lease of life. No doubt there will be a large contingent of lapsed players returning to the game when the new matchmaking system is rolled out proper, even just to give it a try – and they will find a revitalised Overwatch that remains, after all these years, the definitive hero shooter.
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With Bug Public, Oracle Rushes out WebLogic Fix
By Robert McMillan
Oracle has rushed out a patch for its WebLogic application server, two weeks after a Russian security researcher posted details of the vulnerability.
The flaw lies in WebLogic's Node Manager software, which is typically blocked at the firewall. However, if hacker is able to access Node Manager's administrative port, the results could be devastating, Oracle said. "A successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in a full compromise of the targeted server on Windows. On other platforms (Unix, Linux, etc.), the attacker may gain access to the targeted server with the same privileges as the WebLogic server processes," Oracle wrote in a blog post detailing the issue.
Oracle issued its most-recent set of security patches on Jan. 12, but was apparently forced to rush out a WebLogic patch after security research firm Intevydis went public with details of the flaw on Jan. 23. The Russian company posted information on dozens of vulnerabilities during the month of January, in an effort to draw attention to he large number of server and database vulnerabilities that are not being patched.
An Oracle spokeswoman declined to comment on the patch. In its security alert, Oracle said it, "strongly recommends that the fix for this vulnerability be applied as soon as possible." The flaw affects versions 7 and higher of WebLogic.
Intevydis CEO Evgeny Legerov said his company is not following standard industry practice of notifying vendors of the bugs ahead of time because this "allows vendors to exploit security [researchers] to do QA work for free," according to a blog posting.
In an e-mail Friday, Legerov confirmed that Oracle wasn't notified of this particular flaw ahead of time. "Since we have rather limited resources and we are not working for Oracle we are staying away from responsible disclosure path," he said.
"It is pretty serious bug," he explained, "a remote attacker could execute OS commands without any authentication."
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The Collected Plays of Neil Simon
By Neil Simon
Category: Literary Collections | Humor
About The Collected Plays of Neil Simon
This first volume of The Collected Plays of Neil Simon contains the triumphs that put his unique brand of comic genius on the American stage, and made him the most successful playwright of his generation.
This volume includes:
• Come Blow Your Horn
• Barefoot in the Park
• The Odd Couple
• Plaza Suite
• The Star-Spangled Girl
• Promises, Promises
• Last of the Red Hot Lover
• And an Introduction by the author: “Portrait of the Writer as a Schizophrenic”
Neil Simon’s mixture of verbal wit and beautifully crafted farce, ethnic humor and insight into universal foible, and above all compassion and understanding, make even his sharpest barbs touch the heart as well as the funny bone. These seven plays, beginning with his unforgettable debut, Come Blow Your Horn, make us laugh uproariously even as we indelibly identify with the objects of our laughter.
The eight plays in the second volume of The Collected Plays of Neil Simon bear eloquent witness to the unique genius of a master playwright who so magnificently blended the joy of laughter and the love of life.
• Little Me
• The Gingerbread Lady
• The Prisoner of Second Avenue
• The Sunshine Boys
• The Good Doctor
• God’s Favorite
• California Suite
• Chapter Two
• And an Introduction by the author: “As Time Flies By”
Nothing can take away the pleasure that Neil Simon’s plays have given literally millions of theatergoers in the past quarter of a century. They and the critics agree that a trip to see any one of this master of comedy’s stage triumphs ranks among the most wonderful experiences that the American theater offers.
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Since 1960, a Broadway season without a Neil Simon comedy or musical has been a rare one. His first play was Come Blow Your Horn, followed by the musical Little Me. During the 1966-67 season, Barefoot in the Park, The… More about Neil Simon
Published by Plume
Nov 01, 1986 | 672 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780452258709
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“If Broadway ever erects a monument to a patron saint of laughter, Neil Simon will have to be it.”—Time Magazine
The Collected Plays Of Neil SimonIntroduction: Portrait of the Writer as a Schizophrenic
Come Blow Your Horn
Barefoot In The Park
The Star-Spangled Girl
Last Of The Red Hot Lovers
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The Scottish Terrier
The Scottish Terrier originates in Scotland and England where he was used to quell vermin on farms. Terrier bloodlines weren’t well documented at the time, as farmers were not interested a dog’s lineage, only in his abilities. In fact, terriers weren’t even grouped separately and were all placed into a single breed category.
In 1877 the Live Stock Journal started a heated debate about what qualified a “true Scottie.” The debate led to a submission from Gordon Murray. Murray wrote down criteria for what he viewed as an ideal Scottish Terrier. Three years later J.B. Morrison drew up a breed standard based on that criteria and the Scottish Terrier as we know him today was born.
The first Scotties to enter the United States were Tam Glen and Bonnie Belle in 1883. A year later Scotties were introduced to the American Kennel Club.
Scottish Terriers are the only breed to have lived in the White House on three occasions: President George Bush, President Roosevelt and President Eisenhower.
Sizing up:
Weight: 18 to 22 lbs.
Coat: Hard, wiry
Color: Black, brindle or wheaten
Life expectancy: 11 to 13 years
What’s the Scottish Terrier like?
The Scottish Terrier is nicknamed the “Diehard,” and that should give you some indication of his personality. He’s independent, feisty and not afraid to stand up for himself. He’s always ready to play and to chase. Remember that his preferred game is small animals, so keep the family hamster far away.
The Scottish Terrier remembers harsh treatment, and this method won’t be affective during training. The Scottish Terrier would do better with a reward based system and a gentle voice.
The Scottish Terrier has a long standing history as a working dog and will require exercise every day. Anything less could lead to obnoxious levels of barking.
Try and find a Scottie whose personality matches your own, start by talking with the breeder. If you’ve found one with experience - and we hope you have - the breeder can help guide you to the perfect fit.
A disease known as “Scottie cramp” is a hereditary disorder which affects this breed. It’s caused by a brain defect and makes it difficult for the Scottish Terrier to walk.
Scottish Terriers also seem to be at a higher risk of cancer than other purebreds.
Other conditions that might affect the Scottie:
Craniomandibular osteopathy
Takeaway points:
The Scottish Terrier is not a lap dog, he was born to get outside and run.
The Scottish Terrier is intelligent and independent: training him will require patience.
The Scottish Terrier loves his family and is a people dog.
The Scottish Terrier will chase small animals into the street and should always be protected from himself.
If you have any questions or concerns, you should always visit or call your veterinarian – they are your best resource to ensure the health and well-being of your pets.
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Everything You Need to Know About for Office 365 – October 2019
November 1, 2019 by Shane Young
It's the month before Ignite and even though the company will announce lots of updates next week, October had a couple of surprises too.
Everything You Need to Know about Microsoft Office 365 – June 2019
July 1, 2019 by Shane Young
As Microsoft wraps up its 2019 fiscal year, the company made several significant announcements for Office 365 in the month of June.
Everything You Need to Know About SharePoint – June 2019
July 1, 2019 with 1 Comment by Shane Young
What happened in June with SharePoint? A lot of reminders but also a little bit of a look towards the future.
Everything You Need to Know About Office 365 – May 2019
June 3, 2019 by Shane Young
With May now behind us, let's take a look at the key announcements from the Office Team during the month.
Everything you need to know about SharePoint – November 2018
November 30, 2018 with 2 Comments by Shane Young
Looking for everything announced in the month of November for SharePoint? Shane has you covered.
Everything you need to know about Office 365 – October 2018
Microsoft keeps the updates flowing and last month, Office 365 received a number of updates that continue to enhance the platform.
Everything you need to know about SharePoint – August 2018
August 31, 2018 by Shane Young
With August coming to an end, it's time to catch up on all the SharePoint news announced this month.
Microsoft Details New Features Coming to OneDrive and SharePoint
August 28, 2018 by Brad Sams
Later this year, Microsoft will be rolling out a set of significant updates to its SharePoint and OneDrive platforms.
Enable OneDrive for Business Known Folder Migration
August 22, 2018 by Russell Smith
In this Ask the Admin, Russell explains what Known Folder Migration (KFM) is in OneDrive for Business and show you how to configure it using Group Policy.
June 29, 2018 by Shane Young
This month, we are going to cover the SharePoint announcement with a little summertime flare.
Everything You Need to Know About SharePoint — April 2018
April 30, 2018 by Shane Young
SharePoint continues to be awesome and Microsoft continues to make cool investments. Check out this month’s news and highlights.
How a Free Version of Teams Might Work
March 6, 2018 by Tony Redmond
Microsoft might be working on a free version of Teams to take on Slack. As it turns out, not many technical changes are needed to transform the full enterprise version of Teams as available inside Office 365 into a limited version that Microsoft can make available for free, leveraging its existing consumer office services like Outlook and OneDrive.
Managing OneDrive Files On Demand in The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
November 10, 2017 by Russell Smith
In today's Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how you can manage the new OneDrive Files On-Demand feature in the Fall Creators Update.
Two Kinds of Office 365 Analytics – For You and The Company
July 18, 2017 by Tony Redmond
Microsoft Workplace Analytics is not a “Fitbit for the enterprise” that you can deploy off-the-shelf to get instantly usable information. Expect to invest considerable time or spend some consulting dollars to make sense of organization dynamics, office politics, and internal friction. All the stuff that makes working in large companies so worthwhile!
Microsoft Brings ‘Placeholders’ to Windows 10 for OneDrive and SharePoint
May 11, 2017 by Brad Sams
Microsoft has announced that they are bringing back one of their most requested features, placeholders for OneDrive and SharePoint.
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Home » Sloan Signs with Chicago Cubs as Legacy Partner and Official Water Efficiency Partner
Sloan Signs with Chicago Cubs as Legacy Partner and Official Water Efficiency Partner
Sloan becomes the sixth Legacy Partner of the Chicago Cubs, joining Anheuser-Busch, ATI Physical Therapy, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Under Armour and Wintrust.
FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. January 8, 2015 – Sloan and the Chicago Cubs today announced that Sloan has joined the Cubs organization as a Legacy Partner and the team’s Official Water Efficiency Partner. As part of this agreement, the Cubs Spring Training facility in Mesa, Arizona, will be named Sloan Park.
Sloan, the world’s leading manufacturer of intelligent water solutions, will help the Cubs expand its ongoing sustainability efforts and improve fan experience at Sloan Park and at Wrigley Field. Sloan's expertise in water efficiency will help the Cubs reduce their overall environmental impact – especially important in drought prone areas such as Arizona.
