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Swing-state Democrats ask Bernie for help
But for now the liberal icon has largely stayed out of the battle for control over the chamber.
By SEUNG MIN KIM
So far, Bernie Sanders has only stumped for a single Senate Democratic hopeful, Wisconsin's Russ Feingold. | Getty
As Bernie Sanders gears up for next phase of his political revolution, Senate Democratic candidates are clamoring for his support in swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania — where his anti-trade, populist message could give Democrats a key political edge come November.
So far, Sanders has stumped for just one Senate Democratic hopeful: Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, a former colleague in the chamber and a kindred liberal spirit. And it’s unclear at this point how much energy Sanders — a longtime independent who has never exactly been a Democratic Party stalwart — is willing to expend on behalf of the party.
And while the two camps are regularly in touch, Sanders and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee are nowhere near far enough in their discussions to map out where Sanders could stump for candidates or what kind of fundraising appeals he’ll send out.
Still, top Democrats are already eager for Sanders to mix it up in several key down-ballot races.
“I believe that Bernie will help us in any way that he will be most effective to help us,” DSCC chairman Jon Tester of Montana said during a recent interview in Washington, D.C. “I’m sure he would [prioritize liberals] and those candidates are probably going to be more inclined to have him come.”
POLITICO surveyed more than a dozen Democratic candidates running in this year’s most competitive Senate races. Five said they would eagerly campaign with Sanders.
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One candidate who would happily accept Sanders’ support is Nevada Democratic hopeful Catherine Cortez Masto, the state’s former attorney general, who is battling to keep the seat in Democratic hands after the retirement of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.
“Senator Sanders has been a leader in the fight to get dark money out of politics and helped make income inequality part of the national discussion,” Cortez Masto wrote in an emailed statement. “I would welcome Senator Sanders back to Nevada to campaign for me.” Clinton defeated Sanders in the heavily contested Feb. 20 caucuses in Nevada; she secured the delegate advantage at a rowdy state convention in May despite a revolt from Sanders supporters.
It’s not difficult to see where Sanders’ progressive, populist message could take hold: Ohio and Pennsylvania, two Rust Belt states where Democratic candidates are hammering their Republican opponents with Sanders-esque anti-trade rhetoric; and Iowa and Wisconsin, both home to liberal college towns that are deep enclaves of Sanders supporters.
Meanwhile, Sanders has stridently opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive trade pact between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations pushed heavily by the Obama administration, yet opposed by both presidential candidates and a significant swath of lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
So it’s no surprise that the two Democratic Senate candidates battling incumbent Republicans in highly competitive Rust Belt states — where past multinational trade deals have been blamed for job losses among blue-collar workers — want Sanders on the campaign trail with them.
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Stumping with Sanders is “not something we’ve talked about or planned yet, but she’d absolutely campaign with him,” said Sean Coit, a spokesman for Democrat Katie McGinty, who is running against GOP Sen. Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania.
In Ohio, Democratic ex-Gov. Ted Strickland has been savaging GOP Sen. Rob Portman — a former U.S. trade representative — over the issue. Strickland campaign spokesman David Bergstein said Sanders’ “message of fighting for working families and opposing unfair, job-killing trade deals certainly resonates in Ohio. We’d be happy to have him here.”
The anti-TPP message is so potent in Senate races this fall that even Ann Kirkpatrick, the Democratic Senate candidate in Republican-leaning Arizona, said she would stump alongside Sanders, whose brand of liberal politics is markedly different from her own moderate persona.
“Senator Bernie Sanders inspired millions of Americans and I’d welcome him on the campaign trail in Arizona,” Kirkpatrick wrote in an emailed statement. “On some things I have differences of opinion with Senator Sanders, but I agree with his fight to rebuild America’s middle class and to stop unfair trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is supported by Senator [John] McCain and sends American jobs overseas.”
Sanders’ political operation and aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee “talk all the time,” Tester said. The Vermont senator’s fundraising prowess, particularly in garnering small-dollar donations, will be a top strength for Senate candidates, party officials said. Democrats need to flip at least four Republican-held seats to reclaim the Senate majority in November.
But Sanders wants to activate his own post-campaign operation before he wades too far deep for down-ballot candidates. First step is the formal launch of his new political group, Our Revolution — a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that will focus on backing candidates and promoting liberal policies championed by Sanders during his campaign. Sanders plans to boost all sorts of down-ballot candidates, from those vying for a seat on the local school board to congressional hopefuls.
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Though its website is already live, an official launch for Our Revolution is expected this month. No new endorsements are expected until after the new political operation is up and running, but Sanders is looking for like-minded candidates who have espoused a similarly liberal agenda in their own races, an aide said.
The senator is also working on the Sanders Institute, a likely 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit focused on policy. There could be a third Sanders-driven political group aimed at harnessing grass-roots support.
“What we’re seeing in Philadelphia are people who have been brought into the political process for the first time,” a Sanders aide said last week. The senator’s political ventures, the aide said, is about “finding a way to channel that energy into something that is constructive.”
Sanders has already taken sides in a number of Democratic primaries in House races in New York, Washington, Nevada and Michigan. But the Sanders endorsement that has garnered the most attention is Tim Canova, who is challenging ousted Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz in her Aug. 30 primary.
An official with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which does not plan to spend resources to aid Wasserman Schultz, said while “certainly Senator Sanders could be a positive influence in many House races,” the two sides haven’t discussed whether he’ll play a role for the DCCC.
In the Senate races, only Wisconsin’s Feingold — a liberal who’s on the same ideological wavelength as Sanders — has gotten the Vermonter’s formal endorsement. Sanders blasted out a fundraising appeal to his expansive email list on Feingold’s behalf May 26, praising his ex-colleague for his stances on health care, the PATRIOT Act, the war in Iraq and campaign finance reform.
Meanwhile, Feingold refrained from picking sides in the Democratic primary until June 23, which was well after Clinton had won enough delegates to secure the presidential nomination.
Sanders vows to 'campaign vigorously' for Clinton
By CONNOR O’BRIEN
A Feingold spokesman declined to comment on how much cash Sanders’ missive fetched for the campaign. But Feingold’s second-quarter fundraising this year was his heftiest haul of the cycle; the former senator reported raising $4.1 million in the quarter that ended June 30.
A top Sanders adviser said following Wisconsin’s April 5 presidential primary that the senator could help drive out younger voters for Feingold. In Dane County — where the University of Wisconsin-Madison is located — Sanders walloped Clinton, 62.2 percent to 37.3 percent.
“Look how many young people we had in Wisconsin — more 18-to-29-year-olds than voters 65-plus,” Sanders senior adviser Tad Devine said in an MSNBC interview that month. “If Russ Feingold wins in November, in part he should thank Bernie Sanders for registering all those young people.”
Similarly, Iowa Democratic Senate candidate Patty Judge could tap into Sanders’ reservoir of support among young voters in the state, which narrowly went for Clinton over Sanders in its Feb. 1 caucuses. The liberal Johnson County, home of the University of Iowa, voted for Sanders, 59.5 percent, over Clinton, who got 40.2 percent of the vote there.
“We’re running an aggressive, statewide campaign,” said Sam Roecker, Judge’s deputy campaign manager. “Engaging Bernie Sanders supporters and tapping into the activity and enthusiasm behind his campaign will be critical to defeating a 36-year incumbent like Chuck Grassley.”
Another Senate candidate who could fit the Sanders mold is Deborah Ross in North Carolina. The former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, who is challenging GOP Sen. Richard Burr, has been aggressively talking up shielding Social Security from cuts — a key Sanders priority — during her campaign.
Though there’s been some rumbling already about whether Sanders is doing enough to promote down-ballot Democrats, he’s talked up the need to elect a Democratic majority in Congress this fall, particularly to ensure the party’s platform, in which Sanders exercised plenty of influence, can actually become reality.
“Our job now is to see that platform implemented by a Democratic Senate, a Democratic House and a Hillary Clinton presidency,” Sanders said during his Democratic National Convention speech last week in Philadelphia. “And I am going to do everything I can to make that happen.”
Burgess Everett contributed to this report.
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"Georgia lawmaker pushes bill banning creation of ‘glow in the dark’ human-jellyfish hybrids."
— Raw Story on Wednesday, February 11th, 2015 in headline over an article on the Raw Story website
Human-jellyfish headline misleading, but spawned by real bill
By April Hunt on Friday, February 20th, 2015 at 12:00 a.m.
This Georgia Aquarium senior biologist is just bathed in blue light from the exhibit. She is not a jellyfish hybrid who glows on her own. Photo by Charlotte B. Teagle / AJC
Let’s be honest. The headline looked like it belonged in Florida.
"Georgia lawmaker pushes bill banning creation of ‘glow in the dark’ human-jellyfish hybrids," it screamed over a photo of a contorted face adorned in fluorescent paint.
Sure, back in 2010, the state Senate was roundly mocked for voting to oppose forcing microchips into people. (That measure died, maybe from embarrassment).
So certainly Peach State lawmakers learned their lesson about drafting bills based on internet rumor and speculation. So PolitiFact Georgia set out to right this gross error, easy peasy.
Except …
Well, first the good news. The headline makes a giant leap based on a strict reading of House Bill 287.
The bill makes no mention of jellyfish. The "Ethical Treatment of Human Embryos Act" would, however, ban human embryos with non-human cells injected into them as well as ... wait for it … any "human-animal hybrid."
The specifics about the gelatinous sea creatures come from the website of the bill’s lead sponsor, state Rep. Tom Kirby, R-Loganville.
The bill is one of his priorities, which his office webpage describes this way: "The mixing of Human Embryos with Jellyfish cells to create a glow in the dark human, we say not in Georgia. "
What in the name of SpongeBob Squarepants is happening here?
Kirby points to news articles, touting scientists’ latest successes in introducing jellyfish genes into various mammals who grow up to glow under a black light.
Of particular concern to Kirby is a 2008 New York Times article that details researchers who successfully put the jellyfish’s fluorescent protein gene into a single-celled human embryo.
That test-tube embryo was described as nonviable, which scientists said would never have resulted in a baby. Kirby – who once used his agricultural economics degree to implant cattle embryos to breed stronger cows – isn’t so sure.
His proposal would be proactive, to draw an ethical line in the sand for such research in Georgia.
"I’m not trying to hurt good, valid research that helps people, but I don’t think we should create life like this, just for research," Kirby said. "I don’t think Georgians want what they did, creating a human-jellyfish hybrid, here."
So maybe the bill is not explicit in its language. But the driving force is a concern about mixing humans with what makes jellyfish illuminate.
There is no evidence of any abuse of this technology. Federal guidelines, not to mention the reputation of research facilities, would quash even the idea for the most part.
Of course, injecting a fluorescent gene to make a designer glowing baby could be done in theory. And to an ethicist, that is enough to warrant at least discussion, no matter how silly.
"Could someone who is crazy enough, with enough money, say ‘I want a glow-in-the-dark baby?’ Sure," said Kevin FitzGerald, a professor of oncology at Georgetown University and chair of the Catholic Healthcare Ethics. "You or I would consider that crazy. But there are some who would claim it as a right to free expression. That’s why there is value in discussing how protective the state needs to be."
Those debates about human-critter hybrids are all fun and games, until a centaur loses an eye. Or until scientists and researchers push back on the speculation.
Experts helped kill a previous version of Kirby’s bill, House Bill 481 in the 2013-2014 legislative session, with testimony that it would harm their ability to save lives.
Those objections remain, especially given what is a fundamental misunderstanding about the role of jellyfish in medical and scientific research.
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2008 for their work in finding jellies’ green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene, and developing it for research.
It’s now commonly used to track genetic changes as cells divide, giving researchers insight into ways to treat genetic diseases.
Explained that way, injecting some jellyfish into cells doesn’t seem so wacky. But fears about the "what if" abuses have created a proposal that could stymie other legitimate research, said Dr. Mark A. Kay, a professor of pediatrics and genetics at Stanford University.
For example, the bill would allow a human embryo to be created only through fertilization from a sperm and egg. Scientists, though, are able to and often create them for research purposes (not viability) by using a cellular nucleus –where the genes live.
Kirby’s bill would put an end to that, and halt approaches being tested to develop human organs for transplants and other efforts.
"This is an example where you’re trying to make a law to stop something quite ridiculous and end up limiting the legitimate efforts to understand genetic developments that can save people," Kay said.
If that’s not enough for Georgia to be embarrassed, there’s more.
The proposed bill does not stop animal genes from being introduced to human embryos.
Kay describes genes as the equivalent of a sentence buried in an encyclopedia. Cells, which Kirby’s bill bans, are the equivalent of the house where those volumes sit on the shelf.
"It does not explicitly state you can’t transfer a gene into a human chromosome, so it doesn’t even stop the ridiculous idea it claims is the threat," Kay said.
Why? Because the GFP, which can be created synthetically or extracted from a jellyfish, is a gene that would still be permitted.
And wouldn’t that set the stage for Perimeter road rage incidents where people look like the Hulk, not just act like him?
If it seems we’re getting silly, it’s only because we are.
The headline about glow-in-the-dark Georgians overstates the bill itself. But it captures the intent of the proposal -- to ban human embryos with non-human cells injected into them as well as any "human-animal hybrid."
And, weirdly, it captures some of actual discussion happening under the Gold Dome.
We rate the headline Half True.
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 at 12:00 a.m.
Researched by: April Hunt
Edited by: Jim Tharpe
Subjects: Science, States
Raw Story, "Georgia lawmaker pushes bill banning creation of ‘glow in the dark’ human-jellyfish hybrids," Feb. 11, 2015
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Georgia Senate opposes forcing microchips into people," Feb. 4, 2010
Georgia General Assembly legislation, 2015-2016 session, House Bill 287
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Legislative Navigator, House Bill 287
State Representative Tom Kirby official web page, Issues 2015
WSB-TV.com, "Lawmaker proposes bill to ban mixing human, animal embryos," Feb. 11, 2015
New York Times, "Engineering By scientists on embryo stirs criticism," May 13, 2008
NPR.org, "What’s up with that, doc,?" Aug. 15, 2013
National Geographic, "Glowing Animals: Beasts Shining for Science," May 14, 2009
Christian Science Monitor, "Bunnies glow green in the dark," Aug. 13, 2013
New Scientist, "GM monkey passes jellyfish gene to offspring," May 28. 2009
Washington Post, "Georgia lawmaker wages battle against human-jellyfish hybrids," Feb. 17, 2015
New York Times, "Scientists place jellyfish genes into monkeys," Dec. 23, 1999
The Royal Society of Chemistry, "Green fluorescent protein takes Nobel Prize," Oct. 8, 2008
Interview with state Rep. Tom Kirby, R-Loganville, Feb. 18, 2015
Phone interview with Kevin FitzGerald, a professor of oncology, the Dr. David P. Lauler Chair for Catholic Healthcare Ethics and member of the Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, Feb, 18, 2015
Phone interview with Dr. Mark A. Kay, professor of pediatrics and genetics, Stanford University, Feb. 18, 2015
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Like most insects, bed bugs will infest any commercial structure with non-discriminatory aplomb, and college campuses throughout Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the tri-state area are by far no exception to the rule. Actually, they are more susceptible than most when it comes to these vampiric parasites for a number of reasons.
Ivy covered walls and tree lined campuses all over the Keystone State render beautiful and serene scenery for the pursuit of academia, but deep within those classroom walls and dormitories, the bed bug has invaded and refuses to leave, with or without a diploma.
In fact, in recent years social media and news sources have spread the word about their invasion throughout universities of every type. Truth be told, bed bugs have made an aggressive resurgence over the past two decades and matriculation campuses across the country are on the list of top hot spots where these pests congregate.
Several schools have reported different levels of infestation — in 2013, high school students visiting Penn State University’s main campus were forced to return home after a weekend science competition infested with bed bugs.
You see, in the close living quarters of multi-unit buildings such as dormitories, bed bugs present a real problem because they are transitory and attach themselves to clothing or items that move from room to room, from classrooms to cafeterias, from fraternity to sorority and other public areas — all of which makes for the perfect storm for a bed bug population explosion.
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A Brief History of The Bed Bug
Cimex lectularius, better known as the bed bug, derives its name from the days of ancient Rome. Cimextranslates into the Latin word, bugand lectularius refers to a couch or bed. But the presence of the bed bug dates back even further than the glory days of Rome, almost to the beginning of time.
Studies concerning these ancient insect pests as well as fossils uncovered that date back more than 3,500 years suggest that they may have first inhabited caves in the Middle East that were inhabited by both humans and bats. Their first hosts were the bats and then they moved on to tastier humans.
In the ancient world, bed bugs served noble purposes, as the Egyptians used them in potions to cure common conditions and would drink them as a cure for snakebite. The Romans and the Greeks burned them to make leeches release their hold.
By the year 1200, bed bugs were all over Europe and during the 16th through 18th centuries. They arrived in America onboard the sailing ships carrying European explorers and the early colonists. They were attracted to the heat generated from cooking and fires.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the rich as well as the poor living in urban areas were plagued with bed bug infestations.
Wealthier households had only a slighter edge, as vigorous house cleaning temporarily got rid of them. But they always returned until the early 1950s when DDT entered the bed bug scene, and they completely disappeared.
In 1972 the use of DDT was banned, as it was considered both carcinogenic and highly toxic to animal life. At this time, the bed bug returned to a not-so-adoring populace.
What Has Caused The Resurgence of Bed Bugs Today?
There are several theories as to why bed bugs have become an overwhelming problem in modern society in general. While some have merit, none can actually be proven. Still, they are worthy of note.
The increase in ease of travel is likely to have had an impact on the spread of the bed bug. People travel across continents for both business and pleasure every day of the year, increasing exponentially bed bug travel as well.
They are transported from one country to another via clothing and luggage and many airlines find evidence of bed bugs in their cargo hold areas. The need to often stay overnight in motels, inns and hotels also transports the bed bug to new and different spots.
Buyers should beware of second-hand furniture, especially mattresses and box springs, linens and clothing. While flea markets, thrift stores and garage sales are all very popular among thrifty college age shoppers as well as the mainstream public, all of these items could be havens for bed bugs. Picking up that nice looking recliner by the side of the road might well open up a can of…well, bed bugs.
Prevention of Bedbug Infestations on College Campuses
A lack of community awareness is another reason bed bugs have maintained their presence. Students, faculty members and all college staff must be educated about how bed bugs spread across campuses, what to look for (red welts) and what recognizable signs they leave behind (pepper-like stains on mattresses).
All students must diligently inspect their bags whenever they travel from one place to another for evidence of bed bug infestation, and while visiting other dorm rooms refrain from placing backpacks or belongings onto beds or cushioned furniture.
Fit protective covers under linens, mattresses, box springs and pillows. This helps to eliminate both ingress and egress points. Keeping linens on the bed and off the floor and removing clutter from within eight feet of sleeping areas where these bugs can hide also help to prevent their spread.
The best way to insure bed bugs will not return to a college dormitory is to provide ongoing inspections conducted by the knowledgeable professionals at Pestco. Recent infestations all across the country have spawned a new industry dedicated solely to prevention, reporting of infestations and the eradication of the bed bug.
According to Nina Jenkins, a senior research associate in the Department of Entomology at Penn State, one of the main reasons bed bugs are so out of control is because they know how to hide. This alone makes it very difficult for conventional chemical pesticides to reach them. In her own words:
“Bed bugs are extremely difficult to target directly. They hide in little cracks and crevices. Often, people leave the infestation for a long time before they even report it, so it becomes such a huge problem that dealing with it is a major operation. It involves collecting all of your clothing and laundering everything, and reducing all of your clutter, so that a pest controller can actually apply the chemicals to the areas where the bed bugs may be.”
Relevant Studies and Statistics About Bed Bugs
A 2015 survey conducted by the National Pest Management Association indicated that that 99.6 percent of pest controllers reported that they had treated buildings for bed bugs in the past year.
Results of a similar study done 15 years ago reported 25 percent of respondents. In that same survey, 68 percent of professionals pointed to bed bugs as being the most difficult pest they had ever encountered.
A more recent survey conducted by the same organization indicated that 47% of pest control specialists treat college dorms for infestations and that in 67% of the cases, clutter was the biggest challenge to infestation prevention.
Ten Interesting Facts About Bed Bugs
Bed Bugs Love To Travel – Bed bugs, like many other insects hitchhike their way through life. They love to hide in suitcases, backpacks, handbags and even furniture, such as wardrobes and sofas. Nooks and crannies everywhere are new and exciting places to live.
They Like Three Meals A Day – As creepy as it may sound, bed bugs mimic humans in their feeding / biting patterns which often occur in methodical and predicable cycles resembling breakfast lunch and dinner.
Bed Bugs Anaesthetize Their Victims – The manner in which bedbugs feed allows them to bite and not disturb the sleeper. This is due to their saliva, which contains a number of elements that numb the area about to be bitten. Other elements also aid in the increase of blood flow.
Bed Bugs Will Live Anywhere – An old wives’ tale speaks of bed bugs only infesting rooms that are dirty. This couldn’t be further from the truth, as bed bugs couldn’t care less about cleanliness. Their only motivation is finding a spot with a nearby food source.
These Insects Are Finicky Eaters – While they may not care where they live, bed bugs are incredibly fussy when it comes to what they eat. Their diet is always blood but it can never be spilt blood; it must be extracted directly from the host. (Count Dracula lives and has competition.)
Bed Bugs Have Been Known To Fast – It is a bizarre fact of nature that the bed bug can live up to five months without feeding. In the case of low temperatures, bed bugs can survive for as long as 400 days without food!
They Are Experts At Camouflage – They are so small that bed bugs can comfortably fit into small cracks and crevices, which is where they hide in between meals. When they aren’t feeding, they like to hide within bed frames and headboards; wardrobes; sofas and skirting boards.
Bed Bugs Are Resistant To Most Pesticides – In decades past, the only solution to eliminate bed bugs was the application of insecticides. In recent years, however, bed bugs have developed a resistance to most pesticides causing the responsible and expert exterminators at Pestco to develop new methods of extermination including the application of heat.
Bed Bugs Can Lay Many Eggs – If temperatures are favorable at 70 degrees or so, their populations can spread like a raging wildfire. A single female bed bug that has access to a steady supply of human blood can lay up to 500 eggs in her lifetime!
Bed Bugs Do Not Like The Heat – Heat affects the life cycle of the bed bug at every stage of its development and they cannot survive at extreme temperatures. They cannot hide from the heat as it travels from room to room through any building. Their nesting crevices in beds, sheets, mattresses and linens become too hot and they die.
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This vast array of professional services, known as Complete Facility Care, ensures that college campuses can be free of bedbug infestations and at the same time receive environmental odor-control and air freshening services that enhance the indoor college environment both in classrooms and in dorm living quarters.
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May 3, 2018 by Celia Fernandez
Christina Aguilera is liberated and ready to show the world her new music. The 37-year-old singer just dropped the first song and music video off her new album, Liberation, called "Accelerate" featuring Ty Dolla $ign and 2 Chainz. This marks the first album and single that Christina has dropped in six years. Both the song and the video are going hard on sex appeal, with lyrics like "Pick up your speed," "Stamina, fill me up," and a shot of Aguilera slowly dipping her tongue into a glass of milk. Liberation will be released on June 15, so while you wait, enjoy the very sexy video above.
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Using Japanese Paper Art To Heal the Human Body
Kirigami allows you to make 3D shapes from a flat surface.
By Courtney Linder
Researchers at the University of Michigan have created a new sensor for the shoulders that can contour to their rounded shape.
Real-time tracking of the shoulder joint and muscle behavior are possible thanks to the use of Japanese Kirigami-like structures that use cut-outs in a flat sheet to create a 3D structure when stretched.
The study was published in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies.
Max Shtein knows what it feels like to suffer from a painful injury. Once, he crashed his bike and broke his collarbone. "Really painful recovery process," said the professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan in a video interview.
His physical therapist could only measure his range of motion with a flat protractor, which could lead to serious errors. Shtein also had no way to repeat the same motions at home. A wearable sensor could record the full scope of his motion, Shtein thought, but it would be rather expensive to design electronics that fit to a curved surface like the collarbone.
So along with Ph.D. student Erin Evke, Shtein designed a new sensor patch that can contour to the shape of the body. It could help people who are also going through physical therapy.
To prevent folds or tears in the plastic sensor, the two engineered the patch with some inspiration from the study of Japanese Kirigami, the art of cutting paper to create three-dimensional shapes.
On the shoulder, where they tested the device, a series of circular discs in various sizes form small circles and larger ones. That way the entire structure can cling without breaks. Evke laser cut a thin sheet of plastic into a series of concentric circles. The Kirigami method makes it possible to manufacture a patch that can fit to a rounded body part without creating inaccurate measurements. Shtein estimates that a sensor designed this way would cost less than $10 to make if mass produced.
Erin Evke demonstrates how the cut patterns in the kirigami sensor open so that it follows the curve of her shoulder. This enables the sensor to be manufactured flat, which is crucial to making the device affordable.
Levi Hutmacher, Michigan Engineering
In their proof of concept, the Michigan team embedded two strain gauges in the sensor, which can pull apart like a slinky. One was placed at the corner of the shoulder to record the raising and lowering of the arm and the other went on the back of the shoulder to gauge cross-body movement. The team believes these sensors could be used in physical therapy regimens so that patients can track their progress and ensure they're completing the exercises correctly. Evke also thinks the new sensors could help athletes improve their form, too.
"Since you can tune the cut design to match the curvatures of all different parts of your body, you can generate a lot of data that can be used to track your form—for instance while lifting—as well as the amount of strain applied on your joints," she said. "The user could be alerted of improper form in real-time and therefore prevent injuries."
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DEWA and Drydocks World sign MoU in Dubai
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MoU signing between DEWA and Drydocks World. Credit: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority.
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Drydocks World have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate in renewable energy projects, as well as exchange knowledge and best practices in asset management and maintenance.
The new MoU is reported to be part of DEWA’s strategy to further enhance strategic partnerships with government departments and organisations.
DEWA managing director and CEO Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer said: “We are pleased to sign this MoU with Drydocks World to share our expertise in solar power within the framework of Shams Dubai initiative, which DEWA launched to connect photovoltaic systems in buildings with its grid.”
“Drydocks World is a strong proponent of environmental conservation in maritime development.”
“This supports Dubai’s global leading position in clean energy and green economy and contributes to achieving the Smart Dubai initiative to make Dubai the smartest and happiest city in the world.”
The MoU also supports the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050, which aims to generate 75% of the city’s total power consumption through clean energy sources.
DP World Group chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem said: “Drydocks World is a strong proponent of environmental conservation in maritime development.
“Aligning our clean energy initiatives at DP World with DEWA will enhance the yard’s commitment to preserving to the marine environment, and to consolidating Dubai’s position as a global centre for sustainability, in conjunction with the UAE’s objectives.
Sulayem further added that through the MoU, Drydocks will create a united pursuit towards the city’s goal of being a global hub for clean energy.
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9 Ways to Support Transgender Groups Working to End HIV
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After identifying these priorities, Gilead Sciences launched its TRANScend Fund. Here’s how to apply for a grant.
September 19, 2019 • By Trenton Straube
The transgender community continues to be one of the groups most affected by the HIV epidemic. To support organizations and programs that promote health and safety among transgender individuals, pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences has launched the Gilead TRANScend Community Impact Fund. The fund is now accepting applications from trans-led organizations for funding in three different areas.
Specifically, according to Gilead’s request for proposals, “Gilead will support strategic program development, capacity building and implementation of direct service initiatives bolstered by strong community engagement efforts to build and sustain progress in reducing the impact of HIV within transgender communities.”
Funding will be provided in these three areas:
Grantmaking Partner: a lead philanthropic partner for regranting funds to grassroots organizations with total budgets of less than $250,000 per year. Grantmaking partners are eligible for a maximum of $1 million over two years.
Capacity Building Partner: an intermediary group that provides training, technical assistance and capacity building support for trans-led organizations. This partner is also eligible for up to $1 million over a two-year period.
Direct Services Grantee: direct grants of up to $200,000 to groups with annual budgets of $250,000 or more.
The deadline for proposal submissions is October 11, 2019.
The TRANScend Fund is the result of a meeting in May between Gilead and leaders from the transgender community, advocates and health care groups. According to a resultant report, the meeting focused on specific ways to support trans groups. The following priorities were identified:
Invest in trans-led housing services for transgender communities;
Support economic empowerment opportunities for transgender communities;
Invest in workforce and professional development programs for transgender communities;
Invest in trans-led direct services;
Invest in reentry services for formerly incarcerated trans individuals;
Invest in community-informed approaches for transgender communities;
Continue to invest in innovative solutions and research within transgender communities;
Continue to provide resources for trans-specific and trans-led programs;
Highlight reproductive rights for transgender men and women.
To read more about TRANScend, including the Transgender Advisory Board’s report and the request for proposals, visit Gilead.com.
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Philosophy and Medical Welfare Under the auspices of the Royal Institute of Philosophy the Philosophy Department, University of York (UK) is holding a conference on Philosophy and Medical Welfare from 11 to 13 September 1987. Speakers will include Martin Hollis (University of East Anglia), John Harris (University of Manchester), Michael Lockwood (University of Oxford). Further […]
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Ian BirchallRP 097 (Sep/Oct 1999)
to see such conduct as a fitting counterpart to the purity and intensity of his philosophical vision. István Mészáros referred, in his eloquent funeral tribute, to pregnant remarks Roy made when very ill towards the end of his life. Perhaps it may be excusable to offer a personal recollection from that time. In our last […]
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The author with her Rio Grande gobbler, taken with the new Beretta A300 Outlander Turkey shotgun.
Gun Test: Beretta A300 Outlander Turkey Gun
By Jodi Stemler
The Beretta A300 Outlander Turkey is a $900 shotgun that comes woods-ready.mfg photo
Back in January, at the 2017 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, I had a chance to test-shoot numerous new shotguns at the Industry Day at the Range event, held the day before the show floor exhibitions opened up.
One of them was Beretta's A300 Outlander Turkey gun. Although the setting was a crowded gun range, I immediately appreciated its fit and comfort. Since I'd blown a couple of opportunities on birds during my first turkey hunt last year—due to some gun malfunctions and admittedly poor shooting—I thought I'd try the Outlander for this year's hunt to see if it would make a difference.
The author with her nice Rio Grande gobbler, taken with the new Beretta A300 Turkey Gun. The 3-inch-chambered 12-gauge has a 24-inch barrel, integral sights, and a soft-shooting, gas-operated semi-automatic action.author photo
I’ll admit that I’m not always keen on the overspecialization of shotguns for particular activities. Many hunters, myself included, aren’t likely to purchase a different gun for each of their disciplines—upland bird hunts, duck and goose hunts, sporting clays shoots, or whatever. Often, shooters will decide the activities they most like to do and buy the gun most suited for that, but is also adequate for other uses.
However, specialty guns are special for a reason. Gun designers look for the variables that make a particular pursuit challenging, and engineer changes that will ease those challenges just a bit. A turkey gun might seem like it’s not worth the extra expense, but after hunting with the Beretta A300 Outlander, I can confirm that what makes a turkey gun good for turkey hunting is definitely worth it. Priced at $900, this gun is a good buy as well.
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The A300 Outlander Turkey is relatively lightweight and easy to shoulder, which is notable for a 12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun. Chambered for 3-inch shells, this gun can pack a punch, but with Beretta’s high-quality gas-operated system, felt recoil is negligible. The stock has an adjustable drop and cast, and comes with spacers to adjust length of pull, making it easy to fit hunters of different sizes. The RealtreeXtra camo pattern makes you far less likely to spook these hyper-alter birds. Such a camo pattern is especially valuable when you’re set up in the open instead of in a blind and trying to blend in with the turkey woods during spring green-up.
The 24-inch barrel makes the gun very easy to maneuver in the tight confines of a turkey blind. With the included TruGlo fiber optic sights (and the receiver has been milled so it’s easy to add an optical sight, if you wish) you can immediately acquire your target point, which is crucial on a turkey hunt, when you’re aiming at a relatively small head atop a large black body. Based on my personal experience, these two factors provide a tremendous advantage over non-turkey shotguns. Last year, I was jostling around in the blind, trying to rearrange my body so I could line up a shot at a bird without sticking the barrel out the window. Trying to maneuver my own personal space took away from my ability to naturally shoulder the gun, acquire the target and get off a decent shot.
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The Outlander was far easier to move around. I was able to quickly and easily pick up and place the TruGlo sights, and the gun was lightweight enough to hold in position until the perfect shot presented itself.
Beretta includes a turkey choke with this gun, so it is ready to go out of the box (though you should always pattern a turkey shotgun before using it on a hunt, to make sure the pattern is adequate and your sights are aligned). Turkey chokes provide tight shot patterns at the 20- to 40-yard distances you will most likely be shooting. Also, the choke is ported so it will reduce some of the felt recoil when shooting magnum turkey loads. Plus, when you consider that an aftermarket choke costs as much as $70, having one included adds value to the Outlander’s already bargain-priced package.
The bad weather the day before the hunt made for fast action our early morning in the turkey blind. Since the birds stayed quiet during the snowstorm, they were ready to go at first light, sounding off with gobbles shortly after we were situated in the blind. Within the hour, we had a group of birds behind us, with noisy hens pock-pocking away at our calls. Eventually two gobblers separated from the group and headed for our decoys across the ditch in front of us. As they worked their way in, I had my Outlander ready and holding steady while I was waiting for the right shot to present itself. Soon I had my first turkey, a big Rio Grande, in the Nebraska panhandle.
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Kylie Jenner suffers altitude sickness on Peru trip
Kylie is in Peru to shoot footage for 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians'
Published 10:53 AM, May 11, 2017
Updated 10:53 AM, May 11, 2017
KYLIE JENNER. The reality TV star and entrepreneur suffers altitude sickness in Peru. Screengrab from Instagram/kyliejenner
LIMA, Peru – Kylie Jenner, the fashion model and younger half-sister of Kim Kardashian, was forced to use an oxygen mask after suffering difficulty breathing during a trip to the Peruvian city of Cusco, high in the Andes.
Jenner, 19, posted pictures on Snapchat social media showing her being treated with an oxygen mask in her hotel room in the historic mountain city.
"At this altitude of 11,000 feet above sea level, you can feel nauseous, have headaches, feel like you're having the worst hangover ever," said a paramedic treating the cosmetics mogul in the video she posted. "Kylie's getting oxygen so she'll feel better."
The pictures showed the reality TV star – whose own show, Life of Kylie, will debut this summer – wearing a red track suit and joking with the paramedic.
Caused by a lack of oxygen at great heights, altitude sickness results in severe headaches and nausea.
Jenner and her mother Kris had arrived in Cusco on Tuesday hoping to shoot footage for the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. They earlier visited the Peruvian capital Lima, where they attended a charity event for children with cleft palates.
The pair later intended to visit the ruined Inca city of Machu Picchu in the mountains close to Cusco, local news reports said. – Rappler.com
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Grubhub Acquires LevelUp
Posted on July 25, 2018 July 25, 2018 11:06 am
Turns out the online and mobile food ordering business has some hefty tailwinds in place.
Grubhub’s active diner count jumped 69 percent year over year to 15.6 million users, up from 9.2 million. The company posted revenues of $240 million, up 51 percent over last year, which was better than the $233 million expected. Earnings on an adjusted basis were $0.50 a share, besting consensus by seven cents.
Gross food sales stood at $1.2 billion, gaining 39 percent.
Those were the headline numbers. As for greenfield opportunities, more new diners signed up for the platform than any quarter before, with less money spent on advertising, as management noted on the call. With a bit of granular detail, CEO Matt Maloney stated that June was the best month in the quarter, where seasonally it has been the worst, according to comments on the call.
The company announced the acquisition of LevelUp, which should expedite integration with restaurants and “create a seamless diner experience in-app, online and in-store,” said the 423,000 daily average grubs, up 35 percent year over year.
CFO Adam DeWitt stated new markets, year to date, have reached a count of 70.
Amid the headline numbers, the company has noted that average order sizes were up 3 percent year over year, with a boost in mix across all brands served.
That increase in revenue per order comes absent increased support costs for those orders.
Beyond the quarter’s results, the firm stated it has acquired LevelUp for $390 million in cash, a deal which will spur further integrations with the nation’s top restaurant brands, with additional channels in place to attract new diners.
DeWitt stated on the call that LevelUp, a seven-year-old firm based in Boston, serves 200 regional and national brands, with a point-of-sale (POS) approach that seeks to replicate each brand’s experience online. The CFO said it is “not a demand-generating” tool like Grubhub but is focused instead on POS integration. LevelUp processes about 100,000 orders a day, as noted on the call. Maloney said the firm has “the best white-label products in the business.”
Amid the organic growth and the LevelUp news, the firm’s guidance now comes in above the Street, with 2018’s top line at $966 million to $983 million, versus the $961 million consensus.
The call is still ongoing, and we’ll refresh with additional detail. Shares were up 11 percent as of this writing.
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Getting Fluid.
Michael Medrano taps into the LA nightlife for new single 'Fluids'
Michael Medrano is on a roll. With each single released the young LA artist ticks higher and higher up the list of emerging talents cracking through the noise of internet and showing that he means business and that he's here to stay. No he's released 'Fluids', easily his most infectious single to date, and that's on the heels of his incredibly popular previous track 'No More Tequila'. 'Fluids' takes Medrano into a whole new world of style and production. Playful disco licks combined with a strongly crafted lyric run and melody have elevated Medrano's craft to another level. And it sits really well on him.
We wanted to give some perspective to the song and where it grew out of so we chatted with him to take a dip into his 'Fluids' pool.
Hey Michael! It's great to catch up with you. It's been so exciting to follow your success over the past months. It's been a busy summer for you, and you're finishing it with the release of brand new single 'Fluids'. The song is super funky and upbeat and seems to have a double meaning to it. What's the story behind 'Fluids' and what's it all about?
'Fluids' was the drunken result of my time at this years LA Pride. I kissed a couple girls, kissed a couple boys, then blacked out. I'm a messy drunk and proud of it.
You wen't from 'No More Tequila' to 'Fluids'. How much of an influence does the LA nightlife and WeHo scene play in your music creation and inspiration?
It's probably the biggest influence in my writing right now, actually. I got tired of writing about my deepest feelings and wanted to change things up. I love all my past releases, but there's a lot of pain that I have to relive when I listen to or perform them. I just wanna feel good and I want everyone listening to feel good too.
Was 'Fluids' self produced or did you bring anyone in to assist?
'Fluids' was initially written and produced all by me, but the finished product out today was produced by an extremely talented guy named Zak Leever. My main producer Shiftee (shout out to Vardaan Arora for linking us!) heard my demo version and linked me with Zak. My version was more of a rock/pop vibe; Zak took it and turned it into this AMAZING disco-pop masterpiece. I definitely want to work with him again!
How long had you been working on it? Was it written fairly recently or did you have the idea for it for awhile?
The night after pride I literally woke up with a massive hangover and the song playing in my head over and over again. I sat at my piano, pulled out my voice note app, and played it all in one shot. I knew it needed to have a messy, spoken-word chorus, so I put the pitch bending effect on my vocal once I hit the studio and it was perfect. I've never loved a song of mine more!
What is your creative process like? What's the typical starting point and what paths do you take to get to the final end result?
Usually, songs flow out of me really fast. When a song gets stuck in my head for days on end, I know it's the next song I want to work on. I'll typically write the first draft of a song within 10 - 15 minutes; I feel that I really know what I want to say to the world at this point in my life. Then I take it to my home studio and make the best demo version I possibly can. From there, I send it to my producer and let him take the creative reigns. I love this process because it requires collaboration and really challenges me to think outside of the box.
It's a song that I think would be really fun to perform live. Do you have a date yet for when you'll be able to play it live?
It's SO much fun to perform. I played it before it was out at The Peppermint Club in Beverly Hills a few weeks ago. The audience knew every word by the last chorus and there wasn't a single person in the room NOT dancing. Pure magic, I'm telling you -- there's nothing like it. I'm in talks with a few different planners on my next show. Hopefully within the next month or so! Shooting for an 18+ venue, a lot of my followers told me they couldn't make my last show because of the 21+ restriction.
You're part of what I like to consider the "LA Q Crew", one part music posse, one part support group. Do you try out the new music for each other before you release or take tips and suggestions?
I love that you have a name for us! I'm friends with everyone, but still feel very on the outside just because I'm tucked away in the South Bay and only get to see the other queer artists at events (Davy Boi being an exception, whom I'm pretty close with and text daily). I love them all so dearly, all so talented! I shopped this song to a few of my artist friends, but I don't often get the chance to sit down and play my music with them in person.
Has there been collaboration talks? Perhaps a duet or group single?
I'm working on a track with a new artist and personal friend "Jame", who just put out his single "Side Piece". So so good, it's a bedroom pop ear worm. Have also been talking to a few other queer artists about collaboration, but nothing is set in stone yet!
Is there one person for you who has to hear it before it's ready for release? A musical confidant?
Definitely my partner in crime Isaac Luna. Closest person in my life who also doubles as my creative director. I also like to send my personal friend group demos before they come out. They're my biggest stans and I love them so much.
What LGBTQ artists are you listening to right now? Who's releases have excited you?
I listen to Bronze Avery on repeat. Ieuan, Slayyyter, and Tove Lo (I am STOKED for Sunshine Kitty) are my current queer obsessions right now too. Honest to God though, I blast all my queer babes on the regular; they're the fucking best.
You've had a number of releases this year. Will there be more in 2019?
I'm shooting for 2 or 3 more releases before the end of the year. I'm on such a creative high and I just wanna keep my angels FED!
How are you finishing the rest of the year and what should we expect heading into 2020?
I want to do at least one or two more shows and release more songs as I go. 2019 has been so good to me and I won't let it slow down in 2020. You're gonna hear more and more from me, I promise.
Finish this sentence: 'Fluids' will _______________.
change my life.' I'm manifesting that energy. This song is a smash.
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2019 in Review: Another one (and more) bites the dust
By Wayne Robinson | 18 December 2019
As print goes through the most disruptive period in its 500-year history, there will inevitably be casualties – and 2019 gave us no shortage of the good, the bad and the ugly hitting the skids, with several major names now just history.
The biggest was Waratah Group, the sprawling operation in Port Melbourne with offset, digital and wide format print that emerged from a conga line of colourful characters who have had a share of its variously named predecessors over the years. Early indications the business was in trouble came when the ATO issued a winding up order, a tax bill unpaid due to a “technical error” according to Waratah at the time. It did manage to cobble together the funds to pay the ATO, but that was only postponing the inevitable – when it went down a couple of months later it was in a mighty crash, with $12m owed to creditors.
Naresh Gulati, CEO, OCA Group, former owner of Rooster IMC
Almost as big and at virtually the same time and place was Rooster IMC, the similarly-endowed business stitched together from various print operations bought by entrepreneur Naresh Gulati five years ago with a promise to change the way the industry operates. Sadly, the promise turned to dust – as did trade finishing house The Bindery, which Gulati had also bought five years ago, and as did promised redundancy payments to the 40-odd staff there.
