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It's All About You remixes
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Macauley Bonne's hard work in training is finally reward to help Leyton Orient end winless run
George Sessions
Macauley Bonne of Leyton Orient goes close with a header against Dagenham & Redbridge (pic: David Simpson/TGS Photo).
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Forward reflects on his first goal for six weeks, his partnership with David Mooney and the penalty incident against Dagenham & Redbridge
Macauley Bonne was pleased to see his goalscoring drought come to an end last night as Leyton Orient defeated Dagenham & Redbridge 1-0 in their FA Cup fourth qualifying round replay at Brisbane Road.
The forward had not found the net since September 2 – a run of eight-games – but scuffed home a David Mooney cross in the 23rd minute.
It was exactly what Bonne deserved after assistant Ross Embleton had revealed on the Orient Outlook Podcast that the 21-year-old always spends time doing extra sessions working on his finishing.
When quizzed about his overtime, Bonne said: “It’s always been me and that’s just my way.
“I’ve always tried to be the last one on the training field doing my extra finishing. I just want to make sure I’m always sharp on a Saturday and ready to go. I know it is something I don’t have to do, but I want to.
“You could say it comes natural to me. I just like scoring goals, so I’ll always try and find whoever it is to give me a few balls so I can score.”
Bonne was honest after the game and joked he’d take plenty more scuffs after only just beating Dagenham goalkeeper Mark Cousins.
He now has eight goals to his name this term and will aim to hit another purple patch like he did during the final weeks of August.
“A goal is a goal. I will take 15 scuffs a season. It doesn’t matter if it comes off my knee, my head, me ear. They are all goals,” said Bonne.
The forward was indebted to strike partner Mooney in the end after the Irishmen’s centre perfectly picked out the youngster.
Jake Caprice did well cutting side from the right before finding Orient’s club captain, who crossed in for Bonne.
But just before the opener, the pair had words after Bonne had gone for a header when Mooney was perhaps better placed just behind him.
Seconds later the pair were embracing after helping O’s take the lead, which sums up the life of a strike partnership.
Bonne laughed: “That’s football. You make your own decisions whether they are right or wrong, but at the end of the day its come good.
“He has assisted me for a goal and I could have got him one, but football is like that. Nothing ever comes off the pitch. It stays there and doesn’t get dragged into the changing room and it’s all love between us.”
Last night’s match saw the pair rediscover some of the form which helped Orient make a great start to the season.
Mooney and Bonne linked up on numerous occasions with the new 3-5-2/5-3-2 system appearing to suit the duo.
“It makes us stay closer together and helps us both out a lot, so that’s what it is down to,” admitted the match winner.
“When we are close together, the partnership can start and we can link up. There were a few more links where we could have scored from, but the longer the partnership remains and gets stronger, the more goals we’ll score together.”
Bonne might have grabbed a brace had referee Alan Young awarded Orient a second-half penalty.
The former Colchester United forward flicked the ball on for Mooney and he cut inside Scott Doe before going to ground after contact from Mark Cousins.
Although Mooney went down easily, Dagenham’s goalkeeper clearly caught the O’s striker, but Mooney received a booking for stimulation instead.
“It was a penalty all day and the thing is I am on them, so I was even more gutted,” joked Bonne.
There were a lot of Orient smiles and laughs after the game and it was great to see following a long few weeks.
What’s now important is for O’s to build on this win and begin to climb the table, which they are sure to do if Bonne keeps on seeing his hard work pay off.
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Bud more than full bloom, “Spring Awakening”…
Bud more than full bloom, “Spring Awakening” has regional premier
Ignite Theatre’s regional premiere of “Spring Awakening” visits a school of rock, rage and sexual yearning.
By Lisa Kennedy | lkennedywriter@gmail.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: August 8, 2012 at 11:05 am | UPDATED: April 30, 2016 at 7:58 pm
A pitfall of seeing a Broadway musical for the first time as a regional premiere put on by a young theater company is that the blemishes of the work are often more glaring.
Of course, that same excursion to a smaller venue can offer up authentic exuberance, and even an unexpected star turn.
Ignite Theatre’s production of the rock musical “Spring Awakening,” onstage at the Aurora Fox, has its problems — some inherited from the material, some of its own making.
Directed by Amy Osatinski, “Spring Awakening” also has energy, and a glimmering quasar in Brooke Singer. More on her momentarily.
First, some background. Last year, Ignite Theatre grabbed the rights to produce the 2007, Tony-winning musical “Spring Awakening” when they became available to regional companies.
It was a bold undertaking for the company. Not so much because the musical deals with blooming, blossoming, randy pubescent sexuality in frank, even fleshy, ways. That’s fine fodder for ambitious theater companies. No, it’s because musicals are always big undertakings. Razzle-dazzle production values and the depth of talent that come with deeper pockets are real perks.
Pop musician Duncan Sheik and his creative partner Steven Sater adapted German playwright Frank Wedekind’s play — written in 1891 — about desire and young people into a rock musical.
The story focuses on a group of German schoolboys who are starting to brew with hormones.
Upstanding student Melchior (Jack Thomas) is beginning to question everything: faith, politics and sexuality. Hanschen (Ian McCauley) is exploring his attraction to the halting Ernst (Parker Redford).
Moritz (Chris Russell) is flailing in school and life. Melchior tries to help him, but the youngster begins to see himself as doomed. When Moritz’s childhood friend Ilse (Brenna Pritchard) throws him a life line, he misses the point of saving himself but also her.
The young men aren’t the only ones pondering their bodies and tussling with desire.
Brooke Singer portrays Wendla, the curious and confused teen who will become Melchior’s girlfriend. The actress sings with a clear, rich voice that makes the play’s emotions real. She is one of the few in the cast that is able to do that.
Early on, Wendla asks her mother to move past the birds, bees and stork and tell her where babies come from. “Mama Who Bore Me,” she sings, joined by other female cast members. That her mother fails this simple request will lead to tragedy.
That was Wedekind’s point more than 100 years ago. The musical’s contemporary themes of repression, sexual abuse, sadomasochism and homoeroticism are his, not, as one might imagine, Shiek and Sater’s.
We do, however, have the musical duo to blame for the often gorgeous songs. A number capture with emo grace the pang, the plaintive yearning of youth. Others like “The Bitch of Living” rail with a pent-up fury.
Be prepared for the anachronistic sight of young men in short pants and women in satiny shifts pulling out microphones, sometimes from a back pocket or waistband, or rocking a standing mic like they’re headlining a sweaty club. While this rock-star gesture comes by way of the original production, it felt clumsy and mannered.
Suzanne Nepi and Andy Anderson play all the adult roles: parents, school administrators, minister and teacher. In a play where Melchior riffs on the “parentocracy,” this makes sense perhaps. It also makes for a vaudeville caricature of grown-ups.
Lisa Kennedy: 303-954-1567, lkennedy@denverpost.com or twitter.com/bylisakennedy
“SPRING AWAKENING.” An Ignite Theatre production. Music by Duncan Sheik. Book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Based on the play by Frank Wedekind. Directed by Amy Osatinski. Featuring Jack Thomas, Brooke Singer, Chris Russell, Ian McCauley and Parker Redford. Through Aug. 26. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets, $18-$25, via lucentperformingarts.org or 720-362-2697.
Theater openings
Theater Company of Lafayette’s “Comic Con con Comedy”
Through Aug. 19: Theater Company of Lafayette enters the wacky pop-culture world of comic books in this original theatrical adventure that will include 14 original short comedies looking at superheroes, fan conventions and the people who love them. Those who attend in costume will be entered into a drawing for a nightly prize. Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson, 720-209-2154 or tclstage.org
Inspire Creative’s “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”
Through Aug. 25: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s retelling of the Old Testament story of Jacob and his 12 sons. A winking, high-energy romp with a score that incorporates pop, country, reggae, vaudeville and rockabilly. At the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker, 303-790-0875, or inspirecreative.org
Aurora Fox’s “Mekong Joe”
Through Aug. 18: In 1968, Tran Than Hai was born to a Vietnamese mother, from an American GI father. Six years later, he and his brother were two of the many children airlifted out of Saigon just hours before the fall of the city. Adopted by a Midwestern, military couple, “Joe” grew up never feeling like he truly belonged. A one-man memoir. 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, 303-739-1970 or aurorafox.org
National touring production of “The Book of Mormon”
Opening Tuesday, through Sept. 2: Broadway’s 2011 Tony-winning best musical launches its national touring production in Denver. Two naive and optimistic Mormon missionaries try to share their scriptures with a remote village in northern Uganda, but the locals are more worried about war, famine, poverty and AIDS than about salvation. This entire run is sold out, but a daily lottery will be held for 24 tickets. At the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, 303-893-4100 or denvercenter.org
Curtain Playhouse’s “The Music Man”
Through Sept. 9: The throwback musical about a con man who comes to a small town intent on making his mark; instead they make theirs on him. Songs include “76 Trombones.” Note new address: 3401 W. 29th Ave., 720-887-0122 or curtainproductions.org
Adams Mystery Playhouse’s “Red Hot Murder”
Through Aug. 17: Interactive dinner-theater comedy in which you are invited to a Plaid Hat Society pageant. But when the contest gets underway, someone turns up dead. You help solve the crime. Appropriate for all ages. 2406 Federal Blvd., 303-455-1848 or adamsmysteryplayhouse.com
Theatre ‘d Art’s “Theatregasm = 6”
Through Aug. 26: The company’s sixth annual short-play festival showcases original work by Colorado Springs writers offering stories that span Godzilla babies, knife-wielding girls, blood, poisonous nirvanas, Republicans and (of course) polka. At Watch This Space, 128 N. Nevada St., Colorado Springs. 719-357-8321 or theatredart.org
The Edge’s “Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them”
Through Sept. 2: A raucous and provocative satire about America’s growing homeland “insecurity.” It’s the story of a young woman in sudden crisis: Is her new husband, whom she married while drunk, a terrorist? Or just crazy? Or both? 9797 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood, 303-232-0363 or theedgetheatre.com
Compiled by John Moore, Special to The Denver Post
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Posted on November 10, 2014 by Editorial Staff
In a divorce, assets, which include cars and homes as well as savings, investments and retirement accounts such as IRAs, are typically divided equally between both spouses. Care should be taken in the division of IRAs, however, because there are serious tax implications involved in withdrawals from an IRA. Divorcing couples should make sure the right steps are taken for not only a fair and equitable distribution but also one the IRS approves.
The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) clearly states that premature IRA withdrawals are subject to a 10 percent penalty, as outlined in Section 72(t). IRS regulations also state that any dollar amount withdrawn from an IRA account in a given year is included in the gross income of the payee or distributor for that year.
However, the IRS makes an exception in cases of divorce when the assets of an IRA must be transferred or split between divorcing parties. The exception is considered valid only if there is a transfer of the IRA participant’s interest into the IRA account of the former spouse and if the transfer is made in accordance with a legal divorce or separation decree.
Most divorcing couples use the direct transfer method. With a direct transfer, the owner of the IRA orders a trustee of the IRA to transfer all of the required funds from the individual retirement account into an existing IRA that belongs to the former spouse. Another route is for the IRA owner to transfer his or her own IRA funds into a separate IRA account and leave the remaining balance behind. He or she could also request the trustees to complete a name change to the account, so it would henceforth belong to the former spouse.
Dividing an IRA must be done properly so the IRS recognizes the transfer and waives the taxes and fees associated with an IRA withdrawal. This applies the transfer routine or simple name change of the account holder to the recipient.
Both divorcing parties must agree to the transfer of assets, or the court must order the division. The divorce decree details the amount of IRA funds to be divided and the method of division. The divorce papers must reference that the transfer is being made pursuant to the divorce settlement terms and that it is meant to be a tax-free transfer under the Internal Revenue Code Section 408(d)(6).
Unlike pension plans, a divorcing couple does not need a QDRO to split an IRA or a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) accounts, but care must be taken to avoid taxes and penalties.
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Lazerfest moves from downtown to Clive
Festival moves from downtown bridge
Lazerfest moves from downtown to Clive Festival moves from downtown bridge Check out this story on dmJuice.com: http://dmreg.co/1FygqUr
joe@dmJuice.com Published 1:11 p.m. CT April 7, 2015 | Updated 1:19 p.m. CT April 7, 2015
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Lazerfest has made a lot of moves over the years. It's been held at Water Works Park, The Indianola Balloon Grounds and the Central Iowa Expo in Boone. Last year it moved from Boone to Wells Fargo Arena due to flooding and this year was announced as taking place May 8 and May 10 on the Court Avenue Bridge downtown with Halestorm and Five Finger Death Punch headlining.
But on Tuesday the festival announced it was moving to Seven Flags Event Center, 2100 N.W. 100th St. in Clive.
On the festival's Facebook page, a post said "We thought we had a fun concept for Lazerfest with multiple days and a new location. You told us something different and we're listening."
Related: See the lineup for Lazerfest 2015
"Last year with the show downtown, we got good feedback and tried to build on that," Ryan Patrick of KAZR 103.3 FM, which puts on Lazerfest. "The feedback we've gotten on the phones, in person and online is that the bridge isn't Lazerfest. So what we're doing is moving to a proven venue, where people have seen our shows before and know the ins and outs."
The bridge was set up to hold about 4,500 people per day, while Seven Flags holds about 3,000 people. Patrick said all previously purchased tickets will be honored.
At its peak, Lazerfest drew more than 20,000 fans in 2010 and 2011 when the festival was held at the Indianola Balloon Grounds.
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Sociocultural Systems: Principles of Structure and Change
Author: Frank W. Elwell
ISBN: 9781927356203 9781927356210 9781927356227 Year: 2013 Pages: 404 Language: English
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Macrosociology—the study of large-scale social structures and the fundamental principles of social organization—was the style of sociology practiced by the founders of the discipline. Today, the social theories of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, and Herbert Spencer (among others) are commonly studied as part of the history of the field, but, although the macrosociological approach that these thinkers advocated is still employed, it no longer dominates the discipline. Instead, sociologists typically adopt a narrower focus, specializing in areas such as social psychology, medicine, religion, or the study of social stratification. Examining the bigger picture is a task often left to public intellectuals.Sociocultural Systems aims to reinstate macrosciology as the heart of the discipline by demonstrating that both classical and contemporary macrosociologists stand upon common ground. Focusing on the broad issues that concerned the founders, Elwell addresses questions such as: Historically, what factors accounted for the origin, survival, and evolution of sociocultural systems? Why were some societies more technologically advanced than others? What is the origin of capitalism? What factors determine the allocation of goods and services within and among societies? What effects do changes in government and economic institutions have on communities?Elwell argues that, as evolution does for biology, the macrosociological paradigm offers an analytical strategy that can be used both to guide and prioritize research in all of the myriad specialties within sociology and to lay forth an orderly body of knowledge for students. Clearly articulating important sociological principles, Sociocultural Systems provides a critical understanding of social institutions and issues, while also furnishing a framework for possible solutions to the perennial social crises that are part and parcel of the development of human societies.
sociology, values, functional analysis, culture
On the Legacy of Lutheranism in Finland
Authors: Sinnemäki, Kaius --- Portman, Anneli --- Tilli, Jouni --- Nelson , Robert H.
Book Series: Studia Fennica Historica ISBN: 9789518581508 9789518581355 9789518581492 Year: 2019 Pages: 353 DOI: 10.21435/sfh.25 Language: English
Publisher: Finnish Literature Society / SKS
Subject: Political Science --- Sociology --- Religion --- History --- Languages and Literatures
This volume analyses the societal legacy of Lutheranism in Finland in broad terms. It contributes to the recent renewed interest in the history of religion in Finland and the Nordic countries by bringing together researchers in history, political science, economics, social psychology, education, linguistics, media studies, and theology to examine the mutual relationship between Lutheranism and society in Finland. The two main foci are (i) the historical effects of the Reformation and its aftermath on societal structures and on national identity, values, linguistic culture, education, and the economy, and (ii) the adaptation of the church – and its theology – to changes in the geo-political and sociocultural context. Important sub-themes include nationalism and religion, the secularization and institutionalization of traditional values, multiple Protestant ethics, and long continuities in history. Overall the book argues that large changes in societies cannot be explained via ‘secular’ factors alone, such as economic development or urbanization, but that factors pertaining to religion provide substantial explanatory power for understanding societal change and the resulting societal structures.
Values --- Society --- Secularization --- Nationalism --- Lutheranism --- Finland
Public Policy: Why ethics matters
Authors: Bradstock, Andrew --- Eng, David --- Boston, Jonathan
ISBN: 9781921666759 Year: 2010 Pages: 311 DOI: 10.26530/OAPEN_459474 Language: English
Publisher: ANU Press
Subject: Philosophy
License: ANU Press
Ethics is a vigorously contested field. There are many competing moral frameworks, and different views about how normative considerations should inform the art and craft of governmental policy making. What is not in dispute, however, is that ethics matters. The ethical framework adopted by policy analysts and decision makers not only shapes how policy problems are defined, framed and analysed, but also influences which ethical principles and values are taken into account and their weighting. As a result, ethics can have a profound impact, both on the character of the policy process and the choices made by decision makers. Public Policy – Why Ethics Matters brings together original contributions from leading scholars and practitioners with expertise in various academic disciplines, including economics, philosophy, physics, political science, public policy and theology. The volume addresses three main issues: fist, the ethical considerations that should inform the conduct of public officials and the task of policy analysis; second, the ethics of climate change; and third, ethics and economic policy. While the contributors have varying views on these important issues, they share a common conviction that the ethical dimensions of public policy need to be better understood and given proper attention in the policy-making process.
political ethics --- social values --- moral --- ethics --- decision making
Law and Development in East and South-East Asia
Author: Antons, Christoph
ISBN: 9780203988947 9780700713219 9781138979468 9781135795856 9781135795849 9781135795801 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.4324/9780203988947 Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Subject: Law --- Sociology --- Science (General)
During the 1980s and 1990s Asian 'developmental states' attracted much attention in political science and economics literature, but the role of law in the economic development was neglected. It was only after the Asian crisis of 1997 that many analysts began to focus on a lack of regulation and transparency as a major factor triggering the crisis. The crucial questions now are how successful the current reforms will be, and which features of the Asian approach to commercial law will be resistant to reform pressures. This book examines the prospects for commercial law reform in Asia, giving particular attention to Japan and Singapore, as frequently cited role models for Asian developmentalism, and also examining development related business laws in countries such as China, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines.
administrative,guidance,developmental,states,fair,trade,commission,asian,values,crisis
The Idea of Europe : Enlightenment Perspectives
Authors: Catriona Seth --- Rotraud von Kulessa
ISBN: 9782821897328 Language: English
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
In view of the challenges-many of which are political-that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the eighteenth century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which oft en remain pertinent nowadays. During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continent's future in particular when stressing their hope that peace could be secured in Europe. The texts gathered here, and signed by major thinkers of the time (Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Kant, Hume or Staël for instance), as well as by writers history has forgotten, present the reflections, with a couple of chronological extensions (from Sully to Victor Hugo) of authors from the long eighteenth century-the French Empire and the fall of Napoleon generated numerous upheavals-on Europe, its history, its diversity, but also on what the nations, which, in all their diversity, make up a geographical unit, have in common. They show the historical origins of the project of a European union, the desire to consolidate the continent's ties to the Maghreb or to Turkey, the importance granted to commerce and the worries engendered by history's convulsions, but also the hope vested in future generations.
peace --- Europe --- Enlightenment --- European Union --- anthology --- common values
Valori, società, religione
Authors: Hans Joas --- Ugo Perone
ISBN: 9788878854468 DOI: 10.4000/books.res.1012 Language: Italian
Publisher: Rosenberg & Sellier
L’autore offre uno sguardo multidisciplinare, attingendo contributi dalla filosofia –in particolare dal pragmatismo americano e dall’ermeneutica continentale contemporanea- e innestandoli su un matrice sociologica. Di particolare rilievo sono la sua teoria circa l’origine dei valori, il tema dei diritti umani, le riflessioni sul ruolo della religione nella società contemporanea e sul significato moderno della guerra. Il volume è introdotto da un saggio di Ugo Perone, Direttore della Scuola di Alta Formazione filosofica.
philosophy --- pragmatism --- hermeneutics --- sociology --- contemporary values --- human rights --- religion --- war
Dealing with climate change on small islands: Toward effective and sustainable adaptation
Authors: Klöck, Carola --- Fink, Michael
ISBN: 101787520191208 9783863954352 Year: 2019 Language: English
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Subject: Geology --- Earth Sciences
Small islands have received growing attention in the context of climate change. Rising sea-levels, intensifying storms, changing rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures force islanders to deal with and adapt to a changing climate. How do they respond to the challenge? What works, what doesn’t – and why? The present volume addresses these questions by exploring adaptation experiences in small islands across the world’s oceans from various perspectives and disciplines, including geography, anthropology, political science, psychology, and philosophy. The contributions to the volume focus on political and financial difficulties of climate change governance; highlight the importance of cultural values, local knowledge and perceptions in and for adaptation; and question to what extent mobility and migration constitute sustainable adaptation. Overall, the contributions highlight the diversity of island contexts, but also their specific challenges; they present valuable lessons for both adaptation success and failure, and emphasise island resilience and agency in the face of climate change.
political difficulties --- financial difficulties --- cultural values --- local knowledge
Generations in Estonia: Contemporary Perspectives on Turbulent Times
Authors: Raudsepp, Maaris --- Nugin, Raili --- Kannike, Anu
Book Series: Approaches to Culture Theory ISBN: 9789949770557 9789949770564 Year: 2016 Pages: 350 DOI: 10.26530/OAPEN_606515 Language: English
Publisher: University of Tartu Press
Subject: Social Sciences
This book provides the international reader with the first study of different generations and intergenerational relations in Estonia. The chapters highlight generational patterns in the 20th and 21st centuries, with the volume as a whole taking an interdisciplinary approach. Sharing the idea that generations are dynamic, that their borders are blurred and change over time, and that their construction is interdependent, the authors have each chosen a specific perspective on and framework for generations. Several studies take an interest in how and by whom generations are constructed, and how generational identity has been perceived and reshaped over time. Others use generation as a concept or an analytical tool with which to investigate different social processes, or as a community of experience and carrier of memory. The volume suggests novel and diverse approaches to the definition of generation and the formation of generational consciousness, as well as to generational theory.
transition --- values --- memory --- generations --- generational identity --- generational patterns --- cohorts --- intergenerational relations
Speaking Power to Truth: Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
Author: Edited by Michael Keren and Richard Hawkins
Book Series: Cultural Dialectics ISSN: 19158378 ISBN: 9781771990332 9781771990349 9781771990356 9781771990363 Year: 2015 Pages: 216 DOI: 10.15215/aupress/9781771990332.01 Language: English
Online discourse has created a new media environment for contributions to public life, one that challenges the social significance of the role of public intellectuals—intellectuals who, whether by choice or by circumstance, offer commentary on issues of the day. The value of such commentary is rooted in the assumption that, by virtue of their training and experience, intellectuals possess knowledge—that they understand what constitutes knowledge with respect to a particular topic, are able to distinguish it from mere opinion, and are in a position to define its relevance in different contexts. When intellectuals comment on matters of public concern, they are accordingly presumed to speak truth, whether they are writing books or op-ed columns or appearing as guests on radio and television news programs. At the same time, with increasing frequency, discourse on public life is taking place online. This new digital environment is characterized by abundance—an abundance of speakers, discussion, and access. But has this abundance of discourse—this democratization of knowledge, as some describe it—brought with it a corresponding increase in truth?Casting doubt on the assertion that online discourse, with its proliferation of voices, will somehow yield collective wisdom, Speaking Power to Truth raises concerns that this wealth of digitally enabled commentary is, in fact, too often bereft of the hallmarks of intellectual discourse: an epistemological framework and the provision of evidence to substantiate claims. Instead, the pursuit of truth finds itself in competition with the quest for public reputation, access to influence, and enhanced visibility. But as knowledge is drawn into the orbit of power, and as the line between knowledge and opinion is blurred, what role will the public intellectual play in the promotion and nurturing of democratic processes and goals? In exploring the implications of the digital transition, the contributors to Speaking Power to Truth provide both empirical evidence of, and philosophical reflection on, the current and future role of the public intellectual in a technologically mediated public sphere.
climate change, media studies, journalism, internet, journalists, social values, climate science, social policy
Author: Klamer, Arjo
ISBN: 9781909188921 9781909188938 9781909188945 9781909188952 Year: 2017 Pages: 266 DOI: 10.5334/bbb Language: English
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
Subject: Economics --- Social Sciences --- Arts in general
"This book is for all those who are seeking a human perspective on economic and organizational processes. It lays the foundations for a value based approach to the economy. The key questions are: “What is important to you or your organization?” “What is this action or that organization good for?”
The book is directed at the prevalence of instrumentalist thinking in the current economy and responds to the calls for another economy.
Another economy demands another economics. The value based approach is another economics; it focuses on values and on the most important goods such as families, homes, communities, knowledge, and art. It places economic processes in their cultural context.
What does it take to do the right thing, as a person, as an organization, as a society? What is the good to strive for? This book gives directions for the answers.
The value based approach restores the ancient idea that quality of life and of society is what the economy is all about. It advocates shifting the focus from quantities (“how much?”) to qualities (“what is important?”).
share economy --- value based approach --- creative commons --- culture and economy --- values --- shared good
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How Can I Check a Landline Number to See If There Is a Fault?
By: Johnathan Micah
How to Replace a Broken Phone Jack
How to Fix a Landline Phone Jack
How to Test a Residential Phone Jack Multimeter
How to Install a Wire Jack for a Rotary Phone
How to Reset a Panasonic Cordless
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Land-line telephones connect to a box outside the home or office building called a network interface device. This is the central junction box from which all active telephone cables come. Part of the device is only accessible by the phone company, but there is also an access area for customers. Using this customer access panel, a landline number can be checked to see whether there is a fault in the line.
Locate the network interface device for the phone line. This box is normally located outside the home or office building with other utility boxes and meters.
Use a screwdriver to remove the screw that is labelled "Customer Access" on the front of the network interface device box.
Unplug the phone cord that is currently plugged in to the test jack inside the network interface device box.
Plug a standard corded telephone directly into the open test jack. Pick up the telephone receiver and listen for a dial tone.
Contact the telephone-service provider if there is no dial tone, because the landline is problematic and the issue needs to be handled by the telephone company. If there is a dial tone coming from the phone plugged directly into the test jack on the outside of the building, the problem exists inside the home or office building and can probably be fixed without calling the phone company.
Unplug the telephone from the test jack and reconnect the test jack. Close the network interface device box and use a screwdriver to replace the "Customer Access" screw.
Unplug all the phones in the house or building from the telephone line wall jacks. Then, one at a time, plug the phones back into the wall jacks and listen for a dial tone.
Try using a new telephone cord in each of the telephone jacks. The problem could be caused by a bad telephone cord. Contact the telephone company if there is still an issue.
YouTube: How to test your phone line if you have no dial tone
Johnathan Micah has been involved in filmmaking and writing for over 10 years. He is the co-owner of Pelicula Films, a production company that has produced many short films, music videos and other television spots. Micah has been a freelance writer for many publications both online and offline. He holds a Bachelor of Science in journalism.
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February 08 OF 2018 from 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM
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ESADE Alumni invites you to ‘How to value a start-up’, a talk in the Refresher Programme series by Luisa Alemany, Associate Professor Entrepreneurial Finance, Dpt. and Professor of Economics, Finance and Accounting at ESADE.
Ever wondered how companies with no customers can be worth more than a million euros? Interested in investing in start-ups but not sure how to value them? Looking for finance for a new business venture but not sure what percentage of the company you should negotiate with investors? This talk will try to unveil the secrets behind these questions and give an insight into the mysterious world of start-up valuation.
Luisa Alemany
Associate professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, Dpt. MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and PhD in economic and business science from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research focuses on finance for entrepreneurs, including business angels, venture capital, philanthropic venture capital and social impact funds. Luisa has also worked in entrepreneurial education for children, in association with the Princess of Gerona Foundation, to ensure that children continue to have plenty of entrepreneurial initiative when they grow up. Author of several academic publications, books and case studies, including the award-winning best entrepreneurship case study in Europe in 2017.
For nine years, Luisa has been the director of the ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute, an international benchmark in the world of entrepreneurship. Luisa is the academic sponsor of ESADE BAN (ESADE’s award-winning business angel network), and is highly involved in the European EBAN network in which she has been a board member. Luisa’s professional career began at Procter & Gamble in Madrid. She subsequently worked for McKinsey & Co in Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon, and in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs in London. She is also well versed in the venture capital sector, having worked for the Europ@web and Carlyle Group funds. She is currently a member of several venture capital and social investment committees, and is also a member of Rising Tide, the first European network of female business angels.
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25 DAYS 'TILL CHRISTMAS BY POPPY ALEXANDER
25 Days 'till Christmas is an amazing debut by Poppy Alexander and I am looking forward to many more of her books in the future. I recommend this one during the holiday season!
Release Date: October 8, 2019
Genre: Holiday Chick Lit.
Series: None. Complete standalone.
Format: Paperback. Purchased.
In this heartwarming, feel-good holiday novel, one woman needs to find a little inspiration in the 25 days leading up to Christmas to help her remember the magic of the season and the magic of falling in love—perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan and Josie Silver.
Kate Potter used to love Christmas. A few years ago, she would have been wrapping her presents in September and baking mince pies on Halloween, counting down the days and hours to Christmas. But that was before Kate’s husband left for the army and never came home. Now she can hardly stand December at all.
Kate can’t deny she’s lonely, yet she doesn’t think she’s ready for romance. She knows that her son, Jack, needs a Christmas to remember—just like Kate needs a miracle to help her finally move forward with her life. So she’s decided if there isn’t a miracle on its way, she’ll just have to make her own.
NEVER ENOUGH BY KELLY ELLIOT (REVIEW + GIVEAWAY)
Never Enough by Kelly Elliot is the first book in a brand new series. I adored this one! It's angsty, but light. Romantic, swoony, and so many other things as well! I can't wait for the next one.
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Genre: Western Romance
Series: Meet Me in Montana #1
Format: eBook. ARC.
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Cowboys and Angels series comes an intricate romance that asks the question, Can love heal the pain of the past?
Longing to forget the pain of his wife’s death, Brock Shaw has immersed himself in the one thing that lets him escape the guilt. Bull riding. But life on the road means leaving his young son at home with his parents. They want him to give up his career and be a father to his child, but Brock needs the adrenaline to get through each day…or so he thinks.
Lincoln Pratt needs a fresh start. As a top interior designer in Atlanta, she has everything she could ever want, but she’s always at her father’s mercy. Something’s missing, and Lincoln knows she’ll only find it somewhere far away—like the rolling pastures of Hamilton, Montana, where she meets the irresistibly mysterious Brock.
SINGLE IN SITKA BY KATY REGNERY
I devoured this single dad romance in less than a day because I was so invested in the story. I love reading the sweeter side of Katy Regnery and this one sure hit the spot!
Genre: Single Dad. Contemporary Romance.
Series: Odds-Are-Good series #1 (can stand alone)
From New York Times Bestselling Author Katy Regnery comes a sexy new series set in Alaska!
A single Dad. A personal ad. What could possibly go wrong?
When Seattle journalist, Amanda McKendrick, pitches a new story about the increase of bear attacks in Sitka, her newspaper sends her north for two weeks. While there, she answers the personal ad of single dad, Luke Kingston, looking for a little no-strings-attached fun to pass the time.
But the sweet, widowered father of three--who just happens to be a smokin' hot state trooper--turns out to be a lot more than Amanda bargained for. As the days go by, she wonders if it'll be possible to return to Seattle without leaving her heart behind.
ROCK STAR INTERRUPTED BY S.M. SHADE
Brace yourself because this is one epic read! And the cliffhanger at the end is a doozy! I wanted to rip my hair out! If you enjoy rock star romances you won't want to miss this one!
Release Date: October 29, 2019
Genre: Rock Star Romance
Series: Tragic Duet #1 (must be read in order)
Format: eBook. ARC.
This is book 1 in the Tragic Duet. You must read these books in order.
I found my stillness, my space between breaths, when I was a kid. The answer is simple. If it hurts, I pour music on it.
After years of hard work, it's finally happening. Tragic has a number one album and we've gone from being discussed as one hit wonders to hearing words like meteoric mentioned alongside our name.
With two tours planned and another album on its way, we have a lot to look forward to. Playing in a different city every night, the shimmer and roar of the crowd, after parties and endless women.
My lifelong dream is in the palm of my hand until one phone call leaves everything hanging in the balance.
DOWN TOO DEEP BY J. DANIELS
J. Daniels is a gifted writer and any reader can see this through her novels. Down Too Deep, her latest release, is a superb single parent romance with emotion! I loved it to pieces.
Genre: Single Parent Romance
Series: Dirty Deeds #4 (can stand alone)
Two single parents and three adorable kids are about to have a summer they'll never forget in this heartwarming new novel.
Following the sudden death of his wife, Nathan Bell spent nearly two years burying himself in work and neglecting his biggest responsibility: his daughter. Overcome with guilt, he wants to connect with little Marley, but he doesn't know how to do it alone. And then Jenna Savage throws him a lifeline.
A single mom of twins, Jenna is more than capable of taking care of Nathan's adorable two-year-old and wants to help Nathan however she can. As the days go by and her attraction to Nathan grows, she can't help wondering what might happen if they became a family for real. And the closer everyone becomes, the more right it feels.
Falling in love forces Nathan to face his biggest fear, and when hearts -- both big and little -- are on the line, the only thing scarier than needing Jenna and her kids so much is losing them all.
WRITTEN WITH YOU BY ALY MARTINEZ
Written with You is the second book in the Regret Duet by Aly Martinez. You must read Written with Regret prior to this one! I enjoyed both book as a whole but wish it was one book.
Release Date: June 13, 2019
Series: The Regret Duet #2
Format: eBook. Borrowed with Kindle Unlimited.
When I was fifteen, a single bullet changed my life. I spent the next decade trying to outrun the devastation of my past, building an empire that would shield me from whatever life could throw at me.
But all the money in the world couldn’t help me when I found a screaming newborn abandoned on my doorstep.
I’d never wanted to be a father. Passing the sludge that ran through my veins down to an innocent child seemed like a tragedy. But there she was—pink cheeks, red hair, and mine.
Somehow, against all logic, that little girl became the best thing that ever happened to me. It was impossible to stay lost in the past when I was the only one who could protect her future.
Which is exactly why, when her mother came back four years later, I was ready for battle.
JUST MY TYPE BY TARA SIVEC
Oh my goodness! This book had me cracking up! This is classic Tara Sivec and I loved it all the way through! You are missing out if you don't read this one! It's such a great read!
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Series: Standalone
Format: Purchased. Print Copy.
Live in the best small town in the world? Check.
Have the greatest job ever working on my family’s pumpkin farm? Check.
Marry the town pharmacist and have a nice, quiet life with our son? Check-check.
“Oh, I’m sorry. Did you say you were happy? LOLOLOLOL!” ~ Life
Ember Hastings never thought she’d be dragged away from White Timber and everything she loved, thrust in the middle of a big city she hated, or have her husband of nine years say, “I can’t do this anymore,” all within the span of three months, yet here she is.
She misses her family, she misses the farm, and she misses having a backbone and caring whether or not the stain on her shirt is chocolate or shit. She works from home doing transcription. Does she really need to shower or leave the house?
Baker Matthews has been bringing everyone down lately with his
ELEANOR & GREY BY BRITTAINY C. CHERRY
Brittaniny C. Cherry always manages to write the most beautifully, epic romances and this one is just the same! I loved Eleanor & Grey and was stunned by their second chance love story.
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Genre: Second Chance Romance
Format: eBook. Borrowed from Kindle Unlimited.
Greyson East left his mark on me.
As the young girl who first fell for him, I didn’t know much about life. I did know about his smiles, though, and his laughs, and the strange way my stomach flipped when he was near.
Life was perfect…until it wasn’t, and when we were forced to go our separate ways, I held on to our memories, let go of my first crush, and wished for the day I’d find him again.
When my wish came true, it was nothing like I imagined.
I couldn’t have known when I took the nanny position that it would be his children I looked after, that my new boss would be that boy I used to know, that boy who was now a man—a cold, lonely, detached man.
HOMETOWN TROUBLEMAKER BY BRIGHTON WALSH
Hometown Troublemaker is a fun and sexy small town romance with all the charm of the south! I really enjoyed this book and hope that there will be more books in the Havenbrook series.
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Genre: Small town, southern romance.
Series: Havenbrook series #2 (can stand alone)
Aurora "Rory" Haven's life is in shambles. Her ex-husband's living with the woman he cheated with, her oldest daughter blames her for the divorce, and she's broke. To make ends meet, she partners with the too-young, way too hot local contractor she has absolutely no business fantasizing about.
Nash King is working overtime so he can take over the family business. He doesn't need the distraction of his best friend's sister, but the hot-as-hell, pearl-clutching divorcée barrels her way into his everyday life. He's managed to ignore his attraction to her for a decade. What's another couple months?
The summer heat and forced proximity has tempers flaring…and their chemistry sizzling. But Havenbrook's gossip mill is churning full-force, and the last thing Rory needs is everyone finding out she's crushing on a man eight years her junior. Except crushing doesn't have anything on what's really going on...
FOREVER MY HERO BY SHARON SALA
This is one of my favorite series in the entire world! Each of these books are sweet, small town, southern romances with amazing characters and intriguing plots. If there were ever a fictional town I could move to it would be Blessings, Georgia.
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Genre: Sweet, Southern Romance.
Series: Blessings, Georgia #7 (can stand alone)
Format: eBook. ARC.
Every storm they've weathered...has led them to each other
Dan Amos lost his wife and son years ago, when they inadvertently got in the way of a death threat meant for him. He's never had eyes for anyone since, and he doesn't want to. But fellow Blessings resident Alice Conroy sparks something inside him...
Newly widowed, Alice was disillusioned by marriage and isn't looking to fall in love anytime soon. Then a tropical storm blazes a path straight for the Georgia coast, and as the town prepares for the worst, Dan opens his heart and his home. The tempest is raging, but Alice and Dan are learning to find shelter...in each other.
TUMBLE BY ADRIANA LOCKE
Tumble by Adriana Locke is the first book in the Dogwood Lane series. It's a small town, second chance romance with a single dad! I can't wait for the next one.
Genre: Contemporary Romance.
Series: Dogwood Lane #1 (can stand alone)
From USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke comes a witty romance about first love and second chances.
After being burned by her dream job in New York City, sports journalist Neely Kimber suddenly finds herself jobless and paying a long-overdue visit to her hometown in Tennessee. Her plan? Relax, reset, and head back up the corporate ladder. There’s just one unexpected step. Neely’s back in Dogwood Lane for barely a day when she sees the man she ran from nine years ago: the bad boy next door who was her first kiss, her first love, and her first heartbreak.
Devoted single dad Dane Madden knows he hurt Neely in the worst way. He’s got a lot to make up for. And as passionate as their reconnection is, it’s a lot to hope for. Having her back in his arms feels so right. But falling
THE GOOD ONES BY JENN MCKINLAY
Squee!!!! I loved this book so much! It's a story about a soon to be bookstore owner (who is also a bookworm) and a cowboy single dad! This book made me SWOON and fall in LOVE.
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Series: Happily Ever After #1 (can stand alone)
A romance bookstore owner finds her own happily ever after with a single dad in a new romance series from the New York Times bestselling author of Every Dog Has His Day.
Ryder Copeland is an accomplished architect and one heck of a father...not to mention tall and sexy. He's everything a hero should be, and Lord knows, Maisy Kelly has read enough of her great-aunt Eloise's romance novels to recognize one when she sees one. But like all fairy tales, Maisy can't help but wonder if this Prince Charming is too good to be true...
Ryder is drawn to the shy, curly haired professor who hires him to convert the Victorian house she's inherited from her aunt into a romance bookstore. Attracted to a woman for the first time since his divorce, Ryder finds himself wishing for a future with Maisy that he knows is impossible. Ryder has never wavered from his plan to leave the small town of Fairdale, North Carolina, so he can give his daughter the life she deserves. But suddenly he's not so sure. And the closer he gets to Maisy, the harder it's going to be to walk away...
CLEAN START BY S.M. SHADE
Clean Start is a hilarious romantic comedy! This book had me laughing so hard and I couldn't stop! If you enjoy single parent romances and books with humor then this is a must read!
Release Date: July 22, 2018
Series: The Violent Circle series #3 (can stand alone)
Everyone knows the rumors about Violet Circle and the crazy inhabitants, but becoming a resident was my best option. These are the kind of decisions you’re faced with when you have a baby at eighteen, and your knight in shining armor turns out to be a deadbeat dad in saggy boxers.
Don’t get me wrong, my five-year-old son, Aiden, is the love of my life, even when he’s telling random strangers I’m constipated, or lecturing his preschool friends on the differences in their anatomy. I wouldn’t trade him for anything, but raising him as a single parent while cleaning motel rooms for a living is like walking a balance beam made of sand. One wrong slip, and we’re homeless.
It doesn’t take us long to adjust to our new home with all its eccentric people, and Aiden is happy here, but danger lurks right across the street. Not in the apartment of the odd woman who always wears a floppy sun hat and trench coat, or the crazy apartment full of college kids. I wish it were that simple.
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Florida Prepares for Hurricane Dorian; CoreLogic Warns on Homes Exposed
By Amy O'Connor | August 30, 2019
Hurricane Dorian has set its sights on the Southeast coast, with Florida likely to be the state that feels the biggest impact when it makes its U.S. landfall sometime over the weekend or early next week, according to forecasters.
Disaster preparations are in full swing in Florida as emergency responders, state officials and the insurance industry urge residents to get ready for what could be the first major hurricane of 2019.
“OIR’s Incident Management Team is fully activated and preparing for #HurricaneDorian,” the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation tweeted Thursday afternoon. “We will staff the Emergency Operations Center and stand prepared to support [Governor Ron DeSantis], @FLSERT [Florida Division of Emergency Management], and the State of Florida as we prepare for and respond to this storm.”
The storm’s track was still uncertain, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday in its 5:00 pm EST briefing, but Florida will definitely be impacted with an increasing likelihood of life-threatening storm surge along portions of the Florida east coast late this weekend or early next week.
NHC said the risk of devastating hurricane-force winds along the Florida east coast and peninsula late this weekend and early next week continues to increase, although it was still too soon for NHC to determine where the strongest winds will occur. The storm is projected be a Category 3 at landfall and winds could reach 130 mph, which is Category 4 status.
The uncertain track as of Thursday afternoon prompted the governor to expand the state of emergency he issued Wednesday from 26 to all 67 counties throughout Florida.
“All residents, especially those along the east coast, need to be prepared for possible impacts. As it increases strength, this storm has the potential to severely damage homes, businesses and buildings, which is why all Floridians should remain vigilant. Do not wait until it is too late to make a plan,” DeSantis said.
No evacuations had been ordered yet by the governor’s office as of Thursday.
CoreLogic estimated based on NHC’s Thursday 5:00 EST forecast that 668,052 homes with a combined $144.6 billion reconstruction cost value would be exposed to storm surge.
“Hurricane-driven storm surge can cause significant property damage when high winds and low pressure cause water to amass inside the storm, releasing a powerful rush over land when the hurricane moves onshore,” the catastrophe modeling company said.
Florida Insurance Commissioner Altmaier in a statement Wednesday said OIR expects insurers to be “accessible and responsible before and after the storm,” and urged residents to prepare now.
Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Florida’s state-run insurer of last resort with nearly a half million policyholders in the state, said it is ramping up its own preparations to respond to claims and is ready to assist customers should Dorian make landfall over the Labor Day weekend.
“As Dorian approaches, our policyholders and all Florida residents need to take action to protect themselves and their families,” said Barry Gilway, Citizens president, CEO and executive director. “Be sure to follow instructions of local emergency management agencies. Citizens is preparing all of its internal and external resources to help you recover.”
Citizens features a Storm Tracker feed on its website that delivers real-time National Hurricane Center updates directly, and also offers storm preparation and response information through Facebook and Twitter at @citizens_fla. The insurer also partnered with the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network (FPREN) to bring the latest news about catastrophic weather impacting a policyholder’s area. FPREN updates can be heard on local public radio stations and by downloading their free Florida Storms app.
The state is also preparing residents to be on the lookout for fraud in the aftermath of Dorian. Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis said Thursday he had activated the Department of Financial Services Disaster Fraud Action Strike Team (DFAST), which will deploy to potentially impacted areas to help protect those recovering from storm-related fraud.
Patronis said the team was activated now to “help empower residents with information to fight fraud before the storm makes landfall.”
“Once the storm has passed, our teams will have boots on the ground to help protect Floridians during this vulnerable time,” he said.
Is Florida Prepared?
Florida is familiar with hurricane warnings and predictions, having experienced four major storms over the last three years and many others throughout history. But there is still a sense of complacency among residents, says Lisa Lindsay, president of the Private Risk Management Association, an industry nonprofit focused on agents and risk management professionals in the high net worth private segment.
A PRMA survey conducted in June of 96 of its members representing 1,685 high net worth clients found that 86% of responding agents believe that less than 50% of their clients have a comprehensive hurricane preparedness plan.
Lindsay, who noted a high percentage of their membership are agents and brokers in the Florida and Southeast area, said these results are not surprising.
“We have a lot more work that we need to get done. Despite Florida’s history of hurricanes, people are slow to make changes to improve their situation,” she said. “We find that after a year of high hurricane activity there is a little bit of an uptick in people who purchased flood insurance, or they are more open to being proactive on risk management, but people will generally go back into that comfort mode, especially if they or someone they know hasn’t been impacted by any major activity.”
Right now, NHC models predict the majority of the state of Florida will be impacted by Dorian, including affluent areas like West Palm Beach and Miami. Lindsay said PRMA member agents are currently reaching out to clients and helping them prepare for being in the path of the hurricane, which includes helping them get people out to put up storm shutters, getting their evacuation plans in place, removing expensive artwork and car collections, and making sure their home inventories are up to date.
“That’s how a good plan works,” she said. “That’s why we as an association work with members to help educate clients to have this plan in place all year long – so we are ready for whatever may happen.”
A survey taken last spring of 400 Florida residents by national insurer AAA found while 92 percent of respondents were concerned about the 2019 hurricane season, most were not motivated to get ready for a major storm, with nearly a quarter of respondents reporting they had not made advanced preparations for hurricane season or severe weather. The survey also found that nearly 75% of respondents did not have flood insurance.
“A storm of this magnitude can create significant damage to your home, and endanger the people inside,” said Mark Jenkins, spokesman, AAA – The Auto Club Group, AAA’s Florida subsidiary, said in a statement Thursday. “It’s important to be prepared, because even if you do not face the brunt of the storm, peripheral winds and rain could knock out power for days. AAA urges people in the path of the storm to prepare their home, stock up on supplies, and follow the advice of law enforcement.”
