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Image courtesy of Escanaba Daily News.Over a span of 31 years, Coach Tom Caudill of the Ewen-Trout Creek Panthers amassed an impressive record-breaking career, securing the dominance of the team in U.P. basketball history. When he retired in 2008, Caudill had compiled a record of 558 victories and 149 losses, becoming the winningest coach in U.P. history. During that time, his Panthers won 20 Porcupine Mountain Conference titles, seven Great Western Conference titles, 13 district crowns, three regional championships and a Class D state runner-up trophy in 1982. He was named the U.P. Coach of the Year for Class D three times. In addition to coaching basketball, Caudill was the Panthers track coach for many years, winning 11 conference titles, five regional crowns and three U.P. Class D runner-up titles.
Tom Caudill holding the 1982 Class D State Runners-up trophy at the return celebration in Ewen.
Image courtesy of the Ironwood Daily Globe.
Image courtesy of Ewen - Trout Creek Public Schools.
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Images courtesy of the Detroit Free PressNicole Elmblad was a star basketball player for St. Ignace La Salle High School. Overall, she led the Saints to a 73-5 record through her sophomore, junior and senior years. She was unanimously voted the U.P. Class A-B-C Player of the Year in 2010 and 2011 and was just the fifth two-time winner of this award. She was also on the U.P. All-Class Dream Team four years in a row, from (year to year). Elmblad led St. Ignace to win the Class C State Championships in 2011 against Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett with a final score of 65-54. Elmblad was the only player to score 30-plus points in two championship games. The team had reached the state final game in 2010, but lost to Flint Hamady, 68-66, in double overtime.
Nicole Elmblad leads the way against Flint Hamady and Grosse Pointe Liggett, 2011.
Images courtesy of Flint Journal
In her senior year she was named Associated Press Class C Player of the Year, BCAM Best of the Best, selected to the Detroit News Dream Team, Detroit Free Press Dream Team (captain) and finished in the voting as Michigan Miss Basketball Runner-up. By the time Elmblad graduated, she was the U.P.’s third all-time leading girls scorer with a career 1,965 points. During her senior season, she averaged 24.7 points, 10.7 rebounds, 5.1 assists, and 4.9 steals.
Nicole Elmblad winning the U.P. Final pole vault in 2011.
Image courtesy of Nicole Elmblad.Elmblad also played hockey, volleyball and she competed in track. In the 2011 track season, she took first place in Pole Vaulting at the U.P. Track Championship by clearing eight feet and six inches. She was also on the 3200 meter relay team that took first place.
Elmblad has always been a fan of University of Michigan basketball and dreamed of playing for them since she was a young girl. Her dreams are coming true because she is now playing for the Wolverines.
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Official ‘Inside Out’ Full-Length Trailer Depicts Familial Emotions (115 Screenshots)
For animation fans who felt there was a piece of themselves missing this year, that’s because Pixar did not have a feature film release. To correct this unfortunate happenstance, the studio will be making it up to audiences by releasing two movies in 2015. Today, Disney has unleashed the first full-length trailer for Inside Out – what could be a return to form for Pixar. Watch the trailer and see the screenshots after the break.
The first teaser trailer introduced us to our emotions, but provided very little context in relation to the story. In this new trailer, we’ve been delivered some really great insights as to what we can come to expect from Inside Out. Not only do we get to see Joy (Amy Poehler), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Bill Hader), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) work together Riley’s (Kaitlyn Dias) mind, but also how these emotions act differently in the mother and father character.
It’s all very resonating and plays out as to how we expect the inner-workings of these feelings would, but it’s still fun to watch the scene unfold. There’s a lot of great humor and each emotion is developed well for their human counterpart.
Although there was no addition footage tacked on to this “trailer,” which acts as more of a full clip, my confidence that Pixar is still able to develop unique, original stories grows stronger. Monsters University is good, I like it better than most, but Brave is pretty middle of the road compared to what we know the studio is capable of.
I was scared for the fate of Pixar because of my disgust for brave. It even made me angry that they still won the Oscar against Wreck-It Ralph. And I knew that if Inside Out looked like a bomb I would be sad. But this makes me very joyful and I look forward to seeing more of this world they’ve created.
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Here is the official plot synopsis for Inside Out, courtesy of Walt Disney Studios:
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley’s mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley’s main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
Directed by Pete Docter, Inside Out stars the voices of Amy Poehler, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Bill Hader, Phyllis Smith, Lori Alan, Kaitlyn Dias, and Kyle MacLachlan.
Inside Out hits theaters everywhere on June 19, 2015.
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Top 10 Cities To Visit In Greece
May 8, 2015 sonia01 Europe, Greece 0
Greece ranks among the top travel destinations of Europe. It combines pleasure and business in the best possible way. Greece is best known for its whitewashed villages, ancient ruins, friendly atmosphere, tasty cuisine and sunny beaches. Greece is made up of hundreds of islands and mountainous mainland, each offering its own share of historic sites, cultural delights and historic sites. It has an amalgamation of Arab, Roman, Minoans Latin and Turkish culture. The Greek cuisines and natural scenery are also among the top tourism offering. Here are the top ten places to visit in Greece.
1. Athens:
Athens, the capital of Greece, is located on the Acropolis. It is known as the cradle of Western civilization. The city reformed due to the fortunes brought by the 2004 Summer Olympics. It is the home to the monuments and archeological ruins like the Parthenon, Acropolis, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Theatre of Dionysus and the Ancient Agora. The two most popular museums of Greece are located in Athens- the New Acropolis Museum and the National Archaeological Museum.
2. Thessaloniki:
Thessaloniki is the second largest city and the cultural capital Greece. Built near the sea, Thessaloniki is a modern metropolis with a stormy history and cosmopolitan character. It has some of the finest beaches, restaurants and hotels in Greece. Thessaloniki has given the world some of the greatest artists, thinkers and poets. This gives this city a special charm and beauty. It also hosts many cultural events like the International Trade Fair and the Thessaloniki Film Festival. You will also find trendy shops and art galleries galore in this city. When in Thessaloniki, make a visit to Halkidiki.
3. Delphi:
Delphi is a modern town in Greece and the religious heart of the Hellenic world. It is the most archeological site in Greece. Delphi is believed to have been the home of the oracle of Apollo. It was revered as the center of the earth by the ancient Greeks, the place where heaven and earth met. Delphi Museum and the Sanctuary of Athena are other places worthy of a visit.
4. Crete:
Crete is the largest and the most populous Greek island. It forms a significant part of the cultural and economic heritage of Greece. Crete is a small universe filled with treasures that you will need a lifetime to uncover. Crete is regarded as the center of the Minoan civilization, the earliest recorded civilization in Europe. The landscape in Crete unfolds in an artistic way. In Crete, you can explore the glorious beaches, the impressive mountains and admire the brilliant civilization. The must see attractions of the place are the Palace of Knossos, the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion and the Dhiktaion Cave. If you like adventure, then trek though the Europe’s longest gorge or cycle among the orchids on the Lasithi Plateau.
5. Santorini:
Santorini, a Greek island is one of the most blissful spots for a getaway. Just the name Santorini conjures up the images of stark white buildings against the bright blue Aegean Sea. Santorini Island is the result of a powerful volcanic eruption. The top historical attraction of Santorini is the town of Akrotiri, a Minaon site that was destroyed in the eruption. The beaches of Santorini are perfect for scuba diving and snorkeling. The churches and monasteries of Santorini will give you a glimpse of the historical facts that make up this place. You can spend a leisurely afternoon by exploring the cafes and shops of Firi, the capital of Santorini.
6. Chania Town:
Chania is the second largest town of Crete. The town was built by the Venetians during the 14th century. The region is renowned for its impressive White Mountains and the National Park. The National Park occupies the largest area of the region. The place has beautiful Venetian mountains, churches, and fountains that will help discover the historical monuments of the town. Chania is also a paradise for wine and food lovers. Make sure you taste the delicious Cretan cuisine with the Cretan wine. Wine lovers can also visit the vineyards of the Chania Town. You can also visit the villages of Chania- Souda, Kounoupidiana, Mournies and Daratsos.
7. Hersonissos:
Hersonissos is a town and a municipality in the north of Crete, Greece. It is situated 27 km from the Heraklion port and 25 km from the Heraklion airport. Chersonisos, the Roman port in Hersonissos is a must visit place. This family friendly place offers plenty of activities for the kids. If you want to explore the trade and lifestyle of the early Crete islanders then head to The Lychnostatis Open Air Museum. The museum exhibits olive oil and wine presses and workshops on shoe making, weaving and ceramics. You can also visit the bountiful Naoussa, the area famous for its jam, wine and its annual international film festival. You can also indulge in meditation at the yoga center in Hersonissos.
8. Oia:
Oia is a small town on the islands of Santorini in Greece. This town is carved out of cliffs. Pure white buildings with colorful roofs are found in plenty in Oia. In Oia, you will get to see houses built for the Venetian sea captains and the cave houses of the villagers.
9. Peloponnese:
Peloponnese is a peninsula in southern Greece connected to the mainland by the Rio-Antirrio Bridge. It is separated by the Gulf of Corinth from the central part of the country. It was known as the Morea during the middle ages because of its resemblance to the mulberry leaf. It was in Peloponnese that the Greek War of Independence began. The place boasts of historical sites like Venetian fortresses, Byzantine churches, Mycenaean palaces and classical Greek temples. The lofty mountains, valleys of citrus groves, vineyards and sun-speckled beaches will truly mesmerize you. Peloponnese also offers the best of the Greek cuisine.
10. Rhodes:
Rhodes is the capital of the Dodecanese islands in Greece. It is one of the most preserved medieval towns in Europe. Rhodes has a blend of cosmopolitan and traditional culture. This place is ideal for both who want to relax and those who are looking for an action packed holiday. Rhodes has always been famous as the site of the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. This blessed place has beautiful bright green hills, golden beaches and rich green valleys. There are also numerous cultural and archeological sites.
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In 2011, the OPERA experiment mistakenly observed neutrinos appearing to travel faster than light. Even before the mistake was discovered, the result was considered anomalous because speeds higher than that of light in a vacuum are generally thought to violate special relativity, a cornerstone of the modern understanding of physics for over a century.
OPERA scientists announced the results of the experiment in September 2011 with the stated intent of promoting further inquiry and debate. Later the team reported two flaws in their equipment set-up that had caused errors far outside of their original confidence interval: a fiber optic cable attached improperly, which caused the apparently faster-than-light measurements, and a clock oscillator ticking too fast. The errors were first confirmed by OPERA after a ScienceInsider report; accounting for these two sources of error eliminated the faster-than-light results.
In March 2012, the collocated ICARUS experiment reported neutrino velocities consistent with the speed of light in the same short-pulse beam OPERA had measured in November 2011. ICARUS used a partly different timing system from OPERA and measured seven different neutrinos. In addition, the Gran Sasso experiments BOREXINO, ICARUS, LVD and OPERA all measured neutrino velocity with a short-pulsed beam in May, and obtained agreement with the speed of light.
On June 8, 2012 CERN research director Sergio Bertolucci declared on behalf of the four Gran Sasso teams, including OPERA, that the speed of neutrinos is consistent with that of light. The press release, made from the 25th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics in Kyoto, states that the original OPERA results were wrong, due to equipment failures.
On July 12, 2012 OPERA updated their paper by including the new sources of errors in their calculations. They found agreement of neutrino speed with the speed of light
1 Detection
1.1 First results
1.2 Internal replication
1.3 Measurement errors
1.4 End results
2 Independent replication
3 The measurement
3.2 Measuring distance
3.3 Measuring trip time
4 The analysis
5 Reception by the physics community
6 Discussions within the OPERA collaboration
The experiment created a form of neutrinos, muon neutrinos, at CERN’s older SPS accelerator, on the Franco–Swiss border, and detected them at the LNGS lab in Gran Sasso, Italy. OPERA researchers used common-view GPS, derived from standard GPS, to measure the times and place coordinates at which the neutrinos were created and detected. As computed, the neutrinos’ average time of flight turned out to be less than what light would need to travel the same distance in a vacuum. In a two-week span up to November 6, the OPERA team repeated the measurement with a different way of generating neutrinos, which helped measure travel time of each detected neutrino separately. This eliminated some possible errors related to matching detected neutrinos to their creation time. The OPERA collaboration stated in their initial press release that further scrutiny and independent tests were necessary to definitely confirm or refute the results.
First results
In a March 2011 analysis of their data, scientists of the OPERA collaboration reported evidence that neutrinos they produced at CERN in Geneva and recorded at the OPERA detector at Gran Sasso, Italy, had traveled faster than light. The neutrinos were calculated to have arrived approximately 60.7 nanoseconds (60.7 billionths of a second) sooner than light would have if traversing the same distance in a vacuum. After six months of cross checking, on September 23, 2011, the researchers announced that neutrinos had been observed traveling at faster-than-light speed. Similar results were obtained using higher-energy (28 GeV) neutrinos, which were observed to check if neutrinos’ velocity depended on their energy. The particles were measured arriving at the detector faster than light by approximately one part per 40,000, with a 0.2-in-a-million chance of being wrong, if the error were distributed as a bell curve (significance of six sigma). This measure included estimates for both errors in measuring and errors from the statistical procedure used. It was, however, a measure of precision, not accuracy, which could be influenced by elements such as incorrect computations or wrong readouts of instruments. For particle physics experiments involving collision data, the standard for a discovery announcement is a five-sigma error limit, looser than the observed six-sigma limit.
The preprint of the research stated “[the observed] deviation of the neutrino velocity from c [speed of light in vacuum] would be a striking result pointing to new physics in the neutrino sector” and referred to the “early arrival time of CNGS muon neutrinos” as an “anomaly”. OPERA spokesperson Antonio Ereditato explained that the OPERA team had “not found any instrumental effect that could explain the result of the measurement”. James Gillies, a spokesperson for CERN, said on September 22 that the scientists were “inviting the broader physics community to look at what they [had] done and really scrutinize it in great detail, and ideally for someone elsewhere in the world to repeat the measurements”.
Internal replication
Fig. 2 Analysis of the internal replication in November. Distribution of the early-arrival values for each detected neutrino with bunched-beam rerun. The mean value is indicated by the red line and the blue band.
In November, OPERA published refined results where they noted their chances of being wrong as even less, thus tightening their error bounds. Neutrinos arrived approximately 57.8 ns earlier than if they had traveled at light-speed, giving a relative speed difference of approximately one part per 42,000 against that of light. The new significance level became 6.2 sigma. The collaboration submitted its results for peer-reviewed publication to the Journal of High Energy Physics.
In the same paper, the OPERA collaboration also published the results of a repeat experiment running from October 21, 2011 toNovember 7, 2011. They detected twenty neutrinos consistently indicating an early neutrino arrival of approximately 62.1 ns, in agreement with the result of the main analysis.
Measurement errors
In February 2012, the OPERA collaboration announced two possible sources of error that could have significantly influenced the results.
A link from a GPS receiver to the OPERA master clock was loose, which increased the delay through the fiber. The glitch’s effect was to decrease the reported flight time of the neutrinos by 73 ns, making them seem faster than light.
A clock on an electronic board ticked faster than its expected 10 MHz frequency, lengthening the reported flight-time of neutrinos, thereby somewhat reducing the seeming faster-than-light effect. OPERA stated the component had been operating outside its specifications.
In March 2012 an LNGS seminar was held, confirming the fiber cable was not fully screwed in during data gathering. LVD researchers compared the timing data for cosmic high-energy muons hitting both the OPERA and the nearby LVD detector between 2007–2008, 2008–2011, and 2011–2012. The shift obtained for the 2008–2011 period agreed with the OPERA anomaly. The researchers also found photographs showing the cable had been loose by October 13, 2011.
Correcting for the two newly found sources of error, results for neutrino speed appear to be consistent with the speed of light.
End results
On July 12, 2012 the OPERA collaboration published the end results of their measurements between 2009–2011. The difference between the measured and expected arrival time of neutrinos (compared to the speed of light) was approximately 6.5 ± 15 ns. This is consistent with no difference at all, thus the speed of neutrinos is consistent with the speed of light within the margin of error. Also the re-analysis of the 2011 bunched beam rerun gave a similar result.
Independent replication
In March 2012, the co-located ICARUS experiment refuted the OPERA results by measuring neutrino velocity to be that of light. ICARUS measured speed for seven neutrinos in the same short-pulse beam OPERA had checked in November 2011, and found them, on average, traveling at the speed of light. The results were from a trial run of neutrino-velocity measurements slated for May.
In May 2012, a new bunched beam rerun was initiated by CERN. Then in June 2012, it was announced by CERN that the four Gran Sasso experiments OPERA, ICARUS, LVD, and BOREXINO measured neutrino speeds consistent with the speed of light, indicating that the initial OPERA result was due to equipment errors
In addition, Fermilab has stated that the detectors for the MINOS project are being upgraded,. Fermilab scientists closely analyzed and placed bounds on the errors in their timing system. In June 8, 2012 MINOS announced that according to preliminary results, the neutrino speed is consistent with the speed of light.
The measurement
The OPERA experiment was designed to capture how neutrinos switch between different identities, but Autiero realized the equipment could be used to precisely measure neutrino speed too. An earlier result from the MINOS experiment at Fermilab demonstrated that the measurement was technically feasible. The principle of the OPERA neutrino velocity experiment was to compare travel time of neutrinos against travel time of light. The neutrinos in the experiment emerged at CERN and flew to the OPERA detector. The researchers divided this distance by the speed of light in vacuum to predict what the neutrino travel time should be. They compared this expected value to the measured travel time.
The OPERA team used an already existing beam of neutrinos traveling continuously from CERN to LNGS, the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso beam, for the measurement. Measuring speed meant measuring the distance traveled by the neutrinos from their source to where they were detected, and the time taken by them to travel this length. The source at CERN was more than 730 kilometres (450 mi) away from the detector at LNGS (Gran Sasso). The experiment was tricky because there was no way to time an individual neutrino, necessitating more complex steps. As shown in Fig. 1, CERN generates neutrinos by slamming protons, in pulses of length 10.5 microseconds (10.5 millionths of a second), into a graphite target to produce intermediate particles, which decay into neutrinos. OPERA researchers measured the protons as they passed a section called the beam current transducer (BCT) and took the transducer’s position as the neutrinos’ starting point. The protons did not actually create neutrinos for another kilometer, but because both protons and the intermediate particles moved almost at light speed, the error from the assumption was acceptably low.
The clocks at CERN and LNGS had to be in sync, and for this the researchers used high-quality GPS receivers, backed up with atomic clocks, at both places. This system timestamped both the proton pulse and the detected neutrinos to a claimed accuracy of 2.3 nanoseconds. But the timestamp could not be read like a clock. At CERN, the GPS signal came only to a receiver at a central control room, and had to be routed with cables and electronics to the computer in the neutrino-beam control room which recorded the proton pulse measurement (Fig. 3). The delay of this equipment was 10,085 nanoseconds and this value had to be added to the time stamp. The data from the transducer arrived at the computer with a 580 nanoseconds delay, and this value had to be subtracted from the time stamp. To get all the corrections right, physicists had to measure exact lengths of the cables and the latencies of the electronic devices. On the detector side, neutrinos were detected by the charge they induced, not by the light they generated, and this involved cables and electronics as part of the timing chain. Fig. 4 shows the corrections applied on the OPERA detector side.
Since neutrinos could not be accurately tracked to the specific protons producing them, an averaging method had to be used. The researchers added up the measured proton pulses to get an average distribution in time of the individual protons in a pulse. The time at which neutrinos were detected at Gran Sasso was plotted to produce another distribution. The two distributions were expected to have similar shapes, but be separated by 2.4 milliseconds, the time it takes to travel the distance at light speed. The experimenters used an algorithm, maximum likelihood, to search for the time shift that best made the two distributions to coincide. The shift so calculated, the statistically measured neutrino arrival time, was approximately 60 nanoseconds shorter than the 2.4 milliseconds neutrinos would have taken if they traveled just at light speed. In a later experiment, the proton pulse width was shortened to 3 nanoseconds, and this helped the scientists to narrow the generation time of each detected neutrino to that range.
Measuring distance
Distance was measured by accurately fixing the source and detector points on a global coordinate system (ETRF2000). CERN surveyors used GPS to measure the source location. On the detector side, the OPERA team worked with a geodesy group from the Sapienza University of Rome to locate the detector’s center with GPS and standard map-making techniques. To link the surface GPS location to the coordinates of the underground detector, traffic had to be partially stopped on the access road to the lab. Combining the two location measurements, the researchers calculated the distance, to an accuracy of 20 cm within the 730 km path.
Measuring trip time
The travel time of the neutrinos had to be measured by tracking the time they were created, and the time they were detected, and using a common clock to ensure the times were in sync. As Fig. 1 shows, the time measuring system included the neutrino source at CERN, the detector at LNGS (Gran Sasso), and a satellite element common to both. The common clock was the time signal from multiple GPS satellites visible from both CERN and LNGS. CERN’s beams-department engineers worked with the OPERA team to provide a travel time measurement between the source at CERN and a point just before the OPERA detector’s electronics, using accurate GPS receivers. This included timing the proton beams’ interactions at CERN, and timing the creation of intermediate particles eventually decaying into neutrinos (see Fig. 3).
Fig. 3 CERN SPS/CNGS time measuring system. Protons circulate in the SPS till kicked by a signal to the beam current transformer (BCT) and on to the target. The BCT is the origin for the measurement. Both the kicker signal and the proton flux in the BCT get to the waveform digitizer (WFD), the first through the Control Timing Receiver (CTRI). The WFD records the proton distribution. The common CNGS/LNGS clock comes from GPS via the PolaRx receiver and the central CTRI, where the CERN UTC and General Machine Timing (GMT) also arrive. The difference between the two references is recorded. The marker x ± y indicates an ‘x’ nanosecond delay with a ‘y’ ns error bound.
Fig. 4 OPERA time measuring system at LNGS: various delays of the timing chain, and the standard deviations of the error. The top half of the picture is the common GPS clock system (PolaRx2e is the GPS receiver), and the bottom half is the underground detector. Fiber cables bring the GPS clock underneath. The underground detector consists of the blocks from the tt-strip to the FPGA. Errors for each component are shown as x ± y, where x is the delay caused by the component in transmitting time information, and y is the expected bound on that delay.
Timing systems at the two ends of the OPERA experiment
Researchers from OPERA measured the remaining delays and calibrations not included in the CERN calculation: those shown inFig. 4. The neutrinos were detected in an underground lab, but the common clock from the GPS satellites was visible only above ground level. The clock value noted above-ground had to be transmitted to the underground detector with an 8 km fiber cable. The delays associated with this transfer of time had to be accounted for in the calculation. How much the error could vary (the standard deviation of the errors) mattered to the analysis, and had to be calculated for each part of the timing chain separately. Special techniques were used to measure the length of the fiber and its consequent delay, required as part of the overall calculation.
In addition, to sharpen resolution from the standard GPS 100 nanoseconds to the 1 nanosecond range metrology labs achieve, OPERA researchers used Septentrio’s precise PolaRx2eTR GPS timing receiver, along with consistency checks across clocks (time calibration procedures) which allowed for common-view time transfer. The PolaRx2eTR allowed measurement of the time offset between an atomic clock and each of the Global Navigation Satellite System satellite clocks. For calibration, the equipment was taken to the Swiss Metrology Institute (METAS). In addition, highly stable cesium clocks were installed both at LNGS and CERN to cross-check GPS timing and to increase its precision. After OPERA found the superluminal result, the time calibration was rechecked both by a CERN engineer and the German Institute of Metrology (PTB).Time-of-flight was eventually measured to an accuracy of 10 nanoseconds. The final error bound was derived by combining the variance of the error for the individual parts.
The OPERA team analyzed the results in different ways and using different experimental methods. Following the initial main analysis released in September, three further analyses were made public in November. In the main November analysis, all the existing data were reanalyzed to allow adjustments for other factors, such as the Sagnac effect in which the Earth’s rotation affects the distance traveled by the neutrinos. Then an alternative analysis adopted a different model for the matching of the neutrinos to their creation time. The third analysis of November focused on a different experimental setup (‘the rerun’) which changed the way the neutrinos were created.
In the initial setup, every detected neutrino would have been produced sometime in a 10,500 nanoseconds (10.5 microseconds) range, since this was the duration of the proton beam spill generating the neutrinos. It was not possible to isolate neutrino production time further within the spill. Therefore, in their main statistical analyses, the OPERA group generated a model of the proton waveforms at CERN, took the various waveforms together, and plotted the chance of neutrinos being emitted at various times (the global probability density function of the neutrino emission times). They then compared this plot against a plot of the arrival times of the 15,223 detected neutrinos. This comparison indicated neutrinos had arrived at the detector 57.8 nanoseconds faster than if they had been traveling at the speed of light in vacuum. An alternative analysis in which each detected neutrino was checked against the waveform of its associated proton spill (instead of against the global probability density function) led to a compatible result of approximately 54.5 nanoseconds.
The November main analysis, which showed an early arrival time of 57.8 nanoseconds, was conducted blind to avoid observer bias, whereby those running the analysis might inadvertently fine-tune the result toward expected values. To this end, old and incomplete values for distances and delays from the year 2006 were initially adopted. With the final correction needed not yet known, the intermediate expected result was also an unknown. Analysis of the measurement data under those ‘blind’ conditions gave an early neutrino arrival of 1043.4 nanoseconds. Afterward, the data were analyzed again taking into consideration the complete and actual sources of errors. If neutrino and light speed were the same, a subtraction value of 1043.4 nanoseconds should have been obtained for the correction. However, the actual subtraction value amounted to only 985.6 nanoseconds, corresponding to an arrival time 57.8 nanoseconds earlier than expected.
Two facets of the result came under particular scrutiny within the neutrino community: the GPS synchronization system, and the profile of the proton beam spill that generated neutrinos. The second concern was addressed in the November rerun: for this analysis, OPERA scientists repeated the measurement over the same baseline using a new CERN proton beam which circumvented the need to make any assumptions about the details of neutrino production during the beam activation, such as energy distribution or production rate. This beam provided proton pulses of 3 nanoseconds each with up to 524 nanosecond gaps. This meant a detected neutrino could be tracked uniquely to its generating 3 nanoseconds pulse, and hence its start and end travel times could be directly noted. Thus, the neutrino’s speed could now be calculated without having to resort to statistical inference.
In addition to the four analyses mentioned earlier—September main analysis, November main analysis, alternative analysis, and the rerun analysis—the OPERA team also split the data by neutrino energy and reported the results for each set of the September and November main analyses. The rerun analysis had too few neutrinos to consider splitting the set further.
Reception by the physics community
After the initial report of apparent superluminal velocities of neutrinos, most physicists in the field were quietly skeptical of the results, but prepared to adopt a wait-and-see approach. Experimental experts were aware of the complexity and difficulty of the measurement, so an extra unrecognized measurement error was still a real possibility, despite the care taken by the OPERA team. However, because of the widespread interest, several well-known experts did make public comments. Nobel laureates Steven Weinberg, George Smoot III, and Carlo Rubbia, and other physicists not affiliated with the experiment, including Michio Kaku, expressed skepticism about the accuracy of the experiment on the basis that the results challenged a long-held theory consistent with the results of many other tests of special relativity. Nevertheless, Ereditato, the OPERA spokesperson, stated that no one had an explanation that invalidated the experiment’s results.
Previous experiments of neutrino speed played a role in the reception of the OPERA result by the physics community. Those experiments did not detect statistically significant deviations of neutrino speeds from the speed of light. For instance, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and theoretical physicists Lawrence Krauss and Stephen Hawking stated neutrinos from the SN 1987A supernova explosion arrived almost at the same time as light, indicating no faster-than-light neutrino speed. John Ellis, theoretical physicist at CERN, believed it difficult to reconcile the OPERA results with the SN 1987A observations. Observations of this supernova restricted 10 MeV anti-neutrino speed to less than 20 parts per billion (ppb) over lightspeed. This was one of the reasons most physicists suspected the OPERA team had made an error.
Physicists affiliated with the experiment had refrained from interpreting the result, stating in their paper:
Despite the large significance of the measurement reported here and the stability of the analysis, the potentially great impact of the result motivates the continuation of our studies in order to investigate possible still unknown systematic effects that could explain the observed anomaly. We deliberately do not attempt any theoretical or phenomenological interpretation of the results.
Andrew Cohen and Glashow have predicted that superluminal neutrinos would radiate electrons and positrons and lose energy through vacuum Cherenkov effects, where a particle traveling faster than light decays continuously into other slower particles. However, this energy attrition was absent both in the OPERA experiment and in the colocated ICARUS experiment, which uses the same CNGS beam as OPERA. This discrepancy was seen by Cohen and Glashow to present “a significant challenge to the superluminal interpretation of the OPERA data”.
Many other scientific papers on the anomaly were published as arXiv preprints or in peer reviewed journals. Some of them criticized the result, while others tried to find theoretical explanations, replacing or extending special relativity and the standard model.
Discussions within the OPERA collaboration
In the months after the initial announcement, tensions emerged in the OPERA collaboration. A vote of no confidence among the more than thirty group team leaders failed, but spokesperson Ereditato and physics coordinator Autiero resigned their leadership positions anyway on March 30, 2012. In a resignation letter, Ereditato claimed that their results were “excessively sensationalized and portrayed with not always justified simplification” and defended the collaboration, stating, “The OPERA Collaboration has always acted in full compliance with scientific rigor: both when it announced the results and when it provided an explanation for them
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UEFA #EqualGame - Hannah Bryndís Proppé Bailey - I am in control of my life, not my schizophrenia
I am in control of my life, not my schizophrenia
Hannah Bryndís Proppé Bailey from Reykjavik has been living with depression and schizophrenia for over half her young life, but, thanks to football, she has found avenues to express herself and have fun.
Every month, as part of its #EqualGame campaign, UEFA focuses on a person from one of its 55 member associations. This person is an example of how football promotes inclusion, accessibility and diversity; his or her story exemplifies how disability, religion, sexuality, ethnicity, personal well-being and social background are no barriers to playing or enjoying football.
"Can you imagine having flu every single day of your life? To be tired every single day? To struggle with getting out of bed every single day?" This is the daily battle that 24-year-old Hannah Bryndís Proppé Bailey from Iceland faces every day of her life.
She has been living with depression since the age of 12 and was diagnosed with schizophrenia around four years ago. She receives plenty of support from her family and friends but admits that life can be tough. However, despite the constant battles she faces, Hannah is not one to accept defeat and is adamant she "cannot just quit life" because she lives with a mental illness.
"This often makes life difficult. I hear voices and can be paranoid, and that can make life difficult at times," Hannah says, "but I am lucky to have received the help that I have been given."
A few years ago, while at a rehabilitation centre in Laugaras, a suburb of the capital Reykjavik, she learnt about the chance to play football. She was introduced to the team FC Sækó (FC Psycho in English), which mainly accommodates people living will mental illness.
"It's open to all ages and for people in all kinds of shape," Hannah says. "I'm not the best in my team, but I participate and go to training sessions, which I think is great because it's so exciting and I'm having fun – and that's what matters to me."
She rarely misses practice and admits: "It's among the best things I do nowadays." The team meet up twice a week for training, with an emphasis on enjoyment and taking part rather than being overly competitive. The training sessions are conducted under the watchful eye of the team's coach Bregþór Grétar Bödvarsson, who is the glue that keeps the team together, while he also offers the team ample encouragement and support.
"People with mental illness often feel like they are all alone and close themselves off," Hannah says. "They are perhaps at home all the time and stop talking to their friends and so on. Football is good for people, because they can leave; both to get some exercise and be with people they don't necessarily usually talk to."
Aside from finding a new outlet to express herself, playing football has also had numerous other benefits. "The exercise has done so much for me mentally," she explains, adding that when she began to exercise, she "started feeling so much better".
In her spare time, Hannah enjoys doing stand-up comedy. Her older sister was the inspiration and, despite a few early reservations, she has never looked back since.
"To be on stage is really stressful at the beginning," Hannah says, "but you just get up there and start talking into the microphone and then everything changes."
Hannah's material is sharp and honest, while she uses the opportunity to talk about her "schizophrenia and other illnesses" in a light-hearted manner. Although that can often surprise the audience, many have praised her openness and ability to speak in public about the problems she faces.
"This makes people a bit surprised, but I also do it because I get people who come up to me and say 'Hi, I'm also dealing with a mental illness and I find it really helpful to know that someone else is also dealing with these things and is able to talk about it on stage.'"
Hannah has an extremely close bond with her family and friends. Looking back, she says her mother "saved my life" by taking her to a psychiatrist when she was 12 in order to get an understanding of the problems she was facing.
"I found that I fitted into a group when I was diagnosed, especially with the schizophrenia because I never felt like I fitted into any groups," Hannah recalls. "I felt like no one understood me. When I got diagnosed with schizophrenia, I just thought, 'At last, finally someone understands me. Finally, there's a group I fit into.'"
A fan of pop and rock music, Hannah enjoys socialising with friends and watching movies. She also enjoys traveling, while she has travelled to various conferences across the globe to promote the importance for the younger generation to become leaders. Hannah is keen for the public to have a better understanding of what life is like for people with mental illness and regularly meets with the local council to offer advice.
"Mental illness for me is just my life," Hannah explains. "I've been dealing with it all my life. My goal is to not just suffer with it myself but to educate and teach other people what mental illness is and teach others how we are dealing with it."
Hannah knows better than most the importance of receiving assistance in order to help a person deal with difficulties in their lives. At weekends, she works at a nursing home as a caretaker for the elderly, helping them with everyday chores such as eating and getting ready for bed – something she describes as being "extremely rewarding".
"What I like the most about helping others is seeing their reaction," she says. "They seem so happy after having been helped because they can't do these things by themselves."
Hannah has big plans for the future and aims to enrol at university in the autumn to study psychology. "I am in control of my life, not my schizophrenia," she explains. With the support of her family and friends, and the confidence she gains through football, Hannah is determined to show and help others to realise that it is "possible to have a good life even if you have a mental illness".
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Costa Rica beat Bermuda to advance to Gold Cup quarter-finals
(Reuters) - Goals from Mayron George and Elias Aguilar helped Costa Rica to a 2-1 victory over Bermuda in Texas on Thursday that also earned them a place in the quarter-finals of the Gold Cup with a match to spare.
Haiti, who earlier beat Nicaragua 2-0, also qualified for the quarter-finals with Costa Rica’s victory. Both sides have won two games and meet in New Jersey in their final Group B match on Monday.
George opened the scoring for Los Ticos in the 30th minute when he pounced on a shot parried away by Bermuda goalkeeper Dale Eve and fired in from close range.
Aguilar doubled the lead in the 54th minute when the Bermuda defence failed to pick him up when he got the ball inside the box and he skipped in a shot from distance.
Nahki Wells converted a 59th-minute penalty for Gold Cup debutants Bermuda, who had some decent second half opportunities but were unable to find an equaliser in the hot and humid conditions in Frisco.
Bermuda finish their campaign against Nicaragua, also in New Jersey on Monday.
Reporting by Rory Carroll; Editing by Greg Stutchbury
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February 12, 2019 / 12:31 PM / in 5 months
Wall Street advances on trade hopes, deal to avert government shutdown
Stephen Culp
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street rallied on Tuesday as investors were heartened by a tentative congressional spending deal to avoid another partial federal government shutdown and by optimism surrounding U.S.-China trade negotiations.
All three major U.S. stock indexes posted their biggest one-day percentage gains for the month so far, each advancing more than 1 percent. The S&P 500 ended the session above its 200-day moving average for the first time since early December.
President Donald Trump said he would be willing to let the March 1 tariff deadline slide as top U.S. officials arrived in Beijing for high-level talks later in the week to hammer out a solution to the trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies.
Congressional negotiators cobbled together a tentative bipartisan border security deal late on Monday to avert another partial government shutdown. However, Trump on Tuesday expressed displeasure with the agreement and said he had yet to decide whether to support it. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security and a host of other agencies is due to expire on Friday.
“It’s a combination of hopes that (a) government shutdown is not going to happen and maybe the March 1 (tariff) deadline isn’t so firm,” said Stephen Massocca, senior vice president at Wedbush Securities in San Francisco. “People were concerned we were going to see a dramatic increase in tariffs, and those fears have been somewhat allayed.”
The fourth-quarter earnings season is nearing the home stretch, and 71 percent of S&P 500 companies that have reported have beaten consensus estimates.
The outlook for 2019, however, is less rosy. First-quarter earnings are now expected to post a year-on-year decline of 0.3 percent, which would be the first loss since the earnings recession ended in the second quarter of 2016.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 372.65 points, or 1.49 percent, to 25,425.76, the S&P 500 gained 34.93 points, or 1.29 percent, to 2,744.73 and the Nasdaq Composite added 106.71 points, or 1.46 percent, to 7,414.62.
Tuesday’s rally was broad-based. Of the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500, all but real estate closed in positive territory. Technology stocks provided the biggest boost to the S&P 500, and they also led the Nasdaq’s advance.
Tariff-sensitive industrials headed up the Dow’s gain, led by 3M Co, Caterpillar Inc, United Technologies Corp and Boeing Co.
Amazon.com Inc provided the biggest lift to the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, rising 3.0 percent after Walmart Inc ended its partnership with logistics firm Devi for a rival same-day grocery delivery service.
Electronic Arts Inc announced that its Apex Legends video game has signed up 25 million players in the week since its release, sending its stock up 5.2 percent. The video game maker’s shares have soared by nearly 28 percent since the game’s release.
Under Armour Inc jumped 6.9 percent after the sportswear company beat analysts’ profit forecasts for the holiday quarter.
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., February 8, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Volume on U.S. exchanges was 7.09 billion shares, compared with the 7.45 billion-share average over the last 20 trading days.
Reporting by Stephen Culp
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There are not many people who can say their career started with a pile of poop, but that is just what happened with marine biologist and 2016… more
Marine Biologists
There are not many people who can say their career started with a pile of poop, but that is just what happened with marine biologist and 2016 National Geographic Emerging Explorer Asha De Vos. Fresh out of undergrad, De Vos managed to talk her way onto a whale research vessel headed for her home country of Sri Lanka. The vessel came across some blue whales ... and an unexpected scene. A captivating story teller, De Vos takes the stage to share her passion for whales and the work she is doing to protect a population of "unorthodox whales" off the coast of her homeland.
More about Asha De Vos's work
PRODUCER: Hilary Hudson
EDITOR: Monica Pinzon
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: John McDonald
SERIES PRODUCER: Chris Mattle
I was seeing six blue whales in an area the size of a soccer pitch. Each animal is the length of a soccer pitch. I have gone on to name them the “unorthodox whales” because they actually break the stereotypes we had for this species. It has sent me on an incredible adventure.
It was back in 2003. I was working on a whale research vessel that was circumnavigating the globe. On this particular day of significance, I was standing up on deck, straining my eyes, looking out for this pod of sperm whales that we'd tracked all night long. I could hear their sounds emanating from the pilot house below me, but I just couldn't see them. I knew what I was looking for, this short lofty blow slanted off to the left hand side, super characteristic of sperm whale. I searched and I looked for hours on end and I couldn't find them. But then I saw this, a tall, powerful, vertical blow that rose all the way to the sky as far as I could tell. This animal was at least two kilometers away from us, but it was an incredible sight, and I knew it could only come from an animal that was incredibly large and powerful. So I got super excited, as you would as well, and I grabbed my walkie-talkie and I called down to my captain. I said, "Bob, Bob, 11 o'clock, two kilometers, go go go," and he says, "Why?" And I said, "I think it's a blue whale," and he says, "Sure." Get's off course, starts cruising the direction that I've now sent him off in, and I am now, like so afraid and paranoid to lose this visual. My eyes are streaming as I stare into the glare. I'm trying so hard to just focus, and that's when I think I've started to lose my mind. Because it wasn't just one blue whale I was seeing. I was seeing six blue whales in an area the size of a soccer pitch. Each animal is the length of a soccer pitch. So to me, it made absolutely no sense. I'm thinking to myself, why on earth would an animal, the largest that has ever roamed the planet, with the freedom to travel 70% of our planet, choose to just aggregate in this tiny little spot in a warm tropical ocean?
So, I was fresh out of undergrad, and I started to think about what I'd been taught. Thought about my textbooks and what my professors had said, and I remembered, large whales like blue whales undertake long-range migrations between cold feeding areas and warm breeding and calving areas. That was it. I was super stoked. I was going to be the first person on the planet to document blue whales having sex. So I, you know, I thought, this is awesome, my career is made, fame and fortune. What do people complain about, this is so easy, gosh. So I'm there egging the captain on. I'm like, "Bob, we have to go. "This is going to be incredible!" So, we're moving forward, getting there, we're moving as fast as this boat can take us, and we get there, and it is not what you think it is. There's not a single whale penis in sight. I am super disappointed, because these whales are now lolling at the surface, hanging out, occasionally one will dive, come back up, and I'm like, what the heck is going on? My dreams that I had created for the last two kilometers of my life were completely shattered. And I was like, oh my god, what am I going to do with my life? But I insisted that we stayed around and watched for a little, 'cause, you know, this was my first blue whale, or six.
And that's when I saw this. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a pile of blue whale poop. What's most exciting about this is not just the stunning red color, but the fact that there was poo, which meant these animals were feeding somewhere close. Now remember what I told you at the start. Blue whales undertake long range migrations between cold feeding areas and warm breeding and calving areas. Sri Lanka is five degrees above the equator, as warm and as tropical as it can get. What the heck? How the hell were they feeding in these waters? They're considered unproductive because they're warm. This was my eureka moment. Not everyone can say that their careers started with a pile of (bleep), But I'm pretty pleased to be able to do that. The thing is, this moment spiraled into me pioneering blue whale research in the Northern Indian Ocean. I launched the first long term study on this population of pretty much unknown blue whales. Crazy but true, and it has set me on an incredible adventure. In the intervening years I have discovered that in fact, these waters, because of the enclosed nature of the Northern Indian Ocean, the situation of Sri Lanka's southern coast is extremely productive for that latitude.
I've gone on to name them the “unorthodox whales”, because they actually break the stereotypes we had for this species. They don't undertake long range migrations, they actually have a very limited range. They hang out all year round in warm tropical waters of the Northern Indian Ocean. They're the smallest of the blue whales that you'll find in the oceans. They're called pygmy blue whales. They grow to 80 feet, not 100. They have a different acoustic dialect. They also have different behaviors. They lift their tail flukes up before a deep dive more often than anywhere else in the world, so you'll see this about 60% of the time, whereas anywhere else, less than 20% of the time. It's a photographer's dream destination. Blue whales everywhere in the world are called stenophagous, because they're very specific, they feed on one single thing, krill. These guys feed on shrimp, a little different. But the key thing here is that they have all these different behaviors and adaptations, because they are living in a very confined space over a very limited range. And during the course of my work, I've also met the oldest blue whale in our population. I took this photograph in 2011 on a documentary shoot, and as soon as I saw the markings, I thought to myself, I have seen you before. Luckily, not a lot of work had gone on before on these whales. In fact, there was only one paper that existed in the history of our nation, and that was done in 1984, and you can see, and I've named it Whalentine. But the point is, this animal is at least 27 years old and it's living in our waters, but what's really cool about this sighting is that you can see, where I saw the whale in 2011 was just less than 10 kilometers away from where it was sighted in 1984. So, we're getting a sense of sight fidelity, how important this area is to these animals. We know they're feeding, breeding, and calving in a very confined space, so the conservation problems they face are far more compounded.
Right now my crusade is about saving these whales from getting killed by ships. The southern coast of Sri Lanka is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. It's the main artery through the Indian Ocean. Everything from Singapore to Dubai cruises right through these waters. Here's some of the data we have. The red lines are showing you this dense ship traffic. The black dots, those are whale sightings. Look at the south coast. There's a distinct overlap. So sightings like this, are totally unsurprising. This is a whale that came wrapped on the bow of a container ship into the main port in Sri Lanka, in Colombo, in 2012. 12 days later we had another carcass floating at sea with a massive propeller gash. The thing is, evidence like this can be a little bit rare, because oftentimes the carcasses will sink, get pushed off shore, or they'll deteriorate so much that when they come on to shore, we can't actually identify the cause of death. But calculations show that for every one we document, at least ten have gone undocumented. So it's not an isolated incident. Neither are the numbers small. 90% of the vessels that cruise through our waters are actually bypassing my country, they're not coming into port. So if we can shift the shipping lanes 15 nautical miles off shore, we can reduce the problem significantly. And then that 10 percent of vessels that are actually coming into port, well if they slowed down a little it would make a difference. I've done the science, I've created all the awareness, and now I'm pushing for policy change, both at the level of Sri Lankan government, but also intergovernmentally, because shipping lanes are a slightly complex problem. But my work is not just about saving whales. My work is about showing the talent of the developing world. I believe that we get local scientists trained so they can start looking after their own waters using local solutions, that is what creates sustainability. And I invite all of you to join me on this audacious, audacious journey, to achieve this for the sake of the oceans and humanity. Thank you.