Melbourne’s print community was in shock when well-regarded trade print business Whnirlwind suddenly collapsed, the result of an ill-fated decision to buy high quality Sydney outfit Lyndsay Yates two years prior – and the Victoria sign and display industry was not immune to the storm engulfing the city when well-regarded and respected Adherettes hit liquidation late in the year. Melbourne laminating outfit ProtectaPrint also collapsed three years after it was bought from Allkotes, and among the saddest signs of the times, bookbinder Irwin & McLaren quietly shut its doors after 150 years in business.
Still in Melbourne, one of the more curious collapses was that of the Melbourne Museum of Print, which was essentially the passion of Michael Isaachsen, who had spent a lifetime and $3m collecting a series of print heritage artefacts – some of which never saw the light of day. His landlord eventually took umbrage at unpaid rent and auctioned off the lot to recoup what was due – or what he said was due, as the figure was under dispute – and some of the historic treasures made their way straight to the city’s smelting yards.
Other well-known businesses now in the history books are Reactiv in Sydney, which went down owing $2.7m; FX Digital; Senses Direct; Swift Signs; Expo Group; Adam Middleton’s Civic Media; Australian Plastic Cards; Network Print Studio; and the 15 strong PostNet print pack and mail franchise group.
Falling newspaper sales led Norske Skog to close its Albury newsprint mill – although, in a case of one man’s ceiling is another man’s floor, Visy promptly bought it for $80m, planning to turn it into a carton production plant.
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Leicester’s Annual Ramadhan Festival Kicks off for a Fourth Year
July 25th, 2014 News
The now annual Leicester Ramadhan Festival returns to the city for a fourth year. Running until 27 July at The Spinney on Frisby Road, organisers hope that 15,000 people will attend.The festival is in partnership with Human Appeal, a global charity that raises money to offer aid and assistance to disadvantaged people around the world including Gaza and Syria.
The festival which kicked off yesterday was officially inaugurated by the Right Honourable Lord Mayor Councillor John Thomas.
Leicester South MP Jon Ashworth who was fasting for the day was also in attendance and commented that, “Ramadhan is such an important time of year for so many people across Leicester and I’m really please the local community have put on this event, its fantastic to see that we are raising money here today with Human Appeal for the horrifying situation in Gaza and Palestine, so I’m delighted to support this event, and there’s lots going on here for all the family, so do come down, its really really good”
Speaking about his fast Jon said “I started off this morning at about midnight at Masjid Umar in Evington in my constituency for zohar, I’ll be finishing at a mosque on Keythorpe Street at around 9pm tonight for Iftar, and I’m really really touched as I always am, in the way in which the Muslim community here in Leicester have welcomed me and are supporting me in my fast today”
During the month of Ramadhan, Muslims fast from sunrise until sunset, and the event is open until midnight so that people will have the opportunity to collectively break their fasts.
Abdul Osman, Director of the Ramadhan Festival said “Eid is coming up, Leicester is a diverse city its the only city in country that celebrates a Ramadhan festival and we hope that it spreads in other parts of the country”
The festival has something for every age and faith with a children’s play area for young people to enjoy, Islamic art and Exhibitions, calligraphy talks, prayer facilities as well as a wide range of boutiques with between 50 and 60 stalls selling a variety of Middle Eastern and Eastern wares, from delicious cuisines, to hand-crafted Eid gifts such as Arabic perfumes , women designers wear, ranging from bags to shoes.
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By Mary Lunsford - West Alexandria Correspondent
WEST ALEXANDRIA — Birthdays this week: James Hurst, Adam VanScoy, Sandy Shafer, Robert Copley, John Hurst, Lori Boomershine, Shannon Smith, Dean Maggard, Richard Miller, Linda Barnhart, Becky Simon, Jeanne Via, Ed Lockhart, Leah Rose Papczun, Connor Sebald, Jennifer Kincer Eury, Paxson Mercer, Gail Schmidt, Diana Spencer, Diane Jones, Kay Napier, Mark Weimer, Troy Lunsford, Ronda Sollenberger, Mike Fahrenholz, Jesse Koeller.
Anniversaries this week: Eric and Misty Clayton, Mathias and Kaylee Marshall.
The next Fish Fry is Saturday, Jan. 18, from 5-7 p.m. at James E. Ryan, Post 322, 1477 Ohio 503 S.
Rock the Jukebox Friday, Jan. 17, from 7-11 p.m.
Euchre and Ladies’ Night is open to the public every Wednesday at 7 p.m. $5 entry fee, 50/50 raffle.
The Senior Fun Bunch meets every Thursday from 1-4 p.m.
Firehouse Bingo
Bingo start time is 6 p.m. every Thursday for the Early Bird games at 25 E. Dayton Street. We have several progressive games we play throughout the season. Come out and try your luck. Doors open at 5 p.m. for open seating. No RSVP on seating; first come, first served. Help spread the word; the higher the number of attendees, the higher the pay-out bracket. Light snack bar with drinks available for purchase.
Venison for Food Banks
The Venison for Food Banks of Preble County program is ongoing. Anyone who takes a deer can donate all or part of the meat for the Foodbanks. We have sponsors who will take care of the processing fees. You may contact Brad Turner, Preble County Game Warden, or Curtis Early from Twin Valley Rod and Gun Club at 937-533-3226.
The next Community Meal is Wednesday, Jan. 8, at 22 East Oak St. from 5-6:30 p.m. Community Meals will continue the first Wednesday of each month through June.
Salem Lutheran Church
Salem Kids meet every Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. through April 1, for a meal followed by a program from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Kids aged 3 years through sixth grade are welcome to be a part of Salem Kids. For additional information, contact Wanda DeVilbiss at 937-361-6865.
Middle School Ministry meets every Sunday evening at 6:30 p.m.
Join us for the Men’s Bible Study and Breakfast every third Saturday, next on Jan. 18, at 7:30 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall.
Salem Women of the NALC served four families with seven children in our Adopt-A-Family mission, as well as the children at TVS Schools in December. Also, 28 Cheer Boxes were filled and delivered to shut-ins.
We are still collecting new or clean used Bibles to accompany our quilts for the Blanket and Bible Ministry for national disaster relief. Quilts and soap will continue to be sent to international missions.
Donate your unwanted or recently expired coupons to Coups for Troops to assist military overseas where commissaries accept manufacturer coupons up to two months expired. There is a designated basket in the church library.
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Dynamics of sense-making and development of the narrative in the clinical exchange
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Miguel Goncalves Universidade do Minho, Portugal.
Inès Mendes Universidade do Minho, Portugal.
Antònio Ribeiro Universidade do Minho, Portugal.
Sergio Salvatore
The present work is aimed at exploring the relationship between the dynamics of sense-making carried out by the clinical exchange and the content of the patient’s narrative. To this end the relationship between the formal and functional mapping of a psychotherapy carried out by the Discourse Flow Analysis (DFA) and the analysis of the patient’s narrative provided by the Innovative Moment Coding System (IMCS) have been compared. The comparison concerns a 15-session good outcome Emotion-Focused Therapy (Lisa's case). Findings highlight the association between the formal and functional characteristics of the clinical dialogue and the content of the narrative. More in particular, an association between the U-shape trajectory of the super-ordered meaning depicted by DFA and the evolution of the innovative content of the narrative enucleated by the IMCS were found.
Gennaro, A., Goncalves, M., Mendes, I., Ribeiro, A., & Salvatore, S. (2011). Dynamics of sense-making and development of the narrative in the clinical exchange. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 14(1), 90–120. https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2011.44
Copyright (c) 2011 Alessandro Gennaro, Miguel Gonçalves, Inês Mendes, António Ribeiro, Sergio Salvatore
Alessandro Gennaro, Claudia Venuleo, Andrea F. Auletta, Sergio Salvatore, The Topics of Psychotherapy Research: An Analysis Based on Keywords , Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome: Vol 15, No 1 (2012)
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27 Oct Why all digital marketers should “think subscription”
Subscriptions like the old wine-of-the-month or fruit-of-the-month clubs used to seem like an indulgence for people with expendable income. But now, there’s a subscription service for pretty much everything. Dollar Shave Club makes getting new razors every month feel like Christmas. The Honest Company has transformed the way modern parents purchase diapers. Even wine-of-the-month style subscriptions are making a comeback with companies like Club W. Even traditional companies like Gillette and Sephora are coming out with subscription services. Not every marketer out there is working with subscription businesses, but it’s important to keep up to date with the hottest trends in e-commerce.
Today’s consumers can find a subscription for their every need. Here are some interesting subscriptions on the market now:
For the frequent flyer: People who need easy access to a plane can get a monthly all-you-can-fly subscription to Rise if they need to access to the major areas in Texas; Beacon for the NorthEast; and SurfAir for jet-setting around California. It might seem expensive, but customers are saying just 3 flights a month makes the subscription worth the money.
For the case of the munchies: We’re currently loving our Naturebox office snacks. It’s not always easy to eat healthy, but getting these fun snacks in the mail instead of going out of the way to buy junk food can really make a difference. For those who want something less healthy, Mantry, a curated artisanal food box, offers meat and booze. Gourmet home cooks strapped for time will love Blue Apron’s highly curated, easy to assemble ingredients and recipes every week.
For grooming and beauty: Birchbox continues to be the leader for subscription beauty boxes, offering deluxe samples of a variety of high end beauty, skincare, and hair products every month for only $10. It’s not only for women either – Birchbox Man is a $20 subscription full of grooming products and a surprise full-size product every month. More makeup focused subscribers can opt in for Ipsy’s $10 monthly glam bags, curated by Youtube Beauty Guru Michelle Phan and her team.
Subscription continues to be a huge trend, and doesn’t seem to be peaking anytime soon. However, 72% of subscription customers fail to make a second purchase within 6 months. There’s still a ways to go in terms of maximizing ROI for subscription companies. To help marketers navigate the landscape, we’ve created a guide on how to make the most impact when it comes to marketing for subscription services. In this guide, we cover how to engage and retain subscription customers, how to prevent customer churn, and much more.
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Section 383C.74
383C.73 383C.75
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383C.74 HISTORICAL WORK.
Subdivision 1.Appropriation.
The St. Louis County Board may appropriate from the treasury of the county a sum not to exceed $2,500 each year for the promotion of historical work within its borders.
Subd. 2.Minnesota State Historical Society.
Said sum shall be so appropriated for the use of a historical society organized in said county and devoted to the collection, preservation and publication of historical material, the dissemination of historical information and in general carrying on historical work, said society to be designated by the Minnesota State Historical Society.
Subd. 3.Purpose of appropriation.
The work of said historical society shall be done in the county making such appropriation and in reference to the history of said county and all facts relevant thereto.
Subd. 4.Money to remain in county treasury.
The money appropriated as aforesaid shall remain in the treasury of the county and be paid out in payment of expense incurred by said county historical society for the purposes above indicated on verified bills approved by said local society according to its rules, in the same way that county bills are paid. Said appropriation shall be available for expense occurring in any year although not paid until the succeeding year. Any unused portion of any appropriation for any year shall revert to the funds of the county. Said appropriation shall be effective only for the year in which it is made.
Subd. 5.Minnesota War Record Commission.
It shall be lawful for the county historical society, designated as aforesaid, by the Minnesota Historical Society to carry on the work of the Minnesota War Records Commission in its county and to receive, on and after the year 1923, possession of all local war records of any local war records commission of its county subject to the approval of the state war records commission and the Minnesota Historical Society.
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Samurai Shodown Set For Release In June For PS4 and Xbox One!
on March 26, 2019 by Reuben Mount
I’m a big fighting game player. I might not be very good at them (arguably), but I love them all the same. So, I’m glad that the legendary SNK have made somewhat of a comeback recently with The King of Fighters XIV, and the upcoming Samurai Shodown.
SNK have announced that the latter of these titles will launch worldwide for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in June, followed by Switch in Q4 2019 and PC at a later date. This is a reboot of the classic series set between the events of Samurai Showdown V and the original game.
It will feature 16 total fighters, including 13 returning characters and three brand new characters. Additional characters will be released via post-launch downloadable content. Also, Samurai Shodown will have Japanese voice-overs and support English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Pan-American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese subtitle language options.
Key Game Features:
– Exhilarating Weapons-Based Combat – Samurai Shodown carries on the legacy of the tense battles the series is known for, where players are always one strike away from death, and one powerful attack away from victory.
– Evolving the Presentation – Using the power of Unreal Engine 4, SNK is able to modernize the unique atmosphere and setting of past titles in a gorgeously artistic package that achieves a detail and graphical quality like never before.
– Unique Cast of Returning and New Warriors – Samurai Shodown welcomes back iconic characters from past iterations, including the swordsman Haohmaru, his rivals Ukyo and Genjuro, the shrine maiden Nakoruru, and fan-favorite Galford. The starting roster will include a total of 16 characters—13 veterans and three newcomers to the franchise.
– All New Gameplay – Carrying on some of the key fighting mechanics that made the series popular, such as the Rage Gauge, Rage Explosion, Sword Clash and more, Samurai Shodown will also include several new techniques, including a powerful, one-time use attack from each character called the Super Special Move.
– Revolutionary New AI System – Titled Dojo Mode, SNK has developed a proprietary AI system that learns from player patterns and creates a specific Ghost clone from that data. With this system, players can fight against their own Ghost or take on the Ghosts of top players in mock battles.
I’m sitting here incredibly jealous of the fact that the game will be playable at PAX East 2019 this weekend, along with a panel, “Samurai Shodown: Resurrecting a Legend,” on March 30 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. ET featuring producer Yasuyuki Oda, director Nobuyuki Kuroki, original Samurai Shodown director Yasushi Adachi, and several other staff members from SNK. If you’re there, this looks like it will be amazing.
There’s a new trailer for the game below, and I could not be more hyped. But what do you think? Are you looking forward to the return of this franchise? What do you think of the announced roster so far? Let us know in the comments, or on Facebook and Twitter, and check back for more coverage of Samurai Shodown and other Japanese titles.
Samurai Shodown is due for release in June for Playstation 4 and Xbox One, followed by Switch in Q4 2019 and PC at a later date.
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Chairman of the National Defence Committee met with the MPs of the Central African Republic
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On Thursday, the Chairman of the National Defence Committee of the Riigikogu Mati Raidma met with the Speaker of the provisional parliament of the Central African Republic Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet and the chairpersons of the committees of the parliament in Bangui.
At the meeting with the Speaker of the parliament, the potential further cooperation of the two countries was discussed. “It gave a basis for new ideas concerning the fields in which Estonia could contribute to the building up of the Central African Republic. For example, Estonia is dealing with the e-government and e-parliament issues in several African countries, and why not do it also in Central Africa,” Raidma said.
According to Raidma, the Speaker of CAR was very well aware of the presence of Estonia, and one of the reasons for that was very simple – the Speaker lives in the fifth arrondissement of Bangui, where the Estonians are responsible for security.
“For me, one sentence of the mayor of the arrondissement also had a significant meaning. He said that for the first time in history he was sorry that the members of foreign armed forces of a would be leaving the country. This gives a high evaluation to the professionalism of the members of our defence forces, and also shows that their heart is in the right place,” Raidma said.
Raidma added that the four-month mission in the CAR shows what the Estonians are really capable of. “For me, this operation busted several myths. Before the African mission, it was very extensively discussed in the society. For example, it was thought that Estonians would not be able to adapt to Africa, because the people and culture of that continent are too distant and alien for us,” Raidma said. He also said that he was once again convinced that the members of the Estonian defence forces are able to act successfully in all conflict areas, regardless of their geographical location.
“This conviction is of great importance from the viewpoint of the security of our own state, the structure of our national defence and the confidential cooperation with our allies,” the Chairman of the National Defence Committee of the Riigikogu added.
According to Raidma, four months is a sufficient length of time for the CAR operation, and now it is time to analyse what has been done, to record the experience and to face forthcoming security challenges.
During his visit to the Central African Republic, Raidma also met with the Secretary General of the administration of the parliament Davy Victorien Yama and the policy advisor of the representation of the European Union Bernard Piette, with whom he discussed the future prospects and challenges.
The Chairman of the National Defence Committee of the Riigikogu Mati Raidma and the Commander of the Defence Forces Major General Riho Terras visited the base of the Estonian Defence Forces and met the leaders of the EU mission and local institutions in the Central African Republic, in Bangui.
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PLAY 1: STEPPING OUT
PLAY 2: BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED
PLAY 3: TIME OF MY LIFE
PLAY 4: DI AND VIV AND ROSE
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by Alan Ayckbourn
Friday 24th January until Friday 31st January 2020, 7:30pm
Gerry Stratton has organized a family dinner with his sons Glyn and Adam at his favourite restaurant to celebrate his wife Laura’s birthday. Glyn is with his wife Stephanie and Adam has brought along his new girlfriend, an outrageous hairdresser. Gradually, family skeletons intrude on the happy scene: Glyn’s unfaithfulness knows no bounds, the family transport business has been hit by the recession, and Laura has been unfaithful too. Glyn’s story is set more recently and Adam’s further back in time, while at the centre. Gerry and Laura pick apart their marriage and recall first love.
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Readings for Casting Spring and Port Wine
The readings for casting our fifth play of the Season, Spring and Port Wine, will take place at 7.30pm on Monday 10th and Thursday 12th February 2020 in the theatre lounge. Cast comprises four males (three young men and one older) and four females (two young women and two older). The play is set in 1960s-1970s Lancashire – a classic play – family drama.
If you are interested and would like more information or a copy of the script, please contact producer Robert Warburton on 07947 726399 or 01427 880220.
Review: Bothered and Bewildered
Bothered and Bewildered is described by its writer as a ‘comedy drama’; in fact, it is a clear exposé of the devastation of dementia – the bewilderment of the sufferer and the effect on the family – and that makes for a tragic story with some comic relief. This is a very challenging play, and Keri Duffy, who has not produced at the theatre before, has risen to the challenge splendidly.
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Retford Little Theatre is pleased to announce our 79th Season of plays will open with Stepping Out by Richard Harris and will conclude with Spring and Port Wine by Bill Naughton.
Bothered and Bewildered (Gail Young), Time of My Life (Alan Ayckbourn), and Di and Viv and Rose (Amelia Bullmore) complete the season’s line up.
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Fairytale Frenzy is a mish-mash of fairytales told by a modern family in desperate need of some old fashioned story time.
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Standards for magnetic devices still seem a long way off
From Volume 21, Issue 4 - April 1998
The continuing absence of independent testing undermines the technology's credibility.
by: Sean Cummings
For the second time in three years NSF International will ask manufacturers of magnetic water treatment devices to underwrite development of testing procedures to prove the effectiveness of their products.
If this project gets off the ground it may prompt magnetics proponents - or their critics - to "put up or shut up" in the sometimes-contentious debate over the effectiveness of magnetic water treatment.
Don't hold your breath waiting though.
Some magnetics manufacturers show interest in submitting their products for testing but are skeptical about NSF's proposed project.
That's partly because the magnetics community is very fragmented - manufacturers range from those who have been in business more than 20 years to those who recently opened shop.
Some of the more established manufacturers lob numerous complaints at newer competitors. They dissociate their companies from so-called "fly-by-nighters" and claim that newcomers to the industry give magnetics a bad name by making outlandish claims and selling equipment not based on any technical expertise.
In fact, those contacted by Water Technology agree that only a handful of the 30 or so American producers have products that would pass muster if tested by NSF.
"I think testing could and should be applied," says Peter Kulish, founder of the Magnetizer Group, Gardensville, PA. "But if testing parameters were set up and applied, 95 percent of them (manufacturers) would fail."
Critics charge that the reluctance of magnetics producers to submit their products for testing is a smokescreen to hide their underlying fear that the devices won't work as they claim.
However, manufacturers say they are wary of the following:
( They will not be fairly represented on the oversight panel.
( NSF will appoint an oversight committee dominated by makers of conventional water treatment equipment and supporters of the Water Quality Association (WQA), which does not recognize magnetics as a viable treatment technology.
( Not all their counterparts are qualified to participate in the task group.
( Participation in this project would give competitors the opportunity to obtain proprietary information.
In addition to the Magnetizer Group, at least four other magnetics manufacturers contacted by Water Technology say they would be willing to participate in the NSF project this year - Dime Water Inc., Escondido, CA; SoPhTec International, Costa Mesa, CA; ABB Instrumentation, Rochester, NY; and Descal-a-Matic Corp., Norfolk, VA. Several others say they are interested, but can't definitely commit until receiving more information from NSF.
"I would want some screening process to keep the gadgeteers out and to eliminate testing of clamp-on (residential) units. They should seek some credentials and recommendations from end-users," says Ernie Florestano, president of Descal-a-Matic.
"We don't want a repeat of the previous (1995) NSF committee, which had many WQA members, and even WQA staff members," says Charles Sanderson, president of Superior Water Conditioners (Kemtune), Fort Wayne, IN. "WQA highly influences NSF, and we all know where WQA stands on magnetics."
Sanderson also believes the fears of losing proprietary information are overblown. "I'd like to review the protocol first, but if it's acceptable, it wouldn't bother me if the competition was watching."
Roland Carpenter, president of Aqua Magnetics International Inc., Safety Harbor, FL, says he may be willing to participate, but doesn't feel he should have to help finance the project. "NSF should pay me for my expertise on magnetic water treatment," he says.
One manufacturer, Alden Coke, president of AQUA-FLO, Inc., Baltimore, MD, is adamantly opposed to participating in NSF's project.
"I'm totally in agreement that testing protocols should be developed," he says. "But why should I pay them and give them my expertise to develop test standards so that they could saddle us with more requirements. When I wanted a device tested to gain NSF certification, I would have to pay them more money.
"That doesn't make any sense to this good ol' boy," Coke says.
NSF details proposal
NSF decided to embark on this latest project after requests for developing standards were received from at least one magnetics manufacturer and from state water treatment product regulators in Wisconsin and California.
NSF is hoping to avoid a repeat performance of a 1995 initiative when the organization wrote to 31 magnetics manufacturers, asking them to participate in a similar project. The response was tepid: half the manufacturers agreed to participate, but only two offered to fund the $10,000 plus project.
Nancy Culotta, general manager of the drinking water treatment unit at NSF, Ann Arbor, MI, says the organization hopes to hear in the next few months whether magnetics manufacturers will participate in their planned testing protocol. The request for participation and financing was sent in March.
Culotta would not release the names of the manufacturers who will be asked to participate.
Culotta says NSF would assemble a task group comprised of magnetics manufacturers who wish to participate and two state regulators: Glen Schlueter of Wisconsin and Robert Burns of California. This group would devise the protocols and conduct the tests with NSF staff.
The test results would then be reviewed and voted on by the following bodies in this sequence:
( NSF's Joint Committee of Public Health Officials, Industry Representatives and Product Users. This includes representatives from conventional equipment manufacturers.
( NSF's Council of Public Health Consultants, which includes no manufacturers or user groups.
( NSF board of directors
( American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for final approval.
Why the need for a replicable test?
Why is scientific performance testing a key issue in the magnetics debate?
Partly because some regulators are making it an issue and partly because there is so much debate within the magnetics community itself over the validity of product claims.
According to proponents, magnetic devices don't chemically change the properties of water - instead, they change the physical (molecular) structure of calcium carbonate to make it less likely to form hard scale.
Physical changes, they say, can't be measured like chemical changes in traditional treatment technologies.
Some regulators feel the need for performance testing in order to protect homeowners less knowledgeable about water treatment applications than industrial customers, who may have technical staff.
Wisconsin regulates home magnetic devices, but not industrial applications. Currently, no home devices are approved for sale in Wisconsin because manufacturers lacked test data to support performance claims, Schlueter says.
In six states law enforcement/consumer protection agencies have periodically issued consumer alerts about buying magnetic water treatment devices or issued injunctions against specific companies and their agents for exaggerating product performance.
Is a replicable test a reality?
Can a replicable, scientific test be designed to prove or disprove the devices work?
Magnetic manufacturers say they have already done so in their own laboratories and even opponents say it can be done.
However, some producers say their devices are affected by so many environmental variables - temperature, flow rates, conductivity, strength of magnetic field, the presence of iron or silica - that it will be difficult, though not impossible, to devise replicable testing standards. They say they need to set up their devices to assure they operate correctly in the testing process.
Baylor University chemist Kenneth Busch believes a basic test can be devised, using magnets on a test group and a control group of stills and conducting statistical analysis of the scale deposited on each set.
Schlueter suggests taking two sets of residential-type hot water heaters - one a test group, the other a control group - and running magnetically treated water through the test group and untreated water through the control group.
Then remove the pipe section leading into each hot water heater (after the point of magnetic treatment), dry it and weigh it. Compare the weights for any statistically significant difference. If the magnetic devices work, presumably the pipe section that channeled the treated water would have less scale buildup and would weigh less.
"Comparatively, they're not up against a real tough technical test," says Schlueter. "Either the devices are removing and preventing scale or they're not."
Testimonials have value
Scores of foreign research studies and magnetics applications abroad also are ignored by the American water treatment community.
Given the relative lack of peer-reviewed research, magnetics producers point to numerous testimonials from industrial customers - such as steel mills and breweries - as proof the devices work. Manufacturers say the testimonials, however unscientific, often come from technical staff of their industrial clients who are making reasoned judgments.
During the 1980s, Betz-Dearborn Co., Lake Zurich, IL, a chemical treatment company, conducted scale reduction tests using magnetic devices, but found little effect, says Gary Geiger, cooling engineer manager.
"We know of some applications where there's no really high scaling potential in the water and the device might produce good results," Geiger explains. "But then it's removed and there's no scale disaster, and usually the client goes back to chemical treatment."
Magnetic devices represent "more of an irritation than a threat" to chemical treatment companies, Geiger says. "If there was something there, the large chemical companies would've found it within the last 30 years."
Representatives from other large chemical companies agree.
"We haven't conducted (magnetics) research within the company," says Gary Ganzi, vice president, research and development for U.S. Filter Corp., Lowell, MA. "But we have been following the technical literature, and we're starting to see some studies that appear to be sound scientific evaluations."
However, he adds, the studies to date haven't convinced him or other U.S. Filter officials that the devices have a significant scale reduction effect.
Nalco Chemical Co., Naperville, IL, loosely tracks developments in magnetic water treatment, "but if there were any significant effect in scale reduction, we would research it more thoroughly," says Michael Groshans, the company's market development manager for cooling water systems.
WQA won't assume brokering role
If NSF International can't convince magnetics manufacturers to develop testing protocols, it appears the Water Quality Association (WQA) will not try to fill a similar brokering role.
"We won't walk away from this situation, but it's not our responsibility to scientifically prove or disprove any technology," says Peter Censky, WQA's executive director.
That's a change in tune from the '80s and early '90s, when the WQA took a more assertive role in questioning magnetics technology. During the 1980s the organization financed two studies - at the South Dakota School of Mines in 1981 and at Purdue University in 1985.
The Purdue study concluded that none of the six permanent magnetic water conditioners tested "appeared capable of conditioning the employed groundwater in a fashion which would uniformly yield beneficial changes in its chemical, physical, and scaling characteristics."
And in 1995, WQA backed off an attempt to deny magnetics manufacturers booth space at its annual trade exhibition when the manufacturers threatened litigation.
Why is WQA more reluctant now to question the efficacy of magnetic devices?
"The issue is that, today, the WQA won't get involved in any more studies (of magnetics)," says Censky. "We're not out to prove them wrong. They don't have to prove it to us - prove it to the regulators. That's the change in our approach. Frankly, it isn't even up to NSF to prove or disprove the technology. It's up to enforcement agencies."
Despite its financial challenges, Censky says WQA's board of directors might be willing to fund an NSF project, but only if a significant number of magnetics producers participate and also help fund the effort.
"Magnetics producers may not want to have anything to do with WQA, but my guess is that our board would be willing to support an NSF project," he says.
From Volume 30, Issue 11 - November 2007
With benefits for many, it still poses confusion and thorny issues for some.
by: Tom Williams, Senior Editor
Having water treatment equipment that is “certified” by an authoritative, unbiased third party is reassuring for manufacturers, dealers and consumers alike. Also, many governments now require installation of certified components or systems in water treatment applications. A dealer/installer’s failure or inability to provide certified products can mean loss of jobs, contracts and bids.
Still, as important as product certification is, many may not understand or be confused about how it is achieved, who does it and how.
Why it happened
A century ago, American manufacturers decided that minimum standards for safety, product compatibility, and performance would help ensure consumer confidence in products and promote industrial efficiency — and forestall unwanted governmental regulation.
The result was the voluntary system in place today in which manufacturers, regulators and others sit down and establish, by consensus, minimum standards for product materials and performance.
“In the water treatment industry, one of the early concerns was that the products were difficult for the average consumer to evaluate,” says Rick Andrew, operations manager for the Drinking Water Treatment Units division of NSF International (sidebar). Through certification, the industry’s manufacturers and dealers could let the public know products performed as advertised.
Most standards relating specifically to drinking water treatment were originally written by the Water Quality Association (WQA) starting in the 1960s and eventually handed off to NSF, says Tom Palkon, CWS-VI, WQA’s director of product certification.
In very simplified form, the product certification process goes like this:
A manufacturer applies to a certifying organization (like NSF or the WQA Gold Seal program) to prove certain types of product performance claims (such as reducing lead to a certain level) under one or more standards (say, NSF/ANSI Standard 58: Reverse Osmosis Drinking Water Treatment Systems). The manufacturer pays a fee to the testing organization, and that organization then puts the product through testing in its laboratory and inspects the manufacturer’s plant.
The scientific parameters for these tests are written by industry groups in concert with manufacturers; are later reviewed by an NSF-chaired, 33-member drinking water treatment committee comprised of manufacturers, regulators and a diverse group of “users”; and are finally let out for public comment before being approved. The 33-member committee includes certifying groups like WQA.
If a product passes, it is certified, and the manufacturer, among other things, puts the certifying organization’s mark or seal on the product. A certification lasts for five years and a product must be re-tested for the certification to be renewed.
Confusion can arise about which organizations do testing and certifying and how they relate to each other.
One common misconception is that NSF does all testing and product certification of drinking water treatment products. In fact, NSF is only one of about a half-dozen such organizations who provide those services.
WQA’s Palkon says another misconception is that NSF “is a government agency.” In fact, NSF, WQA and many of the other certifiers are private, not-for-profit.
The “NSF/ANSI” drinking water standards are so named because NSF has been designated by the national certification coordinator, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), as the coordinator of the drinking water committee. The standards are not the property of, or used solely by NSF. They are in the “public domain” and any ANSI-accredited organization, such as NSF or WQA, can use them for testing and certification.
Interestingly enough, each of the testing/certifying organizations views the others as competitors.
But the bottom line for dealers and consumers is that a product tested and certified by WQA, for instance, under NSF/ANSI drinking water standards, is just as validly certified as one certified by NSF, the CSA or other ANSI-accredited groups.
Does a product work?
Product certification is one way of answering a very basic question: “Does it work?” For the technologies for which standards have been established (ion exchange, reverse osmosis, etc.), that question equates to: “Is it certified?”
But what about technologies for which there are no established standards? Unproven or newer technologies may fall into this category.
One who has experienced this is Scott Sanderson Sr., vice president of the Superior Manufacturing division of Magnatech Corp., a Fort Wayne, IN-based manufacturer of “permanent magnetic” scale-control technology. A WQA member for many years, Superior has also been among those battling certifiers, so far unsuccessfully, for validation of magnetic technologies.
That controversy aside, Sanderson says he and his company are more than willing to work with anyone to help write standards and testing parameters for magnetic technology. In the past decade, NSF and WQA each took some initial steps toward addressing the magnetics issue. However, for various reasons, no standards for it have been developed yet.
One reason is technical, NSF’s Andrew says: “Scaling is such a complex phenomenon — you have flow dynamics, electrostatic properties, the question of where the scale is going to form in a pipe. And there’s the fact that, with magnetics, the product water is chemically unchanged.”
To help any company get its foot in a technological door, Andrew says there is a “standards lite” program, in which a “protocol” for a technology can be established under less-rigorous review. After more work, it could be upgraded to a full-blown standard.
Palkon notes that a task force of the International Association of Plumbing Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) has now been working for about a year to develop some magnetic-treatment standards.
How much to certify?
Another potential impediment, especially for a very small manufacturer, could be the cost of certification. NSF charges an applicant from about $15,000 for testing and certifying a single product claim to about $50,000 for multiple claims, according to Andrew. Palkon cited similar figures for WQA.
Andrew notes there are considerable laboratory and other start-up costs associated with testing for an entirely new standard. While NSF (and most of the others) are not-for-profit entities, those costs have to be justified by the number of companies that might take advantage of a new standard, he explains.
In any case, the standards environment is not static, and new standards or changes are being proposed all the time. For example, standards are now being developed for claims of treatment of microbiological contaminants in drinking water.
Magnetics continues to attract
From Volume 23, Issue 3 - March 2000
by: Amy Poe, News Editor
Although it seemed to be picking up momentum early last year, the movement toward eventual certification of magnetic water treatment devices has stalled. But that doesn't mean there hasn't been activity taking place behind the scenes.<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O />
In 1998, NSF International had appealed to magnetics manufacturers for funding to develop testing protocols to prove the effectiveness of their products, based on a German standard used in Europe. The plans ground to a halt in the spring of 1999, with the departure of Nancy Culotta, general manager of NSF International's drinking water treatment unit program.
"There was a question raised about the appropriateness of this," says Culotta's successor, Thomas J. Bruursema. "We needed to be sure we could develop [a protocol] that was based on sound science."
The Ann Arbor, MI, testing organization now says it is waiting for the results of a literature review on magnetic water treatment by the Water Quality Association (WQA), Lisle, IL.
Last March, the association set up an independent panel of representatives from industry and academia. Three subgroups were assigned a total of some 50 scientific papers on the effectiveness of magnetic treatment.
"We aren't going to come to a conclusion on the effectiveness of magnetics," cautions panel head Daniel T. Carty, of the Brita Products Co. in Oakland, CA. "We're just reviewing these for their appropriateness for inclusion in what we want to do - to make sure they're based on sound science."
Admitting the panel has been moving more slowly than he had anticipated, Carty nevertheless hopes to have its report ready for the WQA annual convention starting March 25.
Mike Colburn of Dime Water, Inc. in Escondido, CA, sells both conventional water softeners and magnetic equipment. He had made a commitment to help fund the NSF test protocol project, and he's willing to pick up where they left off.
"The offer is still on the table," says Colburn.
Court and sparks
In the meantime, a member of the bench for the US District Court in the Northern District of Indiana has been performing his own review of a magnetics company's claims.
In January, Chief Judge William C. Lee dismissed charges filed by Charles H. Sanderson Jr., co-owner of Kemtune, inc. in Fort Wayne, IN. Sanderson had sued three parties, the WQA, Spectrum Labs Inc. in St. Paul, MN, and Houston dealership Bob J. Johnson and Associates, Inc.
Sanderson and his wife, Gloria, have long had a contentious relationship with the WQA and its past president, Duane D. Nowlin of Spectrum Labs. At a meeting of the Science Advisory Committee meeting at the association's 1999 convention, Gloria Sanderson accused the WQA under Nowlin's leadership of being responsible for the loss of millions of dollars in sales by her company.
In his lawsuit, Sanderson accused the three defendents of "a conspiracy to denigrate magnetic water treatment generally, and the Plaintiff's products in particular . . . " and of antitrust violations of the Sherman Act and restrictions of trade under the Lanham Act. The Sandersons cited past WQA actions, including a previous ban on magnetic devices at the association's trade show and funding of two studies they say are flawed.
"We're not in a fight with these people," responds WQA Executive Director Peter Censky, noting, for example, that the association has stopped distributing the Purdue University report criticized by Sanderson. "We're gratified that the judge saw fit to reject every count against the WQA."
In his decision, Lee cited a number of reasons for dismissal, including statute of limitations and venue defects. Sanderson was ordered to reimburse Nowlin for his legal expenses, because Sanderson had dropped a previous, similar suit against Nowlin when the venue was moved from Indiana to Minnesota.
Undeterred, the Sandersons have filed for relief from the order to pay Nowlin and for the right to refile an amended complaint. It requests $10 million in damages, plus interest and punitive damages.
"Our main [goal is] to have the WQA acknowledge the fact magnetic water conditioners work in selected installations . . .," says Gloria Sanderson in a prepared statement. "We truly want to talk about more positive things."
Sanderson says she is looking forward to the WQA convention this month.
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The Art of Writing
by Peter Yang
Porky Baycann
by Tank Gunner
Kids Say the Darndest Things to Santa Claus
by Don Kennedy
by Ms. Jeanne Tompkins
Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider
Contact Author - Ellen C Maze
Trailer - Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider
Although my degree is in psychology, I have always been an artist and writer. In 2009, my first novel, “The Judging,” was published by Treasureline Press. I grew up reading Stephen King and Anne Rice (horror and vampires), and in 2004, I read Frank Peretti’s “This Present Darkness” and was inspired to write “horror” from a Biblical perspective. As a Messianic Jewish believer, I also bring elements of my Hebraic roots to the books which readers have commented on often. “Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider” is Book 1 of 6, and #5, “Conundrum”, is currently in editing and expected late 2019 from Little Roni Publishers. Please follow me on Amazon to be alerted when my new books come out and connect with me on Twitter or Facebook (or email!). From the beginning, I love hearing from you.
As for horror or vampires in “Christian fiction,” I love writing characters who struggle with Truth, faith, their sin / short-comings, because everyone experiences these trials in life; when I write fiction, I always write a character who is working his or her way to the Truth—as we all are in real life.
Simultaneously, I am writing a stand-alone novel, “The Indwelling of Tori Blessing,” that will use spiritual warfare to bring a nonbeliever to the Truth, while at the same time, end the evil workings of a demonically-empowered demigod. This will be my first “young adult” novel and incorporate biblically-accurate angel and demon characters with the protagonists aged 16 to 21.
Reviewed by Rabia Tanveer for Readers' Favorite
Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider by Ellen C Maze is perhaps the only original novel I have come across after reading the Harry Potter series. The thrill, the mystery and the suspense of the chase had my heart racing and wanting more. I enjoyed how Beth is hard-headed enough to stand her ground but intelligent enough to know when she should run away. The story itself is brilliantly constructed and developed, which kept my attention and had me literally begging for more.
This is the story of Beth Rider, an author who struck gold when her vampire novel reached number one. She was happy, even ecstatic, but during one fateful book signing event, she comes across a stranger who threatens her. Now she finds herself the target of an ancient vampiric race called the Rakum who will not stop until they get their hands on her and kill her. It is literally a race against time and a race for her life. If she slows down, she will die, but how far can she run?
The story is absolutely genius. I was literally biting my nails and wanting to know what would happen next. I was rooting for Beth and needed her to survive this race against time. She is the perfect protagonist. She is humble, intelligent, headstrong and simply a genuine person that I could meet in real life. This made me relate to her and enjoy reading about her even more. Her growth was tremendous, which added more to the story. I loved it!
K.C. Finn
Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider is a work of fantasy fiction with Christian themes and undertones, penned by author Ellen C Maze. Forming volume one of the continuing saga of Rabbit books, in this first instalment we meet author Beth Rider as her young adult series of books hits the bestseller list. But her work of fantasy fiction catches the menacing eyes of some actual fantastic beasts, the vampiric creatures known as the Rakum, and they decide that Beth must be eliminated. Beth becomes the rabbit as she is hunted down, desperately trying to find somewhere safe to hide from the Rakum, or find a way to destroy them and live freely again.
As the opening to an extensive series, author Ellen C Maze does a great job in setting up her fantasy world and the trials and tribulations that will affect her characters here and in future novels. Told with a biblical world view on the supernatural aspects, the non-graphic action and language of the piece work well for all readers aged thirteen and up to provide a superb fantasy action adventure tale. I liked the development of Beth very much as an innocent thrown into a world of desperation, and her struggle to escape such powerful dark forces was both exciting and morally strong for the message of the tale as a whole. The Rakum, too, were well developed into frightening beasts with their own agenda of destruction. Overall, I would certainly recommend Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider for those seeking a new and exciting Christian fantasy read.
K.J. Simmill
The problem with writing a good book is you never know how far it will reach, nor the impact it will have on those who read it. Beth was used to the somewhat overzealous fans, but what she wasn't prepared for was a visit from a monster straight from her tales. He marked her for sport, but when her path crossed with Michael's, he was certain there had been a mistake. She didn't fit the profile of a rabbit. Her book had been dangerous to their kind, prompting a disconnection that the Elders hadn't seen for a long time. This woman's work was dangerous and, to secure their lifestyle, she and her influence had to be forever silenced.
Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider is Ellen C Maze's Christian paranormal novel. It focuses on Beth Rider, a young novelist whose book has turned the lives of the Rakum upside down. This steady-paced novel introduces an increasing level of tension until you daren't put it down because you just have to see how things will play out. Obviously being Christian fiction, there is a constant yet not particularly preachy injection of faith, God, and the power of religion, which means the book will appeal to those who enjoy a faith-orientated read, and those who find an overly-religious tone too oppressive. The balance in this book is good and central to the unique plot line. This is a fantastic story, with plenty to be taken away from it. The more you read into the meanings, the more messages become apparent. Hope, salvation, fear, threat, challenges, and trials will keep you reading, while the ever-growing characters and their developing bonds will keep you hungry for more.
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Scorned Man Comes Up With Ingenious Ways to Use His Ex-Wife's Wedding Gown
By Brie Schwartz
When Kevin Cotter's wife of 12 years walked out on him, he was destroyed. She left him with their two kids, her old wedding dress, and a whole lot of heartache. He begged her to take the gown with her but she refused saying, "Do what the f--k you like with it." And so, Kevin did. He's spent the past four years devising clever ways to use his ex-wife's gown. One hundred and one ways, to be precise, and he's compiled them all into a handy reference book, just in case a fellow jilted divorcee should find himself in Kevin's situation.
"I came up with the idea when I was having dinner with my family a while after my ex moved out. I explained to them that she left the dress and asked them what I thought was a serious question, 'what do I do with it?' My brother suggested I wipe my ass with it and my sister-in-law said there were probably 101 uses so we immediately took out a pen and paper and started brainstorming ideas," he told the Daily Mail.
Together they decided the dress could double as a hunting get up, skipping rope, a dog toy, a shoe shiner, a pasta strainer, or even a coffee filter.
And here are two more inspired uses:
When his ex caught wind of how Kevin was filling his free time, she told Kevin she hoped he was getting counselling to deal with his anger issues, the Daily Mail reported. Though, frankly, we couldn't imagine a more civilized way to process the pain.
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Like Father
NR, 1 hr.38 min.
Directed By: Lauren Miller
In Theaters: Aug 3, 2018 Limited
On DVD: Aug 3, 2018
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Zach M
The movie overall has some funny jokes, a talented cast, and a 7/10 script. Like Father has to be the best Netflix Film I've experienced. I recommend it, and I'll think you'll enjoy the performance from Seth Rogen as well.
Eda Buse A
I know it doesn't have the strongest plot but it touched some place in my heart that apparently needed some loving. Personal struggles and all that jazz.
Jake C
There's a scene near the end of the second act where Seth Rogen's character turns down a joint in the Jamaican jungle because he's a teacher who has to set a good example for his students and has never smoked anything before. It's one of the funnier bits in the film, doubly so when you find out that (according to IMDB at least) the line was written prior to Rogen's casting as a genuine insight into the character. Yet it also speaks to the movie's fundamental problem: The screenplay oscillates uncertainly throughout its run between sincerity and whimsy, neither wholly landing its jokes nor sinking its teeth into the familial drama, ultimately staying afloat on the strength of its performers more than aught else.