“We are a global organization founded in Chicago, so partnering with another iconic Chicago brand is a natural fit. Sloan products have been in Wrigley Field since 1914, and this exciting new partnership with the Chicago Cubs helps Sloan tell its story on a major league level,” said Jim Allen, President of Sloan. Jim continued, “water is an increasingly important natural resource, by helping communities and organizations like the Chicago Cubs save water, Sloan helps to raise awareness of water conservation in this country and around the world. Responsible use of water is critical to local communities and to the world. Our partnership with the Chicago Cubs organization gives us the opportunity to help build winning teams through sustainable solutions.”
“Teaming up with Sloan is an important move for the Chicago Cubs. Sloan brings more than a century of experience and success in creating cutting edge water solutions for a wide variety of venues all around the world,” said Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts. “We are pleased to work with and learn from Sloan as we enhance our facilities and build for the future.”
The Cubs will utilize Sloan’s products in the newly-named Sloan Park in Mesa and plan to integrate inside Wrigley Field and its surrounding facilities as part of the 1060 Project construction — helping the organization expand its ongoing sustainability efforts. Sloan also will have brand presence at Sloan Park and Wrigley Field including designated areas to showcase Sloan products and state-of-the-art water saving technologies along with fixed signage on the visiting team’s bullpen.
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Zedd - Madison Events Center - 9/21/2013
Taylor Moon
Taylor Moon | September 23, 2013 | 4:30am
Zedd September 21, 2013 Madison Events Center With a hectic security system, oversized VIP section and timing being completely off, the music was the only thing that shined Saturday night.
Taking the light rail to the show was an interesting start to the night, but hell, why not, right? Getting off at Washington and Central Avenue felt pretty typical, right until the walk to the venue led straight through the government district. Everyone in rave gear walked past Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office to go join their kandi, edm, shuffling-friends.
I don't know--how much of a contradiction was it to be partying across the street from the 4th Avenue jail?
Walking into the venue wasn't so simple, however, thanks to an impossibly slow line. Yes, everything was high-tech. Yes, there were scanners that read off all the information on your ID to guarantee that everyone was at least 18 years old to enter. Yes, the security was thorough. These are all good things. But when it didn't work hand-in-hand with time, it turned disastrous. And that was the result of it all last night--a disaster, if one that ended with a big show from Zedd.
I was lucky enough to get into the venue about 15 to 30 minutes after I had arrived. The only reason I was able to do so was because my tickets were waiting at will call, which happened to be inside a fence opening that had a larger line trying to herd those with tickets already in their hands. Having a ticket in your hand, ready to go, might seem like a good way to get in more smoothly, but that didn't happen last night.
Some friends I'd ridden to the venue with were among those unfortunate souls. They shouldn't have been unfortunate, but thanks to Saturday night's issues the rest of my group--which arrived to the entrance at 9:30--didn't step foot past the security and into the actual venue itself until 11:15.
My friends and the other responsible ones missed Alex Metric, who was giving the crowd a groovy and funky start.
Shorty after Metric's performance, a duo by the name of Ecotek took the stage, throwing down some harder beats and bringing out the bass a bit more. They were just all right--they lacked some sense of melodic flow and control over the audience. It wasn't their fault: the crowd wanted Zedd.
But again, last I heard the sooner you come to the show the better. Not Saturday. After Ecotek's performance, I received a text from my roommate, who arrived to the venue at 10 and didn't get in till past midnight.
Zedd was supposed to step onto stage at midnight, but it didn't work out that way. According to Twitter, Zedd didn't want to take the stage until everyone had gotten through that excuse for a line. The show ended up starting 30 minutes later than scheduled; this left a good 30 minutes or more of silence on the stage for a restless crowd--eager for Zedd and angry with the way things had gone tonight.
One more fun fact: The venue sold out of water. No, let me rephrase, they ran out of water by 1:15 a.m. That thing the human body needs to survive; they didn't have enough. Since this was an outdoor venue, you'd think they would've understood that water must never go out of stock at an event like this, but it did.
When he finally took the stage, 30 minutes late, the crowd and the sound system each let out a relieved cry. He explained the reason for the delay, as he had on Twitter, and then launched into a set that made it all worthwhile, eventually.
Sorry for the long line guys! I'm gonna wait for u guys to get in there before I start!!! Police is being strict. We're doing our best.
— Zedd (@Zedd) September 22, 2013
Making up for lost time, Zedd dropped hit after hit--"Clarity," "Spectrum," Knife Party's "LRAD", EDM-anthem "Cinema." Even his remix of Martin Garrix's "Animals," with a trap-tone that seems a bit non-Zedd until he nails it.
The visuals were spectacular. The sound was tremendous, rolling over buildings in the government district of downtown Phoenix. Overall, Zedd aced his Phoenix test. The venue security may need to retake it.
Critics Notebook: Last Night: Zedd at the Madison Events Center The Crowd: A sweaty mess of stressed-out Zedd-lovers wondering when the hell Zedd would actually play. Overheard in the Crowd: "Zedd needs to come already; I need to fist pump," said the bro behind me. Personal Bias: Besides the actual music that was played last night, the show failed on several aspects in my view, and I know those around me would agree. The music was spectacular as could be, and the venue has so much potential. But security, timing, and even water management was a failure. Random Notebook Dump: Anyone else notice how big the VIP section is? Okay, now look over there again. Yeah, that's right--there's barely anyone in the section. The big crowd could have been much more comfortable if the mostly empty VIP section weren't at least a third the amount of space given to the sold-out crowd smashing themselves together on a blacktop lot.
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This goes back a long time. The aborigines, or the original inhabitants of Australia, needed an effective weapon to hunt animals and birds for food. When they looked around, their eyes rested on wood, which was so easily available. They made banana-shaped weapons of hard wood, with a curve on top and a flat bottom. That made each leg act like an aircraft wing.
They held it from one end over their shoulders and threw it hard and straight with such force that even animals could be killed. Thus was the boomerang born.
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In time, the aboriginals discovered that this little stick could be quite exciting. For instance, they discovered that if thrown in a particular manner, the boomerang curved in flight, did some neat spins in the air and returned to the thrower. They also found out that a wooden piece shaped like a T or V curves in flight. What they needed to make sure was that each leg of the boomerang was curved on top and had a flat bottom.
Throwing boomerangs, thus, became a sport with the aboriginals. That is the reason why the old hunting weapon has been transformed into a popular sport today.
The length of a boomerang varies between 12 to 30 inches and weighs about 340 grams. It has been noticed that a returning boomerang thrown by an expert thrower can travel as fast as about 100 km per hour. It creates a circle almost 45 metres wide and completes almost 10 delicate spins and loops in the air, like airplanes performing difficult stunts at an air show. And then, the boomerang returns to the thrower.
That is why the word boomerang in the English language is used to mean an action or statement that backfires.
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Russian State News Agency Underestimates Protest in Ingushetia
RIA Novosti, October 5, 2018
Russian state-owned news outlet
“Several dozen people gathered on Friday in the center of the capital of Ingushetia, Magas; the situation in the city is calm, RIA Novosti’s correspondent reports.”
Source: RIA Novosti
Photos show a much larger protest.
Video recorded in Magas the previous day showed several hundred people protesting and something that sounds like gunfire could be heard. A photo from the Friday protest against a border change also shows what appears to be at least several hundred people.
Russian Prison Official Says Sentsov Agrees to Start Eating, Leaves Out Why
Valery Maximenko
Deputy Director of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service
"Oleg Sentsov has stopped his hunger strike, giving a written statement on that. He has also agreed to start eating.”
Source: TASS
Sentsov confirms he is ending the hunger strike, because he faces being force-fed.
A Russian prison official announced Oleg Sentsov would end his hunger strike after 145 days. What he did not say is that Sentsov faced a force-feeding regimen that he expected would begin imminently.
Russian Prosecutor Denies ‘Likes’ on Social Media Are Crimes – Yes But It’s Happened
Alexander Kurennoi
Spokesperson of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office
"All these cases have been branded ‘likes and reposts cases’ … We must draw the line here - we do have [criminal cases opened] for reposts, because reposts mean information is uploaded, but no criminal cases have been opened for ‘likes.’"
At least one criminal case for extremism was launched because of a ‘like.’
Normally, “liking” things on social media would not lead to a criminal case for extremism, but because of some social network’s settings, liking posts automatically led to them being displayed on one’s page. In at least one instance this led to a criminal charges for “extremism.”
No Evidence for Putin claim that ‘scumbag’ Skripal sanctified in West
Valdimir Putin
Some media outlets are “pushing through a theory that Mr. Skripal is some sort of a rights activist. He’s plainly a spy. A traitor to his homeland. There’s such a thing – being a traitor to the homeland. He is one … Imagine, if there’s a person in your country who betrayed it. How would you treat him? He’s plainly scum.”
Source: RT, October 3, 2018
Skripal was always seen as spy, not a saint
From little fish to Russian spy, the Western media has never attempted to beatify Sergei Skripal, despite Putin’s claim to the contrary.
Russian Church Spokesman Falsely Compares Ukrainian Church to Nazis
Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)
Bishop of Russian Orthodox Church and Head of the Department of External Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church
“The Ukrainian authorities want to completely seize the Ukrainian Church, to outlaw it, and for this purpose various kinds of bills are being created. For example, there is such a bill that says the Ukrainian Orthodox Church should be renamed ‘the Russian Church in Ukraine’.”
The state is not taking over the Ukrainian church.
The Ukrainian patriarch suggested changing the name of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate to accurately reflect its affiliation. He did not advocate violence against the Church.
Yulia Skripal Refused to Meet with Russian Consulate Officials
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
“For six months we have been demanding, asking, and citing the legal grounds for getting consular access to the Russian citizen Yulia Skripal. In various forms, on various obviously far-fetched pretexts, we are not allowed to do this.”
Source: Press briefing
Yulia Skripal refused the Russian consulate’s offers.
Yulia Skripal said she was aware of the consulate’s offers and refused to meet with consular officials on her own volition.