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Mad Dog: The Elizabethan Lute
by Bronwen Whyatt 1st December, 2019
An eclectic audience was drawn from all walks and stages of life to hear Hopkinson Smith perform Mad Dog: The Elizabethan Lute – English Music of the Golden Age on the 25th November, 2019 at the Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre.
There were not many spare seats – those in the know understood exactly what they would be hearing … a master. Smith, born in New York, graduated from Harvard with Honors in Music and was soon off to Europe where he notably worked with Jordi Savall as a founding member of Hesperion XX. That’s probably all you need to know about his CV. Now, among devotees, he is more known for his extensive experience and recording of solo lute repertoire.
He is tall, and as he made his way to the stage, it wasn’t clear how a modest chair, a guitar footrest and a low music stand would accommodate him, but once settled, purple sash secured to hold the instrument, and leather on his thigh, you could see how much a part of him the lute has become in 50 years.
He began almost immediately, playing a delicate tuning fantasy all of its own, before launching into Anthony Holborne’s Fare Thee Well, My Selfe and Muy Linda with a traditional Galliard tossed in the middle. The affection he has for the music and bringing it to live audiences was obvious, and the broad range of plucking techniques from strumming to imperceptibly tapping the 8 course Joel van Lennep lute, brought forth the full range of dynamics and affects. With hearty applause, he bowed and revealed a red kerchief to match his red tie with white spots.
At this point we heard from him, and he revealed his distinctive New York accent, perhaps explaining his sartorial elegance. He explained the two exploratory Fantasias – Five and Six, of John Dowland, and humours us “in the middle is nothing at all”, Mrs White’s Nothing a dotted-rhythmed ditty.
Next he explains the pavane, a piece in three sections, each repeated and on the repeat featuring dimunition – the music using decreased note values, giving an embellished effect to the original melody. It is William Byrd’s keyboard tune, Pavana Bray, arranged by the lutenists of the day and once again played deftly. Another Anthony Holborne piece, Mad Dog, gave the concert its name and he cut loose carefully. There were aspects of it that reminded me of later works from the continent – Couperin’s harpsichord compositions and Boccherini’s La Musica Notturna della strade di Madrid.
It was Johnson’s Jewell and Carman’s Whistle Variations by John Johnson that were the high point of the concert, perfectly situated in divine proportion. A ‘carman’ drove the coach, directing the horses with whistles, and using their instruments on damsels who caught their eye. Smith relished the opportunity to tell us the tale and it enlivened his performance.
Dowland had wanted Johnson’s position as the queen’s musician for lute when he passed away in 1594, but the queen never gave it to him. His Lady Clifton’s Spirit, a feminine character portrait, gave Smith a chance to explore accents “hither and yon” in a picture of a woman he described as capricious, with Dowland’s tonality and rhythms to match.
Holborne’s works dominated the program, and he ended with It fell on a holy eve and the divisions of Heigh Ho Holiday. Each pass over the melody bringing a new character and temperament.
The program ended all too suddenly, but the audience applause brought Hopkinson Smith back to the stage for a brief encore of Mendelssohn that he’d arranged for a Swiss Mendelssohn festival in Bern. The concert ended with plucked harmonics that rang like tiny bells and we were all captivated by his deep, ankle-touching bows. The depth and range of his musicianship and homage to the long-lost Elizabethans knows no bounds.
In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare wrote, “Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies”. Strange, but not unheard of.
Bronwen Whyatt reviewed Hopkinson Smith’s Mad Dog: The Elizabethan Lute on November 25, 2019, in the Primrose Potter Salon at Melbourne Recital Centre.
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Death toll rises to 41 as fire crews gain control of Northern California blazes
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Brandon Tolp, a San Bernardino-based firefighter, performs a firing operation to prevent the flames from crossing Highway 29 on Oct. 12. Photo: Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times
In the last week, the fires have scorched more than 200,000 acres, destroyed or damaged more than 5,500 homes, displaced 100,000 people and killed at least 41.
Sunday appeared to be a turning point as firefighters benefited from winds that were weaker than expected to increase containment on the fires, even allowing some evacuees back into their homes. Still, more than 40,000 people remain under evacuation orders.
The Nuns fire claimed its first identified victim Monday morning, Cal Fire said. “A private water tender driver assigned to the Nuns fire tragically died in a vehicle rollover on Oakville Grade in Napa County” on Monday morning, Cal Fire said in a statement.
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Prince Charles Hilariously Shuts Down Rumor That He Travels With His Own Toilet Seat
Apr 5, 2018 5:03 pm·
By Julia Birkinbine
Don’t mess with Prince Charles! During his royal tour of Australia with wife Camilla Parker Bowles, the 69-year-old royal was hilariously asked to clear up a rumor about himself and held nothing back in his reponse. “Is it true that you carry your own toilet seat when you travel?” a radio host asked Charles to which he replied, “My own what? Oh, don’t believe all that c—p.”
The radio broadcaster then turned to Camilla, 70, for her to confirm her husband’s statement. “So he doesn’t carry his own toilet seat when he travels?” the host asked to which she quipped, “Don’t you believe that!” The funny claim about Charles traveling with his own personal toilet seat apparently originated in Tom Bower’s new unauthorized biography, Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles.
Charles and Camilla in Australia on April 5.
In his new book, Bower also shockingly alleged that Charles and Camilla once plotted to publicly portray Princess Diana as “unbalanced and unfaithful” in order for Camilla to be more well-liked. The author wrote that Charles and Camilla worked with their PR rep and assistant private secretary Mark Bolland to devise a plan to attack Diana’s image. They reportedly wanted to “demythologize Diana by portraying her as a manipulative hysteric,” following her August 1997 death at age 36.
The biography further suggested that Charles once felt threatened by his son Prince William and daughter-in-law Kate Middleton‘s popularity. After the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge tied the knot in April 2011, “Charles grew worried that the public’s attention was switching to them,” Bower wrote. But Charles’ wife, Camilla, allegedly didn’t much care about royal fans’ adoration for William and Kate. “She didn’t give a damn,” noted Robert Higdon, the chief executive of Charles’ charity foundation. “[But] Charles saw Kate and William as the new stars and feared he’d be in trouble.”
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The use of human biological material in research is more strictly regulated than the use of health data, because it is considered more sensitive.
a) 'Patient Per' was admitted to hospital with chest pains. A blood sample was taken during the diagnostic workup. 'Doctor Lise' thought that Per's pain was caused by a minor heart attack and ordered treatment. Per recovered and was discharged. Before he left, Per was informed that the biological material he had provided could be used in research without his consent on approval by the Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics (REK) unless he wanted to register a reservation in the Reservation Register. Per wished to contribute to research, but at the same time several of his relatives had been stricken by serious hereditary bowel cancer. He does not want all his genes to be mapped because he does not want to know whether he is pre-disposed to developing bowel cancer. Per therefore says that he wishes to make a reservation. He does not want the blood sample to be used in research without his consent.
Three years later Doctor Lise suspects that the heart attack Per suffered was a sub-type with a genetic basis, and she wishes to include earlier patients in a research project to study this issue. Per receives a request asking him to consent to the analysis of his material in the project mentioned. The information letter informs him that the researcher will only examine some genes related to known heart problems. Per thinks it is important to contribute to research on his heart problem and gives his consent.
Doctor Lise then performs a full genome sequencing (mapping all genes) using the participants' genes. These sequences are then stored on Lars' computer, now in the form of health data. The research project terminates after two years without Lise having found an explanatory genetic model for the heart attack, and Lise 'anonymises' the full genome sequencing by removing all personal data.
Should we accept that genetic data can be anonymised when all sequences are unique?
b) At the same time, 'Researcher Finn', a colleague of Lise's, is engaged in a project on patients with schizophrenia where he needs a control group for genetic analyses. Lise offers her anonymised data file. Finn then discovers that one of the participants has a gene predisposing for severe bowel cancer and contacts Lise to find out who the gene sequence stems from, and to discuss whether they should help the person concerned. Lise answers that the sequence has been anonymised, but they agree to match it with samples from the treatment biobank where Per's blood sample is still stored. A genome sequence is unique, and the information may save the life of the person concerned, therefore they re-identify Per. Lise is not aware of Per's reason for registering with the Reservation Register and feels that she has a duty 'to save' her former patient by letting him know.
How do you think Lise (Per's treating physician) and Finn (researcher with no link to Per) should deal with the genetic information and findings?
c) Per has made a reservation against research without his consent, but this right of reservation applies to biological material and the genome sequence has the status of health data.
Should there be a right of reservation against the use of certain types of health data, for example, genome data, even though this might limit important research?
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MATTER Workshop: How Successful Companies Build Organizational Agility
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MATTER members and partners: use your discount code for 100% off the registration price. If you don't know your code, please email info@matter.health for assistance. ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP What are the key success factors of Fortune 1,000 companies? What common risks do they minimize? Based on proprietary research from APCO Worldwide, learn how successful companies develop an enterprising culture, engage in shared advocacy and cultivate active leadership to establish organizational agility. Hear from APCO’s agility experts on the correlations between organizational agility and traditional measures of business success. Attendees will evaluate themselves for impact and performance on 14 agility factors then have a workshop discussion about how to leverage strengths and address vulnerabilities. Join this workshop to learn how to: Understand key factors that make companies successful Leverage strengths and address areas of vulnerability Can't attend in person? Join us in our virtual classroom. To join this workshop virtually via Webex, select the "Virtual classroom" ticket type at checkout - access instructions will be included in your email receipt. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS Tina-Marie Adams is head of North America growth initiatives at APCO Worldwide. She previously served as managing director of APCO’s Chicago office. A more than 25-year communications veteran, Ms. Adams specializes in corporate communication, consumer campaigns and public affairs, including issues/crisis management, reputation management and labor relations. She leads key initiatives and provides strategic counsel to clients in a variety of sectors including health care, energy, transportation, higher education, food and consumer retail. Prior to joining APCO, Ms. Adams served as senior client director and Midwest regional director at Ketchum, where she led key organizational change initiatives and worked with professionals including C-level executives on critical business issues. Before her time at Ketchum, she held management roles at MWW Group, Hill & Knowlton and Fleishman-Hillard, where she developed proprietary, trademarked efforts and was recognized for leading new business and growth efforts in the Midwest region. Ms. Adams is a former journalist with the Chicago Tribune and Gannett newspapers. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Butler University, where she graduated summa cum laude, and a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Ken Sanderman, associate director in APCO Worldwide’s Chicago office, has worked with B2B and B2C clients across multiple industries on media relations, message development, crisis planning and issues management. Mr. Sanderman’s recent work includes message development, crisis planning and media relations for a major international supply chain/logistics company. He has also counseled clients on leadership transitions and developed media strategies to support legislative reform efforts. Mr. Sanderman has managed the day-to-day PR and media relations for national retailer Office Depot, from supporting marketing campaigns with targeted communications to securing top-tier national media coverage for corporate announcements. He has also coordinated media days for foreign diplomats and the CEO of the world’s largest enzyme producer, Novozymes, and drafted and placed favorable articles for the announcement of a railroad’s major new logistics facility. Prior to joining APCO, Mr. Sanderman was an Account Executive for G&S Business Communications, where his B2B clients included Port Miami and Syngenta. He helped Syngenta earn the prestigious Product of the Year for its Enogen corn used in ethanol production. Mr. Sanderman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication with a concentration in Public Relations from Bradley University.
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Thirty years ago, the Alfred Hitchcock television series ran a clever show in which a direct mail campaign demonstrated incredible results. You'll enjoy this retelling of the show's story. You'll also be surprised what you can learn from Alfred Hitchcock On Direct Mail Campaigns. It went like this:
A man named Peter came home for dinner, and his wife handed him his mail. Among the bills, fliers and other things one would rather not receive, there was a letter from an anonymous man who predicted the outcome of an upcoming prize fight. Peter was curious when he read the letter, but he didn't think much about it until two days later, when he heard that the predicted fighter had, in fact, won.
Shortly thereafter, Peter received another anonymous letter. It commented on the writer's ability to predict the future, and it forecast which team would win a coming baseball playoff game. This time, Peter was more than just a little curious. In fact, he and his wife spent the entire evening talking about the mysterious letters and who might have sent them, and why. It was three days until the playoff game, and Peter found himself constantly thinking about the game for those three days. And, sure enough, the letter writer was again correct. Over the next few weeks, Peter continued to receive letters forecasting not only sporting events, but also which way a particular stock's price would go, whether a new law would be passed by the state legislature, and whether or not a union would go out on strike at the threatened deadline. In every instance, there were two possible outcomes, and the anonymous tipster always picked the right one. With each successive letter, the anonymous writer began to tell more about himself -- how he had this gift all his life, that he felt it immoral to use it for his own gain, and that he wanted to use it for the benefit of others. Finally, after eight letters, the writer phoned Peter and introduced himself: John Walters. Peter, who by this point could think of little else but this amazing man and his talent, immediately asked for a meeting. The writer, now caller, was a shy man. He resisted at first, but then agreed to meet with Peter in a quiet cafe.
As the two of them sat over coffee, Peter began to think more and more about the potential that lay ahead for someone who could so consistently and reliably predict future events. And he told the stranger so. Slowly, reluctantly, John told Peter that he would help him profit from the gift God had given him. There was an important football game coming up at that time, and John was certain of the outcome. Best of all, the team that would win was the underdog, so a bet would pay at least five-to-one. If Peter could get together $10,000, John would place the bet for him and then give him the winnings. Well, Peter couldn't believe his good luck. He went home and had no trouble convincing his wife to withdraw their savings for this bet; after all, she had read the amazing letters, too. Peter met John at the appointed place to give him the $10,000 and then waited for that Sunday when the game would be played. Sunday came, and sure enough, the underdog he had bet on was the winner. Peter was ecstatic as he and his wife made plans for how they would spend their winnings. Peter waited by the phone for confirmation of his winnings from John, but there was no call. All week he looked in his mailbox, but there was no letter. Peter, and those of us in the Alfred Hitchcock program audience, waited breathlessly for the payoff. At this point in the Hitchcock program, the scene cut to a small hotel room. The man we knew as John Walters and another man were counting out stacks of money. John said: "Not a bad haul, huh Spike? We made over 48 grand this time." Spike responded: "You know, Lefty, I never thought it would work, but people are so gullible. First you send out 1,024 letters on that prize fight. In half of them, you say one guy is gonna win, and half say the other. So you picked right for 512 people. Then you send 512 letters to the winners, and half of them get the right baseball team." Lefty continued: "That's right. And by the time we are down to 4 suckers who have received 8 straight predictions, they can't wait to part with big bucks to become rich."Learning From Lefty Of course, those of us in marketing and sales would never perpetrate a fraud like this, but we can learn a few lessons from Lefty about making direct mail more effective for big-ticket sales:
1. Use personal letters rather than mass mailers
A first-class letter has a better chance of getting through to the recipient than any other form of mail, and it is more likely to be read by the addressee. Since you can't tell your story unless your mail is read, getting through is everything.
2. Direct mail works better when it is repeated
A letter from an unknown mailer may not be read. If the letter is read, it is often greeted with little credibility. But if the message is good, second and subsequent letters will get more attention. The more letters you send, the more you make it clear you are in business to stay, and you are interested in this prospect.
3. Vary your message, but stick to a theme
If people recognize your mail piece as one they have seen before, they may throw it away unread. If each piece offers some new, useful information, the recipient has more reason to read it. Make each piece informative and a little different, but all pieces should continually support one well-focused idea. (Every mailing you receive from Publisher's Clearing House is different, but each one offers the same multi-million-dollar pitch.)
4. Tell the truth
The more puffery you put in a mailer, the less credible your message becomes. And if you get caught saying something that is not true, the reader's response will be much more negative than positive. Keep your messages simple and honest.
5. Be willing to make an investment over time
Our friend Lefty had to send out more than 2,000 letters to land just 4 "customers." That was a lot of writing and addressing, not to mention stationery and stamps. But the payback was worth it.
6. Never ask for anything major in an initial mailer
Sure, you may promote your company and your products, but don't ask an unknown person to make an investment in you, or to make any other big decision, until you have given him time to get to know you better.
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We run Breakfast Club every morning from 7.40am to 8.40am, in the OSCARS room between Preschool and the Library. Entry is via the small picket gate to the left of the notice board outside the main school entrance. The charges for Breakfast Club are as follows:
Before 7.55am
Children have the chance to share a sociable breakfast with their friends whilst working parents can get on their way to work a few minutes early. Younger children are taken to their class ready for 8.50am registration whilst older children make their own way.
Bookings can be made via the school office or one of the breakfast club supervisors. Balances can be checked and payments made online at www.scopay.com for details of how to register and log in please see the school office. Alternatively, payments can be made by cheque (payable to Fernhurst Primary School) or cash to the school office or breakfast club supervisors.
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We run Oscars every day from 3.10pm until 5.30pm, in the OSCARS room between Preschool and the Library. The charges for Oscars are as follows:
Before 3.30pm
Oscars has been running at Fernhurst Primary School for over 17 years. It offers after school fun for all children of primary school age. Staffed by experienced and qualified staff, children thrive in a friendly, family atmosphere. With a dedicated room and access to an outdoor play area, Oscars makes the most of all the school’s facilities including the field, adventure playground and sports area. Indoor activities include crafts, cooking and board games. The club is as popular with children of working parents as it is with children who come just for the fun activities on offer.
Parents can book their children in by email (oscars@fernhurst.w-sussex.sch.uk), telephone (01428 653144), or in person through the school office. The Oscars supervisors can also take bookings during their opening hours.
Balances can be checked and payments made online at www.scopay.com for details of how to register and log in please see the school office. Alternatively, payments can be made by cheque (payable to Fernhurst Primary School) or cash to the school office or directly to the Oscars supervisors. A record is kept of each child’s attendance and bills can be provided on request.
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We offer a good variety of lunchtime and after school clubs. These run on a termly basis and the options vary each time. Letters come home at the start of each term and child can sign up to clubs as they wish to.
Whilst we have a few external providers that come to our school and run after school clubs for which there is a small charge, the majority of our clubs are staff-led and are free of charge.
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World Tour prepares for second-straight inaugural event
The Cook Islands host its first-ever FIVB World Tour event starting Tuesday featuring the likes of Sam O'Dea and Griffin Muller from New Zealand
Lausanne, Switzerland, January 12, 2020 - After staging an inaugural event this past week in Iran, the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour prepares for a second-straight first-time tournament this week in the South Pacific at Cook Islands starting Tuesday.
FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour - Cook Islands
The VolleyFest Cook Islands is the seventh men's event on the 2019-2020 FIVB World Tour calendar and the fourth within the Asian Volleyball Confederation where a total of 19 tournaments will be played during the 2020 international beach volleyball campaign.
Qualifying for VolleyFest Cook Islands is set for Tuesday at the Edgewater Resort and Spa Beach Volleyball Centre Ara Tapu Avarua District in Rarotonga followed by modified pool play Wednesday where the teams of Rai-Arii Enoka/Atatoa Herman and Brendon Heath/Raitiavatea Herman are scheduled to be the first-ever tandems from the Cook Islands to compete in a FIVB World Tour event.
Two rounds of the 12-team single elimination bracket will be played Thursday to set the field for Friday's final four matches. A total of 18 teams from nine countries are entered into the VolleyFest Cook Islands, including Australia (4 teams), Canada (2), Cook Islands (2), Hong Kong (1), Japan (3), New Zealand (1), Norway (1), Tuvalu (2) and the United States (2). Tuvalu joins Cook Island by entering teams in an FIVB World Tour event for the first time.
Host Iran swept the podium during the final day of play last Friday in Qeshm at the Dargahan Cup where 12th-seeded Alireza Aghajani and Javad Firouzpourbandpei upset top-seeded Bahman Salemi and Arash Vakili in the fields. The 21-year-old Aghajani and 22-year-old Firouzpourbandpei also defeated second-seeded compatriots Abolhamed Mirzaali and Rahman Raoufi in the semifinals.
Iran - Qeshm, January 7-10, US$5,000, FIVB men's event No. 464
1. Alireza Aghajani/Javad Firouzpourbandpei, Iran, $1,000
2. Bahman Salemi/Arash Vakili, Iran, $700
3. Abolhamed Mirzaali/Rahman Raoufi, Iran, $500
4. Saifeddine Elmajid/Benlouaer Ziad, Qatar. $400
Gold - Aghajani/Firouzpourbandpei def. Salemi/Vakili, 21-17, 21-15 (34 minutes)
Bronze - Mirzaali/Raoufi def. Elmajid/Ziad, 21-15, 21-18 (56)
Following this week's event, the FIVB World Tour takes a two-week break before resuming play with the first women's event on the 2020 portion of the 2029-2020 calendar from February 6-9 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The next men's event will be February 20-23 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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Mormonism and the Holy Bible
Mormons revere the Holy Bible
How Mormons view the reliability of the Holy Bible
How Mormons interpret the Holy Bible
The "Joseph Smith Translation" of the Bible
Mormonism, science and the Bible
The Mormon view of the creation of the earth
Mormonism and difficult Bible questions
The Holy Bible literally contains within its pages the converting, healing Spirit of Christ, which has turned men’s hearts for centuries, leading them to pray, to choose right paths, and to search to find their Savior....The Holy Bible is well named. It is holy because it teaches truth, holy because it warms us with its spirit, holy because it teaches us to know God and understand His dealings with men, and holy because it testifies throughout its pages of the Lord Jesus Christ.
—"Bible: The Word of God," Gospel Topics on LDS.org.
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Mormonism and the Bible: An Overview
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Bible: An Overview
Question: Do Latter-day Saints consider the Holy Bible to be the Word of God?
Question: Why do Latter-day Saints use the King James Version of the Bible?
Question: Does the eighth Article of Faith statement about believing the Bible "as far as it is translated correctly" imply that Bible translators are trying to hide God's truth?
Question: Do Latter-day Saints consider the Bible to be untrustworthy?
Biblical accuracy
Biblical completeness
Gospel Topics: "As the Bible was compiled, organized, translated, and transcribed, many errors entered the text"
Question: Is the Bible without error?
Question: Does the Bible itself claim to be inerrant?
Question: What evidence demonstrates that the Bible has been altered?
Question: Are the Biblical textual variants theologically significant?
Question: What did early Christians think about alterations to the scriptures?
Question: Do Mormons believe that the Bible has less value because it contains errors?
Question: Is any book of scripture perfect?
Question: What can textual criticism tell us about the Bible?
Question: Is textual criticism of Biblical texts superior to receiving revelation on that text through a prophet of God?
Question: Do Mormons consider the Bible to be untrustworthy?
Question: Does the Bible alone contain all necessary or essential knowledge to assure salvation, thus making the Book of Mormon and modern prophets unnecessary?
Question: What does the Book of Mormon mean when it says that "plain and precious" things have been taken out of the bible?
Question: Does the fact that the Bible states that nothing should be "added to" or "taken away" from the book mean that the Book of Mormon is false?
Question: Do Latter-day Saints consider the Bible "insufficient?"
Question: Is Mormonism in error because Christianity requires a "closed canon" instead of the Church's "open canon"?
Biblical scripture interpretation
Mormonism and the Bible: Old Testament practices
Question: When the Bible talks about being "born again," what does this mean?
Question: Was the Gospel of Christ a mystery that was unknown until the advent of Christ?
Question: How did the authors of the Bible view the earth and the universe?
Question: Does the Bible condemn genealogical research?
Question: Why did Joseph described the United Order in revelation as "everlasting" and "immutable and unchangeable" until Jesus comes?
Question: Why do Mormons use the Aaronic Priesthood, since Hebrews 7 states that the Aaronic/Levitical Priesthood was "changed" to the unique priesthood "after the order of Melchizedek" held by Jesus Christ?
Question: Why do Mormon's believe that ongoing divine revelation is necessary?
Question: Do the Latter-day Saint "Three Degrees of Glory" have a basis in the Bible?
Question: Does the biblical story of Peleg describe the separation of the continents?
Question: What’s the best way to understand the Tower of Babel scientifically?
Question: What’s the best way to understand the ages of antediluvian patriarchs scientifically?
Question: What’s the best way to understand the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot turning into a pillar of salt scientifically?
Question: What is the best way to understand the story of Jonah and the Whale scientifically?
Question: Is it appropriate to celebrate holidays as a Christian?
Question: Was Moses a real person?
Question: Did Joseph Smith teach animal sacrifice as part of the "restoration of all things"?
Question: Is there a contradiction between the Old Testament concept of "cursing" enemies and Latter-day Saint scriptures stating that we should "bless" our enemies?
Question: Were curses pronounced upon the enemies of Mormonism in the Kirtland Temple?
Question: Did George A. Smith pray that the Lord would kill the mobbers that were attacking the Saints?
Question: Did Heber C. Kimball curse the president of the United States?
Joseph Smith's corrections to the Bible do not match known Biblical manuscripts
Use of the Joseph Smith translation of the Bible
Relationship of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible to the Book of Mormon
Relationship of the Joseph Smith Translation to the Book of Abraham
Accusations of Plagiarism Leveled Against the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible
Biblical archaeology compared to the Book of Mormon
Mormonism and the reconciliation of the Flood of Noah with scripture and Church teachings
Question: What criticisms are raised with regard to Book of Mormon archaeology compared to that of the Bible?
Question: What archaeological evidence might be considered the minimal irrefutable proof needed to convince a non-believing world of the authenticity of the Nephite scripture?
Question: How would an archaeologist distinguish a Christian's pot from that of a non-Christian?
Question: What do we find when we turn to the records of the ancient (i.e. before A.D. 400) Americas?
Question: How would Book of Mormon archaeology compare to that of the Bible?
Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names?
Question: How does archaeology in the Old World compare to the first chapters in the Book of Mormon?
Question: How does archaeology in the New World fit with the Book of Mormon?
Question: Did Dee F. Green say that there is no such thing as Book of Mormon archaeology?
Question: How do Latter-day Saints reconcile scriptural accounts of the Flood of Noah with scientific evidence of continuous human habitation on the earth?
John A. Widtsoe (1943): "The Old Testament records a flood that was just over fifteen cubits (sometimes assumed to be about twenty-six feet) deep and covered the entire landscape"
Joseph Fielding Smith (1942): "Oh, no, it will not be literal fire any more than it was literal water that covered the earth in the flood"
Question: Why does the Church teach that the flood was a global event?
Question: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood?
Question: How could the Garden of Eden have been in Missouri if the Flood was local?
Question: Doesn't the Bible say that the continents were divided immediately after the Flood?
Question: How did ancient people of the Old and New Worlds view the "the world"?
Question: How can one properly view events in Ether scientifically?
Doctrine & Covenants 77:6 refers to "this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance"
Death before the Fall
Belief in a literal Adam and Eve
Fall of Adam and Eve
The Mormon view of "Creatio ex nihilo"
Mormonism and the theory of evolution
Question: How do we reconcile the actual age of the earth to the "seven thousand years of its continuance" mentioned in D&C 77:6?
Brigham Young (1871): "whether the Lord...made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject"
John S. Lewis: "Considering that Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 refers to “…this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence,” what led Phelps to speak of Earth as 2,555 million years old?"
Improvement Era 1909 regards an ancient earth as consistent with scripture
John A. Widtsoe in Improvement Era 1909 on the age of the earth
Charles W. Penrose in Improvement Era 1909 on the age of the earth
James E. Talmage, a geologist, spoke of the earth forming from other bodies
Question: Was Brigham Young a "young earth creationist"?
Question: How do dinosaurs fit into God's plan?
Mormon perspectives on the concept of death on the entire earth before the Fall of Adam
Question: What does the Church teach on the subject of death before the Fall of Adam?
Question: Was there no death on the entire earth before the Fall?
Question: What was the state of things on the Earth prior to the placement of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?
Question: What changes have been made to the Gospel Principles manual regarding the question of death on the earth before the Fall of Adam?
Question: Is the concept of no death before the fall on the entire earth Church doctrine?
Question: Did procreation exist before the Fall of Adam?
Question: How does the Church explain the existence of human-like beings on the earth prior to Adam?
First Presidency statement (1931): "Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no one of which has to do with the salvation of the souls of mankind, to scientific research"
Question: Can Latter-day Saints have a non-literal view of the creation story, or have a somewhat more mythic view of the first five books of Moses given the Church's teaching of a historical Adam?
Question: What is the Church's position on Adam and Eve?
Summary: If it was God's plan for Eve to eat the fruit, then why did God forbid it? Why did God not simply create Adam and Eve as mortals?
Question: If God intended the Fall of Adam and Eve, why did he forbid the fruit? Why did he not simply create them as mortals?
Question: If "the wages of sin is death" as described in Romans 6:23, and the fall of Adam and Eve was a transgression rather than a sin, then why did it introduce death into the world?
Question: How did the transgression of Adam and Eve introduce sin into the world?
Question: If the transgression of Adam and Eve was actually a blessing for them, then why did they feel guilty and afraid when God approached them in the Garden of Eden after they committed their transgression?
Question: If the transgression of Adam and Eve resulted in physical and spiritual death, then why are we only subject to spiritual death for eternity if we do not repent?
Question: How did the mainstream Christian view that God created the universe out of nothing originate?
Question: What were the early Christian beliefs about the creation?
Question: How was the doctrine of creation altered to "creatio ex nihilo"?
Question: Does Colossians 1:16 teach that Jesus created all things out of nothing?
Question: Does what Joseph Smith taught about the creation of spirits contradict the scriptures?
LDS doctrine rejects Neo-Plantonic accretions, but this does not make them automatically false
Mormons and creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing)
"Smith would have held his own in debating with" Neo-Platonists, Gnostics, and early Christian theologians
Augustine's views about matter are perhaps less coherent than Joseph Smith's
Non-LDS Christian Stephen H. Webb: Creedal Christians can learn from LDS views about Jesus Christ and creation
Joseph Smith's theology is not pagan—his theology is vast as the multiverse, and eliminates Neo-Platonism and Augustine
Statements from Church leaders on the subject of evolution
Unofficial primary sources on evolution
Difficult Questions About the Bible
Summary: Several people have become concerned with how to understand ancient practices and stories of the Old and New Testament and their ethical implications. These questions have received a lot of attention from Christian apologists and other biblical scholars for hundreds of years. These articles help address these stories and practices in light of the Restored Gospel.
Question: How can one approach reconciling confusing, seemingly disturbing, or otherwise troubling texts from the scriptures?
Question: How can one reconcile scriptures in the Bible that appear to endorse genocide, pillage, and/or plunder?
Question: What is the best way to understand servitude in the Old and New Testaments?
Question: Did God endorse rape in the Old Testament?
Question: Why would Elisha have two she-bears maul 42 children?
Question: Why are Old Testament penalties for disobedience so harsh?
JPS Torah Commentary: Deuteronomy: "Filial insubordination is a grave offense because respect and obedience toward pa8ents is regarded as the cornerstone of all order and authority"
Question: Why would a loving God would kill innocent children in the flood of Noah's day?
Question: Why would a loving God kill the firstborn of Egypt?
Elder Jeffery R. Holland: "it is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much"
Question: Why would God send poisonous serpents to kill the Children of Israel?
Joseph Fielding Smith: "This was also in the similitude of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ"
Question: Did Nephi commit "cold blooded murder" when he killed Laban?
Question: Why didn't God simply preserve Nephi's life using divine power instead of requiring him to kill Laban?
Jeffery R. Holland: "It is wrong to assume that Nephi in any way wished to take Laban’s life"
Question: Are the scriptures misogynistic/sexist?
Question: Do the scriptures promote racism?
Question: Does the Bible endorse human sacrifice?
Question: Do the scriptures endorse child abuse?
Question: Do the scriptures endorse murder?
Barry R. Bickmore, "The Tanners on the Hereafter:A Case Study in 'Studied Ignorance'," FAIR FairMormon link
FAIR Holy Bible materials
John A. Tvedtnes, "The Bible Code and Biblical Inerrancy," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR) FairMormon link
Mike Ash, "Doctrinal Criticisms: Degrees of Glory," 1999. off-site
On-line Holy Bible materials
Alma Allred, "Coin of the Realm: Beware of Specious Specie (Review of: "Scripture," In The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism)," FARMS Review of Books 12/1 (2000): 137–174. off-site
Danel W. Bachman, "The Other Side of the Coin: A Source Review of Norman Geisler's Chapter (Review of: "Scripture," In The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism)," FARMS Review of Books 12/1 (2000): 175–214. off-site
John Gee, "The Old Testament as Reliable History, Review of On the Reliability of the Old Testament by Kenneth A. Kitchen," FARMS Review 18/1 (2006): 425–430. off-site wiki
William J. Hamblin and Daniel C. Peterson, "The Evangelical Is Our Brother (Review of How Wide the Divide? A Mormon and an Evangelical in Conversation)," FARMS Review of Books 11/2 (1999): 178–209. off-site
Blake T. Ostler, "Bridging the Gulf (Review of How Wide the Divide? A Mormon and an Evangelical in Conversation)," FARMS Review of Books 11/2 (1999): 103–177. off-site
Daniel C. Peterson and Stephen D. Ricks, "Comparing LDS Beliefs with First-Century Christianity, (Provo, Utah: FARMS, no date). off-site
Stephen E. Robinson, Are Mormons Christians? (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 1993). off-site FairMormon link off-site
John A. Tvedtnes and Matthew Roper, "'A Bible! A Bible!' The Canon and Ongoing Revelation (Review of Luke P. Wilson's "Lost Books & Latter-Day Revelation: A Response to Mormon Views of the New Testament Canon") off-site
Holy Bible print materials
Alan Denison & D.L. Barksdale, Guess Who Wants To Have You For Lunch?, 2nd edition, (Redding, California: FAIR, 2002[1999]), 37–57. ISBN 1893036057. FairMormon link
Emanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, 2nd Rev edition (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2001[1999]), 1. ISBN {{{isbn}}}.
Leon Vaganay and Christian-Bernard Amphoux, An Introduction to New Testament Criticism, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 1. ISBN {{{isbn}}}.
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Gov. Abbott orders flags in Lubbock to be lowered to half-staff for fallen first responders
Gov. Abbott says flags in Lubbock shall immediately be lowered to half-staff in honor of the life and public service of Lubbock Fire Rescue Lieutenant Eric Hill and Lubbock Police Office Nicholas Reyna, who were both killed in the line of duty while responding to a call.
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The Houston Port Commission on Tuesday approved Alec G. Dreyer as executive director of the Port of Houston Authority.
Dreyer, a former energy industry executive, was named one month ago as the selection committee's top choice to head the port authority, pending final approval by the board.
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Who ever thought in a Tamil Iyenger family, that a versatile actor was about to take birth on 7th November, 1954, in Ramanathapuram, Madras (Chennai). Kamal Haasan was born to a lawyer D. Srinivasan and a house wife Rajalakshmi, as their fourth and youngest child.
Its difficult to describe Kamal Haasan, as any dictionary would be short of adjectives to define his personality. He is versatile, dynamic, bold, committed, appealing and unmatchable. His contribution to the Indian Cinema has always been profoundly respected all over the world. Haasan is one of those actors who go the extra miles to get involved in their work and reach perfection.
Kamal Haasan : what does his Kundli tell us?
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As we can see in the kundli, the dynamic actor Kamal Haasan, was born under Libra ascendant and Pisces Moon Sign. His ascendant lord Venus is located in the house of communication and it has conjoined with the sign Scorpio. This conjunction is highly positive and it would give intense results in a positive aspect.
The combination of Saturn, Sun and Mercury has proved favourable to him and he eventually became one of the biggest stars in the industry. This combination has helped him become a big actor, direct, producer and screenwriter as well. Haasan has never stepped back from exploring new things in his movies.
The planet Venus, which is significator of art, music, dance, acting and is directly related with glamour industry, has occupied a favourable position in Kamal Haasan’s birth chart.
The planetary combination of Jupiter and Mars has helped him win several awards for his remarkable performances in film industry. He left no stone unturned and won the National Film Award for his exceptional and outstanding work in movies.
On reading Kamal Haasan’s birth chart, one can observe that the connection with planet Moon and Jupiter blessed him with skills in playback singing, lyricist and in politics as well. Gaj Kesari Yoga that is formed in the horoscope of Kamal Haasan, would be giving him a good level of success in politics as well.
Haasan’s Kundli also indicates that he is quite sensitive and emotional person. At the same time, he has a strong control over his emotions. Despite his highly acclaimed good work, he has faced several criticisms, but his will power and positive mindset has helped in negative and trial times.
As per Kamal Hassan’s horoscope, it can be predicted that his future is extremely luminous and he has great potential to explore more in life. The planets Rahu and Ketu have made him self-proclaimed atheist, which is not a wrong aspect in any manner.
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Kamal Haasan has always left his audience awe-struck by his splendid performance. So, we at GaneshaSpeaks, wish him happy, healthy, prosperous and long life. May he live long and come up with more outstanding movies. We wish him good luck for his political career. May he do equally good in his new phase of career!
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Change Management,
Organizational Design Change,
There is a lot of research on the brain and behavior. Science can tell us why we feel and act the way we do. At Emerson, we like to take scientific findings and use them to help you get the business outcomes you want. There are three principles, based in science, which can help you make any organizational change or learning program better. Science tells us that if we want to implement something new in an organization, we should make it feel Familiar, Controlled, and Successful.
The first principle is Familiar. Our brains see anything new as a threat. We feel fear. Familiarity can make a new thing feel safe and valuable. Familiarity is created by comparing the new thing to your past experiences. Compare the change to something good. Compare the change to something bad. Use what they already know. And, of course, we know stories are powerful. So you can use a story as the vehicle for each of these. I’ve used story telling on many of my projects. Typically, I find executives or experienced / well-respected managers to share stories that help make the change to feel familiar. Also, use repetition. Perhaps the information is new to people when you start the project, but if you keep repeating it over and over, it becomes familiar. I do this by having multiple resources sharing their stories.
The second principle is Controlled. Our brains don’t like uncertainty and they don’t like feeling vulnerable. Giving people predictability and control lowers anxiety and unleashes people’s potential to plan and organize. Control is created by giving a change predictability and structure, and by giving people choices. Share a schedule or project roadmap to help those impacted by the change to understand when things are happening. This helps them to schedule the rest of life which gives them some control during the change. Also, Frequently Asked Questions provide stakeholders with additional information which helps them to feel control.
The third principle is Successful. Brain research tells us exactly why winning feels good. And why winning together feels even better. A feeling of success is created by engineering small wins and celebrating milestones. One way to make someone feel successful doing something new is by breaking that new thing into small, simple tasks. Another way to make people feel successful is by making the new thing doable. Also, be sure to make your change measurable. Being able to measure it helps to show when goals are being achieved. Once those goals are achieved or those milestones are met, use rewards to encourage people to continue moving forward with the change. In past projects, I’ve set it up so that teams who are showing progress, get recognized by the company. This encourages them to continue moving forward and it helps the rest of the organization see how things should be done based on the new way of doing business.
Creating connections between your change and other experiences makes people feel it’s familiar, which turns off fear, makes the change feel valuable, and helps people remember it. Adding choice, structure, and predictability makes the change feel controlled, so people feel less anxious, more engaged, and get to use their brains’ executive functions. Engineering small wins; measuring; providing feedback and rewards; and celebrating make people feel successful, activating the feel-good chemicals in their brains. Use the simple strategies outlined here to make your change feel Familiar, Controlled, and Successful. In doing so, the change will be more quickly adapted in your organization. Good luck!
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EndFlex’s new Z.ZAG Palletizer automatically uses vacuum generators to pick up cases one at a time and place them on a pallet from above. Its suction capacity is capable of lifting 40-pound boxes at…
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Introducing The New BOXXER KARTNR
We are pleased to introduce our new automatic carton forming machine and container inserter, the Boxxer Kartnr Commonly used for cosmetics, medicinals, pharmaceuticals and many every day…
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Eagle Packaging Machinery is now EndFlex
Eagle Packaging Machinery LLC, announces that the company will operate under the new name EndFlex LLC, effective immediately. Company ownership and staff have not changed. EndFlex (www.EndFlex.com),…
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Paxiom Opens New Milwaukee Xperience Center
Paxiom Group, the global sales and service division for industry leading manufacturers: WeighPack Systems, EndFlex, SleekWrapper and CombiScale, has opened its fifth new Xperience Center at 16850 West…
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Compact Modular Pick & Place Cell for End-of Line Packaging
Paxiom Group is excited to present its new compact robotic pick and place cell that can be combined with synchronized conveying systems and incorporated into virtually any existing end-of-line packing…
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Simple New Solution for Automatic Tray Forming
The Paxiom Group has expanded its line of tray formers with small businesses in mind. The cost-effective PopLok® VS series is an easy-to-operate automatic tray forming solution designed to erect self-locking…
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Forming Unique Trays for Auto Parts, Hardware and Componentry
The PopLok ®, manufactured by EndFlex, is a customizable automatic tray forming solution designed to erect self-locking corrugated and paperboard trays with or without a lid. The PopLok ®, capable of…
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EndFlex’s PopLok for roll and tuck trays
EndFlex’s PopLok is an automatic tray forming solution designed to erect self-locking corrugated and paperboard trays with or without a lid. The PopLok, capable of forming 1-tuck, 2-tuck, and multi-tuck…
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Automatic tray former for triangular corner post trays
EndFlex, Miami, Fla., developed a new solution, the VassoyoAir Triangular Corner Post automatic tray former, geared toward addressing secondary packaging needs for food, non-food and bulk packaging…
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BOXXER Case Erectors Now Standard with Powered Hoppers
BOXXER T12 and BOXXER T18 automatic case erectors are designed to efficiently erect and seal both regular slotted and half slotted cases with high-strength tape. The BOXXER line of case erectors now comes…
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BoxxPak Case Packing System Reduces Labor
The BoxxPak’s integrated system is ergonomically designed with the operator in mind to combine case erecting, product loading stations, and case sealing into a compact and efficient work cell. At the…
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Publication - Advice and guidance
Better Business: How to go greener with staff to improve performance
This practical guide offers help and
advice for businesses and other employers
who want to reduce their carbon footprint. In particular, it provides information on what the critical success factors are for involving staff to drive change and how staff engagement offers real benefits that are much broader than just carbon savings.
How to make it work
About the authors of this guide…
Why get involved in low carbon activity?
Why get staff involved?
What are other businesses doing?
Sources of Further Advice and Support
Why do some initiatives succeed or others fail? Our work has found that influencing individual employees, looking at how people work together in groups and carefully planning the infrastructure of the working environment are all important to the success of low carbon initiatives. The key points discussed in more detail in this section are:
- Having a business-wide plan, which links low carbon management approaches to organisational strategy and introduces policies to shape change;
- Bringing people together through involving staff as individuals or through teams, providing feedback on environmental performance and using key influential staff members to drive change; and
- Providing time for staff to participate in low carbon projects, making the most of times of change which provide natural opportunities to develop new policies and adopt new technology.
Send out the right signals
Develop a business-wide plan
Putting a plan together for carbon reduction sends a clear signal of management intent and helps jump-start change. The rationale for the strategy should be clear and communicated to all staff. Ideally, the strategy should be co-designed with staff from across the workplace. A strategy doesn't have to be long and detailed - it's usually better short and focused.
Case example: InterfaceFLOR's 'Mission Zero'
InterfaceFLOR Europe has set out its commitment to carbon reductions in its 'Mission Zero' promise. The company aims to become "ecologically sustainable by 2020, and ultimately to become restorative in terms of impact on the planet's resources" through its 'War on Waste'. To achieve Mission Zero, it has set out clear goals for 2020 on Seven Fronts - including waste, renewable energy sources, transportation, and the redesign of processes and products.
Develop new policies to drive change
Policies are key drivers of change. New policies should be co-designed with staff wherever possible. This will give clout to initiatives where employees may initially be reluctant to do things differently, such as limiting work-related travel by car or - for longer trips - by plane.
Make it easy for staff to comply with policies by considering, for example, self-funding subsidies for public transport, and providing equipment to support the uptake of cycling (e.g. discounts, secure bike racks, showers).
Organisations like Halcrow, Scottish and Southern Energy and Aberdeenshire Council have introduced formal policies on car parking, home working, eco-driving and business travel.
Case example: Scottish and Southern Energy's (SSE) business travel policy
SSE has a well-developed business travel policy which is implemented by their internal Travel Desk. The company has introduced two 'no-fly months' - in August and December every year all but essential flights are prohibited. And it's trialled a 12-week 'no-fly period' which had an even greater impact, as staff were less likely to simply postpone flights. The Travel Desk also promotes use of the company's telepresence video-conferencing facilities as an alternative to travelling altogether, and estimates that this has saved over 800,000 travel miles in the past year, based on journeys between Edinburgh and London alone.
Make change visible
Making concrete changes to the work environment can send a clear signal that things are starting to change. The clearest signal is usually sent by new infrastructure. Even something simple like a secure, dedicated place to lock up bikes can make a difference. The more visible the change, the better.
Case example: EAE's 'Windy Boy'
The Edinburgh-based leaflet delivery and distribution company, EAE, has found that installing a wind turbine on the premises has, in addition to providing energy, served as a clear symbol of the company's commitment to sustainability, described as a 'tipping point' in the company's sustainability initiatives by one manager. It has also been a focus for engaging staff in thinking about the company's carbon emissions. Employees are made aware of the amount of electricity generated by 'Windy Boy' (as it has been named by staff) which has helped both to encourage a sense of ownership of the turbine and to generate enthusiasm for further green activity in the company. Managers reported that when the turbine was erected, 'the staff were genuinely proud. You could see it'.
Build a strong low-carbon or green image to help attract and retain customers and staff
Businesses like Wiles Greenworld say that building a powerful brand based on pro-environmental values helps them attract and retain customers. A strong brand also helps recruit high quality employees, who then go on to reinforce the low carbon culture.
"Clients are now very environmentally aware, and this is how they're judging potential contractors and sub-contractors"
(Halcrow)
"the amount of business we win through being green means that there is a commercial incentive to remain interested…staff need to know about environmental issues because customers will ask for recycled versions of products or green alternatives"
(Manager, Wiles Greenworld)
Show leadership and be consistent
To be genuinely successful, any low carbon initiative needs to be built on solid values. Organisations must genuinely want to tackle emissions and contribute to sustainability - and be able to demonstrate that consistently across the workforce. Otherwise, change could be seen as half-hearted and staff might remain unconvinced.
"The drive has to absolutely come from the top. The message to everybody from the top needs to be - this low carbon activity is happening."
(Chief Sustainability Officer, Wiles Greenworld)
Build a culture of staff engagement on green issues
Staff involvement is essential to success because employees are one of the best sources of new ideas for carbon reduction. Engaging staff helps to:
- Make initiatives more successful
- Encourage new suggestions and innovations in working practices
- Prove to employees that their suggestions are valued and acted upon.
Make staff involvement easy
Make it as easy as possible for staff to get involved. You can do this via online suggestion schemes, team meetings, employee surveys or suggestion cards. Get staff involved early in the process and consider making some initial 'changes' which are easy for staff to take on.