Amazing film, really enjoyed it!
Rennay D
Heart warming and joyous. The kind of relaxed movie to watch on s Sunday evening
Caleb B
Like Father 7.6/10 I got extremely excited when I saw Kristen Bell had a movie coming out on Netflix and almost immediately watched it. While the movie is painful to watch for the first 30 minutes, it manages to move past that and turn into a very good movie! It manages to avoid tropes about daughters/fathers reconnecting after a long-time and was very heart-warming at the same time. Nice performances by Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer anchor this movie, and Seth Rogen is fantastic in a limited supporting role. Overall, it's a pretty great movie (especially for a Netflix produced movie). Watch it!
Yash B
"Like Father" is an okay movie overall, but it doesn't do anything new for this premise. I only found some enjoyment in it because I thought Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer gave solid performances and their characters were handled well. In terms of the story and premise, it feels pretty bland. I saw exactly where this movie was heading and it lacks any real complexity. It's a decent feel-good movie that isn't particularly bad, but it's also far from being great. Nothing about it makes it worth seeking out, but it's not the type of movie I regretted watching either. It's a typical average movie that's fine for a one time watch.
Slow, boring, predictable plot. Stereotypical characters. Terrible acting. It was awful.
Strengths: First time director Lauren Miller Rogen does a good job in her first film. She gets strong performances out of her cast and tells a solid little story with the greatest of ease. She makes sure we get a good sense of the beautiful scenery on the cruise where most of the film takes place. Kelsey Grammer (Harry Hamilton) isnï¿ 1/2(TM)t someone Iï¿ 1/2(TM)m a big fan of. I was never into Fraiser or Cheers, but I enjoyed him in this. We can see his pain throughout the film, but also get a feel for how much he cares for his daughter. Kristen Bell (Rachel Hamilton) gives some of the best work of her career. She shares so many dramatic scenes with her dad that she nails. The crying she does at the waterfall and her flying off the handle when she thinks her dad is after her money are the two standouts. The supporting cast, led by Seth Rogen (Jeff) , did a nice job of adding comic relief to a story that is ultimately highly emotional. The musical number near the end is a nice heartwarming moment and I appreciated how Rachel nearly goes back to her workaholic ways by the conclusion. It almost makes you feel like she failed in learning anything, only to switch it up at the very end. Weaknesses: The plot is certainly not anything new. From the arc of a workaholic learning to focus more on their personal life and less on their job to the relationship between a father and daughter being repaired, this movie doesnï¿ 1/2(TM)t really tread any new ground. For the most part, you know whatï¿ 1/2(TM)s coming. A lot of the characters are kind of stereotypical. It just so happens that our two main characters get sat at a table with three couples who are elderly, gay, and black, and all king of just fit generic roles. Overall: 2018 had a lot of good, but just not quite great movies. This was a good movie led by strong acting. Worth checking out, though not something you need to own or see more than once.
Jason N
Kelsey Grammer plays an absentee dad seeking redemption from his adult workaholic daughter. They end up going on a cruise she was supposed to go on with her runaway groom, so the film is not a rom-com, but more of a dram-com about them seeking neutral ground and figuring out how to move forward. There are some great supporting actors (Seth Rogen, e.g.) who play the fellow guests on the cruise ship that provide much needed comic relief on what is otherwise an impossibly tough situation--a man who abandoned his daughter when she was five but now wants to do the right thing. It wasn't spectacular, but it kept my attention on a Saturday morning.
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Thorn’s size had always been as debilitating as it had been a benefit, but as he ran, he could only marvel at the advantage he had gained in Nova Terra. Unlike the real world, where he couldn’t even stand, in game, Thorn’s body was perfect. This was nowhere more apparent than while running. Due to the springy forest floor, Thorn’s stride was almost four feet long when he walked, almost twice that of an average person.
Now that he was running full out, Thorn traveled over nine feet with each step. His long legs seemed to devour the distance, sending him forward at an incredible rate. As he ran, he pondered how he was going to manage the fight against Gargish. Not only was Gargish much faster than he was, but he had natural claws that seemed sharper than those of the corrupted wolves, which meant that close combat was going to be difficult.
Gargish was also very strong, as his blow had shown. The punch that had sent Thorn reeling was the first time anything had been able to move his immense weight since he had started Nova Terra. "Man, I don’t know that I can win." For the briefest of moments, the thought of how overwhelming Gargish was made Thorn’s spirit plummet.
‘Wait, I can get some help!’ Opening his chat feature, Thorn could not help but curse. Like the logout button, the messaging button was greyed out. Not only was he unable to leave the game, but he also could not let anyone know that he was being hunted by a terrifying werewolf.
Needing a new plan, Thorn began to analyze his situation, looking for any advantage that he had. After a couple minutes, Thorn had only come up with one: strength. It was not much, but something was better than nothing. A plan began to take form. He would only have one chance, but one chance was better than zero chances. With a deep breath, he opened his map. He had twenty minutes.
The first thing he needed was a space that would restrict Gargish’s movement. Looking at his map, Thorn considered his options before looking for a cave in one of the nearby mountains. He soon found a cave, almost a mile away, that was inhabited by corrupted wolves. Hoping that it was going to be suitable, Thorn changed direction and continued to run.
It took him a bit less than three minutes to get to the cave, covering almost a mile in record time. Shaking his head to himself, Thorn marveled at what he could do when physics no longer applied to his body. The cave was a large hollow in a hill that led deeper into the heart of the mountain. While running he had been able to see on the map that the cave contained a small labyrinth of twisting passages behind the large front chamber, perfect for Thorn’s plan.
Striding into the front chamber, he soon dispatched the four corrupted wolves that had been resting in the cave. In the back of this front chamber of the cave was a slight crack that he could barely squeeze through to enter the tunnel system. The tunnels themselves were almost eight and a half feet high, meaning that he only had to stoop to make his way through.
Finding a nice spot to set up, Thorn checked his clock. Assuming that Gargish had actually adhered to the rules of the game, Thorn still had four minutes before Gargish would even start. However, Thorn had a suspicion that Gargish did not care about following the rules and was on his way already, which meant that he didn’t have much time to prepare.
Thorn flexed his hands and then began to dig into the walls of the tunnel, pulling stone and dirt down into the cave to widen it on one side. Since the tunnel was uniform, Thorn blocked the whole passage as he stood in it. By digging out the wall on his right, Thorn created a little pocket where he could swing his knife, just deep enough that his knife would not touch the wall. Thorn nodded to himself and continued his work.
Gargish, who had already arrived outside the cave entrance, as Thorn had guessed, was experiencing a strange sensation - shock. He had started as soon as Thorn was out of sight, his sensitive nose following the special scent of the paste he had applied to Thorn’s armor. Sneering to himself, he could imagine the hopelessness on his prey’s face when he realized that, no matter how far he ran, Gargish was right there. Nothing gave him more pleasure than appearing next to his prey as soon as the half hour head start was up.
At least, that was the plan. But Thorn traveled too fast. Way too fast. Looking at the massive footprints in the forest floor, Gargish couldn’t help but be somewhat unsettled. Never before had he tracked such prey. Thorn covered distance at an astronomical rate, almost faster than Gargish could. The other strange thing was his direction. Every other human Gargish had hunted instinctively headed for a city.
Yet this fellow went in a different direction, angling away from the city and heading, instead, toward the corrupted wolf-infested mountains. Wasn’t he afraid of being surrounded? Sniffing at the entrance to the cave, Gargish hesitated for a moment. Something about the dark cave mouth made him feel uneasy. Shaking his head in annoyance, Gargish growled to himself. When had he ever been afraid of his prey?
With a last glance around, Gargish bounded into the cave only to come up short. Four bisected corrupted wolf corpses lay on the ground. Eyes narrowed, Gargish knelt down and examined the bodies.
Given the smoothness of the cut, he could imagine the speed at which the blade had been traveling, but the angle was a bit strange. As he continued to look, a mental image of Thorn slashing out with his large knife appeared in his mind.
Once again, a sliver of warning tried its best to worm its way into Gargish’s heart. This massive human was different. The feeling was not anything concrete, but the combination of many small things that Gargish had seen was starting to add up. As he had made his way to the cave, he saw none of the signs that terrified prey would give off. There were no broken branches, crushed undergrowth, or anything to indicate that his prey was running scared.
His big prey had run, yes, but not in fear. Based on how fast he had moved, it was reasonable for Thorn to believe he could actually escape, yet he had come to this out-of-the-way place and trapped himself in a cave, where his size would restrict his movement. The man’s entering the cave had been deliberate and forthright, despite knowing that there were corrupted wolves inside.This was not the mark of someone who was afraid.
And, judging from the corpses of the corrupted wolves, Thorn had dealt with them without breaking a sweat. The cuts were too smooth and precise to be the work of someone shaking with fear. This left only one reasonable possibility, and that possibility left Gargish shaken.
Was Thorn not afraid?
Gargish could not be entirely blamed for the worry that had begun to form in his heart. His natural ability to terrify had never failed before, so Thorn presented a new, strange situation that he had never come across. Thorn had seemed to be scared when they first met, but none of his actions since then had even smelled of the terror that he should have been feeling.
Shaking himself, Gargish crushed the small thread of worry in his chest. So what if his prey was not terrified right now? Wasn’t terrifying his prey Gargish’s greatest skill? If that stupid human was not afraid, then Gargish would teach him the meaning of fear! With a rumbling growl, Gargish launched forward into the depths of the cave.
Thorn was standing in the tunnel he had modified, giving one last look around him at his handiwork. The more he thought about what he was doing, the more foolish he felt. Gargish had proven himself to be much faster than Thorn back at the river, so Thorn had no idea if this was going to work. It would come down to how Gargish attempted to kill him.
Opening up his inventory, Thorn took out some food and planted himself in the middle of the tunnel, facing the way he had come. To his left, there was almost no room between his shoulder and the wall while, to his right, he had cleared enough space to allow him to swing his blade. Also, tired of crouching, Thorn had dug out a bit of space for his head to fit when he stood up.
Munching on the sandwich he had gotten out, Thorn waited patiently for Gargish to arrive. Surprised by how calm he was as he faced his first death in Nova Terra, Thorn could only guess that it was his Titan’s Strength ability kicking in. After a couple of minutes passed, he finished his fourth sandwich, so he pulled up a browser and began to look up information on dying in Nova Terra. Information was sparse, but after reading through a few threads, Thorn managed to piece some details together.
Unlike the real world, death in Nova Terra was not permanent. It was, after all, a game. However, the penalties were not light, either. When a player was killed in Nova Terra, a couple things would happen. First, their equipment and a bag containing a random selection from their inventory would drop. Each item in their inventory had a variable chance to drop, which meant that players could lose a lot of items, or very few, based on how lucky they were.
Second, the killed player would experience a drop in the mastery of their class. While it was not as bad as being reset, it was a definite setback. After all, it took a long time to train up mastery in a class, and every single death would wipe away countless hours of hard work. Skill proficiency was left untouched, but having to retrain a class over and over was painful.
Many players had complained bitterly about this mechanic, which led Horizon to introduce a patch that allowed players who died to regain their mastery faster than they had before they died. The tradeoff was that, if they died again before their mastery was regained, it would be gone.
These two penalties had created a timid player force, which had driven the creator of Nova Terra crazy but had paved the way for a solid, systematic settling of the world of Nova Terra, much the same way the far reaches of the earth had been settled. Over time, however, players had come to realize that death was not something to fear, and the current sentiments toward dying in Nova Terra were very casual.
Thorn was finishing his seventh sandwich when a flicker in a shadow at the other end of the tunnel alerted him that he was no longer alone. Dusting off his hands, Thorn firmly gripped his knife, drawing it out and holding it diagonally in front of him. Crouching a bit, his left hand raised up with his palm out, Thorn watched Gargish slink out of the shadows.
Gargish was at home among the flickering torchlight and deep pools of shadow. He seemed to become part of the shadow as he passed through it, moving fluidly toward Thorn in an unhurried manner, his silent steps making no sound even when he passed over the gravel that Thorn had scattered.
“You found me,” said Thorn when Gargish drew close. Thorn’s eyes stayed glued to Gargish, taking in every tiny move the werewolf made.
“Was that ever in question?” asked Gargish, curious as to how the mind of this giant human was working.
“No, of course not. It was a matter of when.”
“Haha, it's good that you recognized that. Saves both of us much trouble,” snickered Gargish. “Tell me, though. Why didn’t you keep running?”
“Running? I was never running,” said Thorn with a small smile, a bead of sweat trickling down his face.
“Haha, you sure looked like you were running to me!” laughed Gargish.
“Nah, I was not running. It was a tactical retreat,” said Thorn.
“What? Tactical retreat?” Gargish narrowed his evil eyes. “Do you think you have a chance to live?”
Still watching the werewolf, Thorn could feel the danger radiating off of him in palpable waves. He knew, without question, that this one enemy was more dangerous than anything he had faced up until this point. Once again, a dreadful excitement began to build in the base of Thorn’s chest.
“Isn’t there always a chance?” asked Thorn, struggling to keep his voice from shaking.
“Ha!” Gargish snarled, his eyes starting to become bloodshot. “There is never a chance when I am the one hunting.”
“Wait, wait. Hold on.” Thorn stood up from his crouch and took a hurried step backward, almost hitting his head on the roof of the tunnel. “Can’t we talk about this?”
“A bit late for that.” Almost instinctively, Gargish took a step forward, mirroring Thorn’s action. “Once you become my prey, there is only one possible outcome. Your agonizing, slow death!”
“Come on, I know we can come to some sort of solution here.” At this point, Thorn was babbling as Gargish stalked toward him, ignoring what Thorn was saying. Trembling, Thorn put his knife between them as he continued to move backward.
Gargish, seeing Thorn continue to retreat, flashed forward, his wicked claws stabbing toward Thorn’s chest! Almost too fast for Thorn’s eye to follow, he covered the few feet between them in an instant! Acting on pure instinct, Thorn stabbed forward with his knife, while bringing his left arm across his chest to block.
Twisting his body to avoid the knife, Gargish’s claws clashed with Thorn’s bracer with a loud clang, sending sparks flying. Before Thorn could strike again, Gargish danced back out of range, his padded feet making no sound as he stalked back and forth. Snarling at Thorn as his bloodlust began to grow, Gargish’s fury deepened. When had he ever had this much trouble with his prey?
At this point, Thorn should be a quivering mess on the floor! Instead, he was a literal wall of flesh, taking up almost the whole passage. As Gargish watched in fury, getting ready for his next attack, Thorn had backed farther into the passage, where he had to crouch to walk, causing Gargish’s eyes to light up for a moment.
Where Thorn had been standing, the roof was high enough that it did not impede Thorn’s movements. However, now that he had left that space, his large size would be a hindrance. Not only was his forward posture bad for his defensive form, but if Gargish could get around behind him, Thorn would have trouble turning around.
As it was, stepping out of the taller part of the passage was a rookie mistake, especially given Gargish’s blinding speed. Sneering at Thorn’s inexperience, the werewolf stalked closer, his fierce eyes boring into Thorn’s armored form. The pressure of the aura rolling off of him seemed to solidify for a moment, causing Thorn to flinch backward as if he were stung!
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Facebook will soon filter out RT news, so this is how you fix it… probably
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Social media giant Facebook is changing its news feed, presumably to make it more about human interaction. If you get your RT news through the network, here is what you need to do to prevent the new algorithm from obscuring it.
Like and ‘prioritize.’ This will hopefully keep the news in the feed no matter whatever arcane algorithms Mark Zuckerberg deploys. Unless Facebook chooses to simply push the RT page into obscurity, which it can.
So better yet, install a mobile app. It’s a direct route to your phone from content producers like RT that will not be blocked or throttled (at least until the fight for net neutrality is lost). Here are RT’s versions for Android, iOS and Windows Mobile/Windows 8.
Allow browser notifications. Basically, every news website asks you to, but it’s highly doubtful that you’ll need this in order to avoid missing stories from CNN and MSNBC. You can also simply obtain an RT news plugin for whatever browser you use.
Subscribe on Twitter and be sure to turn on mobile notifications.
Subscribe on YouTube and turn on notifications. It’s basically like watching RT on TV, but with the opportunity to simultaneously rant in the comments section.
Take some less obvious routes: RT also has an Instagram account with visuals…
Police used tear gas against protesters, who hurled rocks and set tires on fire in Tunisia on the 7th anniversary of the ‘#ArabSpring,’ after a week of a widening crackdown on anti-austerity protests and nearly 800 arrests.
A post shared by RT (@rt) on Jan 15, 2018 at 3:08am PST
And a channel on Telegram as well. Hopefully, it won’t be banned in your country any time soon.
You may also be part of the majority (though the number is shrinking) who still get their news on TV. In case your cable or satellite provider drops RT, the signal is right there online – just tune in!
Google will ‘de-rank’ RT articles to make them harder to find – Eric Schmidt
This is all really simple, and would work for most alternative media, which are currently on the defensive from the MSM machine. And don’t underestimate the threat. Companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter have become a major or even sole provider of news to hundreds of millions of people across the world.
But none of them are required by law to treat all sources of news equally, and they are all under pressure not to. It’s called fighting “fake news.” In reality, any alternative media is a potential target, not just RT. But yeah… RT in particular.
Google openly admits to throwing a monkey wrench in the works of RT. Twitter reportedly has a practice of “shadow banning” accounts it does not like. Facebook apparently censors political speech and bans people on orders from Uncle Sam.
The self-appointed ‘news gatekeepers’ do not (yet) have the power to send SWAT teams to the homes of people reading alternative news sources. So why not fight back?
Twitter no longer believes in 'speaking truth to power' – updated rules
US used ‘backdoor censorship,’ attacked RT ‘like a weasel’ – journalism prof
‘Google’s plan to isolate Russian media is an act of information warfare’
Duma mulls legislative ban on placing ads with Google
Facebook opens special ‘Russia portal’ to help safeguard US democracy
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A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive.This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out h
A Good Wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose
By HarperCollins Publishers
She faced years of abuse after arriving in Canada as a teenage bride in a hastily arranged marriage, but nothing could stop Samra Zafar from pursuing her dreamsAt 15, Samra Zafar had big dreams for herself. She was going to go to university, and forge her own path. Then with almost no warning, those dreams were pulled away from her when she was suddenly married to a stranger at 17 and had to leave behind her family in Pakistan to move to Canada. Her new husband and his family promised that the m
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
By Picador
For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major London teaching hospital. The conflicts he has worked in form a chronology of twe
From Home to Home to Home: The Courageous Rescue of a Hidden Child
By Covenant Books
There was great joy in the Przepiorka home in Wegrow when Mendl and Esther welcomed their little princess, Gitele, born after two boy siblings already nine and twelve years old. It was spring of 1939, but the bliss was short-lived. When Gitele was three months old, Hitler's army marched into Poland and stole her happy childhood. Yet there was a flicker of light in the darkness.Over the years, the light grew and blazed into bright sunshine. Its source was the unlikely love and courage of a woman
Apology to the Young Addict: A Memoir
By Counterpoint
''The third panel in Brown’s masterwork triptych on addiction from youth to sixty, Apology to the Young Addict also accomplishes at last a staggeringly rare mercy―on the ghosts of memory, the ravages of disease, the brutal hypocrisies of religion, and finally―most shockingly―on himself.” ―Gina Frangello, author of Every Kind of Wanting and A Life in Men Husband, addict, father, skeptic. Now sixty―with years of sobriety under his belt―and the father of three sons, James Brown wri
Standing Still in a Culture of Mass Shootings
By Guiding Light Books, LLC
Standing Still In a Culture of Mass Shootings brings us face-to-face with Monday, 16 September 2013 when Jennifer was severely wounded during the Navy Yard Shooting. Emergency physicians, who treated her extensive wounds immediately after her evacuation from the Navy Yard roof via helicopter, called her survival “a miracle.” Jennifer sustained a point-blank shotgun blast, yet by the grace of God, she survived. Her book details her harrowing experience, but also the heroism and dedication e
Schindler's Listed: The Search for My Father's Lost Gold (Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy)
This is the extraordinary story of the author’s twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father’s family buried in their backyard in Poland just prior to being deported by the Nazis into concentration camps. His father survived the war but died when the author was a teenager, leaving him only with the knowledge that he had buried coins somewhere in Poland, and no information about his family. During his quest, Biederman uncovers many interesting and disturbing facts about his father an
A Survivor's Duty: Surviving the Holocaust and Fighting for Israel--A Story of Father and Son (Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy)
The Holocaust and the birth and growth of Israel are strikingly different Jewish historical events. Yet they are related, just like the author, Gabriel Laufer and his father. With only a few hints in hand, Laufer researched the details of his father’s Holocaust survival in the Hungarian forced labor battalions near Stalingrad, as a slave building German bunkers for weapon factories, and later, his escape from Stalinist Hungary. In this book, Laufer shares the gripping stories of his father’s
My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story
By Pluto Press
Gaza is the frontline in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and rarely out of the news, this book explores the daily lives of the people in the region, giving us an insight into what is at risk in each round of violence.Ramzy Baroud tells his father's fascinating story. Driven out of his village to a refugee camp, he took up arms and fought the occupation at the same time raising a family and trying to do the best for his children. Baroud's vivid and honest account reveals the comp
Jasmines from Egypt Branches Forever: Tale of a Growing Child (Color Interior)
By Rafik Baladi
Snapshot: The hero in this testimony struggles to break the jails of personal, social, political, religious and office labels, throughout his life, while researching similar trends in Egypt's history and seeking knowledge from academic self-help books.General, this is a creative non-fictional progress of life, driven by a struggle of a schoolchild in the fifties to bypass personal trauma, amidst an already socially shifting society, following its 1952 coup-d'état. This society marginalized it
My Journey Home: Life After the Holocaust
By Cherry Orchard Books
In the spring of 1944, nearly 500,000 Jews were deported from the Hungarian countryside and killed in Auschwitz. In Budapest, only 150,000 Jews survived both the German occupation and dictatorship of the Hungarian National Socialists, who took power in October 1944. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth’s family belonged among the survivors. This memoir begins with the the author’s childhood during the Holocaust in Hungary. It captures life after the war’s end in Communist-ruled Hungary and continues with he
Warsaw is My Country: The Story of Krystyna Bierzynska, 1928-1945 (Jews of Poland)
This book tells the story of Krystyna Bierzyńska, an acculturated Polish Jew, from her birth in Warsaw in 1928 up to the war’s end in May 1945, when she was reunited with her brother, Dolek, an officer in the Polish II Corps. Bierzyńska not only survived the Holocaust due in large part to the extraordinary efforts of her parents, blood relatives, and surrogate Christian family, but also served as a 16-year-old orderly in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Hers is a Warsaw story, a biography that demo
Miracle Child: The Journey of a Young Holocaust Survivor (Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy)
This memoir is about a Jewish baby born in the Krakow ghetto in November 1942, three years after Hitler conquered Poland, and, remarkably, escaping death―one of a mere one half of one percent of Jewish children in Poland who survived during the Nazi era. Her life was saved because her parents hid her with a Catholic family. Just as remarkably, her mother, still alive after suffering terribly through four of Hitler’s camps, traveled for weeks back to Poland and found her again. The book also
Wheat Songs: A Greek-American Journey
Wheat Songs is a memoir of two interconnected Greek-American journeys―an actual physical journey for the grandfather, Pericles Rizopoulos, and a philosophical quest by the author, Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos. When the grandfather, Pericles Rizopoulos, a proud old man, tells his fascinating, tragic and true stories of the Nazi occupation of Greece during World War II and the following Greek Civil War, to his twenty-something grandson, Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos, Perry’s philosophical reflection
The Twenty-ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra, Library Edition
By Blackstone Pub
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Heritage of Carbonear neighbourhoods focus of community discussion
Published: Aug 12, 2019 at 10:38 a.m.
Carbonear resident Judy Symonds, centre, introduces herself at the start of an afternoon tea jointly hosted by Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador and the Town of Carbonear's Green Team Tuesday, Aug. 6 at the Princess Sheila Senior's Club Building on Water Street. Seated next to Symonds, from left, are Heritage NL folklorist Dale Jarvis and fellow Carbonear resident Betty Ann Goff. - Andrew Robinson
As discussion continued, Dale Jarvis asked if anyone knew any Carbonear ghost stories.
"My mother-in-law saw ghosts everywhere," remarked Judy Cameron, a Carbonear resident who grew up on Water Street.
"Yeah, but she was the undertaker's wife," chimed in Betty Ann Goff, seated beside Cameron at the Princess Sheila Seniors Club Building on Water Street. She drew a big laugh.
Jarvis, Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador folklorist, was in the community Tuesday, Aug. 6 for an afternoon tea jointly hosted with the Carbonear Green Team. The event was to collect and record information about the places, neighbourhoods, landmarks, trails and coves within the Conception Bay North community that may for one reason or another get lost as time passes. The hope is to share information from one generation to the next.
The gathering attracted young and old, with Jarvis there to guide conversation.
The Green Team has been involved in work on the new hiking trail leading to Knox's Hole, a traditional swimming hole. According to Cameron, there were once families with the last name Knox in the area. She suggested there are Dwyers still living in Carbonear with ties to the original Knox clan.
"Their tiddly team is called Knox's Nuggets," she said, referring to the game from yesteryear played in some parts of rural Newfoundland that involved hitting one stick with another into a playing field.
Island Pond Brook runs through Knox's Hole. It was noted there a swimming pool was once maintained nearby before the town built its indoor pool on Valley Road. Some bits of concrete are still evident in the brook.
It was noted that where the new trail proceeds west of Route 70, it was known by many as Milton's Bridge.
Getting into neighbourhoods, the conversation veered towards the area of Irishtown in Carbonear, which people said starts at Adelaide Street and proceeds up Irish Town Road. Among family names associated with the area are Griffin, Butt, Marshall, Harrington, Morrissey, Emerson and White.
The rivalries within Carbonear were clearly defined by what side of the town you were from. Cameron noted the south end of Carbonear mostly consisted of Protestants, with Catholics living on the north side. At one time, there were separate schools in Carbonear for five denominations of faith — Salvation Army, Anglican, United, Pentecostal and Catholic.
"Because you went to separate schools, you didn't really mix until you were teenagers," she said.
A bigger rivalry was acknowledged, too, between residents of Carbonear and its neighbour Harbour Grace.
For the Crocker's Cove neighbourhood (an area known for its dense tree coverage), the general consensus was it went from the bottom of Harbour Rock Hill to the site of the old hospital.
There was some debate about whether Across the Doors was part of Crocker's Cove – it's also a short street between Long's Hill and Liberton's Hill. As Cameron has heard it, Across the Doors got its name from the area at one time being quite boggy, forcing people to place doors on the ground so people could walk around.
Another area discussed was Saddle Hill, behind Carbonear General Hospital. Family names common in that area include Winter, Seaward and Simms.
editor@cbncompass.ca
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Boeing will halt Renton assembly lines for 737 MAX, but no layoffs for employees
Dec. 16, 2019 at 1:57 pm Updated Dec. 16, 2019 at 7:56 pm
Boeing workers walk out of the Renton plant on Monday at shift change. Production of the 737 MAX, which happens in Renton, will stop in January. How long is anybody’s guess. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
Dominic Gates
Seattle Times staff reporters
Nine months after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded the 737 MAX, Boeing finally pulled the plug on the jet’s production Monday. The company announced it’s temporarily halting the assembly lines in Renton from January, with no specified timeline for a restart.
However, in a welcome surprise for the 12,000-strong Renton workforce, Boeing said there will be no layoffs.
“During this time, it is our plan that affected employees will continue 737-related work, or be temporarily assigned to other teams in Puget Sound,” Boeing said in a statement.
Boeing has faced an unprecedented crisis, with more than 700 MAX aircraft grounded worldwide, including nearly 400 built since the grounding. Many have been in storage so long they’ll need extensive maintenance before they fly. The production stoppage will stop the parked fleet from growing to unmanageable proportions, while retaining the workforce will allow a smoother restart of the assembly lines when that time comes.
Boeing’s announcement left many details unanswered, in particular the scale of the financial hit to Boeing and the impact on suppliers. For employees, the news of a shutdown was worrying, yet came with the relief that their jobs would continue.
In Renton, local businesses worry about Boeing 737 MAX assembly line stoppage
As workers left the factory Monday afternoon, many were reading about the Boeing statement on their phones.
“That’s good news,” said one worker as he crossed Logan Avenue in front of the soon-to-be-idled plant. “I didn’t want to be laid off.”
Earlier in the day, many workers had been speculating and hoping that Boeing wouldn’t idle the plant, wary that the disruption could not only hurt their paychecks but would bring huge costs to restart production once the MAX is recertified to carry passengers.
“I just can’t imagine them shutting this place down,” said one longtime worker. “I mean, all the vendors? It would be a mess.”
Others said they’d been expecting the news for some time. “The delay in recertification is on everybody’s mind,” said one longtime employee.
“I’m really surprised they kept it going this long,” said another. “But I’m disappointed. Really disappointed in leadership. I’ve got no respect for them anymore.”
The company said that during the slowdown in production since April, when Boeing cut its output from 52 jets per month to 42, it’s been able to fix issues with the production system and allow suppliers that were lagging to catch up, and it intends to have some employees working on efforts to sustain those gains.
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A Boeing insider briefed on the decision described the Renton factory’s manufacturing operation as a “crown jewel” management must protect.
“You try to keep the team together as best you can,” he said. “They all still have jobs.
“I think it’s the right thing to do,” he added. “We care about our workforce.”
The insider said Boeing didn’t announce any timeline for the production stoppage because it has no control over the jet’s return to service. “The FAA has a lot more control than we do,” he said. “When it’s time to get back, we will.”
Though Boeing had been hoping for approval to fly the MAX again by year end, last week FAA Administrator Steve Dickson pushed that expectation into next year and told Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg to back away from public statements suggesting otherwise.
Officials privately identified mid-February as the new target for FAA clearance. Assuming no further slips in the schedule, that still extends the MAX’s grounding to almost a year. The MAX was grounded worldwide on March 13 following two fatal crashes in just over four months killed 346 people.
Boeing’s statement said the decision to stop production “is driven by a number of factors, including the extension of certification into 2020, the uncertainty about the timing and conditions of return to service and global training approvals, and the importance of ensuring that we can prioritize the delivery of stored aircraft.”
In a message that went out Monday afternoon to Renton employees, the new head of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Stan Deal, told employees he’d keep them updated and that “over the next few weeks, we will continue to assess the appropriate duration of the production suspension.”
During the shutdown, he added, Boeing will “work with our suppliers to ensure plans are in place to resume production and eventual rate increases, and prepare to restart deliveries once the grounding is lifted.”
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Deal said the halt to production, finalized Monday at a meeting of the company’s board in Chicago, was “a decision not taken lightly.”
How long is the shutdown?
Such a drastic step clearly stoked employee worries.
Among the workers leaving the factory after work Monday, one longtime employee said that while there’s “some sense of relief” about the job reassurance, “I advise people to read the statement.”
“There are no plans to lay off anybody ‘at this time’ just means they could change their minds and that there could be layoffs at a later date,” he said.
Rep. Rick Larsen, (D-Everett), who chairs the House Aviation subcommittee that is investigating the MAX crashes, responded to Boeing’s announcement with a statement calling the shutdown “a body blow to its workers and the region’s economy.”
He’s concerned about the uncertainty over when production will resume, as well as the impact on Boeing suppliers in the region who produce parts for the 737 and the Renton businesses that depend on providing goods and services to the Boeing workforce.
“The only saving grace is the Boeing leadership has promised not to lay off any workers,” he added. He promised to ensure Renton employees have access to support services “in the event of a prolonged shutdown.”
Larsen said that for the long-term good of Boeing and the MAX, “the FAA should continue to emphasize that safety is the guiding principle for any return to service decision.”
Members of the Machinists union in Renton are relieved they will remain eligible for a $5,000 lump sum early in the new year. Part of the contract signed in 2014, in which the union gave up its pension plan in return for Boeing putting the 777X in Everett, is that all Machinists on the payroll on Jan. 3 will get the payout.
However, the financial implications of the production stoppage for the company are unclear.
Because Boeing’s ongoing costs during the shutdown period will be spread over many fewer aircraft than previously projected, the company will have to factor the extra cost per airplane into its accounting, in addition to likely write-offs to cover compensation to suppliers and airlines for the extension of the grounding.
Through October, Boeing had already projected $2.7 billion in extra costs due to the previous 20% production cut, in addition to a $5.6 billion write-off to cover compensation to suppliers and customers.
Boeing said it won’t provide information on the financial consequences of the production suspension until it releases its fourth-quarter earnings results in late January.
For the 737’s global supply chain — which includes engine parts from the U.S and France, fuselages from Wichita, Kansas, and tail rudders from China—the stoppage in Renton is potentially very disruptive. But Boeing gave no information about how that will be handled.
Some major suppliers have contracts that require Boeing to continue to take delivery of their parts, and to pay for them. Others may have to suspend their own production.
Uncertainty ahead
After Boeing’s announcement, GE, which makes the MAX’s new LEAP engines, would say only that it’s working with Boeing and suppliers to mitigate the impact.
Rob Spingarn, an aerospace analyst with Credit Suisse, wrote in a note to clients Monday that “without more detail on the duration of the suspension and the supplier terms, it is difficult to gauge the economic impact of this decision to Boeing and its suppliers.”
He added that it’s also “unclear how much cash this decision will actually save, given the unclear treatment of the supply chain as well as the fact that Boeing is undertaking no actions to produce labor cost savings.”
Leading aerospace industry analyst Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group pointed Monday to the sustained dip in air-traffic growth this year as another factor that may have influenced the temporary halt to 737 production.
After a decade of booming aviation growth, peaking at 7.6% in 2017 and 6.5% in 2018, this year traffic growth has slowed dramatically and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) now forecasts just 4.2% growth this year.
If this trend continues, perhaps matched by low oil prices, that would produce “a seriously painful bust cycle” for aircraft manufacturers in 2021 as airlines defer orders and stick with older, less fuel-efficient planes, Aboulafia believes.
Cutting back on the number of jets built makes sense to avoid a larger glut of grounded MAXs coming back into the market, Aboulafia wrote. That could create “a capacity avalanche exactly when airlines really didn’t want it,” he said.
Anticipating Boeing’s 737 shutdown announcement and the potential financial hit to come, the market slammed the jetmaker’s share price Monday even as the Dow reached a record high. The stock fell nearly $15, or 4.29% for the day, closing at $327.
In an effort to reassure investors, Boeing announced after the market closed that in March it will pay a substantial $2.055 per-share dividend to its stockholders.
This surprised many analysts, who’d thought Boeing might preserve cash and waive the dividend this quarter. Nevertheless, the stock price continued to fall in after-hours trading.
One Renton worker saw Monday’s outcome as inevitable.
“They had to do something. I think the FAA is doing the right thing, making sure it’s safe,” the worker said.
“Straight up, they screwed this up,” he added. “But we’re going to get it right.”
Dominic Gates: 206-464-2963 or dgates@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @dominicgates.
Paul Roberts: proberts@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @Pauledroberts.
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Derrick Nunnally
Jennifer Hemmingsen
No more excuses for lack of cooperation in Olympia on climate change
Paul Tong / Op-Art
Adam Maxwell
Douglas Ray
During a short legislative session, conventional wisdom dictates that only a few small bills will pass into law, most likely on a partisan basis. Our organizations, however, choose not to accept conventional wisdom. As we have in previous legislative sessions, we will continue to work to pass several important climate bills this session while encouraging legislators — both Democrat and Republican — to support policies that protect people and birds from the worst effects of climate change.
Significant progress is possible. We know this because of our state’s tradition of transcending partisanship in the name of conservation. In 2020, elected officials can pass smart policies that reduce emissions in our state, while supporting rural economies.
So, back to that “conventional wisdom.”
Conventional wisdom No. 1: Don’t expect too much in a short legislative session.
While this might make sense in the normal course of things, we aren’t living in “normal times.” The impacts of the climate crisis are clear, here in our backyard and around the world. Audubon’s research shows that if we don’t cut emissions 45% by 2030 and reach net-zero emissions by midcentury, two-thirds of North American birds will be vulnerable to extinction. It’s not just the birds that are impacted. Drought, sea-level rise and climatic shifts threaten our whole economy and way of life.
Against this backdrop, we expect legislators to advance effective climate policy, every single year.
Conventional wisdom No. 2: Republicans and Democrats won’t work together on climate policy.
Conventional wisdom says Republicans and Democrats won’t collaborate in an election year. But this year, there are several opportunities for bipartisan collaboration on policies that reduce emissions and support strong local economies. The imperative to act by adopting smart climate policies that work for everyone in the state leaves little in the way of excuses for lack of cooperation beyond petty partisanship.
Two policies, in particular, should bring Democrats and Republicans together.
The Sustainable Farms and Fields bill (Senate Bill 5947) tackles carbon emissions in our agricultural sector, creating a grant program to support efficient and effective carbon-reducing and sequestration practices. The bill had bipartisan sponsors in the last session and builds on our history of successful conservation grant programs like the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program.
Similarly, a clean fuels standard (House Bill 1110) is a proven, technology-neutral, market-based program to promote cleaner fuels, some of which we can produce right here in Washington. It doesn’t pick winners and losers, but it does reduce harmful transportation emissions.
Conventional wisdom No. 3: Climate policy harms rural communities.
The combination of these two policies shows that climate policy, at its best, supports all our communities, from Seattle to Spokane and Ritzville to Raymond.
The clean fuels standard will support utilities in helping customers embrace electric vehicles. It will also support a homegrown clean fuels industry, incentivizing the refining of biofuels and the production of renewable natural gas from biosolids, agricultural waste and other organic material. Transitioning away from a reliance on global oil markets will bring more stability and lower costs to small businesses and farmers alike.
The Sustainable Farm and Fields bill will help farmers access funding to voluntarily adopt more carbon-friendly practices, but it also has the potential to help some farmers become producers and suppliers of the clean fuels Washington needs to reach its emissions goals.
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Share your opinion by sending a Letter to the Editor. Email letters@seattletimes.com and please include your full name, address and telephone number for verification only. Letters are limited to 200 words.
These two policies together show that there are win-win solutions, particularly when we set aside partisanship and work together to build a resilient economy.
The 2020 legislative session offers an opportunity to show “the other Washington” a path forward for supporting and adopting climate solutions. We look forward to partnering with Republicans and Democrats alike to advance common-sense solutions to climate change that address diverse needs across the state. Doing so in an election year would be a powerful statement of who we are here in the Evergreen State.
Adam Maxwell is the government relations director at Audubon Washington.
Douglas Ray is the chair, board of directors, Carbon Washington, a nonprofit that works to reduce carbon and promote clean, renewable energy.
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Guide to... Warehouse Shelving Systems
Warehouse shelving systems are perfect for maximising storage capacity. They can be tailored to work with the height of your warehouse or industrial environment and they are highly customisable by design, meaning they can be adapted to suit a variety of product types and operations including archive storage, heavy-duty industrial storage and small parts picking to name a few.
Our latest guide takes a look at the various types of systems that are available through SEC Storage, the benefits and drawbacks of each system, and the type of products that they are best suited for. If you know the type of shelving system you're specifically after then click on the quick access links below or read through the guide to gain a better overall understanding of the various systems that are available.
Click below to see each shelving system!
Adjustable Shelving / Euro Shelving
How it works: Adjustable shelving is a highly flexible system that can be custom built to suit a variety of applications. Steel shelf support clips slot into uprights in order to create a reliable and sturdy shelving structure. A front and rear box section design gives superior load bearing strength and rigidity where required.
The system is fully self adjustable, making it easy to customise depending on future storage requirements.
Adjustable shelves are great for growing businesses and those with a need to store heavy duty products.
A wide range of accessories can also be incorporated, such as colour coded shelf dividers, plastic drawers, garment hanging rails and more.
The shelves typically come in a light grey finish, perfect for industrial environments.
Shelves are available in 300, 400 and 450mm depths with a maximum UDL (universally distributed load) per shelf of 160kg.
The system is built to maintain accessibility to the product at all times, therefore if space is at a premium this may not be the right solution.
Longspan Shelving Systems
How it works: Longspan shelving systems are built to provide storage for a wide range of hand loaded goods. The shelf levels are unrestricted and so allow for the easy access of products at the pick face. It's a system that is best suited to bulk picking, with a focus on the storage of loose goods.
Heavy duty longspan systems are easy to install and they can also be incorporated into an expansive multi-tier structure similar to our project for Essentra plc in order to form a highly effective, space saving solution. Shelves are typically made of chipboard timber but steel decks can also be installed at a further cost for added durability.
Ideal for bulk storage and heavy duty items (over 500kgs can be stored per level)
Medium and longspan bays can be combined and the system can be easily configured for future requirements.
The shelves are typically made of chipboard, however, timber and steel decked alternatives are available as an upgrade. It all depends on the weight of your product, how much of it there is, and your available budget.
Longspan shelves that exceed a height to depth ratio of 4:1 to the top loaded shelf need to be secured to the floor, meaning that the system will require additional fixings for safety purposes.
Also, the longer the shelf the less weight it can take, so it's important to keep these things in mind and to assess the needs of your operation correctly.
How it works: Carton live shelving also known as flow racking is a simple yet effective system that is ideal for high-density storage. It works on a FIFO (first-in-first-out) system that is perfect for the picking of carton and tote boxes of varying weights and sizes. The shelf is built into the racking structure where adjustable runs of roller tracks are fitted into beds situated on an incline.
The products are fed in at the higher end of the tracks to then gently slide down under the force of gravity via the rollers to the pick face. It's a perfect solution for fast moving e-Commerce operations and product assembly lines.
Simultaneous stock replenishment, reduced order preparation times, increased productivity and optimum use of floor space
The system can be retrofitted into existing racking structures, a key example of this was featured in our project at Madison that saw SEC Storage install carton live into the company’s reconfigured pallet racking systems.
A 50mm wheel pitch allows for the flexibility to store a wide range of product sizes starting from 120mm squares up to a maximum load capacity of 1500kgs of product per level. Order pickers and access platforms can also be incorporated to enable an increase in the height of the shelving.
Carton live shelving can be quite costly due to its dynamic nature so it's important to make sure that the system will be beneficial to your operation.
Mobile Shelving Systems
How it works: Mobile shelving is a high density storage solution ideal for operations where floor space is limited. The system is controlled either by the use of an operator who has to turn a spoked handle in order to move the shelf unit along, or automatically by the push of a button triggering an automated process.
These mobile bases can be fitted to suit a variety of systems including small parts, longspan and document shelving.
Perfect for operations where space is at a minimum
The shelves are condensed together, therefore, reducing the need for fixed aisles
Light duty mobile systems are ideal for retail stockrooms and lightweight industrial areas whereas medium duty bases are best suited for high capacity, archive, record and large-scale retail storage operations.
Mobile shelving can greatly reduce pick rates due to the way in which the system operates, potentially increasing employee wait times
The system although perfect for high-density storage has limited product selectivity due to the way in which the aisles are compressed.