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North Evia, Limni. Embraced by the Gulf of Evia
Published by Theo on July 5, 2019 July 5, 2019
Embraced by the Gulf of Evia
A picturesque island-like environment to enjoy the pleasure of the sea and much else beside; a remarkable destination that still retains some of the charm of bygone days.
Copyright photo: Theo Athanasiadis / Views Of Greece
The precipitous, forested Mt. Kantili that dominates the northwest tip of Evia, emerges abruptly from the sea creating one of the island’s most interesting sea zones. The small maritime town of Limni lies along what is perhaps the most beautiful stretch of this verdant coastline, appearing to balance somewhere between mountain and sea.
History at a glance
The area has been inhabited since the second millennium BC. Its current name Limni is a corruption of the name of the ancient city Elymnio which once stood on the site. During Roman and Byzantine years, the town flourished, but was often prone to pirate raids. The residents moved inland to higher ground, to the town of Kastrino Elymnio. In the mid-16th century they returned to the coast building the town of Limni which became an important shipping centre, and played an important role in the 1821 Revolution. After Evia was liberated from the Turks, Greek and foreign companies began to systematically mine for magnesite(19th century), and those activities continued until World War II.
Walks in town
Old, simple fishermen’s houses co-exist side by side with well-preserved neoclassical mansions of wealthy skippers. The Church of Panagia Limniona, with its marble bell tower, dominates the centre of the town(1879). Panagitsa Chapel dedicated to the Life-Giving Spring, built on a site where a Paleo-Christian Basilica once stood, is an important monument. A small section of the mosaic floor of the older church has survived (5th century). Old cafes frequented by the seamen line the wooden quay, but to suit more modern tourist trends many have been converted to ouzo bars, attracting large numbers of people in the summer.
Historical – Folklore Museum: Housed in a 19th century 2-storey neoclassical building, tel. +30 22270 31335 .
Taking the coastal road that heads south of Limni, one travels amid dense forests and fertile orchards. There are beaches dotted the whole way along the route, surrounded by pine forests.
Heading north from Limni is another coastal road which leads to the villages of Chronia, Rovies and Elia, which then leads on to the well-known resort of Edipsos. All around the gentle terrain is covered with pine forests and olive groves, that reach right down to the shore with their deep, crystal clear waters.
Galataki Monastery: This fortress-like monastery built in the 8th century on the site of the ancient temple of Poseidon is considered to be the oldest on Evia. The Katholikon-the central church-, a cruciform basilica, is dedicated to St. Nicholas. The imposing tower-like monastery was built in the 15th century by Hosios David to protect monks from pirate raids. The more recent name Galataki was bestowed in honour of some benefactor from the Galata area of Constantinople.
Rovies: The ancient city of Horoviae which was famed for the oracle of Apollo Sellinous laid close to Rovies. Both the town and oracle were destroyed in earthquakes by the tidal waves which struck the area during the Peloponnesian War. Today all that survives of the troubled past in this area is a Frankish tower built in 1256 by Guillaume II de Villehardouin which later served as the home of a local Aga (lord).
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Copyright photo: Germaine Alexakis/ Views Of Greece
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Journey to a place where the sites are endless. Staunton extends many exciting activities for families, couples, and even the single person. Pick among our museums, art galleries, and outdoor interests to fill your day. Your trip wouldn’t be complete without seeing some of the wonderful attractions we have to offer. We also offer tours to help you find your way.
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Staunton: One of the Best Small Towns in Virginia
Crabtree Falls is the highest in the Virginia Blue Ridge, and a very popular hiking destination. Karen Blaha
Cradled by the Blue Ridge and surrounded by massive national forests and vast wilderness areas, the Shenandoah Valley town of Staunton has endless appeal. One of the oldest settlements in the Blue Ridge, the Victorian-era town is a living museum. Staunton was largely spared the destruction unleashed on other locations in the Shenandoah Valley by Union troops during the Civil War—most of the buildings in Staunton’s downtown area are more than a century old, and the town’s residential neighborhoods are still dotted with elegant 18th and 19th century homes. A bustling commercial hub even during the colonial-era, Staunton still lures visitors with its architecturally stunning downtown—now lined with eclectic boutiques, inviting eateries, and cozy tasting rooms pouring locally produced wine and craft beer.
Beyond the proudly preserved architectural wonders, Staunton’s rich past is still evident all over town. Staunton was a stop along the Great Wilderness Road, a southward route used by newly arrived European immigrants as portal to the frontier until the middle of the 19th century—a thoroughfare that later became the Valley Pike, now Route 11. Staunton’s Frontier Culture Museum is a living-history, open-air museum that brings the past to life, demonstrating the daily lifestyles of the Valley’s early settlers through original farmsteads and costumed interpreters.
Marquis Building by Warren Faught
One of America’s most influential presidents also called Staunton home: Woodrow Wilson was born in the town in 1865, and the 28th president’s home still adorns a hill in Staunton’s Gospel Historic District, now maintained as the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum.
For outdoor lovers, options in Staunton are almost endless. The strategically placed, mountain-fringed town is the ideal launch pad for a bounty of outdoor adventures. Staunton is flanked by two massive national forests—the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests—long, slender slices of wilderness stretching from one end of Virginia to the other, laden with recreational opportunities. You also have quick access to the spectacular Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway, the most scenic drive in the state.
Staunton is surrounded by incredible hiking trails, like this one near Crabtree Falls, that are particularly scenic in the fall. Karen Blaha
The town is also ringed by a collection of vast roadless wilderness areas traversed by extensive trail systems. Just about 20-miles west of Staunton, the 19,290-acre Ramsey’s Draft Wilderness is crisscrossed by 37 miles of trails and loaded with craggy peaks and laced with trout-blessed streams. Just south of town, the 10,090-acre Saint Mary’s Wilderness is flush with 27-miles of trails—capped off by high peaks including Cellar, Bald, and Big Spy mountains—and spider-webbed by gushing mountain streams culminating in cascading waterfalls.
Staunton provides easy access to two of the most scenic byways in the state—and arguably, on the East Coast. Just north of town is the entrance to Skyline Drive, the vista-rich, 105-mile thoroughfare bisecting Virginia’s 200,000-acre Shenandoah National Park, offering access to the area’s 500 miles of trails. Almost immediately after entering the park’s less-frequented southern section, Skyline Drive also intersects the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail, which rambles through the park for 101 miles.
Staunton, Virginia, is located in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, serving as the perfect base camp to explore the region. Malee Oot
In Rockfish Gap, 20 miles from Staunton, Skyline Drive also merges into the southbound Blue Ridge Parkway, the iconic byway running 469-miles from the Shenandoah National Park to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. Some of the most spectacular sites along the entire parkway are in the northernmost section—just minutes from Staunton. First, the Humpback Rocks Recreation Area offers access to a range of hiking trails, with options for quick leg-stretchers or extensive loops. The massive 3,080-foot rock formation known as Humpback Rocks is also touted as one of the parkway’s premier vistas—and one of the most popular.
Just after Humpback Rocks is another treasure: The Sherando Lake Recreation Area is one of the byway’s most inviting detours. The 25-acre, spring-fed lake is edged by hiking trails, leafy campsites, and a sandy swimming beach. Slightly further south, the parkway also offers access to the one of the most stunning waterfalls in the east—and the highest in the Virginia Blue Ridge—Crabtree Falls. Two trailheads just a few miles from the parkway offer hikers intimate access to the cascades plunging 1,800-foot course to the Tye River.
Black Dog Bikes in Staunton is a great resource for cycling in the region. Malee Oot
The vast tracts of wilderness and extensive byways accessible from Staunton also make the locale a hub for cyclists. Options for bike rides abound—from two-wheeled historical tours of Staunton to longer circuits through the bucolic landscape of the Shenandoah Valley. Find a number of local circuits mapped out by Bike the Valley. In Staunton, local cyclists congregate at Black Dog Bikes in the evenings from spring to early fall for weekly rides, with more leisurely loops on Tuesdays and fast-paced, longer circuits on Thursdays as well as Women on Wheels riding every Wednesday. The town’s cycle culture is also celebrated every October with the Shenandoah Fall Foliage Bike Festival, a weekend of rides showcasing the region’s vibrant seasonal color. You’ll find routes suitable for riders of all levels—from lazy, 12-mile loops to century circuits full of brag-worthy climbs.
The Shenandoah Valley isn’t just a playground for cyclists. The verdant valley is also sprinkled with farms, wineries and craft breweries—linked by routes like the Fields of Gold Farm Trail, the Shenandoah Valley Wine Trail, and the Shenandoah Beerwerks Trail. In Staunton, the bounty of the valley is showcased at the Augusta Farmers Market (Wednesdays and Saturdays, from 7 a.m.-noon, April to November) and celebrated by the town’s vibrant farm-to-table restaurant movement.
But, it’s not just local eateries highlighting the abundance of locally sourced, seasonally rotating ingredients—Staunton has also become a hub of craft beer. The town is now home to three different craft breweries—Queen City Brewing, Redbeard Brewing, and the Shenandoah Valley Brewing Company.
Eclectic microbrews, a seasonally evolving and locally inspired food scene, and a charming, historic downtown—all minutes away from vast wilderness areas, national parks, and forests. The next time you find yourself in Staunton, sipping a freshly poured craft brew while recounting backcountry Blue Ridge adventures, you too may wonder, is this the best kept secret in Virginia?
Originally written by RootsRated for Staunton VA.
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Cymru'n Cofio – Wales Remembers
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Wales has a First World War Centenary Programme Board.
The Programme Board brings together key organisations from across Wales to support the First World War centenary commemoration in Wales.
Organisations currently represented on the Programme Board are featured here.
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales – The Museum promotes the study of natural history, archaeology, social and industrial history and art at its eight sites across Wales. Although its focus is Wales, its collections may be international in scope and include a rich representation of French Impressionist art.
Archives and Records Council Wales – The Council is the body coordinating and promoting archives in Wales. It arranges joint projects and maintains an online catalogue of Welsh archival collections.
Arts Council of Wales – The Council is the agency for the funding and development of the arts in Wales. It aims to support the best in art, to encourage more people to take part, and to promote the economy of the arts in Wales.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission – The Commonwealth War Graves Commission ensures that 1.7 million people who died in the two world wars will never be forgotten. It cares for cemeteries and memorials at 23,000 locations, in 153 countries. Its values and aims, laid out in 1917, are as relevant now as they were almost 100 years ago.
Museums Archives and Libraries Division (MALD) – A policy division of the Welsh Government which helps to promote and protect the culture and heritage of Wales by supporting museums, archives and libraries.
Cytûn – Cytûn is the cooperative body that unites the Christian churches in Wales in worship and service. It arranges and supports courses, activities and events and promotes broader Christian unity.
Heritage Lottery Fund – Using money raised through the National Lottery, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) gives grants to sustain and transform the national heritage. It invests in archaeology, natural environment and cultural traditions through museums, parks and historic places.
Imperial War Museums – The Museum opened soon after the First World War and now comprises five museums that together seek to promote the study and understanding of the history of modern warfare.
Imperial War Museums – First World War Centenary Partnership – 1914.org highlights First World War centenary events and resources from across the globe.
National Library of Wales – The Library offers access to information about Wales and its history both online and through its large collections of books, archives, maps, images and recordings at Aberystwyth.
Royal Navy – The Naval Regional Commander (Wales and Western England) is charged with representing the Royal Navy’s interest across a quarter of Britain. In Wales he is the Senedd’s Chief Naval Officer and provides advice on all naval matters linking into Naval Staff as required to ensure Welsh issues are properly represented at all levels in the Royal Navy.
S4C – The Welsh Fourth Channel, is the Welsh-language public service television broadcaster, transmitting daily over 15 hours of programmes made by independent producers and the BBC. Its output is also available online.
The Army in Wales – The Commander Wales is also Commander 160 (Wales) Brigade and is responsible for the military garrisons, regular and reserve, across the country. He also maintains the training estate and overseas the many cadet units. He ensures that Welsh interests are properly represented to the Chief of the General Staff as professional head of the service.
The National Eisteddfod of Wales – The Eisteddfod is an annual festival that brings people together for a week in August to enjoy Welsh music, literature, dance, theatre and visual arts. It is held at different locations in Wales in north and south Wales alternately, and it represents a two-year community project in each area.
The Royal British Legion – The Legion is the UK’s leading Service charity. It provides practical care, advice and support to serving members of the Armed Forces, veterans of all ages and their families.
The Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum – The Museum is dedicated to the history of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, a regiment of the British Army which can trace its history back to 1689. Its main displays are located within Caernarfon Castle in partnership with Cadw. In total, it forms the largest and most significant military collection in Wales and one of the largest in Britain outside the national museums.
Welsh Government – The Welsh Government is the devolved Government for Wales with responsibility for the economy, education, health, business and public services.
Welsh Local Government Association – The Association represents the 22 local authorities in Wales and aims to promote and enhance local government in Wales. Bodies such as fire, rescue and national park authorities are associate members of the Association.
Western Front Association – The Western Front Association (WFA) was formed with the aim of furthering interest in The Great War of 1914-1918. They also aim to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of all those on all sides who served their countries in France and Flanders and their own countries during The Great War.
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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
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“I am not afraid; I was born to do this.”
By Verily Magazine
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”
“In whatsoever state I am in, I have learned to be content.”
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
“I am a feminist because a lot of amazing women have made me the woman I am today.”
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
"I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings."
“I prefer to practice my spontaneity.”
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LGBTQ Victory FundNewsRep. John Bradford Stripped $500K from Disaster Relief Budget to Pay for HB2 Bill He Champions
Rep. John Bradford Stripped $500K from Disaster Relief Budget to Pay for HB2 Bill He Champions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, October 5, 2016
CONTACT: Elliot Imse, Director of Communications, elliot.imse@victoryfund.org
Charlotte, NC – State Rep. John Bradford voted for a bill to strip $500,000 from the state’s Emergency Response and Disaster Relief Fund to cover legal fees from HB2 – the bill he championed – despite dire warnings from NC State researchers this hurricane season would be significantly more active. As North Carolina braces for tropical storm or hurricane conditions with potentially devastating consequences for eastern and central parts of the state, it is important to remember the devastating consequences of HB2 on the state’s disaster relief budget.
John Bradford raided the state’s emergency response and disaster relief budget to clean-up the manmade disaster he created by drafting, sponsoring and voting for HB2. His legislative incompetence is costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands in legal fees, damaging the state’s reputation and economy, and under resourcing its disaster relief efforts as Hurricane Matthew barrels toward the shore. Bradford’s short-sightedness led him to remove $500,000 from the fund that will assist residents and rebuild cities in a hurricane’s aftermath. He was playing politics when he stripped the civil rights of North Carolinians by supporting HB2, and then stripped the disaster relief budget of precious resources to pay for his catastrophic mistake.
The Emergency Response and Disaster Relief Fund’s $10 million budget was reduced by five percent as a result of the vote by Rep. John Bradford and his colleagues.
Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund
The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund works to change the face and voice of America’s politics and achieve equality for LGBTQ Americans by increasing the number of openly LGBTQ elected officials at all levels of government.
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Equality North Carolina
Equality NC is dedicated to securing equal rights and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) North Carolinians.
equalitync.org
Planned Parenthood Votes! South Atlantic
Planned Parenthood Votes! South Atlantic (PPVSAT) is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization formed as the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. Fortifying our commitment to protect access to health care for all, educate teens, and prevent unintended pregnancies, PPVSAT engages in educational and electoral activity, including public education campaigns, grassroots organizing, and legislative advocacy.
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Sean Burns competes in Czech Republic Olympics
Sean Burns, Junior
In August Sean Burns went to the Czech Republic to compete in the Olympics. Sean first became involved in sports when he was four years old and has been doing different sports ever since. His trip was a total of 12 days; Sean spent his first six in Prague sightseeing and the remainder in Olomouc for the competition. On Sean’s second day in Prague, he visited a concentration camp called Terezin, where Sean saw the cell blocks where the prisoners used to be held. After visiting the camp, Sean was able to have a more enjoyable time when he sat down to eat a medieval dinner that night. During his trip in Prague, Sean visited the Prague Castle, St. Vitus Cathedral, and Konopiště, a castle which was owned by Franz Ferdinand. He spent his days resting because he knew once he got into Olomouc; he would be training and working hard. Sean’s first day was filled with practicing, followed by classification in the late afternoon. Sean continued to practice his second day as well, and on the third day the competitions began. Sean competed in the 100m, 200m, 400m, and 800m track events as well as swimming, the Javelin, the discus, and the Shot Put. He received a bronze medal in the Javelin, a gold medal in the 200m, a gold medal in the 400m, and a bronze medal in the Shot Put. Sean also placed first in the 100m as well as the 800m. Upon receiving his medal in the 200m, Sean was given the honor of standing on the medal stand to accept his gold medal and hear the United States national anthem playing throughout the Stadium. He said that hearing the anthem was his favorite part of the trip and he was excited when he won his first gold medal. When asked what he thought of the trip, he replied "It was awesome. I liked going to the Czech Republic and being able to compete in the Olympics." Sean Burns
Written by: Emily Hock, Senior
Posted: Oct 21, 2010 by Cheryl Edwards
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Review: The Unlikely Ascent of Sybil Stevens
February 23, 2014 ~ wgc107 ~ Leave a comment
The Unlikely Ascent of Sybil Stevens is an entertaining exploration of the complexities of becoming a limited vortex public figure in the Internet age and the dangers that can go with it.
The play centers around Sybil Stevens (Jennifer Gordon Thomas), a flight attendant who is the lone survivor of a plane crash in Wyoming where all 256 passengers but her have perished. She is rescued by emergency worker Joe (Sean Williams), who is going through personal struggles of her own. Stevens’ nephew and recovering drug addict Derek (Jordan Tierney) assumes caretaker duties, and also becomes her personal publicist. Stevens denies all media requests, but that doesn’t stop wannabe-Oprah Tessa MacKenzie (Yeauxlanda Kay) and her researcher Valerie (Samatha Fairfield Walsh) from attempting to, and ultimately, booking the exclusive interview.
Things predictably go awry on MacKenzie’s show when skeletons are released from the closet in part because of a revealing, impromptu meeting between Valerie and Derek. Instead of attempting to minimize the chaos, Joe unexpectedly joins in on the interview and immediately immortalizes it. Suddenly, Stevens is embroiled in numerous scandals and controversy and is unsure of her next step.
For this play to work, the audience has to be endearing to the audience. Otherwise, the endless calamities that intrude on her life will fall on deaf ears.
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Review: Bronx Bombers
January 17, 2014 ~ wgc107 ~ Leave a comment
I seem to have hit the Eric Simonson trifecta. In 2011, I attended Simonson’s first sports play on Broadway, Lombardi, at the Circle in the Square Theatre on closing night. A year later, Simonson hit Broadway again, this time chronicling the 80s sensation of the NBA with Magic/Bird. Now, in 2014, I found myself taking in Simonson’s third foray into a major American sport, Bronx Bombers, which again finds itself at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
Bronx Bombers follows the tale of Yogi Berra through his time as coach of the Yankees during the famed Billy Martin/Reggie Jackson feuds of the 70s all the way through the closing of Yankee Stadium, the House that Ruth Built, in 2008. Along the way, we meet Martin, Jackson, Thurman Munson, Lou Gehrig, Micky Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Ruth and Derek Jeter.
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Review: Cinderella on Broadway
Laura Osnes as Cinderella
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s 2013 version Cinderella on Broadway is a perfectly enjoyable and entertaining — albeit purposely superficial — take on the timeless fairy tale classic.
Many of the elements of the original story are features in this remake, with the main character Ella (the nickname Cinder is given by her evil stepmother for all of the hours she slaves in front of a fireplace) as the punching bag for her step-mother and step sisters. With the help of her Fairy Godmother, Cinderella is, on two occasions, given to the stroke of midnight to meet the Prince of her dreams. Only in this version, she must set into motion a meeting between a well-meaning revolutionary, Jean-Michel, and Topher, the Prince, because the poor are being swept under the rug by the Prince’s oppressive regime.
The decision to make a socioeconomic statement is curious, partly because of how cantankerous the issue has become in recent elections, but also because it only makes a feeble attempt at raising and then ultimately dismissing the issue. The subplot is not critical to the story and therefore not really needed. Jean-Michel’s character is also used as a romantic foil to Gabrielle, one of the step sisters. Cinderella’s other step-sister, Charlotte, is cartoonish and far too over the top, and ends up irritating more than endearing herself to her audience. The same could be said about stepmother Madame and Topher, though his character still has some charm to his “aw-shucks” attitude.
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Review: The Divine Nature of Basketball: My Season Inside the Ivy League
January 5, 2014 ~ wgc107 ~ Leave a comment
Follow Yale through the 2011-12 season
Let me be clear before the outset of this review: I did not attend an Ivy League school, nor did I previously have an appreciation for it. Save for a few friends who worshiped Penn hoops, my loyalties remain in the old Big East and the current ACC. So it is with that lens that I review Ed Breslin’s The Divine Nature of Basketball: My Season Inside the Ivy League, his look at the 2011-12 Yale Bulldogs basketball team, led by head coach James Jones. Breslin petitioned Jones to be a special assistant coach, essentially shadowing the team throughout the entire season. What follows is an insiders look at one of the more entertaining Yale basketball seasons in recent memory.
It’s clear within a few pages of reading that Breslin eats, prays and loves college basketball. Breslin devours media guides and watches intently through practices. Throughout the course of the season, Yale basketball completely consumes his life and his passion oozes through the pages of the book. His enthusiasm is contagious, and it’s hard not to become a Yale fan, too.
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Review: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
December 23, 2013 ~ wgc107 ~ Leave a comment
Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark is set to go dark — for good — in January, 2014 after a turbulent three year run on Broadway that was hampered by negative press at the start. The highlights included an actor tumbling 20 feet into the orchestra after not securing his harness (one of five injuries sustained by the cast); deep budget overruns for the multi-million dollar project and a major rewrite of the plot after the original was universally panned. The show ended up becoming a punching bag at the 2012 Tony Awards, as the show set a Broadway record with 182 previews before it finally opened.
So now that the background is out of the way, I figured I’d start with the good: There are about 15 total minutes of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark that delivers a spectacle unlike anything seen around Broadway. The death-defying, high-wire stunts left the audience squealing in delight as Spider-Man and the Green Goblin had it out 50 feet above the floor. The fights were well choreographed and was done in such a way as to enhance the plot as opposed to overtaking the show. Gimmicky? Sure. But you can’t deny that the gimmick is wildly entertaining. The sets are also grandiose and does well to add to the visual candy the musical already has. I wouldn’t splurge for full price based on these 15 minutes, but I didn’t, so my discounted ticket went a long way.
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Review: The Great Gatsby
May 24, 2013 February 1, 2019 ~ wgc107 ~ Leave a comment
When I read the Great Gatsby as a high schooler, I was taught about dangers of excess and the cautions of the chase for the American dream. Jay Gatsby’s pursual of Daisy Buchanan was a warning of the attempt to achieve an unobtainable goal. In the same vein, Gatsby’s wild parties were examples of the moral decay in society. Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby largely ignores that message in his 2013 release, instead choosing to focus on a highly stylized fantasy world.
And what a fantasy world it is. Luhrmann’s Gatsby has Jay-Z playing in the background of his wild and lavish parties that would put Ditty to shame. ‘Extravagant’ wouldn’t come close to describing the visuals. Then again, I expected that, coming from his work in Moulin Rouge.
In this regard, Luhrmann does pay appropriate tribune to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. The characters all speak in his stylized prose, and the parties do justice to what Fitzgerald envisioned. But, of course, this isn’t the reason that Fitzgerald’s novel became a mainstay in American education. The main problem with The Great Gatsby is that Luhrmann’s film doesn’t quite cut to the core of Fitzgerald’s story, missing the chance to connect the viewer with the overall message. Continue reading “Review: The Great Gatsby” →
Review: Ironman 3
May 12, 2013 ~ wgc107 ~ Leave a comment
I’m always wary when watching the third installment (the three-quil, if you will) of a movie series. Think Godfather 3, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Spiderman 3, or the Matrix Revolutions. Then again, there has been a reverse in the trend recently with The Dark Knight Rises, and now, with Ironman 3.
What separates Ironman 3 from its two predecessors is that the focus of the story shifts to Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) rather than The Suit he wears. There are plenty of flaws in the exposition in an attempt to tell an over-complicated story (see also, The Dark Knight Rises), but in the end, do we really watch movies like Ironman for the logical consistency of the story?
Ironman 3 picks up where The Avengers leaves off (which is good, considering I’ve seen the Avengers). Tony Stark is having nightmares and anxiety attacks from his experiences from New York City, and, instead of working on his relationship with the lovely Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), he chooses instead to build every iteration of The Suit he can think of (going up to 47). When bodyman Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) is put into a coma by international terrorist “The Mandarin” (Ben Kingsley), Stark lashes out at the organization, prompting Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) and his thugs to destroy Stark’s home. An old flame of Stark’s, Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall), is part of the impetus, and the threat extends all the way to the President of the United States (William Sadler) who is protected only by “Iron Patriot” (Don Cheadle). Continue reading “Review: Ironman 3” →
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Air Partner - 02 Jul 2018
Air Partner, the global aviation services group, was named “Best Executive Travel Solutions Provider” by Major Events International (MEI) at an awards dinner held on 27 June 2018, as part of its Major Events Summit in Liverpool.
MEI provides international business services for companies who want to take advantage of Olympic and World Cup opportunities and win more business in the major events marketplace. Now in its fourth year, the Summit brings together experts from current and future organising committees, sports bodies, venue and key commercial suppliers involved in major sports events to knowledge share and collaborate.
Air Partner has extensive experience chartering flights for major sporting events across its Commercial Jets, Private Jets and Freight divisions, transporting sportspeople, supporters, the media and important equipment across the globe. It sees demand from across the sporting spectrum, including football, rugby, Formula 1, golf, sailing, cycling, athletics, handball and even ice hockey.
The group sees particularly strong demand from the football industry, and this year, has been called upon to operate 15 flights to Russia for the FIFA World Cup for players, supporters and corporate customers. In 2016, the team also flew nearly 10,000 passengers on a total of 62 flights to and from the UEFA European Championship in France.
Other highlights of recent years include flying the entire Hungarian Olympic team to Rio de Janeiro for the Olympic Games in 2016, and transporting important sports equipment, such as bikes and other kit, for cyclists taking part in the Giro d'Italia, Italy's most prestigious bike race.
Clive Chalmers, Director of Charter at Air Partner, said: "Air Partner has worked with the sports industry for several decades now and has a deep understanding of its unique requirements, whether flying elite athletes or fulfilling time-critical lifts of equipment. I am delighted that we have been acknowledged by MEI in this way and would like to thank all my colleagues who work tirelessly to make the logistics for these major sporting events a success."
Dennis Mills, Chief Executive Officer at MEI, commented: "Every year, we honour a number of our members who actively engage with us, have a great international presence, and whom we are proud to support. Air Partner has been an extremely valued partner for over a year now, and I look forward to carrying on our relationship well into the future."
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Old Towns of Djenné
(Mali)
Factors affecting the property in 2015*
Land conversion
Other Threats:
Deterioration of dwellings
Factors* affecting the property identified in previous reports
No management and conservation plan
Pressure from urban development
Waste disposal problems
Encroachment of the archaeological sites
UNESCO Extra-Budgetary Funds until 2015
Total amount granted: USD 110,000 (Italian Funds-in-Trust); USD 23,100 (Croisi Europe); USD 86,900 (European Commission), USD 53,000 (Netherland Funds-in-Trust)
International Assistance: requests for the property until 2015
Requests approved: 4 (from 1981-2015)
Total amount approved : 84,577 USD
2015 Protection des sites du patrimoine mondial de Djenné (Approved) 25,000 USD
2012 Assistance internationale d’urgence pour la protection ... (Approved) 21,600 USD
2007 Plan de gestion et de conservation des villes anciennes ... (Approved) 30,000 USD
1981 Provision of one expert and financial assistance for ... (Approved) 7,977 USD
Missions to the property until 2015**
2002, 2005: World Heritage Centre missions; 2006: World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS/ICCROM Reactive Monitoring mission, 2014: World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission
2014 Mission de suivi réactif des Villes Anciennes de Djenné (Mali, 116 rev) 10 - 15 mars 2014
Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 2015
On 13 February 2015, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report on the property, available at https://whc.unesco.org/fr/list/116/documents/. This report should be completed by a joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission report in accordance with Decision 38 COM 7B.50, however this mission was postponed due to the precarious security situation in Mali. The State Party report provides the following information:
Several measures have been adopted to respond to land pressure issues, encroachment of animals and looting of artefacts at all four archaeological sites of the property: strengthening of surveillance, recruitment of guards, clear boundary markers, renewal and setting up of signposting;
The Ministry responsible for State-owned Property, Land Affairs and Heritage was requested to transfer the land of the archaeological sites directly to the Ministry of Culture to provide security and protection against urban pressure;
The Ministry of Urban Planning was also requested to accelerate the procedure for the adoption of local urban regulatory measures;
The Geographical Institute of Mali was also requested to redefine the boundaries of the archaeological sites and their buffer zones, taking into account the earlier construction works;
Measures have been adopted to combat illegal and unsanitary occupation of the river banks that border the site.
Furthermore, on 4 May 2015, the State Party submitted an intermediary report in the framework of the international assistance project for the reinforced protection of the property. This project has as objective the implementation of the Emergency Action Plan, adopted by Decision 38 COM 7B.50. The important points of this report are as follows:
An information and awareness raising meeting was organized to strengthen the involvement of local communities in the protection and conservation of the site;
Three panels have been prepared to raise awareness of the local communities regarding the management of waste disposal along the river banks;
Anti-erosion measures have been implemented at the Djenne-Djeno archaeological site;
A mission was organized to finalize the adoption of the urban regulatory measures.
Analysis and Conclusion by World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies in 2015
The State Party has undertaken numerous efforts in the implementation of Decision 38 COM 7B.50, and more particularly in the implementation of activities of the Emergency Action Plan for the conservation and protection of the property. However, these efforts are far from sufficient in view of the many problems and threats that affect the integrity and authenticity of the property.
The precarious security situation of Mali has hindered the capability of the State Party to intervene at site. The actions carried out are mostly of an administrative nature, oriented towards security procedures, the archaeological sites and the adoption of urban regulatory measures. These actions also include measures for solid waste management and illegal occupation of the river banks. The urban and architectural situation of the old urban fabric (earthen constructions, the oldest of which date back to the 15th-16th centuries), is also seriously threatened by illegal works, as indicated in the State Party report. In addition to the institutional coordination measures between the different authorities, technical measures of a general nature are mentioned: inventory of traditional practices, standards for the conservation of earthen architecture in respect of new needs of comfort, cadastral plan and stocks of traditional materials. In the face of a particularly difficult situation, it is recommended that the Committee express its deep concern and insist on the need to urgently implement concrete and operational actions in respect of all the components of the property: the archaeological sites and the old urban fabric.
Together with the measures envisaged by the State Party, the intermediate report of the international assistance project as allows to observe an initial response to the main challenges evoked. The State Party should implement without delay the different stages of the international assistance project, mobilizing additional means to do so. Other than the World Heritage Fund, the State Party has not been able to raise additional funds for the property, and more important international assistance would be welcome. In the absence of significant progress in the implementation of the Emergency Action Plan, the property is likely to respond to conditions set out in paragraphs 177-182 of the Operational Guidelines referenced at the time of inscription on the List of World Heritage in Danger. Before this however, a Reactive Monitoring mission should confirm this eventuality.
Decisions adopted by the Committee in 2015
39 COM 7B.41
Old Towns of Djenné (Mali) (C 116 rev)
Having examined Document WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add,
Recalling Decision 38 C0M 7B.50, adopted at its 38th session (Doha, 2014),
Takes note of the efforts undertaken by the State Party in the operational implementation of the Emergency Action Plan for the conservation and protection of the property;
Notes with concern the precarious security situation in Mali that has hindered the capability of the State Party at the site;
Expresses its deep concern regarding the low level of implementation of the Emergency Action Plan in view of the numerous threats to the integrity and authenticity of the property;
Requests the State Party to increase its efforts and mobilize additional means to accelerate the implementation of the Emergency Action Plan;
Calls upon the international community to provide the necessary support for the protection and safeguard of the property through the implementation of the Emergency Action Plan;
Reiterates its request to the State Party to invite a joint UNESCO/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission as soon as the security situation permits, to assess the progress achieved in the implementation of the Emergency Action Plan and the ascertained or potential danger to the Outstanding Universal Value of the property;
Also requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2016, an updated report, including a 1-page executive summary, on the state of conservation of the property and the implementation of the above, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 40th session in 2016, with a view to considering, in the absence of significant progress in the implementation of the Emergency Action Plan and the ascertained or potential danger to the Outstanding Universal Value, the possible inscription of the property on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
Draft Decision: 39 COM 7B.41
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Nomination records (Year): 1979, 1987
Category: Cultural
Danger List (dates): 2016-present
Other information on site
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Documents examined by the Committee in 2015
WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add
WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7
WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
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Treaty of Picquigny
Edward IV of England
Louis XI of France
The Treaty of Picquigny was a peace treaty negotiated on 29 August 1475 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France. It followed from an invasion of France by Edward IV of England in alliance with Burgundy and Brittany. It left Louis XI of France free to deal with the threat posed by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.
3 Commines report
Following the Treaty of London in 1474, Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, had agreed to aid England with an invasion of France. By June 1475, Edward IV had landed on the coast of France. Edward IV had an army of around 11,000 [1] and a further 2,000 archers from Brittany[2] while Louis XI had an army of 50,000.[1] Edward's plan was to march through Burgundian territory to Reims. However Charles failed to provide the support he had promised, and refused to allow the English to enter Burgundian-controlled towns.[3] Edward also received little support from his other ally Francis II, Duke of Brittany.[4]
Louis then sent Edward word that he was willing to offer more than Edward's allies could. He induced Edward to negotiate a settlement. The two negotiated by meeting on a specially-made bridge with a wooden grill-barrier between the sides, at Picquigny, just outside Amiens.[citation needed]
The negotiations led to an agreement signed on 29 August 1475. The two kings agreed to a seven-year truce and free-trade between the two countries.[3] Louis XI was to pay Edward IV 75,000 crowns upfront, essentially a bribe to return to England and not take up arms to pursue his claim to the French throne. He would then receive a yearly pension thereafter of 50,000 crowns. Also the King of France was to ransom the deposed Queen Margaret of Anjou, who was in Edward's custody, with 50,000 crowns. It also included pensions to many of Edward's lords.[citation needed]
Other provisions of the treaty were that if either king experienced a rebellion, the other would provide military support to defeat it. Edward's daughter Elizabeth of York was to marry the Dauphin Charles when she came of age.[3] The English claim to the French throne was to be subject to arbitration along with other disagreements between the monarchs. A committee should meet annually to discuss the issues and their conclusions should be binding. It was to comprise the archbishops of Canterbury and Lyons, Edward's brother George, the Duke of Clarence, and Louis, Count of Dunois.[5]
In addition to the king, his leading advisors also received pensions from the French. Thomas Rotherham the chancellor had 1,000 crowns a year. John Morton had 600 crowns, and Sir John Howard and Sir Thomas Montgomery 1,200 each. William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, who had been the chief advocate for the treaty, was to receive 2,000 crowns a year.[5]
Commines report[edit]
The details of the negotiations are related by the chronicler Philippe de Commines, who says that Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III), was opposed to the treaty, considering it dishonourable. He refused to participate in the negotiations. However, he joined the celebrations in Amiens after it was concluded. Commines also relays a series of sarcastic comments made by the French king about Edward's notorious womanising, as well as his fear of the English because of the events of the Hundred Years' War.[3]
The apparent bribery in the treaty led to some disaffection on both sides. A number of commentators, both English and French, considered it dishonourable. Louis de Bretaylle, English envoy to Spain, confided that this one shady deal took away the honour of all Edward's previous military victories.[3]
^ a b Paul Murray Kendall, Louis XI, (1971), 280.
^ Charles Ross, Edward IV, (Yale University Press, 1997), 221.
^ a b c d e Knecht, Robert (2007). The Valois: Kings of France 1328–1589. Continuum. pp. 100–101. ISBN 1-85285-420-0.
^ Wagner, John A. (2001). Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses. Clio. p. 150.
^ a b Jacob, E. F. (1961). The Fifteenth Century 1399–1485. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 577.
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House of Valois
The House of Valois was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. They succeeded the House of Capet to the French throne, and were the royal house of France from 1328 to 1589. Junior members of the family founded cadet branches in Orléans, Anjou, Burgundy, and Alençon.
Louis XI, called "Louis the Prudent", was King of France from 1461 to 1483, the sixth from the House of Valois. He succeeded his father Charles VII.
Margaret of York
Margaret of York —also by marriage known as Margaret of Burgundy—was Duchess of Burgundy as the third wife of Charles the Bold and acted as a protector of the duchy after his death. She was a daughter of Richard, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the sister of two kings of England, Edward IV and Richard III. She was born at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, in the Kingdom of England, and she died at Mechelen in the Low Countries.
Philippe de Commines
Philippe de Commines was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times". Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time.
Charles the Bold
Charles the Bold, baptised Charles Martin, was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. He was the last Duke of Burgundy from the House of Valois.
Francis II, Duke of Brittany
Francis II of Brittany was Duke of Brittany from 1458 to his death. He was the grandson of John IV, Duke of Brittany. A recurring theme in Francis' life would be his quest to maintain the quasi-independence of Brittany from France. As such, his reign was characterized by conflicts with King Louis XI of France and with his daughter, Anne of France, who served as regent during the minority of her brother, King Charles VIII. The armed and unarmed conflicts between 1484–1488 have been called the Mad War and also the "War of the Public Weal".
Treaty of Arras (1482)
The Treaty of Arras was signed at Arras on 23 December 1482 by King Louis XI of France and Archduke Maximilian I of Habsburg as heir of the Burgundian Netherlands in the course of the Burgundian succession crisis.
Congress of Arras
The Congress of Arras was a diplomatic congregation established at Arras in the summer of 1435 during the Hundred Years' War, between representatives of England, France, and Burgundy. Toward the close of the Hundred Years' War, both the Congress and the subsequent Treaty of Arras represented diplomatic failures for England and major successes for France.
Hundred Years' War (1415–53)
The Lancastrian War was the third and final phase of the Anglo-French Hundred Years' War. It lasted from 1415, when King Henry V of England invaded Normandy, to 1453, when the English lost Bordeaux. It followed a long period of peace from the end of the Caroline War in 1389. The phase was named after the House of Lancaster, the ruling house of the Kingdom of England, to which Henry V belonged.
Louis of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol
Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, of Brienne, de Ligny, and Conversano belonged to the Ligny branch of the House of Luxemburg and was Constable of France.
Picquigny is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War
The Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War was a conflict between two cadet branches of the French royal family — the House of Orléans and the House of Burgundy from 1407 to 1435. It began during a lull in the Hundred Years' War against the English and overlapped with the Western Schism of the papacy.
Battle of Montlhéry
The Battle of Montlhéry was fought between Louis XI and the League of the Public Weal on 16 July 1465 in the vicinity of Longpont-sur-Orge. It had no clear winner and therefore did not decide the war.
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Established in 1580, Universidad Santo Tomás (Santo Tomás University) is a non-profit private higher education institution located in the metropolis of Bogotá (population range of over 5,000,000 inhabitants), Bogota. This institution has also branch campuses in the following location(s): Bucaramanga, Medellín, Tunja, Villavicencio. Officially accredited and/or recognized by the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, Colombia (Ministry of National Education, Colombia), Universidad Santo Tomás (USTA) is a large (uniRank enrollment range: 15,000-19,999 students) coeducational higher education institution formally affiliated with the Christian-Catholic religion. Universidad Santo Tomás (USTA) offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees in several areas of study. See the uniRank degree levels and areas of study matrix below for further details.
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Bringing STEM Education to Girls across the Globe — from Ohio to Hungary
To celebrate Girl Day of Engineers Week, AAUW is proud to announce a new collaboration with Alcoa Foundation to bring our STEM education programs to girls in communities across the globe.
Thanks to a $250,000 grant, AAUW will expand our successful STEM programs for girls to new sites in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, and Barberton, Ohio, where Alcoa has operations. Over the next two years, the collaboration will give hundreds of middle school girls the chance to participate in fun, experiential STEM programs that demonstrate the opportunities and benefits for women in these fields.
Both Székesfehérvár and Barberton are home to STEM career opportunities for their residents but, without involving women and girls, there aren’t enough skilled workers in the community to fill those jobs. That’s where AAUW comes in. As part of our efforts to plug the leaky STEM pipeline and prepare girls to pursue meaningful, rewarding careers, AAUW and Alcoa Foundation will invest in the future of these two communities and the people who live there.
Across the globe, women are underrepresented in STEM fields. Women hold nearly half of all jobs in the United States but fewer than 25 percent of STEM jobs. STEM careers offer women the opportunity to engage in some of the most exciting fields of discovery and technological innovation. Increasing opportunities for women in these fields is an important step toward realizing greater economic success and equality for women across the board.
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, the availability of jobs that require a STEM background will grow by 17 percent over the next 10 years. According to the National Science Foundation, women in Hungary earned approximately 1,200 university degrees in engineering in 2009, accounting for 36.2 percent of the engineering degrees conferred there that year. Hungary-based manufacturers attest that, despite a serious need for skilled workers in technical jobs, the available workforce does not have the training to fill them. Preparing more women to enter these fields is important to these companies and will be necessary to the economic future of the region.
To address local workforce needs in Barberton and Székesfehérvár, AAUW will customize our programs to engage girls in STEM fields with input from the Alcoa facilities in these communities. This exciting collaboration will let us make a real, tangible impact on the lives of women and girls in two continents, and we’re thrilled to get started.
By: AAUW National | Issue: Education & Training | Tags: Equal Pay, K-12 Education, STEM | February 19, 2014
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Boeing Max Jet Pilots Reportedly Received Two Hours Of Training On An iPad
A new report raises questions about the training pilots received before getting into the cockpit of the Boeing Max jets. The new planes have been involved in two crashes in the last six months which have killed 346 people.
According to the New York Times, the training varied by airline, but pilots were given very little information about the differences between the new Boeing Max jets and the 737-800 they were based on.
Pilots for United Airlines put together a 13-page training manual on the differences between the two planes but had to do it without ever stepping foot inside of a simulator. They also received a two-hour training course on an iPad which was supposed to explain the new features on the plane, though it did not make any mention of the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), which is believed to have played a role in both crashes.
American Airlines told Quartz in a statement that their pilots "were required to receive some additional training on the MAX 8, which included an hour lesson on some differences."
The new planes remain grounded while officials work to identify what caused the deadly crashes and how to ensure that the problem does not happen again. There is no timetable for when the Max jets will be cleared to fly again.
Boeing does not have any plans to alter its training procedures and believes that pilots are capable of learning to operate the new jets using computer-based training.
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Chris Fleming’s Journey from Forked River to Chicago
Chris Fleming as coach of the German national team in 2017 (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Many, actually most of you are probably not familiar with Chris Fleming even though he’s likely the greatest basketball player to come out of Ocean County and maybe even the entire Shore Conference.
Fleming scored 2,235 points during his high school career at Lacey (Class of 1988) and that number would have been considerably higher had the three-point line gone into effect before his senior year when he averaged 32 points a game. He played college basketball at both Connecticut and Richmond before heading over to Germany where he played for several years before entering the coaching ranks.
It is coaching where Fleming has achieved even more success and even greater notoriety with more to come which I’ll get to in a moment. After his playing days ended he remained in Germany as a coach and he guided teams to several championships during a 15-year run.
In 2014 he was appointed coach of the German National Team and a year later hired as an assistant with the NBA’s Denver Nuggets. After two seasons with the Nuggets Fleming returned to the East Coast as an assistant with the Brooklyn Nets and after several years of juggling his NBA duties with the German National Team he finally devoted all his attention to the pro game here.
Chris was given considerable praise for his work with the Nets under head coach Kenny Atkinson and Brooklyn earned a playoff spot this year for the first time since 2015.
That brings you up to date on Fleming...almost.
This week he was hired as the Chicago Bulls top assistant under head coach Jim Boylen and from everything I have read many in the Windy City expect him to be the next head coach and it could come sooner than later.
