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Pasighat features Breathtaking Hillside & Lush Green River Valleys
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Pasighat - Quick Facts
Area: 14.60 sq. km.
Altitude: 153 mt. (approx.) above sea level
Season: Oct to Apr
Clothing: Summer- Cottons, Winters- Woolens
Rainfall: 1600 mm. (Average yearly)
Language: Monapa, Hindi & English
Festivals/Fairs: Igu Dance Festival (January), Makar Sankranti (January)
Welcome to Pasighat, the oldest town of Arunachal Pradesh established in 1911. And presently the headquarter of the east Siang district. The British government had appointed a political officer to view to help the alternatives of the area to come down to the plains of Assam for trade and commerce. Pasighat has been often called the 'gateway of the state of Arunachal Pradesh'. The town derives its name from the 'Pasis', a tribe of the area. Pasighat town is situated at a height of 155 m., from the sea level and has a population of nearly 78,000 people. The climate is hot and humid in summers and temperate during winters. Pasighat and its nearby areas can justly be termed as the heart of Arunachal Pradesh because of their central location in the state. With its breathtaking hillside and lush-green river valleys domesticated by a galaxy of tribes, the area is a tourist’s delight and photographers paradise. Book a tour to Pashighat.
The nearest airports are to Dibrugarh (Mohanbari), and Guwahati in Assam, helicopter (Pawan Hans) flights are available from Dibrugarh and Itanagar.
The nearest railway station is Murkong Selek, at a distance of 35-km, from Pasighat and buses or taxies are available there for the town.
Visitors can reach Pasighat by bus, private vehicles or taxis from Guwahati, Itanagar or Lakhimpur; alteralternatively they can cross over river Brahmaputra from Dibrugarh to Oryamghat that is situated at a distance of 30-km, from Pasighat and then take a bus or taxi to Pasighat. Ruksin check gate is the point of entry for those coming by road from Itanagar or Guwahati and Kemi check gate for those coming by boat from Dibrugarh.
Daying Ering Wild Life Sanctuary
Pasighat and its surrounding areas abound in natural beauty and the place has leftly been called as photographers delight: it is a land to have a rendezvous with Mother Nature in her purest form. Far away from the maddening crowd, the place has the potential to provide solace to the tired and tense people from the outside world. The mighty Brahmaputra River, called the "Siang" here transcends down from Tibet and gives its name to the district. It flows through the entire length of the area until it descends down into the plains of Assam south of Pasighat town, where it meets Dihang and Lohit and becomes the Brahmaputra. The magic of the land can only be felt when one arrives here. And, on one's return from the place, the heart is filled with joy, the mind is freshened and the soul is elevated to new heights of bliss; the memory always haunts and the temptation to visit Pasighat always prompts one to come here again and again.
Pangin
Located at a distance of about 60 km from Pasighat and connected by road, it stands at a point where river Siam meets river Siang and presents a spectacular sight. The blue waters of Siom meet the green Siang and the beauty of the sight is awesome.
Activities in Pashighat
For the adventure loving people, Pasighat has a great scope for adventure sports such as river rafting, trekking and fishing & angling.
Pasighat and its surrounding areas can leftly be termed as the heart of Arunachal Pradesh because of their central location in the state. With its beautiful hillside and lush-green river valleys inhabited by a galaxy of tribes, the area is a tourist’s delight and photographers paradise. From Pasighat, there are numerous places of interest that can be visited in Arunachal Pradesh.
For the adventure loving, Pasighat has a great scope for adventure sports such as river rafting and trekking in the deep forests.
Siang River is ideal for river rafting, both for the amateurs and the seasoned. The veterans can start from gelling at the Indo - China border and raft down to Pasighat through rapids of 4 and 5 degree, whereas the amateurs can raft down from Yambung or Sirki to Pasighat through rapids of 2 and 3 degree.
Trekking through the dense woods and forests from Pasighat to Yinkiong to Komsing - the historic sight where Neol Willimson was buried after being killed by the Adis - is unforgettable experience for the trekkers. One can have the pleasure of seeing a variety of beautiful birds and a variety of vegetation unfound in other parts. It is indeed a privilege to see the cane bridges built across river Siang that are a marvel of alternative engineering. R. Wilcox who visited the area in 1825, remarked about these cane bridges: "We are quite astonished at the skill and labour shown in the construction of cane suspension bridges thrown over at this point: it was such as would do no discredit to the department for similar workd in Calcutta."
Besides, a lot of places like Yingkiong, Bodak, Siom, etc., provide good spots for Fishing and Angling. The Mahseer is legendary and catches of 20-30 kg are not uncommon. The colder waters of the higher reaches have the golden and the rainbow trout. One can have a sight of traditional but effective methods of fishing while trekking in the jungles. So, this is Pasighat, a place that one must visit to have the fun of lifetime, where Mother Nature showers all its bliss and delight upon one in her purest form. A place that will always linger in one's memory and will motivate one to come here again and again.
Baskets and masks made of bamboo and cane are also popular items for shopping in Itanagar.
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Tom Hanks Sent the White House Press Corps a Coffee Machine
It replaced the one he gave the group back in 2010.
If last night's breaking news about Jeff Sessions is any indication, the new administration is keeping reporters busy late into the evening. In an effort to support the journalists of the White House Press Corps, actor Tom Hanks just sent the group a much-needed espresso machine, along with an encouraging note:
"To the White House Press Corps
Keep up the good fight for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Especially for the Truth Part." The letter is signed, "Tom Hanks," and features an image of soldiers with a caption: "Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners. (News item)"
BREAKING: White House press corps receives brand-new espresso machine from @tomhanks. Come for the coffee... stay for his note. 👇 pic.twitter.com/cirbLKHEt0
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) March 2, 2017
This isn't the first time Hanks, who is known for his roles in Forest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, and Big, another others, has contributed to the Press Corps' caffeine addition. In 2010, he donated a coffee machine to the reporters after realizing their break room did not have one.
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Trilantic Capital Partners to Invest in Nixon Inc.
New York – February 16, 2012 – Trilantic Capital Partners, a global private equity firm, today announced it has acquired a substantial interest in Nixon Inc., a leading brand in the global youth accessories market.
Trilantic is partnering with Nixon’s founders, Andy Laats and Chad DiNenna, who will invest alongside Trilantic in the transaction and current Nixon shareholder Billabong International Limited, a global marketer, wholesaler and retailer in the boardsports sector. Trilantic and its affiliates will invest approximately $139 million in the form of convertible preferred stock to facilitate the company’s global expansion.
Led by a proven management team who founded the business 15 years ago, Nixon has experienced strong growth in sales and global brand awareness with distribution in more than 70 countries for its watches, soft goods, electronics and accessories.
The transaction adds to Trilantic’s portfolio of consumer investments, which include the recent acquisitions of Implus, an innovative leader in the footwear, outdoor and fitness accessories markets, and Fortitech, a worldwide leader in the development of nutritional premixes. Until last year, Trilantic held a substantial interest in SRAM, a global designer and marketer of branded bicycle components.
“Nixon is the preeminent watch and accessories brand in the action sports category with tremendous customer loyalty and momentum. We look forward to working with the Nixon team and partnering with Billabong to deepen Nixon’s roots in action sports and expand the reach of the brand and products into new channels and markets,” said Charlie Moore, partner at Trilantic Capital Partners. “This partnership complements our existing portfolio of consumer companies and highlights our focus on developing long-term plans with founder-run businesses.”
Added Laats, “We look forward to our partnership with Trilantic and the opportunity to significantly increase the level of ongoing investment in the business to help us accelerate growth for all products in established and new markets.”
About Trilantic Capital Partners
Trilantic Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on control and significant minority investments in North America and Europe, with primary investment focus in consumer, energy, transport, financial services and business services. Trilantic Capital Partners was formed in 2009 by the former principals of Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking (“LBMB”), where they established LBMB, and now Trilantic, as a partner of choice for management teams, entrepreneurs and family-owned companies. Trilantic currently manages two institutional private equity funds with an aggregate capital commitment of $3.8 billion. For more information, visit www.trilanticpartners.com
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President Ellen Junn greeted new and returning Warriors with plants to bring some green to their dorm rooms. - photo by Photo Contributed
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Updated: Aug. 18, 2017, 6:23 p.m.
Over 600 students moved in to the Stanislaus State dorms on Wednesday, bringing with them boxes, school supplies and an appetite for independence.
Estephanie Tovar chose Stanislaus State because it’s far away from her home in Santa Rosa, she said, and she liked the size of the school’s beautiful campus. Her freshman year will be her fist time living away from her parents.
“My high school was really tiny, so I didn’t feel comfortable going to a big university right after,” she said. “This is really surreal, and it hasn’t really hit me yet. I think once my parents leave, then it will sink in.”
Tovar is just one of nearly 300 freshmen who will be living in the dorms this year, and Move-In Day kicked off what is known as Welcome Week at Stanislaus State, complete with a welcome dinner and other social events, as well as workshops meant to educate the new college students on finances, campus recreation, psychological services and money management. The five activity-filled days were created last year to help freshmen become acclimated to their new surroundings.
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Hasty body recovery could compromise White Island victim identification, police say
Rushing into a recovery effort would impact not just safety, but risk damaging evidence that could help the victims of the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, police say.
Rushing in and out could damage evidence needed to identify the victims, according to Police Deputy Commissioner Mike Clement. Source: 1 NEWS
In a joint press conference today, Whakatāne mayor Judy Turner said the local community is living with "a growing sense of desperation".
"No news is not good news for people in this situation," she says.
1 NEWS reporter Katie Stevenson has this midday, December 12 update. Source: 1 NEWS
Her words echo those from helicopter pilot Mark Inman, whose brother Hayden died on the island. Mr Inman appealed to the Government to let him go alone to retrieve his brother and has repeatedly expressed frustration at the lack of action.
In the same press conference, GNS lead volcanologist Nico Fournier said while the alert level has been reduced to level two today, that's only because White Island isn't actively erupting.
Whakaari/White Island disaster: The first 48 hours
"The situation is still highly volatile. This is the most active Whakaari has been since 2016," he says.
Tremors are still increasing, with a 40 to 60 per cent likelihood of another eruption in the next 24 hours, Mr Fournier says.
While a team are working on plans to get back to the island, Police Deputy Commissioner says no one's going until they can mitigate the risk.
"At no time in the last two years has the risk of eruption been so great," he says.
When pressed by reporters, Mr Clement grew passionate.
The two victims were being treated for severe burns at Middlemore and Waikato hospitals. Source: Breakfast
"There won't be a person in this room that has more passion about going onto that island than police staff. I know everybody is watching," he says.
"The potential for further eruption… is unprecedented in the last couple of years, potentially longer, and I simply can't ignore that."
He was blunt when asked if there was a timeline, saying there isn't a satisfactory plan yet and he can't make any commitments to families about when the recovery would take place.
"Could we go on and do it today? … Yes I could. Can I do that in context with the risk and obligation to keep our team safe?"
While one pilot told media last night it would only take 20 minutes to recover the bodies, Mr Clement says rushing into it would also risk damaging evidence around the body - evidence that will likely be needed to help identify people.
"The more time we can spend with the body when we uplift it from the circumstances in which they've done, the more likelihood that we can preserve that evidence.
"Because we'll get no thanks whatsoever if we reach a situation at the end of this where we're not able to sign off on identity. That would be an absolute poor outcome for us."
Hayden Marshall-Inman died in the eruption and his brother, Mark Inman, wants him back. Source: 1 NEWS
Two locals with extensive knowledge of the island and area are helping with the recovery operation's planning process, Mr Clement says, which Ms Turner supported.
"We're grateful to police for including local person on recovery team," she said, referring to pilot Mark Law.
"Once they are on the island, that clear knowledge on where to look will help save time and improve safety."
Another update is expected later today.
Mr Clement also praised those who raced to help evacuate the injured as heroes. There is a possibility they will be officially recognised and honoured in the future, he says.
Eight people are confirmed dead and eight others are presumed dead on the island.
More people are being treated in hospital, with most in a critical condition and battling severe burns.
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Ryder Cup heckler sinks another putt on Stephen…
Ryder Cup heckler sinks another putt on Stephen Colbert show
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PUBLISHED: October 5, 2016 at 5:00 pm | UPDATED: October 7, 2016 at 7:22 am
Just days after a North Dakota man heckled his way to internet sensationdom at the Ryder Cup in Chaska, he found himself on the late-night talk show stage in New York City.
David Johnson of Mayville, N.D., was a guest Monday night on “Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
Dressed in his same Ryder Cup outfit and up to his same old bag of heckling tricks, Johnson “happened” to be in audience taking in the “Late Show” when he was heard taunting Colbert from afar.
Colbert replied by saying, “jokes about Donald Trump are a lot harder than making a putt.”
To which Johnson quickly replied, “I can do both.”
“Oh, you think you can do both?” Colbert replied.
Colbert then invited Johnson onto the set where a make-shift Donald Trump-themed putting green was brought out. Johnson’s task? To putt the ball into Trump’s mouth.
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As you may remember, Team Europe’s Justin Rose bet Johnson $100 he couldn’t make the putt. He nailed the putt and took home the Benjamin.
Colbert wouldn’t go as far as putting $100 on the line for this putt, which was much less difficult, but he did put some of his own money on the line.
“Let’s make this more interesting,” Colbert said. “My friend, Mr. Lincoln says good luck.”
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Later, over in the north of England in the mid-1880s, a successful wholesale family grocery business run by William Lever starts producing a new type of household soap. The product contains copra or pine kernel oil, which helps it lather more easily than traditional soaps made of animal fats. Unusually for the time, Lever gives the soap a brand name – Sunlight – and sells it wrapped in distinctive packs.