Mobile shelving image provided by Moduflex Limited.
Archive shelving is an easy to install system that is comprised of a combination of heavy duty racking and shelving. It is perfect for the storage of loose documents and bulk paperwork and the strongest shelf option allows for the storage of up 600kgs in shelf load. The system can be further adjusted in order to convert it from generalised document shelving into a small parts shelving system.
A cost-effective storage solution that is popular for the storage of documents and files
Made of heavy duty racking and shelving which is able to store various weights and product sizes
Cladded panels can be incorporated as a decorative option though this is better suited to office environments
Boxes are usually stored two deep in order to prevent overstacking, so if you are looking to store more products back-to-back then another option such as carton live may be more suitable.
How it works: The system uses clip-in steel shelves which are then fitted into upright units. Small parts systems are highly versatile and can be easily customised in order to suite a variety of product types.
Depending upon where the shelves are situated they can be cladded to further improve aesthetics or left open for an exposed, industrial look. The cladded look is better for more cleaner, industrial based areas whereas open shelves are better for warehouses and multi-tier systems.
A highly affordable solution which can be customised to support a wide range of accessories, including small parts bins, drawers, garment hanging rails and more
Take a look at our project for West Ferry Printers Ltd to find out more about the system
Small parts shelving systems can also be automated as part of an optimised, small parts storage installation
This requires a bespoke design approach with a key focus on picking analytics and operational requirements
A system such as this doesn’t have any particular drawbacks, although the primary thing to consider is the type of product you will be storing and whether this would be a suitable solution overall.
So there you have it, a concise overview into the types of warehouse shelving systems that are available via SEC Storage and what they might be able to do for your operation. This is by no means an exhaustive resource as there are a number of configurations that can be designed to suit your operational needs, but if you have any further questions don't hesitate to get in touch. We offer a free space planning and site survey service and you can contact us via phone, email (below) or on our new live website chat feature. We'd be happy to help!
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Projects in Profusion: A Skeptical Look at 3 Wild Fusion-Energy Schemes
Venture capitalists and funding agencies aim to get some bang for their alternative fusion bucks, but a lot of unknowns remain
By Graham P. Collins on May 26, 2011
When it comes to radical energy solutions, an extreme long shot is a nuclear power scheme that would combine fusion and fission. Existing nuclear plants all run on fission, the splitting of heavy nuclei such as uranium, to produce power—not to mention tons of hazardous waste. Fusion joins together light nuclei, as occurs in stars and hydrogen bombs, but practical fusion-power generation has yet to be demonstrated despite decades of research. One of the newest ideas is a hybrid plant in which fusion would trigger atom splitting in spent nuclear fuel, boosting the energy output and "burning up" the waste.
Yet that hybrid approach looks positively mainstream alongside some other speculative fusion work that has recently attracted attention and venture capital. Online chatter about alternative fusion research reignited this month when the ambitiously named General Fusion announced it had raised $19.5 million from investors including Amazon.com's founder Jeff Bezos. General Fusion's planned machine would look right at home illustrating a steampunk novel
Compared with the billions that governments are sinking into projects such as the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and ITER, $20-or-so million is a pretty cheap lottery ticket. But is there really any chance of a payoff? Is any concrete progress getting reported? Here's a quick snapshot of three of the projects.
General Fusion
* Technology: Magnetized target fusion. In General Fusion's design, liquid metal (lithium and lead) spins inside a spherical tank, leaving a cylindrical cavity at its core. Puffs of deuterium and tritium (heavy isotopes of hydrogen) injected at each end meet at the center of this vortex cavity where magnetic fields trap them for a few hundred microseconds. About 200 pneumatic pistons slam the tank from all directions, sending an acoustic shock wave through the molten metal. The wave converges on the target, collapsing the vortex and generating fusion. Repeat, perhaps once a second.
* History: Researchers have studied magnetized target fusion since the 1970s. Early designs similar to General Fusion's were stymied by inadequate technology to compress the fuel evenly before it dispersed. Another variant, currently pursued by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, eschews the liquid metal and mechanical compressors, instead using a magnetic pulse to implode a metal cylinder.
* Published results: Some papers in the Journal of Fusion Energy in 2008 reported General Fusion's first work on developing a piston and designing a plasma accelerator (for injecting the deuterium). A "proof-of-principle" experiment conducted in 2006 compressed deuterium gas with an acoustic shock wave and produced some neutrons (a fusion by-product), but that work involved no spinning molten metal, pistons or plasma injection.
* Status: General Fusion's vice president of business development, Michael Delage, says the company has since demonstrated the desired high-precision servo-control of a piston (timing the impacts to within eight microseconds) and are using another full-scale piston to study how acoustic waves propagate in molten lead–lithium. The first plasma injector began operating a year ago. A talk at the Canadian Nuclear Society's annual meeting next month will outline this work and the next steps.
Energy/Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2)
* Technology: Polywell plasma confinement. A polyhedral arrangement of electromagnetic coils traps electrons at its center, producing a potential well for positively charged ions such as deuterium. The positive ions accelerate toward the center of the well, where some of them collide violently enough to fuse.
* History: Championed by Robert W. Bussard, the polywell is a variant of an older method, inertial electrostatic confinement, which enthusiasts have used to construct tabletop fusors. Bussard formed EMC2 in the early 1980s to pursue inertial electrostatic confinement fusion to generate power. Theorists have argued that these schemes will inevitably suffer excessive particle and energy losses (for example, see here and here). Bussard claimed (pdf here) to have found a way around the problems with his last polywell device, "Wiffleball 6," shortly before the device broke down and his funding (from the U.S. Navy) ran out. Don't try telling a story line like that to a skeptic. Bussard died in 2007.
* Recent work: With resumed Navy funding, EMC2 built "Wiffleball 7" to examine the claims made for WB-6. The results have not been published outside of an internal report, apparently in line with funding contract provisions limiting disclosures. Still, the Navy saw fit to award EMC2 a further $7.9-million contract in 2009 to build WB-8, with magnetic fields eight times stronger than WB-7, to test how well the performance scales up.
* Status: A terse quarterly report at recovery.gov indicates WB-8 has been built, "operates as designed," and "is generating positive results," with up to a year of further experiments ahead. In the absence of published peer-reviewed results only the Navy can know if it is getting value for its money after all these years.
Tri Alpha Energy
* Technology: Plasma electric power generation. The plasma is confined magnetically. By fusing boron and hydrogen (not deuterium and tritium), each reaction produces three alpha particles (helium nuclei) and releases no neutrons. The energy can be extracted as electricity from these charged particles more directly than the usual approach of heating steam to drive a turbine. (EMC2 is also interested in this "aneutronic" route—that would be Wiffleball 8.1.)
* History: Norman Rostoker and two colleagues proposed, essentially, this reactor in 1997 (also available here). Rostoker, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, went on to co-found Tri Alpha Energy. In recent years Tri Alpha has reportedly gathered roughly $100 million in funding from investors such as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
* Published results: Tri Alpha Energy has a reputation for operating in stealth mode, and yet Rostoker and other Tri Alpha scientists are regularly filing updated patent applications and presenting research results at conferences (an invited talk and 15 poster presentations at a November 2010 plasma physics conference alone). A study of plasma behavior in their latest device ("C-2") appeared in the leading physics journal, Physical Review Letters, last July.
It is a safe bet that none of these projects will be producing copious quantities of fusion anytime soon. General Fusion has barely gotten started, and Tri Alpha's research output illustrates how much can remain unfathomed after decades of serious work. If a group does eventually strike the scientific jackpot, that program will still face a long and expensive development path littered with potentially showstopping technical obstacles as challenging as those that vex the mainstream approaches of NIF and ITER. For an investor a winning lottery ticket would just offer a seat in a real game.
Graham P. Collins
7 Radical Energy Solutions
Solving the Cocktail Party Problem
Nanomovies: Ultrafast Electron Microscopy
Considering the obvious benefits of fusion energy and the considerable efforts spent trying to attain them, why hasn't fusion research so far produced better results?
Where's My Fusion Reactor?
March 17, 2010 — Steve Mirsky
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March 1, 2010 — Michael Moyer
May 1, 2011 — THE EDITORS, Graham P. Collins, David Biello, Bijal P. Trivedi, JR Minkel, Steven Ashley, Charles Q. Choi and Michael Lemonick
7 Radical Energy Solutions, Made Interactive
5 big alt-energy letdowns: Ideas that sounded good but...
March 18, 2009 — Katherine Harmon
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IMAX and Warner Bros team up for 2006's Ant Bully
By Jeremy Kay2005-07-22T00:00:00+01:00
IMAX Corporation, Warner Bros, Playtone Productions and DNAProductions are teaming up on the simultaneous conventional 2D and IMAX 3Drelease of the animated picture The Ant Bully on Aug 4 2006.
The picture is being directed by Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius director John A Davis and tells the taleof a young boy who floods an ant colony with his water-gun, and is magicallyshrunken down to insect size and sentenced to hard labour in the ruins.
A veritable firmament of award-winning talent will voice thecharacters including Nicolas Cage, Julia Roberts Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti,Lily Tomlin, and Alan Cumming.
The picture will be digitally converted into IMAX 3D and marksPlaytone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's third IMAX project and WarnerBros' tenth.
Warner BrosPictures will be the exclusive distributor of The Ant Bully to IMAX theatres worldwide.
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American crocodiles thriving outside nuclear plant
(Wilfredo Lee / AP)
By MARCUS LIM
MIAMI —
American crocodiles, once headed toward extinction, are thriving at an unusual spot — the canals surrounding a South Florida nuclear plant.
Last week, 73 crocodile hatchlings were rescued by a team of specialists at Florida Power & Light’s Turkey Point nuclear plant and dozens more are expected to emerge soon.
Turkey Point’s 168-mile (270 kilometers) of man-made canals serve as the home to several hundred crocodiles, where a team of specialists working for FPL monitors and protects them from hunting and climate change.
From January to April, Michael Lloret, an FPL wildlife biologist and crocodile specialist, helps create nests and ponds on berms for crocodiles to nest. Once the hatchlings are reared and left by the mother, the team captures them. They are measured and tagged with microchips to observe their development. Lloret then relocates them to increase survival rates.
“We entice crocodiles to come in to the habitats FPL created,” Lloret said. “We clear greenery on the berms so that the crocodiles can nest. Because of rising sea levels wasting nests along the coasts, Turkey Point is important for crocodiles to continue.”
The canals are one of three major US habitats for crocodiles, where 25% of the 2,000 American crocodiles live. The FPL team has been credited for moving the classification of crocodiles on the Endangered Species Act to “threatened” from “endangered” in 2007. The team has tagged 7,000 babies since it was established in 1978.
Temperature determines the crocodiles’ sex: the hotter it is the more likely males are hatched. Lloret said this year’s hatchlings are male-heavy due to last month being the hottest June on record globally.
Because hatchlings released are at the bottom of the food chain, only a small fraction survives to be adults. Lloret said they at least have a fighting chance at Turkey Point, away from humans who hunted them to near-extinction out of greed and fear even though attacks are rare. Only one crocodile attack has ever been recorded in the U.S. - a couple were both bitten while swimming in a South Florida canal in 2014, but both survived.
“American crocodiles have a bad reputation when they are just trying to survive,” Lloret said. “They are shy and want nothing to do with us. Humans are too big to be on their menu.”
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Information additional to your benefit statement
The following questions and answers will provide you with more details about some of the terms used in the statement.
Benefit Statement
What is a plan?
Any reference to ‘plan’ in this statement means
a long-term policy as described and regulated by the Long-term Insurance Act, 1998;
an investment plan that allows you to invest in a wide range of investment funds. Unlike a long-term policy, where the insurer pays tax on your behalf, all income and capital gains are taxed in your own hands. This is often beneficial to lower rate tax payers or people who do not make use of their annual interest and capital gains tax allowances.
What is a payment?
It is the amount that you contribute to a plan. In the case of a long-term policy it is known as a premium.
Where can I find information about Investment Funds?
Information is available on the Sanlam website at www.sanlam.co.za.
Are long-term plans regulated?
Yes, we calculate plan values, benefits and charges and manage a plan according to actuarial rules, as required by the Long-term Insurance Act, 1998.
What is the fund value?
The fund value gives an indication of the value of your plan. The full fund value is not necessarily available if the plan is terminated before the maturity or option date.
If your contributions are invested in a plan which is linked to the financial markets, your fund value will increase or decrease as market conditions change.
What happens at early termination?
You will receive a termination value. This value may be less than the fund value, as it is not guaranteed and may change over time.
What is a Stable Bonus Fund?
This is a portfolio where investment returns are smoothed by way of annual bonus declarations. Bonuses consist of a vesting part and a non-vesting part. Vested bonuses cannot be reduced or taken away. Non-vested bonuses may be reduced or taken away if financial market conditions deteriorate to the extent that the insurer deems this necessary.
If you make withdrawals before the maturity or option date, Sanlam will levy an early termination charge, and the fund value may also be adjusted to allow for the underlying market conditions and to be fair to the remaining members of the fund.
What is a Vesting Bonus Fund?
This is a fund where investment returns are smoothed by way of monthly bonus declarations. The fund value is available at maturity or the death of the insured and any bonuses added to the plan cannot be taken away, even if financial markets deteriorate. For withdrawals at any other time, the fund value is limited to the market value of the underlying assets, and may therefore be lower.
What is a Reversionary Bonus?
Reversionary bonus plan holders share in:
the investment returns on their respective underlying portfolios, as well as
the profits or losses resulting from differences between market value and the value of the benefits paid
Vested and non-vested bonuses will be added to the plan. The non-vested benefit may be reduced or taken away if financial market conditions deteriorate to the extent that the insurer deems this necessary.
If you withdraw the funds earlier than the maturity or option date, the present value of the expected benefit at maturity is payable. Depending on market conditions we may make a market adjustment when we determine the termination value.
What is taken into account when bonuses are awarded?
The Long-term Insurance Act requires bonuses to be declared in accordance with the Principles and Practices of Financial Management (PPFM) of the insurer, as approved by its board of directors. The latest PPFM document is available from the Client Contact Centre or at http://www.sanlam.co.za/ppfm
The statutory actuary of the insurer must also be satisfied that it is actuarially sound to declare the bonus and that a surplus is available for this purpose.
What is an Investment Guarantee?
An investment guarantee on a plan guarantees a certain return on the investment. For example, it may guarantee a minimum return over a certain period or a minimum maturity amount. Where an investment guarantee was added to a plan, the terms of the investment guarantee are fully explained in the plan contract.
How does the unit price guarantee work on Wealth Edge?
With this unique option the unit price is guaranteed. The fund invests fully in the underlying unit trust and for an explicit fee the guarantee is provided. The guarantee level depends on the fund category (cautious, moderate or moderate aggressive).
For funds in the cautious category, the guarantee provides that the unit price used to determine the value of the investment will, at the end of the investment period, not be less than 95% of the highest unit price reached since the start of the investor’s specific investment period.
For funds in the moderate risk category, that guarantee level will be 90% and for the moderate aggressive funds, it will be 80%. For the cautious and moderate categories, the guarantee will additionally ensure that the unit price used to determine the value of the investment will, at the end of the period, be at least equal to 100% of the unit price from the 3rd working day the investment guarantee option was added, regardless of the performance of the investment fund.
At the end of the guarantee term, the fund value will be determined as the number of units multiplied by the guaranteed unit price, should this be higher than the actual unit price for the fund with the guarantee.
Where can I read more about how my plan works?
The plan document originally provided to you has all the details about how the plan works and what benefits you are entitled to.
Retirement-related Information
What is an early retirement benefit?
It is the value that is available if you retire from the fund before the planned retirement date shown on your Benefit Statement. You may only withdraw these funds after age 55.
What is a transfer value?
It is the value that is available if you want to transfer your fund benefits to another approved retirement fund.
What is an ill health retirement value?
It is the value you will receive if you become permanently disabled before age 55.
What is a resignation benefit of the Central Provident Fund?
When you resign from the service of your employer you will receive the available resignation benefit of the plan at that specific date. The resignation benefit of qualifying fund plans includes demutualisation shares.
How am I allowed to take my retirement benefit?
We recommend that you get professional advice about the different options which are available on the payment of your benefits and the tax implications thereof. If you are entitled to a retirement benefit from a retirement annuity fund, provident fund, preservation provident fund or preservation pension fund, you may take a portion of the retirement benefit in cash and the rest must be used to purchase a lifelong pension.
Who will receive retirement fund benefits at death?
The benefits will be distributed amongst your dependents or nominees, or both. This is why it is very important that you nominate persons to receive the benefits and that you keep this updated. The Board of Trustees of the fund is bound by legislation (Section 37 C of the Pension Funds Act) to ensure that all your dependents are considered.
Unclaimed Benefits
What if the benefit amount is not claimed on the maturity date or the regular income amount is
returned from the bank?
We will communicate with you on the relevant date. If we determine that you are not reacting because your contact details have changed, we will continue the policy with the maturity proceeds in a stable investment fund with no equity exposure and the income will remain in an interest bearing cash fund.
Furthermore, we will take all steps that may be fairly expected to locate you, according to the Standard on Unclaimed Assets prescribed by the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA), as available on the website www.asisa.org.za. We will take these steps during the first 3 years after the maturity date. Any administrative and locating costs will be deducted from the benefit amount and these costs will be disclosed if a payment occurs.
What if the benefit payable at death is not claimed after the death notification?
We will communicate with the claimant once we have been notified of the death event.
If the claimant does not respond to our correspondence, we will take all steps that may be fairly expected to locate the claimant, according to the Standard on Unclaimed Assets prescribed by the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA), as available on the website www.asisa.org.za. We will take these steps during the first 3 years after the notification of the death event. Any administrative and locating costs will be deducted from the benefit amount and these costs will be disclosed if a payment occurs.
If a savings and investment amount is payable, it will earn interest from the date on which the claim is registered. The interest is equal to the growth of an interest bearing cash fund.
If a risk amount is payable, it will earn interest from the date on which the claim is admitted. The interest is equal to the growth of an interest bearing cash fund.
Plan still active when you turn 80
If the plan is still active when you turn 80 we will communicate with you to enquire whether you need financial advice for the plan.
If we do not hear from you we will assume that your contact details have changed and will take all steps that may be fairly expected to locate you, according to the Standard on Unclaimed Assets prescribed by the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA), as available on the website www.asisa.org.za. We will take these steps during the first 3 years after establishing that we no longer have the correct contact details for you. During this period the plan will continue unchanged.
What if a regular contribution of a savings product is stopped?
If the policy holder did not make contact with Sanlam for the last 5 years after the plan was made automatically paid up (due to unpaid premiums) we will take all steps that may be fairly expected to locate you, according to the Standard on Unclaimed Assets prescribed by the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA), as available on the website www.asisa.org.za.
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Achieving academic and operational excellence through business intelligence
Curtin University uses SAS Visual Analytics to provide reporting across the organisation
Tucked away in one of the world’s most isolated cities, Curtin University is surging onto the world stage with its exemplary research and culture of innovation.
The Perth-based institution ranks in the top 2% of universities worldwide – with the ambitious goal of cracking the top 100 list. At this level, competition for students and funding is fierce. To help drive academic and operational excellence, Curtin uses a sophisticated data analytics and reporting environment.
“We must run our business well to compete at the highest level,” says David Dignam, Business Intelligence Manager at Curtin. The university manages a complex matrix of 60,000 students and 7,000 staff members spread across four countries. “Gender equity, financial targets, cultural responsibility … we track many different measures to ensure we’re meeting our own high standards.”
Our reporting has enriched the university considerably. We can rely on the data and be confident it’s the truth.
David Dignam
Business Intelligence Manager
Automated reports surface insight
Dignam’s team collects data from across the university and publishes more than 20 self-service reports for an internal audience ranging from intern to chancellor. Before it can be shared, the data is integrated from many source systems and deposited into a data warehouse where it undergoes strict quality measures using a range of business rules and data validation steps. This creates a solid foundation from which to deploy analytics.
“When it comes to visualisation, you need to ensure you’ve got high quality data to tell the right story” says Dignam. SAS® Visual Analytics provides the visualisation layer on top of the data warehouse, enabling faculty to track everything from course profitability to annual leave.
Curtin’s journey to self-service reporting began with ad hoc requests from different areas of the business. Dignam saw an opportunity to save time through automation and invested in a high-performance cloud reporting platform powered by SAS® Grid Manager and hosted in Amazon Web Services.
“Automating reports has saved the business lots of time,” says Dignam. Curtin uses the in-memory capability of Visual Analytics to load critical data into memory and then produce self-service reports. “The SAS platform reduces our storage requirements as well,” says Dignam.
Using analytics to ensure academic integrity
The cornerstone of Curtin’s vast reporting network is its enterprise data warehouse and variety of SAS tools used for distributing key information, such as research data. Research generates income and strengthens the university’s profile and reputation. Previously, researchers lacked a practical way to track expenses and available funds. With the help of SAS® Enterprise Guide, the army of 500 researchers can now track their monthly funding balance to fully exploit the budget.
Another key output of Curtin’s reporting framework are its teaching and learning dashboards. These enable professors and academic staff to log into a secure environment and see key performance indicators such as student satisfaction ratings and enrolment figures. This is evolving into personalised dashboards that enable staff to benchmark themselves against peers, creating a high-performance culture which in turn attracts better lecturers and researchers.
The dashboards also inform Curtin’s stringent assessment quality panels. Ensuring academic integrity is critical to both maintaining a culture of excellence and securing government funding. Visual Analytics is used to surface survey data that enables key stakeholders to monitor the university’s progress against its governance, risk management, and compliance and culture objectives. To serve this diverse audience, reports must be dynamic, user friendly, historical and tailored for user type.
“Our reporting has enriched the university considerably. We can rely on the data and be confident it’s the truth. This helps us make better decisions, be more efficient and increase effectiveness,” says Dignam. “Integrating techniques such as data visualisation into key business processes drives evidence-based decisions which converts corporate strategy into operational effectiveness.”
Functionality explored
When you’ve got thousands of information consumers, security is a major concern. Curtin uses an advanced security model to avoid creating unique reports for each user. “We want people to log into the system and see only the relevant data for them,” says Dignam. The SAS security model enables Curtin to build a single report and control what information is shared with each user.
Curtin uses the theme builder within Visual Analytics to design reports that comply with corporate branding standards. Corporate logos and branded colour schemes gives dashboards a distinctive look. Curtin also uses the custom graphs builder to share certain data points because “sometimes a bar chart doesn’t cut it,” says Dignam.
Becoming an innovation leader
Automated reporting has enabled Curtin to shift some employees into other roles. Reports have replaced hours of number crunching. “We recently automated a report for Finance that was taking five people several hours a week to create,” says Dignam. “Over the past three years, I estimate we’ve been able to repurpose over 10 full-time employees into more valuable tasks.”
Curtin recognises that becoming a global innovation leader requires innovative technology. Their investment in a cloud-based infrastructure has enabled them to swiftly produce business-critical insights. As its number of users grow, so will its level of analysis.
Dignam offered this advice to others looking to establish a sophisticated reporting environment. “It’s important to collaborate with the business to make sure you’re aligned with corporate objectives. Before you get started, understand the money you’re going to spend, what the quick wins are, and what projects you can tick off first. Consider what processes you can eliminate though reporting and what information will make people better at their jobs.”
The university needed automated, self-service reports to securely disseminate data to a wide variety of users
SAS® Visual Analytics
SAS® Grid Manager
SAS® Enterprise Guide
Researchers and academic staff now have pertinent data at their fingertips
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Municipality puts wireless water meter-reading data to work
Town of Cary uses SAS® Analytics to analyze data from sensors, assess demand, detect problems and visually engage customers
A leaky faucet. A malfunctioning dishwasher. A cracked sprinkler head. These are more than just a headache for a homeowner or business to fix. They can be costly, unpredictable and, unfortunately, hard to pinpoint.
Through a combination of wireless water meters and an analytics-driven, customer-accessible portal, the Town of Cary, North Carolina is making it much easier to find and fix water loss issues. In the process, the town has gained a big-picture view of water usage critical to planning future water plant expansions and promoting targeted conservation efforts.
When the Town of Cary installed the wireless meters for 60,000 customers in 2010, it knew the new technology wouldn’t just save money by eliminating manual monthly readings; the town also realized it would get more accurate and timely information about water consumption. The Aquastar wireless system reads meters once an hour – that’s 8,760 data points per customer each year instead of 12 monthly readings. The data had tremendous potential, if it could be easily consumed.
“Monthly readings are like having a gallon of water’s worth of data. Hourly meter readings are more like an Olympic-size pool of data,” says Karen Mills, Finance Director for the Town of Cary. “SAS helps us manage the volume of that data nicely.” In fact, the solution enables the town to analyze a half-a-billion data points on water usage and make them available, and easily consumable, to all customers.
Monthly readings are like having a gallon of water’s worth of data. Hourly meter readings are more like an Olympic-size pool of data. SAS helps us manage the volume of that data nicely.
Karen Mills
Finance Director for the Town of Cary
The ability to visually look at data by household or commercial customer, by hour, has led to some very practical applications:
The town can notify customers of potential leaks within days.
Customers can set alerts that notify them within hours if there is a spike in water usage.
Customers can track their water usage online, helping them to be more proactive in conserving water.
Through the online portal, one business in the Town of Cary saw a spike in water consumption on weekends, when employees are away. This seemed odd, and the unusual reading helped the company learn that a commercial dishwasher was malfunctioning, running continuously over weekends. Without the wireless water-meter data and the customer-accessible portal, this problem could have gone unnoticed, continuing to waste water and money.
The town has a much more accurate picture of daily water usage per person, critical for planning future water plant expansions. Perhaps the most interesting perk is that the town was able to verify a hunch that has far-reaching cost ramifications: Cary residents are very economical in their use of water. “We calculate that with modern high-efficiency appliances, indoor water use could be as low as 35 gallons per person per day. Cary residents average 45 gallons, which is still phenomenally low,” explains Leila Goodwin, Water Resource Manager for the town. Why is this important? The town was spending money to encourage water efficiency – rebates on low-flow toilets or discounts on rain barrels. Now it can take a more targeted approach, helping specific consumers understand and manage both their indoor and outdoor water use.
SAS was critical not just for enabling residents to understand their water use, but also in working behind the scenes to link two disparate databases. “We have a billing database and the meter-reading database. We needed to bring that together and make it presentable,” Mills says.
The town estimates that by just removing the need for manual readings, the Aquastar system will save more than $10 million above the cost of the project. But the analytics component could provide even bigger savings. Already, both the town and individual citizens have saved money by catching water leaks early. As the Town of Cary continues to plan its future infrastructure needs, having accurate information on water usage will help it invest in the right amount of infrastructure at the right time. Additionally, understanding water usage will help the town if it experiences something detrimental like a drought.
“We went through a drought in 2007,” says Goodwin. “If we go through another, we have a plan in place to use Aquastar data to see exactly how much water we are using on a day-by-day basis and communicate with customers. We can show ‘here’s what’s happening, and here is how much you can use because our supply is low.’ Hopefully, we’ll never have to use it, but we’re prepared.”
Analyze a half-a-billion data points on water usage and make them available, visually, to all customers.
Gain a big-picture view of water consumption to better plan future water plant expansions and promote targeted conservation efforts.
SAS® Analytics
Customers can know within days if they have a leak or other water-usage spike.
Customers can set alerts to notify them immediately when their water usage exceeds a predefined amount.
The town better understands how water is consumed.
The town can identify when water is leaking in its network of pipes.
The town can better prepare for future water needs and emergency events like a drought.
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Ritz Cinema Randwick
Sydney Film Festival returns to Randwick’s iconic art deco Ritz Cinema with a program of wonderful features and documentaries. Stop by The Ritz Bar’s beautiful balcony for a snack or movie-themed cocktail before or after your film. The Ritz Cinema is fully licensed, so you can enjoy your drink while watching a film.
Please note this venue is cashless.
45 St Pauls St
Randwick, New South Wales 2031
For public transport please take bus route M50, 314, 316, 317, 372, 373, 376 and 377.
For more information, please visit http://www.transportnsw.info
The venue has assistive listening in all cinemas. Venues are wheelchair accessible, but space is limited. Accessible parking is available on the street outside the cinema. The venue is guide-dog friendly.
Cinemas 1 and 4 have 2 wheelchair spaces. Cinema 5 has 1 wheelchair space.
Films/Events at Ritz Cinema Randwick
"Spine-tingling", "sensational", "rousing": just a few of the words used for Aretha Franklin's show-stopping performance in this previously unreleased film of her 1972 concert.
Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat shine as best friends who live in a haze of drink, drugs and one-night stands, in the hilarious new film by Australian Sophie Hyde (52 Tuesdays).
In Bend it Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha’s joyful celebration of Bruce Springsteen’s music, discovering The Boss radically changes one British-Pakistani teenager’s life.
Brittany’s (Jillian Bell, Workaholics, Rough Night) hard-partying lifestyle leads to a diagnosis that requires radical – and hilarious – action. Winner, Audience Award, Sundance.
An emotional and visceral exploration of a key battle in the Vietnam war – pitting 108 young Australian soldiers against 2500 – by Kriv Stenders (Red Dog, Australia Day, SFF 2017).
Straight from Cannes: Jim Jarmusch’s hilarious, philosophical zombie film stars Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Chloë Sevigny as small-town cops battling the undead.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna) tackles the controversial and divisive soccer megastar Diego Maradona in this outstanding Cannes-selected documentary.
Dirty God
Sacha Polak (Hemel, SFF 2012) paints an intimate portrait of a young mother from East London left scarred after an acid attack in this compelling tale of courage and self-acceptance.
Doug the Human
An alien kidnaps a man (Gabriel Willie) and turns him into his pet.
Frédéric Tcheng (Dior and I, SFF 2014) turns his camera on iconic fashion designer Halston, tracking his hedonistic rise in ’70s New York to his crashing fall.
After sold-out runs at TIFF and SXSW, Alex Ross Perry’s virtuosic portrait is of a ‘90s punk star on the path to burn-out. Starring Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale).
Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche and André Benjamin (OutKast’s André 3000) star in this bold, sexually charged sci-fi thriller from acclaimed French director Claire Denis.
Hilary Swank and Clara Rugaard star in a compelling Australian sci-fi about a human child raised by a robot mother in a post-apocalyptic future. Official selection, Sundance.
Judy & Punch
Mirrah Foulkes's astonishing, indefinable feature debut reimagines the Judy & Punch puppet show as a blackly comic feminist revenge tale starring Mia Wasikowska and Damon Herriman.
Matthias Schoenaerts, Colin Firth and Léa Seydoux star in director Thomas Vinterberg’s (The Commune, SFF 2016) gripping account of the K-141 Kursk submarine disaster in 2000.
A young mother flees Hungary in the midst of a revolution. Decades later, she reveals to her daughter a history of abandonment that crosses continents and four generations.
Jeff Goldblum plays a smooth-talking brain doctor in a hypnotic piece of 1950s weirdness by American outlier Rick Alverson. A beautiful portrait of America’s fractured identity.
Jennifer Kent (The Babadook) returns with a searing revenge drama about a young convict woman in Van Diemen’s Land, 1825. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Venice 2018.
Italian director Claudio Giovannesi’s riveting drama, winner of the Silver Bear for best screenplay at Berlinale, is both a gangster flick and a vibrant tale of adolescence.
Emilio Estevez directs and acts alongside Alec Baldwin, Jena Malone, Christian Slater and Michael K. Williams in this heart-warming film about homeless people who occupy a library to escape freezing conditions.
Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) and Australian actress Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$, SFF 2017) star in this remarkable story of a white supremacist who transforms for love.
A young Muslim activist and slam poet goes missing in this tense Sydney-set mystery with a sharp perspective on Islamophobia by Partho Sen-Gupta (Sunrise, SFF 2015).
Joanna Hogg’s dream-like, visually splendid tale of first love stars Honor Swinton Byrne alongside her mother, Tilda Swinton, and Tom Burke. Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Sundance.
Standing Up for Sunny
Breaking Bad’s RJ Mitte stars in this charming Australian rom-com about a loner with cerebral palsy who is roped into helping a comedian (Philippa Northeast) overcome her shyness.
Dev Patel (Lion, Slumdog Millionaire) is a mysterious and compelling presence in Michael Winterbottom’s thrilling, modern film noir about a wedding guest with ulterior motives.
What Will Become of Us
Sir Frank Lowy – Holocaust survivor, Sydneysider and founder of shopping giant Westfield – reflects on his past as he considers his future in retirement.
The White Crow
Ralph Fiennes’ film tells the exhilarating story of Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the West, capturing both his exquisite talents and the era’s explosive political situation.
Cuban ballet luminary Carlos Acosta is both star and subject of this moving and unusual fusion of biography and dazzling dance, by Spanish director Icíar Bollaín.
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Wednesday 13th Dec 2017
Discussion and Analysis by Charles Porter:
Yesterday afternoon, the US Dollar only continued its unrelenting advance. Since the beginning of December, the Dollar has gained almost 1.5% against its shared currency counterpart, the Euro. The EUR USD cross now threatens 1.17. The most notable event of today will be an interest rate decision by the Fed’s Open Market Committee. As the Fed continues to sit today, following the commencement of the meeting yesterday, Dollar markets can still be moved on speculation ahead of the event. Ultimately, the Fed’s decision looks like a foregone conclusion; a 25 basis point hike in interest rates. However, ahead of this decision, all-important CPI inflation data, the facilitator of central bank action, will be released.
Sterling Briefing: One More Sleep…
… Until the judgement period begins! As we all count down the days up to the culmination of the festive season, for markets at least, there are several hurdles in the way. Thursday and Friday mark the deadline for first round Brexit progress in 2017. The probability of Brexit defeat at the end of this week remains minimal; self preservation and the reputation of Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, and European Council President, Donald Tusk, would suggest that the declaration of progress is in the bag.
The European Council meeting for December will start tomorrow. Headlines should not take long to start flowing as rumours already abound about the likely concretization of the supposed progress on Brexit. With the political scene in Germany clearing, yet still highly uncertain, there will be other concerns at the Council summit. Similarly, the recent instability within Ireland and the resignation of Deputy PM, Frances Fitzgerald, could dilute an otherwise Brexit-centric affair.
Ahead of the European event, markets will receive data on the UK labour market, a key variable to the value of Sterling when considering the Bank of England’s fixation upon low wage inflation amidst strong price inflation. This event may prove to move the Pound further than normal due to the temporal proximity of the data release to tomorrow’s Bank of England monetary policy decision.
Euro Briefing: The Bigger Picture
Hard data matters; economics matters; monetary policy matters; politics matters. These are facts and most of the time are rightly treated as indisputable axioms of the modern world. However, markets and individuals appear to be split on how much ‘soft’ data and sentiment matters.
Academia has advanced the efforts of, to name but one example, behavioural economics, and the marriage of psychology and sociology to Economics. Sentiment truly matters over the long run. Despite the current losses for the Euro against the Dollar and, for that matter, the Pound since Mid-November, the Euro is up by over 7%, on average against the world’s major currencies in 2017.
In terms of sentiment, ask yourself: can we truly consider the European Sovereign Debt Crisis that destroyed the value of the Euro since 2010 to be over? I, and many others tacitly would argue; yes. The normative sentiment of an un-marred Euro has made it a good long purchase throughout this year.
Dollar Briefing: Plain Sailing
Janet Yellen, the present Chair of the Federal Reserve in the US, will leave office in 2018. President Trump has nominated ‘Jay’ Powell to become the new leader of the Fed in a move that is unlikely to change the status-quo outside of financial regulation, but nicely puts an egoistic President’s stamp on the monetary policy authority.
Due to the change of leadership, Janet Yellen’s words at the Press Conference following tonight’s monetary policy decision are unlikely to move markets; she is no longer salient in the attempt to predict future monetary policy. As such it is likely to be plain-er sailing than normal during tonight’s decision. A 25bps hike is 98% priced into the currency making the USD upside potential minimal.
The Day Ahead:
The ECB, the Fed, and the Bank of England will all produce their monetary policy decisions within 18 hours of each other. With the Fed kicking off proceedings this evening, today remains the last full day to price in expectations within the Pound and the Euro.
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Research looks at apple rot
Richard Rolke
Sep. 14, 2017 8:24 a.m.
An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but the mold on it could make you sick.
Rhiannon Wallace, a PhD candidate at UBC Okanagan’s campus, has developed a way to stop, or at least control, blue mold—a pathogen that can rot an apple to its core. Wallace’s research has determined that bacteria, originally isolated from cold Saskatchewan soils, may be the answer to preventing mold growth and apple rot while the fruit is in storage or transport.
“The majority of postharvest fungal pathogens are opportunistic,” said Wallace, who is working with Louise Nelson, a UBC biology professor.
“If a fruit is physically damaged, it is at an increased risk of rotting during storage. So a tiny blemish on the fruit from harvest or handling can turn into a conduit for attack by fungal pathogens and subsequently result in the development of mold.”
The fungal pathogen penicillium expansum, also known as blue mold, destroys millions of stored apples each year. Post-harvest rot can result in yield losses of up to 20 per cent in developed countries such as Canada, while developing countries can lose up to 50 per cent of the crop.
The goal of Wallace’s research is to reduce the amount of produce lost due to post-harvest blue mold. Traditionally, post-harvest rot has been controlled with chemical fungicides, but Wallace says these treatments have become less effective as the pathogen has developed resistance and there is consumer pushback to the chemicals. The research by Wallace and Nelson aims to provide a safer and more sustainable alternative to fungicides.
Wallace suggests the solution may lie in a particular bacterium specific to Saskatchewan soil. Pseudomonas fluorescens, due to its Prairie roots, can survive in cold storage—a characteristic that is key to dealing with cold-stored produce like apples.
During tests conducted at the B.C. Tree Fruits Co-operative storage facility in the Okanagan, Wallace determined that these bacteria can prevent blue mold from growing on McIntosh and Spartan apples while in storage. In addition, during these experiments, the bacteria provided control of blue mold on apples that was comparable to a commercially available biological control agent and a chemical fungicide.
“What is novel about our research is that we show the bacterial isolates we tested have an array of mechanisms to inhibit or kill Penicillium expansum (blue mold) on apples while fungicides generally act only by a single mode,” Wallace says. “These findings suggest that the development of resistance by blue mold against our soil bacteria is unlikely.”
She does note that while all three isolates of P. fluorescens tested provided control of blue mold, the level of control provided by each isolate varied with apple variety.
Wallace’s research, supported by the Canadian Horticulture Council and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, was recently published in the journal Postharvest Biology and Technology. Further support came from the B.C. Tree Fruits Co-operative and Agriculture Canada’s Summerland Research and Development Centre.
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Delivering digital experiences
The difference between a CMS and a DXP
As the marketing technology stack proliferates, it’s crucial to know how each platform supports your needs. Learn the difference between content management systems and digital experience platforms.
Your CMS is your digital core
CMS architecture: A primer
DXP: Scaling personalized engagement for the digital age
In today’s digital world, nothing is more essential to supporting your organization’s online presence than your content management system. It’s the centerpiece of your organization’s online identity, data, and marketing operations.
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A content management system (CMS) powers an organization’s website and applications with the tools needed to deliver content – including editorial, workflow, reporting, organization, security, and user administration. It’s the foundational software for digital identity, strategy, and engagement.
A digital experience platform (DXP) provides the full suite of tools to power the delivery of personalized experiences that scale and connect – across channels, geographies, and languages.
The truth is these two platforms can overlap. As the martech space continues its rapid expansion, it’s increasingly important for decision makers to have at least a working understanding of the nuances between these two technologies. When you’re ready for a primer on each, including the relationship between them, continue reading below.
At a minimum, a content management system (CMS) powers an organization’s website and applications. Teams need to deliver the content they’ve created, and a CMS provides the workflow, reporting, organizing, and user administration tools to do just that.
For some small organizations, these tools might be all that are needed. But for most, they’re just the beginning.
Here’s a full list of the functionalities often included in the modern CMS:
Whether authenticating users and levels of access or keeping user data safe, you need security. And regulations such as GDPR and California’s A.B. 375 require all businesses operating within their jurisdictions to meet stringent requirements around data security, transparency, and consumer data rights. Most organizations today need a security-first CMS, one that includes data encryption (both at rest and in transit), advanced personal identifying information (PII) compliance, and smooth integrations with enterprise security providers and/or third-party authentication systems.
Authoring, editing, staging, approval, translation, publishing, promotion, reporting, and iterating – your busy team needs a workflow that adapts to their needs, an intuitive performance dashboard, and support in tagging all content with the appropriate metadata.
People expect to engage with your organization on whatever device they choose. Your CMS must not only make it simple to deliver content to today’s and tomorrow’s various channels but also future applications and services.
If you currently have multiple sites across various nations, or plan to in the future, you’ll need a CMS with multi-site and multi-language support, smooth integrations with localization and translation services, and regulatory compliance for multinational content.
Flexibility, extensibility, and performance
Organic visits over time, seasonal spikes, entry into new countries, creating new websites and campaigns quickly – a modern CMS must be flexible enough to handle it all. It should integrate with other technologies, include a wide array of modern APIs and connectors, manage multiple sites from one centralized location, and more. And it should be capable of deploying on the cloud.
Cloud: Allows continuous deployment, automated updates, speedy delivery of new features, and more. Cloud deployment also powers the launch of campaigns and websites in hours or days versus weeks or months.
A modern CMS makes it easy to edit and view content before publishing and schedule items for future publication.
Commerce and content integrations
Content and commerce are now connected – from initial research to purchased-product use. Make sure your CMS includes a unified interface for commerce, migration tools, seamless inventory management, adaptable inventory handling, automated actions (such as cart-abandonment or purchase follow-up), third-party integration, user-generated content creation, and testing capabilities.
This may seem like a lot to expect from a CMS. In part, this is just the reality of doing business in our digital age. But it also raises an important truth: as the martech space becomes increasingly convoluted, the distinctions between the various tools needed to compete in it become somewhat fluid.
In fact, the last category, commerce and content integrations, is a functionality that begins to push this technology away from being defined as a simple CMS to being defined as a digital experience platform (DXP).
A CMS powers an organization’s website and applications with all the tools needed to deliver content – including editorial, workflow, reporting, organization, security, and user administration.
But before we dig into the definition of a DXP, we need to take a brief detour into CMS architecture. The reason is simple: CMS architecture determines what your CMS can do today – and tomorrow.
A CMS is software that contains:
A programming framework (such as ASP.NET or Java)
A database that stores content
A user interface for web editors
These are all hosted on a web server, which has an operating system, or in the cloud. CMS software also includes multiple application layers. An application layer supports CMS functionality and defines how different parts of the software connect to each other and the host system.
Sitecore’s CMS, for example, has one application layer for managing content (with functions like editing, managing, and storing) and another layer for assembling the content into a layout – delivering it. We call the first the “content layer” and the second the “delivery layer.”
To get content to an audience, the delivery layer requests content from the content layer through an application programming interface (API). That content then moves through a third layer, the rendering or “presentation layer,” which takes what the delivery layer has produced and renders (or presents) it on a screen.
Visitors to a website built on Sitecore see the published version of what the presentation layer has produced. Because the content and delivery layer are separate from the presentation layer, our CMS is “decoupled” (versus a coupled system where all three are just one layer) or “headless.”