Would Visiting the U.S. Help Vladimir Putin ‘Humanize' His Adversary? Fact: Putin Visited Nine Times
John Wight
RT Contributor
“Indeed it is arguable that without his prolonged visit to the U.S. in 1959, Khrushchev may not have been so willing to accommodate JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis three years later in 1962 – the reason being that only in visiting the country or countries of his adversaries is a leader able to humanize it beyond the realm of geopolitical differences. In 2018, due to the unbounded anti-Russia fever that has Washington in its grip, it is highly unlikely that any such visit to the U.S. by Russian President Vladimir Putin will be taking place anytime soon, nor to Russia by his U.S. counterpart, President Trump. In this respect at least, the hard lessons of the twentieth century have been lost.”
Source: RT, September 15, 2018
Putin has visited the U.S. on at least nine occasions
Russian President Vladimir Putin has much more experience “visiting the country of his adversaries,” with his nine publicly known visits to the U.S., than did Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who only visited America once. Thus, the author’s argument is baseless.
Russian Media Reports on Fake FSB Claims
State-owned media outlet
Representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) called the information from Russia’s FSB on the Ukrainian agency’s cooperation with the international terrorist organization ‘Islamic State’ … ‘another fake.’”
The TASS story is true: there is no evidence that either Ukraine’s SBU or Islamic State were involved.
The FSB provided no evidence to back up the allegation that that the SBU, the Islamic State, or the right-wing group Pravy Sektor was involved in a murder plot against a man who worked as a pro-Russian operative in Ukraine.
Russian Police Say the Election Day Was 'Calmest,' After Clamping Down on Country-wide Protests
Ministry of Internal Affairs (Police), Russia
“In general, the situation during the united Election Day remained calm.”
Source: RIA-Novosti, September 9, 2018
Scores detained during the nationwide protests
Independent media reported clashes between the protesters and the police with scores detained in multiple regions during the election day in Russia.
The Salaries of Men and Women: Where is the Gap Even Greater than in Russia?
Valentina Matvienko
Chairperson of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation
“In our country, the average salary of women is 74% of the average salary of men. However, you can console yourself with the fact that in 2005 this figure was only 60%. It seems that there have been changes for the better. But the gap still persists, and it is large.”
Source: International Affairs
According to international statistics, there are only a few countries where the gap is greater than in Russia.
If we proceed from Rosstat’s estimates, the gap between the salaries of men and women in Russia is 28.3%. After shrinking to its lowest level in 2013 (25.8%), it has since increased.
Lavrov: West is Blocking Chemical Weapons Inspections in Syria -- Not True
Sergei Lavrov
Commenting on the chemical attack that allegedly took place on Syrian territory, Lavrov noted that ‘such situations have happened in the past -- 2016, Khan-Sheikhoun, 2017, East Ghouta.’ As the minister recalled, in the first case Russia insisted on an OPCW inspection, but ‘Western colleagues blocked the inspectors’ way’."
Source: TV Zvezda
It is Russia and the Syrian regime who block OPCW inspectors from investigating chemical attacks in Syria, not the West.
It was not the Western countries that tried to block OPCW inspections in Syria. Rather, Russia and the Syrian government have tried to block such inspections, and Russia has used its veto power on the U.N. Security Council to impede investigations into the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
Russian Embassy Tweets Misleading Photo About Syria
Twitter Account of Russia’s Embassy in South Africa
Official Russian Foreign Ministry social media account
“Russian Defence Ministry: English-speaking ‘foreign specialists’ have arrived in #Syria to attempt staging chlorine chemical attack early this week. Latest intel indicates the hoax is planned to take place in the village of Kafr Zita (Hama province) #HoaxAlert”
The photo is of the set of a Syrian government film.
The photograph is of the set of a Syrian government film. No evidence has ever been provided showing that rebels or their supporters staged a chemical attack anywhere in Syria.
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The 10 Greatest Men Behind the Masks
You know their characters, but you don't know their faces. Say hello to the real actors behind some of movie history's greatest villains, monsters, and ghouls.
By Heidi Davis
Xenomorph, Alien (1979)
The Man: Bolaji Badejo
A 7-foot alien is scary enough without it slobbering K-Y Jelly from its pharyngeal jaws. Designed by Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger, Alien's "biomechanical" aesthetic changed preconceived notions about extraterrestrials on film. Giger and his team were even referred to as the "Monster Department" for their penchant to use real animal bones in many of their designs.
Desperate to find the perfect body type to play his one-of-a-kind monster, director Ridley Scott decided to cast unknown Nigerian student Bolaji Badejo, who was as skinny as he was tall, and managed to beat out Peter Mayhew (Star Wars' Chewbacca) for the role. Badejo studied mime to create a believable and sinister range of motion, which was no easy feat considering he wore a latex suit with pieces for the ribcage, legs, and tail‚ each attached separately with wires. And the sets were only about 6'6" tall, forcing Badejo to exercise caution whenever he had to move or turn quickly.There were two version of the banana-shaped head Badejo wore: a non-mechanical version for action scenes and an articulated one designed by Carlo Rambaldi for effects shots.
Scott would push Badejo, even though he could stand to be in costume for only 20 minutes before risking overheating. And one of the most difficult shots never made the final film—a scene that found Badejo suspended upside down from a wire 15 feet in the air. Badejo wore a harness around his stomach that suffocated him when he moved, and even proved too much for the stuntman brought in to do it, who ended up passing out.
Darth Vader, The Original Star Wars Trilogy (1977-1983)
The Man: David Prowse
You know the voice to be James Earl Jones. But the man inside the Sith Lord's imposing suit was David Prowse. Prowse, a British bodybuilder, caught George Lucas' eye when he appeared in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, and Lucas asked Prowse to choose between the fur-covered alien Chewbacca or the villainous Darth Vader. In Prowse's words, "people will always remember the villain."
A veteran of several Hammer horror films—he even co-starred with future Star Wars co-star Peter Cushing in 1973's Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell—Prowse was no stranger to being hidden behind a mask. Still, transforming into Darth Vader would present a unique set of challenges. The quilted leather suit weighed 40 pounds. Breathing would fog up the mask, while sweat would pour down the bottom of the mouthpiece, requiring Prowse to remove it every few minutes.
Despite playing such an iconic character, Prowse was never really given his due. He learned Jones would re-dub his lines only after filming wrapped, and found out one on the shocking twist (SPOILER ALERT! Darth Vader is Luke's father.) at the movie's premiere. Audiences don't even get to see Prowse's face when Vader is unmasked at the conclusion of Return of the Jedi—Lucas brought in Sebastian Shaw for the scene as a favor to Sir Alec Guinness. Prowse fought hard for the role of Superman but lost out to Christopher Reeve. However, he was asked to train Reeve for the film.
Leatherface, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Man: Gunnar Hansen
Brutal and unrelenting, Tobe Hooper's horror classic was a wholly-fictional film presented as a "true story" that sent shockwaves through America as viewers took in the deranged, chainsaw-wielding Leatherface and his perverse, cannibalistic brood.
Leatherface was played by Gunnar Hansen, a 6'4", 300-pound grad student who had no idea what he was in for when shooting began in July 1973. The Texas temps averaged 100 degrees, and the cast and crew endured 12 to 16-hour days for a month. Hansen provided his own clothes for the film, was was fitted with a mouth piece designed by his own dentist and 3-inch lifts to his boots. But it was the grotesque masks created by art director Bob Burns—and a snarling Poulan 245a chain saw—that made Leatherface a legend.
A mentally and emotionally stunted man-child, Leatherface relies on masks made from his victim's skin to express his feelings. Burns carefully the masks using a mix of liquid latex and fiberglass. As an added bonus the material would turn a brownish-yellow, much like real human skin. Unfortunately, the masks offered little to no peripheral vision, making chase sequences difficult and downright dangerous, especially with Hansen hauling a 20-pound chainsaw. In time he learned to overshoot his turns to compensate.
Under such grueling conditions, almost everyone got hurt at some point. That includes the famous scene in which Leatherface falls and cuts his leg. Despite preparations which included wrapping a piece of sheet metal around Hansen's leg, covering it with a thick steak to emulate human flesh, and topping the whole thing off with a blood bag, the saw cut so fast that it heated up the sheet metal and burned him. It was a small price to pay. The scene remains a classic, with Hansen grabbing his leg in real pain while fake blood spews everywhere.
Abe Sapien, Hellboy (2004) / Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
The Man: Doug Jones
Standing 6'3" and weighing a mere 140 pounds, actor, mime, and contortionist Doug Jones learned to use his body to tell a story early on. But it was working on the creature feature Mimic and connecting with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro that truly launched Jones' career.
When it came time for del Toro to bring Mike Mignola's Hellboy to life, Jones was his only choice to play the beloved fishman Abe Sapien. Jones's work as one of The Gentlemen on an Emmy-nominated episode of Josh Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer formed the foundation for Abe's slow, refined mannerisms, and Jones painstakingly studied the movement of fish to round out Abe's physical traits.
Becoming Abe would not be as easy, however, requiring the actor to endure a 6 to 7 hour make-up process. Spectral Motion created foam latex pieces based on a full body cast of Jones, including those for his torso, arms, and legs. Transparent fins made from semi-flexible urethane were applied down his back and legs, and webbing under his arms used thermal-gel. Mechanized gills created by Mark Setrakian were placed on either side of his face; they would open and close just as a fish's would. Finally, everything was painted an aquatic camouflage design created by Steve Wang, and blended into Jones body by freehand airbrushing.
Jason Voorhees, Friday the 13th VII, VIII, IX, and Jason X (1988-2002)
The Man: Kane Hodder
On May 4, 1989, Kane Hodder headed to Times Square to film the final scenes for Friday the 13th, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. His arrival would be met by blood-curdling screams, but not the kind you're thinking of. Hundreds of people lined the streets just hoping to catch a glimpse of him. Not bad for a veteran stuntman who was bullied relentlessly as a child, and channels his past anger in order to get into character.
Hodder quickly became a fan favorite for bringing continuity to the hockey-masked killer for the first time, and giving him a personality onscreen, which is all the more impressive considering he does so without any facial expressions or even a voice. Tapping into the rage that motivates Jason to kill, and laying down several concrete rules for the character, such as Jason will never run after his victims, he will never hurt children or animals, and, in the case of Jason X, Jason will never, ever float!
Hardcore fans know that the signature hockey mask didn't make an appearance until Part 3. Originally molded from a Detroit Red Wings goalie mask, it's also gone through a number of changes over the years. But beginning with Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood, director John Carl Buechler wanted the mask to reflect the history of the character. Afterwards, there would always be subtle cracks, cuts, and chips, to suggest the violence that had been inflicted upon it.