In the Netherlands, Jurgens and Van den Bergh open their first factories to produce margarine.
Lever & Co starts producing Sunlight soap.
Knorr – which will become part of Unilever – launches soup tablets with meat extract to provide nutritious food for low-income consumers.
By the end of this year Lever & Co is making 450 tons of Sunlight soap a week and William Lever buys the site on which he'll build Port Sunlight – a large factory on the banks of the Mersey opposite Liverpool, with a purpose-built village for its workers providing a high standard of housing, amenities and leisure facilities.
Jurgens and Van den Bergh both move into another prosperous market, Germany, and build factories there.
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Lever Brothers introduces a new type of product, Sunlight Flakes – which makes housework easier than with the traditional hard soap bars. In 1900 Sunlight Flakes would become Lux Flakes.
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Lawmakers urge Pelosi to allow vote on trade deal
by: Raquel Martin
Posted: Oct 25, 2019 / 07:04 PM EDT / Updated: Oct 25, 2019 / 07:04 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers are urging action on a new North America trade deal.
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Missouri, says the House needs to get busy and pass the United States Mexico Canada Agreement.
The USMCA is the new trade agreement that would replace NAFTA.
“There is no reason to let this drag-on,” Blunt said. “The choice is, do you want to stay in NAFTA the way that it is, or do you want to give your members a chance to vote.”
Blunt says the deal is a clear win for the country, which would open markets and create thousands of farming and manufacturing jobs in his home state.
He says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the only obstacle standing in the way of the multi-billion-dollar trade deal.
For weeks, Pelosi has insisted the deal is inching closer to the finish line.
Pelosi says she is still working to ensure the deal is enforceable, but the pressure is mounting from both sides of the aisle.
This week, U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, called on House members to put party politics aside.
“Our farmers have been through enough,” Axne said. “We must answer their call and get this deal done right and without unnecessary delay.”
Thursday, U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Missouri, penned a letter to Pelosi, urging her to allow a vote on the deal.
“We need to do it sooner than later. It has been a year since the three countries agreed,” Blunt said.
Blunt says if Pelosi doesn’t call a vote before the end of the year, the entire deal could be placed on hold until after the 2020 election.
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ustwoTHINKS: Wearables Beyond Watches
By ustwo New York · Apr 2017
Have Wearables Hit Their Tipping Point?
ustwo has been working in the wearable space since 2014. In partnership with Google, our team has launched 50+ watchfaces to the Google Play Store and partnered with several brands to bring their products to the Android Wear platform. As a team we wanted to take a step back and reflect on why these devices, that promised to transform our lives, are still not leaving the luxury market. By broadening our scope of what wearables are capable of, we sought to understand how to better design for the wearable future.
For ustwoTHINKS: Wearables Beyond Watches, we hosted 100+ tech enthusiasts and industry hopefuls in our studio for the evening, to hear four uniquely qualified and passionate wearable veterans challenge the wearable use case and discuss the current state of technology behind what’s on the wearable market today.
Our expert panel included Dan Seifert, Senior Editor at The Verge, José-Manuel Villanueva, Senior Product Designer at ustwo NYC, Madison Maxey, Co-founder of Loomia, and Nora Levinson, Co-founder of Caeden.
So what did our panelists say would be the wearable tipping point?
Madison Maxey, of Loomia: A lot of it comes down to having a wide diversity of products in the market from brands that people recognize and brands that are new. It’s often hard to trust a startup that is willing to take a risk and can deliver a new product but you like to buy your things from J. Crew, and then suddenly you are buying it from this new brand it’s hard to get the same dopamine rush as you do when you buy yourself something from a company you really like.
It’s fun to think you can be the first, or the pioneer, or the only but I think the tipping point is really when you can choose between two of your favorite brands to buy a heated jacket. To buy an emotion responsive, safety, running jacket from Lulu Lemon or from Nike, that’s the tipping point, when you have options, and hopefully startups can play among those options, that will be when the industry really grows.
Dan Seifert, Sr. Editor at the Verge: I think it has a lot to do with re-defining what we think of when we hear ‘wearable’. That name [wearable] has been relegated to really specific things and hasn't really included a lot of things that ARE wearables, because they are pieces of technology that you wear on your body like your wireless headphones, clothes, shoes, or your belt. There is going to be a point where a lot of things will have integrated tech, where we would not have thought of them as having tech initially. Whether it’s Snap’s Spectacle Glasses: they are sunglasses, they are a wearable piece of technology, they have a camera in them, a battery and they talk to your phone, and they do all this other stuff. But, that is not a wearable in the sense of something that you wear on your wrist, or a pendant, or a ring.
I really think that it is re-defining what wearables are and a broadening of the horizon. Technology is NOT stopping and it is going to be in everything, and it is going to be in everything we buy, whether it is our clothing, our accessories, homes, cars, hopefully we won't have cars forever. We won't even be thinking of them as wearable anymore, it will just be another part of our life and another product in our life.
Nora Levinson, of Caeden: Wearables will become ubiquitous when they are able to integrate with clothing items, pieces of jewelry… things we would choose to wear anyway. To be honest from a technology perspective, I think, outside of the use cases, the single biggest technology stumbling block is battery. All batteries [lists types] are about volume. As you start having more and more use cases, you need more and more batteries, and the battery needs to become bigger, it gets more and more clunky, and then you have people saying: “I don’t care what user interface you build, I am not going to wear this because it is the size of my whole hand.”
I think if somebody can come up with a type of battery or powering solution, and we are already seeing a lot of that, using motion or harvesting power from sweat, but they are still very much in the R&D side of things, if any of those become actually commercializable, then I think that will change the game. But right now, it is a two fold question of: How do you take the technology and engineering requirements of what you need to do, exactly as Maddy was talking about, AND how do you continue to diminish those technology components so that the wearable component, whether it is the clothing aspect or the jewelry aspect, it at the forefront and that it is not something you have to think about constantly charging. People’s minds are saturated with that. The true ubiquity will happen once the technology disappears.
José-Manuel Villanueva, of ustwo: I want to bring it back to the human aspect of things, which goes back to the people who have been working on wearables in the last three years, which is all of us here. What can we do to find moments where we can say: “Ok! Let’s stop the machine, and understand how we can collaborate together?” And I feel that is something that, our team here [at ustwo], can benefit from. We are in the trenches day-to-day, trying to understand how people are going to interact with our products. But there is a bigger question, which is, who else is working on this, resolving aspects that I haven’t even thought about?
That is why I feel that the tipping point will be having honest conversations, like we are having tonight, and designing a collaboration so that we can exchange notes and make a better product. I would say that users are with us. I was reading research the other day that said: Users would get a wearable if they understood what the benefit was, or had a clear value proposition. Right now they [users] still don’t get it, so the responsibility is on us to get together and figure it out and collaborate more than we actually are.
If you missed our ustwoTHINKS event, you can check out the audio recording of the panel on SoundCloud, and learn more about ustwo's work with Android Wear on our What We Do page. For our team, this evening was about learning and starting to ask the really big questions about what the wearable future looks like and how we, as a product studio, can help challenge and push forward in this space. We are excited to continue on our journey, and if you'd like to explore how you can join us, get in touch at hello@ustwo.com. Til next time!
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Ron Francis, left, will be the first general manager of Seattle’s new NHL team. (NHL)
Ron Francis is general manager of Seattle NHL expansion club
He is a Hall of Famer and a two-time Stanley Cup winner
Jul. 18, 2019 12:00 p.m.
Seattle’s NHL expansion team has announced its general manager — Ron Francis, a Hall of Famer and a two-time Stanley Cup winner.
He will have complete control of operations under Seattle Hockey Partners CEO Tod Leiweke. The yet-to-be-named team will debut in 2021.
This is Francis’ first post-playing career job outside the Carolina Hurricanes. He worked with them for 12 years and was general manager from 2014-18 after retiring. The Hurricanes didn’t make the playoffs while he was there, but he set in motion many player decisions that helped Carolina reach the Stanley Cup finals last season.
Francis had a prolific NHL career. He finished with 1,798 points in 1,731 games over 23 seasons for the Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs and Pittsburgh Penguins, where he won the Stanley Cup in 1991 and 1992.
The Seattle club also said Thursday it has more than 32,000 season ticket deposit holders and another 25,000 on a waiting list.
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Saddle Up! The Horse in Sport & History of Clarke County
June 19, 2019 @ 10:00am - 4:00pm
An event every day that begins at 10:00am, repeating until June 30, 2019
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Long Branch Historic House & Farm, the Clarke County Historical Association and the National Sporting Library in Middleburg have collaborated to present a joint program titled Saddle Up! The Horse in Sport & History of Clarke County. The exhibition will be presented in Long Branch’s historic gallery space during May & June 2019 and traces the heyday of equestrian sport in Clarke County from the early to mid-20th century. Visitors will learn about landmark Clarke County equestrian events like the Berryville Horse Show and the Blue Ridge Hunt with primary source materials and interpretation from CCHA and NSLM. Part of “Horse Country” since the area was settled in the 18th century, Clarke County later reclaimed its equestrian heritage while rebuilding after the Civil War. Beloved community members like Archibald Bevan, Billy Greenhalgh, and Alexander Mackay-Smith subsequently raised the profile of equestrian sport and inspired the generations that came after them. In Long Branch’s other galleries, contemporary artist Isabelle Truchon will exhibit her new collection, ROAM, inspired by the wild mustangs of the Kiger region of Oregon. Roam will explore the history of the horse through time, with a focus on the modern wild herds that still roam in America today.
Tickets to the exhibit and art show are $5.00 per person & kids under 12 are free.
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Lake Buffalo Drive
Such a lovely drive and without a doubt one of the most scenic lakes in Victoria. Go along the Great Alpine Road (B500) to Myrtleford, then left into Standish St which turns in to the Buffalo River Rd leading to the lake. Fishing, boating, water skiing, designated swimming and picnic areas are all available for your leisure at the lake. Sensational spot for a picnic! (From Bright its 100km round trip, all sealed road).
Gapsted Pass
Gapsted Pass (300m High) is the first Vista that many tourists see when they enter the Alpine Shire. They drive over a rise on the Great Alpine Road and suddenly get their first glimpse of beautiful Mount Buffalo on the horizon. They move from a background of brown and yellow farmers’ fields to a natural surrounding of blue and green undergrowth. The remarkable change of vision is their stunning introduction to the Alpine Shire.
Mount Stanley Drive
The starting point for Mount Stanley (600m High) is Myrtleford via Barwidgee Creek to Wally’s Jeep Track, which leads to the Mount Stanley Scenic Reserve. This is one of the prettiest spots in the Alpine Shire. Nearby is the Stanley State Forest, and in the opposite direction is the hamlet of Mudgegonga. Take camera and picnic basket for the reserve.
Mount Buffalo Drive
Drive to the top of Mount Buffalo for fantastic views of the High Country and the Alps. The Horn, at 1723mtrs, is the highest spot within Mount Buffalo National Park. The Chalet, with its nearby Gorge lookouts, and picnic area, is 1300mtrs high – the same elevation as the nearby Lake Catani. Mount Buffalo escarpment can be seen along much of the Ovens Valley. Chains may be required some days during the winter months.
Alpine Discovery Loop
Start your Alpine discovery loop from Bright and travel over the Tawonga Gap to the Kiewa Valley Highway and Mount Beauty then take the Bogong High Plains Road to Falls Creek. Your journey will take you past Bogong Village, located half way along the drive between Mount Beauty and Falls Creek, and Fainter Falls, both definitely worth dropping in to stretch your legs. Continue on and travel through Falls Creek, following the sign to Omeo. 7.7kms past Rocky Valley Dam travel you may take a short walk to our oldest still standing cattleman’s Hut – Wallace’s Hut, set amongst a magnificent display of snow gums. Just a little further along and also a short walk from the road is Cope Hut. Travel further South to Anglers Rest and then through to Omeo, a town which boasts a fascinating gold mining history. After leaving Omeo on the Great Alpine Road, look for the turn off on the right to Victoria Falls Oriental claim, a site of original Chinese Diggings. Stop into Dinner Plain, a high altitude village snuggled between the snowgums, for a coffee, year round activities and a look around the village with its unique housing, cafes and restaurants. Continue on through Mount Hotham, the highest sealed road in Australia that is open year round, and back down the mountain to Harrietville. From Harrietville a leisurely drive back to Bright. Driving 240 km on some of Australia’s highest roads, the loop would take you 5 hours without stopping.
Beveridge Station / Buckland River 4WD
Just before Bright drive down the famous Buckland Valley, heading in a Southerly direction for 35kms and enjoying views of the scenic face of Mount Buffalo along the way. Rich in history, it is a great place to visit to learn and reflect of days gone by. Named after the Beveridge brothers who had large parcels of land accessing the Alpine High Country. Many tracks venturing out to the national park are accessible from this end of the valley so make sure you take a map and check them out.
Goldie Spur Track
Goldie Spur track follows the SEC easement. The historic Goldie Spur track now follows the power line easement across mountainous forest. Skirting the southern edge of Mount Buffalo National Park (no access to Mount Buffalo National Park from here). Spectacular views to the rocky outcrops of the Horn and Back Wall.
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Consummate live performer AARON GARNER had his musical career begin nearly 20 years ago, and his travels have led him to all over Canada to perform with award-winning masters of their craft, blues legends, and Canadian rock music stars.