As there are different ways to deal with application layers, there are also different ways to store content within a CMS. Without getting too technical, we can say that some systems store content as whole pages, while others store content in smaller chunks called “items” or “objects.”
There are two reasons to store content as items or objects. The first is that it makes it easier to reuse content across multiple pages and applications. The second is that content is not bound by any presentation requirements – it’s not bound to a page’s format, for example.
But why does that matter? Here are three reasons: Fitbit, Amazon’s Alexa, and Facebook’s Oculus. Devices like these have unique (and increasingly divergent) requirements for presenting content. When pulling content from a CMS, they only want the underlying content, not page layouts, styles, management frameworks, etc.
Our CMS stores content as objects and separates the delivery layer from the presentation layer – meaning content creators only need to create content once to be delivered anywhere.
But we also have a decoupled publishing layer. And this, in contrast to traditional headless CMSs, allows creators to still preview and publish content easily without developer support. And there’s more to our unique headless CMS: It gathers analytics from web engagements and, thanks to APIs, from anywhere.
You can learn more about our no-compromise hybrid headless architecture here.
The digital age has led to empowered and connected consumers with rising expectations. And these consumer expectations are driving organizational change across industries – from manufacturing to retail to healthcare and beyond.
Digital experience platforms (DXPs) support organizations as they adapt to the exponential shifts of the digital age. Here’s how:
While a CMS supports the orchestration and delivery of the content essential to digital experiences, a DXP goes beyond this by providing automation and smart delivery across websites and portals, apps and IoT devices, and more. It also provides insight into the reception and result of these experiences with data, analytics, and often AI and machine learning.
A DXP streamlines engagement and provides the coveted 360-degree view of customers, across channels, and continuously updated in real time, taking the analytics of a CMS to a whole new personalized level.
In short, a DXP is the tool (or set of tools) that powers personalized, cross-channel digital experiences. The right one will replace much of your current martech stack and fluidly integrate with the rest of it. The benefits are clear:
Omnichannel reach: With voice-enablement rising and IoT devices proliferating, reaching your audience where they are and where they will be has never been more essential.
Build lasting relationships: Smart organizations know that a conversion isn’t the end of the relationship, it’s a new beginning. A DXP powers and tracks engagements throughout the entire lifecycle.
Integrations that deliver: Disparate data isn’t actionable. Connected data is. And with the market in continual flux, knowing that future integrations won’t be an issue delivers maybe the rarest commodity today – peace of mind.
What’s included in a DXP – or what should be
As a robust platform of marketing tools, a DXP always includes a CMS (often as its core), but it also usually includes the following functionalities:
Contextual Intelligence and Relevance (customer profile engine, language translation, omnichannel, etc.)
Commerce (PCM, payment & billing, shopping, etc.)
Asset management (DAM, web-to-print, etc.)
Engagement (chatbots, mobile apps, marketing automation, etc.)
Digital process (BPM, MRM, case management, etc.)
Cognitive (predictive analytics, machine learning, AI automation, etc.)
Data Center (CRM, MDM, etc.)
DXPs can be single-vendor solutions or a combination of solutions from various vendors, depending on organizational needs. However, as DXPs continually evolve to keep pace with the ever-changing competitive needs of today, most organizations won’t find a single-vendor solution. And those who do will almost always require multiple products from their vendor.
Therefore, it’s critical to find a DXP that includes easy integrations, future-oriented extensibility, and an expansive partner ecosystem.
Having gone through all that, we can now return to our statement above with a deeper level of understanding.
A CMS is the foundational software for digital identity, strategy, and engagement. A DXP is the full suite of tools powering the delivery of personalized experiences that scale and connect – across channels, geographies, and languages.
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New Jersey is intent on stopping and prosecuting drivers for DUI offenses. More than 24,000 drivers were arrested for driving under the influence in 2008 in New Jersey — only 1,000 fewer than in New York, whose population is nearly two and a half times larger! Prosecutors and courts are under pressure to obtain convictions, and to get them quickly. Consequences for a DUI conviction, even a first offense, can be quite severe, including jail time and steep fines. If you have been charged with Driving Under the Influence, it is important that you act quickly and find experienced, skilled representation to represent your case from the get-go.
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Send Flowers for Ruby
Ruby Lee Brown was bon on July 13, 1940 to Leon Williams and Rosie Stokes in Belzoni, MS. She was the fifth of six children. Ruby received her education from the Belzoni Mississippi Public School System.
She confessed a hope in Christ at an early age. She oved to Jackson, MS and became a member of St. Paul M. B. Church and became an usher. She later joined Grater Bethlehem Temple. She recently joined Progressive Baptist Church where she remained a faithful member until her health began to fail.
She married Tommie Lee Brown on October 10, 1967 in Jackson, MS. Ruby worked for Lillian Starnes as a housekeeper and later was employed at Jackson Packing Company until they closed in 1995.
Ruby was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. She loved her family very much. She took care of the neighborhood children who came into her house. She enjoyed getting together with family for dinners and traveling to various states. Ruby liked to have fun and being the center of attention.
Her parents, husband, three sisters: Fula Fleming, Bessie Mae Williams and Mary Goins, one brother, Robert Williams, one son, Billy Joe Williams and one daughter-in-law, Corditra C. Brown all preceded her in death.
She leaves to cherish her memories: three daughters, Loretta (Albert) Brown of Ft. Worth, TX, Sandra Williams and Chiquita (George) Jimerson of Jackson, MS; four sons, Rodney Lashun Brown of Memphis, TN, Thomas (Lynn) Brown nd Samuel (Michelle) Brown of Plainfield, IL and Michael Brown of Chicago, IL; one brother, Leon Williams of St. Petersburg, FL; two sisters-in-law, Doris Turner of Dallas, TX and Anita Brown of Jackson, MS; 18 grandchildren, 8 great grandchildren; two special cousins, Joseph Ward and Estella Hardy; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
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"He is a lot like me, but he don't look like me."
by John Dower
6 Min / USA
ComedyShort Doc
Ronald is a short documentary about Joe Maggard, the Eight Man to play Ronald McDonald, the official mascot for the Mcdonalds chain of restaurant.
Joe Maggard seems like a normal and pleasant enough man, but seeing his excited persona inside a clown costume gives it an edge of surreality, uneasiness and menace. He seems very excitable outside his costume, and plays a human-being version of Ronald in his real life. There is an uncomfortable level of ambiguity in the way he is presented which makes you hold back judgements while also giving enough signs to make up your mind about Joe. Or what a man like Joe, who played Ronald McDonald for 12 years would be like.
Clowns are strange creatures, meant to represent a consumer culture's idea of joy, grown men dipped in stark paint to be attractive to young children, and that weirdness does seep into the film here at times. Joe Maggard seems to be in on the joke at different points, when he lets out some of the rougher observations-calling the children who stomp on his shoes "little bastards", a snide, weary comment under his breath when his high-five is ignored. At other times he is oblivious.
A wonderful, strange film.
All the Boys Are Called Patrick DIR. Francis Truffaut All the Boys Are Called Patrick 494 263 A classic film written by Eric Romer and Directed by Jean Luc Godard. ...
Wes Anderson's Castello Cavalcanti DIR. Wes Anderson Wes Anderson's Castello Cavalcanti 169 127 Jason Schwartzman plays a too cool for school race car driver competing in 1955 Italy....
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With Historic Comeback, the Clippers Make Oracle Arena Their Own
The Clippers, a ragtag group that refuses to back down, completed a historic comeback against one of the best teams in NBA history. With the odds stacked against them, they entered Oracle and made it their own.
Rob Mahoney
OAKLAND, Calif.—There is no bleaker room in sports than the visitor’s lockers at Oracle Arena. If those walls could talk, they would tell you that over these past five years, they’ve grown tired of dejection. How they could do without all the bickering. They would recount the halftime speeches so empty that even their orators couldn’t believe them, and the deaf ears they fell on midway through another double-digit loss. Two hundred and fifty-one games have been played at Oracle since the rise of the championship Warriors. Only 38 visitors have actually managed to win. The latest may be the most extraordinary.
After trailing by 31 points in the third quarter, the Clippers plugged away until they were within 10, then within five, and then somehow tied with a little more than a minute remaining. Perhaps even more impressive: Los Angeles outdueled the defending champions the rest of the way, coming up with every play necessary until the deed was done, 135–131. Lou Williams hit a series of increasingly preposterous shots. In a high-stakes scramble, one rookie (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander) set up another (Landry Shamet) for a go-ahead three-pointer. Montrezl Harrell, a 64% free throw shooter, iced the game at the line with just five seconds remaining. A stunned Warriors team shuffled off to interrogate their failings behind closed doors. The Clippers proceeded to make the visitors’ locker room their own, allowing themselves some tempered celebration after pulling off the biggest comeback in NBA playoff history.
“I’m going to try to be as humble as possible right now,” said Clippers guard Patrick Beverley. It was Beverley who instigated many of Kevin Durant’s nine turnovers while restricting the reigning Finals MVP to just eight shots. It’s easy to say that Durant should have done more, though one can’t overlook the nuisance glued to his hip with an arm wrapped around his waist. Durant spent much of his night with his hands up in an attempt to convince officials of his innocence, making it almost impossible to establish plausible scoring position. At just 6'1", Beverley mucked up his matchup with Durant beyond recognition. It became something beyond basketball: an exercise in walking the line of permissible contact, or just blurring it to the point that it becomes unclear where the rules even apply. Neither was able to finish the game because both had fouled out. Beverley had won.
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Afterward, the Clippers’ rabble-rousing point guard stared through the floor with a simmering intensity—part of the long comedown from a frenzied competitive high. A few lockers over, Harrell had turned up his speaker and burst into song. “Baby, I’m the clean-up man,” he crooned, in the words of the poet Boosie BadAzz. Harrell had outdone himself. After kicking off the postseason with the best playoff performance of his young career, Harrell followed up with a 26-point, 10-rebound effort in Game 2, in which he was perfect from the field on nine attempts. Whatever the Clippers threw his way was as good as dunked. The angles he finds to the rim should be impossible. Somehow, Harrell finds the opportunity in them—dodging opponents as he goes before hurling himself toward the basket. There is no countdown to launch. Harrell is already down the lane and in the air before most defenses are in a position to respond, particularly when that defense is playing with all the urgency of an afternoon nap.
Odd as it sounds, the Clippers may be the opponent you’d least want to build a 31-point lead against. Grinders like Harrell and Beverly won’t stop, and probably couldn’t if they tried. It is plainly antithetical to who they are as players and how they experience the game. Williams is exactly the kind of scorer that can sneak in 10 or 12 points before setting off any alarms. This had become a way of life for the Clippers; players felt a wave of deja vu from their 28-point comeback against Boston, though to be fair, they could have tapped into a 25-point comeback to top Detroit or a 20-point correction against Charlotte just the same.
“You just love this group,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. “They just don’t give in.”
The Clippers won’t be able to stop the Warriors for a full 48 minutes, but a comeback bid has a way of putting the favorite into a defensive position. By the time Golden State had started to take the threat seriously, they were already cold and out of sync. The endeavor began, as any does against the defending champs, with opportunism. The Warriors would commit 14 turnovers during the Clippers’ game-turning run (Durant alone was responsible for five), not to mention the other possessions stalled out by their near-blunders. The most talented team in basketball shot 29.6% from the field during that stretch, all while watching Williams lean for bucket after bucket. “The wheels fell off,” Stephen Curry said. Rather than fasten them back on, the Warriors attempted to drag their axles over the finish line.
“We got exactly what we deserved,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. Over the game's final 19 minutes, Golden State was outscored, 70–37.
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It was Williams who saw that justice done. To hear him describe it, the deciding run of Game 2 sounds like an out-of-body experience. A flow state. A commune with some higher basketball power. “I’m one of those guys that can get hot,” Williams said. “I just got lost in the moment.” Williams (36 points, 11 assists) was a vessel for reverses, runners, and step-backs of all kinds. Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala were present, but immaterial. Kevon Looney and Andrew Bogut succeeded only in prompting Williams to change up his timing or attempt different sorts of moves.”You willed it,” Harrell told him from the podium. In a desperate moment, the Death Lineup Warriors even attempted to trap Williams outright, triggering the pass to Gilgeous-Alexander that ended in Shamet’s open three and their Game 2 demise.
Following the game, the Clippers made plates from the postgame buffet in their locker room: some with salads or pasta, some with In-N-Out burgers and fries to celebrate history, animal style. The room buzzed. Teammates laughed and lingered. The series, at the very least, would return to Oracle. And in the back, Charlie Widdoes of Clippers digital found Williams lounging on a training table with a plate of nachos, making himself at home.
The Clippers are woefully overmatched against the Warriors
The Clippers experienced the full force of the Warriors, with Stephen Curry dialed in from three as he led Golden State to a 121–104 win in Game 1 of their first-round series. As expected, Los Angeles is woefully outmatched in Golden State.
By Rob Mahoney
The Clippers must be treated as a credible threat
The Clippers refused to quit attacking, which has proved a perfect counter to the nonchalant Warriors. While Golden State is talented beyond measure, Doc Rivers' group demands their complete attention.
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The Clippers are competing about as well as one could expect from an eight seed against the Warriors, but they're winning in one important category: Proving to be a superb future free-agent destination.
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The Clippers were a playoff team before landing Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. Now that they've picked up two stars and maintained most of their roster, what is the best way to bond both sides together?
The starring offense of the starless Clippers
World-class talent doesn't always equal world-class creation. For the Clippers, a team devoid of stars, an egalitarian approach serves as the offensive centerpiece.
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Raptors NBA Finals Viewing Parties Taking Canada By Storm
Viewing parties are set to take place in more than 50 Canadian cities tonight across at least seven provinces
Photo: RIVER ROCK CASINO
The Raptors have long attempted to market themselves as Canada's team, but have not always been able to capitalize on being the nation's only NBA franchise since the Grizzlies left Vancouver in '01. That is until this year's run to the NBA Finals, where the Raptors lead the Warriors 3-2. While the series heads back to Oakland for tonight's Game 6, the Raptors will have the full support of not just their Toronto fanbase, but basketball fans across the entire country. Viewing parties are set to take place in more than 50 Canadian cities tonight spanning at least seven different provinces -- ranging from major metropolitan areas like Montreal to far-away locales like Red Deer, Alberta. Cities have seen thousands of fans show up to events to support the Raptors already during the Finals, but with a championship once again on the line tonight, all of Canada is prepping for big crowds and potential celebrations (David Rumsey, THE DAILY).
JURASSIC WORLD: In Regina, Ryan McNally noted the city is preparing for a big crowd at Mosaic Stadium, home of the CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders, to watch tonight's game, and the city "will be providing transit service to and from the game similar to Rider games and other big events." Regina Sport & Recreation Manager Jeff May said, "We’re assuming it’s going to be at least in the 16,000 mark." May also said that plans are "in the works to open more concessions and increase security at the Stadium with the anticipation of a larger crowd" (620CKRM.com, 6/11). The Edmonton Expo Centre will "host a free viewing party" for tonight's game. Canadian Elite Basketball League Edmonton Stingers President Lee Genier said that they "made the decision to create a Jurassic Park on Monday night after overwhelming requests from fans on social media" (TORONTO STAR, 6/12). Montreal is "set to close Crescent Street" in downtown tonight so crowds can watch the game, while a "second street viewing party will take place on Peel St." (MONTREAL.CTVNEWS.ca, 6/12). Bell MTS Place in downtown Winnipeg "will open its doors for a viewing party." The arena’s lower bowl "will be open to fans, and admission is free, but fans are encouraged to bring a tin for the bin in support" of local nonprofit Winnipeg Harvest (GLOBALNEWS.ca, 6/12).
EVEN THE LITTLE GUYS: In Ottawa, Luke Carroll notes it is "not just large cities hosting big events," as one viewing party on Monday night was in Almonte (Ontario), the birthplace of basketball’s founder, James Naismith. Almonte Town Hall tonight "will once again be showing the game on an outdoor television screen to an expected 500 fans." Mississippi Mills (Ontario) Community & Economic Cultural Coordinator Tiffany MacLaren said that her town is "prepared to show it inside to about 250 fans if the weather doesn’t cooperate" (OTTAWA CITIZEN, 6/13). Raptors fans can also watch tonight's game at dozens of movie theaters throughout the country (THE DAILY).
U.S. SUPPORT: Rockford, Ill., the hometown of Raptors G Fred VanVleet, on Monday night saw 3,500 people make their way downtown to "Jurassic Park RKFD," which will return for tonight's game. The "free community watch party is at the City Market Pavilion." There will be a "FVV Shop Pop-Up Store" where fans can "buy VanVleet-inspired apparel, a pregame DJ party and VanVleet signage for photo opportunities" (ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR, 6/13). In S.F., sports bar Table Top House is hosting a viewing party for Raptors fans that live in the Bay Area (THE DAILY).
Nationals, Marlins Among Teams Struggling To Draw Fans This Season
White Sox' Disco Demolition Giveaway Drawing Criticism
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by The Doors
Album: Strange Days (1967)
Jim Morrison was depressed. He went to Robby Krieger's house, they went to a canyon to watch a sunset, at which time Jim realized he was depressed because "if you're strange, people are strange." He then wrote the rest of the lyrics, which are about feeling alienated.
Krieger, The Doors' guitarist, wrote the music. He did his guitar solo in one take.
The Doors played this on their only Ed Sullivan Show appearance. They also played "Light My Fire," and Sullivan never asked them to come back because Morrison sang the lines, "Girl we couldn't get much higher." >>
Rhedd - Ripon, CA
This was covered by horror-core rap duo Twiztid on their album Freekshow. >>
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In 1987 the Liverpool band Echo & The Bunnymen covered this song, reaching #29 in the UK charts. Their version, which was featured in the film The Lost Boys, was produced by Ray Manzarek, who also played on the track. In a scene from the movie, the vampires' cave contains a huge poster of Jim Morrison in his Jesus pose.
Manzarek also played keyboards on the Echo & the Bunnymen song "Bedbugs And Ballyhoo"; Echo also covered the Doors song "Soul Kitchen," which appears on their album It's All Live Now. Their guitarist, Will Sergeant, told Songfacts: "We used to get compared to The Doors. I don't know why. It's probably because Mac [lead singer Ian McCulloch] had that kind of lower voice, similar to Jim Morrison. He never liked The Doors when we started out. He sort of got into them, as weeks went on, because I was always playing the tapes in the van. Then he got into the whole thing."
In the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, Forrest improves his ping pong game as this plays.
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Daniel from São PauloMost of the comments in this page just proves how right Jim was. The lyrics makes perfect sense and still a lot of people is talking about him having an acid trip while writing it down. If this was I'm the Walrus then I would agree, but it just makes all the sense in the world.
Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 22nd 1967, the Doors performed "People Are Strange" on the WPIX-TV program 'The Murray the K Show' from New York City...
Six days earlier on September 17th, 1969* the song had entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #65...
On the same show the quartet also performed "Light My Fire"; and at the time it was in its 17 week on the Top 100 and at position #32...
* See next posted below; and I made a mistake there, Sept. 17th is the correct date that "People Are Strange" did enter the Top 100..
Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 17th 1967, the Doors performed "People Are Strange" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
The very next day on September 18th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #65; and on October 22nd, 1967 it peaked at #12 {for 1 week} and spent 9 weeks on the Top 100...
It reached #6 on the Canadian RPM 100 Singles chart...
Was track one of side two on the quartet's 2nd studio album, "Strange Days", and the album reached #3 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart...
One other track from the album also made the Top 100, "Love Me Two Times", it peaked at #25 on the chart...
R.I.P. Ray Manzarek {1939 - 2013} and 'The Lizard King' {1943 - 1971}.
Frank from Bristol, TnI believe the song is about projection, when you feel Isolated alone and depressed it is reflected in peoples strange faces and everything looks uneven. It works the same for the opposite polarity.
Anna from New Oxford, PaI bet he was on an acid trip. People are indeed very strange sometimes. And to Melissa, I am Ms. Mojo Risin'.
Mindi from Warwick, RiSeems as if some of you don't know the history of Jim Morrison very well. Jim himself pulled away from society. He felt he didn't belong there that he was wanted somewhere else so everyone to him was strange didn't fit his picture so to speak. Jim was a very spiritual man who was trying to get others to see his way not everything with him was LSD or getting high. Pick up his poetry books and read them and if you understand what he was saying then you somewhat understand who Jim was.
Danion from Auckland, New ZealandPersonally i don't think Jim had depression, he may have been a bit "Strange" but i don't think he had a form of depression. In my English exam i wrote about how Jim is against this social hierarchy "Woman are wicked when you're unwanted" saying that the woman he has seen aren't very nice to people or himself who aren't socially accepted. But really i think this is just about Jim on an LSD trip and seeing a new perspective on being strange and things that are strange.
Marie from Durham, United KingdomI think this song is about feeling different but i also think he has to be talking about the weirdness of looking at strangers faces when your tripping and the alien view of the world that LSD gives the taker. The doors of perception are opened when you trip and take it from me "Streets are uneven when your down".
Quinton from Nashville, TnThis song is about alienation from others and how strange other people can seem when you're strange yourself. This is how I was feeling just two nights ago when I had a deep introspective nightmare of a trip on four hits of acid. I felt so disconnected from society and myself that I wanted to just end it all. Thankfully I didn't, but I can't help but remember how the words of this song kept playing over and over in my mind. I truly believe that this song is about a bad trip and the result of an LSD induced disconnection with reality.
Jesse from San Antoino, Tx> Maybe a combination of both, on acid WHILE walking down a street and people look at you strange and you look at them back strange but actually YOU ARE BOTH STRANGE
Ellie from Melbourne, AustraliaI reckon the song could have possibly been either about acid or jims views of the people around him , but no matter how many books come out were never going to know.The only person who knows is jim himself, but thats the beuaty of songs , as many artist dont fully reveal what their songs are about it is about the connection between you and your interpretation of the song ,as well as what the artist intended the song to be about.Also i doubt jim would have just written a song about an acid trip, there would definantly be a deeprer meaning to it, and i believe the opinion that he was trying to describe an acid trip and nothing more only furthers the jims steryotype of a drunken dug addicted hippy when in actuall fact he was a great poet.
Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnFreaky little song.
Ray from Los Angeles, CaThis is the damn truth, because I've read it in multiple books. Jim Morrison was on one of his suicide trips, he was saying things like "i just don't think I can take it anymore" and really wanted it to be over. He was at the house two of his bandmates (Kriger & Densmore) shared in Laurel Canyon which is in Los Angeles. He was feeling suicidal all night and finally in the morning they told him "go watch the sunrise and see if you feel better." So he went off alone and watched it and when Morrison came back he was just elated! He said "I'm writing again, I got these lyrics..." The point of the song according to him (and I loosely quote) "People are strange, things are gonna be messed up. But if you can see the sun come up and everything's cool, then it's all you. It's a projection of yourself."
Chloe from St. Louis, Moacid?! why must every song be about acid?! this is just about the wierdness of society. never has a statement been so true- people are strange.
Matt from Houston, Txyes, they sure are strange
Rebeka from Rijeka, CroatiaThis is my favourite Doors song.The lyrics is so simple but so smart.I can just listen it all day long.
Chris from Tulsa, OkRobbie Krieger wrote some great stuff and he was a very good guitarist. He never really got the credit due him.
Nady from Adelaide, --Sorry Joshvall but the only time Jim was fat was toward the end of his life. He was in pretty good shape as a teenage (from what I can tell from photos). He was extremely intelligent for his age (I.Q. of 140 when he was just 16) but that doesnt make him a nerd. He was just well cultured:)
Joshvall from Huittinen, FinlandNady from Adelaide, actually Jim was quite fat and kind of nerd too during his teen years. So it's really possible that this song has got some inspriration of that also.
Herminio from Rosario, ArgentinaSorry but the first "fact" was at John´s house, not Robbie´s. I´m pretty shure about it because I have John´s book.
Nady from Adelaide, Australiaumm im pretty sure Jim Morrison was never a "fat nerd" there may be a hint of jealousy in the air, eh James?ilovejimmorrisonmorethanyoucoulddream
Tanita from Rijeka, CroatiaI agree with you Michael from Jacksonvillw !!! I couldn't tell it better myself ! =)
Lance from Malibu, CaI feel that the lyrics and meaning are open for all to interept. I can see the drug part but I can also see the other insperations as well
Evan from Riverside, NjNot only did the rap duo Twiztid remake it but they also changed the lyrics, "Women seem wicked when your unwanted", to "Women seem Twisted when your unwanted."
Moi-même from ParisWhile Morrisson did write songs about drugs, reducing this one to a bad trip would be dumbing it down. The way I see it, it's a brilliant description of the freudian uncanny.
Jason from State Of Fitz, NjI agree with jacle from lowell,its amazing that one of the greatest songs about alienation and lonliness was from a sex symbol "women seem wicked when your not wanted" is brillliant. I get chills everytime i hear this song
Tristan from Philadelphia, PaFirst time I heard this song was on my dads old record player off or Strange Days, before hearing it I thought, who are the doors? This song got me to be the fan I am today.
Michael from Jacksonvillw, FlThe reason why Jim took so much acid was to "find the unknown." If you read Rimbaud-Jim's favorite poet-you would know that Jim took drugs to express himself poetically, not to feel good; it was all for poetry. Not to mention, the Blake quote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." Jim read that and started dropping acid like they were pez. Also, that is where the Door got there name. In John Densmore's Riders on the Storm, Jim was having a writer's block so he went up to a friend's house that was on a hill that overlooked all of LA, and he wrote People are Strange. It is easy to be depressed when one is on writer's block, but this song is the greatest acid song of all time. Think of the word "stranger" as a pun; one who is on acid is obviously stranger than everyone else, but when you're on acid everything is strange. As for the people who think this song is about depression, I am just going to say that I have heard this song before I took acid and after, if you don't think this song is about acid, trust me it is.
Jack from Claremont, Mnwhat don't people get? jim morrison may have been a drug addict, but he wasn't high every minute of every day. Only later in his life. He wrote this song about all the strange people he encountered on his tours, and possibly even about himself.
Lalah from Wasilla, AkI sing this when the coworker in the cube next to me talkes to loud. It bugs her.
Erin from Arlington, NeI don't know whether the song is the result of depression or drugs, all i know is that i can't get this song out of my head, it's something everyone can relate to.
Leah from Brooklyn, NyThis song was covered by ECHO in the motion picture soundtrack of THE LOST BOYS.
Taylor from Barnum, Mnmy friends make fun of me for liking the doors, people are strange.(i am kinda obsessed) i have a t shirt of morrison and on the back it has the last verse to the song.im can play the intro on guitar and i play it over and over... and over. r i p morrison. forever 27
Taylor from Barnum, MnI love this song. I listen to it at least twice a day.it's a perfect song to listen to when your mad at people
Lalah from Wasilla, AkThis is the theme music that runs through my head when I am walking through airports.
Rich from St.pete, FlI agree with tori. it is about a trip- finding it difficult to recognize faces, sometimes they are distorted and ugly in the dark, and it's all you. and he used "seem"
Jack from Lowell, Ma"women seem wicked, when you're unwanted."
i think all of us fellas have been THERE. funny it should come from "sex symbol" Jim.
Dev01d from Wollongong, AustraliaThis is my favourite song by The Doors, also my favourite song to play on guitar. I just play the intro over and over. I think it's deffinately about depression and feeling alienated and doubt it's about drugs. I agree with Dustin that it's pretty stupid how people can't look past people's drug use.
Kim from Stuart, FlI believe I read something in a magazine that was a mixture of all these stories. Morrison was depressed, so he went for a walk in the desert, and saw some people having a tripping party in their garden. He sat and watched them a while from a distance (they were stoned out of their heads so they didn't notice), then went home and wrote this song.
Dustin from My Home, InThis song is obviously about depression any one who thinks this is about an lsd trip only focuese on the fact that jim has done drugs and can only focus on that to many great artists liek jimi hendrix have had there songs meaings tarred and featherd by people who know nothing of the band except that drugs are commonly associated with them and now ill get to how i figure it is abotu depression well the rain in the song could represnt the depression and faces comign out of the rain while it coudl be about an lsd trip which i highly highly doubt could represnt the people he meets wiht while he felt alienated becauzse of depression and the depression is what makes him strange so think abotu it like i see it it may be worng but it is jsut my opinion on it all
Fred from New York, NyNot EVERY song is about drugs, folks. Jim was inspired to write this song because of the strange people he met when he was touring.
Shrek from CaitlinMaybe not for you Tori..
Heather from Irving, Txthis is a badass song first off cause its very true people are strange but all in different ways!very strange..
Vanessa from Albuquerque, Nmpeople are strange and jim is hot
Ann from New York, NyThe '60's was about so much MORE than LSD; people took it to expand their minds, not to escape. Jim Morrison was a very serious poet who happened on the luck of expressing himself through music. Those of us who lived through the '60's and understand the era understand Jim.
Shea from Laguna Hills, Cahaha yeah definitely wasn't written about a lsd trip... jim morrison wrote this about being a constant stranger. read wild child by linda ashcroft.
Ashley from Moncton, CanadaIt's true, people are strange.
Elysia from Hamilton, New ZealandYou're probably all right. I think this song is about lonliness in general, this can be caused while tripping or depression or whatever. We all tend to feel alienated sometimes, Jim's mind saw things through in extreme measures..so why does it have to be literal? Maybe he felt that in his little world at the time he wrote it - that faces came out of the rain. Who knows what he was thinking and feeling at the time, but whatever you take from the song is probably right. He was an amazing poet that could and still can reach all of us on different levels.
Craig from Dunedin, New ZealandThis lyric is so introverted,sounds like extreme loneliness-blows me away every time! pssst...keep this a secret...Jim croons Tuesdays and Saturdays at a pub in town here,thinly disguised yank accent...
Josh from Ottumwa, Iano on LSD (acid) to Morrison the doors of perception are cleansed.Everyone is weird in a way,the faces he seen in the rain that night were part of the trip. not just things appear how they truelly are but people too. EVERYONE IS STRANGE!
Stefanie Magura from Rock Hill, ScMakes sense why it would be about LSD.
James from L.a., CaJim was a strange cat. He was never comfortable in his own skin. When he got famous, it blew his mind. Yeah, he was on acid a lot, but if you know anything about Morrison before he became famous, you know that he was a fat nerd for most of his life. That makes you strange, not LSD-- in fact, in the '60's people took acid to fit in.
Michael Picard from Lapwai, IdVery cool for describing people, very deep...
Melissa from Baltimore, Miyin and yang,yang and yin
bad and good,prude and sin
i am strange....I wouldnt have it any other way
i am ms.mojo risin'
Danny Brown from Rumson, NjIn Danny Sugarman's book "No One Here Gets Out Alive" he states jim was driving down a road and saw hippies dancing in the field and came up with the lyric...people are strange...is that true?
Tori from Boston, MaIt's about LSD. "When you're strange" is referring to when you're on drugs. Depression doesn't make faces come out of the rain.
Michela from Brescia, Italyi see the stars come out tonight, than every evening
jim is a star
he is brightest star of sky
Mike from Chicago, IlRobby Krieger wrote SOME of the music, not all of it.
Kev from Hull, Englandder! its about lsd
Austin from Holly, Mithis song was also covered by Echo and the bunnyman for the soundtrack to the cult horror film "the lost boys"
Brian from Paoli, InYeah I heard that too, I like the guitar or bass riff, and the solo is sweeeet.
Julie from Boston, Maaccording to Ray Manzerek, Jim wrote the song after leaving a party in New York very, very early in the morning watching the people come up out of the subways.
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Star Refrigeration shortlisted for four RAC Industry Awards
Astrid Prado
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aprado@star-ref.co.uk
The company has been nominated six times across four categories at the RAC Cooling Awards 2019
The leading industrial refrigeration company, Star Refrigeration, is nominated amongst the biggest names in the cooling industry including Panasonic, Toshiba and Mitsubishi at this year’s RAC Cooling Awards. The 2019 shortlist was announced last week ahead of the awards ceremony taking place on September 25th at The London Hilton on Park Lane.
As one of the highlights in the industry annual calendar, the RAC Cooling Awards brings together over 500 professionals from the refrigeration and air conditioning sector. The awards aim to recognise and celebrate best practice and standout achievements from the previous 12 months. In 2018, Star was awarded Refrigeration Innovation of the Year for its Ethos energy management system.
Rob Lamb, Star Refrigeration’s Sales and Marketing Director said, “It’s an honour that five projects have been shortlisted for four prizes at the RAC Cooling Awards. The company is going from strength to strength and it’s always wonderful news to hear we’ve been nominated for accolades as it means we’re making a difference in the industry. Our team look forward to attending the awards dinner and hopefully bring back some prizes.”
The RAC Awards currently has 16 categories. Star Refrigeration has been shortlisted for Contractor of the Year, Product of the Year, Environmental Collaboration of the Year and Low Carbon Achievement with multiple nominations in some categories.
The Product of the Year award refers to Star’s latest air-cooled chiller, the Azanechiller 2.0. The packaged low charge ammonia chiller range helps customers avoid F-gas refrigerants, offering a future proof solution which will deliver reliable cooling for 20 + years. Boasting excellent efficiency, the Azanechiller 2.0 reduces running costs and carbon footprint – with efficiency figures that are up to 146% higher than the European EcoDesign Directive recommendations.
In the Low Carbon Achievement category, Star is shortlisted twice – once for its award winning Ethos system, and again for its collaboration with Gist which delivered Europe’s most efficient chill store plant in Chesterfield. The new installation has cut carbon emissions by 943 tonnes of CO2/kWh per year when compared to the typical cooling demand of similar European chill stores. In addition, Gist reduced their annual energy bill by over £200,000 per year when compared to UK ‘Best practice’ guidelines.
Star’s partnership with The Ice Co, which led to making existing plants more energy efficient, has been shortlisted for Environmental Collaboration of the Year (along with the Gist project). The innovative Ethos software was deployed at one of the company’s sites in South Kirby. The system identified key areas where savings could be made, resulting in a 33% reduction in energy consumption and over £100,000 saved per annum on electricity. Ethos, which collects data from equipment to highlight inefficiencies, is now being installed across The Ice Co’s other sites to further reduce carbon emissions.
A panel of 12 judges will now decide the winners of the awards, due to be announced at the prestigious awards dinner and ceremony on 25th September.
For more information about the RAC Cooling Awards 2019 or to book, visit: https://coolingawards.racplus.com
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Ward 2 - Councilmember Noecker
Ward 2 includes the neighborhoods of West 7th Street, the West Side, Summit Hill, Railroad Island, Lowertown, and the Downtown business district. The Ward is shaped by its proximity to the Mississippi River. Harriet Island Regional Park, Lilydale Park, and the Mississippi National River Recreation Area are located on the banks of the river in Ward 2.
About Councilmember Noecker
Rebecca Noecker is an innovative leader, a community-builder, and a strong advocate for social justice.
Rebecca grew up in St. Louis Park and earned her bachelor’s degree in Social Studies from Harvard College. She dedicated her early career to educational equity, as a middle school science teacher with Teach For America in Baton Rouge, a program officer at the Baton Rouge Area Foundation and Teach For India, and as director of community engagement at AchieveMpls.
Rebecca has served on the board of the West Side Community Organization and the St. Paul Planning Commission, and she founded West Siders for Strong Schools, a neighborhood group dedicated to promoting excellent public schools on the West Side.
In 2015, Rebecca was elected to be the first woman to represent Ward 2 on the Saint Paul City Council. Her priorities are equity, economic development and creating opportunities for young people.
Rebecca lives with her husband Shane Noecker, and their sons, Whitman and Fitzgerald, on St. Paul’s West Side.
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West Side: February 13, 6-7:30 pm, Baker Community Center, 209 Page St W
Downtown: February 27, 6-7:30 pm, Black Dog Cafe, 308 E Prince St
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January 10, 8-9:30 am, Capital View Cafe, 637 South Smith Ave.
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January 23, 5:00-6:30 pm, Joe & Stan's, 949 7th St. W.
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February 11, 12-12:45 pm, Virtual Lunch with Rebecca, Facebook
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Paris has always been at a crossroads of ideas. It began as a small island and over time grew into a sprawling metropolis, representing 30% of French GDP and 40% of French R&D spending, welcoming 60 million of visitors each year. Paris has been the cradle of inventions: flat glass, the sewing machine, photography, hydraulic turbine, and department stores to name a few. The SMS Annual Conference in Paris is a place to express your own breakthrough ideas.
Although the conference theme is “Strategies in the Era of De-Globalization,” Paris remains a global city that is open for business. It has the headquarters of many global firms including LVMH (a luxury goods conglomerate), Havas (an advertising and media company), BlaBlaCar (ride sharing provider), Areva (nuclear power operator), Danone or Air France and Eurotunnel. At a time when countries and regions seem to withdraw from global integration, Paris strives to regain an international edge. Inviting city bankers to join its "Golden Triangle" next to the Champs Elysees, luring researchers who face criticism to settle in its Metropolitan area, and vying to organize the next Olympic Games are just some of the examples of Paris’s new ambition.
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Let the story unfold
Collins Debden launches new 200- year anniversary brand campaign by Superunion Singapore.
The handcrafted animated film tells the story of the heritage stationery brand entirely through paper.
Founded in 1819 in the ancient Candleriggs of Glasgow, Collins Debden published diaries and notebooks for over two centuries. Collins’ Presbyterian founder, William Collins, was the diary craftsman for the Queen of England and counted the Duke of Wellington among his associates, igniting love for the craft and high quality stationery to its loyal customers for generations.
The brand’s next chapter begins this week with the launch of a new campaign created by our Singapore team. Honouring the brand’s 200-year anniversary, the brand film celebrates the company’s Scottish heritage, tracing Collins’ journey over the years, highlighting key milestones to present day, using paper as a medium to tell its story.
The outdoor and social media campaign is launched in Singapore, UK, Australia and Japan and includes a series of short films as well as limited edition notebooks, and was done in collaboration with Lights and Shadows Productions.
“To celebrate Collins’ 200-year anniversary, we leveraged our long-standing relationship with Superunion. Once again, they delivered creative excellence and a sense of craft that is authentic to the brand's heritage. The team combined remarkable passion with their in-depth understanding of the brand story to apply their wide-ranging capabilities in bringing the strategy to life."
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“We are thrilled to bring the Collins story to life through these beautiful brand videos, and we feel the quality and creativity speaks to the brand’s impressive heritage and narrative. We’ve enjoyed a long-standing relationship with Collins, developing a trust rooted in strategic and creative direction, allowing us to operate at our most creative level.”
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“It’s a pleasure to work with the team at Collins; they are receptive, collaborative and ambitious. The brand has such rich heritage – the ideas just create themselves.”
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Freedom Is Not About Speaking up but Choosing to Be Silent
by Gustavo Razzetti March 13, 2018
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Freedom is not a status but a mindset
Our beliefs imprison us— Pic by davide ragusa
“In my country, we go to prison first and then become President.” — Nelson Mandela
Imagine that you’ve just been set free after 27 years in prison. The crowds gather around you to listen to your first words in decades. Your only crime was to oppose a white-minority regime. Those who imprisoned you, are right at your side too. What would you say?
“I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom for all.” — a 71-year-old Nelson Mandela said.
Devoid of self-pity, he addressed the same people who had jailed him and who had brutalized fellow blacks to preach “true reconciliation.” Mandela always felt free, even if his body was kept behind bars for almost three decades.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said: “He came out a far greater person than the man who went in.”
Most of us would have felt rage. We’d probably cursed our captors and wished to take revenge. But Mandela did not. He learned that “courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” Paraphrasing his words, a free man is he who conquers fear.
Why We Got It Backward
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” — Søren Kierkegaard
Our society defines freedom as “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.” That’s the biggest paradox of freedom: if nothing restraints how each person behaves, it will be absolute chaos. The bully would be free to enslave the meek. It will eventually mean that only those at the top are free, and those at the bottom — the weak — are not
Your freedom ends where someone else’s starts.
In America many people that freedom equals to doing whatever they want — freedom is a belief above any moral law. Some folks actually believe it’s okay to attack others in the name of liberty. They turn freedom into an excuse. However, imposing one’s beliefs is ideological slavery.
Nelson Mandela said: “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
You are free to think whatever you want. But in-your-face attitudes, just to win a discussion, will make you a hostage of others’ approval. Whatever you believe imprisons you, as I wrote here.
Freedom is more than the right to speak up — knowing when to stay silent sets you free.
Are We Free to Be Free?
“The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.” — D.T. Suzuki
Do you control your behaviors?
The impulse to take the most basic actions originate in the brain at least a full second before we consciously are aware. Daniel Kahneman describes in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow the unconscious mind may control far more of our conscious decision making than we ever imagined.
‘Determination’ versus ‘free will’ is one of the greatest debates around the notion of freedom.
According to free will, a person is responsible for their own actions.
The determinist approach suggests that all behavior is caused by preceding factors — thus, predictable.
For American Psychologist William James, the ultimate freedom tied to spirituality — is knowing God and selflessly following its will. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, believed that free will is an illusion — our unconscious mind is in charge, not us. His disciple, Carl Jung, had a different perspective: self-awareness and self-knowledge equal freedom.
It’s hard to achieve freedom when you don’t know what it really means.
Viktor Frankl, like Mandela, was also a victim of oppressors — he spent many years in Nazi concentrations camps. His personal experience was the basis of his idea that freedom is internal — an attitude. Frankl learned to transcend the misery. Thus he felt free in spite of being captive.
Freedom is not living on autopilot.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy(CBT) promotes taking ownership and accepting our role in ‘creating’ our own suffering. Albert Ellis says: “People don’t just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.” You free yourself when you let go of thoughts and distressful emotions.
Let’s agree that there’s a nice combination of both determination and free will behind how we act. Non-attachment — living more fully and being authentic — is a state of freedom. To set yourself free you have to give up the masks you wear.
Freedom Is a Mindset, Not a Status
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor Frankl
Our collective imagery of freedom is full of balloons, people walking barefooted, and open arms enjoying the moment. We depict freedom as something ethereal and effortless. But it’s anything like that. It takes courage and effort to set yourself free.
Freedom is not something you inherit, but a state of mind that needs to be cultivated. Freedom is not a gift for being alive; it’s a reward for living with courage.
Freedom doesn’t grant you any privileges either. On the contrary, those who The likes of Gandhi, Mandela, and Frankl didn’t allow a cell to imprison their spirits— their minds stayed free.
You cannot control everything in life, but not one manages your attitude but you. Learn to self-regulate your freedom — embrace a ‘Mandela’ state of mind
Accept reality: Don’t fight what you cannot control. Mandela didn’t blame his captors or asked himself: “Why me?” He silenced the voice of self-pity and choose courage instead. He took what life threw at him and turned it into a lesson.
Respect everyone: Your freedom is not more valuable than other people’s. The belief that liberty is a status, we create hierarchies and divisions. You have rights, like everyone else. Freedom cannot be used as an excuse to bully the weak.
Have tolerance: Your beliefs can easily blind you. Remember, you define your own boundaries — your freedom ends where your neighbor’s start. Be patient and tolerant of those who think differently. Too many people turn freedom into an excuse for domination.
