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Franchise Opportunities By Investment Requirement
It takes money to start any kind of business, franchises included. Franchising investment options run the gamut from low to high, including start-up costs (franchise fees, equipment, supplies, plus real estate if needed) and reserve capital to keep the business running until it generates positive cash flow. Once you have determined the level of investment that works best for your budget, timing, and goals, you can review our brand listings here, sorted by investment level, to find the right industry, concept, and location for your new business. Make your first entry into franchising more systematic, streamlined, and profitable than you thought possible.
Opportunity Guide
California Tortilla
Food that's built to impress. For a restaurant that's built to perform. For a franchise that's built to grow.
Franchise with award-winning Glory Days Grill®! With 23 years of proven growth and performance, Glory Days Grill® has won AWARDS for Best American...
ZIPS Dry Cleaners
ZIPS, since 1996, began as eight dry cleaners in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., metro area and has grown to more than 40 stores. Find out more.
Minuteman Press
Minuteman Press is the world's largest & number 1 rated printing & marketing franchise. Our business model features multiple revenue streams,...
Kona Ice
Low investment, fastest growing with over 1,200 franchises in 11 years, #1 in franchisee satisfaction for the last seven years...enough said!
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Unity Rd.,
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Hungry Howie's Pizza
Hungry Howie's is currently EXPANDING! Top Markets are available for single or multiple unit development. Get the EDGE over the competition with...
IceBorn is the franchise model for Ice House America, the pioneer in automated ice vending technology, with a global network of 3,500...
An award-winning franchise company, Sbarro is known for selling XL NY pizza by the slice with dough made in-house daily & 100% Whole Milk...
Executive Care
Executive Care is more than just a Senior Care company. We are a full-service home health care company serving clients from infants to seniors. Our...
The Joint® Chiropractic is reinventing chiropractic care. Our vision is to become the largest, most respected provider of chiropractic services...
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Here's your chance to own a SONIC® Drive-in Franchise Restaurant. As the nation's largest drive-in chain, SONIC® has successfully served up hot,...
Our primary goal is to make you as successful as possible as a Potbelly franchise owner.
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Meineke Car Care Centers is a leader in the automotive aftermarket, providing high-quality, low-cost under-car repair services at more than 800...
Pinch A Penny Pool Patio and Spa
There's a great business opportunity right in your backyard with Pinch A Penny--America's largest retail pool supply and service franchise.
Ziggi's Coffee
There's nothing quite like the perfect cup of coffee. It wakes you up and gets you on the right path. Now, you've got the chance to build a lifestyle...
Maaco Collision Repair and Auto Painting
MAACO is America's Bodyshop with over 500 shops whose centers boast system-wide sales approaching billion dollars. We celebrate extraordinary brand...
Elements Massage
When simplicity is the essence of your business model, clients and owners benefit. Clients want a predictably wonderful experience with every visit....
Are you interested in a health conscious franchise opportunity in a growing smoothie industry that does over $2 billion in annual sales in the United...
We are looking for qualified, committed business owners interested in a franchise opportunity with a market leader.
RedBrick Pizza
At RedBrick Pizza (R), old world traditions meet new world recipes to create a better-for-you pizza experience. Baking pizzas to perfection at 1000...
Join Right at Home, an international home care franchise with more than 500 locations serving tens of thousands of people every day.
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Del Taco, one of the nation's largest Mexican quick-serve chains, first opened in 1964 serving up freshly prepared Mexican menu items such as tacos...
Denny's is America's largest full-service family restaurant chain, consisting of 168 company-owned units and 1,692 franchised units, with operations...
Lightbridge Academy
Lightbridge Academy has a way of making parents and children feel like they’re special. Here, they are surrounded by a Circle of Care that’s more...
Xpresso Delight
Xpresso Delight is the largest and fastest-growing coffee service franchise in the world. Owners place premium espresso machines in local office...
Sola Salon Studios
If you're passionate about real estate and empowering entrepreneurs, a Sola franchise may be perfect for you. Find out more in our franchise guide.
Our commitment to developing the best drive-thru espresso led us to franchising. Unlike nearly all other franchises, we do not charge...
PuroClean
Known as the "Paramedics of Property Damage®," PuroClean provides water damage remediation, flood water removal, fire and smoke damage...
DEFY provides youth and young adults an enticing alternative to video games and electronic devices by creating a way for them to enjoy positive,...
Freezing Moo
Everyone in the Freezing Moo family aims to bring a taste of joy and a fun experience to all who visit Freezing Moo’s locations — one cup at a...
Pigtails & Crewcuts is a recognized brand dedicated to making haircuts fun for kids. Our business model was designed with families in mind...
Founded in 1974 in Sharon, PA, the award-winning casual dining restaurant chain has expanded to more than 40 locations throughout the United States.
Fast Crafted® Restaurant Brand Specializing in Freshly-Sliced, Deli-Inspired Meats & Sandwiches
First Choice Business Brokers, Inc.
Become a First Choice Business Broker franchise and start performing business valuations and match a seller of a business to a qualified buyer.
Pearle Vision is one of the most recognizable, premium optical franchises, offering a proven business model in an industry with sustainable demand.
Green Home Solutions®
Green Home Solutions Franchise Owners are passionate about providing healthy indoor environments for homeowners and businesses in their communities.
Rent-A-Center
Taking re-franchising to a whole new level. Learn more about acquiring 20 or more operating units of a national brand with low labor, quality...
International Workplace Group
Capitalize on this once-in-a-generation opportunity by joining the world’s number one workspace and coworking provider as a franchise partner.
Loyalty Networking
Loyalty Networking is excited to introduce Area Representative opportunities.
We are currently looking for hard-working, dedicated people to become Area Representatives in markets throughout the United States.
Mighty Quinn’s BBQ
We're looking for franchisees and qualified investors with a passion for food who want to invest in a brand that will lead the fast casual barbeque...
Dunkin' Is Now Expanding! Find out about our franchise investment opportunities.
Big Blue Swim School
Big Blue Swim School focuses on creating Big Moments for children ages six months to 12 years old.
Pronto Insurance
As a franchise owner with Pronto Insurance, you can capitalize on the incredible demand for our insurance products as you build a fulfilling life for...
Batteries Plus Bulbs
Whether you're an existing multi-unit operator with a non-competing brand looking to expand your portfolio of franchise-owned businesses, or an...
At Ideal Image, we believe that confidence changes everything. Ideal Image is the nation’s leading MedSpa, performing more non-invasive aesthetic...
One of the fastest growing franchises in the U.S., Jimmy John’s has been making fresh, fast, tasty sandwiches since 1983.
RetroFitness
Retro Fitness is well positioned for today's economy and to dominate the low cost segment by offering a high quality and value add product in...
If you are looking for a solid business opportunity designed for growth, consider the advantages of the Newk's Eatery franchise opportunity.
Save A Lot Food Stores
We are the nation's leading hard discount grocery chain designed for independent retailers. Our business model is focused on empowering our Retail...
UBreakiFix
uBreakiFix is a consumer electronics repair company based out of Orlando, FL that specializes in refurbishing and restoring smartphones, tablets,...
Signage has never been more important. Right now, businesses are looking for new and better ways to compete.
HomeWell Cares
An Opportunity Like No Other; where personal fulfillment meets financial success.
Checkers Drive-In Restaurants
Checkers Drive-In restaurant franchises are small but efficient making our restaurants easy to operate and typically reduced overhead costs.
Handyman Connection
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Express Oil Change & Tire Engineer
Express Oil Change leads the industry in cars serviced per day and average store sales! Solid investment opportunity. Single and multi-unit...
Find out how you can become the proud owner of a Nathan's Famous restaurant.
Russo's New York Pizzeria
Russo's offers unique menu items made with only the freshest ingredients. Whether it's pizzas, pastas, sandwiches, salads, soups, or desserts we...
At Carl's Jr.®, our next success story is you. We consistently out-deliver the competition with a menu strategy that focuses on developing premium,...
At Hardee's®, our next success story is you. We consistently out-deliver the competition with a menu strategy that focuses on developing premium,
As a KFC franchise owner, we recognize there are many franchising choices. KFC offers value and a strong brand that has proven economic stability.
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Chance the Rapper cancels his Big Tour, including Detroit show, again citing family time
The Chicago rapper is pulling the plug on his Big Tour, including a Little Caesars Arena date, citing family concerns and a wish to make new music.
Chance the Rapper cancels his Big Tour, including Detroit show, again citing family time The Chicago rapper is pulling the plug on his Big Tour, including a Little Caesars Arena date, citing family concerns and a wish to make new music. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2019/12/15/chance-rapper-cancels-big-tour/2654948001/
Chance the Rapper performs at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Thursday, May 18, 2017, in Auburn Hills, Mich. (Photo: Elaine Cromie, Detroit Free Press)
Three months after rescheduling his North American arena tour, citing the recent birth of his second daughter, Chance the Rapper has pulled the plug altogether.
The charismatic Chicago star was set to reboot the tour in January with openers Lil Yachty and Taylor Bennett, including a Feb. 6 stop at Detroit's Little Caesars Arena.
Writing Sunday, Chance announced the tour cancellation, once again citing family concerns.
"Hey guys I’ve decided to cancel the Big Tour. I know it sucks and its been a lot of back and forth with reschedules and rerouting, but it’s for the best," he wrote on social media.
"I’m gonna take this time to be with family, make some new music and develop my best show to date. I’m deeply sorry to anyone with a ticket who has supported me this past decade by coming to a show and rocking out with me and I feel even worse for anyone who was planning on making this their first Chance concert."
Hey guys I’ve decided to cancel the Big Tour. I know it sucks and its been a lot of back and forth with reschedules and rerouting, but it’s for the best. I’m gonna take this time to be with family, make some new music and develop my best show to date. I’m deeply sorry to anyone with a ticket who has supported me this past decade by coming to a show and rocking out with me and I feel even worse for anyone who was planning on making this their first Chance concert. Thank you all for an amazing year, and a huge thanks to my team and family for being so strong through this whole year. I promise to come back much stronger and better in 2020 and hope to see some of you guys there. I truly love you and God bless.
A post shared by Chance The Rapper Owbum (@chancetherapper) on Dec 15, 2019 at 12:00pm PST
In September, Chance announced he was postponing the tour, originally scheduled for autumn, to spend time with his newborn daughter, Marli. He wrote that he'd regretted missing "some of the most important milestones" in the early life of his first daughter, Kensli, born in 2015 as his career was exploding.
Though most of the tour was rescheduled, with a Jan. 15 San Diego launch, several of the original markets were still awaiting new dates.
Ticket holders can obtain refunds at their point of purchase. If you purchased via Ticketmaster, refunds are typically applied to your credit card automatically.
More: Jack Scott, Detroit's first rock 'n' roll star, dies at 83
More: Little Caesars Arena is No. 2 US concert arena for 2019; DTE is No. 1 amphitheater
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Freightweek Magazine
Issue 12 - 2019
Issue 9 - 2019
2018 - Issues
Project Cargo Global Magazine
Richard Broom
Coalition provides sustainable marine biofuels verification
ROTTERDAM: February 04, 2019. A proof-of-concept coalition made up of global mining company BHP, NYK, sustainable biofuel supplier GoodFuels and an applications developer Blockchain Labs for Open Collaboration (BLOC), has delivered verifiably sustainable biofuels to the BHP-chartered, NYK-owned bulk carrier Frontier Sky.
The biofuel, supplied by GoodFuels via logistics partner Varo Energy, is a “drop-in” marine gasoil (MGO)-equivalent and was blended with conventional fuel in a 30/70 percent mix biofuel/MGO to save over 50 tonnes of CO2.
NYK’s reduction targets for GHG emissions are 30 percent per tonne-kilometre by 2030 and 50 percent by 2050 compared with a 2015 base year.
BHP says it has worked with GoodFuels to explore the use of sustainable, advanced, second generation biofuels for shipping that includes verifiable chains of custody and that the origin, emission reductions and fuel quality metrics are traceable and transparent.
The solution has now been provided by BLOC’s Maritime Blockchain Labs. BLOC CEO Deanna MacDonald commented: “This is an important demonstration of how blockchain technology could play a role in creating a global trusted monitoring, reporting and valuation system for broader adoption of cleaner fuels both in terms of meeting 2020 sulphur cap requirements and the IMO’s 2050 decarbonisation goal.”
Abdes Karimi, head of Strategy and Planning at BHP noted: “We fully support moves to decarbonise the freight industry, including implementing IMO2020. Biofuels offer an innovative approach to more sustainable bunker fuel. It’s important for us to ensure the biofuel we use is sustainably produced and traceable. This consortium has invented new ways of working. It demonstrates an effective model for the whole industry to build on in the future.”
GoodFuels head of Marine Isabel Welten added: “We want to make it as easy as possible for vessels to use biofuels to reduce their footprint. By documenting emissions savings and chains of custody, and combining this with smart incentives to use cleaner fuels, we can build a trusted, financially viable pathway towards zero-carbon shipping.”
The Netherlands-based company has created a one-stop shop for marine industry customers integrating the entire supply chain for sustainable marine biofuels. It has also partnered with Varo Energy on the distribution and development of speciality blending solutions for low carbon marine fuels.
NYK’s shipping fleet includes 361 bulk carriers, 119 car carriers, 95 containerships, 71 LNG carriers, 65 tankers, 42 wood-chip carriers, one cruise liner, and 42 other ships including multipurpose and project cargo vessels.
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Magicland Dizzy - Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Publisher: Codemasters ? No-Intro: N/A
Developer: Big Red Software ? GoodName: Magicland Dizzy
Year: 1990 TOSEC: Panic Dizzy
Category: Adventure MAME: N/A
Game Manual: Download Game Music: N/A
Also on: Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Microsoft DOS
(Commodore Amiga Version)
In Magicland Dizzy the player guides Dizzy, an egg-shaped character, through a large maze in an attempt to rescue his six friends who are held captive under the influence of various magic spells. The locations are all located in the titular "Magicland" and are fantastical in nature, many inspired by fairy tales.[7] They include a field of standing stones called Weirdhenge, a witch's island and Prince Charming's castle.[8] Movement from one screen to the next is enabled through flip-screen such that when Dizzy touches the outer edge of one screen he is transported to the next.[9] The individual screens consist of platforms and ladders with Dizzy able to both walk and jump to navigate the maze and its obstacles.[9] Dizzy can collect up to three items at once which are then used at specific locations to solve puzzles and advance through the game.[10] At the start of the game the player has three lives and a health bar which can be replenished by finding and collecting diamonds scattered throughout the maze.[10]
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Killzone 2 fails to crack 1 million units in US
Lifetime US figures for PS3 exclusive shooter show mixed results
David Jenkins
Further new NPD Group data has revealed lifetime sales to date for Sony's Killzone 2 title in the US, with the game so far selling only 677,000 units.
First released on February 27, the PlayStation 3 exclusive debuted in the February sales chart at number five, with 323,000 units sold. In the March results the game fell only two places to number seven, with 296,000 units sold.
By April though the game had fallen outside of the top 20, but data provided to website Gamasutra reveals that it sold 58,000 units during the month. As result the game's lifetime total to date in the US currently stands at 677,000 units.
On its release Sony proclaimed Killzone 2 to be its fastest-selling title ever in the US, in terms of reaching 500,000 unit sales. Responding to the March NPD chart, Sony also revealed that worldwide sales had passed 1 million units, suggesting sales in PAL territories at the time of around 400,000 units (The game was not released in Japan until April 23).
Although the sales figures are strong by most standards the game is reported to have cost over EUR 40 million to develop. Perhaps most importantly for Sony, the title has failed to drive hardware sales on the PlayStation 3, which have actually dropped year-on-year in the US since the game's release.
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Latest comments (5)
Maxwell Scott-Slade Partner, JohnnyTwoShoes LLP10 years ago
Killzone 2 is a great game on an under nourished platform, but I'm sure Killzone 2 was released when it was to be a band-aid to get Sony to E3. I'm sure Sony has some very serious announcements, if even 10% of the rumours are true, there's a huge amount to be excited about.
Killzone 2 deserves to do well, it's a top quality game. You have to remember though, they ranted and raved about this game almost like it was a launch title.
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Jason Avent Studio Head / Creative Director, TT Games Publishing10 years ago
I really enjoyed KZ2 but the controls were really hard to use to begin with - they felt really unfamiliar (where clearly they shouldn't because there are so many FPS games to use as a model). I wonder if that affected first impressions and then sales.
Also, Resistance 2 came out at around the same time so perhaps they just cannibalised one another.
Considering the immense amount of money that was invested in Killzone 2 over the 4-5 years that it's been in development, it should be much better than it is.
Alex Wright-Manning Head of Recruitment, Splash Damage Ltd10 years ago
Never a truer word spoken Jason. For all the money, time and hype poured into the title it simply doesn't hold up against Halo or any of the other futuristic style FPS's on the market.
Jim Webb Executive Editor/Community Director, E-mpire Ltd. Co.10 years ago
Quite possibly the best selling bomb ever.
On average 677,000 in US sales would be a great thing but with a development budget nearing blockbuster movie status....it's incredibly disappointing.
Chris Hunter-Brown IT / Games specialist, BBFC10 years ago
I think it has done "ok". Granted that probably wasn't what they were looking for but I think "bomb" is harsh. The online is great but the people likely to be interested in that kind of game will either have gotten a PS3 already or found the current price to be prohibitive. With that in mind, I don't see what the expectation it would drive hardware sales was based on.
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Funny Games review
By Total Film 2008-04-04T07:00:00.94Z
A violent film without any onscreen violence. A film where leg wounds mean you can’t walk, where daring escapes fail, where victims wet themselves in fear. Just like his crossover stunners The Piano Teacher and Hidden, Michael Haneke’s 1997 chiller Funny Games was never what it appeared to be. And for his first English language film, Haneke gives it to us all over again: a shot-for-shot remake of his original, meticulously reconstructed right down to the last snot-streaked drip of terror.
There are some minor updates (most notably as one character ponders his online existence), but the soundtrack, the dialogue, the sets... all the same. A pair of polite sociopaths (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet) invade the holiday home of George (Tim Roth), Anna (Naomi Watts) and their son Georgie (Devon Gearhart) and then subject them to a series of sadistic “games”.
But the real funny games aren’t between the family and their cherubic torturers. They’re between us and Haneke – this is the Austrian auteur’s provocative, hideously manipulative attempt to autopsy our relationship with screen violence. As a home-invasion thriller, it ranks up there with anything that Sam Peckinpah or Wes Craven ever came close to. But as he crafts one of modern cinema’s most harrowing ordeals, Haneke dodges explicit violence and unloads the meta-tricks. The invaders’ names change throughout the film and every so often they stop to shoot a glance at the camera. They point out that it’s way too early in the film to kill their victims. And that’s all before Haneke delivers the coup de grâce, in a stunning moment of medium (and audience) manipulation.
By this point, to Haneke’s reptilian delight, Funny Games becomes nearly unbearable. “Anyone who leaves the cinema doesn’t need the film,” he said in 1997. “And anyone who stays, does.” But these games are rigged from the start. Just as exploitative as any grindhouse shocker or Hollywood blockbuster, Haneke’s film invites us to feel one state of florid emotion then punishes us for it minutes later. We’re the lab rats in a horrifying, brilliantly assured experiment in human cruelty.
So what is Haneke’s remake playing at? Going back to the crime scene 10 years later for a forensically accurate recreation suggests a pathological self-belief rather than an attempt to hone his vision (see Hitchcock and Michael Mann) or a fascinating self-assessment (see Von Trier and Jorgen Leth). The director has always aimed his gut-punch at American culture and now gets a second, dead-on swing at the target.
Co-producer Naomi Watts is exceptional as the suffering wife, as is Michael Pitt as Paul. But Haneke cares not one jot for her wrenching performance, while Peter and Paul aren’t characters – they’re walking thriller conventions, jolting us to the fact that it’s only a movie. They’re polite and calculating pseudo-intellectuals, rationalising their role in the carnage. Sound familiar? Question is, do they represent us or Haneke? Predictably, the answer is still probably both.
Cold, brilliant and very hard to like. Haneke's remake retains the original's gripping, heart-pulping heft and his lack of humanity remains breathtaking.
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Truck Underride Guards:
Improved Data Collection, Inspections, and Research Needed
GAO-19-264: Published: Mar 14, 2019. Publicly Released: Apr 15, 2019.
VIDEO: GAO: Underride Crashes and Testing of Underride Guards
An underride crash is a type of motor vehicle crash in which a car slides under the body of a large truck due to the height difference between the vehicles. GAO reviewed the data the Department of Transportation reports on underride crashes and the development and use of underride guard technologies in the U.S.
Accessible Version:
(PDF, 51 pages)
Susan Fleming
FlemingS@gao.gov
A truck underride crash occurs when a car slides under a large truck, like a tractor-trailer. The car's passenger compartment can be crushed, potentially killing or severely injuring occupants. Researchers told us that underride crashes likely happen more often than the Department of Transportation's data suggests.
DOT requires trailers to have a rear safety bar—known as an underride guard—to prevent underride crashes, but it doesn’t require them to be inspected. DOT also hasn’t researched challenges to using underride guards on the sides of trucks.
We made 4 recommendations, including that DOT improve data and research the use of side guards.
In a simulated truck underride crash, a sedan slides under the back of a tractor-trailer.
The passenger compartment of a silver test sedan is crushed beneath the back of a tractor-trailer in a simulated crash.
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According to crash data collected by police and reported by the Department of Transportation's (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), fatalities from “underride” crashes, such as those pictured below, represent a small percentage of all traffic fatalities.
Crash Tests of Rear Guards with (left) and without (right) Passenger Compartment Intrusion
From 2008 through 2017, an average of about 219 fatalities from underride crashes involving large trucks were reported annually, representing less than 1 percent of total traffic fatalities over that time frame. However, these fatalities are likely underreported due to variability in state and local data collection. For example, police officers responding to a crash do not use a standard definition of an underride crash and states' crash report forms vary, with some not including a field for collecting underride data. Further, police officers receive limited information on how to identify and record underride crashes. As a result, NHTSA may not have accurate data to support efforts to reduce traffic fatalities.
Underride guards are in varying stages of development, and gaps exist in inspection of rear guards in current use and in research efforts for side guards.
NHTSA has proposed strengthening rear guard requirements for trailers (the rear unit of a tractor-trailer) and estimates about 95 percent of all newly manufactured trailers already meet the stronger requirements. Although tractor-trailers are inspected, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration annual inspection regulations do not require the rear guard to be inspected, so damaged guards that could fail in a crash may be on the roadways.
Side underride guards are being developed, but stakeholders GAO interviewed identified challenges to their use, such as the stress on trailer frames due to the additional weight. NHTSA has not determined the effectiveness and cost of these guards, but manufacturers told GAO they are unlikely to move forward with development without such research.
Based on a 2009 crash investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended that NHTSA require front guards on tractors. NHTSA officials stated that the agency plans to complete research to respond to this recommendation in 2019. However, stakeholders generally stated that the bumper and lower frame of tractors typically used in the U.S. may mitigate the need for front guards for underride purposes.
Regarding single-unit trucks, such as dump trucks, NTSB has recommended that NHTSA develop standards for underride guards for these trucks, but the agency has concluded these standards would not be cost-effective.
Truck underride crashes are collisions in which a car slides under the body of a truck—such as a tractor-trailer or single-unit truck—due to the height difference between the vehicles. During these crashes, the trailer or truck may intrude into the passenger compartment, leading to severe injuries or fatalities. Current federal regulations require trailers to have rear guards that can withstand the force of a crash, whereas the rear guards required for single-unit trucks do not have to be designed to withstand a crash. There are no federal side or front underride guard requirements.
GAO was asked to review data on truck underride crashes and information on underride guards. This report examines (1) the data DOT reports on underride crashes and (2) the development and use of underride guard technologies in the U.S. GAO analyzed DOT's underride crash data for 2008 through 2017; reviewed NHTSA's proposed regulations and research on new guard technologies; and interviewed stakeholders, including DOT officials, industry and safety groups, and state officials selected based on reported underride crash fatalities and other factors.
What GAO Recommends
GAO recommends that DOT take steps to provide a standardized definition of underride crashes and data fields, share information with police departments on identifying underride crashes, establish annual inspection requirements for rear guards, and conduct additional research on side underride guards. DOT concurred with GAO's recommendations.
For more information, contact Susan Fleming at (202) 512-2834 or FlemingS@gao.gov.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Comments: In the 180-day letter GAO received on July 15, 2019, DOT concurred with this recommendation. DOT also noted that NHTSA will recommend a crash underride data element for inclusion in the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria 6th Edition, tentatively scheduled for issuance in the summer of 2020.
Recommendation: The Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should recommend to the expert panel of the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria to update the Criteria to provide a standardized definition of underride crashes and to include underride as a recommended data field. (Recommendation 1)
Agency Affected: Department of Transportation
Comments: In the 180-day letter GAO received on July 15, 2019, DOT concurred with this recommendation. DOT also noted that NHTSA--as well as FMCSA--will develop informational materials for state and local police departments that educate end users, such as police officers, on how to identify and record underride crashes. DOT plans to post the training materials on NHTSA's and FMCSA's public websites by the fall of 2021.
Recommendation: The Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should provide information to state and local police departments on how to identify and record underride crashes. (Recommendation 2)
Comments: In the 180-day letter GAO received on July 15, 2019, DOT concurred with this recommendation. DOT noted that FMCSA initiated a rulemaking to include rear impact guards on the list of items that must be examined as part of the required annual inspection of commercial motor vehicles. DOT added that the rulemaking would ensure that vehicles with missing or damaged rear guards would not satisfy the annual inspection criteria. FMCSA expects to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking in February 2020.
Recommendation: The Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration should revise Appendix G of the agency's regulations to require that rear guards are inspected during commercial vehicle annual inspections. (Recommendation 3)
Comments: In the 180-day letter GAO received on July 15, 2019, DOT concurred with this recommendation. DOT noted that NHTSA is conducting a review of police accident reports of light vehicle crashes into the side of trailers in order to (1) estimate the number of fatalities from side underride crashes and (2) understand the effectiveness of side underride guards in preventing and mitigating the severity of side underride crashes. NHTSA then plans to conduct an analysis of the impacts of requiring side underride guards on trucks and trailers. NHTSA plans to complete these analyses by September 2020.
Recommendation: The Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should conduct additional research on side underride guards to better understand the overall effectiveness and cost associated with these guards and, if warranted, develop standards for their implementation. (Recommendation 4)
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Sir John Stewart "Robert III," Knt., King of Scots
b. about 1337, d. 4 Apr 1406
Annabelle de Drummond
Marion Stewart
b. say 1382, d. after 20 Mar 1457/58
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus
b. between 1378 and 1380, d. 1403
Sir William Douglas, Knt., 2nd Earl of Angus
b. say 1398, d. Oct 1437
Margaret Hay
b. say 1400, d. after 1484
Helen Douglas
b. say 1436, d. after 20 Nov 1486
William Graham, 2nd Lord Graham
b. say 1426, d. about 1471
Agnes Graham
b. say 1468, d. after 17 Sep 1489
Sir Walter Forrester, Knt.
b. say 1460, d. between 8 Feb 1527 and 27 May 1528
Sir James Forrester, Knt.
b. 17 Sep 1489, d. between 7 Oct 1532 and 21 May 1536
Elizabeth Erskine
b. say 1492, d. before 1 Sep 1532
Margaret Forrester
b. between 1518 and 1520, d. after 22 Jan 1579/80
Henry Livingston
b. say 1495, d. between 22 Jan 1580 and 5 Nov 1581
b. about 1560, d. between 14 Jun 1624 and 26 Aug 1624
Agnes Gray
b. say 1563, d. between 4 Feb 1590 and 1 May 1594
Helen Livingston
b. say 1585, d. after 15 Aug 1633
James Duncanson
b. about 1564, d. 11 Jul 1624
Margaret Duncanson
b. 17 Mar 1618, d. between 1659 and Apr 1664
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Help and advice for Devon County Lunatic Asylum Burials
Devon County Lunatic Asylum Exminster
BURIALS INDEXES
Deceased Asylum patients not repatriated to their home parish were buried in one of three sites within the parish of Exminster. The earliest burials took place in St Martin's Church graveyard (& continued there intermittently until at least 19361). From 18462 to 1962 the greater majority of the burials took place in the Asylum Cemetery. Thereafter the burials took place in the Exminster Parish Cemetery.
For the Asylum Cemetery Index, until December 12th 1878 the date given is of death, thereafter the date given is of burial. Although the Asylum admitted the first patients in 1845 no records of patient burials survive before 1868, except those recorded at St Martin's. Grave numbers are listed in some of the asylum registers but have not been included as no complete plan of the Cemetery layout survives.
This index lists the asylum patient burials recorded in the three sites for the period 1845-1982 . It was compiled from the following sources deposited at the Devon Heritage Centre at Exeter.
3114A/PR/1/20 & 21 St Martin's Church Exminster, Registers of Burials 1845-1936
3769A/H18/1 & 2 County Asylum, Registers Of Discharges, Removals & Deaths 1868-1895
3769A/HR/5,6 & 7 County Asylum, Registers Of Graves 1878-1900
3769A/HR/1,2,3 & 4 County Asylum, Registers of Burials 1900-1964
5902A/PX/4/1 Exminster Parish Cemetery, Register of burials 1958-1982
There is also a draft register 3769A/HR/8 for the Asylum 1934-1950, which lists besides name & burial date, the grave number, religion & whether a private or hospital coffin was used, but there are pages missing from this document. The registers 3769A/H18/1 & 2 also record the patients admission date & number; the cause of death, whether a private or hospital coffin was used & in relevant cases whether a post mortem examination was held.
As there is no continuous series of burial registers, the Asylum Cemetery Index 1868-1962 was compiled in the following manner from the sources listed below.
1868-1878 Compiled solely from 3769A/H18/1
1878-1900 Compiled from 3769A/HR/5,6 & 7 with age of death added from 3769A/H18/1 & 2
(from 3rd Sept 1895 to 17th May 1900 age at death is not available in these documents)
1900-1962 Compiled solely from 3769A/HR/1,2,3 & 4
1962-1982 Compiled from 5902A/PX/4/1 & 3769A/HR/4
The index is set out in strict alphabetical order, by surname; then first, & second christian name; then by date. Patients with an alias have been indexed under both surnames. Comments in the Notes/Remarks column in square brackets are mine, all other comments are as they appear in the documents.
In the register 3769A/H18/1 between 1868 & 1878 there are 209 instances where the deaths do not record (as they should do in the observations column), whether the deceased patient was buried in the Asylum Cemetery or the body removed for burial elsewhere. I have included these in the Index because in the absence of documentary proof, I think it most likely that those not stated as being removed by friends, & cannot be identified as being buried in their home parish or at St Martin's were buried in the Asylum Cemetery. These cases are entered in italics & followed by the suffix [date is of death].
Jeff Ellis. Newton Abbot. October 2017.
1. End date of last deposited burial register for St Martin's Exminster is 1936 at the Devon Heritage Centre, as at October 2017.
2. I have found no definitive evidence of when burials began in the Asylum Cemetery, but it appears to have been opened in late 1846 or early 1847. (See QS 117/1 Report of Visiting Justices - Epiphany 1847).
ST MARTIN'S EXMINSTER 1845-1936
ASYLUM CEMETERY 1868-1962
EXMINSTER PARISH CEMETERY 1958-1982
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Germantown Artist’s Work Hold Fragments of Stories and Hidden Text in BlackRock Exhibit
In atmospheric works that incorporate text, Lori Anne Boocks builds layers of memories into abstract paintings using acrylic paint and charcoal. The local artist, who is a resident of Germantown, is a keeper of stories. Boocks allows stories told by family, friends, and acquaintances to influence her palette and mark making.
“Some I know are true. Others, I’m not so sure,” she said. “But I use the words, rehash and rework them and strip them down to the bone, then build the sentences up again, layers upon layers representing the feeling of a story I know.”
Books embeds hidden story fragments, adding both legible and illegible words, as she develops her mixed media paintings in an effort to represent the feeling of the stories she remembers.
“A lot of the women in my family have had Alzheimer’s or dementia disorders,” she explained. “My goal is to create the feeling of a memory that has made up a part of who I am. Should I also end up with such a disorder, my hope is to look at my work and have a connection with my past.”
Boocks’ physical process is messy, as she often paints with her hands, not with brushes, to produce paintings that echo the way in which memories develop. “The act of remembering and sharing stories is a powerful thing to me,” she said. “Just as the passage of time creates layers of experiencing — the remembering of an event, the misremembering of it, the distancing, the forgetting — my coats of color washes and texture become a lens through which I share my cache of stories.”
Boocks transforms each piece, then creates a patina by partially removing the pigment in areas using her hands or cloth. “Washes of pigment applied at the end of the process aim to give each piece a history of its own,” said the artist. “As if I’ve excavated something long buried and rediscovered.”
In the same way we might dig up personal memories, her work invites viewers to spend time reflecting upon their own stories. “Sometimes people are not sure how to process abstract art,” Boocks said. “I hope they open up to what they see and let color or curiosity lead them on a deeper journey.”
Boocks earned a BFA from Old Dominion University in 1992. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at Johns Hopkins University, Rockville; Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick, MD; Hoyt Center for the Arts, New Castle, PA; Sitar Arts Center, Washington, DC; and Studio Gallery, Washington, DC. Her work has been included in curated and juried group exhibitions at Artists & Makers Studios, Rockville, MD; Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC; The Athenaeum, Alexandria, Virginia; Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington.
Boocks’ work is included in private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Paris, and the Metro DC area, and in corporate collections in Washington, DC and Australia.
The award-winning artist lives in Germantown and was selected as a Semi-Finalist in the Bethesda Paintings Awards (2012) and maintained a Resident Artist studio at Artists and Makers Studios in Rockville. To learn more about the artist, visit: www.lorianneboocks.com
BlackRock Center for the Arts is will present “Lori Anne Boocks: The Shape of Memories” from Saturday, July 22 through Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017 in the Terrace Gallery. The center will host a Meet the Artists Reception on Saturday, July 22 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm where the artist will deliver brief remarks at 3:00 pm and be on hand to answer questions throughout the event.
Boocks will return to BlackRock on Saturday, August 26 at 12:00 pm to deliver an Artist Talk with the discussion focused on her creative process and the techniques used to create the works on display. Both events are free and open to the public.
BlackRock Center for the Arts is centrally located in the heart of Germantown, next to the Germantown Public Library, at 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown, MD 20874. Free parking is available in the lot at the rear of our building and along the street.
Captions:
Top: Lori Anne Boocks - Migration-Coming Home, mixed media on canvas, 70 x 60 inches
Next: Lori Anne Boocks, “Levee,” acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 50 x 40 inches.
Next: Lori Anne Boocks - Emerge, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 50 x 40 inches
Next: Lori Anne Boocks - Hierarchy of Desire, mixed media on canvas, 50 x 40 inches
Photos courtesy BlackRock Center for Arts.
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Mozilla about to launch VPN beta
by Martin Brinkmann on October 16, 2019 in Firefox - 31 comments
Mozilla, maker of the Firefox web browser, will launch the first beta of its upcoming VPN service in the coming weeks.
The organization launched Firefox Private Network in September 2019 which added a browser proxy to the web browser. Available only for users from the United States at the time, it resembled the VPN feature of the Opera web browser and third-party VPN extensions the most.
Firefox Private Network protects user data by encrypting it and masking the IP address of the connection at the same time. Mozilla picked Cloudflare as its partner for the service; Firefox users get connected to the nearest Cloudflare data center when they activate Private Network in the web browser.
The initial solution lacked several important features: there was no option to select a different region/server to connect to, and no information about the connection among other things.
Mozilla revealed the next steps of the project in a new announcement on the official Firefox Private Network site.
A version of Private Network will still be free
As one of our beta testers, you’ll automatically be converted to a new version of Firefox Private Network. This offers all the same benefits as before, but for a limited amount of time each month.
You’ll get 12 hours of Private Network in the form of four three-hour passes. Next time you’re on public Wi-Fi, turn on Private Network to claim one of your passes. Once you validate a pass, it runs without stopping for three hours. You’ll get four new passes at the beginning of every month.
For unlimited access, you have the opportunity to join our invite-only VPN beta
We’re nearly ready to invite our beta testers to try out Firefox Private Network full-device protection. You can join the waitlist right now — before we open it up to the public. This invite-only VPN beta will protect your entire device and offers the option to switch between servers in 39 countries.
Thanks again for participating in the Firefox Private Network beta. You’re helping us build products that put people and their privacy first.
The organization plans to move to a new beta phase with two main changes:
Private Network will remain free to use but it will be limited.
Launch of the VPN service that runs on the device-level.
Firefox Private Network beta testers will automatically be migrated to the new version of the solution once it becomes available. The free version of the solution limits the amount of time that users of the network have each month.
Mozilla plans to provide users with four three-hour passes per month that they may use. The passes run non-stop for three hours without option to split the time between different periods.
The upcoming VPN service takes the service to the next level. It runs on the device just like any other VPN service, e.g. NordVPN or Private Internet Access. Mozilla revealed little about it in the announcement. In fact, the only information that the organization revealed is that it will feature servers in 39 countries. The invite-only beta will launch in the coming weeks and since everything is labeled beta, subject to change.
Private Network and the upcoming VPN service are beta products at this time and therefore subject to change. Information is scarce at this point; we don't know if Mozilla will operate the VPN on its own (unlikely) or have a partner (likely), how much it will cost when it comes out, and what features it will bring along with it.
It seems likely that Mozilla will maintain both products: Private Network as an in-browser solution with a free option and the VPN as a device-wide solution for users who want to protect all Internet traffic.
I'm not a fan of the three-hour long passes of Private Network as they are not very flexible. While these may work in some cases, they lack flexibility as you cannot really use them for quickly checking emails on the airport as you'd waste a full pass that way.
Now you: what would you like to see in regards to private network and the VPN?
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Xibula said on October 16, 2019 at 9:44 am
Mozilla should have done what Proton guys did with mail and vpn but as always missed the opportunity.
sp808 said on October 16, 2019 at 10:49 am
Way too big corp to be trusted.
Anonymous said on October 16, 2019 at 11:54 am
A Mozilla VPN, unsurprisingly centralizing more data to big US surveillance & censorship tech companies. No thanks. They could at least have chosen more trustworthy partners, but of course no, it’s Mozilla. This company is really becoming more visibly a mere storefront for the likes of Google and Cloudflare.
Tom said on October 16, 2019 at 3:34 pm
Bashing as “Anonymous” – yes, that’s really unsurprisingly.
Anonymous 2 said on October 16, 2019 at 7:05 pm
Anonymouses around the world welcome Tom on his first visit to the internet and his unsurprising attempt at english.
A shill using an anonymous “Tom” handle to complain about the internet anonymity of those criticizing his corporate masters, how ironic. Don’t worry, your friends at the Silicon Valley will soon make anonymity impossible anywhere, and they will also do their best so that there’s hardly any place left on the internet where it’s allowed to criticize them. Oh, and look who else in that region of the world seems to share your progressive views against anonymous bashing:
* Want a US Visa? Be Prepared to Hand Over Your Twitter Handle *
https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/social-media-requirement-on-visa-applications-is-sure-to-slow-tourism.html
* US border officials are increasingly denying entry to travelers over others’ social media *
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/27/border-deny-entry-united-states-social-media/
scorpiogreen said on October 19, 2019 at 3:10 am
“They could at least have chosen more trustworthy partners”
Like? For example?