“You sing and play the hell out of everything … this guy’s got it.” – Ralph Murphy, VP ASCAP Nashville, former President of The Nashville Songwriters’ Association
Aaron Garner’s career begin nearly 20 years ago, and his travels have led him all over Canada to perform with award-winning masters of their craft, blues legends, and Canadian rock music stars.
Throughout his career he has toured or shared the bill with Sam Roberts, Ron Sexsmith, Joel Plaskett, Gord Sinclair of The Tragically Hip, Jeremy Taggart, Duncan Couts and Steve Mazur of Our Lady Peace, Ashley MacIsaac, Suzie McNeil, Craig Cardiff, Kelly “Mr. Chill” Hoppe, Patrick Ballantyne and Al Cross of Big Sugar, Juno award- winning blues band Fathead, Juno nominee Craig Cardiff, Javier Colon of NBC’s “The Voice”, Jordan and Prakash John, Pat Robitaille, Jason Collett (Broken Social Scene), Justin Nozuka, and internationally renowned blues harmonica master Carlos Del Junco.
He resides in Collingwood performing regularly in Southern Ontario as a solo artist and with The Aaron Garner Band, featuring John Hall (By Divine Right, Holy F*ck) on drums, and his father Rick Garner on bass. He is currently writing material for his next release.
Website: www.myspace.com/aarongarner
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Father Steps In to Make His Wheelchair-Bound Daughter's Marching Band Dreams Come True
He leaves work four times a week to push her chair during practice and performances.
By Marlisse Cepeda
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High schooler Eva Houston, from Omaha, NE, has been playing the trumpet since she was in 5th grade. Naturally, when she entered high school, she joined the marching band in the first year.
The experience didn't start off the way she was hoping it would since she was forced to sit on the sidelines. Houston is bound to a wheelchair because of her cerebral palsy, making her unable to join her bandmates in line formations. She then asked her parents to help her get more involved.
"We emailed the band instructor to see what we could do for her and he said he'd be happy to get her into the drill, as long as someone can push her," her dad, Kevin, told TODAY. When Eva told him she really wanted him to help her, Kevin agreed without a hesitation. He would be there to push her chair during practices and performances.
Kevin, who works for an insurance company, leaves work to help her four times a week. During games, he's on the stands with his wife, but is on the field behind his daughter once halftime hits.
The devoted dad also happens to come from a marching band background. Helping her has brought back some of those happy memories for him. "At first I was doing it for Eva and didn't realize how much I'd enjoy it as well," he said.
Most of all, he sees what he's doing as a way to connect with her more opposed to simply leaving her at school in the morning. "You drop your kids off at school and you don't get to experience their day with them, so I'm very grateful to be part of her life."
Online readers are, of course, awed by his dedication. Facebook user Jennifer Neri Irby said, "What a sweet story!!! Dad of the year that's for sure!" We couldn't agree more.
[via TODAY
Marlisse Cepeda Web Editor Marlisse is the Web Editor of WomansDay.com, and she hails from Bronx, NY.
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Nice, France Terror Attack; How Italy Sees The ‘Brexit’' Singer Performs For PTSD Victims In Ukraine
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French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech the day after the Bastille Day truck attack, in Nice, southern France, Friday, July 15, 2016. A Frenchman of Tunisian descent drove a truck through crowds celebrating Bastille Day along Nice’s beachfront, killing more than 80 people, many of them children.
On today's show:
Last night, a French citizen of Tunisian descent drove a truck through crowds in Nice, France. He killed at least 84 people, including two Americans. We discuss the aftermath.
An upcoming referendum in Italy could change its constitution, giving power to an anti-establishment party known as the ‘Five Star Movement’. We talk about the referendum and also how ‘Brexit’ is playing out in Italy.
And a performance to raise awareness for Ukrainian soldiers and their families who struggle with PTSD makes up this week's Weekend Passport.
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Movie review: If you can take the heat, you’ll get into ‘The Kitchen’
Ed Symkus More Content Now
Before getting into what I liked about this rough, tough, gritty, violent movie about the Irish mob in late-1970s New York City, I need to share a bewildering, hopefully open-minded question about one of the characters, and the person chosen to play the part.
The film is based on a limited run 2014 series of DC comic books, telling the story of three mobsters who were caught in the acts of robbery and attacking some cops, and sent to prison, leaving their wives to fend for themselves. The wives’ solution: pick up where the men left off, but do the job better.
The question - some will take this as me being controversial, just for asking it - is why did the filmmakers find it necessary to change one of the white wives in the comic to a black wife? Taking nothing away from Tiffany Haddish, who veers sharply and successfully from her mostly comic previous roles to the completely serious one of Ruby, why is she in this film? The thought that anyone would buy the acceptance of a black woman being part of the Irish mob “family” in New York in the late-1970s is just ludicrous.
This is not a movie cut from the cloth of comic book sensibilities; it’s a straightforward, if offbeat, story of crime, family values, friendship, business, and revenge, peopled by characters you can believe ... except for her.
Still, I liked it.
The title can be taken two ways: It’s set in the Hell’s Kitchen section of Manhattan. Get it? The Kitchen. And most of the male characters firmly believe that a woman’s place is in the kitchen.
But that’s not the opinion of the trio of friends Kathy (Melissa McCarthy), Claire (Elisabeth Moss), and Ruby. Though they’ve sat around doing what they were told to do for years, when their husbands are sent up on a three-year sentence, they soon realize that the Irish mobsters still on the streets are going to welsh on their promise to help them out. What to do? Self-proclaimed leader Kathy suggests that they band together and start up their own collection for protection business.
This, of course, doesn’t sit well with psychotic and misogynistic mob boss Jackie (Myk Watford), who tells them to back off, or to nearby slick and dangerous Italian mob boss Alfonso Coretti (Bill Camp), who is quietly threatening.
But these are three strong women. They were friends before these difficult circumstances developed, now they find themselves really bonding, more so when they decide to throw caution to the wind and go forward with the crooked protection racket, thereby cutting into the territory and pockets of Jackie and Coretti. When they get the added help of Gabriel (Domhnall Gleeson), a calm but vicious hood who has just returned to town, things start rolling.
While the story stays focused on the reactions surrounding the women’s actions, the film works equally well as a character study and a look at the arc each of them follows. Kathy had accepted her fairly dull lot in life and was grateful to have a loving husband and kids. Now she’s extremely proud of running this criminal endeavor which is helping to clean up the neighborhood. Ruby had put up with her creepy husband’s shenanigans. Now she’s experiencing a taste of power, and taking things into her own hands. Claire was living a horrible existence, regularly being beaten by her alcoholic brute of a husband. Now she discovers that she’s quite good at and actually enjoys committing sadistic acts.
They’re conniving criminals, they’re unrepentant killers, and they’re sharp businesswomen. It’s difficult to root for this sort of character, but we’re mostly on their side for most of the film. The body count piles up among both cops and mobsters, and it would help to have a scorecard to keep track of the funerals. But even with all of the nastiness going on, the film is anchored by the three fine performances from the three “good guy” women.
Ed Symkus writes about movies for More Content Now. He can be reached at esymkus@rcn.com.
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DAY 1 SUNDAY AM - Baltra Island / Embarkation
During World War II, Baltra served as a U.S. military base protecting the Panama Canal from enemy attack. Now the cactus-strewn landscapes of Baltra are home to the region’s main airport and where you will meet the ship. From the airport, it is just a short bus and Zodiac ride to the ship.
DAY 1 SUNDAY PM - Daphne Island
Daphne is a satellite volcanic cone located north of Santa Cruz Island. The crater floor is an important breeding site for blue-footed boobies. This Island is famous for the scientific investigation led by Peter and Rosemary Grant on the finches’ population, one of the most important studies on the field that supports Charles Darwin’s Theory. The cliff shore of the island is home for sea lions, pelicans, blue-footed boobies, and tropical birds which can be observed during the circumnavigation of the island.
DAY 2 MONDAY AM - Gardner Bay, Española Island
A long white sand beach and clear blue waters make this an ideal spot for swimming, snorkeling, or just relaxing on the beach. In the water, sea turtles, rays, colorful tropical fish, and maybe even a white-tip reef shark may be seen. It is also home to a colony of sea lions. Excursion options: beach walking, swimming, or a deep-water snorkel for experienced snorkelers.
DAY 2 MONDAY PM - Suarez Point, Española Island
Española is the oldest island in the Galapagos and home to an abundance of wildlife. At this site, visitors can expect to see sea lions, Galapagos Hawks, marine iguanas, and both blue-footed and Nazca boobies.
Between late March and the following January, the Waved Albatrosses come here to mate and raise their young. Excursion options include a long, rocky walk to look for albatrosses and observe an impressive blowhole that spews water like a towering geyser.
DAY 3 TUESDAY AM - Cormorant Point, Floreana Island
Floreana was the first capital of the Galapagos, and where Charles Darwin met the islands’ Governor. Its small brackish lagoon is often home to flamingos, stilts, and white-cheeked pintail ducks, and one of its beaches is a highly used nesting site for sea turtles. Check out the green-hued sand where you land! Excursion options include a relatively short walk to the lagoon and sea turtle nesting beach, and optional snorkeling and swimming at the landing beach. In addition, nearby Champion Island lies east of Floreana and provides a wonderful opportunity for snorkeling and a zodiac ride. When snorkeling, tropical fish abound with frequent sightings of sea turtles, rays, sharks, sea stars, and more. If we’re lucky, the sea lions will be in a playful mood.
During a zodiac ride along the rocky shoreline, keep an eye out for seabirds such as boobies, pelicans, and frigate birds. Red-billed Tropicbirds nest in the crevices below the large prickly pear cacti, and you may spy the very rare Charles Mockingbird.
DAY 3 TUESDAY PM - Post Office Bay, Floreana Island
Rich in history, this site is home to the post office barrel established in about 1793, where pirates, buccaneers, whalers and others could leave their mail to be picked up by outbound ships. The tradition continues today, as visitors leave addressed postcards in the barrel and sort through left mail to deliver at home.
Baroness Outlook, Floreana - The Baroness’ Viewing Point is the ideal place to take in the unique scenery that defines Floreana, and to learn about the history of the island’s early settlers. Once inhabited by an indulgent baroness and her three lovers, the history of this island is intriguing. During the Zodiac ride around “La Loberia,” you can observe several marine species such as golden eagle rays, sea turtles, sea lions, mullets and occasionally Galapagos penguins.
DAY 4 WEDNESDAY AM - Moreno Point, Isabela Island
Along this beautiful rocky shore, a field of hardened black lava flows is pockmarked by shallow pools, which are home to shorebirds and flamingos. The mangrove-lined shore also provides a chance to see marine iguanas, sea turtles, stingrays, sharks, penguins, and the flightless cormorant. Excursion options: a long walk and Zodiac ride, or an extended Zodiac ride.
DAY 4 WEDNESDAY PM - Urvina Bay, Isabela Island
Composed of five coalesced volcanoes, this is the largest island in the Galapagos and the most recently active, the latest eruption having occurred in 2009. Here we will see large land iguanas, finches, and if lucky, a giant tortoise or two. In 1954, the intrusion of magma below one of the islands volcanoes caused part of the bay to be uplifted some 6 meters, and today we can walk through the remains of what was once a thriving underwater reef. Excursion options: a long, faster-paced hike with some rock climbing required, followed by an optional snorkel (if conditions allow), or a short walk and optional snorkel.
DAY 5 THURSDAY AM - Espinoza Point, Fernandina Island
Fernandina is the youngest island in the Galapagos and, as Darwin wrote, it is “covered with immense deluges of black naked lava.” Along with its extraordinary black lava rocks, this point of land hosts the largest colony of marine iguanas in the Archipelago, along with sea lions and a nesting site for flightless cormorants. Excursion options: a long walk or short walk, as well as a deep-water snorkel for experienced snorkelers.
DAY 5 THURSDAY PM - Vicente Roca Point, Isabela Island
The half-collapsed remains of an ancient volcano make for a spectacular setting at this site. Awe-inspiring cliffs, blue waters, and wildlife create a Zodiac ride to remember as we search for sea turtles, penguins, fur seals, the flightless cormorant, marine iguanas, marine mammals, and the oddly shaped form of the elusive sunfish.
DAY 6 FRIDAY AM - South Plaza, Santa Cruz Island
One of two islands off Santa Cruz, South Plaza was born of upheaval, uplifted during a geologic event. The rocky island is strewn with prickly pear cactus and home to land iguanas, marine iguanas, and a colony of sea lions. Our excursion here is a short walk to view wildlife, FloraSM, and geology.
DAY 6 FRIDAY PM - Dragon Hill, Santa Cruz Island
Dragon Hill, or “Cerro Dragon,” is named after its population of land iguanas. The site offers a beautiful view of the landscape and two small brackish lagoons where flamingos and other shore birds occasionally feed. Along the trail, we’ll cross a beautiful “white forest” of Palo Santo (incense) trees and Galapagos cotton plants. Options for this visit include a long walk and a short walk.
DAY 7 SATURDAY AM/PM - Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island
This is the main population center of the islands, and home to the National Park Service tortoise-breeding center and the Charles Darwin Research Station. You will be able to visit the tortoise-breeding center and walk through the Charles Darwin Research Station. You will also have the opportunity to take a bus ride to the highlands to observe giant tortoises in the wild and walk through a lava tunnel. In addition, you will have an exclusive opportunity to participate in the Scalesia reforestation project in the highlands of Santa Cruz Island.
DAY 8 SUNDAY BALTRA DISEMBARKATION - Baltra disembarkation / Airport transfer for flight home
Baltra is home to the region’s main airport, and where you will fly out. You will have a zodiac and bus ride to the airport.