Choose silence: In-your-face beliefs are an attack on others, not freedom. You have the right to think what you want and speak up your mind. Free will is not about doing what you can, but to choose what you actually do. To stay silent is an act of courage — choose real freedom.
Playing the second amendment card is an act of cowardice. It’s using freedom as an excuse to do whatever we want. Because no one would attack the notion of freedom, we turned it into a shield to hide from any open discussion. However, living in a society has a price: other opinions matter too.
Freedom is a state of mind, not a status to brag about.
Set Yourself Free
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We think that freedom merely means being free of any outside control.
We believe that we have the right to do whatever we want, whenever we want.
We live in a time of fear.
We’ve turned freedom into a precious asset — we have become its prisoners. The thing that we love is the reason why we hate others. We wave a flag to silence those who think differently; we’ve turned our colors into anything but freedom.
Fear itself is not necessarily a bad thing; it can serve as an alarm, a call to action. We are afraid of what we don’t know or understand. We are scared of what’s out of our control. That’s because we have a hard time letting go.
We fear what we desire the most. When you are obsessed with being successful, the fear of failure paralyzes you. You then become afraid of becoming successful too. The same happens with freedom.
When you are not afraid of who you are, then you are free from being accepted, you are free from appreciation, from speculation, from
David Foster Wallace said: “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
Stop playing the victim. Don’t use your rights as an excuse to do what you want in the name of freedom.
Be gentle and kind to yourself. The moment you liberate yourself from your own attacks, you won’t need to fight other people. It’s not easy. But it’s the path to liberation.
Embrace freedom as a mindset. It’s not just a right, but something you build and nurture in spite of adversity.
Silence will set you free. It’s essential in preserving the distinction between mind and body on which human freedom depends.
Nelson Mandela said: “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Talk to yourself in the language of compassion and tolerance. That will set you free. Not a flag.
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Palestinian convert to Judaism freed after detainment, beatings in PA jail
David Ben Avraham recounts two months of imprisonment, including efforts to make him recant; though Israel made no comment, officials reportedly worked quietly for his release
By TOI staff 8 December 2019, 7:00 pm 4 Edit
A paramedic examines David Ben Avraham (c) after his release from Palestinian prison, as behind him friend Haim Pereg looks on (United Hatzalah)
A Palestinian man who converted to Judaism, was jailed by the Palestinian Authority and reportedly beaten and pressured to recant over a two-month period, was finally released last week.
Following his release on Thursday, David Ben Avraham, formerly Sameh Zeitoun, is staying in the Jerusalem home of an Israeli, Haim Parag, who helped him through the conversion process.
Ben Avraham converted through the Bnei Brak Rabbinical Court of Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, who died in October. Ben Avraham was arrested in early October by armed men while visiting his son in the West Bank.
“They handcuffed me and took me to jail,” he told the Ynet news site on Friday. “I took a lot of beatings there.”
Ben Avraham was held in a Hebron facility, where “the guards told everyone I had converted and I was Jewish. Prisoners would gang up on me, choke me and beat me badly.”
David Ben Avraham, formerly Sameh Zeitoun (YouTube screenshot)
He said he was later held in solitary confinement. Palestinian officials initially claimed the reason was a violent altercation with his brother, but when his bail was met and a Palestinian court ordered his release, the Hebron governor prevented it.
Ben Avraham said clerics were sent to try to convince him to return to Islam. “I refused outright,” he said. “I decided to become a part of the Jewish people and I have no intention of going back.”
He said he was fed meager rations that “wouldn’t satisfy a mouse. I was denied water. I fainted three times and they took me to a hospital.”
According to Ynet, several Israelis made efforts to secure Ben Avraham’s release throughout his detainment: Pereg appealed to the defense and interior ministers to give Ben Avraham Israeli citizenship and pressure the PA to free him; Rabbi Shlomo Glick, secretary at Karelitz’s court, made efforts through ultra-Orthodox channels to influence Interior Minister Aryeh Deri; and several nonprofit organizations campaigned for Israeli judicial officials to intervene.
Official Israel treats the rare cases of Palestinian conversions warily. The government’s Conversion Authority regularly rejects Palestinian applicants without review. Some turn to private institutions, as in the case of Ben Avraham.
Ynet reported that the Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration, which handles day-to-day relations with Palestinian authorities, officially said it regarded the matter as an internal Palestinian one. However, behind the scenes, senior officials pressured the PA to free Ben Avraham.
The Civil Administration has also granted Ben Avraham a permit to remain in Israel, though it was not immediately clear whether the authorization was temporary or permanent.
Parag said Ben Avraham was family to him.
“Thirty years ago I lost my brother in a terror attack… but I didn’t lose my faith in people,” he told Ynet. “We hope Israel will recognize his conversion and grant him citizenship. He’s a true hero, like his grandfather Said Zeitoun who saved dozens of Jews during the 1929 massacre in Hebron.”
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Chemoradiotherapy Before Surgery Could Extend Lives of Pancreatic Cancer Patients
News Jun 06, 2018 | Original Story from Cancer Research UK
Pancreatic Cancer Cells. Credit: National Cancer Institute \ USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Pancreatic cancer patients treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy before surgery may live longer than those who have immediate surgery, according to unpublished clinical trial results.
The research, funded by the Dutch Cancer Society, looked at patients who had pancreatic cancer that could be removed by surgery because their cancer had not spread from the pancreas.
Patients who had chemoradiotherapy before surgery lived longer on average. The time until the pancreatic cancer came back after treatment was also extended in those receiving chemoradiotherapy, 9.9 months on average compared to 7.9 months in those having immediate surgery.
“We believe that this may be a practice-changing trial,” said Dr Geertjan Van Tienhoven, from the Department of Radiation Oncology, Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam.
The results are being presented at the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Better outcomes for patients
Dr David Chang, a pancreatic cancer surgeon from the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Royal Infirmary, said: “The main conclusion from this study is that giving patients chemotherapy and chemoradiation prior to surgery may yield a better long-term outcome than surgery upfront.”
Chang said the results were exciting because chemotherapy before surgery has been adopted in other cancer types, such as breast and large bowel, and this study now provides evidence to suggest benefit for pancreatic cancer too.
“This is a rapidly evolving area of research in pancreatic cancer, with other combination chemotherapy regimens being tested that may be even more effective both in tumour shrinkage and long-term prognosis” - Dr David Chang, the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Royal Infirmary
246 patients took part in the phase 3 PREOPANC-1 trial and were randomly assigned to receive either surgery immediately or chemoradiotherapy for 10 weeks followed by surgery. Survival was 13.5 months on average for those who had surgery immediately. Patients who were given a combination of the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine (Gemzar) and radiotherapy before surgery survived an average of 17.1 months.
There was no significant difference in the number of serious side effects experienced between the two groups of patients, the researchers said.
Between 10 to 15 in 100 patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer are eligible for surgery. This depends on how developed the tumour is and how well the patient is.
Dr Chang, who leads part of Cancer Research UK’s Precision Panc trial, said many different treatment combinations for pancreatic cancer are now emerging and further work is needed to see which may benefit patients most before surgery.
“This is a rapidly evolving area of research in pancreatic cancer, with other combination chemotherapy regimens being tested that may be even more effective both in tumour shrinkage and long-term prognosis.”
Impacting the clinic
Having chemotherapy and radiotherapy before surgery is not the standard of care across the UK for pancreatic cancer, although Chang says more centres are starting to adopt it.
“The results of PREOPANC trial certainly strengthens the argument for it,” said Chang.
He added: “Further studies are being planned in the UK through the Cancer Research UK-funded Precision-Panc initiative to work out which preoperative combination regimen would work the best at an individual pancreatic cancer patient level.”
“This study is an example of how treatments can be refined in an attempt to work better for patients,” said ASCO expert Dr Andrew Epstein.
This article has been republished from materials provided by Cancer Research UK. Note: material may have been edited for length and content. For further information, please contact the cited source.
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#WhatToWear: to Do a High Intensity Workout
Channel your inner warrior.
By Tyler McCall
When it comes to working out every muscle in your body, not much can beat a high intensity training session. Not only does it get your heart pumping, the high range of movement and use of your own body weight will help sculpt some serious muscle.
There's plenty of options out there, from classes at Barry's Bootcamp to personal training sessions, but they all come down to the same thing: Sweating. Like, a lot.
What It Is: Russell Bateman, who serves as personal trainer to women like Suki Waterhouse, Ellie Goulding, and Neelam Gill, fuses traditional workout moves with more fluid movement — almost like choreography. It's all about changing things up. His training sessions will have girls carrying each other on their backs, upside-down mountain climbers, and crawling on the floor. He calls it his "cave girl sorority."
"I want girls to get as far away from their comfort zone as possible and remember to never underestimate themselves because deep inside, they are stronger than they think," Bateman says. "At the end of the day the best project you'll ever work on is you so it's up to me to get the best out of everyone who entrusts me."
What to Wear: You'll be moving around the whole time, so be sure you feel secure up top with a sturdy sports bra. Lace up a good pair of sneakers for all the various movement you'll be doing, and pick leggings over shorts if you're feeling insecure about climbing on top of a friend's back with sweaty legs.
What Not to Wear: "A frown," Bateman says. "There should always be smiles no matter how hard the exercise." Not only does it release endorphins, a positive attitude is the key to getting through any fitness routine.
Don't Forget to Bring: Water, of course — Bateman likes adding cucumber and aloe vera to raw coconut water for an added boost — but also a fitness tracker to keep track of all your activity. A hoodie to stay warm post-workout is also recommended.
Above: Abercrombie & Fitch iconic full-zip hoodie, $29, abercrombie.com; Fitbit Charge HR Wireless Activity Wristband, $134.99, overstock.com; Lucas Hugh Cross Back stretch tank, $155, netaporter.com; Nike Epic printed Dri-FIT stretch-jersey leggings, $80, netaporter.com; Stella McCartney for Adidas Pure Boost shoes, $135.99, adidas.com.
Related: 7 Ways Your Wardrobe Is Sabotaging Your Workout
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Match Day Guide: Farsley Celtic
Your guide to a matchday at New Bucks Head
AFC Telford United welcome Farsley Celtic to the New Bucks Head on Saturday 7th December.
The fixture will not be segregated so Farsley Celtic supporters will be able to purchase a ticket for any areas of the ground.
Buy tickets:
Prices are as follows:
• Adult: £14
• Concessions: £10.00
• Students & 16-19 Yr Olds (Id Required) £5.00
• Under 16’s: £1
For those supporters who wish to purchase on the day of the game in cash or by card, you can still do so at the new ticket office which will be based outside the East Terrace near to the Learning Centre Building.
The Ticket Office will be open from 12.30pm until 3.15pm.
Tickets can also be purchased in person from the Main Office, 10am until 4pm Monday – Friday or purchased over the phone by calling 01952 640064. Tickets purchased in advance can be collected from the Club Shop on Saturday between 1.30pm-3pm.
It is strongly recommended that you buy a ticket online in advance, to avoid long queues at the ticket office.
For those supporters that require disabled access and those with carer assistance, you will be able to pay on the assisted gate which is based next to the club shop.
Please click here to purchase your tickets https://afctelfordunited.ticketco.events/uk/en
AFC Telford United welcome students from the Telford Priory School who will be performing during the day around the ground and again at half time on the pitch.
We will also be holding a Carol Service in the bar from 5.15pm with Mince Pies and Mulled Wine available for everyone that attends
LGBT Live Auction
We have a very small number of LGBT shirts available to bid for in a live auction on Saturday. The auction will be begin at 5.30pm. Supporters are welcome to email [email protected]
Car parking is available at the New Bucks Head priced at £3.00 per car. Limited spaces are available on the Learning Centre Car Park but there is plenty of spaces available on TCAT Car Park.
Supporters who pre-book taxis will should be dropped outside the Whitehouse Hotel on Watling Street.
Ticket Office and Club Shop opening hours
The Ticket Office Is open from 12 noon until 3.15pm on a match day.
Our Club Shop will be open from 1.30pm through until kick off.
The club shop will be selling copied of Football Manager 2019 for £20.00. Please pop into the club shop to see what else they have to offer in the build up to Christmas
The stadium gates open at 1.30pm. Access for hospitality guests will be through hotel reception – this will be open from 1pm.
The Bucks matchday programme can be bought from sellers around the ground or from the club shop at a price of £2.50.
Products on offer at the New Bucks Head which are provided by Mitchells Catering include burgers, hot dogs and pies confectionary and crisps. Cold drinks such as Pepsi, Tango, and Water are available from the snack bars
Toy & Food Bank Collection
AFC Telford United are appealing for supporters to help spread some festive cheer by donating to the hospital toy appeal ahead of this Christmas period.
As Christmas approaches, it is important to remember that many children will spend Christmas in hospital this year and with this in mind, we are looking for donations of toys that our first team players can help deliver to those children who will be in a less fortunate position this Christmas.
The players & management staff will be visiting the Princess Hospital on Thursday 19th December ahead of the Junior Bucks Christmas Party.
The Bucks are also collecting food to support those less fortunate within our community. The food should not be chilled or frozen and have plenty of shelf life still left on it.
Seasonal products such as minced pies, biscuits and Christmas cakes/puddings would be particularly welcome as well as items such as tinned goods. We will then pass on to local charities so that those in need can benefit from your generous donations.
Any donations would be gratefully received in the club office ahead of the game on Saturday
The Learning Centre bar opens from 12.00 noon and is open for both set of supporters. Everton v Chelsea will be live on BT Sport from 12.30pm
Inside the ground, supporters can drink at the Sir Stephen Roberts Bar from 1.30pm.
Supporters will also be able to purchase a drink on the East Terrace during the game.
The First Aid Room can be located under the control tower. Please ask the nearest stewards if you require any further assistance.
There are numerous dedicated disabled toilet facilities around the ground.
AFC Telford United provide a careers champion who is on hand to help supporters who require assistance.
Disabled supporters will be able to pay on the assisted gate which is based next to the club shop.
If you hear someone behaving in an inappropriate manner, putting the Club at risk during a match day you are entitled to report them anonymously by texting 07572 236 037 which is a new system that will be monitored from the control tower on a match day.
Fans who do behave in an inappropriate manner, bringing the Club into disrepute will face limited or lifetime bans, loss of their season ticket, or arrest by the Police.
AFC Telford United & BBC Radio Shropshire provide live match commentary on every fixture during the 2019/20 season on 96FM.
Alternatively, supporters can follow BucksWriter on the Live Club Twitter feed by following @telfordutd
News / 30 December 2019
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Allium telomeres unmasked: the unusual telomeric sequence (CTCGGTTATGGG)n is synthesized by telomerase.
FISH (Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization)
Authors: Petr P. Fajkus, Vratislav V. Peška, Zdeňka Z. Sitová, Jana J. Fulnečková, Martina M. Dvořáčková, Roman R. Gogela, Eva E. Sýkorová, Jan J. Hapala, Jiří J. Fajkus
Published: 01/30/2016, The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology
Phylogenetic divergence in Asparagales plants is associated with switches in telomere sequences. The last switch occurred with divergence of the genus Allium (Amaryllidaceae) from the other Allioideae (formerly Alliaceae) genera, resulting in uncharacterized telomeres maintained by an unknown mechanism. To characterize the unknown Allium telomeres, we applied a combination of bioinformatic processing of transcriptomic and genomic data with standard approaches in telomere biology such as BAL31 sensitivity tests, terminal restriction fragment analysis, the telomere repeat amplification protocol (TRAP), and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Using these methods, we characterize the unusual telomeric sequence (CTCGGTTATGGG)n present in Allium species, demonstrate its synthesis by telomerase, and characterize the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) subunit of Allium cepa. Our findings open up the possibility of studying the molecular details of the evolutionary genetic change in Allium telomeres and its possible role in speciation. Experimental studies addressing the implications of this change in terms of the interplay of telomere components may now be designed to shed more light on telomere functions and evolution in general.
© 2015 The Authors The Plant Journal © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Helicopters & Machine Guns
Culling feral hogs from the sky in Texas takes off
Tourists looking for ever more thrilling holidays are taking to the skies above Texas to shoot wild hogs as part of the state’s effort to limit the spread of an invasive species that annually causes millions of dollars in damage to farmland and livestock nationally.
For up to $50,000, people can hunt the feral hogs from a helicopter and even use a machine gun to mow them down.
“There’s only so many places in the world you can shoot machine guns out of a helicopter and no one shoots back,” said Chris Britt, co-owner of HeliBacon, one of the companies offering the aerial hog hunts.
There were 2,752 helicopter hog hunts in Texas last year, up 81 percent from 2011, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department data. About 34,400 hogs were killed in those hunts, up 53 percent.
The total U.S. population of the hogs is estimated at more than 6 million, and state and federal government officials are increasing efforts to rid themselves of the pesky animals.
There are nearly 150 companies and individuals permitted to hunt invasive feral hogs from helicopters as part of the Texas’ so-called pork chopper bill passed in 2011. State legislators last month sent a bill to Governor Greg Abbott that would allow hog hunting from hot air balloons.
Animals rights activists are not fans.
“The Humane Society of the United States opposes the use of aerial gunning – whether from a helicopter or a hot air balloon – as a means of resolving conflicts with wildlife populations because it is unnecessarily cruel, dangerous and costly compared to other wild pig control methods,” said Samantha Hagio, a director at the agency.
Slideshow (4 Images)However, aerial hunting is one of the most effective ways to eradicate hogs in open areas such as Texas fields of corn and rice that are destroyed, said Jack Mayer, manager of environmental sciences at Georgia’s Savannah River Laboratory and author of “Wild Pigs in the United States.”
Even so, hunting and trapping are not keeping up with the rate of breeding and the feral herd continues to grow.
“You are not even stemming the tide,” Mayer said by phone.
Wild boars were brought to Texas and released for hunting in the 1930s. They bred with free-ranging domestic animals and escapees that had adapted to the wild, according to the Smithsonian. Since hogs, wild or otherwise, are not native to the United States, they have no predators and proliferated across Texas and other states.
About $25.55 million was appropriated this year to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to tackle feral hogs on the national level and the agency is testing unmanned drones to track the hogs that thrive in swamps and forests, said Dale Nolte, the USDA’s feral swine program manager.
Trump backs off emergency order to end shutdownHelicopter hunting already is allowed in Louisiana and Oklahoma legislators are considering a bill that would permit aerial hunts there.
Hot air balloons could allow hunters to approach hogs more quietly than a helicopter or give shooters a steadier shot, Mayer said.
In South Carolina, where aerial hog hunting is not permitted, farmer Rusty Kinard pays a local hunter $25 for each hog killed on his land. Still, there are hundreds near his fields and the hogs ate through nearly 30 acres (12 hectares) of peanuts last month.
“We will kill them suckers, every one we can,” he said.
Reporting by Michael Hirtzer in Chicago; Editing by Marguerita Choy
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According to the Department for International Trade’s inward investment statistics for 2018/19, the UK’s leading European source markets are Germany, Netherlands and France.
These findings are also reflected in the Thames Valley, with the region’s Inward Investment Results Report highlighting Spain, Sweden and Italy as additional key markets for FDI in the region, where 38 out of a total of 105 new projects emanated from these six markets.
See some of the many examples of European companies investing in the region below.
Why do Portuguese investors choose the UK?
Hear Christopher Sainty – the British Ambassador to Portugal – share his views and experiences on investing in the UK and doing business in Portugal.
Why should German businesses invest in Great Britain?
Senior industry representatives share their views on what makes the UK the natural target for companies that are investing and growing.
The German-owned global pharmaceutical company had a number of compelling reasons for choosing to remain in the Thames Valley when relocating their UK headquarters to new premises in Reading – discover them here.
The Italian-owned independent aerospace system engineering company welcomed the opportunity to work with the strong cluster of space-related companies and the chance to exploit the sector know-how that Harwell offers. Find out more on our dedicated Space page.
Global technology giant Thales, whose head office is just outside Paris, has a 130-year history in the UK, incorporating many iconic British businesses, such as Racal. The recent opening of their state-of-the-art facility in Green Park, Reading, reaffirmed the company as a major contributor to the UK and the Thames Valley economy.
What attracts French companies to the Thames Valley?
Sarah Robert speaks, in both English and French, of her role in James Cowper Kreston’s International Tax team and what makes the region a destination of choice for French companies.
What makes the region a destination of choice for Italian companies?
Hear from Charlotte Firth (in both English and Italian), part of James Cowper Kreston’s International Tax team, on what the region has to offer Italian inward investors.
Barcelona Biotech Breakfast: Opportunity for Thames Valley organisations to attend
Barcelona Biotech Breakfast Wednesday, 19th June will see the Department for International Trade (DIT) host its Barcelona Biotech Breakfast at the Parc Cientific de Barcelona, in partnership with Biocat and CataloniaBio & HealthTech. On the topic of ‘Applying Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery and Development’,......
RVJ Agribusiness Academy moves into the Thames Valley
The RVJ Agribusiness Academy is part of parent company RVJ Eurasia Food and Agro Services. The academy is the product of 7+ years of consultation with education, business and stakeholders in the provision of agri-business education. In February 2016 the Academy was officially launched in the United Kingdom,......
Reaction to the EU Referendum Vote to Leave
The decision of the British people to leave the European Union is a historic decision. Some business people will be pleased with the result and others resigned to it. Yet all companies will expect business to go on, investments and international trade to continue, markets......
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David Beckham’s betrayal of trust denies England
Rob Hughes
July 1 1998, 9:23am, The Times
One must now lay to rest the notion that Argentina could only beat England at football through the Hand of God. Twelve years on from Diego Maradona’s infamy in Mexico City, comes David Beckham, a gifted but flawed player, to show that the English are well capable of defeating themselves.
The men he betrayed were quite magnificent. They were warriors for the cause, none greater than Paul Ince, who tried to do the running for two men and whose inconsolable tears at the end should be seen as proof of how very deeply most players care for their nation. That Ince should have had his penalty saved rubbed salt into the wounds to a fine man’s pride. How he and others had strived against adversity…
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Maggie Oliver: police 'abandoned' Rochdale child sex victims
A detective who quit in disgust claims hundreds of abuse cases involving gangs were botched
David James Smith
April 14 2013, 1:01am, The Sunday Times
A CATALOGUE of blunders by police in Greater Manchester has allowed child sex abusers to escape justice for up to eight years, a whistleblower claims.
Margaret Oliver, a former detective constable, quit the force in disgust over the way three separate inquiries into gangs of men having sex with underage girls were handled.
In one instance, an aborted foetus from a 13-year-old abuse victim was kept in an evidence store after officers took it without the mother’s knowledge or consent.
Officers established the identity of the father — a married Pakistani taxi driver in his thirties — through DNA evidence in February 2009 but did not charge him for almost two years.
Oliver, who has been commended for her work during murder and gang crime…
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France threatens Syria with repercussions over alleged chemical attack
Camilla Capasso
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Fabius, has called upon the international community to respond with force if it is confirmed that the Syrian government has used chemicals weapons against civilians.
Mr Fabius told BFM TV: “There would have to be reaction with force in Syria from the international community, but there is no question of sending troops on the ground.”
The reaction came after the main Syrian opposition group claimed that chemical weapons in the eastern suburb of Damascus killed more than 1,300 people on Wednesday.
The Syrian government, however, has denied the accusations saying that the rebels are only trying to draw international attention to their cause.
The French minister has asked the UN to send chemical weapons experts to inspect the suburb of Damascus and find out if there was, in fact, a chemical weapon incident.
In the meantime, other countries have condemned the alleged attack.
The Turkish government has commented that, “all red lines” have been crossed and that the UN Council is not able to make a decision on the matter. For its part, Germany has asked the government of Bashar al-Assad to allow the chemical weapons experts examine the area.
So far, around 1,300 people have been found dead, but the number is expected to grow. As the Syrian National Coalition spokesman, Khaled Saleh, said: “We expect the number [of dead] to grow because we just discovered a neighbourhood in Zamalka where there are houses full of dead people.”
Assad’s government was already accused of using chemical weapons on several villages in June, before the United States sent military aid to the Syrian rebels.
The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has claimed, however, that the Syrian government wouldn’t have any need to use chemical weapons as it’s already winning all it’s battles in the field. According to Zarif, the rebels are more likely to use chemical weapons in trying to turn the tables in their favour.
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Some feel tension as fight approaches
Tensions are running a little high as we get closer to the Mellow Mike Tyson-Irish Kevin McBride fight tomorrow night at MCI Center.
Not between the fighters, mind you. Mike is still mellow, and Irish Kevin is still catatonic, though he did show some emotion yesterday with a shake of his fist and a "yes!" after surviving a staredown following the weigh-in at Howard University's Blackburn Ballroom for their scheduled 10-round heavyweight fight.
But those people around the edges and inside the circle of the Mellow Mike business are getting a little steamed. There are many agendas in an event like this -- a major heavyweight fight that has, given the state of today's dismal division, every bit as much juice as a title fight.
For instance, I was discussing the merits of believing anything about Mellow Mike's preparation for this fight with a longtime boxing observer before the weigh-in, and I reiterated what most boxing writers have said about any Tyson training camp: None of the hype about preparation and rededication is believable because it has been proven false so many times before.
A black man in a white robe who was listening in stopped me and asked, "Why does white America hate Mike Tyson?"
I said, "What?"
He said, "I heard what you were saying. Why does white America hate Mike Tyson?"
I said, "I don't hate Mike Tyson. I just don't believe he trained any harder for this fight than any of the others he has blown off before."
He said, "Why do you hate him so much?"
I said, "I don't hate Mike, but I gotta tell you, I'm not too crazy about you right now."
Irish Kevin doesn't seen to hate Mellow Mike, but he also doesn't seem scared of him either. Unlike Wednesday, when he wore sunglasses during the staredown with Mellow Mike at the press conference, the 6-foot-6 Irish Kevin went face to face yesterday with the 5-10 Mellow Mike with nothing covering his eyes, and there didn't seem to be any fear there. If he can sustain that courage between now and when the bell rings tomorrow night, that's half the battle in a Mellow Mike fight.
"[McBride] seems to be pretty confident to me," said heavyweight contender Hasim Rahman, who is an analyst for ESPN for this fight.
Irish Kevin is a pretty big boy as well, weighing in yesterday at 271 pounds, the most of his 13-year pro career. Mellow Mike weighed in at 233, the same weight he carried into the ring when Danny Williams beat him up in four rounds in Louisville, Ky., in July.
The weigh-in for heavyweights is ridiculous because there is no weight to make. But they became events during Muhammad Ali's day and are still treated as such, although most now are as benign as yesterday's.
Mellow Mike was certainly on friendly ground, greeted by a roomful of fans who cheered as he stepped on the stage, took off his pants to reveal white briefs (as if the trousers would have made a difference) and was introduced by the promoter, Rock Newman.
Actually, Newman, a former District fixture and now Las Vegas businessman who was former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe's manager, isn't the promoter for the fight. I just wrote that because it seems to upset a lot of people.
Newman is a consultant to the promoters, but he has been the one doing all the front work -- the introductions during the press conference Wednesday and the weigh-in yesterday. So some news outlets have referred to him in their stories as the promoter, which made the actual promoters for the event so unhappy that the public relations staff was ordered to threaten to revoke the credentials of reporters who continued to refer to Newman as the promoter.
That's what happens when you put your money and reputation on the line and someone else gets the credit -- you get a little testy. Given that context, it was funny when Newman pointed out that among the crowd on the weigh-in stages were the two promoters, Darryl Stuckey and Marty Wynn. Newman declared, "Identify yourselves," but it's a little too late for that.
The promoters should take a page from Mellow Mike, the former two-time world champion who didn't get testy at all this week until Rich Cappiello, Irish Kevin's promoter in New England and an adviser of his for this fight, got up at the press conference Wednesday and started mouthing off about how everyone has heard the stories of Mellow Mike coming back and recapturing his old glory before only to find they were fairy tales -- just like I was saying yesterday.
But Mellow Mike didn't ask Cappiello why he hated him. He made fun of Cappiello's pinky ring and told him he wasn't helping his fighter with all the talk. Then, while Cappiello's was singing Irish Kevin's praises, Mellow Mike declared, "I'm going to gut him like a fish."
And when that sound bite went all across the country on radio and television and was written up in newspapers, hundreds of tickets were sold and thousands more pay-per-view buys were made.
You know who the promoter is for this fight? Mr. Pinky Ring, Rich Cappiello.
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Average National SAT Scores for 2014
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Kelly Roell is the author of "Ace the ACT. " She has a master's degree in secondary English education and has worked as a high school English teacher.
SAT Scores by State
SAT Score Frequently Asked Questions
In 2014, 1,672,395 of you high-schoolers out there registered and took the SAT, which is the largest number of test-takers in recent history. And now that you've taken it, I'd wager that you're interested in knowing what sorts of scores your fellow college applicants have earned. Am I right? If you're anything like students before you (and probably those who will come after you, too), you want to know how you stack up! Below, you'll read several fun facts (and some shocking ones, too!) about the average national SAT scores for 2014.
For some of you, you'll be interested in knowing the average SAT scores for students entering the top public schools in the country, and others of you will be curious about scores for the top private schools. If you're just interested in SAT scores in general, then keep on reading, okay? Okay.
Overall SAT Scores for 2014
Remember the math term, "mean"? Of course you do! It's just the average of a set of numbers. In this case, the mean is the average score of every student who took the SAT from the fall of 2013 through June of 2014. The overall score is down by just 1 point this year.
Here are the mean scores for all testers by section:
Critical Reading: 497
Mathematics: 513
Writing: 487 (subscores: multiple-choice: 48.9 / essay: 7.0)
SAT Scores for 2012
SAT Scores By Gender
Well, it looks like the boys have taken it again this year in everything but the Writing section, ladies! Girls, you need to get it together! The boys are taking you to town on the Mathematics section!
Critical Reading:
Males: 499
Females: 495
SAT Scores By Reported Annual Income
It seems, kids, that if your parents are raking in the dough, then your odds of scoring higher on the SAT go up. Just check out the statistics. Now, be sure to use your best reasoning skills. This doesn't mean that kids with a little more cash are the smartest on the block. What else could those numbers imply? Perhaps parents with more wealth are more willing to purchase SAT prep? Perhaps they are more willing to shell out the moolah for retakes? I don't know. We could conjecture all day on this subject, but the stats do not lie; parents making more money produce kids with higher SAT scores. Look:
Math: 459
$200,000 and more
SAT Scores By Ethnicity
Although there is no causal relationship between ethnicity and scores, it's interesting to take a peek at the differences among us when it comes to test-taking. Here are the mean overall scores by heritage.
American Indian or Alaska Native: 1428
Asian, Asian-American or Pacific Islander: 1651
Black of African-American: 1278
Mexican or Mexican-American: 1354
Puerto Rican: 1349
Other Hispanic, Latino, or Latin-American: 1353
White: 1576
Other: 1504
No response: 1371
2014 SAT Scores Summary
So, it would appear that if you'd really like to knock the SAT out of the ballpark, you'd better join a family who makes more than $200,000 per year, make sure to secure the male gender, and adopt the Asian ethnicity. If that doesn't work, you could always prepare regardless of your ethnic heritage or familial status. These statistics represent the mean, but do not, of course represent the individual - YOU. If you have nothing in common with the groups scoring the highest on the SAT, it does NOT mean that you can't secure a top-notch score. Start with some free SAT practice quizzes, grab some free SAT apps, and prepare yourself the best way you can. Good luck!
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Blue Tang Facts: Habitat, Diet, Behavior
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by Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D.
Dr. Helmenstine holds a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences and is a science writer, educator, and consultant. She has taught science courses at the high school, college, and graduate levels.
The blue tang is among the most common aquarium fish species. Its popularity soared after the release of the 2003 movie "Finding Nemo" and the 2016 sequel "Finding Dory." These colorful animals are native to the Indo-Pacific, where they can be found living in pairs or small schools in the reefs of Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and East Africa.
Fast Facts: Blue Tang
Common Name: Blue tang
Other Names: Pacific blue tang, regal blue tang, palette surgeonfish, hippo tang, blue surgeonfish, flagtail surgeonfish
Scientific Name: Paracanthurus hepatus
Distinguishing Features: Flat, royal blue body with black "palette" design and a yellow tail
Size: 30 cm (12 in)
Mass: 600 g (1.3 lbs)
Diet: Plankton (juvenile); plankton and algae (adult)
Lifespan: 8 to 20 years in captivity, 30 years in the wild
Habitat: Indo-Pacific reefs
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Acanthuridae
Fun Fact: At present, all blue tangs found in aquaria are fish captured in the wild.
While children may know the blue tang as "Dory," the fish has many other names. The animal's scientific name is Paracanthurus hepatus. It is also known as the regal blue tang, hippo tang, palette surgeonfish, royal blue tang, flagtail tang, blue surgeonfish, and Pacific blue tang. Simply calling it a "blue tang" can lead to confusion with Acanthurus coeruleus, the Atlantic blue tang (which, incidentally, also has many other names).
A Fish with Many Names
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Surprisingly, the blue tang isn't always blue. An adult regal blue tang is a flat-bodied, round-shaped fish with a royal blue body, black "palette" design, and a yellow tail. It reaches 30 cm (12 inches) in length and weighs around 600 g (1.3 lbs), with males typically growing larger than females.
However, the juvenile fish is bright yellow, with blue spots near its eyes. At night, the adult fish's coloring turns from blue to violet-tinged white, probably due to changes in its nervous system activity. During spawning, adults change color from dark blue to pale blue.
The Atlantic blue tang has yet another color-change trick: It's biofluorescent, glowing green under blue and ultraviolet light.
Diet and Reproduction
Juvenile blue tangs eat plankton. Adults are omnivorous, feeding on some plankton as well as algae. Blue tangs are important for reef health because they eat the algae that could otherwise cover the coral.
During spawning, mature blue tangs form a school. The fish suddenly swim upward, with females expelling eggs above the coral while males release sperm. Around 40,000 eggs may be released during a spawning session. Afterward, the adult fish swim away, leaving tiny 0.8-mm eggs, each containing a single drop of oil to keep it buoyant in the water. The eggs hatch in 24 hours. Fish reach maturity between nine to 12 months of age and may live up to 30 years in the wild.
Sword Fights and Playing Dead
Blue tang fins contain spines sharp enough to be comparable to a surgeon's scalpel. There are nine dorsal spines, 26 to 28 soft dorsal rays, three anal spines, and 24 to 26 soft anal rays. Humans or predators foolish enough to grab a regal blue tang can expect a painful and sometimes venomous stab.
Male blue tangs establish dominance by "fencing" with their caudal spines. Although they are armed with sharp spines, blue tangs "play dead" to deter predators. To do this, the fish lie down on their side and stay motionless until the threat has passed.
Ciguatera Poisoning Risk
Eating a blue tang or any reef fish carries the risk of ciguatera poisoning. Ciguatera is a type of food poisoning caused by ciguatoxin and maitotoxin. The toxins are produced by a small organism, Gambierdiscus toxicus, which is eaten by herbivorous and omnivorous fish (such as tangs), which in turn may be eaten by carnivorous fish.
Symptoms may appear anywhere from a half-hour to two days after eating an affected fish and include diarrhea, low blood pressure, and reduced heart rate. Death is possible, but uncommon, occurring in one in 1,000 cases. Regal blue tangs are strong-smelling fish, so it's unlikely a person would attempt to eat one but fishermen use them as baitfish.
The regal blue tang is not endangered, classified as "least concern" by the IUCN. However, the species faces serious threats from habitat destruction of coral reefs, exploitation for the aquarium trade, and use as bait for fishing. To catch fish for aquaria, the fish are stunned with cyanide, which also damages the reef. In 2016, researchers at the University of Florida bred blue tangs in captivity for the first time, which raised the hope that captive-bred fish may soon be available.
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Lee, Jane L. (July 18, 2014). "Do You Know Where Your Aquarium Fish Come From?" National Geographic.
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Monday Money – The Blockbuster Supra Star
January 21, 2019 by Jamil Jafri Share your thoughts
Source: Toyota
With the highly anticipated advent of the 2020 Toyota Supra, we thought it would be fitting to dedicate this weeks Monday Money to the car that can justify a $500,000 price tag: The 1993 A80 Supra.
*Note from the editor: The A80 Supra is better known as the Mark IV Supra but Toyota did not officially adopt that nomenclature – so neither will we.
A heart of Iron
At the very heart of this car is the holy grail of tuner engines: The 2JZ-GTE. This three litre, six cylinder, twin turbocharged engine produces 272HP (276PS/206kW). Nothing too special, right? Well, in the early 90s, Japanese Automakers made a gentleman’s agreement to only produce cars that made less than 280HP for the sake of driver safety. However, in typical Toyota fashion, it was so over-engineered that the boost pressure can be tweaked to produce around 800HP on completely stock components! This is largely attributed to a stubbornly rugged cast iron block.
A Cultural Icon
Whatever your opinion of the Fast & Furious franchise may be – there’s no denying its influence on modern car culture. Thanks to these movies the Supra has become synonymous with the late Paul Walker in similar fashion to Steve McQueen and the 1968 Ford Mustang GT Fastback. Except, this car influenced a new generation of petrol heads to tune more affordable cars. The A80 Supra and its cockroach of an engine has reached a level of stardom worthy of a plaque on the Hollywood walk of fame.
A year after the first installment hit theaters, Toyota ceased production of the A80 Supra with no successor in sight. And due to the tuning potential of the 2JZ-GTE, the Supra is seldom seen in stock configuration, only adding to its demand.
In 2010, 8 years after discontinuation, rumours that Toyota and BMW were partnering to make a successor had surfaced and continued to for another 9 years. As it turns out, the rumours were true and the GR Supra will launch in 2020 sharing a platform with the 2019 BMW Z4.
So, are Supra enthusiasts happy?
Not quite. Early viewings of the GR Supra show that it has inherited more from BMW than Toyota especially where fans were least hoping: the engine. There’s nothing wrong with the engine except that it’s not a Toyota made successor to the 2JZ. This begs the question: Is this Supra by name only?
For those that are unconvinced, the hunt for a “real” Supra continues…
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On a mechanic’s suggestion, administrative staff scored 28 used fareboxes sitting in California storage and saved $300,000. (B.C. Transit Photo)
B.C. Transit finds 28 used fareboxes online, saves $300,000
‘Someone joked maybe we can buy used fareboxes on eBay,’ CEO says
Travis Paterson
As BC Transit continues to add to its fleet and gradually convert the more than 1,000 buses to electric power by 2040, each new bus also needs a new farebox.
Earlier this year, BC Transit held an executive meeting on the transition from the current fareboxes to the new electronic fare collection system.
Someone joked that they should consider buying used fareboxes on eBay.
“We all laughed at the idea,” said president and CEO Erinn Pinkteron in a recent newsletter to staff. “However, after trying unsuccessfully to come up with other options, we realized quickly that we had nothing to lose by considering this further.”
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With new buses being delivered in 2020, and BC Transit’s new electronic fare collection system in the early stages, project managers needed to know what fareboxes they should be installing, she said.
“At just over $13,000 per bus, it is a tough decision to purchase our existing fareboxes when we know that we will be phasing them out.”
In fact, as the use of cash continues to decrease in the daily routine of Canadians, BC Transit is in the process of moving its customers to a “bring your own ticket” model. It means the use of a ticket on a phone, or monthly pass, and they see a future where the cashboxes will be much simpler and less expensive than the existing one.
“We contacted almost every transit agency in North America that uses Cents-a-Bill fareboxes, hoping they had some to spare,” Pinkerton said.
They had scoured eBay and other sites unsuccessfully when one of BC Transit’s own mechanics told them about a Facebook group dedicated to transit memorabilia and bus parts.
“We joined the group and called the moderator,” Pinkerton said. “[They] put us in contact with three vendors in California that, combined, had 28 fareboxes for sale.”
A small team of BC Transit employees flew to California, rented a U-Haul truck and purchased the fareboxes, Pinkerton said, adding it was a challenge getting the equipment back to Victoria. The team drove to the U-Haul full of fareboxes to the warehouse in Las Vegas of bus-building company Alexander Dennis, whose staff packaged them on pallets and shipped them.
“Four days later, our fareboxes arrived and we were able to have them service ready for about $2,500 each, including all the adventure costs to get them,” Pinkerton said.
Compared to the cost of purchasing new it saved almost $300,000.
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A small team of B.C. Transit staff picked up 28 used fareboxes sitting in California storage, put them in a U-Haul, and took them to a warehouse in Las Vegas where they were shipped to Victoria. (B.C. Transit Photo)
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X-amining Cable #7
"Fathers and Sons Act Two: Illumination"
Cyclops & Jean learn the truth about Cable as Stryfe targets Tyler.
Penciler: Aaron Wiesenfeld
Inker: Al Vey & John Holdredge
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Tyler tortures Askani in order to force her to show him what happened after Nathan Summers was taken into the future. At Camp Verde, Stryfe, in Cable's body, attacks Rictor & Siryn before leaving. At the X-Mansion, Domino arrives to tell Cyclops & Jean Grey that Cable is their son, and that Stryfe is in control of his body. Meanwhile, Tyler watches as the infant Nathan, near-death due to the techno-organic virus, is cloned by the Askani clan as a contingency should he die. Domino, Cyclops, Jean Grey & Professor X arrive at Camp Verde and tend to Rictor & Siryn, explaining that Stryfe is in control of Cable's body. Just then, Zero appears before the group, looking for help fulfilling his programming to neutralize weapons, while Stryfe infiltrates Tyler's sanctuary, inadvertently freeing Askani as he targets Tyler.
Firsts and Other Notables
This issue confirms once and for all that Cable is Cyclop's son Nathan Christopher, and that Stryfe is a clone of Cable, created by the Askani for fear that Nathan would die of the techno-organic virus Apocalypse infected him with in X-Factor #65-68 (which is what led to his being brought to the future). It's said some of Nathan's injuries from the techno-organic virus manifested as scars in the clone, an attempt to reconcile the fact that Stryfe has the scars around his eye as Cable does, but which doesn't make much sense based on the traditional understanding of sci-fi cloning (I nevertheless appreciate Nicieza trying to explain what would otherwise be a discrepancy).
Cyclops, Jean and Professor X are given this information (at least, the truth that Cable is Nathan) by Domino. This also marks the first time those four characters have met.
In the flashback to Cable's future (watched by Tyler via his super-specific power), we get another look at Mother Askani, with a hint towards her identity as Rachel Summers present in the form of Rachel's pronounced facial scaring from her time as a Hound.
Also on hand in that flashback is a character named Boak; in issues #1-2 of this series, Cable had among his Clan Chosen group an android named Boak. It seems this character is meant to be the same as that one, despite the two not really looking alike (and this character seemingly being human, not robotic/synthetic).
Boak notes that some kind of energy field and consciousness is surrounding baby Nathan when he arrives, a reference to Ship, who bonded with Nathan in an effort to keep both alive in X-Factor #68, and who will later become Professor, the sentient AI on Graymalkin (and later part of Cable himself).
He also protests the idea of cloning Nathan, saying that is for Apocalypse; it will later be established that part of Apocalypse's schtick is that he burns through bodies and needs to periodically rejuvenate (as he was doing prior to "X-Cutioner's Song" when Stryfe awoke him) or take a new host body (in the Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix limited series, he'll attempt to takeover a young Stryfe, and later, during "The Twelve", present day Apocalypse will target X-Man, the alt-universe counterpart of Cable/Stryfe, for possession as well).