Ghostface, Scream (1996) / Scream 2 (1997) / Scream 4 (2011)
The Man: Dane Farwell
Although audiences have never seen his face, or heard his voice, they definitely sensed that someone was missing from Scream 3. With good reason—it's the only installment of director Wes Craven's Scream series without 6'1" stuntman Dane Farwell. Farwell and Craven have a long history together, with Farwell appearing in eight of the director's films including The Serpent and the Rainbow, Shocker, The People Under the Stairs, Vampire in Brooklyn, and Red Eye.
Even though a premise of the series is that a different killer inhabits the costume in each Scream film, Farwell brings a manic energy to the Ghostface character. Farewell was so methodical that he would subtly alter Ghostface's mannerisms to match those of whomever played the killer in that film. He also mastered the trademark mannerism of cleaning the blood off the knight after each kill by running thumb and forefinger down the blade in a clean sweep.
The Ghostface character was described in Kevin Williamson's script simply as the "masked killer," so Craven faced a dilemma in deciding what the costume should be. Credit goes to executive producer Marianne Maddalena, who spotted the Ghostface mask produced by Fun World and saw the possibilities. The decision didn't win the team any fans at the studio, with Bob Weinstein going so far as to call the mask "idiotic" and threatening to replace Craven as the director, but thankfully a 13-minute rough cut of the opening sequence changed his mind.
While Farwell inhabited Ghostface's flapping cloak, it was veteran voice actor Roger L. Jackson who provided his cold, menacing tone.
Michael Myers, Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007) / Halloween 2 (2009)
The Man: Tyler Mane
When Rob Zombie set out to remake one of his all-time favorite horror films, Halloween, he went straight to director John Carpenter who offered him up some advice: namely that Zombie shouldn't be afraid to "make it his own." The shock rocker has a well-documented love affair with horrorshow pastiche in both his music and his movies, and Michael Myers' meager backstory was the perfect blank slate for Zombie to add many of his trademark touches.
Young Michael still kills his older sister, but Zombie expands the Myers' clan, allowing him to kill her boyfriend, and his stepdad as well. Former wrestler Tyler Mane, who had appeared in The Devil's Rejects, was cast as the adult Michael, and at 6'9" Mane was an imposing figure. Appearing in Halloween and its sequel H2, Mane holds the distinction of being the only actor to ever portray Michael Myers in two consecutive films.
Say what you will about Zombie's almost sympathetic portrayal of the psychopathic serial killer; he did right by fans for keeping the mask. Zombie's Halloween uses a visibly distressed version of the mask used in Carpenter's original Halloween, which was a converted Don Post Studios Captain Kirk Star Trek mask first produced in 1977, which just so happened to be the cheapest mask the filmmakers could find.
While rumors of a Halloween 3 have been kicking around since H2 was released, neither Zombie nor Mane have any interest in returning.
The Collector, The Collector (2009)
The Man: Juan Fernandez de Alarcon
This lean, mean $3.5-million independent film was buried by blockbusters like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince when it debuted. But the movie achieved a cult status for being much more than a paint-by-numbers torture fest (even though writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton are the men responsible for Saw films IV, V, VI, and VII).
Dunstan didn't want a hulking goon to play the Collector. Instead, he chose someone who could convey the movements of a spider. Enter Juan Fernandez de Alarcon, a Dominicann actor whose portfolio includes modeling for the likes of Yves St. Laurent—and Salvador Dali.
Envisioning a mask like that worn by Jason in Friday the 13th, Part 2, special makeup effects designer Gary Tunnicliffe designed a flocked black mask for Alarcon that laces up the back and creates the illusion of tiny hairs when viewed close up. The horrific cherry on top—special contacts worn by Fernandez top give his eyes an eerie insect glow—creates an unnerving overall effect was unnerving. However, though the Collector appears on film to have the heightened senses of an insect, wearing the mask turned out to be a claustrophobic experience. Fernandez found that the mask completely covered his ears, so that he could only hear his own breathing. It had only two small holes for sight.
While Dunstan and Melton return for the sequel The Collection, set to premiere November 30, Fernandez will not be reprising his role as the Collector, leaving accomplished stuntman Randall Archer with a pair of big black boots to fill.
Pumpkinhead, Pumpkinhead (1988)
The Man: Tom Woodruff Jr.
"Deep in the Appalachian Mountains they say that an act of evil shall never go unpunished." So begins Stan Winston's folklorish fright flick Pumpkinhead, and if Winston's name sounds familiar, it should. Responsible for some of the best makeup and visual effects in film, the four-time Academy Award winner's work includes The Thing, The Terminator, Aliens, Predator, and Jurassic Park.
Winston trusted his creature effects team to oversee the monster's creation, and enlisted the help of Tom Woodruff Jr. to play the creature. After Woodruff portrayed the Gillman in Fred Dekker's cult classic The Monster Squad, Winston thought he'd be perfect as Pumpkinhead, a creature that need to appear as if it had sprung up gnarled and twisted from the earth itself.
The finished film suffered after the original studio, DeLaurientis Entertainment, went bankrupt, but has since gone on to attain cult status. Woodruff went on to team up with another of Winston's designer-technicians, Alec Gillis, and start their own company, Amalgamated Dynamics, which specializes in make-up, animatronics, and puppeteering for film and TV. Woodruff has continued to act, playing the Alien in Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection, and both Alien vs. Predator films.
The Gimp, Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Man: Stephen Hibbert
"Bring out the Gimp!" In that one stomach-tightening sentence, Tarantino ensures that we'll never forget the nightmare about to unfold in the pawn shop basement.
Tarantino's films have always been a weird amalgamation of dark humor and extreme violence, but the Gimp scene was originally conceived by Pulp Fiction's co-writer Roger Avary for a different project. Tarantino liked the story so much that he asked if he could write it into the film.
Tarantino was friendly with the Los Angeles-based Groundlings comedy troupe at the time, and you can spot many of them throughout the flick: Julia Sweeney appears as Winston Wolf's squeeze, Raquel; Phil LaMarr plays the hapless Marvin, who Vincent accidentally caps in the face; and Kathy Griffin pops up after Butch runs down Marcellus Wallace with his car. For the Gimp, Tarantino cast former Groundlings member Stephen Hibbert.
Although the performance won't earn Hibbert a call from the Academy anytime soon, the Gimp's two mute, faceless minutes on-screen—climbing out of a cage locked inside of a trunk and decked out in head-to-toe leather bondage regalia—was so inflammatory that it has been removed entirely from the broadcast version. Unfortunately, Hibbert hasn't been able to parlay his Gimp-famy into anything more than a few blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearances in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and National Treasure: Book of Secrets.
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Got grass? Retailer pushes milk from grazing cows
Wisconsin dairy farmer Dan Pearson thinks cows should be outside.
Got grass? Retailer pushes milk from grazing cows Wisconsin dairy farmer Dan Pearson thinks cows should be outside. Check out this story on postcrescent.com: https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2014/05/28/got-grass-retailer-pushes-milk-from-grazing-cows/9668059/
AP Published 10:12 a.m. CT May 28, 2014
Holstein cow. (Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto )
Pearson converted his dairy farm in River Falls to a grass-fed operation by growing extra hay that he stores for winter. He thinks it’s a healthier system for cows and workers because both spend more time outside.
Also, he said he has become a better steward of the land because he has had to learn to grow healthy, lush grass for his 100 cows.
“Healthy soils, healthy animals, healthy food and healthy people,” Pearson said.
A Colorado-based grocery store chain agrees with Pearson’s philosophy. Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage recently announced it will carry only dairy products from farms where cows graze in pastures.
The retail chain claims grazing improves the health of cows, consumers and the environment, and it hopes to expand an ongoing, national debate over how to best care for livestock.
The American Grassfed Association, which helped Natural Grocers develop its rules, said it is the first retail chain to carry only pastured dairy products; many already have rules barring suppliers from such things as keeping chickens and pregnant pigs in cramped cages.
But the issue isn’t as straightforward as it might seem as weather prevents most farms in the United States from grazing year-round. With no clear guidelines on what qualifies as “pasture-raised,” consumers paying a premium for grass-fed milk might be confused about what they are buying. And a dairy nutrition expert says he sees the store’s policy as mostly a marketing gimmick.
Natural Grocers was one of the first retailers in the 1990s to ban dairy products from farms that used growth hormones or excessive antibiotics, said Heather Isely, whose parents founded the business in 1955. Over time, the family decided that wasn’t enough because cows that were drug- and hormone-free still might not go outside.
“Consumers are buffeted with all these image of cows grazing on pasture when it comes to dairy,” Isely said. “When you talk to most people, that’s what comes to mind … and we wanted to become completely transparent and lift that veil away and say, you know, that’s not always the case and you really do need to take a more careful look at your dairy products.”
The company announced in late April that it would require all dairy products at its nearly 90 stores in western and Plains states to be made with milk from cows that grazed at least 120 days per year, mirroring federal organic standards. To be organic, cows also cannot consume hay or grain produced with genetically modified seed, pesticides or herbicides. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the agency does not set standards for pasture-raised or grass-fed products, but labels cannot be misleading.
Customers at a Natural Grocers store in Denver said they didn’t know how much time cows typically spend outside and the limited information on labels made it hard to tell how animals were treated. Josh Milligan, who picked up a gallon of Organic Valley milk for $6.15, said he thought cows should be allowed spend every day outside, but Natural Grocers’ policy was better than those of larger grocery chains.
Few farms in the United States can graze animals year-round because of the weather. Snow covers northern pastures in the winter and summer heat dries those in the South.
Tom Overton, a Cornell University professor who specializes in dairy cow nutrition, sees the grocery chain’s push for pasture-raised dairy as mostly a marketing strategy. Most farmers who graze supplement their cows’ diet with grain to ensure they get proper nutrition, Overton said. If they don’t, the cows can produce less milk, undercutting any environmental benefit.
“If it takes 15 to 20 cows to produce the same amount of milk as 10 in a different system, that makes a big difference in terms of how much manure is produced,” Overton said.
Overton says grazing doesn’t significantly change the nutritional value of milk, but a nutritionist at the Medical College of Wisconsin says there’s some science that suggests milk from pasture-fed cows has higher levels of linoleic acid, which has anti-inflammatory properties.
Andrea Moosreiner said she wouldn’t read too much into the studies, but thinks Natural Grocers’ policy makes sense.