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AU$ 16,369 AU$ 19,796 AU$ 26,649 AU$ 53,137
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20/06 Baltra, Galapagos Is 2.30pm
20/06 Daphne Island, Galapagos 5.00pm 6.00pm
21/06 Bahia Gardner, Galapagos Islands 7.00am 2.00pm
21/06 Punta Suarez, Galapagos Islands 3.00pm 7.00pm
22/06 Cormorant Point, Floreana 7.00am 1.00pm
22/06 Isla Floreana, Galapoagos Is (Post Office Bay) 1.30pm 8.00pm
23/06 Punta Moreno (Isabela), Galapagos 7.00am 12.00pm
23/06 Urvina Bay (Isabela), Galapagos 2.00pm 7.00pm
24/06 Punta Espinoza, Fernandina 7.00am 12.00pm
24/06 Isabela Island (Punta Vicente Roca), Galapagos Islands 2.00pm 7.00pm
25/06 South Plaza island, Galapagos Islands 7.00am 11.00am
25/06 Dragon Hill, Santa Cruz 3.00pm 9.00pm
26/06 Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Is 7.00am 7.00am
27/06 Baltra, Galapagos Is 7.00am
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Carrie Underwood returns to superstar spotlight with debut performance at ACM Awards
Posted: 10:20 PM, Apr 15, 2018
By: Chase Snider
Carrie Underwood silenced any questions about her readiness to return to the spotlight in perhaps one of the most anticipated performances of the 53rd annual Academy of Country Music Awards.
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Underwood has been largely missing from the mainstream country music scene since a nasty fall at her Nashville home late in 2017. Just weeks after the Country Music Awards she fell down a set of stairs and later shared with fans that she had to have 40-50 stitches on her face.
Adding some additional drama to her big return, Underwood did not walk the red carpet at this year's ACM Awards.
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While Underwood looked flawless onstage in a black and silver fringe dress, her vocals clearly dominated the moment as she belted out her new single, "Cry Pretty".
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She got a standing ovation that went out for a measurable time inside the MGM Grand Arena as fellow country music performers and fans welcomed her back to the main stage.
Fellow singer and winner of three ACM Awards Miranda Lambert touched on Underwood's performance backstage after winning Female Vocalist of the Year.
"It makes me proud to be a woman in this industry when I see her stand up there and do that," Lambert said.
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— Al Kahn 💃🎤📷🔭👽🥁 (@idolxfactor1) April 16, 2018
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McKamey covers vaccinations, microchip animals before adoption
Misty Owensby with McKamey says all pets are up to date on their shots, parasite prevented, spayed and neutered, and are micro-chipped.
Thursday, December 26th 2019, 5:24 PM EST by Jake Chapman
McKamey Animal Center held another "Fursday," where dogs and cats are available for low prices.
Dogs are $25 and cats are $5.
She says it’s part of their process to make sure all pets are ready for adoption.
"Because it does have all of these things that we have ensured toward its health and care,” Owensby said.
She says all the vaccinations can be expensive.
Depending on their size, it can cost between $200 to $300 dollars per animal.
With more than 400 pets in house, it ends up costing thousands.
But Owensby says they are able to cover those fees from grants they've applied for and donations they get from the public every day.
"Whether its food or money or just dog houses and things like that we get in all day every day,” Owensby said.
She says seeing how excited the animals get when people come in is one of the best feelings in the world.
"That's my favorite part of this position that I have is saying bye to them as they go out the door and knowing they are getting a home and future,” Owensby said.
Owensby says finding a new home for a cat or dog is worth every penny.
"The smile on their faces, the hugs, the waging tails and all of that, which is the big ultimate reward,” Owensby said.
People can still adopt pets with McKamey online at https://www.mckameyanimalcenter.org/adoption.
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WSC Club Racing
All year competitive sailing
Merlin Rocket
We race on Sunday mornings all year round at 10am and noon and Wednesday evenings between April and August at 7pm. The year is split into four seasons, with results compiled and prizes awarded. So come and join in and enjoy the action!
Classes we race
The Merlin Rocket is a two person high performance development class dinghy with a spinnaker. It’s a versatile boat and will perform well on both open seas and inland waters. Various hull designs allow crews to choose the particular hull that suits their size, weight and age. The Welsh Harp is ideal for the Merlin, being a mile in length and 100 acres in area with a prevailing south westerly wind, allowing excellent windward sailing.
The Laser is one of the most popular single-handed dinghies in the world and is well supported here at WSC. The Laser is robust, simple to rig and sail and comparably inexpensive. We have a wide spectrum of sailing ability in the Laser fleet, so there’s always plenty of competition for everyone during racing. If you don't have a boat and would like to get involved we have six club Lasers which are available for club members to race and train in.
The RS200 is a four metre, double handed, hiking, racing dinghy. It was designed in 1995 by Phil Morrison and has an uncomplicated asymmetric spinnaker and low sheet loads on the sail controls. It has a lightweight polyester GRP hull construction and an optimum crew weight of around 21 stone (133kg). This makes it especially popular with parents to sail with children. WSC has a RS200 for members to use.
One to one training any time in the week (apart from Sunday mornings)
Sessions last around 3 hours.
£20 for club members / £40 for non members
(to cover club costs and petrol)
If interested please contact
Colin Brockbank
Colin.brockbank@btinternet.com
Other dinghies we sail are:
Used as the principal boat for the New Members Club. WSC has six club GP14s, all fitted with mainsail reefing allowing them to be sailed in strong winds.
RS Vision
Used for training with the Harp Sailing School. We have seven boats purchased from 2006 to 2009.
Optimists & Laser Picos
Children from eight years old can learn to sail with with Wembley Juniors and use Optimists and Laser Picos.
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CNN Poll: Pope Francis' favorability plummets
After new sexual abuse allegations against Catholic priests and criticism of Pope Francis' leadership on the...
Posted: Sep 12, 2018 7:11 PM
Updated: Sep 12, 2018 7:11 PM
After new sexual abuse allegations against Catholic priests and criticism of Pope Francis' leadership on the issue, his favorability in the US has dropped substantially in a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
Only half of Americans -- 48% -- say they have a favorable view of the Pope, down from two-thirds who said the same in January 2017 and 72% who said so in December 2013, a few months after he was first elevated to the position.
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The poll was conducted before news that the Pope has called an unprecedented meeting of top officials in the church over the sexual abuse scandal, scheduled for February.
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Specifically among US Catholics, his ratings have fallen from 83% favorability a year and a half ago to 63% now -- a 20-point drop.
Among Americans over the age of 45, favorable views have sunk 24 points, from 68% to 44%, while those under the age of 45 have only had a 10-point decrease.
There has been a slightly steeper decline among women (down 20 points, to 51% favorability) than among men (down 15 points, to 45% favorability). Democrats also lost positive views on the current leader of the Catholic church, from 79% favorability in 2017 to 57% now. Republicans had a smaller drop, due to their lower ratings of Francis to begin with, at only 54% in early 2017 (and 36% now).
The CNN Poll was conducted by SSRS from Sept. 6 through 9 among a random national sample of 1,003 adults reached on landlines or cellphones by a live interviewer. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.
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Banana industry worried: Fungus in Colombia threatens most popular variety
The variety of banana known for its durability in shipping may have its days numbered.
Author: MANUEL RUEDA and CANDICE CHOI Associated Press
Updated: 12:51 AM EDT August 26, 2019
LA GUAJIRA, Colombia — Editor's note: The video above is from an August 2019 story about cocaine found in boxes of bananas at Washington state grocery stores.
It might not be obvious at the supermarket, but the banana industry is fighting to protect the most popular variety of the fruit from a destructive fungus.
A disease that ravages banana crops has made its long-dreaded arrival in Latin America, the biggest exporter of the crop. That's reigniting worries about the global market's dependence on a single type of banana, the Cavendish, which is known for its durability in shipping.
For years, scientists have said big banana companies like Chiquita and Dole would eventually need to find new banana varieties as the disease spread in countries in Asia and elsewhere. Then this month, the fungus was confirmed in Colombia, one of the top exporters in Latin America, prompting officials in the country to declare a state of emergency.
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Banana industry watchers say it's more proof the Cavendish's days are numbered, but that there's still plenty of time to find alternatives.
"I don't think it's going to impact the availability of the Cavenidsh in supermarkets anytime soon," said Randy Ploetz, a retired scientist from the University of Florida who studied tropical plant diseases.
While all sorts of bananas are grown around the world for domestic consumption, the ones shipped to places including the United States and the European Union are mostly Cavendishes. It may seem odd that the world banana market would hitch its fortunes to a single variety, but mass producing just one kind is a way to keep costs down, which also helps make bananas so widely available.
Bananas are also hard to breed, and finding varieties suited to global commerce isn't easy. In addition to being productive, Cavendish plants yield bananas that can survive the trip from warm climates to far-flung supermarkets, without ripening too quickly.
Still, history has shown the risks of relying on a single banana variety. Not that long ago, the world market was ruled by another banana, the Gros Michel, aka the Big Mike. Experts say it was even easier to ship than the Cavendish, and sweeter (though others contend it tasted similar). Either way, the Gros Michel was ravaged by the 1950s by an earlier strain of the disease now stalking the Cavendish.
This time, there's no obvious backup banana waiting in the wings to take over.
A man sells bananas near a quarantined banana plantation affected by a destructive fungus near Riohacha, Colombia, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. A disease that ravages banana crops has made its long-dreaded arrival in Latin America, reigniting worries about the global market's dependence on a single type of banana, the Cavendish. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
In Asian countries hit by the Tropical Race 4 disease, coping strategies have included planting less susceptible Cavendish varieties or moving to uninfected farmland, according to Ploetz. But those varieties aren't as productive and still eventually succumb to the fungus, which can survive in soil for decades. Growers will also eventually run out of uninfected land.
In Colombia, special measures being taken to stop the disease from spreading include sanitary controls at the entrance to plantations and roadblocks where trucks traveling between banana farms and ports are disinfected by government workers in scrubs and rubber boots.
The fungus travels on small particles of soil that can stick to truck tires, farm equipment or workers' shoes. And in Colombia, farmers fear that thieves who sneak into plantations to steal bananas could accidentally spread the disease. Some farms in Colombia are only lightly guarded and are separated from interstate roads by small fences. The situation has prompted police and Colombia's military to step up presence around banana plantations since the disease was detected.
"We are trying to make people understand that stealing bananas nowadays can have greater repercussions," said Francisco Zuniga, the president of Asbama, a Colombian banana farmers association.
So far, the fungus has been detected on six farms in Colombia. All are located in La Guajira, a province near the border with Venezuela. Officials say the affected area is still small at 490 acres (200 hectares), and is not making a dent on the country's exports. But there are concerns that the arrival of the disease will change Colombia's banana industry forever, forcing farms and the government to spend more on sanitary measures.
In La Guajira, officials have uprooted plants where the fungus has been detected and covered the soil with black plastic sheets that raise the temperatures to levels that could stop the disease from spreading. Healthy plants within a 60 foot (20 meter) radius of the affected areas are also killed with chemicals as a preventive measure.
"We will continue to work towards stopping this disease from spreading to the rest of Colombia," Agriculture Minister Andres Valencia told The Associated Press during a visit to La Guajira. "But eventually we have to make the transition to other varieties of banana that will resist this disease."
Gert Kema, a plant scientist who studies bananas, also said the industry needs to diversify. He said there are many types of tomatoes and peppers, and that bananas should be no different.
"We have collectively accepted that we have just one banana," Kema said.
Banana diversity means higher costs, however, and it's not clear that people would be willing to pay more for the fruit.
Another challenge is that the fungus is lethal to a wide array of bananas. That's also a problem for places where starchier, cooked bananas are a food staple, including some countries in Africa and Latin America.
But even with the disease's appearance in Colombia, banana companies say there's no need to panic. Whether the solution is a new breed or a genetically modified banana, the new option will likely look and taste a lot like the Cavendish.
For now, government and industry officials say they're taking security measures to contain the fungus wherever it appears.
"We can significantly slow the spread and have decades more of the Cavendish," said Caoimhe Buckley, a spokeswoman for Fyffes, a major banana exporter based in Ireland.
Associated Press writer Manuel Rueda reported this story in La Guajira and AP Food & Health Writer Candice Choi reported from New York.
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Samsung urges TV owners to check for viruses
The manufacturer recommends regular scans on its high-end TVs
By Martin Pratt
It seems no internet-connected device is safe from viruses and malware, including TVs.
In a tweet posted on its Samsung Support USA twitter account, Samsung urged owners of its top-of-the-range QLED TVs to scan ‘every few weeks’ in order to ‘prevent malicious software attacks’.
The tweet, which also included a video demonstrating how to go about scanning a TV for viruses, has since been deleted – but not before the video was watched more than 200,000 times.
Find out more about smart internet-connected TVs, and see the models we recommend in our guide to smart TVs.
Good advice or a waste of time?
The fact that Samsung has now deleted the tweet means it’s possible that it was only posting the advice as a precaution to its customers. But when a company the size of Samsung – one of the biggest TV manufacturers in the world – recommends to scan for viruses, it’s easy to assume the worst.
It doesn’t appear that the video was posted in response to any specific attack, but major tech companies have a history of releasing information on major data leaks and hacks when they are good and ready.
There isn’t any harm in scanning any internet-connected device for viruses. Computers are far more likely to be at risk than TVs, though.
Should you connect your TV to the internet?
The simplest way to avoid getting a virus on any device is to not connect it to the internet at all. But in most cases this will greatly impact how you use it.
TVs rely on an internet connection for all of their smart functionality. You won’t be able to access streaming apps such as iPlayer and Netflix, use Freeview Play or YouView, and the TV won’t receive updates which add new features, and, ironically, improve the security of the device.