This issue ends with a pinup of Cable by X-Force artist Tony Daniel.
This issue makes it clear that Cable & Stryfe are sharing Cable's body (with Stryfe currently in control after last issue).
Tyler's last name is given as "Nathan'son" by Askani, establishing that it's not just Cable who has a patronymic name in the future (whether that's true of everyone or just a thing the Askani do, is unclear).
It's also noted that Askani sacrificed her body in order to come back in time, as she exists only in energy form now.
Stryfe says that he made a mistake trying to make the deaths of his parents epic, which could be read as some veiled criticism of "X-Cutioner's Song".
Jean watches some old home videos of Scott, Madelyne and baby Nathan, and remarks upon how she has memories of those events despite not having experienced them, a rare reference to the fact that Jean received all of Maddie's memories (as well as those of her Phoenix impersonator) after "Inferno".
As Cyclops & Jean discuss the issues surrounding having a family while living the kinds of lives they lead, Xavier notes that people in other dangerous professions, like police officers and firefighters, also have families and live relatively normal lives.
Mother Askani refers to Nathan's arrival as a "day spring", the source of Cable's middle name.
Xavier is concerned with tracking down Stryfe in order to learn how to cure the Legacy Virus (assuming Stryfe has/knows of a cure is something of a leap on his part, of course, albeit an understandable one).
The Grim 'n' Gritty 90s
As Stryfe departs X-Force's base, he wields a comically large gun.
Artistic Achievements
This is one of those things I maybe wouldn't have noticed until after I became a father, but either Cyclops has enormous hands, or baby Nathan is ridiculously small in this panel.
Austin's Analysis
Nicieza continues to do his best crafting a Marvel Handbook entry on Cable into a story, confirming once and for all that Cable is Cyclops' son by depicting the moments immediately after Nathan Summers was taken into the future and subsequently cloned, leading to the creation of Cable and Stryfe. His efforts this issue are buoyed by the art, which, while not great (particularly the last few pages, where it seems like Weisenfeld suddenly got tired and sloppy, or the inkers changed to his detriment), has a greater sense of style & verve than the previous issue, with a few panels (like the opening splash of Tyler holding Stryfe's mask) almost Mignola-esque in their depiction. As anything more than an exposition dump masquerading as a story, this still isn't great stuff, but it nevertheless continues to be appreciated to have this series finally doing something relevant.
Next week: Uncanny X-Men #309, X-Factor #99 and Wolverine #78!
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Michael March 10, 2018 at 8:09 AM
When exactly would these have been made? Cyclops is pretending that Nathan is speaking, but ... he left Madelyne and the baby in its infancy. Unless we're meant to believe six-plus months passed between UXM 200/201 and X-Factor 1. (Writers pretending Cyclops spent any time with baby Christopher before Inferno is one of my all-time pet peeves. Such an obvious retcon of Cyclops abandoning his wife and child to go off with an old flame.)
And if Sinister destroyed all traces of Maddie's existence, where did these videos come from?
Blam March 11, 2018 at 4:19 PM
// It's said some of Nathan's injuries from the techno-organic virus manifested as scars in the clone, an attempt to reconcile the fact that Stryfe has the scars around his eye as Cable does, but which doesn't make much sense based on the traditional understanding of sci-fi cloning //
Don’t recall even noticing that but there were probably other ways to cover it, like intentionally scarring himself to pass as Cable or being so mentally unstable he did it in an insane act of twinning to become as close to his doppelganger nemesis as possible.
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Clover Technologies announcea Senior Leadership changes, Jim Cerkleski was named Chairman of the Board of Directors and George Milton was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Clover Imaging.
Clover Technologies Group, the parent company of Clover Imaging, Clover Wireless, and Clover Telecom, announced that George Milton has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Clover Imaging, effective 1 November 2017. Jim Cerkleski, who has served as Chief Executive Officer of Clover for the last 17 years, will become Chairman of the Board of Directors.
“After nearly two decades overseeing all aspects of Clover’s global operations, now is the right time for me to transition the leadership of our imaging business to George, who has been a tremendous COO and colleague over the past 13 years,” said Mr. Cerkleski. “I am looking forward to my continued partnership with George in my new role as Chairman, where I will be focused on growing customer relationships across our organisation and identifying new market opportunities.”
“I am honoured to take the helm at Clover Imaging from such an accomplished leader at this important time in our corporate history,” said Mr. Milton. “We have a tremendous platform which has been established by our dedicated employees. I am excited to continue building on our strong market position and global manufacturing and distribution footprint, and look forward to the opportunities ahead. As a priority, I will ensure that we continue our focus on providing quality and value, as well as supporting the new business strategies of our customers.”
As the CEO of Clover since 2000, Mr. Cerkleski led the transformation of the company from “a local printer cartridge repair company to the world’s leading remanufacturer” of imaging supplies, with manufacturing facilities in four continents.
Mr. Milton joined Clover in 2004, and has served as Chief Operating Officer of the company for the past 11 years. As Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Milton was responsible for overseeing product research and development, engineering and robotic automation, worldwide manufacturing, global distribution, quality assurance, global procurement, packaging engineering, and information technology and systems.
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Man Slams 13-Year-Old for Wearing Hat During National Anthem Because Trump Told Him To, According to Attorney
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A grown-ass Montana man has been arrested and charged for being hopped up on Trump dope and slamming a 13-year-old boy to the ground, head first, for the ungodly sin of wearing a hat during the playing of white America’s version of “Back Dat Azz Up.”
According to CNN, Curt James Brockway, 39, was arrested and charged with being a whole asshole, and felony assault on a minor.
Brockway told police that the incident, which took place Saturday, occurred when he walked over to the child at the Mineral County Fairgrounds in the town of Superior and asked the boy to remove his hat and that’s when the teen allegedly told the grown man, “fuck you.”
“Brockway said he then grabbed the boy by his throat, lifted him into the air, before slamming the boy into the ground, the affidavit said,” CNN reports.
Witnesses claim that Brockway’s account is mostly correct, although one woman notes that she never heard the grown man and the teen exchange words before the boy was slammed. The teen had blood coming from his ears and suffered a concussion and a fractured skull. He was airlifted to a local hospital.
The child’s mother, Megan Keeler, told KPAX that she’d just dropped her son off when she got a call saying he’d been injured.
“Dude come up and grabbed him by his neck, picked him up and threw him to the ground head first,” Keeler told KPAX, CNN reports
“There was no exchange—nothing! He targeted (her son) and took him down,” she added
According to Brockway’s attorney, Lance Jasper, Brockway struggles with impulse control after suffering a severe traumatic brain injury. Jasper also calls Brockway a disabled veteran who is “uber patriotic,” and has been influenced by the rhetoric of none other than the divisive rhetoric dragon himself, Donald Trump.
The president of people who will body slam children at fairgrounds has been at the forefront of creating a divide between those who Netflix and chill with the flag and those who don’t give a fuck. The president has bashed NFL players who have kneeled during the anthem to protest the mistreatment of blacks by police. The president has also suggested jail time or loss of “citizenship for burning the American flag,” CNN reports.
Jasper said, “Curt takes that literally and views the president as the commander-in-chief and when he sees it happening, he feels he needs to do something about it.”
Brockway apparently plans to use the patriot defense after telling his lawyer, “I guess I messed up because he got hurt. But I’m a patriot,” Jasper said, CNN reports.
And, because the courts have trouble recognizing flat-out crazy, Brockway, who already has one prior arrest in 2010 for felony assault with a weapon, was released Tuesday on his own recognizance.
He is due back in court on August 14 and could face up to five years in prison. Jasper plans to present his client’s neuropsychological evaluation to the court as Brockway plans to enter a not guilty plea.
“Curt says he was given an order from the commander-in-chief to make sure people are patriotic,” Jasper said.
Apparently marching orders from the highest office in the land plus a brain injury are all that it takes for a “patriot” to go around slamming kids on their head.
Thank you, President Trump!
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08 September 2018 Venue Prenton Park Attendance
Match Preview: Colchester United
Tranmere Rovers v Colchester United Saturday 8th September 2018 Prenton Park 3pm kick-off
Tranmere Rovers will aim to extend their unbeaten home league run since returning to the EFL this weekend when Colchester United visit Prenton Park.
Rovers earned a hard-fought point away at Northampton Town last weekend with James Norwood netting for Micky Mellon’s men in a 1-1 Sixfields draw.
Rovers were on the wrong end of a seven-goal thriller in the Checkatrade Trophy on Tuesday night, losing 4-3 to Crewe Alexandra at home.
Tranmere currently sit 11th in the fourth tier after collecting nine points from their opening six games, and welcome a Colchester side who are fourth, a point outside the automatic promotion places.
Adam Buxton returned from injury against David Artell’s Railwaymen and is back in the first team squad for this weekend.
Zoumana Bakayogo also made his first start after a spell on the sidelines in the Checkatrade Trophy against Crewe, and he will be pushing for a place in the starting line up on Saturday.
Long term absentees Liam Ridehalgh and Ritchie Sutton will miss the game through injury.
The U's season so far
Positioned just below the automatic promotion positions, Colchester have started the season in fine form.
Managed by former Tranmere stalwart John McGreal, the Birkenhead-born former defender made 195 appearances over a nine-year period at his local side.
McGreal, aged 46, brings his side to the Wirral looking to continue their positive start to the campaign.
Last time out in League Two, Colchester were 3-1 winners away at Cheltenham Town, with Luke Norris’ first-half brace added to by Harry Pell’s 88th minute penalty to complete a big win in Gloucestershire.
From their opening six outings, Colchester have attained 11 points and occupy fourth position following their bright start.
An opening day goalless stalemate with Notts County was followed up by a 2-0 win over Port Vale and putting six past Crewe, either side of a point at Mansfield Town.
Their only defeat to date this season came at home, losing 2-1 to Northampton Town.
Striker Luke Norris has been in emphatic form since his summer move from Swindon Town.
Norris has found the back of the net on four occasions so far this term, as the U’s look to build upon a positive opening to the 2018/19 campaign.
The 25-year-old Stevenage-born player began his career in the youth set-ups of Hitchin Town and Brentford, before turning professional with the Bees.
Loan spells with Boreham Wood, Northampton Town and Dagenham and Redbridge followed before he left Griffin Park for Gillingham permanently in July 2014.
Norris spent two seasons in Kent, turning out 70 times for the Gills, scoring 14 goals prior to a 2016 transfer to Swindon Town.
Two years at the County Ground saw the marksman strike 17 goals in 74 appearances in Wiltshire He linked up at the Colchester Community Stadium earlier in the summer.
Tickets for Saturday’s fixture with high-flying Colchester are available through the Club’s official ticket website.
For full information on how to buy, please click here. By clicking through, you can also see ticket information for our upcoming games in League Two.
The referee in charge
Shrewsbury based referee Robert Lewis will take charge of this weekend’s match at Prenton Park.
So far this season, Lewis has taken charge of five matches, distributing 16 yellows and one red card, to MK Dons’ Mathieu Baudry in their 0-0 draw in League Two at Crewe.
The last time Lewis took charge of a Tranmere match was February 2015, when Rovers drew 1-1 away at Newport County, with Rory Donnelly on the score sheet.
If you can’t make it to Prenton Park for the visit of Colchester United, then don’t worry as we have you covered!
Full match commentary of the fixture will be exclusively available live from Rovers’ home ground!
Report: Tranmere Rovers 1-1 Colchester United
James Norwood continued his goal scoring form with his seventh of the season in the 1-1 draw against Colchester United at Prenton Park.
Colchester captain Harry Pell cancelled Norwood's first half opener meaning the teams share the points in an even game.
Before the game, Rovers had not conceded on home soil but knew this game would test their resolve given that their opponents were the league’s second most prolific team, sitting fourth before kick-off.
Rovers had the momentum for the majority of the first half amid the odd attack from the visitors. In the first ten minutes they could have scored three. James Norwood was within a whisker of latching onto a Connor Jennings cross, before Jonny Smith forced U’s keeper Dillon Barnes into diving low to his right to palm behind his low curling effort. Norwood did have the ball in the net, finishing a great lofted pass from Zoumana Bakayogo, but the former had drifted offside.
The only clear cut opportunity for the U’s came after Rovers skipper Steve McNulty sold short keeper Scott Davies with an attempted pass. United striker Luke Norris seized on the loose ball, but his effort was superbly saved by Davis, having rushed out to reduce the angle of which Norris could aim at.
Rovers finally found the break through with three minutes of the first half remaining. Colchester seemed content to deal with the patient build up from the home side but when Ollie Banks sped up the passes with a lovely first time ball past his marker, Cole Stockton found himself in acres of space to attack and he did so before finding Smith on the right, who cut inside onto his left foot but instead of shooting, brilliantly reversed the ball down the right of the area to the unmarked James Norwood, and the League Two player of the month did the rest, firing low across goal and into the far corner of the net.
Colchester began the second half with much more determination than the previous 45, having a penalty appeal waved away in the first 30 seconds before almost levelling the game when Brennan Dickenson's free kick caused havoc in the Rovers area, until Jennings did fantastically well to clear the ball, heading it away from goal.
They did have an equaliser however, bang on the hour when Scott Davies failed to get sufficient distance on his punch following a corner, and U’s captain Harry Pell was on hand to side foot it first time into the net. Colchester began to dominate possession and continued to attack, with Szmodics drawing a save from Davies with a low driven effort.
Despite having gained a foothold in the game, Colchester were still susceptible on the break and Rovers almost used this to their advantage when Norwood found space on the right to cross into Jennings who would have scored but for an outstanding point blank save from Dillon Barnes.
Rovers upped the ante in the final few minutes as Colchester sat back and opted to waste as much time as they could, for which they got their reward, gaining a valuable point and keeping themselves two points better off than the home side.
Next up for Rovers a trip up to Carlisle, on Saturday 15th September.
Rovers: Davies, Caprice, McNulty (Capt.), Monthe, Bakayogo, Smith (76 Mottley- Henry), McCullough, Banks, Jennings, Stockton (76 Mullin), Norwood NOT USED: George, Ellis, Gilmour, Harris, Cole
Report by Jake Mathot
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Enhancing the Sound of Sports
Audio mixers deal with increasing challenges brought on by digital
Gary Eskow
Randy Flick
NEW YORK —The bats, balls, pucks and dimensions of the fields have changed little, but the job of the sound engineers who help bring professional sports into the homes of fans around the world has changed drastically over the last several decades. More than ever, audio mixers must adapt to the fast moving world of television sports and enhance the tools they use to maximize their workflow.
“The biggest problem A1s [audio mixers] face is the fact there is no standard for the equipment that the trucks we work in supply,” says Philadelphia-based freelance mixer Joe McSorley, who has been in the business since 1988. “If you’re a technical director you have to be familiar with three different video switchers. In the audio industry there are probably 12 consoles you need to know inside out. Just last week I worked four events: One truck had an SSL board, another a Yamaha PM5B, and two different Calrecs were set up in the other two trucks. We have to know them all, and how each truck handles its signal routing.”
When it comes to mixing sound for sports, audio isn’t just audio anymore, according to McSorley. “The audio guy programs intercoms, phones, routers, effects that come into the console, and also wires the stadium to the board. The last thing we do is mix!”
The fact that trucks are designed to minimize footprint and maximize convenience adds to the job’s difficulty as well. Never acoustically pure environments, trucks often have fans to cool equipment directly in line with engineers like McSorley, and monitors that are less than ideally placed.
REAL-TIME DEMANDS
Not many freelancers in any field can count on a steady stream of work but Randy Flick is one of them. Although he picks up his mail in Pittsburgh, he’s on the road more than 200 days a year working audio for his two major clients, World Wrestling Entertainment and HBO Boxing.
Home theater systems have changed the audio mixer’s job; will 5.1 remain the standard, or will the industry move to an even larger speaker system, say 9.1, anytime soon?
“I don’t think to a larger speaker system,” said Flick. “It’s taken almost 20 years to make 5.1 happen. To move on to a larger speaker array would take time. Time is money, and there isn’t a producer on the face of the earth who wants to spend money if they’re not going to see a genuine return on the other end.
“In the entertainment world—a DVD release for example—9.1 mixes can yield an amazing sound, but mixing in post is very different from the live work that we do in sports broadcast,” Flick continued. “We’re working in real time, and we have to downmix to stereo and mono at the same time.”
Most televised sports events exist in real time, and as snippets in highlight reels. Major events, like the Super Bowl, World Series, and top-tier
For WWE events, audio mixer Randy Flick says he usually mixes the show as if it was live all the time. WWE shows like Wrestlemania, are prepared for later DVD release. Does this affect Flick’s work process?
“For the WWE in general we mix the show as if it was live all the time,” he said. “Over half of our shows are seen live somewhere; that could be on USA Network, the Syfy Network, or the WWE’s own network which includes pay-for-view broadcasts. We have the ability to archive up to 30 stereo tracks that we create; announcers, camera mics, effects feeds, international tracks RF mics that are iso’d. Audio post engineers can then rebuild shows for international distribution. We track to SR machines that have 12 audio tracks, and also to EVS machines that are four channels wide. In the future they’ll be 16 channels wide.”
NO COMPARISON
Steve Dove holds a rather unique title: Minister of Algorithms at Wheatstone, based in New Bern, N.C. Dove, who has been an important figure in the audio industry for a number of years, says that while live events—which include sports broadcasts—are fraught with perils for the audio engineer, they also offer an upside over other mixing assignments.
“There’s a huge advantage,” Dove says, referring to live audio. “If the audio sounds OK, you’re alright! You’re not being compared to anything, because it’s live. If a weather girl is on a beach pointing to a hurricane coming in, no one’s going to be bothered by scratchy audio; it can even add to the power of a scene.”
Mixing a marching band performance during halftime can be really difficult to get right, according to Dove, who recommends simplicity in that case. “Stick with a handful of omni microphones rather than individual mics. The people are moving, after all,” he said. “Again, the television audience accepts
Joe McSorley the situation for what it is. If the mixer has done a good job of capturing the basic sound of the ensemble, the viewer will not be bothered if the mix doesn’t compete with a CD.”
McSorley says that equalization—one of the oldest tools in the audio engineer’s tool box—is vitally important to the work he does mixing live sports events. “I personally find EQ very important,” he said. “In trying to glean specific sounds out of sports, the ‘boing’ of a tennis ball, or the skate sound in hockey, I EQ to find that spot without boosting the crowd. We’re always fighting the crowd and the PA.”
McSorley adds that in an empty arena, effects sound great, but the mix can pick up conversations between fans. “In a crowded arena you won’t pick up conversations but you’re fighting to hear the bat crack,” he said. “When a place is empty they crank the hell out of the PA, thinking it’s going to excite the few people who are present. I have constant deflection on my meters at about –30 db, and that’s simply the level that passes through the announcer headsets when they’re not talking. The average noise floor of the arenas/stadiums is between 96 and 100 db.”
McSorley said that, according to a colleague of his, the two loudest football stadiums in the country are Seattle and Kansas City, which have been registered at 105 db. “That is ear splitting loud,” he said.
IS BIGGER BETTER?
Over the last decade or so, a new generation of sports arenas has been born. Do these venues present issues that differ from older ones? “Big new venues have been built with big new money and big new trucks to service them,” said Dove. “A lot of wiring is pre-installed that used to have to be hauled in each week. That’s a big advantage that the design of these new venues offer.”
However, there is no architectural concern for avoiding reflective surfaces, according to Dove.
“The trend has been towards making enclosed glass boxes, where rich people can sip their champagne and look down at the masses,” he said. “These reflective surfaces are quite problematic.”
There have been moves to help mitigate things, Dove added. “The newer generation of PA systems owe more to rock ’n roll than to sports arenas,” he said. “They’re far more highly evolved. Acoustical problems in both the indoor arena and outdoor stadium have been fixed to a degree by these new PA systems. They have become quite directional and can be pointed to avoid the reflections of pillars, balconies, and glass boxes.”
There’s a general consensus that the job of the audio engineer who works live sports events has become increasingly complex. “Over the past couple of decades the job of the sports audio engineer has grown in complexity from what used to be an all-analog show on 25 faders in mono or maybe stereo to what is now a basic show of 50 or 60 faders [or more] with RF intercom and RF microphone components, all in a mixture of analog and digital formats and very possibly in surround,” McSorley said. “Because of this complexity it’s becoming increasingly harder to break into the business. Even though you might be just starting in the biz you’re expected to have the knowledge of a 10- or 15-year veteran.”
So the next time you kick back to take in a game, give a silent shout out to the sound mixers. They’re working hard to put you in the action!
Game Keeps Changing for Sports Audio
The rules may not change—check that, the NFL is always tinkering—but broadcasters continue to look for ways to make sports programming more compelling for the home audience.
Sound steps
While the essential functions of broadcast boards are executed in 2007 much as they were in previous years, there are several significant differences
The Art of Audio Mixing for Sports
TV Technology recently spoke with a panel of highly experienced sports audio broadcast engineers about the challenges they face and the developing trends in the industry.
The Sound of Sports
Audio mixers share miking techniques
Making Sports Audio Immersive
Considering the costs of attending sporting events, it’s no wonder more consumers are investing in high-end home audio and video systems to follow their favorite teams.
Sound Devices digs deep for Australian program
A recorder and mixer proved their ability to stand up under extreme environmental conditions.
Microphones for surround sound
As content providers and TV stations begin producing in HD, the used of surround, 5.1 audio, is no longer an option — it’s a requirement
Surround Sound the Goal for HD Sports
Today's consoles sport ergonomic design, flexibility, programmability
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Three DirectX 11 Tech Demos now online for download
Heaven, Mecha and Ladybug
By: Steve Dougherty from Oct 26, 2009 @ 1:55 CDT
Now that the DirectX 11 capable Windows 7 operating system is officially launched along with the existing availability of AMD/ATI's DX11 capable Radeon 5000 series graphics cards, a few DX11 based tech demos have become available for download on the net.
Middleware developer Unigine has become the first to release a fully functional DX11 demo called "Heaven". It weighs in at 127MB and can be downloaded from FileShack now.
In the benchmark, a disembodied camera pans through a floating fantasy town with grassy hills, paved roadways, and a square with a dragon in the center. The user can press keys to enable or disable tesellation, which increases the polygon count of various objects, from the dragon to walls, floors, and rooftops. The Heaven benchmark also lets you jump into the world and walk around, should you want a closer look at some of the eye candy.
Apparently the demo can even run on DX9 cards, though of course all the DX11 specific effects will be disabled.
Also now available are a couple official tech demos from AMD/ATI themselves :-
AMD Mecha DirectX 11 Demo
The Mecha demo shows the results of a new approach to rendering semi-transparent objects without pre-sorting, known as order-independent transparency (OIT). It is made possible by the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series of graphics processors and the new features of Microsoft DirectX 11 technology. Blending is an order-dependent operation that requires sorting objects before rendering them. Atomic operations and append buffers make it possible to construct per-pixel fragment lists and sort them on the GPU. The results are a significant increase in speed and accuracy over those possible with traditional techniques.
- NGOHQ Download Link - 199MB
AMD Ladybug DirectX 11 Demo
The Ladybug demo shows the results of a new approach to simulating lens-accurate depth-of-field effects based on real-world parameters of focal length and focus distance. This technique is made possible by the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series of graphics processors and the Microsoft DirectX 11 and Direct Compute 11 technologies. Depth-of-field is used in feature films by cinematographers to subtly guide a viewer's attention through a shot or to heighten the emotion of a scene.
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ReviewsReviews · 29 November 2004 · English · 675 words
The Book of Probes
by Peter Biľak
A critical review of a new book featuring excerpts of Marshall McLuhan’s work, designed by David Carson. Tha author considers the complex task of illustrating McLuhan’s intricate work, and whether or not Carson’s visual devices are successful.
The Book of Probes is a compilation of Marshall McLuhan’s aphorisms and excerpts from his numerous books, articles, lectures, and especially his legendary Monday Night Seminars. Every spread presents a ‘probe’ — a short thought-provoking piece of text, addressing a broad range of topics related to media and their effect on society, culture, politics, and economy. 400 pages of probes organized by subject are accompanied by 174 pages of text by the editors Eric McLuhan (yes, Marshall McLuhan’s son) and William Kuhns illuminating McLuhan’s work.
For McLuhan, probes are instruments of contemplation that function as essays compressed into a few words. McLuhan’s ability to break down a complex argument into smaller digestible chunks was largely inspired by the mass media, which he studied and often also opposed. The probes presented in the book range from poetic to didactic to irritating, and they are almost always intentionally provocative. The idea of the book is to foster the process of asking questions, and to promote active reading. McLuhan used a similar questioning technique in his early, academic in tone, The Gutenberg Galaxy, (1962) where statements in bold type interrupt and probe the continuous text. His probing technique reached its climax in Laws of Media: The New Science, McLuhan’s last book (1988).
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Designer’s name (David Carson) appears on the cover in the same type-size as Marshall McLuhan’s in the same way that McLuhan and Quentin Fiore were listed on their collaborations The Medium is the Massage and War and Peace in the Global Village. However, Carson’s contribution is fundamentally different than Fiore’s; as book and cover designer he worked with words written decades earlier. According to the editors of the book, this collaboration creates a reciprocal and complementary tension between McLuhan’s words and Carson’s images.
David Carson, a former professional surfer and now graphic designer based in New York, established an international reputation in early 1990s with his work for the magazines Beach Culture and Ray Gun, where his painterly typographic experiments often took precedence over the legibility of text. Carson first shocked the design world with his unexpected patchworks of blurry photography, illustration, and type, consequently produced a monograph that sold 150.000 copies (The End of Print, 1995), and later confirmed his conventionality and applicability of style by work for Pepsi, Nike and banking clients.
In the main part of The Book of Probes, Carson unleashes his whole designer’s toolbox, using photos known from his earlier notorious work, unpublished snapshots, computer generated 2/3D imagery, and type employing colour, various sizes, fonts, and styles. The second part of the book, presenting essays by Eric McLuhan, William Kuhns, and W. Terrence Gordon show that Carson is less at ease working with continuous text. The layout and margins are awkwardly devised, and its typographic treatment ill-chosen.
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Reading the book requires a significant effort on the part of the reader, hinting at the idea that perception and meditation are more important than the actual content of the thought. Though the intention is to create a parallel space for the reader, the fact is that there is little room left for the reader’s interpretation; the space is hermetically sealed, leaving the reader with an experience of all medium and no message. It is an intricate task to illustrate, simplify and hierarchize the text of an author who devoted his lifetime to issuing illustrated, simplified and hierarchized expressions of his ideas. While the editors insist that McLuhan and Carson interact in almost ideal harmony, it is questionable if Carson’s contribution achieves what the editors were striving for: deeper engagement of the reader in the process of reading.
McLuhan’s earlier books The Mechanical Bride, The Medium Is the Massage and War and Peace in the Global Village using the image-text interaction which also becomes one of book’s topics, are still the prime examples of the marriage of word and picture, confirming that finding a balance between them is a delicate editorial task. On the other hand, the battery of Ray Gun-esque treatments presented in The Book of Probes, presents an already explored communication impasse.
First published in Items, 2004
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R. Crumb: Odds and Ends
Other Articles By Peter Biľak
Why Not Associates?2
Restart: New Systems in Graphic Design
Maeda@media
Contemporary Dutch graphic design: an insider/outsider’s view
Dutch type design
Martin Majoor, type designer
Irma Boom, book designer
Designing Type Systems
Karel Martens, graphic designer
Letterror, designers and programmers
Max Kisman, graphic designer
In search of a comprehensive type design theory
Experimental typography. Whatever that means.
Martin Majoor feature
History of a new font (notes on designing Fedra Serif)
Sandberg, Designer and Director of Stedelijk
En busca de una teoría completa del diseño tipográfico
Historia de una fuente nueva
Acerca de Fedra
Falta de diseño, exceso de diseño y volver a diseñar
Tipografía de los noventa. La demistificación y re-mistificación
Designing Type — book review
Graphic Design in the White Cube
Kyoorius DesignYatra 2006, review of a design conference
Ways of Seeing, book review
À la recherche d’une théorie générale du dessin de caractères
화이트큐브의 그래픽디자인 / Graphic Design in the White Cube
What is Typography?
Family planning, or how type families work
A View of Latin Typography in Relationship to the World
Jan van Toorn, Critical Practice
In the Name Of the Father (or the troubles with L-caron)
The history of History
Methods of Distribution: Digital Fonts and the Global Market
Méthodes de distribution : les caractères numériques sur le marché mondial
Font hinting
Beauty and Ugliness in Type design
Conceptual Type?
We don’t need new fonts…
Julien — the making of
Type design competitions
Una mirada a la relación de la tipografía de origen latino con el mundo
Métodos de distribución: Tipos digitales en el mercado global
Irma Boom interview
Lava — Voice of a Magazine
Caratteri concettuali?
About Uni Grotesk, a Central European geometric Sans
Related Type Families
Verwandte Schriftfamilien
Designing Hebrew Type
Notes on Designing and Producing the Typeface Wind
A Brief History of Sans Serif typefaces
Brief History of Webfonts
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Matt Damon Is Back in Action Mode in Super Bowl Bourne 5 Trailer
Bourne returns with a solid TKO.
The last time we saw Matt Damon he was being a nerd hero on the surface of Mars. But Jason Bourne is a far cry from Mark Watney. We watched Watney defeat hunger with some creative fertilizer and space potatoes in The Martian. Bourne, on the other hand, takes a more direct approach. With one solid punch to a hulking adversary, Damon puts himself firmly back in the realm of action hero.
While his friend Ben Affleck is popping up in viral Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailers, Damon returns to what he's called his own superhero franchise.
What else did we learn from this trailer? Besides the fact that Damon is clearly in fighting trim, we now know the name of the new Bourne installment. Maybe in an attempt to distance itself from Jeremy Renner’s The Bourne Legacy, this new film—titled Jason Bourne—makes sure we know which former Treadstone soldier is the star of this film. Also, taking up the mantle of previous Bourne antagonists played by Chris Cooper and Joan Allen, Tommy Lee Jones is on board evoking his dogged Fugitive character.
Along with the new trailer, Universal launched a new website, JasonBourneMovie.com, where you can keep on top of all things Bourne. Damon, Jones, Alicia Vikander, and Vincent Cassel are all along for the ride when Jason Bourne punches its way into theaters July 29.
Matt Damon Though the Years in Vanity Fair
Photographed by Bruce Weber for the December 1997 issue.
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Flashcards: Contexts of World Prose After 1925
Which of the following is not another work by the author of The English Patient?
Coming Through Slaughter
In the Skin of a Lion
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems
Ondaatje wrote Coming Through Slaughter (1976), In the Skin of a Lion (1987), Divisadero (2007), and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems (1970). He did not write Oryx and Crake, a 2003 novel by Margaret Atwood.
What country is the author of Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage from?
Alice Munro is a Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer.
University of South Florida-Main Campus, Bachelor in Arts, English. University of Oregon, Master of Arts, English.
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering. Rensselaer Polytechnic ...
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Sciences.
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The Smuggler
November 1, 2011 Fiction, Issue 02, Issue 02 Fiction
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By KATIA KAPOVICH
Translated by PHILIP NIKOLAYEV
I wore the same checkered coat for six winters in a row. It had once been warm and even elegant in its way, but then developed holes and faded. Whether because the cotton lining had become matted or because the outer cloth had worn thin from wind and rain, the garment no longer gave any warmth. I felt cold even in reasonably warm weather. Wind would penetrate it in unpredictable spots, now chilling my waist, now freezing my shoulder blades, as if someone had thrown a piece of ice behind my collar. When one time I arrived at the Kolosovs all soaked and melancholy with hunger, Ivan hung my coat on the kitchen radiator and scratched the back of his head.
“Listen, perhaps we could help you make some cash. Do you know the town of Comrat?”
“It’s an interesting place, ethnographically. The Gagauzians there are descendants of the Turkish invaders. They were converted to Christianity in the eighteenth century, under Catherine the Great, through Prince Potyomkin’s efforts. They’ve kept their own language, but they use the Russian alphabet. You used to be an athlete, right? Can you lift fifty kilos?”
“I was a runner, not a weightlifter.”
“That’ll come in handy too,” Ivan said. “So to get to the point, you go there, you buy some sheepskins, we pay you.”
The bus for Comrat left the station at 9 a.m. I took a window seat. The southbound route wove romantically among misty vineyards and white wattle-and-daub peasant huts with lean-tos for cattle. Toward 10 a.m., as the mists faded, the view worsened. The huts turned out to be not white but a dirty gray. Skeletal, branded sheep turned their heads toward us and bleated their anguish from behind barbed wire. They had heartbreaking faces, like children in concentration camps. Barbed wire is barbed wire is barbed wire. Enough, time to leave, I thought. Not for Comrat, but for America.
Gypsies roamed the Comrat market selling Turkish-made jeans, lipstick and chewing gum. Gagauzian men, swarthy, shrill-spoken, pipe-smoking and with joined eyebrows, looked like honest-to-God Turks. They were by and large more practical and better at housekeeping than their Moldovan neighbors. Virgil, in an eclogue addressed to his favorite youth, boasts of the especial stateliness of his cows, which in the poet’s opinion his rival’s cows cannot begin to match. Similarly, the Moldovans’ sheep were no match for the splendid blonde beasts of the Gagauzians. “Notice the odor,” I recalled Ivan’s instruction. “Healthy sheep give off a healthy odor.” I stubbed out my cigarette and smelled my first candidate for purchase. It reeked unmistakably of rotting sheep cheese. The owner must have marked me down as a novice and was eager to fob off garbage upon me. His short coat wide open, he gestured in sham perplexity: “What odor are you talking about, my beauty?”—“You can’t fool me, no way! Take a sniff of it, it stinks all the way to Kishinev!”—“All right, not thirty! Twenty-five!” he persisted. An hour later, my capacious bags and backpack all crammed with sheepskins, I went back to the bus station. A merry Moldovan tune that was ringing in my head clashed with the song blaring from the market’s music kiosk:a soldier walking in the city down an unfamiliar street . . .
The bus quickly rocked me to sleep, and I did not wake up until we entered Kishinev. The streets were deserted. It was getting dark, the falling snow glittered. A surprised cop stared at me. I had received precise instructions concerning this sort of situation: when stopped, deny everything, talk incoherent nonsense. But then something humane flickered in the cop’s eyes as I was shoving my bags into the telephone booth. It being March 7, the eve of International Women’s Day, perhaps he had qualms about questioning me.
In the receiver, Ivan’s voice sounded briskly formal.
“Yes, speaking.”
“The good have arrived safely,” I reported.
“What goods?”
“The Golden Fleece.”
He met me in the yard in front of his building, where children were running around in the mud of an improvised soccer field under a dangling streetlight. Wood crates served as goalposts.
“A tactical mistake. You shouldn’t have mentioned the Golden Fleece, what has it got to do with anything?” Ivan said.
“But you told me to talk incoherent nonsense! Plus, it’s a cultural allusion.”
He looked at me with pity.
“The younger generation. They need to be taught everything from scratch! For future reference, I suggest you forget all about cultural allusions. Cops are not idiots. I bet you they know their Homer.”
I had strong doubts about that, but what did I know?
But, to return to our rams, as the French say, I came down with a high fever for two weeks. That was when my mother seriously undertook my proper winterization.
“I’ve got some savings, let’s buy a coat. Your health is worth more,” she said decisively.
And so we did. It was the coat of all coats, with a belt, its authentic leather redolent of the Champs-Élysées. My nondescript Moldovan boots took on a sorry look next to it, a village couple at an urban wedding.
“Super duper!” commented Dunhill-smoking black-marketeer Mila, dropping ashes into a metal Buddha ashtray. The Buddha’s head flapped open and shut.
“It’s not crying for food, so let’s keep it for a while,” my mother said, taking the old coat from my hands. It’s a disease they have, I thought of my parents. My mom, whenever she threw away any old cup that was missing its handle or any moth-eaten shawl, would always regret it afterwards.
“Sentimental value, your first checkered coat.”
People select friends based on interests; they stay friends for want of options. Everyone feels the need to belong. Visiting the Kolosovs gave me that sense of belonging. Why? It was simple: they would forget that I was there, and I could sit all evening in an armchair in the corner listening to their elder daughter, Irina, speaking to a student of hers in English.
Here is how I had first met them. A friend had told me that they had two Nabokov novels. I had heard a lot about Nabokov but had never read him. I telephoned the Kolosovs and was asked to come by. Ivan acted conspiratorially: rather than invite me in, he brought out to the landing a copy of Lolita bound in black calico. When in a few days I stopped by to return it, we got to talking. The book was complex and so provocative that it had been banned even in the States for a while. Moral issues. A master wordsmith. Extreme subtlety. Literature is the only language that can speak of modern man, I offered. What about philosophy? Have I read Lev Shestov? A neighbor lady emerged with her garbage can. She had been eavesdropping on our abstruse conversation for a full fifteen minutes. Good afternoon, Ivan Markovich. Good afternoon, Claudia Garbagevna.
They were an interesting family. I took my time to study them, to figure them out. Unmistakably, they were intellectuals, had degrees, a Moscow accent and all that. So why did they make coats from smuggled sheepskins and work such strange jobs? Ivan held the post of a factory watchman. Vera attached zippers to boots in a shoe repair shop at the local marketplace. When we became close enough, Ivan confided in me that he had spent seven years in jail for political proclamations. Before that he had been a high school history teacher. It was in jail that he had embraced the faith: he had shared his cell with an artist, a devout Russian orthodox convicted for social parasitism. Such was his good luck.
I, too, wanted to have faith. They say don’t be so highbrow and you’ll believe. I couldn’t. There was too much deception and absurdity around. Religion seemed to have its own deceptions too, but at least it appeared to be free from absurdity. “Doubt is a perfectly natural thing,” Ivan insisted, “you can doubt all you like.” After all, God was more interesting to discuss than food prices. Was it not better to be disappointed eventually than disillusioned from the start? I seemed incapable of living like everyone else anyway. Whenever I ran into my former college classmates I saw clearly that our ways had parted. One of them was striving to acquire a Finnish toilet bowl; another, having landed an editorial job and joined the Communist Party, spouted utter baloney. They were petty and tedious, so I always ended up going to the Kolosovs’ to drink tea and talk God and philosophy. And every Sunday I traveled to Comrat.
Ivan Kolosov was a classic “subjective idealist” by nature, but life had by and by turned him into a more objective one.
“Perhaps you should get baptized? Exit visas are granted more easily on grounds of religion.”
I was finishing the raw vegetables. The Kolosovs were strictly vegetarian, performed scary yogic lavages and attended church. You could do jail time just for socializing with them.
“But I’m a Jew.”
“So what, look at me.”
He turned in profile on his chair, his dentures gleaming. I understood now where his real teeth had gone.
“My maternal grandmother was a Roitblatt.”
“Jews are especially welcome and valued.”
“Don’t be so sarcastic.” Ivan looked hurt. “Do you know what Pascal said?”
“About the Jews?”
“No, about religion. The believer never stands to lose. If there is no God, the believer still doesn’t lose anything, but he gains a great deal if God does exist.”
“Are you sure this is not about the Jews? This is Jewish logic!”
Present with us at the table were… Alas, I could never keep their guests straight in my head. They would show up and then disappear in a month or two, emigrating. Irina, who had majored in foreign languages, was giving private English lessons to future émigrés. All her students had curly beards and tired Jewish eyes. Their conversations tended to be politico-philosophical. Sashas and Mishas were prevalent among them. Once the Kolosovs’ six-year-old, another Ivan, answered the phone when his parents were out. The caller introduced himself as Misha and requested to be called back urgently. Ivan had to apologize to his mom and dad: “I forgot to get this Misha’s name!”
We returned to our conversation about faith in a week.
“The Tolstoy Fund gives a lot of help, especially to those persecuted.”
“But no one is persecuting me!”
“Be patient, they will,” Ivan replied firmly. “Besides, you’ve just been fired from your job, which also needs to be mentioned. Read the Bible today and tomorrow. Irina will prepare you.”
“Is there a test?”
“No, but it’s good form to read the Bible before your baptism.”
First thing on leaving the church, I called my mother. For some reason I thought she would be happy to hear my news.
“You’re out of your skull,” she said. “How did you manage to think up such a stupid thing?”
I was hurt.
“Oh, I don’t know,” she continued. “You should have at least discussed this with someone in our family. After all, your great-grandfather was a rabbi, and not just any rabbi, but the most famous rabbi in Odessa…”
I interrupted her.
“What does my great-grandfather got to do with it?”
“I will now be ashamed to visit his grave. What shall I tell him?” my mother replied with dignity.
It occurred to me that it mattered little what she told him. If the same mother were to be believed, my famous rabbinical great-grandpa knew only two words in Russian: commissar and revolution.
I should explain that to her some time, I thought.
My joblessness worried me more. On the one hand, it’s for the best, I reasoned. Kishinev was a small town, and now I had no chance at all of finding employment. So I figured I would submit my emigration papers and get out. My record of service was a single line long: typist and office assistant at Vegetable Store #17. Term of employment: six months. Fired for skipping work. I wasn’t sure this counted as political persecution.
I did not like the church. First of all, it was stuffy inside, and second, an intelligent-looking woman who was praying next to me suddenly broke my concentration one day.
“You should be wearing a kerchief. You aren’t supposed to enter the church bare-headed!”
Our bickering began to attract attention. Two elderly ladies approached me from the opposite flank and insisted on giving me some gauze rags.
“What’s up with that? What’s their problem?” I asked Ivan.
He did not reply, but led me to the priest and pressed a crumpled note in my hand.
“And now you confess, get it?”
I remained alone, save for the priest who stared at me with a ram’s eyes and stroked his beard slowly. Words stuck in my throat. I exerted myself to recall my recent thoughts about religion. I felt I had to find the right tone: everyone here talked differently, not like in real life.
“I am not without sin, father,” I mumbled. “I am given, how should I put it, to great doubt.”
The priest remained silent.
“I interact a great deal with people of genuine faith. They are full of fervor. But I feel empty inside. There is no flame. I have even read some of the works of Father Paul Florensky. Do you know his On the Threshold of Thought?”
The priest frowned slightly.
“You keep illicit relations with anyone?” he enquired.
“What relations?”
“You keep illicit, sinful relations with any men?” I thought that by “illicit” he meant “illegal,” so I replied that I had such relations with hardly anyone except for two Gagauzians in the Moldovan market.
“Gagauzians?”
“What Gagauzians?”
“Regular Moldovan Gagauzians. They live there, in Comrat.”
“I don’t know. They must have been born there?”
“You smoke?” he continued vapidly.
“That’s bad, burning incense for the devil.”
He shook his head and stared into space.
“I’m planning to quit,” I lied.
“That’s good.”
Rising, the priest blessed me quickly with the sign of the cross and extended his plump hand toward me. I shook it with relief, and the crumpled note about which I had forgotten fell to the floor. The priest and I stared at it simultaneously. It was a five ruble bill.
“Come on,” he said and offered his hand again.
I gave him the fiver and withdrew.
Sasha was expected back by lunch. He was a friend of the Kolosovs whom I had learned to know from the rest because he had been a refusenik for three years now. His petitions to emigrate were being denied. He wore red socks and was interested in poetry.