“We are what we eat,” she said, “and that goes for our livestock too.”
Natural Grocers: www.naturalgrocers.com
American Grassfed Association: www.americangrassfed.org
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Appleton teen stabbed in drug deal, police say
The victim was stabbed once and remained in the hospital Thursday morning. Police don't know his condition but don't believe his life is in danger.
Appleton teen stabbed in drug deal, police say The victim was stabbed once and remained in the hospital Thursday morning. Police don't know his condition but don't believe his life is in danger. Check out this story on postcrescent.com: http://post.cr/2A2ulEm
Alison Dirr, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 9:01 a.m. CT Nov. 2, 2017
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FOX CROSSING - A 16-year-old Appleton boy was stabbed during a drug deal Wednesday evening, according to police.
Police were called to St. Elizabeth Hospital just after 9 p.m. Wednesday on a report of a person with a stab wound, Fox Crossing police said in a news release Thursday.
More: Menasha man sentenced in December stabbing that left victim with collapsed lungs
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Investigators learned that a drug deal was set up between several people behind a building in the 1100 block of Valley Road. During a fight between those involved, a 17-year-old Neenah boy took a knife from his pocket and stabbed the Appleton teen, police said.
The 17-year-old was found at a Neenah residence and is being held in the Winnebago County Jail on a charge of first-degree reckless injury.
Police are continuing to investigate.
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Archaeology Of Specific Kinds Bioarchaeology
This programme develops your knowledge and practical skills to analyse human remains, unlock knowledge and stories of our past. Osteoarchaeology is a rapidly developing discipline in the field of Archaeology and you take full advantage of extensive archaeological collections at beautiful Marischal College, ranging from Neolithic to Medieval and post- Medieval remains.
The School of Geosciences is ranked 1st in Scotland for research (REF 2014)
You benefit from research projects being carried out at Aberdeen including isotopic layers analysis, Northern Picts project and fieldworkers in Northern Europe, Scandinavia, North Atlantic and the circumpolar region
The department works in partnership with the village corporation Qanituuq and Yup'ik village Alaska. You can volunteer to work at these sites.
The programme brings together archaeological collections from the medieval towns of Aberdeen, Perth, and St Andrews. Further materials come from Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, and international materials from Egypt, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. Facilities include state of art bio archaeological approaches and techniques. For some of your studies you are based in the stunning Marischal College, in the city centre.
Additionally, you learn about archaeology in a museum. and you benefit from research input from Alaska and the Northern Picts project. Research in the department is focused on Northern Europe, Scandinavia, the North Atlantic from Siberia to Canada and teachers are all professional archaeologists with international research expertise. You can volunteer in an Alaskan village which is threatened by rising sea levels in the Bering Sea whilst you study.
Outside study you are also close to some fascinating UNESCO world heritage sites. A ferry from the city centre takes you to Orkney and on to Skara Brae, Maes Howe, and the Ring of Brodgar, which are internationally recognised due to their preservation of Neolithic Western Europe.
You study in The School of Geoscience in the Department of Archaeology. Established in 2007, the Department offers great insight into different cultures and periods, many of which are reflected in North East of Scotland sites. The University and Shire is rich in archaeology. In the 15th and 16th century Hector Boece discovered and chronicled pottery vessels which are some of the earliest in Scotland. The first archaeological museum was established in Old Aberdeen in 1907. In 1926 Dr Simpson, Lecturer in British History grew archaeological research from medieval castles and The Department of Geography investigated sites at St Ninian’s Isle on Shetland, Norse Underhoult also on Shetland, and Burghead in Moray. Many other academics and researchers have broadened knowledge and research in the Department to collect arguably the most significant collection for North East Scotland outside the National Museum in Edinburgh.
The University of Aberdeen and Kings College is the 5th oldest university in the UK. It was founded by Bishop William Elphinstone in 1495. It is “Open to all and dedicated to the pursuit of truth in the service of others.” It provides progressive, innovative research. Initially aligned to the university models of Paris and Bologna, this progressive vision continues to attract international research staff and international academics.
The stunning contemporary blue glass Sir Duncan Rice library offers you panoramic views over the city, beach and beyond and excellent study facilities. The city is compact, architecturally interesting and it offers four shopping centres, restaurants for all tastes and budgets, museums, galleries, a beach, walks and plenty to do
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Around the world and across a broad range of industries, Trimble solutions empower professionals to make better decisions using geospatial information. Combining positioning technologies with office and field software, Trimble is transforming the way the world works.
Centimeters for Everyone
Trimble Catalyst features a small antenna and application software running on Android smartphones or tablets. The Catalyst subscription enables users to choose among a range of accuracy levels.
Image courtesy of Augview.
A technician uses Trimble TerraFlex with Catalyst to collect high-accuracy positions.
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Rachel Blair Winkler
KEYWORDS GNSS receivers / mobile platforms / positioning
Since the early days of satellite positioning, people have sought to use GNSS to achieve accurate positioning almost anywhere on the planet. The phrase “Centimeters for everyone, everywhere” became a sort of mantra among the engineers and scientists working to develop GNSS technology. It describes their vision of enabling people to work with high-precision positions whenever and wherever needed.
Today the vision is becoming reality. The traditional challenges of accurate positioning — cost, time and complex workflows — are quickly fading. Thanks to a bundle of new technologies, it’s possible to achieve accuracy of a few centimeters using a smartphone and familiar, even consumer-style apps.
The new approach, Trimble Catalyst, enables developers and users to operate at levels of precision and confidence previously attained only by highly skilled, well-equipped geospatial professionals. The Trimble technology is bringing high accuracy, flexibility and cost efficiency to applications including GIS, utilities, asset management and many more. With Catalyst, users can obtain positions with accuracy ranging from 1 meter down to a few centimeters.
The Catalyst solution consists of a small, lightweight antenna that connects to select Android tablets or smartphones, together with a subscription to the Catalyst positioning service. The palm-sized antenna feeds signals from GNSS satellites to software running behind the scenes on the tablet or smartphone. The software combines GNSS data with information from the Catalyst correction service that, depending on your location, comes from satellites or wireless Internet connections.
The solution produces precise positions in real time and feeds the information to Catalyst-enabled apps (more on that later in this article). The monthly subscriptions are based on accuracy — users pay only for accuracy they need and when they need it.
Catalyst provides accurate positioning for Esri Collector software on Android devices.
As a further boost to cost efficiency, Catalyst enables organizations to leverage the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) concept and install task-specific apps onto employees’ smartphones or tablets. For example, an inspector can use a tablet to record information about road conditions such as potholes and pavement damage. With Catalyst, the location of the issue can be captured and recorded automatically. The inspector can focus on the pavement while the precise GNSS solution operates in the background.
Applications for Catalyst run the gamut from traditional GIS data collection (think park benches, road signs and wetlands) to higher accuracy work such as utility locations and facility/asset management. Trimble is implementing Catalyst support in TerraFlex software and Esri has announced plans to use Catalyst in its Collector application. Other applications include measuring ground control for UAV photography and mapping urban irrigation systems.
There’s even a tie to augmented reality. A company in New Zealand is using Catalyst to blend precise positioning with 3D modeling. Their product, Augview, produces views of underground utilities that enable technicians in the field to “see” the location of buried pipes and conduits in real time.
To encourage support for Catalyst, Trimble has opened the system to third-party solution providers. Application developers can use the free Trimble Precision Software Development Kit (SDK) to access Catalyst functionality. In addition to managing the GNSS solution, the SDK enables applications to use positioning metadata such as satellite status information and quality data. Because the SDK can link to any application running on the smartphone or tablet, developers can add accurate positioning to their existing apps. And the subscription approach lets users allocate positioning costs to specific projects — they buy only what they need.
Where will Catalyst go from here? The sky’s the limit: Catalyst’s total flexibility — low-cost, on-demand service and simple, customized applications running on widely available devices — is generating excitement across the geospatial industry and beyond. We should expect to see it in some unexpected places.
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Optimised timber modular construction with BauBuche
Quick, dust-free and durable: the new timber modular construction with BauBuche
The fact that modular constructions are more than just pragmatic "eco cabins" has been proven by architects Berganski and Krawczyk with the extension to a Frankfurt school. Created in timber modular construction, the extension is characterised by its high level of prefabrication and short construction times, its low noise and dust pollution as well as its precise compliance with the spatial requirements. Thanks to its modules without side walls the floor plan design could be carried out flexible.
The exposed dropped beams, columns and cross-laminated timber walls combined with the floor-level glazing on the front sides create a friendly and bright environment in the classrooms.
The use of BauBuche for the unsupported dropped beams brought about savings not only in materials, but also in height and therefore construction costs when compared to conventional Glulam. In combination with the positive CO2 balance for the timber modules the European School qualifies as an exemplary prototype for systemic construction methods. And the concept continues: the hessische Holzbaupreis/ the prize for timber construction of Hessen was awarded in 2015 to the extension to the European school and the architects are working already on a follow-up project - of course in timber modular construction.
Amendment: The European School in Frankfurt won an Award of Recognition at the German Timber Construction Awards 2017. Congratulations!
Pollmeier BauBuche - Modulbauweise - Europäische Schule Frankfurt
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Project: Temporary extension to the European School in Frankfurt
Location Frankfurt am Main
Client Municipal Education Authority of Frankfurt am Main
Project management Building Department of Frankfurt am Main
Planning/ construction Kaufmann Bausysteme, Reuthe (Austria)
Architects NKBAK, Frankfurt am Main
Engineers Merz Kley Partner ZT GmbH, Dornbirn (Austria)
Year of construction 2014-2015
Ground area 1250 m²
Total floor area 3380 m²
Construction costs (net) € 5.5 million
Photographer Norman Radon / Thomas Mayer
Design & modular construction
The temporary European School building was compiled from modules of different sizes. At 3 metres in width, the modules have been optimised to ideal transportation dimensions, and can be combined to create classrooms of approx. 80 m² or smaller WC facilities or ancillary rooms. The basic construction consists of spruce cross-laminated timber and is surrounded by a BauBuche frame (beams and columns). Due to the high load bearing capacity of the joists/ beams with a height of only 560 mm, even spans of up to 9 metres could be bridged without any supports. Due to the particular appearance of the BauBuche, it was not necessary to conceal the beams using design measures; instead, they remain in view.
Savings potential with BauBuche
The use of BauBuche brought about not only material savings, but also height reductions and savings in construction costs and fasteners.