"I think we're really lucky that we've got different channels for submitting ideas, through the Chief Exec's blog, through the suggestion scheme, through just speaking to line managers"
(Employee, Scottish and Southern Energy)
Give regular feedback
Giving regular, detailed feedback on how the organisation is doing on cutting carbon helps staff recognise the difference they're making. It's worth the effort: organisations with a high involvement culture achieve better organisational performance. The more local the feedback on team, departmental or work group performance, the better.
Encouraging competition between teams or areas (e.g. which team can save the most carbon from travel over three months) can also be a great way to get people interested. Setting targets at team and workplace level can also be helpful.
Case example: Fuel-efficient driving at Coca Cola Enterprises (CCE)
At CCE's East Kilbride site HGV drivers have been trained in fuel-efficient driving
techniques. Monitoring fuel usage and feeding this information back to staff has been a useful way to encourage drivers to use these techniques daily. Doing so took advantage of existing competitive attitudes between the drivers and depots, and drivers are now keen to see who can achieve the best fuel economy.
Embed values through education
Staff can sometimes find it hard to connect their own day-to-day work with high-level carbon reduction targets, but good quality education and training can help with this.
Making learning fun can be a powerful way to engage employees. Use educational activities to introduce environmental values into work routines. Organisations like Commercial Group and Wiles Greenworld show environmental documentaries, and have quizzes and competitions to educate and involve staff.
Be clear about: What's in it for staff?
Employers in our research said it was important to find out about staff motivations to take part - the 'what's in it for me' question - and to communicate these benefits widely.
At Aberdeenshire Council, staff strongly identified with cutting costs to meet reduced budgets, so promoting financial savings from less business travel through flexible working was an effective motivator. Both staff and the organisation benefited.
"…if you take a three-hour commute out of a staff day, they will happily work longer for you when needed. It's a win-win situation as happier staff are more productive staff"
(Manager, Aberdeenshire Council)
Staff at Coca Cola and BT benefited from fuel efficient driving training, and valued the money they were saving from using these techniques outside work. A manager at Coca Cola reported that the bonus scheme offered to mobile sales staff based on fuel efficient driving could yield big rewards.
"some of them were getting enough money back to fill their tank, which got them almost free travel back and forward to work if they drove the fuel efficient way."
(Manager, Coca Cola)
Research shows that staff will accept policies that seem to be 'bad news' - for example, replacing flying with the train - providing they understand the rationale for the policy, that it supports the sustainability values of the organisation and that it's implemented fairly.
Identify key influencers
It's vital that senior staff are seen to 'walk the talk': senior managers need to make a commitment to taking action on carbon reduction.
"Leadership from the top is important. Senior staff have got to believe in it and be seen to be doing it."
(Manager, BT)
Other key players are also important. Identify staff members who can make significant change or have influence over particular staff groups: these could be middle managers, line managers, premises or HR staff.
Talking face to face is important - it gives employees opportunities to voice concerns, make suggestions, seek reassurance and get answers to questions. Supplement this with information customised to suit the activity, using a range of methods such as web-based material, posters, newsletters and emails. Communications can be simple but should look clear, professional and attractive.
Spread the message using individual champions or teams
Formal or informal champions or teams who have benefited from engaging in low carbon projects are powerful role models for change. Organisations like BT, Commercial Group and InterfaceFLOR use employee-led teams with a mix of staff from different grades and work areas to gather and implement ideas for cutting carbon emissions. Changing team members regularly helps to generate new ideas, and staff should have as much responsibility as possible for driving change forward.
Alternatively, individual employees who have taken part in projects but are not naturally 'green and keen' can be strong advocates for change amongst other disengaged employees.
Case example: Commercial Group's 'Green Angels':
The office supplies distributor Commercial Group has had success engaging staff through its 'Green Angels' initiative. The Green Angels team is made up of staff members who undertake a project of their own choice. Projects are backed by management and the board but entirely controlled by the employees. To avoid the initiative going stale, a new Green Angels team is selected every six months. Activities organised by the Green Angels have engaged staff in a fun and enjoyable way, e.g. raising awareness of recycling through a waste sorting race. A staff survey found that more than three quarters of Commercial employees feel themselves to be 'totally engaged' with the company's sustainability programme - and in large part this is thanks to the elements of fun and employee ownership that the Green Angels initiative brings.
"Sharing ways of cutting carbon emissions with clients and at networking events in your sector can spark inspiration and help solve problems."
Use ideas and expertise from internal and external networks
Sharing ways of cutting carbon emissions with clients and at networking events in your sector can spark inspiration and help solve problems.
Organisations like Scottish and Southern Energy and Halcrow wanted to help staff use carbon-friendly commuting methods and found that working with other local companies could help persuade public transport providers to provide more convenient schedules.
Specialist advisory organisations also offer support - see 'Sources of further advice and support' at the end of this guide.
Time and Trigger Points
Make the most of major 'moments of change'
It's often easiest to introduce new ways of working when workplaces are making other major changes. Halcrow and EAE used office moves to adopt more energy-efficient power supplies and improve recycling facilities. Scottish and Southern Energy reviewed its travel to work policies when the company car park became full.
Organisations facing financial pressures may be able to cut costs and carbon emissions at the same time. Times of financial turbulence can offer positive opportunities for rethinking and redesigning work space and working times - being flexible about the resources you have, and asking hard questions about whether you need them. Aberdeenshire Council is undertaking a radical rationalisation of its estate and offices through introducing a flexible home working policy, which has so far saved over 33,000 tonnes of CO2 and over £46,000 in business mileage.
Give employees time to get fully involved
Making some time available in working hours for individual champions to run low carbon projects helps sustain success and is a good way of developing staff leadership skills. Where you can, build low carbon activities into work schedules and consider the timing of project activities to enable staff in different roles to take part.
Organisations like Coca Cola, Hilton and Wiles Greenworld have successfully introduced low carbon activities that took up little additional time in daily work schedules. These include:
- recycling glass bottles rather than throwing them away,
- hotel staff turning off lights and appliances left on by guests,
- assessing which power sources can be turned off completely over weekends, and
- including a regular slot on low carbon projects within staff meetings.
Case example: Energy monitoring at Coca Cola Enterprises
Coca Cola Enterprises has (with support from the Carbon Trust) put in place monitoring systems which measure how much energy is being used, where, and by which machines in its bottling factory. The monitors now produce reports automatically and managers have been able to use this information to save thousands of pounds by identifying which machines could be shut down at weekends, and instances where shut-down routines have not been followed. By monitoring energy usage, managers have also discovered higher than expected energy use when agency staff are brought in during times of high production. This awareness has led the company to work closely with agency staff to deal with this problem.
Moving to the next stage
Using low carbon technologies helps establish positive work cultures
Cutting carbon emissions can be low-cost but for organisations that are prepared to invest some money, low carbon technology can lead to considerable savings on fuel and energy costs. Investing in lower emission vehicles, motion sensitive lighting or renewable energy generation sources are all ways of achieving this.
Technology is also important in supporting changes to travel behaviours, e.g. through video - or tele-conferencing instead of travelling to meetings.
Businesses told us that one of the cheapest and most useful technologies is an energy-use monitor which helps to spot high levels of consumption, track performance over time and provide feedback to staff on how their effort contributes to carbon reduction.
Email: Jonathan Waite
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Sexual health: collaborative commissioning evaluation
Overview of the sexual health collaborative commissioning evaluation
This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-health-collaborative-commissioning-evaluation/overview-of-the-sexual-health-collaborative-commissioning-evaluation
Collaborative commissioning for sexual health, reproductive health and HIV: a review of 4 areas
Public Health England (PHE) has worked with partners to undertake a process evaluation of 4 localities that have been pioneering collaborative approaches to commissioning sexual health, reproductive health and HIV services between local government and the local National Health Service (NHS).
The main findings show that it is achievable for the responsible commissioners (local authorities, clinical commissioning groups and NHS England) to commission collaboratively and that this offers many potential benefits. For this to work effectively there needs to be:
clarity on the scope of the collaborative arrangements
clarity on, and understanding of, decision-making processes in each organisation
sufficient time to build local relationships and procure together
recognition of the importance of starting small and tackling manageable sized areas of work
All sites participating in the evaluation believed there were many benefits to the collaborative commissioning approach including:
improving patient experience
driving efficiency
improving local partnerships
This evaluation is helpful to all parts of local government and the NHS as government policy is encouraging these sorts of approaches. In June 2019 the outcome of the review of public health commissioning included the recommendation that NHS work much more closely with local authorities on public health so that commissioning is more joined-up and prevention is embedded into a wider range of health services, including a shift towards councils working jointly with the NHS to co-commission services specifically for sexual health.
The green paper Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s recognises that the move towards integrated care systems (ICSs) creates the opportunity to co-commission an integrated sexual and reproductive health service. Some areas are already doing this, but we want to encourage more places to use the powers and levers they already have to develop joint approaches.
A range of existing frameworks exist to support commissioners and providers to work more closely together at local level. This is supported in the Long Term Plan Implementation Framework which identifies that NHS systems will need to work in close partnership to set out how they and their local authority partners will develop and deliver prevention activities that respond to local health needs, including in the area of sexual health.
There is an opportunity for health and wellbeing boards and emerging ICSs to prioritise sexual health, reproductive health and HIV. There are a range of methodologies and tools that can be used to support areas to come together on improving commissioning and provision including:
sector-led improvement
What Good Looks Like
NHS improvement approaches such as lean management
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Colorado > Thornton > Schools > School Profile
Tarver Elementary School
3500 Summit Grove Parkway, Thornton, CO 80241
This school is rated about average in school quality compared to other schools in Colorado. Students here perform about average on state tests, ... More are making above average year-over-year academic improvement, and this school has about average results in how well it’s serving disadvantaged students.
Test scores at this school are about the same as the state average, though still below the top-performing schools in the state. Because test scores in some states are so low, many students at this school may not be performing at grade level.
Ask the school what it’s doing to help students who are behind. Understand what on-track learning looks like, and ask the school what it’s doing to accelerate progress for students.
Disadvantaged students at this school are performing about as well as other students in the state, but this school may still have achievement gaps.
3500 Summit Grove Parkway
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Soundgarden's Kim Thayil: New Songs "Definitely Very Heavy"
By Josh Hart 2011-06-18T18:19:23Z
In a recent interview with Stereogum.com, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil revealed that the new Soundgarden album is taking shape and that the songs are "definitely very heavy."
An excerpt from the interview follows:
STEREOGUM: So what can you tell me about the new music you are working on?
KIM THAYIL: It’s funny; once again Matt is really the person who seems to be driving us forward with all this. He’s very enthusiastic and eager, which really motivates all of us. We’re all really excited. Being creative is far more satisfying than just playing the old songs. It’s been very natural. We just started jamming and it very gradually and naturally progressed.
STEREOGUM: I realize it’s very early on in the process, but what can you say about the new songs?
KIM THAYIL: The vibe of the songs is definitely very heavy. We’ve always tried to explore how to make this really heavy, aggressive music without sounding like a bunch of knuckle-dragging meatheads. I think these songs are kind of exploring that idea. Ways of emoting aggression and anger and hostility in ways that feel new. You know, we never were really chipper guys. We were never the party band, or even a particularly social band. We were always really just hard workers and a kind of musician’s band. That’s what we wanted to be that. We wanted to play for an audience that reminded us of ourselves back when we were young, I always liked the idea that our fans were that guy or girl who collected records and wanted to start a band of their own and play good music. I always imagined we were the band that made the party end. Like, ok guys it’s time to leave now, someone just put on Superunknown! I always felt like we made music that was good for driving, good for listening to really loud. Wait, does that answer your question at all? The new songs sound really heavy. I’ll just say that.
You can read the full interview here.
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Missouri State > Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts > Patron Accessibility
Juanita K. Hammons Hall is committed to making our facility accessible to all patrons. The Hall provides many services to patrons with accessibility needs, which can be found in the information below. If you have any questions about these services, please contact the Box Office at 417-836-7678.
Please note: it is imperative that you inform the ticket representative of any accommodation needs that you may have at the time of your ticket purchase, as the representatives are not able to ask anything ADA-related unless you inform them of your needs. Patrons requiring accommodations are strongly encouraged to purchase their tickets by calling 417-836-7678, or in person at the Box Office.
Hammons Hall is equipped with accessible restroom facilities on the orchestra, lower mezzanine, and upper mezzanine seating levels.
Assistive Listening Devices are available for most performances at the Hall. Ask an usher or staff member where to get a device before the performance. Patrons will be asked to keep a photo I.D. at the assistive listening device station until the device is returned.
Large Print Programs
Large print programs are available for all performances that utilize programs. Requests for these programs must be made to the Hammons Hall Business Office (417-836-6776) at least two weeks prior to the performance.
Hammons Hall can provide sign language interpretation for patrons with hearing disabilities for most performances. Requests for an interpreter should be made at time of ticket purchase and should go directly through our Box Office (417-836-7678). Our Box Office has designated seats that will enable the best line of sight for patrons to see an interpreter. Please note that requests require a 30 day notification in advance of show date. Please contact us for more information on events that offer sign language interpretation.
Wheelchair Accessible Entrances and Seating
All entrances to the Hall are accessible from the street level with no stairs. In addition, there is an elevator in the facility that goes to all seating levels.
Hammons Hall has wheelchair accessible seating on the orchestra level. In addition, there are also seating options for guests with visual, hearing and mobility impairments. Please note: most seating locations in the auditorium require the patron to walk on an incline or use stairs. To ensure the best seating option, patrons are encouraged to inform the ticket representative of any needs at the time of their ticket purchase.
Limited accessible parking and passenger drop-off/pick-up zones are located on the south and north entrances of the facility, off of Cherry Street and Elm Street respectively. Hammons Hall usher staff are available to assist patrons into the facility from these zones beginning one hour prior to most performances. Additional accessible parking is located in the parking garage located directly west of the facility.
Service animals are welcome inside the Hall and must remain on a leash or in a harness at all times. If you intend to bring a service animal to an event, please notify your ticket representative at the time of purchase so that an aisle seat may be reserved for you. While Hammons Hall recognizes the importance of comfort animals, those animals are typically not allowed in the facility. As with any patron, if the service animal becomes a disruption to the performance or surrounding patrons, the patron will be asked to leave the facility with the animal.
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If there is anything we have forgotten or anything we can do to make your visit more convenient or comfortable please contact us via the contact page at HammonsHall.com or call the Box Office at 417-836-7678.
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Man wanted after sexual assault in St Albans
PUBLISHED: 12:03 05 July 2017
Facial reconstruction of a man police would like to speak to after a sexual assault in St Albans. Picture: HERTFORDSHIRE POLICE
Police have released a facial reconstruction of a man they are looking for after a woman was sexually assaulted in St Albans.
An 18-year-old woman was assaulted while walking in Royal Road between 7pm and 7.15pm on Monday, June 26.
She was walking on the pavement when she was approached by the offender, who was riding a pedal bike. He began talking to her before sexually assaulting her and cycling off towards Hatfield Road.
Shortly afterwards, the same offender approached the victim again, in Brampton Road, where he spoke to her and sexually assaulted her again.
The victim, who was physically unharmed, ran to a nearby house to seek help.
Det Con James Kier, from the Local Crime Unit, said: “This was an understandably distressing incident for the victim and she is being supported by our officers while the investigation continues.
“I would ask that anyone who recognises the man pictured to please come forward and speak to us. I would also like to reassure the community that this is an isolated incident and we are doing all we can to trace the offender.”
If you recognise the man pictured, please contact Hertfordshire Constabulary via the non-emergency number 101, quoting crime reference F1/17/3027 or report information online at www.contacthertspolice.uk/Report/Crime.
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Cardoness Castle
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Researchers find asthma genes
European scientists have identified genes that predispose children and adults to asthma, some of which 'tell' the immune system when the lining of the airways has been damaged.
European scientists have identified genes that predispose children and adults to asthma.
Some of the genes tell the immune system when the lining of the airways has been damaged. Others may control healing of the airways after they have been injured, the researchers said.
"But the genes are different genes for children than for adults," said study coauthor Dr Erika von Mutius, a professor of paediatrics at University Children's Hospital in Munich, Germany.
"However, even if we have been able to identify a number of these genes, we cannot predict disease just based on these genes because other factors, including environmental factors, are important as well," she added. "The genes do not explain everything."
The report is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
How the study was done
For the Gabriel study, von Mutius and colleagues from London, Paris, Munich and Oxford looked at genes from 10,365 asthmatics and compared them with the genes of 16,110 people without asthma.
After looking at all the genes in these individuals, the researchers found some new genes that predispose people to asthma. Among adults, the effect of genes in the development of asthma was weaker than in children.
Among children, the most important gene linked to asthma is called ORMDL3/GSDMB, and is not involved in adults who develop asthma, von Mutius and colleagues found.
These newly identified gene variants affected more than one-third of children with asthma. In addition, these genes had strong effects on severe asthma, the study authors noted.
However, despite these findings, genetic testing would be of no value in predicting early in life which children might eventually develop asthma, because environmental factors are also important for asthma to develop, von Mutius said.
Finding may lead to better treatments
These scientists are working to identify environmental causes that can trigger asthma, she added. However, the researchers suggested that the identification of these genes might one day lead to better treatments for asthma.
The researchers also looked at genes that control antibodies linked to allergies. However, these genes had little effect on the presence of asthma, and the asthma genes had little effect on the levels of antibodies, which means, they said, that the allergies that often accompany asthma are most likely a consequence of the asthma not its cause.
Dr Norman H. Edelman, chief medical officer at the American Lung Association, called the study "very well done." He added, "Its most critical attribute is the large number of subjects and genes studied, allowing for good confidence in conclusions about lack of association as well as association with candidate genes."
The study is also important, he said, because it found several aspects of asthma that have been suspected but not proven.
For example, "there are many key differences between adult- and childhood-onset asthma. They probably should be considered to be different diseases," Edelman said.
Also, allergy is not likely to be an important underlying cause of asthma, he added.
"There is no simple genetic basis for asthma; it seems to be the end result of many different genetic predispositions," Edelman said.
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Chatting on Twitter for NBHAAD
By: Wayne Duffus, MD, PhD, Associate Director for Health Equity, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Published: February 04, 2013
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Dr. Wayne DuffusThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), along with its partners, will be hosting a Twitter event tomorrow, Tuesday, February 5, at 2pm ET, to commemorate National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), which takes place annually on February 7.
Twitter events give us an opportunity to connect with people across the country and in every community. For tomorrow’s Twitter chat we have already asked for and received numerous questions from community members on information that is important to them. We will be answering these questions during the chat. We will hear from members of African American communities across the United States, subject matter experts, and other participants as we address specific questions about HIV and AIDS in African American communities.
CDC leaders and partners from the NBHAAD Strategic Leadership Council (SLC) will participate. The chat will also include members of the Act Against AIDS Leadership Initiative (AAALI), some of the nation’s foremost African American and Hispanic/Latino organizations that are helping to intensify HIV prevention efforts in black communities.
Everyone is encouraged to participate as we address getting educated about HIV, getting tested, getting involved, and getting treatment, if needed. Join the chat by using the hashtag #NBHAADchat or follow @DrDeanCDC for the latest information on the chat.
Advice for First-time Twitter Chat Participants
If you have never participated in a Twitter chat, it is very easy to follow the conversation. Simply login into your account and type the designated hashtag (i.e., #NBHAADchat) for the specific chat in the search box. All tweets associated with the chat will display in the feed.
New Account Set-Up
If you do not have a Twitter account, it is very easy to establish one. Before set-up, you will need to determine a unique profile name describing the subject matter of your account, a biography which is a 160 character description of your profile and an image to display in the header. Log into twitter.com to get started. You may want to review some established accounts as examples. In order to be certain all Twitter chat participants are able to view your tweets, please be sure your Tweet Privacy setting is set as the default (the box is left unchecked.) This can be found under Settings.
Watching a Twitter Chat
To simply follow the conversation without establishing an account, you may search the designated chat hashtag at this link: https://twitter.com/search.
To find a NBHAAD event in your community, go to www.nationalblackaidsday.org. For more information, go to CDC’s NBHAAD feature.
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The Alhambra is a Nasrid palace and fortress complex, with some buildings dating back as far as the 13th century. It comprises the Alcazaba defence zone, the residential and characteristic Nasrid Palaces and the Generalife leisure area, made up of beautiful gardens and flowerbeds. Parts of the Nasrid Palaces were destroyed in the 16th century in order to build the Carlos V Palace, one of the most important buildings during the Spanish Renaissance.
The neighbourhood of Albaicín retains a fascinating blend of Medieval Moorish and more traditional Andalusian styles and offers several vantage points, such as San Cristóbal and San Nicolás, which provide visitors with stunning views of both the Alhambra and the Generalife. The trademark old gypsy neighbourhood of Sacromonte is located on Valparaíso hill, next to Albaicín. The air of this picturesque village of whitewashed caves is filled with the sound of guitars, folk songs and ‘quejío’ chants, as well as the enticing smell of local dishes. Make sure you sample one of Granada’s typical dishes, such as the tasty Sacromonte tortilla, made with stewed brains and beef testicles. If this plethora of attractions still isn’t enough, sport lovers can also go skiing at the nearby Sierra Nevada Ski Station, located in the Sierra Nevada natural park.
Only 67 kilometres from Granada is the beautiful city of Jaen, an important historical and cultural site. Located in a region filled with olive trees, it is the Olive Oil Capital of the World, so don’t forget to buy a couple of bottles while you’re there. A meeting point for Muslims, Christians and Jews for centuries, Jaen is home to world class attractions, such as the Assumption of the Virgin Cathedral, one of the most important Renaissance cathedrals, on which many other cathedrals throughout Spain and Latin America are modelled. The 11th century Arab Baths are the largest and best preserved from the Al-Andalus era. Next to Jaen, with the Guadalquivir river at their feet and surrounded by olive trees, are the must-see World Heritage cities of Úbeda and Baeza, which are home to some of the greatest vestiges of Renaissance Spain. One example is the impressive Vázquez de Molina square in Úbeda, which warrants its reputation as one of the most beautiful squares in Europe.
Thinking about travelling to Granada? With Iberia it couldn't be easier. Naturally, the fastest and most convenient way to explore this beautiful city is to take a flight. If you fly with Iberia, you'll land at Federico García Lorca Airport, situated 17 kilometres north-west of the city.
This is the fifth-largest airport in Andalucía in terms of passengers and cargo, with nearly one million passengers handled every year. It operates commercial flights to cities in Spain and the rest of Europe, as well as freight transport services.
Granada also boasts excellent cuisine, so if you travel to this destination be sure to try beans with Serrano ham, Sacromonte omelette, orange salad with onion and cod, or the typical dish of the Alpujarras.
The Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén airport in Granada-Jaen (GRX), Spain is located in the municipality of Chauchina and part of the municipality of Santa Fé, 17 kilometres from the capital .
The airport can be accessed from the city centre by the Granada-Airport inter-city bus route; there is also a taxi rank with taxis covering the neighbouring municipalities.
The airport offers passengers the following services, amongst others: internet access, medical services and meeting or press rooms.
For more information, you can check the tourism website.
The official currency is el euro (EUR). and the official time is the same as in Spain.
If you need a hotel in Granada-Jaen we recommend that you use this website for your reservation. All the hotels are guaranteed.
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In this extract from her hard-hitting speech* delivered while accepting the Chameli Devi Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist for 2016, Neha Dixit describes how she has been harassed by trolls over the years.
"After being called ‘antinational’ for months on end, it is nice to receive an award that is named after a freedom fighter! On July 29, last year, I published an investigative story in Outlook magazine called ‘Operation #Beti Uthao (Babylift),’ that exposed how 31 tribal girls, between three and eleven years of age, from five border districts of Assam in Northeast India, were illegally taken to Punjab and Gujarat by three outfits affiliated to the right-wing Rashtriya Swayam Sevak (RSS). The episode was officially termed “child trafficking”.
Not only did the RSS and ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members indulge in mudslinging, name-calling and speaking about my “depraved mind”, a few BJP members had registered a police complaint against me, and the editor and publisher of Outlook magazine for “inciting communal hatred amongst communities” by selectively quoting the concluding paragraph of my story.
Within a week of the reporting of the story and the subsequent media reports about the case filed against me and Outlook, the actual issue of the girls being trafficked was submerged in debates about my credentials as a reporter, my character and my ‘intentions’ behind doing the story and the reasons behind Outlook publishing it. Soon after, the Outlook editor, Krishna Prasad, was replaced by the magazine’s publishers without any public explanation.
No woman writer, journalist or artist is untouched by such attacks by online trolls. In the past, I have had dedicated forums strategising about how I should be beaten “black and blue” when I reported on Khap panchayats. I have also received rape threats, often describing how thorny sticks or sharp metal rods should be shoved inside my private parts when I wrote about bride trafficking in North India. When I reported on ‘love jihad’, I was called a “member of Lashkar-e-Taiba”, and when I wrote about Hindutva-driven nationalism, I was called a “concubine of Rahul Gandhi”. Sexually explicit abuses and pictures of human private parts often land up in my inbox. When this is the response for a watertight story, it can be unnerving for a reporter. Trolling can, in many cases, intimidate reporters enough to shut them up.
Earlier, journalists could stand by their stories and present facts when they had their day in court. Now, these legal notices have been replaced by a paid troll army. Every morning, a few self-proclaimed intellectuals, columnists and writers identify a few anti-government articles and pick on them systematically. All of them have a colossal number of followers, sometimes running into several thousand. These followers then abuse and troll writers who have taken on the establishment by writing about their wrong-doings.
If it is a woman, the task of online trolls becomes even easier. All they have to do is question her intention, agency, intellect and her character. That way, they not just affect the morale of the writer who then resorts to self-censorship but also promote an abysmal quality of public discourse that relies more on mob justice than intellectual or legal arguments. Any dissent in the social space is reduced to binaries and juvenile name-calling. In this space, all progressive, secular liberals are either “anti-national” or “Commie Naxals” and all those with right-wing political leanings are “Sanghis” or “bhakts”.
There is an increasing attrition of independent spaces that are devoid of these tags and baggage that allow people from diverse political and intellectual leanings to brainstorm, ideate, report, argue and debate."
Watch the video of the prize here. Neha Dixit’s speech starts at 0:10:40 and ends at 0:20:40. -
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Move Over, Uber. Here Are the 2 Things Successful Sharing Economy Companies Are Doing Now
There are two simple rules for guiding your business in the new sharing economy.
By Sharon PoczterChair of the strategy and entrepreneurship department, Yeshiva University@sharonpoczter
Successful ridesharing apps needs to take care of riders and drivers
While we have all recognized the phenomenal success of companies like Airbnb, it's clear that the next generation of sharing economy businesses are following a different approach. Businesses in the sharing economy provide platforms that sell or rent unused product or service capacity. They are some of the most successful startups, largely because they act as platforms between buyers and sellers, without the headache of inventory. We all know that the world's largest taxi firm (Uber) owns no cars, the largest provider of accommodation owns no property (Airbnb), and the world's largest retailer carries no stock (Alibaba).
Creating these platforms that connect buyers and sellers may have been enough to create success for these businesses in the past, but looking to the future, one can see that the business plans of the next generation of sharing economy businesses must involve a new approach. Given that investors are still eager to fund new sharing economy startups, if you are thinking about starting a business using sharing economy technology, it is important to understand the two main strategies for success in the next generation of such companies.
Saturation is particularly problematic for sharing economy platforms as supply is physically constrained, and yet the value of these networked sites increases the larger the supply, as customers have more to choose from and prices naturally decrease. There are a relatively limited number of potential drivers for Uber, empty apartments for Airbnb and unused clothes for Ebay, for instance.
Similarly, with an increasing number of platforms offering a similar product, consumers are looking to curated platforms that enable them to relate to a product, building a sense of community.
Businesses in this space are countering these problems and creating opportunities by focusing on two simple things:
Focusing not only on buyers, but also on keeping suppliers happy. With an increasingly limited pool of suppliers, platforms should focus on creating loyal suppliers
Curating. With increasingly discerning buyers, platforms must create a more personalized experience
These strategies are central to the business plans of small and larger startups. Lyft, for instance, has made the satisfaction of both ends of the platform a differentiator since inception, while Uber launched as "everyone's private driver," focusing on the rider's experience. From the onset, Lyft has invested in community building and engagement for drivers and riders, being the first to offer a variety of features like tipping, aimed at making drivers happy.
Even the result of a Google search of "Lyft community" versus "Uber community" leads to telling results about how these companies approach driver engagement. The latter reveals company guidelines regarding the treatment of riders, while the former reveals examples of drivers' community engagement. This focus on drivers' happiness and building engagement is likely responsible for its recent success; Lyft's valuation increased 46 percent to $11 billion in six months and is gaining on Uber.
A startup I advise also does this well. Domio, a company focused on upscale urban and vacation rentals, manages and rents luxury properties in seven U.S. markets, with a 400 percent projected revenue growth this year and a 20 percent higher occupancy rate than most hotels. As Domio's strategic advisor, I have learned that its growth is driven by providing services to both sides of its platform.
By signing multi-year leases with property owners, Domio takes control over both sourcing clients and property management. As opposed to listing on Airbnb, the risk inherent in unoccupied nights and property management shifts from owners to Domio. By providing this service, it secures properties in metropolitan areas with limited supply. Domio also curates; as opposed to larger accommodation platforms, each property is hand-picked and styled to maintain a level of quality and brand.
Poshmark is using a similar strategy to take over the peer-to-peer (and retail) mobile clothing marketplace. By integrating social media -- buyers can communicate directly with sellers, connect with friends, and share items- Poshmark engages buyers and sellers and serves as a user-curated platform, unlike any other sharing economy marketplace for clothes. This has built a strong community of over 3 million suppliers who sell over 25 million items at any time.
Buyers also spend an inordinate amount of time on the site (25 minutes per day), but 75 percent make repeat purchases. Poshmark also builds a seller community by sponsoring live events, helping them to optimize their closets, and streamlining fulfillment by allowing sellers to generate mailing labels, and track sold items. This strategy seems to be working; Poshmark raised $87.5 million in funding in November according to TechCrunch, reaching a total of $160 million in funding in seven years.
Sharing economy businesses across many verticals are still growing exponentially, yet companies hoping to capture market share must use updated strategies beyond those employed by first generation companies. To carve out a niche or seize market share from big players, new companies must cultivate loyal user and seller cohorts by building engagement and community and curating current stock.
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Malone University Primary Teacher of the Month: Katie Muller
Katie Muller has been teaching sixth-grade language arts for three years at Glenwood Intermediate. If she wasn't doing what she is now, she has a long list of alternative career options.
NAME: Katie Muller
SCHOOL: Glenwood Intermediate School
RESIDENCE: Canton
HIGH SCHOOL: Tri-Valley High School, Dresden
COLLEGE: Ohio University
FAMILY: My amazing husband, Jake Muller; mom: Sue Grigsby and in-laws Ken and Laurie Muller; sister and brother-in-law: Megan and James McGugan and Ethan Muller; grandparents Anne and Charlie Rogers and Ted Ferguson.
What subject do you teach (grade level)? Sixth-grade language arts
What is the best part of your job? My students! Their joy, energy, enthusiasm for life and attitudes ensure my job is never boring and I am so grateful for them. Watching my students grow and learn, and change their attitudes to a more positive outlook on learning absolutely makes my day, every day.
What is the most challenging part of your job? Finding what motivates each student to want to do their best. All students want to learn deep down, but some are more challenging to motivate than others. I want all of my students to love learning, and developing that passion is unique for each student.
Is teaching the same today as it was when you first started? Yes and no. Students are the same because they all need a caring teacher who is cheering them on and who believes in them. The fads, distractions and technology shifts every year and keeps me on my toes.
My students would be surprised to know that you? Initially majored in Spanish and international studies. I didn’t want to be a teacher until late in my sophomore year of college.
What’s your hidden talent? Power walking, I’ve power walked a marathon before!
If you weren’t a teacher, you’d be doing what? Meteorologist or QVC salesperson or fashion designer or travel blogger.
After a long day of work, what’s the best way to relax? Grocery shopping at my favorite store, Kroger and spending the evening with my best friend and husband, Jake watching the Amazing Race and planning an adventure together!
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Wendy Baker, Whipple Elementary
Wendy Baker lives a true life of service for others. In addition to her tireless work teaching third-grade students and mentoring colleagues as a building leader, Wendy also devotes a significant amount of her life to her church, Perry Christian. Wendy believes her calling is to serve others and the world with the goal being not to just make a difference herself, but more so to help others make a difference. Everyone in our Whipple family knows how truly blessed we are to have Wendy Baker as part of our lives.
Mike Dolfi
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Mike is a team player at Perry High School. He has been at Perry High for more than 10 years. He has taught government, economics, sociology, American wars and pop culture. Mike also works in our PACE Academy, Summer School, Saturday School and is a track coach. All these contributions make Mike a valuable member of our team.
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Kristine Whitacre
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Mrs. Whitacre is not only extremely passionate about science, but she is passionate about ensuring that students have a depth of knowledge about science and chemistry. Further, through her work with students after school, Science Club and by starting a Science National Honor Society, she pulls students into the world of Science well beyond the school day. She never refuses a student that looks for her to work with them before or after school and during her lunch period. Mrs. Whitacre cares deeply about her students and their success.
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Bianca Burwell, Alliance Middle School
Ms. Burwell is an outstanding teacher who brings art alive for the students of Alliance Middle School. Ms. Burwell has served as a member of the PBIS team, as well as serving as the district Art department chair. She always goes above and beyond in everything that she does. The impact Ms. Burwell makes on her students and the school is evident. Her students artwork is on display throughout the building.
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Annalesa Anderson
Oakwood Middle School, language arts
Oakwood Middle School is honored to have a committed and outstanding intervention specialist. Miss Anderson loves the students of Oakwood and has a passion for teaching English. She is energetic, innovative and makes her students feel valued in her classroom. Beyond the walls of her classroom, Miss Anderson is a supporter of the students' arts, academic and athletic events. In her spare time, she also coaches GlenOak High School Girl's Soccer. Former students often visit Oakwood to check in with Miss Anderson — she makes a positive difference in their lives.
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Larissa Prazer, Marlington Middle School
Larissa is a fantastic math teacher. She is an enthusiastic, passionate, innovative, dynamic leader! Larissa is beginning her sixth year as a teacher and we are fortunate they have all been here. Not only does Larissa lead her students daily in their learning she is also our seventh-grade team leader for our staff and a key member of our building leadership team. In addition to this Larissa has organized our class field trips to Columbus, Cincinnati, Washington D.C. and Gettysburg. As you can see Larissa has a tremendous impact on both our students' and staffs' experiences here at MMS.
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Lisa Seddon, Uniontown Elementary
Lisa Seddon is a great example of a modern educator. She blends hands-on learning, technology, and small group instruction on a daily basis for her second-grade students. They love being in her class and have tremendous academic growth throughout the year. Mrs. Seddon’s understanding of teaching and learning has served the students well, but it has also created a culture of strong professional growth for those that have the opportunity to work with her. She is a constant professional in and outside of the classroom
Courtney Miller, Lake Middle School
Mrs. Miller is a thoughtful and creative teacher who leads her eighth-grade English classes with gentle passion. Her students well being and academic success are her priorities as an educator. When appropriate, she enjoys displaying her students work allowing them to take pride in the efforts they put forth. In addition, Mrs. Miller is a good team player in working with her colleagues and administration to develop productive and engaging lesson plans for all of her students.
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Cassidy Nickels, Tuslaw Elementary School
Title I Reading and tutors English language learners
Ms. Nickels willingly does whatever is needed to meet the needs of our students with a smile on her face and a positive attitude. In addition to her commitment helping students succeed in the classroom, she also serves as a coach, helping students to succeed on the court as well. She is an asset to the Tuslaw Schools.
Debra Wenger, Tuslaw Middle School
Deb is an outstanding fifth-grade math and science teacher. She has a passion for kids and teaching. She works extremely hard and well to develop rapport with students and parents, prepare students for their next steps and refine her instruction to best meet student needs. While her students' state assessment scores are some of the highest in the county, she also places a focus on developing the whole child and making their fifth-grade year fun and memorable. She is an great asset to Tuslaw Local Schools.
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Paula Stoll, Clarendon Leadership School
Mrs. Paula Stoll has been an amazing and caring educator for the last 33 years. Clarendon Leadership has been fortunate that for each of those years she has been at Clarendon. As an intervention specialist, Paul Stoll helps provide the resources to ensure all students are successful. This essential work requires an individual that is in tune with the needs of students. Paula's mantra always has and always will be, "Do what is best for kids!"
Mr. Manuel Halkias, McKinley High School
Mr. Manuel Halkias isn’t rated an Accomplished Teacher without reasoning. Mr. Halkias has been serving McKinley and the Canton City School District for almost 30 years. Over this span of time, he has maintained an academic level of rigor and high expectation that is rarely paralleled. Because of these qualities, Mr. Halkias teaches an exclusive AP seminar course only offered 15 other places in Ohio. Because he teaches multiple advanced courses, many might make light of his thriving classroom environment. However, Mr. Halkias also teaches multiple levels of English, speech and film courses and he’s our speech and debate coach. We’ve placed some of the most challenging students in these classes and he consistently finds a way to reach kids and usher them to success. Mr. Halkias has figured out how to meet students where they are and push them to where they need to be. Because he is invested in building relationships, Mr. Halkias spends much time helping students discover and hone passions and abilities that they never knew they had.
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Ms. Angi Feller, Faircrest Memorial Middle School
Angi Feller is best described as a dynamo. She is active in all types of musical activities in our school, is constantly inviting students to be part of program offerings, and seamlessly manages several responsibilities with ease. She exudes enthusiasm, shares her positive perspectives, and brings the art of 'possibilities' to our schoolhouse. A problem solver, Angi Feller is all about kids, all about music, and bringing her best to staff and students every day!
Josh Kern, Canton South High School
Josh's diligence in learning our new student data reporting program and going above and beyond to help train, mentor and tutor our staff has been second to none. He also leads many organizational projects that make our staff and student's school days much more fulfilling. As a counselor he is an asset to our school.
Central Catholic
Maria Dick, Central Catholic High School
Mrs. Dick teaches theology at Central Catholic but does much more than teach in a classroom setting, she has become a spiritual leader. As a teacher, she challenges students to dig deeper into their faith, to do more than just say they are people of faith and instead challenges them to live lives that reflect the lessons of the Bible. Mrs. Dick helps organize our school masses and arrives early to school every morning to lead students, staff and guests in daily prayer services before the first bell even rings to start the school day. Staff, students and alumni all remember her with a smile and recognize her infectious voice which has led us in worship for decades. She helps to unite the Central Catholic community and creates a family atmosphere, which is the hallmark of a Catholic school.
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Karren Kandel, East Canton Elementary
Karren Kandel has been a teacher at East Canton Elementary for 19 years. She is extremely dedicated to her students and her teaching. The students in Ms. Kandel's third-grade class feel valued, safe and they excel in their learning. Ms. Kandel serves on the District Leadership Team and constantly works to better our school
Caryn Duckworth, East Canton Middle School
Caryn has been teaching for 28 years. She currently serves our district as sixth-grade math teacher, along with being a Lead Math teacher. Caryn is the coordinator for sixth-grade camp. She plays an essential role in facilitating the wonderful learning experience of camp for our students. She also helps coordinate the math tournament for our school. Caryn values relationships with students and seeing their growth and learning over the course of a the school year. Thank you Mrs. Duckworth for your constant dedication and unwavering support for the students at East Canton Middle School.
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Kelly Gamber, Sandy Valley Elementary School
Kelly teaches third grade. She comes in early and stays late on a daily basis to provide engaging teaching and learning experiences for every child. With all the regulations from the state, teaching third grade can be a daunting undertaking, but Kelly makes it look easy. Kelly and her third-grade team met countless times this summer to be ready to implement a new reading series to incorporate and roll out a new report card format to ensure a fantastic school year. Kelly is the proud mother of three SVE children, and her husband teaches in the district as well.
Deanna Stranan, AP U.S. history, world history, government, youth and law
Ms. Stranan is a very conscientious teacher who cares deeply for her students and for St. Thomas Aquinas High School. She is very knowledgeable of her content and extremely prepared for her classes while making learning enjoyable for her students. Ms. Stranan is devoted to St. Thomas Aquinas High school and serves on several committees including the Leadership Council, the OCSAA Accreditation team, and the Athletic Hall of Fame committee. She is a valuable part of the STA faculty and community.
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Melissa Gilson, Stinson Elementary School
It only takes a few seconds after walking into Mrs. Gilson's third-grade classroom to recognize and feel the positive, warm, and caring environment she offers her students. There are always smiles on the students' faces and there is never a moment they're not all actively involved in the lesson. The children enjoy Mrs. Gilson's warm, funny, and caring personality, making learning exciting and motivating for all!
Jessica Ventosa, Northwest Middle School
Jessica teaches sixth-grade language arts and last year directed the high school musical, “Hello Dolly.” She is a creative and active instructor who is adored by her students. Jessica gets the most out of her students through a caring personality and good old-fashioned hard work.
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Deborah Toney, Whittier Elementary
Mrs. Toney serves as a teacher leader on both our building and district leadership teams analyzing data to improve students learning. Mrs. Toney loves to read books and brings stories alive to her kindergarten students by using different voices. Her students are always learning new words and math problems.
Karen Deitrick, Massillon Washington High School
Karen has been a teacher within the Massillon City Schools for more than 20 years and the instructor of the teaching professions CTE program for six years. In that time, Karen has taken the program from an enrollment of approximately 15 students to more than 60 students. The teaching professions program is designed to prepare students for a teaching career and allows for college credit opportunities. Students in teaching professions focus on key concepts which include: a career in education, teacher professionalism, creating environments for student learning, and organizing content knowledge for student learning, etc. Upon successful completion of a portfolio, students can earn college credit. This program is an opportunity to work with children in Massillon City Schools and gain experience for a teaching career.
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Entertainment industry now worth UGX 140 Billion – UBOS
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The contribution of the entertainment industry to the country’s economy is higher than previously reported, according to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics.
The new figures, released after UBOS re-based the economy, show that the entertainment industry grew by 30 percent in 2016/17 compared to a decline of 2.4 per cent that had been reported that year.
This puts the contribution of the entertainment industry at 141.5 billion shillings, equivalent to 0.3 percent of the entire contribution of the services sector to Uganda’s GDP. Collectively, the services sector, where entertainment belongs, contributes 47.1 trillion Shillings to Uganda’s economy.
Alex Muhangi, who runs the Comedy Store outfit for stand-up comedy, told URN that they attest to the growth of the entertainment industry. He added that many people are choosing to relax after a long day and they end up in entertainment shows.
Last month, Nyege Nyege festival, a week-long partying fiesta, attracted thousands of revellers from around the world to Jinja. So did the blankets and wine festival in August, which equally attracted hundreds of people who spend on drinks and accommodation services. The music industry has also been robust, with many local musicians well-off than the most lot in other professions.
Last week, an all-female made film in Uganda, Bed of Thorns, which is about gender-based violence, won the Art House Prize in the United Kingdom, an indicator that local acts are starting to match global standards. However, even with this growth, some participants are still fighting to earn decently from the industry.
Rolands Tibirusya, a live painter, said most Ugandans are yet to appreciate art and pay for it. It is mostly foreigners and corporate Organisation that can spare some money for artworks.
Also, some musicians say they are not earning much from their works. Most people download their works from the internet and use them without paying a penny.
Last July, Music artists lobbied and led to the suspension of the top leadership of the Uganda Performing Rights Society-UPRS because it was not remitting money paid to it for use of their works. The UPRS Chief Executive Officer James Wasula and Dickson Matovu, the Compliance Officer are still on suspension.
Sophie Gombya, a musician, told URN then that music is a business and artistes need to earn what they deserve.
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Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #2) (Hardcover)
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 9780316133975, 528pp.
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Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war.
This is not that world.
Art student and monster's apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is--and what she is. But with this knowledge comes another truth she would give anything to undo: She loved the enemy and he betrayed her, and a world suffered for it.
In this stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Karou must decide how far she'll go to avenge her people. Filled with heartbreak and beauty, secrets and impossible choices, Days of Blood & Starlight finds Karou and Akiva on opposing sides as an age-old war stirs back to life.
While Karou and her allies build a monstrous army in a land of dust and starlight, Akiva wages a different sort of battle: a battle for redemption. For hope.
But can any hope be salvaged from the ashes of their broken dream?
Laini Taylor is the New York Times bestselling author of Days of Blood & Starlight, Daughter of Smoke & Bone, the Dreamdark books Blackbringer and Silksinger, and the National Book Award finalist Lips Touch: Three Times. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, and their daughter, Clementine. Her website is www.lainitaylor.com.
Praise For Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #2)…
A Top Ten Amazon Best Book of the Year for Teens
New York Times Bestseller
A Junior Library Guild Selection of the Year
* "Taylor continues to build an irresistible fantasy world in this grim sequel to her masterfulDaughter of Smoke & Bone...Taylor's dazzling writing and skill at creating suspense are strong as ever; fantasy lovers will gobble up this book with satisfaction."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
* "The future of Karou, her ill-fated romance with Akiva, and the survival of both of their races await readers in the concluding volume; it promises to be a doozy."—The Horn Book, starred review
"Emotionally intense...memorable characters and turns of phrase."—Kirkus
* "Taylor manages to make a five-hundred-page epic read at a breakneck speed that will have readers struggling to finish in one sitting. This sequel to Daughter of Smoke & Bone will paradoxically satisfy readers' desire for more of Karou's story while leaving them begging for the third installment."—VOYA, starred review
* "The impossible choices each character faces compel readers to consider the fission when ethics slam into power, creating a chain reaction of pain and grim, uncertain outcomes that must be worked through even if chances for hope on the other side are slim. Of course, [readers will be left] in breathless anticipation for the next installment, but the intensity of this middle piece is a satisfying feast all on its own."—BCCB, starred review
"The next Next Big Thing."—Wired
"It is written masterfully and filled with poetic lyricism that tricks you into believing you are reading a classic. The book is melancholy and the pain of the characters is so etched into the pages that after you put the book down you find yourself hovering in dark corners, muttering to yourself about the cruelty of the world. But don't let that put you off from reading what will become a classic in literature in the decades to come, for sure. I am eagerly awaiting book three. Mrs Taylor! Bring it on!"—Fantasy Book Review
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Chinese government accused of decade of cyber attacks on Southeast Asia
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Christy Gren , April 13, 2015 / 1540 0
The security firm discovered the espionage after some of the malware used by the hackers was found to have affected defense-related clients in the U.S.
According to the California-based security software firm FireEye, the Chinese government is behind a newly discovered set of malware attacks against businesses, government agencies and corporate companies across India and Southeast Asia over the past ten years.
FireEye released a 69-page technical report on the group, which it calls APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) 30. The report claimed the cyber spying operations have been ongoing since at least 2005.
The cyber spying and corporate espionage were directed against targets based in India, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines and many more. It has targeted organisations via spear phishing, or sending emails that contain harmful links or malicious attachments.
According to Jen Weedon, manager of strategic analysis at FireEye, the security firm discovered the espionage after some of the malware used by the hackers was found to have affected defense-related clients in the U.S.