You’ll still be able to watch Freeview broadcasts on a Samsung TV if you don’t connect it to the internet.
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With many new QLED sets recently launched, Samsung’s tweet hasn’t come at a good time. It’s unlikely to want its best TVs to be associated with viruses, which could be why the tweet was so swiftly deleted.
We’ve tested much of its 2019 QLED range, including the Q60R, Q70, Q80R and Q85R TVs, and found them to be a mixed bag.
See all our QLED reviews to see which we think are worth owning.
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Homes under attack: 283 reports of criminal damage a day
A property is damaged every five minutes in the UK, but where is the problem most prevalent?
Police forces across England and Wales investigate 283 incidents of criminal damage to properties every day, according to Direct Line for Business.
That’s the equivalent of one every five minutes. There were over 51,500 investigations into criminal damage to properties recorded in just the first six months of 2019.
What is criminal damage?
Criminal damage includes issues such as vandalism, graffiti and even arson.
Analysis of landlord insurance claims data reveals that vandalism is the cause of a third (32 per cent) of malicious damage claims. It is not just the initial incident that poses an issue, the police highlight that once a property is damaged it is vital to have it repaired as quickly as possible as a vandalised property can attract people who might cause more damage.
The highest number of incidents of malicious damage to property in the first half of 2019 were investigated by the Metropolitan Police Service, with 6,014 cases recorded in London. This was followed by Greater Manchester Police with 5,170 cases investigated and West Yorkshire Police with 4,207.
When looking specifically at landlord insurance claims related to malicious damage, the North West came out on top, accounting for one in six of all recorded claims across the whole of the UK over the past five years.
Sarah Larkin, landlord product manager at Direct Line for Business, said: “The scale of vandalism, arson and property damage across the country is frightening. Not only are property owners faced with the cost of repairing damage, there is the emotional stress that a home has been attacked. We need the enforcement of tough penalties to discourage people from vandalising properties and ensuring those that commit these crimes feel the full force of the law.”
Former and current tenants are responsible for causing damage to a property in 31 per cent of incidents.
Larkin continued: “Landlords can reduce the risk of criminals targeting their properties by installing security measures such as CCTV and motion sensor lighting. However, our analysis shows that rogue tenants are also a cause of significant damage to properties. To reduce the risk of renting a property to someone that won’t treat it responsibly, landlords should complete comprehensive checks before signing a contract.
“These checks would identify irregularities such as if an individual has any County Court Judgements against them, will confirm their current address, search for any aliases used and verify bank account details amongst other checks.”
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Just over five years ago, I stood in a playground pushing my baby on the swing. I told my mom friend about a job I wanted to apply for, even though it seemed like the worst timing. After all, my son was still in diapers. Was I completely crazy to even consider working from home without any support? My friend told me to apply then figure it out later. That's when I discovered that crazy is often the best advice.
The years I've spent blogging as Mummy Buzz have been - hands down - the most fun I've had at any job. (Incredibly, being doused in hot fudge and soft serve vanilla at DQ doesn't rank.) While my son was napping, I would peruse the web, sourcing the kind of stories that I wanted to read. Then I got to write them up the way I wanted to tell them, in the true voice of a "yummy mummy."
Aside from actually knowing what was going on in the world for once, the single biggest thrill of this gig was always you, the reader. Five years on, you continued to surprise and baffle. No measure of experience could fully predict which stories would yank at your heart strings and which would get your blood boiling.
You were fascinated by media that seemed to push the boundaries of good taste. Was the holiday commercial too morbid, or the C-section photo too graphic? But above all, you had a solid sense of humour. You quickly saw the funny side when a boy wore an "inappropriate" sweater to school. And you loved a good parody, especially if it involved Frozen because in 2014 that movie drove us all to drink. I swear Chardonnay sales shot up that year!
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It wasn't what she wore to the Video Music Awards that had tongues wagging, it's what she didn't wear. No, I'm not talking about Alicia Keys' designer dress. I'm talking about the fact that the Grammy-winning singer had the barefaced cheek to attend an award ceremony without makeup.
You heard. She stepped on to the red carpet sans war paint. Not flick of mascara, no a hint of concealer.
In the music industry, that is an act of true rebellion and badassery, the likes of which Rhianna or Gaga could never muster.
For Keys, the disenchantment has been a long time brewing. She has been rallying against the pressures women face, and made the case for natural beauty not so long ago in a Lenny essay:
"One of the many things I was tired of was the constant judgment of women," wrote Keys. "The constant stereotyping through every medium that makes us feel like being a normal size is not normal, and heaven forbid if you're plus-size. Or the constant message that being sexy means being naked."
"I don't want to cover up anymore. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing."
And women all over the place nodded and applauded. But then Keys went took it to the nth - she went "naked" at an awards ceremony - and many of the same cheering women could no longer get behind her.
Alicia Keys looks like she just rolled out of bed.
Enough is enough, girl. It's okay to wear makeup for special occasions. Lol #VMAs
— Inga (@sauvignonelle) August 29, 2016
"Alicia Keys is taking this no makeup thing too far. It's the #VMAs .. put on some mascara."
- @_KeLOLO
— .kelsey. (@KelsoLovelyy) August 29, 2016
This no makeup thing has gone to far. I'm talking to you @aliciakeys lol. #VMAs
— darlando (@itsmedarlando) August 29, 2016
Even someone as beautiful as Alicia Keys was told in no uncertain terms: for mercy's sake, woman, put on some makeup! A dash of lipstick, at the very least. Because come on, it's the VMAs and heaven forbid a woman should stroll the red carpet without putting her face on.
All these people - men and women alike - rushing Twitter to denounce her look maybe didn't realize they were further proving her point. That award shows aren't about dresses and makeup and cosplay. Maybe, just maybe, they are about artists and the music they make. At least they should be.
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When Your Child Doesn't Want to Hug a Relative
placing an unhealthy pressure on kids
We've all been there. You're at a family gathering and when it comes time for greetings, your child shirks from hugging an aunt he barely knows from Adam. Should you force the issue or let it go?
Even for kids who are naturally affectionate, the expectation to embrace a family member can place an unhealthy pressure on children. They may not, for whatever reason, feel like being smothered in kisses at that moment.
As parents, we naturally feel the pull of expectation from our relatives who adore and likely miss our children. We don't want our relatives to feel rejected or disrespected. We don't want our children to come across as cold. So with the best intentions, we nudge little Johnny forward into an unwanted embrace.
Experts caution against such behaviour.
First and foremost, forcing a child to hug people they don't want to sends a message that their rights are less important to that of an adult's. It breaks down the ultimate trust - between parent and child.
It sends the message that children should unthinkingly defer to the whims and wants of grown-ups, some of whom may not have the child's best interests at heart, according to Peter Saunders, chief executive of the U.K.-based National Association for People Abused in Childhood. When we force them into any kind of affection, we are teaching them - how ever subtly - that their own physical and psychological wellbeing comes second to that of others.
Sure, most adults are loving and harmless in their affection, but do we really want kids ignoring their own comfort signals? Personal boundaries matter, and kids need to tune into their own perimeters early on. As parents we should be empowering our kids, not overruling their bodily autonomy to please our relatives.
Easier said than done. How many of us remember squirming in an unwanted embrace as a child?
"There are certain things we [should] make children do which is quite different," said Saunders. "We make them brush their teeth, for example. That is quite different to forcing them to kiss an uncle they don't want to. It's about boundaries. And this blurring of boundaries [by forcing them to kiss someone they don't want to] can indeed blur their understanding of what is right and wrong, about their body belonging to them."
There are ways to strike a balance between respecting our children and appeasing adults.
Experts suggest giving kids a choice of age-appropriate responses to hugs and kisses. For example, a six year old can be prepped before a gathering the she can choose a high-five or fist bump over a hug if that's all she feels comfortable with in the moment. It may not be what the grown up was hoping for, but it saves face and avoids being seen as rude. If the child opts for a spontaneous hug, great. At least the ball is firmly in the child's court.
It may be a good idea to tactfully remind adults before they kneel with outstretched arms that your child can take a little while to warm up and that you are encouraging them to do what feels comfortable. If all else fails, keep the mood light and try make a joke to defuse the situation.
I know in my son's case, it's quite telling those relatives he will rush to embrace and those from whom he naturally holds back. It's his call. And sometimes it's just a matter of timing. Affection at the end of a nice visit is much more likely than at the start.
Give me a natural hug over a forced one any day of the week.
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What does effective transformation leadership look like?
Transformation requires leadership—a single dedicated and accountable executive at the top who can help shape the vision and guide strategy. But leadership alone isn't enough. Effective leadership can spell the difference between success and failure in a transformation effort. Read below to learn what makes transformation leaders effective, how to select the right candidate, how to hold leaders accountable, and how to avoid common mistakes that can derail your transformation efforts.
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Why should we pick a business leader?
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Deep knowledge of the organization.
A view across the enterprise and into the deep inner workings of the business is critical for understanding the full impact of transformation and managing the transformation strategy. Why? Because transformation is about optimizing the whole, not just individual pieces.
Solid relationships across the organization and strong political capital.
Your top transformation executive must understand the political landscape and be able to influence the various key players to get to answers quickly, build consensus, and get all stakeholders moving efficiently down the transformation path. Managing cross-functional conflicts and dependencies can be key to execution—which is one of the most difficult steps of a transformation.
A proven history of getting things done.
Transformation is about establishing a vision for the end-state operating model, developing a clear roadmap to get there, and then leveraging your team to execute with great efficiency and speed to deliver that end-state vision.
A track record of decisiveness.
A leader who can make effective and integrated decisions, balancing the trade-offs inherent in any difficult decision. Great leaders make effective decisions and they make them efficiently—this will help you save time, capital, and other resources during your transformation while also positioning your organization to achieve long-term results.
Relevant experience, not necessarily prior transformation experience.
The ability to lead matters most. An internal transformation center of excellence, Results Management Office or third-party support can help make up for any specific transformation experience your leader lacks.
First realize that you will have to pull someone entirely away from his or her primary job function to lead the transformation. That leader needs to focus exclusively on the transformation and set aside the biases of his or her previous role. The stakes are too high to have the leader split duties with a pre-existing role. With that in mind, don't obsess over finding a leader who's perfect on all five points above. Consider the type of transformation you’re undertaking and the mix of leadership skills you need.
Strong transformation leaders need to represent the business. No matter the type of transformation, your organization needs a leader who deeply understands the business issues at play and who can build accountability with key business stakeholders. It can sometimes be tempting to tap the CIO to lead a transformation. But that can create big problems. Why? Because to be effective as a transformation leader, the CIO will have to stop being the CIO. Piling transformation leadership duties onto another function is a recipe for failure. You'll require an exclusive transformation leader, and your CIO might be too valuable a talent resource to spare. Keep in mind that anyone who might be perceived as having an inherent bias (departmental or otherwise) might not make an ideal candidate—since building consensus is key to an effective transformation. And if there's an internal battle for resources between two departments, choosing an executive from one of the departments could be a mistake.
If you have enabled the transformation leader to do his or her job—not piling transformation onto other roles—you've already taken a major step toward accountability. But even the best transformation executive could fail if there is not a critical mass of executives who are aligned on the transformation and supporting the leader. The transformation leader must drive that alignment, with help from the CEO and the blessing of the board. The transformation leader should report to a steering committee, and the leader should also serve on that committee. Don't double-down if you've selected the wrong leader or made the wrong trade-offs while trying to adjust existing leadership roles and responsibilities. It makes more sense to install a new transformation leadership who can get things right—rather than continue with a suboptimal leader. Changing the leadership midstream will be disruptive, but it can be critically necessary. Motivating the transformation leader and the supporting executive team can be a simple matter of tying performance incentives to transformation outcomes—a move that also could help swiftly align all the key players on objectives and strategy.
Picking the right talent to lead your transformation requires more than the ability to identify a strong leader. It requires an understanding of the demands and requirements of the transformation in addition to what effective transformation leaders do. It also requires being able to assess how quickly the leader can ramp up to meet the new demands the transformation requires of them. How do you select the leader that can deliver the results you need and provide the tools, resources, and support necessary for an effective transformation? We can help.
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The production and uses of horses in France have their roots in history and agriculture. Horses have, however, gained a new status and have become the medium of a complex and developing economical branch.
With nearly 100 000 mares, horse breeding shows a great diversity, regarding breeds as well as geography. The development and marketing networks vary according to the different uses : races, equestrian sports and leisure, and draught. Races are the basis for bets generating a turnover of more than 6.4 thousand million euros.
A new horse policy has begun, which includes more harmonious and favourable measures and remodelled partnerships, making France one of the first equestrian nations of the world.
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XEP-0286: Mobile Considerations on LTE Networks
This document provides background information for XMPP implementors concerned with mobile devices operating on an LTE cellular network.
Dave Cridland
Sam Whited
© 1999 – 2020 XMPP Standards Foundation. SEE LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE: This Informational specification defines a best practice or protocol profile that has been approved by the XMPP Council and/or the XSF Board of Directors. Implementations are encouraged and the best practice or protocol profile is appropriate for deployment in production systems.
Document Lifecycle
Transmit no data
When transmitting, transmit as much as you can
IANA Considerations
XMPP Registrar Considerations
Relation to XMPP
Discussion Venue
Requirements Conformance
1. Introduction¶
XMPP as a protocol was designed before the wide spread adoption of mobile devices, and is often cited as not being very mobile friendly as a result. However, this mostly stems from undocumented lore and outdated notions of how XMPP works. As the Internet and protocol design have changed to be more accommodating for mobile, so has XMPP.