The 49-year old is well-respected and said to have a very good idea of how the game is played today and it seems to be just a matter of time before he does indeed become a head coach.
Not bad for a kid who grew up in Forked River.
By the way his father Bob was a pretty good player in his own right and was my typing teacher at Central Regional High School. Just thought I would throw that in.
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Former Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno to lead Fulfill
The 200 Club of Monmouth County president Kim Guadagno speaks at scholarship award ceremony. (Karla Bardinas, Think Media Communications)
The post political days are becoming charitable days for former New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno.
Fulfill, formerly the Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, has announced that Guadagno will serve as their new president and CEO starting Monday.
The Monmouth County resident is also the president of the 200-club of Monmouth County which provides financial aid to families of first responders killed or disabled in the line of duty.
She was also the former Monmouth County Sheriff.
Fulfill, meanwhile, strives to alleviate hunger and build food security in Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
In Monmouth and Ocean Counties alone, Feeding America reports one in ten residents do not know where their next meal will come from and, of that number, 21,000 children in Monmouth and 25,000 in Ocean go to bed hungry tonight.
Fulfill serves 13.2 million meals every year to help these neighbors and provides job training, assistance with health care and a variety of additional services that can assist those in need.
Through its network of 300 food pantries and kitchens, Fulfill provides meals and helps the counties’ most vulnerable file tax returns, find health insurance, learn job skills and gain access to local, state and federal services to help families get on their feet for good.
Through its culinary arts training program, Fulfill has graduated 389 trainees.
“As Fulfill’s CEO, I plan to bring a voice to the growing number of our neighbors who do not know where their next meal will come from,” Guadagno said. “Over the next few months, I hope to reach every corner of Monmouth and Ocean Counties to raise awareness of the problem of hunger in our own backyard and to raise awareness of the services Fulfill provides to try to solve the problem. No child should ever go to bed not knowing where his or her next meal will come from. No parent should ever struggle to put food on their table.”
Fulfill believes Guadagno to be a great choice to fight hunger and raise awareness about food insecurity, one of the most pressing threats to the most vulnerable in the community.
Guadagno will also continue to serve as a partner at Connell Foley, servicing her current clients.
Connell Foley has not only represented FulFill for decades but has a long tradition of service to the community through pro bono, public service and non-profit work.
“Our mission is driven by a desire to help those who have fallen on hard times,” Jeremy Grunin, Chair of Fulfill’s Board of Trustees, and host of WOBM's Topic-A on Sunday mornings, said. “In searching for a new CEO, we wanted someone with an established history of charitable giving and involvement; extensive connections that could bring new resources to the organization; and who could help bring greater attention to Fulfill and its programs so we can serve as a model for other non-profits statewide. We have found that and more in Lieutenant Governor Guadagno.”
97-STUDENTS OF FIRST RESPONDERS RECEIVE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS IN MONMOUTH COUNTY
Elected officials from both parties, the business community and government advocacy groups praised Fulfill’s selection of Guadagno as the new CEO.
“As the new President and CEO of this organization, Kim Guadagno’s vision, experience and passion for helping those in need will lead the way in the fight against hunger. Her active involvement with the public and experience in forging strong partnerships, along with her dedication and commitment to serving the communities of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, will further promote and expand Fulfill’s mission of delivering needed services and promoting awareness in reducing hunger," Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden said.
“Kim Guadagno will be an incredible asset to Fulfill. Her experience as Sheriff and Lieutenant Governor will be a benefit to the organization and her knowledge of needs in our area is a true help to the food insecure here in Monmouth County," Monmouth County Freeholder Director Tom Arnone said.
“We are excited to continue our work with NJ’s first Lt. Governor as the new President and CEO of Fulfill. We know of Kim Guadagno’s deep personal commitment to this organization and those in need in Monmouth and Ocean counties. She will be a fierce advocate, strong ally and effective leader for Fulfill and we stand ready to work together and continue to fight food insecurity in communities throughout the region," Linda Doherty, President & CEO, NJ Food Council said.
"I could not think of a better person to lead a great organization that does such great work in Monmouth and Ocean Counties. That great work will only be enhanced by the addition of Lieutenant Governor Guadagno. LG Guadagno is one of the hardest working people I know, not just in politics, but in all of New Jersey. She is an exceptional choice," Senator Declan O’Scanlon said.
“As Monmouth County Sheriff and New Jersey's first Lieutenant Governor, Kim has always been a fierce advocate for the state's most vulnerable individuals. Her ability to bring together people and resources to help others is unmatched. I am confident, as CEO of Fulfill, she will be tireless in her fight for those suffering from food insecurity. Saker ShopRites understands the importance of providing good food to our local families and we are excited to work with her to help alleviate hunger in our community," Richard Saker, President and CEO of Saker ShopRites, Inc. said.
“Kim Guadagno has a strong love and dedication to Monmouth County so I am very pleased to see she has become the new President and CEO of Fulfill. I know that Kim and Fulfill will do amazing things together to help so many Monmouth and Ocean County families who are in need," Senator Vin Gopal said.
“I am so proud to congratulate my dear friend and our former Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno. I’m grateful to be Kim’s friend and to have worked with her professionally over the years. Her dedication to New Jersey and Monmouth County has been unwavering throughout her career in public service. I know that she will bring that commitment and passion for our residents to this new journey as President and CEO of Fulfill,” Assemblywoman Serena DiMaso said.
"Fulfill does outstanding work across Monmouth and Ocean Counties to feed hungry residents and guide them through challenging times. We're grateful for former Lieutenant Governor Guadagno's efforts to serve the residents of our communities through this new position, and wish her the best as she assumes her new responsibilities," Assemblywoman Joann Downey and Assemblyman Eric Houghtaling said.
“Kim Guadagno is an excellent choice to run this incredible organization. Kim is an individual who knows the needs of people, not only by virtue of her professional experiences, but as a member of our community. She will be an asset to Fulfill and a tireless advocate for the food insecure in Monmouth and Ocean Counties," Ocean County Freeholder Director Virginia Haines said.
“In selecting Kim Guadagno as their new President and CEO, Fulfill has found the perfect person to lead their fight against hunger. Her experience and business expertise make her uniquely qualified to highlight and bring even greater attention to the organization and its goal of helping the people of Monmouth and Ocean Counties,” Tom Bracken, President and CEO, New Jersey Chamber of Commerce said.
“With her dedication to helping people in need throughout her distinguished career in both the private and public sector, Kim Guadagno is a perfect choice to lead Fulfill in its many worthy endeavors. Kim will bring her effective and tenacious leadership to this cause - and Fulfill will undoubtedly further fulfill its mission of building food security and reducing hunger in Monmouth and Ocean counties," Michele Siekerka, President and CEO, New Jersey Business & Industry Association said.
“Kim Guadagno has a proven history of listening, learning people’s concerns, and then acting to address them. Time and again she has shown herself to be an effective leader. Fulfill has made an outstanding choice,” John E. Harmon, Sr. IOM, Founder, President/CEO, African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey said.
“I met Kim Guadagno when I became Chairman of the SHCCNJ. She reached out and took me to lunch and really spent time listening to the diverse business community needs. The amount of time and support she subsequently dedicated to the Hispanic and diverse businesses community is a testament to the ‘heart’ she brought to her job. I am sure she will bring this same passion and drive to this very worthy organization that is lucky to have her,” Carlos Medina, President and CEO, Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of NJ (SHCCNJ) said.
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Climate change is a serious problem – probably the most dangerous predicament humanity has ever been in. And every second that goes by and we’re not doing anything about it, the more dangerous things are going to become, and the harder it will be to fix them. But let’s not kick off this list on such a gloomy note, and instead look at what can be done to change that. The answer is as simple as what caused all of this in the first place – namely, the little things. Slight tweaks in our habits can go a long way, without us having to revert to a pre-Industrial, 18th century-lifestyle to get there. And yes, we are on topic here, in case you were wondering.
Some call this the Age of Efficiency, in which Mother Earth forces us to, in a manner of speaking, evolve or get out of the away. And one of the first and easiest ways to become more efficient as a species is to address food waste. Up until fairly recently in our history, we didn’t have to bother ourselves with waste of any kind. But in more recent decades, however (with the spread of consumerism), we can no longer afford this luxury. Luckily, in what some call “the world’s dumbest problem” many see an opportunity – and that is, of course, wasted food.
10. The Overwhelming Statistics
There is a tremendous amount of food being wasted around the world. In fact, roughly one third of all food goes to waste, either during production and retail, or thrown away by the consumers themselves. That’s about 1.3 billion tons per year, or about half of the world’s entire cereal production. In the already developed parts of the world, like Europe and North America, consumers’ behavior plays a bigger part in food squandering than in developing countries. Here, on the other hand, technical, managerial, or financial constraints have a much larger role. The lack of infrastructure, agricultural grants, advanced harvesting and transportation technology, or adequate cooling facilities, account for most of the food waste. In all, developing countries lose 40% of their discarded food during harvest and processing, while already developed countries waste 40% of their food at the retail and consumer levels.
On average, rich countries produce almost 2,000 pounds of food per person per year, whereas poorer regions produce slightly above half, or 1,014 pounds. Out of these, European and North American consumers alone squander some 230 pounds, whereas consumers from Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia are responsible for 17 pounds each. Every year, consumers from these rich areas waste almost as much as the entire food production in Sub-Saharan Africa – 222 million and 230 million tons, respectively.
9. Food Equals Money – Wasting One Means Wasting the Other
Tax cuts seem to be a trending topic nowadays. Now, regardless of the fact that taxes are what make a middle class broad and stable, governments usually sell these tax cuts to us as a great way to save money. But we have a much better alternative for you. While the planned tax cuts are said to save low-income households some $40 per year, the average household of four can save around $2,000 just by being more conscious about their food management behavior. It is said that, on average, one American family throws away about a quarter of all the food they buy, which is the equivalent of anywhere in between $1,365 to $2,275 annually. In total, the United States wastes 35 million tons of food this way every year, which is the equivalent of $165 billion. Worldwide, this sum jumps to roughly $1 trillion.
In an estimate by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), food waste has risen in the United States by 50% since 1990 and is now three times as high as it was during the 1960s. One element that has exacerbated the problem, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), is the steep rise in portion sizes and calorie density. Over the past 20 years, hamburgers have expanded by 23%, soft drinks have increased by 52%, while chips and pretzels have grown by 60%. Pizza, on the other hand, remained more or less the same, but it now has 70% more calories than it had in the ’80s. An average Caesar salad doubled, and a chocolate chip cookie quadrupled their respective calorie counts. Supermarkets have also employed various psychological tricks and tactics to make their customers impulse-buy. From offering various product samples, to providing us with big shopping carts, and strategically placing products around the store, they make us buy more than we actually need. One great way of avoiding these traps is to make a shopping list and then stick to it.
8. Fridges, Plates and Food Trays
In general, humans love wide open spaces. Interestingly enough, however, the same thing doesn’t apply to food. Like portion sizes, plates have also grown over the years. Whether it was the larger food portion or the larger dinner plate that came first, we have no way of knowing, but since the 1960s, average plates have increased by around 36 percent. And when we have a big plate, we tend to pile on more food, regardless of whether we will be able to eat it or not. Color contrast also plays a role here. Scientists have discovered that people tend to add more food to their plate if their colors –the food’s and the plate’s – match. The opposite happens, however, if the plate is similar to the background (such as the tablecloth). So, in other words, if you want to eat more greens, you should do it on a green plate against a red tablecloth.
Something similar applies to food trays. A big tray will make people add more to it, with much of the food ending up going to waste. Jill Horst, the director of residential dining services at the University of California Santa Barbara, noticed this in her college dining hall. In 2009, Horst decided to eliminate food trays altogether, and food waste dropped by 50%. Students can still eat as much as they want, but they now have to manage their trips and portion sizes.
But when it comes to our homes, oversized fridges are the main cause for food going bad. Like the plate, fridges have also increased in size, especially in the United States, where we have 25 cubic feet (and larger) models. By contrast, most European fridges are around 10 cubic feet. We’re not comfortable with a seemingly empty fridge, and we tend to want to fill it. But a lot of food products can still spoil in a fridge after only a week, and a big one makes us buy more than we would be able to consume during that time. Refrigerators were also proven to decrease the value of food we put inside. Surveys have shown that we feel less guilty if we drop a carton of eggs that’s been sitting in the fridge for several days, as opposed to when we just got home with it from the supermarket.
7. Land, Water, and Biodiversity Simply Wasted Away
Another way of looking at our own inefficiency when it comes to food is to analyze the three criteria listed above. In 2007, the total land area used on food that eventually ended up at the dump was around 1.4 billion hectares. That’s more than Canada and India put together! The major contributors when it comes to food waste are meat and dairy. Now, even though these make up just 4 and 7 percent of all the wasted food, respectively, these squandered animal-based products take up a whopping 78% of the surface area mentioned above. To better understand this phenomenon, we should be aware that an area roughly the size of the entire African continent is made out of pasturelands, while a third of all arable land available is used for animal feed.
What’s more, roughly 10 million hectares of forest worldwide are being cleared annually. Food management inefficiency contributes to a large degree here – over 74% – with agricultural lands expanding into wild areas at an unprecedented rate. Overfishing is of serious concern, as well. It’s estimated that by 2048, there will no longer be any more commercially viable fish left in the oceans. This is in part because fishing is still seen as hunting, where fishermen catch as much as they possibly can – not because of demand, per se, but because other fishermen might catch them if they don’t. Secondly, size-selective fishing has cut the average size of fish in half over the past four decades, and has severely hindered their capacity to replenish their populations. Moreover, bycatch – or marine species caught unintentionally and then discarded – amounts to 27 million tons annually (since 1994). Over 300,000 whales, dolphins, sea turtles, and porpoises also die in fishnets every year.
When it comes to our fresh water supply, 70% goes into agriculture, 20% is used in industry, while the remaining 10% is for everyday, domestic use. Wasted food accounts for a quarter of all available fresh water on the globe. That’s equal to 3.6 times the amount of total water used in the United States, the annual discharge of the Volga River (the largest in Europe), or about 60 cubic miles in total.
6. Just a Quarter of All Food Waste Can Feed All the World’s Hungry
Yes, this is the sad reality we are currently living in. On average, the United States throws away enough food to fill up 730 football stadiums to the brim every year – half of which is untouched, fresh, and completely edible food. That’s equal to 20 pounds for every man, woman, and child per month. In other words, the United States, like many European countries, has twice as much food stacked on supermarket shelves and in restaurants than it actually needs to feed the American people. If we were to take into account the amount of corn, oats, and other edible plants used as animal feed, the United States has four times as much food as its population needs. And yet, 1 in 7 Americans need to use food banks or are struggling to put food on the table. That’s nearly 50 million people.
Internationally, well over 800 million people endure regular hunger or are malnourished. The 1.3 billion tons of food discarded for various reasons worldwide is enough to feed more than 3 billion people, or 10 times the population of the United States. Now, if we were to save a quarter of all the food wasted, we would be able to feed over 870 million people – more that the world’s entire hungry population. When looking at these numbers, we can see why some people call this the world’s dumbest problem. This incredible amount of excess can only be characterized as a success story that started some 12,000 years ago with the Agricultural Revolution. But our incredibly poor management pushes the planet’s ecological limits to the brink of collapse, and this success is quickly turning into a tragedy. It is estimated that by 2050, there will be over 9 billion people on Earth. Will the other 1.5 billion people have enough to eat, or will they go hungry?
5. Unsustainable Beauty Standards
Over the past several decades, we’ve gotten so used to the food abundance all around us that we’ve begun to grade our food in terms of its appearance. Never mind the fact that ‘ugly’ foods are totally good to eat – if they don’t meet absolute perfection in terms of their shape, size, or coloring, we simply throw it away. And by we, we’re referring to the farmers who grow this food in the first place. They’re not really to blame here, however, as they are the ones who have to bear the financial cost of this wasted food. A slight bump, a variation in color, or any other simple imperfection can downgrade a piece of fruit or vegetable from a Class I to a Class II, with a price decrease of two thirds or more.
This makes it completely unprofitable for the farmers to even pick them up – spending even more money, time, and energy in the process. Under normal circumstances, farmers throughout the entire agricultural industry have to leave more than a third of their harvest to rot on the ground because of these government-approved grades and standards. But these undesirable fruits and vegetables could easily find their way into the hands of people who actually need it, right? Yes, but unfortunately the cost of picking, packaging, storing, and shipping this produce is not covered by any reliable government grants or tax breaks, and farmers have to, first and foremost, look after their own bottom line.
And once these top grade foods do make it onto the shelves, supermarkets and grocery stores have to overstock so as to give the appearance of abundance. They are fully aware that if only a few items remain on display, people generally don’t want to buy them. This trend happens because we tend to assume that the last option is, more often than not, a bad option – which in this case is just false. And as a result, this overstocking leads to many items going bad, either on the shelves or in the store’s warehouse.
4. If It Was a Country, Food Waste Would Be the Third Largest Emitter of Greenhouse Gases
See? We told you that climate change stuff in the intro was on topic. Agriculture is, without a shadow of a doubt, humanity’s biggest impact on the planet. It takes, by far, the largest amount of land and water of any other activity. Soil degradation and water pollution are topics that we won’t even begin to touch on in this list, and instead, we’ll only try and focus on air pollution instead. After all, the change in the chemical composition of our atmosphere is what causes global warming and climate change in the first place. Worldwide, food waste accounts for 3.3 billion tons of CO2 and CO2 equivalents in the atmosphere. To put this into perspective, if it were a country, it would rank as the 3rd highest emitter after China and the United States – and that’s without actually subtracting these countries’ own share of wasted food. Nevertheless, these emissions can be broken down into two parts.
First, we have methane gas emissions coming from rotting food. If we were to throw away an apple core or a banana peel somewhere in the woods, it wouldn’t be a big deal. But when hundreds upon hundreds of tons of organic material are piled in landfills, this food waste begins to decompose in an air-depleted environment, which leads to the creation of methane gas. And as some of us know, methane gas is 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2. American landfills are responsible for 17% of all the country’s methane emissions. Second, we have all the energy that’s used to produce this food in the first place. It is estimated that for every one kcal of food, farmers use 3 kcal of fossil fuel energy. And this is before taking into account food processing, transportation, or storage. In 2003 alone, the United States consumed over 300 million barrels of oil on food that made it straight to the dump, where it almost immediately began churning out methane gas.
3. Misleading Expiration Dates
We don’t know about you guys, but we here at TopTenz used to suffer mini heart attacks every time we realized that the yogurt we’ve been so feverously munching down on was two days past its expiration date. But if you are anything like us (and if you are, our sincere condolences), then rest assured because as it turns out, almost all of these dates are complete BS. The bad news here is that these expiration dates are at best an approximation, and at worst, a way for food manufacturers to make a quick buck by indirectly telling us to throw away perfectly edible food and then go out and buy more. To date, only baby formula has a federally-required expiration date stamped on it, while all the other ‘best-by’ labels are up to the manufacturers themselves.
Expiration dates began appearing around the early ’70s when much of the population stopped growing and making their own food and began buying it from grocery stores. These stores then came up with the idea of an ‘Open Dating’ system, which is when a manufacturer voluntarily stamps a date on its food product, loosely indicating when the item will reach peak freshness (not when it will go bad). This method was used by retail stores to determine for how long to display it on their shelves. The ‘Closed Dating’ system, on the other hand, shows the date when the item was produced. Though helpful at first, this system ended up being taken too literally by consumers and is now a much bigger problem than a solution. Even though it’s almost impossible to determine how much edible food is thrown away based on these dates, surveys have shown that 54% of consumers believe that eating food past their best-by date is a health risk. What’s more, 91% of consumers have said that they occasionally throw away food past their ‘sell-by’ date, while 37% said that they always toss their food after its ‘best-by’ date.
The US government had several pieces of legislation in the works regarding these expiration dates, but with the exception of baby formula, none of them went into law – except maybe in our heads. In any case, this is by far the fastest and easiest way for any government to begin tackling the problem of food waste. In the meantime, everyday consumers shouldn’t take them too seriously and only use them as a base of reference. Even though they look official, they’re not.
2. The Landfill Lunch
With all the facts presented here about food waste, it could be quite hard to understand why politicians don’t talk about this issue, let alone do anything about it. To be fair, governments are oftentimes nothing more than the ‘mirror-reflection’ of the people they represent, and only after enough citizens actively demand something will things begin to change. Nevertheless, it’s never a bad idea to bring up the topic of food waste with the world’s political society. This is everyone’s problem, after all, and we all need to find a solution. And what better way to make politicians start talking food waste than to serve it to them at lunch, right? Well, this is exactly what happened during a 2015 UN Summit, where over 30 world leaders, including France’s then-president François Hollande and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, were seated at the dinner table and catered to by some of the world’s most prestigious chefs.
Everything seemed normal until they were presented with the US-themed menu. Prepared by renowned New York chef Dan Barber and former White House chef Sam Kass, the meal was comprised of, for starters, the so-called ‘Landfill Salad’, made out of vegetable scraps and sub-par apples and pears. The veggie burger was made out of “pulp left over from juicing,” and a “repurposed bread bun.” The fries were actually a kind of starchy corn used in animal feed, which makes up 99% of all the corn produced in the United States. And as refreshment, the distinguished guests were served “Chickpea Water”… or the liquid that’s drained from a can of chickpeas. In an interview, Barber said, “It’s the prototypical American meal but turned on its head. Instead of the beef, we’re going to eat the corn that feeds the beef. The challenge is to create something truly delicious out of what we would otherwise throw away.”
1. The Awesome Power of the Individual
As average citizens of the world, living in the relative comforts of anonymity, we oftentimes find it daunting and feel almost helpless to do anything about the global state of affairs. Even if we were to do our best and waste little to no food whatsoever, it would still feel like a drop in the ocean. But never underestimate the power of leading by example. Instead of feeling down – or worse yet, being part of the problem – disregard your negative feelings and focus on the positive. Convince several of your friends of the benefits of not wasting food, and before you know it, you might start a chain reaction that can alter the face of the world.
But let’s tone down the inspirational talk for a moment and focus on a real-life example instead. Selina Juul, a graphic designer living in Denmark, has been credited by the Danish government for singlehandedly helping the country reduce its food waste by 25% in just five years. Today, Denmark is the leading country in the worldwhen it comes to managing its food waste. The whole thing started several years ago when Juul established a lobby group called Stop Spild Af Mad (Stop Wasting Food). As a Russian immigrant, she moved to Denmark when she was 13 and was shocked by the sheer amount of food people were wasting on a daily basis.
“Coming from a place where there were food shortages and people queued for bread, I was amazed at how much was wasted in Denmark, so I started a Facebook page,” she said in an interview. Juul then began offering tips like, “encouraging people to make a list before they go to the supermarket or take a picture of the inside of your fridge with your phone, if you have no time.”
Three months later, and based on her ideas, Denmark’s largest supermarket chain began replacing its quantity discounts like “buy two get the third free” with single item discounts to minimize food waste. An average supermarket wasted on average 100 bananas per day, but after they put up a sign saying “take me I’m single,” the number of discarded bananas dropped by 90%. Today, every supermarket in Denmark uses at least one food-saving strategy. “She basically changed the entire mentality in Denmark,”said Maria Noel, communication officer at a Danish retail company.
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German Authorities Investigating How Gun Control Failed In Munich Attack
In the wake of Friday’s shooting rampage in Munich—where a lone gunman murdered nine people and wounded 27 more using a 9 mm pistol with the serial number filed off—German officials are investigating why that country’s gun-control laws, described by the U.S. Library of Congress as “among the most stringent in Europe,” failed.
The gunman did not have a license to possess a firearm, according to The Independent—possibly because, according to Reuters, he “had spent time in psychiatric care,” which presumably should have disqualified him from owning a firearm under Germany’s laws. Nonetheless, those laws did not prevent him from purchasing the firearm “on the so-called ‘dark net,’ a part of the Internet accessible only via special software.”
Instead of pushing bans on starter pistols and more restrictions on law-abiding citizens, maybe the Europeans should consider how the right to arms might protect innocent citizens against such attacks.
Gun-Ban Groups Love Hillary’s VP Choice
It’s not hard to tell that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s newly named vice presidential pick, Tim Kaine, is just as anti-gun as she is—simply look at the people who are praising the selection.
The choice of Kaine, who is rated “F” by NRA’s Political Victory Fund, is being lauded by two of the most anti-gun groups fighting against the Second Amendment-protected rights of America’s law-abiding gun owners. “Since the very beginning of Moms Demand Action, Sen. Kaine has been a champion of our organization and cause,” Michael Bloomberg’s Demanding Moms head Shannon Watts wrote on Saturday. “He’s been there for us every step of the way, and now we’ll make sure Clinton/Kaine wins the White House.”
Not to be outdone, Everytown—another anti-gun Bloomberg-funded Astroturf group—also cheered Kaine’s selection. “With a Clinton-Kaine ticket, it’s clear that the political calculus has changed: Candidates are now running on a platform of gun safety and bucking the NRA, from the presidential ticket on down,” Everytown President John Fienblatt said after the announcement.
Bloomberg Joins Obama And Biden At DNC To Endorse Hillary Clinton
New York City billionaire and shrill anti-NRA activist Michael Bloomberg is scheduled to endorse Hillary Clinton—one of the most anti-gun presidential candidates ever—at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Wednesday night. A close adviser, Stu Loeser, says this is clear sign of Bloomberg’s dismay at the Republican nomination of Donald Trump, even though he’s never had an especially warm relationship with Clinton.
Bloomberg has spent the past few years, and millions of dollars, battling the National Rifle Association and pushing for more restrictive gun-control legislation nationwide. The former Democrat (then Republican mayor of New York City, and now Independent) had also recently considered his own run at the White House.
However, Bloomberg decided his campaign could split the Democratic vote and give Trump an easier path to the presidency. Bloomberg is expected to speak in a prime time slot, followed by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Baltimore Ups Illegal Gun Arrests, But Releases Lawbreakers Quickly
Baltimore appears to be doing all the right things in its quest to lower violent crime. With a renewed focus on apprehending “trigger pullers” and seizing guns from criminals, police have arrested 822 on gun charges so far this year, an increase of 46 percent over last year. Yet homicides are down just 7 percent compared with the same period last year.
So why aren’t the arrests having any effect? You need look no further than the 822 arrested. Of those, only 52 have been found guilty in court—the rest were either found not guilty, had charges dropped, or charges are still pending. For the 52 found guilty, reduced and suspended sentences mean they will spend just over a year in prison before hitting the streets again.
“There's no deterrent; there's no consequence,” said Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis. “The bad guys know it, and they take advantage of it."
Alabama: Armed Property Owner Captures Escaped Inmate
Escaped inmate Jeffrey Scott checked out of the Loxley Work Release Center near Mobile, Ala., on June 23 and never returned. Authorities have been hunting him ever since.
That is, until Friday night, when the owner of a cabin in Coffee County, Ala., went to check on his property and found Scott inside the cabin. According to local media reports, the property owner ordered Scott to not leave, then held him at gunpoint until deputies arrived.
Dale County Chief Deputy Mason Bynum told WSFA.com that the owner of the cabin fired shots when Scott initially wouldn't comply, convincing him to stay put until law-enforcement officials were on the scene. No one was injured.
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Shayne Looper: The empty promise: Salvation without a savior
If it were not for Christmas and Easter, it is doubtful network executives would think of producing a show with exclusively religious content. When the holidays do roll around, producers seem to draw from the same small group of scholars, most of whom are outside the pale of orthodoxy. Some are even atheists or agnostics.
Some of these scholars approach the biblical evidence with the presupposition that the events recorded there did not actually happen. They deny the Gospel accounts are based on eye-witness reports, as their authors purported them to be. Instead, they assume them to be fabricated - or at least grandly embellished - by the early church as a way of giving their movement legitimacy.
What one ends up with is religion without God - a religion in which God is superfluous. God’s very existence becomes a matter of little consequence. St. Paul might have described such a religion as “a form of godliness but denying its power.”
The absence of God in these religious constructs is no accident. Since at least the late 18th century, there have been powerful forces that have worked to separate God from the earth; to lock him in heaven (or fantasy land, as some might have it) so that humans can go about making the world right in their own way.
We haven’t done a very good job. More people died by oppressive violence in the last century than in all previous centuries combined. Communist regimes alone are responsible, according to some estimates, for the death of 100 million people. But violence has not been limited to communists nor did it end with the last century. In the first two decades of the new millennium, there have been genocidal conflicts in Sudan, Myanmar, Iraq, Syria and the Central African Republic. There have been civil wars and mass casualties in these and other regions, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Yemen.
Some of these conflicts have a religious backstory, which suggests to some people that faith in God is not only unable to deliver humanity from brutality but is responsible for it. So people, especially in the West, look to other means of deliverance. Psychotherapy was once thought to be such a power; economic equality still is. But chief among the God-alternatives is Education.
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has written: “Education is the key to eliminating gender inequality, to reducing poverty, to creating a sustainable planet, to preventing needless deaths and illness, and to fostering peace.” Long before Duncan, the chief priest for education was the atheist philosopher John Dewey, who believed the construction of a new social order would come from the modern school, not the antiquated church.
Most people would not go as far as Dewey, who insisted there “is no need for the props of traditional religion.” Yet, like him, they look to lower-case gods for deliverance, especially to education. There is, however, little reason to believe that education can now succeed at what it has so far failed to deliver, but if one refuses to acknowledge God, there are few other places to turn.
Some people are looking for salvation without a savior, justice without a judge and utopia without a heaven. Not surprisingly, such an arrangement leaves humans - especially those from the enlightened West - in control. It promises a salvation that will deliver the world from greed, bigotry, and all forms of oppression, while leaving us unchanged.
People want justice without a Judge. Justice, in the abstract, is a favorite theme these days, but the idea of a judge is off-limits. We all want justice - but don’t you dare judge me.
People want utopia without a heaven. Of course, that hope was held out by a previous generation of communist thinkers - even as their regimes were busy eliminating 100 million undesirables. Today, in some circles, a redesigned socialism is promising freedom and fulfillment, but it’s just another lower-case god.
Salvation without a savior is a pipedream. Perhaps humanity could save itself, if it were just our circumstances that needed to change. But it is not just humanity’s circumstances which must change; it is humanity itself - and that is the job of an upper-case God, humanity’s creator and redeemer.
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International Monetary Fund appoints Gita Gopinath as chief economist
Will WillittsOnline editor
Updated Oct 2, 2018 — 7.21am, first published at 6.29am
Washington | IMF managing director Christine Lagarde has appointed Harvard University professor Gita Gopinath as chief economist.
Gopinath, 46, a professor of international studies and economics at Harvard, will succeed Maurice Obstfeld who will retire at the end of the year, the IMF said.
She is the third woman to head a major international financial organisation, joining Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg who has that role at the World Bank, also based in Washington, and Laurence Boone at the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Bloomberg
"Gita is one of the world's outstanding economists, with impeccable academic credentials, a proven track record of intellectual leadership, and extensive international experience," Lagarde said in a statement.
"All this makes her exceptionally well-placed to lead our Research Department at this important juncture. I am delighted to name such a talented figure as our chief economist."
Gopinath is co-editor of the American Economic Review and co-director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She has authored some 40 research articles on exchange rates, trade, international financial crises and monetary policy, the statement said.
A native of India, Gopinath received her PhD in economics from Princeton University in 2001 after earning a BA from the University of Delhi and MA degrees from both the Delhi School of Economics and University of Washington.
In an interview with The Economic Times, Gopinath said, "When I was doing my bachelors from Delhi University, India experienced its first major external financing and currency crisis in 1990-91. This inspired me to pursue graduate work in economics and was the foundation for my interest in international finance."
Gita Gopinath has been appointed chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. IMF
Will is an online editor based in Sydney. He previously worked with Reuters and Bloomberg. Connect with Will on Twitter. Email Will at wwillitts@afr.com
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Colwood’s Shawn Kosmuk Restores 1969 Ford Mustang
Classic car celebrates 50 years with a new look
– Story by Sean McIntyre Photographs by Don Denton
Colwood’s Shawn Kosmuk never considered himself a Mustang fan, but instinct and circumstance had other plans. For the past seven years, Shawn has been hard at work rebuilding a vintage 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1. With the car nearly restored to its original state, he’s prepared to concede he may have a little Mustang blood in his veins after all.
“I’ve been into cars my whole life, but I’ve never typically been a Mustang guy. I just like that body style, and everybody says 1969 is the year to have if you’re going to have one,” he says. “I see cars as art and this one looks beautiful to me.”
Shawn Kosmuk stands with his 1969 Mustang at Esquimalt Lagoon.
Shawn may not have realized it at the time, but his connection to the classic car started when he was a child, watching 1968’s Oscar-winning Bullitt. The movie features actor Steve McQueen driving a 1968 Mustang in what film critic Emanuel Levy called “one of the most exciting car chases in film history, a sequence that revolutionized Hollywood’s standards.” The 11-minute ride through the streets of San Fransisco is widely thought to have cemented the film’s status as an instant classic.
Shawn may not be burning rubber and squealing turns amidst local landmarks like Fisherman’s Wharf and the Coit Tower, but he’s having a great time making do with the hills and curves of Southern Vancouver Island.
“It’s an absolute joy to go up around these hills. It smells and feels like you’re getting into a race car, and it’s just so freeing — you just go out for a cruise and listen to the engine,” he says. “I have so much fun driving it that it’s hard to find time to do the work on it.”
Front grill and headlights on Shawn Kosmuk’s 1969 Mustang at Esquimalt Lagoon.
Shawn figures he’s completed about 98 per cent of his restoration but jokes that work on a classic car is never really finished. He began working on it about seven years ago, when he picked it up near his former home near Caroline, Alberta, about 60 kilometres southwest of Red Deer. The car’s previous owner acquired it from a Seattle resident, but no longer had the time and energy to commit to what promised to be a massive restoration project.
“When I got it it was half yellow and half black. The original colour was lime green,” he says.
Shawn filled garbage bag after garbage bag with peelings from 11 layers of paint as he got down to bare metal. He carved out corrosion and welded in new rear-quarter panels, straightened out what appeared to be some minor collision damage on the front end and completely rebuilt the car’s 395-horsepower engine.
View of motor in Shawn Kosmuk’s 1969 Mustang.
When he moved to the coast about two years ago, the Mustang was one of the few personal possessions Shawn brought with him from the prairies. The result is a near-fully-restored classic muscle car that’’s attracting attention across the West Shore.
“Anytime I stop, I’m constantly getting thumbs up and whistled at,” he says. “It’s a typical muscle car. It’s a little bit loud, and it likes to go fast.”
Since the Mustang has its original suspension and drum brakes, driving it serves up one heck of a workout. And despite the car’s sleek exterior, Shawn says, its handling characteristics require a “special touch” behind the wheel — something that’s given Shawn a new appreciation for how far car technology has evolved in the 50 years since this car first hit the road.
“I can’t imagine what things were like before this because they thought this was amazing for its time,” he says. “It’s fun to drive, but it’s also a good reminder of how far we’ve come in such little time.”
Rear view of Shawn Kosmuk’s 1969 Mustang at Esquimalt Lagoon..
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World champ competitor Zach Clay got his start in gymnastics in Langley and returns this weekend
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Aladdin - Birmingham Royal Ballet Tour Dates and Concerts | allgigs.co.uk
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Aladdin - Birmingham Royal Ballet
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"Created for the National Ballet of Japan in 2008, Aladdin boasts choreography by the creator of Birmingham Royal Ballet's brilliant Cinderella and music by Carl Davis, composer of the Company's Cyrano and numerous well-known television scores including Pride and Prejudice, Cranford, The World at War and Up Pompeii.
A run-in with Palace guards leads young tearaway Aladdin into a whirlwind of adventure and romance, involving unbelievable riches, love at first sight, treachery, and of course a magic lamp, and all that it contains...
Duped into helping an evil Maghrib, Aladdin finds himself trapped in a cave for three days and nights, with no light and nothing to eat. But it is only when he attempts to light the old lamp he's found, that his real adventure begins!
When he finally returns home, Aladdin's mother thinks he is telling stories, but she soon finds out the real value of the battered old lamp he has brought with him. When Aladdin falls in love and lands himself in more hot water through his pursuit of the Emperor's beautiful daughter, his mother uses the lamp to secure his freedom and Aladdin wins the Princess's hand in marriage. But Aladdin hasn't realised that the Emperor's chief advisor is the evil Maghrib, and his adventures haven't ended yet."
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Exercise Science in Texas
Career in Texas
Salary in Texas
Exercise Science Schools by State
Exercise Science Degree in Texas
Exercise Science Degrees in Texas - TX
Colleges, universities, and online schools are all great places to find exercise science degrees in Texas. Students that prefer classroom-based instruction will be pleased to discover many on-site programs available throughout this southern state in cities such as Seguin, Arlington, Houston, Clarendon, Lubbock, Austin, Waco, Denton, Tyler, Fort Worth, Abilene, San Antonio, Wichita Falls, and College Station.
By graduating from an exercise science program, students can earn a number of different undergraduate and graduate degrees. Examples of undergraduate degrees available in Texas include: Associate in Kinesiology and Exercise Science; Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Sport Sciences--Exercise Science; Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science; Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and Exercise Science; and Bachelor of Science in Exercise Physiology. Graduate programs that offer degrees in exercise science include: Master of Science in Exercise and Sport Sciences with concentrations in Clinical Exercise Physiology, Exercise Physiology, and Exercise and Sport Psychology; Master of Science in Clinical Exercise Physiology; Master of Science in Exercise and Sports Nutrition; Master of Science in Kinesiology--Exercise Science; and PhD in Kinesiology--Exercise Physiology.
Of course, on-site programs that offer exercise science degrees in Texas are not the only ones in existence. In fact, more than ever students are taking advantage of online schools and distance learning programs because degrees can be completed from the convenience of home or office and course schedules are often designed to allow more flexibility. This option is especially attractive for students that are employed full-time or have commuting conflicts. By completing an online exercise science program, students can earn a Bachelor of Arts in Health Care Studies--Exercise Science degree or a Master of Science in Exercise Science and Health Promotion degree with concentrations in Wellness and Fitness, Performance Enhancement and Injury Prevention, Sport Psychology, and Rehabilitation Science.
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The sun sets behind a statue of Mary on Apparition Hill in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this 2011 file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Commission reportedly thought first seven Medjugorje visions were real
Cindy Wooden
News, Vatican
VATICAN CITY – The commission that now-retired Pope Benedict XVI established to study the alleged apparitions of Mary at Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, reportedly voted overwhelmingly to recognize as supernatural the first seven appearances of Mary in 1981.
However, according to a report published by the website Vatican Insider, the commission was much more doubtful about the thousands of alleged visions that have occurred since July 4, 1981, and supposedly continue to this day.
Two of the 17 commission members and consultants thought the alleged visions after the period of June 24-July 3, 1981, were not supernatural, while the other members said it was not possible to make a judgment.
The commission said it was clear that the six alleged visionaries and a seventh who claims to have begun receiving messages from Mary in December 1982 were not given adequate spiritual support.
Vatican Insider published its piece on the report May 16, three days after Pope Francis spoke about some details of the report to journalists traveling with him from Fatima, Portugal.
The Vatican press office May 17 declined to comment on the Vatican Insider piece.
Speaking to journalists May 13, Pope Francis said that, regarding the Medjugorje commission’s work, “three things need to be distinguished.”
“About the first apparitions, when (the ‘seers’) were young, the report more or less says that the investigation needs to continue,” the pope said, according to the English translation posted on the Vatican website.
“Concerning the alleged current apparitions, the report expresses doubts,” he said. Furthermore, “personally, I am more ‘mischievous.’ I prefer Our Lady to be a mother, our mother, and not a telegraph operator who sends out a message every day at a certain time – this is not the mother of Jesus.”
Pope Francis said his “personal opinion” is that “these alleged apparitions have no great value.”
The “real core” of the commission’s report, he said, is “the spiritual fact, the pastoral fact” that thousands of pilgrims go to Medjugorje and are converted. “For this there is no magic wand; this spiritual-pastoral fact cannot be denied.”
The spiritual fruits of the pilgrimages, he said, are the reason why in February he appointed Polish Archbishop Henryk Hoser of Warsaw-Praga to study the best ways to provide pastoral care to townspeople and the pilgrims.
According to Vatican Insider, 13 of the 14 commission members present at one meeting voted to recommend lifting the Vatican ban on official diocesan and parish pilgrimages to Medjugorje.
The commission also recommended turning the town’s parish Church of St. James into a pontifical shrine with Vatican oversight. The move, the commission said, would not signify recognition of the apparitions, but would acknowledge the faith and pastoral needs of the pilgrims while ensuring a proper accounting of the financial donations pilgrims leave.
The commission’s role was to make recommendations to the pope; its report is not an official church judgment on the apparitions. Pope Francis told reporters May 13 that “in the end, something will be said,” but he gave no timeline.
Copyright ©2017 Catholic News Service/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Catholic News Service is a leading agency for religious news. Its mission is to report fully, fairly and freely on the involvement of the church in the world today.
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Pianist Ed Czach earned his BM and MM at the prestigious Eastman School of Music. He's toured extensively in the US and Europe as music director/pianist with diverse artists including Broadway and "Roots" star Ben Vereen, Grammy-nominated alt/pop singer Sophie B. Hawkins, Tony award-winning blues/gospel icon Linda Hopkins, Hollywood legend Mitzi Gaynor, and L.A. blues favorite and KJZZ host Doug MacLeod.
Ed served as music director and conductor for a national tour of the Tony Award-winning Radio City Revival of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," and has appeared as guest conductor/pianist with the NY Pops at Carnegie Hall, the Portland Symphony, the Seattle Symphony and others.
Active in the L.A. jazz scene, Ed has played and recorded with the Grammy-nominated Dave Slonaker Big Band, the Mark Masters Ensemble, Luther Hughes's Cannonball/Coltrane Project, and Bruce Babad (#2 on national jazz radio charts). He's had numerous engagements backing celebrated jazz artists including Mel Torme, Clark Terry, Chuck Mangione, Gary Foster, and Bob Sheppard.
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Home From Our Readers Guest Commentary
The Present and Future Multiple Myeloma Landscape
The rapid pace of drug approvals in multiple myeloma (MM) shows no sign of abating. In the past two years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the immune modulator pomalidomide and the proteasome inhibitor carfilzomib for the treatment of late-stage MM. These drugs now are being investigated in the early relapse and, for carfilzomib, frontline settings.
Earlier this year, panobinostat joined the ranks of FDA-approved drugs, the first of a new class of agents for MM patients – histone deaceytelases (HDAC) inhibitors. And the list of approved drugs is very likely to be expanded soon, with the anticipated approval of two monoclonal antibodies, elotzumumab and daratumumab.
This plenitude of new agents has already spawned a cottage industry of combination therapies, both with new drugs or in combination with the widely employed stalwarts bortezomib and lenalidomide. In one example, clinical trials evaluating panobinostat combined with carfilzomib have reported reduced toxicity, offering a new approach for the treatment of MM. These approaches offer hope of further extending and possibly curing patients with this disease.
Unfortunately, though, many patients with myeloma will inevitably relapse, exhausting the available drug options. There is still more work to be done – especially in the area of novel drug targets. For example, a new generation of drugs including venetoclax, which targets ABT-199, and selinexor, which targets nuclear transport, seem promising, as do trametinib, which targets KRAS mutations, and dinaciclib, which targets CDK5. More research with all of these agents is being undertaken.
However, with all of the innovative drugs in the pipeline, recent data seem to suggest that transplantation is still a very powerful option. We can expect an update from the French IMF trial on this subject at this year’s ASH annual meeting in December. For now, it seems that transplantation is here to stay.
In the future, I think we will start seeing more targeted agents for specific subsets of patients, and targeting MM translocations remains a promising route for the future. This can include FGFR3 inhibitors in the t(4;14) MM subtype, venetoclax for the t(11;14) subtype, and proteasome inhibitors in high-risk patients. There is also great hope in the immuno-
oncology space, with checkpoint inhibitors, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, bispecific T-cell engager antibodies, and monoclonal antibodies in development.