The group has routinely upgraded its malware, but the tools it uses are usually not that advanced, and it has used some of the same command-and-control infrastructure for years on end.
The organizations targeted by APT 30 would have possibly had slack security postures, which made it easy for them to intrude without needing to use more advanced attack methods, Weedon said.
APT 30 has had special interest in the relationship between China and India, including border issues, FireEye's report said. The groups focus on those specific subjects make it likely that it is backed by China.
The group has created tools that are particularly designed to move from systems connected to the Internet to those that are not connected. APT 30 developed malware components with worm-like abilities that can attack removable drives such as USB sticks and hard drives. Those devices can transmit the malware if connected to a device on an air-gapped network.
FireEye said it has come across several groups who have developed this capability; however APT 30 seems to have made this deliberation at the beginning of their development efforts in 2005, clearly much earlier than several other advanced groups they have tracked.
Since long, FireEye has done several reports on groups it has linked to China. However, this group does not seem to be linked any of the other ones and operated in relative seclusion. APT 30 has its very own build out resources, and does not share attack infrastructure with other groups, Weedon said.
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2017 Edizione Pennino
Edizione Pennino Zinfandel honors Francis Ford Coppola’s maternal grandfather,
Francesco Pennino, a composer who was born in Naples, Italy and emigrated to America.
“Edizione” means “edition” in Italian, so this is Inglenook’s “Pennino Edition” of Zinfandel.
Two historic Zinfandel clones, Morisoli and Werle, complement each other in the creation
of this tribute wine. The Morisoli lends structure, sweet fruit, and spice, in harmony with
Werle’s inherent richness and dark fruit tones. The oldest Zinfandel vines on the historic
Inglenook estate in our vineyard blocks called Cow Barn, Woodshed, and Carriage, were
planted in 1974 and 1978, and continue to provide the core of the Pennino blend.
Edizione Pennino Zinfandel honors Francis Ford Coppola’s maternal grandfather, Francesco Pennino, a composer who was born in Naples, Italy and emigrated to America. “Edizione” means “edition” in Italian, so this is Inglenook’s “Pennino Edition” of Zinfandel. Two historic Zinfandel clones, Morisoli and Werle, complement each other in the creation of this tribute wine. The Morisoli lends structure, sweet fruit, and spice, in harmony with Werle’s inherent richness and dark fruit tones. The oldest Zinfandel vines on the historic Inglenook estate in our vineyard blocks called Cow Barn, Woodshed, and Carriage, were planted in 1974 and 1978, and continue to provide the core of the Pennino blend.
In 2017, Inglenook’s organically farmed estate vineyard received bountiful rainfall throughout winter and spring – nearly 50 inches. Fueled by the abundant rain, bud break occurred ten days earlier than it had the previous year, which foreshadowed an earlier harvest. Temperatures throughout the growing season were steady, except for three brief periods of heat during the summer. The Zinfandel vines were harvested by hand from the first to the third week of September.
Winemaker’s Tasting Notes
With its vibrant violet-hued ruby color, the 2017 Edizione Pennino Zinfandel is youthful in appearance. Aromas are complex, ranging from ripe strawberry and black raspberry to warm blackberry pie, clove, and a hint of blood orange zest. The wine is velvety, generous, and round. This is a classic example of Inglenook Zinfandel.
Blend: 95% Zinfandel, 3% Primitivo, and 2% Petite Sirah
Barrel Regime: 18 Months, 15% New American Oak, 10% New French Oak, with 75% Neutral American & French Oak
Pennino Song Title: “Gelosa Mia” (1920)
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"The league of nations founded by the prophet of Islam put the principle of international unity and human brotherhood on such universal foundations as to show candle to other nations." He continues: "The fact is that no nation of the world can show a parallel to what Islam has done towards the realization of the idea of the League of.. More
Islamic etiquette related to gatherings – II
Verily, every get-together must include mentioning and thinking of Allah; do you hear a verse from the Quran, a Prophetic Hadeeth, a religious advice, discussion revolving around an Islamic ruling or an Islamic reminder in today’s gatherings except for those upon whom Allah has mercy? We must pay attention to this dangerous, negative trend.. More
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We must pay attention to our gatherings and meetings, because they have a major effect on us. If one were to take a quick look at Muslim gatherings today, he would find that it is nothing but a means of people occupying themselves with life, each according to his interest or field of work; this is aside from indulging in some prohibitions and.. More
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When wearing a new garment: Whenever the Prophet, sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam, used wear a new garment, he sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam would say: “Allahumma lakal-hamdu Anta kasawtaneeh, as’aluka min khayrihi wa khayri maa suni’a lah, wa a’oothu bika min sharrihi wa sharri maa suni’a lah (O Allah, for You is all praise, You have.. More
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Examples of our Salaf (predecessors) calling people to Allah: The Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, shouldered this responsibility during the lifetime of the Prophet sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam and after his death. They were very zealous in calling people to Allah and guiding them to the right path. This is why they, may Allah be.. More
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Many social problems result from loans because many people overlook the etiquettes which Islam legislated for the debtor and the creditor, and should the debtors and the creditors adhere to such etiquettes, then many problems would be solved. Some of these etiquettes regarding the creditor are to delay the debtor who is unable to pay on due.. More
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Repaying in the best manner: The debtor should repay in the best manner. Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, reported: “A harsh Bedouin came to the Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam, asking him to repay a young camel he, sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam, had borrowed from this Bedouin. The Bedouin used harsh words when.. More
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The Muslim's attitude towards this holiday should be clear:1- He should not celebrate it, or join others in their celebrations of it, or attend their celebrations because it is forbidden to celebrate the festivals of non-Muslims.Ath-Thahabi, may Allah have mercy upon him, said: "If the Christians have a festival and the Jews have a festival, which.. More
Many people are afflicted with the habit of consuming this poison, which wastes their money, ruins their health and weakens their bodies. There is another, more evil, consequence that smoking has, which is materialised in those who smoke having an evil end. A smoker was on his deathbed, and his brother came to him and urged him to utter the two testimonies.. More
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Outdoor Start-up Cortazu Wins ISPO Gold Award
Promotion I 02/03/2019
Cortazu Re-Defines Corporate Sustainability
The ISPO Awards 2019 once more display the sports industry’s most outstanding products. Cortazu is among the Gold Award winners in the field of outdoor apparel. The young brand from the Netherlands reaps the coveted prize for its Recycled Nylon 3-layer jacket and shows how the concept of sustainability can be realized without being just an empty phrase.
Cortazu combines style, functionality and sustainability in its products. In collaboration with Green Threads, Cortazu has developed a lightweight 3L stretch fabric made from 100% recycled nylon for its Recycled Nylon 3-layer jacket. The nylon comes from post-industrial waste. For the innovative and environmentally friendly high-performance jacket, the Dutch outdoor brand will receive the ISPO Award Gold Winner in the Outdoor Apparel segment in 2019.
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For co-founders Wiebe Poelmann and Wouter de Roy van Zuidewijn the ISPO award is a big confirmation. Not only of having an excellent product, that reached marketability after countless hours of hard work, but also of their vision behind the brand: “When we started our business – Cortèz Outerwear currently being changed to Cortazu.com – two years ago, our vision was to build a brand that inspires people to get outside while improving the world around us. We implemented this through a direct-to-consumer model that allows us to sell directly to our customers while avoiding high retail markups that drive up the price. By doing so, we are able to deliver premium products, comparable with the best brands in the industry, at a much better price point. If you combine this with our focus on sustainability it becomes a very attractive combination for our customers. Winning the ISPO Gold Award, in that respect, confirms our believe that you can make the highest quality outerwear in a way that is good for the environment, without breaking the bank.”
Cortazu: outdoor brand for adventurers with environmental awareness.
Creating the Highest Quality Products in a Fair and Sustainable Way
For Cortazu, it already starts during the concept phase. All products are being designed in-house, focusing on sustainability, simplicity and functionality. By giving great attention to all the small details and only using premium components and technical fabrics, Cortazu is able to create products with a high level of workmanship.
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The products are manufactured at Vert Fashion Company – owned by one of the co-founders, Herman Poelmann – a producer for many prominent outdoor brands. This allows Cortazu to fully control its supply chain and work closely with all their suppliers. In the case of the awarded shell jacket, Cortazu partnered up with fabric supplier Green Threads to produce their environment-friendly Recycled Nylon 3L membrane. Being selected for an ISPO Gold Award by a jury of 43 industry experts from 12 different countries shows that Cortazu delivers on their promises.
Cortazu’s ingredients: high-quality products within a sustainable production at a very fair price point
Giving Back – Social Engagement
Cortazu’s market entry accompanied by three particular impressive Kickstarter campaigns led to over 3.500 clients from over 55 countries within only two years after the company was founded. One would assume, it’s about time to maximize revenue now. But the sustainable approach of the Amsterdam based brand does not end after the production process. Cortazu wants to give something back to the world around us and to socially engage.
One first step was becoming the Dutch Paralympics Snowboard- team’s sponsorship partner. A cooperation that obviously doesn’t attract a maximum of media attention. But that was not de Roy van Zuidewijn’s priority goal: “We’ve gotten a lot of input from many athletes for our products, and we are very thankful for their help. That’s why we also wanted to give something back. From our point of view, the Paralympics team is remarkably supportable. Those athletes are much less facilitated than their non-handicapped colleagues in this sport.” All the more reason for Cortazu to help them out with their products.
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Don’t Sell to Get, but Sell to Give
Cortazu doesn't exist just to sell outerwear products. They want to activate people to create their own adventures while supporting the world around us. That's also why they partnered up with Justdiggit, “Together with this Dutch NGO, we are on a mission to cool down the planet by re-greening land in Africa. Because we all know, greener land makes a cooler planet.” This also resonates with Cortazu’s customers, mostly Millenials who value the fact that the brand does more than just delivering a product. Cortazu is one of those new brands that challenge the traditional way of doing business and seems to be appreciated for it by its customers.
With love to the small details: Cortazu stands for high functionality.
Ambitious Goals for the Future
The Justdiggit project was by far not meant to be the end of Cortazu’s commitment. Like in any other enterprise, the Dutch company is submitted to economic viability, though not just focusing on maximization of capital: “We constantly develop and try to find new ways to improve, may it be in the field of sustainable production or in terms of our social dedication. Our brand is steadily growing and we are looking for new employees fitting our passion and attitude. Our participation in the ISPO-Awards was not just out of publicity reasons, but foremost to show a bigger audience and the industry our approach. As the adventure to grow Cortazu into a well-established outdoor brand just started, we are looking forward to meeting new investors and potential partners, enabling us to realize our projects and future goals in an even more powerful manner.”
Cortazu's credo is to create high quality products in a fair and sustainable way.
For questions or to get in touch with Cortazu you can contact Wiebe or Wouter. Cortazu will be awarded with the ISPO Gold Award 2019 on Sunday, February 3rd, 2019 at 2pm on the ISPO Brandnew stage in hall B4.
Cortazu’s founders and product managers: Wiebe Poelmann, Wouter de Roy van Zuidewijn and Herman Poelmann (f.l.t.r.).
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ANALYSIS: Israel’s Increasing Role in the Global War on Terror
ISIS is planning a comeback, but it and other jihadist groups will have to contend with an empowered Jewish state
July 17, 2019 | Yochanan Visser
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The Israeli spy agency Mossad and the IDF’s Military Intelligence have thwarted some 50 terror attacks worldwide over the course of three years Israeli broadcaster Mako reported at the beginning of last week.
The foiled terror attacks were the work of Iran and the Islamic State Jihadist group according to Mako.
Israeli intelligence delivered information about planned terror attacks against twenty countries among them Turkey where the Mossad helped foiling no less than 12 attacks by ISIS despite worsening diplomatic relations between Israel and the Erdogan regime in Ankara.
Intelligence was shared with Turkey even after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan ramped up his vicious rhetoric against Israel during flare-ups in the conflict with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
Erdogan even likened Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and claimed Israel was committing “cultural genocide” against the Palestinian Arabs.
“Today, the Palestinians are subjected to pressures, violence and intimidation policies no less grave than the oppression done to the Jews during WWII,” The Turkish dictator told participants in a conference on Jerusalem last year.
Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein responded to the news by saying: “It appears that not only the citizens of Israel owe thanks to the Mossad. It would be interesting if the tyrant Erdogan would be kind enough to thank us for saving the lives of his citizens.”
Needless to say that Erdogan remained mum on the Mako report.
Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu of Israel, furthermore, revealed that Israeli intelligence had helped thwart an ISIS bomb attack on a Etihad Airways flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi by alerting Australian officials.
“That plane from Sydney to Abu Dhabi was going to be exploded in midair, We found out through our cyber activities, we found out that ISIS was going to do this and so we alerted the Australian police and they stopped this, before it happened,” Netanyahu told participants in a cyber security conference.
“If you multiply that 50 times, that will give you an idea of the contribution that Israel has made to prevent major terrorist operations, especially from ISIS , in dozens of countries and most of those cases were foiled because of our activities in cyber-security,” the longest serving Israeli PM added.
The Mossad also helped to foil a Hezbollah attack on the British capital London as well as an Iranian plot to bomb the French capital Paris Israeli officials told Channel 11 in Israel.
Israeli intelligence sharing on ISIS attacks against mostly Western countries could become even more important in light of recent developments involving the Jihadist organization.
According to a new report by the Institute for the Study of War ISIS is working on a come-back in Iraq and Syria while “categorizing all of its global operations as part of a campaign called “Soldiers Harvest”.
The campaign entails the regrouping of forces in Syria and Iraq where ISIS has some 30,000 fighters at its disposal and the expansion of operations to countries outside the Middle East.
In Congo, India and Pakistan ISIS has created three new ‘provinces’ while launching a devastating attack on Christians in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.
ISIS has now embarked on a battle of attrition in Iraq and Syria where the Jihadist group is using vehicle-born improvised explosive devices (VIEBD’s) and motorcycle-born improvised explosive devices (MIEBD’s) to saw mayhem.
The Iraqi branch of ISIS has, for example, already staged a string of attacks with VIEBD’s and MIEBD’s against the oil-rich Kurdish city of Kirkuk.
On May 30, ISIS-leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the start of a “global battle of attrition and the end of the ‘Soldiers Harvest’.”
Since then, ISIS has conducted ‘operations’ in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, West-Africa, Libya, Somalia, Central Africa, Pakistan and the Sinai desert in Egypt.
The Jihadist group also prepared for a terrorist attack in Israel which was foiled after the Palestinian Authority security forces, which received a tip from Israeli intelligence, arrested a 23-year-old Palestinian woman from a village near Qalqiliya.
Over the past two months, ISIS also posted chilling images of imminent attacks on the Palace of Westminster in Great Britain and the Big Ben in London on social media.
“London attacks coming soon” red a banner on the poster depicting a burning Big Ben.
Another image posted by ISIS members depicted “a balaclava-clad man wielding a knife dripping with blood standing over New York city with the caption: ‘Just Terror. Fight them in your country,” the Mirror in Great Britain reported.
“When the sacred months have passed (a reference to Ramadan) then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in them at every place of ambush,” ISIS wrote on one of the posters referring to Surah at-Tawbah 9:5-15 of the Quran.
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Low-fee brokerage Houwzer nabs $4.5M more in funding
Charging a $2,500 listing fee, the startup reported closing more than 500 transactions in Philadelphia in 2018
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Houwzer serves homebuyers and sellers in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and with the new funding, plans to expand to a third, as-yet-unnamed, market in the next year.
Low-fee brokerages sometimes come out swinging and then sputter or face-plant.
But Houwzer is going strong. This Northeastern startup, which claims to provide full brokerage service at low fees, recently raised an additional $4.5 million in financing, Inman has learned.
Houwzer serves homebuyers and sellers in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and with the new funding, plans to expand to a third, as-yet-unnamed market in the next year.
Though homebuying and selling startups such as Opendoor are hogging much of the real estate spotlight, Houwzer is among a handful of tech-powered, low-fee brokerages that are making at least some headway. Others include Redfin, Purplebricks, Homie and Trelora.
Houwzer’s latest funding round was led by Admiral Capital Group, co-founded by the former NBA star David Robinson, and will also be used to continue building a technology platform for agents and clients that integrate with mortgage and title services.
Houwzer CEO Mike Maher. Credit: Houwzer
“With the funds from this round, Houwzer will vertically integrate mortgage financing, likely through acquisition, as it seeks to become a true disruptor – a better, faster, and cheaper alternative for the customer with an end-to-end residential resale platform providing a one-stop shopping experience for home sellers and buyers alike,” Houwzer CEO Mike Maher told Inman.
Like many low-fee brokerages, Houwzer has raised its pricing over time — from what was once cast as a “0% listing commission” (even though sellers were charged a $495 fee at closing) to $995 and then, most recently, to $2,500.
But the company remains highly affordable, particularly if Houwzer does, as it claims, provide the full range of services provided by traditional commission-based brokerages.
That full-service commitment is one characteristic that sets Houwzer apart from some other venture capital-backed discounters, which tend to put more work in the hands of customers.
Another, Houwzer CEO Mike Maher said, is that Houwzer serves both sellers and buyers in equal number, rather than focusing on one or the other. (Maher dubs Houwzer “the most balanced modern discount brokerage on the planet.”)
In Houwzer’s home market of Philadelphia, where the startup launched in 2015, the company sold 297 listings in 2018, up 67 percent year over year, and represented buyers in the purchase of 238 homes, up 69 percent year over year, according to Maher.
In D.C., where Houwzer touched down in the spring of last year, it closed a total of 47 transactions. Annual revenue has more than doubled every year since Houwzer debuted, Maher said.
Also differentiating Houwzer is the brokerage’s offer of “transferable” buyer rebates and its practice of employing salaried agents with benefits, rather than using agents who are commission-based independent contractors.
Houwzer also claims to have been the first brokerage to earn B Corporation certification, which the nonprofit B Lab awards to companies that meet “the highest standards of verified, overall social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability.”
B Corp firms are actually “legally required to consider the impact of their decisions on their employees, suppliers, community, consumers, and environment,” Maher previously told Inman.
“The leadership team at Houwzer values their employees and communities, as much as their clients, and that’s not always the norm,” Robinson said in a statement. “They have the opportunity to disrupt a legacy industry, while also doing a lot of good.”
The new funding round — which is comprised of convertible debt, not equity financing — brings Houwzer’s total to $6.5 million, following a seed round of $2 million in convertible debt.
Other Houwzer investors include Independence Capital Partners, who co-led the the latest round, Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners and Start-Up PHL.
Email Teke Wiggin.
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United States claim clean sweep in PT2 as women's triathlon debuts at Rio 2016 Paralympics
By Dan Palmer
The United States claimed a clean sweep of the podium in the PT2 class as women's triathlon took centre stage at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games at Copacabana Beach.
Allysa Seely led home Hailey Danisewicz and Melissa Stockwell as female athletes came to the fore following three men's races yesterday.
With the sport making its Paralympic debut in Rio it was an historic occasion and the US trio made sure to write their names into the record books.
Seely triumphed in 1hr 22min 55sec after Stockwell had led following the swim and Danisewicz led after the bike.
"It's been an amazing season," said Seely, who will also compete in athletics over 200 metres.
"I knew I needed to have a really strong swim out there, to get as close to the front as I could, put as much time in between me and some of my competitors.
"Coming off the bike, I had a lot of work to do.
"I put my head down and I went for it.
"I'm a runner at heart and that's my soul, so I really just gave it everything I had and I'm really excited with how everything turned out."
Grace Norman became the first-ever Paralympic women's triathlon champion ©Getty Images
Another American to write history was Grace Norman, who claimed the first-ever women's Paralympic triathlon gold medal in the opening race of the day in the PT4 class.
She came home in 1:10.39 to edge Britain's Laura Steadman, the silver medallist in 1:11.43 and France's Gwladys Lemoussu who bagged bronze in 1:14.31.
"It feels amazing," said Norman, also a 400m runner.
"It's been a long journey, a lot of training, a lot of everything.
"So to come across that line in first for the US, to make first in the history of paratriathlon, is just an incredible feeling.
"Last year here at the test event she [Steadman] beat me out of the water by around a minute, and so I've been working extremely hard on my swim.
"So to move up and see improvements like that here have just been a reward.
"I'm seeing my hard work pay off.
"I've improved in the bike and the run as well, but definitely the swim has been my big improvement."
Australia's Kate Kelly won the PT5 title in 1:12.18, with Britons Alison Patrick and Melissa Reid completing the podium in 1:13.20 and 1:14.07 respectively.
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Triple Olympic champions qualify fastest in men's C2 at ICF Wildwater Canoeing World Championships
By Daniel Etchells
Triple Olympic gold medallists Pavol and Peter Hochschorner qualified fastest in the men’s C2 event as action continued today at the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Wildwater World Championships in La Seu in Spain.
The Slovakian twin brothers clocked a time of 57.78sec to finish 0.45 seconds ahead of France's reigning world champions Stéphane Santamaria and Quentin Dazeur.
Another French pairing, Louis Lapointe and Tony Debray, were 0.95 seconds behind in third place.
The Hochschorner siblings won C2 Olympic gold medals at Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, and spoke of how it was nice to be back in the same boat at a major international event.
"It was a good run for us because we had made some big mistakes during training, so this was our first good run this week," Pavol Hochschorner said.
"It’s been a long time since we have sat together in a whitewater boat, so it’s been very interesting.
"It’s been hard changing a slalom boat for this one.
"This was a good run.
"If we can make another one like this one, it will be good in the final."
France's Elsa Gaubert and Margot Béziat qualified quickest in the women's C2 ©ICF
The field also included Rio 2016 Olympic gold medallists, Slovakian cousins Ladislav and Peter Škantár.
They were unable to progress to the final after finishing 3.81 seconds off the pace in ninth place.
In the women’s C2, France’s Elsa Gaubert and Margot Béziat qualified quickest in 1:05.68.
The Czech pairing of Marie Nemcova and Tereza Kneblova finished second in 1:06.99, while Italians Marlene Ricciardi and Cecilia Panato came third in 1:07.73.
"It was a good run, but it was only qualification so tomorrow it is the big race," Gaubert said.
"We are very motivated and will give the best we can, so we will see."
Béziat added: "We only paddled together for the first time last year, and this year we have only trained together two times.
"The course is really different for C2 than C1 – it’s a new experience but we really enjoy doing this together."
The first medals of the ICF Wildwater World Championships are due to be contested tomorrow.
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Daniel Etchells graduated from the University of Huddersfield with a BA honours degree in Media and Sports Journalism in 2010. Before joining insidethegames.biz, Daniel covered football for various national newspapers through the Wardle Whittell Agency and undertook placements writing for the official website of his beloved Manchester United, the Manchester Evening News and BBC Sport.
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Comment: the rules of engagement
Channels: SAA/ALM, Outsourcing, Risk, Governance, Regulation
Companies: Aviva, Allianz Global Investors, Allianz SE, Manulife, Axa Investment Managers and Legal & General Investment Management
The same day a report highlighting investors’ shortcomings in coal investment policies was published, investors with a combined $32trn in assets demanded governments increase action on climate change. Vincent Huck tries to reconcile the news
The two important pieces of news were widely covered in the press, but they have been scarcely correlated. Attempting to compare the two reveals the “good, bad and ugly” aspects of how investors are addressing climate change.
On 9 November, 415 investors with a combined $32trn in assets signed a statement that asks governments to strengthen their Nationally Determined Contributions to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
It has been called the single largest policy intervention from investors on climate change.
“The global shift to clean energy is underway, but much more needs to be done by governments to accelerate the low carbon transition and to improve the resilience of our economy, society and the financial system to climate risks,” the group of investors said.
The statement requested governments to phase out thermal coal power, put a meaningful price on carbon and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. It also asks that they help accelerate private sector investment into the low-carbon transition and commit to improve climate-related financial reporting.
Signatories included insurance household name such as Aviva, Allianz Global Investors, Allianz SE, Manulife, Axa Investment Managers and Legal & General Investment Management.
Published the same day, a report by InfluenceMap, a UK non-profit organisation, found that big investors with a combined $40trn in assets had increased their holdings in thermal coal reserves by a fifth between 2016 and 2018.
The research, based on the Thomson Reuters Lipper financial database, introduced the thermal coal intensity (TCI) metric, expressed in tons/$m assets under management (AuM), and found that BlackRock held the most coal-dense portfolios among the 10 largest managers of listed funds.
Allianz, registered the lowest TCI with just 80 tons/$m AuM. Axa, on the other hand, more than doubled its thermal coal holdings between March 2016 and June 2018.
“Most of this increase stems from Axa’s majority-owned subsidiary AllianceBernstein (AB) acquiring stakes in Peabody Energy and Arch Coal,” the report read.
“We cannot confirm the accuracy of all the data in the file, as we don’t send our data directly to Thomson Reuters Lipper,” an Axa spokesperson told Insurance Asset Risk. “we do not use ‘reserves’ as a criterion for building our coal exclusion list, but instead use the Global Coal Exit List developed by NGO Urgewald. This explains why the issuers you have identified are not necessarily in the scope of our exclusion list. The ‘coal reserves’ criterion does not capture well the more forward-looking approach embedded in the GCEL. It is difficult to compare both approaches.”
Axa’s investment restrictions apply to the insurer’s general accounts assets, the spokesperson continued, while the exposure identified in the report originate from exposure to third-party assets, on which the firm cannot impose ESG convictions top-down.
“However, Axa Investment Managers was one of the first asset managers to restrict coal investments for its third-party clients in 2017,” the spokesperson went on. “And for AB, after the IPO of our US businesses (Axa Equitable Holdings) in the spring, the Axa Group has announced its intention to fully sell down its ownership in EQH, hence in AB: these coal assets will therefore no longer be in Axa’s scope.”
At AB, Insurance Asset Risk was told that the firm foremost goal is to achieve the best risk-adjusted returns for its clients.
“We believe it is their decision to define which sectors don’t align with their beliefs,” a spokesperson said.
The ugly lies in the grey area in-between those two stories. Blaming others is not new and has always been easier than taking actions.
At a recent event, a panel of insurance investment professionals, praised - as they would - the stewardship role of institutional investors over what they characterised as the simple, and somewhat naïve, idea of divesting.
Considering that oil and gas companies have spent only 1.3% of total 2018 capital expenditure on low-carbon assets this year and $22bn in alternative energy since 2010, despite all the engagement efforts by institutional investors, I asked: “So when do you say enough is enough and divest.”
“When it becomes too hard or impossible to engage,” was the answer. But when I asked to define what “too hard” meant, little came out of the response.
I wouldn’t claim to know if divestment works better than engagement, but calling on someone to do something that you are not doing yourself doesn’t seem to be the right solution either.
To paraphrase Bob Dylan, when we cease to exist, then who will we blame?
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The next great graphite mine
Australian explorer Lincoln Minerals plans to capitalise on growing graphite demand with a high-grade project ideally located in South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula.
When mine profitability comes down to commodity prices, it pays for a mining company to have options for development. This has certainly been the case for South Australia-based explorer Lincoln Minerals Limited (ASX: LML), who held onto its graphite tenements for years before a significant price rise catapulted them to the top of the company’s priorities.
Many of Lincoln Minerals’ projects were assembled between 2001 and 2002, when there was a lull in the mining and exploration industry, says Managing Director John Parker.
He was one of the few entrepreneurs to see opportunity in iron ore at that time, and so put together a report focusing on forgotten iron ore deposits in South Australia.
Guided by this report, a private company applied for several exploration tenements on the Eyre Peninsula in 2003 and, after several years of deals and exchanges, these were among the number of tenements acquired by Lincoln Minerals before it listed in March 2007. Today, the company holds 4,215 square kilometres of exploration licences on the peninsula.
“When Lincoln Minerals listed in early 2007, we had only a few iron ore tenements and uranium was a hot topic,” says Parker.
“We had good base metal projects, and base metals are always a good investment opportunity. So we focused on uranium and base metals. Graphite at that time was not highly valued; we noted it in our prospectus, but focused on other projects.
“We reviewed graphite projects in 2009, but it wasn’t until 2011, when graphite prices went through the roof, that we started looking more seriously at our extensive graphite projects.”
The growth of graphite
Graphite, a form of carbon, is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity and boasts the highest natural strength and stiffness of any material, up to temperatures of 3,600C. These qualities make it a unique industrial mineral with numerous applications, many of them in growing markets such as steelmaking, electronics and lithium-ion batteries. Technology developers around the world are particularly excited about the innovative potential of graphene, the name for a layer of graphite that’s just one carbon atom thick. These factors have driven demand, causing the price of graphite to climb over recent years.
“Ignoring the huge spike in prices from late 2010 to mid-2012, graphite prices have seen a steady 15% growth year by year since 2009 and recent global developments, particularly in China, indicate that these price rises and opportunities for Lincoln Minerals are likely to continue,” says Parker.
China has dominated graphite production for the last 20 years, producing approximately 70% of the world’s graphite supply (65% flake graphite, 89% global amorphous graphite) at peak. However, due to various mine closures and trade agreements, China’s graphite exports have reduced significantly since 2007 – “perhaps by as much as 50%,” says Parker – opening up opportunities for new producers in other regions.
Kookaburra Gully
Lincoln Minerals’ main project, Kookaburra Gully, is a world-class flake graphite deposit, with a JORC-compliant Mineral Resource of 2.2 million tonnes at 15.1% graphitic carbon (TGC).
“It is among the world’s top 10 graphite deposits based on grade, and when exploration targets are taken into consideration it could become a top 10 deposit in size as well,” Parker remarks.
“It is easy to upgrade the ore to a concentrate with up to 97% total graphitic carbon and it is also a coarse-grained flake graphite deposit, with about 25% of the final concentrate being greater than 150 microns in flake size. Coarse flake graphite attracts some of the best prices.”
The Kookaburra Gully deposit was discovered in the 1980s by Pancontinental Mining Limited, but was not drilled or developed back then due to low graphite prices, resulting from China’s increasing domination of the market. With today’s higher prices, the deposit’s high grade, easy upgradeability and large flake size make it very valuable. Its close proximity to transport links and existing infrastructure make the project more cost-effective still.
“Kookaburra Gully is ideally located with respect to critical infrastructure,” says Parker.
“It is within a few kilometres of roads registered as ‘double road train’ routes, very close [35km] to the major shipping port of Port Lincoln, 10km from a disused reservoir that is suitable for process water, and a major high-voltage power connector is within 2km.”
The nearby city of Port Lincoln (population 14,000) provides a pool of skilled workers with mining experience, which should save Lincoln Minerals the effort and expense of operating a remote-area fly-in, fly-out operation. The city also has an airport, major regional hospital and a large number of engineering and other service companies.
Lincoln Minerals is currently working with Parsons Brinckerhoff to prepare a Mining Lease application for Kookaburra Gully, and plans to lodge it in March or April this year. The company expects the lease to be granted by the end of the year, enabling the commencement of trial mining and a pilot plant operation in either late 2014 or early 2015.
“In the meantime, Lincoln Minerals is forging ahead with detailed metallurgical test work on bulk drilling and trench samples, preparing a mine plan and planning additional drilling programmes for the next six months,” says Parker.
While Kookaburra Gully is certainly Lincoln Minerals’ main focus, the company does have a number of other projects in graphite and other minerals. With the Kookaburra Gully Extended project, Lincoln Minerals hopes to grow its existing Kookaburra Gully resource by an exploration target of 23-44 million tonnes at 10-15% TGC. It has completed an electromagnetic survey of the tenement, secured approval to drill there and intends to identify a JORC resource for it this year, through a major drilling programme.
Another graphite project, at the historic Koppio Graphite Mine, has an existing Inferred Mineral Resource of 57,000 tonnes at 13.1 TGC and exploration target of 1-5 million tonnes at 11-15% TGC. This project should also have a JORC Resource by the end of 2014. Further exploration work is planned for Lincoln Minerals’ remaining, longer-term graphite targets: including modelling and exploration target generation at Campoona Syncline, and a low-level Tempest airborne electromagnetic survey at Gum Flat-Sleaford Mere (also a target for iron ore).
As all this suggests, Lincoln Minerals has a very busy year ahead. Parker says the company has “heaps” to achieve in 2014.
“We want to get a mining lease for Kookaburra Gully, and maybe also for the Gum Flat iron ore project; commence trial mining and pilot plant processing at Kookaburra Gully; establish off-take agreements for proposed graphite production; drill out Kookaburra Gully Extended and Koppio Graphite Mine and establish a large, high-grade resource; and to add significant value to our shareholders,” he says.
“It’s full steam ahead!”
www.lincolnminerals.com.au
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NextDC picks Tullamarine for second Melbourne data centre
By Paris Cowan on May 19, 2016 9:43AM
Busy year for facilities owner.
NextDC has announced the successful purchase of a plot of land in the Melbourne suburb of Tullamarine on which it will build its newest facility in the city.
The company yesterday also announced the location for its second Brisbane data centre, picking Fortitude Valley as the site spot. The two new facilities have a combined budget of $160 million.
The new Victorian data centre, coined M2, will be the most ambitious of NextDC's new builds, eventually targeting 25MW IT load, with an initial operating capacity of 2MW.
It boasted that the $85 million project will directly employ as many as 200 jobs, and indirectly support another 100 within the supply chain.
NextDC CEO Craig Scroggie said the Tullamarine investment would produce a “resilient, highly connected facility”.
“This investment into Victoria’s growing IT industry and Australia’s wider business economy reflects the ongoing customer demand we’re experiencing for NEXTDC’s premium data centre services,” he said.
The company’s M1 facility, located in Port Melbourne, had reached 77 percent customer utilisation as of November last year.
NextDC first revealed its hunt for a new data centre site in the Victorian capital in August last year. It today said it has spent the months since assessing “a number of potential sites” on their power access, water and telecommunications infrastructure, plus proximity to potential security and environmental risks.
The new site will be close at hand for future customers flying into Melbourne’s Tullamarine airport.
Victorian innovation minister Philip Dalidakis welcomed the new jobs the build would create and said he hoped the facility would continue his mission of attracting tech industry players to the state.
“The new M2 data centre will be a regional presence to some of the world’s largest cloud computing platforms and further cement Victoria's reputation as a hub for ICT and cyber security investment,” he said.
Both the Brisbane and Melbourne projects are due to be completed in the second half of FY 2017, with the Melbourne site likely to reach completion closer to the end of the financial year.
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How NAB is transforming the world’s most complex Salesforce structure
By Justin Hendry on Mar 12, 2019 11:17AM
Bringing 2800 instances together.
The National Australia Bank is in the midst of an ambitious transformation of its core broker software platform, deemed the the world’s most complex Salesforce structure.
Amid a broader CRM transformation, the retail bank's brokerage division is a little under a year into the refresh of the web-based CRM system dubbed NAB Podium.
The platform is used by NAB’s three aggregators - or middlemen between the bank and brokers - known as PLAN, Choice and FAST, and supports lodgement to 52 different lenders.
It accounts for around 25 percent of the Australian brokerage market, which translates to about $50 billion worth of loan transactions every year.
The credit broking capability is a differentiator for NAB because the institution has historically held a strong foothold in specialist and business lending and services market compared to its peers.
Despite climbing to a market leading position in 2014 after a significant amount of investment by the bank, the Podium aggregation platform began to to slip behind its competitors that were quickly tooling-up.
“With the rapidly changing digital environment, we just couldn't keep up anymore,” Podium’s digital product manager Dan McCoy told Salesforce’s World Tour in Sydney last week, adding that the platform was now ranked fourth.
A big part of this was down to complaints from customers telling the bank the platform, which consists of 2800 deployed Salesforce Classic UI instances, as well as other custom in-house developed tools and code, was slow and its UI clunky and hard to use.
However the complexity of the infrastructure underpinning the application made it difficult to deploy changes, with the team still doing quarterly releases while competitors had shifted to doing monthly.
“We in fact have the most complex Salesforce structure in the world, and its folklore – not just in Australia, but actually in the US now – because we get called into a lot of business cases with product teams to help understand and find that solution,” McCoy said.
So last April the bank began its journey to re-envision the platform with a review of Podium’s current architecture that saw it engage Salesforce’s Envision advisory team to understand whether it was possible to simplify the platform’s 2800 instances into a single partner community.
Up until that point, the bank was unsure whether it was possible to re-platform the existing complexity onto a single instance.
“Through that engagement we actually proved that proof of concept, that we could use partner and customer community to achieve that,” McCoy said.
“At that point the tech guys retired and said: "all right, let's pick up what we've got now and put down”, and that's when we had a good robust conversation around, there's an opportunity to actually change the entire experience for our customers, and really take it to a next level.”
“Not just from a customer experience, but also from an infrastructure, deployment, things like that going forward.”
Following the completion of the review, Salesforce began a 12-week-long engagement to conceptualise the new platform in early January, and it wasn’t long into the program of work that the team began delivering results.
“Literally [in] a matter of two or three weeks we actually had a foundational set of capabilities already built out,” Salesforce senior program architect Sachin Siddalingaswamy said, adding that this was accelerated by leveraging a number of existing resources.
“So we had a head start based on a number of publicly available resources, but we had to come up with the initial sketch prototype, which we then evaluated with users and sought to get their feedback, over in Feb and March.”
Through this process “high-level discussions” were held with key stakeholders from the three aggregators Choice, PLAN and FAST to understand pain points and areas in need of change.
McCoy said the resulting prototypes were "critical" in order to secure investment in the next round of funding.
"We go through funding channels with the bank, so we had built prototypes, clickable prototypes, and a visual depiction of where we want to go to, that made the conversations a lot easier, which was critical," he said.
Podium delivery manager Stam Gonopoulos said the Podium refresh would eventually see the bank move to “a Lightning platform, with one org”, which was currently being worked through using continuous, agile delivery.
He said this would see “387 new screens”, 200 lightning components that are reusable to minimise development and testing effort, and 2000 custom fields. There is also the need for the new single instance to integrate with 30 outside applications.
A massive six-month migration of the “three-and-a-half terabytes of data and 1.5 billion records” contained in the thousands of Salesforce instances based on different data models into one would also take place from mid-year.
It is part of a broader transformation strategy that has already introduced a new digital access platform and an alternative supplier for lodgement.
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In December 2019, Cycles of Circulation researchers Karolina Sobecka and Jamie Allen undertake a teaching and research collaboration with designer/researcher Francesca Valsecchi at Tongji University Shanghai and her students.
Undeniably, some of the world’s most profound environmental changes are under way in China, as it is both highly impactful in terms of emmissions, as well as proactive in attempts to mitigate its own impact. As such, China serves as an integrative site of engagement in Cycles of Circulation, and the Tongji University trip serves as the first of a number of field visits to China during the project. We will initially explore with students and researchers, designers and artists, the cycles and circulation of carbon, as propagated in and through art and design that country.
Specific areas of collaborative work include visits to current carbon capture and sequestration projects ongoing in China, as well as discussions with burgeoning experiments in carbon markets throughout the country. It is work that follows on from visits Allen and Sobecka made during the summer of 2018. An outcome of this work-visit will be the publication of “The Carbon Catalogue”, a set of collaborative, collated writings and materials that sample contemporary global carbon cycle and environmental management, in China and beyond.
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Auden, W. H.
For The Time Being.
1944. New York: Random House, 1944. 8vo, 132 pp. Original blue boards with white cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Original printed dust-jacket faded and somewhat wormed at the folds. § First edition, first printing, preceding the UK first edition. As noted by the publisher on the copyright page this was..... More
Ayrton, Michael. Nashe, Thomas.
The Unfortunate Traveller.
1948. Great Britain, John Lehmann, 1948. 8vo, 122 pages. Fifteen black and white plates by Michael Ayrton. Original blue cloth with black plate and gold lettering on the spine. Slight tearing on upper jacket spine, and pages somewhat loose, fair condition. § First edition. Rigby Graham, Romantic Book Illustration..... More
Ayrton, William.
Mr. Barnacles and His Boat.
1856. London: Whittaker and Co., (1856). Oblong 8vo, original printed boards. Engraved title-page and twenty-four lithographic plates. Covers somewhat soiled and worn, rubbed at extremities of binding, lacking front free endpaper, short tear to one plate, some stain, a very good copy. § First Edition of this humorous visual short..... More
Balston, Thomas.
John Martin 1789-1854: His Life and Works.
1947. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1947. 8vo, 309, [1]pp. plus color frontispiece and 24 plates in black and white. Original blue buckram stamped in gilt to backstrip, original cream illustrated and printed dust jacket, top edge blue; color frontispiece and 24 plates in black and white at the..... More
The Life of Jonathan Martin, Incendiary of York Minster with some account of William and Richard Martin.
1945. London: MacMillan & Co., LTD, 1945. 8vo, x, 146, [2]pp. plus frontispiece and 15 plates in black and white. Original black cloth titled in gilt to backstrip; frontispiece from an engraving, with 15 black-and-white plates. Some staining and rubbing to boards, slight bumping to bottom right corner. Signed by..... More
Bawden, Edward.
Modern Reading. Edited by Reginald Moore. [no.] 21.
1952. London: Spring, 1952. Small slim 8vo, 94, (2, ads) pages. Original printed wrappers, a little worn but good. § Contains Bawden’s Statuary in Rome and Tivoli with ten drawings. More
Blake, William.
Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims Painted in Fresco by William Blake & by him Engraved & Published October 8 1810.
5188. [London: Colnaghi printing, after 5 March 1881]. Impression measures 93.9 x 30 cm., printed on laid India paper; recently cleaned. § Final state: it is worth noting that the only difference between the so-called fourth and fifth states is the absence of the scratched dry-point inscriptions clearly visible in..... More
The Plays of William Shakspeare [sic] accurately printed from the Text of the corrected Copy left by the late George Steevens [sic], Esq. With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli… and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, From the most eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chambers…
1805. London: C and J. Rivington, 1805. 10 volumes, royal 8vo, with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle, Cromek, Rhodes, Dodley, and two by William Blake. Original calf, rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip, also rather worn..... More
Blake, William. Bentley, G.E. Jr.
Vala; or, The Four Zoas. A Facsimile of the Manuscript, a Trancript of the Poem and a Study of its Growth and Significance by G. E. Bentley, Jr.
1963. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. Large folio, xviii, 220 pages. 142 pages of plates. Gray cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, without dust jacket, otherwise fine. § First edition thus. A fine production of the only facsimile of this huge manuscript. Bentley, Blake Books..... More
1963. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. Large folio, xviii, 220 pages. 142 pages of plates. Gray cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, dust jacket worn and with tears and nicks, otherwise fine. § First edition thus. A fine production of the only facsimile of this..... More
Blake, William. Ellis, E.J. and W.B. Yeats.
The Works of William Blake.
1893. London: Quaritch, 1893. 3 vols., large 8vo., profusely illustrated. In original green cloth with extensive gilt stampings of Blake designs to covers in bright condition, although spines now a little dulled with rubbing to edges and spine ends. All volumes very clean internally, with traces of dustiness to the..... More
1893. London: Quaritch, 1893. 3 vols., large 8vo., profusely illustrated. In original green cloth with extensive gilt stampings of Blake designs to covers in bright condition. The finest copy we have ever seen. § First edition of one of the most influential works on Blake. The Doheny copy with book..... More
Blake, William. Homer.
On Homer's Poetry. The Century Guild Hobby Horse Vol I, No. 7.
1887. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1887. 4to, pp 81-128, with a Burne-Jones frontispiece and other illustrations as called for. Includes Blake's "Sibylline Leaf on Homer and Virgil" at p 113, facsimilied by William Muir (but uncredited), with Herbert p.Horne's note on the illustration at pp 115/116. Very Good..... More
Blake, William. Milton, John.
Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake. Paradise Lost. Miscellaneous Poems. Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes.
1926. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, [viii], 283; [xii], 359 pp. Title pages in sepia and black, 27 black-and-white plates. Full stiff vellum, gilt-lettered backstrip, covers slightly bowed and spotted in the vellum. Two gift inscriptions at front. § De luxe edition, limited to 95..... More
Blanchard, Sidney Laman.
The Ganges and the Seine: Scenes on the Banks of Both.
1862. London: Chapman and Hall, 1862 2 vols., 8vo, (8), 316; (2), iv, 301pp. Original green cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt, a very good set. § First book edition, though the majority of the essays appeared first in Household Words and All The Year Round. Inexplicably scarce -- no copy..... More
Bottrall, Margaret
Songs of Innocence and Experience. A Selection of Critical Essays edited by Margaret Bottrall.
1970. London: Macmillan, 1970. 8vo, 245 pp. Paperback. § Bentley, Blake Books, 1261, gives a list of the essays herein contained, authors including such as Malkin, Lamb, and Linnell, up to Kathleen Raine. More
Boydell, John. (Shakespeare, William).
Boydell’s Graphic Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare; Consisting of a Series of Prints Forming an Elegant and useful Companion to the Various Editions of his Works, Engraved from Pictures purposely painted By the very first Artists and lately exhibited at the Shakespeare Gallery.
1803. London: Mess. Boydell & Co., London, Cheapside, [1803]. Large 4to (12.75 x x 16.75 inches), [7] ff., + engraved title page, frontispiece, 2 portraits and 97 plates illustrating the most-famous scenes from Shakespeare. In the de luxe binding of publisher’s straight-grain red morocco gilt, gilt-extra backstrip, gilt design on..... More
[Browning, R. & E.B.B.] Barnes, Warner.
Catalogue of the Browning Collection.
1966. The University of Texas, 1966. 8vo, 120 pp. Original white cloth lettered in brown on the upper board and backstrip, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. Fine in a lightly toned dust-jacket. § Limited to 1000 copies. With entries for over 400 items from the Texas University collections including many..... More
Browning, Robert.
The Last Ride.
1900. East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Press, 1900. 8vo, untrimmed, unpaginated. Title page and each stanza with gilt-ruled borders filled with elaborate, hand-colored Art Nouveau designs. Three quarter brown morocco with marbled paper boards, backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt. Pages with traces of the usual offsetting from the gilt, marbled..... More
Paracelsus.
1835. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, MDCCCXXXV [1835]. 8vo, (xii), (1)-216 pp. Uncut in the original drab paper boards, white paper label. 1.5cm chip from head of backstrip and a small section rubbed white at foot, label soiled but just legible, boards clean, a few light spots to the first..... More
Campbell, Thomas.
Gertrude of Wyoming: A Pennsylvania Tale, and Other Poems.
1809. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, 1809. Tall 4to, 134 pp. Red half-morocco and marbled boards with gilt to spine. Backstrip and joints repaired. Decorative endpapers. Untrimmed pages. Contains the inserted slip, pasted to page [4] which defines the word “Pelloch” (porpoise) which occurs on p. 8..... More
Cescinsky, Herbert.
English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton.
1929. Grand Rapids: Dean-Hicks, 1929. Large 4to, (xii), 438 pp. Frontispiece, and with more than nine hundred b/w illustrations. § First edition. A concise account of the development of English furniture and woodwork from the Gothic of the fifteenth century to the Classic Revival of the early nineteenth century... More
CRULL, Jodocus, presumed author.