Otherwise your statement is nothing but vaporware…
tux. said on October 16, 2019 at 12:13 pm
Unknown said on October 25, 2019 at 1:01 am
Mozilla is a good company. But I don’t trust Cloudfare. The dictator of my country- Bangladesh is India-Israel backed and has very good relation with USA. They regularly ban websites every week. 20000 sites including Reddit, Al Jazeera, Intercept, Internet Achieve etc is banned. They cleverly do it in name of pornography control but most people know the truth. A trusted in browser vpn (using a separate VPN might make you suspicious to authority) in a trusted browser like Firefox would be very good.
Vladimir Comunistomovimich said on October 16, 2019 at 12:33 pm
that I’m no longer a Firefox user :D
Could Mozilla launch VPN in China?
John Fenderson said on October 16, 2019 at 5:34 pm
The three-hour pass thing isn’t good. Let’s hope they change that before they roll this out widely! I’m not thrilled with the use of Cloudflare for this, either, but Mozilla and Cloudflare appear to have become best buddies now, so that’s not terribly surprising.
Other than those issues, this looks like a good way to get VPN service to people who would not otherwise use a VPN. If it can bring some non-Googly revenue to Mozilla, that’s a good thing as well.
Personally, I wouldn’t use this for two reasons: Cloudflare, and the inability to choose the location of the exit point.
“If it can bring some non-Googly revenue to Mozilla, that’s a good thing as well.”
Cloudflare, non-Googly revenue, are you sure ?
The company’s last $110 million funding round in 2014 included investors such as CapitalG (formerly Google Capital)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cloudflare-funding-idUSKBN1QT1EH
I was unaware that Cloudflare was paying Mozilla any money.
I don’t know if Cloudflare pays Mozilla directly for promoting the service, but any money that Mozilla gets from users of a Cloudflare service while Mozilla’s main contribution is to promote this service, and that Mozilla does not give back to the service provider, should obviously be considered as Mozilla being paid by Cloudflare for the promotion.
What a splendid idea. Trusting your privacy and security to a large corporation which has proven time and again its outrageous political slant.
Real, paid-for VPNs are already subject to much suspicion as to the actual privacy they provide, and the real commitment of their owners to defend their users. Good luck begin “protected” by Mozilla.
Another of Mozilla’s vices is in full view here : never make it simple when you can make it horribly complex. Keep throwing similar features at the wall until one of them sticks.
It would have been too easy for users to understand if Mozilla said : all right guys, we’re going to revolutionize VPN, and here’s the deal. Best thing since baked bread.
Fat luck : on one hand you’ll have “Firefox Private Network” (which does not even have VPN in its name), on the other hand you have “invite-only VPN beta”.
Their website says this is a “proxy service” (so, not a VPN ?).
The free version is limited to 4 times 3 hours per month. Gee, that’s simple… But wait : not 3 hours whenever you want. You start using the service, and if you stop before the 3 hours are up, your allowance is exhausted. Because of course, everybody sits in front of his computer all day, staring at Firefox. Just like Mozilla developers.
This is what a VPN would look like if it were developed by bureaucrats.
ULBoom said on October 17, 2019 at 2:03 am
The confusing techie verbiage, exceptions and sidestepping could easily keep this pig in a poke going for a year or so until it’s finally understood by the masses (although most don’t have the patience to try) and ignored. I also see the concept as ridiculous.
VioletMoon said on October 16, 2019 at 7:41 pm
I must have been a “chosen one” or kept up with Mozilla on a different tech site because I’ve been using the beta VPN for over three weeks.
Ray said on October 16, 2019 at 7:54 pm
I think this being for United States users at this time should be highlighted in bold.
Hieronymus Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen said on October 16, 2019 at 11:33 pm
Good for them, if the customers agree. I am no longer a Firefox user. Mozilla had one target only: to be loyal to his past and big group of users.
They utterly failed at it. Their current trend is to follow some vacuous idea about freedom etc. but in reality they are going to other wa around.
You can fool someone sometimes, but…
NSAVPN said on October 17, 2019 at 1:21 am
Nah.. will give it a pass until NSA VPN edition comes out. :)
ps. what if all these “free VPN’s” are nothing but mere privacy honeypot traps collecting info on people susceptible taking measures disguising themselves on the internet? :)
Uh, yeah. Would you trust a device level (meaning a downloaded and installed program) VPN from google or microsoft? Facebook had one…Ha ha! Something that filters every outgoing request from every program on your device?
What could Mozilla possibly gain by selling a VPN that really doesn’t track users? Do they honestly want to join the handful of trustworthy VPN’s because they think they can make money from that market? A little late for that and the market’s tiny.
It’s hard enough to find legitimate VPN’s. The biggest one, starts with E and ends with press, installs a file called “the client that doesn’t suck” or something similar. Proton began uploading crash data without notifying users with no opt out and hijacks your once free email if your VPN account expires. Etc, etc, true VPN’s with no foolishness or underhanded tricks are very difficult to find.
If this ostensible VPN is completely run from Romania or another country with little or no data retention laws and they can prove connections logs are deleted on disconnect, it may be OK. From USA, not even a starter.
There’s significant trust given to a VPN service; I use FF ESR, mod the hell out of it and use system filter apps to get some privacy but don’t trust Mozilla.
Is Tor still being planned to be baked in Firefox?
Nabudis said on October 17, 2019 at 11:45 pm
you are referring to the Tor uplift project, not quite the same thing a baking Tor into Firefox
Zahra Ayat said on October 17, 2019 at 4:56 am
does this vpn support Iranian people? and can they use it in Iran?
I don’t know. For now, it is only available in the US.
Hans said on October 17, 2019 at 2:41 pm
Do you ever answer any of the comments on your articles?
Woosh said on October 17, 2019 at 6:29 pm
Woosh.
Declan said on October 17, 2019 at 7:35 pm
On Firefox I use two plugins for VPN — ZenMate & TunnelBear. They are both easy to use and by checking “Whatismyip.com”, it does change the IP address. And that is all I need for sidestepping basic IP blocking. I suppose if I was up to nefarious things I’d use ProtonVPN, which I do when Edward Snowden and I hang out together. :) But the two I mentioned are sufficient for me.
owl said on October 24, 2019 at 11:44 am
I am using the “NordVPN” .
Recently, the NordVPN hoax has been spreading.
“Hackers steal secret crypto keys for NordVPN. ”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/hackers-steal-secret-crypto-keys-for-nordvpn-heres-what-we-know-so-far/?utm_brand=ars
For that hoax, a verified article has been published.
NordVPN Hack – Everything You Need to Know (Updated Info) | restoreprivacy.com
https://restoreprivacy.com/nordvpn-hack/#comment-58236
October 23, 2019 By Sven Taylor
Summary of the article:
In March 2018, someone posted TLS certificates from NordVPN, TorGuard, and VikingVPN on 8chan. While the 2018 post seems to have fallen under the radar, the issue recently erupted on Twitter, which culminated in an article from TechCrunch alleging NordVPN had been “hacked”.
What could a hacker do with an expired TLS key?
This was an isolated case, and no other servers or datacenter providers we use have been affected.
Are NordVPN users compromised?
First, the hacker would not have any access to server logs because NordVPN is a no logs VPN provider that does not store anything on its servers. NordVPN passed a third-party audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers verifying its no-logs policy.
Second, NordVPN utilizes perfect forward secrecy, which generates a unique key for every session using ephemeral Diffie-Hellman keys. This means that even with a TLS key there’s little a hacker could even do, since the keys are used for server authentication and not traffic encryption.
The impact for NordVPN users is essentially null.
NordVPN is already one of the few VPN providers that have undergone a full third-party audit to verify their no-logs claims. This audit was completed in November 2018 and it appears a second audit is currently underway.
Additionally, NordVPN has told me they will reconfigure their server network to run in RAM-disk mode only. This indeed is a more secure setup over traditional hard drives as nothing can be stored on the server. Perfect Privacy runs their network this way and ExpressVPN has also transitioned to running all servers in RAM-disk, which they call the TrustedServer feature.
TechCrunch is a media outlet owned by Verizon, which also has a VPN service called “Safe Wi-Fi”. In this article you can see TechCrunch promoting Verizon’s VPN service, which is a direct competitor of NordVPN. This may explain why TechCrunch suddenly announced the “NordVPN hack” with such fanfare.
People appear to be somewhat divided on the issue. Some argue this shouldn’t even be called a “hack” as it involved an expired TLS key on a single server in Finland with no access to user data or traffic. Others are following the tune of TechCrunch and denouncing NordVPN.
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The Gillette Wild trailed 2-0 on Friday night after the first period despite out-shooting the Yellowstone Quake 19-8 in the first frame of play.
The Wild (13-7) slowly clawed back. They tallied a goal in the second period, and a last-minute tying goal in the third period to send the game into a 3-on-3 sudden death 5-minute overtime period — the first overtime period of the season for the Wild.
And 1 minute, 37 seconds into that extra frame, Wild forward Nathaniel Fanning deflected a hard pass/shot from Danny Ramos off of his back hand, popping it up over Quake goalie Michael Allman’s left shoulder and into the net. The Wild bench cleared to tackle Fanning, who had just scored his first game-winning goal of his junior hockey career, and the bum-rush signaled a 3-2 overtime victory over the Quake (6-13-2) at Spirit Hall Ice Arena.
“After putting it in, I freaked out a little, got on the boards, and then I barely could see the rest of the team hurdle in and running this way,” Fanning, a Sioux Falls, South Dakota native, said. “It was fun. It was a blast.”
Allman, from Norway, kept the Quake in the game, saving 49 of the 52 shots on net that he faced. He would routinely glove a well-placed Wild shot like he was catching a bullpen for a baseball pitcher. Gillette’s skaters could only beat Allman, who has a 92.3% save rate this season, when they got in close or deflected a shot.
“Ultimately, we felt like Yellowstone wasn’t beating us, Allman, their goaltender, was beating us,” Wild coach Steve Kruk said. “We knew that just shots at the chest weren’t going to work. We were putting a lot of shots on net, but that wasn’t working. So, we had to get a little more deceptive.”
Wild forward Tyler Kaminski scored the game-tying goal with 56.5 seconds left in the third period. Defenseman Ethan Becker sent a shot on the ice towards the right side of the net where Kaminski was camped out screening Allman with the Wild’s goalie pulled. The puck hit Kaminski’s angled stick and leaped up into the top-right corner of the goal, and the Wild were able to earn an overtime period.
“Take away the goalie’s eyes so he can’t see the puck. That’s the biggest thing when you’re playing a goalie that’s playing really well,” Becker said.
Early in the second period, Hunter Beckett, from Craig, Colorado, cut the deficit in half when he scored to make it 2-1. He received a pass from Fanning in front of the net, and snuck the puck lower-right, narrowly clearing Allman’s left foot for the first Wild goal.
Yellowstone scored first with 8:31 left in the first period when forward Jack Harris sniped the top left corner over Wild goaltender Shane Phillips’ right shoulder for a 1-0 lead.
The Quake scored again directly after a Wild power play and near-goal on the other side of the ice.
Wild forward and Fairbanks, Alaska native Caleb Sanborn shot and hit the inside of the right post right after a Wild power play ended at 1:28. The Spirit Hall Ice Arena erupted in cheers as if it was a goal, but instead, the puck cleanly bounced out and brought on a Quake rush down the ice.
Yellowstone’s Dylan Rumpke made the best of the opportunity and scored on Phillips to give the Quake a 2-0 lead with 1:11 to play in the first frame.
“We had a rough start, and I think after the first period, we just needed to hit the reset button,” Wild forward/defense Jacob Kaminski said.
Phillips ended the game saving 26-28 shots on net.
At the start of the game, U.S. Marine veteran Craig Grossi and his dog Fred, which he brought back from Afghanistan, dropped the ceremonial puck.
The Wild will continue their Military Appreciation Weekend on Saturday in the series finale with the Quake back at Spirit Hall Ice Arena. The auction for the military-themed jerseys that the Wild are wearing for the two games will still be going, and an open skate with the Wild takes place after the game.
“We have to be more deceptive with our shot selection. Shooting at the chest isn’t going to work,” Kruk said about the strategy to beat Allman and the Quake on Saturday. “We’ve got to find a way to commit more net-front for 60 minutes, and shoot for sticks. But good job by our guys, great response.”
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A LOOK AT LIFE INSIDE A 1969 HIPPIE TREE HOUSE VILLAGE IN HAWAII (NSFW)
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Jun 11 2015,3:55 pm
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Taylor Camp, says Hawaii-based photographer John Wehrheim, was not a commune, and there were no rules. Set at the edge of the road along the beach of the ancient island of Kauai, the tiny village was home to restless souls longing to escape from the unrest of their generation, from the traumas of the Vietnam War, the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations. Youngsters from around the country fled to Taylor Camp, where they erected and lived in makeshift tree houses of bamboo and tin, rode the surf, lounged in the nude, smoked weed, fished and farmed, and raised their children.
Wehrheim arrived in Kauai in 1971 at the age of twenty-three, bearing only a bag, a surfboard, and a bong. He and a former student from his time teaching at Honolulu’s Hawaii School for Girls were invited to stay on the property of Howard Taylor, who at the time owned the land on which the camp stood. After the first thirteen hippie campers to settle on the island were jailed under state vagrancy laws, Howard, who happened to be the brother of starlet Elizabeth, bailed them out and offered them them the land that stood just across the bay from his home. By 1969, the camp was officially Taylor Camp, ultimately growing to house nearly one hundred men, women, and children, whom Wehrheim frequently visited for sleepovers and photo shoots.
When he first ventured into the camp, the photographer was met with a degree of suspicion. It wasn’t until he came across a 75 feet long party house, known simply as “The Big House,” that the face of Debi Green emerged from the treetops. She welcomed him into the fold, introducing him to her sister Teri and allowing him to snap their portraits. When he came knocking with the gleaming silver prints, their trust was his, and he found himself booked full of sessions on the camp. In exchange for his photographs, Wehrheim was paid in meals, weed, and parties, where clothing was always optional. Looking back, he affectionately calls it his “dream assignment.”
People came to Taylor Camp in search of an existence sequestered from the violence that dominated mainstream media and life. There were college kids, war veterans, and young adults fleeing from the law and from the shadow of the draft. Here, they found the peace and solidarity that had eluded them in their previous homes. The found friends, lovers, brothers, and sisters. While some held steady jobs, others found work with the locals, who generally resented the mass hippie migration but also valued that the campers were willing to labor for small amounts of cash. The children rode the bus to the local school, and they had an in-house mid-wife and a medic returned from the war. Food grew naturally all around them, and many were supported also by welfare and food stamps. When he visited on weekends, Wehrheim brought with him cucumbers and bananas, farmed fresh between the photography courses he taught at a local college.
Taylor Camp stood for eight years, until in 1977 it was razed to the ground. As the state government began to close in, the community enlisted the help of Legal Aid attorney Max Graham and his assistant JoAnn Yukimura, who would go on to become both Wehrheim’s wife and the country’s first Japanese-American woman mayor. Although the evictions were delayed over a few years, most the campers were ultimately persuaded to abandon camp of their own volition, relocating to different parts of the island and country. The few who stayed behind were robbed and beaten by local troublemakers until they were carted out by the authorities and every last remnant of the camp was burned. A mother and her infant were among the few who remained until the end.
These days, Wehrheim is a member of the Taylor Camp Facebook group, and he frequently reconnects with former residents, and in addition to the book, he has created a film to honor his friends from Taylor Camp. While Wehrheim admits that he has moments of homesickness for Taylor Camp, it was never really his home to mourn. The people close to him had all left before the torch hit the ground. He knew, he says, that the time had come, and from the rubble, he had lifted a gleaming set of memories. What he remembers best is the quality of the light, the shimmering rays of sun that flooded through trees and into the houses. Those eight years at Taylor Camp are a small and glittering sliver lodged in the memory and imaginations of all who lived there, but still the photographer cautions about living in the past, concluding, “I feel a sense of nostalgia for ‘the good old days,’ but I also realize that right now we’re living the good old days.”
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Do Kyung-soo, Kim So-hyun, Park Yong-woo confirmed for 'Pure Love - Movie'
EXO member D.O. (Do Kyung-soo), actress Kim So-hyun, and actor Park Yong-woo have been confirmed for movie, "Pure Love - Movie".
"Pure Love - Movie" has announced on June 24th through an official press release, "Do Kyung-soo, Kim So-hyun, Park Yong-woo, and Park Hae-joon and others have been confirmed for cast".
"Pure Love - Movie" depicts ardent first love story as well as deep friendship among five friends through a letter delivered from rom 23 years ago. This movie is director Lee Eun-hee-I's debut project for a full-length film.
Do Kyung-soo, who has received good reviews for his role in movie "Cart" and drama 'It's Okay, That's Love' and Kim So-hyun, who captured the viewers' hearts for her role in 'Who Are You - School 2015', will be the couple of the ardent first love in the movie.
Park Yong-woo will play Hyung-joon, a DJ of a popular radio program, and Lee Beom-soo will make a special appearance to support the movie with his role Yong-cheol, who will bring out the childhood memories.
"Pure Love - Movie" began filming on June 22nd.
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Gingerbread responds to new findings that show level of single parents employment reaches new high.
New statistics published today by the ONS [1] show that 66.5 per cent of single parents are now in work.
Commenting on the statistic, Gingerbread Chief Executive Fiona Weir said: “It is great news that two-thirds of single parents are now in work.
“However, we know that many of the single parents behind these statistics are struggling to provide for their families with low paid, insecure work. More than a third of single parents in part-time work and a fifth of those working full-time are still in poverty [2]. Strong progress has been made in moving more single parents in to work, the challenge remains for the government to make work pay.”
[1] ONS Working and workless households in the UK: Apr to June 2016
[2] 35 per cent of single parents working part time, 19 per cent of single parents working full time. HBAI, DWP 2016
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Microsoft is building low-cost, streaming-only Xbox, says report
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According to Thurrott.com, noted site for all things Microsoft, the next Xbox will come in two flavors. One will be a traditional gaming console where games are processed locally. You know, like how it works on game systems right now. The other system will be a lower-powered system that will stream games from the cloud — most likely, Microsoft’s Azure cloud.
This streaming system will still have some processing power, which is in part to counter latency traditionally associated with streaming games. Apparently part of the game will run locally while the rest is streamed to the system.
The streaming Xbox will likely be available at a much lower cost than the traditional Xbox. And why not. Microsoft has sold Xbox systems with a slim profit margin, relying on sales of games and online services to make up the difference. A streaming service that’s talked about on Thurrott would further take advantage of this model while tapping into Microsoft’s deep understanding of cloud computing.
A few companies have tried streaming full video games. Onlive was one of the first; while successful for a time, it eventually went through a dramatic round of layoffs before a surprise sale for $4.8 million in 2012. Sony offers an extensive library of PS2, PS3 and PS4 games for streaming through its PlayStation Now service. Nvidia got into the streaming game this year and offers a small selection of streaming through GeForce Now. But these are all side projects for the companies.
Sony and Nintendo do not have the global cloud computing platform of Microsoft, and if Microsoft’s streaming service hits, it could change the landscape and force competitors to reevaluate everything.
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Rachel Zoe Is Literally in Labor Right Now!
Several news outlets are reporting that late last night, Rachel Zoe and Rodger Berman headed to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles because the most powerful stylist in Hollywood went into labor. This. Is. Bananas.
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 26: Televison personality Rachel Zoe arrives at the Chanel and Charles Finch Pre-Oscar Dinner at Madeo Restaurant on February 26, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images For Chanel)
While there's no official confirmation just yet, Rachel's normally active Twitter account has been mysteriously silent since yesterday. Though once mama and boy return home, I'm sure we can expect to see him outfitted in some very stylish onesies. Earlier this year, Rachel shared with WWD that she and Rodg were expecting a boy. I'm a big fan of all things Rachel Zoe so I'm super excited for her and sending nothing but good wishes her way. I'm also slightly curious about the film crew from The Rachel Zoe Project—do you think they filmed Rach and Rodg rushing to the hospital? Do you think they're at the hospital with them?!
Lately, I've been ridiculously obsessed with babies. But it's not because of the fabulous Ms. Zoe. And no, I'm not pregnant. But my best friend Lauren is! Her little nugget—that's what we've been calling it—is due this summer. We won't know the baby's gender until next month; I'm seriously counting down the days. But, Lauren has a few beautiful names picked out. The baby is due last week of August and unfortunately, I'll be in Washington, DC for a wedding during that time so there's a good chance I won't be able to be there for the birth. But you can bet once I return I plan on flying up to Oregon to meet the darling in person.
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European TourFebruary 2, 2019
Haotong Li puts rules controversy behind him, cards incredible four-eagle round that included a very rare feat at Saudi International
(Photo by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images) Haotong Li of China walks off the 17th tee after driving the green during the third round of the Saudi International at the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in Saudi Arabia.
Haotong Li made headlines during last weekend's final round of the Omega Desert Classic after a controversial ruling, but on Saturday at the Saudi International, the talented 23-year-old earned attention for carding one of the most impressive rounds of 2019.
Li's third-round 62 was sparked by four eagles, but most impressively, Li made three of those eagles on par 4s. How rare is that? Consider that on the PGA Tour the past three-plus seasons (counting 2018-2019), only three times has a player made three eagles in one round—let alone on par 4s. The last of which, however, was Chez Reavie's incredible round with three hole-out eagles at the 2019 Sony Open.
Li holed out twice from short range during Saturday's third round, including an opening-hole chip-in, and then drove the green at the par-4 17th before holing a five-footer for eagle. For good measure, Li added a closing eagle at the 18th hole (a par 5) to secure the impressive accomplishment, which Li is a first in his golf career. Li's 8-under 62 also included a double bogey, adding to the remarkable nature of this round. Here are the highlights from the European Tour:
https://twitter.com/EuropeanTour/status/1091689115819470848
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The Chinese golfer shares the 54-hole lead with Dustin Johnson at the Saudi International, as Li seeks his third European Tour victory. Li was defending his title last week at the Omega Desert Classic when he was handed a two-stroke penalty at the 18th hole after his caddie appeared to be standing behind Li as he lined up this birdie putt.
As part of the 2019 revisions to the Rules of Golf, a caddie is prohibited from standing behind a player as they’re preparing to hit a shot, and rules officials from the European Tour deemed Li and his caddie were in violation of the rule. It bumped him down from a T-3 finish to T-12, costing him about roughly €100,000.
We're sure Li and his caddie will be extra careful about that on Sunday, as the 22-year-old looks for vengeance from that controversial rules decision, which European Tour CEO Keith Pelley called "grossly unfair" afterward.
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NVIDIA Confirms Droid Bionic to Use Tegra 2 Mobile Processor
While Motorola reps had told me previously at the Verizon Wireless Motorola Droid Bionic unveiling earlier this year that the device would be utilizing a dual-core chipset solution from Texas Instruments, it turns out that information is not correct. I had caught up to both NVIDIA and Motorola at the CTIA Wireless trade show yesterday, and company representatives from Motorola had different things to say though NVIDIA was able to affirmatively confirm that the Droid Bionic would be utilizing the dual-core Tegra 2 CPU. Tegra 2, on the Bionic, would give NVIDIA a third Motorola mobile computing product to sport the company’s ARM Cortex A9 solution coupled with NVIDIA’s GeForce technology for graphics on a mobile chipset.
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At CTIA, now, Motorola I spoke with Motorola’s PR reps, who say that they have “nothing to announce at this time regarding specs other than what is listed on the website,” which states that the Droid Bionic would be using a dual-core 1 GHz CPU but did not state from which vendor. When I had pushed further, stating that a company official had informed me earlier in January that it was a TI solution and that there is conflicting information on the Internet about the vendor, Motorola seems to following Apple‘s lead, stating that the company does not normally release specifics about specs.
For now, with NVIDIA’s official confirmation that the Droid Bionic will be released with Tegra 2 on-board, the experience of the handset should theoretically be very similar and comparable to the AT&T Motorola Atrix 4G, except that the Droid Bionic should perform a whole lot better utilizing Verizon’s more capable 4G LTE network rather than AT&T’s 4G HSPA+ network currently.
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This is totally old news. It was confirmed at the CES when they debuted the Xoom, Bonic, and Atrix See below from Nvidia’s Offical Blog from CES.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/01/motorola-rolls-out-three-tegra-powered-devices/
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Looks like a do over from the other day about the “shortage” of Texas Instruments chips. I knew this was a Nvidia phone for a long time now. I don’t even work in the mobile industry but maybe I should apply for a job.
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Write somthing that’s is not over a year old if you listen to motorola before the driod X was released.
The author didn’t do enough research before writing the first article where he said the bionic would have a TI processor, and now he is trying to cover his a**. Won’t be reading this site anymore.
Thats really great news, Motorola is really very good company, its products are very nice.
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In-person advance polls Oct. 8 and Oct. 11
Posted: October 6, 2016 - 1:00 am
Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 (Halifax, NS) – All eligible voters in the Halifax Regional Municipality are advised of two upcoming in-person advance polling dates for the municipal, Halifax Regional School Board, and CSAP elections. Advance polls will be held on Saturday, Oct. 8 (noon-8 p.m.), and Tuesday, Oct. 11 (noon-8 p.m.). To find your advance poll location, please review your voter information letter or check online. If you cannot find your location, please contact the Voter Helpline at 902-490-VOTE (8683) or 1-844-301-VOTE (8683) between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
The alternative (e-voting and telephone) voting period continues until Thursday, Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. In order to participate in e-voting or telephone voting, all eligible voters should have received last week a voter PIN along with additional instructions on their voter information letter. Residents not currently in possession of this letter must vote in person at either the advanced poll or on election day.
Residents are also advised of key upcoming dates in the electoral process:
Oct. 4-13: Alternative voting (phone and e-voting)
Oct. 8, 2016: First advance poll (in-person voting) Oct. 11, 2016: Second advance poll (in-person voting) Oct. 15, 2016: Election Day (in-person voting)
For full election details, including polling locations and information on our first ever #halifaxvotesbecause social media contest, please visit Halifax.ca/election.
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WATCH: 'The Dude' meets Carrie Bradshaw in new Super Bowl ad
This is the crossover episode you never expected.
In a Super Bowl LIII ad released on TODAY Monday morning, Jeff Bridges and Sarah Jessica Parker revisited their iconic characters, The Dude from "The Big Lebowski" and Carrie Bradshaw from "Sex and the City."
Watch the commercial here:
The commercial starts with Parker as Carrie Bradshaw entering a bar to the "Sex and the City" theme. She's seated by a waiter and instead of opting for her usual cosmopolitan, she tells the waiter, "Nope, I'll have a Stella Artois" (can you guess what this commercial is advertising yet?). The music stops, dishes go flying and everyone's shocked as the beer is served. As she takes a sip, The Dude walks in, steps over some broken dishes, and of course the bartender asks if he'll be having a White Russian. Instead, he orders -- you guessed it -- a Stella Artois (though he pronounces it Art-toes) and the wait staff is shocked once again. Carrie Bradshaw congratulates The Dude on his order, and he lets loose some of his Dude wisdom: "Changing can do a little good. The Dude abides."
Bridges teased the commercial last week on Twitter, getting fans excited. Parker also teased the commercial last week, writing on Instagram that she was "revisiting a beloved character. Briefly and with a twist."
The ad is part of the Pour It Forward campaign, in which Stella Artois makes a donation to Water.org for every Stella Artois sold in the United States between Jan. 7 and March 31.
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Release of 5th 'Indiana Jones' movie pushed to 2021
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NEW YORK (AP) – Indiana Jones won't be swinging back into movie theaters until at least 2021.
The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday announced that the planned fifth installment in the "Indiana Jones" franchise will be delayed a year and will be released in July 2021. The film was originally scheduled for release in the summer of 2019.
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Airport Security Secrets You Need to Know
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While security is of the utmost importance at the airport, many traveling around the United States find security measures to be unnecessarily invasive. There are many tips and tricks to surviving the airport and its security checkpoints, but sometimes the best way to deal with an issue is to understand it better.
Agents Don't Look for Drugs
While the police are sometimes called on passengers in possession of contraband, such instances are usually result of agents simply coming across an illegal substance while looking for something else that's directly related to safety. According to the Transportation Security Administration, agents do not actively search for marijuana or other drugs regardless of legality. TSA's focus is on security, not substance abuse.
Agents Rotate Roles
In order to avoid errors, agents usually switch up their positions every 30 minutes. Agents often have experience operating the X-ray, checking tickets, and doing pat-downs as well. Doing the same monotonous task for too long can lead to security missing something, so this switch-up keeps agents fresh on the job and on their toes.
Airport Security Isn't Always Secure
Unfortunately, even with all the technology and effort put into ensuring passenger safety, many items on the banned list still often find themselves making it through airport security. In order to test the frequency of this, the Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents in 2015 into some of the country's busiest airports with fake explosives and banned weapons in their bags or on their person. Frighteningly, about 95 percent of those items made it through security without detection - in 67 out of the 70 tests conducted, TSA agents failed to detect the items.
Agents Sometimes Pocket Your Money
You won't believe how much money the TSA makes on leftover change, so you want to make sure you're keeping track of your money. Just in 2016, the agency made $867,812.39 from the change left behind by passengers at airport security. According to the TSA, "receipts of unclaimed money are deposited into a Special Fund account so that the resources can be tracked easily and subsequently expended."
Cats Are Less Than Welcome
Security agents are not just on high alert for potential terrorists - they're also on the lookout for cats. Felines may be great pets otherwise, but as passengers they tend to scratch and hiss, and they hate being picked up and don't respond to commands the same way dogs do. This becomes a problem as cats going through security also need to be patted down, and many take this opportunity to try to give TSA agents the slip. A cat managing to escape can actually cause the entire terminal to get shut down.
Job Turnover is High
The TSA has often ranked near the bottom of the list of federal agencies when it comes to job satisfaction, and that finding is backed by the numbers. Data shows that at some sites, almost as many TSA agents left their jobs between 2012 and 2016 as were hired - rates that indicate a higher turnover rate than other federal agencies. Approximately 11,700 security agents are employed at the 10 busiest airports in the country, at which turnover ranged from about 30 to 80 percent depending on the airport. Lack of job satisfaction isn't the only issue, it seems; constantly being on the lookout for danger can add a lot of stress no matter how one tries to alleviate it.
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No One Really Knows Full Standard Operating Procedure
The standard operating procedure of the TSA, also referred to as SOP, is hundreds of pages long. Of course, very few people working security have actually read the entire document, and even fewer remember all of it. Agents tend to use common sense and go by word-of-mouth when using their security knowledge. As a result, you may find an agent not letting through an item that you know is allowed or even treating you in a way that is strictly against regulation. If this happens, you can ask your agent to call a supervisor and double-check the SOP.
Security Personnel Have Their Own Code
Not only are there official code words used by security agents, but many have even invented their own for use among their co-workers. Agents have been known to surreptitiously notify each other of attractive passengers using terms such as "hotel papa" or a specific number or alerting each other to annoying passengers using innocent-sounding terms. As a result, such fliers sometimes receive prolonged screenings.
The Job Has Some Good Moments
The TSA and other airport security around the world have been known to get some bad press, and it's not often that one hears about the happy moments security personnel experience while on the job. It's not uncommon to meet at least one celebrity while on the job, as the rich and famous have to pass through airports - just like us! - every time they fly to yet another celebrity vacation hotspot. It also isn't unheard of to see a pregnancy announcement or proposal in the security line either.
TSA Agents Can Get Tenure
Upon hiring, TSA agents are automatically put in a two-year probationary period during which they must receive regular training and performance reviews. After this two-year period, an agent's job is generally secure, making it very difficult to fire them unless they commit a crime. A tenured TSA agent has even been referred to as a "made" man or woman within the industry, a term used for fully initiated mafia members.
TSA Agents Can't Arrest You
Airport security can be nerve-wracking, especially if you're put through additional screening such as pat-downs. If you're worried that you may have packed something sharp or exceeding liquid limits by accident, you don't need to worry too much. While TSA agents may try to hold you until police arrive, they operate on consent - whether implied or expressed - which means that passengers are free to leave the airport entirely if security doesn't allow them through the checkpoint.
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Your Belongings May Be Sold
Items forgotten by passengers or left behind after airport security does not allow them through aren't always thrown into the trash. Instead, these items are often collected and later sold. Knives, nunchucks, spears and other odd items that have been brought through security are collected every day by screeners, shipped to other states, and then sold at local government surplus stores or online for a profit.
Your Ticket May Have Marked You as Suspicious
Right before you enter the security checkpoint, an airport security agent will mark your ticket with their badge number, initials, or some other indication of who screened you. If this person finds you suspicious in some way, they may also mark your boarding pass to let other checkpoint officers know that you should receive additional screening as a result of some sort of behaviors that have marked you as a suspicious passenger.
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'Going Attractions': Film Review
6:49 PM PST 1/2/2020 by John DeFore
Courtesy of Going Places
Informative and pleasing, if not quite as definitive as it intends to be. TWITTER
April Wright's film-history doc recalls the opulent movie theaters of yesteryear.
Celebrating a bygone age in which cinema was not merely a communal activity but one that could dazzle the senses even before the show began, April Wright's Going Attractions sets out to be "The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace." Like her similarly named 2013 film about drive-ins, it is useful in part simply for explaining to younger viewers what moviegoing could be like before the advent of multiplexes. Though its focus could be tighter and its production values sometimes betray Wright's limited means (she really should have used still photos as they were, instead of trying to 3D-ify them), the documentary is uncompromised in its shots of spectacular movie houses that have escaped the wrecking ball. One can imagine it being a big draw in such venues, as special-event programming designed to help raise funds for restoration or operating expenses; elsewhere, film lovers will find home viewing perfectly adequate.
Introductory interview clips deliver variations on a familiar sentiment: Movies mean more when you don't watch them alone in your living room, and don't get us started on you philistines who watch them on your phones on the subway. For those who groan at such talk, the accompanying photography should be sufficient distraction: scenes of stunningly ornate interiors in a variety of architectural styles. Some viewers may have a hard time believing such theaters still exist; many will find it hard to believe they were constructed not as plutocrats' homes or halls of government, but for the mundane purpose of showing movies to regular people.
Wright and her interviewees zip through the early history of film exhibition, which was often anything but mundane. We get just enough background on early film technology to explain how closely linked pioneer filmmakers were with the entrepreneurs who brought their work to the paying public. Within a few years of the hand-cranked inventions that brought short films to one viewer at a time, storefront cinemas were herding large audiences into rooms to watch shorts; as these were paired with live vaudeville acts, the movies entered performance venues that could rival those devoted to legit theater or operas.
Leonard Maltin (the film's MVP) recounts the early development of the feature-length movie, while others — several interviewees are the current owners of theaters, or work with groups advocating for them — describe the theaters that were soon designed specifically to show movies. We hear of some trailblazing showmen, though, sadly, colorful anecdotes are in short supply. There was Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel, for instance, who gave his nickname to a Times Square theater and later helped develop Radio City Music Hall; or Balaban & Katz, who built massive movie palaces in Chicago. (Chicago, New York and Los Angeles get most of the doc's attention, but Wright and company point out how many small cities had impressive cinemas of their own.)
Discussion of the intertwining of movie studios and theater ownership — which led to the transformative 1940s consent decrees, currently being dismantled by an administration that doesn't seem terribly concerned about the concentration of ownership in media — is interesting and important enough that one wishes the film gave it more attention. Instead, Wright blazes through to get to the many other factors that helped kill the movie palaces. After the Depression, television and an exodus to suburbia dealt big blows to theaters. Exhibitors fought back with 3D, William Castle-like gimmicks, and new formats like CinemaScope; but theaters designed to resemble Versailles or Moorish palaces seemed less and less relevant to these efforts, and many were left to rot or simply knocked down.
Going Attractions observes what happened to the rest: Some became 24-hour grindhouses where the homeless urinated on the carpet; some were crudely retrofitted for office or retail space; some, praise God, were taken over by churches that maintained their splendor.
Elsewhere, some lucky communities never let their palaces die. Austin's Paramount Theater, though not opulent enough to be featured here, was adopted by new owners in the '70s and soon transformed into a non-profit. Thanks to its now decades-old film program (which runs in between moneymaking live-music and stage productions), generations of college kids reared on VHS were able to see David Lean epics, The Godfather and classic screwball comedies in a magnificent setting. They learned first-hand what a film like this can only suggest: Great art can be elevated by the environment in which we encounter it; and in the right setting, even a run-of-the-mill movie may become a memorable night out. A century ago, some showmen knew that a sufficiently dazzling building could sell tickets regardless of the movies being shown inside. Today's struggling theater owners, currently engaged in a reclining-armchair arms race, might learn something from their ambition.
Production company: Passion River Films
Director-screenwriter: April Wright
Producers-editors: Rachael Ponn, April Wright
Director of photography: Dustin Pearlman
Composer: Chris Wormer
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LIVE Hull City news and rumours as Leonid Slutsky holds press conference before Barnsley
The head coach will be looking for his first away win as City boss this weekend
Hello and welcome along to today's LIVE Hull City blog where we will have all the news and rumours as well as all the build up to another crucial Championship weekend.
The Tigers travel to Barnsley this weekend looking for their first away league win since they beat Swansea City in August 2016, 24 fruitless away days have passed since then but is tomorrow the day the Tigers finally pick up three points on the road?
Ahead of the 102nd meeting between the two clubs we will be bringing you live updates from Leonid Slutsky's pre-match press conference. The Russian will be giving us updates on team news, his thoughts on Barnsley and perhaps giving us a hint at who will replace the suspended David Meyler this weekend.
Join us live all day as we look ahead to tomorrow's Yorkshire derby.
That's it for us today, we'll leave you with this
MATCH PREVIEW: Barnsley vs Hull City.
Slutsky calls on Grosicki to up his game away
Kamil Grosicki of Hull City (Image: Focus)
Here's a snippet from Slutsky's press conference
KEY BATTLE: Can Kamil Grosicki get the better of Andy Yiadom?
Here's how the Barnsley boss sees it this weekend
Manager of Barnsley Paul Heckingbottom (Image: Getty)
Slutsky backs Aina to rediscover form
Ola Aina of Hull City (Image: Focus)
Here's City's last five trips to Oakwell
eonid Slutsky will be hoping his side can end their winless away run this weekend when they travel to Barnsley.
However City don’t have the best record at Oakwell having won just once in their last five visits to Barnsley in the Championship.
Can City turn that around? Before the 102nd competitive meeting between the two clubs we have a look at the last five games away to the Tykes.
20 Feb 2007 - Barnsley 3-0 Hull City
City’s hopes of staying in the Championship took a massive blow when they were thumped 3-0 by relegation rivals Barnsley.
Istvan Ferenczi put the Tykes ahead early in the game and the afternoon went from bad to worse when Andy Dawson and Stephen McPhee were forced off through injury.
Peter Rajczi’s goal just after the interval all but killed the game off and Ferenczi’s second wrapped up the scoring.