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TV Review: GLEE – Season 4 – “The New Rachel” – Season Premiere
By CARL CORTEZ 09/14/2012
Stars: Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Chord Overstreet, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz, Whoopi Goldberg, Kate Hudson Writer: Ryan Murphy Director: Brad Falchuk Network: Fox, airs Thursdays Original Telecast: September 13, 2012 A lot has changed for GLEE and the show choir New Directions as Season 4 begins. After a Nationals win last season, the Glee club has become surprisingly “popular.” Always on the outside, they’re now on the inside and it’s affected everyone’s ego. They’ve become monsters! And everyone wants to be […]Read On »
Breaking News: The scoop on GLEE Season 4 and how it will balance Ohio and New York storylines – TCA 2012
By A.C. FERRANTE 07/23/2012
With GLEE entering its fourth season with storylines set in Ohio and New York, Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly reveals this new structure has worked out quite nicely with the three scripts he’s read so far. “I’m very happy with how seamless it is,” says Reilly. “There is a thematic linkage between the two. I think it’s going to be an event for fun for the audience not knowing who is going to show up when. We have a core of returning character we will be servicing every week and limited deals with some actors joining here or there.” Reilly […]Read On »
TV Review: GLEE – Season 3 – “Goodbye” – Season Finale
Stars: Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz Writer: Brad Falchuk Director: Brad Falchuk Network: Fox, airs Tuesday nights Original Telecast: May 22, 2012 In what feels more like a series finale rather than a season finale, the “Goodbye” episode of GLEE is another strong showing from a series that has really been firing on all cylinders the last few weeks. With so many of the “senior” class splintering off, this episode is about our core […]Read On »
Exclusive Interview: GLEE creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan on the hit Fox series
By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/22/2012
GLEE’s third-season finale airs tonight, Tuesday May 22, on Fox. We caught up with two of GLEE’s creators/executive producers, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan (the third creator/executive producer is Brad Falchuk) for a short chat about the journey so far. ASSIGNMENT X: At what point in GLEE’s life did you realize you had not just a TV series, but a pop culture phenomenon? RYAN MURPHY: I was out of the country shooting [EAT PRAY LOVE starring Julia Roberts] when it sort of all happened. I think it was the episode [“The Rhodes Not Taken”] that was the first Kristin Chenoweth […]Read On »
TV Review: GLEE – Season 3 – “Nationals”
Stars: Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz Writer: Ali Adler Director: Eric Stoltz Network: Fox, airs Tuesday nights Original Telecast: May 15, 2012 In the second half of the two-hour GLEE marathon, “Nationals” finally finds New Directions coming together for the big event they’ve been waiting three years for. After last year’s disastrous Nationals, the group is doing everything they can to win in order to have that lasting victory lap after being called losers […]Read On »
TV Review: GLEE – Season 3 – “Props”
Stars: Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz Writer: Ian Brennan Director: Ian Brennan Network: Fox, airs Tuesday nights Original Telecast: May 15, 2012 More GLEE goodness arrives with one of the season’s most inventive episodes – “Props.” Taking a cue a FREAKY FRIDAY cue, the put-upon Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) who rarely gets to sing or gets noticed, bumps her head and for about ten minutes every GLEE cast member is suddenly embodying somebody else. This […]Read On »
TV Review: GLEE – Season 3 – “Prom-asauras”
Stars: Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz Writer: Ryan Murphy Director: Eric Stoltz Network: Fox, airs Tuesday nights Original Telecast: May 8, 2012 Sometimes GLEE hits an almost giddy high of capturing the essence of 1980s teen angst films while also living up to the potential of the first half of its own Season 1. With “Prom-asauras” there are still remnants of the things that frustrate long-time fans (myself included), but it’s made up by […]Read On »
TV Review: GLEE – Season 3 – “Choke”
Stars: Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz Writer: Marti Noxon Director: Michael Uppendahl Network: Fox, airs Tuesday nights Original Telecast: May 1, 2012 With graduation looming for many of the students at McKinley High, the recent stories for GLEE have become more focused. Whereas most TV shows would deal with graduation and the end of high school during the last couple of the episodes, GLEE has made it a point to wring every kind of […]Read On »
Exclusive Photos from THE THREE STOOGES World Premiere
By SUE SCHNEIDER 04/28/2012
Recently in Hollywood, on a very hot day, 20th Century Fox held the World Premiere of THE THREE STOOGES at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. If you remember the TV show THE THREE STOOGES, Larry, Curly and Moe were always finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking and woo-woo-wooing. The trend continues in this big screen release. THE THREE STOOGES, Sean Hayes (Larry), Will Sasso (Curly) and Moe (Chris Diamontopoulos) in costume, arrived in a Rickshaw to the screams of the fans that lined the street. After they got out of costume, Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamontopoulos came back down the carpet. Joining them […]Read On »
TV Review: GLEE – Season 3 – “Saturday Night Glee-ver”
Stars: Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz Writer: Matthew Hodgson Director: Bradley Buecker Network: Fox, airs Tuesday nights Original Telecast: April 18, 2012 Watching the latest episode of GLEE, you couldn’t help but feel like the show was out of ideas and episode titles. Paying homage to one of the best selling soundtracks of all time – SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER – the episode is dubbed “Saturday Night Glee-ver” because, well, no one could have come […]Read On »
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What is Windows 10?
Microsoft’s latest version of the Windows operating system, Windows 10, is a great new tool that businesses can leverage for greater productivity. However, Windows 10 is far more than just an upgrade to previous versions of the Windows operating system. In fact, Microsoft’s new OS improves significantly in areas where Windows 8 and 8.1 failed to produce the engagement Microsoft was expecting.
Upgrading to the latest operating system can often be a hassle, especially for the small and medium-sized business. That’s why Aniar IT Services wants to help you make the best decision possible for the future of your company’s technology systems. Here are some of the great new features and opportunities Windows 10 provides for the average SMB.
The Return of Familiar Features
A slick, yet familiar, user interface.
Windows 10 takes the many features that users of Windows 7 love, and combines them with a sleek Metro-like interface similar to Windows 8. The Start menu, which was strangely absent with Windows 8, makes its return, as does the classic search feature. The return of a classic Windows interface means that businesses don’t have to invest as much time into training their staff on how to use Windows 10, compared to Windows 8 and 8.1. Windows 10 is designed to work on all devices, from Windows Phone to tablets, to desktops, making it a universal experience for users of any device.
New Customizable Features
Your Windows, your way.
Windows 10 offers several new features and customization settings for others. For example, you can customize what apps appear in your Start menu and taskbar. If you can think of it, chances are that you can probably customize it in Windows 10. Besides the improvements to the customization settings, Windows 10 comes with several new features and applications, like Microsoft’s new browser, Edge, and Cortana, a desktop voice assistant that can also be found on Windows Phone.
Built-in Security Features
Protect your business from the ground up.
Microsoft has gone to great lengths to make Windows 10 the most secure Windows OS so far. It was designed specifically with security in mind, and contains several features, such as biometric settings, identity protection, cryptographic processing, and hardware-based security features that are all designed to augment and protect users of Windows 10. With the many new, built-in security features that Windows 10 offers, you’ll be more confident that your systems, augmented by your other IT security solutions, are secured and protected at all times.
Implement Windows 10 Today
Fully utilize Microsoft’s latest operating system.
We’ve barely scratched the surface for reasons to use Windows 10. The best way to know why to use Windows 10 is to use it for yourself. Taking advantage of Windows 10 doesn’t have to be challenging. Aniar IT Services’s professional technicians know all about the difficulties of upgrading to a new operating system. If you’re unsure of whether or not you should upgrade to Windows 10, give us a call at 094 90 48200 . We’d be happy to discuss any and all concerns you have about your IT infrastructure and upgrading to new technology.
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History, Politics & Society / History of England / The Battle of Hastings / Monarchy
Who killed King Harold?
King Harold II (Harold Godwinson); was killed at the Battle of Hastings.
Who killed King Harold any why?
Harold hardrada was killed by Harold Godwinson in the battle of hastings
Who killed king Harold godwinson?
King william of normandy kill's king harold godwinson
Who became king after Harold haadrada?
Harold Haadrada did not become King of England. (CORRECTION!) He was killed by the legitimate King of England, Harold Godwinson (Harold I), at Stamford Bridge. King Harold then had to march South to face William of Normandy, and was killed at Hastings. William then became King, and his successors have been on the throne ever since.
What happened to king Harold in 1066?
King Harold was killed in the battle of Hastings, an arrow in his eye, painful!
Who killed Harold Hardaada?
Harold Godwinson, who was king of England at the time of the battle of Hastings, killed Harold Hardraada at the battle of Stamford Bridge.
What actions did William take when he found out that Harold became king of England?
William killed Harold and then became king
How does king Harold kill William?
Harold did not kill William. William killed Harold by shooting an arrow in his eye.
When was king Harold killed?
Why did Harold king get killed?
because he saw your face
Who was Harold godwinson 1066?
He was King Of England. Harold was defeated and killed at the Battle of Hastings, 1066, by William of Normandy, who then became king.
Reasons for Harold hardrada never to be king of England?
harald hadrada was killed by Harold godwinson
Why did William want to kill Harold?
You need to be clearer on which Harold Harold Hadrada or Harold Godwinson. but William fought and killed Harold g because he couldn't claim the throne until Harold g was dead. so he Killed Harold to become king. does that answer your question
Why did Harold not win the battle was it the arrow in his eye?
The Normans had many advantages over King Harold. So, yes, one of them was that King Harold was killed. However, Wikipedia states that there was an account of the battle that stated that he was killed by four nights and dismembered.
Which king was killed in 1066 of the Battle of Hastings?
harold godwinson
Why did William the Conqueror kill of the British population before he came to the throne?
he killed many of the English, and then he finally reached King Harold, and then killed him. Once King Harold was dead, William the Conqueror became the new King of England.
Who was the king before William the Conqueror?
wrong it is in fact Harold godwinson. William duke of normandys arm killed Harold so he became king
In 1066 was king Harold the king of England?
Yes, Harold was king in 1066 until the Battle of Hastings when Harold was shot in the eye with an arrow by William of Normandy's army. After Harold had been killed William became king and went around killing most of the english and robbing their houses.
What is the story of thomas becket?
He got killed by the king and when he died then Harold godwinson became king.
Where was Harold hurt by an arrow?
King Harold is supposed to have been killed by an arrow which hit his eye and entered his brain.
How come Harold godwinson got to be king not William duke of Normandy?
Harold Godwinson was never The King he fought William Duke of Normandy but failed and was killed. The Duke killed both of his challengers and won the throne.
What happened to king Harold in the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
King Harold was actually killed at the battle of hastings, supposedly by an lucky Norman arrow through is eye, but historians only know that he was killed at the battle and not in what manner it occured.
Why did William fight Harold?
I think this is right. William fighted Harold because Harold got crowned king when William was promised to. so William fighted Harold to be king. nearly but William killed Harold because he was too impationt to wait for Harold to die so he could become king acttually, they fout for land
How did william the conquerer become king?
He killed the previous King (Harold Godwinson) at the Battle of Hastings in 1066
Who is Harold Godwin?
Harold Godwinson was king of England until he was killed at the battle of Hastings. He was the son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex.
How did king Harold Godwinson defend England from Harold Hardrada and William Duke of Normandy?
Harold g killed Hardrada in the battle of Stanford brigde but William defeats Harold g
What was the date of the death of Harold Godwinson?
Harold Godwinson - Harold the second - was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England and was killed at the Battle of Hastings on 14th October 1066.
When did William defeat England's King Harold at the Battle of Hastings?
The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066. William of Normandy defeated King Harold II, who was killed, and William became King of England.
Was Harold crowned the king in the Battle of Hastings?
Yes!!! Harold Godwienson got crowned king during the battle of Hastings! But not for long. Harold Godwienson beat Harald Hadraada in the 1st part but then he unfortunately got killed by William the Conqueror.
What key events did William of Normandy do to be king of England?
He defeated the Anglo-Saxon army of Harold 1 in October 1066. Harold was killed during the battle which allowed William to become king.
What actually killed King Harold Hadrada?
On the Bayeux Tapestry it is shown that Harold got an arrow in the eye. I have heard it said he was actually killed in Melee against the Norman cavalry, probably by sword strike.
Who died at the Battle of Stamford Bridge?
Harold Godwinson (King Harold II) had killed the Norwegian leader called Harald Hardrada in 1066. Harold II's traitorous brother Tostig was also killed fighting with the Norwegians. Stamford Bridge is in Yorkshire, England.
Who was king after King Harold?
King William was king after Harold
Who was the king of England after Edward the Confessor?
Harold II, the King who was killed at the Battle of Hastings, and whose government was then overthrown by William I (the Conqueror).
Who was the next anglo-saxon king after edward the confessor?
The Anglo-Saxon king after Edward the Confessor was Harold Godwinson. Harold Godwinson ruled from January to October 1066 when he was killed in the Battle of Hastings.
Who took throne afer defeat of Harold?
William Duke of Normandy.
Who was the ruler of England in 1066?
England had no one ruler in 1066. When the year began, King Edward III was the king. He died. Harold then became king. Then William, the Duke of the French Province of Normandy, killed Harold. Then both William and Edgar Atheling claimed to be the King of England. Then William killed Edgar. At the end of 1066, William became the undisputed King of England.
Who defeated Harold of Wessex at the Battle of Hastins?
Duke William the Second of Normandy defeated King Harold the Second of Wessex at the Battle of Hastings. The battle occurred in October 1066 and Harold was killed.
Why didn't they trust Harold Godwinson's wife if she was the only witness?
Because she was the wife of (English King) Harold (Godwinson) who was defeated and killed at Hastings by William the Conqueror.
Was Harold king of England?
Yes but only for a short time because he was killed at the Battle of Hasting in 1066
What happened to the Anglo Saxons during the battle of hastings?
They were defeated, Harold was killed and William became king.
Why was the Battle of Stamford Bridge fought?
This was a battle between King Harold II of England and King Harald III of Norway for the English crown. the English won and Harald was killed. A few weeks later Harold himself was killed at the battle of Hastings and William, Duke of Normandy, became King of England. The contenders for the throne were, Edgar 'The Atheling' , Harold Hadrada, William Duke of Normandy and Harold Godwinson. The new king was needed because the… Read More
Was the King of Norway Harold Godwinson?
No. Harald Hardrada (Harald III) was the Norwegian king who invaded England in 1066 and was killed fighting the English king Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Godwinson himself was killed only three weeks later at the Battle of Hastings, losing his throne to William of Normandy. Godwinson had been the king of England for just nine months.
Which king died at the Battle of Hastings and how?
King Harold; some say he got an arrow in the eye, others say he was trampled by aNorman knight and some say he was disemboweled, beheaded and killed by 4 knights. This is shown in the Bayeux Tapestry and above it in Latin it says "King Harold is killed". However, to this day nobody really knows how he died.
What does the name Harold mean?
In England, Harold means army commander. Army, weald power. Derivative of Hereweald. Famous Bearers: King Harold II of England who was killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066. In Scandinavia, Harold means army ruler.
Who was the viking that was killed by an arrow?
In the Bayeux tapestry, the "viking" is none other than Harold Godwinson, the king at that time.
What is the duration of Who Killed Harold Holt?
The duration of Who Killed Harold Holt? is 3600.0 seconds.
Why did William become king in 1066?
Harold Godwinson went to Harald Hardrada then killed Harald and his troops. Then William invaded and Harold Godwinson died with a arrow n his eye
Why did Harold win the Battle of Hastings?
King Harold did not win the Battle of Hastings. He was killed toward the end, which caused his army to retreat. This marked the beginning of the Norman takeover of England.
Why was harlod godwinson a good king?
Harold Godwinson was a good king because he was loyal and made great use of being what he was. Harold became king because Edward the conqueror married his sister and he was the closest relative to the throne. but unluckily shortly after he became king he was killed in the battle of Hastings in 1066.
What was King Harold Godwinson's brother named?
sorry i don't know, i need it for humanities homework though! :( King Harold Godwinson's brother was named Tostig. ANSWER. King Harold Godwinson had four brothers: Sweyn Earl of Wessex, dead in 1052, Tostig, who betrayed him and was killed at the battle of Stamford Bridge, Leofwin, Earl of Kent and and Gyrth, Earl of Essex, both killed at the battle of Hastings in 1065. Harold had also a sister, Edith who got married to… Read More
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Archive for the ‘Game trail’ Category
Lode Runner, Choplifter, Oregon Trail, and other classic diversions from 8-bit gaming.
Prince of Persia is turning 30!
by Ken Gagne Filed under Game trail;
The original Prince of Persia game turns thirty years old this October 3, and in anticipation of that anniversary, the game's original creator, Jordan Mechner, has some news to share.
First, his 1980s development journals, which were previously published in paperback and ebook editions, will be re-published in hardcopy with new illustrations. This version will come from Stripe Press, whose "books contain entirely new material, some are collections of existing work reimagined, and others are republications of previous works that have remained relevant over time or have renewed relevance today." The book will be finalized in time for the game's release anniversary this fall, with autographed editions available next February at PAX East, an annual video game convention that Mechner keynoted in 2012. Since Juiced.GS already reviewed the paperbacks back in 2013, we probably won't go as in-depth with the new release, though we'll certainly report the news in DumplinGS!
Being able to publish a book is as magical to Mechner as making a game once was. The democratization of publication he something he attributes the Apple II to initiating:
For me as a kid who dreamed of creating mass entertainment, in the pre-internet days, when you still needed a printing press to make a book and a film lab to make a movie, the Apple II was a game-changer: a technological innovation that empowered every user to innovate. Suddenly, I didn't need adult permission (or funding) to tell a story of adventure that might reach thousands — and ultimately millions — of people.
Second, Mechner was recently interviewed at Gamelab, a game development conference held in Barcelona. Venturebeat has an edited transcript in which Mechner recalls some of his original inspirations:
Anybody here remember Choplifter? This blew my mind in 1982. It was the first game I’d played that told a story. Asteroids, Space Invaders, you had three lives and you had to get a high score. All of that was based on the business model of putting quarters into machines. Choplifter told a story, and at the end it said "The End." That was the inspiration for my next game, Karateka.
Jordan Mechner plays Prince of Persia in 1989.
Third, Mechner not only reflected on the past but also looked to the future, noting that there is no new Prince of Persia game to announce — yet:
Many of you have asked when there will be a new PoP game (or movie, or TV series). If you feel that it's been a long time since the last one, you're not alone. I wish I had a magic dagger to accelerate the process… [but I'm] in the midst of longer-term projects whose announcement is still a ways off.
Until the new books and possible new games come out, there's still plenty of Prince of Persia to enjoy. The source code is publicly available; maybe someone can hack in a two-player mode, as Charles Mangin did with Karateka.
MAD Magazine's Spy vs. Spy
July 8th, 2019 8:46 AM
I grew up reading MAD Magazine, having inherited a collection of back issues from my oldest brother. I was sometimes too young to get the humor, but I always enjoyed the comics, especially Spy vs. Spy.
With every new #MAD as a kid I always flipped to Spy vs. Spy first, then Don Martin second, then searching through for all Sergio's marginals and THEN I settled in to the rest of the magazine beginning to end. I wouldn't be the cartoonist I am today without that fine publication. pic.twitter.com/TOT52oJBUn
— Graham Annable (@grickle) July 5, 2019
Licensed computer games were rarer in the 1980s than they are now; the technology to produce an authentic adaptation from one medium to another just wasn't there. But Spy vs. Spy's simple angles and slapstick antics made for a wonderful two-player Apple II game, packaged in an impressive clamshell case.
My youngest brother and I would wake up early Saturday mornings to compete in this split-screen game. I would always be the white spy as we wandered the embassy, searching for secret documents and setting traps for each other. Like in Space Ship of Death, a BBS door game I later adapted to the Apple II, each trap had a defense: a bucket of acid propped on a door could be protected against with an umbrella. But since we shared a monitor, my brother and I could see where the traps were being set, ruining the element of surprise. If no defense was available, it wasn't uncommon for one of us to simply stop playing, stubbornly refusing to trigger a trap we knew was there. Still, it was a fun game and one of the few areas of my life where I felt I could sometimes best my sibling.
When the pages of MAD Magazine advertised that a sequel to the game was coming to Commodore 64, I wrote a letter to the editor asking why it wasn't being released for the Apple II. I actually got a letter back, explaining how it cost money to make a game and they had to be sure they'd make that money back by adapting it to another computer system. I was confused: didn't they know I would buy it? Wasn't that enough??
Today, my letter would've gotten me added to a marketing email list, with my specific interests indicated as Spy vs. Spy and the Apple II. But back then, this one-time exchange wasn't enough to warrant MAD following up with the official news, prompting me to organically discover when Spy vs. Spy II: The Island Caper was eventually released for the Apple II:
I didn't think it possible, but this game was even better than the original. The setting was more exotic, the traps were more ingenious, the gameplay was more intuitive, and the graphics were more distinct. Although my brother and I were getting to the ages where we were too old to play together, we still got in several rounds of this game.
It wasn't until 2012 that I found out there had been a third game in the series, Spy vs. Spy III: Arctic Antics. Replacing "health" with "body heat" is clever, but the bleak landscape makes me think the series peaked with its second iteration.
A version of the original game was later released for iOS, but it was never updated to be 64-bit; it stopped working with iOS 11 and is no longer available in the App Store. Even when it did work, the touch interface did not lend itself well to the intricate machinations of one spy, let alone two.
The brand was also licensed to a PlayStation 2 / Xbox game, but it has little if anything to do with the original trilogy.
A new game in the series, Spies, is tentatively under development. A lengthy description claims Spies will be inspired by "the original", though it's unclear if they're referring to the Apple II game or the later PS2 title.
The official #SpyvsSpy #remake and #sequel is coming! pic.twitter.com/j77I9anB43
— ONIGAME (@onigame_ca) February 6, 2018
Sadly, just as this franchise has struggled in the past decades, so too has its source material. MAD Magazine will cease publication of original content later this year, switching to reprints of classic material with a single annual issue of new content.
I regret the passing of an iconic institution of America's cultural landscape. But just like the Apple II game was better than the PS2, sometimes revisiting the past is better than trying to recapture it with reimagings. For all the fond memories of sibling rivalry it gave me, I hope MAD Magazine finds success in its new format.
Shirts & game crossovers
June 17th, 2019 9:43 AM
Chris Torrence, host of the Assembly Lines video podcast and volunteer at the Media Archaeology Lab, recently added an e-commerce store to his online offerings.
T-shirts based on 8-bit franchises and artwork are nothing new; my closet is full of KansasFest, A2Central.com, and even InTrec shirts. But one item in Chris's catalog caught my eye.
This @CT6502 shirt mashing up Oregon Trail & Choplifter is hilarious. I've never seen that design before—is it original? https://t.co/uA3C0Atc0t
— Ken Gagne (@kgagne) June 13, 2019
This shirt doesn't just juxtapose Choplifter and Oregon Trail; it actually has them interacting in an unexpected fashion. I was tickled by this unique approach! After Chris confirmed that it is an original design, the Twitterverse requested other crossovers. Chris quickly responded by mocking up Lemonade Stand and Karateka:
Mark Lemmert of 6502 Workshop proposed a Lemonade Stand / Castle Wolfenstein mashup, which caught Kevin Savetz's attention:
Achtung! The weather is sunny!
— Kevin Savetz (@KevinSavetz) June 14, 2019
I then responded to @rubygolem's proposal for The Bard's Tale and Carmen Sandiego, prompting them to rise to the occasion:
I proposed a boatload of other crossovers, too:
Castle Wolfenstein / Karateka: Take on the Nazis with your martial arts!
Castle Wolfenstein / Lode Runner: Bury the Nazis and steal their gold!
Ultima / Archon: Ultima, but Archon battles.
Leisure Suit Larry / Colossal Cave: You are in a hotel of twisty little passages, all alike
There are plenty of other crossovers I'd like to see, either in game or shirt form, some which may be more a stretch than others:
Leisure Suit Larry / Space Quest: Meet exotic aliens. Have sex with them.
One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird / Olympic Decathlon: Play basketball while simultaneously breaking your keyboard.
Tass Times in Tone Town / Escape from Antcatraz: The colony's grandfather ant has gone missing! Trace his disappearance across several anthills.
Jungle Hunt / Impossible Mission: Avoid drones and alligators while saving damsels and cracking safes.
Video game crossovers are becoming more common: just this past week, Nintendo joined forces with Sega for a Mario & Sonic game and with Square Enix for a Smash Bros. team-up. In those scenarios, companies collaborate to lend each other their well-known brands and icons. That wouldn't be possible with many Apple II games, whose copyright holders are defunct or just not good with sharing.
But it doesn't mean a creative entrepreneur like Chris Torrence couldn't mock something up!
(Full disclosure: As an Automattic employee, I recommended Chris use WordPress as his store's content management system (CMS) of choice and gave some minor advice upon its launch. I also support Chris' Patreon.)
Panthers game montage
Last fall, the Portland Trail Blazers announced their basketball schedule with a video inspired by Oregon Trail. Though the NBA season is still ongoing, the NFL isn't waiting to tout their own schedule, starting this September.
Of all the football teams, Carolina Panthers made the splashiest announcement, with each game on their tour represented by a classic video game in this retro video:
At 0:41, we yet again see the Apple II edutainment title Oregon Trail, described as:
A computer game designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life. Doesn't sound all than fun, but man, this game was wildly entertaining.
California Games from Epyx also makes an appearance:
According to Wikipedia, California Games is a "1987 Epyx sports video game originally released for the Apple II and Commodore 64." It sounds old. It looks old. It is old. … The pixelated Hollywood sign and palm trees are perfect touches for a season-opening matchup against the Los Angeles Rams.
And, of course, there's John Madden Football, a franchise that originated on the Apple II.
It's fascinating to see professional sports using video games in their marketing materials for a couple of reasons. First, esports are on the rise, and while audience members can certainly enjoy both football and Fortnite, I would expect them to spend more time on the latter. Instead of focusing on their core audience, nhe NFL seems to be trying to expand their audience to include gamers.
The other reason I'm surprised by this advertising approach is the demographic of the participants. The average age of NFL and NBA players is roughly 26.7 years old, meaning they were born in 1990 — five years after Oregon Trail was released for the Apple II. I wasn't using computers in school until I was 12 years old, which for the average athlete would've been 2002, 17 years after the version of Oregon Trail seen in this video. I'm guessing that the athletes themselves aren't the ones coming up with the idea to insert themselves into such archaic media.
I'm the last person to criticize someone for enjoying media that's older than they are, having been on the receiving end when it comes to my passion for the Apple II! Whether these athletes grew up with Pitfall or Portal, I hope they've eventually discovered the joy of classic gaming. It warms my heart to imagine them showing off this video to their friends and family as a melding of their passions, as opposed to shrugging it off and saying, "I dunno what those games are."
Colossal Cave in the Hall of Fame
May 13th, 2019 9:58 AM
by Ken Gagne Filed under Game trail, Mainstream coverage;
For the fifth year, the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, inducted new games into its Video Game Hall of Fame, part of the International Center for the History of Electronic Games. Among this year's inductees were Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Kart, and Microsoft Windows Solitaire, recognized for their "icon-status, longevity, geographic reach, and influence".
Most years, I experience faux indignation when the museum snubs the Apple II by not including one of its original titles. But this year, even I can't feign umbrage when considering one of the inductees was Colossal Cave.
Colossal Cave, the invention of Will Crowther and Don Woods, was the first text adventure game, one that was eventually ported to the Apple II, which was invented just a year later. Its induction to the Hall of Fave is a timely one, and not only because of the recent release of source code for Infocom games, all of which were inspired by Colossal Cave.
This past December, in my quest to visit all fifty of the United States, I crossed off Kentucky when I visited Mammoth Cave, off which Colossal Cave was based. Although I didn't see any of the landmarks or rooms directly referenced in the game, nor was the game mentioned as part of the guided tour, I enjoyed an additional layer of meaning that was hidden from the other tourists.
Beyond this door lies great adventure.
Frozen Niagra.
It's curtains for you!
Historical graffiti.
I'd say more, except I wrote about my trip to Mammoth Cave in the spring 2019 issue of Juiced.GS, and there's more about the cave's history right here on this blog from nine years ago this month. Jason Scott's 90-minute interview with Don Woods is also available on YouTube:
For once, even my grumpy persona gives a nod of approval to the Strong's selection. Colossal Cave and Mammoth Cave are landmarks of a different sort, and it's wonderful to see both being recognized.
(Hat tip to Dean Takahashi)
I backed Nox Archaist's second Kickstarter
May 6th, 2019 7:27 PM
Last week, 6502 Workshop launched the second Kickstarter for Nox Archaist, an original 8-bit RPG for the Apple II.
As a teacher of crowdfunding workshops at every level from local libraries to graduate programs at Emerson College and Harvard University, I'd been invited to consult on this campaign several months ago. I gave them some advice, though mostly minor, as they'd already learned their lessons from their first Kickstarter.
That previous crowdfunding attempt launched in September 2017 and was cancelled a month later after raising $19,656, well short of its $43,078 goal. Using production and marketing strategies they outlined in the March 2019 issue of Juiced.GS, the team behind Nox Archaist brought their costs down to $8,500. The second Kickstarter hit that goal in under two hours and raised more funding in 8.5 hours than their first campaign did in an entire month.
The campaign's success is now a certainty; the only uncertainty was whether I should've backed it.
That's not a question of the game's quality, which looks amazing; the team's dependability, in which I am confident; or my own eagerness, which is evident! But I always think twice before backing a product that I'll ultimately be responsible for reviewing, or for editing a review of. Nox Archaist is a prime candidate for a Juiced.GS review or feature, and one could say that, by dropping $89 on the collector's edition boxed set, I have an investment in the game's success. I would counter that I'm simply preordering the game, which is less ethically complicated than a member of the press accepting a free review copy — but then, why preorder the game instead of just waiting to buy it when the finished product is made commercially available to the general public?
The answer has to do with the size of the Apple II community. There is almost no one making sizable (or any) profits off Apple II hardware or software these days; everyone does what they do for the love of it. The very first Kickstarter I ever backed was for Jason Scott's sabbatical. Shortly thereafter, when interviewing him for a Computerworld article, I asked him a question that had been lingering in the back of my mind: why should I have backed his Kickstarter, primarily to fund the completion of the GET LAMP documentary, when he'll be eventually make money off the finished documentary's sale? Jason acknowledged that this was a valid question, and if I wanted to judge a product by its commercial viability, then I shouldn't back such projects. But not every product that's valuable or important is also commercially viable, and a single person's pledge can make the difference between such a product existing and it not existing.
I want Nox Archaist to exist. Even if I never play it, I want to live in a world where Nox Archaist exists. Having spoken with 6502 Workshop's Mark Lemmert online and at KansasFest, I know Nox Archaist is something he's passionate about. He's made his investment; now he's asking us to match it with dollars.
If that means putting a disclaimer in an issue of Juiced.GS, then that's worth it.
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80s Clubs in Barcelona
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80s music has remained a part of modern culture and it knows no age. Usually, older people in their 30s or 40s like them, but younger people also are attracted to it, sometimes from their relatives who introduced it to them, and sometimes by personal preference. Those times represented an explosion of pop culture and uprising, and many people find themselves in that type of music. Nowadays, most clubs are contemporary and they plan modern music, and some people might want to find a good club with 80s music. Barcelona has a lot of clubs that play the 80s music and we will help you learn more about them and where you can find them.
Barcelona is the capital city of the Catalonia autonomous community in Spain, and is the country’s second most populous city. It has a population of 4.7 million people and is one of the cultural centers of Europe. It’s considered to be a global city due to tourism, economics, commerce, education, entertainment etc. Barcelona is also a transport hub of Europe, with the busiest passenger port in Europe, and one of the busiest airports in Europe.
Located in a sophisticated neighborhood in the uptown part of Barcelona, Luz de Gas is an 80s club that offers everything that you could want from a disco. This club has a beautiful interior design, with a big bar sitting in the middle of the club, and two smaller bars on the sides. The lighting is perfect and sets the mood right. There is a platform where live music is performed sometimes. It is considered to be a club mainly visited by older people, but fun knows no age. If you are young and you enjoy the 80s music and culture, you are sure to like this club.
Luz de Gas is a slightly calm and moderated club, and if you prefer something more lively, Barcelona has a lot of options to offer. In the same neighborhood, a lively club full of young people is located. Costa Breve is a modern looking club that plays your favorite 80s tracks. Most of the people who come to the club dress elegantly, and it is recommended that you do so too. The young median age of the club assures you that there will be an atmosphere all night.
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Barcelona is known for the multitude of neighborhoods and architecture. Looking at the other sides of Barcelona, in Pobleneu, we can find the Ovella Negra club. This club is located in one of the working-class neighborhoods of Barcelona, and it heavily contrasts with the other clubs. However, this does not mean that the club is not good. It has a big space, people are friendly, and the space is well organized. It doesn’t have all the fancy equipment of clubs of today, but it’s a straightforward approach to having fun with your friends. This makes it a very popular option for nightclub culture and young people in Barcelona. The youngsters will keep the atmosphere going all night and the music will keep you dancing.
On the other side of Barcelona, you can find the Apolo club. This club is located in Poble Sec, Montujic. This is a very famous club as it plays some of the best 80s music and organizes different parties for every day of the week. This leads to a huge diversity and you will never get bored here. They even party on Mondays, when the Nasty Mondays takes place. This is one of the most famous destination for youngsters rebelling in the first day of the week.
Alfa Club is one of the biggest neighborhoods in Barcelona, and being so, it has one of the best 80s clubs in the city. You can find everything in this neighborhood and is a very famous destination for young people who are looking to go clubbing. The club is decorated according to the music it plays, with vintage lightning patterns and vinyl records are hanging from the ceiling. This creates a very warm and nostalgic atmosphere that many people love. Mix the great atmosphere with the great 80s music, and you got yourself a recipe for one of the most popular clubs in Barcelona.
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Last but not last, the Nick Havanna club is also a great club that plays 80s music for the audience. This club is located between Rambla de Catalunya and Balmes. The great positioning of the club has made it a favorite destination for clubbers of all ages. Many Catalans visit this club as it has been open for a long time. The club has been modernized now, with modern lightning and decoration now characterizing the inside space. However, they still play 80s music along with more modern music. This is a great clubbing destination and it’s recommended that you dress up, as people trend to dress well when they go to Nick Havanna.
Some clubs listed here have unconventional times, and can close at times that are considered as early for some people. We are talking 5:30 AM here, but there are people who like to party until the morning, and you can’t blame those people. A popular destination for staying and partying until the morning, without all the noise that comes in a club, is Bar Aurora. This stylish vintage bar plays excellent 80s music and serves drinks until the morning. Many people prefer this to many clubs as it offers a more relaxing way of partying, just enjoying a couple of drinks with your friends, enjoying some good 80s music. This is the perfect formula for people who hate the huge crowds of the clubs and prefer to have their own space.
Barcelona is a big city, and it has a lot to offer. These options will be a great way of partying to some 80s music, and it’s certain that you will enjoy your time. All the clubs offer different options, from modern ones to vintage ones, and it’s all up to preference. In the end, it’s you that will decide where to go.
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Innovative precast technology saves 20 mil Dirhams at Abu Dhabi’s new fishing port
03 February 2012 - Abu Dhabi’s current fishing port is over 40 years old. Its structures are deteriorating, and it doesn’t have the capacity to support the regions rapid growth in population and accompanying increase in the demand for marine services.
Aurecon has recently completed a commission for the City of Abu Dhabi to develop a New Fishing Port to be constructed next to Saadiyat Island on reclaimed land.
Initiated in September 2009, the project’s maritime works involved reclamation of 43 000 m² of land, as well as a quay wall. The 776 m and 18 m deep wall around the port is now complete, and has set an industry precedent in innovative precast technology in the region.
A tight squeeze
“Because there was only 5 m between where the wall needed to be constructed and the sea, bringing the water level down so that precast panels could be attached to the wall was a major safety risk as it would require the use of heavy duty equipment over a prolonged period of time. Added to this, using such heavy equipment so close to the sea edge would be both expensive, and risky,” explains Aurecon project manager Nasser Abdalla.
Aurecon, who provided project management, design management and construction supervision for the project, worked together with contractors Soletanche Bachy Dubai to develop a novel way around this problem. The contractor recommended fitting the precast panels to the wall panels prior to the construction phase, and not as a retrofit. “Accordingly, the construction of the wall and fitting of decorative panels became what is essentially a one-step process and negated the need for excavations,” explains Abdalla.
Aurecon’s careful review of this design found that the process was indeed viable if the regular gap was left between each precast panel and wall panel. The off-site casting yard for the panels was carefully monitored by Aurecon as the project required very strict tolerances, as well as careful installation supervision.
“This innovation made it possible to deliver a great wall design with aesthetically pleasing cladding whereas, using conventional methods, it would have been impossible to do so, given the lack of space,” says Abdalla. “This process not only overcame safety challenges, but ensured massive savings on both time and money to the tune of 20 million Dirhams,” adds Abdalla. What’s more, it’s the first time this innovation has been used in this region, and as such, a patent will soon be launched on the system.
All-important replicability
“Importantly, the innovation has vast scaling-up potential. Apart from quay walls, use of the innovation can also be applied to include excavations requiring the fitting of patterned or non-patterned facings to facades, such as car parks, cut and cover tunnels etc.,” claims Abdalla.
“It was immensely satisfying to be part of a project that not only set new standards in industry, but one which leaves lasting legacy,” believes Abdalla.
The port’s impact on local fisherman will be significant. It will ensure that they can work more efficiently in terms of an easier, more direct passage out to sea, as well as ensure that fish can be brought back from sea quickly with no delays. Added to this, the port is also billed to benefit local tourism once complete, serving as an attractive stopover site for visitors.
Construction of the port’s accompanying infrastructure and superstructure, including drainage systems, a fisherman’s hostel to accommodate approximately 1 400 fishermen, admin offices, fish market, cleaning facility, block and crushed ice factory, outdoor and indoor auction area, as well as ship maintenance yard, is set to be initiated this year for completion by the end of 2013.
Nasser Abdalla – Senior Project Manager
Professor Hossam Refaat – Ports and Marine Expert
Wim Frencken – Project Leader
Ken Gillard – Project Director
Stephen Hennel – Site Supervision and HSE
Sunil D’Souza – Site Supervision
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Gill clinches sixth INRC title
Gill ended the 2018 INRC on a high note, wrapping up the title after taking a commanding victory at the Popular Rally in Kerala.
Rally ace Gaurav Gill secured his sixth Indian National Rally Championship (INRC) title after winning the Popular Rally in Kerala – the fifth and final round of the 2018 MRF FMSCI INRC.
Driving for Mahindra Adventure, Gill along with his co-driver Musa Sherif was initially 3rd in the overall standings after the 2018 Coffee Day India Rally, having suffered retirements in Arunachal and Chikkamagaluru. But with the new N1 rule allowing drivers to drop their lowest scores, he entered the final round on top of the standings, albeit just one point ahead of his teammate Amittrajit Ghosh.
After starting off more cautiously and finishing the first two stages in 2nd place, Gill quickly got a feel of the terrain and went on to take a commanding victory after winning seven stages.
“It was a difficult year for us, especially towards the end, due to mechanical issues which were beyond our control,” said Gill. “Kochi was the most difficult, with narrow roads which were fast and had broken tarmac, too. We had to push extra hard to stay ahead of the others.”
Amittrajit Ghosh and co-driver Ashwin Naik completed the rally in 5th place, handing them enough points to secure 2nd place in the overall standings.
“It was a great year for us compared to last season,” said Ghosh. “The championship just gets more and more competitive, which is great for the sport. The beginning of the season was really good but we hit issues from Chikmagalur and were really hit by the lack of pre-event testing and wrong set up choices in Kochi.”
Behind Gill, Race Concepts Motorsport’s Younus Ilyas took 2nd place in the Popular Rally, followed by Arka Motorsports’ Karna Kadur, who had already wrapped up the INRC 2 title in the previous round. Meanwhile, Dean Mascarenhas took top honours in the INRC 3 category, driving for Chettinad Racing.
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Giles Martin on ‘The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years’
By Vanessa El Mir in Giles Martin, Music Creation, Pro Mixing May 26, 2017
Working with renowned director Ron Howard, Giles Martin harnessed the power of Pro Tools to bring to life the audio for the Grammy-award winning documentary movie, ‘The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years’.
The movie, which was honoured with the award for ‘Best Music Film’ at this year’s Grammy Awards, captures the exhilarating kick of ‘Beatlemania’ as the band toured 15 countries between 1963 and 1966.
Giles Martin, alongside Abbey Road’s James Clarke and previous Grammy award winner, Sam Okell, utilized Avid’s pioneering audio technology at Abbey Road studios to manipulate original recordings to create and mix the film’s audio and soundtrack. This included the arduous task of removing the audience screams from the master recordings of a number of seminal live performances, and working with Howard closely culminating in a legendary cohesive narrative.
“When I met Ron Howard for the first time here at Abbey Road, he asked “What do you think we should do with this film?” For me, it was about getting every fan, young or old, a ticket to a Beatles show, and so I said to him “I want to know what it’s like to see the Beatles play live”. Luckily he agreed, and said “Great! That’s exactly what I want to do!”
Created entirely of archived concert footage and fan-sourced clips, Eight Days a Week offers an inside glance into some exclusive and career defining moments across the band’s illustrious career, including the chance to hear the very first time the Beatles were played over U.S. radio on December 17th, 1963, the band’s hysteria-making American television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, and Lennon’s controversial remark that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus!”
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Trump's Pentagon executive actions
Trump just revealed two new executive actions in the Hall of Heroes after VP Pence swore in Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. He said he wanted to ensure the actions of our military are supported by the actions of our government.
1. On bolstering the armed services: This executive action will "begin a great rebuilding of the armed services of the United States, developing plans for new planes, new ships, new resources, and tools for our men and women in uniform."
2. On protection of the nation from foreign terrorist entry: "Establishing new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists outside of the United States of America. We don't want them here. We want to make sure we are not admitting the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas."
Update: The House Homeland Security Chair Michael McCaul told CNN "it's a thirty day suspension of visa applications from high threat areas, seven specific countries." McCaul added that the majority of the refugees who will be rejected will be Muslim. He said it seems to make sense to put a priority on Christian refugees coming to the U.S.
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BettingTop10 UK Date: April 29, 2018 Kevin De Bruyne’s thunderbolt was the undoubted highlight of Manchester City’s 5-0 win over Swansea on April 22 as the Premier League champions put further gloss on their impressive campaign. They continue to close in on the 100-point barrier and with just four games left, they can still achieve their target. With
Previewing West Ham vs Manchester City and Manchester United vs Arsenal
Kevin De Bruyne’s thunderbolt was the undoubted highlight of Manchester City’s 5-0 win over Swansea on April 22 as the Premier League champions put further gloss on their impressive campaign. They continue to close in on the 100-point barrier and with just four games left, they can still achieve their target.
With plenty still to play for, Manchester City are expected to beat struggling West Ham at the London Stadium on April 29.
Bet On The Game With William Hill
Ladbrokes make Manchester City 1/3 favourites for this clash and many punters will be tempted by the 20/21 available on the -1 handicap.
The Citizens have been keeping plenty of clean sheets along the way and Both Teams to Score? No will be heavily fancied in this game. It is priced at Evens with Ladbrokes.
West Ham were competitive against Arsenal for the majority of the game but conceded three late goals and were heavily defeated at the Emirates on April 22. They are scrapping for every point and with remaining games against Manchester United and Everton to come, they will be desperate to keep things tight here.
2-0 Manchester City is the likeliest outcome for this encounter and it’s available at 7/1 with William Hill.
Arsenal’s Dismal Away Form Likely to Continue at Old Trafford
Considering Arsenal’s recent form on the road, it’s unsurprising to see Manchester United priced up as odds-on favourites for this clash at Old Trafford. They are heavily fancied to collect all three points here.
Jose Mourinho’s side can be backed at 4/9 and will be expected to prevail against the travel-sick Gunners. Arsene Wenger’s side also come off the back of a tough Europa League fixture against Atletico Madrid. They were defeated in their last Premier League game which followed the European competition when they went down 2-1 at St.James’ Park.
It’s not necessarily expected to be a high-scoring game between the pair and Under 2.5 Goals could be the value pick at 6/5 with Ladbrokes.
Romelu Lukaku is in excellent goalscoring form and the striker is priced at 11/10 to score anytime in this fixture.
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New Orleans area braces for first hurricane of the season
by: KEVIN McGILL and REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 11, 2019 / 09:00 AM CDT / Updated: Jul 11, 2019 / 11:11 PM CDT
People cope with the aftermath of severe weather in the Broadmoor neighborhood in New Orleans, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. (Nick Reimann/The Advocate via AP)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Thousands of Louisianans broke out sandbags or fled to higher ground Thursday as Tropical Storm Barry threatened to turn into the first hurricane of the season and blow ashore with torrential rains that could pose a severe test of New Orleans’ improved post-Katrina flood defenses .
National Guard troops and rescue crews in high-water vehicles took up positions around the state as Louisiana braced for the arrival of the storm Friday night or early Saturday.