An Introduction to the History of the Kingdoms and States of Asia, Africa and America, Both Ancient and Modern, According to the Method of Samuel Puffendorf, Counsellor of State to the Late King of Sweden.
1705. London: Printed by R. J. for T. Newborough, at the Golden Ball, J. Knapton, at the Crown, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and R. Burrough, 1705. 8vo, [xxiv], 621, [10(index)] pp. Contemporary panelled calf, long ago rebacked, with original backstrip laid down, and corners restored, four black morocco backstrip labels..... More
Dickens, Charles.
[Five Christmas Books:] A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas; The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home; The Battle of Life. A Love Story; The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out and A New Year In; The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time.
1843. London: Chapman & Hall, MDCCCXLIII (1843); London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846; London: Bradbury & Evans, MDCCCXLVI (1846); London: Chapman & Hall, MDCCCXLV (1845); London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 5 vols., 8vo, illustrated with engravings see below for the discussion of states and pagination. All volumes in full dark green..... More
[Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, pseud. Lewis Carroll]
The Hunting of the Snark.
1876. London: Macmillan, 1876. 8vo, xi, (2), 83, (3)pp, with a frontispiece and 8 full-page b/w wood-engraved illustrations after Henry Holiday and an “ocean chart” (actually blank) at p. 17. Original pictorial tan cloth, covers decoratively stamped in black with illustrations by Holiday, backstrip lettered in black, invisibly repaired and..... More
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The Latest May Day events and rallies around the Globe (all times local):
Greece was left with no nationwide rail, island ferry and other transportation services for a day as unions hold strikes and rallies to celebrate.
Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday for three distinct rallies and marches to parliament coordinated by unions and groups.
The Greek funds was left with bus, trolley bus and urban rail services all day due to a transport union strike, even though the town’s subway trains ran the majority of the day.
Thursday the train and island ferry services have been made to resume.
Russian authorities state that about 100,000 people are participating in a May Day rally in central Moscow.
Moscow authorities said on Wednesday that the rally organized on Red Square brought around 100,000 people.
From the occasion for rallies for workers’ rights, the May Day in Russia has changed over time to an official event carefully orchestrated by groups.
Opposition activists, however attempt to use the May Day to promote their agenda.
The activists’ group OVD-Info which compiles police reports on detentions of activists stated that six political activists are arrested prior to the dawn rallies. Separately, in the distant Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at Russia’s Far East, at least 10 individuals who showed up in the May Day rally wearing vests in a clear nod to the protest movement in France have been arrested by police.
May Day demonstrators who tried to parade Istanbul’s symbolic square in defiance of a ban were detained by police.
Turkey announced Taksim Square off-limits to May Day celebrations citing security issues. Roads leading to the square were obstructed and police permitted just groups of labour union representatives to lay wreaths at a monument.
However, small groups chanting”May Day is Taksim also it can’t be banned,” tried to violate the blockade. The official Anadolu news agency said more than two dozen were detained.
Political parties and trade unions will probably likely mark with agendas at the capital and government-designated regions in Istanbul.
Taksim holds symbolic value for Turkey’s labor movement. If shots were fired into the audience by a construction, in 1977, 34 people were murdered there during a May Day occasion.
Ahead of a May Day rally in more than a dozen cities, Germany’s biggest trade unions are urging voters refuse nationalism and right-wing populism and to take part in the European elections of this month.
A confederation of marriages with nearly 6 million associates, Even the DGB, said Wednesday that the European Union has helped ensure peace and brought advantages from holidays to protection, to millions.
The unions involved demanding EU-wide investments to enhance employment and growth, saying”people must feel the EU enhances their lives in a lasting and concrete way.”
The unions warned that the economic turmoil in Britain after its refusal to leave the European Union nationalism”shows what happens if people who snore fear but don’t have any plan for the upcoming gain the upper hand.”
Thousands of activists and trade union members expanding labour rights and demanding better working conditions and are indicating May Day by marching through the capitals of Asia.
A South Korean big umbrella trade union has issued a statement with a North Korean employees’ organization calling for the Koreas to drive ahead with commitments made over the course of a collection of summits that were inter-Korean this past year.
Many of the plans agreed between the Koreas, such as joint projects, have been held back by a lack of improvement in negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang.
May Day rallies are also being held at Myanmar, Malaysia, Cambodia, the Philippines and elsewhere.
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November 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment
There are very specific things we want in a James Bond film. Great action, dastardly villains who are larger than life and twice as buggy, and Bond girls who have evolved over the years to be a bit more than merely a pulchritudinous interlude. In Bond, as incarnated by Daniel Craig, we want a steely eyed agent, unequivocal about his license to kill; committed to the task at hand, be it murder or romance, and with a peculiar, but equally, steely sense of honor. In SPECTRE, we get most of them. This Bond, though still steely eyed, et als, is not the same 007 of SKYFALL. Perhaps the powers that be are injecting character development into the Bond mythos after the traumas he suffered with that adventure. That’s a mistake.
It’s fitting that Bond’s post-SKYFALL adventure should begin at a Day of the Dead parade. Aside from the arresting visuals the spectacle affords, it also provides the metaphor. Bond will be spending the film dealing with the ghosts of his past, from his one great love, Vesper, to the villains he’s bested, to the formidable M (Judy Dench), whose hold on 007 didn’t end when she died. The film, too, is haunted by ghosts of previous Bond films, slipping back into the formulaic action/adventure genre with a script that’s a little creaky, but there’s enough wit and panache to keep it chugging along.
Director Sam Mendes, as in SKYFALL, takes the story in a more elegant direction. If he isn’t quite the master of the numerous and effulgent action sequences that litter the film, he is nonetheless a fine visual storyteller. The opening sequence is a tour-de-force of a tracking shot that takes Bond, and his requisite beautiful companion, from the organized chaos of the ci-mentioned parade, into a hotel, up an elevator, into the beautiful companion’s room, and then across the rooftops of Mexico City as Bond’s dalliance must wait until his appointment for an assassination is done. This being the opening sequence, though, things don’t go quietly. Buildings explode, bad guys scurry, and chases are not necessarily earthbound.
Christophe Waltz
But the sound and the fury do signify something. There is that ring with the familiar octopus engraving on it, which leads Bond to a not un-merry widow (Monica Belluci), a dressing down by the new M (Ralph Fiennes), and a pact with an old enemy made in the interests of the greater good. In this case, saving the world from the evil machinations of a cabal out for, what else, world domination. Alas, only Bond believes in the cabal’s existence, a belief made a certitude when he infiltrates one of their super-secret meetings and lays his icy blue eyes on its leader (Christoph Waltz), the only man who can make 007 flinch just by looking at him. This is, of course, not what we want in Bond. The vulnerability is disconcerting. Bond being emotional as he is coming to terms with his past may be an original, maybe even interesting, thing to do with a character, it’s not, well, it’s not BOND.
Being still mostly the Bond of our dreams, he of course goes rogue. Of course he convinces M’s smitten assistant, Miss Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), to help him. Of course he convinces gadget whiz Q (Ben Wishaw) to risk his mortgage and the future welfare of his two cats in order to also throw in with 007’s caper. Fortunately, M is otherwise occupied, caught in the middle of a department merger at British Intelligence, and a snarky upstart (Andrew Scott) bent on ending the 00 program and replacing it with surveillance devices and drones.
An integral part of the caper, and of the pact with his old enemy, involves the old enemy’s toothsome daughter (Lea Seydoux), a psychiatrist who loathes Bond on sight, and through her snap analysis provides a pale ghost of hearkening back to SKYFALL’s sharp deconstruction of what makes 007 tick. Seydoux is delightfully pouty, and certainly luscious in a lemon custard way, but as a woman of science with a deep inner life, she is somewhat lacking. Never mind. She looks very good in the slinky dress she wears as she and Bond rediscover the romance of train travel.
SPECTRE takes the chance of offering us a new sort of Bond, one less gritty, less the blunt instrument that M described him as. True, for most of the film he is the man who breaks a sweat when taking down a helicopter single-handed, but one who never loses his cool. Perhaps it is the uneasy contrast between this new, introspective Bond and the story that embraces the idiom of fantasy, where evil masterminds have exquisite manners and formidable secret installations in the middle of nowhere. Waltz is divine as the evil mastermind in question, certainly insane, but only crazy like a fox, and positively giddy about his grandiose plans.
SPECTRE also does a neat job of integrating the paranoia of the current zeitgeist, casting as it does a baleful eye the limits, or lack thereof, that exist in the loss of privacy inherent in the technology available to conduct covert surveillance of everyone and everything on the planet. It certainly affords Fiennes excellent opportunities to declaim in somber, sober tones about the pitfalls of taking the human touch out of the spy game. Kudos for that, and for being so wickedly entertaining when Bond is being his smooth and lethal self. It’s enough to make SPECTRE a minor part of the Bond oeuvre, and to whet our appetites for the next installment.
What did you think of this movie?
Tagged With: cabals, covert surveillance, espionage, franchise, intrigue, James Bond, sequel, spy
Andrea’s Rating: 4
MPAA Rating:PG-13
Reasons for rating:for intense sequences of action and violence, sensuality and language, some disturbing images
Cast:Andrew Scott, Ben Wishaw, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes
Country:UK, USA
Director:Sam Mendes
Writer:Ian Fleming (characters), Jez Butterworth, John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Genre:Action
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Thin White Duke and Will Brooker as David Bowie: celebrating David Bowie at 70
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Saturday 7 January 2017
Time: 7.00pm - 11.00pm
Venue: Kingston School of Art at Knights Park, Grange Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2QJ
Following his immersive yearlong research, which attracted international media attention, Professor Will Brooker introduces three events to mark the publication of his book Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe, and David Bowie's 70th birthday: a live music event, Prof Brooker's inaugural lecture and a screening of his documentary.
Due to popular demand, Professor Will Brooker will be gracing the stage once again after his hugely successful, sell-out gig earlier this year.
In May 1972 David Bowie took to the stage at Penrhyn Road campus, a gig that would later be released as a live bootleg. Join us, 44 years later, as Professor Will Brooker, in the guise of Bowie himself - following his immersive yearlong research - fronts Thin White Duke, top Bowie tribute band, at Kingston University.
Please click here to book tickets for the The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Will Brooker: The Death and Resurrection of David Bowie.
Click here to book tickets to the screening of Being Bowie.
Please click here to view the trailer for Dr Brooker's new book.
Booking is essential to attend this event.
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Contact: Lucy Williams
Email: l.williams@kingston.ac.uk
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Anti-smoking pills do not raise risk of suicide
<p>photo provided by Pfizer shows Pfizer Discovery Medicinal Chemists Jotham Coe, left, and Jennifer Young in Groton, Conn. Seven years after U.S. regulators slapped their strictest warning on two popular smoking-cessation medicines, citing risks of suicidal behavior, a large international study found no such risk. Now Chantix maker Pfizer and Zyban maker GlaxoSmithKline hope the Food and Drug Administration, which ordered them to do the study, will remove the so-called "black box warnings" put on their prescription drugs due to anecdotal patient reports of serious psychiatric side effects. </p>
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Seven years after U.S. regulators slapped their strictest warning on two popular smoking-cessation medicines citing risks of suicidal behavior, a large international study found no such risk.
Now Chantix maker Pfizer and Zyban maker GlaxoSmithKline hope the Food and Drug Administration, which ordered them to do the study, will remove the so-called "black box warnings" put on their prescription drugs due to anecdotal patient reports of serious psychiatric side effects.
The warnings — about "changes in behavior, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, and suicidal thoughts or actions" in some patients, all potential problems for people quitting without medication — scared off many doctors and smokers trying to quit. The black boxes also led to a U.S. ban against pilots and air traffic controllers using Chantix that's still in effect, though the Federal Aviation Administration may reconsider it.
Meanwhile, experts say both Chantix and Zyban are safe — far safer than smoking, which kills about 440,000 Americans each year.
Zyban, approved in 1997, has been available as generic bupropion for a decade, so it's no longer actively marketed by Britain's GlaxoSmithKline PLC. But Chantix, approved in 2006, has patent protection until 2020 in the U.S. and 2021 in Europe. Lifting the black box warning — and similar warnings in countries around the world — likely would boost Chantix sales until those patents expire and cheaper generic copycats arrive.
Months ago, the companies sent the FDA detailed study results showing the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior for patients taking either drug is the same as for dummy pills. The results, being published online Friday evening by the British medical journal The Lancet, echo findings of about 40 earlier studies.
"We believe the available scientific information doesn't support a boxed warning," Dr. Freda C. Lewis-Hall, a psychiatrist and Pfizer's chief medical officer, told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview.
Pfizer executives and longtime medicinal chemist Jotham Coe, the inventor of Chantix, think it's been vindicated. Coe, who still works at Pfizer, is a former smoker who quit cold turkey after his father, uncle, aunt and both grandmothers died of cancer or emphysema after years of smoking.
"I understand how difficult and grueling the quitting journey can be," he wrote.
New York-based Pfizer Inc. hopes to discuss the results with regulators around the world, including the FDA, which isn't saying what it will do.
The 8,144-patient, 16-country study divided participants into four groups, each receiving either Chantix, Zyban, a nicotine replacement patch or dummy pills. They got treatment for 12 weeks and then were followed for another 12.
Half the participants had existing psychiatric problems — depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, obsessive-compulsive disorder or schizophrenia. Those conditions are more common in smokers than nonsmokers and make it harder to quit.
Among participants without psychiatric problems, the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior or other serious mental health issues was very low and statistically the same: about 1.3 percent for those taking Chantix, 2.2 percent with Zyban, 2.5 percent with the nicotine patch and 2.4 percent with a dummy pill. In the half with psychiatric problems, those risks were higher across the board: about 6.5 percent for Chantix and Zyban and 5 percent for the nicotine patch and dummy pill.
No participants committed suicide, though two taking dummy pills and one taking Zyban attempted it. The drugs can cause other side effects: mostly nausea, insomnia, abnormal dreams and headaches.
Chantix and Zyban "pose no greater risk for suicide or suicidal ideation than the patch or nothing," concluded Dr. Norman Edelman, a pulmonary specialist and the American Lung Association's senior science consultant.
With millions of people still smoking, and "about half of them likely to die of smoking-related diseases," doctors can now prescribe the pills without worry of psychiatric risks, added Edelman, who was not involved in the study.
It also found that Chantix was the most effective quitting method, with about 22 percent of those getting Chantix still not smoking after the six months, compared to about 16 percent each for Zyban and the patch, and 9 percent for dummy pills.
The study was still ongoing when the FDA last reviewed the warning in October 2014, and the agency decided to keep the black box until the study was finished.
"The FDA will review the findings of this study along with additional scientific evidence as we continue to evaluate this issue, as well as take follow-up action and update the public as appropriate," the agency wrote last week in response to questions from The AP.
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"Our daughters have been attending Kumon at Dorridge for over 6 years. Jane and her team have been incredibly supportive in encouraging the girls to strive to achieve the best that they can. The discipline of completing workbooks each day, learning from their corrections and improving each week has greatly assisted with their school work and exam grades. Jane provides feedback on a regular basis and is available at any time to discuss the girls progress. Many thanks to Jane and the team."
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Helen Jacombs
"My elder son started the Kumon Maths programme when he was five years old and he continued for 5 years. Kumon was absolutely brilliant at teaching him his times tables without any input whatsoever from anyone else. He quickly moved to the top Maths set in Year 3, thanks largely to his daily dose of Kumon which we used to do in the mornings before school. Having seen first-hand how Kumon had helped my older son, my younger son also started the Maths programme when he was five years old and he continued for three years. He too was put in the top Maths set in Year 3 and was one of the best in the class at his times tables, due entirely to Kumon. Having got a D in English in his end of year exams, we swapped from the Maths to the English programme. The English programme was fantastic, got right down to the basics and gave him a huge boost of confidence such that he got a B in his end of year exams the following year. I cannot recommend Jane at the Dorridge centre highly enough. Her enthusiasm for Kumon rubs off on the children and she makes them feel good about themselves. Of course, sometimes the Kumon worksheets are particularly challenging and the children require perseverance to accomplish them but she is very good at helping them through with her cheery smile and upbeat attitude. I will miss that very much now that we have finally stopped Kumon. Thank you Jane - you really are the best!"
harvey hamilton
"I am in Year 9 and studied maths at Kumon Dorridge from year 2 until the start of year 7. It certainly helped with my 11+ exam to get into KES Stratford and provided a solid foundation to continue maths at school with speed and accuracy. It has taught me to concentrate and the importance of perseverance and commitment. I really enjoyed the challenge. Jane is lovely, kind and encouraging."
Dagmar Hamilton
"Harvey and Eloise completed Kumon Maths for five years and it served us exceedingly well in that they both now go to Grammar schools. Instructor Jane from Dorridge is amazing. Affable and very supportive. I highly recommend the program and especially the Dorridge Centre. My kids are so competent and confident with Maths that it was worth every minute of those daily work books. Don't hesitate to give it a try."
Anoushka Fisher
"Our son has benefited greatly from his Kumon sessions at Dorridge for the last 18 months. Jane and the staff have done a very good job! I would highly recommend!"
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At Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, engineering and industrial economy students have the opportunity to study Six Sigma and other applied statistical methodologies before they graduate. Professor Peter Hammersberg teaches a variety of courses aiming to equip students with the skills to solve manufacturing problems with analytics. In his classroom, he gets students started early not only thinking about statistical problem-solving, but also using a tool they are likely to encounter on the job.
That tool is JMP® statistical discovery software from SAS. Hammersberg, a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Materials at the Chalmers Department of Industry and Materials Science, says the software, an industry standard, is an excellent exploratory tool that helps students develop a more robust understanding of statistical concepts and their applications. “The JMP tool is something that reinforces a holistic approach,” he says.
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Prior to joining the faculty at Chalmers, Hammersberg himself held a variety of positions in industry, working most recently at SKF Bearings in industrial quality development. A Six Sigma Master Black Belt, he’s supervised more than 100 student-driven research theses in industry, developing material processes, in addition to conducting a dozen of his own research projects. In this, Hammersberg is something of a rarity in the university environment – someone equally at home in industry and in the classroom.
That’s why Hammersberg was a natural choice to lead Chalmers’ course offerings that bridge the academic-industry gap. In a program that pairs students with industry partners, Hammersberg’s students learn how to manage and analyze data in a real-world context. “Students learn how to understand the scope of a project,” Hammersberg says. “They learn how to question a problem statement. And how to reformulate. They learn to ask: ‘How can we shift a project that's scoped in the wrong way with the wrong people?’”
The types of projects Chalmers students encounter in their coursework tend to be relatively broad in scope, and creative thinking is required more often than not. Much like in the real world, there’s no set path to a solution, Hammersberg says. Confronting this kind of challenge early on serves to reinforce in students’ minds the need to first understand the data, see what’s available and design an approach to recognize the difference between signals and noise.
“Not many projects end up being very specific on the definition of control charts and control limits, for example,” says Hammersberg. “But understanding the concept of control and the role of a control chart allows me and the students to talk about noise [versus] something which contains signals. They really understand [these concepts] when they’re forced to dig into the data themselves.”
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Hammersberg supports students in their project work by providing instruction in data exploration, visualization and more advanced concepts like measurement analysis and Six Sigma. It’s an opportunity for students to take advantage of the drag-and-drop features in JMP to figure out what’s happening inside a data set. By workshopping case studies, students come to understand the difficulties organizations face when using data to make key decisions. As Hammersberg points out, learning how to finesse a project inside an organization can be difficult.
Students often assume they will be given the right data from the outset, he says. But they will soon find they must work with their partners to build new measurement systems. Every industry has its information flow issues, and students troubleshoot unique challenges as they arise.
“Old KPIs (key performance indicators) might not be the best to use for new problems,” Hammersberg said. “So that's a lot of challenge there. But some projects, of course, work directly on existing metrics and existing process data. A typical challenge is to map up such a project to get data on certain points and work on new measurements. There are many projects on that level, which are complex and tricky.
“If my students have a chance to become more used to visualizing data – and I think that's the important first step, getting used to the data – they’ll see that it's simple to create graphs and look for patterns and do exploratory data analysis. JMP has good supporting features. In any course where I teach measurement system analysis and all basic graphical stuff, JMP has modules that make it easy for students to use.”
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Many students instinctively understand the value of using a tool like JMP, Hammersberg says. But some of his colleagues in academia and industry need more convincing; “I'm not sure all the programmers out there understand the importance yet.”
That’s why Hammersberg has made it his mission to convey to his peers in academia the need for students to graduate with a skillset that includes the ability to use the tools of their future trade. “Since I've been in industry, I see that they will need [to know how to use JMP]. Many new hires arrive at their jobs and they're not well-trained. I’m trying to fight that war to get students better prepared with the skillset they need. And I’m gaining ground, slowly, step by step, more and more.”
Manufacturing companies collect a lot of data, and Hammersberg has seen firsthand that decisions are often made after cursory looks at Excel tables and simple graphs that could obfuscate key information. By showing his students the value of a data tool like JMP, he’s hoping they’ll bring better data practices to their workplace and change the way things are done. When you use data to optimize a process or find an efficiency that will speed time to market, Hammersberg says, “That’s where the money comes from, where it is saved and created. That is success.”
This success is evidenced in the published work of a number of graduate students Hammersberg has supervised over the years. “I influence their research with the aid of JMP functionality,” he says, citing a recent publication in the journal Aerospace in which a graduate student developed a virtual method for design of experiments based on custom design in JMP. In it, she joined co-authors in advancing a novel solution for welding optimization in aerospace applications. Their proposed “meta-model” simulates statistically robust experimentation during the early design phase of experiments – a strategy that could significantly reduce manufacturers’ production costs.
“Students have to learn how to handle all the data [that’s collected in a factory],” he continues. “They have to find out what's important without doing a theoretical statistics report. Some engineers may get a little bit frightened off by that, but others will like it a lot. So teach it early. Make JMP a general tool for them, equally with the other software they use for solid mechanics or math. Students should have a good platform for data analysis too.”
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Most Expensive iPhone To Release In 2021: Completely Wireless With No Charging Port
Pooja Prabbhan | Dec 05 2019, 11:18PM EST
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Apple harbors an affinity towards the wireless, and the same has been evidenced in its recent launches. While the tech giant had entirely done away with headphone jack from its smartphones with the launch of iPhone 7 in 2016, the next accessory in line to get axed appears to be the charging port.
Yes, you read that right. As per a recent report, Apple might just do away with the lightning charging port in 2021. This move could be reflected in the most expensive model in Apple’s lineup ever—iPhone 13.
Given how there’s a cult-following of sorts with regards to Apple products, industry insiders ascertain that if Apple takes the first move— in removing lighting port from its models—other companies will follow suit. When Apple killed the headphone jack, it amassed a lot of flak. But, it wasn’t too long until it became the standard across the market, with other tech firms following suit.
“The reason to move on, I'm gonna give you three of them, but it really comes down to one word: courage," said Apple executive Phil Schiller said on stage while addressing what led to the removal of the headphone jack. “The courage to move on and do something new that betters all of us,” Schiller added.
While the reasoning behind Apple doing away with its lightning port is neither known nor confirmed, TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who is popular for his predictions, believes that the future models will lack the lightning slot. If this speculation transpires into reality, users of the iPhone 13 will have to resort to wireless charging.
The model, which will come without a charging port, is most likely to be Apple’s most expensive iPhone to date. The shift is reasoned to be an attempt by the tech giant to distinguish its most coveted iPhone from the other smartphones. iPhone 13 is most likely to see the light of day sometime during the year 2021.
At present, the most recent range of Apple includes the $1,000 iPhone 11 Pro, $1,100 iPhone 11 Pro Max, and an economical version i.e. iPhone 11 priced at $ 700.
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My Sons Live In London So I Sent Them Stab Vests, Worried Father Tells LBC
This caller told LBC that he lives in Kent, where he feels "totally safe," however his sons live in London and he is so worried about them and he bought them stab vests.
Speaking to Andrew Castle he said that he was "so sick" of hearing crime reports near where they live, he went on Amazon and bought them "very thin" stab vests.
Andrew Castle challenged Bill, the caller, and said it was "weird."
While Bill agreed with Andrew that it was weird, he said there have been "so many stabbings of young men" the father said he "wanted to do something to protect them."
Stab Vests are available for sale on the internet. Picture: LBC
His fears revolved around the statistics of younger men who are stabbed in London in seemingly motiveless attacks.
Bill and Andrew spoke about New York in the 80s and the police tactics there, how the authorities clamped down on the most minor of crime.
Amazingly the caller said his sons "didn't think it was that crazy," he said he was "regularly" being sent pictures of "the crime scenes outside their flats, where people had been stabbed."
Emotively, he said he just wanted to feel he was doing "something positive."
Bill said he feared London was heading for a "dystopian future."
Watch the whole shocking call in the video at the top of the page.
Amazingly, Bill is not the only parent buying their children stab vests on Amazon. Picture: LBC
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U-Haul trucks pull in to Long Nursery
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U-Haul trucks pull in to Long Nursery U-Haul Trucks Pull into Long Nursery Check out this story on ldnews.com: http://ldne.ws/2eZBpLI
Lebanon Daily News Published 2:19 p.m. ET Oct. 21, 2016
Long Nursery, 1347 E. Main St., Palmyra, has signed on as a U-Haul neighborhood dealer to serve the Palmyra community.(Photo: Submitted)
U-Haul Co. of Pennsylvania has announced that Long Nursery Inc. has signed on as a U-Haul neighborhood dealer to serve the Palmyra community.
Long Nursery at 1347 E. Main St. will offer U-Haul trucks, trailers, towing equipment and support rental items.
Hours of operation for U-Haul rentals are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday; 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday; and 9 a.m. to1 p.m. Sunday. After-hours drop-off is available for customer convenience.
Reserve U-Haul products at this dealer location by calling 717-838-8020 or visiting www.uhaul.com/Locations/Truck-Rentals-near-Palmyra-PA-17078/001434.
David Lehman is the owner of Long Nursery.
U-Haul and Long Nursery are striving to benefit the environment through sustainability initiatives, according to a U-Haul news release. Every U-Haul truck placed in a community helps keep 19 personally owned large-capacity vehicles, pickups, SUVs and vans off the road.
U-Haul also is sponsoring of the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day. The company is honoring Pearl Harbor survivors and World War II veterans by supporting the events in Oahu commemorating the Dec. 7, 1941, attack. Any Pearl Harbor survivors affiliated with U-Haul team members or neighborhood dealers are encouraged to contact U-Haul at publicrelations@uhaul.com.
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London rules again as Latham elects deal finance guru Trobman as new chief
Posted on 29 June 2018 16:30pm | Marco Cillario
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Latham & Watkins is sticking to London for its new chair and managing partner, electing deal finance heavyweight Richard Trobman to the role.
Previously the firm’s co-vice chair, Trobman will step into the role immediately, bringing to an end a three-month long search for a successor to Bill Voge, who resigned from the firm in March amid allegations of misconduct involving communications with a woman outside the firm.
He will stay on initially for a five-year term but told Legal Business he was prepared to stay on for at least two terms to ensure continuity at the US giant.
The only candidate based outside Latham’s US heartlands in the race, Trobman has seen off competition from seven other candidates from the firm’s DC, New York and Los Angeles offices. He is the second consecutive managing partner of the firm to come out of the London office, an unusual move from a US law firm.
‘It’s a reflection of the fact that our partners have a global outlook and they believe in our global strategy,’ said Trobman. ‘For us it’s entirely consistent with what we are and how we see ourselves.’
‘It is so humbling and such a great honour, it seems like it is not real and at the same time it is very real and I look forward to the next steps and to hopefully continuing to do great things here.’
He added that his core focus will be on ‘unlocking the potential of our platform’. ‘2018 looks like a fantastic year and a lot of that is attributable to the fact that a lot of clients are using us in more and more practices and geographies.’
One of the top high-yield lawyers in Europe and one of Latham’s most prominent operators, Trobman joined the firm in 1991 as an associate in Los Angeles, transferring to New York in 1993. He made partner in 2000, the year he moved to London, and is closely associated with the hugely successful build out of Latham’s London practice. The firm now generates in the region of $300m in the City and is considered by many as the most potent US threat in Europe to the London legal elite.
The list of Trobman’s roles in Latham’s management is long. He was London chair of corporate in 2008-14 and was elected co-vice chair in February last year. He then took on the role of interim co-head alongside California-based Ora Fisher when Voge stepped down.
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Pinsents picks up key mandate on Carillion’s £1.3bn HS2 contracts
Posted on 10 August 2017 11:50am 10 August 2017 17:12pm | Georgiana Tudor
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Pinsent Masons has picked up the key advisory mandate as embattled British construction company Carillion was handed a lifeline last month thanks to the award of two contracts worth £1.3bn on the HighSpeed 2 (HS2) project.
Carillion is to build two sections of the UK’s second high-speed rail project from London to Birmingham along with its joint venture partners Kier Construction and France’s Eiffage Genie Civil, which will take at least five years to complete.
The integrated support services company was among the first to be awarded contracts on the controversial HS2 line, including North Portal Chiltern Tunnels to Brackley (worth £724m) and Brackley to Long Itchington Wood Green Tunnel South Portal (worth £616m). Pinsents client Balfour Beatty also picked up £2.5bn worth of contracts on HS2.
The contracts were awarded not long after Carillion suffered a steep fall in its share price in July following a profit warning. However shares rose almost 21% after the HS2 contracts were announced.
HS2 is the second high-speed route in the UK, after the completion of HS1 between London and the Channel tunnel, which costs £5.8bn and opened in 2007. The government expects the first phase of construction to be complete by 2026, and the second phase to begin in the mid-2020s and will increase capacity and improve journey times between the two cities.
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) continues to advise HS2 via global head of infrastructure Patrick Mitchell, alongside global co-lead of the non-contentious and engineering practice, Nicholas Downing, and commercial law partner Adrian Clough.
Slaughter and May also has a close advisory relationship with Carillion and was appointed to its roster along with Pinsents in 2015. The Magic Circle firm advised the construction group in 2014 on its proposed £3bn merger with UK rival Balfour Beatty led by corporate partners William Underhill and Kathy Hughes, although talks were abandoned after a third takeover offer was rejected.
Pinsent Masons and Carillion did not comment.
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Meet young artist who creates artworks with fire and smoke
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- Bright Danso, a young Ghanaian artist, makes amazing artworks with fire and smoke
- The rare art is called Pyrography which Danso has specialised in with inspiration from his lecturer
- Danso created the world's first-ever pyrography table that he named 'Legacy'
A young talented Ghanaian painter and sculptor named Bright Danso has specialised in the art of creating beautiful designs with smoke and fire, which is known as Pyrography.
On his personal Facebook handle, the talented painter posted videos of some of his breathtaking works. He also shared moments he was creating the artworks.
Watch Danso speak about his works and passion in the video below:
Speaking about how he got into the rare art, Danso said: "I am a painter and sculptor but wanted to try something else with heat and got inspired by my lecturer who always said that the presence of heat makes you think well. So I wanted the heat to make me think in a different way."
Danso also spoke about one of his brilliant artworks called 'Black Unitech' which had an interesting meaning behind it.
He said: "Black Unitech' is basically saying you cannot see through my mind to know what is going on in my head. So you can't judge me by my physical appearance."
Danso indicated that he is currently working on a project to start making artworks on furniture using heat. He wishes to employ other young people to carry out the project with him.
According to Danso, this comes after creating the world's first-ever Pyrography table that he named 'Legacy'. It is also on Danso's plan to create an art gallery where he will showcase his works.
Watch Bright Danso make some of his wonderful artworks below:
A beautiful design of two boys being made on a flat wooden slate.
An amazing portrait of a beautiful lady being made with smoke.
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Whoopers and ShoutersJames Morone
Vol. 30 No. 4 · 21 February 2008
Whoopers and Shouters
James Morone
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
by Michael Kazin.
Anchor, 374 pp., $16.95, March 2007, 978 0 385 72056 4Show More
A mob of divided, disgruntled Democrats packed the Chicago Coliseum in July 1896 as William Jennings Bryan rose to the platform and delivered a roaring speech – still the speech for part of the American left – about an economic chimera. Bryan demanded that the United States peg its currency not to gold but to silver – the equivalent of treating cancer with grape seeds. No matter. The poor farmers and small merchants from the nation’s heartland grasped the essential point: Bryan was challenging a rich, powerful, Eastern establishment in their name. Before the age of microphones, Bryan’s voice reached every cranny of the great hall as his speech boomed into its grand finale. ‘We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: you shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns.’ Bryan grabbed at his temples and buckled his knees under the agony of the imagined thorns and from this pained crouch launched his most famous line. ‘You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.’ He slowly raised himself up, stepped back from the podium, pulled his hands off his brow, and threw them out into a crucifixion pose. Silence gripped the hall for five ticks at this inspired blasphemy. Then pandemonium. ‘The floor of the convention seemed to heave up,’ one New York newspaper reported, as men swept Bryan onto their shoulders and into national legend. The speech marks the high-water moment of the Populist movement, which had crashed out of the American plains and confronted corporate capitalism. Its memory would inspire the Democratic Party from Woodrow Wilson (elected in 1912) to Franklin Roosevelt (1932) and Lyndon Johnson (1964). More than a century later, Democratic candidates still criss-cross the country trying to rekindle the lost Populist magic. In fact, the present campaign season has seen even some Republicans groping for the prairie Democrat’s standards.
But there is also an embarrassing side to Bryan: the ‘great commoner’ was a Bible-banging fundamentalist. When officials in Dayton, Tennessee decided to roast John Scopes for teaching evolution in 1925, they called in the ageing Bryan to prosecute. The week-long trial became a national sensation and reached its climax when the defence attorney, Clarence Darrow, called Bryan to the stand and eviscerated his Biblical verities. ‘Do you believe Joshua made the sun stand still?’ Darrow asked sarcastically. ‘Do you believe a whale swallowed Jonah? Will you tell us the exact date of the great flood?’ Bryan tried to swat away the swarm of contradictions. ‘I do not think about things I don’t think about,’ he said. The New York Times called it an ‘absurdly pathetic performance’, reducing a famous American to the ‘butt of a crowd’s rude laughter’. This paunchy, sweaty figure went down as an icon of the cranky right. Today, most Americans encounter the Scopes trial and Bryan himself in a play called Inherit the Wind. I once played the role of Bryan and the director kept saying: ‘More pompous, Morone. Make him more pompous.’
Michael Kazin is a fine historian who specialises in the lost causes of the left. He has written sympathetic books on the Populist movement and the 1960s. In A Godly Hero, his life of Bryan, he now draws an unexpected conclusion: defying capitalists and defending fundamentalists were two sides of the same philosophy. An urgent message runs through the biography: Democrats will never regain the common touch until they find a way to reclaim both parts of Bryan’s legacy. At the same time, every twist in the Bryan story provokes a disquieting question: is a leftist populism still possible today? Or do racial anxieties inevitably unravel everyman’s rebellion against money power?
Will Bryan was born in central Illinois in 1860, a year before the Civil War began. By the time he was 35, he had become the people’s orator, lecturing across the country – part pastor, part politician and every bit a folk hero. Kazin speculates that Bryan received more mail than any American before Franklin Roosevelt. He ran for president three times but never came close to the prize. Kazin calls him ‘a tribune of lost causes’: lost, that is, from the vantage point of ‘our own era of non-stop satire and 24-hour commerce’. Four of his passions – equality, peace, prohibition and the Bible – cover most of the great 20th-century arguments in the United States. First, the romance of tilting against corporate power. Bryan found the Democratic Party mired in laissez-faire and states’ rights; its politicians served local oligarchs, broke unions and busted strikes. Bryan and his followers pushed the party in a radically new direction: federal power ought to protect workers, tax wealth and fight inequality. More than any single individual, Kazin suggests, Bryan thrust the Democrats towards their 20th-century incarnation as champions of federal programmes and social justice. Bryan and his Populists packed their egalitarian message with a moral charge. Greed was sinful and corporate power sinister. A good nation must exalt its ‘little people’, who, in turn, minister to one another in generous communities. The call to alms would reverberate for the next eighty years, most famously through Roosevelt and, later, Martin Luther King’s social gospel sermons. Bryan’s spirit remained vital until Ronald Reagan finally dropped the curtain on all that pandering.
Still, the Populists looked backwards as much as they anticipated the future. Their common man lived in the countryside. And – always the little jolt of prejudice – Bryan’s people distrusted the big cities, bloated as they were by immigrants. Populists had little to offer the strangers. Bryan himself was blunt about the sanctity of the rural idyll: ‘Burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.’ Such bursts of rural defiance, Kazin observes, were no help in converting urban voters to the cause. The big city politicians returned the disdain. They were Democrats too, but Bryan did not speak to them or their followers. Populist economics constantly touched the great American antinomies. Bryan’s egalitarian campaigns foreshadowed the contemporary left, but with a vital difference: the Populists clung to their white, Anglo-Saxon Protestantism. To this day, populists in the heartland eye with suspicion the ethnic and racial cacophony of the madding cities.
A second Populist cause sounds even more contemporary. Bryan described military power as ‘an un-Christian tool of the upper classes’. The corporate juggernaut generated ‘wars of conquest’ while crushing clerks and farmers. In his second run for the presidency, in 1900, Bryan defiantly challenged the nation’s rising imperial aspirations. In contrast, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt made no apologies for American conquest. The United States would spread freedom and Christianise degraded peoples. It must shoulder the white man’s burden. The United States liberated Cuba from Spanish tyranny and then, after an easy victory, snatched the Philippines and set out to civilise them.
The Populist fight against empire became tangled in contradictions. They would spread freedom but resist imperialism, yet Bryan and his followers had a difficult time distinguishing one from the other. Populist fervour kept slipping into war fever. Bryan eventually supported the war to liberate Cuba and – pressed by his followers – even organised a battle unit for the good fight. (The Republican administration shrewdly stuck the Great Commoner and his men in a Florida swamp, where they spent the war fighting malaria, mosquitoes and snakes.) Bryan finally drew the line at swallowing the Philippines. This, he said, was imperialism pure and simple. The island’s natives had rejected the uplifting Anglo-Saxon mission. They rebelled, demanded liberty from their benefactors, and mired America’s imperial illusions in war. On the ground, American soldiers forgot their Christian purpose. ‘I got two of the niggers,’ the first American to draw blood on the islands crowed, and I ‘could have killed more’.
Once again, race vexed a forward-looking Populist impulse. When Republicans trumpeted the imperial mission, Populists responded with warnings about the ‘half-civilised, piratical, muck-running inhabitants’ of the Philippines, who would soon ‘inject this poisoned blood . . . into the body politic’. Neither the imperialists who shouldered their white man’s burden nor the anti-imperialists who denounced them showed much sympathy for the people of the Philippines. Hard racial attitudes helped subvert this Populist campaign, which Kazin calls ‘the most disjointed anti-war movement in US history’. Prejudice blinded the Populists to a robust American tradition that would have afforded them a sounder footing. Senator George Hoar, a 74-year-old Republican from Massachusetts, pointed the way when he charged both Republicans and Democrats with violating the nation’s founding principles: ‘I can see no difference in the lynching of a Southern [black] postmaster and lynching a people because they think a government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed, and got those ideas from the Constitution of the United States.’
A third Populist cause seems entirely lost in time. Bryan and his followers fervently supported Prohibition. Today we see Prohibition through the eyes of its contemporary critics. Eastern newspapers gleefully timed reporters as they got off the train in a distant metropolis, located a clandestine saloon, and downed an illegal drink (all generally managed in under ten minutes). The whole business illustrates a standard libertarian piety: of course Prohibition collapsed; no nation can legislate a moral code rejected by the people. This, however, is a big city myth. Fighting liquor may have been the greatest reform in US history: it engaged more people and more passion over more time than any other American movement. Across the rural heartland, Americans welcomed Prohibition. The cynical reporters would have had a difficult time finding drinks in the small towns and villages that cheered Bryan. Many of these places – half of all American counties – remain dry to this day. The liquor issue tested all the Populist reflexes. Large economic powers – breweries, distilleries and saloons – exploited common men and women. The liquor barons fed on the working man’s misery. Once again, Bryan called for new federal powers to protect the people from the oligarchs; once again, the Populists sought a moral counter to economic exploitation. And, inevitably, God-fearing rural folk found in their teetotal temperance a way to distinguish themselves from unsavoury Irish, German and black mobs in the dangerous cities.
Prohibition reflected deep racial trouble. As Bryan rose to national prominence, the Democrats in the South imposed a system of racial apartheid (known as Jim Crow) that was policed by the public lynching of black men. Bryan took a lackadaisical approach to the issue. He condemned the lynching (more than many Democrats would do) but defended the ‘suffrage qualifications’ at the heart of the segregationist regime. ‘Bryan was least convincing,’ Kazin writes, ‘when he struck such a disinterested’ – or uninterested – ‘amoral pose.’ White Southerners turned blacks into ‘child-people’ who needed restraints for their own good – exactly what the imperialist imagination prescribed for Filipinos. But repression in the South raised a question that Kazin does not fully explore. How could a decent society strip people of their rights and then sponsor such a terrible plague of lynching? Americans found the answer by conjuring up a story of black depravity. Black men got drunk, threw aside all control and raped innocent white women. White propaganda imagined that the lynching parties had no choice. In reality, sexual crimes were alleged – never mind proven – in less than one in five lynchings. Ritualised execution was the enforcer of American apartheid. Nevertheless, the story of liquor and black abomination became accepted lore. Reformers touted Prohibition as the antidote to racial violence.
A terrible eruption had pushed the elites into action. In September 1906, an Atlanta newspaper printed an extra edition yowling about an unknown black man who had assaulted three white women and got away; could good men no longer protect their women? Thousands of white men were soon racing through the streets. They burst into black businesses and dragged away the proprietors, they stopped streetcars, pulled out the black passengers and beat them on the spot. The riot lasted four days and claimed an unknown number of black lives. Alcohol fuelled the riot; presumably it had also unloosed the shadowy black assailant. The Georgia legislature banned the sale of all liquor. Almost every Southern state followed its lead. Prohibition then spread to the Western states, where it inspired a very different political coalition. Feminists believed that drinking fostered male violence; religious groups aimed to purify the nation; and almost everyone dreamed of redeeming the fallen cities. The Populist strongholds in the South and West had already legislated state prohibitions when the moral ardour stirred up by American entry into World War One pushed Prohibition into the US Constitution. Rural America embraced the programme, as did Herbert Hoover in 1928 (when he was running against the notorious drinker Al Smith of New York). Hoover called the cause ‘a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose’, and won by a landslide. Prohibition collapsed only when the Great Depression destroyed every aspect of the Hoover programme. But the cheers for the return of legal drinking, in 1933, did not sound across rural districts in the South and West.
A single theme connects all Bryan’s great causes. Populist fires burned on resentment. The angry ‘us’ always excluded immigrants in the cities and blacks in the South. This enduring tension is what raises the central question about American Populism, then, later and now: does a social movement that feeds on resentment, that defines itself against ‘them’, inevitably get entangled in the racial line – the deepest us v. them in the United States? And although he does not raise the issue explicitly, Kazin’s exploration of Bryan and the many sides of Populism brings us to the inevitable question about contemporary American politics: did the Democrats eventually lose their hold on the American heartland – on Kansas, Nebraska and Texas – because they lost their Populist economics? Because they abandoned their moral vision? Or because, at long last, they embraced civil rights?
And then there is Bryan’s embarrassing drama in Dayton. On its surface, the Scopes trial looks like a collision between modernity and a backward Southern zealotry that was one step removed from witch-hunting. ‘Men quite without taste or imagination,’ H.L. Mencken wrote from Dayton, ‘whoopers and shouters, low vulgarians, cads’ had set out to lynch John Scopes, but they ‘were having trouble pulling it off’. Here Kazin’s story takes an unexpected turn that scrambles the usual heroes and villains. Dayton’s leading citizens, led by a modern engineer with a PhD, had asked Scopes to offer himself up as a defendant in order to challenge the laws against teaching Darwin – and give the local economy a boost in the process. The debate between the Bible and a biology textbook was more fraught than Mencken’s hooting suggested. The offending book, A Civic Biology, illustrated the evolutionary tree in roughly Darwinian terms. Seventy pages later, however, the author endorsed a more dubious modern theory: social Darwinism, or the survival of the fittest individuals, groups and nations. ‘The same principles of breeding that produced healthier, stronger horses’ could ‘improve “the future generations of men and women on the earth”’. Social Darwinism was all the rage in the 1920s. So was eugenics. A Civic Biology – the ‘civic’ in the title was no accident, Kazin says – repeated the eugenicists’ favourite ‘natural experiment’.
The experiment went like this: a Revolutionary War soldier called Martin Kallikak had a fling with a feeble-minded woman named Margaret; Margaret bore Kallikak’s bastard. Then Martin settled down with a good wife and produced a normal family. Now, six generations later, the results were irrefutable. Margaret’s line had produced 143 feeble-minded people (with 291 more in serious doubt), 33 prostitutes, 24 confirmed alcoholics and eight brothel owners. ‘Margaret, the mother of criminals, has left a progeny of some 700 paupers, prostitutes and criminals.’ They bred recklessly and burdened society. Meanwhile, Kallikak’s other line begot nothing but the cream of the community: doctors, lawyers, judges, educators and – the ambiguous little blemish that adds verisimilitude to the portrait – one case of ‘religious mania’. Contemporary scholars have exposed the whole business as nonsense but at the time it seemed the latest scientific thing. By 1931, thirty states had passed laws encouraging the sterilisation of the feeble-minded. The California legislature directed prison authorities to ‘asexualise’ men convicted of three crimes or more (or any who acted as ‘moral and sexual perverts’). Other laws proscribed marriage between races. Kazin does not defend Bryan’s religion so much as place it in the context of a generous social vision. Bryan imagined a nation of spiritual and selfless communities. Social Darwinism violated everything he believed in: it subverted mutual aid and challenged his dream of a land where ‘every citizen is a sovereign, but . . . no one cares to wear a crown’. Bryan was less ‘the idol of all Morondom’, as Clarence Darrow sneered, and more the prophet of mid 20th-century liberalism.
There is a forgotten epilogue to the Scopes trial. After humbling Bryan, Darrow casually conceded the case: John Scopes was guilty, since he never denied teaching evolution. The plan was to have the court fine Scopes, then to appeal to the state court, which would uphold the conviction, and finally to take the case to the Supreme Court, which had the authority to strike down all anti-Darwin legislation (five states had already passed laws, 15 more were debating the issue). But the Tennessee ‘whoopers’ outmanoeuvred their challengers when the state court quietly reversed the Scopes conviction on a technicality. No slap on the wrist for Scopes, no Supreme Court appeal for Darrow. Despite the legends about modernity’s triumph, the fundamentalist law survived the assault of the big city sarcastics; Darwin and evolution slipped right out of the Tennessee school books. Humiliated by the Scopes trial and deflated by Prohibition’s fall, religious fundamentalists retreated from national politics. They would keep to themselves for two generations until the sexual depravity of the 1970s (as they saw it) forced them back into the arena. With the returned fundamentalists came a renewed attack on evolution. Republican politicians now gingerly shuffle around the issue – George Bush artfully dodges the Darwin Question whenever he is asked. But the old Populist corollary – we ought to help the helpless – vanished from the fundamentalist catechism. Bryan stood on both sides of modernity. He looked foolish when he tried to trump Darwin with Genesis. But, unlike his sophisticated tormenters, he grasped the dangers of social Darwinism, with its questionable science and chilling eugenics. Though he was limited by his racial blinkers, Bryan doggedly championed common people when most American politicians were pandering to Mammon.