16 April 2008 – Barnsley 1-3 Hull City
With three games remaining in the season, Phil Brown’s City moved into an automatic promotion place and within touching distance of the Premier League.
Dean Marney got City off to a strong start with a penalty in the first half, a lead that was doubled in the second by a rare Ian Ashbee effort.
Dean Windass sealed all three points with an 83rd minute goal before Ferenczi bagged a late consolation.
Dean Windass celebrates scoring for Hull City against Barnsley (Image: Getty)
30 October 2010 – Barnsley 1-1 Hull City
City’s poor start to life back in the second tier continued with a 1-1 draw at Oakwell.
The Tigers trailed for a long period of the game through Adam Hammill’s first-half effort but Kevin Kilbane’s goal 18 minutes from time sealed a point for Nigel Pearson’s side.
1 November 2011 – Barnsley 2-1 Hull City
City were left to rue a first-half penalty miss as they came up short against Barnsley.
Matty Fryatt’s spot kick was blocked by Luke Steele before Craig Davies and Andy Gray put the Tykes ahead.
Fryatt made up for his miss in the second half with a late goal but it wasn’t enough to stop a home win.
Needing just a win to seal automatic promotion back to the Premier League, Hull City continued to choke with a 2-0 loss against Barnsley.
Jacob Mellis put Barnsley ahead early on and the Tigers woes were doubled when Chris O’Grady rounded up the scoring in the second half.
Thankfully City sealed a point the following week at Cardiff City to finish second and earn just their second promotion to the top flight ever.
Why City fans should be optimistic this weekend
Leonid Slutsky manager of Hull City celebrates his teams sixth goal against Birmingham City (Image: Getty)
Anyone remember City's last win at Oakwell?
Making a late decision about Barnsley?
Hull City have confirmed cash turnstiles will be in operation tomorrow in the away end, meaning fans can leave it late to make a decision.
Tickets are no longer available to buy in advance.
Pay on the day prices at Oakwell are:
£25 Adults
£18 Seniors (65+) & Under 21s
Kevin Stewart to start tomorrow
Hull City's Kevin Stewart
Stick with us
That’s it from us here at the University of Hull training ground in Cottingham, stick with us throughout the day as we preview tomorrow’s trip to Barnsley.
That's it from the Russian
He seems in a confident mood this morning. Could tomorrow be the day City finally pick up that away win?
Slutsky on Grosicki's away form
Kamil is a very emotional player and he needs serious support. He must play in a friendly atmosphere and sometimes emotion takes over quality and that is the difference between away and home matches. Brazilian and Argentinian players have the same problem, home one player, away an other. I hope tomorrow he will be much better away.
Slutsky on that illusive away win
Each match very important and in each match we had a chance to win and we are waiting. We have waited a lot of time and I think we will have a chance. If we had a match that was only 87 minutes we would be much better off. I think this is the problem of growing and usually at CSKA we won matches in that time but here we need to grow. We need to improve concentration and for me the best example of the match is against QPR and before we concede the goal we had a good chance with Larsson.
When team is young everything is possible. It is not a local problem it is a general problem.
Slutsky not looking to bring players to the club in January
To be honest I think we have a really good squad now and my target is to adapt the players to each other. I think we don’t have the possibility to buy another principle of players, they are expensive. We will be active in the January transfer market for two reasons, one for injuries and if players leave.
If everybody continues to stay and without injury for me we have good squad already and for me it is the target to play better together. If we change the squad again it will be difficult for me again.
Slutsky talks about the club's long-term injuries
Moses Odubajo had a serious and difficult injury and I hope he will play again this season. He starts first and finishes last.
The doctors must understand Ryan Mason’s dynamic and the next test will be in January. That will determine whether he will play again and if he can when.
Slutsky on the midfield debate
Kevin Stewart is a very important player to us and he understands why he is important. Tomorrow he will play and that is just his second start. Of course David Meyler situation made my decision easier.
Jackson Irvine had a difficult situation because he came back from national team two days before Norwich. It was not his fault or mine but I didn’t have the information about him. In my opinion the best thing for him was to play under-23s and he proved his level there. He had an unbelievable week in training and he is now back on the list. He will be in the squad tomorrow and he is in a group of players who I am thinking about starting.
Slutsky on Aina's form
Ola Aina is a young player and young players performance levels go up and down. He had just come back from Nigeria and this is difficult for him. I was sure about Bowen and Clark at Norwich because they trained with the side for two weeks but Aina was away.
Slutsky keen to find positives
I can manage only the level of the players and tactics but I cannot manage result. My target is for us to play at our maximum performance and I can only hope this will bring the result. First reaction from last week was of course minuses and when you concede at that time you are of course very frustrated. But after a day you find pluses. We played 10 v 11 for 35 minutes, we were not in the best condition thanks to the international break. First reaction is negative but second reaction is to find a positive. It is difficult to move on without positives.
Kevin Stewart is ready, he played for the under-23s and at Norwich last week. He trained very well in midweek as well. Fraizer Campbell is ready to start too, he is ready to get my decision. Campbell will play but I don’t know about starting or substitution. We don’t have any more injury worries.
Slutsky on away form
Our problem is away matches because we are very close a lot of time to win. Each away match is the same, they are all difficult but it is possible to get three results.
I don’t think Barnsley will agree with our desire. We are mentally ready and physically ready but they are a serious team. It is my first Yorkshire derby and I hope City fans will come in their numbers.
I have not been surprised by the quality of the Championship. It is a very physical league, each match has quick players strong players and it makes each game unpredictable and everybody is better at home.
Here's Slutsky!
I think everybody forgets about Hull Fair. It was really very nice, I won a cuddly toy and I love the food. very friendly behavior like always.
I don’t know what people think about my profession it is just my normal behaviour I am a normal man and I have the same interests as everyone. I like trip on my bike, around Beverley, Hull and Cottingham.
That's it from the midfielder
He dropped a big hint that he will be chosen tomorrow over Jackson Irvine. The midfielder will be coming in for David Meyler in just his second start for the Tigers.
Stewart staying positive
My long-term goals are staying injury free and I want to get to get Hull City out of the Championship and back to the Premier League.
Stewart on Barnsley
I think we’re very close to getting the away win and I feel like it could be any week now. We don’t really talk about it day to day. For me though last week has made us angry and that could be the difference this weekend. I’ll come in and do what I do, I bring something different to Meyler.
Stewart on injuries
It’s a long season so I didn’t feel a rush to prove anything to the supporters. I’m ready to be selected this weekend of course.
Before the QPR game I felt ready but maybe I came back too soon. I thought it was a lot worse than what it was and I was panicking but it turned out to be not too bad.
I don’t actually get too many injuries, touch wood, but it’s part of being a footballer.
Kevin Stewart on Norwich City last week
Being injured watching the boys and not being able to affect things is probably the most difficult thing for me. I think obviously last week was very disappointing but I think in a way it was good to see what happened last week. They did themselves proud to work so hard with a man down and although they scored it was a positive performance. Without the manager saying anything we felt how much we worked together and we pushed ourselves to the very limits.
Kevin Stewart is here
I’ve been through injury worries before so I think I managed it well. I had to enjoy a bit of down time and I feel fresh. Game fitness wise the rest of the squad are obviously fitter but I’ve played for the under-23s before and I played half an hour last week so that really helped.
Fraizer Campbell will be fit to play tomorrow
The striker has recovered from a slight knee injury in order to be part of Slutsky’s plans this weekend. But despite his recent form he may not be guaranteed of a starting spot as Nouha Dicko came in last week and Norwich and grabbed a goal.
Who do you think Slutsky will go for?
Kevin Stewart will be joining us this morning
Leonid Slutsky will be joined by Kevin Stewart in the press room this morning. One them is expected shortly.
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While no vaccination has been found, some dogs can fight off the disease, and live with minimal damage. The most a veterinarian could do is treat the kidney failure. Since kidney failure treatment is not permanent, the dog invariably dies soon after. Some UK dogs with Alabama rot have been successfully treated since 2013. A webinar on Alabama rot by the Royal Veterinary College on 11 February 2015 was tutored by David Walker of Anderson Moores Veterinary Specialists.
The Take Home Message:
There is nothing we can do to prevent a dog from catching it (that we know of yet), but it is very rare, nor can it be diagnosed with a specific test.
If your dog has a skin lesion (especially legs/paws or even ulcers or lesions in the mouth possibly caused by licking infected wounds), and seems unwell then you should seek veterinary advice immediately.
Anderson Moores Veterinary Specialists (Hampshire) continue to collect information of all confirmed cases of Alabama Rot (cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy – CRGV) from across the UK in the hope to find the cause and ultimately a cure for this dreadful condition. As the evidence suggests so far that CRGV is more likely to be a seasonal condition as the number of reported cases has dropped during this period of warmer weather with just one confirmed case between 1st April – 30th May from Blandford Forum, Dorset.
For further information click on the links below.
Information Sheet for Owners – Updated May 2015 http://www.andersonmoores.com/uploads/files/AKI CRGV NEWSLETTER May 2015.pdf
Cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy/Alabama rot – Veterinary information sheet
Cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy (CRGV) is a disease of unknown aetiology, often characterised by ulceration of the distal extremities in dogs. It is variably associated with clinically significant renal azotaemia secondary to acute kidney injury (AKI). CRGV has previously been reported in a case series of greyhounds in the USA, a Great Dane in Germany and a greyhound within the UK.
Since November 2012, more than sixty dogs across the UK have been identified with clinicopathological findings similar to those reported in greyhounds in the USA in the 1980’s. Skin lesions, typically appearing as ulcers or erosions on the distal limbs, ventrum or oral cavity/muzzle, commonly appear less than a week before clinical signs attributable to AKI.
The major renal histopathological lesion reported in CRGV is thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). Thrombotic microangiopathies are characterised by inflammation and damage to vascular endothelium, leading to widespread formation of microthrombi and resultant consumptive thrombocytopaenia.
A range of breeds have been identified with CRGV in the UK suggesting the disease does not solely affect greyhounds. There does not appear to be a breed, body weight, sex or age predilection. Cases have been identified across the whole of UK and there may be a seasonal distribution with cases being identified between November and June.
Thrombocytopaenia has been identified in approximately half of the affected dogs and is thought to be the result of widespread microthrombi. Mild anaemia, neutrophilia and hyperbilirubinaemia have also been seen in around a quarter of affected dogs. A significant proportion of dogs affected by CRGV are non azotaemic at presentation, if you are presented with a dog with a skin lesion of unknown cause and you or the owner are concerned about CRGV please refer to our ‘non azotaemic cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy – advice sheet for vets’ for further information.
A definitive diagnosis of CRGV is made by histopathological assessment of the kidneys +/- skin. The aetiology of CRGV remains unknown at this time and common causes of AKI should be considered and excluded when presented with a dog that may be suffering from CRGV.
Current knowledge suggests management should be as for any dog presenting with AKI of unknown cause. Advice should be sought when presented with a patient with suspected CRGV.
If you are concerned that a case you have been presented with may be suffering from CRGV please feel free to contact Anderson Moores Veterinary Specialists (01962 767920; david@andersonmoores.com). We continue to collate data on all cases nationally. We can provide histopathology free of charge on suspected cases but please contact us prior to sending tissue.
Advice Leaflet
Anderson Moores Veterinary Practice in Hampshire have produced an advice leaflet about AR and have kindly given the HVC and the Charity permission to place the leaflet on the HV Web sites. As a precaution, their advice is that the owners of all dogs, particularly in the south, are to ensure that the dog’s feet, legs, chest and stomach are bathed each time upon their return home to prevent the possible spread of any parts that have been in contact with any possible/potentially infected ground. See CRGV vet update below.
CRGV vet update Oct 2014
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Europe\'s most powerful solar park opens near Bordeaux
By Adam Justice
December 1, 2015 16:56 GMT
Europe's biggest photovoltaic solar power plant opened on Tuesday (1 December) near Bordeaux on the second day of the COP21 climate conference hosted by France. With the project's inauguration, France has made up some lost ground after being a relative latecomer to the solar phenomenon compared to its neighbours in Europe.
France's solar power capacity was estimated at a mere 5,095MW in June, prior to the project, compared with nearly 37,000MW in Germany. The new €360m (£253m, $381m), 300-MW, ground-mounted installation plant is capable of supplying the annual electricity needs of Bordeaux. Power from the development, which uses nearly 1m solar cells, will be sold at €105 per megawatt-hour over the next 20 years.
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Barack Obama\'s speech at the opening of UN Climate Conference
Related topics : COP21 Climate Change
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Resolved (04.97), that the minutes of the meetings of the Board on 26 June 2003, 23 July 2003, 8 August 2003, 19 August 2003, 9 September 2003, 12 September 2003, 13 October 2003, 18 October 2004, and 15 November 2004, are hereby approved and adopted by the Board as presented.
(Eleven votes in favor, none opposed, no abstentions.)
Meetings Committee Recommendations for 2005-2006
Whereas, ICANN has received several proposals for hosting ICANN meetings to be held in North America in November-December 2005, in Asia Pacific in March 2006, and in Africa in June 2006.
Whereas, the proposals have been reviewed by ICANN staff and the Meetings Committee, which review has resulted in the following recommendation from the Committee:
Resolved (04.98) that the President is authorized to make arrangements for meetings in Vancouver, Canada (30 November to 4 December 2005), Wellington, New Zealand (27-31 March 2006), and Marrakesh, Morocco (26-30 June 2006).
ICANN Strategic Plan
Whereas, ICANN posted a version of its Strategic Plan for public comment on 16 November 2004, setting forth ICANN's goals for securing long-term sustainability of its critical domain name and numbering system management responsibilities, including the necessary corporate structure and financial and personnel resources to meet such responsibilities.
Whereas, ICANN encourages public comment to ensure that community concerns are addressed and accounted for in the Strategic Plan through a lengthy public comment period where all relevant comments will be taken into consideration.
Resolved (04.99), that the President and the General Counsel are directed to extend the Strategic Plan public comment period through at least 28 February 2005, to consider all relevant input, to amend the plan as appropriate, and to submit the plan to the Board for final approval when ready.
.NET Request for Proposals
Whereas, on 6 March 2004 the ICANN Board authorized the President "to take steps to initiate the process as specified in Section 5.2 of the .net Registry Agreement for designating a successor operator for the .net registry, including referrals and requests for advice to the GNSO and other relevant committees and organizations as appropriate."
Whereas, on 31 March ICANN issued a formal request for guidance to the GNSO concerning the criteria for designating a subsequent operator for the .net TLD.
Whereas, on 29 June 2004, following a public comment period, the final procedure for the designating the successor operator for .net was approved by the ICANN Board.
Whereas, on 5 August 2004, following public comment periods, the GNSO council voted (with 21 votes in favor, 2 votes against, 2 votes abstained, 2 votes absent) and submitted their recommendation to ICANN regarding the criteria to be used in the .net designation.
Whereas, ICANN developed a draft .NET RFP based on the GNSO recommendation and posted it for public comment on 12 November 2004, which comment period was extended through 3 December 2004.
Whereas, all received comments have been considered, and changes has been made the draft .net RFP where appropriate.
Resolved (04.100), that the Board adopts the recommendation of the GNSO Council and authorizes the President and the General Counsel to post the final .NET RFP in accordance with the previously adopted procedure.
(Ten votes in favor, none opposed, Michael Palage abstained.)
Address Supporting Organization MOU Implementation
Whereas, on 21 October 2004, ICANN entered a new Address Supporting Organization (ASO) Memorandum of Understanding.
Whereas, this new ASO MOU replaces the version signed by ICANN and the RIRs in 1999 and amended in 2000.
Whereas, under the new MOU, the "Number Resource Organization" will fulfill the role of the ASO as defined within the ICANN Bylaws.
Whereas, Article VIII of the Bylaws states that the ASO "shall advise the Board with respect to policy issues relating to the operation, assignment, and management of Internet addresses."
Whereas, implementation of the new MOU will require an amendment to this Article VIII of the Bylaws, which currently refers to the 1999 version of the ASO MOU and includes a note indicating that, "This article is subject to amendment as a result of continuing discussion and the Regional Internet Registries."
Whereas, the General Counsel has prepared proposed amendments to the Bylaws that incorporate a reference to (and thus give effect to) the new ASO MOU <http://www.icann.org/legal/proposed-bylaws-amendments-04dec04.htm>.
Resolved (04.101) the Board welcomes the signing of the new ASO MOU, authorizes the General Counsel to post the proposed implementation amendments to the Bylaws for public comments through 31 December 2004, and agrees to consider those proposed Bylaws amendments at the next Board meeting.
2004 Nominating Committee Appointments
Whereas, Bylaws Article VII calls for the Board to appoint a non-voting Chair for the Nominating Committee;
Whereas, on 6 March 2004, ICANN appointed Mr. Jean-Jacques Damlamian as Chair of the Nominating Committee, to serve until the conclusion of the ICANN annual meeting in 2004 or until his earlier resignation, removal, or other disqualification from service;
Whereas the Nominating Committee Chair asked Pindar Wong to serve as Vice-Chair to assist him in the direction of the Nominating Committee, in lieu of the service of the immediately preceding Nominating Committee Chair as a non-voting advisor, as is contemplated for subsequent Nominating Committees by Bylaws Article VII, Section 2(2);
Whereas Linda Wilson served, in her capacity as immediately previous Nominating Committee Chair, as a non-voting advisor to both the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Nominating Committee;
Whereas the 2004 Nominating Committee consisted of delegates from each of ICANN’s constituencies and advisory bodies;
Resolved (04.102) that the ICANN Board expresses its deep appreciation to Jean-Jacques Damlamian, Pindar Wong, Linda Wilson, and all of the members of the 2004 Nominating Committee for their dedication, hard work, and successful efforts.
(Adopted by acclamation.)
Appointment of 2005 Nominating Committee Chair
Whereas, Article VII, Section 2(1) of the Bylaws calls for the non-voting Chair of the Nominating Committee to be appointed by the ICANN Board;
Whereas, the Board Governance Committee has recommended that George Sadowsky be appointed to chair the 2005 Nominating Committee, and Mr. Sadowsky has indicated a willingness to so serve;
Resolved, (04.103) that Mr. Sadowsky is appointed as Chair of the 2005 Nominating Committee, to serve until the conclusion of the ICANN annual meeting in 2005, or until his earlier resignation, removal, or other disqualification from service;
Resolved further, (04.104) that the President provide support by ICANN and other sources to the Nominating Committee as determined, in consultation with the Chair of the committee, to be appropriate for the discharge of its functions.
Response to GNSO Council Request to Maintain Three Representatives per Constituency
Whereas at the ICANN meeting in Tunisia on 31 October 2003, the Board resolved to allow the GNSO Council to maintain three representatives per constituency until the end of the ICANN annual meeting 2004; and resolved to perform a review of the GNSO Council in 2004 to include an analysis of the efficacy of having three representatives from each constituency on the GNSO Council.
Whereas the external review is not yet completed, and the GNSO Council has indicated its desire to extend the current arrangement of three representatives per constituency until the ICANN meeting in Mar del Plata, Argentina in April 2005.
Resolved, (04.105) the Board agrees to extend the current arrangement of three representatives per constituency until the ICANN meeting in Mar del Plata, Argentina in April 2005, to allow time for the external review to be completed following a public comment period, to allow time for ICANN to consider a proposed change to the ICANN bylaws to allow three representatives per constituency on an ongoing basis, and to allow an appropriate period for public discussion before changing the bylaws.
WIPO II Report Next Steps
Whereas, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) sent ICANN a letter dated 21 February 2003 providing information about two decisions that WIPO member states requested be transmitted to ICANN: (1) concerning the names and acronyms of international intergovernmental organizations, and (2) concerning the names of countries.
Whereas, in response to an invitation from the Board, advice and comments were received from the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), the GNSO Council, the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), and the Intellectual Property Interests and the Commercial and Business Users Constituencies of the GNSO.
Whereas, pursuant to Board Resolution 03.83 directed ICANN's President formed a joint working group which included participants in the GNSO, the ALAC, and the GAC as well as Board members, for the purpose of analyzing the practical and technical aspects of implementing the WIPO recommendations, and notably the implications for the UDRP.
Whereas, the President's WIPO II Joint Working Group was unable to deliver a report during ICANN's Kuala Lumpur Meeting in June 2004 indicating that it could achieve consensus in its recommendations regarding these issues.
Whereas pursuant to Board Resolution 04.61 and 04.62, ICANN Staff was directed to investigate and analyze the Joint Working Group's report, and has commenced such review and investigation and has also commenced additional consultation, but has been unable to obtain enough information to be able to make a recommendation at this time.
Whereas the President, in his oral report to the Board on 5 December, stated that the analysis of the report of the Joint Working Group shows that there is no consensus among its members on the practical and technical aspects of implementing the WIPO recommendations, and notably the implications for the UDRP, that the staff has undertaken another consultation with the Senior Staff of WIPO with the purpose of seeking further advice on the findings of the Joint Working Group, that the staff has posted the Report of the Joint Working Group as well as the advisory received from WIPO for public comment, and that further consultations with the community are appropriate;
Whereas, based on the recommendations of the President in his oral report to the Board;
Resolved (04.106) staff is requested to undertake further analysis of the comments expected during the public comment period, the staff to undertake to consult the community members with the purpose of drawing up a report based on all these elements that, together with an appropriate draft Recommendation to be submitted for public comments, and that the Board be informed of the results of these efforts, including if appropriate a Recommendation, at its meeting in Mar del Plata in April 2005.
Reconsideration Committee 2004 Annual Report
(No Board action)
Core Principles and Corporate Governance Guidelines Recommendation from Board Governance Committee
Whereas, the bottom-up, consensus-based policy formation process, inter-related constituency groups, and the global nature of the Internet community require that ICANN maintain and enforce a carefully crafted set of Corporate Governance Principles in order to ensure the organization's reputation for independence and fairness.
Whereas, the Board Governance Committee has developed a document entitled of "Core Principles and Corporate Governance Guidelines."
Resolved (04.107), the President and General Counsel are directed to post the Board Governance Committee's "Core Principles and Corporate Governance Guidelines" for public comment, such comments to be taken into consideration in the finalization of the document to be undertaken by the BGC in preparation for adoption of the Principles by the full Board at a later meeting.
Ombudsman Bylaws Recommendation from Board Governance Committee
Whereas, the ICANN was pleased to announce recently that after an extensive International search, Frank Fowlie was selected as ICANN's first Ombudsman.
Whereas the Office of the ICANN Ombudsman is established by Article V of the ICANN Bylaws.
Whereas the Board Governance Committee has reviewed the various Bylaws provisions relating to the Office of the Ombudsman, and has determined that certain changes in the position would likely be beneficial both for the Office of the Ombudsman and the organization as a whole.
Resolved (04.108), the President and the General Counsel are directed to post the proposed Ombudsman bylaws amendments and proposed Ombudsman Management Principles for public comment, subject to review and finalisation by the Board at a future meeting.
Security and Stability Advisory Committee Appointments
Resolved (04.109) ICANN acknowledges the following individuals for service to ICANN by membership on the Security and Stability Advisory Committee: Steve Bellovin, Rob Blokzijl, David Conrad, Jun Murai, Ken Silva, and Rick Wesson.
Resolved (04.110) the following individuals are appointed to the SSAC: k c claffy, Rodney Joffe, Jon Peterson, Mike St. Johns, and Suzanne Woolf.
Resolved (04.111) Ray Plzak is appointed as Vice-Chair of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee.
Thanks to Lyman Chapin
(Note: the following is a copy of the resolution that was adopted without Lyman's presence in Kuala Lumpur.)
Whereas, Lyman Chapin was named to serve the ICANN Board by the Address Support Organization in October 2001, and concluded his service in May 2004;
Whereas, Lyman served ICANN as a valuable member of the Evolution and Reform Committee and the Audit Committee, and as chair of the Conflicts and Reconsideration Committees;
Whereas, Lyman carried out his duties as Director with skill, panache, a warm sense of humor, and an unfailing sense of responsibility and adherence to principles;
Whereas ICANN benefited from his technical expertise and specific knowledge of Internet design and operation;
Therefore the Board of Directors of ICANN resolves (04.76):
That Lyman Chapin has earned the respect and deep gratitude of the ICANN Board and constituents for his long and faithful service; and
That the Board expresses its great gratitude to Lyman Chapin for his service to the Board and the ICANN Community, and offers to him its wish for long and healthy life filled with satisfaction and success.
Thanks to Tricia Drakes
Whereas, Tricia Drakes has served as a Director of the Board of ICANN since June 2003;
Whereas, Tricia Drakes was selected for the ICANN Board by the Nominating Committee. Her current term will end after the conclusion of ICANN's annual meeting in 2004.
Whereas, Tricia has served with unmatched energy, honor and distinction as the Chair of the Reconsideration Committee, and as a member of the Board Governance Committee, Executive Committee, and Finance Committee;
Whereas, Tricia has brought tenacity, adherence to principles and a profound sense of responsibility to the mission of ICANN;
Whereas, ICANN and its Community has been shaped in countless ways by the tireless efforts of Tricia Drakes, most notably in her energy and enthusiasm to ensure ICANN’s appropriate maturing;
Therefore the Board of Directors resolves (04.112):
That Tricia Drakes has earned the deep respect, gratitude and admiration of the Board and the ICANN community;
That Tricia has brought discipline and devotion to duty and service to the highest level of distinction during her term of service;
That the Board expresses on behalf of the ICANN Community and itself its highest appreciation for Tricia Drakes’ contributions and its wish for her future health, happiness and continued participation in the Internet community.
Thanks to Ivan Campos
Whereas, Ivan Moura Campos has served as a Director of the Board of ICANN from 2000 to 2004, including during the ICANN reform process;
Whereas, Ivan was elected to the ICANN Board in the Year 2000 At Large election representing Latin America and the Caribbean. His current term will end after the conclusion of ICANN's annual meeting in 2004.
Whereas, Ivan has served with unmatched energy, honor and distinction as the Chair of the Finance Committee, and as a member of the Board Governance Committee and Meetings Committee;
Whereas, Ivan has brought tenacity, adherence to principles and a profound sense of responsibility to the mission of ICANN;
Whereas, the ICANN and its Community has been shaped in countless ways by Ivan’s tireless efforts, most notably in his energy, humor and enthusiasm for the realistic maturation of ICANN and its processes;
That Ivan Moura Campos has earned the deep respect, gratitude and admiration of the Board and the ICANN community;
That Ivan has brought discipline and devotion to duty and service to the highest level of distinction during his term of service; and
That the Board expresses on behalf of the ICANN Community and itself its highest appreciation for Ivan Moura Campos’ contributions and its best wishes for his future health, happiness, and continued participation in the Internet community.
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Bronte Pictures clinches sales deals on three projects
18 September, 2018 by Don Groves
‘Escape and Evasion.’
Bronte Pictures is set to produce four features next year after signing deals for two films and a feature documentary at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Pascal Borno’s Conquistador Entertainment acquired worldwide rights to Storm Ashwood’s thriller Escape and Evasion, which follows a soldier who returns home in search of solace after his men are killed in Burma.
Instrum International agreed to handle global sales on Around the World, a documentary on freestyle football written and directed by David Amouzegh, Tom Cheve and Clement Reubrecht.
Vertical Entertainment collared North American rights to Ashwood’s debut feature The School, a supernatural horror/thriller which Bronte Pictures co-produced with Lunar Pictures’ Jim Robison.
The film starring Megan Drury as a surgeon whose son has fallen into a coma and who becomes trapped in an abandoned school where she is threatened by feral children, will open in US cinemas on October 26 and in Australia/New Zealand on November 22 via The Backlot Films.
“TIFF was a great success for us. Closing these deals now gives us the perfect preparation leading up to a sales launch at AFM in November and hopefully being in a position to then screen all films at the Berlin Film Festival marketplace,” Bronte Pictures CEO Blake Northfield tells IF.
“We’re excited to explore different sales agents and to get to know the way in which they work differently. In this day and age with the market so tough, it’s nice to see Australian content still being strongly supported.”
In Escape and Evasion Josh McConville plays Seth, the sole survivor of a mission gone wrong. Bonnie Sveen is Rebecca, whose brother Josh (Hugh Sheridan) was one of the casualties. She confronts Seth, who reports her to his Major (Rena Owen). Firass Dirani plays Welshy, one of four soldiers on the mission, with Steve Le Marquand as Carl, an ex-soldier who lives in Myanmar.
“We met with Pascal in Cannes two years and were really impressed with the way he and his team do business. They only sell a select few films at the one time so you’re their priority rather than just another film on their slate,” says Northfield, who produced with Jane Corden.
Screen Queensland and Chinese investors supported the production which was shot on the border of Myanmar and Thailand and in the Queensland rainforests. Rialto will distribute in Oz, tentatively next September.
Co-financed by Bronte Pictures and Mind the Gap, Around the World follows the journeys of 10 freestylers from different cultures and backgrounds to the Freestyle Football World Cup- the sport’s biggest prize.
Instrum International will sell the project in two formats: a feature doc and a 6-part series. Umbrella Entertainment’s Jeff Harrison recommended the sales agent to Northfield. Instrum’s Ryan Keller said: “Not only do the stories in the film shed light on shared human qualities of perseverance and hope, which we could certainly use more exposure to right now, these competitors are just plain fun to watch.”
Northfield is hoping for a worldwide VOD deal so he has kept the Australian/NZ rights open.
The 2019 production slate includes writer-director Tyson Johnston’s Streamline, a drama about a gifted 15-year-old swimmer whose life spirals out of control when his long-absent father turns up, triggering his childhood trauma. It will be the feature debut of Johnston, who made several shorts including Lunar, Seed and Exit.
Bronte Pictures is developing an untitled thriller with Kristian Moliere and Julie Byrne’s Triptych Pictures, a film to be directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (title also under wraps) and a feature doc which is yet to be announced.
Northfield concludes: “We are also looking at international production and are committed to growing the industry here, giving first-time directors like Storm Ashwood a go whilst also working with established directors such as Jocelyn Moorhouse.”
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Zayn quits One Direction! Carmudi checks out the luxurious car collections of the One Direction band
Posted by Adrian Patrick Gemora April 03, 2015
One Direction fans are mourning as Zayn Malik quits the group, leaving doubts as to whether the band will remain at the top of the teen pop scene.
Since making their debut in 2010, we’ve watched them transform from schoolboys to international pop stars almost overnight. With that fame comes money, and what do young men do with money? Splash it out on cars of course! Carmudi, the easiest means to sell or buy your car online, checks out the luxurious car collections of the One Direction band.
Zayn Malik, 22 years old
Zayn is yet to own a driver’s license and although he may have bagged himself a celebrity fiancée and a few more tattoos since becoming a globe-trotting star, his car collection doesn’t quite rival Harry’s. Nevertheless, this doesn’t stop his passion for Bentley cars. He owns a Bentley Continental GT worth $48,000. For Valentine’s Day, Zayn was spotted in the passenger seat of a rented $178,000 convertible Bentley. Zayn has, of course, informed the world that he’s planning on owning a fleet of expensive supercars in the future.
Harry Styles, 21 years old
Despite being one of the youngest of the group, Harry passed his driving test way back in 2011 at the age of 17. He bought a Range Rover Sport and added Porsche Cayman S to his impressive collection to mark his 19th birthday.
He went along to a Manchester dealership and handed $148,000 over in return for a set of keys to a brand new, shiny Porsche Carrera for his dad. He liked it so much, that he bought a Porsche Cayman S for himself! Harry loves vintage items and antiques, and his purchase of the 1970s Ford Capri shows he’s got a good eye for classic motors.
Louis Tomlinson, 23 years old
He is the eldest of the group and owns a driver’s license. Louis paid $67,000 for a Porsche Boxster which he later put up for auction and sold for $65,000.
The proud new owner of Louis’ Boxster is believed to be a very lucky teenage girl fan of One Direction. He also owns an Aston Martin which he took to the racetrack and nearly wrecked- because he was trying to beat pop rival Conor Maynard.
As for the other two band members?
Niall Horan owns a Range Rover Sport. The 21-year old Irish heart throb star paid $104,000. While Liam Payne who auditioned in 2008 for the X-Factor’s fifth series is yet to build his own car collection
If you want to build up a unique car collection like the One Direction boys mentioned above, head over to www.carmudi.com or simply download the Carmudi app that lets you find your wheels on the go.
Zayn quits One Direction! Carmudi checks out the luxurious car collections of the One Direction band Reviewed by Adrian Patrick Gemora on April 03, 2015 Rating: 5
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Film Highlights Saturday
October 20 2013 5:00 AM
Frost/Nixon (2008)
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/film-highlights-saturday-29672844.html
BBC2, 11.00pm
In the late 1970s Richard Nixon launched a media charm offensive aimed at erasing public memories of Watergate and winning him the only prize he really craved and that had always eluded him – the love of the American people.
In 1977 he agreed to do a series of interviews with English talk show host David Frost, whom Nixon wrongly assumed was a lightweight.
This fine Ron Howard film, based on a play by Peter Morgan and shown to mark Frost's recent passing, tells the story of those interviews, as the wily Nixion initially ran rings around Frost, then made the crucial error of underestimating the Englishman. Frank Langella and Michael Sheen (both above) are superb in the leading roles, and a fine supporting cast includes Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell, Matthew Macfadyen and Oliver Platt.
Harper (1966)
TCM, 2.45pm
Los Angeles private eye Lew Harper ends up uncovering a human trafficking ring after a woman hires him to look for her missing husband. Paul Newman stars in this stylish thriller inspired by the films of the 1940s. With Lauren Bacall and Janet Leigh.
RTE One, 6.35pm
Likeable Dreamworks animation set in a small Viking town that's beset by constant dragon attacks. When an ostracised young boy called Hiccup shoots down a dragon with a cannon he's invented, he finds he cannot kill the creature and forms a bond with it. With the voice of Jay Baruchel.
Channel 4, 9.00pm
In John McTiernan's hugely enjoyable action thriller, a group of German terrorists led by Alan Rickman get more than they bargained for when they take over an LA skyscraper only to find New York cop John McClane becoming a constant hindrance to their grandiose plans. Bruce Willis stars.
Channel 4, 11.40pm
Peter Weir's wartime drama stars Ed Harris and Colin Farrell as members of a group of prisoners who escape from a brutal Russian gulag in 1940 and embark on a terrible journey through the height of a Siberian winter as they attempt to walk to freedom. With Saoirse Ronan, Dragos Bucur, Gustaf Skarsgard and Alexandru Potocean.
The Good Night (2007)
RTE Two, 12.00am
Comedy directed by Jake Paltrow and starring Martin Freeman as a former pop star now reduced to jingle-writing who becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman he begins dreaming about and who turns out to be real. With Penelope Cruz and Simon Pegg.
Derry Girls to cook up a storm on Great British Bake Off
Craig Simpson Stars of Derry Girls are set for The Great British Bake Off tent.
'I had his name penned on my skin - he was crestfallen' - Richard Branson recalls early...
Ian Begley Billionaire businessman Richard Branson has recalled how he was caught out by Gay Byrne after he wrote his name on his hand as a reminder during an appearance on the Late Late Show.
'I got the bus to his house when U2 were dropped from Late Late' - Bono leads tributes...
Ian Begley and Aoife Walsh Gay Byrne’s family tuned into Tuesday night's special episode of the Late Late Show where some of Ireland’s biggest names paid homage to the broadcasting legend.
Terrence Malick: the extraordinary career of a fearless filmmaker
How George Orwell predicted Brexit and Boris Johnson's victory
How Hynde's rock Pretenders became real deal
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The capital town of Bhutan, and the centre of government, religion and commerce, it is a unique city with unusual mixture of modern development alongside ancient traditions.Thimpu Although not what one expects from a capital city, Thimphu is still a fitting and lively place. Home to civil servants, expatriates and monk body, Thimphu maintains a strong national character in its architectural style.
Buddha Point (Kuensel Phodrang)
Located at a short drive from Thimphu city centre, visitors can get a good overview of the Thimphu valley from the Buddha point (Kuensel Phodrang). You can pay your obeisance and offer prayers to the Buddha, the largest statue in the country and then walk around and take a glimpse of the valley.
Changangkha Lhakhang
It is a fortress like temple and monastic school perched on a ridge above Thimphu, south of Motithang. The temple was established in 12th century on a site chosen by Lama Phajo Drugom Shigpo, who came from Tibet. The central statue here is Chenrezig in a manifestation with 11 heads. From temple courtyard, there is fascinating view of Thimphu valley.
Craft Bazaar
Organised on Tuesday and Wednesday in Centenary Farmer's market, under patronage of Department of cottage & small industry and in collaboration with the department of culture, tourism council and the department of agriculture marketing and cooperatives, this market offers genuine Bhutanese arts & crafts thus contributing in promotion, protection and preservation of traditional arts.
Excursion to Botanical Gardens, Serbithang
Located on lush hillside about 10km from the city, the gardens offer a peaceful and relaxing environment to spend a few hours. Botanists will find the wide selection of indigenous trees and plants of interest.
Excursion to Cheri Goemba
This monastery was built by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in 1620. A silver chorten inside the monastery holds the ashes of Shabdrung's father. The goemba is situated about half an hour walk from Dodena (alt. 2,600m). The trail commences by crossing a traditional wooden bridge that spans the Thimphu Chhu, and then climbs steeply to the monastery. Being the place where the Shabdrung spent many years in meditation, Cheri today has numerous hermitages and small temples located on its slopes, commanding spectacular views. The one way walk to the monastery is approx 4.5 km, taking about 2 hours.
Excursion to Lungchuzekha Goemba
It is an interesting three to four hours round trip walk around Dochula pass, offering fascinating view of Bhutan Himalayas. From 108 chortens and mani wall at Dochula pass, the road ascends gradually into white, red and pink rhododendron forests for about one and a half hour with some steep sections before branching left to Lungchuzekha Goemba. The highlight of this excursion is beautiful forest, spectacular mountain views and monastery.
Excursion to Phajoding Goemba
It is a 5 km uphill walk from Motithang. The monastery was built in 15th century by Shagcha Rinchen who introduced the Drukpa Kagyupa school in Bhutan in the 13th century. It was one time one of the richest monasteries in the country.
Excursion to Takin Preserve, Motithang
The Takin is the national animal of Bhutan, and looks like a cross between a cow and a goat. Legend has it that the animal was created by the great Buddhist yogi, Drupa Kunley, and it can be found only in Bhutan and nearby areas. Taxonomists place the animal in a category of its own as it is not similar enough to any other animal to fit established categories.
Excursion to Tango Goemba
It was founded by Lama Gyalwa Lhanangpa in the 12th century and the present building was built in the 15th century by the "Divine Madman", Lama Drukpa Kunley. In 1616 Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal visited Tango and meditated in a cave near the monastery. His meditation helped ensure the defeat of an invading Tibetan army. The picturesque three-storey tower and several surrounding buildings were built in the 18th century by the eighth Desi, Druk Rabgye and Shabdrung Jigme Chhogyel added the golden roof in the 19th century. Situated north of Thimphu, one way it takes about 30 minutes drive and one hour walk through shaded rhododendron forests to reach the monastery.