Barry could have winds of about 75 mph (120 kph), just barely over the 74 mph threshold for a hurricane, when it comes ashore, making it a Category 1 storm, forecasters said.
But it is expected to bring more than a foot and a half (0.5 meters) of rain in potentially ruinous downpours that could go on for hours as the storm passes through the metropolitan area of nearly 1.3 million people and pushes slowly inland.
President Donald Trump on Thursday night declared a federal declaration of emergency for Louisiana, authorizing the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate all disaster relief efforts.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, who declared an emergency earlier in the week as the storm brewed in the Gulf of Mexico, warned that the storm’s blow could form a dangerous combination with the already-high Mississippi River, which has been swelled by heavy rain and snowmelt upriver this spring.
“There are three ways that Louisiana can flood: storm surge, high rivers and rain,” Edwards said. “We’re going to have all three.”
He said authorities do not expect the Mississippi River to spill over its levees — something that has never happened in New Orleans’ modern history — but cautioned that a change in the storm’s direction or intensity could alter that.
As of Thursday night, Barry was about 85 miles (137 kilometers) south of the mouth of the Mississippi, with winds around 50 mph (80 kph). A hurricane warning was posted for a 100-mile stretch of Louisiana coastline just below Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Southeast of New Orleans, authorities handed out sandbags and people piled into cars with their pets and began clearing out. Plaquemines Parish, at Louisiana’s low-lying southeastern tip, ordered the mandatory evacuation of as many as 10,000 people, and by midafternoon the area was largely empty.
Justice of the Peace David McGaha waited with his mother, his wife and their 15-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter for a ferry so they could evacuate to his mother’s house in Alabama.
“If the river wasn’t so high, we’d probably stay. You have to worry about the water that’ll be pushing against those levees,” he said. “They made a lot of improvements to the levee, but they haven’t completed all the projects.”
Clarence Brocks, 65, a Plaquemines Parish native and volunteer fire chief who lost his home to Hurricane Katrina 14 years ago and had to start over from scratch, found himself packing up again.
“We’re in between two major bodies of water and the only thing protecting us is two, 18-foot levees, and one of them failed already for Katrina,” he said.
The National Hurricane Center said as much as 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain could fall in parts of eastern Louisiana, including Baton Rouge, and the entire region could get as much as 10 inches (25 centimeters). The New Orleans area could get 10 to 15 inches (25 to 38 centimeters) through Sunday, forecasters said.
Meteorologist Benjamin Schott said the chief concern is not the wind: “Rainfall and flooding is going to be the No. 1 threat with this storm.”
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said that the pumping system that drains the city’s streets is working as designed but that Barry could dump water faster than the pumps can move it.
“We cannot pump our way out of the water levels … that are expected to hit the city of New Orleans,” she warned.
However, the city did not plan to order evacuations because Barry was so close and because it was not expected to grow into a major hurricane. Officials instead advised people to keep at least three days of supplies on hand and to keep their neighborhood storm drains clear so water can move quickly.
Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic flooding in New Orleans in 2005 and was blamed altogether for more than 1,800 deaths in Louisiana and other states, by some estimates.
In its aftermath, the Army Corps of Engineers began a multibillion-dollar hurricane-protection system that isn’t complete. The work included repairs and improvements to some 350 miles (560 kilometers) of levees and more than 70 pump stations that are used to remove floodwaters.
The National Weather Service said it expects the Mississippi to rise to 19 feet (5.8 meters) by Saturday morning at a key gauge in the New Orleans area, which is protected by levees 20 to 25 feet (6 to 7.6 meters) high.
Associated Press reporters Chevel Johnson in New Orleans and Janet McConnaughey and Sarah Blake Morgan in Plaquemines Parish contributed to this report.
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Robyn Shares Details on Long-Awaited Album, Plays New Music During Surprise Appearance
5/21/2018 by Joe Lynch
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Robyn attends the Givenchy afterparty as part of Paris Fashion Week at L'Arc on March 4, 2012 in Paris.
In a pantsuit that brought to mind '80s book publishing industry realness, Swedish pop star Robyn revealed details about her upcoming, long-anticipated new solo album in New York City on Monday (May 21) night as part of the Red Bull Music Festival. Seated with Kindness, an English musician and collaborator who served as the event's moderator, fans packed one of the Museum of Modern Art's theaters in hopes of finding out anything about her first proper album as Robyn since 2010's jaw-dropping Body Talk. And they were not disappointed.
"It's not finished yet but it's almost there," Robyn revealed, explaining that she sees it as her third album (with 2005's self-titled as her first and Body Talk as her second; the previous three albums she doesn't exactly count as part of her canon).
"I started on my own, in my home studio, listening to music that I love, dancing and listening to beats," she said of the album's genesis. "The new album has much more production work on my end," she says, while noting other collaborators and producers are contributing to it. "But I wanted to flesh it out a bit on my own before bringing other people into the process."
That process was impacted greatly by her experience with psychoanalysis, as well as the loss of collaborator and friend Christian Falk, who died in 2014, prior to the release of their La Bagatelle Magique EP in 2015.
The upcoming album is influenced by everything from '90s house to club music to Michael Jackson (she's been listening to the Thriller and Off the Wall demos a lot) to Janet Jackson and Prince. The late Purple One serves as her own internal quality check for new songs. "I always try to write a song that I think maybe Prince would like," she says. "That’s how I get myself in shape."
House music was a key influence on "Honey," the new song featured in Girls that has yet to see an official release. Robyn explained she was "flattered" when Lena Dunham reached out asking for music to include in the final season of her series, but the early version she provided for Dunham is something she eventually realized she "wasn't happy with." Not that it's bad, per se: "It's a good version, it's more like… it becomes more important to get it to a place where I made it to what I wanted it to be."
That perfectionism accounts for the long wait for the new album. "I used to think the more you push the better it gets, but with this album I've gone more back into the softer I get, the more it happens, and the more colors and dynamic a song gets. And for me, that meant shutting down for a while and being sparse with my impressions and sensitive to what I needed."
She also revealed there's some unfinished material with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, but it doesn't seem like those songs are coming any time soon. "If you’re watching, Jimmy and Terry, let’s finish those songs. We have some stuff with them we've been working on, and it was an honor to be in their presence," Robyn said of the Minneapolis Sound pioneers.
Later that night at Brooklyn Bowl, Robyn made a surprise appearance at the long-running This Party Is Killing You: A Night of All Robyn Everything and debuted the full, complete version of "Honey" to an ecstatic crowd during a DJ set (obviously, the audience at a Robyn-themed dance party is going to lose their minds when Robyn herself appears). She also performed "Love Is Free" live and watched a "Call Your Girlfriend" dance-off, shaking it with the eventual winner on stage.
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Difference between revisions of "Lipid"
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'''Definition'''
=== Definition ===
''noun, plural: lipids''
'''noun'''
''plural: lipids''
lip·id, [ˈlɪp ɪd, ˈlaɪ pɪd]
A fatty or waxy [[organic]] [[compound]] that is readily soluble in [[nonpolar]] [[solvent]] (e.g. [[ether]]) but not in [[polar]] [[solvent]] (e.g [[water]]), and whose major biological functions involve [[energy]] storage, structural component of [[cell membrane]], and [[cell signaling]]
'''Supplement'''
A lipid is a fatty organic compound that is insoluble in polar solvents (e.g. [[water]]) but soluble in nonpolar solvents (e.g. [[ether]]). Its major functions are for energy storage, as a structural component of the [[cell membrane]], and for [[cell signaling]]. It is usually made up of [[glycerol]] or [[fatty acid]] units, with or without other [[molecule]]s. Many lipids are [[amphiphilic]], i.e. they have both hydrophobic and hydrophilic components.
== Details ==
=== Overview ===
A [[biomolecule]] refers to any molecule that is produced by living organisms. As such, most of them are [[organic molecule]]s. The four major groups of biomolecules include [[amino acid]]s and [[protein]]s, carbohydrates (especially, [[polysaccharide]]s), [[lipid]]s, and [[nucleic acid]]s. A lipid refers to any of the group of fatty or waxy [[organic compound]]s readily soluble in nonpolar solvent but not in polar solvent. Lipids are involved mainly in energy storage, structural component, and cell signaling. Examples of lipids are [[waxes]], [[oils]], [[sterols]], [[cholesterol]], [[fat-soluble vitamins]], monoglycerides, diglycerides, [[triglyceride]]s ([[fats]]), and [[phospholipid]]s.
=== Characteristics ===
''Lipids'' are [[organic compound]]s that are readily soluble in nonpolar solvent (e.g. [[ether]]) but not in polar solvent (e.g [[water]]). It is usually made up of [[glycerol]] or [[fatty acid]] units, with or without other [[molecule]]s. Many lipids are [[amphiphilic]], meaning they have both hydrophobic and hydrophilic components.
=== Lipids vs. Fats ===
[[Fatty acid]]s (including fats) are a subgroup of lipids. In particular, a fat is a [[triglyceride]] (lipid) that is usually [[solid]] at [[room temperature]]. Hence, it will be inaccurate to consider the two terms synonymous.
=== Types ===
A ''[[fatty acid]]'' is a subunit of fats, oils, and waxes. It pertains to any long chain of hydrocarbon, with a single [[carboxylic]] group at the beginning and a methyl end, and [[aliphatic]] tail. It is produced by the breakdown of fats (usually triglycerides or phospholipids) through a process called hydrolysis. It is represented by R-COOH, where ''R'' stands for the [[aliphatic]] [[moiety]] and ''COOH'' as the [[carboxylic]] group (making the molecule an [[acid]]). Fatty acids may be classified into (1) [[unsaturated fatty acid]] and (2) [[saturated fatty acids]]. The unsaturated fatty acids may be further grouped into ''monounsaturated fatty acid'' and ''polyunsaturated fatty acid''. Examples of unsaturated fats are [[monounsaturated fatty acid]], [[polyunsaturated fat]], [[omega fatty acid]]s, ''etc''. Saturated fatty acids are fatty acids that lack unsaturated linkages between carbon atoms. Examples include [[lauric acid]], [[palmitic acid]], ''etc''.
A ''[[glycerol]]'' is a type of lipid made up of a glycerol linked esterically to a fatty acid. One of the most commonly known glycerolipids is the triglyceride (also referred to as triacylglycerol). The triglyceride is an energy-rich compound consisting of a glycerol and three fatty acids (thus, the name). The three hydroxyl groups of glycerol in triglyceride are all esterified. The triglyceride is a major component of animal and plant oils and fats. In plants, they are typically found in plant cell membrane where the fatty acids are mostly unsaturated. In animals, the fatty acid component is largely saturated.
A glycerophospholipid, or simply ''[[phospholipid]]'', is a type of lipid that is an essential component of many biological membranes, particularly the lipid bilayer of cells. It is also involved in metabolism and cell signaling. Phospholipids are amphipathic compounds in a way that the 'head' is hydrophilic and the lipophilic 'tail' is hydrophobic. Examples of phospholipids include phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylserine, lecithin, plasmalogens and sphingomyelins.
A ''[[sphingolipid]]'' is a lipid made up of a sphingoid base (e.g. ''sphingosine'' and ''ceramides'') backbone and sugar residue(s) linked by a glycosidic bond. Examples are cerebrosides and gangliosides.
A ''sterol lipid'' (e.g. cholesterol) is another type of lipid that serves as an essential component of biological membrane. Many of them act as hormones and signaling molecules.
A ''prenol'' lipid is a type of lipid that is synthesized from isopentenyl diphosphate and dimethylallul diphosphate via the ''mevalonic acid pathway''. Simple isoprenoids (e.g. carotenoids) are prenol lipids.
Other types of lipids are ''saccharolipids'' (fatty acids linked to a sugar backbone) and ''polyketides'' (compounds formed by polymerization of acetyl and proprionyl subunits).
=== Common biological reactions ===
==== Lipogenesis ====
Lipids are biosynthesized by a process called lipogenesis. ''[[Lipogenesis]]'' is the process of producing lipid or fat. In biology, lipogenesis is a biochemical process, e.g. acetyl-CoA is converted to triglyceride. It is to store biochemical energy for later metabolic use. Lipogenesis includes (1) fatty acid synthesis and (2) triglyceride synthesis. Fatty acid synthesis occurs in the cytoplasm and characterized by the repeated addition of two-carbon units to acetyl-CoA. In triglyceride synthesis, three fatty acids are esterified to a glycerol in the endoplasmic reticulum. The cells that carry out lipogenesis are mostly adipocytes and liver cells. The liver cells, though, release triglycerides in the form of very-low-density lipoproteins (VLDL) into the bloodstream.
Lipids are one of the four major groups of [[biomolecule]]s (the others, [[nucleic acid]]s, [[protein]]s, and [[carbohydrate]]s). Examples of lipids are [[waxes]], [[oils]], [[sterols]], [[cholesterol]], [[fat-soluble vitamins]], monoglycerides, diglycerides, [[triglyceride]]s ([[fats]]), and [[phospholipid]]s.
Apart from biosynthesis, lipids may also be obtained from the diet. Furthermore, animals that consume carbohydrates in excess tend to convert the carbohydrates into trigylcerides.
[[Fatty acid]]s (including fats) are a subgroup of lipids, hence, it will be inaccurate to consider the terms synonymous.
====Degradation ===
The process wherein lipid is broken down to extract energy is called lipolysis. Lipolysis is activated when the circulating insulin level is low whereas the circulating epinephrine is high. Fatty acids may be further degraded in the mitochondria or in the peroxisome, producing acetyl-CoA. This metabolic process in which fatty acids are degraded resulting in the formation of acetyl-coA is called ''beta oxidation''. The acetyl-coA, in turn, may enter the citric acid cycle and degraded ultimately into CO<sub>2</sub> and water molecules, with the concomitant generation of ATP.
''Word origin:'' French ''lipide'' » Greek ''lipos'' ("fat")
''See also:''
=== Biological functions ===
The major biological functions of lipids involve energy storage, structural component of [[cell membrane]], and [[cell signaling]]. In biological membranes, the lipid component has a hydrophilic head that may be a glycolipid, a phospholipid, or a sterol (e.g. cholesterol) and a hydrophobic tail.
== Supplementary ==
=== Etymology ===
* French ''lipide'' » Greek ''lipos'' ("fat")
=== Variant(s) ===
* lipide
=== Derived term(s) ===
* [[annular lipid]]
* [[glycolipids]]
* [[lipid a]]
* [[lipid a 4-phosphatase]]
* [[lipid a disaccharide synthase]]
* [[lipid bilayer]]
* [[lipid granulomatosis]]
* [[lipid peroxidation]]
* [[lipid peroxides]]
* [[lipid pneumonia]]
* [[lipid profile]]
* ' lipidic (''adjective'')
* [[neutral lipid storage disease]]
* [[phospholipids]]
* [[sphingolipids]]
== Further reading ==
=== See also ===
* [[biomolecule]]
* [[glycerol]]
* [[fatty acid]]
''Related term(s):''
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''Related form(s):''
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* [[phospholipids]],
2.2 Characteristics
2.3 Lipids vs. Fats
2.4 Types
2.5 Common biological reactions
2.5.1 Lipogenesis
2.6 =Degradation
2.7 Biological functions
3 Supplementary
3.2 Variant(s)
3.3 Derived term(s)
plural: lipids
A fatty or waxy organic compound that is readily soluble in nonpolar solvent (e.g. ether) but not in polar solvent (e.g water), and whose major biological functions involve energy storage, structural component of cell membrane, and cell signaling
A biomolecule refers to any molecule that is produced by living organisms. As such, most of them are organic molecules. The four major groups of biomolecules include amino acids and proteins, carbohydrates (especially, polysaccharides), lipids, and nucleic acids. A lipid refers to any of the group of fatty or waxy organic compounds readily soluble in nonpolar solvent but not in polar solvent. Lipids are involved mainly in energy storage, structural component, and cell signaling. Examples of lipids are waxes, oils, sterols, cholesterol, fat-soluble vitamins, monoglycerides, diglycerides, triglycerides (fats), and phospholipids.
Lipids are organic compounds that are readily soluble in nonpolar solvent (e.g. ether) but not in polar solvent (e.g water). It is usually made up of glycerol or fatty acid units, with or without other molecules. Many lipids are amphiphilic, meaning they have both hydrophobic and hydrophilic components.
Lipids vs. Fats
Fatty acids (including fats) are a subgroup of lipids. In particular, a fat is a triglyceride (lipid) that is usually solid at room temperature. Hence, it will be inaccurate to consider the two terms synonymous.
A fatty acid is a subunit of fats, oils, and waxes. It pertains to any long chain of hydrocarbon, with a single carboxylic group at the beginning and a methyl end, and aliphatic tail. It is produced by the breakdown of fats (usually triglycerides or phospholipids) through a process called hydrolysis. It is represented by R-COOH, where R stands for the aliphatic moiety and COOH as the carboxylic group (making the molecule an acid). Fatty acids may be classified into (1) unsaturated fatty acid and (2) saturated fatty acids. The unsaturated fatty acids may be further grouped into monounsaturated fatty acid and polyunsaturated fatty acid. Examples of unsaturated fats are monounsaturated fatty acid, polyunsaturated fat, omega fatty acids, etc. Saturated fatty acids are fatty acids that lack unsaturated linkages between carbon atoms. Examples include lauric acid, palmitic acid, etc.
A glycerol is a type of lipid made up of a glycerol linked esterically to a fatty acid. One of the most commonly known glycerolipids is the triglyceride (also referred to as triacylglycerol). The triglyceride is an energy-rich compound consisting of a glycerol and three fatty acids (thus, the name). The three hydroxyl groups of glycerol in triglyceride are all esterified. The triglyceride is a major component of animal and plant oils and fats. In plants, they are typically found in plant cell membrane where the fatty acids are mostly unsaturated. In animals, the fatty acid component is largely saturated.
A glycerophospholipid, or simply phospholipid, is a type of lipid that is an essential component of many biological membranes, particularly the lipid bilayer of cells. It is also involved in metabolism and cell signaling. Phospholipids are amphipathic compounds in a way that the 'head' is hydrophilic and the lipophilic 'tail' is hydrophobic. Examples of phospholipids include phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylserine, lecithin, plasmalogens and sphingomyelins.
A sphingolipid is a lipid made up of a sphingoid base (e.g. sphingosine and ceramides) backbone and sugar residue(s) linked by a glycosidic bond. Examples are cerebrosides and gangliosides.
A sterol lipid (e.g. cholesterol) is another type of lipid that serves as an essential component of biological membrane. Many of them act as hormones and signaling molecules.
A prenol lipid is a type of lipid that is synthesized from isopentenyl diphosphate and dimethylallul diphosphate via the mevalonic acid pathway. Simple isoprenoids (e.g. carotenoids) are prenol lipids.
Other types of lipids are saccharolipids (fatty acids linked to a sugar backbone) and polyketides (compounds formed by polymerization of acetyl and proprionyl subunits).
Common biological reactions
Lipogenesis
Lipids are biosynthesized by a process called lipogenesis. Lipogenesis is the process of producing lipid or fat. In biology, lipogenesis is a biochemical process, e.g. acetyl-CoA is converted to triglyceride. It is to store biochemical energy for later metabolic use. Lipogenesis includes (1) fatty acid synthesis and (2) triglyceride synthesis. Fatty acid synthesis occurs in the cytoplasm and characterized by the repeated addition of two-carbon units to acetyl-CoA. In triglyceride synthesis, three fatty acids are esterified to a glycerol in the endoplasmic reticulum. The cells that carry out lipogenesis are mostly adipocytes and liver cells. The liver cells, though, release triglycerides in the form of very-low-density lipoproteins (VLDL) into the bloodstream.
=Degradation
The process wherein lipid is broken down to extract energy is called lipolysis. Lipolysis is activated when the circulating insulin level is low whereas the circulating epinephrine is high. Fatty acids may be further degraded in the mitochondria or in the peroxisome, producing acetyl-CoA. This metabolic process in which fatty acids are degraded resulting in the formation of acetyl-coA is called beta oxidation. The acetyl-coA, in turn, may enter the citric acid cycle and degraded ultimately into CO2 and water molecules, with the concomitant generation of ATP.
Biological functions
The major biological functions of lipids involve energy storage, structural component of cell membrane, and cell signaling. In biological membranes, the lipid component has a hydrophilic head that may be a glycolipid, a phospholipid, or a sterol (e.g. cholesterol) and a hydrophobic tail.
French lipide » Greek lipos ("fat")
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annular lipid
glycolipids
lipid a
lipid a 4-phosphatase
lipid a disaccharide synthase
lipid bilayer
lipid granulomatosis
lipid peroxidation
lipid peroxides
lipid pneumonia
' lipidic (adjective)
neutral lipid storage disease
phospholipids
sphingolipids
biomolecule
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Facial attraction: red-fronted lemurs recognize photos of their own species
Wild red-fronted lemurs (Eulemur rufrifrons) appear to be able to recognize individuals belonging to the same species (conspecifics) from photographs, a study published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology suggests.
Researchers at the German Primate Center found that red-fronted lemurs spent significantly more time looking at pictures of conspecifics than at pictures of other, closely related species (heterospecifics).
Dr Hanitriniaina Rakotonirina, the corresponding author said: “We were surprised to find that the animals appear to be able to differentiate among closely related sister species. For example, males of the rufous brown lemur (Eulemur rufus) and the red-fronted lemur (Eulemur rufifrons) are difficult to distinguish by the human eye. However, we found that lemurs seem to be able to do it.”
The time lemurs spent looking at pictures correlated with genetic difference; the more genetically different individuals were (which corresponded to how different they looked), the less time lemurs would spend looking at their pictures. Females showed a more pronounced response than males. This may indicate that female red-fronted lemurs perceive and respond to differences in fur patterns and coloration to recognize viable mates from their own species, enabling them to avoid costly interbreeding.
The results also suggest sexual variation in color vision. Whereas male red-bellied lemurs are dichromatic (their eyes have receptors for two different colors), females can be dichromatic or trichromatic, allowing them to see three or more colors. However, the authors caution that the genetic tests required to test this assumption were not performed as part of this study.
Dr Rakotonirina added: “These findings are particularly interesting because Eulemur species actually hybridize in nature – that is they mate with individuals from other species – even though they are able to recognize individuals of their own species. Future studies in hybrid zones – places where two or more species occur together – are required to examine whether experience with closely related species affects their ability to discriminate between species.”
To test their hypothesis that red-fronted lemurs would respond more strongly to pictures of their own species and that females would show a stronger response than males, the authors showed eight female and seven male adult red-fronted lemurs pictures of five species that didn’t occur in the same area (they were geographically separated). These included red-fronted lemurs and three closely related species – white-fronted lemurs, brown lemurs and rufous brown lemurs – as well as genetically more distant red-bellied lemurs.
Experiments were conducted in Kirindy Forest, Western Madagascar, making this is the first study to test lemurs’ ability to distinguish between conspecifics and heterospecifics in the wild, something that had only been tested in captive settings before.
The authors also found that red-fronted lemurs spent more time sniffing at pictures of their own species than pictures of other species. Dr Rakotonirina said: “The fact that they not only looked at the pictures but also showed sniffing behavior suggests that they use two different sensory modalities, smell and sight, at the same time to differentiate between individuals of their own species from other Eulemur species. Hence, cross-modal recognition appears to play an important role for species recognition; an interesting subject to study in the future.”
Anne Korn
E: anne.korn@biomedcentral.com
Notes to editor:
1. Research article:
The role of facial color variation for species recognition in redfronted lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons)
Rakotonirina et. al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018
The article is available at the journal website.
Please name the journal in any story you write. If you are writing for the web, please link to the article. All articles are available free of charge, according to BMC's open access policy.
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Lean on (the collective) Me
New Orleans & Company leads food drive for unpaid federal workers
Jennifer Gibson Schecter,
Kathy Anderson courtesy of New Orleans & Company
Our society and government run on a few mutually agreed upon constructs – two of which are that citizens will get paid for the work they do, and elected officials will govern to protect the citizens’ interests. In the topsy-turvy present in which we are living, however, neither of those things are happening.
We are currently in the longest partial federal government shutdown in U.S. history. As of Jan. 23, we have gone 33 days in the partial shutdown and that means thousands of workers have missed their paychecks. These are plumbers, administrative assistants, air traffic controllers, national park rangers, baggage handlers, Coast Guard captains, food inspectors, border patrol agents, and, if this stretches into February, workers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture who administer food stamps to millions of American families.
The timing of the shutdown is terrible. Holiday bills need to be paid on top of basic monthly expenses. Many of these workers live paycheck-to-paycheck and have limited savings to depend upon. The furloughed workers aren’t required to report, but so many of the workers impacted are considered essential and are expected to report, do their job to the best of their ability, pay for childcare while they are at work, and receive no compensation at this time for their labor. Sure, they could risk their jobs by calling in sick or even quit, but then they are giving up pensions and benefits that make federal government jobs attractive in the first place.
My heart just breaks for these people. I flew during the shutdown and it pained me to think of the struggles of the TSA agent scanning my luggage and the air traffic controller guiding my pilot. Now, after more than a month of shutdown, these people are relying on the kindness of others to meet the basic needs of their families.
Join me in donating non-perishable food, household items and personal hygiene items at New Orleans & Company, previously known as the New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau. During the shutdown, New Orleans & Company is collecting items in their office lobby at 2020 St. Charles Avenue, Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
“We recognize the importance of the men and women who keep our airport and port open for business,” said Kristian Sonnier, vice president of communications and public relations at New Orleans & Company. “If not for their dedication to their jobs, even as they work without compensation, our economy would suffer significantly. We felt like we needed to offer support in whatever way possible.”
Sonnier said they are working in partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank to collect non-perishable food and items such as paper towels, toilet paper, diapers, toothpaste and other personal hygiene products. Second Harvest will then work to distribute the donated goods to workers employed by TSA, Border Security, Air Traffic Control and the Coast Guard.
New Orleans & Company is also working with Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY). Sonnier said that while nothing is yet finalized, they are collaborating with MSY on plans to provide meals for airport workers while at work.
So far, Sonnier said there is no record of tourists cancelling their trips to New Orleans due to the shutdown and there are no indications any will occur.
“We simply want to provide some meaningful support to those negatively impacted by the federal shutdown until there is no need to do so,” said Sonnier.
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Getting on famously with Belfast fans: Bros looking forward to playing first Northern Ireland gig in 30 years
Matt (left) and Luke Goss at the Ham Yard Hotel in London, as eighties boyband Bros are getting back together, more than 20 years after they called it a day.
By Kelly Allen
Get ready to don your stonewash denim and scream 'When Will I Be Famous?' as Matt and Luke Goss are set to perform in Northern Ireland for the first time in nearly 30 years.
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Bros found themselves catapulted back into the limelight after their BBC Four documentary Bros: After The Screaming Stops was shown last December.
The 50-year-old brothers reunited last year to perform two sold out O2 London Arena shows.
Before that they had not played together since 77,000 packed into Wembley Stadium on August 19, 1989.
The pair are in the middle of rigorous rehearsals in Las Vegas to prepare for their shows at the Marquee Cork on Wednesday, June 26 and at Botanic Gardens Belfast the following night.
But Luke took time out of their schedule to tell Sunday Life what it means to them to be coming back to Northern Ireland.
"Ireland both North and South has always been important to us," explains Luke. "My grandfather is Irish. I think he's from Cork. His family are there.
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"We always knew we had Irish in our family. We had Jewish and we had Irish, a bit of a mix up.
"I've been to Belfast many times, I love it there. There are unbelievably warm people there. The unanimous spirit to anyone coming into the country is to welcome them. It's just a place you want to be.
"I remember drinking a Guinness with my grandad in Belfast. I was working over there and he flew over especially to drink a pint with his grandson. He always said it tastes better there. It's a little creamier in Ireland. I think it's the Celtic spirit. There's something special about drinking a Guinness in Ireland. It just feels different."
Twins Matt and Luke Goss of pop group Bros.
Luke is already planning to raise a glass to his family when he's over at the end of the month, telling management that he must have some time off to enjoy the city's bars and restaurants.
"Oh my goodness, absolutely, we've both requested at least a couple of days in Ireland before. It doesn't sound much but with the schedules that we have... I love the fact that everyone is so chilled. I'm looking forward to it. I live in LA and it's not the fluffiest place in the world."
Before One Direction and Take That, Bros were the ultimate boyband - they graced most editions of Smash Hits magazine from 1987 to 1992.
During that time, they played 19 shows at Wembley Arena and became the youngest band to ever headline Wembley Stadium. They were one of the first to have a pay-per-view live televised show.
But the brothers went their separate ways, both pursuing solo careers. Matt continued as a singer in 1995 and since then has sold more than five million albums, has performed at his Las Vegas residency at Caesar's Palace and now at The Mirage for more than seven years.
He has headlined Wembley Arena, The Royal Albert Hall, the London Palladium and The Sydney Opera House and played at The White House.
Matt Goss (left) and Luke Goss of Bros attending the Brit Awards 2019 at the O2 Arena, London.
Luke moved into acting and directing in both film (Hellboy 2, Blade 2, The Man, Traffik, Deathrace 2 and 3) and TV (Red Widow and Emmy award-winning mini-series Frankenstein), and more recently The Last Boy.
The documentary, which was a surprise TV hit and was even nominated for two Baftas, followed the brothers as they prepared for 2017's reunion concerts after barely speaking for two decades. At times the footage was raw as they rowed before opening up about their problems with each other.
"We got to see each other address some of these issues that were too deep within us to talk about it in our own light," explained Luke.
"Ironically, two very closed off people decided to do a documentary where we opened up.
"We've been getting closer and closer. We are obviously brothers and we still argue but we have built so many bridges from doing that movie and it really felt it was the catalyst of change.
"This time around we've got some music to make and it all feels a lot more fun. I'm staying at my brother's house in Vegas and we are rehearsing and working hard but we are having fun too.
"These rehearsals feel different. The show has built a bridge. It built avenues of communication. There was a lot of love there and after a couple of weeks it put something back on its feet after decades of being sat down.
"The pressure was intimidating. We were building bridges in terms of communicating."
While typically boybands have relied on spectacle - dancers, lights and fireworks - to impress audiences, Luke is hoping their vocals will be enough to wow the crowds.
Matt (left) and Luke Goss of boy band Bros pose on top of the O2 Arena in London ahead of their comeback tour, which will see them play two gigs at the venue later this month.
"We want to bring a bit of rock and roll to the vibe. I don't think dancers are on the list for either one of us.
"We want to plug in and play and make it live and loud for the people of Belfast. I think people respond to that. Live, live, live. No backing track like most people use these days because you can hear the gaps.
"Just to make it really organic when we play Ireland, we are going to jam. I personally know what I want to see on stage, I want to see people communicating on stage and I want to bring a slice of that to Ireland.
"We will be making as much noise as we can and I hope everyone in Botanic does too."
Aiken Promotions presents Bros Live At the Marquee Cork on June 26 and Live At Botanic Gardens on June 27. Tickets are available from www.ticketmaster.ie
Disgraced footballer Jay Donnelly reveals he is going to be a dad weeks after prison release
By Jane Fletcher for Sunday Life Shamed footballer Jay Donnelly, who was jailed for distributing an indecent image of an underage girl, has revealed he is to become a dad.
Derry Girls stars send message to Stormont from London Pride
By Jane Fletcher Local stars brought a demand for LGBT equality in Northern Ireland to London's Pride parade yesterday.
'Stick a bullet in me if you're hard enough' - Patrick Kielty's challenge to thugs who...
By David O'Dornan Comic Patrick Kielty has told how he stood up to paramilitaries who didn't see the funny side of his jokes - and dared them to "stick a bullet in me".
James Nesbitt tried to stop God Save The Queen at cup final
By Christopher Woodhouse Actor Jimmy Nesbitt has revealed he tried to stop God Save the Queen being played before the 2018 Irish Cup final.
Northern Ireland 'heading for direct rule' in bid to aid Brexit Brexit
Failure to establish university in Londonderry a 'sectarian scandal', claims Adonis
£48.80 - what Northern Ireland students expect to pay for booze and bills per month
Colin Duffy's son killed in car crash
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For the love of theater, this mother and daughter share the bill
Lillian Colvin, 12, rehearses her part as Princess Jasmine in "Disney's Aladdin Jr." for the Berkshire Theatre Group. This production is directed by Travis Daly, with music direction by Erin M. White and choreography by Kathy Jo Grover, and will play at the Colonial Theatre.
BEN GARVER - THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
For Lillian Colvin and her mother, Michelle Colvin, theater has become a family affair.
Jenn Smith - The Berkshire Eagle
Posted Monday, April 22, 2019 7:30 pm
If you go ...
What: Berkshire Theatre Group's production of "Disney's Aladdin Jr.," directed by Travis Daly, music direction by Erin M. White and choreography by Kathy Jo Grover. This production features more than 100 Berkshire County area elementary and middle school students.
When: 7 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday; 2 and 5 p.m. Sunday. Run time is 60 minutes, with no intermission.
Where: The Colonial Theatre, 111 South St., Pittsfield.
Tickets: $15 for adults, $10 for children 16 and under.
Reservations and info: 413-997-4444 or berkshiretheatregroup.org
By Jenn Smith, The Berkshire Eagle
PITTSFIELD — Lillian Colvin, 12, wakes up singing.
But her mother, Michelle Colvin, says, "I can't carry a tune to save my life."
Looking over to her daughter, who grew up mimicking the moves and melodies of Disney princesses and other musical icons, Michelle says, "Her passion and talent is uniquely her own."
But over the past four years, the two have developed a love and appreciation for musical theater together through their work at Berkshire Theatre Group. Lillian has been developing her skills and growing confidence on stage, while Michelle has become an active theater parent, working on costumes, coordinating carpools and recently joining the BTG education advisory committee led by Administrative Director of Education Allison Rachele Bayles.
Michelle said her family is among the dozens who are dedicated to supporting their children on stage, and "I'm really happy to be there."
The Eagle recently caught up with the daughter-mother duo during rehearsals for this weekend's production of "Disney's Aladdin Jr.," which runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday. They talked about what got them involved in theater, how they've benefited from their experiences, and why they're advocating for programming to expand to other parts of Berkshire County.
Lillian got her first role at age 8 playing "Shimmer the Penguin," in a BTG community production of "Mary Poppins."
Rehearsals back then were held in a community room at Laurin Publishing, since shows were running on the main stage.
"I remember there was everyone from adults to little children there. I didn't know what to do, so I sat in a chair. I was a little nervous at first," Lillian said.
Michelle said she was also nervous, since parents are asked to not linger during rehearsals. "But I was impressed by how well organized things were and how the prioritized safety," she said.
Lillian said within minutes, she was introduced to the rehearsal process by other actors and the director, and was making friends.
"I felt so happy. I knew I was supposed to be there," Lillian said.
She said it was the older students especially who were quick to take the younger ones under their wings.
"The older girls were like our sisters during tech week, helping me get ready and making sure I was where I needed to be. It made me feel a bit relieved, and even though I was a penguin, the made me feel important in the show. I felt at ease," Lillian said.
"Even now, when she comes out of rehearsals, she's just beaming," Michelle said.
Lillian said the friends she made that first day continue to be her friends today.
"We've all really grown," she said, "and BTG's humbled me a bit."
She admitted she could be "a sassy little kid," but said she's learned to look out for everyone in her shows, helping younger kids as she was once helped, be it with lines or doing homework.
This weekend, Lillian will perform for her first time a lead role, as Princess Jasmine, in "Aladdin Jr."
"I think being a lead is more of a responsibility because you have to be someone people look up to," she said. "I think Jasmine is my favorite [Disney princess] because she's very headstrong and kind of reminds me of myself. She's a really cool role model for girls, too."
Michelle said she's found a whole new bond among theater parents in her role as a volunteer, whether they're cutting and sewing costumes or coordinating meals for the kids. She said it's also motivated her in her role as a principal of Hoosac Valley Elementary School to re-examine how theater arts can be used to help students in school.
"I think the confidence kids have through theater and the opportunities for public speaking — Lillian's spoken about BTG at a Berkshire United Way function and for CCTV programs — that's the core and the heart of creative expression," Michelle said.
BTG is currently doing a pilot education program with her third-grade students as well, which supports instruction in literacy and other socioemotional skills.
"BTG is all about taking positive risks. Here, you will be treated like you're part of a big family," Lillian said. "My generation and the next generation, we're ready to do acting and theater. It's a really exciting, fun time to be in it."
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Pearl scholarship awarded to nearby Conn. student
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Property Tax Forms
Property Taxes Explained
Public Health District Board Minutes
Assessor Avila
About Assessor Avila
David Avila is a lifelong Berwyn area resident. David graduated from Morton West High School, and attended Morton College before receiving a Bachelor's Degree from Western Illinois University with Masters classes. His wife Malisa is a nurse at MacNeal Hospital. The Avilas plan on staying in Berwyn along with their two young daughters for years to come; they love and care about Berwyn, which is why David and his wife have been so active and volunteered countless hours in Berwyn. David has helped Mayor, Robert J. Lovero organize and host bi-annual Property Tax Workshops at the VFW Hall, Liberty Cultural Center, and the Rec Center over the past eight years. He has also collaborated with MacNeal Hospital and Mayor Lovero to organize a Diabetes Workshop. Most recently, David was able to help the Mayor organize the annual Berwyn Rabies/Microchip Clinic for dogs and cats at the VFW Hall parking lot.
As Legislative Director for Cook County Commissioner Edwin Reyes, David has analyzed, reviewed and written amendments to Cook County’s 3 billion dollar budget. He has co-authored major legislation for Cook County’s existing ordinances. David has been able to help countless citizens of Cook County appeal their property taxes and help them navigate the bureaucracy that is sometimes hard to understand. David has also helped seniors reapply for their deserved senior exemption that must be reapplied for every year due to new state legislation. He has helped residents fill out “certificate of error,” “vacancy” and exemptions. Later, David worked with Cook County Commissioner Stanley Moore as his Policy Director; advising, transitioning, researching and creating legislation.
David has experience working on budgets, legislation and helping the citizens of Cook County cut through the red tape. Having helped homeowners with the sometimes complicated process of appealing their property taxes, David is transforming the Office of Berwyn Township Assessor. He has started by having later and longer hours during the appeal process. This is the first time this has been done in the history of the Berwyn Township Assessor’s Office. The office is open till 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturdays, when Berwyn Township is open for appeals. The Berwyn Township Assessor’s Office is now using social media to help let Berwyn residents know about their property tax appeal process. The office now has a website to help people with all the information they need involving their home.
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All About Ventilator
'Ventilator' producer Priyanka Chopra dedicates National Awards to her late father
Priyanka Chopra forayed into film production with regional cinema under her banner Purple Pebble Pictures (PPP). Her Marathi production ‘Ventilator’ won three awards for Best Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Director at the 64th National Film Awards announced yesterday, and the 34-year-old act ... read more
Ashutosh Gowariker stars in Priyanka Chopra's ‘Ventilator’
National Award winning filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker, who acted in many television shows and movies during the 1980s and 90s, has made a comeback to acting after a long gap. The ‘Mohenjo Daro’ maker will be seen playing a key role in Priyanka Chopra’s Marathi production ‘Ventilator’. Priyan ... read more
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'No-deal' Brexit and Data Protection
This article reviews the government’s plan for data protection laws in the event of a no-deal Brexit and highlights any uncertainties companies should consider when making contingency plans.
With the vote on the draft Withdrawal Agreement pending and recent political uncertainties, it has become advisable for businesses to prepare for a no-deal Brexit. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport ('DCMS') and the Information Commissioner’s Office ('ICO') have respectively published guidance notes and blog posts warning companies to take steps to ensure the free flow of personal data in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Following these publications, a draft 'Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU exit) Regulations 2019' has been put to Parliament, listing the key amendments to be made to UK data protection laws. Details of the DCMS’, the ICO’s and the government's proposals for data protection regulations after a no-deal Brexit are as follows.
Dual data protection regime
Upon Brexit, the UK will bring GDPR into national law with limited amendments to the current wording of GDPR. The extra-territorial nature of GDPR means that many UK companies will also continue to be subject to GDPR after the 29 March exit date. Whilst the UK legislation will help ensure data subjects’ rights are protected after Brexit, it will not be sufficient to maintain the free flow of personal data between the UK and the EU27 if the UK leaves without a deal.
Under GDPR, transfers of personal data to non-EEA countries ('third countries') are restricted unless one of the appropriate safeguards or exemptions is available, including Standard Contractual Clauses ('SCC'), Binding Corporate Rules ('BCR') and adequacy decisions. Upon the exit date, the UK will become a third country. Transfers of personal data from the EEA to the UK will therefore be restricted. Meanwhile, transfers from the UK to the EEA and the rest of the world may also be restricted under the UK GDPR-equivalent legislation.
Transfers from the UK to the EEA and countries with EU adequacy decisions
The DCMS confirms that the UK government will transitionally recognise all EEA states, EU/EEA institutions, and Gibraltar as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data. This means that personal data can flow freely from the UK to the EEA. Similarly, the UK will preserve the effect of adequacy decisions made by the EU Commission prior to the exit date.
It is worth noting that the EU’s adequacy decision in relation to the US was limited to organisations certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Shield. Therefore, upon the exit date, UK companies transferring personal data to the US must check whether the relevant US organisation has confirmed it will extend its commitment to the Privacy Shield to transfers from the UK. The US Department of Commerce has required Privacy Shield participants to make such amendments to privacy notices by the exit date in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Transfers from the UK to the rest of the world
Most transfers from the UK to the rest of the world will be restricted under the UK's GDPR-equivalent legislation. The UK government will recognise current EU SCCs and BCRs authorised by the ICO as valid basis to justify restricted transfers. By recognising GDPR safeguards to be valid under national law, it is hoped that any potential disruptions will be limited. However, BCRs under GDPR allow free flow of personal data both within and outside the EEA. Most other EEA countries currently recognise BCRs certified by the ICO under mutual recognition, but from the exit date, the EU27 may not continue to recognise BCRs certified by the ICO.
Transfers from the EEA to the UK
In a no-deal scenario, how EEA countries should transfer personal data to the UK will become purely a matter of EU law (i.e. GDPR, which the UK government will not be able to influence unilaterally). Despite the UK's compliance with GDPR, it is extremely unlikely that an adequacy decision in relation to the UK will be made by the European Commission before the exit date. The Commission has previously stated that it will not start the adequacy decision procedure before the exit date. EEA data exporters will therefore need to put appropriate safeguards such as SCCs and BCRs in place for transfers of personal data into the UK. However, EU SCCs currently only cover transfers from controllers. It is unclear whether data transfers from an EEA processor to a UK controller will be restricted under GDPR and if so, what alternative safeguards companies can adopt if they do not have BCRs in place.
Appointing representatives
The UK government intends the UK GDPR-equivalent legislation to have extra-territorial nature. This means that a company based in the EEA and not established in the UK will be subject to the UK version of GDPR if it offers goods or services to individuals in the UK or monitors their behaviours. Such EEA companies will be required to appoint representatives in the UK. Similarly, UK companies without EEA establishments will be required to appoint representatives in the EEA under GDPR. Representatives act on behalf of their principals and can be fined by the ICO or EEA data protection authorities for non-compliance.
Dealing with supervisory authorities
Currently companies carrying out cross-border processing only need to deal with a single EEA data protection regulatory authority. Upon the exit date, the ICO can no longer act as a lead authority. UK companies carrying out cross-border processing may therefore be supervised and potentially fined by one or more EEA data protection authorities in addition to the ICO. This could have significant implications for data protection indemnities post-Brexit.
PECR and NIS Regulations
The UK government has confirmed that upon the exit date the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 ('PECR') will continue to apply in the UK. However, the UK will not implement the new draft ePrivacy Regulation. If the new ePrivacy Regulation diverges from PECR, companies will be required to comply with dual regulatory regimes in relation to direct marketing to individuals in the UK and EU27. However, post-Brexit, the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 will remain valid as national law. In order for UK companies to maintain access to EU markets, UK-based digital service providers will be required to appoint representatives in the EU.
Whilst the DCMS’ and the ICO’s proposals are pragmatic and aimed to limit disruptions to the free flow of personal data, a no-deal Brexit would significantly affect transfers of personal data from the EEA to the UK. Various practical actions also need to be taken on exit date, such as appointment of representatives and updating privacy notices. If you would like assistance with this, please contact Andrew Dunlop in our data protection team.
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How Bridget Jones boosted the market for big underwear
Sexy?
Janet Godsell, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy, University of Warwick
We all giggled at the enormous underwear scene in the first Bridget Jones film, but despite these garments once being seen as a byword for unsexy, shapewear has become one of the great success stories of the lingerie market.