For structural engineer Konrad Merz, the component vibration was the primary decisive factor in the design of the beams. In order to ensure the necessary stiffness, softwood glulam beams would have had to be significantly larger than the BauBuche:
Height (with identical width = 220 mm):
BauBuche 560 mm
Glulam softwood 640 mm
In addition to the reduction in timber quantities the followings savings were achieved:
Transport height (reduced room heights due to the material's high load-bearing capacity)
The low beam height of the BauBuche meant that the building envelope could be built 24 cm lower
The reduced construction height saved a total of € 25,000 in façade costs
Fasteners: The BauBuche beams could be laid directly on the façade columns – with softwoods, this would only have been possible with steel sheet or similar.
CO2 balance of the timber construction
In total, around 1010 m³ of timber was used for the extension to the European School. This quantity of timber creates a CO2 concentration of around 1000 tonnes in the building, which the trees extracted from the atmosphere during its growth.
A conventional, mineral construction would not only have taken twice the construction time, but would also have generated a negative CO2 balance due to the building material's energy-intensive production: around 1000 tonnes of the greenhouse gas would have been emitted for the realisation of this building.
This clearly shows the difference: While in a timber building the CO2 is bound in the material, in the production of steel and concrete a large amount of the greenhouse gas is released.
In the case of the school expansion in Frankfurt there is a difference between the timber module solution compared to conventional massive construction of 2,000 tons of CO2. By comparison, the average footprint of Germans is about 11 tons of CO2 per year .
Experience report by the architects
The construction of the European School was the first major timber construction project for architects Kerstin Berganski and Andreas Krawczyk.
The 3D modular construction was specified by the client – why did you opt for timber room modules?
AK:
The deciding factor for us was ultimately the qualitative possibilities offered by the timber construction.
We wanted to provide the users, primarily the children, with the best possible haptic qualities in the interior spaces. We also wanted the design of the building to still be something of an experience. Therefore, the visible and tactile timber surfaces in the interior spaces were really important to us. A different design where the primary construction would have needed to be permanently cladded was therefore out of the question.
In this case, the school building is only temporary, yet the modules still have a high construction quality. What arguments are still used against permanent modular solutions? This type of construction could be an affordable solution to today's housing demands, couldn't it?
That's a really fascinating question, and one that we're currently very interested in. We can see a lot of potential here!
The principle of a room module without longitudinal walls that was developed during the European School project has given rise to a great deal of freedom in floorplan designs, which can of course also be applied to residential constructions. And building regulations now also include timber constructions in fire protection regulations for example. The speed and cost benefits are clear to see.
We would like to develop another project in this same direction, and not just for temporary refugee accommodation, but also as an affordable but high-quality alternative in the field of regular residential constructions. We have actually just developed a model that was discussed in detail at the Frankfurter Rundschau. However, clients still don't seem to be very open to the idea at the moment.
What were your experiences of working with BauBuche? What stood out for you in particular?
Our experiences were all very positive. We had never used BauBuche before, and were really impressed with the aesthetic quality right from the start.
Without the high load-bearing capacity of the BauBuche, which has been put to good use by the structural engineers at Merz Kley & Partner, this type of room impression would never have been possible.
Can you imagine carrying out future projects with BauBuche? And if so, what type?
Of course – why not?
We have since used BauBuche as flooring in a small residential project. This is a completely new and really pleasant surface that one doesn't immediately expect to see on a floor, but that develops a really unique quality there.
We'll have to wait and see what else might be in store. We're open to anything. This development is still right at the early stages, which is a very exciting prospect for us.
Field report from Frankfurt
The city of Frankfurt had to meet diverse requirements with its expansion of the European School. The department manager and architect at Frankfurt's construction authority, construction director Harald Heußer, is convinced by the advantages of the modular design.
Mr Heußer, what do you consider to be the most important advantages?
The advantages lie primarily in the flexibility of the design and the extremely short realisation period of just 7 months, i.e., almost half the time required for solid constructions. Yet the decisive factor turned out to be the architectural quality of the interior. Despite their modularity, the buildings do not have that provisional feel which is so often associated with temporary structures. The design has met with high levels of approval from staff and students alike.
To what extent has Frankfurt benefited from this approach to construction?
When a school needs to be renovated, the pupils inevitably have to be relocated. In the past, this has often led to heated discussions with parents who don't want their children to be taught in container constructions for years on end. But now that we can offer timber modular structures this is no longer a problem. The buildings with a timber modular design are accepted as adequate school structures. The high-quality wall surfaces made of white fir/3S boards or glazed OSB boards are also undoubtedly key to the acceptance of these wooden modular constructions.
Could the timber modular design offer a solution for other urban challenges?
This design approach is ideal in particular for construction tasks which need to combine speed with high quality and architecturally pleasing interiors. In other words, buildings to which you would be happy to send your children to spend longer periods of time during an important phase of their lives.
The applications are not restricted to school relocations – the timber modular concept also presents an interesting approach for the construction of nurseries and changing rooms at sports facilities.
Are projects of this type already being planned?
We are currently in the process of developing a standardised timber module which will offer the same flexibility and compatibility as the steel containers which have been successfully launched on the market. Our standard type is to be produced by various providers based on our geometric and construction physics specifications. The "Frankfurt" modular design should be able to be composed of a standard module for the classroom, a corridor module or a sanitary module etc. Using these elements smaller or larger schools ranging from one to three storeys can be developed to suit requirements. This construction type is intended for temporary school buildings with a life time of 4 to 8 years. The building will comply with the requirements of the Energy Saving Ordinance (ENEV) and, amongst other things, all the parameters of modern structural sound insulation. Given their exceptional architectural quality, these timber modular structures are not regarded as "impositions" on the urban landscape, but are rather seen as a high-quality addition to the environment.
A number of major projects are in the planning process in Frankfurt, some of which will far exceed the scale of the European School. In the west of Frankfurt a grammar school with 6 classes in each year, a sports hall and canteen for almost 2000 pupils is to be realised using a timber modular design. In the district of Riedberg a temporary timber modular structure is currently being built. This will act as a "starter school" for children in this new Frankfurt district whilst the planned comprehensive school is being built on the same site.
After around 2 years, the school will be disassembled and set up again at another site.
No doubt the green light will be given for further projects in the near future.
Timber framework made of BauBuche
Slender, low-profile trusses capable of spanning a width of 17 m: the perfect challenge for the BauBuche beams from Pollmeier.
Bench and dining table
A cosy sitting area large enough for everyone is the focal point of any kitchen. With BauBuche it also becomes a design feature.
Ski School in modular Design
Slender cross-sections combined with high strength and stunning aesthetics – BauBuche beams were the material of choice for the construction of a ski school in the Italian Alps.
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Changes to shared ownership to help more people get on the property ladder
Shared homeowners will be able to increase their share at lower increments under new scheme
• Plans for a new national model for shared ownership will help thousands of lower earners step onto the housing ladder
• People will be able to buy their home in 1% chunks – rather than being forced to save up 10% at a time
• Changes made to Help to Buy to make it easier for people to take out a mortgage
A package of measures to help people on lower incomes get onto the housing ladder has been unveiled by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick today (28 August 2019).
The government will review a new national model for shared ownership to make it easier for people to buy more of their own home, including allowing them to buy in 1% increments.
This step will help to fulfil the Prime Minister’s priority to level up the whole country, closing the opportunity gap and helping millions of young people into home ownership.
At present, they have to buy an increased share in 10% chunks, which can be as much as £45,000 per time. This process of increasing the stake until the property is bought outright is known as “staircasing”.
People use shared ownership to buy a proportion of their home – which can be as little as 25% – and then pay a subsidised rent on the rest.
Housing Secretary Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP said:
"Building the houses this country needs is a central priority of this government. We know that most people still want to own their own home, but for many the dream seems a remote one.
"My mission is to increase the number of homes that are being delivered and to get more young people and families onto the housing ladder, particularly those on lower incomes.
"That’s why I am announcing radical changes to shared ownership so we can make it simpler and easier for tens of thousands trying to buy own their own home.
"Help to Buy, the cut to Stamp Duty and our home-building programmes are already making a real difference, but I am clear we need to go much further if we are to make the housing market work.
"I will be looking at ensuring young people from Cornwall to Cumbria aren’t priced out of their home areas and how we can build public support for more house building and better planning.
"This government will help a new generation to own their home."
The Housing Secretary also announced he will look to reform the planning system to increase housing delivery and make home ownership more affordable for people looking to buy their first property, particularly in areas which are least affordable.
This could include increasing the number of homes sold at discounted prices to people trying to get onto the property ladder, boosting homeownership and helping build local support for new development.
Homeowners buying a property under Help to Buy will be given new freedoms which will make it easier to take out a 35-year mortgage, in measures announced today.
The government has also today closed a loophole with immediate effect that prevented people from taking out a mortgage with a term of more than 25 years.
The change means homeowners can reduce their monthly mortgage repayments by spreading their borrowing over a longer period.
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• A family in a £150,000 shared ownership 2-bedroom property could buy an initial 25% stake with a mortgage for £37,500 while paying subsidised rent on the remainder.
• They would then have to save up £15,000 at a time to increase their stake, and decrease their rent – which is beyond the reach of many.
• Under our plans, shared owners would be able to save up 1% at a time – or £1,500.
• A family in a £450,000 shared ownership 4-bedroom property could buy an initial 25% stake with a mortgage for £112,500, while paying subsidised rent on the remainder.
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Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill — Clause 18 — Review and Report on Supporting Persons Vulnerable to Being Drawn into Terrorism — 11 Sep 2018 at 17:30
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The majority of MPs voted not to require a review and report on the Government strategy for supporting people vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism.
MPs were considering the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill[1].
The proposed amendment rejected in this vote was:
Amendment 13, page 19, line 14, at end insert—
‘(8) After section 39 (Power to amend Chapter 2), insert—
“39A Review of support for people vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism
(1) The Secretary of State must within 6 months of the passing of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2018 make arrangements for an independent review and report on the Government strategy for supporting people vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism.
(2) The report and any recommendations of the review under subsection (1) must be laid before the House of Commons within 18 months of the passing of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2018.
(3) The laying of the report and recommendations under subsection (2) must be accompanied by a statement by the Secretary of State responding to each recommendation made as part of the independent review.”
The rejected amendment would have impacted Clause 18 of the Bill[2].