Handicrafts Shops
A wide assortment of colorful, hand woven textiles and other craft products is available for purchase at the government-run Handicrafts Emporium and many smaller crafts shops around the town.
Institute for Zorig Chusum
Commonly known as Arts & Crafts School or Painting School, the Institute offers a six-year course on the 13 traditional arts and crafts of Bhutan. On a visit, one can see students learning the various skills taught at the school.
Junghi Handmade Paper Factory
Junghi Paper factory comprises of two enterprises; the unit in Thimphu produces traditional handmade paper from natural plants mainly from 'Daphne' plant species which is insect-resistant. The other unit in Jimina, 22 km from the centre Thimphu town, recycles waster papers. The traditional handmade papers are widely used for religious scripts, packing materials, hand-carry bags, lampshades, envelopes, calendars. The paper looks a lot like Japanese washi, and in fact a lot of Bhutanese paper is exported to Japan also.
Memorial Chorten
This stupa was built in 1974 in the memory of Bhutan's third King, His Late Majesty, King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, who is popularly regarded as Father of modern Bhutan. The paintings and statues inside the monument provide a deep insight into Buddhist philosophy.
The history of Bhutan lies imprinted in archaic texts, which are preserved at the National Library. Besides thousands of manuscripts and ancient texts, the library also has modern academic books and printing blocks for prayer flags.
National Textile Museum
With the opening of Textile Museum, under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen Ashi Sangay Choden, Bhutanese textile have reached new heights as one of the most visible distinct art form. The textile museum has opened its exhibition on six major themes - warp pattern weaves, weft pattern weaves, role of textiles in religion, achievements in textile arts, textiles from indigenous fibers and the royal collection. The crowns of Bhutan's Kings, namzas (dresses), the first version of Royal Crown and other accessories used by members of Royal family can be found in the museum.
Simtokha Dzong
This dzong, built in 1627 by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, stands on a low ridge 8 km down the valley from Thimphu. The Institute for Language and Cultural Studies is located here. The most noteworthy artistic feature of this dzong is the series of over 300 finely worked slate carvings behind the prayer wheels in the courtyard.
The Folk Heritage Museum (Phelchey Toenkhyim)
It is dedicated to connect people to the Bhutanese rural past through exhibits, demonstrations, educational programmes and documentation of rural life. The principal exhibit in the museum is a restored three storey traditional rammed mud and timber house, which dates back to the mid 19th century. The design and form of house is that of an average household in the Wang area during that era. From ground to top floor, household objects, typical domestic tools and equipments that would have been used by a family during that period are put on display.
Traditional Medicine Institute
In Bhutan, equal emphasis is given to both allopathic and traditional medicines. The rich herbal medicines made up from medicinal plants abundant in the Kingdom are prepared and dispensed here. The Institute is also a training school for traditional medicine practitioners. The complex is closed to visitors due to considerations of hygiene, but one can still walk around and view it from outside.
Trashichhoe Dzong
Also know as "fortress of the glorious religion", it was initially built in 1641 and later rebuilt in its present form by King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk in 1965. The Dzong houses, main secretariat building which houses the throne room of His Majesty, the King of Bhutan. The National Assembly Hall is housed in a modern building on the other side of the river from the Dzong. During the warmer summer months, the monk body headed by His Holiness, the Je Khenpo, makes its home in the Dzong.
Every Saturday and Sunday most of Thimphu's scant population and many valley dwellers congregate on the banks of the river where weekend market is held. It is an interesting place to visit and provides opportunity to mingle with the local people.
Zangthopelri Lhakhang
The present structure was built in 1960s and although lacking the charm of many of the older temples, Zangthoo pelri still possesses some impressive murals and art treasures and is worthy of a visit. The site of the temple was a former battle ground, and the temple was constructed there in order to pacify energies.
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Here are the highlights of 2020 to look forward to.
Shail Desai
New Delhi January 3, 2020
The new decade starts with great promise for the sports aficionado. Two cricket World Cups straddle a summer of Olympics, Paralympics and the Euros. Here are the highlights of 2020 to look forward to
UEFA Euro Championship
The mega summer offering opens with the Euros in June. The tournament will be held across 12 countries to mark the 60th anniversary of the championship. The draw in November has set tongues wagging already. In Group F, defending champs Portugal have been drawn alongside World Cup winners France and Germany. Besides, England, Croatia and the Czech Republic have been clubbed together in Group D. Enough said?
In Tokyo this summer, there will be no Usain Bolt or a Yelena Isinbayeva. Instead, look to athletes such as hurdler Karsten Warholm and swimmer Caeleb Dressel to scorch the competition. The Games will see the introduction of four new disciplinesskateboarding, surfing, sport climbing and karate. Konnichiwa, Japan!
Two weeks after the Olympics end, the action continues in Tokyo with the Paralympic Games in August. Japan’s insatiable appetite for sport is apparent from the 3.1 million ticket requests the organisers have received so far. At the previous edition in 2016, the Indian contingent comprised 19 athletes; as of December, over 20 have already qualified for Tokyo, making it the largest representation so far.
ICC World Men’s T20 World Cup
Cricket’s shortest format draws the biggest cheer, which will only get louder in October at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in Australia. Defending champions West Indies will look to extend their good form, while the hosts will hope to make the most of the familiar conditions to win their first title. With their last triumph coming during the inaugural edition in 2007, India will be hungry to prove a point Down Under.
ICC Women’s T20 World Cup
The most successful team at the Women’s T20 World Cup, Australia will have the opportunity to make it five winning campaigns, this time at home when they host the tournament in February. For the Indian women, it will be another opportunity to break the semi-final jinx, where they’ve exited on three previous occasions. With Mithali Raj stepping down as skipper in September, it will be down to new captain Harmanpreet Kaur to rally the troops.
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New Indie Albums
Review: Augustines – This Is Your Life
Published: 6 June 201610:51 Updated: 15 October 201907:38
Author Deborah
Augustines have always dreamed big and it has paid off. After opening for Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds on their recent tour and headline shows including the Brixton Academy in London, there is no stopping them. Can their third album This Is Your Life live up to the high expectations they have raised?
While their debut record Rise Ye Sunken Ships (2011) dealt mostly with the death of singer Billy McCarthy’s schizophrenic brother and mother, their self-titled sophomore record (2014) showcased their musical growth and ventured into the more general themes of love, loss and pursuing your dreams like you’ve got nothing to lose. This Is Your Life carries on these topics but, while it doesn’t lack ambition, it often suffers from overproduction and lack of inspiration.
The album starts out with a bang: “Are we alive / or are we just kidding ourselves?“ Billy McCarthy’s belter beckons on the album’s opening track. Already a constant in their setlist, Are We Alive is full of life-affirming sing-alongs that McCarthy belts vigorously (“Honey, we’re alive not dead“; “Love is like an arrow straight to your heart“). It is not until the penultimate and title track, This Is Your Life, that Augustines come back to this initial question with an answer: “This Is Your Life, You’ve just forgotten it yourself“. Both tracks are roaring anthemic rock hymns that will make excellent additions to their live set and your summer road trip playlist.
Video: Augustines – Are We Alive
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The powerful opener delivers a somewhat wrong first impression as the remainder of the album strikes a slower note. The ballad Landmine, for instance, which McCarthy has played frequently on his solo stints, shows Augustines at their best with heart-on-sleeve lyrics and stripped down instrumentation. Towards the end, the song is unfortunately overwhelmed by strings and choral backings which is a recurring problem of this record.
On When Things Fall Apart, a brainchild of Queen’s Radio Ga Ga, Augustines step out of their comfort zone. The song is a grower and sees the band play around with synths and beats. However unexpected at first listen, Augustines can perfectly get away with this sound.
Apart from these standout tracks, however, things fall apart rather swiftly. While Landmine shows McCarthy at his most poetic, some of his other lyrics seem strangely generic. Ballads such as May You Keep Well, Hold Me Loneliness, and The Forgotten Way meander along with humdrum lyrics (such as “You need something to believe in”; “Can’t we turn this around, I’m here all on my own”; “Baby, it will be alright”) and mixed metaphors such as “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” and “Can’t see the forest through the trees”.
Video: Augustines – When Things Fall Apart
With all these songs about love and loss one begins to wonder how many “baby“s and “darling“s McCarthy has alienated during the band’s relentless touring and his motorcycle journeys through Latin America. Despite the emotions still bleeding through his husky vocals, the words have become less refined.
These weaker songs are drowned out by drum effects and choirs creating an emotional distance that is in sharp contrast to the closeness Augustines exhibit during their life shows. While the overall sound of This Is Your Life is similar to 2014’s Augustines, the composition is much more straight forward and chorus-orientated. It is evident that this album aims at radio appeal.
There are flashes of brilliance on power ballad Running in Place but too often the song is overpowered by the production and African choirs. Towards the end of the record, No Need To Explain sees Augustines tread on more familiar ground of buzzing guitars.
While many bands struggle most with their second record, which is usually written in the back of a tour bus, for Augustines, this seems to be the case with their third outing. While the album has a good amount of standout tracks, the remainder is not particularly memorable. The overblown production and everyday lyrics are often a far cry from McCarthy’s honest and heartfelt songwriting on Rise Ye Sunken Ships or Augustines.
In the end, This Is Your Life is a solid rock album with stadium-sized production that will sound great live but compared to Augustines’ previous efforts it’s a little underwhelming.
This Is Your Life is out on June 10th.
Augustines - This Is Your Life
Lasting Appeal
This Is Your Life is a solid rock album with stadium-sized production that will sound great live but compared to Augustines’ previous efforts it's a little underwhelming.
Augustines will play a run of festival shows across the UK and Europe this summer followed by headline dates. Confirmed dates can be found below.
Music blogger by night, SEO by day. Started Indie is not a Genre in 2011, will always prefer live music over recordings and intimate pub gigs over arena shows.
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British team showjumper sold to Ukraine
Hannah Lemieux 21 October, 2015 18:18
VELINI Joseph CLAYTON
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A promising British-bred horse, ridden by both Michael Whitaker and his stable jockey Joe Clayton, has been sold to Ukraine.
Velini, a nine-year-old gelding owned and bred by Simon Davies, will now be ridden under the Ukrainian flag by Alexander Onischenko. The son of Cheers Cassini has been at Michael’s Nottinghamshire yard for two years and both Michael and Joe have enjoyed numerous placings with him.
“It was always Simon’s plan for us to produce him and then for him to be sold,” said Michael. “He’s always shown a lot of potential — he was green to start with but it all came together this year. I jumped clear with him round a big grand prix track in Barcelona last year, but Joe has had the best results with him.
“It is disappointing that he’s been sold, he’s got a lot of scope and ticked all the right boxes. Simon currently has his three-year-old full brother so I am hopeful of him coming my way.”
Joe and the gelding were members of the British team at the nations cup in Gijon in August. The pair produced a double clear and helped the side to joint second place with Ireland behind France.
Alexander, a Ukrainian billionaire, also purchased Calcourt Falkland from Michael’s yard earlier this year. The 10-year-old gelding has gone well for Alexander.
Michael has been adding exciting horsepower to his stable over the past couple of months. He has taken over the reins on HHS Flo, a 10-year-old mare previously ridden by Brazilian Yuri Mansur Guerios. He also now rides the eight-year-old Millioninmind, a former ride of Joe Clayton.
Topping Michael’s current stable stars is the 10-year-old stallion Cassionato — Michael’s partner at this year’s European Championships in Aachen. The pair helped the British team to Olympic qualification for Rio next year.
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Spring Heeled Jack
by Ellen Castelow
Out of the night he came, a leaping, bounding superman who terrified the English nation for more than 60 years.
At first, tales of this devil-like figure who leaped from roof-top to roof-top was accepted as hysterical nonsense. But in January 1838 this strange creature received official recognition when a barmaid, Polly Adams, was attacked while walking across Blackheath in south London. Mary Stevens, a servant girl was terrified by what she saw on Barnes Common, and in Clapham churchyard a woman was assaulted!
Lucy Scales, a butchers daughter was attacked in Limehouse and Jane Alsop was almost strangled by a cloaked creature in her own home before her family managed to beat-off her attacker…at which point he leapt and soared off into the darkness.
Jane Alsop described her inhuman attacker to London magistrates…”He was wearing a kind of helmet and a tight fitting white costume like an oilskin and he vomited blue and white flames!”
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir John Cowan, received complaints from several parts of London describing a demonic creature with eyes like balls of fire and hands like icy claws, and able to bound from roof-top to roof-top with ease.
The police did not dismiss these stories and even the Duke of Wellington, although aged nearly 70 went out armed on horseback to hunt and kill the monster!
Who was this mysterious fiend who roamed London attacking women?
During the 1850’s and 60’s Spring-heeled Jack was also seen all over England, particularly in the Midlands.
The Army in 1870 set traps to catch him after scared sentries reported being terrified by a man who sprang on to the roof of their sentry box.
Also in 1870, angry townsfolk in Lincoln are reported to have shot at him in the street, but he just laughed and bounded away, leaping over fences, and even small buildings!
For a while, as no-one really had any idea who he was, suspicion rested on the eccentric young Marquis of Waterford, but he was never vicious, even though he was considered ‘wild’ by Victorian society, and been branded as the ‘Mad Marquis’.
Spring-heeled Jack was last seen in 1904 at Everton in Liverpool, bounding up and down the streets, leaping from cobbles to rooftops and back!
He vanished into the darkness when some brave souls tried to corner him and he has not been seen since that day to this!
The puzzle remains…who was Spring-heeled Jack?
The 19th century Garotting Panic
During the Garotting Panic of 1862, sensational newspaper reports led the public to believe would-be attackers lurked around every corner. The satirical magazine Punch produced cartoons showing wittily ingenious ways in which people might tackle this “crisis”…
Fear and panic stalked the streets of London’s East End in 1888 as five women were brutally murdered…
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Argyll’s Lodging
Admire Scotland’s most splendid and complete example of a 17th-century townhouse, near to Stirling Castle.
Dallas Dhu Historic Distillery
Step back in time to see and hear how whisky was made in the 1900s – and then sample a dram for yourself.
Fort George
March the length of this massive fort built in the wake of the Battle of Culloden to see why it’s served the British Army so well for 250 years.
Kinnaird Head Castle Lighthouse and the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses
Explore a fine castle altered in 1787 to contain the first lighthouse built by the Northern Lighthouse Board.
Stirling Castle
Explore one of Scotland’s greatest castles, home to generations of monarchs and a fortress since ancient times.
The Blackhouse, Arnol
Gain a unique insight into island life inside this traditional thatched house – once home to a family and its animals.
Urquhart Castle
Discover more than 1,000 years of stirring history in this grand castle on the shores of Loch Ness.
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Didi Chuxing to trial Japan premium service with Tesla, Mercedes cars
20-Nov-2019 Intellasia | Reuters | 6:02 AM
China’s Didi Chuxing will trial a premium ride hailing service in Japan offering Tesla, Lexus and Mercedes Benz vehicles, a company representative said.
The ride-hailing firm will roll out a “DiDi Premium” trial later this month in some areas in Tokyo in a move to diversify its operations in Japan, the representative told Reuters via a text message on Tuesday.
It will use premium vehicles including Tesla Model S sedans, Mercedes Benz S-class sedans and Lexus LS series sedans, and Didi hopes to eventually expand it to other major Japanese cities.
Besides Tokyo, Didi offers taxi-hailing services in Osaka, Kyoto and Nagoya.
In July, Lexus parent firm Toyota said it would invest $600 million in Didi Chuxing and a new joint venture as the companies seek to develop connected and electric vehicle technologies in China.
Tesla started to take orders for Model 3 vehicles in Japan in May
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When most people think of Switzerland’s country facts, they think of cows, cheese, and watches. However, there are many other facets that lend to Switzerland’s vast and diverse landscape such as its 26 individually governed cantons and four official languages.
One of the most well-known facts about Switzerland is that the cost of living is high. From housing to healthcare, Swiss residents shell out a decent percentage of their monthly salary just by living in this country.
Expats moving to Switzerland will need to learn the practicalities not just of their new country, but of their specific canton. Switzerland is known as a “confederation of cantons,” meaning it is one country divided up into several regions. Cantons are similar to states or provinces in other countries. In Switzerland, cantons have a lot of power over their own individual laws, making each canton slightly different from the others and requiring expats to need to check the specific rules and regulations of wherever they are living.
As you prepare for your move to Switzerland, use this guide to help you learn all you need to know about the cost of living in Switzerland, setting up communications, and driving and public transportation.
Culture and Social Etiquette
Driving in Switzerland
Public Transportation in Switzerland
Emergency Numbers in Switzerland
Fire department 118
Emergency/ambulance 144
Public Holidays in Switzerland
Every canton in Switzerland celebrates their own specific holidays in addition to recognizing the national holidays. When moving to Switzerland, be sure to check the holidays associated with your specific canton.
National Swiss Holidays
New Year’s Day January 1
Good Friday The Friday before Easter Sunday.
Ascension Day 40 days after Easter.
National Day August 1
Christmas Day December 25
Holidays Celebrated in Most Cantons
Berchtolds Day January 2
St. Joseph’s Day March 19
Easter Monday Monday after Easter Sunday
Swiss Federal Fast Third Sunday in September.
Immaculate Conception Day December 8
St. Stephen’s Day December 26
Main Embassies in Switzerland
Embassy of Canada to Switzerland in Bern
Kirchenfeldstrasse 88
CH-3005 Bern, Switzerland
bern@international.gc.ca
Embassy of India in Bern
3005 Bern, Switzerland
cons.berne@mea.gov.in
British Embassy in Bern
info.berne@fco.gov.uk
U.S. Embassy in Bern
Sulgeneckstrasse 19
bernpa@state.gov
Main Airports in Switzerland
Zurich International Airport is the largest airport in Switzerland. The other two main airports travelers can use are:
Geneva International Airport
Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Airport
Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg is located in France but is still used to service Switzerland.
The average cost of living in Switzerland varies from canton to canton, but, overall, the cost is high. Much of this expense is due to housing alone. Over half of the housing market is dominated by rentals, driving prices up with little chance of going down in the near future. Expats moving to Switzerland will see much of their living expenses spent on accommodation.
While it is expensive to live anywhere in Switzerland, by far the most expensive cities are Zurich, Geneva, Basel, and Bern. The cheapest places are Uri, Glarus, and Appenzell Innerrhoden.
In the chart below, you can see the average living expenses for the most expensive cities.
Cost of Living in Basel, Bern, Zurich, and Geneva
Single Person Household
City CHF USD
Geneva 3,450 3,510
Zurich 3,290 3,350
Basel 2,700 2,740
Bern 2,430 2,470
Four Person Household
Food and Alcohol Prices in Switzerland
As well as housing prices, food prices in Switzerland are also steep. Most Swiss residents cook at home because eating out can be expensive. However, even grocery prices are higher than what many expats may be used to.
Here is a look at Swiss food and alcohol prices in Geneva. (At these prices, CHF to USD are the same.)
One dozen eggs 7 CHF
One loaf of bread 3 CHF
One liter of milk 2 CHF
Domestic beer 8 CHF
Bottle of wine 12 CHF
If you are renting an apartment in Switzerland, your basic utilities of electric and water should be included. When you sign your lease, you should ask for the name of the previous tenant. When you know it, you can call the utility company and change the old tenant’s name to yours. If you rent a house, you will most likely have to set-up all of your utilities brand new.
Like the housing costs, utility costs in Switzerland are not cheap. Basic utilities such as electric and water average around 180 CHF (180 USD) per 85 square meters apartment. Gas is not common in Switzerland. Internet and WiFi will run around 60 CHF (60 USD). There is also a required television and radio licensing fee of 15 CHF per month (15 USD).
While everything else in Switzerland is expensive, the cost of education is reasonable. Public schools are free, and since their standard of education is of the same quality as private schools, the majority of Swiss residents choose to send their children to state institutions. However, most public schools are taught in the dominate language of their canton. That means that if the child does not speak any of them, the parents may need to look into private schooling instead, which can get pricy.
University prices are also low, especially when compared to other European countries or the US. Yearly tuition costs are generally below 2,000 CHF (2,040 USD) for both undergrad and graduate programs.
Over half of Switzerland’s housing market is dominated by rentals. Although not quite as steep as places like Los Angeles and the UAE, expats moving to Switzerland should be prepared to spend a significant portion of their salary on rent alone.
One-Bedroom Apartment Monthly Rent
Switzerland’s Main Cities CHF USD
Three-Bedroom Apartment Monthly Rent
Switzerland’s standard of healthcare is equal to that of its healthcare costs: high. Although there is a universal healthcare system, every Swiss resident must have their own private health insurance. Even newborn children must be signed up for their own healthcare plan within three months of their birth.
Prices for health insurance vary depending on your canton and whether you opt for a basic or a premium plan. On average, a basic healthcare plan for an adult in Switzerland range anywhere from 260 CHF (270 USD) to 480 CHF (490 USD).
Travel and Transportation Cost
In the main Swiss cities, a monthly public transportation pass costs about 75 CHF (75 USD). There are single tickets available as well and you will find that most of them work on trams, buses, and ships.
It is easy to travel within Switzerland. People travel by car, bus, or train as all options are fast and convenient. Depending on the mode of transportation, costs range around 10–100 CHF (10–102 USD). A trip from Zurich to Bern by bus, for example, is about 50 CHF (50 USD).
Historically, Switzerland is known for its neutrality and peacefulness. However, there are a handful of cultural and social etiquette to be aware of to ensure your stay in the country is also a peaceful one.
It Depends on Your Canton
It might seem like the phrase “it depends on your canton” is said too often in regard to Switzerland, but that is because it is true. This landlocked country is influenced tremendously by its bordering neighbors, specifically Germany, Italy, and France. These neighboring countries lend to Switzerland having four official languages (German, French, Italian, and Romansh) and cantons which vary culturally depending on the dominant language of the region.
For example, Geneva is in a French-speaking canton of Switzerland, while Zurich is in a German one. Expats moving to Geneva will benefit from familiarizing themselves with French and general French customs, while those moving to Zurich should do the same with German.
The differences between cantons also extends to laws and politics, as Switzerland gives a lot of authority to the cantonal governments. No matter where you move in Switzerland, you should check with your specific canton’s website as mandates and expectations can vary widely.
You may think the Swiss are known for punctuality just because of their watches, but the expectation to be on time runs deeper than that. In the business world, meetings start exactly on time and it is seen as unprofessional to be late. Even in social engagements, tardiness is considered rude. Being a few minutes late is acceptable, but it is best to show up show up right on time or a few minutes early to avoid any faux paus.
Bring a Gift
If you are invited to someone’s home, it is expected to bring a gift for the hostess (and a small present if they have a child). Even if you go to a friend’s home, it is customary to bring something such as a bottle of wine, flowers, or sweets.
Toasts are important in Switzerland. If you go to someone’s home for a meal, you must wait for the hostess to make a toast before eating or drinking. Once the toast has been made, everyone raises their glass and makes direct eye contact with someone nearby. Likewise, if you meet one person for a drink, you should also maintain direct eye contact during a toast or cheers.
Greetings in Switzerland are formal and direct. You should either shake someone’s hand or kiss to the side of the cheek. The number of kisses, two or three, depend on your canton. When you shake hands, you should also maintain direct eye contact.
When addressing someone by name, use formal titles such as Mr. or Mrs., or, depending on the canton’s language, Monsieur, Madame, Herr, or Frau. If the person is a doctor, be sure to refer to them as such.
Dogs are Allowed Everywhere
If you are not a pet lover, Switzerland may be uncomfortable at times. It is perfectly acceptable for someone’s furry friend to accompany them into a restaurant or shop.
Despite the Swiss propensity for order and timeliness, when it comes to lining up or giving people space, Switzerland can feel a bit chaotic. Do not be alarmed if someone presses against you on public transportation or cuts in front of you at the grocery store. You may not even get an acknowledgement for the infraction. This is not deemed rude in Switzerland, but rather just the way things operate.
In contrast with the lack of personal space, the Swiss tend to keep people at an emotional distance until an adequate length of time has passed. This means, when meeting new people, do not feel slighted if you are not immediately welcomed and invited to every gathering. Likewise, do not open up about your personal life at work, nor ask too many personal questions of your colleagues.
Swiss culture dictates a gradual build of friendship and closeness. Once this is established, you will have no problem feeling welcomed.
The road rules for driving in Switzerland are heavily enforced in Switzerland and traffic fines are steep. If you are caught driving 61 km/h in the 50 km/h zone, the fine could be as high as 250 CHF (255 USD).
Facts about Driving in Switzerland
The minimum age for driving in Switzerland is 18.
Driving in Switzerland is on the right side of the road.
Your headlights must be switched on during all hours of the day, even in daylight.
The speed for motorways is typically 120 km/h and for highways it is 100 km/h. In towns it is 80 km/h.
Traffic on the right has priority.
You must stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk.
If you drive on the motorways, you must have a Swiss motorway vignette (toll pass). Vignettes can be purchased online or at the Swiss border. It is only possible to buy a one-year pass for 40 CHF (40 USD).
Driving in Switzerland with a Foreign License
Switzerland largely allows any valid driving license to be used in the country for up to a year as long as the license contains Roman letters and numerals, and has a date displaying the driver has been legally able to drive for at least one year. If your license does not contain Roman letter and numerals, you will need to obtain an International Driving License.
Often, Canadian and US driving licenses do not have an issue date. If this is the case, you may need a special note from your embassy or consulate saying that you have been driving for more than a year. Once you have this letter, you can drive in Switzerland with your foreign license for one year (the expiration date should be noted in the letter). Be sure to carry the note with you whenever you are driving.
Residents with a UK or EU licenses are allowed to drive in Switzerland for their first year of staying there.
How to Get a Swiss Driving License
No matter in which country your driving license was issued, if you wish to drive in Switzerland after one year of living there, you must get a Swiss driving license. For most nationalities, this will just involve some paperwork and a fee. For others, you may need to take a driving course, written and practice tests included. Once you have a permanent place to stay and your residency card, it is advisable to apply for your Swiss license sooner rather than later.
To get a driving license in Switzerland you will need:
an ‘exchange of driver’s license’ form from your canton’s government website
certified Swiss optician eye test (note that a Swiss optician will need to fill out a section of your ‘exchange of driver’s license’ form)
residency permit
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Renting a Car in Switzerland
To drive a rental car in Switzerland, you must be at least 20 years old and have held your current driving license for longer than one year. Your car should come with a vignette pass and it is advisable to get insurance.
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Like everything else in Switzerland, public transportation in Switzerland is highly efficient and organized. The system spreads throughout the entire country, making it easy to get around the major cities and reach remote, rural towns.
How is Public Transportation in Switzerland?
Trains and buses are at the heart of Switzerland’s public transportation system. Together, they cover over 5,000 km of road.
Major cities are connected by InterCity trains, which run regularly throughout the week and weekend. Although Switzerland does not have its own high-speed railway system, high-speed trains from neighboring countries cut through the country on a daily basis and make frequent stops at Swiss cities and towns.
Cost of Public Transport in Switzerland
There are many different types of fare options for public transportation in Switzerland such as one-day passes, unlimited monthly passes, or half-fare passes. Please see the chart below for a sampling of public transportation costs in Switzerland.
Fare Type Fare Cost CHF Fare Cost USD
Single journey tram/bus ticket 3–4.50 3–5
Tram/bus day pass 6–9 6–9
Half-fare pass* 165–185 170–190
Monthly General Abonnement (GA pass)** 340–545 350–560
Yearly General Abonnement (GA pass)** 3,860–6,300 3,940–6,440
* Allows for half-priced travel on entire public transport network.
** Best for frequent public transportation use.
Taxi prices in Switzerland vary slightly by canton, but, on the whole, they are expensive. Fares start at 6.50 CHF (7 USD) and charge about 3.50 (3.50 USD) per kilometer.
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Jackie Shatz, left, curator of “Refuge,” the show currently on at the Green Door Gallery, artist Elisa Jensen and Fr. Paul Anel, a member of Heart’s Home who helped found the gallery. PHOTO BY PETER MCDERMOTT
The Green Door Gallery is a case of build it and they will come — if the attendance at the Oct. 11 opening of “Refuge,” its latest show, is any measure.
Its two rooms were quickly filled on that Friday evening with artists, relatives, friends and neighbors from the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The gallery, at the intersection of Humboldt Street and Skillman Avenue, is in part the brainchild of Fr. Tom Vassalotti, pastor of the Divine Mercy Parish.
“He created the exhibition space because he knew there were so many artists in the neighborhood and wanted to reach out to them,” said Irish-American artist Elisa Jensen. “There are literally hundreds of artists in a five-block radius of the gallery. I think the fact that he did this is incredibly beautiful.”
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The pastor was encouraged and aided in the initiative by Fr. Paul Adel, a French-born priest of Heart’s Home, who has been ministering to artists since his arrival in New York over a decade ago.
The gallery says it was “created to connect artists and the local community by celebrating art work that is uplifting and spiritual and fostering a culture of friendship.”
Its mission statement continues: “As part of the Divine Mercy Parish, the Green Door Gallery builds on the long, proud tradition of Catholic support for the arts (think Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Van Eyck and Giotto), while at the same time embracing contemporary art and all the creative expressions inherent in the human heart in its search for beauty and truth.”
“Refuge,” which is on through Nov. 10, takes as a starting point a quote from “Concerning the Spiritual in Art,” by the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky: “This all-important spark of inner life today is at present only a spark. Our minds, which are even now only just awakening after years of materialism … are infected with the despair of unbelief, of lack of purpose and ideal. The nightmare of materialism … holds the awakening soul in its grip … The spiritual life to which art belongs and of which she is one of the mightiest elements, is a complicated but definite and easily definable movement forwards and upwards.”
Jensen commented of her own two paintings in “Refuge” in the catalog: “My recent work draws on ancient Irish and Norse poetry and sagas and art. Unraveling the mysteries of this ancient worldview has helped me to better understand the world around me and has spurred me to develop my own artistic imagery. My paintings of birds, figures, trees and symbols all connect back directly to ancient spiritual beliefs and reveal something deep that has been lost in our contemporary experience which is so much about what exists on the surface and illusion.”
“The love of Ireland, Irish history and culture was drilled into me by my mother and grandmother,” Jensen told the Echo. “My father was born in Denmark, so that is part of my heritage as well. My husband and children are Irish citizens, we have visited Ireland many times, and my experiences in Ireland have had a profound impact on my work as an artist.”
Jensen has also taken on the role of curator at the Green Door Gallery and recalled a show from 2018. “I had the idea to create a show that was like an Advent calendar, where a new work would be introduced each day — like opening the door of the calendar,” she said. “A new work was added and each day had its own hour long opening celebration for that artist and the new work. So from 5:30-6:30 the gallery opened and a new piece joined the show. [Some of the work from the show can be seen on the gallery’s website here.] It was magnificent and very exciting.
“Many of the artists returned to see how the show changed each day, and we had really wonderful conversations about the new work added,” she remembered. “I learned so much about each artist, their process and their work. The works changed, too, as more paintings and sculptures were added — there was a true conversation among the artworks.
“It was like a month-long meditation – enlightening, and also quite frankly, exhausting,” Jensen said “It was very difficult to be so present each day, and have that singular focus, but I did set up the premise, and it was called ‘Advent: Mindful Waiting’; so in that sense I think it was a great success.”
She added, “We had a culminating celebration on Jan. 6. I felt that was appropriate as it is the feast of the Epiphany. The artists gathered to see and celebrate the exhibition as it became and was revealed to be, a culmination of each singular day.”
The Green Door Gallery is located at 206 Skillman Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211 Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday 2 – 6 p.m. or by appointment; www.greendoorgallery.org.
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Do Electric Cars Have Gears? No. Here’s Why
Benji Jerew
Modified date: February 17, 2015
Here’s a conversation that piqued my interest today: “Are electric vehicle transmissions necessary?”, or “Do electric cars have gears?”. Really, could multispeed gearing do anything for electric vehicle performance, acceleration, speed, efficiency, or otherwise? (For the purposes of this discussion, we’re leaving out heavy-duty applications, such as delivery trucks or tractor-trailers.)
After decades of driving conventional vehicles, one gets used to the idea of shifting gears, multispeed transmissions an absolute necessity in combination with an internal combustion engine. In an electric vehicle, perhaps one comes to the conclusion that a multispeed transmission would be a given, but practically none of them do. Are electric vehicle transmissions necessary to improve performance? First, let’s take a look at why we have multispeed transmissions in the first place.
Actually, the very first production automobile, the 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, had a single-speed transmission and clutch. Then again, its engine generated less than 1 hp and it had a top speed of about 10 mph. Today, with engines pushing 1,000 hp and tops speeds over 200 mph, five- and six-speed transmissions aren’t at all uncommon, automakers are toying with transmissions with up to ten gear ratios, and CVT (continuously-variable transmissions) have infinite gear ratios, but why?
The problem is that the ICE (internal combustion engine) only generates usable torque and power in a narrow band of engine speeds. To accelerate the vehicle, multispeed transmissions step that down, in varying gear ratios, to keep the engine in its power band. Keeping the engine in its power band also proves to be the most efficient and durable. An engine, in first gear, can easily accelerate a car to 30 mph, but would also shake itself to bits attempting to accelerate to highway speed. Likewise, that same engine would hardly be able to accelerate from a stop in 6th gear.
AC MG Torque / RPM / Efficiency
Interestingly, electric motor-generators (MG) generate 100% of their torque at very low speeds, DC MGs near stall (zero rpm), and AC MGs around 1,000 rpm, as a general rule. As rpms increase, torque falls off at a fairly linear rate, at the same time that power is increasing. According to an ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Evaluation of the 2004 Toyota Prius (PDF), for example, the MG generates up to 300 N•m of torque around 1,500 rpm, trailing off to about 50 N•m at 6,000 rpm. At its most-efficient, 93%, the MG is pushing only 100 N•m at 2,250 rpm, perfect for cruising. In any case, a multispeed electric vehicle transmission is unnecessary because even 100 N•m is plenty of torque at cruising speed.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that electric cars couldn’t have gears, but they aren’t necessary. First, given MG torque / power / rpm characteristics, they’re perfect for transportation. Torque is necessary for acceleration, the most of which is generated near stall. Power is necessary for cruising, the most of which is developed at high rpm. Second, a multispeed electric vehicle transmission would add weight, complexity, friction, and inefficiency to an otherwise simple system, actually robbing the powertrain of torque, power, and efficiency. The Tesla Model S, for example, is equipped with a single-speed 9.73:1 step-down transmission, not even a two-speed transmission, for two reasons. First, there are very few transmissions capable of handling 600 N•m torque. Second, you can’t spin the wheels at 10,000 rpm. Well, you could, but it would be totally unnecessary.
Where do we see multispeed electric vehicle transmissions? Not in production vehicles, but in conversion vehicles. The easiest way to convert a conventional vehicle to electric is simply to swap out the ICE with an AC or DC MG and throw some batteries in the trunk. Granted, that’s an oversimplification, but why replace the whole drivetrain, multispeed transmission included, if you only want to achieve a relatively convenient electric vehicle powertrain?
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https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/22/ev-transmissions-are-coming-and-its-a-good-thing/
FJ BORG March 14, 2019 at 11:27 am
10,000 rpm in an ICE is far different than and electric motor, which has no reciprocating mass, spinning at 10,000 rpm. The electric motor is actually harder to punish with aggressive speeds as long as it doesn’t grenade from poor manufacture. ICEs only last a very short time when pushed to those same speeds and must be torn down and rebuilt regularly.
Dimov January 20, 2019 at 10:05 am
If the different gearing woun’t change the range of Tesla, the what about this: We take Tesla Model-S, with a gear transmition of 9.73/1. We take these gears-off, and we put a new one, with 9730/1. That’s a thousand times higher. Now, the engine will work for 6-7 hours, and will dry-off the battery. But for this time, the car will be traveled only 0.5km, instead of 500km. So, as you see, the whole battery charge will be spend for only 0.5km. And if this reduces the range, why not the smaller gear rations, like 5/1, to increase it?
Sujay Rao Mandavilli December 23, 2017 at 8:44 am
does it climb hills well?
Gary Laugharn April 8, 2017 at 2:51 pm
In concept, the variable ratio transmission is very appealing. If it were possible, I’d be happy to have a sort of overdrive or alternate drive ratio to extend range for longer trips. Mine goes as quick and fast as I could want. Range improvement would be one of the best improvements. (Of course, I have no technical knowledge.)
Andy Callander April 7, 2017 at 5:44 am
Some quick calculations indicate that with a fixed final drive ratio of 9.73:1 and 19″ wheels, with a maximum RPM of 9500, the same Tesla that smoked your Ferrari off the line is going to have trouble keeping up with your Volkswagen once your speed starts exceeding 100 mph.
The Tesla would in fact benefit greatly from a variable ratio transmission, in terms of overall performance if not 0-60 times. With the right gearing and proper materials, I feel like the acceleration characteristics of the vehicle could remain largely untouched, while freeing the vehicle to explore the upper limits of the speedometer range.
dudeman44 September 19, 2016 at 12:44 am
So, you might not need a trans for normal driving. Now lets say I’m building an electric car for drag racing. I’m familiar with the times of the Model S, but wouldn’t I actually accelerate faster with a two speed gear box in order to maintain lower RPM? Just curious…
Shannon May 27, 2016 at 1:06 pm
No wonder the major car makers have been slow to embrace EV’s. Half the time when something goes on a car, it’s the transmission. There goes a huge chunk of revenue.
thegreenoptimistic October 2, 2015 at 9:22 pm
“once you get to freeway speeds (high motor speeds as well with a single speed trans), the torque drops dramatically”… have you ever driven a P85D, or you’re just theorizing? I suggest you go try one and while at freeway speeds floor it. I’m telling you – it goes.
Miguel Ortiz December 6, 2015 at 12:59 am
Well it’s different for DC and AC motors. For DC it drops, but has a whole lot or torque in the beginning. AC, used in Teslas, are mor constant with their torque. It isn’t as high as DC but is still very high
marclar February 21, 2016 at 6:44 am
as i see it… DC = diesel… AC = petrol.
Outcast_Searcher September 23, 2016 at 10:37 pm
Yes, it goes. It’s about relative torque though. A PxxxD beats about anything but a top fuel dragster from 0-60. However, after about 80, the high end gasoline muscle cars have a significant advantage. 80ish, IMO, is close enough to freeway speed to be valid for this concept.
Theorizing with all the detail in the article? It’s you who seem to be relying on feelings instead of data.
Nero1k October 2, 2015 at 6:07 pm
I realize this article is a half a year old, but someone has to read it every once in a while still. I mean, I did (: The automatic transmission has evolved as much, if not more than internal combustion engines have over the last few decades. We have smart transmissions with dry and wet clutches to engage and disengage drive trains when idling and/or decelerating (obviously counter intuitive for regeneration on an EV), which dramatically increases efficiency. Obviously, inductive motors can do 10000 RPM without too much worrying, but how much torque is produced at that motor speed? Sure, a Tesla P90D can do 0-60 mph in 2.8 seconds. Amazing for a 5000 lb sedan. But, once you get to freeway speeds (high motor speeds as well with a single speed trans), the torque drops dramatically. Keeping motor RPM in the lower end of that range would allow the electric motor to still produce monster torque at higher vehicle speeds, would it not? Real driving speeds, Tesla has done a great job. But everyone knows that their fastest car will be overtaken by high performance petrol fed cars in the same segment because of horsepower, and multi-range transmissions. Figure out a way to minimize the parasitic effect this drive train could have on an EV battery (increase range capabilities), and you can have an EV that’s track ready, and the consumers will come. An EV that performs like a 911 around the track would have a lot of buyers…
Miguel Ortiz December 6, 2015 at 1:00 am
Have you heard of the Zombie 222?