It is 15 years since the film’s release, and the famous “hello mummy” quip when Hugh Grant’s character Daniel Cleaver discovered that Bridget was wearing “absolutely enormous panties”.
With that one scene Bridget and Daniel made it acceptable, even sexy, to wear support pants – and to talk about them. Today, the market for this larger form of underwear has grown significantly. A number of brands make it and UK-based retail chain Debenhams recorded a 200% increase in shapewear sales between 2007 and 2012, a trend which has continued. It is now one of the most significant segments of the underwear or “intimates” market.
One country that has ridden this wave is Sri Lanka. It is now at the forefront of shapewear innovation, design and manufacture, having invested heavily in research and development over recent years. As a result, it developed a key technology involved in shapewear in 2008 and is now a market leader.
This growth in its popularity has been led by an unprecedented level of innovation within the sector. Manufacturers have invested in the design of shapewear, reducing the size, increasing the comfort and improving the style. And it has involved a significant supply chain, which I’ve studied with my colleague Rivini Mataraarachchi from the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka.
Manufacturers have worked hard to develop products that consumers want at affordable prices – and have built a strong supply chain around it to do so.
A complex supply chain exists to make one item of shapewear, using materials sourced from Sri Lanka, the US, Germany and Eurasia. A typical pair of shapewear pants involves bringing materials together over more than 70,000 miles, 16 different manufacturing sites, across three continents, to provide a pair of pants to a customer in London.
It is heartening to see that Sri Lanka’s shapewear industry has used local capability where possible – for both the base materials and packing items – and sourced other components globally where technological advantage lay elsewhere. Advanced thread technology from the US is used to ensure that the different seams are soft, comfortable and have the correct degree of stretch and draw. Eurasia has developed the ancient Chinese flocking process, which adds the velvety embossed pattern (made up of fibres called flock) to the shapewear. Labels and hangers, meanwhile, are sourced in Germany.
By leveraging and combining these different technologies and manufacturers from around the world, new innovative products can be brought to market faster and cheaper.
Constant innovation
Even in a product as apparently simple as underwear, innovation is critical to ensure long-term survival in what will otherwise become a commoditised market, which is when companies compete primarily through price in a race to the bottom. Market-share can be lost to countries with lower labour costs, unless other innovative ways are found to increase efficiency in an ethical and responsible way.
We are also seeing the innovation developments in shapewear crossing over into other clothing ranges, including compression wear for sport, which is popular among athletes for the support and comfort the shapewear technology lends itself to. Nike put silicone embedding technology to the test in their kits for both the England and France teams in the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Branded “silsoft”, the panels are designed to increase the grip and durability of the shirts, to improve the circulation and enhance the performance of the rugby players that wear them.
The discussion of underwear sparked by the first Bridget Jones film has inadvertently boosted shapewear sales, and this largely invisible world of global supply chains has sprung up to capitalise on it. It shows how centres of excellence around the world can be linked together to produce innovative new products with real user benefits, in an ethical and responsible way, at affordable prices.
Who would have thought that there was so much innovation, technology and a 70,000-mile supply chain supporting a simple pair of pants?
This article was originally published on The Conversation
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Michael Cohen is going to the same prison holding The Situation and Fyre Fest's Billy McFarland. Here's what it's like inside.
Jacob Shamsian
Michael Cohen is being sent to the federal prison in Otisville, New York, after pleading guilty to various white collar crimes.
FCI Otisville is a prison of choice for white collar criminals. It’s is where Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino are serving time.
Forbes once ranked it one of America’s 10 “cushiest prisons.”
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Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, and President Donald Trump’s former longtime attorney Michael Cohen walk into a prison.
They enjoy a bowl of matzo ball soup and wait until their sentences are over.
No really. This isn’t a joke. Those three controversial figures are all spending time in FCI Otisville, a correctional institution in upstate New York once ranked by Forbes as one of America’s 10 “cushiest prisons.”
Cohen is reportedly scheduled to begin his sentence there Monday, after months of delay and dramatic testimony before Congress about his work for Trump.
Between two different federal investigations, Cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud, lying to congress about the Trump Tower Moscow deal, and campaign finance violations related to paying off two women who said they had affairs with Trump – the latter of which he said he did at Trump’s direction.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesMichael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Donald Trump is sworn in before testifying before the House Oversight Committee in February.
US District Judge William Pauley agreed back in December to recommend Cohen to serve his sentence in Otisville, at his attorney’s request. The Bureau of Prisons, which ultimately determines prison assignments, agreed with the recommendation and ordered that he arrive at FCI Otisville on Monday, according to The New York Times.
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Cookouts on holidays and matzo ball soup in the commissary
Otisville has a reputation as a prison of choice for white-collar criminals. It has a medium-security designation, which means few violent inmates are imprisoned there, and is relatively small – it has a capacity of 513. The prison also has a recreation center with cardio machines, horseshoes, and tennis courts, according to NBC News.
Cookouts with hamburgers, hot dogs, watermelon, and potato salad are held on Memorial Day and Independence Day, according to The New York Post. And in recent years, the prison’s store has sold oysters and rib steak, according to the Post, although those items don’t appear on the institution’s latest commissary list.
Because of that reputation, the prison has attracted figures like Kenneth I. Starr – the former financial adviser of Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese, and Sylvester Stallone – who served for seven years after stealing from his clients. Sholom Rubashkin is another high-profile former inmate: He ran a kosher meat-producing plant and served eight years of his sentence before Trump commuted it.
Otisville was also the first-choice prison for Bernie Madoff, who was sentenced to 150 years for various types of financial fraud. Madoff’s request was denied, according to Forbes, because the camp doesn’t allow prisoners with more than 10 years to serve. Madoff would have to wait 140 years for a transfer.
McFarland and Sorrentino are currently serving their sentences in Otisville, for wire fraud and tax fraud, respectively.
Because of Otisville’s proximity to the predominantly Jewish towns of Kiryas Joel and Monsey, it’s also become a prison of choice for convicts who are observant Jews. The majority of the prison’s inmates are Jewish, according to The New York Times.
The prison has Passover seders, and its schedule is structured around Jewish holidays. Its daily prayer services are run by “a Hasidic man from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who is locked up for arson and corporate fraud,” according to the Times. And its commissary allows inmates to purchase buy kosher matzo ball soup, beef cholent, gefilte fish, rugelach, and other food traditional to Jews of European heritage. It even sells kippas for $US6.
“Hey, it’s not Zabar’s, and it’s a little overpriced,” one former inmate, Lawrence Dressler, told the Times. “But what do you want? It’s prison.”
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Ariana Grande is getting into private equity; Citigroup is considering working with pot companies
Olivia Oran, Business Insider US
Like most of you this week, I was captivated by the college admissions scandal. Some of the details that emerged were stunning: for example, wealthy parents Photoshopping their kids heads to make it appear like they were lightweight crew stars.
And the fall-out from what started as a criminal case is beginning to take shape at places like Stanford, where students are suing the school, saying that their degrees are now less valuable because prospective employers will always wonder if they were admitted to the university on their own merits (seriously?!) And just three days after the scandal broke, one journalist already got a book deal about it. Now that is hustle.
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And speaking of scandals, it’s deja vu all over again in the banking world.
Wall Street firms spent the last few years repairing the damage they suffered to their reputations during the financial crisis.
All seemed to be going smoothly until, well, the banks couldn’t help themselves. First, it was Wells Fargo’s fake account scandal (followed by issues with other consumer businesses such as auto, wealth management, and mortgage). Then it was Goldman’s 1MDB case and Deutsche Bank’s involvement in a money laundering investigation stemming from the Panama Papers (and way too many other examples of wrongdoing to mention).
I guess it should come as no surprise that when Axios and Harris Poll released their annual list of the brands with the worst reputations in the US, three banks ranked in the top 10 – Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Goldman. In fact, Wells was ranked so low that the other four brands with worse rankings were embattled retailer Sears, the Trump Organization, tobacco company Phillips Morris, and of course, the US Government.
The bad news for Wells continued this week, with CEO Tim Sloan facing a grilling in front of the House Financial Services Committee for the bank’s inability to curb the consumer-related scandals. Maxine Waters, Chairman of the US House Committee on Financial Services, responded that the bank was “too big to manage” while one federal banking agency said it was “disappointed” in the bank for its risk management program and poor corporate governance.
Yet, despite all this bad press, Wells’ board seems tone deaf. Just a day after Sloan testified, the board voted to increase his pay by 5% to $18.4 million in 2018. Of that amount, $2 million was a bonus for Sloan’s “continued leadership” in helping rebuild trust in the bank.
“Mr. Sloan shouldn’t be getting a bonus, he should be getting shown the door,” Waters said.
I’m not sure I disagree. Wells hasn’t made many tough decisions in the last year that’ll help repair their brand. Instead, the bank taken completely superficial steps such as their recent rollout of more “welcoming” ATM alcoves with cushy seating and mood lighting.
As Wells and others face increasing threats from fintechs who have built their brands around consumer discontent with Main Street banks, it’s going to have to do a lot more to win back the hearts and minds of every day people.
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A 257-year-old asset manager profited from Ariana Grande’s hit single ‘7 Rings,’ and it’s a business Wall Street’s getting excited about
Ariana Grande wanted it. She got it. And a private-equity firm owned by a major asset manager benefitted.
In the fall, the Grammy-nominated pop star went on a Champagne-fueled New York City shopping spree at Tiffany’s, buying rings for her friends, including her songwriter, who told her they needed to turn the experience into a musical number. Grande’s single “7 Rings” starts by detailing that day and borrows from the 1959 song “My Favorite Things,” which Julie Andrews sang in “The Sound of Music.”
Tiffany & Co. wasn’t the only company to benefit from the song, which spent multiple weeks atop Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. Grande’s managers worked with the Beverly Hills, California-based Concord Music Group to license the rights to “My Favorite Things,” one of nearly 400,000 copyrights the group owns.
Concord is backed by Barings’ alternative-investments arm, a $48.5 billion platform that invests in real estate, private equity, energy, and other strategies. Private equity has increasingly set its sights on music licensing, as investors seek strong, dependable revenue streams: No matter the economic climate, advertisers, movie producers, songwriters, and a host of other groups still need to license songs for their works.
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Citigroup is considering working with pot companies as banks figure out ways to chase a $75 billion market
Citigroup has held talks in recent weeks about how closely it should work with cannabis companies or clients in other industries who want a loan to invest in the marijuana market, according to people with knowledge of the talks.
One particular meeting earlier this year involved Bradford Hu, the bank’s chief risk officer, Ed Skyler, global head of public affairs, and Jamie Forese, the firm’s president and head of the unit that houses the investment bank, according to one of the people. All three sit on the firm’s operating committee.
The executives had seen competitors participating around the edges of the industry, such as by financing purchases of stakes in cannabis companies, and wanted to be proactive in considering how they’d respond if a client came to them with a similar request, one of the people said.
As more states legalize cannabis, more and more banks are looking for reasons to work with an industry that’s projected to reach $75 billion in the US alone by 2030. More than 430 US banks count cannabis companies as clients in one way or another, according to a December report from the Treasury Department. Another 113 credit unions work with the industry, according to the report.
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A bunch of hedge fund managers featured in ‘The Big Short’ are among the casualties of Citadel’s most recent cuts
Citadel’s most recent cuts including two hedge fund managers whose past performance nearly won an Academy Award.
Vincent Daniel and A. Porter Collins, who were featured as characters in the Michael Lewis-inspired movie “The Big Short,” were cut as part of Citadel’s closure of its Aptigon stock-picking unit last week, sources tell Business Insider. They were portrayed respectively by actors Jeremy Strong and Hamish Linklater in the 2015 film about the collapse of the US housing bubble.
Citadel’s performance for the year has been solid, with the flagship Wellington fund returning 4.55% through the end of February, sources say. Last year, when the average hedge fund declined, Wellington returned more than 9%.
Stock-picking has been falling out of favor with investors, however. Managers like Jana Partners and BlueMountain Capital Management have cut long-short strategies this year, Carlson Capital’s stock-picking fund has been bleeding assets, and investors have pulled billions from the space.
Goldman Sachs’ internal idea factory hatched a plan for the Google of Wall Street, and it’s now looking for the next big thing to disrupt the bank
When Goldman Sachs launched an internal idea factory last year, execs didn’t know what they would get. The guidelines were kept vague, in part to spur out-of-the-box thinking.
But one of the winning submissions tells you all you need to know about Wall Street these days.
Goldman selected a project called Neon, a search engine built by the compliance division to find data, conduct surveillance, and detect pattern anomalies. Overwhelmed by the amount of data they had to sort and process and underwhelmed by other off-the-shelf tools, employees created their own.
A future use may be for investment bankers to search for a client’s name (e.g., a big technology company) to get a complete list of colleagues talking to the company on other projects across the bank, learn what meetings are planned, and see which pitch decks or presentations had been prepared in the past.
A top BlackRock exec says it’s struggling to crack the data conundrum, and the process is full of ‘headache and heartache’
Even the world’s biggest asset manager is struggling to crack the data conundrum.
Firms eager to integrate traditional and alternative data in their investment processes to outperform their peers are struggling with data intake and processing.
“The amount of headache and heartache that we spend on this is unbelievable,” Amer Bisat, BlackRock’s head of sovereign and emerging markets alpha portfolios, said at a New York conference on Monday. “It remains a holy grail. It remains something that’s more a promise than a reality.”
BlackRock isn’t the only major financial institution struggling with getting data into a usable format and then using it to augment the investment process.
According to a July 2016 McKinsey article, about half of the time spent by employees in finance and insurance is used for collecting and processing data. That and the large amounts of data involved in the industry make it one of the area’s most ripe for disruption, according to the consultant.
The explosive growth of quant investing is paving the way for ‘super managers’ in the hedge-fund industry
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More than a quarter of the hedge-fund industry’s $3 trillion in assets are run by the 20 biggest firms, according to a new study from Barclays, and that proportion is expected to go only up.
The biggest funds – run by Ray Dalio, Cliff Asness, and Ken Griffin – accounted for 26% of the industry’s assets at the end of 2018, compared to 21% of the industry’s assets at the end of 2013.
The growth has been in an area that all hedge funds are trying to recruit more talent for. Quant funds offered by these managers have grown from 6% of the industry’s assets to 11%, while discretionary strategies – in which investing decisions are by a person or a team of people instead of a machine – have dropped from 9% of the industry’s assets to 6%.
There’s a clear divide in the industry between the biggest and just the big. While the largest hedge-fund managers have gained market share over the last five years, the hedge funds outside of the top 20 that still have more than $5 billion in assets saw their market share recede.
“This palette has such an intense highlight I thought it would blind others to my privilege and toxicity,” one said. “Unfortunately, it did not work and instead left me dusty AF” – a commenter on the Sephora site, complaining about a product the retailer had done in collaboration with Olivia Jade Giannulli (former Full House star Lori Louglin’s daughter). On Tuesday, the FBI accused Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli of agreeing to pay $500,000 in bribes in exchange for having Olivia Jade and her sister, Isabella Rose, designated as recruits to the USC crew team to facilitate their admission to USC; neither girl participates in crew.
Wall Street move of the week:
A top Goldman Sachs sales trader is leaving to take a big role at JPMorgan
In markets:
‘Obscenely overvalued’: Stocks are far more fragile than most people realize – and one expert says traders are making the same mistake they did before the past 2 crashes
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In tech news:
Google has told dozens of employees in its laptop and tablet division to find new jobs at the company, raising questions about its hardware plans
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‘Our value proposition goes beyond the Amazons and Nikes of the world’: Snap is going on the charm offensive with a splashy presence at SXSW
Other good stories from around the newsroom:
Canadian marijuana companies are quietly pushing the Toronto Stock Exchange to allow them to invest in the lucrative US market and it could be transformative for the $75 billion industry
A startup that claims to reverse diabetes using Silicon Valley’s favorite diet just hired a healthcare veteran to lead its expansion
UBS is now sounding the alarm on Amazon taking on UPS and FedEx – and analysts say the logistics giants have ‘limited’ tools to fight back
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What Does Kanye West's 'Only One' Mean — His New Single Featuring Paul McCartney Is A Touching Tribute
By Leah Marilla Thomas
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Have we found the next Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett? The generations are colliding again. It's fitting that Kanye's single "Only One" is about his mother and daughter, because collaborating with Paul McCartney means a lot of us have some explaining to do to our own mothers. Who is the only one that Kanye West is talking about in the new song that just dropped? It's Kanye. Were you expecting a different answer? Well, I'm kidding a little bit. Sure, at one point Kanye is singing from the perspective of his mother and therefore telling himself how proud he is of himself. However, I'm not a monster. I won't fault him for that. He also sings to her, and to Nori, which is the cutest nickname of all time. The song is essentially about wishing his mother, who died in 2007, was here to see her grandchild grow up. There's a great line about not being able to choose your own death. It's very sweet, and Paul McCartney's organ playing hits all the emotional marks. My favorite lyric, "I think the storm ran out of rain" will probably not leave my head today. It's rather sweet, though I may agree with The Independent that at worst, the song sounds like a highly-autotuned hymn. However, let's go a little bit deeper and analyze these fresh new Kanye lyrics. What better way is there to ring in the new year?
Another great line, "you got the world cause you got the love in your hands," could have a few meanings. Kanye could be expressing the sentiment that, dare I say it, all you need is love? Or even that money... can't buy you love? Perhaps! However, I think the hands is the part that matters. I think he's holding a baby. "The love" in this case is referring to North.
There is some fuzzy math at play here. The song is called "Only One". Kanye's mother is his only one. Kanye is his mother's only one. Kanye also refers to his baby girl as his only one. That's all well and good until Kanye's mother (in the song) says this:
"I talked to God about you, he said he sent you an angel/ And look at all that he gave you/ You asked for one and you got two."
What does it mean? Did Kim Kardashian get the shaft in this song? That's awkward.
Bustle's Emma Lord points out that the song is both self-aware and talks about a person's capacity to change. He also talks about having doubts on bad days earlier in life. This is a time for reflection, and parenthood is definitely affecting Kanye West. Can't wait to hear what he, and Paul McCartney, have in store for us next!
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Colombia's FARC Party Accuses Far-Right of Attacks on Members
BOGOTA - The political party formed by Colombia's former Marxist FARC rebels on Wednesday accused the far right of assassinating its members, but pledged to continue the process of reintegration.
The statement by the Revolutionary Alternative Common Force (FARC) came a day after the shooting death of Jorge Enrique Corredor, the highest ranking former FARC commander to be killed since a peace deal was signed in late 2016.
'We won't hesitate to point the finger at right-wing and paramilitary sectors closely linked to state security agencies, who are behind these murders,' FARC Senator Pablo Catatumbo told a news conference, without revealing evidence of what he called a 'dirty war.'
At least 139 former FARC rebels have been killed nationwide since the signing of a peace deal with then-President Juan Manuel Santos, which brought an end to the FARC's part in a five-decade conflict that left more than 260,000 dead and millions displaced.
'Without a doubt, there are sectors that want to bring the peace agreement to a crossroads and a new cycle of violence, with incalculable consequences for the entire nation,' said FARC party President Rodrigo Londono.
'Colombia must know that those of us who signed the peace agreement on behalf of the insurgency will not falter in seeking the path that leads to reconciliation and peaceful coexistence,' Londono added.
Under the terms of the agreement some 13,000 members of the rebel group, including more than 6,000 combatants, handed in their weapons and formed the FARC political party.
The FARC has repeatedly raised concerns that they may be assassinated by right-wing paramilitary gangs or drug traffickers, in a replay of more than 3,000 targeted killings during the 1980s, when the group first attempted to form a political party.
Meanwhile, a tribunal charged with prosecuting war crimes committed during the conflict ordered the release of former FARC leader Seuxis Paucias Hernandez, better known by his nom de guerre Jesus Santrich.
Santrich was indicted over a year ago by a U.S. grand jury for allegedly conspiring to export 10 tonnes of cocaine, worth $320 million in street value, to the United States.
He was detained by Colombian authorities pending his possible extradition.
All crimes committed during the war fall under the purview of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), which wrote on Twitter that the evidence presented by the United States did not establish a date for the alleged crime.
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Home News Eight More US Deportees Arrive in Cambodia
Eight More US Deportees Arrive in Cambodia
Matt Surrusco
Eight more Cambodians repatriated from the U.S. touched down in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, some of whom will be standing on Cambodian soil for the first time in their lives and have no known family in the country.
They have been dropped into a nation vastly different from the one they have left behind for good. Among the eight is a new father, separated from his wife and newborn son.
The group are the third lot to be deported this year from the U.S. under a 2002 agreement that the government says it wishes to renegotiate and amend for humanitarian reasons.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Jay Raman confirmed the arrival of the eight Cambodian citizens in an email.
Among the eight men—non-U.S. citizens who were eligible for deportation as a result of felony convictions—seven are currently being sponsored by the Returnee Integration Support Center (RISC), an NGO that helps deported Cambodians adapt to living in a nation to which many have never been, said Bill Herod, an adviser to RISC.
“They go through many stages, stages of grief. Many of them have left wives and children and parents. So they grieve for those lost relationships for a long time,” Mr. Herod said.
Of the new arrivals, “it is unusual to have this many in one group without family” to support them upon arrival, said Mr. Herod, who has worked with deportees since 2002.
Last week, Prime Minister Hun Sen urged the U.S. to revise the nations’ repatriation agreement and allow Cambodians who had already served prison sentences in the U.S. to stay with their families.
“When they send back the [former] prisoners to Cambodia, the wives and children continue living in the United States,” he said. “This is a sad separation.”
The government had finished drafting an amended agreement and would soon propose it to the U.S., a Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman said last week. Interior and Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesmen could not be reached on Wednesday.
More than 500 Cambodians have been deported from the U.S. under the agreement since 2002, including 13 people earlier this year.
RISC will provide temporary housing for the latest arrivals without identified relatives, help them find jobs and teach them about local customs, Mr. Herod said. The organization was also supporting two Cambodians from a group of eight who were deported last month, he said.
For deportees, many of whom were born in Thai refugee camps and immigrated to the U.S. as children fleeing war with their families, Mr. Herod said it takes time to land on their feet.
“They have to figure out where they are and how to function,” he said. “It’s not unusual for guys to be stuck in limbo for two or three months.”
Often they ask whether it’s safe to drink tap water, how to bargain in the market and why police patrolling Phnom Penh streets carry large, automatic weapons, he said.
Steve Peppin, who has been friends for 20 years with Soeun Chheng, one of the eight deported this week and whose wife Allison gave birth last week, is having to make his own adjustment after losing his friend.
“I’m heartbroken,” Mr. Peppin said on Wednesday from the U.S. state of Minnesota. The two met in prison as teenagers, trained as barbers while incarcerated and worked together in Mr. Peppin’s barbershop since Mr. Chheng was released from prison in 2012 after serving more than 17 years over a fatal shooting.
“I still remember the days and nights talking about our plans to work together in a barbershop and grow old together doing positive things. Being good men that stood for something,” he said.
“Words can’t describe the pain I have.”
Luka Meas, who was deported in 2011, said last month that when he returned to Cambodia after living in the U.S. for three decades, he worried about his health and what he was going to eat.
“I was thinking and saying to myself, I don’t think I’m going to be able to survive here,” Mr. Meas said.
Today, he has a wife and son in Cambodia, works as a tuk-tuk driver in Phnom Penh and has adjusted to living in the nation he fled as a boy—although he still doesn’t consider Cambodia home.
“This is the place I was born,” he said, “but all my life I grew up in the States.”
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Brannoxtown Community National School opened in September 2018 under the patronage of the Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB). It is Ireland’s 14th Community National School (i.e., a primary school with a local Education and Training Board as its patron) and the third Community National School under KWETB Patronage.
Original school-house
Our school has a rich heritage; it dates back to 1885 when it was established as a Baptist School by John La Touche, Master of Harristown Estate. LaTouche gave permission for the use of stone and materials from Portlester Castle, on the original site, to construct the new school for the Baptist community. Few of the National Schools established prior to the close of the last century still survive today. Our original school building (part-Norman castle) is a listed building. The school has had many refurbishments since 1885. The most recent of these, which included replacing the roof and windows, was completed in 2012 during the construction of the new school building. Returning to patronage of hte school, it closed in 1904 when it became a private residence. In 1929, the school reopened as Catholic with Ms. Duffy as principal until 1972. Today, the original schoolhouse comprises one large classroom, two offices, a staff room and toilets.
Modern, new building
Our school includes a state-of-the-art, new building which opened in 2013. Four large classrooms are fully equipped with a wonderful range of educational resources, technologies, workspaces and storage spaces. Following the opening of Brannoxtown CNS under patronage of the KWETB in September 2018, the two downstairs classrooms in the new building are currently used for children in Junior and Senior classes. One of the upstairs classrooms serves as an indoor gym and recreation space where children can enjoy a range of break-time activities on rainy days.
A new journey for our school
Our school is now in its third phase of development – from a Baptist School, to a Catholic School, to a Community National School. Community is at the heart of the school’s next journey. At Brannoxtown CNS, we uphold the values of excellence, equality and diversity. Our school is a joyful place where we support all children to grow in competence and confidence so they can flourish as learners and individuals. We are currently enrolling children across all classes – from Junior Infants to Sixth Class. If you wish to know more, please contact us.
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Albert Vinasco is currently working with Sally Elsey on their band "Gabriel"s sixth album due out in early 2016. Like all of Gabriel's albums, it is currently available now at the following online stores: iTunes, Rhapsody, iLike, Napster, MusicNet, eMusic, Sony Connect, Groupie Tunes, Amazon MP3, Lala.com, ShockHound and Amie Street.
In addition to Vinasco's solo work, he has been involved in several collaborations. His most recent collaboration has been with Sally Elsey, an amazing vocalist, and musician who resides in London, UK. The result of their collaborations can now be found here on their fiifth CD entitled "Unforgiven". You can hear all 10 tracks from this CD by clicking the "Albums" button.
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Vinasco has also worked with Dave Wohlman from NY, NY under the name DNA and launched their first CD entitled "DNA Collaborations" in January of 2008.
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ASEAN Roundtable Series discussion on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in ASEAN: Economic opportunities and ASEAN centrality
Home / ASEAN Roundtable Series / ASEAN Roundtable Series discussion on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in ASEAN: Economic opportunities and ASEAN centrality
CIMB ASEAN Research Institute in collaboration with ASEAN Business Club held a roundtable discussion on 19th July 2017, with the theme China’s Belt and Road Initiative in ASEAN: economic opportunities and ASEAN centrality. Speakers included Pauline Loong, Managing Director of Asia Analytica; Tan Sri Dato’ Dr. Michael Yeoh, CEO of Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI); Dr. Zhang Miao, Research Fellow of Institute of China Studies, University Malaya; and Unny Sankar, Senior Principal Assistant Director at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry Malaysia (MITI). The discussion was moderated by Tan Sri Dr. Munir Majid, Chairman of CARI and President of the ASEAN Business Club.
Click here: Read discussion summary
Managing Director, Asia Analytica Senior Fellow, CIMB ASEAN Research Institute
Pauline Loong is the managing director of the Hong Kong-based research consultancy Asia-analytica. She is also a Senior Fellow of CIMB ASEAN Research Institute. She has earned an outstanding reputation as among the best-informed analysts of China’s political economy. She authors the well-known “Loong on China” newsletter which has won accolades for its perceptiveness as well as its meticulous research and reliability.
Her distinguished career includes her role as senior vice-president and China risk analyst at CIMB Securities. She was responsible for alerting clients to the changing dynamics shaping China in the 21st century and what they mean for investment decisions.
Previously, she had been a director at Jardine Fleming (now part of JPMorgan) where she headed its China department. She also served as head of research at Jardine Fleming China, a venture backed by the World Bank’s International Financing Corp.
At Jardine Fleming, she successfully guided clients through the most tumultuous decade in modern Chinese history: the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, the death of Deng Xiaoping and the highly confrontational run-up to Hong Kong’s handover to Beijing in 1997.
Ms Loong’s Chinese Mainland connections are impressive and have been developed during three decades of close personal involvement in China’s economy – both as a market player and as a journalistic observer. Her Mainland experience as well as her expertise led to an executive position with CITIC Resources as it was developing its offshore business.
The foundations of her Beijing relationships had been laid when she had been among the first foreign correspondents in China in the 1980s as assistant editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and Editor of its authoritative China Trade Report. In the early 2000s, she had extensive access to top policy circles in Beijing after her appointment as Editor-in-Chief of Euromoney’s stable of financial magazines in Asia.
Ms Loong’s awards include being voted “Best China analyst” in 1993 (representing Jardine Fleming) and being again ranked among the best analysts in 2007 (representing CIMB) in two global polls of fund managers by Asiamoney. She won Euromoney’s “Best Stories Award” in 2000 for her analysis on Asia’s growing hedge fund industry and in 2003 on the takeover of Jardine Fleming by Chase.
She graduated in English Literature from the University of Hong Kong. She was nominated by Jardine Matheson to undertake course studies on socialist economics and the Chinese political system at Peking University and at Tsinghua University in 1997.
Tan Sri Dato’ Dr. Michael Yeoh
CEO, Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI)
Tan Sri Dato’ Dr. Michael O.K. Yeoh is a public intellectual, social entrepreneur and thought leader. He is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI), recently ranked as one of the world’s and region’s top think tank. ASLI was ranked no. 23 in the world among think tanks with budget below USD5 million and 22 in the world among think tanks to watch. ASLI’s Centre for Public Policy Studies (CPPS) was also ranked 4th best in Asia Pacific región. Dr. Yeoh is also Founder Vice-Chairman of CPPS.
Dr. Yeoh was appointed by the Prime Minister of Malaysia to be a Member of the National Unity Consultative Council, the Advisory Board of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and a Commissioner in Malaysia’s Competition Commission. He was appointed by the Malaysian Government to be Malaysia’s Representative with Ambassador status on the ASEAN High Level Task Force on Connectivity. He has served two terms as a Commissioner in Malaysia’s Human Rights Commission. He is now Deputy President of the Association for Promotion of Human Rights (PROHAM). He was recently appointed to be a Council Member of the United Nations ESCAP Business Advisory Council.
With over 30 years corporate experience, he sits on the Board of Directors of Pan Malaysia Corporation, Malaysia-China Business Council and MUI Properties and was a Director of Star Publications and the National Heart Institute. He also sits on the Board of Governors of the Wawasan Open University. He is also Chairman of the World Chinese Economic Forum and the ASEAN Leadership Forum. He was recently elected as the Secretary General of the Malaysia-Japan Economic Cooperation Association (MAJECA).
He graduated in Economics and Accountancy from Australia’s Monash University and has undertaken senior executive programmes at Harvard Business School and Aresty Institute of Wharton School. He was conferred a Doctorate in Laws (honoraris causa) by the University of Nottingham. He is a sought after speaker at international conferences and has authored several books on leadership, management and politics. Dr. Yeoh is also a member of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies London, a Fellow of the UK Institute of Directors and Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Management. He enjoys photography, reading and travelling.
Dr. Zhang Miao
Research Fellow, Institute of China Studies, University Malaya
Dr. Zhang Miao is Research Fellow at Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya. She obtained her PhD in Economics from University of Malaya in 2014. She has been studying China-Malaysia trade and investment, urban studies and institutional economics. Her research spectrum also extends to the fields of industrial policy and technology innovation. Her previous writings have appeared in a number of international journals such as Journal of Contemporary Asia, Habitat International, Cities, Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, International Journal of China Studies, Institutions and Economies and Asia Pacific Business Review.
Dr. Zhang has undertaken several consultancies for international agencies, including United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Japan-ASEAN Center and Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). Dr. Zhang frequently contributes commentaries to Malaysian papers – Sin Chew Daily and Oriental Daily.
Unny Sankar
Senior Principal Assistant Director, Ministry of International Trade and Industry Malaysia (MITI)
Mr. Unny Sankar is the Senior Principal Assistant Director of Bilateral Economic and Trade Relations at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry Malaysia. His responsibilities include overseeing the newly established Belt and Road Initiative National Secretariat as well as bilateral economic and trade matters relating to the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. In addition, Mr. Unny Sankar leads coordination and monitoring team on the implementation of Five Year Program for Economic and Trade Relations between Malaysia and China.
He started his career in the civil service at the Ministry of Health Malaysia in 2003. He was part of the free trade agreement negotiating team for Intellectual Property Rights Chapter, Trade in Goods and Trade in Services — negotiating for access to medicine and trade in health.
He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry (Honors) from the University of Malaya in 2003 and Master of Public Administration from Harvard University in 2014. Currently he also serves as the Executive Committee Member for the Harvard Club of Malaysia.
Chairman, CIMB ASEAN Research Institute President, ASEAN Business Club
Tan Sri Dr. Munir is the Chairman of CIMB ASEAN Research Institute (CARI) and the president of ASEAN Business Club (ABC). He is also the Chairman of Bank Muamalat Malaysia Bhd, and has been on its board since 2008. He obtained his B.Sc (Econ) from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1971, and his PhD in International Relations in 1978. He taught at the Department of International Relations in LSE from1972-1975, and was an analyst for Daiwa Europe NV in London from 1975-1978.
On his return to Malaysia at the end of 1978, Tan Sri Dr. Munir joined The New Straits Times Press (NSTP) as a lead writer and progressed to become its Group Editor. He left The NST in 1986 to become the CEO of a small merchant bank, Pertanian Baring Sanwa (PBS), which then became Commerce International Merchant Bankers, the genesis of today’s CIMB Group. He left CIMB in 1993 at the invitation of the Government of Malaysia to set up the Securities Commission and became its first Executive Chairman until 1999. He continued with his illustrious career, serving in various capacities, including as Chairman of both Celcom and Malaysia Airlines System at different times. He was the founder and President of the Kuala Lumpur Business Club (2003-2008), and was the chairman of its Advisory Council. Dr. Munir, an Honorary Fellow, is Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS (Centre for international affairs, diplomacy and strategy).
As appeared in The Edge Markets
Nazir urges govt to scrutinise benefits of Chinese-led deals
KUALA LUMPUR: Prominent banker Datuk Seri Nazir Razak has called on the government to scrutinise Chinese-led investments in Malaysia that are part of the expansive One Belt, One Road (Obor) initiative, particularly the 600km-long East Coast Rail Line (ECRL) project.
Nazir, who is the chairman of CIMB Group Holdings Bhd, the country’s second-largest lender by assets, said the RM55 billion ECRL project should be thoroughly scrutinised as the project should not be solely measured in terms of investment scale, but also in its value proposition.
“I think it is very important that we get away from this traditional Malaysian excitement for everything that is large and sexy. That is very dangerous,” Nazir said at the roundtable on “China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Asean: economic opportunities and Asean centrality” yesterday. The event was organised by CIMB Asean Research Institute in collaboration with the Asean Business Club…
As appeared in Berita Daily
China’s BRI must benefit M’sia
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia must ensure that planned investments in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will benefit the country.
CIMB Asean Research Institute (CARI) Chairman Munir Majid said Malaysia must not be overwhelmed by the size of the Chinese initiative and had to negotiate bilateral relations that worked for it.
“It is a very good thing coming at us, but don’t be punch-drunk and think it automatically benefit us…
As appeared in BERNAMA
Malaysia Must Ensure BRI Benefits The Country
KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 (Bernama) — Malaysia must ensure that planned investments in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will benefit the country.
CIMB ASEAN Research Institute (CARI) Chairman Tan Sri Dr Munir Majid said Malaysia must not be overwhelmed by the size of the Chinese initiative and had to negotiate bilateral relations that worked for it…
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Malaysia Must Ensure BRI Benefits The Country @ Bernama TV (20 July 2017)
ASEAN Roundtable Series on “China’s Belt and Road Initiative in ASEAN: economic opportunities and ASEAN centrality” – BERNAMA (19 July 2017)
CIMB: Asean ‘centrality’ trumps China’s Belt and Road economic benefits – The Edge Market (19 July 2017)
Nazir urges govt to scrutinise benefits of Chinese-led deals – The Edge Market (19 July 2017)
ASEAN Roundtable Series on “China’s Belt and Road Initiative in ASEAN: economic opportunities and ASEAN centrality” – CIMB (19 July 2017)
ASEAN Roundtable Series on “China’s BRI must benefit M’sia” -Berita Daily (19 July 2017)
Malaysia Must Ensure BRI Benefits The Country – BERNAMA (19 July 2017)
Malaysia perlu pastikan BRI manfaat kepada negara – Sinar Harian (19 July 2017)
Malaysia must ensure BRI benefits the country – Daily Express (19 July 2017)
Malaysia perlu pastikan BRI manfaat kepada negara – Bernama (19 July 2017)
Don’t oppose investments from China, elsewhere if projects viable: Munir – theSundaily (19 July 2017)
Asean must uphold its centrality – theSundaily (19 July 2017)
Belt and Road will enhance Asean connectivity but centrality is salient – Malay Mail (20 July 2017)
Don’t get ‘punch-drunk’ over Belt and Road, Munir urges Malaysia – The Edge Financial Daily (20 July 2017)
Need to balance Obor investments with Asean centrality – New Straits Times (20 July 2017)
China prefers bilateral deals for BRI – The Star Online (20 July 2017)
‘Asean must uphold centrality in China’s initiative’ – Borneo Post (KK) (20 July 2017)
China investments must be thoroughly scrutinised, says think tank – Free Malaysia Today (20 July 2017)
Malaysia must ensure BRI benefits the country – New Sarawak Tribune (20 July 2017)
‘Asean must uphold centrality in China’s initiative’ – Borneo Post (Kuching) (20 July 2017)
‘CIMB Asean Malaysia Must Ensure BRI Benefits The Country – Radio 24 FM (20 July 2017)
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CIMB Asean-Malaysia need to ensure give benefit to country @ Channel 502 (20 July 2017)
Malaysia should utilize One Belt One Road – Nanyang Siang Pau (20 July 2017)
Malaysia needs to strengthen relations with China – Sin Chew Daily (20 July 2017)
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Government should review China-led investments in Obor initiative, says Nazir – Borneo Post Online (21 July 2017)
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We were all fans of 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them', especially the Niffler!
Now information about the second film in the series has been revealed. Dumbledore will be teaming up with Newt Scamander to hunt down dark wizard Grindelwald.
Grindelwald was captured at the end of the first film but has now escaped and it's all hands on deck to find him.
The film will be out in November 2018. It feels too long to wait!
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Giant snails are terrorizing Florida
By Amanda Schupak
Updated on: August 5, 2015 / 4:44 PM / CBS News
Poster from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services warns of the invasive giant African land snail. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
"This is not science fiction," warns a public service announcement from the Florida Department of Agriculture. "This is real."
The video shows a giant African land snail, an invasive species with no natural predators that lives up to nine years and can grow to eight inches long. An adult can lay as many as 1,200 eggs in a year.
"We need your help," the ad implores. "See 'em, report 'em."
One of the largest and most damaging snails on Earth, giant African land snails (GALS) first invaded southern Florida in the 1960s. An eradication program that lasted nine years and cost $1 million killed 17,000 by the end of 1975.
Then, in September of 2011, a GALS was discovered in Miami.
Since the comeback, the tally in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties has grown into the hundreds of thousands.
"When the (eradication) program began, going into people's backyards, we were seeing anywhere from dozens to hundreds. It was pretty scary," Florida's Commissioner of Agriculture, Adam Putnam, told CBS News. "Because of timing, coming on the heels of real estate collapse, there were all these abandoned homes with overgrown lawns. In the tropical environment that is Miami you would really have this overgrown jungle in abandoned homes' backyards crawling with snails. To see a yard full of 2-, 3-, 4-inch snails from the roofline of the house to the trees is a sight to behold."
Puntam said it's believed the snails are being smuggled in for use in religious rites and rituals. "The santerian religion places a special emphasis on the juice of the snails," he explained.
The massive snails feed on more than 500 species of plants, including agricultural crops. They also harvest calcium from the stucco and plaster to build their shells, damaging homes. What's more, they are known to carry a parasite known as rat lungworm, which can cause a form of meningitis in humans and animals. Specimens with the disease have been identified in Miami.
"As strange or funny as it sounds, it's a threat to human health, the environment and agriculture," said Putnam.
Driven largely by reports of sightings called in by residents to a helpline, the Department of Agriculture's latest eradication program has eliminated more than 158,600 giant snails since 2011.
The effort is also helped by the keen noses of Sierra and Bear, two Black Labradors trained to sniff out GALS. Occasionally, search teams are deployed to look for the mollusks at night, when they are more active.
The snails have been found on 670 properties in from Homestead to Hollywood, Florida, but haven't been spotted elsewhere in the state.
"We are detecting fewer snails per day than we have in the past and we even have the occasional day where we're not finding any," said Putnam. "The numbers do indicate that we are wining this battle."
First published on August 5, 2015 / 3:08 PM
Amanda Schupak
Amanda Schupak is the science and technology editor at CBSNews.com
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Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Finds New Partner in Sustainability Efforts
News & Press | July 2011
In addition to caring for animals, contributing to conservation projects and educating the public, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is focused on sustainability.
Visitors may not know they can bring recyclable materials to the Zoo any time during regular park hours. The Zoo accepts compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), cell phones, cell phone batteries and accessories and ink jet and toner cartridges at the recycling exhibit in the Exhibition Hall near the Main Gate.
Visitors may also bring newspapers, magazines, junk mail and bagged shredded paper to the green and yellow Abitibi-Bowater Paper Retriever bins in the Hippo Parking Lot behind The RainForest. From June through September, the Zoo collects phone books for recycling in a special trailer located near the Abitibi bins too.
Containers for aluminum cans and plastic beverage bottles are located throughout the park.
The Zoo is also proud to partner with area companies that share its mission of "reduce, reuse, recycle." Local manufacturing firm Tavens Packaging & Display Solutions now sponsors the Zoo's recycling exhibit.
"At Tavens, we're big believers in collaborative partnerships - with our customers and with organizations that strengthen our community," explained Rob Fisher, Tavens' director of marketing. "So, of course we jumped at the chance to support the Zoo's recycling program."
Tavens manufactures different types of corrugated cardboard boxes in addition to other containers for shipping and point-of-purchase display products. The company makes all of its standard corrugated boxes with recycled material and can use 100 percent recycled material when customers request it. They also recycle all of their scrap material.
Start saving your recyclable materials now for America Recycles Day at the Zoo on Sunday, November 13. The Zoo joins the nationwide awareness efforts of America Recycles Day with special events from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., exhibitors and activities for kids.
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily with hours extended to 7 p.m. on weekends and holidays from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Admission is $11 per person, $8 for kids ages 2 to 11 and free for children younger than 2 and Zoo members. Parking is free. Located at 3900 Wildlife Way, the Zoo is easily accessible from Interstates 71, 90 and 480.
To learn more, visit clemetzoo.com or call (216) 661-6500.
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Man Pens Gut-Wrenching Letter to Hospital Staff That Cared for His 34-Year-Old Wife as She Died
"I will remember that last hour together for the rest of my life ... Really, I have all of you to thank for it."
By Tess Koman
Last month, 34-year-old Laura Levis died after suffering a tremendous asthma attack. Her husband Peter DeMarco has been posting tributes to her on his Facebook since she died, one of which was republished by the New York Times.
This particular essay from DeMarco thanked the staff at Boston’s CHA Cambridge Hospital, where Levis spent the last week of her life. “As I begin to tell my friends and family about the seven days you treated my wife, Laura Levis, in what turned out to be the last days of her young life, they stop me at about the 15th name that I recall,” he begins. “The list includes the doctors, nurses, respiratory specialists, social workers, even cleaning staff members who cared for her. ‘How do you remember any of their names?’ they ask. How could I not, I respond.”
He explains how the hospital workers were always respectful, compassionate, and kind, and specifically remembers how they went out of their way to ensure DeMarco would have one last hour alone with his wife on the day she died:
On the final day, as we waited for Laura’s organ donor surgery, all I wanted was to be alone with her. But family and friends kept coming to say their goodbyes, and the clock ticked away. About 4 p.m., finally, everyone had gone, and I was emotionally and physically exhausted, in need of a nap. So I asked her nurses, Donna and Jen, if they could help me set up the recliner, which was so uncomfortable, but all I had, next to Laura again. They had a better idea.
They asked me to leave the room for a moment, and when I returned, they had shifted Laura to the right side of her bed, leaving just enough room for me to crawl in with her one last time. I asked if they could give us one hour without a single interruption, and they nodded, closing the curtains and the doors, and shutting off the lights.
"I will remember that last hour together for the rest of my life," he concludes. "Really, I have all of you to thank for it."
Read DeMarco’s essay in its entirety here.
Follow Tess on Twitter.