Bryan died in his sleep five days after the Scopes trial. He would not live to see the rise and triumph of his egalitarian ideals: in many ways, they dominated the middle of the 20th century in the United States. After two generations, the liberal ascendancy would, in turn, fall to a new age of inequality. Kazin surveys the contemporary landscape and rather wishes for another Bryan. ‘We lack politicians, filled with conviction and blessed with charisma, who are willing to lead a charge.’ Today, leftist reformers may be sensitive about race and sensible about biology. But they lack the egalitarian passion. The most recent spasm of neo-Populist reform offers a disheartening contrast. Bill Clinton introduced national health insurance in a masterful television address. How will future generations judge our society, he asked, if we were to stand by while ‘hard-working families lost their homes, their savings, their businesses, lost everything simply because their children got sick?’ Over the following year, opponents outmanoeuvred Clinton and defeated his proposal; the president discarded national health insurance as a political liability. ‘I was . . . disappointed,’ he wrote mildly in his memoir, ‘and I felt bad that Hillary and [presidential adviser] Ira Magaziner were taking the rap.’ No further mention of the hard-working families who lost everything when a child fell sick.
The current election campaign has quite unexpectedly veered back to Populism. Mike Huckabee rose out of nowhere (well, out of Arkansas) and jolted the Republican Party establishment by combining evangelical fervour (he is a former Baptist preacher) with a zany economic populism. Huckabee is a penniless, rock-and-roll-loving, regular guy who has managed to win six states. The Democrat John Edwards, a wealthy lawyer, offered an all-out economic rebellion that lambasted the smugness of the haves. College professors loved his lyrical rants – but they never touched the have-nots. And every Democrat who entered the race loudly echoed Bryan’s anti-war rhetoric – often miming his confusion and contradictions. The most exuberant campaigns, however, forge a more ambiguous kind of populism. Hillary Clinton touts steadiness and experience; Barack Obama would douse the very antagonisms – between black and white, immigrant and native, rich and poor – that fired up traditional Populists. And yet Clinton and Obama share a kinship with the Great Commoner. Clinton, almost despite herself, seems to empower people who feel left out, while Obama electrifies his supporters with the same wild jolt of unbounded possibility that was once Bryan’s stock in trade.
The life of William Jennings Bryan offers one great lesson for contemporary reformers. Not how to win – Bryan almost never won – but how to lose and lose again and still preserve the cause. Bryan never faltered in his quest for a moral republic in which federal power would honour and protect working people. The vision was more important than whether the most beloved politician in the nation actually won an election. Kazin has something entirely contemporary in mind when he gives a half-cheer for this politician who imagined a more generous nation, who never wavered in his aspirations, and who always made his dream seem right, urgent and irresistible.
James Morone is a professor of politics at Brown University and the author of Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History. His next book will be George Washington’s Revenge.
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Vol. 30 No. 7 · 10 April 2008
James Morone asserts that William Jennings Bryan’s speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention was the ‘high-water moment’ of American populism (LRB, 21 February). On the contrary, his speech signalled the movement’s death. Bryan was only very briefly a Populist and his one great triumph was to lead the Populists into the Democratic Party – the graveyard of American rebellions. Hardly a high point.
With a constituency of small farmers and labourers in the West, the People’s Party had been founded – as a third way – in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1892. Its candidate for president, James B. Weaver, received more than one million votes in that year’s election. The two great tests for Populism were to find common cause with labour in the growing cities and to win over the farmers and sharecroppers of the South. In the cities the alliance with labour failed to materialise, and in the South, as Morone shows, race was the stumbling block. He doesn’t mention the prelude to failure: the heroic battle to unite black and white farmers and sharecroppers against a land-owning white oligarchy. This doomed alliance was killed by the Democratic Party, the party of white supremacy in the South. When the Populist candidate for governor of Louisiana denounced lynching in 1896, 21 lynchings in Louisiana followed that year, a fifth of the total for the US. The defeat of Populism was a key step in the final victory of Jim Crow. Bryan himself steadfastly refused to distance himself from his segregationist supporters.
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Lumina Spark & the Big5 - a brief history
Greek Origins
The Greeks produced the theory of humours, dividing people into 4 categories - phlegmatics, melancholics, sanguines, and cholerics. This theory may have been state of the art several thousand years ago, but there are now many better models that a learner can access.
Credit to Jung
Jung's (1921) theory of personality was a significant improvement on the humours and has served organisations well as a practical tool for raising self awareness for many decades. However, his work was based on case studies and anecdotal observations rather than statistical analysis and it is a massive credit to Jung's insights, that his intuition correctly identified three of the big5's factors back in 1921.
Origins of the Big5
In 1936 Allport and Odbert created a source of over 4,500 words in an attempt to find the core ingredients of personality. In the 1940s Raymond Cattell continued in this vein and concluded that 16 factors defined one's personality. Fiske (1949) later refuted and found errors in Cattell's analysis. Fiske concluded that five factors could account for the variances in human personality. Nevertheless, it was not until the 1950s, when Tupes and Christal took this work further, that the first version of the big five model was officially born. Their work was replicated by Norman in 1963 and the Big5 model began its slow march towards becoming the accepted taxonomy for academics to research personality.
The Barren Years
The 1960s and 1970s were not great times for personality research as the behaviourists and other academics dismissed personality theory (see Mischel's 1968 attack on trait theory). However, back in the world of business Mischel's reservations had little impact and practitioners forged ahead, often using the popular Jungian approach. Business has always been more concerned with 'what works' rather than pursuing the best academic approach! The academic tide turned back in favour of personality research in the 1980s and the Big5 continued to develop.
The Development of Lumina Spark
In the 1980s and 1990s a number of Big5 models emerged and it became the academics' model of choice, with Costa and McCrae leading the field (1992). Costa and McCrae worked in academia, whereas Lumina Spark has been designed to integrate best practice identified in a range of Big5 and Jungian models for application in industry. In particular, Lumina Spark has set out to retain the benefits established by the Jungian approach ('don't throw the baby out with the bath water'), while using the latest empirical Big5 research as its guiding light. In 2009 the Lumina Spark model was embedded in the revolutionary Lumina Learning online system, making it accessible to clients throughout the world.
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New Classic Yacht Owners Association forms
Monday, June 13th 2016
A group of classic sailing boat owners have formally come together to create and support the newly formed Classic Yacht Owners Association (CYOA). The association will be based out of one of sailing's most iconic boating communities, Newport, Rhode Island.
"The CYOA mission is to promote the ownership, knowledge and appreciation of classic yachts and those yachts built in the spirit of tradition of classic yachts," said Matt Brooks, owner of the famous classic yacht Dorade and a founding member and catalyst for the new group. "It is the direct intention of the CYOA to preserve and champion these yachts to insure their survival and enjoyment for future generations while encouraging, partnering and unifying the cruising and racing opportunities these yachts are able to participate in throughout the whole of the United States."
Membership in the new association will include owners, builders, restoration yards and related craftspeople, supplier partners, archives and related maritime history community, and the regattas/host authorities, and yacht clubs in which the yachts live and compete, Brooks said.
The Classic Yacht Owners Association's goal is to bring owners together to create a positive and cohesive voice to the issues, challenges, and opportunities facing the yachts and their programs today, as well as create an organization to more effectively work within the robust and talented communities of yards and craftspeople and suppliers they are a part of as well as the regattas, yacht clubs and sailing communities with whom they sail and serve and should support more effectively. The Classic Yacht Owners Association's ultimate aim is to support and unite the building, restoration, sailing, organizing and racing of classic wooden and spirit of tradition sailing yachts in the United States.
Newly named full time Executive Director Clark Poston adds, "As part of the CYOA's stated focus, the association was formed to be a catalyst for unity, transparency, and inclusiveness in the Classics community at all levels. Ultimately, the CYOA was created to facilitate communication among active owners in the class and sport, and to create renewed clarity and excitement about participation in classic and spirit of tradition yacht cruising, racing, and interest in ownership and restoration. Additionally, the Owners Association hopes to serve as a catalyst for national and regional cooperation of, and communication between, all regattas and the communities they serve."
Many of the most beautiful classic yachts were produced as one-designs or very small groups of sister yachts. At no time in history have these classic examples of maritime art and function ever enjoyed the support of an overall class association, and to this day no club or association has taken responsibility for advancing the interests of this historic fleet of boats. The CYOA was formed to help fill this gap.
The CYOA offices are at the Newport Shipyard in Newport, Rhode Island. For more information, or to become one of the 100-and-counting members, please contact Clark Poston at clarkposton@USCSYOA.com or visit www.ClassicYachtOwnersAssociation.org Membership in the CYOA during its inaugural year will be free.
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Brian Solis: Digital addiction wounds run deep – but they are being treated like minor cuts
By James Bourne
09 May 2019, 16:04 p.m.
Advertising, Advertising Technology, Attribution, Data-driven marketing, Personalised Marketing, Social Media Marketing
The concept of health when it comes to technology usage is an ever-increasing one – and one where users, brands and vendors need to be equally mindful.
Much of the conversation tends to focus around social or smartphone ‘addiction’, and in particular its effect on younger minds. Yet research on the topic argues that things are a little more complicated. The most recent study, from the University of Oxford, polled 12,000 adolescents and concluded the effects of social media usage on teenage life satisfaction was limited, arguing family, friends, and school life all had a larger effect on wellbeing.
Whether it is through social or otherwise, the smartphone remains a near-impossible temptation to resist whatever one’s age. According to Deloitte’s most recent Global Mobile Consumer Survey, US consumers check their smartphones 52 times a day on average. 60% of those polled aged 18-34 admitted to smartphone overuse.
Scrolling has become second nature at this point, like breathing – and it has corrosive effects
Brian Solis, principal analyst at Altimeter Group, puts it this way. Society today has become one where we consume more than we create. For content marketing teams stuck in the sausage machine, this statement can be seen as something of a vicious cycle. Do you stick to a rigid calendar? Do you take advantage of real-time marketing? Do you Frankenblog? 5,787 tweets are sent every second while approximately 80,000 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every day. It is a chasm wherever you stand.
“This process of perpetual consumption has become second nature,” Solis tells MarketingTech. “Without even thinking, we’re scrolling with no greater purpose than just because it’s what our bodies and minds have come to expect. It’s second nature at this point, like breathing – and it has corrosive effects.”
Solis has a new book, Lifescale, which explores this distraction and how to overcome it. The theory presented is fivefold; firstly, to be present and mindful both in one’s physical and digital life; to ‘break the cycle of instant gratification’ and think critically and creatively; to live and work in the now without mentally wandering elsewhere; to waste less time on distractions; and to ‘foster creativity and imagination through powerful and life-changing daily rituals.’
The worst-case scenarios are frightening in their Machiavellianism. One example Solis cites is the Facetune selfie-taking app. It’s ‘fun, powerful and jam-packed with tons of retouching tools’, in the company’s own words. Any linguist would have a field day analysing such apps for their use of deliberatively positive language. Yet Solis had previously worked with a luxury brand and found the ‘unachievable’ expectations of beauty placed on girls and young women therein ‘astounding and very upsetting.’
Ultimately, the vast majority of the digital population has subconsciously picked up a series of bad habits. Like many entrenched habits, they can be difficult to overcome; but was the process of acquiring them so accidental? In The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, published earlier this year, author Shushana Zuboff disputes the narrative from the tech giants – Google in particular – that monetising a user’s ‘digital exhaust’ was not the original goal and just a piece of serendipity.
Not altogether surprisingly, Solis feels the same way. “The compulsion to endlessly scroll, to play games when we should be working, to check Facebook and email when it’s not necessary, are all the result of psychological manipulation by the industry that creates these platforms,” he says.
This manipulation, ‘persuasive design’, goes far beyond simple gamification. In 2015, Anders Toxboe, a UX designer who was then head of digital development at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, published a series of cards aimed at helping UX professionals build persuasive design into their applications. Writing for UX Booth in 2018, he noted the ‘power and danger’ of this approach.
Toxboe’s best practices were aimed at helping users make decisions based on existing triggers based on desire – “you aren’t going to convince people they want something that they would otherwise not be interested in”, as he put it. Yet there came a caveat. “The danger of persuasive design lies in its power and the fact that it has taken powerful and complex psychological concepts and distilled them into easily digestible bits,” Toxboe warned. “User actions can’t be explained by a single root cause and behaviour doesn’t always happen in a direct cause-and-effect loop. We can lead users through tunnels, but we should always allow room for escape.”
“I’m definitely not against technology, but I am opposed to misinformation or suppressed information about the negative impact of technology,” argues Solis. “I want to know this information so I can make an informed decision about how I live my life and help others live their lives through my work. I want to be my most mindful, gracious, creative, and collaborative self.”
Hence Lifescale. The book is deliberately written to put the user on a path where several sideways steps are necessary; alongside chapter titles such as ‘energise’ and ‘realise’ are ones titled ‘reconsider’ and ‘reorient.’ It is evidently meant to signify the proverbial journey of a thousand steps – this is no quick fix.
“Turning off notifications and devices, deleting apps, digital detox, digital diets, productivity apps, meditation… they all help, but they’re treating the symptoms and not the core emotional, physical and psychological issues,” says Solis. “Like any addiction, the answers to adequately manage distractions and addiction are more than the superficial, trendy solutions touted by experts today.
“These wounds are deep and we’re treating them like minor cuts.”
One of the book’s other notable features is its colour off the page (above). While the vast majority of it is prose, there are pages for taking notes, cheat sheets, and vibrant yellow pull quotes. Its design was to emulate a digital experience on paper – an ‘analogue app’, as Solis puts it.
I’m definitely not against technology – but I am opposed to misinformation or suppressed information about the negative impact of technology
It is not exactly laid out as a hefty tome, nor is it meant to be – and the reason why makes perfect sense. If you are already struggling with the effects of digital addiction, are you going to leap at the chance of reading a more than 300-page book? Solis worries that those who most need this book may be too far gone – “focusing on validation, chasing popularity, worrying about being ‘on trend’ and living their ‘best’ (distracted) lives to realise they have a problem” – but for others willing to pull back, it is an easy, dippable feast.
“The book is written for distracted people who may not do a lot of reading,” says Solis. “It’s designed to visually stimulate your subconscious to keep reading and learning, building the discipline to do so along the way, while teaching readers via text and imagery.
“There’s a conscious system that allows us to focus on tasks at hand and then there is an unconscious network, that is very vulnerable to distraction,” Solis adds. “The book is designed to stoke positively. Lifescale is organised to help people ease through page by page, chapter by chapter, as they go on a journey to put their lives back in balance.”
Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life (published by Wiley, April 2019) is available for purchase by visiting here.
Picture credit: 'CDO Summit Israel - Brian Solis', by Brian Solis, used under CC BY 2.0 / Modified from original
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In what has become an all-too-common occurrence on cruise ships, a sizable number of passengers aboard a ship bound for Belfast were afflicted by a gastroenteritis-type illness. The company that owns the cruise ship, Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, reported that 84 of it 763 guests were sick. As a result the ship, the Boudicca, will be heading home from its 10-day Scandinavian Cities Cruise ahead of schedule. When they arrive, the sick will receive immediate medical attention.
This latest outbreak was the second to hit a Fred Olsen Cruise Lines in weeks, after 130 people contracted a similar illness on a ship that was bound for St. Petersburg, Russia. Of course, this particular cruise line is not the only one to suffer viral outbreaks on board. Only recently, one of the major players in the global industry, Royal Caribbean Cruises, reported that 118 passengers aboard its ship Vision of the Seas came down with a highly contagious stomach bug.
Why does it happen? According to medical professionals, when you have large groups of people in close quarters and there is frequent passenger turnover, the risk of a viral transmission is elevated; and a highly contagious virus can spread like wildfire.
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Alicia Kearns becomes only the second woman to be elected as Melton’s MP
Alicia Kearns, the newly-elected MP for Rutland and Melton EMN-191212-173152001
Published: 05:43 Friday 13 December 2019
Alicia Kearns celebrated a record majority early this morning (Friday) as she became only the second woman elected as MP for Melton.
She follows Mervyn Pike, who won the 1956 General Election to become the constituency’s first female MP.
Mrs Kearns is only the fifth MP to serve the constituency since the end of the Second World War, following on from Sir Alan Duncan (elected 1992), Michael Latham (1974), Mervyn Pike (1956) and Sir Anthony Nutting (1945).
We interviewed her along with the other candidates in the run-up to the General Election and her answers to five key questions give an indication of what kind of MP she will be for Rutland and Melton.
This is what she said:
Q1 What would be your three main priorities if you are elected as MP for Rutland and Melton?
Alicia Kearns: I will fight for our fair share of Government funding so we can invest in our beautiful villages and market towns, our environment, social care, broadband, bus services, policing, our roads, and provision for our young people.
I want to protect what makes Rutland and Melton so extraordinary, from our local pubs to the enormous sense of civic duty, the friendliness, and our very special way of life.
We should all be able to rely on good health services close to home. I will work to secure a new GP surgery in Melton and increase GP provision across our area. I also want to invest in local mental health provision.
Nationally, my priority is to get Brexit done. I voted to leave, and as a democrat, I want to uphold the result of the referendum.
I will back Boris’s deal so we can get back to dealing with the issues that matter the most to us all.
Q2 Do you support Brexit and what do you think will be the impact on residents of Melton and Rutland when the UK finally leaves the EU?
AK: I voted to leave the European Union and believe that we should respect the result.
Alicia Kearns elected Melton MP on a record majority
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No divorce is perfect, but Boris’s deal takes us out of the Customs Union, the Single Market, and the European Court of Justice.
My job is to make sure we secure the best opportunities from Brexit for Rutland and Melton, including a good working relationship with the EU.
This includes getting the Agriculture Bill moving, so that our farmers and food producers are supported fully and there are excellent opportunities for our business owners to export internationally.
Q3 Please name one specific issue you would like to resolve in the Melton borough and explain why you think it is important?
AK: The priority issues for me in Melton are getting a new GP surgery built, delivering the bypass for which Sir Alan Duncan successfully secured the funding so we can get our town moving, and crucially getting us a fairer share of central Government funding to enable us to invest in our local services.
Q4 How would you describe the role of an MP in terms of the balance of representing the constituency with demands from Westminster duties?
AK: People go to their MP in their darkest moments, when there is nowhere else left to turn.
I want to be that person for Rutland and Melton.
I live in Langham with my family, and my pledge to my constituents is: I will be an MP who takes the time to listen to you, to advocate for you, and secure the change you need to make each of our lives better.
My priority will always be you, and I will stand up for us all at Westminster.
Q5 What personal qualities do you have which would make you a good MP?
AK: I am someone who is compassionate and honest.
My career has been dedicated to public service, working in counter-terrorism to defeat our enemies, such as ISIS.
I understand duty, dedication, and hard work.
Over the last few weeks I have visited over 25 villages and all of our beautiful market towns, knocking on doors, holding street stalls, meeting residents in our pubs, and attending local events.
I hope to meet many more people over the coming weeks. My door is always open.
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Want More Pizza in Your Life? Order One 18-Inch Pie Instead of Two 12-Inch Pies
BY Michele Debczak
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When ordering pizza for guests (or when throwing yourself a personal pizza party), it can be tempting to spring for two medium pies over one large one. It may end up being more expensive, but it also feels like the logical choice: Two 12-inch pies should give you more cheesy goodness per square inch than an 18-inch pie, right?
That may be what pizzerias want you to think, but as Fermat's Library recently illustrated on Twitter, it's not the case. One large, 18-inch pie boasts a full 28 more square inches of pizza than two small 12-inch pies, making the larger pie by far the better deal.
Here's a useful counterintuitive fact: one 18 inch pizza has more 'pizza' than two 12 inch pizzas pic.twitter.com/hePSpG0pJs
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) January 7, 2019
Even though the diameter of the large pizza is smaller than the combined diameters of the two medium pies, it still has a larger total area. To get the area of the circle, you have to square the radius (which is half of the diameter) and multiply that by pi (about 3.14). This means the area of an 18-inch pizza is 254 square inches, while the combined area of two 12-inch pies is only 226 inches.
The geometry required to calculate your pizza order isn't too complicated, but the tweet was apparently eye-opening enough to garner a viral response. Some people were thankful for the math tip, while others had trouble wrapping their heads around it. Mathematician Tamás Görbe pointed out that while an 18-inch pie technically gives you more food, two 12-inches pies give you 33.3 percent more crust—something to keep in mind if that's your favorite part.
Yeah, but the crust is arguably the best part and two 12 inch pizzas have 33.3% more crust than a 18 inch pizza. And now I'm hungry, thanks @fermatslibrary! pic.twitter.com/ZUfGicpcWG
— Tamás Görbe 🇭🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@TamasGorbe) January 7, 2019
In case you're looking for another excuse to order pizza, January 13 marked the start of National Pizza Week. Here are some facts about the beloved dish to celebrate the occasion.
[h/t Mashable]
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Here's Why the Coke at McDonald's Is So Good
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Not every cup of Coke is created equal. If you're a McDonald's customer who can't resist ordering a large Coke with your Big Mac and fries, you may suspect that the soda from the fast food chain is superior to versions found elsewhere. It's not childhood nostalgia warping your taste buds: McDonald's takes steps to ensure their Coke really does taste better than the competitor's.
Coca-Cola is serious about preserving its secret formula, and the drink you get at McDonald's is made from the same ingredients that you'd get in a can from a vending machine. The difference lies in the way McDonald's treats those ingredients right up to the moment they fill your cup.
Most Coke syrup is shipped to restaurants in plastic bags, but for McDonald's, one of the company's most profitable partners, Coca-Cola sends the product in stainless steel drums. This material is better at preserving the ingredients and keeping them fresh by the time they arrive at their destination.
The second reason the Coke at McDonald's tastes so good has to do with temperature. Instead of storing water for the soda in the soda fountain like many restaurants do, the chain uses insulated tubes to transport it from the fridge directly to the dispenser when it's ready to be poured. In addition to tasting great, colder liquid is also better at trapping CO2 bubbles and keeping drinks fizzy for longer.
A major difference between the Coke you have at McDonald's and a Coke you might have at home is that the McDonald's soda is nearly always enjoyed with ice and a straw. These are the final elements that make its Coke special. McDonald's knows that Coke will eventually get watered down in a cup filled with ice, and it's tweaked its syrup-to-water ratio to account for this. That means the best sip of Coke may come after your ice has had a few minutes to melt.
Even the straws at McDonald's were engineered to maximize your soda enjoyment. They're slightly wider than regular straws, so that first flavor-packed sip is able to hit more of your tongue at once.
Not everything McDonald's puts out has been as well-received as its Coke. Some of the biggest failures from the company's history include the McD.L.T., the Arch Deluxe, and broccoli-flavored bubblegum.
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Read Guy Beringer’s 1895 Essay That Coined the Term Brunch
BY Ellen Gutoskey
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In 1895, British writer Guy Beringer entreated the public to adopt a revolutionary meal that he called brunch. The word itself was, as we all know, a portmanteau of breakfast and lunch, and the idea was almost exactly the same as it is today: Rise late, gather your mates, and chat the afternoon away over a feast of breakfast and lunch fare.
He detailed all the benefits of his innovation in his essay “Brunch: A Plea,” which was published in Hunter’s Weekly. In addition to presenting a compelling case for making brunch a part of one's weekend routine, Beringer also seems like the kind of person you’d want to invite to your own Sunday gathering. For one, Beringer definitely lives to eat.
“Dinner’s the thing; the hour between seven and eight is worth all the rest put together,” Beringer wrote. “In these hurrying, worrying, and scurrying days the sweets of life are too often overlooked, and, with the sweets, the hors d'œuvre, soups, and entrées.”
Brunch, therefore, is a way to put the focus back on the food. It’s also a way to justify letting your Saturday night last into the early hours of Sunday morning, since a late first meal makes waking up early on Sunday “not only unnecessary but ridiculous.” According to Beringer, brunch should begin at 12:30 p.m., so feel free to tell your early-bird friend that the father of brunch would consider their 10:00 a.m. brunch reservation an utter travesty.
To Beringer, brunch was much more conducive to socializing than the quiet, comforting solitude of an early breakfast.
“Brunch ... is cheerful, sociable, and inciting. It is talk-compelling,” he explains. “It puts you in a good temper; it makes you satisfied with yourself and your fellow-beings. It sweeps away the worries and cobwebs of the week.”
And, as for the bottomless mimosas, Bloody Marys, and overall boozy nature of brunch these days, Beringer approved of that, too.
“P.S.,” he adds, “Beer and whiskey are admitted as substitutes for tea and coffee.”
You can read his whole groundbreaking composition below.
"When one has reached a certain age, and the frivolities of youth have palled, one's best thoughts are turned in the channel of food. Man's first study is not man, but meals. Dinner is the climax of each day. You may have your chasse café afterwards, in the shape of theatre, music hall, or social gathering; but it is little more than a digestive. Dinner's the thing; the hour between seven and eight is worth all the rest put together. A parallel might be drawn between these sixty minutes and the Nuit de Cléopatre; but neither in length nor moral tendency would it be suitable to Hunter's Weekly. In these hurrying, worrying, and scurrying days the sweets of life are too often overlooked, and, with the sweets, the hors d'œuvre, soups, and entrées. To use a theatrical simile, there is a tendency to regard meals solely as the curtain raisers of the day's performances. Who has not whirlwind friends who rush in upon him, exclaiming, "Let's have a spree to night, old man! We won't bother about feeding; a chop or steak will about do us." What a pitiable frame of mind! Not that I am a gourmet. I hate the term. I regard a gourmet simply as a gourmand with a digestion. Excessive daintiness in regard to food is merely a form of effeminacy, and as such is to be deprecated. But there is a happy medium—everything good, plenty of it, variety and selection. On week days these conditions can without difficulty be fulfilled, but Sunday affords a problem for nice examination. All of us have experienced the purgatory of those Sabbatarian early dinners with their Christian beef and concomitant pie. Have we not eaten enough of them? I think so, and would suggest Brunch as a satisfactory substitute. The word Brunch is a corruption of breakfast and lunch, and the meal Brunch is one which combines the tea or coffee, marmalade and kindred features of the former institution with the more solid attributes of the latter. It begins between twelve and half-past and consists in the main of fish and one or two meat courses.
Apart altogether from animal considerations, the arguments in favor of Brunch are incontestable. In the first place it renders early rising not only unnecessary but ridiculous. You get up when the world is warm, or at least, when it is not so cold. You are, therefore, able to prolong your Saturday nights, heedless of that moral "last train"—the fear of the next morning's reaction. It leaves the station with your usual seat vacant, and many others also unoccupied. If Brunch became general it would be taken off altogether; the Conscience and Care Company, Limited, would run it at a loss. Their receipts on the other days would, however, be correspondingly increased, and they would be able to give their employés a much-needed holiday. The staff has become rather too obstinate and officious of late. That it must be a case of Brunch or morning church I am, of course, aware; but is any busy work-a-day man in a becomingly religious frame of mind after rising eight and nine o'clock on his only "off" morning? If he went to bed in good time the night before, well and good; but Saturday is Saturday, and will remain so. More especially from seven onwards. To a certain extent I am pleading for Brunch from selfish motives. The world would be kinder and more charitable if my brief were successful. To begin with, Brunch is a hospitable meal; breakfast is not. Eggs and bacon are adapted to solitude; they are consoling, but not exhilarating. They do not stimulate conversation. Brunch, on the contrary, is cheerful, sociable, and inciting. It is talk-compelling. It puts you in a good temper; it makes you satisfied with yourself and your fellow-beings. It sweeps away the worries and cobwebs of the week. The advantages of the suggested innovation are, in short, without number, and I submit it is fully time that the old régime of Sunday breakfast made room for the "new course" of Sunday Brunch.
P.S.—Beer and whiskey are admitted as substitutes for tea and coffee."
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Why devs should work with agents: ‘A good agent will help you tell the difference between a snake and a ladder’
Marie Dealessandri 11th July 2019 Business, Development
CEO of Dlala Studios, and game director on Battletoads, Aj Grand-Scrutton explained yesterday at Develop:Brighton why developers should consider working with an agent. Joel Benton, partner at ISM Agency (which represents clients such The Chinese Room, Sumo Digital, Supermassive Games, Saber Interactive and more) was also taking part in the talk, telling developers more about his role as an agent and his experience in business development.
During their talk they challenged the traditional way we see agents, with Benton stressing: “You don’t have to be a dick to be an agent. People underestimate the importance of business development. The one thing we can do is help [studios] protect their future.”
Agents can help developers navigate through the deal making process and show them what’s a good opportunity and what’s a bad one.
Grand-Scrutton explained that despite his preconceptions about agents, it was an easy decision to make in the end, especially money-wise: a good agency will not charge you unless a deal has been signed. He added that it helped Dlala structure its activities: “We’d been winging it and we stumbled on all our deals before [signing with agent Derek Douglas from CAA]. When Derek came into play, things got more serious. it opened the door to more meetings, companies were finally booked in the calendar.”
Dlala Studios grew from five guys in a garage to 20+ staff in an office following Douglas’ appointment as the studio’s agent.
“I think one of the greatest value is that he is always in contact with publishers and books the appropriate meetings,” Grand-Scrutton said. “All I have to do is to turn up on the day. One of the worst thing is that one game doesn’t have one pitch deck – we end up with 15+ variations because different publishers expect different things. It’s like a guessing game. An agent tells you what to focus on, what deck to choose, and so on. It takes a lot of stress off things and he helped us have that perception of professionalism.”
Benton continued, expanding on why working with an agent is beneficial, especially if you’re a bit new to the industry: “Biz dev is like the board game Snakes and Ladders: there’s no ladder going from square 1 to square 100. I spent my career looking for it and it just isn’t there. A good agent will help you tell the difference between a snake and a ladder. Luck has a huge bearing in this but knowing the difference between ladder and snake is crucial, and having a specialist helping you navigate that board [is crucial] tp work your way up.”
He added: “As CEO, you can only look at one direction at a time: you can look inside the studio, building the corporate structure and culture or you can look outside, at the publishers and so on. But you can’t do both. Having external help (biz dev or agent) is very very useful because they do that sort of stuff. An agent will help you to have as good a relationship as you can possibly get with a publisher. You can’t be at all places at all times. Sumo has three full time biz dev and still uses an agent.”
Grand-Scrutton added that an agent is close enough to give your all the support you need but far enough to give you an outsider’s perspective, helping you make better decisions.
“We really do care,” concluded Benton. “We’re here both for the good times and bad times. Agents aren’t just an introduction service. It’s just the start. Opening the deal is the easy bit, closing it is the real challenge.”
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Marie Dealessandri is MCV’s former senior staff writer. After testing the waters of the film industry in France and being a radio host and reporter in Canada, she settled for the games industry in London in 2015. She can be found (very) occasionally tweeting @mariedeal, usually on a loop about Baldur’s Gate, Hollow Knight and the Dead Cells soundtrack.
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Ladder of the heavens
By Ziel
Description "Someone suggested that I do a story with piercings and jewelry that caused growth in the owner. I made use of some other suggestions as well so this story features a wide array of kinks including muscle/dick growth and even a touch of shrinkage, and there’s even a cute little *spoiler* with a *spoiler**spoiler*"
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Added: 01 May 2015. "Someone suggested that I do a story with piercings and jewelry that caused growth in the owner. I made use of some other suggestions as well so this story features a wide array of kinks including muscle/dick growth and even a touch of shrinkage, and there’s even a cute little *spoiler* with a *spoiler**spoiler*"
Sid stood in line with all the other acolytes and fidgeted nervously. This was it. He had come of age and all that was left was to officially ascend to adulthood. He just wished he could shake the overwhelming sense of dread that had plagued his mind all day. The dark, indigo skies did nothing to alleviate his panic.
“Hey. Relax. You’ll be fine.” Sid’s best friend, Zen said.
Sid glanced over at his pal and tried his best to smile, but his expression looked pained and forced. “That’s easy for you to say.” Sid replied flippantly. Of course Zen wouldn’t be worried. He already had a great body. There was no doubt that he was bound for greatness. Sid on the other hand was a total shrimp. He didn’t even come up to Zen’s shoulders. The tip of Sid’s head was just barely even with Zen’s exposed nipples.
Like all the acolytes. Sid and Zen were clad in little more than a ceremonial loincloth. The small cloth was enough for Sid, but it didn’t cover Zen’s goods at all. The tip of Zen’s huge, soft, cock poked out past the bottom hem of his ceremonial garb. Sid tried his best not to stare, but Zen was just so hot. Zen’s toned, firm muscles were simply spectacular, and his ashen grey skin looked fantastic in the purple light from the torches that lined the path of up the ziggurat. The light made his already purple-tinged flesh look even more lavender than it normally did. The light even seemed to make his shaggy, purple hair sparkle which just served to make him look even more handsome.
Zen put his hands on his hips and puffed up his chest dramatically. “You were staring so hard I thought I’d give you a nice view.” He said playfully.
“As if I was staring.” Sid sputtered indignantly.
“Whatever you were doing it looks like you enjoyed it.” Zen replied playfully. He gave a quick nod towards Sid’s crotch and gave his shorter, slimmer buddy a sly win.
Sid glanced down and saw that his dick was standing straight at attention. He gasped and shot his hands down to cover up—less because he was embarrassed about popping a wood in line and more because he was embarrassed about the size. Even hard his dick was nowhere near as big as his buddy’s soft cock. Sid could feel the heat on his face. He just knew that his cheeks had to be turning new and exciting shades of magenta of even indigo as the blood rushed to his cheeks. He was so embarrassed that even his pointy ears felt like they were burning.
Zen just laughed and gently rustled Sid’s green hair. “Just relax. Your size doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t affect your ascension at all.” Zen explained in an effort to soothe his bud’s nerves.
“That’s easy for you to say. I’m already halfway to being an imp—” Sid grumbled.
Zen tried to keep a straight face but ended up laughing at his friend’s comment. “That’s just a story they tell acolytes to keep them from slacking off in their duties. I’ve never heard of anyone actually getting turned into an imp at an ascension ceremony.” He explained.
“What about that cage that the groundskeeper has outside his window. He says it’s the perfect size to keep an imp in.” Sid replied and shuddered visibly as he did so.
“He says a lot of things.” Zen replied and rolled his eyes. “I’ve never seen or heard of anyone getting turned into an imp. No one here is going to fail their ascension least of all you.”
“How can you be so sure—?” Sid muttered.
“He can’t.” Came a haughty voice from beside Sid.
“No one asked you, Vin.” Zen growled.
“You didn’t have to, but I knew I was needed.” Vin replied. He was almost as huge as Zen in every way imaginable, but what made him really intimidating were his two lackeys at his side. The two lackeys were every bit as big and as built as their leader. Zen may have been able to handle Vin one on one, but three against one would be nearly impossible. Vin and his posse liked to terrorize the acolytes throughout the course of their training. He was openly hated by most, but everyone knew there was no way to directly oppose him without it coming to blows which would end poorly for everyone involved. Vin had a remarkable ability to keep his nose just clean enough to stay out of trouble but still throw his weight around and boss others around.
Vin leaned down and peered menacingly at the much shorter, smaller acolyte. Sid recoiled in fear but for the most part stood his ground. Vin sneered and let out a menacing chuckle. “I don’t see why you’re so worried about becoming an imp.” He said darkly. He paused for a moment and stared down the cowering acolyte as he waited for his words to sink in. Sid didn’t know where he was going with this line of reasoning, but he sure it wasn’t good. When Vin finally finished his line of reasoning he proved Sid’s suspicions correct.
“You’re already such a shrimp that you won’t even notice when you inevitably become one. Why, I doubt you’d even notice the difference. You mighteven add on a few inches in the process.” He said sinisterly.
“The only one who has anything to worry about is you.” Zen replied defiantly.
“Oh? You gonna do something about it?” Vin sneered.
“No. I won’t have to. Everyone here knows what you’ve been up to these past few years. Do you really think you’ll be judged highly when you take the trial?” Zen asked.
“You think I care about some stupid trial? Look at me. I’m fit to be a legionnaire. This whole ceremony is just a joke. I’m gonna walk up there and take my armor, and no feeble old git in a gaudy robe is gonna stop me.” Vin replied. He folded his arms in front of him and glared menacingly at Zen.
At first Zen said nothing in reply, but he didn’t back down either. He met Vin’s glare and stared right back at the would-be bully. After a long, tense moment, Zen finally spoke. “I wish you all the best in trying it.” He said.
“I don’t need luck.” Vin replied flatly. He then turned and marched his way back up towards the front of the line. His two lackeys made sure that the people who were in line in front of him didn’t get make any effort to deny their boss his rightful place.
“If anyone deserves to be an imp it’s that guy.” Zen spat.
Sid shuddered. “Even he doesn’t deserve that.” He muttered. Even just thinking of it made his stomach turn. He felt like he was going to be sick.
Zen clapped a hand on Sid’s shoulder and smiled down at his little buddy. “You’re the nicest guy here. They’d never make you an imp.” He said reassuringly.
“I wish being nice counted for something. They don’t grade you based on how nice you are. They grade you based on how strong you are or how brave or how smart. I’m none of those things!” Sid lamented.
“Don’t sell yourself short. You’d be a great addition to any caste, and… you know… I’m still not saying it’s possible. I don’t think you have anything to worry about, but just for a second, let’s say the worst does come to pass, I’ll look after you, ok?” Zen said sweetly.
“You mean like your pet?” Sid asked.
“Well… I’d never think of you like that, but I’d do anything in my power to help you. So… stop worrying. I’ll take care of you, ok?” Zen replied.
Sid nodded silently and wiped a tear from his eye. He was still terrified, but at least he knew that his best friend would look out for him. Even being cursed to live as an imp didn’t seem so bad if he could spend it with Zen.
Sid’s gut churned again. He was so worried about failing his trial that he had completely forgotten about another serious issue. Even if he did succeed there was no guarantee he’d ever see his best pal again. He could get shipped off to any corner of the known universe. Suddenly failing his trial didn’t sound like such a bad idea—
A loud horn blast split the air. The sound announced the beginning of the initiation. All the acolytes returned to their place in line and waited quietly to be called up to the altar where four priests stood with their staves held aloft. Each priest wore a different costume to denote their status and the caste they represented.
Rah, owner of the red gem, had crimson robes and an iron mask to denote his ties to the worker caste. All who wished for a life of quiet fulfillment hoped for his favor.
Sin, owner of the purple gems, had on ornate, layered robes. Each layer was a different shade of purple, and on his head was a helmet of solid steel. He oversaw the warrior caste. Those who sought to prove themselves, bring honor on their families, or protect those closest to them sought out his blessing.
Next was Sol, owner of the blue gem. He wore simple, blue robes and a faceless, porcelain mask. He oversaw the caste of the learned; scholars, merchants, scribes. Those who wanted a more intellectual life hoped to earn his good graces.
And behind all three of them sat an old, faceless figure clad in threadbare grey robes. No one knew his name or his status, but it was clear he was revered by the other three priests. His gnarled staff had a black gemstone on the tip of it. There were more myths and rumors surrounding him than there were facts. No one knew for sure just what to make of him or what caste he represented.
The acolytes went up one by one to receive their blessings. Unsurprisingly Vin and his cronies were at the front of his line, but what was surprising was that Vin hung back and let his lackeys go first. No doubt he wanted to make a big show of getting a better result than they did.
His two cronies went up one after the other, and both received the blessing of the red gem. Rah signaled for an attendant to come forward and pulled out what appeared to be four earrings, but it was clear that that was not the intended use. Only scholars got their gemstones placed anywhere on their faces.
The attendants stepped and held the rings up to the lackey’s nipples. The rings instantly clamped down on the exposed flesh, but the two newly designated workers didn’t seem to feel a thing. There was no blood and no pain. There wasn’t even any irritation of the surrounding skin. Their brand new nipple rings looked as if they had been there for years.
The small red gemstones on their new rings began to glow brightly, and the lackey’s already massive frames expanded rapidly under the power of the red gems. Their already defined muscles grew and grew. Soon their chests were so broad and their pecs so large that even just one of those slabs of brawn could have been used in place of the ceremonial altar. Their abs were so deep and so thick that each individual bump of their eight pack abs was as large as a couch cushion. Their biceps bulges like beach balls. Their legs were as thick as tree trunks. Their pitiful little loincloths which were the only holdover from their days as acolytes were now so tiny on them that the lower hem of the cloth didn’t even dip low enough to cover the base of their cocks. Their huge, fat cocks were easily two feet long and dangled down to their knees. Their massive nuts were as large as basketballs.
Their huge, hulking bodies were now perfectly suited for the arduous lives that awaited them on the frontier mining colonies. They stood by and silently waited for the approval of their leader, but Vin hardly seemed to notice them as he walked by. It wasn’t until he reached the altar that he turned back and sneered, “Enjoy your lives as peasants.” His lackeys were saddened but not altogether surprised by his response.
The first priest stepped forward and held his gem aloft. The red gem did not react to Vin’s presence. Vin sneered at the priest and then waited for Sin to step forward. Sin came forth and held his staff up towards Vin, but none of the gemstones began to glow.
Vin was furious. “What’s the big idea. I’m destined for great things. I’m not some pencil pusher.”
“No—” came a raspy voice from somewhere behind Him. Vin spun around quickly as if he was ready to fight whoever it was that dare deny him his destiny, but upon seeing the aged, faceless priest glaring down at him from behind his dark, threadbare cowl, Vin fell suddenly silent.
“You clearly lack the intelligence to be one of the literati—” the ancient priest rasped. His lifted his staff high. The jet black gemstone atop seemed to gleam and glisten, but it would be imprecise to say that it glowed. Rather it seemed to be sucking the light from the air around it. As Vin stared into the swirling, black vortex terror began to well up inside of him.
Vin tried to back away, but his two former lackeys stepped forward to hold him down. Vin thrashed as hard as he could as the ancient priest slowly shambled down the steps to the main altar. Soon he was standing mere feet in front of Vin. Even as close as he was, Vin couldn’t make out any features from beneath the cowl. It almost appeared as if he was gazing into the abyss as he tried to look for any sign of mercy under the ancient priest’s hood.
The old priest pulled a small, tarnished iron ring with a jet black gemstone from his robe and held it up to Vin’s neck. The ring was far too small for Vin to wear on his fingers, but he got the feeling that that wasn’t where he was supposed to wear it. Vin could feel the malice emanating from the ring. The priest continued to move the ring closer and closer to Vin’s throat until it was actually touching his exposed flesh, but the priest kept pushing. The ring began to sink right into the flesh of Vin’s throat like a rock being swallowed by quicksand. Vin could feel it sinking ever deeper into his throat. The ring finally stopped sinking when only the small black gemstone was left exposed. Vin could feel the lump of it nestled right against his Adam’s apple.
“H-Hey… Guys? Let me go, would ya? I mean, Workers. That’s not bad, right? You can take pride in your jobs and all that, right? In fact, I wouldn’t mind joining you. So come on? Give me some of those rings and let me join you. It’ll be great, right?” Vin pleaded nervously, but his former lackeys showed no signs of remorse nor did the wizened priest.
Vin turned back towards the priest and tried to protest some more, but he couldn’t get the words to form. The ring seemed to be growing within his throat. The lump in his throat was now so huge that it was actually blocking his windpipe. He felt sick to his stomach. His skin felt like it was crawling. His very bones felt weak.
The priest moved with a speed that belied his age. In one deft motion he sliced the string of Vin’s loincloth causing it to fall from his swole frame and fall to the floor. Vin was left completely nude in front of everyone, and he could do nothing to cover up. Vin whimpered pitifully as he saw the effects begin to take hold. His firm, rippling abs which he had spent years sculpting slowly began to smooth over. His big, beefy pecs began to deflate. His thick, muscular quads shrunk and shriveled before his very eyes, but perhaps what was even more terrifying was what was going on between his legs. His cock slowly pulled inwards. His balls slowly pulled upwards. With each passing second he could see his nuts get ever so slightly smaller, his cock getting ever so slightly thinner. He glanced back up to plead one last time. It was then that he realized something else was happening. He had to stare up to even see the faceless priest’s hood. Just moments earlier he had been taller than the wizened old priest by a good margin, but now he barely reached the grey-clad figure’s shoulders. He then realized why the ring felt so huge in his throat. It wasn’t growing. He was shrinking around it. He was dwindling by the second, and it didn’t seem like it would stop any time soon. With each passing moment he got smaller… shorter… slimmer… His muscles melted away to nothing, and his dick continued to recede. Before long he was so short that his feet didn’t even touch the ground. It was now pointless for the two newly ascended workers to both hold him, so Vin was passed off to just one of them to hold.
The worker turned and lifted Vin up for the whole crowd to see. Vin tried his best to cover up, but there was nothing that he could do. He didn’t have the strength to fight his giant captor, and he was quickly losing the will to fight back at all. Already he was so tiny that either of his captor’s giant hands eclipsed his entire arm, and yet he was still shrinking. He couldn’t figure it out. How tiny was he supposed to get? When would it stop?
It was then that he remembered what that shrimp Sid was saying before. Vin had made sure to tease the twerp about his misguided fears, but Vin now saw that he was the mistaken one. The curse did exist. It wasn’t just some story told to scare acolytes into behaving. He was being shrunken down to… an imp.
He remembered the tiny cage that sat outside the groundskeeper’s house. He remembered how he used to joke about how nothing could fit in that. He used to say it was obviously just decoration. Nothing could possibly be that small. Not even rats could fit in that cage, but as he continued to dwindle down to the point that he easily fit in the palm of his captor’s hand, he knew how wrong he was.
He could feel the band of tarnished iron pushing its way through his skin. He was now so tiny that the ring—which was too small to even fit on his pinky when he was big—was actually bigger than his neck. He then realized that it was never meant to be a ring. It was a collar for a tiny animal. It was a collar for him. The tarnished iron band passed seamlessly through his flesh. There wasn’t even the faintest mark on his skin to show where it had come from, but it didn’t look like the ring would slide through his flesh so easily the next time. It was firmly locked in place around his neck. The opening wasn’t tight enough to be uncomfortable, but it was far too small to slide over his head. There was no way he could get the ring off without getting someone to slice it off for him.
The jet black gemstone stuck out from the front of the collar and gleamed directly below his chin. It was so heavy that he could barely stand, but he refused to let them see him collapse. He mustered what resolve he could and stood shakily to his feet and stared of defiantly at the gigantic priest and his two towering former lackeys.