Question: when you’re already at freeway speeds, why would you NEED higher torque? We’re not building race cars here.
Nero1k September 26, 2016 at 7:34 pm
Then why does any car need gears?!!! Just put a third gear ratio in a final drive and by your logic that’s enough lol Think it through. EV’s have a huge torque drop off at higher motor speeds, ICE’s GAIN torque through the powerband. This is why the Model S gets over taken through the quarter mile traps. It doesn’t have to be for race cars, but having the motor in the correct RPM range at highway speeds would be beneficial regardless of how or where the car is driven.
Nilus Dionis November 11, 2016 at 3:21 am
I lack any expertise in this area but your response confirmed my thinking that a single gear means that the electric motor will have to spin very fast to keep the vehicle moving at higher speeds – I am not dumb after all 🙂 I am amazed that those motors don’t produce a lot of noise at those RPMs or so I guess since people don’t complain. But I still don’t get it – having to spin continuously at some crazy 10000 or so RPM just so you can cruise is more efficient and effective than having a transmission? What about engine wear? Explain to me please someone 🙂
VvdD December 13, 2016 at 3:04 pm
A little late, but consider that since there are no gears, the electrical motor is running at the same speed as the wheels. so wear and tear is the same as that within the wheel of a conventual vehicle.
Also consider your engine isn’t necessarily going to have to spin much faster if you have no gears, knowing that most of the smaller gears (1st, 2nd and 3rd) in normal cars, gear DOWN, meaning the engine spins faster at lower wheel spin speed.
So having no gears at all likely means your engine will spin slower on average (considering you don’t average over a 100 mph or something.
Summarized, the main function of gears is essentially to make an engine spin faster to reach its power band even at low vehicle speeds, so without gears the engine will run slower most of the time.
Matthew Jenkinson October 11, 2017 at 11:02 pm
More to the point, it will not be doing 10000rpm at cruising speed – more like at 250kph. at cruising speed it will be doing something a bit more sensible.
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How Generation X is quietly transforming the workplace
Gen Xers are known for questioning authority - and as they infiltrate the C-suite, they're rewriting the rules for corporate headquarters.
JLL Staff Reporter
While Millennials have been getting all the attention for transforming the workplace simply by joining it, the MTV generation has been coolly and quietly transforming it from the inside out, from where headquarters are located, to how they’re being designed.
Why does it matter how old the CEO is? Unlike the Boomers (1946-1964), the generation responsible for conventional models of corporate authority, Generation X (born between 1965-1984, according to the Harvard Center) is known for its more entrepreneurial approach to work, and a passion for work/balance.
“The Baby Boomers—and I count myself among their ranks—brought us a tradition of angular, perimeter offices, usually located in suburban markets,” says Steve Stratton, International Director, Co-Chair for the Headquarters Practice Group at JLL. “After all, our generation is known for our all-work-no play attitude, and the conviction that hours worked equals professional advancement. Corner offices were generally considered one of the clearest markers of that advancement.”
But as he points out, Gen Xers see things differently.
What happens when Gen Xers take the reins
Generally more autonomous, Gen Xers are independent thinkers who grew up learning to be skeptical of old ways—and corporate real estate decisions.
“My Gen X colleagues have opened my eyes to an entirely new work ethic: the idea that one can advance their career while pushing for genuine work-life balance,” he says. “They not only approach work differently, but also look at where they want to work differently. Where my generation was lured by visions of corner offices and personal parking spots, Xers are more motivated by locations that will allow them to work in more productive ways.”
These generational differences are fueling all-new office designs, such as activity-based workplaces that will help carry organizations into the future of work, and designs that favor casual collisions over boxy offices. Plus, to aid a work-life balance, the GenX CEO knows they need to ensure their organizations are run efficiently and productively—and that means inspiring talent of all generations.
They also know that to get the business results they want they need to go where the talent is. With Millennials, who make up increasingly large proportions of the workforce, basing themselves in the cities, it makes sense to move headquarters back into urban centers.
“In Chicago, for example, we’re seeing the generational shift play out very clearly in corporate headquarter relocations,” says Stratton. “Decades ago, most of the area’s Fortune 500 CEOs moved company operations out to the suburbs. But since 2008 alone, the downtown area has attracted 32 headquarter relocations. Those organizations’ CEOs had an average age of 52.”
New players, new questions
The commercial office market is shifting seismically, too, as developers and landlords work to accommodate the multi-generational interest in working in positive, collaborative environments. Innovative work spaces, such as coffee lounges, internal co-working areas, war rooms and incubator spaces are popping up to accommodate workers’ desire to come together.
Of course all these generations won’t be won over by the same thing but creating flexible spaces where individual needs are met by a wide variety of choices is key to productive modern workplaces.
“Find out how your employees communicate—deskside chats for Boomers versus virtual chats for Millennials, for example—and try test fits,” says Stratton. “Space will create greater value than the sum of its parts if it allows for daily spontaneous encounters where people informally chat and share information and ideas.”
Although there’s no one-size fits all approach for success, thinking outside of the box and not being afraid to do things a little differently – which Gen Xers do very well – go a long way in creating spaces where workers of all ages enjoy spending time. “Generational archetypes are the foundation to help set strategy and frame your thinking, but the key is to communicate clearly with your own real-live team members about the future of your workplace and headquarters strategy,” says Stratton.
Increasingly, in this age of rampant innovation and technological advances, professionals across every generation are benefiting from GenX’s insistence on questioning authority—especially now as they assume it.
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Fourth of Five Exciting Announcements from the Mystagogy Resource Center
The fourth of my five exciting announcement is the launch of my second new website, dedicated solely to book reviews. The title for this website is the New Myriobiblon.
"Myriobiblon" is a Greek word for "myriad of books." The reason it is "new" is because it takes its name from the original Myriobiblon of Saint Photios the Great, more popularly known as the Bibliotheca. One historian calls it “probably the most famous work in medieval Byzantine literature. At least it is unique.” Reynolds and Wilson, in their study Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature, call the Myriobiblon of Photios "a fascinating production, in which Photios shows himself the inventor of the book review," and say its "280 sections... vary in length from a single sentence to several pages." The works Photios summarizes and reviews are addressed to his brother for his education and entertainment, and are mainly by Christian and pagan authors from the 5th century BC to his own time in the 9th century AD. Almost half the books mentioned no longer survive. He covers works about religion and history, along with some literary pieces, explaining what they were about and sometimes offering excerpts from them.
Photios also sometimes adds his own review of the books, letting his brother know which ones he liked or hated. For example,
Nicomachus of Gerasa’s two books of Arithmetical Theology were read. This certainly is a title suited to astonish and to excite a keen desire, but the treatise – not to call it a work of computations that are based on air and are a waste of time – falls far short of its title.
He had even worse to say about Christian History, which was written by Philip of Side:
His language is diffuse, without urbanity or elegance, and soon palls, or positively disgusts; his aim is rather to display his knowledge than to benefit the reader. Most of the matter has nothing to do with history, and the work might be called a treatise on all kinds of subjects rather than a history, a tasteless effusion.
Photios even finds something to criticize in The Histories of Herodotus, considered to be one of the greatest works of Ancient Greece:
Read the nine books of the History of Herodotus, in name and number identical with the nine Muses. He may be considered the best representative of the Ionic, as Thucydides of the Attic dialect. He is fond of old wives’ tales and digressions, pervaded by charming sentiments, which, however, sometimes obscure the due appreciation of history and its correct and proper character. Truth does not allow her accuracy to be impaired by fables or excessive digressions from the subject.
While he tends to comment on books he did not like, Photios also tells about those works he loves. For example, he praises the writings of Arrian, who is one of the best sources for the campaigns of Alexander the Great:
This author is second to none of the best historical writers. He is very strong in concise narrative, and never impairs the continuity of the story by ill-timed digressions or parentheses; he is novel rather in arrangement than in diction, which he employs in such a manner that it would be impossible for the narrative to be set forth more clearly and perspicuously. His style is distinct, euphonious, and terse, characterized by a combination of smoothness and loftiness. His novelties of language are not merely far-fetched innovations, but are obvious and emphatic, figures of speech in reality, and not simply a change of ordinary words. The result is that not only in this respect is clearness secured, but also in the equipment, order, and nature of the narrative, which is the artistic essence of perspicuity. For straightforward periods are used even by those who are not specialists, and if this is done without anything to relieve them, the style degenerates into flatness and meanness, of which, in spite of his clearness, there are no traces in our author. He makes use of ellipsis, not of periods but of words, so that the ellipsis is not even noticed; any attempt to supply what is omitted would seem to indicate a tendency to unessential additions, and would not really fill up the gap. The variety of his rhetorical figures is admirable; they do not deviate at once altogether from simple form and usage, but are gradually interwoven from the beginning, so that they neither offend by satiety nor create confusion by sudden change. In a word, anyone who compares him with other historians, will find that many classical writers are his inferior in composition.
This New Myriobiblon is likewise a website dedicated to reviewing books, primarily literature that is of special interest to Orthodox Christians, but not only. I will review every book I will read from now on and some I have already read, or at least give a brief evaluation of it. Sometimes I am asked if I read this or that book and people want to know my opinion of it. Here you will read my opinion of it, if I read it. My hope is that these reviews will be found helpful by all who similarly enjoy reading and learning.
This website is part of the ministry of the Mystagogy Resource Center. All inquiries should be sent to mystagogy@aol.com.
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In a piece discussing four upcoming by-elections, iPolitics ’s Susan Delacourt mentioned in passing that “unless electoral reform happens really quickly, those seats will be filled the old-fashioned way — no preferential ballots, winner take all.”
Which made me wonder: how exactly would electoral reform deal with vacancies in Parliament? By-elections, after all, only work if MPs are elected from individual constituencies; you can’t run a campaign across an entire province or country just to fill one or two seats out of more than three hundred.
I could speculate, but instead I had a look at the website of Fair Vote Canada, a group advocating for proportional representation in Canada, to see what their solution would be. In their submission to the Special Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reform, FVC proposed three options, one of which was mixed-member proportional representation, in which regional seats, elected from party lists, are added to MPs directly elected by their constitutencies. In that option, regional seat vacancies would be filled from party lists.
In case of a resignation or death of a regional MP during a term, the party’s runner-up moves up into the seat. No working MMP model has by-elections for regional MPs. As the Jenkins Commission pointed out, if a region-wide contest were to take place “it would almost by definition result in the victory of the predominant party in the area, thus negating the essential purpose of the Top-up seats.”
I have to say, this isn’t something that makes me more likely to support proportional representation.
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Winning cookie baker's Cranberry Chai Swirls take a few hours to make, but you'll be happy you did
Mike Behringer of Milwaukee finds baking cathartic. His patience in the kitchen enabled him to perfect his winning recipe for Cranberry Chai Swirls.
Winning cookie baker's Cranberry Chai Swirls take a few hours to make, but you'll be happy you did Mike Behringer of Milwaukee finds baking cathartic. His patience in the kitchen enabled him to perfect his winning recipe for Cranberry Chai Swirls. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/food/2018/12/04/2018-milwaukee-cookie-contest-winner-mike-behringer/2150662002/
Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 11:50 a.m. CT Dec. 4, 2018
Photos: Journal Sentinel Cookie Contest winner
Mike Behringer, 2018 Holiday Cookie Contest winner, displays his Cranberry Chai Swirls. RIck Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mike Berhinger prefers a rolling pin without handles. RIck Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Behringer's spiral-cookie creation is an extensive process. He creates two doughs, gingersnap and orange cardamom. and makes use of cooling racks to stack the two doughs by folding them together like a book. RIck Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Once dough is ready, cranberry-orange jam is spread over the top layer of dough with an offset spatula. RIck Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Behringer uses parchment to help guide the dough layers into a tight roll. RIck Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The roll is nearly all together; the ends will be trimmed for a neater appearance. RIck Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Behringer shapes the roll to help the layers adhere before putting it in the freezer. RIck Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Cookies are sliced from the frozen roll. RIck Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A serrated knife works best for slicing the roll of cookie dough. RIck Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The cookies do spread, so they need to be spaced out on the pan. RIck Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Pretty cookies like these can be displayed in a variety of ways. RIck Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Pretty cookies like these can be displayed in a variety of ways.(Photo: RIck Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)Buy Photo
“For me this is cathartic, the whole process of baking,” said Mike Behringer as he demonstrated how to make his winning cookie for a Journal Sentinel video. “Rolling out dough is really calming.”
The resident of Milwaukee’s east side, who works as digital asset specialist for Kohl’s, is also blessed with patience.
“In my family it’s a running joke that patience skips a generation,” he said. “My grandfather was extremely patient. My dad wasn’t.”
This is a good thing, because his winning Cranberry Chai Swirls are not a cookie you can just whip up when you have an hour to spare. He insists that his recipe, which won the Layered Wonders category of our 2018 Holiday Cookie Contest and also Best of Show, is not difficult; but as you can see from the space it takes up, it does have a lot of steps.
First you make cranberry-orange jam. Then you mix and chill two doughs: gingersnap and orange cardamom. Then you roll out the doughs, stack them, spread with jam, roll it all up, freeze the roll, then finally slice and bake.
But the effort is worth it, yielding a striking, multicolored pinwheel cookie that tastes of gingerbread and orange and cranberry and cardamom in every bite.
Behringer’s patience also serves him well for his signature baking items, homemade breads and rolls. The self-taught baker has two starters in the fridge from yeast grown from juniper berries that he foraged in the Kettle Moraine Forest. He’s also grown starters from yeast in the air.
And he’s made croissants, a three-day ordeal. “I’m very proud of that,” he said. “I like to challenge myself.”
Cookies are a relatively new project. Last year his Buttered Rum-pa-pum-pums took second place overall in his debut year in the Holiday Cookie Contest. Did he set out this year to win it all?
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“Almost right away last year, Avis said, you know, this means you have to win next year,” Behringer said, referring to his friend, Avis Chmielewski, the 2017 and 2015 contest winner, who encouraged him to enter last year. She could not submit cookies this year because she was a judge. (Finalists are judged blind, no names attached.)
Yet Behringer said he spent most of his time this year on the other cookie he entered, Christmas Mornings, which didn’t place. His winning spiral cookie went through several iterations, first involving poppy seeds, then pomegranate, then pomegranate-cranberry jam — a great pairing but not one that worked with the other flavors in the cookie, he said.
Finally, he gave up on the pomegranate and decided to add orange to both the cardamom dough (cardamom being his all-time favorite spice) and the cranberry jam. He took that version to work, and it was met with universal thumbs-up.
His was the last cookie entry to arrive, just before the deadline on Thursday of contest week.
RELATED: Meet the 2018 Journal Sentinel Holiday Cookie Contest judges
Behringer shared a couple of tips for aspiring cookie bakers.
“Baking is really not an expensive hobby,” he said. For that reason, “don’t be too invested in the mistakes.”
“Don’t be afraid to buy ingredients in bulk, and accept that you’re going to throw some away. With time and practice, it will all come together.”
He buys flour 50 pounds at a time and seeks out Von Kiel butter (“the best tasting”) in 1-pound bricks.
Also, don’t be a slave to recipes, he advised.
“I’m not really a recipe follower,” he said, while admitting that he knows Julia Child’s piecrust recipe by heart. “I might make a recipe once, but then I feel compelled to make it my own.”
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Douglas A Terwilliger
October 21, 1945 - October 5, 2019
Oct 21, 1945 - Oct 5, 2019
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Douglas A. Terwilliger, 73, of Kingston, NY, passed away on Saturday, October 5, 2019 at home. He was born October 21, 1945 in Ellenville, NY the son of the late Arthur and Emma (O'Neal) Terwilliger.
He was a driver for Kingston Kabs in Kingston and enjoyed playing the guitar. Douglas and his sister, Diane Webb, were members of "The Country Drifters" a local band in the late 1960's and early 1970's. He was a guest singer for the Allman Brothers Band at the Chimney Door Saloon in Salisbury Mills, NY, singing the song "The Fightin Side of Me" to a crowd filled with United States Marines.
Douglas is survived by his his sons, Arthur (Jeanine) Terwilliger of the Town of Newburgh, Matthew Terwilliger and his fiance Corinne of Salisbury Mills & Fishkill, NY, and his son, Vernon, his grandson, Nicholas Terwilliger, his sister, Diane (Ron) Webb, his sister in law, Evelyn Terwilliger, as well as several nieces and nephews.
Arrangements entrusted to Keyser Funeral & Cremation Service, 326 Albany Ave., Kingston, NY 12401, where family and friends may visit on Wednesday, October 16, 2019 from 5pm to 8pm. A tribute for Douglas can be found at www.KeyserFuneralService.com, where you may leave memories and expressions of sympathy for his family.
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sorry to here of your loss of your father to Art and Matt keep strong i meet your dad and what a great man funny and such a talent with his music always could tell a funny joke and love to tell of the good old days when rocking in his band he will be missed he is now playing in Gods band the greatest band that ever is my his Doug A Terwilliger legacy live on God bless family and friends love you all Tony Schueler
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Pros and cons of cutting the cord
As technology has evolved, so have our televisions.
Author: Josh Chapin (KHOU)
Published: 10:26 PM CST November 9, 2017
Updated: 10:26 PM CST November 9, 2017
We’ve watched television the same way for years. We’ve turned the dial or clicked on our remotes to watch our favorite shows.
But as technology has evolved, so have our televisions.
Record numbers are dropping their cable packages and streaming online, but there’s still a fear about cutting the cord — as in, the cable cord.
Zach Goldstein and Amanda Laviage are ready to take the plunge — to get married, that is; not to give up their cable.
“We’ve thought about cutting the cord,” Laviage said.
“My main concern is live sports if we get rid of our cable package,” Goldstein said. “I’m a big Astros and Rockets fan.”
Chris Brantner of Cut Cable Today, which helps people “cut the cord,” said if you want to see all the Rockets or Astros games, there’s not a great option right now.
“There are a number of moving pieces when cutting the cord because you need a streaming device, then you need to register for whatever subscriptions you want,” Brantner said.
Brantner said you will save money in the end, but be careful. With enough add-ons like HBO Now and Netflix, your bill can creep up as high as it was before. Plus, with all this streaming content, you might need to re-examine your Internet package to the “wheel of death.”
“There are a number of people that know what they want and they don’t want a giant, bloated cable bundle,” Brantner said. “They want these 10 or 15 channels."
Goldstein and Laviage are sticking with each other, and for now, their cable.
Rumor has it the Rockets and Astros will be coming to a streaming service soon.
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Moral Missouri rally protests General Assembly agenda
JEFFERSON CITY - A coalition of organizations rallied at the state capitol Wednesday in support of a "Moral Missouri."
The coalition was comprised of 12 different organizations and included Planned Parenthood, the NAACP and Empower Missouri.
The group voiced its concerns over proposed legislation it said would violate civil rights.
"Clergy and advocates who care about health care are converging here today to send a message to our legislators and very importantly Governor Greitens," said M'Evie Mead, the director of policy and organizing with Planned Parenthood advocates in Missouri.
Mead said the current agenda is discriminatory to women and minorities.
One bill of the coalition's concern was Senate Bill 43 sponsored by Sen. Gary Romine (R-Farmington), which would alter discrimination lawsuit requirements.
"Senate Bill 43 is a piece of legislation that has only one aim, to allow people who violate other individuals to not have any responsibility in that action," said Nimrod Chapel Jr., Missouri NAACP President.
Chapel Jr. said the bill would make it harder for minorities who have been harassed in the work place to take their harassers to court.
Romine argues the bill would protect Missouri businesses.
"We want to make sure we have litigation that is balanced for the business as well as employees," he said. "We want to protect our employees from discrimination but not to the extent that it's a detriment of our businesses and having businesses coming into our state."
The bill passed the senate in March and is now working through the house.
Another bill of concern was House Bill 194 introduced by Rep. Diane Franklin (R-Camdenton), which would prevent individuals from donating fetal tissue of miscarriages or abortions to any medical or scientific entity.
"As a woman of faith, I think people get to choose how to honor what happens to them," Chimene Schwach, a member of the Columbia Planned Parenthood development committee.
Schwach said she is a Catholic and wanted to show faith and progressive ideals do not have to conflict.
Rep. Kathryn Swan sponsored similar legislation last session in response to national concerns on the potential sale of fetal tissue.
"Every other surgical procedure we have, whether it's a removal of a lesion or anything else, from an individual patient is sent in its entirety to the pathologist for examination," Swan said. "This is no different than that."
Despite Swan's comments, administration standards for the Ambulatory Surgical Centers states staff of each facility should develop a policy on which tissues shall be sent to the pathologist for review.
She said the bill would bring Planned Parenthood Clinic to "standard, proper, high quality" procedures.
House Bill 194 passed the house was read by the senate for the first time on Tuesday.
The coalition visited lawmakers offices and had nine speakers from the organizations address the group.
[Editor's note: This article has been updated with regulations from Ambulatory Surgical Centers.]
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The Concinnitas Project
November 11, 2017 – December 23, 2017
Concinnitas” is the title of a portfolio of etchings organized by Bob Feldman of Parasol Press and curated by Dan Rockmore. It is a collection of ten etchings with aquatint produced from the contributions of ten mathematicians and physicists in response to the prompt to transcribe their “most beautiful mathematical expression.” The portfolio draws its name from a word used by the Renaissance architect, artist, philosopher and scholar, Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) to connote the balance of number, outline, and position (in essence, number, geometry, and topology) that he believed characterize a beautiful work of art. The portfolio has been shown around the world including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, each time giving new life to the question of “what is beautiful mathematics?” – asked both from the mathematical and visual points of view. The Concinnitas artists are Michael Atiyah, Enrico Bombieri, Simon Donaldson, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Richard Karp, Peter Lax, David Mumford, Stephen Smale and Steven Weinberg. As Philip Ording has written, the portfolio makes clear that picturing math is a complex affair, in no small part because the meaning conveyed by a picture is a product of the historical and cultural contexts in which it appears
the Concinnitas portfolio displays some interesting contradictions.
Concinnitas Project – The Ree Group Formula
Enrico Bombieri Concinnitas Project – The Ree Group Formula 2014 Etching with aquatint
Image/paper size: 26 1/8 x 31 5/8 inches (66.4 x 80.3 cm)
Frame size: 28 1/4 x 33 1/2 inches (71.8 x 85.1 cm)
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The Concinnitas Project (exhibition)
Concinnitas Project – Ampère’s Law
Simon Donaldson Concinnitas Project – Ampère’s Law 2014 Etching with aquatint
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Concinnitas Project – P Versus NP
Richard M. Karp Concinnitas Project – P Versus NP 2014 Etching with aquatint
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Concinnitas Project – Conservation Laws
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Concinnitas Project – Thirteen??
David Mumford Concinnitas Project – Thirteen?? 2014 Etching with aquatint
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Concinnitas Project – The Index Theorem
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Concinnitas Project – “Color” SU3 Symmetry Group Exactly Conserved
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by Ellen Larson
Murder in the far future has a time traveler seeking answers in the recent past.
Raised before the war, Merit Rafi was trained at a young age to become Selected, one of the elite members of the Oku people trained to move between now and retrospect. Now that the Rasakans have taken over the Oku, Merit is considered an enemy of the new regime, especially because of her desire to fight with the resistance after the formal war has ended. While Merit continues to be loyal to her people, she is forced into the service of the Rasakans through some well-designed threats when the ruling people need to use her powers to flex through time. The murder of the Oku Gen. Zane has the Rasakan authorities in an uproar even though he has already surrendered, paving the way to their ultimate victory. Now, Merit has three days to decide if she will aid the enemy. Along the way, she must face her former friend Eric Torre, who has joined her crew for the duration, as well as her schoolmate Lena, who has taken on the role of Prioress in the new world. Will Merit choose to challenge her values for the sake of her family and crew, or is the past too far out of reach?
The twisty plot almost makes the futuristic confusion worthwhile. Perhaps more explication by Larson (Abdul Rahman Guards the Bridge, 2010, etc.) could guide readers through the rough path to the year 3324.
Publisher: Five Star/Gale Cengage
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by Lamar Herrin
Novelist, memoirist and short story writer Herrin (Romancing Spain, 2006, etc.) has managed to transform the high profile, politically divisive issue of fracking into a thoroughly human, moving family drama.
Sixty-year-old Frank Joyner has been living on his upstate New York farm with his grandson Danny while Danny’s mother (and Frank’s favorite child), Jen, sorts out her confused love life. But now the retired architect—a believer in continuity and sustenance whose crowning achievement has been the renovation of his boyhood school into a mixed-use apartment/retail complex—faces a dilemma. The farm, which he inherited from his mother, sits atop the Marcellus Shale, and his neighbors have all signed lucrative financial leases allowing Conklin Natural Gas to drill for natural gas on their lands using hydraulic fracturing. As reported by a journalist who has made Frank less than popular around town, Frank’s natural inclination is to leave the land alone. But as Frank’s son Mickey explains, even if Frank turns down the deal, the vertical drilling done on neighboring land will turn horizontal and run under his farm anyway. And his mother’s will stipulated that Frank share any benefits from the property with his two sisters, who could use the fracking lease money. On the other hand, Mickey, a high school history teacher going through his own messy psychological/spiritual crisis, points out the potential lasting value of the seemingly hopeless symbolic act. In fact, all of Frank’s loved ones and extended family are going through their own messy crises except maybe his oldest son, Gerald, who has escaped to California. Then, Frank’s pushy ex–brother-in-law engineers a meeting between Frank and a representative from Conklin’s competition. Not only do idealist Texan Kenny Brewster and Frank feel an immediate affinity, but Jen finds herself falling for Kenny as well. Herrin avoids moral self-righteousness about the political issue or the motivations that drive his characters.
While fracking is a foregone conclusion in this beautifully crafted novel, the riveting drama lies in the buried emotions that are unearthed for better and worse.
Publisher: Dunne/St. Martin's
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Frank Joyner, the lead character in Lamar Herrin’s new novel, Fractures, is a man with many roles—he’s a peacekeeper, re-claimer, survivor and architect. Above all else, though, Frank's a family man.
From Fractures' opening pages, Herrin instills in the reader Frank’s keen understanding, and subsequent wariness, of family history ...
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Dossett Leath attorney: 'At her core she's a good person'
Whether reading a transcript, reviewing evidence or sitting across a prison table from the woman dubbed a black widow, defense attorney Joshua Hedrick said he became convinced of one thing - Raynella Dossett Leath is no killer.
Dossett Leath attorney: 'At her core she's a good person' Whether reading a transcript, reviewing evidence or sitting across a prison table from the woman dubbed a black widow, defense attorney Joshua Hedrick said he became convinced of one thing - Raynella Dossett Leath is no killer. Check out this story on knoxnews.com: http://knoxne.ws/2qO4r6O
Jamie Satterfield, USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee Published 12:32 p.m. ET May 16, 2017 | Updated 1:21 p.m. ET May 16, 2017
Raynella Dossett Leath in court Tuesday, May 9, 2017 where she faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. (Photo: Michael Patrick/News Sentinel)Buy Photo
"I have never seen anything other than a motherly figure," Hedrick said in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee. "At her core she's a good person. She's had a lot of tragedy in her life. She's had a lot of sadness in her life."
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Raynella Dossett Leath hugs her attorney Joshua Hedrick immediately after Senior Judge Paul Summers tossed out charges she killed her second husband without even allowing a jury to decide Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Jamie Satterfield/News Sentinel
Attorney Joshua Hedrick stands behind his client Raynella Dossett Leath as he closes his arguments to the jury just before Senior Judge Paul Summers tossed out charges she killed her second husband without even allowing a jury to decide Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Senior Judge Paul Summers listens to closing arguments from prosecutor Stephen Crump, right, before tossing out charges Raynella Dossett Leath killed her second husband without even allowing a jury to decide Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Raynella Dossett Leath hugs a friend in the hallway just minutes before Senior Judge Paul Summers tossed out charges she killed her second husband without even allowing a jury to decide Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Defense attorney Joshua Hedrick during his closing arguments to the jury in the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath. Senior Judge Paul Summers tossed out charges she killed her second husband without even allowing a jury to decide Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Prosecutors Shari Tayloe during her closing arguments to the jury in the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath Tuesday. Senior Judge Paul Summers tossed out charges Raynella Dossett Leath killed her second husband without even allowing a jury to decide Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Defense attorney Joshua Headrick demonstrates his theory of the shooting in the courtroom during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Raynella Dossett Leath in court Tuesday, May 9, 2017 answering questions from her attorney Joshua Headrick about whether or not she will testify in her own behalf. Leath faced an extraordinary third trial in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Senior Judge Paul Summers during a bench conference during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Defense attorney Joshua Headrick, center, prepares a demonstration in the courtroom during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Prosecutor Shari Tayloe, center, demonstrates the angle they believe the alleged murder weapon was fired by pointing it at co-prosecutor Stephen Crump, right on bed, during testimony at the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Detective Perry Moyers demonstrates how the witness Randall Brookshire, on stand in back, said he say someone carrying the alleged murder weapon out of the house when he arrived in 2003. Brookshire was a defense witness during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Tuesday, May 9, 2017 where she faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Raynella Dossett Leath in court Tuesday, May 9, 2017 where she faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Defense expert witness Dr. David Fowler demonstrates the fatal shot into the head of David Leath during testimony in the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Monday, May 8, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Raynella Dossett Leath in court Monday, May 8, 2017 where she faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Katie Butler, daughter of Raynella Dossett Leath, on witness stand testifying about the day her ste-father died while in court Monday, May 8, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Prosecutors Stephen Crump, right standing, questions witness Dr. Ronald Bryan during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Monday, May 8, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Senior Judge Paul Summers listens to defense motion to dismiss after the State closed their case against Raynella Dossett Leath in court Monday, May 8, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Raynella Dossett Leath talks with a friend in court Monday, May 8, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
TBI gun expert Don Carman shows jury members about the rotation of the cylinder of the alleged murder weapon during his testimony at the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Friday, May 5, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
TBI gun expert Don Carman helps defense attorney Joshua Headrick, left, with a demonstration during his testimony at the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Friday, May 5, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Knox County Medical Examiner Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan displays the bullet she removed from the body during her testimony at the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Friday, May 5, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Defense attorney Joshua Hedrick demonstrates a firing position with the alleged murder weapon during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Friday, May 5, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before Ñ that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Raynella Dossett Leath in court Friday, May 5, 2017 where she faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Senior Judge Paul Summers during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Friday, May 5, 2017 where she faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Former Knox County Sheriff's forensics officer Angie Phillips Payne answers questions about the number of gloves she put in an evidence envelope during Raynella Dossett Leath in court Friday, May 5, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Russell Davis II testifies about latex gloves he tested at the TBI lab during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Friday, May 5, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Defense attorney Rebecca LeGrand during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Friday, May 5, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Judge Paul Sumers watches as defense attorney Joshua Hedrick demonstrates a firing position with the alleged murder weapon during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Friday, May 5, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Raynella Dossett Leath cries as she listens to a recording of herself in court Thursday, May 4, 2017. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Knox County Detective Perry Moyers describes to the jury how the cylinder of the .38 caliber pistol works during his testimony at the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Thursday, May 4, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
A drawing shown as evidence of the rotation of the pistol cylinder during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Thursday, May 4, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Knox County Detective Perry Moyers, left, explains what he would testimony to at the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Thursday, May 4, 2017. Leath in court Thursday, May 4, 2017 where she faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Knox County Detective Perry Moyers, seated, reads from a piece of evidence with prosecutor Shari Tayloe, left, defense attorney Joshua Hedrick, and Judge Paul Summers watch in court Thursday, May 4, 2017. Raynella Dossett Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Senior Judge Paul Summers during a bench conference with attorneys at the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Thursday, May 4, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Knox County Sheriff Capt. Brad Park points to blood splatter on the wall at the scene on March 13, 2003. Raynella Dossett Leath is in court Wednesday, May 3, 2017 where she faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Knox County Sheriff's forensic officer Aaron Allen displays the gun used to kill David Leath to jurors during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Senior Judge Paul Summers talking to prosecutor Shari Tayloe during a bench conference in the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Raynella Dossett Leath in court Wednesday, May 3, 2017 where she faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
David Leath's attorney Charles Child during his testimony in the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Raynella Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband David. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Prosecutor Shari Tayloe shows photo evidence to witness Brad Park during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Raynella Dossett Leath talking to her attorney Josh Headrick in court Wednesday, May 3, 2017 where she faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
The .38 revolver with three fired cartridges shown to jurors during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Raynella Dossett Leath in court Tuesday, May. 2, 2017 where she faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Senior Judge Paul Summers listens to testimony during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Prosecutor Stephen Crump hands a holster in evidence to the first witness Cindy Wilkerson Tuesday, May. 2, 2017 during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Raynella Dossett Leath talks to friends during a recess in court Tuesday, May. 2, 2017 where she faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Knox County Sheriff's Capt. David Amburn on the witness stand Tuesday, May. 2, 2017 during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Senior Judge Paul Summers during a discussion with attorneys during the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Tuesday, May. 2, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Hedrick, attorney Rebecca LeGrand and investigator Tom Ham spent years trying to build a case that Leath, 68, was not only robbed of a fair trial - twice over - but was innocent of killing second husband, David Leath.
Their work would end in minutes with a stunning decision by Senior Judge Paul Summers last week to toss out the first-degree murder charge filed against Raynella Leath in that death just before a jury was to begin deliberating her fate.
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"I was just trying not to pass out on television," Hedrick joked of his reaction as he listened to Summers' monologue in Knox County Criminal Court, delivered before a crowd that included representatives of two national network news shows and a cable crime documentary series.
Defense attorney Joshua Hedrick during his closing arguments to the jury in the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath. Senior Judge Paul Summers tossed out charges she killed her second husband without even allowing a jury to decide Tuesday, May 9, 2017. (Photo: Michael Patrick/News Sentinel)
Building an alleged black widow
The decision set her free, but it has not removed the cloud of suspicion that has surrounded the former director of nursing for Parkwest Medical Center since the day in March 2003 when she phoned authorities to say she had found her second husband dead inside their Solway Road home.
David Leath, a popular West Knoxville barber, suffered a fatal shot to his forehead while in bed. But the gun - found next to him - had been fired twice more - once before the fatal shot and once after. Knox County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan deemed it a homicide almost immediately.
Photos: Raynella Dossett Leath through the years
In an Aug. 6, 1982, photograph, Knox County Attorney General-elect Ed Dossett and his wife, Raynella, are all smiles on election night after Dossett defeated Democratic challenger Randy Nichols. (News Sentinel Archive)
Raynella Dosset Leath, March 2016. (KNOX COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE)
Smiling at her family, convicted murderer Raynella Dossett Leath is escorted by defense attorney James A. H. Bell Monday to a post-trial motions hearing Jan. 24, 2011 in Knox County Criminal Court. Dossett Leath is serving a life sentence for the murder of her second husband, West Knoxville barber David Leath, who was shot to death in their home in March 2003. (NEWS SENTINEL ARCHIVE)
Convicted murderer Raynella Dossett Leath, with defense attorney James A. H. Bell, left, listens during a post-trial hearing Monday Jan. 24, 2011, in Knox County Criminal Court. (NEWS SENTINEL ARCHIVE)
Raynella Dossett, in a photo dated Feb. 23, 1970. (News Sentinel Archive)
Defendant Raynella Dossett-Leath wipes tears after viewing a video of the body of her husband, David Leath, during her retrial for his murder on Jan. 20, 2010, in Knox County Criminal Court. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Judge Richard Baumgartner addresses defense attorney James A.H. Bell during the murder trial of Raynella Dossett Leath on March 12, 2009, in Knox County Criminal Court. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Knox County Medical Examiner Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan, left, with defense attorney James A.H. Bell, testifies Wednesday, March 4, 2009, in the murder trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in Knox County Criminal Court. Mileusnic-Polchan is marking the point of entry of the bullet on a mannequin. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Lt. Terry Lee, right, marks where a bullets went through a bed frame during the murder trial of Raynella Dossett Leath, bottom left, on March 3, 2009, in Knox County Criminal Court. Dossett Leath is accused of the March 2003 murder of her husband, David Leath, a West Knoxville barber who was found shot to death in the bedroom of their home. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Knox County Sheriff's Detective Sgt. Perry Moyers testifies about the murder weapon during the retrial of Raynella Dossett Leath on Friday, Jan 22, 2010, in Knox County Criminal Court. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Raynella Dossett Leath, center, reacts to being found guilty of the murder of her husband, David Leath, on Monday, Jan 25, 2010, in Knox County Criminal Court. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
The ashes of murder victim David Leath are laid to rest Saturday, March 13, 2010 at Oak Ridge Memorial Park. Leath's wife, Raynella Dossett Leath, was convicted Jan. 25, 2010 of his shooting death. The burial was on seventh anniversary of the murder. (NEWS SENTINEL ARCHIVE)
Judge Richard Baumgartner reminds all lawyers in the case that any mention of the defendant's first husband, the late District Attorney General Ed Dossett, would be grounds for an immediate mistrial during the murder trial of Raynella Dossett Leath on March 3, 2009, in Knox County Criminal Court. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Raynella Dossett Lynch in a Knox County Sheriff's Office booking mug. KCSO
In a May 4, 1982, photograph, attorney Ed Dossett campaigns for the Republican nomination for Knox County Attorney General. (News Sentinel Archive)
Special Prosecutor Richard Fisher uses the alleged murder weapon to make a point during closing arguments in the murder trial of Raynella Dossett Leath on March 10, 2009, in Knox County Criminal Court. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Judge Richard Baumgartner addresses defense attorney James A.H. Bell, left, and prosecutor Mac McCoin during the murder trial of Raynella Dossett Leath Wednesday, March 4, 2009, in Knox County Criminal Court. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
David Leath, 57, co-owner of Suburban Barber Shop, died of a gunshot wound to the head on March 13, 2003. His wife, Raynella Leath, was convicted of the murder. (FAMILY PHOTO)
Raynella Dossett Leath listens as Judge Richard Baumgartner sentences her to life in prison for the murder of her husband, David Leath, on Monday, Jan 25, 2010, in Knox County Criminal Court. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
TBI weapons expert Donald Carmen testifies about the alleged murder weapon in the murder trial of Raynella Dossett Leath on Thursday, March 5, 2009, in Knox County Criminal Court. Carmen said that according to his lab tests the fatal shot was fired between 12- and 14-inches from the victim, David Leath. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Raynella Dossett Leath hugs her daughters, Katy Butler, left, and Maggie Connatser, after a mistrial was declared in Knox County Criminal Court in March 2009. Dossett Leath was accused of the March 2003 murder of her husband, David Leath. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Raynella Dossett Leath listens to Judge Richard Baumgartner Friday, Jan 18, 2008, concerning the possible exhumation of her late first husband Ed Dossett. (NEWS SENTINEL ARCHIVE)
Raynella Dossett, assistant director of nursing, HCA Park West Medical Centers. April 20, 1987. (News Sentinel Archive)
Raynella Dossett Leath listens to testimony during her murder trial on March 4, 2009, in Knox County Criminal Court. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Attorney James A.H. Bell, right, talks to his client, Raynella Dossett Leath, during her first trial for the murder of her husband, David Leath, on March 9, 2009, in Knox County Criminal Court. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
David Leath's granddaughter Lindsey Wilkerson, left, and daughter, Cindy Leath Wilkerson, watch the internment of Leath's ashes Saturday, March 13, 2010 at Oak Ridge Memorial Park. Leath's wife, Raynella Dossett Leath, was convicted Jan. 25, 2010 of his shooting death. The burial was on seventh anniversary of the murder. (NEWS SENTINEL ARCHIVE)
Knox County Medical Examiner Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan testifies Thursday, Jan 21, 2010, in the murder retrial of Raynella Dossett Leath in Knox County Criminal Court. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Defendant Raynella Dossett-Leath and her attorney, James A.H. Bell, listen during the selection of a jury for her murder trial on Monday in Knox County Criminal Court. Dossett-Leath is accused of the March 2003 murder of her husband, David Leath, a West Knoxville barber who was found shot to death in the bedroom of his home. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Raynella Dossett Leath listens with her attorney Paula Ham, left, and investigator Jim Brackett as each jury member is polled following their guilty verdict on Monday, Jan 25, 2010, in Knox County Criminal Court. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Raynella Dossett Leath, right, with her daughters Katie Dossett, left, and Maggie Connatser, is arraigned for the murder of her second husband, David Leath, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007, Knox County in Criminal Court. (NEWS SENTINEL ARCHIVE)
Raynella Dossett Leath, with her attorney James A.H. Bell, left, listen as testimony during her retrial for the murder of her second husband, David Leath, on Friday, Jan 22, 2010, in in Knox County Criminal Court. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Raynella Dossett Leath's attorney Paula Ham, second from left, talks with Steve Robinson on a speakerphone as he gives his testimony while attorney James A.H. Bell, Judge Richard Baumgartner and Special Prosecutor Richard Fisher, left to right, look on in the judge's office Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 at the City County Building. (NEWS SENTINEL ARCHIVE)
Katy Dossett Butler testifies during the murder trial of her mother, Raynella Dossett Leath, Thursday, March 5, 2009, in Knox County Criminal Court. Dossett Leath is accused of the March 2003 murder of her husband, David Leath, a West Knoxville barber who was found shot to death in the bedroom of their home. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Defense attorney James A.H. Bell, right, along with friends and family of Raynella Dossett Leath, prays following the announcement of a mistrial Thursday, March 12, 2009. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Defense attorney James A.H. Bell demonstrates a possible distance the alleged murder weapon could have been from the victim during the murder trial of Raynella Dossett Leath on Thursday, March 5, 2009, in Knox County Criminal Court. TBI weapons expert Donald Carmen, left, testified that according to his lab tests the fatal shot was fired between 12- and 14-inches from the victim, David Leath. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
Defendant Raynella Dossett Leath, with her defense attorney James A. H. Bell, fights to control her emotions during the trial for the murder of her second husband, David Leath, on Friday, Dec. 14, 2007, in Knox County Criminal Court. (NEWS SENTINEL ARCHIVE)
Tyler Wilkerson lays the ashes of his grandfather, David Leath, to rest Saturday, March 13, 2010, at Oak Ridge Memorial Park. Leath's wife, Raynella Dossett Leath, was convicted Jan. 25, 2010, of his shooting death. The burial was on seventh anniversary of the murder. (NEWS SENTINEL ARCHIVE)
Raynella Dossett, center, is honored as nurse of the year for District 2 of the Tennessee Nurses Association on May 13, 1976, at First Methodist Church. Dossett is geriatric coordinator at Helen Ross McNabb Mental Health Center. With Dossett are Sharon Hodson, left, and Marjorie Price. (News Sentinel Archive)
The primary suspect was his wife, who denied any involvement and instead insisted her second husband had been depressed and showing signs of dementia. David Leath's adult daughter also blamed her stepmother, sued her and pushed for prosecution.