This XEP aims to provide useful background knowledge of mobile handset behavior, and those considerations that client and server designers can take to ensure that bandwidth and battery are used efficiently.
2. Overview¶
The two major constraints on mobile devices are power and bandwidth. With the wide spread proliferation of 3G and LTE technologies, mobile bandwidth and speeds have become broadly comparable to broadband. However, they are still relatively expensive compared to traditional wired networks, and therefore conserving them is still desirable. This XEP mostly focuses on LTE as it already has a very wide deployment and will only continue to further replace 3G technologies.
3. Compression¶
XML, and by extension XMPP, is known to be highly compressible. Compression of XMPP data can be achieved with the DEFLATE algorithm (RFC 1951 [1]) via TLS compression (RFC 3749 [2]) or Stream Compression (XEP-0138) [3] (which also supports other compression algorithms). A description of the security implications of stream compression is beyond the scope of this document (See RFC 3749 [2] or Stream Compression (XEP-0138) [3] for more information), but the author does not recommend using TLS compression with XMPP (or in general). If compression must be used, stream level compression should be implemented instead, and the compressed stream should have a full flush performed on stanza boundaries to help prevent chosen plaintext attacks. While this may mitigate some of the benefits of compression by raising compression ratios, in a large, real world deployment, network traffic was still observed to decrease by a factor of 0.58 when enabling Stream Compression (XEP-0138) [3] with ZLIB compression.
While the CPU cost of compression may directly translate to higher power usage, it is vastly outweighed by the benefits of reduced network utilization, especially on modern LTE networks which use a great deal more power per bit than 3G networks as will be seen later in this document. However, CPU usage is also not guaranteed to rise due to compression. In the aforementioned deployment of stream compression, a decrease in CPU utilization by a factor of 0.60 was observed, presumably due to reductions in TLS and packet handling overhead. Therefore CPU time spent on compression (for ZLIB, at least; other algorithms were not tested) can be considered negligable.
Supporting compression and performming a full flush on stanza boundaries is recommended for mobile devices.
4. Power Consumption¶
While the wide spread adoption of LTE has dramatically increased available bandwidth on mobile devices, it has also increased power consumption. According to one study, early LTE devices consumed 5–20% more power than their 3G counterparts [4]. On some networks that support the legacy SVLTE (Simultaneous Voice and LTE) or CSFB (Circuit-switched fallback) instead of the more modern VoLTE (Voice Over LTE) standard, this number would (presumably) be even higher.
XMPP server and client implementers, bearing this increased power usage in mind, and knowing a bit about how LTE radios work, can optimize their traffic to minimize network usage. For the downlink, LTE user equipment (UE) utilizes Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), which is somewhat inefficient [5]. On the uplink side a different technology, Single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) is used, which is slightly more efficient than traditional OFDM, slightly offsetting the fact that broadcasting requires more power than receiving. LTE UE also implements a Discontinuous reception (DRX) mode in which the hardware can sleep until it is woken by a paging message or is needed to perform some task. LTE radios have two power modes: RRC_CONNECTED and RRC_IDLE. DRX is supported in both of these power modes. By attempting to minimize the time which the LTE UE state machine spends in the RCC_CONNECTED state, and maximize the time it stays in the DRX state (for RCC_CONNECTED and RRC_IDLE), we can increase battery life without degrading the XMPP experience. To do so, the following rules should be observed:
4.1 Transmit no data¶
Whenever possible, data that is not strictly needed should not be transmitted (by the server or client). Supporting Client State Indication (XEP-0352) [6] is recommended. Most importantly, XMPP pings should be kept as far apart as possible and only used when necessary. Server operators are encouraged to set high ping timeouts, and client implementors are advised to only send pings when absolutely necessary to prevent the server from closing the socket.
4.2 When transmitting, transmit as much as you can¶
If one is on 3G, transmitting a small amount of data will cause the radio to enter FACH mode which is significantly cheaper than its high power mode. On LTE radios, however, transmitting small amounts of data is vastly more expensive per bit due to the higher tail-time (the time it takes for the radio to change state) of approximately 11 seconds [5]. On LTE radios, one should transmit as much data from the client as possible when the radio is already on (eg. by placing messages in a send queue and executing the queue as a batch when the radio is on). Similarly, when data is being received from the server, the mobile devices radio is already in a high power state and therefore any data that needs to be sent to the server should be transmitted.
These rules also apply to server operators: If the server receives data, the phones radio is already on, therefore you should flush any pending data as soon as possible after receiving data from a client.
5. Notable Extensions¶
This section provides pointers to other documents which may be of interest to those developing mobile clients, or considering implementing optimizations for them in servers.
Stream Compression (XEP-0138) [3] provides stream level compression.
Entity Capabilities (XEP-0115) [7] provides a mechanism for caching, and hence eliding, the disco#info requests needed to negotiate optional features.
Roster Versioning (XEP-0237) [8] provides a relatively widely deployed extension for reducing roster fetch sizes.
Stream Management (XEP-0198) [9] allows the client to send and receive smaller keep-alive messages, and resume existing sessions without the full handshake. This is useful on unstable connections.
Client State Indication (XEP-0352) [6] allows clients to indicate to the server that they are inactive, allowing the server to optimize and reduce unnecessary traffic.
Push Notifications (XEP-0357) [10] implements push notifications (third party message delivery), which are often used on mobile devices and highly optimized to conserve battery. Push notifications also allow delivery of notifications to mobile clients that are currently offline (eg. in an XEP-0198 "zombie" state).
Message Archive Management (XEP-0313) [11] lets clients fetch messages which they missed (eg. due to poor mobile coverage and a flaky network connection).
6. Acknowledgements¶
This XEP was originally written by Dave Cridland, and parts of his original work were used in this rewrite. Thanks to Atlassian (HipChat) for allowing me to release numbers from their XMPP compression deployment.
7. Security Considerations¶
This document introduces no new security considerations.
8. IANA Considerations¶
This document requires no interaction with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
9. XMPP Registrar Considerations¶
No namespaces or parameters need to be registered with the XMPP Registrar as a result of this document.
Appendix A: Document Information¶
XMPP Standards Foundation
Approving Body
XMPP Council
XMPP Core
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This document in other formats: XML PDF
Appendix B: Author Information¶
dave@forwardhealth.co
JabberID
dwd@dave.cridland.net
sam@samwhited.com
https://blog.samwhited.com/
Appendix C: Legal Notices¶
This XMPP Extension Protocol is copyright © 1999 – 2020 by the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF).
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this specification (the "Specification"), to make use of the Specification without restriction, including without limitation the rights to implement the Specification in a software program, deploy the Specification in a network service, and copy, modify, merge, publish, translate, distribute, sublicense, or sell copies of the Specification, and to permit persons to whom the Specification is furnished to do so, subject to the condition that the foregoing copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Specification. Unless separate permission is granted, modified works that are redistributed shall not contain misleading information regarding the authors, title, number, or publisher of the Specification, and shall not claim endorsement of the modified works by the authors, any organization or project to which the authors belong, or the XMPP Standards Foundation.
## NOTE WELL: This Specification is provided on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ##
In no event and under no legal theory, whether in tort (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, shall the XMPP Standards Foundation or any author of this Specification be liable for damages, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character arising from, out of, or in connection with the Specification or the implementation, deployment, or other use of the Specification (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any and all other commercial damages or losses), even if the XMPP Standards Foundation or such author has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
IPR Conformance
This XMPP Extension Protocol has been contributed in full conformance with the XSF's Intellectual Property Rights Policy (a copy of which can be found at <https://xmpp.org/about/xsf/ipr-policy> or obtained by writing to XMPP Standards Foundation, P.O. Box 787, Parker, CO 80134 USA).
The HTML representation (you are looking at) is maintained by the XSF. It is based on the YAML CSS Framework, which is licensed under the terms of the CC-BY-SA 2.0 license.
Appendix D: Relation to XMPP¶
The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is defined in the XMPP Core (RFC 6120) and XMPP IM (RFC 6121) specifications contributed by the XMPP Standards Foundation to the Internet Standards Process, which is managed by the Internet Engineering Task Force in accordance with RFC 2026. Any protocol defined in this document has been developed outside the Internet Standards Process and is to be understood as an extension to XMPP rather than as an evolution, development, or modification of XMPP itself.
Appendix E: Discussion Venue¶
The primary venue for discussion of XMPP Extension Protocols is the <standards@xmpp.org> discussion list.
Discussion on other xmpp.org discussion lists might also be appropriate; see <http://xmpp.org/about/discuss.shtml> for a complete list.
Errata can be sent to <editor@xmpp.org>.
Appendix F: Requirements Conformance¶
The following requirements keywords as used in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119: "MUST", "SHALL", "REQUIRED"; "MUST NOT", "SHALL NOT"; "SHOULD", "RECOMMENDED"; "SHOULD NOT", "NOT RECOMMENDED"; "MAY", "OPTIONAL".
Appendix G: Notes¶
1. RFC 1951: DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951>.
2. RFC 3749: Transport Layer Security Protocol Compression Methods <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3749>.
3. XEP-0138: Stream Compression <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0138.html>.
4. LTE Smartphone measurements <http://networks.nokia.com/system/files/document/lte_measurements_final.pdf>
5. A Close Examination of Performance and Power Characteristics of 4G LTE Networks <doi:2307636.2307658>
6. XEP-0352: Client State Indication <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0352.html>.
7. XEP-0115: Entity Capabilities <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0115.html>.
8. XEP-0237: Roster Versioning <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0237.html>.
9. XEP-0198: Stream Management <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0198.html>.
10. XEP-0357: Push Notifications <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0357.html>.
11. XEP-0313: Message Archive Management <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html>.
Appendix H: Revision History¶
Note: Older versions of this specification might be available at http://xmpp.org/extensions/attic/
Version 1.0.0 (2018-01-25)¶
Advance to Active as per Council vote on 2018-01-10.
XEP Editor (jwi)
Minor editorial fixes.
Remove reference to EXI which has no implementations.
Attempt to fix some confusing paragraphs.
Add Client State Indication to Notable Extensions.
Version 0.3 (2015-07-24)¶
Include real world compression numbers and additional recommended reading.
Overhaul to include LTE.
Initial published version.
First draft. Also John's birthday.
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Marriage Equality: Congressman David Jolly supports same-sex marriage
Urging him to apologize for his support of same-sex marriage, several dozen social conservatives in Florida have penned a letter to U.S. Rep. David Jolly (R-FL), according to the Washington Post on Wednesday.
Less than five months after he beat former Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink in a special election, Jolly has publically endorsed same-sex marriage despite being a member of the Republican Party – a political party that has steadfastly been opposed to anything but traditional marriage.
Applauding the ruling by a Florida judge who struck down the state constitutional amendment passed by voters recognizing only traditional marriage, Congressman Jolly was thought to have supported Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage. Jolly has now “clarified” his position indicating that while he personally believes that marriage should be between one man and one woman, the State of Florida should allow same-sex marriages.
“As a matter of my Christian faith, I believe in traditional marriage,” Jolly told the Washington Post. “But as a matter of constitutional principle I believe in a form of limited government that protects personal liberty. To me, that means that the sanctity of one’s marriage should be defined by their faith and by their church, not by their state. Accordingly, I believe it is fully appropriate for a state to recognize both traditional marriage as well as same-sex marriage, and therefore I support the recent decision by a Monroe County circuit judge.”
Many of the freshman Congressman’s supporters are “profoundly disappointed” and have called on the Indian Shores Republican to apologize.
An open letter written to the Congressman:
Dear Congressman Jolly,
We recently learned of the complete reversal of your position on homosexual marriage from the Washington Post. Please know how profoundly disappointed we are in this decision.
So many of us worked, walked, called, gave money and voted to help you get elected and defeat the liberal Democrat Alex Sink because you personally assured us that you were a conservative Republican who believed that marriage was between one man and one woman.
In church after church, you publicly stated your support for the policy behind Florida’s law and Florida’s constitution which clearly defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman, as over 30 other states have done.
Just months ago, you told us that you supported a “state’s right” to define marriage which is consistent with the holding of the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case of U.S. vs. Windsor — yet now you are completely failing to support your own state’s law and the constitutional mandate passed by five million Floridians.
You ran for office in Florida’s Congressional District 13, which is completely contained within Pinellas County where 54.3% of the voters voted in favor of marriage being between one man and one woman in 2008.
You ran for Congress as a member of the Republican Party with a platform clearly affirming that “marriage, the union of one man and one woman must be upheld as the national standard” and now you have turned your back on this standard.
By agreeing with the judge’s recent ruling in Monroe County, you promote the fiction that Florida’s marriage laws have been declared unconstitutional by some legitimate authority. The Federal Courts have clearly not given their final word on this matter and the ruling is being appealed by Florida’s Attorney General.
Even worse, when you agree with this lower court’s opinion, you also agree with his irresponsible claim that citizens in your district who passed the marriage amendment were motivated by “animus” or hatred toward gay-identified persons. Nothing could be further from the truth or more morally repugnant to us, as we all affirm the inherent dignity and value of every human being.
We reject your illusory and false dichotomy between your “personal views” and “public views” as a legislator as you made no such distinction during your campaign. Liberals for years have made the same arguments to deceptively triangulate on other moral issues.
You make much of talking about the government having no place protecting the “sanctity of marriage,” which misses the point and is an argument no one is making.
Your statements in the Washington Post are not those of a serious-minded and thoughtful legislator who understands the state’s compelling interest in the economic and social implications inherent within the institutions of marriage and family.