Vin had to be no more than four inches tall at this point. His muscles had all vanished leaving him with a slim, slender physique. His dick and balls had dwindled considerably even in comparison to his vastly shrunken body. His once hefty, foot-long cock which once dangled over halfway down his thigh was now a tiny little nub between his legs which looked much like a small acorn, and his once massive, chicken egg sized balls which used to hand down nice and low were now as tiny as the tip of his shrunken dick. His tiny nuts now longer hung low. Instead his sack had pulled up tightly against his groin which just made his junk appear all that much smaller.
Vin was furious, but he knew he was powerless. His former lackey poked and prodded him with one meaty finger. Even just the tip of the hulking worker’s broad fingertip was as wide as Vin’s now slim and slender torso. Even just a soft poke from the giant was powerful enough to send Vin toppling over.
Even as he was herded into his tiny cage he glared defiantly at his captors. As far as Vin was concerned there was nothing more they could do to him, and there was no way he was going to give them the satisfaction of seeing him crumble.
One of the attendants took his cage from the priest and carried it down the main aisle. As he traveled past all of his former classmates Vin saw a multitude of glances sent his way. Some people were shocked. Some laughed as they saw the former bully being toted away like a mouse in a cage, but most of them had this smug sense of vindication. It was as if the overwhelming majority of them were glad to see him get his just deserts. Vin was not at all surprised by any of these. It was no secret that he made his fair share of enemies in his time as an acolyte. It was no surprise that many of them harbored ill will towards him, but there was one acolyte that amazed him.
There was only one person that shocked Vin. As he passed by Sid he could see the terror and sorrow in the scrawny guy’s eyes. Vin couldn’t help but gawk at the guy he once tormented mercilessly. Sid was now far bigger, far buffer, and far better hung than Vin, but Sid was still considered the smallest, weakest, and littlest guy in the class. Even though Sid was by far the smallest acolyte, his dick alone was now bigger than Vin’s entire body.
Vin felt a twinge of remorse. Just minutes earlier he had mercilessly teased the shrimpy acolyte about the curse. He had menacingly told Sid that he’d be doomed to live his life as a tiny imp, but Vin had not believed such a thing existed back then. He had merely been tormenting someone smaller than him to make himself feel bigger and stronger, but now that he knew the truth he would never wish such a fate on anyone else.
As Vin was carried out of the ascension grounds he heard one last comment sent his way. Sid turned towards his bigger, stronger protector and softly uttered, “He didn’t deserve that… Nobody deserves that—”
“Yeah—” Zen murmured awkwardly. He felt sick to his stomach after what he had just seen, and he felt even worse because he had been secretly wishing that it would happen. Even as he watched the black gemstone suck the light from the air around it Zen had felt his pulse race. He had to fight back his own arrogant sneer as he watched the terror well up in his former tormentor’s eyes. Zen had enjoyed watching the tables turn. He had enjoyed watching the bully plead for mercy, but as the inches melted away and Vin’s cock and muscles receded away to next to nothing, Zen felt a pit form in his stomach. The curse was worse than he had imagined, and he knew more than anything he could not let that befall his best friend. He’d do whatever he needed to.
The rest of the ceremony went off without a hitch. The acolytes all went up, received the blessing of the gems and were given their new body. There were quite a few acolytes who got sent to the worker caste, a few scholars, and there were even a lot of soldiers. All but three of these had been given the blessing of the deep, purple gem which denoted that they’d be low level soldiers. The other three received the blessing of the lavender gem which meant that they were destined to be leaders and generals. There was much rejoicing and congratulation as these acolytes took on their new forms, but never once did anyone notice the third purple gem glow.
Finally it was Zen’s turn to take the trial. Rah waved the red gem in front of him, but nothing happened. Nobody was surprised to see this. Everyone had figured Zen had the makings of a general so when Sin stepped forth with the purple gems an expectant hush fell over the ascension grounds. As most people suspected, the deep purple gem did not light up.
There was some muttering amongst the crowd. Even some of the attendants were baffled. The gemstone on the tip of the priest’s staff was glowing brightly, but none of them had seen this color before. A resplendent magenta glow filled the altar.
“I have not seen this in centuries—” Sin muttered. It was the first time anyone had ever heard him speak. His voice sounded frail and feeble, but he moved with the speed and vigor of a young man as he marched away from the altar and into the ziggurat behind them. He returned a few minutes later with an ornate jewelry box. Another hush fell over the crowd. All the acolytes recognized the seal on the front of the box. It was the emblem of the royal guard.
“No way—” One of the recently ascended acolytes muttered.
“A Praetor?” Another gasped.
“I thought they were only fairy tales!” Another murmured.
Sid was excited for his best bud—he really was… but there was something gnawing at the back of his mind. Praetor was such a rare and powerful position. Even though it was purely symbolic since there hadn’t been a monarch in centuries, Zen would no doubt be shipped off to the capitol to stand guard over some official location. Sid had no doubt that Zen might even be sent to oversee the senate itself. The secret meeting grounds of the high council was strictly off limits to all but the elite of the elite. Even if Sid managed to get a good ranking and a good gemstone and a position somewhere on the homeworld, his chances of every seeing his best bud again were slim to none, and even if he could somehow keep in contact with Zen, the chances they’d have to actually visit one another would be few and far between. They might even go years without seeing each other. Just thinking about it made Sid feel incredibly sad. He almost found himself wishing that heâ'd fail his trial. At least then he could stay by his best friend’s side… even if it was confined to a small cage like some sort of exotic pet.
Sin reached into the box and pulled for a small, silver ring with a glowing amethyst set into it. Sin then knelt down before Zen and placed the ring against the exposed tip of Zen’s cock. The platinum ring passed through the soft skin of cockhead like a warm knife passing through butter. The ring left no marks as it passed. The flesh reformed behind the metal just as it had been before. If not for the band of silver which now protruded from the underside of Zen’s glans it would have seemed like he had never been pierced at all.
Zen felt the effects immediately once the ring was in place. It was a strange yet familiar sensation. He could feel his cock chubbing up as it had so many times in the past, but it felt far more intense than it ever had before. The blood rushed to fill his cock, but it seemed like no matter how much blood flowed to his loins it was never enough. His cock just continued to chub up indefinitely.
He glanced down at his dick and saw that what he was feeling wasn’t far from what was actually happening. His already sizeable dick was swelling before his very eyes, but it wasn’t just plumping up from the rush of blood and flood of arousal. His cock was literally growing by the second. It stretched longer, swelled fatter, grew heavier with each passing second, and it wasn’t just his cock. His already full, chicken-egg sized balls were growing too. Soon they were the size of baseballs and his dick dangled down past his knees. The plump, meaty shaft was already as thick as his huge, muscular forearm and showing no signs of stopping anytime soon.
Zen was used to people seeing his dick. It was no secret that he was hung before, and his acolyte garb rarely covered the entire thing, but this was different. He was usually able to keep his arousal in check, but his cock was chubbing up in front of everyone that he ever knew. It was a little embarrassing. Especially once pre began to trickle from the tip of his huge chubby. The clear liquid dribbled across the silver ring that stuck out from the bottom of his slit as it oozed out. Zen felt like he should do something to stop it. The ring was so pretty that it seemed a shame for it to be laminated in his juices like this, but there was nothing he could do. The growth felt too good. There was no way he could get his libido under control at a time like this.
Zen felt another rush flow through him, but this time the energy coursed through his entire body. His already firm, sculpted muscles grew and expanded before his very eyes, but the change was nowhere as severe as it had been with the workers earlier. His pecs grew thicker. His abs grew deeper. His biceps bulged farther. His lats flared out from under his arms. His quads grew larger. He was definitely getting bigger and stronger by the second, but his form was more built for speed and grace than it was for manual labor.
Zen was so excited that he wanted to rush towards his best friend and gush about his good fortune, but as he glanced down at Sid he realized something was very odd. Sid was always on the short side, but now Zen’s best buddy barely reached his thigh. Sid now stood eye level with the base of Zen’s cock although it didn’t look like Sid was complaining. Sid was staring straight at Zen’s cock with a look of out and out lust and awe, and Sid’s little dick was standing straight up at attention. Sid was so hard that his loincloth couldn’t even hide his arousal. His rigid dick had lifted the cloth out of the way so that his dick and balls were clearly on display.
Sid stared on in awe as Zen continued to grow and grow. Sid had seen a few ascensions before. He had watched the rest of his graduating class take their trials already and he had even served as an attendant for one or two in the past. He had seen acolytes grow up to be sentinels or legionnaires, but nothing compared to what was happening to Zen. The tallest Sid had ever seen anyone grow was almost ten feet tall, but Zen had already passed that mark and was still growing by the second.
Up and up he went. It wasn’t until Sid barely reached halfway up Zen’s shin did the growth finally taper off. Zen’s stood completely nude. His loincloth had snapped loose and fluttered helplessly to the floor early on in his transformation, but he was hardly worried. He was so overcome by huge and powerful he felt, and he could tell from the look in his best friend’s eye and the stiffy that Sid was sporting that he looked hot as hell. His changes weren’t even over yet. His muscles and frame had stabilized, but his dick was still growing. It was now almost as thick as his hips and almost as long as his legs, and still it kept growing. His massive nuts already dwarfed the altar beside him. Either immense orb was almost twice as tall as Sid and far, far wider.
Zen’s massive nuts continued to grow by the second. Soon his enormous orbs rested solidly on the ground. His massive, fat cock draped over his nuts, and even then his dick was still long enough to rest solidly on the ground. The tip of his dick came to a rest mere inches in front of Sid. Sid stared on in awe at the cavernous maw of his best bud’s cock. The slit alone was taller than he was. He had never seen anything so hot in his life. He could feel the heat emanating from it. The scent of Zen’s pre flooded his nostrils.
Sid took a moment to soak up every inch of his pal’s cockhead. It was so massive that it blew his mind, and the ring had grown right alongside the dick. The silver band was now every bit as wide as Sid’s slender shoulders. The glowing amethyst was now larger than Sid’s whole head. It blew his mind to think that just a minute ago that ring was small enough that he could have worn it on his finger if he had wanted to.
“So what do you think?” Zen asked playfully. He even went so far as to puff out his chest and put his hands on his hips as he posed for his best bud. Sid couldn’t respond—at least not vocally anyway, but his awed gaze and rock hard, dribbling boner said more than enough.
Zen chuckled as he watched his tiny pal eyeing him up. He couldn’t wait to see what changes the crystals had in store for his little buddy, and since Sid was next in line, all that was left was for him to undergo the trial and get his own crystal.
Sin returned to his post alongside the other priests and beckoned for Sid to come forward. Sid felt like his stomach was about to go supernova. He was so caught up in watching his pal transform that he had almost forgotten that his turn was next. He was so nervous he felt like he could puke and was visibly shaking as he slowly made his way up to the altar. Zen tried to cheer him on, but even the towering, twenty foot behemoth of a best bro wasn’t able to sooth Sid’s nerves.
The ritual began as it always did. Rah held forth his staff and waited for the crystal to react. There was a tense moment as everyone waited for some sort of reaction, but no one was surprised when the crystal remained dormant. Nobody thought Sid to be the worker type. He was too much of a daydreamer to be expected to focus on manual labor for extended periods of time.
Sin took the stage next. He raised his staff high and waited for some reaction. A tense silence fell over the crowd as they waited, but it soon became apparent that none of the military gems saw him suitable for their service. No one was really surprised by this though. Sid was too gentle for a life in the military, and it wasn’t that he was weak. The gems had the power to alter his physical stature any way they saw fit. Sid was far too kind to be expected to raise arms against another. He would never be able to carry out his duty as a soldier.
Sid fidgeted excitedly as the third and final priest made his way forward. Sid never thought of himself as the intellectual type, but it was sure a better fit than the other two roles, and plus there was always the slight chance that he could get assigned as a scribe in the capitol. As he saw it, it was the best possible outcome.
Sol raised his staff high. Sid closed his eyes involuntarily. He was so excited and nervous that he couldn’t bear to look. He was already imagining how he would look once he ascended. Scribes didn’t get much growth, but he hoped he could get a few inches of height and some more length downstairs at the very least. He was tired of being so short and tiny.
An unearthly silence fell over the crowd. Sid felt like his gut was doing flips. This wasn’t right. Someone should have said something. There should be some cheering or something. Sid still couldn’t bring himself to open his eyes, but the reason was different this time. His excitement gave way to fear. He couldn’t have failed the trial, could he?
He slowly worked up the nerve to open his eyes. He started slowly. His right eye slowly inched open, and he gazed out at the staff through his half-open slit. His jaw dropped. His gut lurched. The stone was still inert. There wasn’t even the faintest glimmer of light in it.
“There must be some mistake!” Zen shouted. Sid could feel the ground around him shuddering as his titanic pal stomped towards the altar.
“There is no mistake—” Sol said solemnly.
“I… I failed—?” Sid murmured softly. He still couldn’t quite believe it. He felt sick. He had seen what happens to those who fail. Is that what awaited him as well? Would he get to be as small as Vin? He was already so small to begin with… what if he shrunk down even smaller than Vin? He shuddered just thinking about it. The thought terrified him, but try as he might he couldn’t shake the image out of his mind. Already his imagination was running wild. His mind’s eye replayed the scenario again and again, and each time he shrunk down smaller and weaker. Even if Zen agreed to take him in what kind of friendship could they even have if Sid was too small to speak too—? Too small to see?
“I can’t allow this. I won’t let you turn him!” Zen shouted.
Sid could hear the arguing going on around him, but it all seemed like it was miles away. He was still too in shock to fully comprehend what this meant.
“You will stand down—” The ancient, faceless priest rasped.
Somehow the audience fell even quieter. It was as if the air itself froze in time and space as the wizened priest stood up from his chair and limped down towards the altar.
“I swore I would protect him.” Zen replied defiantly.
“And you will.” The grey priest replied.
Zen was taken aback. It wasn’t that the priest was menacing… far from it. His demeanor was far different than it had been when dealing with Vin. He sounded almost amiable. It was as if he found Zen’s defiant attitude enjoyable and even endearing.
“Yes… I see now why you were chosen. You’ll make a great Praetor.” The old priest mused aloud as he placed his hands on the box from earlier. Zen watched intently as the ancient priest opened another compartment on the side of the box. The seal of the royal guard folded away to reveal another, more ornate emblem emblazoned on the side.
Those who were close enough to actually see the emblem turned to whoever was nearby and started muttering amongst themselves. They had seen this seal before, or rather, they had seen a close facsimile of it. It looked much like the emblem of the ruling council, but crude X that made up the council’s emblem was replaced with an ornate set of wings. There had long been rumors of an older emblem that predated the council’s seal, but no one had seen it in centuries and even the records of it had been erased from history. Everyone was wondering if this could be it, and if this was the ancient emblem then what did that mean for Sid?
The faceless priest strode over towards Sid and gestured over to the altar. “Please. Have a seat.” He said gently.
Sid was still shaking like a leaf, but at least it didn’t look like he was going to be shrunken down into an imp in the immediate future, and it seemed the best way to ensure that that didn’t happen was to play along so he did just that. He obeyed the priest’s suggestion and hopped up onto the stone altar. The smooth stone felt cold against his exposed ass which did nothing to alleviate his shivers.
As the priest stepped forward and stood directly in front of Sid, Sid became aware of something different. The gemstone atop his staff was glowing! It wasn’t like it had been with Vin. The gemstone atop the ancient priest’s staff was emitting a brilliant green light. Even just seeing the warm light put Sid at ease. He steadily began to relax, and as he did so he became aware of more changes that he had missed before. The priest’s staff was no longer the warped, sinister hunk of rotting wood it had been before. Sid could see small sprouts of fresh vegetation cropping up along the gnarled wood.
“Here. Put this on.” The priest said gently. It wasn’t so much a command as it was a suggestion. It was almost as if he was offering Sid a gift. Sid nervously held out his hand and waited for whatever it was the priest had to give him. He was surprised when he saw the circular medallion and the platinum chain that it was attached to. The medallion bore the same strange emblem that he had seen on the box.
Sid glanced nervously over at his pal as if pleading for Zen to give him some advice. Zen merely nodded silently. He was as confused as Sid was, but for the time being it seemed best to keep doing as the priest asked.
Sid swallowed in an attempt to clear the lump that had formed in his throat, but it didn’t help much. He was so nervous he could barely keep his fingers steady. He almost dropped the medallion more than once as he tried to put it over his neck.
The chain was the perfect size for him. It slipped neatly over his head and rested comfortably around his neck, and the medallion itself rested directly against his chest. The fit was so perfect that it was almost surreal. Sid glanced down and marveled at the small, circular piece of jewelry. It just felt right.
He gasped as he saw the small gem in the center light up. It glowed with the same brilliant green as the priest’s staff. The glowing light spread outwards until the wings on the medallion sparkled with emerald light.
It was then that Sid first felt something was wrong. Something was different. He could feel his body changing. It didn’t feel bad per se, but it certainly didn’t feel good. It felt as if he was being re-written from the inside out. He could feel his body adjusting and shifting. His bones moved. His muscles shifted. His shoulders felt like they were about to pop clean out of his body, and there were these two odd lumps forming on his back. He wanted it to end, but he wasn’t ready for what he would become when it was over. He glanced pleadingly over at his best bud. He figured if anyone could help him it would be Zen.
“What are you doing to him?” Zen asked the priest. His voice was even and metered. He was polite enough so that the priest would not have reason to be upset with him, but he had just enough force behind his words to make it clear that it was in the old priest’s best interest to answer him.
“Consider this another trial.” The priest said dismissively.
“What if he fails it?” Zen asked.
The priest shrugged in reply and said, “That would have been a pity, but it’s best not to dwell on what might have been. Look.” He then pointed over to Sid who was now sitting bolt upright atop the altar. He had a look of shock on his face that was slowly giving way to relief.
Sid had been holding his breath for the entire process. When he finally felt the changes begin to subside he let out a long, relieved sigh. Right as the breath left his lungs, the two lumps on his back cracked open, and his new wings began to unfurl like sails in the wind. The sheer, emerald material billowed out behind him and slowly began to take form. By the time they had fully formed Sid’s diaphanous butterfly wingspan was easily five times as wide as his shoulders, and his wings were over twice as tall as he was. Two long, ribbon-like tails flowed from the bottom of his wings. Attached to the bottom of either tail was a sparkling green gemstone that was every bit as resplendent as the one glowing atop the priest’s staff.
“What happened? What am I looking at?” Zen asked the priest.
“That—” The priest replied with a pleased chuckle. “That is a Monarch. The first one we’ve seen in over a thousand years.”
“So… what now?” Sid asked.
“Now… you receive your gems.” The priest replied.
Sid glanced down at the pendant around his neck and then back up to the priest. “You mean this wasn’t it?” He asked as he held up the pendant he was referring to.
“Just one stone wouldn’t do for a Monarch, and that medallion you wear is the royal seal.” The ancient priest explained. He then reached into his robe and pulled forth a handful of small, platinum rods and a platinum ring.
“These—” The priest explained dramatically. “These are your personal gems.”
“Woaahh—” Sid murmured as he stared at the array of jewelry. The ring itself was very similar to the one Zen had had implanted into the tip of his cock. Even just the thought of having matching rings with his best bud got him excited, but he had never seen anything like the small rods before. He could only imagine what kind of effects they could have, and since it looked like he was no longer in danger of being turned into an imp, his mind was free to race with erotic ideas of just how huge and sexy he could grow to be.
It wasn’t long before his dick was fully boned. Sid could barely contain his excitement. His body trembled with anticipation. His rock hard stiffy shuddered with arousal. Beads of pre cascaded down his dick as the priest knelt down before him.
The wizened priest’s hands steadily drifted towards Sid’s cock. Cid was so excited that everything seemed to be moving in slow motion. He just wanted to shout at the ancient figure to hurry it up, but he knew better than to sass such an ancient and powerful sorcerer.
The priest slid the first rod through the front of Sid’s cock. Sid gasped in shock and sat bolt upright as he felt the narrow metal bar slide into the soft underside of his rigid dick. It didn’t hurt—quite the contrary. He felt a small bit of pressure as the rod broke the skin, but for the most part it just tickled. He could feel the bar slowly sliding through his dick. He could feel the metal grazing past the puffy, sensitive ridge on the underside of his cock.
He soon felt the gentle nudging of the rounded tip of the bar poking against his exposed flesh and knew that the first bar was all the way in. The priest then placed a similar sphere on the other side of the bar effectively sealing it in place.
The process continued again and again. The priest slid a third, a fourth, and even a fifth rod into the underside of Sid’s rigid, shuddering cock. Sid was so excited that he felt like he could burst at any moment, but the suspense was killing him. Despite all the jewelry he now had adorning his dick he hadn’t seen a single inch of change.
The priest raised the ring up high. Sid tensed up. He knew this was it—the final piece. Once this was in place he would take his true form. He was as excited as he was nervous. There was no telling how he’d look when it was done. He wasn’t even sure he’d see much change at all. He didn’t necessarily want to be as big and bulky as one of the workers, but he knew he was tired of being so small.
The priest slowly and methodically placed the ring against the soft, spongy flesh of Sid’s flared up cockhead. Just as it had with Zen, the metal band sunk into his flesh. Sid watched intently as the ring slowly sifted into place. It wasn’t long until the black gemstone on the tip of the platinum band poked out directly above the slit of his cock. The thin, sparkling metal band looped back around and then sunk into the underside of his cock directly before the lower ridge of his cockhead.
Nothing happened at first. For a brief moment Sid was sure it was another dud, but what did that mean? He was already a Monarch. Could he really fail his trial at this late of a stage?
Then Sid noticed a small glimmer. He was so fixated on the ring that he had forgotten to even look at the bars. The lower rung on his Jacob’s Ladder began to glow with a dazzling green hue. Then the next rung lit up as well… followed by the next… and the next… Finally the top rung lit up, and the gemstone atop his ring began to steadily stir to life.
Sid was so excited that he was leaking pre like a faucet. The beads of clear liquid rolled across the gemstone atop his cock, washed over the narrow, platinum band, and cascaded down his cock—zigzagging across the parallel ridges of the consecutive bars which were buried just below the surface of his cock as they did so, and finally oozed over his balls and pooled on the cool, stone altar directly below him.
Sid could feel the changes welling up inside of him. He didn’t feel anything in his body or his muscles, but he wasn’t too worried about that. He could feel the unbridled energy coursing through his cock and balls. He stared on with a look of manic glee plastered across his face as he watched his once small cock steadily creep up in size. The changes were slight at first; just a few inches in length; a little bit of thickness; his balls grew from the size of ping pong balls to the size of avocado hearts, but the changed soon ramped up. The inches rapidly turned to feet.
His cock soon reached a foot long. The tip of his dick reached all the way up past his belly button. The shaft was every bit as thick as his wrist. His once small balls grew to the size of chicken eggs, but that was not the end of his changes. His cock continued to grow and grow, and his piercings swelled right alongside his growing dick.
Soon the tip of his dick stood at eye level. He stared in awe as he sat face to face with his own cock. The pre-oozing slit was as long as his own currently agape mouth. His thick dick was as wide across as his shoulder and far, far thicker around than his lean, slender torso. His nuts had reached the size of beach balls, and still his growing showed no signs of slowing.
It wasn’t long before his towering cock was so huge, so thick that he could no longer straddle it. The girth was simply too huge for him to spread his legs far enough. He quickly pulled his knees in close to his chest and watched on in awe as his cock continued to surge up in size.
It had already outstripped even Zen’s own cock in terms of size. Sid’s towering boner stood well over ten feet tall. It was easily twice as tall as he was, and far thicker around. The thick, meaty cock was as wide as a set of double doors. His balls had already reached the size of sofas, and still there was no end in sight.
Up and up his cock surged. Out and out his balls swelled. Sid soon realized that he was no longer seated atop the altar. His nuts had grown so large that they lifted his small, slender figure off of his perch. Sid stared down at the ground as he watched the ceremonial grounds grow ever further away. From his perch atop his swelling balls he could see for miles. He could even see past the outer walls of the ceremonial grounds.
When he had first visited the grounds, he never understood why it was so far removed from civilization. There was nothing within the walls save for one lone ziggurat and a small altar at the base of it. Empty fields spread on for miles and miles in every direction. Towering walls surrounded these fields. The walls were so high that not even Zen at his new towering size could have hoped to peer over them, but now Sid was higher than those walls while perched atop his own growing nuts. His balls had already exceeded the size of average houses and were closing in on the size of mansions. His cock towered hundreds of feet into the air.
Sid was so overcome by the rush of growth and the amazing pleasure that coursed through his cock and balls that he hardly noticed the other sensations against his exposed nutsack. It almost felt like he had ants crawling all over his balls. He soon found out that that wasn’t too far from the truth.
The first person to come into view was Sid’s best friend, Zen. Zen had the faceless priest perched atop his shoulders and Sin and Rah clinging to his back. He had scaled the sides of Sid’s ever-growing nuts while carrying all three of the priests. One of Vin’s former lackeys had helped carry Sol, the fourth and final priest up and out of the way of the expanding wall of ball flesh that had rolled over the ziggurat and the surrounding ceremonial grounds.
Slowly more and more of the graduating class and the attendants came into view. Soon everyone who had attended the ceremony was gathered atop just one of Sid’s swelling nuts. His balls were so huge that there was far more room than they all needed to be able to spread out, and he was still growing.
By the time his growth had tapered off, the walls of the ceremonial grounds pressed against his nuts on all sides. The walls were easily hundreds of feet high, but his monolithic nuts were so massive that they even spilled over the top of the towering walls.
Sid stared at his cock in awe. His dick was like a solid wall of flesh that stood before him. He glanced left and right and tried to see the edges of his dick, but his cock seemed to stretch on to infinity. It wasn’t until he looked up that he could see the shape of his titanic cock slowly coming into focus.
His dick was now so massive that only the lowest rung of his glowing green ladder was still beneath the clouds. His colossal, glowing jewelry shone so bright that it made the very sky itself shine a brilliant green.
Somewhere far above the skyline, up in the outer rim of the planet’s atmosphere, the colossal crystal atop Sid’s cock shone like a second, dazzling green sun in the sky. The gleaming beacon could be seen across much of the planet. Even neighboring colonies could see it sparkling in the night sky.
Sid slowly began to catch his breath, but it was but a brief respite. He soon began to feel something new welling up inside of him. He could feel bristling energy surging from his nuts up into his body and out through his back. There was no way for him to turn around and witness the effects firsthand, but he knew instinctively what was happening… His wings were growing and at a surprising rate.
Soon his wings blotted out the entire skyline. The shimmering, green appendages flowed and billowed like banners in the afternoon sky. Sid’s entire body felt light as a feather. He felt like he could just float away at any second. He couldn’t help himself. Even though he had hundreds of passengers along for the ride, he had to try it out.
He flapped his colossal wings. The gust of wind blew across the plains with the force of a typhoon, and his body ever so slightly rose up. Sid was too amazed to stop at just that. He had to test his limits. He had to see if he could really fly.
He pumps his wings again and again. With each flap of his massive wings, he rose ever further from the ground. Soon even his mountain size nuts began to lift from the ground. Sid was ecstatic. Despite the immense size of his nuts he could traverse the whole world if he wanted to. He could soar through the skies atop his flying fortress of phallus, his floating continent of cock, but for the time being he was satisfied. He slowly coasted to a landing right back where he had lifted off from. The ground beneath him trembled as his colossal balls made landfall beneath him. Once the trembling stopped and once the spunk pent up in his massive balls stopped sloshing, the four high priests made their way forward and all knelt down before their new ruler.
Sid was suddenly feeling very awkward. “Um… what do I do now—?” He asked nervously.
“That is up to you. It is your right to rule if you so choose it.” The faceless priest explained.
“Alone—?” Sid asked.
“No. Not alone. You have your Praetor. He will serve as your personal guardian and closest advisor, and should you need anything of us, we will do whatever we can to assist you.” The ancient priest said.
Sid was excited to say the least, but not because he was now de facto ruler of the planet. He wasn’t sure he was ready for that kind of responsibility, but this meant that he never had to part with his best pal. Zen would be by his side for eons to come.
“I… don’t know if I’m ready for that. Can I just start with a few simple commands?” Sid asked.
“If that is what you wish. What would you have us do?” Sol asked.
“It’s Vin… Is there any way you can undo what was done to him?” Sid asked.
Sin shrugged. Rah shook his head. Sol merely bowed his head silently. The nameless, faceless priest was the only one to speak up. “What you ask is beyond our power.” He explained. “It is the will of the crystals. Only they have the power to undo what was done.”
“Oh—” Sid murmured dejectedly.
The priest could tell that their new leader was distraught. “—but….” He began to say. Sid perked up instantly and listened intently to what the wizened, grey priest had to say.
“But it is possible… in a future ascension that he could be judged anew. Maybe in a year or two he will be ready to join the castes.” The priest explained.
“Really?” Sid asked excitedly. “Then… bring him here. I’ll look after him. I’ll see that no harm befalls him before the next ceremony.” He said.
The priest nodded and then gestured for one of the acolytes to come forward. The young trainee stepped forward with the small cage still in hand. He had not had time to go anywhere before Sid’s growth had caused his balls to envelope the countryside and was camped out with the rest of the ceremony attendees atop Sid’s nuts.
Sid gingerly grabbed the cage and held it in his hands. He stared down and marveled at what had become of his former bully. “You’re safe.” Sid said softly. Vin seemed to relax ever so slightly at even the mere words.
Vin was so tiny that Sid could hold him in the palms of his hands, but even so, Sid’s shrinkage was nothing compared to the changes that had befallen Zen or even Sid himself. Sid now had the population of an entire town now camped out atop his mountainous nuts and had a drill that pierced the heavens. There was no doubt in his mind that life was going to be interesting going forward. Sid wasn’t sure he was ready to protect someone else’s life let alone lead an empire, but he had his best friend by his side. He was sure he could manage.
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Nicki Minaj rides an inflatable unicorn in "Make Love" music video
By Natelegé Whaley
Nicki Minaj and Gucci Mane throw a pool party but neither go swimming in the new visual for their collaboration "Make Love." Mane gets a mansion full of women in bathing suits turned up and Minaj raps in a solo scene while riding on an inflatable unicorn doll. Both rappers rock their flashiest jewelry to the function. Watch the music video for "Make Love" in full below.
Minaj's lyrics on the single were believed to have been the catalyst that sparked a rap beef with fellow rapper Remy Ma in February.
On the track, Gucci raps about being in his zen space: ignoring petty beefs, meditating and focusing on his wedding plans — which include booking Beyoncé for the occasion, according to the song's lyrics.
Minaj, on the other hand, had choice words for someone on the track.
Your career gon' be with Anna Nicole
Although, Nicki didn't drop any names, fans immediately speculated that the lyrics took aim at Remy Ma or Azealia Banks. Remy Ma released the 7-minute diss track "Shether" the day after "Make Love" dropped. After two weeks of silence, Minaj clapped back on her track "No Frauds," featuring Drake and Lil Wayne.
Post-"Shether," Minaj was unbothered and spotted front row and mingling with the fashion world's elite at Paris Fashion Week. The rapper, who has been a muse of designers Riccardo Tisci and Betsey Johnson, announced she signed a modeling contract with Wilhelmina's modeling agency Tuesday. "I love the synergy between my music and how it inspires my fashion. My message is always celebrating your own style," she told Vogue.
Minaj is also expected to drop a visual with Future soon. In February she posted a series of behind-the-scenes photos from a shoot they did together.
2017 is Minaj's official return to music. Her last studio album was The Pinkprint, released in December 2014.
Mic has ongoing Nicki Minaj coverage. Please follow our main Nicki Minaj hub here.
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Academics > Academic Colleges > College of Arts and Sciences > Majors and Minors > Medical and Health Humanities
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Change health care. Change lives. Change the world.
The Medical and Health Humanities program applies humanistic skills— critical assessment, reflective learning, collaborative problem-solving, and effective communication—to issues in healthcare and medicine and with an emphasis on cultural, familial, philosophical, spiritual, and social factors.
But what does that mean?
It means looking at health care holistically, considering not just the physical body that aches, but the person who seeks treatment, the family and friends who support that person, and the social structures that influence the person’s care. It means asking difficult questions about health care—how is disease constructed and how does that construction impact care?—and working on solutions to ensure respect and dignity within all aspects of health care. It means making a lasting difference in the world.
Our program is for students who want to work in health care, but are either unsure of a specific career or want a foundation in a humanities discipline that will make them stand out and prepare them for a career that requires critical thinking and empathetic reasoning. Through its transdisciplinary structure and scaffolded experiential learning, our program challenges students to critically examine medicine and health care, and to apply their academic knowledge to practice in a meaningful and lasting manner that prepares students for leadership roles in health practice and research.
Our Medical and Health Humanities curriculum has been made possible in part by a Humanities Connections Implementation Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For more information on the Medical and Health Humanities program, contact the program director, Dr. Amanda M. Caleb, at acaleb@misericordia.edu, 570-674-8113.
For more information about our admissions process, contact us at admiss@misericordia.edu or 1-866-262-6363.
Follow @MisericordiaMHH on Twitter to learn about student accomplishments, guest lectures, relevant news, and more.
Quick Facts and Outcomes
The Medical and Health Humanities program applies humanistic skills—critical assessment, reflective learning, collaborative problem-solving, and effective communication—to issues in health care and medicine and with an emphasis on cultural, familial, philosophical, spiritual, and social factors. Through its transdisciplinary structure and experiential learning, the program challenges students to critically examine medicine and health care, and to apply their academic knowledge to practice in a meaningful and lasting manner that prepares students for leadership roles in health practice and research.
The MHH program is concerned with topics such as:
How health and disease impacts overall care;
How culture impacts healthcare;
How medicine encourages and limits human dignity;
How narrative plays a role in shaping patient-centered care;
What it means to have autonomy in the age of modern medicine.
What makes Misericordia’s MHH program stand out from all the rest:
Misericordia’s MHH Program makes us distinct because our requirement of a fieldwork placement/internship, which is part of our scaffolded experiential learning, funded by a 2018-20 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. MHH Program requires 44 credits in MHH Core, Humanities & Medicine, Critical Health Studies, Global Health Studies, and MHH Electives, leaving room to pursuing a second major or minor(s).
Job opportunities for a Bachelors of Arts in Medical & Health Humanities degree include the following fields:
Biomedical Ethics
Medical/Healthcare Writing
Health Care Administration & Safety Management
Medical/Pharmaceutical Sales
Medicine & Dentistry
Medical Anthropology & Medical Sociology
Public Health & Public Policy
Note: A recent alumna went on to obtain her Master’s at UPENN in Bioethics, and an alumnus who double majored in Nursing is currently working as a registered nurse in a hospital.
MHH students have completed their Fieldwork experiences at:
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Palliative Care
Chamber Hill Strategies, an advocacy group in Washington, DC
Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics, and the Holocaust
Misericordia’s Center for Human Dignity in Bioethics, Medicine, and Health
Develop knowledge of how non-medical disciplines contribute to the study of health, illness, and care.
Demonstrate knowledge of how cultural and social perspectives impact the concept of health.
Demonstrate knowledge of factors that complicate health care delivery and health care access.
Develop communication skills (written, oral, and visual) across multiple disciplines that will prepare them for professional life and/or graduate school.
Students in the Medical and Health Humanities major must complete the following requirements; the total number of credits, including University Core Curriculum Requirements and Electives, required for graduation with the Medical and Health Humanities major is 120:
MHH core (24 credits)
BIO 211: Anatomy & Physiology I
BIO 212: Anatomy & Physiology II
MHH 201: Introduction to Medical and Health Humanities
MHH 301: Narrative Medicine
MHH 460: Fieldwork OR MHH 465: Internship
PHL 310: Medical Ethics
MHH 450: Senior Thesis
Humanities and Medicine (6 credits)
ENG 305: Literature and Medicine
HIS 342: History of Medicine and Health
PHL 315: Philosophy of Medicine
Critical Health Studies (6 credits)
MHH 310: Health Disparities
MHH 312: Health and Human Rights
MHH 314: Environmental Health
MHH 316: Race, Gender, and Health
Global Health Studies (3 credits)
MHH 330: Global Health Populations
MHH 332: Medical Geography
MHH 334: Modern Epidemics and Pandemics
MHH Electives (9 credits). At least two courses must be at the 300+ level.
ADC 340A: Chemical Addictions and Dependency
ENG 225: Disability in Literature
FA 213: Themes in Medical Humanities
FA 361: Music and the Mind
FA 374: Anatomical Drawing
HIS 165: The History of Human Rights
HP 220: American Sign Language
MHH 385: Special Topics in Medical and Health Humanities
MHH 380: Independent Study
PHL 202: Environmental Philosophy
PHL 210: Philosophy of Person
POL 330: Urban Policy: Disadvantaged Youth
POL 404: US Health Care Policy
PSY 277: Adult Development and Aging
PSY 307: Health Psychology
PSY 310: Gender Studies
RLS 117: Christian Health Care Ethics
RLS 215: Death and Dying
SWK 320: Trauma and Resiliency
Students may take additional courses from the Humanities and Medicine, Critical Health Studies, and/or Global Health banks if they are not taken as a required course.
Additional electives may be counted toward the degree requirements; please consult with the program director to verify if a course counts toward the major. Electives for the Medical and Health Humanities major may count toward core curriculum requirements.
The MHH program is built around experiential learning, preparing students for their future careers. The program requires students to complete a minimum of 3 credits in fieldwork or internship.
Fieldwork: Students will be exposed to team-based medicine and the application of medical and health humanities concepts in an on-site observation rotation at a local hospital. Students will participate in an observation rotation in an approved division and attend ethics meetings.
Internship: Students will be exposed to medical and health humanities practices and apply academic knowledge to work experience at a medical or health organization, nonprofit, or government organization.
Internship Blogs
Kevin Forsyth - Chamber Hill Strategies, Washington, DC - Summer, 2017
Learning the Art of Lobbying in Washington, DC
Getting the Experience to be Career-Ready in DC
The minimum criteria for admission into the Medical and Health Humanities program as a freshman student are:
Class rank in the top half of the high school graduating class and/or a cumulative 2.5 grade point average
Minimum combined SAT score of 850 for Critical Reading and Math (combined) if taken prior to March 5, 2016, or 930 if taken after March 5, 2016. In lieu of the SAT, ACT results may be presented with a minimum required composite score of 18
Successful transfer applicants will typically hold a minimum collegiate grade point average of 2.0, having completed at least 15 college credits, and have a proven record of success in high school.
Please note the above listed requirements are general, and that each application is looked at thoroughly, taking into account individual grades, academic rigor, and other factors.
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Fisher loses another $584 million from high-profile clients
Posted on October 27, 2019 by Marc Nichols
Posted In BloggingTagged In clients, Fisher, highprofile, loses, million
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Texas retirement system and Goldman Sachs Group Inc pulled a combined $584 million from Fisher Investments on Friday, after allegations that firm founder Ken Fisher made sexist comments at a conference.
FILE PHOTO: Columnist and Investor Ken Fisher speaks to Reuters in New York, April 14, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
The withdrawals come despite an apology from Fisher and new diversity initiatives by his firm. Those efforts may help Fisher maintain its asset base, which stood at $114 billion this week and is concentrated among high net worth individuals.
But holding on to high-profile pension and fund contracts may now prove difficult. On Friday, a spokeswoman for the Texas Employees Retirement System said after a due diligence review sparked by Fisher’s comments it is withdrawing $350 million from Fisher, citing “our fiduciary duty.”
The money is being redistributed within a portfolio of stocks, said spokeswoman Mary Jane Wardlow.
In addition, a securities filing on Friday by Goldman Sachs states Fisher’s asset management unit will no longer be a subadviser to the $600 million Goldman Sachs Multi-Manager Global Equity Fund , effective on or around Oct. 31.
A Goldman Sachs spokesman did not comment on how much Fisher manages for the fund or give a reason for the change. Fisher was among 10 outside managers listed by the fund in a company disclosure as of March. Fisher managed $234 million for the fund, according to a source close to the matter.
Fisher did not comment on the moves, which bring to more than $3 billion the total withdrawn after comments Fisher made at an investor conference this month. Others that dropped his firm include Fidelity Investments and pension managers in Michigan and Iowa.
According to a conference attendee, Fisher made derogatory remarks about genitalia and picking up girls among other topics.
After a public backlash, Fisher apologized in a memo to his firm’s employees, and to the public.
“Some of the words and phrases I used during a recent conference to make certain points were clearly wrong and I shouldn’t have made them. I realize this kind of language has no place in our company or industry. I sincerely apologize,” Fisher said in a statement sent by a representative.
Reporting by Ross Kerber; Editing by David Gregorio and Nick Zieminski
Indonesia report on 737 MAX crash faults Boeing design, says Lion Air made mistakes
Saudi Aramco to start IPO subscription on Dec. 4: Arabiya
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The Osceola Fall Color Train Ride
If you’re looking for a more unique way to see the fall colors this year, consider climbing aboard The Osceola & St. Croix Valley Railway. Every year starting in September, the vintage trains chug slowly along the St. Croix River Valley, offering the opportunity to see the changing autumnal landscape.
Last year during the Lands’ End Heritage Tour, my mom and I got the pleasure to experience this fall color train ride for ourselves! We arrived at the train station which is located just outside the quaint town of Osceola, Wisconsin. During the 90-minute ride, we explored the train, took in the fall colors, and even got to hang out on the very back of the caboose! We both really enjoyed it!
The Osceola & St. Croix Valley Railway offers three different fall color train rides. The first is the Marine on St. Croix which is the 90-minute ride that we went on. The second is the Pumpkin Express to Dresser where festivities await at the Dresser Depot. And the third is the Dinner Train where you’re served a three-course meal with a complimentary glass of wine. (Psst! The last dinner train of 2019 is this Saturday, September 28th!)
All trains depart from the historic station right outside of Osceola, WI. Once the train ride starts, you’re free to roam throughout the various railcars. Keep in mind, all train reservations must be made in advance!
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Mountain View Little League Scottsdale Arizona
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Welcome to Mountain View Little League
Jun 01, 2018 2018 All Stars
Little League was founded in 1939, and its mission is to "to promote, develop, supervise, and voluntarily assist in all lawful ways, the interest of those who will participate in Little League Baseball and Softball."
Better than any other youth sport activity, baseball and softball have become the thread that has sewn together a patchwork of nations and cultures around the world. Children in diverse nations such as Israel, Jordan, Russia, Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, Poland, Mexico, China, Venezuela, South Africa and the U.S. have discovered baseball and softball -- Little League Baseball and Softball - are ways to bring their people a sport that mirrors life itself.
Little League International has a website that has a lot of information for players, parents, coaches and league officials and is updated regularly. We recommend you visiting regularly and can even sign up to receive e-mail updates on events and updates. Although we cannot post every piece of news that is updated, we will post information that we feel is critical on this page.
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Premiere: Mobility-as-a-Service pioneer presents “Mobility Budget” at the Global Public Transport Summit (GPTS) in Stockholm
The moovel (becoming REACH NOW) Group GmbH will be present at the Global Public Transport Summit (GPTS) in Stockholm from 9 to 12 June 2019 in Hall A. In addition to the current product portfolio, the Mobility-as-a-Service pioneer will be presenting the "Mobility Budget" for the first time. The GPTS has been around for 130 years and is according to its own data the largest fair on sustainable mobility.
Alexandria Transit Company and moovel Launch First Mobile Ticketing App for Alexandria Bus Rides
The Alexandria Transit Company (DASH) and moovel (becoming REACH NOW), the leading provider of mobile ticketing solutions in North America, announced today the launch of the first mobile ticketing app serving buses in the Washington, D.C. area. The DASHBus app provides a convenient fare payment and value-loading option for DASH bus riders, especially during times when SmartTrip ticket vending machines (TVMs) are not available at WMATA’s Alexandria Metrorail stops.
Metro Transit and moovel to Pilot New Mobile Ticketing Platform
Metro Transit is partnering with moovel (becoming REACH NOW), the leading provider of mobile ticketing applications in North America, to pilot a new mobile app that will allow Metro Transit customers to purchase transit fares direct to their mobile device for select transit trips. The Metro Mobile app, available on iOS and Android devices, will begin as a pilot program to test how mobile ticketing works on the Metro Transit system.
Hop Card on iPhone is Now Available to Portland Area Riders
moovel North America (becoming REACH NOW), the leading provider of public transit mobile ticketing solutions in North America, joined TriMet and INIT Tuesday to announce that Portland-Vancouver area transit riders who use iPhones and Apple Watches are now able to add a Hop Fastpass® to Apple Wallet and use just their iPhone and Apple Watch to ride TriMet, C-TRAN and the Portland Streetcar. Hop Card in iPhone provides a convenient option for public transit riders to tap and pay with stored value using just their Apple devices.
Digital mobility budget: MaaS pioneer moovel helps companies make employee mobility more flexible
The moovel Group GmbH has launched an app-based mobility budget for more than 3,000 Daimler Financial Services employees in Germany: The ”Mobility Budget" includes a credit, which employees can use according to their personal preferences and book and pay for various mobility services using moovel's multimodal apps. The services include bus and train, the car sharing services car2go and DriveNow, the ridehailing service mytaxi and rental bikes. All offers can be booked and paid for directly via moovel apps - depending on availability in the respective city.
moovel and FASTLinkDTLA to Pilot New Rideshare Service in Downtown LA with FlexLA
New rideshare service pilot seeks to establish best practices for public-private partnerships, featuring a flat-rate fare and vehicles driven by salaried U.S. military veterans
moovel and MDOT MTA Power First Mobile Ticketing App for Baltimore Region
InnoTrans: Mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) pioneer moovel unveils digital marketplace for urban mobility ecosystems
The moovel Group unveils its digital marketplace at the transportation technology industry’s leading international trade show, held every two years in Berlin.
moovel: Mobility-as-a-Service pioneer has five million users
moovel Group products are used by five million people. The Daimler subsidiary is a Mobility-as-a-Service pioneer.
The new mobility service SSB Flex to launch in Stuttgart on June 1, 2018
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Winter 2016 Cat Punch Gloves from Felissimo come with adorable new details
27.September.2016 | Uncategorized
Whether you’re swiping at a mobile game or making a point, these cats keep their paws on your finger everywhere you go!
If you love cosying up to warm snuggly cats during winter, you’ll love slipping your hands into these limited edition kitty gloves from Felissimo. Last year, the Japanese retailer released their first set of cat-adorned mitts, with each one featuring the long tail of a feline extending down the forefinger, but for this year’s winter release, they’re using cat paws for the pointy finger, which means that kitties now get to reach out and curiously grab or swipe at everything you do too!
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Cute and Chewy Pompompurin Confection Now Being Sold at Lawson Convenience Stores in Japan
21.January.2020 | FOOD
# japanese sweets
# pompompurin
# Sanrio
# Sweets
Lawson, one of the main convenience store chains in Japan, has released the all-new Mochi Mochi Pompompurin Yaki, a cute and chewy confection filled with custard pudding flavoured cream.
The kawaii sweet recreates Pompompurin’s adorable sleeping form. Inside of him is a squirt of purin, or Japanese custard pudding, flavoured cream, which happens to be Sanrio Golden Retriever’s favourite treat. You’ll find yourself reaching for your phone to snap a photo of him to post online before tucking in.