As a team of special prosecutors sought to build a case against her, they made a startling claim - this wasn't the first husband she had killed. Ed Dossett, Knox County's district attorney general and a man dying from cancer, had been found dead in his barn in 1992.
The death was ruled accidental, the result of a cattle trampling. Prosecutors insisted Raynella Leath gave him a fatal dose of morphine and staged the trampling. They had little proof, though, and then-Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner three times blocked a bid to exhume his body. She was charged, but that case was later dismissed by prosecutors.
Slamming shut the prison gate
She was tried in 2009 in David Leath's death with Baumgartner at the helm. A jury deadlocked. She was tried again in 2010, again with Baumgartner at the helm. This time, she was convicted. But this time, Baumgartner was guarding a secret of his own. He was addicted to opiates and high on them during her trial.
Raynella Dossett Leath listens as Judge Richard Baumgartner sentences her to life in prison for the murder of her husband, David Leath, on Monday, Jan 25, 2010, in Knox County Criminal Court. (Photo: (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL))
As Raynella Leath sat in prison, the scandal surrounding Baumgartner began to unfold. His last act in office was to deny her a new trial. All seemed lost - until her family reached out to LeGrand, a Washington, D.C., attorney, who, in turn, reached out to Hedrick, a Knox County native who began practicing criminal defense in 2006.
Hedrick read the trial transcripts and wondered, "How did she get convicted?"
There was no evidence tying her to the gun, other than general access to the home of her mother-in-law where the gun had been stored. There was no gunshot residue on her hands or clothing. She had an alibi for much of the time authorities surmised - time of death was never firmly established - he was killed. And, most important to Hedrick in the deaths of both husbands, there was no motive for Raynella Leath to kill either man.
"There's no reason for her to kill," Hedrick said. "(With Dossett), you're talking about a very sick man who had run out of treatment options. ... All of the people who testified (in David Leath's case), they all said (the couple) had a good relationship."
Senior Judge Paul Summers during a bench conference with attorneys at the trial of Raynella Dossett Leath in court Thursday, May 4, 2017. Leath faces an extraordinary third trial this week in Knox County Criminal Court on the same charge for which she was tried twice before — that she killed her second husband. (Photo: Michael Patrick/News Sentinel)
Upending a wrongful conviction
The first hurdle the defense faced was winning Raynella Leath a new trial. Most legal observers expected the attorneys to fail, but Hedrick said they were able to show Summers "concrete examples" of not only Baumgartner's intoxication on the bench but exactly how it robbed her of a fair trial. Last year, Summers overturned her conviction.
Hedrick and LeGrand then began building a case that David Leath wasn't murdered at all but committed suicide.
A new team of prosecutors took the helm, but Summers later opined that while they had presented enough proof to support a claim of homicide, they fell far short of proving Raynella Leath pulled the trigger. He said their case against her was built on "innuendoes."
"To say you were the last person to see him, so you must be the killer, is not enough," Hedrick said.
Remaking history and a woman's image
Hedrick has a theory about why so many people believe, without sufficient evidence, his client is an evil woman who deserves the label of black widow.
"She rose to a position of power and authority a long time ago (as nursing director)," Hedrick said. "She got there by being efficient and assertive. People think of women who are efficient and assertive as witches. ... Everybody has gossiped about her. That gossip was useful to the people who wanted to prosecute her."
Raynella Leath, who is declining all interviews, cannot be charged again in David Leath's death. The case involving Dossett could be, but the odds are slim. They have nothing more at this point than a toxicology report showing morphine in his system and an autopsy that deemed his death accidental.
Hedrick said Raynella Leath is looking forward to spending the rest of her days living a quiet life as a mother and a grandmother.
"It's very popular for people to talk about how the (judicial) system doesn't work," he said. "The proof just wasn't there. The system worked."
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First lady forces out deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel
<p>President Donald Trump admitted on Fox News that he's been too busy to get a birthday gift for his wife, first lady Melania Trump, who turned 48 years old Thursday.</p>
The White House, after a day of uncertainty, confirmed Wednesday that deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel is leaving her position.
She will remain in the administration.
In a statement, press secretary Sarah Sanders said, "Mira Ricardel will continue to support the President as she departs the White House to transition to a new role within the Administration. The President is grateful for Ms. Ricardel's continued service to the American people and her steadfast pursuit of his national security priorities."
Sources said the President told advisers Tuesday that he had decided to fire her.
The decision comes a day after first lady Melania Trump's office issued a surprising statement calling for Ricardel to leave the White House.
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News / Idaho
Latest Idaho news, sports, business and entertainment at 9:20 p.m. MST
By The Associated Press | Updated - Jan 14th, 2020 @ 9:20pm | Posted - Jan 14th, 2020 @ 3:20am
Lawmakers eye plans to boost money for Idaho roads
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two methods to bring in millions of dollars to pay for maintaining Idaho's roads have gained traction with lawmakers. The House Transportation and Defense Committee on Tuesday voted to send to the full House a bill that would use money generated from investing about $275 million sitting in the state's rainy-day account. Republican Rep. Joe Palmer says the investment account would still serve as an emergency reserve should an economic slowdown occur. The same committee also voted to hold a hearing on another plan to double to 2% the amount of money dedicated to roads coming from the state's sales tax. That would bring in $36 million annually.
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION-RULES
House panel rejects Idaho Human Rights Commission rules
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A panel of lawmakers has rejected a rules package that outlines how the state investigates discrimination complaints involving employment, housing, education and public accommodations. A majority of lawmakers on the House State Affairs Committee on Tuesday voted not to approve the rules put forward by the Idaho Human Rights Commission. State agencies this year are seeking approval for their entire administrative rules after lawmakers last year failed to pass a bill approving them. Some lawmakers on the committee Tuesday said the rules appeared to give the Human Rights Commission too much leeway. The rules will also be considered by the Senate and could take effect with that chamber's approval.
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY-IDAHO
Lawmakers eye change to closed Idaho presidential primaries
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — New legislation would require Idaho voters who want to participate in a closed presidential primary to affiliate with that party 90 days before the primary. The House State Affairs Committee on Tuesday voted to hold a hearing on the legislation. Republicans close their primaries in Idaho while Democrats do not. Republicans are concerned some voters might affiliate with a party they don't support to throw a primary vote to a less popular candidate more likely to lose in the general election. Non-presidential primaries in Idaho already have a 60-day party affiliation deadline.
WATER RIGHTS-EMERGENCY
Lawmakers eye emergency water rights for cleaning up spills
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Emergency crews pulling contaminated water from rivers after such things as tanker trunk crashes is standard cleanup practice in Idaho. But removing that water could be violating the state's strict water-rights laws where water distribution is closely monitored. So lawmakers on Monday voted to hold a hearing on legislation granting an emergency water right when crews are trying to clean up spills in waterways. Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Director John Tippets says the agency will always work quickly to remove contaminated water. But he says the legislation is needed to prevent someone from coming in and saying their water right is being violated due to the emergency cleanup.
POWER STRUGGLE-IDAHO EMPLOYEE
Idaho power struggle leads to big role for obscure employee
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A power struggle between the Idaho House and Senate has had ramifications for a relatively unknown state employee who's long toiled in an agency most people didn't know existed. Administrative rules coordinator Dennis Stevenson agreed to stay on past his July 2019 retirement date to help Republican Gov. Brad Little cut the state's administrative rules. Those rules touch on nearly every aspect of daily life, from consumer and environmental protections to hunting and fishing licenses. Little had sweeping authority to make those cuts after the House and Senate failed to pass a measure approving all the rules. Now, lawmakers want Stevenson to help them understand the cuts.
SNOWMOBILER AVALANCHE DEATH
Snowmobiler dies in Eastern Oregon mountain avalanche
BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — Officials say an eastern Oregon man died in an avalanche Saturday while he was snowmobiling in the Elkhorn Mountains. The East Oregonian reported Monday that 33-year-old Richard Stephens was snowmobiling with three others in the northeastern Oregon mountain range when his vehicle was struck and trapped by an avalanche. Baker County Sheriff Travis Ash says a search and rescue team went to the scene, but the North Powder resident died. None of the other riders were injured in the avalanche. According to the Wallowa Avalanche Center, an avalanche warning for the Elkhorns, the Blue Mountains and the Wallowas had been in place since Saturday, and has been extended into this week.
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Blockchain the focus for first of new lectures at Rocky Mountain College in Billings
By: David Jay
Some in the finance industry believe blockchain technology can make transactions more efficient and secure.
One of those working with block chain spoke in Billings on Thursday.
More than 100 came out for the Rocky Mountain College Presidential Lecture Series at Prescott Hall.
Rocky President Bob Wilmouth invited Rob Christensen, vice-president of product development for tZERO, for the first lecture.
Christensen said blockchain helps with a transaction between two people without a middle man.
Bitcoin uses blockchain.
"Bitcoin, Ethereium, Security Tokens is just kind of the first wave," Christensen said. "And you'll see other industries start to come in over time."
Information can go out, but only the recipient has the key to open it, according to Christensen.
"I can broadcast that publicly and only you have the power to decrypt that message and understand it," Christensen said. "And that's a simplified version of it, but it's kind of fundamental to the entire technology."
Christensen's company, tZERO, is based in New York ciity with an office in Salt Lake City, and connects businesses with investors.
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Cultural Competency, Language, and Training: Supporting the Development of Educational Resources for the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency
2018 / Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, PhD; Sayil Camacho PhD; Lucero Herrera, Lily Hernandez, Rosali Jurado
In an effort to advance workplace education and labor rights for farmworkers, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Labor Center reviewed educational resources developed by the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) and its respective sub-agencies (Agricultural Labor Relations Board, Employment and Development Department, and the Department of Industrial Relations). The UCLA Labor Center developed tools and processes to assess: 1) the readability score of text-based resources; 2) cultural competency; 3) message, implicit assumptions, and linguistic nuance; 4) scope of translation; and 5) accessibility of selected educational resources.
A total of 86 educational resources developed by LDWA and its sub-agencies were identified, 46 of these pertaining to labor rights were selected for this analysis.
Among other key findings, the report finds:
• All 46 of the educational resources assessed are text-based.
• Farmworkers are one of the intended audiences in 44% of the materials assessed; of those, 79% were developed specifically for farmworkers.
• 96% of the educational resources accessed are translated into Spanish, and though half are intended for farmworkers, none of the materials are translated into indigenous Mexican languages or considerate of oral-based indigenous languages, such as Mixteco and Triqui.
• Over three-quarters of educational materials do not include a summary that reiterated the purpose or the topic of the educational resource.
• 54% of the materials reviewed do not have accompanying visual, video, image(s), or infographics to support what is being communicated.
• Less than one-third of resources were visually engaging—had accompanying visuals, were in color, emphasize key text, used clear fonts and had consistent brand recognition, allowing the reader to identify which agency authored the resource.
• None of the resources we evaluated communicated message independent of text.
• Close to three-quarters of resources evaluated do not depict a diverse workforce.
The evaluation of educational materials and subsequent focus groups with immigrant farmworkers and agency and staff representatives allowed the UCLA Labor Center to identify the cultural and linguistic barriers within LWDA’s educational resources and identify best practices to overcome these challenges. To address these, the study offers the following recommendations:
Create descriptive titles and follow a specific format to easily communicate topic and purpose of material.
Include an introduction or a summary of main points and a conclusion.
Increase visual accessibility
Develop key materials in formats other than text (e.g., video, audio).
For text-based materials, include infographics and images.
Use a color scheme to code topics.
Highlight, in a visually engaging way, the ways workers can protect their workplace rights, beyond filing a workplace violation complaint.
Include agency logo, a brief description of the agency, the agency role in supporting the workforce, and accompanying contact information in different languages.
Translate for comprehension
Translate the materials outlined in Appendix B.
Implement the following translation protocol:
Translators should seek to understand the strengths and limitations of the text by examining: implicit and explicit assumptions, the knowledge that would be required to engage with and/or actualize the information that is being presented, as well as any cultural biases and/or assumptions about the workforce.
Translators should seek to understand the workers’ reading comprehension level
Translated texts should seek to mediate identified challenges, be at the same reading level as the English material, and when possible translated into primary reading levels to accommodate the workers with limited reading comprehension
Texts should be translated by a native speaker.
Translations should be checked for spelling and grammatical errors.
Translations should be checked by another native speaker from the agency and a native-speaking worker.
Recommendations from other native speakers and workers should be implemented.
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UNIVERSITY SINFONIA
Nathan Truesdale Conductors David Williams Haydn Symphony No. 104 in D major, London Copland Appalachian Spring Glazunov Symphony No. 5 in B flat (flat symbol) major This autumn’s performance by the University Sinfonia begins with the playful orchestration and cheerful melodies of Haydn’s last Symphony. Combined with an energetic rhythmic movement, it’s the perfect prelude to Copland’s celebration of American Midwestern life, his Pulitzer Prize-winning score being one of the most recognisable American works in the repertoire since its composition. In contrast, Glazunov’s Symphony No. 5 is an adventure on a grand scale, in which melody, colour and excitement propel us towards a particularly breath-taking conclusion, a celebration of brilliant sound and colour.
Great Hall, Trent Building £7 (£3 concessions)
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Thieves steal entire parking payment machine from Lutterworth car park
Crime doesn't pay and display in Lutterworth
Isaac AsheDeputy Digital Publishing Editor
The missing parking machine (Image: HFM)
Crooks stole an entire car park ticket machine from a Lutterworth car park.
The criminals struck at around 2am on Sunday at the car park in Church Close, making off with the entire parking machine.
The nearby Bell Street car park's machine was also tampered with, say police, who are conducting an investigation.
It was left damaged and lying on its side.
The damaged parking machine (Image: HFM)
Harborough District Council, which operates both car parks, told HFM with free parking on Saturdays in the run-up to Christmas, and the fact machines are emptied regularly, it’s likely there would have been no money in the one stolen.
A spokesman for Leicestershire Police told Leicestershire Live: "We are investigating the theft of a car parking machine from Church Street, Lutterworth, taken just after 2am on Sunday.
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"Officers attended and carried out a search of the area and discovered a second machine in a car park in the Bell Street area of Lutterworth was also tampered with but not stolen.
"Enquiries are continuing into these incidents. Anyone with information should call 101 quoting incident number 18000608652."
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The complex devices all around us — from long-range satellite links in our cars and offices to powerful computers in our hand-held gadgets — prove beyond a doubt that we live in a technology-driven world. In the field of dentistry, new technology is constantly changing the way diseases are diagnosed, routine procedures are performed, and illnesses are prevented. Although they may seem unfamiliar at first, new and improved dental technologies offer plenty of real benefits for patients. Here's a look at some of the latest examples, coming soon to (or now appearing at) a dental office near you.
Air Abrasion Technology. Bothered by the noise and vibration of the dental drill? This air-powered device could make that familiar high-pitched whine a thing of the past! Working like a mini-sandblaster for teeth, this hand-held device removes tiny amounts of tooth material with precision control.
Anesthesia Wand. If you don't like needles, this may be just what the doctor ordered: a pen-like device that meters out the precise amount of anesthetic you need — and even pre-numbs the insertion site, so you really won't feel a thing!
CAD/CAM Same-day Crown Fabrication. Hate to wait? By combining 3-D digital imaging and computer-aided design and manufacturing technology, it's now possible to have permanent crown restorations completed in a single day — much better than leaving the office with temporary crowns and coming back weeks later for permanent ones!
Cone Beam CT Imaging. What's better than an x-ray of your teeth? An on-screen, movable 3-D representation of your jaws! By taking a series of x-ray “slices” and stitching the images together with a powerful computer program, Cone Beam CT imaging creates a virtual model of your mouth. It can be used to find disease, plan procedures, and visualize internal structures that formerly wouldn't have been visible without surgery.
Dental Implants. Tooth replacement took a giant leap forward with the widespread use of dental implants — today's preferred method of replacing teeth. Dental implants are small titanium posts that replace the root part of your missing tooth. A realistic dental crown is then attached to the implant for a replacement tooth that looks and feels exactly like what nature gave you.
Digital Dental Impressions. Remember biting down on a tray of putty-like material, so a model could be made of your teeth? A digital imaging device now makes that unnecessary. Instead, your teeth can be “dusted” with a fine reflective powder, which is then recorded by a special camera. A series of images is converted into a 3-D model, which can be used to assess a tooth's condition or fabricate dental restorations.
Digital X-Rays. Diagnostic x-rays have long been invaluable to dentistry. The emergence of digital technology in the past decade, however, has made dental x-rays safer and even more useful. Digital technology cuts radiation exposure to patients by as much as 90% over traditional x-rays. And there are other advantages including the elimination of waiting time for pictures to develop, and sharper images that can be enhanced instantly to show detail.
Intra-Oral Camera. A picture is worth… plenty, when it comes to helping you understand your dental examination, diagnosis and treatment! With these tiny cameras, you can see what the dentist sees, on a small chair-side monitor. The images of your teeth can be saved as stills or video — or even printed out — so you can see exactly what's happening in your mouth.
Laser Diagnosis and Treatment. They're inside DVD players and scanner wands — and now, they are making their dental debut. Lasers are being used to detect tiny spots of tooth decay, treat gum disease, and remove cancerous cells in the mouth. They are also employed in gum surgery… even cavity treatments!
The Future Of Dentistry Can you imagine the day your dentist actually grows you a new tooth to replace one that has been lost? Can you conceive of the day when dentists protect babies from tooth decay before they even have teeth? Learn more about these exciting innovations — they're closer than you think... Read Article
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Vol. 10 No. 7 · 31 March 1988
Browse other issues from this year
Maxwell by Joe Haines. Macdonald, 525 pp., £12.95, March 1988, 0 356 17172 8
Maxwell: The Outsider by Tom Bower. Aurum, 374 pp., £12.95, March 1988, 0 948149 88 4
Maxwell: A Portrait of Power by Peter Thompson and Anthony Delano. Bantam, 256 pp., £12.95, February 1988, 0 593 01499 5
Goodbye Fleet Street by Robert Edwards. Cape, 260 pp., £12.95, March 1988, 0 224 02457 4
Alan Bennett, Christopher Price, Douglas Johnson, Charles Dicken, Richard King, Simon Critchley, Toby Forward, John Fletcher, Anthony Barnett, Peter Langworth
Barbara Everett
J.W. Burrow
J.G. Frazer: His Life and Work by Robert Ackerman. Cambridge, 348 pp., £35, December 1987, 0 521 34093 4
The Riddle of Freud: Jewish Influences on his Theory of Female Sexuality by Estelle Roith. Tavistock, 199 pp., £25, September 1987, 0 422 61380 0
Poem: ‘Perfect Weather for the Minuet’
Bruce Boucher
Venetian Villas by Michelangelo Muraro. Rizzoli, 514 pp., $85, January 1987, 0 8478 0762 2
Picturing Art in Antwerp, 1550-1700 by Zirka Zaremba Filipczak. Princeton, 247 pp., £37.60, February 1988, 0 691 04047 8
The Painful Birth of the Art Book by Francis Haskell. Thames and Hudson, 64 pp., £5.95, February 1988, 0 500 55019 0
Rodin: A Biography by Frederic Grunfeld. Hutchinson, 738 pp., £30, February 1988, 0 09 170690 4
The World of the Meiji Print: Impressions of a New Civilisation by Julia Meech-Pekarik. Weatherhill, 259 pp., £27.50, October 1987, 0 8348 0209 0
Robin Kinross
Twentieth-Century Type Designers by Sebastian Carter. Trefoil, 168 pp., £14.95, April 1987, 0 86294 076 1
Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design by Walter Tracy. Gordon Fraser, 224 pp., £16.50, July 1986, 0 86092 085 2
John Sturrock
The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection by Rodolphe Gasché. Harvard, 348 pp., £19.95, December 1986, 0 674 86700 9
Derrida by Christopher Norris. Fontana, 271 pp., £4.95, November 1987, 0 00 686057 5
The Truth in Painting by Jacques Derrida, translated by Geoff Bennington and Ian McLeod. Chicago, 386 pp., £39.95, October 1987, 0 226 14323 6
The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond by Jacques Derrida, translated by Alan Bass. Chicago, 521 pp., £36.75, August 1987, 0 226 14320 1
The Archaeology of the Frivolous: Reading Condillac by Jacques Derrida, translated by John Leavey. Nebraska, 143 pp., $7.95, June 1987, 0 8032 6571 9
The ego is always at the wheel by Delmore Schwartz. Carcanet, 146 pp., £6.95, May 1987, 0 85635 702 2
A Nest of Ninnies by John Ashbery and James Schuyler. Carcanet, 191 pp., £10.95, June 1987, 0 85635 699 9
Arthur Marwick
The History of the British Coal Industry. Vol. IV, 1913-1946: The Political Economy of Decline by Barry Supple. Oxford, 733 pp., £50, December 1987, 9780198282945
Andreas Teuber
Absent Framers
Patrick Wright
Diary: The Deer Park or the Tank Park?
Christopher Burns
Pleasure by John Murray. Aidan Ellis, 233 pp., £10.50, October 1987, 0 85628 167 0
Absurd Courage by Nobuko Albery. Century, 254 pp., £11.95, October 1987, 0 7126 1149 5
Laing by Ann Schlee. Macmillan, 302 pp., £10.95, November 1987, 0 333 45633 5
The Part of Fortune by Laurel Goldman. Faber, 249 pp., £10.95, November 1987, 0 571 14921 9
In the Fertile Land by Gabriel Josipovici. Carcanet, 212 pp., £10.95, November 1987, 0 85635 716 2
Patricia Craig
Three Continents by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Murray, 384 pp., £11.95, October 1987, 0 7195 4433 5
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Samantha Bryant, Reporter
Published: December 14, 2019, 12:08 am
Tags: Hollywood, Broward County
Car thieves caught on camera stealing Mercedes SUV from Miami home
Car crooks stealing hot wheels from driveways
Crooks have device to start up unlocked luxury vehicles
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Thieves are making a habit of walking up to people’s driveways and stealing luxury vehicles. A BMW was recently stolen in Davie and a Mercedes-Benz taken in Miami. The Mercedes’ owners saw the crooks take off in their car and ran out of their home to chase down the thieves. A Porsche snatched in Hollywood in November is still no where to be found.
A video camera captured the thieves taking Ross Seay’s Porsche SUV.
“I saw three people trying to open the car doors,” he told Local 10.
This happened outside of his home along Shoreline Way at 2:30 a.m. In the video, two men are seen jiggling the car’s locks before getting in and taking off.
“They had some type of device that looked like it started my car,” said Seay.
The Porsche’s owner says his car was unlocked, but he never imagined it would be able to be started up and stolen.
“People work hard for their stuff and you can’t just come by their homes and take it,” he said.
Police remind everyone to lock their vehicles.
Samantha Bryant
Samantha Bryant joined the Local 10 News Team in February 2018. Before becoming an official on-air reporter, Samantha Bryant was a Local 10 intern for three years.
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News Archive 2019 January
News Archive London Theatre News January 2019
West End Live 2019 performance dates announced
Posted on Jan 31, 2019 | By Nicholas Ephram Ryan Daniels | share
The date is set for the West End's most popular summer event. Mark your calendars. This year, West End Live will ... Read more
Legendary TV star Nicholas Lyndhurst and musical theatre actress Cassidy Janson join the cast of Man of La Mancha at the London Coliseum
Further casting has been announced for the upcoming London revival of Man of La Mancha with legendary Only Fools and ... Read more
Casting announced for upcoming UK premiere of Little Miss Sunshine at the Arcola Theatre
Casting has been announced for the upcoming London transfer of the hit Off-Broadway musical, Little Miss Sunshin... Read more
Further casting announced for London Admissions play at Trafalgar Studios, Miranda actress Sarah Hadland to join Alex Kingston
Further casting has been announced for the upcoming UK premiere of Broadway's Admissions play. Miranda star Sarah... Read more
New musical ‘And Juliet’ starring Miriam Teak-Lee and with music by Max Martin to run at the West End’s Shaftesbury Theatre this autumn
A brand-new musical entitled And Juliet (stylised as & Juliet) that features some of the biggest p... Read more
John Malkovich returns to the stage to star in new David Mamet play Bitter Wheat at the Garrick Theatre
An all-new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet entitled Bitter Wheat, which is inspired by the... Read more
Caroline, or Change announces West End closing date
It's now 'Caroline or bust' as the Chichester Festival Theatre's Caroline, or Change offici... Read more
Q&A with Bernadette Robinson of Songs For Nobodies
Vocally trained by one of opera's greatest sopranos, Dame Joan Hammond, and fresh from her critically acclaimed r... Read more
Sold-out Menier play Fiddler on the Roof transfers to the Playhouse Theatre
Following a completely sold-out, 3-month run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Trevor Nunn's critically acclaimed ... Read more
Cast album and West End extension announced for TINA – The Tina Turner Musical
The producers of TINA – The Tina Turner Musical have officially announced today (25 January 2015) a West E... Read more
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Long Island Softball
Home » Things to Do » Sports » Softball
A player running the baseline in a game of softball. Photo by Frank Pelligra via Free Images.
Softball is an offshoot of America’s national pastime, baseball, but the sport has a long history of its own. Originally invented in 1887 as an indoor game, the sport was identified by a number of names before the term “softball” began to take hold in the early 20th century.
The name of the sport is a bit misleading, however. The actual ball used in softball measures between 11 and 12 inches in circumference and tends to be fairly dense, making it much harder than the name would imply.
Over the years a few different styles of play have also developed to accommodate different levels of skill and competition. “Slow-pitch” requires that balls be arched to the batter and allows for teams of 10 players, while prohibiting bunting and stolen bases. “Fast-pitch” cuts the playing field down to 9 and allows both stealing and bunting. Both require that the ball be pitched underhand, and a regulation game lasts just seven innings (as opposed to the traditional nine played in professional baseball).
In addition to many youth and school leagues, Long Island is also home to multiple amateur and recreational softball clubs, as well as training facilities.
Pro Game Athletics
41 Saxon Avenue, Bay Shore, NY 11706
If you're looking to improve your softball skills, Pro Game Athletics has the training facility you need to not only increase your strength and agility, but also to learn and master the fundamentals. Pro Game Athletics holds clinics and camps to help players better their throwing, catching, footwork, and hand skills. Their batting cages can also be rented for hitting practice, and onsite instructors can also coach hitters. No matter what skill a young athlete is looking to improve upon, Pro Game Athletics can help.
Pro Game Athletics provides one-on-one and group lessons in softball. They have instructors who specialize in Hitting, Fielding, Pitching and Catching. All lessons prices are based off of specific instructors and range from $50-$60 per 30 min session. A Tier 1 instructor costs $50 for a 30 minute session and $100 for a 60 minute session. A Tier 2 instructor costs $60 for a 30 minute session and $120 for a 60 minute session.
Long Island Pride Sports Association
Contact: RyanLucas@ymail.com
LIPSA provides friendly and exciting recreational co-ed softball leagues with seasons that run during the spring, summer, and fall! There’s even a co-ed tournament team for those with a more competitive edge
ABA Sports Network
Contact Phone: 516-870-0040 Email: LeagueOffice@ABASports.com
Among its many endeavors, ABA Sports organizes both a Men’s and a Coed softball league. The “Pros in Amateur Sports” have weeknight, Saturday, and Sunday leagues to better accommodate very Long Islander’s busy schedule.
Additional Resources for Sports on Long Island
More Long Island Sports
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Defeat for Limerick's Ardscoil Ris against Templemore in Harty Cup round one action
Jerome O'Connell in Nenagh
joconnell@limerickleader.ie
Cathal O'Neill of Ardscoil Ris scored 2-11
ARDSCOIL Ris suffered a 4-20 to 3-17 round one defeat in the Harty Cup this Tuesday against Our Ladys of Templemore.
The Limerick city side will now turn attentions to their remaining games against Cork's Rochestown and CBC in the Munster Senior A (U19) Post Primary Schools Hurling Championship.
The game was level 1-11 each at half time but Templemore powered over the winning line in the second half in Nenagh with Ardscoil Ris scoring just two points from play across the 30-minute spell.
While six points was the margin at the final whistle, Ardscoil Ris did score two goals in injury time - both from Cathal O'Neill from a penalty and from a free.
The Crecora-Manister clubman finished with 2-11 - all bar three first half points from placed balls.
It was 1-11 each and five wides each at half time.
The North Circular Road side made the early running and were 0-3 to 0-1 ahead after five minutes with Aidan O'Connor and Cathal O'Neill on the mark with points from play.
Led by James Devanney, Templemore found their feet and the game was tied 0-3 each after eight minutes.
Six of the next eight points then came the way of Ardscoil Ris as they appeared to earn a foothold in this round one tie in Nenagh.
There were four O'Neill frees in this run of Limerick scores with Shane O'Brien also on the mark as Ardscoil Ris moved 0-9 to 0-5 ahead and 20-minutes played.
Then all turned on its head and Our Ladys were 1-9 to 0-9 ahead when Paudie Kinnane found a 23rd minute goal.
Four minutes from the break Ardscoil Ris hit back with another goal - Shane O'Brien working hard to find the net to move the men in black and amber back 1-10 to 1-9 in front.
Devanney and Conor Cadell points looked to have the Tipperary ahead at half time but O'Neill had his third point from play in injury time to level.
Colm O'Meara had two points from play in the early stages of the second half and entering the final quarter Ardscoil Ris only trailed by one point - 2-14 to 1-16 with James Devnney getting the Our Ladys goal in the third minute of the new half.
But the final quarter was dominated by the men in maroon - scoring 2-6 to a response of just 2-1.
Goals from Tony Cahill (19th) and Devanney (22nd) steered Templemore 4-18 to 1-16 ahead with eight minutes still to play.
It was 4-20 to 1-17 until O'Neill found the net with two late strikes.
* See the weekend print edition of the Limerick Leader for a full match report.
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Lisa Dombek
Abstract Painting & Photography
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Abstract artist Lisa Dombek is eternally involved with exploration, experimentation, observation and discovery.
Originally from Blue Hill, ME, she traveled extensively exploring dance, music and performance in such places as Boston, Los Angeles and New York. In the late 1980’s she moved back to her home state and established herself among the burgeoning art scene in Maine’s largest city, Portland.
Her work has been exhibited in Portland galleries and numerous venues such as St. Lawrence Arts, 3 Fish Gallery, Filament Gallery, Hay Gallery, Sculpture Studio, Barn Gallery Ogunquit, River Arts Damariscotta and MECA Alumni shows, as well as national juried shows at Thomas Moser Gallery, Los Angeles and Art Basel Miami in 2008. Her work has been selected for publication in the 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2011 editions of Words & Images, a national literary and visual art publication, as well as the premier edition of Art Collector Maine in 2012. She participated in the Sketchbook Projects, Brooklyn, NY in 2008 & ltd editon, 2012. Her paintings and photographs were chosen for the Musik Show in Austin, TX, during the legendary South by Southwest Festival, 2003. She received Special Recognition for her piece “Wings Over Water”, an internationally juried show in Omaha, NE, Spring 2001. She was recently published in the 2018 edition of Studio Visit, a juried compendium of International visual artists.
She is grateful to her many brilliant teachers … Art, Theatre, Music, Dance.
Her work is part of many private collections.
My painting is informed largely through internal process in response to both material/natural worlds, often concerned with spiritual transformation. Working in Series appeals to me since it allows development of an idea, whether visual or metaphorical. I am profoundly influenced by global events, cultural shifts and especially the vulnerability of nature and wildlife. In terms of process, I work abstractly and intuitively, allowing my conscious/unconscious to merge, letting the voices speak.
Listed American Artist: http://www.arsny.com
Art Study: Maine College of Art – Portland, ME; University of Maine - Orono, ME.
2018 Studio Visit Vol 40 - The Open Studios Press - A Juried Selection of International Visual Artists - featuring "Sacred Spaces #2" oil & mixed media on canvas;
"Sacred Spaces #3" oil on canvas
2014 - ZEST Magazine Fall issue - "Oil Sketch #1 - 2013" featured with Wine List
2013 EKPHRASIS - Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art. Merrill Memorial Library Arts, Yarmouth , ME, featuring "Worlds in World - Celestial Phases series, oil & mixed media on canvas
2012 Edition - Art Collector Maine Annual, featuring "Daddy You're Busted", plaster & m. media over wire on board, 2006
2011 Edition - OMPHALOS, Nine Point Publishing, featuring 7 paintings and select poets.
2011 Edition - Words & Images, New England's Art and Literary Journal, National publication - published image of "Aftermath", oil on canvas, 2010, 54" x 73"
2007 New York Times Magazine – Cutting Edge Design Fall – T. Moser National Ad, oil & m. media pieces
2007 Maine Home & Design, Chicago Home & Design – T. Moser National Ad, oil & m. media pieces
2007 Fall Catalog – Thos Moser Cabinet Makers – featured oil & mixed media pieces
2007 Edition - Words & Images, New England’s Art and Literary Journal, National publication - published image of “Angel Man Emerging” and utilized “She Comes” as cover art – both oil & mixed media on plaster over board.
2004 Edition - Words & Images, New England’s Art and Literary Journal, National publication - published image of “We’re All Warriors” – oil on canvas.
2002 Edition – Words & Images, New England’s Art and Literary Journal, National publication - published image of “Phippsburg Scape”- mixed media: acrylic, oil stick and graphite on paper.
June 2018 - UMVA Gallery @ Portland Media Center, Art & the Abstract Truth, Mixed Media, Portland, ME
May 2018 - Lofts Gallery/Chestnut St, Coastal Patterns Maine, Photographs & Paintings, Portland, ME
2017-2018 - VENN + MAKER, Paintings & Mixed Media, Portland, ME
May 2017 - St Lawrence Arts, "Sacred Spaces & Inner Maps", Oil & Mixed Media, Portland, ME
Nov 2014 - Make Sense Productions Open House, Paintings & Mixed Media, Portland, ME
Dec 2013 - Small Works Group Show, Yarmouth Frame & Gallery, Yarmouth, ME
June 2013 - Art Collector Maine/Kennebunkport Festival, Kennebunkport, ME
May 2013 - MECA Alumni Show, Thos. Moser - Freeport, ME
April 2013 – Exphrasis, Yarmouth Library – Artists & Writers, Yarmouth, ME
July 2012 - Art Collector Maine Home & Design Show - juried group show, Rockport, ME
June 2012 - Art Collector Maine/Kennebunkport Festival- juried group show, Kennebunkport, ME
March 2012 – Celestial Phases series and other selected paintings, St. Lawrence Arts, Munjoy Hill-Portland, ME
Sketchbook Project 2012 & Limited Edition Sketchbook Project 2012 – Brooklyn, NY
November 2010 - River Arts, GROUP Show juried by Dozier Bell, Damariscotta, ME
November 2010 - 36th Annual MECA (Maine College of ART) Juried Art Auction, Portland, ME
Aug 2010 - Crows & Monhegan, EFG Books & Gallery, Bridgton, ME
July/Aug 2010 - Monhegan/Selected Abstracts, Art Gallery at The Clown, York, ME
November 2009 – 35th Annual MECA Art Auction, Juried, Portland, ME
December 2008 – Art Basel Miami, Coconut Grove Satellite Gallery, Miami, FL
April 2008 – OIL show, Juried Group Show, 3 Fish Gallery, Portland, ME
Summer/Fall 2008 – Paintings, Juried Group Show, Thos. Moser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
January 2008 – Oils on canvas, Coconut Grove Gallery, Miami, FL
August/Sept 2007 – A Collection of Works, EFG Books, Bridgton, ME
June/July 2007 – Recent Works, Filament Gallery, Portland, ME
July 2005 – Juried Group Show, Bruce Brown/curator, Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME.