We are profoundly disappointed in this announcement and now we can only wonder what other issues you might change your views on. Please know that we consider your reversal on this critical issue to be an act of cowardice and a betrayal to the very persons that worked extremely hard to get you elected to office.
We call upon you to publicly apologize for this mistake and hold fast to your original position that states should define marriage as it has always been, the union of one man and one woman only. We also challenge you to not cower to the pressure, demands and intimidation of homosexual activists. Finally, we exhort you to be governed not by polls, politics and profits but instead to be governed by principle and what is in the best interest of children, families and the common good of society. Your future as the Congressman representing us in Florida’s District 13 is counting on it.
Respectfully, your campaign volunteers, financial supporters and constituents:
Regina Brown, Florida Family Action
Rex Brown, Contractor, Largo
Mark Phillips, Florida Family Action, Dunedin
John Burgess, Retired, St. Pete
Betsy Burgess, Retited, St. Pete
Rev. Glenn Pav, Largo
Nancy Davis, Retired, Seminole
Pastor Randy Morris, Seminole
Tom Beckwith, Business Owner
Liddora Beckwith, Seminole
Pastor Anthony McDaniel
Kendra McDaniel, Clearwater
Pastor Duran Carder
Shannon Carder, Largo
Tina Neuhauser, Largo
Anthony Neuhauser, Largo
Rev. David Tristani, St. Pete
Pastor Kyle Mills, Largo
Pastor Garrett Mills, Clearwater
Pastor Anel Avila
Emily Avila, St Pete
Emily Gibson Walker
Joel Walker, Largo
Laura Works, Largo
Darl Works, Largo
Joanne Neuhauser, Largo
Bruce Bacon
Delane Bacon, Largo
Bronson Oudshoff
Misty Oudshoff, Clearwater
Gery Cuprisin
Dyan Cuprisin, Largo
Mark Kober, Largo
Paula Dorzuk, Largo
James Free
Jackie Free, Largo
Candis Flores, Largo
Pam Cortese, Largo
Mike Delana
Jen Delana, Largo
Anthony Utegaard
Leah Utegaard, Largo
“Smart move for Congressman Jolly now that he has been assured a full term in office,” Remington Longstreth, an abstract painter and professional photographer, told Examiner. “Come the 2016 election, no one will remember his position today.”
Jolly joins fellow Republican Senators Rob Portman, Mark Kirk, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins in addition to Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Richard Hanna and Charlie Dent in voicing support for marriage equality.
Congressman Jolly and his wife of 15 years were divorced in January, just two days after winning the Republican nomination following the death of U.S. Representative Bill Young. He thereafter defeated former CFO Alex Sink in a March special election.
“Reminiscent of the ‘Hope’ and ‘Change We Can Believe In,’ promised by President Barack Obama in 2008, Congressman David Jolly is quickly proving to be his own man,” former Broward County Republican Chairman Rico Petrocelli, told Examiner. “As a freshman Representative, Jolly is certainly building a reputation for himself.”
The freshman Republican from Indian Shores faces no primary challenger and only a Libertarian challenger in the November general election.
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Extinct (AM13 Outbreak Series)-Book Tour & Giveaway
October 2, 2017 / 1 Comment
AM13Outbreak Series Book 3
by Samie Sands
Genre:Horror
Writing books about the horrors of the zombie apocalypse is one thing—but Georgie Blake can’t believe it has become her reality…
She never expected her fictional stories of blood, death, and the consumption of human flesh to jump off the page into the real world.She certainly didn’t think she’d survive this long if they had.As a shy novelist, she was sure she’d be one of the first to die.
Safe in the Sanctuary, Georgie holds on to hope for a cure…
But that’s not all she holds on to. The government has promised the people of the Sanctuary that they can return home. The rumours are rife that there is an antidote on the horizon. But even if not, the infected are dying out, throwing the treacherous AM13 virus to thebrink of extinction. If the infection dies out, this horrible nightmare Georgie is living in will be a distant memory.
Until everything that’s right goes terribly wrong…
Soonafter meeting some new friends in the Sanctuary, Georgie learns she’s going to have to face the monsters outside the walls if she wants to return to her old life. But for a scared, introverted bookworm, it may be too much to consider…
WillGeorgina conquer her fears of the dead to return home, or will she beone of the countless others who have gone Extinct?
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AM13 Outbreak SeriesBook 2
Every attempt to contain the deadly AM13 virus has failed, leaving humanity on the brink of extinction…
The plague is spreading out of control with no cure in sight. Then the government announces its new plan—a sanctuary in an area completely untouched by the infected—as long as you can get there alive andunscathed.
Ethan Watton has managed to survive this long, even with OCD making everyday more hellish than it already is…
Ethan’s obsessive-compulsive disorder dramatically affected his life before the infection began. Now he’s desperate to get as far away from the zombie virus as humanly possible. Isolated and afraid, Ethan thinks there is no way in hell he will survive the epidemic.
Alyssa Turner has spent her teenage years prepping for the undead to challenge her zombie killing skills…
Alyssa knows with absolute certainty that she will survive the AM13 virus.She’s read all the books, watched all the films, and done all the research. She’s strong, tough, and a self-proclaimed badass. Any group would be lucky to fight alongside her…until the unthinkable makes her doubt every skill she’s acquired.
Dr.Jones is a scientist who doesn’t understand why he was selected to produce a cure…
Surely there are survivors more experienced in virology than he is. And what will happen to him—and the rest of the species—if he fails? Is the fate of the human race really resting on his shoulders? Or are there others working toward the same goal?
With the zombies multiplying and survivors struggling to make it to the sanctuary, Ethan, Alyssa, and Dr. Jones fight to fulfill their destinies. If they fail, their fate is sealed, and they will join the millions of others who have been…
Forgotten.
AM13 Series Book 1
Leah Watton’s practical joke has spiralled way out of control—all to impress a crush…
With a prank online video, Leah hopes to catch the attention of Jake Colton, a cute, blond-haired, blue-eyed co-worker she’s had a crush on for months. But instead of sending it to Jake, she manages to forward the clip to her boss—who buys every gory second.
When mass panic ensues, Leah learns the video is more than a staged act…
The government is calling the virus AM13. As the outbreak spreads,citizens are forced to stay indoors while they assess the gravity of the illness. Most people are quarantined in their homes, but Leah,Jake, and Leah’s best friend Michelle are some of the unlucky few who are stuck at work when the Lockdown occurs.
That’s where she first encounters one of the infected…
Aside from a contaminated woman devouring one of her co-workers, Leah has another problem. Does she do as she’s ordered and stay at work? Or should she disobey government orders and break free to reunite with her family?
She can’t go it alone—after all, Leah has none of the skills needed to survive—but with Michelle and Jake by her side, not even a contagious virus and a sea of the dead can keep her from…
Breakingout of the Lockdown…
Samie Sands is a 28 year old freelance graphic designer who has recently decided to follow her lifelong dream and use her creativity in a new way by writing.
She has a degree in Media Studies and PR and has already had articles published in a number of e-zines, including one of the most popular pieces at Zombie Guide Magazine. She has also had short stories included in a number of successful projects.
She livesin a small seaside town in the UK, but loves to travel to gaininspiration from new places and different cultures.
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‘Photography is over,’ an interview with master image-maker Nick Knight
4th February 2016 /0 Comments/in Documentary, Museums & Exhibitions, Photography /by MarkWhatmore
We had the great privilege to film an interview with photographer and film-maker Nick Knight today, as part of a film about body image, diversity and fashion. Nick, whose incredible images mark him out as one of the world’s top fashion photographers, offered up some provocative insights on the emerging digital era. For him ‘photography is over’, it died a death at the start of this century to be replaced by modern, digital image-making, a new medium of immense artistic freedom and possibility, which has shaken off the dead hand of ‘truth’ and moved into a fresh, creative space where the visual imagination can run wild and images can be endlessly controlled, manipulated, adjusted and re-invented. It’s new world, in which we’re just scratching the surface, where Nick’s work delivers an inspiring glimpse of the possibilities – see it here.
Tags: fashion, nick knight, photography, video for museums, video production, yoho media
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Trump calls for inquiry into Google’s work with China
Jul 16, 2019 | Business, Top Stories
By David Shepardson, Susan Heavey and Paresh Dave
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his administration would investigate whether Alphabet Inc’s Google supports the Chinese government, following accusations that a company official refuted hours later at a Senate hearing.
The president repeated accusations made previously by Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and venture capitalist, that Google may be infiltrated by Chinese intelligence agents.
“A great and brilliant guy who knows this subject better than anyone! The Trump Administration will take a look!” the president wrote on Twitter.
Trump later told reporters he would have various agencies, including potentially the Justice Department, “see if there’s any truth to” Thiel’s accusations.
Thiel has called on the FBI and CIA to probe Google on its relations with China, and alleged that the company worked with the Chinese military.
The top U.S. general, Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed similar concerns about Google in a congressional hearing in March.
Google said in an email statement: “As we have said before, we do not work with the Chinese military.”
At a wide-ranging U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday about Google’s content policies, the company’s top government affairs official told Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican, that it did little business in China.
“Fundamentally in China we actually do very little today, certainly compared to any other major technology company,” said Karan Bhatia, vice president for government affairs and public policy.
Bhatia rejected accusations that Google has been infiltrated by Chinese intelligence agents or that it has turned a “blind eye” to theft of its code. Its decisions about contracts with the U.S. government have not been based on pressure from China, he said.
He added that Google had “terminated” an effort to develop a search engine that abides by China’s political censorship rules. Google would only launch such a service now in consultation with “key stakeholders,” Bhatia said.
But under questioning from senators, Bhatia declined to commit to not censoring content in China or to undergoing a third-party audit of its content moderation policies.
The lack of commitment drew sharp criticism from Hawley.
“Clearly our trust and patience in your company and the behavior of your monopoly has run out,” he said. “It’s time for some accountability.”
Thiel has financially backed several Republican politicians at the state and federal level, including Trump and Hawley, who have expressed concern about the influence of Google’s search and advertising businesses.
Thiel invested in Facebook Inc soon after its founding and is a director at the social media company, which is Google’s top rival for online ad spending. He also is a director at data analytics software firm Palantir Technologies, which, like Google, competes to secure government technology contracts.
‘HOURGLASS HAS RUN OUT’
Senators on Tuesday criticized Google over several issues, including whether it was biased against conservative content and why it has been slow to stop the spread of some graphic material.
Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, said Google’s YouTube needed to do a better job of policing content.
“You can’t simply unleash the monster and say it’s too big to control,” Blumenthal said. “The hourglass has run out.”
Senator Ted Cruz, who chairs the Senate Judiciary panel which held the hearing, called Google “a black box” currently and said it must present more data to lawmakers about takedowns of conservative content versus liberal material. Such information could inform how to better regulate Google, he said.
Google’s monopoly power and censorship “is a real threat to our democratic processes,” Cruz said after the hearing.
Senator Mazie Hirono, the top Democrat on panel, described the “claims of anti-conservative bias” as baseless.
The hearing was a chance for Google “to be raked over the coals … for common sense actions that are entirely within their rights,” she said.
(Reporting by David Shepardson and Susan Heavey in Washington; additional reporting by Paresh Dave in San Francisco; editing by Jonathan Oatis, Tom Brown and Cynthia Osterman)
Huawei CFO Meng’s lawyer says ‘double criminality’ at center of U.S. extradition case
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Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou will be in a Vancouver courtroom on Monday for the first day of her extradition trial, a process expected …
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A large caravan of Central Americans was preparing to cross the Guatemalan border into Mexico on Monday, posing a potential challenge to the Mexican government’s …
Dozens of Iraqi protesters were wounded in Baghdad and other cities on Monday in clashes with security forces who were trying to clear blocked roads, …
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Three Katyusha rockets fell on Tuesday inside Baghdad’s Green Zone which houses government buildings and foreign missions, Iraqi police sources told Reuters.
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Open Forum – 15 November
by Pete George on 15th November 2019 • Permalink
Posted by Pete George on 15th November 2019
https://yournz.org/2019/11/15/open-forum-15-november/
Peters drops leak accusations against Bennett, Tolley
Tikanga could be appropriate for posthumous appeals law?
/ 15th November 2019
Winston Peters’ lawyer Brian Henry involved in more questionable stuff involving NZ First.
And peters’ partner Jan Trotman is also involved in seeking money from Provincial Growth Fund run by Shane Jones.
A powerful New Zealand First figure helped establish a forestry company that then pushed for money from two key funding streams controlled by a New Zealand First Minister.
NZ First-linked forestry company pushed for govt funds https://t.co/GRSJ7eNiKW
— RNZ (@radionz) November 14, 2019
An RNZ investigation has found Brian Henry, lawyer for Winston Peters and judicial officer for the New Zealand First party, became a founding director of NZ Future Forest Products in March.
The company immediately began its bid for money from the Provincial Growth Fund and also sought funding from the One Billion Trees programme – both overseen by New Zealand First Minister Shane Jones.
The Billion Trees funding bid was rejected by officials at Te Uru Rākau, Forestry New Zealand, on 22 August.
Enter Trotman.
Less than a week after that rejection, Future Forest Products appointed the partner of New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters as a director of the company.
Jan Trotman, who has extensive experience as a director and senior manager of commercial businesses, shares a home with Mr Peters, who is also deputy prime minister, in central Auckland.
Ms Trotman was made the fourth director of the forestry company on 27 August, when the company bid for at least $1 million from the Provincial Growth Fund was still live.
Company Office records show it was Mr Henry who completed Ms Trotman’s application for a director’s certificate.
This is looking messy. It may or may not be legal, but it doesn’t look good.