[1] Parliament's webpage on the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill
[2] Clause 18 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill, which the rejected amendment would have impacted
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Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
Party Majority (No) Minority (Aye) Both Turnout
Con 285 (+2 tell) 0 0 90.8%
DUP 9 0 0 90.0%
Green 0 1 0 100.0%
Independent 2 2 0 57.1%
Lab 0 214 (+2 tell) 0 84.0%
LDem 0 11 0 91.7%
PC 0 4 0 100.0%
SNP 0 33 0 94.3%
Total: 296 265 0 88.0%
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MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division
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She Who Was No More
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Every Saturday evening, travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille, who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover, Lucienne, an ambitious doctor, and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan.
Drugging Mireille, the pair drown her in a bathtub, but in the morning, before the “accidental” death can be discovered, the corpse is gone-so begins the unraveling of Ferdinand’s plot, and his sanity…
This classic of French noir fiction was adapted for the screen by Henri-Georges Clouzot as Les Diaboliques (The Devils), starring Simone Signoret and Véra Clouzot, the film which in turn inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. A second movie version, Diabolique, followed in 1996, starring Sharon Stone.
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Brian Orakpo
Titans OLB Brian Orakpo To Retire
December 31st, 2018 at 2:17pm CST by Sam Robinson
Brian Orakpo will call it quits after 10 NFL seasons. The veteran outside linebacker announced his retirement on Monday.
He was battling an elbow injury and did not play in the final three Titans games this season. Prior to missing time, Orakpo had never missed a game in his four-year Tennessee tenure.
The former Titans and Redskins defender was a four-time Pro Bowl honoree and was slated for free agency after this season. He signed a four-year, $31MM contract with the Titans during the 2015 offseason and played it out. He only registered 1.5 sacks this season but finished his career with 66. The Texas product recorded three double-digit sack seasons, with his 2009 rookie slate producing a career-high 11.
Washington kept Orakpo for six seasons as an old-CBA first-round pick but prioritized an extension for Ryan Kerrigan in 2015. That duo teamed up for four seasons, from 2011-14. Orakpo, 32, paired with Derrick Morgan in Tennessee to form a long-term edge partnership. The Titans brought in second-round pick Harold Landry this year.
Orakpo ranks in the top six on the Redskins’ and Titans’ (Nashville era) all-time sack lists.
Notable 2017 Pro Bowl Incentives/Escalators
December 20th, 2016 at 9:08pm CST by Dallas Robinson
The NFL announced the 2017 Pro Bowl rosters earlier tonight, and aside from determining which players will spend a week in Orlando early next year, the rosters also dictate several important bonuses and/or contract escalators for individual players. Former NFL agent and current CBSSports.com contributor Joel Corry has rounded up the notable incentives earned tonight, and we’ll pass those along below. As Corry notes (Twitter links), only first ballot Pro Bowlers who actually participate in the game (unless injured or playing in the Super Bowl) can earn bonuses, which are typically paid out by the end of March.
Here are the notable Pro Bowl bonuses and escalators that were preliminarily netted this evening (all links to Corry’s Twitter):
Raiders G Kelechi Osemele, $300K (link): Under general manager Reggie McKenzie, the Raiders have employed what is often referred to as an “all cash” salary cap management system, wherein prorated signing bonuses are rarely used while base salary guarantees, roster bonuses, and — as evidenced by the number of Oakland players on this list — incentive clauses are heavily employed. Osemele, the league’s highest-paid interior offensive lineman, is signed through 2020 with cap charges north of $10MM in each season.
Colts P Pat McAfee, $250K (link): McAfee, who signed a five-year extension with the Colts in 2014, ranks third in the NFL in net punting average at 42.8 yards. The Indy special teams unit ranks fourth in the league in DVOA, while McAfee himself has been worth four points of field position on punts, third-best in the AFC.
Raiders S Reggie Nelson, $250K (link): Nelson sat on the free agent market until April, but has rewarded the Raiders for signing him by earning his second consecutive Pro Bowl season. The 33-year-old Nelson, who’s posted four interceptions after leading the NFL with eight picks in 2015, is in the middle of a two-year, $8.5MM deal.
Raiders T Donald Penn, $200K (link): Penn is the definition of stability, as the veteran left tackle hasn’t missed a game since becoming a starter during his rookie season in 2007. Penn signed a two-year, $11.9MM contract with the Raiders this spring, and is set to count $6.1MM against Oakland’s cap in 2017.
Raiders C Rodney Hudson, $100K (link): The third member of the Raiders’ offensive line to earn a Pro Bowl bonus, Hudson is the fourth-highest paid center in the league, earning $8.9MM annually. The No. 4 center in the NFL this year according to Pro Football Focus, Hudson is signed through the 2019 campaign.
Titans RB DeMarco Murray, $100K (link): After a putrid season in Philadelphia during which he barely topped 700 yards rushing, Murray has rebounded since being traded to the Titans, and is currently second in the league with 1.224 yards on the ground. He’s scored nine rushing touchdowns, and has added three more scores thorugh the air.
Browns T Joe Thomas, $1.5MM 2017 roster bonus escalator (link): Thomas is due a roster bonus on the fifth day of the league year, and that bonus’ value has now increased from $1MM to $2.5MM. That bonus could factor in (in a minimal way) to any trade talks the Browns might have with other clubs, but Cleveland head coach Hue Jackson has been adamant that the Browns won’t deal Thomas.
Titans LB Brian Orakpo, $200K 2017 base salary escalator (link): Orakpo’s 2017 base salary will increase to $5.95MM after he was selected to the Pro Bowl and played in more than 65% of the Titans’ defensive snaps. Orakpo, who has posted 11 sacks during his second season with Tennessee, is signed through 2018.
Titans DT Jurrell Casey, $100K 2017 base salary escalator (link): Casey, 27, is arguably one of the more underpaid defenders in the league, as he’s due only $36MM from 2014-2018. His 2017 base salary will now increase to $5.9MM in 2017, and he’s also due a $200K roster bonus next spring.
Donald Penn
Kelechi Osemele
Reggie Nelson
Rodney Hudson
May 31st, 2016 at 5:52pm CST by Zach Links
Today’s minor moves:
To fill the void left by Tim Wright – who landed on IR today – the Lions will sign free agent tight end Ben McCord, tweets Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. McCord went undrafted this year out of Central Michigan.
The Cowboys have signed their two fourth-round picks, defensive end Charles Tapper and quarterback Dak Prescott, reports Todd Archer of ESPN.com. As a result, their only unsigned selection remaining from this year’s class is third-round defensive tackle Maliek Collins. Prescott, the more notable of today’s signings in terms of name recognition, was a three-year starter at Mississippi State and served as a major dual-threat weapon for the Bulldogs, totaling 111 touchdowns as a passer (70) and rusher (41). Tapper appeared in 39 games with Oklahoma in three seasons and piled up 13.5 sacks and 24 tackles for loss.
The Cardinals have cut offensive tackle Edawn Coughman, according to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle (Twitter link). Arizona signed the 27-year-old in January, and he previously spent time with seven other NFL organizations. He hasn’t yet appeared in a game, however.
The Titans have signed second-round outside linebacker Kevin Dodd, as Jim Wyatt of Titans Online writes. Nine of the team’s ten draft picks have now reached deals with the team and safety Kevin Byard stands as the lone straggler. Dodd, who recorded 12 sacks last season at Clemson, has been sidelined from OTAs after undergoing foot surgery last week. The Titans have high hopes for Dodd and so does veteran Brian Orakpo. “He is just a natural pass rusher,’’ Orakpo said of Dodd. “He knows how to get after the quarterback. I love what he brings to the table. I am very excited to have him on the team. He is going to make everyone better, and we’re going to get him better and he is going to help the pass rush.”
The Texans have waived offensive lineman David Quessenberry with a Non-Football Injury designation, a source tells Ian Rapoport of NFL.com (via Twitter). Quessenberry has battled cancer in the past. The Texans are hoping to have him back in some capacity if he clears waivers, Tania Ganguli of ESPN.com writes. Houston could place him on the NFI list if he clears waivers. Alternatively, the team could welcome him back in a non-playing role. The Texans re-did Quessenberry’s deal on April 20th to include a full salary split, Field Yates of ESPN.com tweets. If and when Quessenberry lands on the team’s NFI list, he’ll earn $333K in 2016.
The Vikings have signed defensive lineman Bruce Gaston and waived/injured fellow defensive tackle B.J. Dubose, Matt Vensel of the Star-Tribune tweets. Dubose tore his ACL last week. Gaston made Green Bay’s opening day roster in 2015 and he’ll now try to do the same with an NFC North rival.
B.J. Dubose
Ben McCord
Charles Tapper
David Quessenberry
Edawn Coughman
Kevin Dodd
Contract Details: Orakpo, D. Williams, Allen
March 13th, 2015 at 5:06pm CST by Luke Adams
Here are some key details on some of the notable contracts agreed to or signed by free agents this week:
Brian Orakpo, OLB (Titans): Four years, $31MM base value. $8.5MM fully guaranteeed. $5MM signing bonus (Twitter links via Aaron Wilson of the Baltimore Sun).
Dan Williams, DT (Raiders): Four years, $25MM base value. $15.2MM guaranteed. $4MM roster bonus in 2015 (Twitter links via Wilson and Tom Pelissero of USA Today).
Nate Allen, S (Raiders): Four years, $23MM base value. $6.9MM fully guaranteed (Twitter links via Wilson)
Lance Kendricks, TE (Rams): Four years, $18.5MM base value. $6.75MM fully guaranteed. $4MM roster bonus in 2015 (Twitter links via Wilson).
Malcolm Smith, LB (Raiders): Two years, $7MM base value. $3.75MM fully guaranteed. $2MM signing bonus (Twitter link via Pelissero).
Blaine Gabbert, QB (49ers): Two years, $4MM base value. $500K signing bonus (Twitter link via Wilson).
Henry Melton, DT (Buccaneers): One year, $3.75MM base value. $3.25MM fully guaranteed. $1.25MM available in incentives (Twitter link via Pelissero).
Adrian Clayborn, DE (Falcons): One year, $3MM base value. $750K signing bonus. $1.25MM available in incentives (Twitter links via Wilson).