November/December 2004 – New Work, The Sculpture Studio, Portland, ME.
June/July 2004 – New mixed media series – Meritage Wine Bar, Portland, ME. Summer 2003 – “Oil and sand on paper” – Dunne Roman, Portland, ME.
March 2003 – South by SouthWest Festival, “The Musik Show”, Juried Group Show, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX
March 2002 – “Spring for Life”, AIDS Benefit Auction – Portland, ME.
Sept 2001 –“Landscapes & Archways” Art Gallery at The Clown – Portland, ME.
May 2001 “Mixed Media III” – Internationally Juried Show, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE (“Special Recognition” status)
April 2001 – VIA Marketing, 2nd Fl. Private Gallery, Portland, ME.
July 2000 – Local 188 – 10th Anniversary Group Show, Portland, ME.
March 2000 – Green Design Furniture Showroom, Portland, ME.
Jan 2000 – “Vessels & Gods”, Art Gallery at The Clown, Portland, ME.
June 1999 – The Hay Gallery – Juried Premiere Show, Portland, ME.
MECA Art Auction 1998 , 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2009 Portland, ME.
AREA Gallery – USM Campus, Portland, ME.
Doll & Richard’s Gallery – Cambridge, MA.
Private Collections: New York, NY; McKinney, TX; Boston, MA; Burlington, VT; Portland, ME; E. Berlin, Germany, Cousins Island, ME, Cape Elizabeth, ME
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First World War news, opinion and analysis - Macleans.ca
The Royal Canadian Legion pays tribute with Bells for Peace
A sound will ring out across Canada on the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War
Real postcards from the First World War that survived a century
These notes sent between those at war and home were preserved as part of the Wartime Canada project at the University of Western Ontario
Surreal colourized photos from the First World War ‘tell an old story in a new way’
Vimy Foundation’s ‘They Fought in Colour’ collects 260 digitally colourized photographs showcasing Canada’s contribution to the First World War
Margaret Atwood on the stark differences ‘back home’ before and after the Great War
Although nothing was shelled or destroyed, everything changed on the home front
Celebrated athletes joined Canada’s WW1 effort—including six Olympians
Some stars of the future also got their start amid the fighting
The First World War united these Canadians by service and sacrifice
Their stories couldn’t be more different—from a wealthy socialite to a wandering Malaysian sailor. But they all served Canada when called upon.
The heroic life of First World War soldier Samuel Lewis Honey
One Canadian hero, among many, from the conflict
What kept Canadian soldiers committed during the First World War?
Seven in ten were killed, injured or captured. And yet, they fought on.
He led Canada to victory in the Great War. Why did the troops dislike him?
Arthur Currie is widely considered one of Canada’s greatest military leaders. But soldiers felt differently.
This Canadian private wrote and saved hundreds of letters during the First World War
A rare collection of correspondences between a soldier and his mother offer an intimate look at life at war—and at home
Law, not war: A Nuremberg trial prosecutor on why we need the ICC
Opinion: Ben Ferencz was 27 when he prosecuted Nazi death-squad leaders. He’s nearly 100 now—and knows we mustn’t lose faith in the rule of law
‘If we hadn’t had our rum, we would have lost the war’
Here’s a look at what Canadian soldiers ate and drank to sustain their bodies—and First World War efforts. Many looked forward eagerly to their daily rum ration.
The Maclean’s First World War Cover Registry
Many readers have asked for help finding a particular cover—or the family of a soldier. We’ll try to help.
RH Thomson’s The World Remembers commemorates sacrifice, one name at a time
For the centenary, the actor is collecting and projecting the names of the First World War’s fallen
The First World War brought the end of cavalry and the advent of the tank
The British invented the tank: an armoured vehicle that could roll over both wire and trenches. The problems, however, were many.
With stained glass and service, a Toronto church remembers the fallen
The walls and windows of St. Paul’s record its dead. Still, mysteries remain.
We printed the names of Canadians killed in the Great War. You gave their stories life.
Here’s how Canadians embraced our project to honour the fallen from the First World War—and how, with each name, our readers imbued history with another soul
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U lab fights spread of invasive species
Minnesota Daily, 3/10/2016
Minnesota has a new tool to fight invasive lake and river species.
The University of Minnesota’s Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center reopened last week after extensive renovation and is now equipped to study a wider range of damaging invasive species.
Before reopening, the lab’s facilities were in disrepair and didn’t allow for many types of research, said Sue Galatowitsch, the center’s director.
The new construction started last spring, but plans for the update began in 2013.
“We couldn’t really handle having invasive species in this lab,” Galatowitsch said. “It was antiquated and did not allow us to do the … research that the state really needs.”
The renovations included new systems to manage effluent — water leaving the lab — to ensure it was free of specimens that could spread to surrounding lakes or rivers, said Dan Larkin, an MAISRC researcher.
Containing specimens without risk lets researchers experiment on species not yet found in Minnesota, but that could pose a risk in the future, he said.
“This facility is really unique in terms of the quality of its containment,” Larkin said. “Facilities like this where you have that quality of control are rare.”
Species that have yet to reach Minnesota can be tested in the lab to see if they can handle Minnesota’s climate. If they are a threat, researchers can test which methods are best at stopping them, said Larkin.
Nick Phelps, a researcher at the center, said the lab lets him run experiments on pathogens carried by invasive species to see if they could harm local wildlife without fear that the pathogen might actually be released into the wild.
“This lab is going to be a game changer. We didn’t have anything like this in the state of Minnesota before,” he said.
Now the lab is able to contain harmful pathogens, Phelps said. He will study one that liquefies infected fish muscle tissue, killing the host.
“[Previously], the waste water here would go out, and who knows where or how that would contaminate natural systems,” he said.
Phelps also said the variety of experiment types working together in the lab allows for collaborative research that would have previously been impossible.
The lab is open as a resource for researchers from across Minnesota, Galatowitsch said, adding that this should let researchers statewide tackle larger questions by grouping experts in every part of the field in the same building.
Without this in-depth research, Minnesota’s waters are at risk of being unsafe for recreation use, she said.
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Voting Underway On International Management Standard
Nations belonging to the International Organization for Standardization face a September deadline to approve the final draft of a new quality management standard.
Andy Szal, Digital Reporter
The standard — labeled ISO 9001 — establishes requirements for companies' products and services and provides a framework to make companies more efficient.
The revision process generally takes place every three to five years; Nigel Croft, who chairs the ISO subcommittee on the standard, called the proposed changes "relatively minor."
"Other than a general ‘tidying-up’ of the overall text, and greater consistency in the use of specific terms, there have been a number of small technical changes," Croft said. "For example, top management must now promote the use of risk-based thinking in addition to a process approach."
The group's 162 member nations will develop a position on the draft and submit a vote by Sept. 9. An earlier draft was approved by about 90 percent of members.
ISO issues more than 19,500 standards covering most aspects of technology and business.
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Severe Sell-Off Does Not Slow Rise In Shares Of Gunmakers
Shares of companies that make guns surged as new data pointed to strong sales at the close of 2015, a year marked by mass shootings in Paris and California.
(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)
With all major markets in a severe sell-off Monday, shares of companies that make guns surged as new data pointed to strong sales at the close of 2015, a year marked by mass shootings in Paris and California, and new political pressure to tighten regulations.
President Barack Obama is slated to finalize new executive actions Monday aimed at curbing gun violence and unregulated sales. The president has taken nearly two dozen executive actions to tighten gun laws but has been unable to push measures like expanded background checks through Congress.
Recently released numbers from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System show that background checks jumped about 38 percent last month compared with December 2014.
"It's the biggest growth of the year," said Wedbush Securities analyst James Hardiman. "Probably safe to say gun sales were up a lot in the month of December."
The November attack in Paris that left more than 100 dead and another attack in San Bernardino, California, just two weeks later, killing 14, capped a year in which mass shootings came one after another.
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High profile shootings push gun sales because some people feel less safe or fear tightened gun ownership rules, Hardiman said.
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Songs Of Joy & Peace
Yo-Yo Ma (cello) & friends, including Alison Krauss, Edgar Meyer, Dave Brubeck, Joshua Redman, Chris Botti, etc
[ Sony Classical / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 13 October 2008
"It started with the idea of a party, a party built around the concept of joy and the infinite varieties of joy to be found in the world. But joy can't exist in our world without the comfort of peace. As we all draw closer and closer together in this world, nothing is more important. So as much as the music in this album is about joy, it is also about peace, about the two operating in tandem. I am really excited to know that I have all these fabulous colleagues who think the same way." Yo-Yo Ma on SONGS OF JOY & PEACE
trad.: Dona nobis pacem
Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields: You Couldn't Be Cuter
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Harrison, G: Here comes the Sun
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Natalie MacMaster, Traditional: A Christmas Jig / Mouth of the Tobique Reel
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Robert Mellin, Guy B. Wood: My One and Only Love
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Brubeck: Concordia
Rodgers, R: My Favorite Things (from The Sound of Music)
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John Lennon, Yoko Ono: Happy Xmas (War is Over)
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What’s on at the Barbican this month?
By John Smyth -
London is a dream for lovers of the arts. If you’re into stand-up comedy then chances are you’ll be visiting the haunt of some of the world’s most famous stand-up comics: Soho Theatre. If musicals are more your preference, then there’s a vast range of theatres to pick from where you can see your favourite productions by London’s most talented actors and singers.
One place that truly stands out amongst London’s collection of drama venues is the Barbican Centre. This incredible performing arts theatre is the largest of its kind in London, and hosts a huge range of acts including classical and modern music concerts, theatre performances, art exhibitions and film screenings.
What’s more, this fantastic attraction isn’t far from your luxury rooms in Shoreditch either. Here’s our pick of the best shows to see in Barbican this month.
Snow Mouse
If you’re staying at the M By Montcalm Shoreditch London with children, a trip to see The Egg’s and Travelling Light theatre company’s Snow Mouse makes a great choice. Your little drama-lovers will be truly captivated by this enchanting tale. Set in a magical forest, a lonely child makes friends with a mouse found buried under the snow, and what follows is a production filled with laughs, love and light thrills as the two new friends keep each other safe in the winter wonderland. Snow Mouse makes use of one single performer and a collection of fantastic puppets, with the added benefit of a tactile set that will draw you and your children into the play.
Barbican Centre is also playing host to one of Shakespeare’s greatest dramas this month; Antony and Cleopatra. This classic tale charts the downfall of the Roman general Mark Antony who, besotted by the seductive charm of the legendary Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, turns his back on his empire. The empire decides to repay the general in kind for his traitorous antics, setting the scene for a heart string-tugging play that has been renowned for centuries as one of the greatest love stories ever made.
Director Iqbal Khan, who is known for his fresh takes on the legendary tales of Shakespeare, retains the magic that has made Antony and Cleopatra stand the test of time whilst also adding extra glamour and action to suit modern audiences. A great choice for couples.
If you’re looking to truly expand your theatre pallet this month, then a trip to Barbican Centre to see Transpose is a must. This play includes some of the best and brightest artists from the transgender and queer communities who share revelatory and passionate stories, poetry, music and video with a truly intimate quality.
Themes of gender, sexuality and desire are hugely prevalent in this production, which are made even more potent in the dimmed lights and gloomy ambience of the theatre. Transpose enjoyed critical reception at the Barbican last autumn, and the play is both a fantastic educational experience as well as a great artistic production.
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Are your board members independent?
Nonprofits must state on their IRS Forms 990 the number of independent voting members on their board of directors. Donors, state attorneys general and the media increasingly have been scrutinizing this reporting, believing that independent directors are a key ingredient of good governance.
Some organizations mistakenly think that independence is only about addressing conflicts of interest. But the concept of independence in the nonprofit context is broader than that.
IRS definition
For purposes of reporting the independence of board members on Form 990, your nonprofit must use the IRS’s four-part definition. Under it, a board member generally is independent if he or she meets these criteria:
The member wasn’t compensated as an officer or other employee of the organization or a related organization.
The member didn’t receive total compensation exceeding $10,000 from the organization and related organizations as an independent contractor during the tax year. This excludes reasonable compensation for services provided as a board member.
Neither the member nor any family member was involved in a transaction with the organization that must be reported on Schedule L, “Transactions with Interested Persons.”
Neither the member nor any family member was involved in a transaction with a taxable or tax-exempt related organization that must be reported on that organization’s Schedule L.
You also must disclose on Form 990 whether any of your current officers, directors, trustees or key employees had a family or business relationship with each other at any time during the tax year.
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Nonprofits aren’t required to engage in more than a “reasonable effort” to obtain the necessary information for the disclosures about independent directors’ family and business relationships. For example, you could distribute an annual questionnaire to all of your officers, directors, trustees and key employees asking for the relevant information.
Note, too, that a board member isn’t considered to lack independence merely because he or she is a donor to the organization. In addition, a board member can be independent even if he or she receives financial benefits as a member of the group it serves (for example, a member of a chamber of commerce who also serves on its board). A religious exception may apply if the board member has taken a vow of poverty and belongs to a religious order that receives sponsorship or payments from the organization or a related organization that don’t qualify as taxable income to him or her.
And remember, you aren’t required to have only independent board members. But some charity watchdog groups suggest that a substantial majority (meaning at least two-thirds) should be independent.
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Independent directors are a greater testament to your organization’s integrity when they take on specific roles that can benefit from their independence. For example, the audit and compensation committees should include only independent directors. This helps assure compliance with IRS guidelines for conflicts of interest and establishing executive compensation.
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Oct 21, 2019: Esmeralda Ramirez-Pena's manuscript titled "The epithelial to mesenchymal transition promotes glutamine independence by suppressing GLS2 expression" accepted in Cancers journal. Congratulations Esmeralda and group. Manuscript can be accessed at https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/11/10/1610/htm.
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July 24, 2019: Congratulations to Wen and Abhijeet for their Manuscript "A possible role for epigenetic feedback regulation in the dynamics of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT)" acceptance in Physical Biology. Manuscript can be accessed at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1478-3975/ab34df
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NYSE:GGG - Graco Stock Price, Forecast & News
Adding Graco Inc.
Graco, Inc is a manufacturing company, which designs, manufactures and markets systems and equipment used to move, measure, control, dispense and spray fluid and powder materials. It operates through the following segments: Industrial, Contractor and Process. The Industrial segment includes the Applied Fluid Technologies division, Industrial Products division and Process division. Read More…
Industry Pumps & pumping equipment
Sub-IndustryIndustrial Machinery
Current SymbolNYSE:GGG
Webhttp://www.graco.com/
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Graco (NYSE:GGG) Frequently Asked Questions
What is Graco's stock symbol?
Graco trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GGG."
How often does Graco pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Graco?
Graco declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, December 10th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, January 21st will be given a dividend of $0.175 per share on Wednesday, February 5th. This represents a $0.70 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.32%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, January 17th. This is an increase from Graco's previous quarterly dividend of $0.16. View Graco's Dividend History.
When did Graco's stock split? How did Graco's stock split work?
Graco's stock split on the morning of Thursday, December 28th 2017. The 3-1 split was announced on Friday, December 8th 2017. The newly created shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Wednesday, December 27th 2017. An investor that had 100 shares of Graco stock prior to the split would have 300 shares after the split.
How were Graco's earnings last quarter?
Graco Inc. (NYSE:GGG) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The industrial products company reported $0.45 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.06. The industrial products company had revenue of $400.60 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $418.93 million. Graco had a net margin of 20.29% and a return on equity of 36.17%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 3.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.50 earnings per share. View Graco's Earnings History.
When is Graco's next earnings date?
Graco is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, January 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Graco.
How can I listen to Graco's earnings call?
Graco will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, January 27th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.
What price target have analysts set for GGG?
5 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Graco's shares. Their forecasts range from $46.00 to $50.00. On average, they anticipate Graco's stock price to reach $48.67 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 8.5%. View Analyst Price Targets for Graco.
What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for Graco?
5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Graco in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Graco.
Has Graco been receiving favorable news coverage?
News headlines about GGG stock have been trending somewhat positive on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Graco earned a news impact score of 1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Graco.
Are investors shorting Graco?
Graco saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,130,000 shares, an increase of 9.1% from the December 15th total of 2,870,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 562,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.6 days. Currently, 1.9% of the company's stock are short sold. View Graco's Current Options Chain.
Who are some of Graco's key competitors?
Some companies that are related to Graco include Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Ingersoll-Rand (IR), Parker-Hannifin (PH), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Dover (DOV), Xylem (XYL), IDEX (IEX), Nordson (NDSN), Snap-on (SNA), Pentair (PNR), Woodward, Inc.Common Stock (WWD), Gardner Denver (GDI), Donaldson (DCI), Flowserve (FLS) and ITT (ITT).
What other stocks do shareholders of Graco own?
Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Graco investors own include AbbVie (ABBV), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Alibaba Group (BABA), 3M (MMM), Netflix (NFLX), Ecolab (ECL), Consolidated Edison (ED), Procter & Gamble (PG), Sherwin-Williams (SHW) and AT&T (T).
Who are Graco's key executives?
Graco's management team includes the folowing people:
Patrick J. McHale, President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
Angela F. Wordell, Vice President-Operations
Mark WIlliam Sheahan, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer
Caroline M. Chambers, Controller & Executive VP-Information Systems
Karen Park Gallivan, Secretary, Executive VP & General Counsel
Who are Graco's major shareholders?
Graco's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Selz Capital LLC (0.09%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.06%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.02%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%), AE Wealth Management LLC (0.01%) and Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. (0.01%). Company insiders that own Graco stock include Angela F Wordell, Bernard J Moreau, Caroline M Chambers, Dale D Johnson, Eric Etchart, J Kevin Gilligan, Jack W Eugster, Jeffrey P Johnson, Karen Park Gallivan, Mark W Sheahan, Patrick J Mchale, Sant R William Van, Timothy R White and William J Carroll. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Graco.
Which institutional investors are selling Graco stock?
GGG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Town & Country Bank & Trust CO dba First Bankers Trust CO, Curbstone Financial Management Corp, Somerset Trust Co and Arden Trust Co. Company insiders that have sold Graco company stock in the last year include Angela F Wordell, Bernard J Moreau, Caroline M Chambers, Dale D Johnson, J Kevin Gilligan, Jack W Eugster, Jeffrey P Johnson, Karen Park Gallivan, Mark W Sheahan, Patrick J Mchale, Timothy R White and William J Carroll. View Insider Buying and Selling for Graco.
Which institutional investors are buying Graco stock?
GGG stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Selz Capital LLC, Modus Advisors LLC, Huntington National Bank, Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., AE Wealth Management LLC, Wedbush Securities Inc., Raymond James Trust N.A. and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System. View Insider Buying and Selling for Graco.
How do I buy shares of Graco?
Shares of GGG can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.
What is Graco's stock price today?
One share of GGG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $53.20.
How big of a company is Graco?
Graco has a market capitalization of $8.87 billion and generates $1.65 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $341.05 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.88 on an earnings per share basis. Graco employs 3,700 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Graco.
What is Graco's official website?
The official website for Graco is http://www.graco.com/.
How can I contact Graco?
Graco's mailing address is 88 - 11TH AVENUE N.E., MINNEAPOLIS MN, 55413. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 612-623-6000 or via email at [email protected]
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Univision quarterly profit rises 14%
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Spanish-language media company Univision Communications said after the market closed Monday that fourth-quarter net income rose 14 percent on higher revenue at its television and radio stations.
Univision UVN, +16.67% said net income rose to $67.2 million, or 19 cents a share, from a profit of $58.9 million, or 17 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Revenue rose to $461.3 million from $408.1 million.
Analysts polled by Thomson First Call were expecting a profit of 20 cents a share on $456.1 million in revenue.
In the first quarter, Univision sees a profit of 10 cents to 11 cents a share on revenue that will be up by a "low double-digit" percentage from the same quarter last year.
"Based on the terrific momentum in our television and radio ratings, I believe we are positioned for growth and success in 2005 and beyond," said Jerrold Perenchio, chairman, in a statement.
The shares declined 9 cents to close at $26.39 on Monday.
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The laboratory of MGH Research Scholar Brian Bacskai, PhD, is using sophisticated optical techniques to address fundamental questions in Alzheimer's disease research.
A common neuroprotective strategy to prevent or treat central nervous system diseases
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The Bacskai lab uses optical techniques to ask fundamental questions in Alzheimer's disease research.
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Development of novel optical techniques is ongoing and includes methods to measure protein-protein interactions using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) and non-invasive approaches to amyloid imaging in intact animals.
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Honorable Mentions from Killer Films
By Christine Vachon
Once again, thank you for taking the time to submit your screenplays and pitches to the Massify website. I, along with the rest of the Killer Films staff, thoroughly enjoyed reading all of the submissions that flooded in. There are a few excellent, thought-provoking entries in particular that we feel deserve acknowledgment. Killer Films would like to award Honorable Mention to the following scripts: Half a Stop, Backflip, Tuesday, Looking Glass, and Song of a Fifth Grade Samurai. Please take the time to read these memorable projects written by your peers. Commentary after the jump.
Half a Stop – Half a Stop is totally charming, utilizes a subtle yet effective sense of humor and still manages to deal with some serious subject matter in a lighthearted manner. The script possesses such a consistently enjoyable tone and a fully realized world, with deftly imagined oddball characters fitting in so naturally. The pitch possessed a unique and creative intelligence that stayed with us throughout the submission process.
Backflip – Backflip is a coming of age story about an overweight twelve-year-old girl with a passion for gymnastics. The story follows Amy, her adulterous father Greg, and her self-absorbed mom Sylvia throughout each of their uniquely miserable days. The climax, which takes place at Amy’s gymnastic competition, is a refreshingly bitter take on modern high school life. After Amy misses the all-important backflip her mom races off without acknowledging her, leaving her to walk home with her father in silence. While the characters come off as somewhat one dimensional, this is nevertheless an engaging and well-written piece with great potential.
Tuesday – Brimming with dark humor and narcotic malaise, Tuesday tells the story of Tuesday Cornish, an introspective young pharmacist. Tuesday drifts through work in a daze, daydreaming of a world without prescriptions where everyone could just be happy. This screenplay exhibits a lot of visual inventiveness and a good ear for dialogue. A fantastically delirious dream sequence that wouldn’t feel out of place in a film by Tim Burton or Terry Gilliam. While it would do well to feature more of a dramatic story arc, Tuesday is a sharp and imaginative screenplay that speaks well to our increasingly over-medicated times.
Looking Glass – Looking Glass deserves mention not only for being a well written, original script but for its eerily beautiful pitch video and thoughtful exposition relating to the writer’s intentions as a director. We were able to get a complete picture of the project; its tone, style, and charisma. The effect of the looking glass would be beautiful if done right, and the humorous touches are memorable.
Song of a Fith Grade Samurai – With a great sense of visual humor and a freewheeling sensibility, Song of a Fifth Grade Samurai is an immensely likable screenplay. In a school in which each kid is represented by whichever fantastic character his or her imaginations dictate, Samurai stands alone in his quest for justice and the fight against boredom. Between battling bullies on the playground and teachers in the classroom, Samurai tries to keep afloat and find first love. Song of a Fifth Grade Samurai features a crisp writing style that pops off the page like the best comic book you’ve never read. It’s a perfect encapsulation of that time in all of our lives in which we were only limited by the boundaries of our wildest fantasies. The only thing wrong with this screenplay is that it’s so short!
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Irish Consulate NYC are pleased to announce that the Irish naval vessel the L.E. Samuel Beckett will visit New York during UN General Assembly week! The ship will be open to visitors on Sunday 29 September between 10am and 5pm. The ship will be docked at Pier 36, berth 7 and 8 in Manhattan on the East River between the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges. Entrance to the quay is easiest by foot through the new Pier 35 park. Adrian will speak with the Ship's captain Lt Cdr @Eoin Smyth on irishradio.com on Saturday 10am. The crew welcome visitors of all ages to visit and tour the ship and to speak with the crew about their service to Ireland and their humanitarian missions in the Mediterranean.
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We are pleased to announce that the Irish naval vessel the L.É. Samuel Beckett will visit New York during UN General Assembly week! The ship will be open to visitors on Sunday 29 September between 10am and 5pm. The ship will be docked at Pier 36, berth 7 and 8 in Manhattan on the East River between the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges. Entrance to the quay is easiest by foot through the new Pier 35 park.
Ship’s captain Lt Cdr Eoin Smyth and the crew welcome visitors of all ages to visit and tour the ship and to speak with the crew about their service to Ireland and their humanitarian missions in the Mediterranean.
About the vessel
The LÉ Samuel Beckett P61 is an Irish Naval Service offshore patrol vessel and is one of three such vessels in the Naval fleet. Commissioned in 2014, the LÉ Samuel Beckett undertakes maritime surveillance and fishery protection operations around Ireland. In addition, the vessel has also been recently deployed on international humanitarian duty, including Operation Sophia the EU Naval Operation in the central Mediterranean to tackle human smuggling and prevent further loss of life of migrants, and Operation Pontus, a unilateral humanitarian mission conducted under a bilateral agreement between Ireland and Italy. The humanitarian work carried out by the Naval Service in the Mediterranean has saved thousands of lives in recent years.
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Winterfylleth "The Hallowing of Heirdom"
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Entry posted by MacabreEternal · June 16, 2018
Okay, so I will admit that the prospect of an acoustic only Winterfylleth album didn't exactly fill me with joy. The pagan, black metallers have long existed on the fringes of my radar but never somehow managed to make much more than a fleeting blip historically.
The fact is that this is one of the most heartfelt records I have listened to in quite a while. I have more than once found myself stood stock still, completely captivated by the atmospheric beauty of what I have heard on this record. The album opens up with "The Shepherd" a track which starts with a rendering of the Christopher Marlowe poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and this is an indication of what you are in for as a listener. There's not one bit of BM on this record and it doesn't need any in any way, shape or form. "The Hallowing of Heirdom" is more folk than anything even remotely resembling metal. Imagine if Fleet Foxes dropped the irritation of that constant "hippy" vibe and showed some actual capable instrumentation also and you are loosely on the right track.
There's variety to it which is as unexpected as it is welcome and it means you never get bored despite the record clocking in at 55 mins plus. Over 12 tracks you are actually taken on a journey that stays with you long afterwards, which is what all good journeys should do, be memorable for all the right reasons. But don't get me wrong, it isn't OTT on the emotion front, that's not the strength on display here. No, this is one of the most balanced releases in my recent memory. It's like a picture album where the first picture is given to you (that cover) and then it takes over your head with numerous captures of the very essence of the land itself. You can smell the pine of the trees, the earthy tones of the fields and almost feel the breeze on your face even though you are sat in your front room with all the windows and doors shut.
As usual with Winterfylleth there's a theme of the old ways being lost, the album title itself harking back to the importance of "heirdom" as we all exist with clear ties back to people stretching far back into history but seem to rarely give that much thought. "The Hallowing of Heirdom" seems a fitting tribute to the ways of yore regardless.
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Glad you reviewed and enjoyed! It's just epic!
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I really need to get hold of this. I've never been much of a fan of this band - for some reason I've always found what I've heard a bit underwhelming, despite great artwork, titles and themes. An acoustic album really interests me.
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How does it compare to Drudkh's "Songs of Grief and Solitude"?
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On 7/9/2018 at 12:44 AM, Balor said:
Never heard that, sorry.
4 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:
Its Drudkh's instrumental, acoustic album. I think it represents some of their best and most significant work. You should definitely check it out.
On 7/14/2018 at 3:56 PM, Balor said:
Thanks I will add it to my list.
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Elvenar Adds New Guest Race, The Woodelves
A new guest race has been introduced to InnoGames’ free-to-play city builder Elvenar. The Woodelves have arrived to set nature right — even adding a new resource: Mana.
Like most new guest races, this one will add new building and units. The most important buildings are the cultural buildings which produce Mana, which can be used to activate new technologies. Unfortunately, not all cultural buildings will produce this resource, so players will need to account for that in their plans.
Players can check out the new race by heading over to the Elvenar site.
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White And Allied Tanks In Russia
Last Updated on Wed, 16 Mar 2016 | Volunteer Army
The Russians became interested in acquiring tanks after the British successfully employed them on the Western Front in 1916. Shortly before the October Revolution, the Russian Technical Commission in London partly prepaid an order for British tanks, after having noted their essential superiority over the lighter French models. None arrived before the descent into civil war.
Four models of tanks (three British, one French) participated in the Russian Civil War: the heavy Mark V, the Medium Mark A, the Medium Mark B and the French light Renault FT-17.
British Royal Tank Corps personnel inspecting Whippet No. A356 at the Baltic Works, Taganrog, southern Russia, summer 1919. The British tank school had originally been established in Ekaterinodar in the Kuban in April, but had moved to Taganrog by June. Some 200 Russian officers had been trained, interchangeably, as drivers and gunners by the end of the year. (Deryabin)
The Whites had no internal factories capable of producing tanks; all had to be imported from Britain and France. Nearly all tanks in the White inventories were British.
Whenever tanks appeared they dominated the battlefield, seizing strongpoints and overrunning panicked enemy forces. Only a concentration of Red artillery or Gar ford gun cars could drive ihein away.4 Conversely, the arrival of tanks had an almost magical effect on the Whites. White generals on all fronts consistently requested these from the Allies above all other logistical considerations. British Royal Tank Corps personnel witnessed mounted Kuban Cossacks kissing the sides of tanks in gratitude.
Tanks did have inherent limitations. Due to their limited ranges by road, and far less across country, they had to be transported by train to a point within a few miles of the intended action. Since most Civil War battles took place within 20 miles of a railway, this in itself was not a major limitation. Far more limiting was their vulnerability to mechanical breakdowns. Repairs in the field, perhaps under lire, were understandably difficult. In addition, operational distances had to be considered against the proximity of fuel supplies. A knocked-out bridge, or indeed a bridge too weak to support a tank's weight, could effectively terminate their advance.
The limitations tanks imposed on crews were also considerable. Nicholas Wreden, a junior officer in the White Northwestern Army, described his condition after a full day's combat spent inside the tank Captain Cmmit in I9I9: "every member of the crew was half-poisoned by the odors exuding from the motor, and by the fumes of gunpowder which had accumulated in the tank. The heat inside was terrific, and the steel near the motor scorched one's fingers." Stumbling outside, lie pressed his face to the cool, damp ground and vomited.
The primary problem with the tanks, however, was simply that there were not enough of them. Even more importantly, there were never enough fully trained crew, especially on the southern front where the greatest employment of tanks took place.
French tanks in South Russia
The first tanks in Russia arrived at ihc port of Odessa on the Black Sea on 18 December 1918 in order to reinforce French and (¡reek divisions facing ihe Bolsheviks in ilie southern Ukraine. These tanks, numbering approximately 20, were assigned to the 303rd Company, 1st Battalion, 501st Special Artillery Regiment. These tanks were the Renault FT-17 model. Six "Renos" were lost to the Reds in engagements in February and March 1919. At least six more were left behind for the local Whites during the hasty French evacuation in April.
Rumors persist in Western sources that the French supplied the AFSR with 100 Renaults. These do not appear in White orders of battle and are not mentioned in memoirs. British tank pioneer GeneralJ.EC. Fuller, who inspected Denikin's tanks in August 1919, testified that the Reds had captured six Renault tanks from the French and that three of these had been captured by the Whites.
American tanks in the Russian Far East
Admiral Kolchak urgently requested tanks from the United States in September 1919, just before his spectacular, if short-lived, Tobol offensive. In response, ten American Renault FT-17 tanks arrived in Vladivostok in March 1920; unfortunately, Kolchak was executed bv the Reds in February. Bolshevik railway workers learned of the scheme and diverted this shipment to the Amur Red Partisans.
Front of the Mark V composite tank For Greater Russia, 1st Tank Detachment, attached to General Baron Wrangel's Caucasian Army, Armed Forces of South Russia, at Tsaritsyn, 1919. Two of the White soldiers wear peasant's hats popular in the Volga region between Astrakhan and Saratov. Note the tarpaulin cover on top. (Deryabin)
Tanks in North Russia
Four British Mark V heavv tanks and two Medium Bs of the North Russian Tank Detachment, commanded by Major J.N.I.. Bryan, arrived in the White Sea port of Archangel on 11 August 1919. Officially, the tanks were dispatched to cover the Allied evacuation from Russia. Unofficially, however, they were probably sent in order to test the new Medium B, which had not had such a field opportunity in France.
Three tanks saw brief action along the Vologda Railway in support of an armored train on 29 August, but opportunities to employ the tanks effectively were limited by the immense forests and marshes of North Russia. Headquartered at Solombala on the outskirts of Archangel, the detachment trained Russian volunteers in the use of tanks until final evacuation on 27 September. Ten officers and 24 enlisted men comprised the new North Russian Tank Corps, commanded by Colonel Kenotkenich.
The British left the Corps two tanks, a Mark V (No. 9085) and a Medium B (No. 1613). According to a telegram sent by Kenotkenich to Bryan, these tanks were put to good use in October: "Proud keep traditions, Knglish lank Corps. Took in glorious fight five fortified points and Plesetskaia Station."
The next months, however, took their toll on the northern Whites as the Red Army, increasingly freed from commitments on other fronts, reinforced the northern sector. As the Whites prepared for evacuation on 19 February 1920, General S.T. Dobrovolsky witnessed the last of the ('.orps demolishing tank controls and removing the machine guns. 1 lours before the Bolsheviks entered the city, the tanks were loaded onto barges and sunk in the North Dvina. F.nterprising Red engineers subsequently raised these and shipped them to Moscow for analysis.
Tanks in Northwest Russia
The British Northwest Russian Tank Detachment began arriving at Reval, Estonia, on (i August 1919 to support General N.N. Yudenich's Northwestern Army. Commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel E. Hope-Carson, the detachment comprised 22 officers, 2f> enlisted men and eventually six tanks.
The detachment moved east to Narva at the end of August, and Russian personnel began assembling for instruction, 22 officers (of whom ten were
The Medium A (also called the Whippet) had been conceived in 1917. This medium tank possessed a maximum armor protection of '¿in., a crew of four, stood 9ft (2.75m) high with a length of 20ft (6.1m) and a width of 8ft 7in. (2.62m). Weighing 14 tons, the Whippet could achieve a maximum speed of 8.3mph (13.4km/hr) with its twin 45hp Tyior engines; almost twice that of the Mark V, and a rate which allowed it to keep pace with the cavalry. The Medium A carried four Hotchkiss machine guns and had an 80-mile (130km) range. This photo shows three Whippets comprising the 4th Tank Detachment, attached to General Baron Wrangel's Caucasian Army, Armed Forces of South Russia, summer 1919. By October, the detachment had been dispatched to General Denikin's headquarters at Taganrog on the Sea of Azov. By November, the 4th had been attached to the cavalry of the Volunteer Army. Note the open rear doors for ventilation. (Deryabin)
naval), and nine enlisted men. Mixed Anglo-Russian teams were formed into ;i Tank Battalion. According to Hope-Carson: "The tanks issued to us were Mark V Composite, carrying one 6-pdr. and the usual number of machine guns" (probably five). The names of live of these tanks are known: First Aid, Captain Cromie, Brown Hear, Liberator and 'While Soldier.
A Tank Shock Battalion also began forming in early September in order to provide direct infantry support. Led by Captain P.O. Shishko, former commander of the Naval Battalion of Death, the unit numbered 250-400 volunteers.
The tanks first had to stabilize a threatening situation at the front before securing Yamburg, on the Russian-Estonian frontier, the natural base for an offensive against Petrograd. The lirst ac tion took place in early September 1919 southeast of Gdov. Here, Naval Warrant Officer A.S. Strakhov, aboard the White Soldier, witnessed the enemy running from their defenses upon seeing the tanks. Subsequently, during 11-15 September, First Aid, Captain Cromie, Brmifn Bear and I lit- Shock Battalion helped halt a Red breakthrough south of Gdov. Two of the tanks then scattered the Reds at Strugi Belyi on the 28lh.
Brown Bear, First Aid and Captain Cromie assisted in taking the critical point of Yamburg on the Luga River on 11 October. After a gallant rush across the temporaiT wooden bridge by the Tank Shock Battalion, the Whites occupied the city. The tanks themselves had to cross a shallow lord in the Luga. All tanks had concentrated at Yamburg and had been entrained by 17 October. Meanwhile, White units had pushed to the east and taken Gatchina.
The Allied plan to attack Petrograd involved the Estonians anchoring the left and right flanks of the Whites who would provide the central thrust toward the city. Elements of the British Royal Navy would help the Estonian left neutralize the series of Baltic shore fortifications and keep tin- Red Navy bottled up at Kronstadt. Unfortunately, according to White veteran V.K. Kuzminim-Karavaev, many of the tanks were worn-out mechanically, and this is evidenced in British records as well. Hope-Carson kept his tanks in two groups of three, the best three on a given day being sent forward while the second group received supplies or repairs.
The tanks reinforced the Whites at Gatchina on 18 October and engaged in a series of firelights over the next week. From Gatchina, effectively a suburb of Petrograd, the Whites planned to advance up the highway (o secure Tsarskoe Selo before taking the heights at Pulkovo, which overlooked the prize city itself.
ftrst Aid, Captain ('.mmif and Brown Bear led the initial advance from Gatchina. Red resistance stiffened and several units had to be literally overrun with the tanks. Red artillery, armored trains and hand-picked communist regiments impeded the exhausted and depicted White troops, fhe Estonians, never resolute in their desire to go beyond their own borders, failed to protect the flanks.
Under pressure from the Allies, Finland had agreed to loan three Renault FT-17 tanks to the Whites and these arrived in time for the fighting around Gatchina 011 24—25 October, 'fhe Renos formed a separate platoon with Russian crews, one driver and one machine gunner per tank. These returned to Finland later that fall.
By 25 October, all tanks had seen action around Tsarskoe Selo, but were in need of repairs. Commander Bystrumov with a While crew inside First Aid struggled toward Pulkovo, which only a few Whites managed to reach. Now outnumbered five-to-one, the Northwestern Army had no choice but to retire.
All Mark Vs were entrained 011 26 October for the retreat from Gatchina to Narva. The British transferred the tanks to the Estonians on the condition they continue to oppose Bolshevism and Captain Shishko assumed command of a new tank school near Reval, dedicated to training the Estonians in their use. Fhe Russian tankers disbanded in February 1920.
Tanks in Denikin's Armed Forces of South Russia
12 tanks (six Mark Vs. six Whippets), three officers and 26 enlisted men of the South Russia Tank Detachment arrived in Novorossisk 011 22 March 1919. The detachment formed a Tank School at the Kuban capital of Ekaterinodar in April, attached to the British Military Mission under Major-General H.C. Holman. By June, following the front ever-north wards, the Tank School had relocated to the headquarters of the AFSR at Taganrog. Colonel Klialetsky, a former armored car commando who had been a member of the Russian technical delegation to London in 1916, headed the new Russian Tank Corps.