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The Blue Devils will, however, have to replace their No. 1 runner Patrick Campbell, who moved on to run at N.C. State. Meanwhile, Nathan Craig, who will run at Brigham Young University (BYU), will also be missed.
“We've got some holes to fill,” Serefine said, speaking of Campbell and Craig. “But our whole team has a different mentality now. Success breeds success. Now, we expect to win a championship.”
Mooresville got off to a good start last Saturday when the Blue Devils finished second to 4A power Chapel Hill High School in the Western N.C. Cross Country Carnival in Henderson. The Blue Devils were by far the best 3A team in the event.
“We didn't put a lot of stock in the first race,” Serefine said, talking about the second place. “But we're using it as a measuring stick to see where we are right now. I'm not worried about what happens in August and September. I'm think more about what happens in October and November.”
Running related
Two of the top runners in the area this year are in the same family. Kimberly and Bethany Spano are sisters and two of the better runners in the Lake Norman area. Kimberly, a senior at North Meck, has won numerous conference, regional and state titles in her career. Bethany is just getting started as a freshman at SouthLake Christian.
Streak alive
The Lake Norman boys' soccer team's quest to break a 38-year-old record for consecutive wins is still alive.
The Wildcats, No.1 in the state, have now won 59 in a row. Lake Norman beat West Iredell 1-0 and Carson 2-1 this week to move to a perfect 3-0 this year. The Wildcats have several big obstacles in the way of breaking the record. The first comes Sept. 8 when they host archrival Mooresville. Another is when they will attempt to tie the record when they play North Iredell Sept. 17. Lake Norman would have a chance to break the record against the state's 14th-ranked team, Northwest Cabarrus, on Sept. 22.
Mooresville may soon also be ranked in the state's top 10 if they keep their strong play up. The Blue Devils (3-0-1) won the Freedom Invitational Tournament last week with a 1-0 victory over Shelby in the championship game. Mooresville's Billy Nantz was the tournament's most valuable player while Josh Skidmore (best defender), Max Henry and Danner McCulloh were named to the all-tournament team. The Blue Devils have a tough week stretch ahead as they host No. 14 Northwest Cabarrus Wednesday before traveling to No. 1 Lake Norman Sept. 8.
Lake Norman transfer
The Lake Norman basketball team got good news earlier this month when 6-foot-3 guard Reggie Price transferred from Garinger to Lake Norman High. Price, who averaged 20 points per game in his freshman and sophomore years with Garinger, will go nicely for head coach Brandon Jolly alongside all-everything forward Paul Larsen.
Former North Iredell center Andrew Kyles has made a huge transformation with his body and his basketball ability at Veritas Christian Academy in Fletcher near Asheville. Kyles, who lived in Iredell County, transferred after his sophomore season with the Raiders.
Kyles, now a senior at VCA, has dropped around 40 pounds and is playing a lot better at 6-foot-10, 230 pounds, according to VCA basketball coach (and former Statesville Christian coach ) John Jordan. Kyles has been offered a scholarship to play for the University of Denver. He has also taken unofficial visits to Colorado State, East Tennessee State and Northern Colorado.
Staff writer Cliff Mehrtens contributed to this article.
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Teachers' pension plan to sell stock to meet Sudan law
The $11 billion Chicago teachers' fund will have to sell 8%-10% of overseas equities
The Chicago Public School Teachers' Pension & Retirement Fund will have to sell 8% to 10% of its international equities to comply with a state law prohibiting investments in companies connected with Sudan, says Kevin Huber, executive director of the $11-billion fund.
The fund has about $1.3 billion in international equities, all managed by external managers.
Mr. Huber says the fund expects to have to sell only a small percentage of its approximately $5.3 billion in domestic equities, all managed by external managers, to comply with the law. He didn't have a more specific figure.
The estimate is based on research from KLD Research & Analytics, the firm the fund recommends its managers use for Sudan screening.
Brad A. Blalock, consultant at Mercer Investment Consulting, says he can't say if the fund would take an investment loss in selling the equities. "We have no idea if it will be positive or negative," he says.
The fund has until June 2007 to fully comply with the law.
(This article appeared in Crain's sister publication Pensions & Investments)
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Donald Trump: 'I'm Not Sure If I Ever Asked God's Forgiveness'
CP Current Page: Politics | Monday, July 20, 2015
By Ray Nothstine, Christian Post Reporter | Monday, July 20, 2015
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listens to a question at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, United States, July 18, 2015. | (Photo: Reuters/Jim Young)
Donald Trump says he's not sure if he's asked God for forgiveness, at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa on Saturday, which led some to question the sincerity of his alleged Christian faith.
Moderator Frank Luntz asked Trump on Saturday if he had ever sought God's forgiveness and Trump replied, "I'm not sure I have ever asked God's forgiveness. I don't bring God into that picture."
Trump clarified further about forgiveness in the church setting saying, "When I go to church and when I drink my little wine and have my little cracker, I guess that is a form of forgiveness. I do that as often as I can because I feel cleansed. I say let's go on and let's make it right," declared Trump.
Trump made immediate headlines Saturday for questioning McCain's war record, when he stated, "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."
McCain has been critical of Trump's comments on illegal immigration and called Trump supporters at a rally in Phoenix, "crazies." Trump blasted McCain for graduating last or second to last in his class at the Naval Academy, but later added in his conversation with Luntz, "Perhaps he is a war hero."
"We have Christians in the Middle East getting their heads cut off and these people want results not tone," added Trump.
Trump too was asked about his faith in God and he elaborated on his admiration with his former pastor, Norman Vincent Peale. Trump said he could listen to Peale, who passed away in 1993, "all day long" and praised his book, The Power of Positive Thinking. Peale pastored Marble Collegiate Church in Manahattan for 52 years, which is a member of the Reformed Church in America denomination.
Eric Teetsel, director of the social conservative advocacy group Manhattan Declaration, was live-tweeting at the event and several times voiced his displeasure at Trump's remarks.
"So [Trump] has never sought forgiveness, takes his 'little wine and little cracker' to 'feel cleansed.' Now are we done?" Teetsel tweeted.
Becky Kruse, who attended the event and said she was considering Trump for his immigration stance, told The New York Times, "I was not too impressed. He sounds like he isn't really a born-again Christian."
Trump called the Iran nuclear deal "a disaster," and ripped Secretary of State John Kerry "for not getting our hostages back," adding that Kerry is "the worst."
"I think we are run by a group of incompetent people and they are destroying our country," declared Trump.
Trump continued his harsh critique of what he calls career politicians. "No politician in my opinion is going to get this country back," said Trump. He criticized politicians for being "totally controlled" by special interest money.
He attacked Obama saying, "I don't know if Obama loves this country, I don't know." Trump told Luntz if he wanted an answer to whether Obama loves this country he needs to ask first lady Michelle Obama.
"I thought he [Obama] would be a good cheerleader," declared Trump, "but he's been horrible."
"He hasn't even called Kate Steinle's family who was killed in San Francisco," declared Trump. "This is a man that was pushed over from Mexico, and nobody has even called the family. Morality and success go hand in hand, you can't have one without the other," he declared. Steinle was randomly shot and killed by an illegal immigrant on a pier in San Francisco on July 1.
Trump praised his children and talked about the importance of family in his own life. "The happiest people I see in my own life are the people with great families," said Trump.
The 2015 Family Leadership Summit on Saturday was sponored in part by the National Organization for Marriage, Liberty University's Helms School of Government, and Family Research Council Action.
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Christian Bakers Pay $135K Fine to Lesbian Couple for Refusing to Make Gay Wedding Cake
CP Current Page: U.S. | Tuesday, December 29, 2015
By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post Reporter | Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Aaron and Melissa Klein, former owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakery in Oregon, speak at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. September 26, 2014. | (Photo: Family Research Council/Carrie Russell)
An Oregon Christian couple have paid the state-ordered $135,000 in damages to a lesbian couple for refusing to bake a wedding cake for their same-sex ceremony earlier this year.
The Oregonian reported on Monday that Aaron Klein, the former co-owner of the now defunct Sweet Cakes by Melissa, handed over a check of $136,927.07 to the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries' Portland office for the damages and accrued interest.
Aaron and Melissa Klein had initially said that they will not be paying the money to Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, the lesbian couple they refused to bake a cake for in 2013. The Kleins have explained that their objection to participating in same-sex weddings stems from their religious belief that traditional marriage is defined as a union between one man and one woman.
The story stirred great debate in the U.S. over religious freedom issues, and the couple received significant support online — a fundraising campaign raised at least $515,000 as of late September for their cause.
The Christian couple also received support from notable conservative leaders, including the Rev. Franklin Graham.
"Give me a break. In my opinion, this couple should pay the Kleins $135,000 for all they've been through," Graham said in a Facebook message in July.
"Even more outrageous is that Avakian has also now ordered the Kleins to 'cease and desist' from speaking publicly about not wanting to bake cakes for same-sex weddings based on their Christian beliefs. This is an outright attack on their #freedomofspeech," he added.
Rachel Bowman-Cryer, who visited the bakery shop with her mother in the 2013 incident when they were told they will not get a cake, explained her experience in an article for The Huffington Post: "I was just humiliated that this happened in front of my mom, whom I spent all these years trying to convince that we deserved equal accommodation, and we deserve rights, and we deserve to be able to get married. I was crying and she was trying to console me and say, 'Don't worry, we will find somebody that will make you a beautiful cake.'"
Aaron Klein revealed back in July that following the closure of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, he picked up a job as a garbage collector to help make ends meet.
The recent payment, however, does not mean that the Kleins have abandoned their appeal of the order, said attorney Tyler Smith. The lawyer revealed that his clients made the decision to pay the money now rather than to incur additional interest charges, but said that the Oregon Court of Appeals will be hearing arguments over the case in 2016.
Smith said that the bureau "was attempting to charge interest rates of 9 percent, equating to $35 a day, and seeking to garnish any assets of the Kleins so they couldn't earn interest on the money that had been donated to them."
"The prudent thing to do, given the generosity of people who have contributed funds, was to take care of it and continue the fight," he added, according to The Oregonian.
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Fourth of July Home Decorating Contest
Joan Sather (left) and Susan Montgomery sponsor the Home Decorating Contest.
Sponsors: Joan Sather & Susan Montgomery
Show your patriotism, your good taste, your decorating prowess or just have fun by entering the Fourth of July Home Decorating Contest, sponsored by Sotheby’s realtors Joan Sather and Susan Montgomery.
In addition to bragging rights, the winning entry will receive an American flag flown over the U.S. Capitol, numerous gift certificates from local businesses, and a chance to judge the 2020 Home Decorating Contest. The winning house will also be featured in next year’s parade program.
After you’ve decorated your home, go to: Palisades4th.com and click on the home contest and fill out a simple form. Take a photo and post it on the Facebook page or via Instagram feed #Palisades4thHomeContest or email it to homecontest@palisades4th.com.
All entries should be posted by July 2 to be included for initial judging. On July 3, Sather, Montgomery, Palisades Co-Honorary Mayors Billy and Janice Crystal, and last year’s winners David Trotti and Amy Kate Connolly will travel the “mean” streets of Palisades for the final judging.
Sather, a longtime Palisadian, has sponsored the contest for the past decade. “My favorite part of the contest is our judging ritual on July 3,” she said. “We have had Jake Seinfeld, Kevin Nealon, & Janet & Billy Crystal. Terrific judges, all. And funny!
“As we drive from house to house in our golf carts, we discuss what we like about each decorated home. One home had absolutely every (and I mean every) surface covered with cute things obviously collected with love over many years,” Sather said.
“Another was decorated by the young grandson who happened to be visiting his grandparents,” Sather said, noting that the boy and family had mostly homemade decorations and couldn’t decide if they should even enter, but did and the judges loved the homespun approach.
“Then there was the ‘yarn bomb’ house where all the trees were wrapped in red, white and blue crocheted-yarn.”
Sather also noted, “Last year the winner used an exuberant profusion of red and white plastic flowers, flowing from window boxes, fences, and among the red, white and blue Adirondack chairs on the front porch.”
The judges later learned that the Totti and Connolly theme was about saving water, but patriotically.
David Trotti and Amy Kate Connolly with their patriotically-decorated home on Haverford.
“Then comes the best part of knocking on the doors of the winners,” Sather said. “One year the winners gathered in their Uncle Sam hats to sing us all a song.”
Last year Sather convinced Montgomery to join her in sponsoring the contest.
“Joan and I met years ago at the office on Sunset Boulevard,” Montgomery said. “We collaborate on various real estate transactions and cover for each other. It’s worked out beautifully.”
The main thing that Montgomery and Sather share is a love of Pacific Palisades. Montgomery, who grew up in Louisville and graduated from the University of Kentucky, moved to Chicago and worked on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange learning to trade commodities.
Her other job was working as a model for magazine shoots, such as Marshall Fields, Sears, Lord & Taylor and also on the Phil Donahue Show, when the top designers were guests on the program, and she wore their fashions.
Montgomery and her husband lived in Brentwood before moving to the Palisades in the late ’90s, which is about the time she started her real estate career with Coldwell Banker. “We moved into a house on Alma Real and the neighbors were so welcoming and helpful with much needed advice, i.e. ‘you’ll need 300 pieces of candy for Halloween!’
“I thought that couldn’t be possible but having to make two last-minute runs to Ralphs that evening, I really did need 300 pieces of candy!” Montgomery said. “The neighbors also let us know that on the morning of the Fourth there would be hundreds of runners jogging past our house. My twins were three years old at the time and I still remember their wide-eyed faces looking out the front window as throngs of people went by.
“When we moved in, we received plates of cookies, notices in the mailbox with babysitters’ names, etc. Having lived in various parts of L.A. since 1985, I really thought that I had landed on another planet, or Mayberry RFD, and I was elated,” said Montgomery, who is now divorced. “It’s all about community and family here, and the myriad choices of incredible schools, both public and private, are second to none.”
Sather also started out in a Brentwood apartment with her husband Kent. She was the child of a Naval officer, and had lived all over the United States, including Hawaii, plus three years in France. During the many moves, she attended five elementary schools, two middle schools, two high schools and two colleges, before graduating from UC Berkeley.
Through friends, the couple heard about Pacific Palisades and started house hunting. “We looked quite a while before we found something we could afford in the Marquez Knolls area,” said Sather, who was pregnant with her first child. (They have two adult children and now grandchildren.)
After they purchased the home and lived here almost a year, Kent accepted a job offer in Arizona. They went to look at houses and he asked Joan, “Which one do you want to put an offer on?” To which she replied, “I don’t want to make an offer. I don’t want to leave the Palisades.”
Sather said she didn’t think about her response. “It just came out of my heart. After moving around so much as a kid, I wanted to stay here.”
Praising her husband, Sather said that Kent responded by saying, “Guess I’ll have to quit my job and come back to L.A.”
Sather said that to be in Pacific Palisades on the Fourth of July is “a magnificent combination of community and patriotism. The day is so full. First the 5/10K, then the parade, then the concert and fireworks.
“It is a long delicious day of hanging out,” Sather said. “It seems so very special because it could only happen in a town as wonderful as Pacific Palisades.”
Montgomery’s twins, Madison and Paulina, are now 24 and work in New York City and Colorado Springs, respectively. They will both fly back to join their mom for the Fourth of July holiday.
This home on Radcliffe was a runner-up in the 2018 contest.
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Star Trek Goes Postal For Its 50th Anniversary
January 7, 2016 Chuck Moore 0
We look back on the history of Star Trek stamps as the United States Postal Service announces a new set
While sharing details on that amazing new Spock figure last week, we discussed the Star Trek 50th Anniversary, which is happening on September 8th, 2016. If you bump around the internet a bit, there’s been a lot of talk about celebrations and events taking shape for this golden anniversary. Personally, I’m already loving the new artwork which was recently unveiled for a series of commemorative postage stamps coming in 2016 from the United States Postal Service.
As detailed by Wired, these stamps were a bit of a challenge for The Heads of State, the design studio responsible for this colorful artwork. The studio was unable to utilize the cast’s exact likenesses or any copyrighted material from the spin-offs in the design due to legal restrictions. The team had to get creative, and that’s exactly what they did by utilizing iconic imagery. The results are already garnering praise and I know I’ll be lining up to get a set.
Over the years there have been several Star Trek stamps released. Here are six of our favorite historical sets which also honored the original series!
Celebrate The Century Initiative Stamp
Released By The United States Postal Service In 1999
This thirty-three cent stamp was unveiled to the public as part of their 1999 “Celebrate the Century” initiative. This release of stamps recognized significant events from each decade of the 20th century. The Star Trek stamp was part of the 1960s series in the Arts and Entertainment category and it was designed by Keith Birdsong. The stamp only took shape after a long campaign by fans and it represents the first time the United States Postal Service honored the series with formal postage.
Space Exploration Commemorative Stamps
Though that 1999 stamp carries the honor of being the first Star Trek postage, it wasn’t the first time the postal service tipped a hat to the show’s legacy. Back in 1991 they released a commemorative collection honoring the show’s 25th anniversary. This set came as a bonus “sticker set” which were included with a purchase of a book of Space Exploration stamps, which they were promoting at the time. Leonard Nimoy lent his support to the campaign, appearing in ads that read “Stamp Collecting Is Logical”.
Star Trek Of Gene Roddenberry &
Star Trek Captain Kirk Signs The Log
Released By The Federated States Of Micronesia In 2008
We’re tying these two together to honor the Star Trek stamps of Micronesia. Both hit the market in 2008 and share interesting ties to the states. Located in the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific Ocean, Micronesia is an island nation which consist of over 600 islands unified into four states. As part of their special relationship with the United States, the United States Postal Service transports mail between the island states. In fact, Micronesia is even part of the United States ZIP code system and use our postage rates, making it easy for these stamps and US economic ties to manifest there. Besides all that, these stamps are visually amazing and worthy of collector respect.
Live Long And Prosper &
Star Trek Created By Gene Roddenberry
Released By Antigua & Barbuda Postal Services In 2008
At the same time the Federated States of Micronesia was releasing their sets, Antigua & Barbuda were celebrating Star Trek in a very similar fashion down in the “Land of 365 Beaches.” Something tells me Kirk would have done well on an away mission there. In the end, we can’t vouch for how these stamps would fit into the prime directive, but it is fact that they (along the Micronesia stamps) are actual legal postage still honored today.
We could continue this list but we’ve covered the main US stamps and given you a taste of the international ones with a focus on the original series. There have been other efforts honoring the original and subsequent series, but we’ll leave their story for another day. For now, we will simply say, “Live long and go postal” as you join us counting down to the series’ 50th anniversary celebration!
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Nest, Amazon and their IoT ilk spark privacy concerns
A privacy group is calling for an investigation by the U.S. FTC and DOJ
Nest's new Internet connected camera on show at a company event in San Francisco on June 17, 2015.
Zach Miners (IDG News Service) 11 July, 2015 08:26
Privacy concerns might throw a wrench into companies' plans to make Internet-connected devices mainstream fixtures in the home.
Companies like Google, Samsung, Microsoft and Amazon are being targeted by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a prominent Washington, D.C., nonprofit, over the technologies present in some of their newest audio and visual sensing devices. On Friday, the group asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to investigate whether such devices violate federal wiretap and state privacy laws, and whether the devices deceive consumers.
In a letter sent to both agencies, the group takes aim at what it calls "always on" devices and software that listen to users and offer services based on verbal cues or commands or visual signals like movement.
Among the devices identified are the Nest Cam, which will detect activities in users' homes by monitoring background noise. The group also names Amazon's Echo, an Internet-connected device that answers users' questions when they say the word, "Alexa," the name of Amazon's voice assistant program.
The group has concerns, too, about a microphone-equipped, Wi-Fi-connected Barbie doll made by Mattel, which generated controversy earlier this year because it records children's conversations.
EPIC has been involved in previous FTC privacy cases that have led to settlements with Google and Facebook. In February, the group filed a complaint with the agency alleging that the voice recording capabilities in Samsung's new Smart TV violated laws including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
The group's Friday letter targets a range of devices that listen, record and transmit audio and video. The devices would include Samsung's Smart TV, Google's Chromium Web browser that listens to users so it can perform searches, and Microsoft's Kinect, a voice and motion recorder compatible with Xbox and the Windows operating system.
The group has also singled out Canary Connect, another home camera maker marketing a system that automatically records video and audio in the home based on motion.
In asking for an investigation by the FTC and the DOJ, the privacy group seeks answers to a range of questions about how the companies' devices work.
The letter asks whether the products store people's communications, and whether security measures like encryption are in place to protect the recorded data. If communications are stored, does the storage occur on the device, on a company's servers, or with third party? The letter also asks whether the companies delete people's data when the device is not in use.
The privacy group sought investigations from both agencies because they have oversight over different areas of the technology. For example, the question of whether the devices' recording functions violate the federal Wiretap Act would be answered by the DOJ, while concerns over whether consumers are given adequate notice about the recording functions would be in the FTC's wheelhouse, said Julia Horwitz, director of the consumer privacy project at EPIC.
Both federal agencies declined to comment.
The FTC has already shown that privacy and security issues tied to the Internet of Things are on its radar. In January, the agency recommended a set of best practices for companies, in a 71-page report calling on companies to take steps to prevent unauthorized use of consumers' data.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez expressed her concerns over the risks of hacking tied to Internet connected devices.
On Friday, a spokeswoman for Nest declined to comment on EPIC's letter.
A spokeswoman for Samsung said the group's claims do not reflect the actual features of the company's Smart TV. Voice recognition, which allows users to control the TV using voice commands, is a feature that can be deactivated by the user, she said.
Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Mattel did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A spokeswoman for home camera maker Canary Connect said the group's concerns are worth serious discussion. The company's security system has controls to let users know when recording is taking place, she said, including a privacy mode that turns off video and audio recording when users are home.
Zach Miners covers social networking, search and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow Zach on Twitter at @zachminers. Zach's e-mail address is zach_miners@idg.com
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West Sussex, Lancs and Dorset schools win IT awards
Schools from West Sussex, Lancashire and Dorset are the winners of this year's annual Make IT Happy competition, run by the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (PITCOM) and e-skills UK.
Antony Savvas October 16, 2010
The competition challenges 9-11 year olds to demonstrate how technology can be used creatively to make people happy. The theme of this year’s competition was ‘Get your community online’.
Three national winners were chosen from twelve finalists from across the UK. The awards presentation took place at the houses of parliament this week.
The first prize was awarded to pupils at Jessie Younghusband primary school in West Sussex, who created a website from stories they had heard from older people about the Second World War, while at the same time showing these older people how to use the internet.
Longton Primary School in Lancashire received second prize for showing residents of a nearby old people’s home how to use the internet to send emails, research their ancestors and shop online.
These sessions, run at the local library, proved so popular that several other residents have joined the scheme, which pupils are continuing to run into the current school year.
The Third prize went to Kinson Primary School in Dorset for its ‘Grandparents go online’ project, teaching older people a variety of online skills based on their favourite hobbies and interests. The entry itself was presented as a news report with interviews with both pupils and session participants.
Alun Michael MP, chairman of PITCOM, said, "It is very encouraging to see how well IT is being used in the classroom and how at ease the students are with technology. This year’s theme makes the most of young people’s talents and encourages them to share the benefits of technology with the wider community."
Karen Price, chief executive of e-skills UK, said, “Every one of this year’s Make IT Happy finalists has made a real difference to people from all over the UK, by showing those not online how to use technology and the internet."
The schools selected as finalists each received a prize of £1,200, with additional awards of £4,000, £2,500 and £1,500 going to the schools that placed first, second and third overall.
The annual competition is supported by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Nominet Trust.
Hertfordshire County Council won another schools-related award this week, when it won the 2010 Local Government IT Excellence Awards.
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Nativity! creator Debbie Isitt discusses brand-new Belgrade musical
Adapted from the smash-hit 2009 film, the story now returns to the stage
Following its successful opening at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2017, Nativity! The Musical heads home to the city where the story started this autumn, kicking off a brand new tour for 2018 at the Belgrade Theatre.
Adapted from the smash-hit 2009 film, the story now returns to the stage, with a brand new cast of Midlands kids set to sparkle and shine alongside a glittering West End cast.
Ahead of its arrival in Coventry between October 23-28, we spoke to writer and director Debbie Isitt about reworking her festive film for the stage, and starting Christmas early at home in the West Midlands.
For anyone who hasn’t seen the hit Christmas film, what is Nativity! The Musical about?
"It’s a classic story about a group of underdog kids in a challenging primary school trying to put on the best nativity play they can.
Essentially, it’s about their teacher Mr Maddens, who hates Christmas because his girlfriend left him at Christmas time.
He has lost his belief in himself and the children, and he’s really down about everything, until a mad classroom assistant comes into their lives."
Where did the idea come from?
"I really wanted to do something about the school nativity because it’s been such a massive part of my life.
"When I was little it was the biggest deal in the world; to play Mary was everything.
"My sisters and I all played Mary, but only because my Mum was a hairdresser and she used to do all the teachers’ hair and they wanted to keep on her good side.
"When it was my daughter’s turn, I hung back and watched the stress and chaos as the teachers put together the play.
"It was the highlight of my year to watch my daughter in the school nativity – no matter what part she played. You could always rely on the children being funny and spontaneous.
"It’s such a big tradition that I couldn’t believe it hadn’t been turned into something dramatic or comedic because it’s such fertile ground for drama and comedy."
Why did you choose to turn the hit movie into a stage musical?
"I trained as an actor, and when I left drama school I was convinced I was going to do musicals, but I never did.
"The film is about a group of kids putting on a show – there’s even a musical within the film – so it lends itself to theatrical adaptation.
"It’s also a fantastic opportunity to explore the characters more.
"I wanted to try and create a fun, funny, moving theatrical experience and – with the talent of Nicky Ager - with some brilliant songs."
How challenging was it to reinvent the show for the stage?
"I’m a deeply collaborative writer and director, and I always have actors improvising. Even though the characters were established by the film and the story hasn’t changed, the musical’s cast has got to make it their own by improvising during rehearsals.
"The story stays the same, but they bring so much more to it.
"The real challenge was balancing giving fans of the film the story that they love, but also allowing us room to experiment, explore new ideas and allow these actors to step into those shoes and make them their own."
Did anything surprise you when you first began working on the show last year?
Every day there were surprises and new ideas, especially from the children who play the class. We had genuine spontaneous suggestions which were put in the show, because they’re great.
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The show is touring this autumn and winter. As a director, will you tour with it?
"I’ll visit, it’s my baby! You can’t just say goodbye to it. I wouldn’t want to.
"I will probably see it everywhere, because I’m so into audience reactions.
"I want to see how audiences receive it in each place, and I want to support the actors.
"Touring is tough; I did it for 15 years and it’s exhausting. You do need a bit of support."
How important are touring productions?
"Up and down the country people want and need good theatre. It’s our duty and responsibility to try and provide it for them.
"I absolutely and wholeheartedly believe in regional theatre and touring theatre is in my blood.
"I’m delighted we’re opening the show in Coventry where the films were made and set, and where I live and work.
"To be able to take it up and down the country is fantastic.
"You started your career in theatre before moving into films. Has this project reignited your love of the stage?
"It’s been a long time since I’ve made theatre, but you don’t forget how to do it.
"In some ways it’s the same as film, because it’s about telling a story to an audience.
"That very simple line of communication is really important.
"But there are different challenges; I can’t get 10 live camels trampling through the inside of a theatre!
"But the world is your oyster on stage too. You can mime, or imagine, or suggest. It’s a really interesting place to be, and I’d love to do more of it."
Is there a new Nativity film on the way as well?
"Yes! I can’t wait.
"I can’t tell you how exciting making the films is, because I get to work with children and animals, and I get to work with Mr Poppy who’s the best invention ever (originally played by the brilliant Marc Wootton) and I get to work with a whole new group of actors in every film I make.
"We improvise and I get to decide what the story is. I have a lot of creative freedom and that’s priceless. I absolutely love it.
"From a small child, I’ve believed in Christmas being the most special time of year. The music that you suddenly hear all around you; the tingle down your spine when you think about the joy that people give to each other at that time of year.
"The idea of it being a time of good will is important because we live in tough times. I think people want to be uplifted at Christmas.
"If I can offer that to audiences, I know there are people out there who will receive it gratefully.
"That makes me so happy."
Nativity! The Musical kicks off a brand new UK tour at the Belgrade Theatre Coventry from Tuesday 23 until Saturday 28 October. Tickets are available to book now by calling the box office on 024 7655 3055 or visiting www.belgrade.co.uk where prices are even cheaper.
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Huawei says US sanctions will cost it billions in revenue
Dake Kang And Yanan Wang, The Associated Press
Published Monday, June 17, 2019 6:48AM EDT
Last Updated Monday, June 17, 2019 2:06PM EDT
A woman walks by a Huawei retail store in Beijing, Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
SHENZHEN, China - Huawei's founder said Monday that the Chinese telecom giant's revenue will be $30 billion less than forecast over the next two years, as he compared the company to a “badly damaged plane” as a result of U.S. government actions against it.
“We never thought that the U.S.'s determination to attack Huawei would be so strong, so firm,” Ren Zhengfei, who is also the CEO, said during a panel discussion at the company's headquarters in Shenzhen, China.
Ren said Huawei will reduce capacity and expects revenue of about $100 billion annually for the next two years, compared with $105 billion in 2018. In February, he said the company was targeting $125 billion in 2019.
Huawei's overseas cellphone sales will drop by 40%, Ren said, confirming a Bloomberg report published Sunday. But the Chinese market is growing rapidly, he said, and Huawei will not allow restrictive measures to curb its research and development.
Huawei is embroiled in a trade dispute between China and the U.S., which has accused Chinese companies such as Huawei of committing forced technology transfers and stealing trade secrets. Last month, the U.S. placed Huawei on its “Entity List,” which effectively bars American companies from selling components to Huawei without government approval.
U.S. suppliers are taking a hit, too. Micron Technologies, Qualcomm, Qorvo and Skyworks Solutions have all listed Huawei as a major customer. Last week, chipmaker Broadcom reduced its 2019 revenue forecast by $2 billion, saying customers are trimming orders because of the trade tensions, including the U.S. curbs on sales to Huawei. Broadcom previously estimated full-year revenue of $24.5 billion. The research firm IHS Markit said Micron and Western Digital will also suffer, as they lose a leading buyer of memory chips and storage devices.
Huawei is expected to face challenges finding alternative suppliers for components, though IHS says Micron and Western Digital could eventually be replaced by South Korean and Taiwanese suppliers.
More broadly, U.S. businesses are expressing alarm at the Trump administration's aggressive policies toward China. Hundreds of companies, trade groups and individuals have written the U.S. trade representative to protest the administration's plan to extend tariffs of up to 25% on the $300 billion worth of Chinese sales to the United States that haven't already been hit by import taxes.
Some are showing up in person for seven days of hearings that begin Monday. They want the administration to cancel the tariffs - or at least spare the imports they rely on.
Washington claims Huawei poses a national security threat because it is beholden to China's ruling Communist Party. But American officials have presented no evidence of any Huawei equipment serving as intentional conduits for espionage by Beijing. Huawei's placement on the Entity List is widely seen as intended to persuade resistant U.S. allies in Europe to exclude Huawei equipment from their next-generation wireless networks, known as 5G.
Ren denies that Huawei would share user data with the Chinese government if ordered to do so. He said Monday there are no backdoors in its equipment that anyone could access, and that Huawei is willing to enter into a no backdoor agreement with any nation that wants one.
Huawei has brought a lawsuit in the U.S. this March challenging the constitutionality of a national security law which prevents the U.S. government and its contractors from using Huawei equipment. The complaint, filed in Plano, Texas, where Huawei's American operations are headquartered, alleges that the law singles out Huawei for punishment while denying the company due process.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Huawei is asking Verizon to pay licensing fees for more than 200 of its patents. While Huawei declined to comment on the matter, company spokesman Joe Kelly said it will hold a briefing later this month on being more aggressive about collecting intellectual property licensing fees.
Ren said during the panel discussion that Huawei will not use its many patents as a “weapon,” but did not rule out seeking royalties for usage.
He emphasized that Huawei will not stop collaborating with other countries and businesses.
The company's current situation “is not caused by American businesses, but rather by certain politicians' different perspectives,” Ren said. “I think both sides will suffer. No one will win.”
The panel, organized by Huawei, also included Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the media lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and writer and investor George Gilder.
In December, Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou - Ren's daughter - was arrested in Vancouver at the request of U.S. authorities. The U.S. alleges that Meng misled American banks about the company's business dealings with Iran, and that Huawei used a Hong Kong shell company to sell equipment in Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. An extradition hearing is expected to begin in January.
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“Dumbo” was a dumb choice for Burton
Hannah Rosman, Editor in Chief|April 25, 2019
The theatrical release poster for Tim Burton’s 2019 reimaging of the classic children’s movie “Dumbo”. At the end of its opening weekend the film held a score of 50 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Tim Burton is a dark director who is popular for his eccentric horror movies and magical dramas. He is best known for his cult classics like “Edward Scissorhands”, as well as his animated features like “Corpse Bride”. Throughout all of the movies Burton has directed, from fantastical adaptations like “Sleepy Hollow” to studio remakes like “Alice in Wonderland”, there is a distinctive style that has made Burton one of the most famous directors of the day. However, his work is very niche, and as a result, he has never even been nominated for a Best Directing Oscar and has never won any other best directing award.
Burton’s most recent project is the live action reimagining of Walt Disney’s 1941 “Dumbo”. This film attempts to revitalize the well-worn tale of the outcast baby elephant who learns to fly. The new version, which was released nationwide on March 29, was written by Ehren Kruger and stars Colin Farrell as Dumbo’s caretaker, Danny Devito as a down on his luck old-fashioned circus owner, Michael Keaton as an upscale, but villainous circus mogul and Eva Green as a beautiful trapeze artist who comes to love Dumbo and, of course, Colin Farrell too by the end of the movie.
Burton is notorious for reusing his favorite actors, such as his former partner, Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp, who have each starred in seven of his movies. This film is no exception to the favoritism rule. Neither Carter or Depp are in “Dumbo”, but with the exception of Farrell, Burton has worked with the all the leads of the movie multiple times. Devito has been in “Batman Returns”, “Big Fish” and “Mars Attacks!”, Keaton has played the title roles in “Beetlejuice” and both of Burton’s Batman movies and Green has starred in “Dark Shadows” and “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”.
Despite the use of his tried and true casting method, Burton’s version of “Dumbo” flopped at the box office and was widely panned by critics. Unfortunately, the consensus is correct on this movie. The plot is a vast improvement upon the boring and occasionally racist (there is a character named Jim Crow that I will not get into, but has no place in any movie, much less one for children) 1941 film. The new plot introduces ideas about veterans, the maternal bond and exploitation. It does not stick the landing, though, with an ending that is anachronistic and a little hypocritical. It ends on an anti-animal abuse message that promotes animal-free circuses, which is great for today’s audience, but this movie clearly takes place about a hundred years ago and animal rights in circuses is an issue that has only begun to be addressed in recent years. Also, right after the definitive statement that animals are no longer used in their circus, Farrell’s character gallops into the ring on horseback, which seems like an inconsistency that should have been caught before production ever even began.
That moment, though, is the least of this over-indulgent snooze-fest’s problems. First off, it must be mentioned that no animals were used in the making of this movie and almost every scene relies heavily on Computer Generated Imagery (CGI). While that is clearly the most humane way for movies with animals to be made, this film overuses its CGI capabilities.
Attempts to remain true to the original movie, including a scene of dancing pink elephants, came off as ridiculous and boring when done with CGI. While the CGI did give real depth to Dumbo’s eyes that meaningfully conveyed emotion, it also clearly worsened the performances by causing most scenes to be shot on green screens, with much of the finished product, including fire, scenery and, of course, the animals, being added in post-production.
Burton also plays favorites behind the scenes, and his most frequent collaborator is Danny Elfman, who has composed the scores for 16 of Burton’s films, including “Dumbo”. Elfman is one of the best composers writing for movies today, and Burton movies are normally lauded for their tasteful soundtracks. However, the score for “Dumbo” came off as melodramatic and saccharine.
Another element that Burton is famous for is his elaborate color pallets, and in movies like “Charlie in the Chocolate Factory” and “Big Fish”, that approach to scenic design has been perfect. In “Dumbo” it fails to cohere and the bright shiny objects that are constantly flashing across the screen only make the actors’ performances seem muted. Perhaps the problem is that for the first half of the movie everyone, except the two totally average children and the nonverbal, albeit very cute, elephant, are antagonists, making hard to find any of the adult characters compelling. They all came off as boring stock characters. Even Keaton, who is known for being over the top and outside of the box, was not even vaguely interesting.
This film is by no means Burton’s first flop, but it is part of a concerning trend in his career. Burton’s first real attempt at the mainstream audience came with his 2005 adaptation of “Charlie in the Chocolate Factory”, which was wildly successful. In 2010, he tried for that success again with his adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland”. Like “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “Alice in Wonderland” starred Johnny Depp and was distinctly weird in its reimagining of a classic children’s book. Unlike “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “Alice in Wonderland” was generally disliked by critics and audiences, although it did not do terribly at the box office. Since then, Burton has struggled to find financial and critical success. Of the four movies Burton directed between “Alice in Wonderland” and “Dumbo”, only one, his stop motion send-up of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, “Frankenweenie”, received more good reviews than bad, and none did particularly well at the box office.
It is notable that “Frankenweenie”, which came out in 2012, was Burton’s first animated film since “Corpse Bride” in 2005. To me it is clear that the reason for its positive reviews is that its quirky style and dark humor harken back to early Burton movies that made him the icon he is today. Many were disappointed when he did not continue that trend, and instead made “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” and “Dumbo”. As an ardent fan of Burton’s early work, I am disappointed as well. Still, it is clear that he has a great talent, and I firmly believe that there are more brilliant Burton movies to come.
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Hoops fans will help decide who will be the 2017 C Spire Howell and Gillom Trophy winners honoring Mississippi’s top male and female college basketball players
Formula for determining winners means fans will influence 10 percent of the award total; sparking new excitement, interest and engagement with their favorite players and schools
Jackson, Miss., (February 27, 2016) – For only the fourth time in the history of the awards, Mississippi hoops fans will have the opportunity to take part in the voting for the C Spire Howell and Gillom Trophies, which annually honor the Magnolia state's top male and female college basketball players.
C Spire, along with the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum (MSHOF), announced today that fan voting will count for 10 percent of the 2017 Howell and Gillom Trophy awards. A panel of statewide media will comprise the remaining 90 percent of the voting.
"This gives fans a chance to play a part in helping select our state's best male and female college basketball players," said Bill Blackwell, executive director of the MSHOF and co-sponsor of the award along with C Spire. "The National Basketball Association and players and coaches have used fan voting to determine who plays in the All-Star game for years. Giving our fans, who are some of the most passionate in sports, a voice in the process creates more interest in a pair of awards that have become an integral part of Mississippi college basketball tradition."
The 2017 C Spire Howell and Gillom Trophies will be awarded during a March 6 luncheon program at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in Jackson. Among recent Howell Trophy winners are Trey Johnson from Jackson State, Jamont Gordon, two-time winner Jarvis Varnado and Arnett Moultrie of Mississippi State, Gary Flowers of Southern Miss, Marshall Henderson and Jarvis Summers of Ole Miss and back-to-back winner, Ole Miss' Stefan Moody.
Past recipients of the C Spire Gillom Trophy, presented since 2008, include Jennifer Rushing and two-time winner Veronica Walker from Delta State, two-time winner Alexis Rack of Mississippi State, Southern Miss' Jamierra Faulkner and two-time winner Victoria Vivians of Mississippi State.
"College basketball fans across Mississippi are very passionate about their schools and the star players in their respective programs," said Jim Richmond, vice president of Marketing for C Spire. "We're excited about continuing to give them the opportunity to vote for their favorite players for the C Spire Howell and Gillom Trophies."
The top three finalists for the 2017 Howell Trophy include Ole Miss' senior center Sebastian Saiz, Mississippi State's sophomore guard and Delta State senior guard Devin Schmidt. Mississippi State's Victoria Vivians and Morgan William and Brittany Dinkins of Southern Miss lead the list of 2017 finalists for the Gillom Trophy.
Fan voting will begin on Monday, Feb. 27 at 8:30 a.m. CST and ends on Saturday, March 4 at 5 p.m. CST. By visiting C Spire's fan voting website, www.csopavoting.com, fans can vote for their favorite college basketball player by simply providing an email address and name, or connecting through Facebook or Twitter. Once an account is created, voting is allowed and fans can choose their first, second and third place winners. Fans will be able to vote via Facebook, Twitter and text messaging up to three times per day during the six-day voting period.
The Howell Trophy presented by C Spire is named after Bailey Howell, a two-time All American at Mississippi State University and a six-time NBA All-Star who played on Boston Celtics world championship teams in 1968 and 1969. Howell, a 1977 inductee to the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and the first male Mississippi player inducted in the National Basketball Hall of Fame, still holds nearly a dozen season and career records at Mississippi State University.
The Gillom Trophy presented by C Spire is named after Abbeville native Peggie Gillom-Granderson, Ole Miss' all-time leading scorer and rebounder. She has coached in the WNBA and the Olympics and recently retired after a seven-year stint as Associate Head Coach of the Lady Rebels basketball team at Ole Miss.
2017 marks the 21st anniversary of the Outstanding Player Awards presentation. C Spire has served as title sponsor for 18 of those years since 1998. The Conerly Trophy in college football, the Howell Trophy in men's college basketball, the Gillom Trophy in women's college basketball and the Ferriss Trophy in college baseball comprise the four elements of the C Spire Outstanding Player Award series.
Tickets starting at $40 each are on sale for the March 6 awards luncheon at MSHOF offices and online. For more information, call 601.982.8264. Former LSU head basketball coach John Brady, a McComb, Miss. native and Belhaven University alumnus, will be the featured guest speaker.
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Ngäbe Indigenous Communities from Bocas del Toro and other Indigenous Communities vs. Panama State
Ngäbe Indigenous Communities from Bocas del Toro and other Indigenous Communities vs. Panama
Hearing 157 at the Period of Sessions at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
After eleven years of social and environmental conflict between the Ngäbe Indigenous People and the Panama State, leaders from Bocas del Toro communities continue demanding justice before international organisations.
Today, April 7, 2016, a public hearing in relation to Case 12.717 Bocas del Toro, Ngäbe Communities and others vs. Panama will take place between 4:15pm and 6:15pm in Room Rubén Darío, at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States in Washington DC.
Since 2005, different Indigenous communities including Charco de la Pava, Valle Rey, Guayabal y Changuinola Arriba, have been impacted directly by the hydroelectric dam Chan 75. This dam forcibly displaced entire communities leaving its inhabitants without homes and agricultural land despite Precautionary Measures issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in 2009.
It is expected that the State of Panama will be questioned by the Commission about providing concessions to development projects that have violated Indigenous Peoples’ human rights. It is also expected that private corporations will be asked to take responsibility for their actions in the territories they operate and asked to comply with international norms such as the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent of impacted communities in future development projects.
Watch the live cast here.
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Lands, Resources, and Environments
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Social-safety net group criticizes proposed…
Social-safety net group criticizes proposed state budget cuts
PUBLISHED: February 13, 2009 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 6, 2017 at 10:39 am
RIVERSIDE – The compromise plan to cope with the state’s $42 billion budget hole came under direct attack from a group of more than 120 people here Friday.
Many of the protesters outside Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s local office said the proposed cuts would be brutal to the workers, disabled and impoverished people who depend on the social-safety net and who composed Friday’s coalition. Similar protests were planned in cities throughout the state.
“Instead of a stimulant, they’re giving us depressants,” said Patricio Guillen, executive director of the San Bernardino-based nonprofit, immigrant-assistance organization Libreria del Pueblo.
The tentative budget plan calls for $14 billion in tax increases, $15 billion in cuts and $11 billion in borrowing. It would also give businesses tax credits and relax environmental rules for road projects.
Voters would also be asked to weigh in on five ballot measures, including a state spending cap and a plan to borrow against future lottery revenues.
San Bernardino resident Randy Schlecht, 47, said he depends on medical equipment and support from the state for rehabilitation and other care.
“I don’t want to go to an institution,” said Schlecht, who has a traumatic brain injury and has had eight back surgeries.
Julie Williams of the Rolling Start Inc. Center for Independent Living in San Bernardino said she was worried about cuts to state payments to the elderly and disabled, as well as cuts to Medical and in-home services that would make it more difficult for disabled people to live independently.
Williams said putting people in homes is more expensive than allowing them to live independently.
Protesters said it is time to contact legislators and Schwarzenegger to oppose the bill.
Gregory Hagans a Service Employees International Union local board member and a Riverside parks employee, said these state services are even more important during tough economic times.