The confection will be discontinued once all have been sold, so if you’re in Japan, head to your closest Lawson.
©1996, 2020 SANRIO CO., LTD. APPROVAL NO.S604266
Mochi Mochi Pompompurin Yaki
Price: ¥158 (Tax Included)
Available: At the chilled desserts section of Lawson convenience stores
*Not available at Lawson Store 100 branches
*Available while supplies last
Product Details (Japanese): https://www.bandai.co.jp/candy/products/2020/4589919690619000.html
Haikyu!! Season 4 To The Top Fair to be Held at Animate Stores Across Japan
21.January.2020 | ANIME&GAME / SPOT
# Animate
# sendai
# yokohama
Animateーa chain of anime and manga related merchandise storesーhas announced that it will hold a fair to promote season four of the ongoing TV anime series Haikyu!! from February 15.
Haikyu!! is a popular manga series written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate and serialised in Weekly Shonen Jump. The series has spawned an anime series and stage adaptation. The fourth season of the anime series began airing on January 10 this year.
The event will be held at Animate stores from February 15 to March 8 where fans of the series can get their hands on exclusive merchandise. Those who purchase or pre-order items will receive one of 8 possible postcards as pictured above featuring the cast of characters.
A special pop-up shop at the Sendai and Yokohama Vivre branches of Animate will also be open from February 15 to March 1, which will include not only merchandise, but a chance for fans to deepen their love of the series even more. Those who purchase any of the items at those shops will receive one of the above-pictured postcards. Exclusive big-size badges will also be sold in Sendai and Yokohama, so don’t miss out.
©Haruichi Furudate/Shueisha・”Haikyu!!” Production Committee・MBS
Haikyu!! TO THE TOP Promotional Fair
Running: February 15, 2020 – March 8, 2020
Location: Animate stores in Japan
Notes: If you purchase Haikyu!! related merchandise or pre-order the season 4 DVD or Blu-ray during the fair you will receive one of 8 possible postcards. For every ¥1,000 spent on the manga, books, or character merchandise, for every CD, DVD or Blu-ray bought, and for every DVD or Blu-ray pre-ordered (collectively over ¥1,000), you’ll receive a present.
Haikyu!! TO THE TOP Animate Only Shop
Location: Animate Sendai / Animate Yokohama Vivre
Notes: If you purchase Haikyu!! related merchandise you’ll receive one of 12 possible postcards. For every piece of character merchandise bought, and for every CD, DVD or Blu-ray bought, you’ll receive a present.
Fair Website: https://www.animate-onlineshop.jp/contents/fair_event/detail.php?id=103322
Animate Only Shop Webpage: https://www.animate.co.jp/onlyshop/302652/
Fate/Grand Order Anime Ending Theme Singer milet to Stream Live Studio Concert On YouTube
21.January.2020 | ANIME&GAME / MUSIC
# Fate
# Fate/Grand Order
# Fate/stay night
# milet
It has been announced that Japanese singer milet will promote the release of her upcoming 5th EP Prover/Tell me with a live streamed performance on YouTube which will take place on her channel on February 19, 2020 from 21:00 (JST) below.
milet 5th EP – “Prover / Tell me” Release Promotion STUDIO LIVE
milet is a Japanese singer-songwriter whose debut track inside you took home the Tokyo Drama Award last year. It also dominated the Recochoku Yearly Charts foro 2019, placing number one in the Download and Streaming categories for New Artist. milet made her industry-shaking debut in March last year, and continues to march forward with unstoppable force.
Her new song Prover, taken from her upcoming new EP Prover Tell me which is set for release on February 19, began being used as the second ending theme for the ongoing TV anime series Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front on Sunday. The song was released as an individual track on online music platforms, placing on the Top 10 on iTunes, mora, Recochoku and elsewhere.
milet is set to embark on her “Green Lights” tour from March 6, 2020. The tour will take her to 7 locations for 8 shows including two performances at Akasaka BLITZ in Tokyo. Her solo tour last year saw all tickets sold out.
Prover/Tell me
First Press Limited Edition (CD+DVD): ¥1,500 (Before Tax) [SECL-2535~2536]
Regular Edition (CD): ¥1,250 (Before Tax) [SECL-2537]
Limited Pressing Edition (CD+DVD: ¥1,600 (Before Tax) [SECL-2538~2539] *Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia CD cover
milet Official Website: http://www.milet.jp/
Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia
Initial Broadcast: October 5, 2019
Official Website: https://anime.fate-go.jp/ep7-tv/
RADWIMPS Release Live ‘Banzai Sensho’ Video From ‘ANTI ANTI GENERATION TOUR’ DVD & Blu-ray
21.January.2020 | MUSIC
# radwimps
RADWIMPS have released a live video of their performance of Banzai Sensho taken from their upcoming live DVD and Blu-ray ANTI ANTI GENERATION TOUR 2019 which is set to hit shelves on March 18, 2020.
“Banzai Sensho” from Live DVD & Blu-ray “ANTI ANTI GENERATION TOUR 2019”
In the video, we see the band and crowd of excited fans come together to sing this anthem.
The DVD and Blu-ray will feature 23 songs which includes the guest performance from Aimyon for Nakidashisodayo, a song by RADWIMPS which she features on. It also includes a documentary of the tour, as well as guest appearances from artists who joined the band on stage including Miyachi, Titan Zombies, Taka from ONE OK ROCK, and Toko Miura.
In the run up to the DVD/Blu-ray release, the concert will be screened for a limited time at cinemas in all 47 prefectures of Japan from January 23-26 this week. Details can be found on the band’s official website, and is the perfect opportunity for fans who can’t wait until the March release. Tickets went on sale for a limited time and the ticket window closed on January 5. However, if there are any remaining tickets for cinemas, they will go on sale at each cinema’s website and at the cinema ticket desks from January 21 at 00:00 (JST).
RADWIMPS will embark on their “KONNICHIWA NIPPON” tour in March. They will perform 10 concerts in 7 cities including at Japan’s four big domes. Information tickets and dates is available on the band’s official website.
“ANTI ANTI GENERATION TOUR 2019” LIVE Blu-ray & DVD
Price: Blu-ray ¥6,800 (Before Tax) / DVD (2 Discs) ¥6,800 Before Tax)
Stock Numbers: Blu-ray UPXH-20091 / DVD UPBH-20262/3
Cinema Screenings
Title: RADWIMPS “ANTI ANTI GENERATION TOUR 2019 the Film”
Running: January 23, 2020 – January 26, 2020 (Showing times differ between cinemas)
Theatre List: Available on http://radwimps.jp
RADWIMPS Official Website: http://radwimps.jp/
We Interviewed The Creators Behind Sanrio’s Popular Enjoy Idol Series
20.January.2020 | FASHION / FEATURES
# interview
Are you aware of Sanrio’s “Enjoy Idol Series”? For idol fans, it’s an essential part of your concert trip for the ultimate experience.
Uchiwa Fan Case (10 Varieties): ¥880 (After Tax)
A cute case to protect your precious uchiwa fan from damage. You can even stick it on your wall!
Concert Confetti Storage Keyring (10 Varieties): ¥550 Each (After Tax)
Want to keep living the memory of confetti bursting out from the sky at that concert? Store one in this keyring!
Idol uchiwa fans. If you’re in Japan, you’ll have definitely seen these around – a round fan bearing a large picture of an artist or idol in the centre. From cute Sanrio-themed items to decorate your idol concert merchandise to even a keyring that preserves concert confetti, Sanrio’s Enjoy Idol Series is full of must-have items for concert-going idol fans. However, there seems to be no other secondary use of these items that cater to the non-concert-goer. What a niche market.
Fan Memory Notebook: ¥550 Each (After Tax)
This is an easy way to keep your notes on activities you do to support your idols.
Just how much do idol fans love these items? After conducting research among friends with over 10-years of experience as an obsessive idol fan, it seems that these are more popular than one may think. A quick visit to Sanrio’s official website revealed that the series is so popular that many items sell out quickly.
Despite trying to reach out to what might seem a small, niche market, these items seem to be in high demand among idol fans. Just what kind of person came up with such an idea? Curious to find out, we met up with the Enjoy Idol Series project planners for an interview.
Q1: It’s a pleasure to have this interview. We at MOSHI MOSHI NIPPON love Sanrio so much that it’s not often we go long without releasing some kind of news about you. One of the most fascinating Sanrio merchandise series has to be the Enjoy Idol Series for its high demand in such a niche area. Our first question is: From what idea or initial thought was this series born?
Project Planner: The Enjoy Idol Series is managed by me and one other person. Both of us are avid idol fans. We noticed not only lots of fans at concerts using Sanrio merchandise, but also many idol fans on social media using Sanrio characters as profile pictures and as stickers on their photos online. For quite a few years now there’s been a connection forming between idol fans and Sanrio characters in several ways.
We also noticed that although merchandise aimed at idol fans is steadily increasing, there still wasn’t anything cute for them out there. That’s why we started designing this series. The other project leader and I often go to concerts and watch DVDs together. That’s when the ideas started flowing. Eventually, we were packing our project full of ideas and it was really fun. We thought of how we could combine Sanrio characters and idol fans to create something incredibly cute
Q2: It’s wonderful to hear that you are both idol fans yourselves. When you first had these initial ideas running through your head, were you confident that your series would become popular among other idol fans?
Planner: We were very excited to have created this cute Enjoy Idol series and we were certain that other fans would feel the same. And the reaction to it exceeded my expectations. Even people who don’t usually go to Sanrio shops buy something from the series because of their love of Sanrio which made us really happy to see.
Q3: Having seen all the sold out products on your website, it’s clear that many people appreciate what you’ve done. How does it feel to see idol fans using merchandise that you designed?
Project Planner: We’re just so grateful to see people using items from the Enjoy Idol Series to make the most of their concert experience. A lot of people buying products from the series buy specific items based on strongly associating their idol with a certain Sanrio character. We’ve now learned the reasons behind the choices fans make when purchasing from the series which has been a real eye-opener.
Silver Decoration Case (7 Varieties): ¥660 (After Tax)
A box to save your concert confetti
Q4: After some research among a number of friends who are idol fans, it seems that your series is a big hit. Many are excited to see what you are going to knock up next. Do you have any new ideas you’re warming up to?
Project Planner: I cannot reveal any specific details just yet. We are still in the process of creating our next items. You can expect them to maintain Sanrio’s cute style. As an idol fan myself, I am committed to making sure these items are of high functionality for our users.
Q5: I’m sure that many people will be over the moon to hear that you are developing yet more cute items. Do you have any final words you would like to say to idol fans and Sanrio fans?
Project Planner: I would like to thank you all for your continuous support for the Enjoy Idol Series. We are delighted to improve your lifestyle and we hope that these items help you make the most of your experience as an idol fan.
When you have something to adore, you lead a fulfilling life. I’ve heard the stories of friends who are idol fans and can feel their excitement towards the release of our new products. I’m so happy to think that these products are improving the quality of life for many idol fans.
Diary Stickers (7 Varieties): ¥275 (After Tax)
These stickers are full of words perfect for idol fans but of no use to those who are not idol fans!
Just seeing some of the specific words and phrases written on the idol stickers shows just how much the project planners understand and feel close to other idol fans. It is enough to warm your heart.
The two project planners put their love of idol fans at the centre of their design proposal, creating a merchandise series just for them. Each item connects idol fans through their mutual love. This eye-opening interview showed the true strength of shared passion when catering to a niche market.
Despite not being an idol fan themselves, our interviewer could feel the love poured into each item in the series. What item will be released next? We’ll be just as excited as the idol fans are, waiting eagerly for its release.
ⓒ’76, ’88, ’89, ’96, ’01, ’05, ’19 SANRIO. 著作（株）サンリオ
4 Matcha-tastic Desserts Selling at Convenience Stores in Japan
20.January.2020 | FEATURES / FOOD
# Convenience Store
If you love delicious Japanese desserts and are keen to discover more, you’ve visited the right website. Today with the help of Instagrammer Yukko, we’ll be looking at matcha desserts you can purchase from Japanese convenience stores.
Matcha Purin Cake Sandwich: ¥324/ Family Mart
Matcha Purin Cake Sandwich: ¥324
This is a fluffy sandwich with a hearty filling of sweet matcha purin, matcha cream, whipped cream and red bean paste. The fluffy cake and light cream create a wonderful balance of textures and enjoy a moderate sweetness. This dessert is sure to leave your stomach fully satisfied.
Dorayaki Pancakes Stuffed with Matcha Cream: ¥300/ 7-Eleven
Dorayaki Pancakes Stuffed with Matcha Cream: ¥300
The delicious aroma of the matcha will entice you before you have even tried it. The refined, rich matcha flavour will spread throughout your mouth and melt beautifully.
Uji Matcha and Shiratama White Dumpling Parfait:¥300/ 7-Eleven
Uji Matcha and Shiratama White Dumpling Parfait:¥300
This is a luxurious parfait containing Shiratama dango, warabi mochi, matcha whipped cream, dorayaki pancake pieces, plain whipped cream, matcha mousse and matcha starch cakes. Enjoy a variety of textures – perfect for the matchaholic!
Matcha & Sweet Red Beans & Whipped Cream Doyayaki: ¥140/ 7-Eleven
Matcha & Sweet Red Beans & Whipped Cream Doyayaki: ¥140
Sweet red bean paste, matcha sauce, whipped cream and chewy warabi mochi are stuffed between two matcha dorayaki. The matcha sauce is rich and plentiful, creating the perfect matcha-tastic treat.
If you’re on a matcha hunt, how about starting at the convenience store? There are just so many matcha desserts to discover. Mogu Mogu Yukko’s Instagram is full of delicious desserts that you can buy from Japanese convenience stores and supermarkets. If you’re looking for a sweet treat, make sure to check it out.
Original Article Contents and Photos By: Mogu Mogu Yukko
*Convenience stores are always updating their products and therefore the desserts mentioned in this article may stop selling at any time. Please check the convenience store’s social media or official website for the most up-to-date information.
You Can Take Your Pets to These Hotels and Accommodations in Japan
20.January.2020 | SPOT
# accommodation
# hotel
# Japan travel
# pets
# travel
Online travel booking website Rakuten Travel has released this year’s list for the most popular hotels and accommodations you can stay at with pets in Japan. The list is based off travellers’ reviews taken from the website. This list has been updated and published every year since 2014, making this its 6th run.
Placing number one on the list for the first time is Yutsura, a ryokan Japanese-style inn which opened in Shizuoka in April 2018 and can be rented by one person or group for one night. Up to six people in a single group can stay there along with up to 5 small dogs weighing 5kg or less. It’s highly favoured amongst travellers who want to take their dogs on the road due to the extent the inn caters for pets. Guests can enjoy having the dogs in their rooms as well as feed their pets there, all without being a bother to other guests.
Nipponia Sawara Merchant Town Hotel in Chiba Prefecture came in second place. You can feel the history of this hotel accommodation which is renovated from a traditional storehouse and townhouse. It allows up to three pets in a room which collectively weigh 25kg. There are three types of rooms to choose from, including one with a dog park. It also offers various services, including a free night for one dog, snacks and amenities for dogs, and more.
In third place is Dog Pension R65 in Shizuoka Prefecture which allows not only big and small dogs, but cats and other pets too. It offers large footbaths for dogs to use, dog parks, and many other services that cater to pets. The hotel also offers cottage-type accommodation rooms separate from the main building too if you’re looking to spend some peaceful time away with your beloved companion.
If you’re looking to travel around Japan with your pet, be sure to check if a hotel allows animals. Check the link below for the full Top 10 list.
Rakuten Travel – Most Popular Hotels For Staying With Pets
Top 10 List: https://travel.rakuten.co.jp/mytrip/ranking/pet-stay/
How Does The World View Japan’s Sexual Culture? Check Out TENGA’s Report
# J-culture
With the Tokyo 2020 Games just over the horizon, tourism is expected to rise in Japan. There is a lot of news out there about Japanese food, traditions and lifestyle that never fails to rake the tourists in. Today, we’ll be looking at something the average tourist doesn’t go poking their nose in – sex culture.
TENGA is a Japanese company that develops, manufactures and sells of items for sexual pleasure for men. TENGA is a globally popular brand and sells products in over 60 countries worldwide.
TENGA products, news and monthly newsletter Gekkan TENGA, which releases findings related to sex culture, are just some of the ways that the company conducts research into Japan’s sexual culture. Gekkan TENGA‘s latest report aims to discover how the world views sexual culture in Japan and sexual culture around the world. The report includes surveys conducted in nine countries including Japan and a discussion with foreign residents living in Japan. For those of you who don’t know a lot about Japan’s sex culture, we’re here to enlighten you!
Global Report on Masturbation
Following their global study in 2019, TENGA produced the TENGA 2019 Self-Pleasure Report that explores the difference in attitudes towards sex in different countries. Afterwards, the results were shown to a group of foreigners who reside in Japan for an open discussion.
In the last year, how satisfied have you been with your partner’s sexual performance?
In the US, China and various countries in Europe, approximately 70% of participants in the survey expressed moderate or high levels of satisfaction. On the other hand, Taiwan, Korea and Japan showed lower satisfaction levels with Japan lingering behind at a mere 40%.
Chinese Male: Mr. L
Perhaps the Japanese are experiencing lower levels of sexual satisfaction with their partners due to the large amount of stimulating media, manga and such which gives rise to unrealistic expectations.
Spanish Female: Ms G
Maybe the satisfaction levels in Spain are much higher because more people talk openly to their partners about what they want their partners to do for them.
The study suggests that many Japanese people are not entirely satisfied with their and their partner’s sexual relationship. Japan being loaded with a vast variety of stimulating materials does seem to be a likely a reason for this. Seeing such a low satisfaction rate result makes one question whether the Japanese feel lonely.
Would you say that Masturbation is healthy?
The US and European countries mostly answered “yes” to this but to varying degrees. The “yes” percentage for Japan, however, was on the low side. Majority of Japanese participants answered “neither healthy or unhealthy”, making it seem that masturbation is not widely considered as a major contributor towards health in Japan.
Discussion: How does the world view sexual culture in Japan?
After showing the results of the survey to a group of foreigners of different nationalities residing in Japan, a discussion took place. All participants seemed to agree that one of the biggest surprises they discovered in Japan was the large number of love hotels.
Ms. G from Spain: I was surprised to see so many love hotels in Japan.
Ms. T from Canada: Same here! It’s quite rare to see establishments solely built for sex in other countries.
Mr. C from America: In America, some people go to motels for sex but they weren’t built for that purpose.
Ms. G from Spain: In the west, most people have sex in their own homes. If couples choose to stay at a hotel, it’s usually to treat themselves, for example, a romantic getaway at a resort for their anniversary.
Ms. L from China: The walls of Japanese residences are quite thin so considering family, love hotels do seem essential.
Ms. T from Canada: I think it’s amazing that Japan has these hotels which are easy to identify and are catered towards people who want to have sex.
Is there anything about Japan’s sexual culture that surprises you? Each country has its own attitudes towards sex, however, Japan’s sexual culture is very unique. The newsletter Gekkan TENGA publishes back issues on its official website. Check out the link in the information section below for more information.
Newsletter Gekkan TENGA
Back Issues: https://www.tenga.co.jp/topics/category/g-tenga/
Tokyo’s MARUKO & COJICOJI CAFE Food Menu is Just Too Kawaii to Eat
19.January.2020 | ANIME&GAME / FOOD / SPOT
# Chibi Maruko-chan
# Coji-Coji
# ginza
Fans of Japanese mangaka Momoko Sakura won’t be able to resist the new MARUKO & COJICOJI CAFE which is set to open at Sunday Brunch in Tokyo on January 31, 2020 for six months. It’s collaboration between the manga series Chibi Maruko-chan and Coji-Coji, both by Momoko Sakura.
The cafe is opening to promote the release of the Chibi-Maruko-chan and Coji-Coji picture book. Customers can look forward to joining the two characters on their adventures as they are vividly recreated on their plates, with food and drink inspired by the beautiful scenes seen throughout the four seasons, cherry blossoms, Mount Fuji, and more. The menu line-up is an homage to Momoko Sakura’s iconic work.
Today, we finally get to take a peek at what’s on the menu at the cafe. Keep in mind this is just a small selection of what will be served.
*Menu item names are translated from Japanese
Homage Menu: Coji-Coji Came To Visit- ¥1,850 (Before Tax)
Both Marko-chan and Coji-Coji are made from cookies and are flying through the air together. Below them is Mount Fuji, made from rice and adorned with cherry blossoms. It’s sat in a lake of cod roe cream sauce littered with tea leaves.
Summer Menu: King of Sun Kingdom – ¥2,000 (Before Tax)
Enjoy this healthy keema curry packed full of nutritious vegetables as well as a piece of French toast made from fresh eggs and milk. The individual suns are made from pumpkin flavoured mashed potato, while the two pals have written a letter that says “To the King.”
Winter Menu: Three’s Company – ¥1,880 (Before Tax)
Delicious butterfly pea and spinach purees sit atop a bed of shrimp tomato cream and pumpkin soup, creating an eye-popping mixture of colours.
Sweets: Coji-Coji Came to Visit Baked Cheese Cake – 1 Slice w/Drink ¥1,380 (Before Tax)
This baked cheese cake celebrates the two’s meeting. You get one slice which will contain Mount Fuji and either Maruko-chan or Coji-Coji. Which will you be given?
Sweets: A Chat in the Cold Morning Chocolate Cake – 1 Slice w/Drink ¥1,380 (Before Tax)
Layered with sumptuous mango custard cream, this cute gateaux chocolate cake is moist and delicious.
Parfait Drink: Onigiri People & Star Festival – ¥1,700 (Before Tax)
Inspired by the Milky Way in the Tanabata festival, this parfait drink includes jelly under which hides an assortment of fruits, cream, and vanilla ice cream. The juice itself has a squirt of cheese cream in it too.
Special Drink: What’s The Rainbow Invitation? – ¥980 (Before Tax)
A glass of lemonade that comes with a cafe-exclusive charm. There’s jelly inside the glass which dances and sparkles as you stir.
The cafe itself will also be decorated in picture book art in the form of tapestries and other things. There will also be a display of Momoko Sakura’s work, as well as Maruko-chan and Coji-Coji merchandise up for sale.
©️Momoko Sakura ©️Sakura Production
MARUKO & COJICOJI CAFE
Location: Sunday Brunch, Marronnier Gate Ginza 1 Floor 4F (2-2-14 Ginza, Chuo Ward, Tokyo)
Running: January 31, 2020 – July 31, 2020 (Subject to change)
Reservations/Official Website: http://www.marucoji-cafe.com
Chat With My Melody Via Text Message Everyday With Sanrio’s Official New App
19.January.2020 | FASHION
# app
# My Melody
My Melody’s birthday was yesterday (January 18), and in the run up to it, Sanrio released a new smartphone app on Friday named “Itsudemo Issho ni My Melody” (Together Always With My Melody). Described as a “healing app,” the app is My Melody’s way of cheering on those who are working hard every day; it continues her support of healing people on Twitter and radio with her personality.
This app was developed together with fans, with 300 of them participating in a questionnaire for it. It has three major functions including “Text Chat,” “Schedule,” and “Alarm,” all of which incorporate everybody’s favourite bunny.
Receive texts from My Melody with Talk Chat
The Talk Chat function enables you to chat with My Melody via text messages. Replies are given 24 hours a day, so you can send her a text at any time, whether it’s idle chit-chat or telling her a secret you can’t tell anyone else. Whatever it is you want to talk to her about, her words are sure to leave you feeling warm and fluffy.
The messaging service has 12 special stamps which can only be used on the app. If you send a certain stamp, you’ll even receive a call from My Melody. You can also customise the chat backgrounds as you please.
My Melody keeps your days organised with the Schedule
Using the app’s cute calendar, you can enter your schedule for each month.
My Melody will even send you reminders of upcoming plans in the chat too, even if the app is closed, so you won’t miss a thing.
There are 10 “Schedule Seals” you can use depending on what kind of reminder you are setting. Depending on which seal you use, My Melody will send you a different message. Setting a schedule has never been so much fun!
Look forward to waking up to My Melody’s voice with the Alarm
The Alarm function makes use of My Melody’s voice, which is sure to support you during your busy days. There are six voice functions you can set, from waking up in the morning to break time and more.
Additional convenient functions to be released in the future
More functions are set to be released in the future, including the Weather function in March which will have My Melody informing you what the weather will be like outside. If you ask her about the weather in the chat room, she’ll tell you the weather type, temperature, and more to help you prep for each day.
Download the My Melody app and make your days even more fun♡
©’76,’20 SANRIO
Itsudemo Issho ni My Melody
Device: iOS/Android
Memory: 2GB+
Compatible With: iOS 12.0 and beyond (iPhone/iPad/iPod touch) and Android 5.0 and beyond
Download: https://mymelody.mbchara.com/qr/
Website: https://www.sanrio.co.jp/special/mymelody/therapy-apps/
milet’s Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia Ending Theme Released Digitally
Milet will release her new EP Prover/Tell Me on February 19, 2020. In the run up to its release, the singer just dropped the track Prover today digitally ahead of the CD. The song is being used as the second ending theme for the ongoing TV anime series Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia.
Together with the early release of Prover, the song’s official music video was also posted on the singer’s official YouTube channel.
The video was shot in a single take, and sees milet alone aboard a tiny boat with the vast night sky above her. A great storm surges, but we see her pull through, with a flock of birds flying overhead towards the end.
milet – “Prover” MUSIC VIDEO
milet is set to embark on her “Green Lights” tour from March 6, 2020. The tour will take her to 7 locations for 8 shows including two performances at Akasaka BLITZ in Tokyo.
ⒸTYPE-MOON / FGO7 ANIME PROJECT
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Tokyo Disneyland’s Very Very Minnie! Event is a Must-Experience For Minnie Mouse Fans
18.January.2020 | FEATURES / FOOD / SPOT
# Disney
# Minnie Mouse
# Tokyo Disney Resort
# Tokyo Disneyland
Fans of Minnie Mouse won’t want to miss her special “Very Very Minnie!” event that she is hosting at Tokyo Disneyland right now until March 19. Expect to see plenty of cute decorations, experience eating cute food, and getting your hands on some cute merchandise♡
Hand washing area
You’re sure to have never experienced hand washing like this before. Keep your hands clean at the park with this special soap which when dispensed is shaped like Minnie Mouse wearing her iconic ribbon. This is available for the duration of the event only, so head to Tomorrowland or Critter Country to try it out.
Exclusive Minnie merchandise
Around 80 pieces of limited edition Very Very Minnie! merchandise are being sold for the event.
Parkers – Medium ¥4,900, Large ¥5,200 / Cap – ¥3,000 / Scarf Towel – ¥1,500
Dress up like Minnie Mouse with one of the two parkers, one featuring white and black polka dots of different sizes, and the other with red and white ones. There’s also a cute cap, and scarf towel, so you can enjoy the event even more.
Cushion – ¥2,300
Hand Cream Set – ¥1,600
Wall Pocket – ¥2,900 (*Items in pockets sold separately)
There’s also a cushion which you can put your hands in to keep warm this winter, a set of hand creams, a useful wall pocket which you can store various items inーand many more items, up to 80 of them!
Themed menu
When looking for something to eat, make sure you try out one of the many Minnie-themed food and drink items.
Cranberry Vanilla Mouse Cake with Souvenir Plate – ¥800 / Yoghurt & Raspberry Mouse with Souvenir Cup – ¥800 / Served at: Sweetheart Cafe
At the Sweetheart Cafe, you can get your hands on one of two of these desserts which come with their own free souvenirs which you can take to use at home. You won’t be able to resist the addictive sweet and sour flavour of the berries.
Special Set – ¥1,980 / Served at: The Plaza Inn
The Plaza Inn has a very special set prepared: a hearty meal featuring two hamburgers, ice cream for dessert with a white chocolate mousse adorned with Minnie’s ribbon, and more.
Popcorn with Buckets – ¥2,300
You’ll find this bucket sold at the popcorn wagon next to The Gazebo. It features a design of Minnie looking good in various outfits. If you’re wanting popcorn at Very Very Minnie! then look no further.
Minnie Mouse’s influence can be felt all over Tokyo Disneyland right now, so make sure you see everything when visiting for Very Very Minnie!
©️Disney
Very Very Minnie!
Running: January 10, 2020 – March 19, 2020
Official Website: https://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/en/index.html
Pokémon Sword and Shield Themed Food to be Served at the Pokémon Cafes in Tokyo and Osaka
Kenshi Yonezu’s ‘Lemon’ Music Video Breaks 500 Million Views On YouTube
PLAYFUL KIRBY: Laforet Harajuku’s Newest Pop-Up Shop Offers Exclusives For Fans of Nintendo’s Popular Character
Peanuts x The Marc Jacobs Pop-Up Shop Opens at Shibuya PARCO
Starbucks Japan Reveals New Matcha White Chocolate Hot and Iced Drinks For Christmas
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BURNOUT SYNDROMES’ Haikyu!! Opening Theme ‘PHOENIX’ CD Cover and More Unveiled
New Pokémon Anime Series ‘Pocket Monsters’ Opening Theme ‘1・2・3’ Released Digitally
Aimer to Perform Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel III. spring song Main Theme
Cherry Blossom Themed Menu to be Served at InterContinental Tokyo Strings in Spring 2020
Furoshiki-Wrapped Matcha and Strawberry Sandwich Biscuits Released at PRESS BUTTER SAND
Love At First Sip: Starbucks Japan To Release Valentine’s 2020 Drink Series ‘CHOCOLATE with’
McDonald’s Japan Releases Their First Ever Dessert Pies Aimed at Adults
KANA-BOON Announces New Single ‘Star Marker’ As My Hero Academia’s Next Anime Opening Theme
Vickeblanka’s New Song ‘Black Catcher’ Revealed as Black Clover Opening 10
6 Popular Character Collaboration Cafés to Open in January 2020
Fate/Grand Order Season 2 Ending Theme Song Unveiled as ‘Prover’ Performed by milet
Introducing the Kawaii Girls of the World | Kawaii Fashion Snap #6: Fabulously Fluffy
Chibi Maruko-chan and Coji-Coji Join Hands at the MARUKO & COJICOJI CAFE in Tokyo
Laforet Harajuku’s 2020 Fukubukuro Lucky Bags Are Not to be Missed
FLOWERS BY NAKED 2020: Details Revealed For Tokyo’s Flower-Themed Art Event
Our mission at MOSHI MOSHI NIPPON is to spread Japanese pop culture to the world - that includes fashion, music, anime, food and a whole lot more. We want to reach out to present and future J-fans in the hopes that you will make the trip over to Japan.
With a welcome increase in the number of visitors coming to Japan in recent years, we at MOSHI MOSHI NIPPON have been working with local businesses to offer products and services that are unique to Japan and also assist these companies with their localisation strategies. By employing a mix of marketing strategies, we aim to boost the local economy from inside and out.
MOSHI MOSHI NIPPON.
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Pinoy Big Brother: Bailey May's shocking question to Barbie Imperial
mykiru 7/02/2015 BAILEY MAY , BARBIE IMPERIAL , PINOY BIG BROTHER , TELEVISION Edit
Pinoy Big Brother PBB 737 just had its first SPG-labeled episode, and it's because of Bailey May's extremely shocking question to Barbie Imperial.
What did Bailey ask, that offended his fellow housemate?
Barbie and Bailey #BarLey (credit to @imbaileymay)
The 12-year-old Fil-Brit stunner who grew up in the UK was a curious kid, asking something from the 16-year-old girl who happens to be the one he likes a lot inside the house. Since Barbie already had 5 boyfriends, Bailey was wondering if she already "did it" or if she haven't yet by asking this shocking question: "Are you a virgin?"
Oh no! That really shocked me, especially that Bailey is only 12 years old, too young to be thinking about that. But if you get to know why he asked that, you'll probably understand. The way he asked it though was totally wrong, and very offensive to Barbie, and to every Filipina girl out there - whether she's a v-rg-n not.
At the confession room, Bailey told Big Brother that it was a question that people from the UK would take as a joke or would take differently. "I just wanted to know, since
she had 5 bfs already, if she's a decent girl who would wait after marriage or not," said Bailey.
You got a point there Bailey. I actually get it why he sudddenly became curious about it 'coz Barbie kinda showed she's "easy" when she's also responding to Bailey's affection towards her, even if they just met him inside the house or have known each other for only a week or two.
But as what Kuya said, there was something wrong in the way he asked Barbie, and it's not being "maginoo" to the girl he considers as special to him.
Barbie, on one hand, confessd to Kuya that she really got offended. For the record, she answered "YES" to Bailey's question, but it was a too personal one she was uneasy to talk about. "Nakakabastos po siya Kuya, para sa isang dalagang Pilipino," she said.
Both sides were heard. What's your thought on this?
Tomorrow is PBB 737 1st Eviction Night, and it's interesting to know who will get evicted: the 12-year-old boy who asked if she's a v-rg-n, or the 16-year-old girl who was asked if she still belongs to the V club after having 5 boyfriends?
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources; Committee on the Potential for Biotechnology to Address Forest Health
The American chestnut, whitebark pine, and several species of ash in the eastern United States are just a few of the North American tree species that have been functionally lost or are in jeopardy of being lost due to outbreaks of pathogens and insect pests. New pressures in this century are putting even more trees at risk. Expanded human mobility and global trade are providing pathways for the introduction of nonnative pests for which native tree species may lack resistance. At the same time, climate change is extending the geographic range of both native and nonnative pest species.
Biotechnology has the potential to help mitigate threats to North American forests from insects and pathogens through the introduction of pest-resistant traits to forest trees. However, challenges remain: the genetic mechanisms that underlie trees’ resistance to pests are poorly understood; the complexity of tree genomes makes incorporating genetic changes a slow and difficult task; and there is a lack of information on the effects of releasing new genotypes into the environment.
Forest Health and Biotechnology examines the potential use of biotechnology for mitigating threats to forest tree health and identifies the ecological, economic, and social implications of deploying biotechnology in forests. This report also develops a research agenda to address knowledge gaps about the application of the technology.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Forest Health and Biotechnology: Possibilities and Considerations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25221.
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6 Current Regulatory System for Biotech Trees and Other Methods Used to Address Forest Health 155-174
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Editorial on the Kavanaugh Case
Lilly Meyer
It is ludicrous that people could call Dr. Christine Blasey Ford a liar. During her testimony, she was calm and stately, while her alleged sexual assaulter, Brett Kavanaugh, was intemperate and uncivil not only toward Mrs. Ford, but toward many senators as well. When being asked questions, Dr. Ford answered with as much detail as she could recall and when she could not recollect, she answered honestly that she had no memory. In comparison, when Judge Kavanaugh was asked questions he replied disrespectfully to the senators calling them liars and responding to them evasively.
Dr. Ford, in front of the entire nation, described her memories of the sexual assault. Saying “I was pushed from behind into a bedroom… Brett [Kavanaugh] and Mark [Judge] came into the bedroom and locked the door behind them… I was pushed onto the bed and Brett got on top of me. I believed he was going to rape me.” It is clear that Mrs. Ford’s statement is true considering all of the details she recalled. Although these details were memorable to her, the most memorable part was “the uproarious laughter between the two and their having fun at my expense.”
When Judge Kavanaugh had his chance to refute Dr. Ford’s claims, there was no laughter involved, just pure yelling. He spent almost his entire time raging against the Democratic senators and saying they had “totally and permanently” destroyed his name. He called Mrs. Ford’s testimony a “national disgrace.” This level of disrespect is unacceptable for a Supreme Court Justice.
If Christine Ford’s claims are true, having a Justice who sexually assaulted someone would show that he had not only committed a crime, but he would be biased about any sexual assault cases that go to the Supreme Court. This was something that the XIIIs discussed very seriously, leaving many people torn between the two sides.
When the XIIIs went to D.C, they watched most of Dr. Ford’s testimony, as it was happening in real time only a few blocks away. Immediately when they came back to school the next day, it was an extremely controversial topic. Many students in the group did not believe Mrs. Ford, despite the fact the vast majority of XIIIs hadn’t even watched Kavanaugh’s rebuttal.
This was very upsetting considering that, in my opinion, most people hadn’t cared enough even to watch a 15 minute clip. It was shocking mostly because I thought most people would be supporting the same opinion I had.
The XIIIs community meeting occurred before the FBI investigation ensued, so really our conversation had too little evidence to have a debate. The FBI took a very strange angle on the case by interviewing neither Dr. Ford nor Judge Kavanaugh. It is still unknown what the FBI has uncovered if anything. It was decided that the vote for a new justice could not wait any longer. Despite the claim of assault, Kavanaugh was confirmed with about as good a chance as he had before anyone had knowledge of what he had done.
We put high amounts of faith into the oath that both Christine Ford and Brett Kavanaugh swore under. If this oath is so powerful and necessary, shouldn’t we be able to believe Dr. Ford without doubt? The Senate, and the American people needed to know the truth before they confirmed someone to a lifetime spot on the nation’s highest court.
Note: for two different opinions on this issue, please see Bryan Lau’s and Declan Larson’s articles online at newspaper.cityandcountry.org.
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UCI Ends Week With Huge 15-2 Win Over No.6 TCU
March 5, 2018 Hunter Hermanson
UCI’s baseball team returned home Tuesday February 27 to face the SDSU Aztecs at Anteater Ballpark, before heading to Fort Worth Texas to play TCU. The ‘Eaters went into the game against SDSU with a 5-2 record, having just gone 2-1 in a best of three against Gonzaga, the weekend before.
The ‘Eaters triumphed over the Aztecs 9-5, taking a quick and decisive 4-1 lead in the 1st inning. SDSU Pitcher Ray Lambert walked the first three batters he faced, and hit another UCI batter to give the ‘Eaters their first point as Jake Palmer was walked home. It was then a sacrifice fly by Freshman Jacob Castro that allowed Brooks to score. Senior Ryan Fitzpatrick would hit a double down the left field line, allowing Sophomore Konnor Zickefoose and Nick Anderson to score, bringing the ‘Eaters to a comfortable 4-1 lead. The Eater’s would ride their lead out to a 9-5 Victory. The ‘Eaters fielding was bolstered by Castro’s 8 PO’s on the night, as well as Senior Pitcher, Alonzo Garcia who had an ERA of 2 over 4 innings, with 5 Strikeouts.
The ‘Eaters then moved on to their third best of three series this season, this time against No. 6 ranked TCU March 2nd through march 4th. UCI went 2-1 in their first two 3 game series, with Gonzaga and Nevada. TCU looking for revenge, as last year UCI put up 11 points to TCU’s 2 when the two teams met, ending a 7 game winning-streak for TCU. The Horned Frogs were then ranked No. 1 in the nation. In their first game against the horned frogs since their handy victory last year, the ‘Eaters were robbed of their 3-2 lead in the bottom of the 9th, falling to TCU in another attempt at a TCU-UCI upset. TCU was first to score, when with the Sophomore Pitcher Andre Pallante walked a run in, but then found is form, striking out the next 3 batters. Pallante had an ERA of 1 over 6 innings pitched. Brooks singled to left field with a Sophomore Adrian Damla in scoring position, to give the ‘Eaters their first point and tie the game 1-1, Palmer would then score on an error by the Horned Frogs, giving UCI the 2-1 to end the 3rd. In the 5th, UCI would also give up an unearned run, tying the game at 2 a piece.
Nick Anderson scored on a single from Fitzpatrick. UCI now up 3-2 could not hold the lead and secure the upset, walking a batter to give TCU a run and tie things up in the 9th. TCU’s A.J. Balta would then blast a ball deep right, giving their runner just enough time to cross home plate, taking the lead back from UCI, and ending their upset aspirations.
The next meeting in the 3 games series again went to TCU, 2-6. UCI however played up to TCU, scoring first on a highly disputed play, that was called off and then again turned over, giving the 1-0 lead. TCU had an explosive 3rd inning, putting up 5 runs, and putting the ‘Eaters in a hole they could not climb out of. 3 of the 5 points coming by way of unearned runs, UCI showing that they can play with the best, but got in their own way, as TCU capitalized on the ‘Eater’s errors. Down 5-1. Senior Parker Coss gave UCI the last laugh, hitting a homer in the 6th, making the score 6-2. Neither team could score anymore runs, TCU took the second game of the series, leaving UCI with one last chance to get a win against TCU.
In their final chance at an upset, UCI took control of the field, putting Freshman Trenton Denholm on the mound in his debut. Denholm kept TCU off the board only allowing 4 hits through the 8th, recording several 123 innings. Taking an early 1-0 lead, found their footing and kept TCU off the board. The highlight of the game was the 4th inning for the ‘Eaters, as they put up 7 runs in the inning. The eater’s exploded offensive, causing a pitching substitution before the inning ended. Brooks on his 5th hit of the weekend brought home 2 runners on a single thanks to a 2 base throwing error.
The last scoring of the inning came immediately after the 2 brought in by Brooks, when Fitzpatrick on the first pitch he faced in his at bat, blasted a single, giving him his 2nd hit of the inning, and bringing Palmer and Brooks home. The ‘Eater’s actionpacked inning was reminiscent of the 8 run outburst that UCI had against TCU last year. Senior Cole Kreuter capped a 6 run inning with a linedrive over the left wall with the bases loaded for a Grand Slam, and a commanding 14-0 lead.
The ‘Eaters went on to win 15-2. UCI sits at 7-5 after the weekend and will play 4 games in Portland, March 9-11.
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The Athletics hold a .391 team slugging percentage and an on-base percentage of .297 which is good for 27th in baseball.Pittsburgh Betting Trends Pittsburgh is against the over under so far this season Pittsburgh has an ATS record of this season Virginia Tech Betting Trends Virginia Tech is against the over under so far this season Virginia Tech has an ATS record of this season Injuries to Watch Pittsburgh 09 15 RB James Conner Knee out for season 08 15 RB Rachid Ibrahim Achilles out for season 08 15 DL Hez Trahan Personal has left team 08 15 OL Jaryd Jones-Smith Knee out for season Virginia Tech 09 15 LB Andrew Motuapuaka Knee out indefinitely 09 15 RB Marshawn Williams Knee out indefinitely 09 15 QB Michael Brewer Shoulder expected to miss 4 weeks 08 15 LB Holland Fisher Personal has left team 08 15 CB Shawn Payne Personal has left team Guy’s Pick: Take Pittsburgh Get $60 worth of FREE premium member picks.Vancouver 11 14 D Francois Beauchemin Flu ?The Brewers have a over under mark and a run line record, meaning they cover 51% of the time.Player Spotlight Eric Staal has scored 14 total points this year for the Wild.
The Flames have a solid defense group, led by captain Mark Giordano and Dougie Hamilton, as well as an offensively talented forward group starring Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan.Currently serving in several media capacities – which include hosting Patriots Playbook on Radio – Rooke has broadcast college football and basketball locally and nationally for more than 30 years and is a member of the Rhode Island Radio Hall of Fame and RI’s Words Unlimited Hall of Fame.The Hawkeyes are 4 against the spread in their last 14 games vs.
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The Shockers force 15 turnovers per game which ranks them 14th in college basketball.Opponent offenses have completed 164 throws on 251 attempts against the Texas Tech defense this season, ranking them 126th and 122nd in the nation.There needs to be stricter gun laws; it shouldn’t be that easy to get a weapon.Player Spotlight DeAndre Jordan averages 9 points per game while playing 32 minutes per contest this year for the Clippers.Big left arrow icon Big right arrow icon Close icon Copy Url Three dots icon Down arrow icon Email icon Email icon Exit Fullscreen icon External link icon Facebook logo Facebook logo Instagram logo Snapchat logo YouTube logo Grid icon Key icon Left arrow icon Link icon Location icon Mail icon Menu icon Open icon Phone icon Play icon Radio icon Rewind icon Right arrow icon Search icon Select icon Selected icon TV icon Twitter logo Twitter logo Up arrow icon User icon Audio icon Tickets iconAdd to calendar iconNFC icon AFC icon NFL icon Football iconCarousel IconList ViewFootball iconCarousel IconList View.2017 SEASON: Started at RT in all five games he appeared in on the season…Sustained a significant knee injury early in the fourth quarter of the Week 9 contest vs.
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Netsurion, a leading provider of managed network security and resilience solutions, today announced that Netsurion Managed Security for Distributed, Multi-Location Businesses has been recognized as a Trust Award finalist in the Best Managed Security Service category for the 2018 SC Awards. The finalists and winners for the Trust Awards are chosen by an expert panel of judges with extensive knowledge and experience in the cybersecurity industry. Winners will be announced at the SC Awards ceremony on April 17, 2018 in San Francisco.
“Nobody understands the cybersecurity battle better than the cybersecurity professionals who work day in and day out to clean up and protect businesses from malicious attacks,” said Illena Armstrong, VP, editorial, SC Media. “Netsurion is one of a select few to receive this tremendous recognition of a Trust Award finalist, and they should be proud of the work this represents.”
Netsurion provides industry-leading data security and computer network management services for multi-location businesses. Its centrally-managed, highly scalable service deploys easily and integrates enterprise-class equipment with best-in-class security architecture, providing an unparalleled level of security and manageability for its clients’ wired and wireless networks and POS systems.
The company’s many advancements in recent years have led to this renowned industry recognition. To address the increasing assault of advanced persistent threats on multi-location merchant businesses, Netsurion merged with leading security information and event management (SIEM) provider, EventTracker. The result – a revolutionary managed threat detection and response solution that protects the frequently vulnerable edge locations of an enterprise such as retail outlets, branch locations, and restaurants.
“By having enterprise-level network security and 4G LTE connectivity failover, our customers can utilize the latest in digital and mobile marketing, ordering and customer care technologies without concern that these new technologies introduce new security risks,” said Netsurion CEO Kevin Watson. “We are honored that SC Media, trusted by security experts across the globe, has acknowledged the value and protection our managed security services offer.”
In the past three years, Netsurion has been recognized as a Managed Security Service finalist twice, as well as an SME Security finalist.
Now in its 21st year, SC Awards is recognized as the industry gold standard of accomplishment for cybersecurity professionals, products, and services. With the awards, SC Media recognizes the achievements of cybersecurity professionals in the field, the innovations happening in the vendor and service provider communities, and the vigilant work of government, commercial, and nonprofit entities. Vendors and service providers who offer a product and/or service for the commercial, government, educational, nonprofit, or other industries are eligible for the SC Awards’ Trust Award category.
“In an age where threats are ever-evolving, it is reassuring to know that one true constant is the commitment of dedicated information security professionals, as best exemplified by our SC Media Awards finalists,” said Armstrong of SC Media. “These inspiring innovators have set a high bar for their industry peers, as they continue to protect the world from attacks and vulnerabilities that imperil our security, privacy, and digital infrastructure. The year 2017 brought us WannaCry ransomware infections, the rise of cryptominers, and bugs like Broadpwn and BlueBorne that affected billions of devices. Whatever threats rear their ugly heads in 2018 and beyond, our finalists will be ready to act.”
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