Adrian Clayborn
Dan Williams (DT)
Henry Melton
Lance Kendricks
Nate Allen
Titans Sign Brian Orakpo, Derrick Morgan
1:39pm: The Titans have now officially announced their deals with Orakpo, Morgan, and the three other players they agreed to sign today (Twitter link).
7:05am: After staying relatively silent throughout the first few days of 2015’s free agent period, the Titans have made their big splash on Friday morning, fortifying their defense with a pair of pass rushers, per multiple reports. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN.com (via Twitter), the team has agreed to terms with former Washington linebacker Brian Orakpo. Meanwhile, Jim Wyatt of the Tennessean reports (via Twitter) that the club has also reached a deal to re-sign its own marquee free agent, Derrick Morgan.
Both players will be signing lucrative four-year contracts with Tennessee. Mike Garafolo of Fox Sports has the terms on both deals, tweeting that Orakpo’s four-year pact will have a $32MM base value, with $13.5MM guaranteed, and can be worth up to $35MM overall. Morgan’s deal is worth just a little less, with a max value of $30MM, a base value of $27MM, and $10.5MM in guarantees, tweets Garafolo.
The pair of signings are extra intriguing for a Titans defense that will be bringing aboard former Steelers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau for the coming season. Having made the switch to a 3-4 scheme a year ago, the Titans went through some growing pains en route to a 2-14 record, but LeBeau is expected to help smooth things out in 2015, and having a pair of talented pass rushers like Orakpo and Morgan on the outside should only help that transition.
Orakpo, 28, is coming off a disappointing 2014 season that ended after just seven games when he tore his pectoral muscle and was placed on injured reserve. Still, despite the fact that he logged just 0.5 sacks last year, the former first-round pick was viewed as one of the top free agent players a year ago, when he was coming off a 10.5-sack season and earned a franchise tag from Washington.
Orakpo, who had a multi-day visit to Tennessee this week and was expected to eventually visit the Cardinals if he didn’t work something out with the Titans, was ranked as the NFL’s fourth-best 3-4 outside linebacker in 2013 by Pro Football Focus’ grades (subscription required). Per PFF, Orakpo racked up an impressive 51 total quarterback pressures in ’13.
As for Morgan, his return to Tennessee is a little surprising, since he is considered a better fit as a 4-3 defensive end, and has never really lived up to his first-round billing in five seasons with the Titans. However, despite modest sack totals (his 6.5 in 2014 matched a career high), Morgan graded as a top-10 outside linebacker according to PFF, which ranked him eighth in 2014 and credited him with 49 total quarterback pressures.
Morgan paid visits to the Falcons and Buccaneers this week, and was reportedly scheduled to hit Dallas for a meeting with the Cowboys next. Instead, he’ll be returning to Tennessee, where LeBeau will be tasked with getting the most out of the former 16th overall pick, who will be entering his age-26 season.
When I ranked PFR’s top 50 free agents last weekend, both Orakpo and Morgan squeezed into the top 20, at 19th and 20th respectively. Outside of Greg Hardy, who has his share of off-field question marks, the two players looked like the clear-cut top pass rushers still available as we neared the end of the first week of free agency. The Titans did well to get them both, and if the club were to add to its front seven next month by drafting a player like USC’s Leonard Williams to complement Jurrell Casey, the defense in Tennessee could look significantly more dangerous heading into the 2015 season.
Thursday Roundup: Weddle, Peterson, Harvin
March 12th, 2015 at 10:08pm CST by Rob DiRe
The Chargers still have over $21MM in cap space, and could look to spend that money to add to the team this offseason. Meanwhile, star safety Eric Weddle is coming into the last year of his contract and is unsure of his future with the team, writes Eric D. Williams of ESPN.com.
“I think I’ve earned [a new deal],” Weddle said. “But it has to work both ways. They have to want it, too. And if they don’t, then we will play it out and I’ll be a free agent next year “I want to be here, but I understand the situation and what they want to do. If I’m a part of it — great. If not, then I plan on making this season a memorable one and we’ll see what happens from there.”
The Vikings are focused on keeping Adrian Peterson, not trading him, writes Matt Vensel of the Star Tribune. But Vensel’s colleague at the Star Tribune, Michael Rand, believes the stars are aligning for the Cowboys to make a trade for Peterson.
Percy Harvin has finished his visit with the Bills, and he is mulling other possible visits, according to Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports (via Twitter). La Canfora adds that the Harvin situation could begin to wrap itself up as early as this weekend.
Brian Orakpo is in Tennessee on a visit and is planning to meet with the Cardinals next. However, he might not make it to Arizona if the Titans can get a deal in place before he leaves tonight, writes John Keim of ESPN.com (via Twitter).
Shelley Smith has left Seattle without a deal and will now visit the Broncos, tweets Mike Klis of the Denver Post.
Stephen Holder of the Indianapolis Star looks ahead to the rest of the Colts‘ offseason, noting that the team has already made its big splashes with the additions of Andre Johnson, Trent Cole, and Frank Gore. However, Holder expects Indianapolis to perhaps add a safety like Louis Delmas or Kendrick Lewis and/or an offensive lineman in the second wave of free agency, when better bargains can be had. The Colts currently have around $15-16MM in available cap space.
49ers GM Trent Baalke does not appear especially concerned about losing last year’s starting cornerbacks Chris Culliver and Perrish Cox should those two players sign elsewhere in free agency. As Cam Inman of the San Jose Mercury News writes, Baalke is confident that the team has capable internal options to fill the void.
Rory Parks contributed to this post.
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FA Rumors: Morgan, Orakpo, Cameron
March 12th, 2015 at 2:28pm CST by Zach Links
Derrick Morgan won’t be signing with the Buccaneers, according to Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com (on Twitter). The Falcons are out on Morgan too after signing Adrian Clayborn, Terry McCormick of TitanInsider.com tweets. More free agent news from around the league..
The Titans are still in the hunt for both Morgan and Brian Orakpo, and their best-case scenario would be to land both edge defenders, tweets Jim Wyatt of the Tennessean.
Tight end Jordan Cameron is still in Miami and there’s a lot of mutual interest between him and the Dolphins, Ian Rapoport of NFL.com tweets. Meanwhile, his old team, the Browns, remain the mix and a third team is also in the running.
Chris Tomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press (Twitter link) hears that there has been a lot of interest in free agent defensive end Michael Johnson, but it’s unclear if any team besides the Bengals or Vikings have a shot at him. Johnson, of course, played for Cincinnati prior to joining the Bucs last year, and was coached there by Mike Zimmer.
The Chiefs have had exploratory talks with former Rams center Tim Barnes, Terez A. Paylor of the Kansas City Star tweets. Paylor expects the Chiefs to sign a veteran center, whether it’s Barnes or someone else.
The Steelers are generally quiet when it comes to free agency and trades, but Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com (on Twitter) hears that they’re exploring options for a kick returner.
AFC South Notes: Orakpo, Colts, Jackson
March 12th, 2015 at 7:49am CST by Luke Adams
As we wait for Thursday’s free agent action to ramp up, let’s check in on some items from around the AFC South….
After visiting the Titans yesterday, Brian Orakpo remains in Tennessee and has yet to officially set up a time to visit the Cardinals, reports Josina Anderson of ESPN.com (Twitter links). A visit to Arizona is the plan for Orakpo if and when he leaves the Titans meeting, but as he said yesterday, “anything can happen.”
The Colts have signed Kendall Langford and Trent Cole and brought back Mike Adams in free agency, but after adding veteran running back Frank Gore, wide receiver Andre Johnson, and guard Todd Herremans on offense, the team figures to focus primarily on its defense in next month’s draft, tweets Stephen Holder of the Indianapolis Star. One exception, Holder notes (via Twitter), will be drafting a young running back, if the right guy is available.
Kareem Jackson‘s new deal with the Texans includes $16MM in fully guaranteed money, but practically speaking, the full guarantee is $20MM, since the cornerback gets a $4MM roster bonus today, tweets Albert Breer of the NFL Network.
According to Peter King of TheMMQB.com (via Twitter), a source close to Marcus Mariota advised King not to minimize the Titans‘ interest in the quarterback, suggesting they’re “very serious.” Whether that reported interested is legit or a smokescreen remains to be seen.
Kareem Jackson
NFC Rumors: Graham, Saints, Orakpo
Speaking to reporters today, Brandon Graham said he felt like there was only ever a “10% chance” that he’d sign with a team besides the Eagles (Twitter link). The Giants and Titans were known to be in the running for the free agent edge defender. More out of the NFC..
The Saints had some concerns about Jimmy Graham’s long-term health, and wanted to fortify their offensive line to keep Drew Brees upright, which resulted in their willingness to send the star tight end to the Seahawks, says Jason Cole of Bleacher Report (video link).
Brian Orakpo hasn’t completely closed the door on returning to Washington, but he’s prepared to “face the reality” that he could sign with another team this week, he tells Josina Anderson of ESPN.com (TwitLonger link). Visits with the Titans and Cardinals are up first for the free agent edge defender.
ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter has learned from O’Brien Schofield‘s agent that four teams are trying to sign him, according to Terry Blount of ESPN.com (on Twitter). Schofield, coming off of a solid year with the Seahawks, has been connected to the Falcons thanks to his connection with new head coach Dan Quinn.
Zach Links contributed to this post.
Max Unger
O'Brien Schofield
NFC Rumors: Cox, Boykin, Orakpo, Moore
March 10th, 2015 at 7:39pm CST by Dallas Robinson
Let’s take a look at the latest news from the NFC…
Free agent cornerback Perrish Cox will visit with Washington tomorrow, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com (Twitter link). The 28-year-old Cox started 14 games for the 49ers last season, but isn’t expected back in San Francisco, as Eric Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle adds (via Twitter).
On the lookout for help at the receiver position, the Panthers will meet with ex-Packers Jarrett Boykin, tweets Rapoport. Boykin was phased out of Green Bay’s offense in 2014 in favor of rookie Davante Adams.
We’ve already heard that Brian Orakpo will meet with the Titans today, and if he’s allowed to leave without a contract, the edge rusher will visit with the Cardinals, a source tells John Keim of ESPN.com (Twitter link).
The Giants are “heavily considering” signing safety Rahim Moore, according to Cecil Lammey of ESPN.com (via Twitter). With Antrel Rolle looking for a big deal in free agency, Moore could be a fit in New York’s secondary.
Though Washington has interest in running back Justin Forsett, he has yet to receive an offer or schedule a visit, per Keim (on Twitter).
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