I'he British Royal Tank Corps trained over 200 Russian volunteer officers with experience ¡11 technical arms throughout 1919. The five-week training course emphasized interoperability; that is, each crew member being able to replace another under variable field conditions.
British tank theorist and proponent, General J.EC. Fuller, visited the combined Tank School and Baltic (repair and assembly) Works in Taganrog in August and September. Fuller met AFSR commander General A.I. Denikin, and both expressed satisfaction at the enthusiasm of the Russian officers doing maintenance while noting their extreme desire to get to the front. Several qualified Russian instructors had been certified to
Mark V composite tank, No. 9186 Audacious being inspected by General Sidorin, commander of the Don Cossacks, south Russia, summer 1919. Audacious survived the great advance north and the subsequent retreat, both events under General Denikin, commander of the Armed Forces of South Russia. As part of the 1st Tank Detachment, 1st Tank Divizion under General Baron Wrangel in June 1920, Audacious participated in breaking the Red lines at Perekop in the Crimea before receiving heavy battle damage. Repaired by the end of the month, Audacious moved to Melitopol where the majority of the division's tanks concentrated. The 1st Tank Divizion next concentrated against the Red bridgehead at Kakhovka on the Dnieper River in October. After breaching the White Crimean defenses, the advancing Red Army captured No. 9186 along with seven other tanks at Sevastopol on 20 November 1920. However, the retreating Whites had hastily destroyed what they could, Audacious and others having been "holed" and burned. This photo depicts No. 9186 with the Russian national identification stripes of red, blue and white placed horizontally to the front side of the tank chassis. An elite Kornilov officer stands in the center, top row (see Osprey Men-at-Arms 305: The Russian Civil War (2) White Armies). (Deryabin)
Volunteer Army Medium A Whippet General Shkuro, No. A346, moving through Rostov-on-Don, winter 1919-20. Attached to the 4th Tank Detachment, 1st Tank Divizion, No. A346 received its name from the commander of the famous "White Wolves" cavalry (see Osprey Men-at-Arms 305: The Russian Civil War (2) White Armies). General Shkuro survived the retreat and emerged in June 1920 under General Baron Wrangel, with its same detachment and divizion number, for the attack on Perekop. The tank was subsequently deployed with the 1st Tank Divizion at Melitopol, but details of its end are currently not known beyond the fact it had to be abandoned during the White evacuation from the Crimea in November 1920. British identification stripes of white-red-white are visible on the front of the tank and the word Shkuro is in white lettering. (Deryabin)
assist the British in training. Fuller finished his tour by inspecting the tank detachments at Tsaritsyn and Kiev and noted that all 12 original tanks were still in the battle line.
The 1st Tank Divizion (a divizion being two or more tank detachments), had been operational since 15 May and contained four detachments. Theoretically, each detachment was supposed to have up to four tanks, a tractor (American Holt or British Clayton) for pulling a disabled tank from the field, a mobile workshop (British Thornycroft), a half-ton petrol tanker (American Holt), four supply trucks, three automobiles and several motorcycles. These specifications were hard to maintain during the press of civil war.
Each detachment theoretically moved in a train echelon of approximately 15-19 wagons. A flat wagon usually traveled at the front and rear of each train as a precaution against mines, damage to the rails or other ingenious forms of sabotage. A second flat wagon carried spare rails, cross ties and sandbags, then came the locomotive and tender. Additional carriages included up to four reinforced-spring flat wagons for the tanks, up to four flat wagons for the trucks and automobiles, two coaches for passengers, an officers' dining wagon, two for supplies and munitions and one for fuel (gasoline) and lubricants. After arriving at a point for offensive or defensive operations, the tanks would drive down specially prepared ramps that had been affixed to their flat wagons, then remount similarly.
White records show 73 tanks coming in through Novorossisk in 1919, while British indents indicate 74. After the initial distribution of 12 in March, White records note that 16 followed in June, ten in September and a final 35 in early October. Thus, just under half of the tanks arrived when the Whites were at their maximum extension in the campaign for Moscow and when they were so desperately engaged at the front.
A majority of these tanks shipped in October may never have been fully prepared for duties at the front. As evidence for this theory, White orders of battle list 11 tanks still at Novorossisk on 18 November (five of these may have been deployed for defense of the city against active Green partisans), while 11 were still at the Tank School in Taganrog and a further l(i were undergoing repairs (or assembly) at the same location. The White order of battle for mid-October, in fact, listed nine Mark Vs and three Whippets with Wrangel's Caucasian Army, eight Mark Vs and one Whippet with Mai-Maevsky's Volunteer Army, four Whippets with the Don Cossacks, nine Mark Vs and two Whippets at the Tank School, and two Mark Vs at the Baltic Works, for a total of 38.
The White order of battle for 18 November 1919 records 71 tanks in position or in process of formation, the largest grouping of tanks in the Civil War.
1st Tank Divizion lsi Tank Detachment. Volunteer Army: Three Mark Vs (being repaired, Taganrog)
2nd lank Detachment, Volunteer Army: Three Mark Vs
3rd Tank Detachment, Volunteer Army, Kiev region: Four tanks (Mark
Vs and Whippets)
Ith Tank Detachment, Volunteer .Army, Horse Group: Four Whippets 2nd Tank Divizion
5th Tank Detachment, Volunteer Army: Three Whippets
6th Tank Detachment, Caucasian Army: Four Mark Vs
7th lank Detachment, Don Army: Four Whippets
8th Tank Detachment, Volunteer Army: Four, probably Mark Vs
Tanks not yet in divizional structure
9th and 11th lank Detachments: under formation from Tank School and factory
10th Tank Detachment: Four tanks being sent toward Tsaritsyn Tank School, Taganrog: I I tanks At Novorossisk: 11 tanks
At new Nef-Vilde factory, Taganrog, for repairs or final assembly: 16 tanks. Total: 71
The difference in the number of tanks between the White calculation of 71 and the British tally of 74 may be explained by combat losses, or by mistakes in accounting. The three Renos mentioned by Fuller seem not to have been included in these numbers and may have formed a reserve in the rear for lack of reliable parts.
The first tranche of tanks assisted the Volunteer Army in the beleaguered Don Basin sector throughout May 1919. According to Captain A. Zekhov, their arrival put the majority of Reds to flight. Defectors intimated that their commissars had told tlieni the tanks were merely mobile cardboard props and not to be feared.
During May, one Mark V boldly engaged a Red armored train, putting it out of action until a second Red train arrived and hit the tank five times throughout the hull. According to later evidence, this Mark V seems to have been salvaged and refuted for the front by September. Similarly, in April 1920 in the Crimea, the Whites would attack the Red armored train Coal A-//H« with three tanks, causing it to withdraw after receiving damage. Nevertheless, in 1919, AFSR headquarters, placing exceptional value on tanks, expressly forbade tank versus armored train duels.
The tight Renault FT-17 had become operational in France in early 1918. This two-man tank had a driver up front, a gunner in the turret, and could be configured with one 8mm Hotchkiss machine gun or one 37mm gun. The armor varied between % to '/¡in. (over '/< of an inch on the sides of the gun-model turret). The Russians nicknamed this tank "Reno" after the maker's name. Although weighing only 6 tons, the tank's 35hp engine could manage no more than 4.8mph (7.5km/hr) and 22 miles (35km) range by road. The Reno had a height of 7« (2.13m), length of 16ft 5in. (5.02m) (including tail) and a width of 5ft 9in. (1.74m). This photo details the retreat of the Armed Forces of South Russia, February-March 1920. From left to right standing on immobile rail wagons, a Mark V, two Renault FT-17s and a Mediurr A. Probable location is along the Rostov-Bataisk-Novorossisk rail line. (Tank Museum)
A handful of tanks survived the disastrous evacuation of the port of Novorossisk in April 1920. The harbor had only one floating crane available, called the Feodosia, for maneuvering the heavy tanks from quay to ship. Note the Mark V in the center of the photo being winched aboard ship. (Tank Museum)
The single most dramatic tank action in 1919 occurred in June at Tsaritsyn (later Stalingrad), a highly fortified city on the Volga which the Don Cossacks had tried to take throughout 1918. Proudly referred to in Bolshevik sources as the "Red Verdun," Tsaritsyn was the supply and communications artery between the southeastern front and Red divisions operating in the Trans-Caspian regions. Seizure by ihe Whites additionally offered the prospect of making contact with Kolchak's left flank west of the Urals.
According to White veteran A. Trembovelsky, all 1st Divizion tanks (16) were deployed with Wrangel's Caucasian Army against Tsaritsyn during the second half of June. However, many of these did not see consistent action because of lack of fuel. The main attack occurred on 29 June, with the tanks of 1st Detachment (three Mark Vs) and 4th Detachment (3 Whippets) leading. Two of the tanks broke down during transit, but the other four smashed through the rolls of barbed wire and turned to drag them apart, forcing holes in the wire defenses. White supporting units followed as the tanks moved parallel to the trench lines and cleared away the defenders.
The Kuban Cossacks entered Tsaritsyn in force the next day and garnered 40.000 prisoners, 10,000 train wagons, 151 locomotives, 70 guns, 300 machine guns and the armored trains I rn in and Trotsky. Denikin visited the city and on 3 July ordered all units of the Armed Forces of South Russia to advance and take Moscow before Christmas. Meanwhile, the tanks of 1st Divizion transferred to Taganrog to repair and refit.
Few records have survived about tank operations in the fall of 1919. Detachments defended Tsaritsyn and moved west to Kiev and advanced from Kharkov to Kursk and then Orel, the farthest point north attained by the AFSR. Due to the rapid White advances and the need for the tanks to travel long distances by train, there were few opportunities to concentrate them against a fixed position at the level of divizion.
One example testifies to the ability of the tanks, especially the Whippet, to work with cavalry. At the end of September. General Ulagai's 2nd Kuban Corps and the 4th Tank Detachment routed the 1st Don Red
Cavalry near Kotluban. The lanks. having been disguised as haystacks, awaited the charge of the Red cavalry before emerging to wreak havoc with their machine guns.
During the winter retreat, tanks were often detrained to hold a station long enough for retreating troops to escape. Indeed, General Holman, renowned for his exploits with Lewis guns and aircraft, personally commandeered one tank for this purpose, lanks also covered the withdrawal of the British mission from Taganrog and the evacuation from Novorossisk. By April 1920 the Reds had captured ")() British Mark Vs and Whippets. The Russian Tank Corps had temporarily ceased to exist.
Tanks in Wrangel's Russian Army
The 1st Tank Divizion reformed in Wrangel's Russian Army in the Crimea in May 1920; repair facilites were located at Sevastopol. Given a drastically reduced front, White armored units were able to concentrate more effectively, a fact noted by the Red high command. By 7 June the tanks had been reorganized as follows:
1st Detachment: (Mark Vs) Grozny, General Slasrhev, Loyal, Audacious, (¡real Russia, Mighty Russia (renamed Slaschev in June after the loss of its sister tank)
2nd Detachment: (Whippets) S/>hin.\, Tiger, Slepnya, Crocodile (renamed Siberian in June)
3rd Detachment: (Mark Vs) Tor Holy Russia, Field Marshal Kutusov, General Suvorov, General SkobeUv, Field Marshal Potemkin, For Faith and Fatherland
4th Tank Detachment: (Whippets) Sadko, General Wrangel, General Shkuro, Urals (transferred to 2nd Detachment on 10 June) Detached Platoon: (Renault FT-17) Modest, Gray
Wrangel planned the breakout from the Crimea into the fertile Tauride for 7 June. Red 13th Army had dug in on the isthmus at Perekop and to ihc east at Chongar. The moment seemed propitious because die Reds had gone to war with Poland. However, the British informed him that an offensive northward would result in the withdrawal of their military mission; consequently, the British tankers left by the end of the month.
White Army armored train, equipped with naval gun, in North Russia, 1918-19. The top photo shows the unarmored locomotive and artillery wagon. The naval gun has a canvas cover over the muzzle for transportation. The crew has a mixed complement of White soldiers and sailors, judging from other photos in the series. Half of the artillery wagon has been fitted with a protective roof. The wagon is unarmored, being wooden with strip metal reinforcements. The bottom photo depicts the gun ready to fire through a lowered platform in the side, which is also the entry point into the wagon via the ladder. (National Archives)
Wrangel broke the Perekop and Chongar bottlenecks by a classic application of naval, aerial and armored assets. Appreciating iliat the Reds had earmarked special artillery units to knock out the tanks, the Whites formed their own special group of horse artillery to provide counter-battery fire. The tanks were equipped with special mufflers to mask their advance and with hawsers that could grapple and destro\ the wire defenses.
Tanks of the 1st and 4th Detachments plunged into the Red defenders at Perekop and ultimately carried the field. I lowever, an elite Latvian division, supported by artillery, counter-attacked close-in with grenades and disabled three tanks. Meanwhile, 3rd Detachment and the Detached Platoon, encountering lighter resistance, broke the Chongar defenses. The paths into the Tauride had been cleared.
The next months involved establishing positions along the Dnieper River, which formed the White left flank from Kherson to Alexandrovsk (later Zaporozhye), and on the right flank in the open country from Alexandrovsk to the Sea of Azov at Berdian.sk. The 1st Tank Division concentrated at Melitopol, roughly the center of the White positions, on the main railway from the Crimea into the Tauride and fought as detachments in consolidating this perimeter. Both sides recognized the strategic value of Kakhovka on the Dnieper because a Red breakthrough there could split the White army in two and jeopardize any retreat back into the Crimea.
Two events ultimately became decisive Ibr the Whites in August. First, the Poles defeated the Reds in the "Miracle of the Vistula" and the waning parties began negotiating an armistice that would free enormous Red reserves for transfer to the southern front. Second, the Reds managed to cross the Dnieper and establish a bridgehead at Kakhovka. The tanks conducted their last divizion-level operation against that bridgehead in October.
Red engineers constructed three defensive zones at Kakhovka, an external line of trenches, a base line of trenches and wire and an inner line of trenches. Anti-tank ditches and minefields covered anticipated approaches and artillery and machine-gun positions had been sited for maximum effect. The Whites understood that, once inside the perimeter, their supporting units would be outnumbered two-to-one; nevertheless, the liquidation of the bridgehead would disrupt the deployment of massive Red reinforcements from the Polish front. During a preliminary clash in September, 2nd Detachment lost the Sphinx and Siberian.
The main armored battle commenced on 14 October, 12 operational tanks advancing line abreast, just within sight of each other, shrouded in the gloom of the early morning. Mobile artillery first probed the external defenses and then the base line. Infantry, cavalry and the 1st Armored Car Divizion followed to exploit the breakthrough. Breaching the external line, the tanks arrived at the base line and encountered heavy resistance. Red artillery, Car fords and mortars knocked out several tanks and one fell to grenades. White infantry had failed to follow up.
The Reds counter-attacked at noon but were held in check by the Whites until the 16th. In all, nine tanks had been put out of action: the Whites managed to recover four. Only three undamaged tanks remained besides the Renault platoon that had been left in the Crimea for lack of parts. The Whites sabotaged all of these prior to evacuation in November.
White Armored Trains - Volunteer Army
Russian Armored Trains - Armored Trains
Armored Units of the Russian Civil
Destruction of the AFSR - Bullock Collection
Color Plate Commentary - Volunteer Army
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Mirage News Politics February 26, 2019 12:02 pm AEDT Date Time
Defence West to spruik State’s defence capability at Avalon International Airshow
Defence West to represent Western Australia for the first time at the Avalon International Airshow in Victoria
Western Australia’s strategic significance and defence industry capability will be highlighted
Defence Issues Minister Paul Papalia is today attending the Australian International Airshow and Aerospace and Defence Exposition in Avalon, Victoria.
Avalon 2019, which is being held at the Avalon Airport, is a global business event which attracts aviation, air transport, aerospace, defence industry, government, military leaders and decision makers from around the world.
Western Australia’s Defence Advocate, Rear Admiral (Rtd) Raydon Gates AO CSM and Defence West will accompany Mr Papalia where they will explore opportunities for the State’s defence industry. They will also engage with senior government and industry representatives.
Western Australia will be well represented with a number of innovative companies and universities, including The University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University and Curtin University representing Western Australia’s capacity and diverse skills in the defence industry.
Organisations participating include Airflite Pty Ltd; Persistent Aerospace; Precision Technic Defence; WA Defence Review; Sci Aero Technology; Hofmann Engineering; L3 Technologies; Matrix Composites and Engineering; Orbital UAV; United Fasteners and IKAD Engineering.
As noted by Defence Issues Minister Paul Papalia:
“Western Australia’s defence industry has strengths in areas relevant to the RAAF including aircraft maintenance, systems integration and precision engineering.
“The rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape has seen a shift in focus to the Indo-Pacific region, having implications for the Army, Navy and Air Force.
“Western Australia is the gateway to the Indo-Pacific and is in close proximity to the emerging economies located on the Indian Ocean rim. The State is of great strategic significance to the Australian Defence Force.”
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Mirage News Business May 30, 2019 11:54 pm AEST Date Time
Mastercard Brings Fareback Fridays And Priceless Surprises To New York City Commuters
Mastercard cardholders who tap to pay at subway terminals on Fridays during June and July will get their fares refunded
Mastercard cardholders who tap to pay on subways and at merchants that accept contactless payments in New York City will have the chance to win Priceless Surprises
New York City, NY – May 30, 2019 – Summer Fridays in New York City are about to get even better for Mastercard cardholders. The company today announced the Mastercard Fareback Friday program. Cardholders who tap to pay for their subway ride at any station between 42nd Street – Grand Central and Atlantic Avenue-Barclay’s Center along the 4, 5 and 6 lines will get a refund on their fare. This program will be effective every Friday in June and July.
The Mastercard Fareback Friday program has been designed to get people familiar with tapping their Mastercard cards on MTA’s subways.
The company also announced that when Mastercard cardholders use their cards to tap and pay in the subway, or at merchants that accept contactless payments in the city, they will be eligible to receive Priceless Surprises. These surprises include unique entertainment, sports and culinary experiences in New York City.
“Mastercard is thrilled to partner with the MTA to completely transform the experience for commuters in New York City,” said Linda Kirkpatrick, executive vice president, U.S. Merchants and Acceptance. “Mastercard cardholders who tap their cards or phones at subway turnstiles will benefit from shorter wait times and a slick experience. Mastercard will be the first to offer cardholders an incentive to tap and pay for their subway ride.”
Cardholders should look for a Wi-Fi style logo on the front or back of their credit or debit cards to determine whether they have tap-and-pay capability. Even without this symbol on their cards, Mastercard cardholders can add their debit or credit card to their mobile wallets on their contactless-enabled devices to tap and pay at the turnstile, or at merchants who accept these payments.
Commuters will be eligible to receive a maximum refund of up to $5.50 (equivalent to two rides) every Friday during June and July.
“Whether it’s your vacation or your daily commute, a good travel experience can make all the difference,” said Al Putre, OMNY Program Executive at the MTA. “We’re excited that companies like Mastercard are helping our customers use this new way of paying.”
From Portland to New York, Mastercard has been working with 20 cities across the country to streamline the experience for commuters. Mastercard’s chip technology, coupled with its tokenization service, will allow commuters to tap to pay with their cards or phones without ever exposing their card numbers.
For more details on the Mastercard Fareback Friday program, visit: mastercard.com/farebackfridays
For a list of retailers that accept contactless payments, visit: mastercard.com/tapandgolocator
1 Valid for Mastercard debit and credit cards that are enabled for contactless payments.
Also valid for contactless payments made with a Mastercard debit or credit card through any contactless-enabled device.
Mastercard cardholders can expect the refund to show up as a credit on their card statement within 28 days.
Mastercard (NYSE: MA), www.mastercard.com
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Home » Business » Immigration » Investing in the UK
If you are a business looking to establish a UK branch and invest here then there are a number of visa options available to you. The appropriate option will depend on your particular requirements.
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We can identify the most appropriate visa options for you in both the short and long term. We will give you clear and practical advice on how to work within the immigration rules to meet your needs and will advise you on the likely timescales for each step in the process so that you can plan the move to the UK.
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Our immigration team is highly experienced in assisting businesses relocating to the UK and sending qualified staff with them. We act as level 1 users in sponsor licences for many clients and carry out audits to ensure compliance with sponsor licence requirements. The team is Ranked Tier one in Legal 500 for 2018/19 and top ranked by Chambers and Partners.
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Our costs will always be clear and that's guaranteed. Where possible we offer fixed fee packages for assisting with relocating your business to the UK. If it is not possible to offer a fixed fee then we will provide a clear indication of the likely fee based on agreed scope of work.
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A molecular marker of physiological aging
Scientists develop a light-emitting biosensor for the point-of-care quantification of a central biochemical cofactor
It is present in all of our cells and it is a central cofactor of metabolism and signaling - Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). Decreases in its cellular concentrations are associated with pathologies such as neurodegeneration and physiological aging. Due to its great importance in a large number of molecular processes, measuring the concentration during those is critical for understanding cellular mechanisms in health and disease. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the University Hospital of Lausanne have now introduced a bioluminescent biosensor for the rapid quantification of cellular NAD+ levels, which can be used either in laboratories or at the point of care. The work should facilitate studies on the role of NAD+ levels in human health and enable point-of-care quantification of clinically relevant biomarkers.
Change of color of the emitted light from blue to red upon the sensor binding to NAD+.
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At present, NAD+ levels in cells are routinely measured by mass spectrometry or enzymatic assays. However, both methods are labor-intensive and require expensive equipment, making them unsuitable for point-of-care applications at patients’ homes or on the go. To address these limitations, Qiuliyang Yu from the Department of Chemical Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research designed a semisynthetic, light-emitting sensor protein. The color of emitted light changes from blue to red upon binding to NAD+. This NAD+-dependent color change enables the use of the biosensor in paper-based assays in which NAD+ is quantified, by simply measuring the color of the emitted light using a regular digital camera. It requires only a very small amount of sample, such as a drop of blood, and a few seconds to get the results, which also makes it a promising tool for point-of-care applications.
According to Yu, “the biggest challenge was to optimize the sensor to a point where it was accurate and consistent enough for measuring clinical samples. To improve the sensitivity, we screened a large number of mutants to identify the protein variant that fitted our need.” Testing the new tool, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research and EPFL quantified NAD+ levels in cell culture, tissue and blood samples, yielding results that agreed with standard testing methods. “The simplicity of the approach should greatly facilitate basic research on this vital cofactor,” says Qiuliyang Yu. “And I am particularly excited about the idea of developing a point-of-care system for patient self-testing. This would enable us to study the role of NAD+ levels in physiological aging and neurodegenerative diseases.”
The Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg has now started a collaboration with scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute of Cell Therapy and Immunology to develop a more automated version of the paper-based assay. “This is a great opportunity for us to bring the biosensor into the clinic and to patients,” says Corentin Gondrand, a co-author of the paper and project coordinator of the collaboration with the scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute. A broad availability of the biosensor will advance research on the role of NAD+ in health and disease.
Flow diagram of NAD+ paper assay using a digital camera for the read out.
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A biosensor for measuring NAD+ levels at the point of care.
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All cells in the body have the basic ability to protect themselves from infection, called the innate immune response. But how cells do this is not very well understood. Recently, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing and the University of Cologne, found that the size of the nucleolus plays an important role in protecting cells against infection.
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Max Planck research that made an impact in 2017
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In 2017, Max Planck scientists published a number of groundbreaking research papers. Here are twelve highlights that showcase some of their most recent work.
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Cellular power outage
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This T-Shirt was printed in December 1994 for the My So-Called Life wrap-up party after the last episode was finished shooting. Cast and crew subscribed on a piece of paper which was then printed on exactly 100 shirts. Only close friends of the cast or crew got one. Click on the picture for a larger version.
Here's what it says on the back:
'94 We had a time!
Thank you for your undying LOVE and support! con mucho amor Wilson Cruz
...We will look back on this and know we were all a part of something very special [heart symbol] A.J. Langer Rayanne
It's been wonderful working with you!!! Love Lisa Wihoit
[big heart] Thanks to all you like wonderful people who like really make it like totally..."Happen" XOXOXOXO Odie AKA Girl Devon
Thanks for all the hard work and for putting up with me Jared
Thank you for a wonderful "Life" Love Devon Gummersall
Ok-so I'll call Marshall... I love you all Bess Armstrong
I cant express my love and appreciation we're quite a team "in my humble opinion" [heart] Claire Danes
Guidance rules! love always Cathy Kryzanoski
I love you all Mary Kay Place
You guys are the best! He affirmed firmly...what? love Tom Irwin
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Two versions of this shirt have been available: One version with white background and black lettering and one with black background and white lettering. Someone on one of the MSCL Usenet Groups made them back in 1995. We don't know how many shirts were produced.
This shirt was published by Operation Life Support in early 1995. It was also available as a sweat-shirt.
The front: "Operation ...LIFE Support / Don't let ANYONE mess with your LIFE"
On the back are selected quotes from each of the MSCL characters. To name a few:
"This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would
have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do."
"Whatever happens, happens."
"My life is completely edited."
It was sold by OLS for around $20 in January 1995.
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The Twelve Days of Christmas Book Blitz & #Giveaway Day #12 The Call of the Drums by Lynn Michaels
Happy, Happy Release Day!!!! Blog Tour, eARC Review, Excerpt: McFarland's Farm (Hope #1) by Cardeno C.
Cardeno C. - CC to friends - is a hopeless romantic who wants to add a lot of happiness and a few "awwws" into a reader's day. Writing is a nice break from real life as a corporate type and volunteer work with gay rights organizations. Cardeno's stories range from sweet to intense, contemporary to paranormal, long to short, but they always include strong relationships and walks into the happily-ever-after sunset.
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Title: McFarland's Farm (Novella)
Author: Cardeno C.
Publication Date: September 10th 2014 by The Romance Authors
Cover Art: Reese Dante
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Wealthy, attractive Lucas Reika treats life like a party, moving from bar to bar and man to man. Thumbing his nose at his restaurateur father's demand that he earn his keep, Lucas instead seduces a valued employee in the kitchen of their flagship restaurant, earning himself an ultimatum: lose access to his father's money or stay in the middle of nowhere with a man he has secretly lusted over from afar.Quiet, hard-working Jared McFarland loves his farm on the outskirts of Hope Crossing, Arizona, but he aches to have someone to come home to at the end of the day. Jared agrees to take in his longtime crush as a favor. But when Lucas invades his heart in addition to his space, Jared has to decide how much of himself he's willing to risk and figure out if he can offer Lucas enough to keep him after his father's punishment is over.
The 'awwwwws' just fell off my lips with this one! Cardeno C. is known to deliver great romances and she did it once again with McFarland's Farm.
In this story, we have two vastly different men who fall in love. Lucas, twenty four, is a spoiled, rich, Beverly Hills kid who thinks with the ego and the money to match. He pretty much acted according to whim and fancy and his hard working father finally just had it enough. So off with his head - so to speak - and he's sent off into twilight wonderland that is a vegetable farm. In the middle of nowhere, Arizona.
Only one thing may go right for him: Jared.
Jared had been married to his best friend but loving someone like a sister does not make a marriage work. With grace and love, the two divorce and remained steadfast friends. When called for duty to help straighten out her brother, he could not refuse for a variety of reasons, one being he could never say no to his ex-wife; two, this was his biggest buyer, good friend and former father-in-law asking; and three, it was Lucas.
Jared and Lucas had been circling each other since the day they met. Jared is the bear that Lucas had always dreamed of and Lucas was the beauty that Jared was too shy and insecure to go after. Sounds much like a fairy tale, doesn't it? And it is.
McFarland's is a beautifully written romantic-without-going-cheesy fairy tale novella about a gentle beastly bear loving his beauty. The great thing is that both men did not jump the creek and go for it, they went with the flow, fighting their attraction through the getting-to-know-each-other stage before they finally succumbed. Yes, theirs is a beautiful fairy tale romance that just made the 'awwws' fall from my lips and had me smiling goofy even as I write this. Just like the author promised she would do.
Lovely, lovely, lovely. **smilingoofy**
A Note for CC: McFarland’s Farm Fun Facts
This is my inspiration image for Jared
And this one is my inspiration for Lucas
Despite Jared being the shy introvert to Lucas’s party boy extrovert, Jared actually has much deeper connections with people.
McFarland’s Farm is the first novella in a new series of standalone novellas. The series name is Hope, both because of the hope the characters have in building happy futures and because the stories take place in the fictional town of Hope, Arizona.
Each novella in the Hope series will focus on a new couple in town and we get the first glimpse of the wonderful town and its unique residents in McFarland’s Farm.
“Please tell me you can go again,” Lucas said breathlessly. “Won’t be a problem,” Jared assured him. “Just give me a few minutes to recharge.” He flicked his tongue over Lucas’s lips, pulling back with a grin when Lucas darted forward and tried to catch him. “Come here,” Lucas said playfully. “I’m hungry.” Jared chuckled. “I don’t think my tongue’s going to fill you up.” “Oh no?” Lucas leered at him and waggled his eyebrows. “You have something else in mind?” “As a matter of fact, I do.” Enjoying the game, Jared took hold of Lucas’s hand and brought it between them, resting it on his package. “Mmm, I can see that.” Lucas gently cupped Jared’s sensitive balls before running one finger up his satisfied cock. “This is nice and thick. It’d really fill me up.” “Why do I suddenly feel like I’m in the middle of a cheesy porno?” Scrunching his nose in an incredibly adorable way, Lucas nodded. “You’re right. That last line was total Velveeta. I blame it on the hunger.” “You didn’t finish your dinner,” Jared said as he rolled off Lucas and lay on his side. He grasped Lucas’s hip and tugged him forward so they were chest to chest. “Do you want me to go get you a snack?” “And where, pray tell, do you plan to find such a thing?” Lucas draped his leg over Jared’s waist and played with the hair on his chest. “Uh.” Jared thought through the contents of his kitchen. He wasn’t much of a snacker so he didn’t buy chips or cookies or crackers. “I, uh, can heat up—” “Let me help you out by giving you the answer to my question.” Lucas paused and looked at him meaningfully. “If it’s food, we won’t find it in your kitchen.” “Oh.” Jared blinked in surprise. “Are we low on food?” “Low?” Lucas snorted. “Sure, we can call it low.” He leaned forward and circled Jared’s nipple with this tongue. “Or we can go with accuracy and call it nonexistent.” Still satisfied from his orgasm, Jared enjoyed Lucas’s attention without losing focus on the conversation. “When I got my breakfast out of the freezer this morning, I could have sworn there were lots of meals left in there.” “Let’s take a moment to repeat what you said.” Lucas cleared his throat. “When I got my breakfast out of the freezer.” He arched his eyebrows. “Why is your breakfast in the freezer? And your lunch? And your dinner?” “I’m sorry,” Jared said, immediately feeling guilty about forcing a man accustomed to chef-prepared cuisine to settle for Hungry-Man. “I know you don’t like the frozen meals, but I don’t have time to cook, and even if I did, I hate doing it. Tomorrow’s Friday. How about we go into town and eat at Jesse’s?” “That sounds good. I called the grocery store, and they’re open until nine. Do you think you can finish what you need to do outside in time to get cleaned up, go to dinner, and still leave an hour or so for shopping?” “An hour?” Jared repeated. “What are we going to do at the store for an hour?” “Well, I’ve never been there, and I think it’s a fair bet you’re not all that familiar with anything outside of the frozen food aisle, so I want to leave us enough time to find everything on my list.” “List?” “Yeah.” Lucas nodded and moved his finger over the same path his tongue had taken, tracing the perimeter of Jared’s nipple. “I got all the urgent invoices, emails, and letters out today, so I had time to poke around online. I made a list of meals to tide us over for a week, and I need to stock up the kitchen.” “You’re going to cook?” “Like I said earlier, one of us has to and you work longer hours. Besides, I think maybe I’ll enjoy it. I’ll for sure enjoy eating food that’s not loaded with preservatives.” Lucas nudged Jared’s shoulder until he tipped onto his back. Then he crawled onto his lap. “What do you say?” he asked as he ran his fingers through Jared’s beard. “Say?” Jared mumbled, distracted by how good it felt to have Lucas touching him. “Uh-huh, sure. We can go to Smitty’s after dinner.” “Good.” Lucas grinned at him, a hint of mischief in his eyes. “But that’s not what I meant.” He tilted his hips back and rubbed his ass over Jared’s groin. “It isn’t?” Jared asked hoarsely. “What did you mean?” “I meant, what do you say about going again?” He moved back and forth, giving Jared delicious friction right where he wanted it most. “You up for it?”
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Emery’s name has been on the hot seat as of late, however, as Arsenal is winless through its last four matches, and that seat might just reach a nuclear temperature with a loss to 19th-ranked Southampton.
Without a win since Sept. 14, the Saints appear destined for relegation after narrowly avoiding that fate last season.
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That’s the most important thing you need to know about the campus and community at NCC. The safety and security of everyone on our campus comes first. Our Public Safety Office provides a comprehensive array of services, programs, and support. Our motto is “Lead. Assist. Watch.” or, L.A.W., meaning that no matter what type of situation may arise, NCC Public Safety is there for you.
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The Public Safety Office operates out of two locations: the main office is located at the south entrance of campus, and the satellite office is in Room 141 of the College Center Building. Both of these offices are staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Whether you want to learn more about the topics listed above, or find out about the Student Vehicle Registration Program, visitor parking information, campus map and directions, getting your NCC ID card, or vehicle registration FAQs, we encourage you to contact us.
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Main Blog > Cash is King, Except in Sweden
Cash is King, Except in Sweden
Got cash? Not necessary in Sweden, who has gone (mostly) cashless:
Sweden was the first European country to introduce bank notes in 1661. Now it's come farther than most on the path toward getting rid of them. [...]
In most Swedish cities, public buses don't accept cash; tickets are prepaid or purchased with a cell phone text message. A small but growing number of businesses only take cards, and some bank offices — which make money on electronic transactions — have stopped handling cash altogether.
"There are towns where it isn't at all possible anymore to enter a bank and use cash," complains Curt Persson, chairman of Sweden's National Pensioners' Organization.
The upside? Crimes are down:
The number of bank robberies in Sweden plunged from 110 in 2008 to 16 in 2011 — the lowest level since it started keeping records 30 years ago. It says robberies of security transports are also down.
"Less cash in circulation makes things safer, both for the staff that handle cash, but also of course for the public," says Par Karlsson, a security expert at the organization.
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BLACKLISTED: mike in philly • 23Mar12 6:41pm • 0
maybe safer physically, but id bet there were more than 110 cases of identity theft in sweden last year.
tradeoffs, its all tradeoffs.
BLACKLISTED: Jason 123 • 23Mar12 8:01pm • 0
Do panhandlers now try to get you give them a phone card instead of cash?
BLACKLISTED: Fae • 23Mar12 8:23pm • 0
Crime isn't down, only a particular type of crime is down. By contrast:
"The flip side is the risk of cybercrimes. According to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention the number of computerized fraud cases, including skimming, surged to nearly 20,000 in 2011 from 3,304 in 2000."
BLACKLISTED: Yoyo • 23Mar12 8:31pm • 0
First world troubles, ain´t them cute!
Don´t wear your nike´s!
BLACKLISTED: davros • 24Mar12 1:02am • 0
Don't tell Alex Jones
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Lawyers for R. Kelly Blast Accusers as ‘Disgruntled Groupies’ After Singer Pleads Not Guilty to NYC Sex Charges, Denied Bail
Published at 1:29 am on August 2, 2019
R. Kelly arrived at NJ's Teterboro Airport Thursday ahead of scheduled court appearance Friday in Brooklyn on federal sex charges
The singer was charged in separate federal indictments in Chicago and New York earlier this month with a slate of sex crimes vs minors
R. Kelly has pleaded not guilty in a New York City courthouse on federal charges he sexually abused women and girls
The lawyers for R. Kelly blasted the accusers in his child sex trafficking case as "disgruntled groupies" after their client was denied bail Friday afternoon.
The singer was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty to federal sex trafficking charges in a New York City courtroom. His legal team tried to portray the alleged victims as women who followed "their musical hero" around as he toured, and therefore aren't victims of any crime.
"That is the definition of a groupie. Whether they’re disgruntled or showing groupie remorse," said lawyer Doug Anton after Friday's hearing.
Gloria Allred, who is representing some of the alleged Kelly victims, had strong words after hearing the comments made the defense.
"It is time for Mr. Kelly’s defense attorneys to stop traumatizing persons who are alleged to be victims of Mr. Kelly, and start showing them the respect that is long overdue to them," Allred said.
Wearing blue prison garb, Kelly stretched his back and then sat down in Brooklyn federal court, answering a polite, "Yes, sir," to a series of questions from the judge before his attorney entered the plea on his behalf.
Prosecutors asked for permanent pretrial detention, saying Kelly is a flight risk and a danger to the community with alleged past attempts to obstruct justice. He faces separate sex-related indictments in New York and Chicago, and prosecutors say the two cases involved a total of 13 victims -- so far.
Kelly's attorneys argued he has no passport and would honor court appearances, but the judge still remanded him. They said they hope a Chicago court will reconsider.
Lawyers for Kelly had requested the New York judge to grant him bail so he can better fight the charges as they also seek his release in Chicago.
They are also asking for the judge to make the victims' names public so they can prepare a proper defense. Anton argued in his letter to the judge that some of the victims who were "under 18" at the time of Kelly's alleged crimes in the states of Illinois, Connecticut and California were 16 or 17 and their alleged relationship to the singer "may not give rise to criminal conduct" because the age of consent in Connecticut is 16.
The alleged victims "sought out Robert's attention, even fought each other for it, voluntarily contacted him, came to his shows, pined to be with him," the defense papers say. "Robert would spend his time and even become friends with and care about these groupies and fans who were dying to be with him."
Prior to Friday's arraignment, the singer's live-in "girlfriends" — Jocelyn Savage and Azriel Clary — as well as a group of R. Kelly supporters who had t-shirts and gear emblazoned with his face and "FREE R. KELLY" made their way to the courthouse.
Kelly won’t be in New York for long, as his lawyers say he will be back in a Chicago jail cell this weekend where he is expected to stand trial first.
The singer arrived at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport Thursday afternoon. Wearing a tan prison shirt and orange shoes, the R&B star had his hands cuffed in front of him and shuffled along the tarmac as an officer escorted him by the arm to a waiting pickup truck.
Chopper 4 followed the caravan, sirens blaring, as it got onto the highway en route to Kelly's next holding facility, the Metropolitan Detention Center.
Friday's hearings follow Kelly's arrest last month in a separate Chicago case accusing him of engaging in child pornography.
Kelly, 52, is charged in New York with exploiting five victims, identified only as "Jane Does." According to court papers, they include one he met at one of his concerts and another at a radio station where she was an intern.
The papers allege that Kelly arranged for some of the victims to meet him on the road for illegal sex. He had one victim travel in 2017 to a show on Long Island, where he had unprotected sex with her without telling her "he had contracted an infectious venereal disease" in violation of New York law, they say.
Kelly had been held without bail in Illinois since his arrest.
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