They were talking about this last night. NZ1st people contacted to be interviewed were all passing the buck. Something stinks..and that whiff has come at the right time.
Some relevant History here .
The Henry family were behind the creation of the original NZ Forest Products , the wood processing giant. Broken up after corporate raiders took over
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Henry_(businessman)
Peters lawyer is a branch of the same family that has history in the law , with judges, law firm Hesketh Henry etc
A foot in both camps , so to speak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_family
The family have a low profile now but remain large land owners , which is probably where the forest planting comes in now.
No proof of ‘questionable stuff’ PG
And exactly why is it ‘messy’ …..their application was declined .
“But his spokesperson said the application for funding from the One Billion Trees programme never reached ministerial level. Forestry officials decided Future Forest Products was not eligible and the minister was not involved.
and then the other approach
“The company’s bid for funding from the Provincial Growth Fund was then knocked back this month, after Labour Party ministers rejected it.[Jones left the room during the consideration and decision]
Surely a family company with a long history in the timber sector in NZ would be open to the billion trees and PGF sector.
Where exactly was the questionable and or messy stuff you allude to ?
If someone asks a question it’s ‘questionable stuff’ I suppose.
An early Christmas present for all! From what I’ve heard so far the system worked with some checks and balances coming into play, RNZ has come up with a scandal, controversy, dramatic situation which already by dint of its presentation can be turned into ‘corruption at the highest levels’ and we can be sure that Simon Bridges, Mark Mitchell and Chris Bishop will be orgasmic.
Shane Jones will have his say after 8am. The jury is out. Will Guyon Espiner turn out to be Paddy Gower? 🙃
As long as NZ1 and National are punished for not supporting gun owners, and supporting the Zero Carbon Bill, I don’t care whether the whiff of corruption has a basis in reality or not. Labour needs to win the upcoming election so the RIGHT of politics in this country are forced to untangle their philosophical wires and decide what it is they stand for.
What are you talking about? Guns are still allowed to be owned in NZ. No party has banned gun ownership.
Not semi autos. Now they are after large magazine .22s and pistols. This government is enjoying an endless wet dream. Tarrant has been one the best things that ever happened to Labour,.
10 shot .22 magazines are still legal, and that’s plenty big enough. You can still use multiple magazines.
There have been much tougher restrictions on pistols for a long time.
Yes, but they are looking at the 30 plus magazined .22s that are now being imported like crazy. And also large magazine pistols which already have tight regulations, as you say, governing purchase and use. That shows once again, this government knows nothing about guns and gun culture. They have just knee jerked on this issue to impress the world..and pander to limp wrist latte sucking liberals. And where was National and NZ first on this issue?
Meanwhile, I have stopped counting at nine firearm offences perpetrated during the last 5 months that involve people who I bet have illegal firearms that will never be turned in unless they are caught. I doubt they have a firearm license either.
You are right about the government and guns . Thats why they ask the police around the legal niceties and look to what happened in Australia- Tarrant came to NZ from ‘gun restricted Australia’ after all.
Latte sucking limpwristed liberals ?
Corks once used Mike Hosking’s supposed ‘latte slurping’ as an indication of his urbanity and sophistication.
Leaked document shows Greens discussing scrapping spending limit policyhttps://t.co/AizVrQmcWl pic.twitter.com/yMXLSultU7
— Newstalk ZB (@NewstalkZB) November 14, 2019
A leaked Greens discussion document reveals the party is gearing up to ditch its support of the self-imposed Government spending and borrowing rules, labelling them “arbitrary”.
The Herald has obtained a copy of a fiscal policy consultation document, sent out to members discussing a review of the Greens’ fiscal policy.
Within that review is a commitment to scrap the party’s support of some of the Budget Responsibility Rules (BRRs) – co-written by Greens co-leader James Shaw and Finance Minister Grant Robertson before the 2017 election.
Some of the rules have been highly controversial to Greens members, as they put a limit on spending and borrowing.
From the embedded article:
The BRRs [Budget Responsibility Rules] were only meant to be in place for the first term the Government was in power.
Both Labour and the Greens said they would reassess the rules before the next election.
Earlier this year, Robertson said the Labour Party was in the process of reviewing all its policies before the 2020 election and the BRRs would “absolutely” be a part of that.
Another shabby leak about something that parties are legitimately doing & signalled an intention to do. Voters will make their call when required.
however this is all done in the best possible…
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2017/08/02/hold-on-national-cut-suicide-helpline-to-give-contract-to-bill-englishs-wife/
Geez. That’s a really bad look. Did only Bomber (who seems to have now faded into obscurity) pick that one up?
No ,but the media was very,very, tame towards the Natz for 9 years.
Jobs are hard to get in journalism and the media companies are owned by the …right.
Yep. I think you might be correct on that, when I think back.
On a somewhat related issue, though, & ignoring HDPA, my impression is that most female journos & tv reporters give Ardern an easy ride. Would you agree?
Possibly a united ‘sisters’ feel.
Counter balanced by the rabid determination of the Hoskings types that want to bring her ..down.
(It’s perfectly ok not to reply if you think so too but you’d rather not say so)
Oh sorry. Never mind. 😀
Good point about the Hosking type right wing neolib commentariat looking to rubbish everything she does. No government does nothing of value.
The headline and article are totally misleading and disingenuous, making it sound as if Mary English profited from being on the board.
She is one of a number of board members and the chances of them making money from this contract are probably zero.
What a spiteful person Bomber is.
Oh. Sorry. Was her service on that board gratis?
Plus Bomber lifted the story and details from an earlier Herald one.
Its unlikely she benefited personally, but then again they put prominent people on boards as ‘influencers’ in getting over the line with government funded contracts.
The headline made it sound as if she was making millions out of it and that the contract was awarded because of nepotism and crooked practice. The board may be given some kind of payment, but the money was awarded to the organisation, not to the people themselves as Bomber implied; he’s lucky that he wasn’t charged with defamation.
I dunno why Stuff keeps trying to drag this storm in a teacup out.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/the-detail/117441141/the-detail-the-anger-behind-the-ok-boomer-viral-meme
Everybody’s got over it. “Silly old duffer”; “Stupid kid” covers it for most of us & it’s gone on for generations. Situation normal.
It was a childish comment and not very dignified in the circumstances.
Clickbait. gen Y clickbait is even better gold…better than young women on Tinder dates ( only thing missing was Uber and Airbnb
interesting from Chris Trotter..
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/11/12/ok-boomer-ruling-class/
Yes, that’s actually quite an sightful piece & puts the OK Boomer-utterers in their place.
Chris, I imagine, is well and truly now decidedly in the middle class, which he casts as the ruling class-enablers.
The fall of Soviet Communism (which seems to me to be a perversion of Marxism), the economic messes of some current, corrupted, nominally socialist now-dictatorships, & the economic rises of some communo-capitalist hybrid dictatorships complicate any analyses of whether Marxism is the answer to income inequalities (which are the principal driver of most of the popular revolts or widespread demonstrations happening around the world at the moment).
(Hong Kong might be something of a stand-alone exception, because the young people’s determination to live in a free democratic society & not be dragged into the PRC’s Owellian authoritarian Communo-Capitalist system where everyone’s every doing is now monitored & justice & the legal system are a sour farce is primarily what’s driving unrest there.)
I still think, among other countries around the world, New Zealand still looks to be one of the Western democratic countries where it’s still possible to ensure a reasonable balance of power among the haves & have nots, reward for effort, enterprise, education & risk, so long as we can keep enuf of our politicians honest & the Courts fair.
That doesn’t require attempting to pigeonhole society into classes, the boundaries of which are often greyer now than in Marx’s time. That requires teaching the young to think for themselves, giving those who need it protection & assistance to enable acgood standard of living, giving those in economic strife a hand up, not a hand out, and ensuring equality of opportunity.
In a wealthy society nobody should starve or be homeless, but nobody who can earn their way should get a free ride off others – whether they be bankers or (real) dole bludgers.
Drat.
*insightful piece
You forget Marxism was originally seen as ‘scientific’, it was just just beliefs it was provable .
Sound like something else more recent.
The earliest Marxists -Bolsheviks were fervent believers, the next generation less fervent but still felt it was the only way to ‘solve the problems’ of class struggle. The next generation just thought it was complete nonsense – these were the ones who broke the Soviet Union.
History repeats , as we have a new scientific proven belief system
2 dead, 3 wounded, Southern California. Hail to The Chief. Dirty Donald & hIs NRA gun nut backers continue to support America setting the Western world record for school shootings.
https://play.stuff.co.nz/details/_6103862976001
I hope that Trump didn’t insult the families by trotting out the thoughts and prayers cliche.
The first of 2 (so far) of this month’s gun-mad-US school shooters has also now died.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/117476393/teen-who-killed-two-people-at-his-us-school-has-died
The second one appears to be still on the loose.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/117476250/at-least-two-people-shot-at-us-high-school-football-game–reports
Thoughts & prayers from the NRA. Be sure to get yourself a gun to protect yourself from other people with guns.
‘following accepted,cultural tradition…indeed…
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/judith-collins-calls-herself-a-woman-of-colour/ar-BBWKaMW?ocid=spartanntp
OMG. She was, like, totally a bitch there, over Armistice Day. Is that still a thing?
Anyway, she’s pakeha, but she’s not white. Very few pakeha are. Mainly redheads.
Well, she did say ‘a woman of colour-the colour white.’ The remark had been taken out of context and made to sound other than what it was. She was opposed to female genital mutilation and saying that being white was no barrier to this; one doesn’t have to be dark-skinned to be opposed to the practice.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/117480673/new-zealand-woman-dies-in-hotel-in-new-delhi-india
Local thieves
Seen on the way to grocery shop with ma at New World this morning.
The shop has very clear signs warning about CCTV and that they will prosecute. I imagine they’ve sent these images to the police as well – but there’s 3 months worth of these hi-res images on one of the shop windows.
Each shoplifter is shown with an inscription of the date and exactly what they nicked.
You’d have to be really bloody dumb to shoplift from this business. Every single image is clear & sharp enough for the thief to be instantly recognisable.
I even noticed 2 photos, taken on different days, with different items noted as thieved, were of the same woman in different clothes.
The Stupid Hall of Fame Supreme Award has to go to the fool who went to a record shop, found that the CD he wanted was out of stock and left his name, address and phone number.
He then leaned over the counter and robbed the till, not realising that he was on CCTV.
Then there’s the one who took his hood off and gazed at the camera, obviously wondering what it was…he would have found out.
Some genius/es broke a window and stole some very expensive sewing machines from a shop in Hamilton,quite a few thousands of dollars worth. The machines were sitting there in the window, minus their boxes of course. But (equally of course) the cords and other such things were in the boxes; there’s no point in unpacking those. The thieves would have had nothing but the equivalent of cars with no engines for their trouble; completely unsaleable.
A policeman told me that it was common for criminals to wear latex gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints and then take them off and leave them at the scene of the crime.
Some mothers do ‘ave ’em.
And you have to wonder about the bright sparks who video themselves doing things like breaking into cars and then put the videos online for all to see.
Alan Wilkinson
God, Eaqub is a nasty ignorant fuckwit:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/117422673/baby-boomers-had-a-chance-to-help-younger-generations-they-didnt
Don’t bother God with this one. I doubt he’s listening. My bet is he’s long ago given up on humans as his biggest mistake & is quite probably looking right now now for a suitable asteroid.
All Equab is doing is collectively guilt-shaming & moaning about the generation before his. Big deal. Who cares?
I care because his ignorant incompetence prevents the real causes being identified and fixed.
So, what are they, & when are you publishing an article in Stuff setting e eryone straight?
*everyone
A builder told me the other day that 30% of new builds in Northland are being done without consents and signed off by engineers for CoA approval only. The system is totally buggered for ordinary people.
I thought guilt may have been…troubling you…the truth hurts..so they say.
Not a pain likely to trouble you then, B.
its denial that causes the pain…so I’m told.
Can’t be true or you would know.
Gareth calling it a day. Chap’s almost been invisible this term. Wrong gender I suspect.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/117439116/outgoing-green-mp-gareth-hughes-says-the-government-has-not-been-transformational
Yep..apparently he was due to slide down the ladder at the next party reshuffle. No big loss. A climate change scammer with deluded perceptions of the way the world is. He has his pension, courtesy of me and other taxpayers, so he can’t complain. He will have no problems buying expensive health foods and supplements at his local health shop.
Obama tells Dems: If you want to win the Presidency – Get Real, Not Woke
(or words to that general effect)
Former US President Barack Obama has issued a warning to Democratic presidential candidates, cautioning them against policies that are not “rooted in reality”.
Mr Obama said Democrats risked alienating voters if they lurched too far to the left politically.
The former president, speaking at a fundraising event, said most voters didn’t want to “tear down the system”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50445743
Excellent advice. Luckily for Trump the Dems won’t heed it.
Meanwhile, political gossip about whether Hillary Clinton might enter the fray continues to set tongues wagging in Washington DC.
In an interview with the BBC, Mrs Clinton said she was “under enormous pressure” to challenge Mr Trump, who beat her in the 2016 presidential election.
The woman is severely deluded. A dead duck.
It’s unbelievable they can have such a hard time figuring it out. The job’s there for the taking.
All they have to do is present a candidate who can tweak what Trump’s done that works, and implement what he said he’d do but hasn’t, & package it as significant change, and not be a bully, tell the truth & not be a pathological liar, not be a narcissist, show a moral compass, contunually offer to work collaboratively with the other side, study the advice of departmental advisers before going against it, thus taking them with him, use Twitter wisely.
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