“We’ve got people out here who are in need,” he said.
jason.pesick@inlandnewspapers.com
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Mixed results but right model for redistricting
PUBLISHED: August 16, 2011 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 6, 2017 at 8:10 am
From the moment voters took the authority for drawing legislative districts away from lawmakers and gave it to a Citizens Redistricting Commission, it was inevitable that the results would be controversial. It is impossible to draw lines that satisfy each voter, interest group and political party.
But even if the commission’s final maps, which were approved Monday, were as screwy as the ones the Legislature drew 10 years ago – and they’re not – this method would be a success. The commissioners worked in the open, and they took seriously the concerns of those who matter most: Californians, not just politicians.
Yes, it cost more than the $3 million projected – the same amount the Legislature spent on redistricting in 2000 – when Proposition 11 was approved in 2008. But the higher cost was inevitable. The redistricting staff vetted more than 30,000 applicants. The commission held 34 public hearings statewide, taking testimony from some 3,000 people in person and 20,000 in writing. Of course it’s cheaper if you do it all behind closed doors.
One of the commission’s most important accomplishments is increasing people’s confidence in government. They have seen how one ballot measure can improve the way things get done, a counterweight to the distaste so many feel about politics. And they know their legislative and congressional districts are no longer drawn to protect incumbents. They will be much more competitive, because they’re based on geographic boundaries, communities of interest and the mandates of the Voting Rights Act.
The final maps are imperfect. Activists believe they don’t do enough to reflect the growth of the Latino population since 2000, and that may prompt a lawsuit. But commissioners responded to criticism after the first round of maps, and it remedied some problems. That’s how open government should work.
Perhaps the most vocally opposed to the new districts is the state Republican Party. Chairman Tom Del Beccaro says it may petition for a referendum to overturn the maps, which are expected to increase the number of Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento and Washington. But that result is not because of anything nefarious. It reflects the reality that California has 2 million more registered Democrats than Republicans – and that the previous method of drawing maps unfairly protected incumbents, Democrats and Republicans alike. In fact, the legislative maps got the approval of four of the five Republicans on the commission; the congressional maps got the approval of three.
Challenges with the new system point to changes needed for the 2020 redistricting. The commission needs more money and time; some legitimate complaints about lines were the result of a compressed schedule and a rookie commission.
But those are small things, and this commission got the big things right. Thanks to the voters of California, our method of redistricting can serve as a national model for reform.
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Naked man arrested at gruesome San Bernardino…
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Naked man arrested at gruesome San Bernardino homicide scene
Media wait early Wednesday on the 1600 block of West 26th Street for information from the San Bernardino Police Department at the scene of the city’s latest homicide. (Photo by Doug Saunders/San Bernardino Sun)
Marvin Ramirez, 29, left, of Covina is the suspect, and Thurston Alexander Watkins, 39, of Studio City is the victim in a homicide late Tuesday in San Bernardino. Watkins was found dead, and Ramirez was allegedly at the scene naked and covered in blood. (Photos courtesy of the San Bernardino Police Department)
By Doug Saunders | dsaunders@scng.com | San Bernardino Sun
PUBLISHED: September 21, 2016 at 9:09 am | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 6:00 am
SAN BERNARDINO >> Homicide detectives worked through the night trying to piece together what happened to a man found dead in the backyard of a home late Tuesday night.
Police identified the victim as 39-year-old Thurston Alexander Watkins of Studio City.
Shortly after 10:30 p.m., police were called to the 1600 block of West 26th Street after reports of Watkins being discovered by the resident of the home.
When they arrived they found a naked man, wearing only shoes and socks while covered in blood, standing near the body, police at the scene said.
Marvin Ivan Ramirez, 29 of Covina, was taken into custody in connection with the slaying. He was booked into West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on suspicion of murder. He is being held without bail.
Police have released few details but said Watkins doesn’t appear to have been shot.
One officer said this was the most gruesome crime scene he’d been to in his career.
Neighbor Lisa Garcia, 28, said that even as homicide shot up in the city this year, this neighborhood has steadily improved since she was a child in the 1990s.
“When I was in middle school and high school there were a lot of shootings and people would push drugs, but not anymore,” Garcia said. “People say San Bernardino is dangerous, but things happen anywhere.”
Garcia, whose family has lived in the same house on North Gardena Street since her mom was 5 years old, said she knew several of the families on her street and on 26th Street.
The people who live in the house where the killing happened are quiet, although they have many visitors, according to Garcia.
Police said Ramirez and Watkins were visiting the residents of the home, but couldn’t confirm what they were doing at the time of the killing, or if a weapon had even been recovered.
“All I know is the suspect was disoriented,” police spokeswoman Eileen Hards said. “We don’t know weapon or motive at this time, as it is still early in the investigation.”
This is the city’s 49th recorded homicide this year.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call Detective John Munoz at 909-384-5630 or Sgt. Robert Sullivan at 909-384-5615.
Staff Writer Ryan Hagen contributed to this report.
Doug Saunders
Doug has covered crime and public safety in the Inland Empire since first becoming a reporter in 2012. With a long standing military background, Doug naturally heads into volatile situations in order to gather intelligence for those who rely on accurate and up-to-date information. Doug, a former combat Army veteran, attended the Defense Information School. At DINFOS, the United States Military school of journalism at Ft. Meade, MD, Doug learned all aspects of journalism before taking on a role as an Army Public Affairs Specialist for 16 months prior to his employment with the Southern California News Group. Doug is an avid outdoorsman who loves camping on the beach, but he's also a giant "Star Wars" fan.
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Paths to Transformation - From Initiation to Liberation
Kate Burns
Paths to Transformation
From Initiation to Liberation
128 pages, ISBN 978-1630510770, Chiron
It is our nature to transform ourselves from time to time; to cling to old ways is to resist a fundamental law of nature- death before rebirth. In Paths to Transformation, Kate Burns traces this process, correlating it with rituals of initiation and amplifying the stages with a rich collection of images, dreams, and case studies. Historically, the passage from adolescence to early adulthood was supported by extensive rites, and we now know that the absence of such rites in modern life has cast youth adrift and rendered them immature and dependent beyond their years. Similarly, our ancestors venerated aging, including its mortal goal, as a summons to wisdom rather than a horror to be resisted by every possible means. During the expanding years between youth and death, the question of how an individual is to find a personal path worthy of the soul becomes most pressing in our postmodern world.
“This book is both healing wisdom and a guidepost. Kate Burns lucidly shows us how numinous events invade our settled and crafted worlds and challenge us to enter into deep dialogue with the psyche, beckoning us to let go of the old and worn out and go forward into adventure, renewed life, and liberation from social conformity. She speaks with a sage voice that is at once profound and humble. So illuminating are her insights, and so alive her discussions, that I found it difficult to put the book down.” -C. Michael Smith, PhD, author of Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue: Retrieving the Soul/Retrieving the Sacred “Kate Burns brilliantly illumines the difficult passages which occur in the lives of all of us. Sharing personal stories, case studies, and the insights of depth psychology and anthropology, she defines the various stages of transformation and reveals how one can participate more knowingly in the process of personal growth.”
-James Hollis, PhD, Jungian analyst and author of Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives and What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
Kate Burns is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in Houston, Texas. With an undergraduate degree in mathematics, she worked as a geophysicist until a downturn in the oil industry sent her back to school for an MBA from Rice University. A desire to explore spiritual issues led her to pursue a master’s degree in counseling, followed by studies at the International School of Analytical Psychology, Zürich. She has taught classes at the Jung Center in Houston since 2005 and has devoted herself to the practice of yoga since 2000. She serves on the board of directors for Jungians in Training Zürich, an organization raising awareness about C. G. Jung, his life and work.
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Back to Journals » Vascular Health and Risk Management » Volume 9
Left ventricular dysfunction in normotensive type II diabetic patients in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Authors Dodiyi-Manuel ST, Akpa MR, Odia OJ
Accepted for publication 10 May 2013
Published 25 September 2013 Volume 2013:9 Pages 529—533
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/VHRM.S44540
Sotonye T Dodiyi-Manuel,1 Maclean R Akpa,2 Osaretin J Odia2
1Department of Medicine, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria; 2Department of Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is on the increase globally. Cardiovascular complications, such as left ventricular dysfunction is a major cause of death in patients with type II DM. Prior to the development of symptomatic heart failure, subclinical left ventricular dysfunction (systolic and diastolic) may exist for some time.
Aim: The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of left ventricular dysfunction in non-hypertensive type II DM patients.
Methods: A cross sectional study of left ventricular function in 90 normotensive type II diabetes mellitus patients using echocardiography was carried out. Healthy normotensive controls matched for age, sex, and body mass index were selected for comparison. Patients and controls who had hypertension (blood pressure of >140/90 mmHg), history of smoking, significant alcohol history, pregnancy, features of thyroid disease, or valvular heart disease were excluded. Left ventricular diastolic and systolic functions were assessed.
Results: Ninety patients, (39 males and 51 females) and 90 healthy controls (39 males and 51 females) were enrolled. Mean age of patients was 50.76 ± 9.13 years and 51.33 ± 7.84 years for controls. Mean body mass index was 26.88 ± 4.73 kg/m2 in patients and 27.09 ± 4.04 kg/m2 in controls. Mean ejection fraction was 62.4% ± 8.47% and 68.52% ± 7.94% in patients and controls, respectively (P < 0.001). Fourteen (15.56%) patients had ejection fraction less than 55% compared to four (4.44%) in controls (P < 0.001; odds ratio = 3.96). Impaired diastolic function was found in 65.6% of patients compared to 3.3% of controls (P < 0.001). Left ventricular mass index of >99 kg/m2 in females and >115 kg/m2 in males was considered abnormal. The left ventricular mass index was also higher in patients than in controls (95.17 ± 25.67 g/m2 versus 85.40 ± 18.0 g/m2; P = 0.004).
Conclusion: Normotensive diabetic patients have a high prevalence of left ventricular dysfunction even in the absence of cardiac symptoms.
Keywords: type II diabetes mellitus, diastolic dysfunction, systolic dysfunction
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Our Guest Speakers
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Anne Avidon has a degree in clinical psychology and a Master’s degree in business. She developed her unique Cayce-based Radionics system after working as head of global health innovation for the British government, where she observed that health systems spent a lot of money treating the effects of ill health, rather than getting to the root cause of the problem. She now devotes her time to teaching people how to use this tool to improve the quality of their lives in immeasurable ways.
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Opera: The Iris Murder
World premiere performances of a new chamber opera by Alasdair Nicolson and librettist John Gallas.
Leading Scottish Theatre Company Vanishing Point to Collaborate with Scottish Opera
In an exciting collaboration between one of Scotland’s most innovative theatre companies and the national opera company present a double bill of a newly created music theatre piece, 'The 8th Door' and
Scottish Opera Announces 2016/17 Season
New productions of Pelléas and Mélisande, Bluebeard’s Castle, La bohème and The Elixir of Love
Sir Thomas Allen’s hit production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro opens the Season
Edinburgh International Festival 2016 Begins and Ends at Castle
A large scale, digitally animated light show projected onto Edinburgh Castle battlements, and set to a soundtrack compiled by Scottish rock band Mogwai, will take
Scottish Opera's Carmen, Festival Theatre, Review
It is hard to believe that when one of the most famous of all operas was first performed in Paris in 1875 Spain was a far-away and exotic country hard to reach over the Pyrenees.
Edinburgh International Festival announces first production of Festival 2016
The Edinburgh International Festival has revealed it will present the Salzburg Festival’s internationally acclaimed production of Bellini’s Norma as part of Festival 2016.
EIF 2015: The Last Hotel, Royal Lyceum, Review
Put Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh in the same space and watch the sparks fly.
The Tales of Hoffmann
The Tales of Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach, will be presented, in English, by Edinburgh's Opera Camerata.
Scottish Opera has announced details of its vibrant new season, showcasing seven powerful operas featuring drama, romance, fairy-tale and comedy.
Scottish Opera's Il trovatore, Festival Theatre, Review
Il trovatore, along with Rigoletto and La traviata, is a must-see grand opera by Verdi. Il trovatore is based in Spain in the 15th century.
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University of Eastern Pangasinan
McArthur Highway, Brgy. Canarvacanan, Binalonan, Pangasinan
PHP 0 to 10,000
Transcending towards development and progress as one of the local universities owned by a municipality in the Province of Pangasinan. It is now the center of educational haven underscoring the value of education as a pillar to national development.
(Updated as of Jun 01, 2018)
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What does University of Eastern Pangasinan stand for?
University of Eastern Pangasinan (UEP) is a higher education institution in Binalonan, Pangasinan founded in 2005 aiming to provide quality education to the students in the Province of Pangasinan.
UEP offers a wide array of undergraduate programs that are also recognized by the Commission on Higher Education (DepEd). Courses in the fields of Business, Information Technology, Criminology, Hotel and Restaurant Management, Midwifery, Teacher Education, Civil Engineering, and Accountancy are readily available to students who want to pursue their education in the institution.
Aside from the college programs, University of Eastern Pangasinan also provides technical-vocational courses such as Food and Beverages Services NC II, Caregiving NC II, and Bookkeeping NC III that are accredited by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).
What programs & courses does University of Eastern Pangasinan offer?
Choosing the right program can help you set your future goals and visualize where you want to be. Whether you want to be an engineer, a teacher, an accountant, or you want to level up in your profession, making yourself informed with the right choices will surely back you up in the future. Are you ready to map your career with University of Eastern Pangasinan? Make the best decision in choosing the right path for you, click through the list of programs offered by University of Eastern Pangasinan below:
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HOMEPAGE MONEY
Safety using toasters in the office
By: Nick Redfern
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There are very few people who do not like thickly-buttered slices of toast. In a bustling office environment, toast makes for a quick and easy snack. There are, however, a number of important safety-based guidelines that need to be followed when making toast in an office. Fire-safety, health issues, and hygiene are the chief topics of which to be aware.
Timing the toast
The majority of toasters come with pre-installed timers. They allow the user to toast the bread for a specific, selected period only. Some toasters, however, do not. Offices are busy, hectic environments. If an employee is called from the kitchen into the office, he or she may forget the bread is toasting. Aside from the risk of burning the toast, there is the danger of fire breaking out. In an office environment, it's always advisable to invest in a toaster that has a timer or cut-off switch.
Toast and health hazards
Germs spread easily and quickly in office environments. As toast is a popular snack and easy to make, the office toaster will be in regular use. It is important that office staff understand the importance and safety of keeping the toaster clean. That includes both on the outside and the inside. Regularly clean the exterior with antibacterial soap. Clear the interior of crumbs daily. This should be done by holding the toaster, head-first, over the sink. Never try to remove items from inside the office toaster while it is plugged in.
Detecting a fire
Smoke alarms and fire alarms are vital components of all office-based environments. That goes for in the kitchen, too. The alarms should be situated close enough to the toaster to detect an outbreak of fire. Alarms should not, however, be located so close to the toaster that they ring every time toast is being made. In terms of placement, trial and error is the best approach. Staff should be fully briefed on how to exit the building if, as a result of cooking, fire breaks out in the kitchen.
Toast and ventilation
It is important that a toaster is situated in a room that has plenty of ventilation. For safety reasons, in the event that a small fire breaks out in the toaster, this will lessen the chance of the fire spreading elsewhere. Also, not everyone wants to be surrounded by the smell of burned toast all day. Adequate ventilation will lessen the lingering odour of toast in the office. If the plug of the office toaster becomes hot, this is a sign of short-circuiting. The toaster should be thrown away and replaced with a new one.
Health and Safety Executive: Office health and safety
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What is Health and Safety?: How to keep your office kitchen safe
Nick Redfern is the author of many books on UFOs, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Hollywood scandal and much more. He has worked as a writer for more than two decades and has written for the Daily Express, Military Illustrated and Penthouse.
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Canta Brasil Goes Way Beyond Samba
blog | August 21, 2014 - 11:00pm
Brazilian music comes in all shapes and forms and you'll hear a wide variety on Canta Brasil. Photo by Dave Weinstein
You love the cool sounds of samba and bossa nova, sure, but are you hip to forró? You are if you listen to Canta Brasil.
“The music in Brazil that I like – Brazil is the most musical country in the world and they adapt every musical influence you can think of – is music with lots of musical lines and rhythms and unusual ways to phrase things,” says one of the long-running program's three deejays, Larzhino.
Larzhino – off-mike he goes by Lars Bourne, and no he isn’t Brazilian – is a fan of the late singer and accordionist Dominguinhos, who was a star of forró, a music from northeast Brazil that began using just accordion, drums and a triangle. “It’s kind of a country music in a way,” he says.
“The lady I like the most is Roberta De Recife,” he says, and, “Absolutely the greatest singer in the U.S. is Claudia Villela, who lives in Scotts Valley, my absolutely favorite lady singer.”
Canta Brasil, which runs on listener sponsored KKUP from 6 to 8 p.m. Sundays, drive-home time after a long day at the beach or shopping center, has been on the air since 1985 and Larzhino has been with it since 1989.
The station broadcasts from San Jose, with its transmitter high atop Mount Loma Prieta, and can be heard far and wide, more or less, Larzhino says. “We’ve had people from Paso Robles call us. People in Yosemite have picked it up. We have listeners in San Francisco and the East Bay,” he says.
The show’s founders are a husband and wife, John Ii (“Xuxu”) and Maria Jose, who met in Brazil, where Maria grew up. They spend much of their time in Brazil. Larzhino has traveled there half a dozen times.
“Now we’re not concentrating so much on the big hot stars but less well known people who produce an extremely good music,” Larzhino says of Canta Brasil’s programming.
“I go for different regions. I like ethnic music. I’ve been exploring different areas, from the south of Brazil, where there’s an almost Argentinian flavor, to the far northeast, where there’s an influence from the Caribbean and native rhythms and sensibilities.”
They also play the classics. “The old classic stuff, there’s some awfully good music there, from the bossa nova and even earlier,” he says.
Tune your dial to 91.5 FM.
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EISAI ACQUIRES ALL GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING RIGHTS FOR CHRONIC WEIGHT MANAGEMENT TREATMENT LORCASERIN
Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito) announced today that, in association with its U.S. pharmaceutical subsidiary Eisai Inc. (collectively, “Eisai”), it has reached an agreement with Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Headquarters: California, United States, President and CEO: Amit D. Munshi) to revise the November 2013 marketing and supply agreement it concluded with Arena's wholly owned subsidiary, Arena Pharmaceuticals GmbH (collectively, “Arena”), for the chronic weight management treatment lorcaserin hydrochloride (generic name, U.S. brand name: BELVIQ® / BELVIQ XR®, “BELVIQ”). Under the new agreement, Eisai acquires all of Arena's rights to develop and market BELVIQ.
Under the latest agreement, Eisai becomes solely responsible for all decision-making and implementation related to global development and submissions for regulatory approvals, as well as global marketing for BELVIQ. The previously negotiated financial terms such as purchase price based on net sales and regulatory and sales milestones to Arena have also been reduced and modified. In addition, a technology transfer will take place to allow Eisai to participate in the manufacture of BELVIQ. Eisai will also assume Arena's exclusive distribution agreements with third-parties to develop and market BELVIQ in South Korea, Taiwan and Israel. Eisai will now serve as the third parties' exclusive supplier and receive income in the form of payment for the supply of product to the distributors.
BELVIQ was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2012 as an adjunct to a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity for chronic weight management in adult patients with an initial body mass index (BMI) of 30 kg/m2 or greater (obese) or 27 kg/m2 or greater (overweight) in the presence of at least one weight-related co-morbid condition, and has been available to patients in the United States since June 2013. In addition, BELVIQ has been made available in South Korea via a third-party distributor contracted by Arena from 2015. In 2016, lorcaserin was approved in both Brazil and Mexico, and will be launched in Mexico under the brand name VENESPRI®. In addition, BELVIQ XR, a once-daily formulation of lorcaserin was approved in the United States in 2016.
By seeking to further the development of BELVIQ and to expand its availability to more patients, Eisai anticipates that the new agreement will give it greater freedom in its development and submission strategy, support its goal of making contributions to address unmet medical needs in the clinical management of obesity and increase the benefits for patients and their families worldwide.
< Notes to editors >
1.About lorcaserin hydrochloride (U.S. brand name: BELVIQ, once daily formulation U.S. brand name: BELVIQ XR)
Discovered and developed by Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., lorcaserin is a novel chemical entity that is believed to decrease food consumption and promote satiety by selectively activating serotonin 2C receptors in the brain. Activation of these receptors may help a person eat less and feel full after eating smaller amounts of food. Lorcaserin was approved in June 2012 by the FDA as an adjunct to a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity for chronic weight management in adult patients with an initial body mass index (BMI) of 30 kg/m2 or greater (obese) or 27 kg/m2 or greater (overweight) in the presence of at least one weight-related co-morbid condition, and was launched in the United States under the brand name BELVIQ in June 2013 after receiving a final scheduling designation from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). In addition, lorcaserin has been made available in South Korea via a third-party distributor contracted by Arena from 2015. Lorcaserin was approved in Mexico in July 2016 and in Brazil in December 2016, with the same indication as for the United States.
Furthermore, BELVIQ XR, a once-daily formulation of lorcaserin aiming to increase convenience of administration for patients, was approved in the United States in July 2016.
The most common adverse reactions observed in multiple Phase Ⅲ clinical studies on lorcaserin were headache, dizziness, fatigue, nausea, dry mouth and constipation in patients without diabetes, and hypoglycemia, headache, back pain, cough and fatigue in patients with diabetes. For further information on lorcaserin in the United States, including Important Safety Information (ISI), please visit the BELVIQ product website (http://www.belviq.com).
Furthermore, lorcaserin is currently being investigated in a cardiovascular outcomes trial conducted in multiple countries, including the United States, with 12,000 patients. The three primary outcome measures of the trial concern MACE (Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events including myocardial infarction, stroke and cardiovascular death), conversion to type 2 diabetes mellitus and MACE+ (including myocardial infarction, stroke, cardiovascular death and hospitalization due to unstable angina, heart failure, or any coronary revascularization), respectively. Topline results of the trial are expected in fiscal year 2018.
2.About Worldwide Overweight and Obesity
In recent years, obesity has become a major global health problem, with more than 1.4 billion adults worldwide believed to be overweight and approximately 500 million of that number qualifying as obese. By region, around 170 million people in the United States and 150 million people in Europe are reported to fall into one or both categories, while in Asia, the overweight and obese population includes an estimated 100 million people in China and a further 25 million people in Japan.
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Curling rocks are shown Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, during a media demonstration the day before the opening ceremonies of the USA Curling Nationals in Everett, Wash. Upcoming changes to the Canadian junior curling championships are facing resistance as some young curlers lament losing a year of eligibility to play in it.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Ted S. Warren
Changes proposed for Canadian junior curlers get petition pushback
Some young curlers lament losing a year of eligibility to play in championships
Upcoming changes to the Canadian junior curling championships are facing resistance as some young curlers lament losing a year of eligibility to play in it.
Curling Canada announced last October it will shift the national junior championship starting in 2021 from January to March — which is after the world junior championship — and make it an under-20 competition instead of the current under-21 event.
An online petition criticizing the move launched in January and almost 5,000 have signed.
The national governing body of curling has since introduced a three-year transitional phase ending in 2023 during which teams can carry one 21-year-old, or an “overage.”
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That athlete would be too old, however, to play for Canada in the world junior championship the following calendar year.
Using this year’s Canadian junior championship in Prince Albert, Sask., as a an example, 16 curlers, or 13 per cent of the field, were 21.
Three-quarters of Team Ontario was 21 as were the seconds for champions Tyler Tardi and Selena Sturmay.
B.C.’s Tardi and Alberta’s Sturmay are representing Canada at the world junior championship starting Saturday in Liverpool, N.S.
In Saskatchewan’s three junior qualification bonspiels in September, six per cent of a total 196 participants were 21 at that time.
Calgary curler Lisa Parent, who turns 19 this year, wrote the petition. She will age out of juniors a year earlier unless she joins a team as an overage for the 2020-21 season.
“Definitely the biggest issue for me was how quickly they announced the change and how, in my first year of junior, they were taking away my last year,” Parent told The Canadian Press.
“In juniors, you’ll plan a three-year schedule to peak while you’re 21. I know Curling Canada has been saying it’s only a year, but that’s what we’ve been building for since we were little kids.”
A national junior championship in late March conflicts with exam preparation for university students, which many competitive junior curlers are.
“Taking a full course load and preparing for Canadian juniors would most definitely impact my grades in my final exams,” Parent said.
And at an age where the increasing demands of school and life can cause young curlers to take a hiatus from the sport, or drop it altogether, some may now bail earlier, she said.
Curling Canada’s rationale for the alteration is the competitive season for the majority of junior curlers is over the first week of January, when each province and territory concludes its junior playdowns.
Curling clubs have ice for another three months.
Under the new format, the number of teams in the Canadian junior championship in March will increase from 24 to 36.
In addition, the national under-18 championship will shift from April to February and increase from 24 to 48 teams. That gives juvenile teams a chance to also qualify for juniors.
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So the country’s youth curlers will have both a longer competitive season and more chances to experience playing in a major event, says Nolan Thiessen, Curling Canada’s manager of championship services and athlete liaison.
“Now we’ve created a five- to six-month calendar where the athletes are engaged,” he explained.
“They can set out a five-month training, competition, rest-and-recovery as well as school-work schedule over a five-month period as a opposed to a three-month rush to try to win their provincials.
“It wasn’t about the two Team Canadas. It was about trying to create an infrastructure for real growth and development across the country over a longer period of time.”
Four-time world champion David Nedohin, who coaches a juvenile team, was among those who signed the petition.
He says he understands Curling Canada’s reasoning, but points out the competitive gap between junior and men’s and women’s competition is so much larger now than when his Randy Ferbey team recruited Carter Rycroft and Scott Pfeiffer right out of junior.
The stakes in curling have never been higher with the Olympic Games and thousands of dollars in World Curling Tour prize money and sponsorships.
It’s becoming almost impossible for a junior graduate to apprentice with a top team, he said.
“A four-year cycle ends and all of those top players go into the blender, the blender turns on and they spit out new teams,” Nedohin said.
“There’s no new curlers that get involved with the top-level teams because no one is willing to take a risk on a player for four years that they don’t know.
“We have a major decline in competitive curlers coming out of juniors and going into men’s and ladies because of that gap that exists.”
A longer period of junior eligibility helps bridge the gap, Nedohin said.
“It makes sense what (Curling Canada) is saying, but it would be nice if you could find a way to at least consider the impact it might be having on some of these players trying to make that bridge into competitive men’s or ladies,” Nedohin said.
“Right now, it’s already hard enough. Backing it off another year, that’s just one more year to me that you have less opportunity to be successful before you get thrown to the wolves.”
Thiessen and Curling Canada’s youth manager Helen Radford say the decision to tinker with junior curling came from an operations advisory council consisting of executive directors from the provincial and territorial associations.
“They wanted Curling Canada to take a look at the competition calendar because it was not working well for junior athletes,” Radford said.
“We understand people are focused on certain parts of the changes, but it’s important for people to see all of the changes that we’re making and why we’re making them.
“When we look at the number of athletes it would affect, it would be so minimal.”
For the overage curlers on the men’s and women’s Canadian championship teams, who would be too old to play in the world juniors, Curling Canada would still send them with their team to experience some of it.
“I would hope that they would still be pretty excited to win a Canadian championship and still get to go to the world championships even though they wouldn’t be able to play,” Thiessen said.
Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press
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Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America (MP3 CD)
By Cassandra Campbell (Read by), Elise Hooper
"Written with grace, empathy, and bright imagination, Learning to See gives us the vivid interior life of a remarkably resilient woman. Dorothea Lange's story is about passion and art, love and family, but also about the sacrifices women make--and have always made--to illuminate the truth of the world." --Danya Kukafka, national bestselling author of Girl in Snow
Learning to See is a gripping account of the Dorothea Lange, the woman behind the camera who risked everything for art, activism, and love. ...
In 1918, a fearless twenty-two-year old arrives in bohemian San Francisco from the Northeast, determined to make her own way as an independent woman. Renaming herself Dorothea Lange she is soon the celebrated owner of the city's most prestigious and stylish portrait studio and wife of the talented but volatile painter, Maynard Dixon.
By the early 1930s, as America's economy collapses, her marriage founders and Dorothea must find ways to support her two young sons single-handedly. Determined to expose the horrific conditions of the nation's poor, she takes to the road with her camera, creating images that inspire, reform, and define the era. And when the United States enters World War II, Dorothea chooses to confront another injustice--the incarceration of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans.
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Magazín M News from MUNI
Molecular biologist of Masaryk University among world leaders in her field
Štěpánka Vaňáčová of CEITEC Institute at Masaryk University has been elected a member of the highly reputable European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
Ema Wiesnerová
Štěpánka Vaňáčová působí v Brně od roku 2008, kdy si na Masarykově univerzitě založila vlastní výzkumnou skupinu.
Foto: Radek Miča
Amongst more than 1,800 top scientists in Europe and worldwide, we can now find the name of the biologist Štěpánka Vaňáčová. Our university already has one representative in EMBO, Mary O´Connell who was elected two years ago. And there are seven more representatives of the Czech Republic in this organization. EMBO supports talented researchers, exchange of scientific information and assistance in the development of research facilities.
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
was established in July 1964. It supports talented young scientists, assists in their interlinking, ensures their mobility and promotes their international reputation. The first members of EMBO were 140 biologists and currently the organization has over 1,800 members. New members are elected each year by the existing members. This year, 48 new members and 6 associate members have been elected, of whom more than 40 percent are women. The new members reside in 22 different countries.
“The election of Štěpánka Vaňáčová as a regular member of EMBO evidences that she is acknowledged at an international level as one of the leaders in the field of biology in Europe. It is also a confirmation that the basic research she focuses on deserves respect and appreciation. Štěpánka Vaňáčová is a living example that systematic and diligent work serves as an excellent motivation and leads to notable results. Thanks to such people we have been able to create a centre of excellent science in Brno the results of which have positive impacts on the entire society,” said Jiří Nantl, the director of CEITEC MU.
Štěpánka Vaňáčová has been working in Brno since 2008 when she established her own research group at Masaryk University. Together with her colleagues, she studies ribonucleic acid (RNA) that plays an essential role in living organisms in regulating various processes. Its different types, for example, determine when certain specific tissues start developing in an embryo. Vaňáčová and her team analyse what mechanisms in a cell control whether the correct RNA has been formed and, possibly, what mechanisms are responsible for eliminating the incorrect RNA.
“It is a great honour for me and my group and I really appreciate it. My membership in the prestigious organization EMBO will help make our research more visible, both at the local level and at the international level. And last, but not the least I hope that it will also help attract new students and young researchers to the exciting and dynamically developing field of RNA studies,” Vaňáčová stated.
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Location of Saudi Arabia. Source: CIA World Factbook.
1 Social Issues
Saudi Arabia: Security Forces Seal Off Eastern Town
August 14, 2017 Eurasia Review 0 Comments
By Eurasia Review
Saudi security forces have surrounded and sealed off the predominantly Shia town of Awamiya in July 2017 as they confronted an armed group hiding in a historic neighborhood slated for demolition, Human Rights Watch said today.
The violence in the Eastern province, which began in May, has resulted in deaths and injuries among the residents, local activists said, and caused significant damage to the town, based on an assessment of satellite imagery. Residents and activists say that most residents have fled Awamiya, and those who remain lack essential services such as medical care. The town remains sealed off.
“Saudi security forces should provide essential services to trapped Awamiya residents and make sure they can move in and out of the town safely,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Saudi authorities should also immediately and credibly investigate whether its forces used excessive force in Awamiya.”
Saudi Arabia announced plans to demolish and redevelop the al-Musawara neighborhood of Awamiya, Qatif governorate, in 2016, citing health and safety reasons. Demolition began on May 10, after al-Musawara residents were evacuated, but met with armed resistance. Awamiya residents told Human Rights Watch that security forces have fired into populated areas far from al-Musawara, killing residents, occupied a public school, closed clinics and pharmacies, and prevented essential services such as ambulances from reaching the area.
Security forces engaged in shoot-outs with an unknown number of armed men inside al-Musawara, and on July 26 brought in additional armored vehicles and sealed the town’s entrances and exits, residents and activists said.
Awamiya has a longstanding reputation of opposition to Saudi rule and has been the site of protests about government discrimination against Saudi Shia. It is the hometown of a prominent cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, who was executed in January 2016 over his encouragement of protests in 2011 and 2012. The execution sparked a series of events leading to a breakdown of diplomatic relations with Iran and heightened sectarian tensions across the Gulf region.
On July 28, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland stated that she was “deeply concerned” about photos purporting to show Saudi security forces using Canadian-made Terradyne Gurkha RPV-model armored vehicles. She ordered an investigation into how Saudi forces are using the vehicles. Saudi forces have also deployed another type of armored vehicle manufactured by the South African company F & R Catai to Awamiya. The automatic cannon in this vehicle’s turret can penetrate and cause considerable damage to buildings and other infrastructure.
Human Rights Watch analyzed satellite imagery that shows extensive damage to the neighborhood and the town’s main commercial street bordering it. While much of the damage is due to the demolition, the images also show buildings and areas damaged by the violence.
Activists and residents said the armed men are on most-wanted lists authorities have issued since 2012 for protest-related crimes in the area.
Saudi Arabia announced on August 10 that security forces had forced nearly all “terrorists and criminal elements” out of al-Musawara, and authorities took international journalists on a tour of the neighborhood on August 9.
Saudi activists said the violence has killed more than a dozen people, both Saudis and foreigners, in addition to at least five armed militants. A Saudi Interior Ministry official told Reuters that eight members of the police and four members of the special forces had been killed. The Saudi authorities have not released information on resident casualties. Reuters reported that a 3-year-old boy died on August 9 from injuries suffered when an armored vehicle fired on his family’s car in June.
Saudi authorities should immediately investigate the circumstances of all casualties related to the use of force by police and security forces and hold security forces accountable if it is shown that they fired at residents unlawfully, Human Rights Watch said.
Five residents interviewed said that Saudi security forces have put people in Awamiya at risk, arbitrarily shooting at or arresting those who emerged from their houses. The residents said that to their knowledge Saudi authorities never issued an order for people to leave Awamiya, and their only chance to leave safely has been for short periods allowed by security forces since July 26.
The residents said that local volunteers and activists coordinated the evacuation without assistance from Saudi authorities. They said that security forces turn away anyone who attempts to return to Awamiya to check on relatives or recover property or possessions.
Local residents said that people have been fired at and injured in areas such as al-Shukrallah, al-Jumaymah, and al-Rif neighborhoods, which are west of security forces who are stationed between these neighborhoods and al-Musawara to the east. The residents said they had not seen any armed militants in these areas.
The five Awamiya residents and three activists close to the situation said that a majority of the town’s inhabitants fled after security forces escalated the situation on July 26. They said that most fled between July 27 and 28 when the town’s electricity was cut off for more than 24 hours, leaving people exposed to temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) without air conditioning. Residents and activists said that the electricity grid had been damaged by gunfire, but did not know who was responsible.
The residents said that security forces closed all of Awamiya’s clinics and pharmacies in May, which they believed was to ensure that militants could not seek medical treatment. Since July 26, they said, security forces had not allowed emergency services to reach the wounded or taken steps to provide humanitarian assistance to people who remain there, though all the shops in the area were closed.
They also said that security forces had occupied a boys’ secondary school, which borders al-Musawara, and circulated a video that they said showed government forces firing a rocket-propelled grenade from the roof into al-Musawara. Human Rights Watch independently verified the video location by matching landmarks and rooftop features visible in the video to corresponding locations in satellite imagery recorded during the fighting. Human Rights Watch also determined that the rocket-propelled grenade was fired into al-Musawara in the general direction of the Ahmed bin Mahmoud mosque.
The United Nations experts on cultural rights, adequate housing and extreme poverty condemned Saudi Arabia’s destruction of al-Musawara on May 24, noting that the operation had forced “residents out of their homes and of the neighborhood, fleeing for their lives.” They stated that the destruction of al-Musawara would “erase the traces of … historic and lived cultural heritage.”
The Saudi government should publicly order the security forces to abide by the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, Human Rights Watch said. The Basic Principles state that security forces shall “apply non-violent means before resorting to the use of force and firearms,” and that “whenever the lawful use of force and firearms is unavoidable, law enforcement officials shall: (a) Exercise restraint in such use and act in proportion to the seriousness of the offence and the legitimate objective to be achieved; (b) Minimize damage and injury, and respect and preserve human life.” Furthermore, “intentional lethal use of firearms may only be made when strictly unavoidable in order to protect life.”
The Basic Principles further provide that, “[i]n cases of death and serious injury or other grave consequences, a detailed report shall be sent promptly to the competent authorities.” The findings of the investigation should be public and result in appropriate disciplinary action or prosecution.
Saudi Arabian security forces should also refrain from using schools, which can cause damage or destruction to important educational infrastructure and interfere with children’s right to an education in safety.
“Saudi Shia in Awamiya face discrimination every day, and for the last three months have been caught in the crossfire,” Whitson said. “Saudi authorities should take immediate steps to allow people to safely return home, allow business and clinics to reopen, and compensate residents for property damage and destruction caused by security forces.”
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Tax Pro Spotlight Our Blog
A Dream Comes Full Circle
Lolita S. Himes, ATP, is right where she wants to be, but it took some time to get there.
Himes’s story begins when she was a high-school student in West Virginia. She enjoyed serving others and was good with numbers, so it made sense that her dream was to someday become an accountant.
A dream deferred
But Himes’s dream was put on hold. She went to work for the phone company right out of high school, and five years later, she was transferred to South Florida. There she met Jim, who worked for the same company, and would soon become her husband. As a wife, a stepmother to Jim’s four children, and a successful middle manager with the telephone company, Himes let go of her accounting dreams.
“I liked the job at the telephone company,” she says. As an engineer there, she “didn’t really think about [other career goals] during that hectic time.”
But Himes did continue to do the family’s taxes each year; “I didn’t want to let somebody else do my taxes!” she says with a laugh.
Greener pastures
In 1987, the couple retired from the phone company and looked, literally, for greener pastures.
“When Jim was growing up,” Himes explains, “they always had a farm. We wanted to see what we could do with farming.” She laughs. “And we wanted to get out of South Florida!”
In 1988, the couple moved to North Florida, to a small community about 100 miles west of Jacksonville. There they started what would become Red Roof Acres, an 87-acre farm where Jim has raised cows and grown hay ever since.
Owning a farm brought new challenges to Himes when it was time to prepare their taxes. “I had never done a Schedule C business return, or a Schedule F, or any of those,” she says. Before the farm, they “had both been just wage earners. I had only done W-2s.”
Himes didn’t even consider finding a professional, though; she was determined to remain the family’s tax preparer. But she needed to gain some tax knowledge—fast.
Learning the business
Himes began by signing up for an introductory tax course from a national tax-preparation firm. The following year, she went to work for that firm, where she continued to learn the tax business, both by taking courses and by gaining practical experience. During this time, Himes also took on several bookkeeping clients of her own.
Lolita Himes was hardly aware of it at the time, but her dream of becoming an accountant was slowly coming back to life.
One day, after putting in her hours at the tax-prep firm, Himes came home and told her husband, “You know, I can do this.”
“I was being paid a commission at the time,” she explains, “and I suddenly thought, ‘Hey, I can do this on my own, and I can make more money.’”
She was already doing bookkeeping jobs at home, working out of a back bedroom. In 1995, that “office” also became a tax-prep office, and Himes prepared 35 tax returns that first year. In 1997, Red Roof Services was born, providing tax-prep and bookkeeping services for an ever-growing clientele.
Expansion came quickly. In 1998, after a tax preparer in the area moved and referred all of her clients to Himes, Red Roof Services, named for the distinctive roof on the couple’s home, needed more space. “We had a big garage,” says Himes. “We took the garage door out, put in storefront windows, dropped the ceiling, cut a doorway between the spare bedroom and made it into an office.”
Today, Red Roof Services operates out of that 800–square-foot office, using five computers and annually preparing more than 600 tax returns for individuals, partnerships, and corporations. Himes also has 45 to 50 monthly bookkeeping clients.
Himes takes her responsibility as a tax preparer, and her obligation to understand and know how to apply tax law, seriously. She earned her accredited tax professional (ATP) status through the Institute of Tax Consultants, where she is a member of the board of regents. She’s also secretary of the American Society of Tax Professionals (ASTP) and is a member of the National Association of Tax Preparers, the National Society of Tax Professionals, and the National Society of Accountants. She regularly attends conferences and workshops, including the fall conference of ASTP and the IRS Tax Forum in Orlando.
“If I’m not current with tax laws,” says Himes, “I’m not preparing an accurate tax return.” Himes emphasizes the importance of having correct, up-to-date tax knowledge. “I know where the information is supposed to go. That’s important in knowing how to prepare a return, even with today’s software.” A Drake customer for 10 years, Himes says, “there are times when I’ll go into Drake and say, ‘OK, I know what the answer’s supposed to be.” What have I not answered right in order to get that answer?’”
“I call Drake support very little because I look things up first,” continues Himes. “If you don’t know how to do a return by hand, or if you don’t know about tax prep and instead depend on the program to do your work for you, you won’t always get the right answer. A tax program is only as good as what you put in to it.”
Client satisfaction is the key
John and Terri Strayer, owners of John’s Lawn Equipment and Pro Arms, a retail firearms store, have been with Red Roof since 1994. The practice does all the Strayers’ bookkeeping and prepares their business and personal tax returns.
Himes’s ability to explain things clearly is important to the Strayers. “If we have a question,” Terri says, “Lolita explains it in a way we can understand.” Terri adds, “If there’s a question on new law, she explains it to our satisfaction.”
John concurs, remembering that their previous accountants were not such good communicators. “A lot of the terminology they used, and the information we got, required someone to interpret it ... Lolita can talk that jargon to someone else, but with us she explains the information in layman’s terms so we know what’s going on and what we need to do or not do.”
The Strayers also appreciate Himes’s accuracy. “Everything has to be right,” says John, “and that’s a requirement for us, too. The last thing in the world we need is issues with the IRS.”
“Lolita gives great service, and we’ve been very satisfied,” concludes John. “She’s taken care of us for 16 years, and we wouldn’t think of changing.”
While her clients value her trustworthiness, professionalism, and commitment to accuracy, Himes also works hard to maintain a personal touch with them. For example, in addition to sending Christmas cards to her clients, she sends them birthday cards, with a batch of cards going out every weekend. She uses Drake’s client birthday report and mailing labels to get the job done.
Even if she’s away from home, she says, “I mail the cards from wherever I am.” She once mailed cards from Franklin, NC, where she was attending a Drake Update School.
Other customers, those who are closer to the couple, get special gifts during the holidays. “Some of my clients know they’re going to get jelly and cakes for Christmas,” she says. Himes works on these gifts long before Christmas: “Just this weekend (in August),” she says, “we made 31 jars of jelly!”
Drake: Himes’s final answer
When Himes first began using a computer for tax preparation, she used a nationally marketed product but didn’t like the low level of support. She shopped around for a couple of years, using several different products before settling on Drake.
“I had first looked at Drake in 1998,” she says, admitting that she wasn’t impressed at first. “But over a two-year period, their product moved forward tremendously.” The 2000 product, she says, “was a much, much better program.” She made the switch then, and she hasn’t looked back since: “I’m happy with Drake and all the features of their program. I’ll stay with them.”
Among her favorite Drake features is the new Personal Client Manager: “I like that feature because you can get who you want without having to type anything in. Plus, it tells you everything: when a return was accepted, the transmission date, the acknowledgement date—everything.”
Like many of Drake’s clients, Himes also values the quick, knowledgeable support the company provides.
“We went to Windows 7 recently,” she says. “I have dial-up, and while we were able to get dial-up Internet on the computer, we couldn’t get it from inside Drake. So I called Support. My tech guy talked to the girl in Support, and she told us exactly what we needed to do—something about the firewall. My tech guy was even impressed with the knowledge this person had! It took about three minutes, and—boom-boom-boom—the problem was fixed!”
“I haven’t called support much,” she adds, “but I’ve always had good help with it.”
Lolita Himes has come a long way from the early years, when she worked out of that back bedroom. Back then, her ad campaign consisted of brochures, flyers tucked into windshield wipers, and coffee mugs handed out to local restaurants. She now depends on word of mouth only and is happy with the current size of her clientele.
She’s come even further since her high-school days in West Virginia, where she dreamed of becoming an accountant. Little did she know then that her dream would take such a long, circuitous route—or that, with motivation, persistence, hard work, and commitment to those she serves, the dream would eventually become reality.
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