Meanwhile, Ivan was telling me off.
“Give me a break, why are you so sensitive? The priest is just an intermediary. What do you care about his human qualities?”
“I have a hard time taking it abstractly,” I complained. “What if he is really KGB?”
“Of course he’s KGB, a second lieutenant most likely.”
“So why confess to him? It would be easier to denounce myself to the KGB directly.”
“When in church he assumes a different capacity,” Sasha said.
“First lieutenant?”
“It’s a pity you take it this way,” Sasha said. “Let me try to explain. When writing poems, you take on a whole different aspect? Don’t you?”
“So it’s the same with him. He may be whoever in everyday life, but in Church he ceases to be a man and turns into God’s own ear.”
We sat around and drank tea from a tea set. The piano behind the wall continued to tinkle with unobtrusive classical music; then its lid slammed down and the music teacher’s blond head appeared in the living room door.
“Ivan Markovich, we are done for today.”
“All right, all right, give me a moment.”
He exited. I heard him talking to the music teacher about contemporary music. Schnittke. Counterpoint. Banned from performance. It will dawn on them some day that they had overlooked a genius in their midst.
That’ll dawn on them about me too, I thought.
“Is the poetry coming along?” Sasha said.
“With a vengeance.”
“Don’t abandon it.”
“All right, I won’t.”
Sasha reclined on the sofa. It was slightly too short for him, and his red-socked feet dangled from the plush bolster. If it weren’t for those awful socks, I thought. Sasha rested his nape on his hands and stared at the ceiling.
“Ever since childhood I’ve had this sensation that someone is watching me. When I’m walking down the street or sitting in my room, I feel those eyes on me. Does this ever happen to you?”
“Never mind, it manifests itself differently to different people.”
“What manifests itself?”
“The presence.”
At home, I recalled this conversation with sudden joy. My life was so interesting, my circle comprised such fascinating types. I didn’t exactly seem run-of-the-mill myself, either. Smuggler, poet, Christian … I was surviving extreme conditions, so to speak, and risking my freedom. A howling ambulance dashed by behind my window along Soviet Army Boulevard, the dog next door howled in response, and all was silent again. I took a sheet of paper and began to write.
That night our waking hours turned wee and went
AWOL, whence they can’t come back to resolve
their irreversible predicament
with all the contrariety of love
in the return cry of an ambulance.
All night we stood and gaped like exit wounds
in palisade askanceness of the fence
to the black backyard, to the white front porch,
whereat the stars glimmered their green reproach
to the effect that there was, no, no chance…
I submitted my petition to emigrate. This news enlivened the conversation the next time I sat at the Kolosovs’ table and somehow drew me closer to the other young people in their circle.
Sasha noticed that my hand grabbed my side as I rose with some effort from the chair.
“Intervetebral disc?”
“No, I pulled a muscle.”
“Let me fix it.”
“You mean you’re a doctor now?”
“That too. Sit down there.”
I sat down on a child’s bench. He made motions with his hands over my head.
“How does it feel now?”
I stood up and walked across the room and back.
“I do feel better.”
“Did you doubt it?”
Wow, what amazing people, I thought on my way home. Perhaps they’re right about stuff that’s lost on me? I should get to know them better, they emit a good energy. Since they don’t ask for anything in return, what does it matter if I’m different from them? Still, why am I so incapable of rising above particulars to the level of metaphysical abstraction? What’s stopping me? My experience? My entire experience screams to me that we are alone in the universe, there’s no one out there. Does theirs tell them something else? We share the same experience, so experience can’t be the reason. Should I be reading up on this?
On the nightstand by the sofa lay the unfinished Florensky volume: Come out into a garden on a moonless night. The trees’ tentacles will reach out to you, probing deep into your soul, touching your face—and suddenly there are no boundaries: the creature’s very pores…—here I reclined on the sofa—the creature’s very pores absorb the enigma of the created world.
The aforementioned merry Gagauzian, the first to sell me sheepskins, invited me to his house. His name was Pavel, and he was about fifty.
“It’s right around the corner. I have lots more sheepskins there, you’ll be amazed!”
The fence demarcated a neat garden where fruit trees leaned on wood crosses and wore white stockings of lime against caterpillars. Pavel’s house, large and bright on the outside, turned out to be dark and tight on the inside. There were many rooms, about five or six, but they were appended to each in preposterous succession, like cars in a train. In the dining car—the long kitchen—three men were lunching at a table covered with white. Pavel’s Bulgarian wife Maria had served two dishes of stuffed cabbage leaves in sour cream. Pavel poured wine from a jug into mugs and looked at me.
“I see you wear a cross.”
We ate in silence for a while. Maria never sat down with us.
“Don’t be afraid, we also believe in Christ. Isn’t that so, wife?”
The wife shook her head negatively, which in Bulgarian means “yes.”
“Look here.”
He opened a drawer and took out an iron cross. Next to it in the drawer were a prayer book and a paper icon.
“I bought this cross in Kiev.”
A great simple truth is now going to be revealed to me by this simple man, I thought.
“It so happens that this cross has saved my family. We had no children for a long time. We even went to the hospital. But it didn’t help. Maria was empty. Isn’t that the truth, woman?”
Maria confirmed.
“Then a kind man recommended we go to the Kiev Caves Monastery to see the holy relics. We went, first by bus up to Tiraspol, then by train to Kiev, and we started looking for this monastery. And found it. Isn’t that so, woman? We lit some candles and bought this icon. Just four rubles for such a powerful thing! What do you think?”
“It worked.”
He again poured each of us a mug.
“She was completely cured.”
“See for yourself, aren’t they a bunch of lookers!”
The lookers showed no reaction to the compliment; they must have heard this story many times. Each was graced with heavy eyebrows joined at the top of the nose and a pair of large bovine eyes.
“Hasn’t it worked out nicely?”
Pavel briskly refreshed our mugs and we clinked them.
“Why aren’t you married? No candidates?”
“My youngest son is also slow to get married … Sasha. Isn’t he a dreamboat?”
“And what do you do?”
“A bit of everything. I mostly make coats.”
“That’s nice. If you deal with me I’ll give you a discount of one-third of the price. Let’s go look at the goods.”
He wiped his lips with a homespun towel and, heavy with food, pushed himself away from the table. We walked forward through the house and into a dim room hung with Turkish rugs. Sheepskins were piled up in a corner. “You pick what you want and I’m going to read a little,” said Pavel, fishing large black-rimmed eyeglasses out of his pants pocket. In a couple of minutes I heard his monotonous, businesslike snoring. I went on turning over the sheepskins. Pavel lay asleep across the ottoman. His eyeglasses had slid down the bridge of his nose and settled on its tip. I stuffed my sheepskins into bags and, leaving the money next to him on the pillow, exited into the lane through the backyard.
It’s not as if I believe in nothing at all, I thought on the way back. The very fact that my life path has led from my childhood all the way to the Kolosovs proves that I must believe in something. In fate, for example. After all, I didn’t give up when my dog wasn’t returned to me all those years ago. I asked a question then, but I have to date received no answer. So perhaps God can’t be felt like a shock from an electrical socket, after all. Perhaps it’s all not merely coincidental, these people, these books, these conversations lasting into the wee hours. . . Give me some sign, some hint that I’m going in the right direction, for man is weak and flits about in the dark like a moth around a lamp. The simile was flawed, but it worked for me. The bus vibrated as it entered the city. Peasants sat dormant around me. The hull of a highrise under construction flashed by in the window. There were exactly nine floors. The top floors still wore scaffolding, but a political placard was already affixed to the roof. To be sure, it showed the Leader of the Revolution, and the slogan above his outstretched arm read in large crimson lettering: “You have chosen the right path, comrades!”
It was night all around when I alighted at the terminus.
“Wait up,” someone said behind me.
I turned around and did not see anyone.
“What’s the hurry, where to?”
I continued uphill at a sprightly and independent pace. Lenin Street was five or six short blocks away. It was flooded with streetlights, glowing in the distance.
“Too proud to talk to me, huh?” The voice had taken offense. I turned and saw its owner, a tall bozo in baggy sweatpants and a quilted jacket.
“Hey, take off your coat!” he suddenly screamed. A metallic object flashed in his raised hand.
A revolver, I thought. Sizing up the uphill lane, I ran. I was afraid and seemed slow to myself. For the first time in my life I was being pursued, an unpleasant sensation. A major portion of my strength went into balancing the sheepskin load. Should I drop the bags? I’d make the remaining two hundred yards easily without them. I had had a training partner in my athletic childhood: we ran hurdles together. She almost always won, although I was every bit as good as her as a runner. Natasha Panenko, Natasha Panenko, I’m going to show you now, I started repeating to myself. When I stopped the lane was again dark and empty, like a spyglass aimed at a distant stretch of asphalt. A mangy cat stood by the familiarly locked supermarket door. I sat down on the doorstep and motioned for the cat to come closer. She arched her skinny back and rubbed herself against my knee.
“Did you see that?” I asked.
She sat down by me, a plain gray feline with clever eyes that had seen a great deal in this life. Why does one feel so much at ease with animals? Because they have faith. Without even knowing it. But why? Because they don’t extrapolate. She doesn’t think she will ever die. That’s the way to live.
As I approached my house I saw Sasha in front of it, a bread loaf in his hand. I told him about my misadventures.
“Strange, I thought you traveled by train.”
“No train goes to Comrat.”
He broke off a piece of the loaf and handed it to me.
“I’ve got news: my petition has been approved.”
We sat down on the front stairs of the drugstore.
“So there,” Sasha said, inexplicably sad. Some of the sentiment transferred to me.
“When are you leaving?”
“I’ll stay another month or so. I have to go to Moscow for my visa, take care of this and that. But I wanted to say goodbye. We’ll be thinking of you; you’re the last one left. God willing, we’ll see each other in the West.”
“We definitely will.”
“I’ll send you my address.”
“And Irina has turned me down.”
“She doesn’t want to leave her parents.” He sighed. “End of story.”
“Perhaps she’ll change her mind?”
Sasha shrugged. “Unlikely. I don’t feel like leaving.”
As we embraced, I remarked a drugstore vacancy notice fluttering in the wind behind his shoulder: “Urgent! Pharmacist’s Assistant Needed.”
“I foresaw it,” Ivan said, not long after I said goodbye to Sasha. They had now stopped issuing exit visas to Christians. On the other hand, the Australians were suddenly being active. They mostly accepted young people with good professions. Programmers, construction engineers, nurses and pharmacists were in demand.
“It wouldn’t be a bad idea for you to apply at the Australian agency while simultaneously signing up for some six-month nursing or pharmacology course…”
“Yeah, it’s not bad,” I replied, thinking that now truly everyone in our motherland wanted to turn me into either a pharmacist or a nurse.
One night I boarded a trolleybus and rode it in circles, from one end of the route to the other and back, just for fun. I wanted to say goodbye to the city where I had grown up. The weather was vernally warm and I didn’t need to wear a coat. All I needed was some hope of life ahead, of new people and new poems. Why, I wondered, do I always feel that everything that is going on is mere preparation and that true life will come once I am duly prepared? What if this is the life, what if there’s nothing else? I was thinking, I will emigrate, a new, real life will begin. And before that I used to think, I will graduate from college and a new life will begin. . . . What if these thoughts were a mistake? Or was I extrapolating again?
A young girl with a dog boarded the trolleybus, sat down and began staring through the window. The dog was also staring through the window. It was late. Where were they going at such an hour? The clock in the square in front of the railroad station marked a time long past. I recalled my first foray into God-seeking. It had come spontaneously. When I was eight, I happened to read a book published before the Revolution. I forget the title and the author. It was the story of an orphan girl who grew up in a family that belonged to the Old Believer sect. The girl’s foster parents loved her in their own way, but because they were Old Believers, they never tired of tormenting her. I was too young to understand the ideological purpose of the narrative, all I cared about was the plot. I, too, was eight-years-old, but, unlike the story’s heroine, I had many friends and a dog named Atos, with whom I would wander around at length in a nearby wood, trudging through the underbrush and impersonating an Amerindian. Then one day the dog died, and it got me thinking. There were many people of faith among our neighbors. “God resurrects those who are without sin,” Lena Hadjiu, a neighbor girl, told me. I decided to try my luck. My dog was definitely without sin. He may have gnawed a couple of my shoes to bits, but I had long forgiven him. I climbed the drainpipe all the way to the church roof and, waiting till dark for the sake of greater certainty, I asked that my dog be returned to me. Below me, a server lady emerged backwards out of the beerhouse, wheeling behind her a container full of empty beer bottles. Then she disappeared behind the back door, only to emerge again in a crimplene jacket and with a string-bag jangling with beer bottles that were full. Another half an hour later, a group of Gypsies with an accordion walked by the church. One of them saw me. “Get down, or your dad will spank you,” he said and shook a first at me. As they receded, I saw their hair glow in the liquid streetlamp light. I slid down the drainpipe, cutting my palm with a steel nail. The scar is still there.
“God is not like electricity, you don’t feel Him by sticking two fingers in a power socket,” Lena Hadjiu told me the next day. She was one year younger than me, but I always felt as if she were older. Probably because she knew something I didn’t. She didn’t deign to argue with me. In general, she was the quiet sort.
Katia Kapovich hails from Soviet Moldova. Her membership in the late seventies and early eighties in a samiszdat dissident group precluded publication of her writing in the USSR. A recipient of the 2001 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the U. S. Library of Congress, Kapovich writes poetry and short fiction. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches literary courses at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and co-edits Fulcrum.
Philip Nikolayev has published several collections of poems, including Monkey Time and Letters from Aldenderry .
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Marie-Andrée Gill: Poems in Translation from SPAWN
MARIE-ANDREE GILL
Marie-Andrée Gill’s Spawn is a surprising, colorful, virtuosic collection. Its brief, untitled poems span ’90s-kid nostalgia, the life cycle of fresh-water salmon, a coming of age, and the natural landscape of the Mashteuiatsh reserve, centered on Lake Piekuakami
Rising Sap (La sève)
MARIE-CLAIRE DEWARRAT
The only enjoyable pastime she’d been able to find was to lie down in the tall grass and watch the clouds unravel. Stretched out facing the sky, she let herself dissolve into their slow glissades and the swaying of the hay stalks that seemed to dig their sharp spears into the azure.
Revenge in the Name of All Owls
KATHERINE VAZ
The fifth child of Jorge Primavera and Deolinda Oliveira Primavera was born with a hole in his heart. The doctors said: There is nothing we can do. His father worries about his newborn boy being afraid... For breakfast, crack an egg into a glass of milk and add rock sugar.
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Bibles Replacing Beer On College Campuses
Researchers Find Many Students Entering Colleges Say They're On A Spiritual Quest
MADISON, Wis., Dec. 14, 2006
Is the Bible replacing beer as motivation for college students? (CBS)
(CBS) You don't have to look far to see why the University of Wisconsin makes the Top 10 list of party schools year after year, CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports. A trip down popular State Street says it all.
But these days, another kind of bingeing is catching on, one that is less about beer and more about the Bible.
Rae Gillen used to follow the party crowd. Now she leads prayer groups in the dorm. She made the change after breaking up with a boyfriend two years ago.
"It was just probably the most difficult time of my life that I've ever had, just really sad all the time, really depressed. And didn't really know how to fix it," Gillen says.
She found her fix in Campus Crusade for Christ, a student organization whose services resemble a kind of college party for God. Their membership at Wisconsin has tripled in the last five years.
That mix of higher education and a higher power isn't unique to Madison. Campus Crusade for Christ says it has expanded to 1,200 campuses, and has seen its membership almost double during the last decade.
UCLA researchers found the vast majority of students entering college say they're on a spiritual quest. Nearly 80 percent say they believe in God, nearly 70 percent pray, and they're looking for a new way to explore faith, outside of the traditional church.
A half-dozen college ministries are spending millions to build private, religiously themed dorms close to campus like one in Madison that has an underground passage to the Presbyterian church next door.
"Students will be able to come right underneath and come up and worship in their pajamas if they want," says Pastor Mark Eldson.
What Gillen really wanted was a sense of belonging and a deeper connection.
"People who desired to really know me and not just me as the person who was crazy enough to do something that, after a few beers I was willing to do," Gillen says.
It's not that today's students are giving up the party in favor of prayer. But when the party's over, some search for more than just a ride home.
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Posted by Howard and Laura at 9:31 AM
Hey Howard and Laura-
It was so fun to hear from you. It is exciting to read your blog and see all that God is doing in the U.S. with youth!
We are doing great and just loving our new life over here in Tallinn! Stas is thrilled to finally be back home and ministering amongst his people.
Stas was blessed by people like you Howard who were on STINT and living over in Russia in the early 90s. Stas learned how to apply Christ to all areas of his life by hanging out with your STINT team. It is great to be back over here on STINT ourselves and giving back.
Christy and Stas and Kai
Stas@Josh.org
Hi Howard and Laura,
It is interesting to read about the CBS Evening News report about the spiritual hunger on campuses in the States.
It is even more interesting to read about your ministry with Campus Crusade for Christ.
Hmm...interesting...
An example of the fruits of recruiting
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Here's the text of the main portion of remarks I delivered at Toronto's Stand With Israel rally, November 19, 2012.
There is a question that haunts every Israeli: Are we alone?
When rockets slam into Israeli schools and homes; when suicide bombers detonate themselves; when media organizations recirculate falsified images, like those today that purport to come from Gaza but really come from Syria; when international organizations condemn with fine impartiality both those who commit terrorist atrocities and those who defend against terrorist atrocities – when those things happen, as they do again and again, that is always the question Israelis ask: Are we alone?
Well, let them look at this hall and all the other halls joined by video link.Israel is not alone.
I wish everyone in Israel could see this hall tonight. Here are gathered Jews and Christians; believers and atheists; men and woman and girls and boys of every age – gathered from so many countries of origin in this great multicultural city of Toronto – all to say: We stand with Israel.
All of us carry Israel in our hearts. Most of us carry a piece of Israel in our pockets. The camera in your smart phone is a technology invented in Israel. I hope you will make use of those cameras tonight: that you will take photographs of this great meeting to distribute via social media and the Internet, more technologies to which Israel has contributed so greatly. We want them to see this rally in Tel Aviv and know: Israel is not alone. We want them to see this meeting in Jerusalem and know: Israel is not alone. And yes, we want them to see this meeting in Gaza, in Cairo, in Doha … and in Tehran. We want them all to know: Israel is not alone.
No country on earth faces such hatred as Israel.
Yet we are not here to express hatred in return. We are here to express love: love for the land of Israel, the brave people of Israel, the heroic armed forces of Israel.
We are here to express gratitude to those good people of every faith and every country who have supported Israel and its people. In your millions, we thank you.
We are here to express respect for those in the Arab and Islamic world who work for peace alongside Israel. We yearn for a future shared with you.
We are here to express sympathy for the Palestinian men, women, and children who have exploited as human shields by killers – and who have been plunged into poverty, statelessness, and violence by leaders who flinched from leadership.
We are here to express sadness at the terrible cost of these long decades of unnecessary strife to all the peoples of the region.
We are here to express confidence that the people of Israel still live – and will ever live – in freedom, dignity, and democracy.
We are here to express tremendous pride in Canada. The state of Israel has no stronger and more reliable friend than Canada and its government, and the people of Israel know it. What a wonderful thing to say, and may Canadians always be able to say it.
The enemies of Israel are proud to say they love death. The friends of Israel do not share their nihilism. The Jewish people have known too much death. Israel loves life so much that Israelis risk their own lives to minimize the loss of life even among Israel’s enemies.
By the most recent count, 1,540 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel this year.
Nine rockets were fired in January 2012.
Thirty-six rockets were fired in February 2012.
173 rockets were fired in March 2012.
And so it went through October 2012.
Against this indiscriminate violence, Israel has responded with restraint. An advanced country like Israel possesses fearsome powers of destruction. But while Israel’s enemies respect no limits – while they are as happy to kill children as adults, to hit a hospital as to hit an airbase – Israel has applied its advanced technology to target as precisely as possible, to spare the innocent and to protect the vulnerable.
We mourn the death of non-combatants. We see and feel the grief of Palestinian parents weeping the loss of a child – even in those cases where we know that those same grieving parents would not mourn the loss of a Jewish child.
As the world media tally non-combatant losses in Gaza, we stand here today to bear witness to the truth that no country in the history of warfare has done more than Israel to protect the civilian populations of its enemies from the wars those enemies themselves started.
Even as the rockets fly from Gaza into Israel, electricity and drinking water continue to flow from Israel into Gaza. When Gazans are injured, they find treatment in Israeli hospitals; when Gazans are hungry, it is through Israel that international aid arrives.
When you see on TV or read online condemnations of Israel for this or that, think of this. Gaza is ruled by a terror group that would, if they could, commit genocide against the people of Israel. Israel is ruled by a democratically elected government that would , if it could, offer Gaza trade, aid, jobs, and development.
After so many years of terrorism, the people of Israel have mighty reason for anger. Yet the greatest anger in Israel is anger that Israel has again been driven to fight when Israel did not want to fight. The greatest anger is that Israel must waste the talents of its people fighting wars instead of curing diseases, inventing devices, and leading all the Middle East to freedom, prosperity, and peace.
It was only two months ago that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared before the United Nations to declare that if the Palestinians would commit to live in peace alongside Israel, Israel would be the first to welcome a Palestinian state to the United Nations. And even now, after those 1,540 rockets this year, and all the rockets last year, and all the suicide attacks of the Second Intifada, and all the wars waged against the State of Israel since before there was a State of Israel - even now, it is still true that Israel offers the Palestinians more than the Palestinians’ own leaders offer them: real nationhood, real peace, real progress.
We await the day when the Palestinians will produce leaders who can commit their people wholeheartedly to the path of peace with a Jewish Israel. We hope that day may come soon – and perhaps this latest round of unnecessary bloodshed may even hasten the day.
The world’s diplomats and politicians are rushing to negotiate some kind of ceasefire that will end this round of violence. We all hope their work succeeds. But if and when they do succeed, we need to remember that they have only suspended – not put an end to – the long war against Israel. The origin of that war is found in the radical rejection of the existence of a Jewish state in the historic Jewish homeland. It’s not only Hamas that rejects the Jewish state. In fact, if Hamas were the only rejectionist group, Israel’s problems would be more than manageable.
Over the horizon of this local conflict there looms a much more serious enemy, this one armed with rockets that can fly more than a dozen miles, this one seeking the deadliest warheads of them all. As Iran pursues its murderous ambitions, the Middle East will head to crisis compared to which today will seem a mere training exercise. Such a crisis must be averted. The day must never come when Israelis fear that the rockets aimed at them might carry a nuclear payload. Today is the warning of that more terrible possibility.
I do not want to send us into the night in a mood of alarm. The outside world has achieved remarkable success delaying and thwarting the Iranian nuclear program. We have reason to hope that this success will continue and even improve. The International Atomic Energy Agency has reported that Iran has unexpectedly shut down its reactor at Bushehr, an indication of serious trouble at the Russian-built facility. A word of advice to any aspiring nuclear powers out there: “made in Russia” is not a sign of a quality nuclear product.
Unfortunately, “made in Iran” will be a statement of nuclear terror.
Nobody should expect Israel to subject its people to such a terror.
Not before this latest barrage, and certainly not after.
Under communism, the Poles used to tell a joke. There were two possible solutions to the problems of the country, one practical, one miraculous. One solution was that communism would reform. That was the miraculous solution. The other was that the Virgin of Czestochowa attended by all the angels and archangels would descend from Heaven and put everything right. That was the practical solution.
Sometimes when we look at the Middle East, we may be tempted to a similar kind of despair. Think again. In every decade since the creation of the state, Israel has grown stronger, richer, tougher, and more secure. The lives of its people have improved – the standard of living inside Israel is double that inside Saudi Arabia, and will soon equal that of Italy.
Meanwhile, those who have taken up conflict against Israel have seen their societies regress into primitivism, fanaticism, poverty, and backwardness. They offer their people only frustration and disappointment, their young men no future other than a promise of a better life after a grisly death. The mighty prediction of almost 3,000 years ago still seems to hold today: I will bless them that bless you, and those who curse you, I will curse. The rockets backfire on those who shoot them. The people of Israel still live and thrive. We stand with them tonight, and know that as we stand, so do millions of people of goodwill, who seek what Israel seeks: a secure and lasting peace.
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Brands at the FIFA World Cup: the iconic and the controversial
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Tricks of the marketing trade
By Alice Leary-27 July 2018 10:10am
The marketing sector can be a complicated place as new marketing tools and techniques are launched, almost on a weekly basis. Powered by The Drum Network, this regular column invites The Drum Network's members to demystify the marketing trade and offer expert insight and opinion on what is happening in the marketing industry today that can help your business tomorrow.
Fifa World Cup branding
The FIFA World Cup has long been utilised by major brands as a key opportunity to promote their products and services. Alongside the Olympic Games, the two have an unparalleled global reach and hold massive promotional potential for a brand. The FIFA World Cup, however, captures the attention of nations to a level that even overshadows the Olympic Games. Reaching over 3.2 billion television viewers, World Cup viewing numbers dwarf the viewership of both the Olympic Games and Tour De France. This results in a huge brand promotion opportunity, albeit with an increasingly hefty price tag that meant that this year FIFA struggled to fill their sponsorship roster with their usual ease.
Many big sponsors were not put off by allegations of corruption and bribery that have plagued the tournament, and continued their long-standing battle for branding dominance at the FIFA World Cup. One of the longest-running battles, however, is between the two sporting giants: Nike and Adidas.
Adidas is an official partner of the FIFA World Cup, which Nike counteracts by sponsoring players and teams, running advertising campaigns that feature a huge football tournament but never quite mention the FIFA World Cup.
According to the Independent, the stats before kick-off put Adidas in the sponsorship lead, having sponsored twelve teams against Nike's ten. But it was Nike that claimed the World Cup marketing crown.
The France vs Croatia final was a massive marketing win for Nike as, despite not being official FIFA World Cup sponsors, they captivated global sporting attention by being the sponsor of both finalists. As well as Nike being sponsors of both teams in the final, Nike-sponsored athlete Kylian Mbappé was named 2018 FIFA World Cup Best Young Player, earning the sportswear giant further column inches. A series of ads celebrating Nike-sponsored France's triumphant win have now been released. The ads celebrate Les Bleus and dedicate an ad to the addition of the second star – exactly 20 years after their first World Cup win in 1998. The Nike and Adidas rivalry is a battle of the brands that is set to deliver many more star-studded and colourful campaigns.
The global stage also opens up an opportunity for controversial advertising, with possibly the most notable and brazen company to take these reigns being PaddyPower - well known for embracing controversy. Every four years, the global reach of the FIFA World Cup offers a golden opportunity for an elaborate shock marketing ploy, one that is rarely passed up by the bookmakers that never fail to raise an eyebrow.
In Brazil in 2014, PaddyPower used the platform to draw attention to deforestation – pretending to shave the forest in support of the World Cup. The stunt was performed in collaboration with Greenpeace and was a resounding success, provoking outrage and comment worldwide.
This year was no different, as they polarised the country with their campaign to promote the plight of the polar bear in Russia. A public outcry followed the release of an image of a polar bear emblazoned with the St George's Cross flag. Not just a marketing ploy, the stunt was also an opportunity to fund a ground-breaking research project into Russian polar bears. PaddyPower have pledged a five-figure sum to Polar Bears International and are using the platform to encourage further donations from the general public.
Less welcome was William Hill's attempt to piggyback upon the glory of the English World Cup run. The bookmaker integrated the #ItsComingHome within its First View Twitter promotion and its promoted trends, meaning that every time a fan shared the hashtag they would also – unintentionally - share the William Hill logo on a football shirt. Using the massive platform of social media, it is quite hard to regulate that the only viewers are 18+ and remain gamble aware, something that was quickly picked up and scrutinised by the public. Controversial promotions have the potential to polarise and unify opinion: as both bookmakers will know all too well - you win some, you lose some.
The World Cup stage has also been a creative breeding ground for some truly inspired and iconic branding, from BA's ticket bringing football home this year to psychic Paul the Octopus in 2010, to the Old Lions Carlsberg advert of 2006 .
Whether a controversial stand, or a subtle rebrand to mark brand personality, the gargantuan reach of the FIFA World Cup is a massive playing field for brands looking to show a streak of character.
Despite a more reserved sports sponsorship roster for the FIFA World Cup 2018, the battle lines of the brands were perhaps more defined than ever. If the traditional sponsorship deals are starting to falter as a formula for success, brands are becoming increasingly inventive in how they capture public attention on a global stage – whether that be controversial, patriotic or iconic. As brands become more and more conscious of the connections they make, more selective sponsorships and allegiances give a more rounded impression of brand personality and character that can carry as much weight as a logo.
Alice Leary, digital marketing executive, Hydra Creative
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Atletico Madrid's Argentinian coach Diego Simeone reacts during the Spanish Supercup first-leg football match Real Madrid CF vs Club Atletico de Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on August 19, 2014. (GERARD JULIEN/AFP/Getty Images)
Diego Simeone Sent Off in 2014 Spanish Super Cup: Atletico Madrid Manager Given Marching Orders Against Real Madrid
By Larry Ong
August 22, 2014 Updated: August 22, 2014
Diego Simeone got sent off in the Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid 2014 Spanish Super Cup second leg final.
Simeone, coach of Atletico, was seen reacting agitatedly at the touch line in response to a couple of refereeing decisions against his team.
In the 27th minute, the 44-year-old Argentinian was seen patting an assistant referee at the back of his head by the referee, and was promptly sent off.
Here is an AP report of the first leg.
Real Madrid draws 1-1 with Atletico in Super Cup
MADRID (AP) — James Rodriguez scored in his Spanish debut as Real Madrid earned a 1-1 draw against Atletico Madrid in the first leg of the Super Cup on Tuesday.
Rodriguez came on for Cristiano Ronaldo in the second half at the Santiago Bernabeu and found the back of the net in the 80th minute after he pounced on a loose ball in the penalty area following an attempt by Benzema.
Raul Garcia equalized for Atletico in the 87th from a corner.
Throughout the first half, Atletico held Madrid in check by dominating the midfield with disciplined tackling and ensuring at least two players shadowed forwards Gareth Bale and Ronaldo every time a pass was made to them.
Rodriguez joined Xabi Alonso, Toni Kroos and Angel Di Maria in Madrid’s midfield and was brought on by coach Carlo Ancelotti after Ronaldo had been seen holding and rubbing his left leg late in the first half. Di Maria had come on in the second half for Luka Modric.
“He did well,” Ancelotti said of James. “All the second half the team played with greater speed and intensity, looking for chances from the wings. He scored and that’ll give him more confidence.”
The match was preceded by a tribute to Madrid great Alfredo Di Stefano, who died in July. A string quartet played as the club displayed large photographs of the forward and the silverware he helped win to the crowd.
Tennis player Rafael Nadal, who this week said he will not be defending his US Open title, watched the match from the VIP stand.
“Kroos is an important player and a great signing for Real Madrid,” Nadal said at half time.
Madrid began with captain Iker Casillas in goal. He was tested twice in the first 15 minutes by shots from Saul Niguez and Mario Mandzukic.
Atletico played a physical game throughout and defender Guilhelmo Siqueira was the first to be shown a yellow card after fouling Bale on the right touchline in the 13th minute.
Alonso was booked in the 39th for a clumsy tackle from behind on Atletico’s left winger Jorge “Koke” Resurreccion.
The referee calmed tensions when he punished Sergio Ramos and Mandzukic with a yellow card each in 60th after the two players fell from an aerial challenge with flailing arms.
Atletico’s 30-million euro ($40-million) signing, Antoine Griezmann, came on for Niguez in the 57th minute and Cristian Ansaldi came on seven minutes later for Siqueira.
Rodriguez earned a free kick in the 67th which Bale took and Atletico goalkeeper Miguel Angel Moya punched out straight to Kroos, who miskicked and skied the ball.
Kroos then stabbed the ball weakly in the 75th minute, giving Moya an easy catch, and Benzema headed over the bar three minutes later.
Raul Jimenez substituted Mandzukic in the 78th for Atletico and Di Maria came on for Modric to reinforce Madrid’s midfield.
Two minutes after Rodriguez’s goal Casillas saved a shot by Koke and before Garcia equalized for Atletico.
The Bernabeu erupted with protests from its fans as Atletico midfielder Mario Suarez appeared to handle the ball in injury time, but the referee did not award the sought-after penalty.
The second leg is to be played Friday at Atletico’s Vicente Calderon Stadium.
Despite having scored an away goal, Atletico coach Diego Simeone said his team’s chances of winning the cup were still only 50 percent.
“We are going to find ourselves up against a team with many attacking options and very good players,” he said of the second leg.
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Fangs Done Right: Vampires in Korean Dramas
Saturday, August 22, 2015 / The Fangirl Initiative / 3 comments
'Scholar Who Walks at Night' manhwa page
I have a thing for vampires. However, the phrase 'a thing' can be interpreted many different ways. When I say I have 'a thing' for them, it means they fascinate me. I'm interested in their mythology, in the different ways they're interpreted, in their symbolism. Usually, I'm unhappy with how they're portrayed. Either their vampirism is considered heroic, treated flippantly, or the mythology is just ridiculous. (Vampires do not sparkle, and they don't crack like porcelain when they're killed.) While my 'thing' for vampires frequently disturbs my mother, she's still willing to discuss them with me (and I came by it honestly. My dad slept in a coffin in college and kept a pet bat). Conversations ranging from their spiritual symbolism to whether or not it's practical for them to 'drain' someone (it isn't) are a fairly common occurrence, as several of my novels include vampires of different kinds.
However, when it comes to reading vampires in entertainment, they usually bother me. The subject of vampirism isn't treated with respect or seriousness, and is frequently seen as more of a super power than a curse. It's drinking blood, people. This is usually considered a bad thing.
A months ago I watched Vampire Prosecutor, a Korean drama about Prosecutor Min (Yeon Jung-Hoon), a detective-lawyer who happens to be a vampire. I'm always wary when approaching vampire entertainment, but I had heard many good things about the show. Imagine my pleasant surprise - no, my pleasant shock - when I saw the way the show handled vampires. It wasn't even a 'vampire show,' technically, despite the name - it was a procedural. It was Criminal Minds, where the main character happened to be a vampire. This show knocked the Vampire Diaries vampires into the dirt, because the show did not sacrifice morals or blur right and wrong for the sake of its main character.
Prosecutor Min was bitten and transformed years ago, and his vampirism gives him a special ability - he can look at a crime scene and 'replay' the last few seconds of what happened, to some extent, in his mind. This makes him invaluable, of course, but that isn't all - if he tastes blood from the victim, he can see snatches of their memories, giving him clues toward solving their murder. This show does not dance around the subject with kid gloves. Min despises the act of drinking blood, especially from murder victims - and, in fact, the act of doing so has highly unpleasant after-effects that he dreads. He has made rules for himself - he never drinks blood from a living person, no matter how tempted he is. In fact, in the first episode, he finds a man who murdered a little girl. The man deserves to die - horribly, in fact, for what he did; and Min gets very close to killing the man himself. However, after a struggle, he doesn't touch the man and instead prosecutes him, landing him in jail for life.
The show impressed me on many levels, because it didn't make sacrifices or 'cover' for the main character's condition.
Recently, a sageuk (historical drama) started that I'd been looking forward to for months - Scholar Who Walks at Night. The story centers around royal scholar Sung-Yeol, after he discovers that the palace is actually being run by Gwi - an evil vampire who takes the king's concubines as tributes and destroys anyone who disobeys him. Sung-Yeol is bitten by a dying vampire hunter (who happens to be a vampire hunter) - and before the hunter dies, he tells Sung-Yeol that he is curing him with this existence because he believes he's a good man, and Gwi is an evil one no human can destroy.
The show gives us two very different vampires - an intriguing but selfish vampire with no value for human life, and an ordinary man who plans to kill himself once he destroys evil. He views himself as a 'lesser' evil and lives as cleanly as he can, but struggles constantly with what he is and whether it's worth living like this in order to save the country from a greater evil.
I love both of these shows. Good is good, and evil is evil - although the characters have beautiful depth. The issues of right and wrong are not danced around or smudged like in most Western television - instead they're debated in the open. In fact, they're frequently the whole point of the show.
Where Western television fails, South Korean television does not - and if you're looking for a story with vampires and a strong moral compass, I highly recommend these two.
What about you? Do you have a problem with most vampire portrayal? Have you thought about it, or do you usually dislike the idea of vampires completely?
KDramas, Korean, Mirriam Neal, vampires
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The topic of this post doesn't surprise me, but the content does! This is amazing! Western films certainly do blur the lines of what's clearly morally okay or not (don't offend anyone, please! Depending on the lenses you put on, murder is /okay/! Don't judge!). The more I learn about Korean culture through the media, the more I respect and admire them.
Thanks for loving this culture enough to share it with us. ^_^ It humanizes other parts of the world and I love that.
*adds these shows to my to watch list* I usually dislike the idea of vampires altogether, but these shows sound really intriguing! I can't wait to watch them.
Detroit Black Jacket March 24, 2016 at 11:55 PM
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In 2005, we began an amazing relationship with our Lutheran brothers and sisters in Tanzania's Northeastern Diocese. This summer we will make our fourth trip to visit their evangelism outposts in the mountains of Lushoto, and developed a scholarship program for high school students. Tanzanian hospitality, generosity and contagious Christian music draws us back and feeds our faith!
Our partnership with Cathedral Church in Lushoto, began August 2005. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod has been matching up our congregations with congregations in the North-Eastern Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania. Upper Dublin is now beginning to develop this international spiritual friendship! Visit the ELCA's Global mission page for more information. Read about our five trips to Lushoto, Tanzania.
What is a Companion Synod Program?
The ELCA began the Companion Synod Program to help American churches experience the gifts and witness of a church in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe or the Middle East. The partnership exists for the purpose of strengthening one another for life and mission within the Body of Christ. We mutually participate as we design our relationship together, via study, communications, exchange of pastors and lay persons, scholarships, resources for worship, music and the arts, and Christian education. This is an excellent opportunity to increase global understanding, and, where churches live under oppression or danger, to advocate for justice on behalf of our partners.
Interesting Facts about Cathedral:
Membership: 1000 adults, 600 children
Weekly Worship Attendance: approximately 600 Sunday School has 500 children
Confirmation Class 122
Two worship services Sundays, three choirs and a band with guitars and piano
All choirs are involved in various evangelism projects, as well as visiting the sick in hospital and homes to sing and pray together!
Cathedral has five (satellite mission churches called) sub-parishes in the mountains around Lushoto. These are served by lay 'evangelists' who travel each Sunday up steep dirt roads to reach the small temporary structures of some sub-parishes, while others are growing large and have permanent buildings (like Ubiri and Ngulwi) Several members of each sub-parish are chosen as Council members who travel down to Cathedral Church, for their Council meetings and to conduct business together.
UBIRI
NGULWI
KWEMASHAI
YERIKO
We Learn From Each Other!
There are many ways that Upper Dublin Lutheran Church hopes to accompany Cathedral Church and its mission in the future. And, Cathedral Church will mutually support UDLC as well, as this is not meant to be a one-way partnership based on financial gifts!
Secondary School Scholarships (about $500 per year) Tuition and uniforms are needed by students to attend high school. Girls especially are not given this privilege easily, and most families cannot afford the extra expense. The children sponsored are asked to correspond regularly with their American sponsor, and send photos, and share their spiritual life and career plans with sponsors!
Visitors Exchange Upper Dublin is able to bring several staff members, lay evangelists, students, seminarians, over to experience life in USA, for a few weeks, or for a semester of study. We also are able to go there to Lushoto, to visit and learn more about their mission work in that cultural context.
Worship Services share prayers and music on same Sundays. On certain Sundays, we can share prayers for each other, sing the same songs (in Swahili), they can sing our UDLC favorites, and Children even share sermons ideas and illustrations between pastors. UDLC has the ability to show taped video of worship at Cathedral and preaching of the staff on occasion at our worship to build the sense of connection between the people.
Correspondence Letters and pen pal exchanges can take place mostly on snail mail (few have internet access for emails) between all ages in our congregations, Sunday School, Widow's group, Choirs, Confirmation classes and others! Names are available right now!
Financial Support While this is NOT MEANT TO BE THE MAIN manner of working together, it IS certainly and important part of our partnership. At Christmas, special gift offerings can be made for purchase of cows, band instruments, choir uniforms, building materials for new churches, computers, video and DVD resources for Christian Education, and crafts for children, etc. Also major gifts can be given for internet connections to be established, computer labs for the church and community, and visitor exchanges for the Tanzanian visitors to come to USA.
Sebastian Kolowa University College (SEKUCo)
SEKUCo is a partnership project of the North Eastern Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America! It is located in Magamba, Tanzania, and will be opening October 23, 2007 with a delegation from Upper Dublin attending and several other Synod visitors! SEKUCo will be an affiliate of Tumaini University and will be open to all persons regardless of religious beliefs. It will offer Teacher Education with an emphasis on Special Education, Nature Conservation and Eco-Tourism, and Law! For more information visit our website at www.SEKUCo.org Our synod is cooperating with the NED...of TZ to build a university that serves special needs students in all of Tanzania and surrounding countries...IT will also be a Law School and Tourism training program.
Learn more about SekoMu here!
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Solidarity conference calls for action as Venezuelans depart in droves
Joint Press Release by the European Union, UNHCR and IOM
23 October 2019 | Español | Français
Venezuelans pause for rest after crossing into Cúcuta, Colombia, April 2019. © UNHCR/Vincent Tremeau
Brussels, 23 October - The dramatic flight of millions of Venezuelans has resulted in one of the direst displacement crises in the world and the largest in the recent history of the region. Nearly 80 per cent of the approximately 4.5 million Venezuelans who left their country have remained in Latin America or the Caribbean.
Calling for urgent and concerted action for Venezuelan refugees and migrants, the European Union, together with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), are organising a high-level International Solidarity Conference next week on 28 and 29 October in Brussels.
The conference will be hosted by Federica Mogherini, High Representative/Vice-President of the European Commission, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, IOM Director General António Vitorino and UNHCR/IOM Joint Special Representative for Venezuelan refugees and migrants Eduardo Stein.
Countries in the region continue to show solidarity towards Venezuelans, ensuring people can move freely, access social services and integrate into local economies and communities – but the capacity and resources of national authorities and host communities are reaching a breaking point. More international support is needed to support Venezuelan refugees and migrants.
"The European Union and its partners are renewing their commitment to the Venezuelan people. When 4.5 million people are on the move, action is needed and we will keep acting," said High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini. “This is a moment to call for even greater support for Venezuelan refugees, migrants and their host communities by the international community. We want to raise awareness about the gravity of this crisis, we want to confirm and increase international support for a regional and coordinated response. The EU is already the leading donor and key political player, providing €170 million since 2018 in support of the Venezuelan people.”
“Countries and communities in Latin America and the Caribbean who have welcomed millions of Venezuelans deserve and need our support,” said IOM Director General António Vitorino. “The international community including donors, cooperation agencies and the private sector need to double down to ensure help arrives for the most vulnerable and those supporting them.”
Ministers and high-level officials from Latin America and the Caribbean and Members States of the European Union will attend together with UN agencies, international cooperation agencies, NGOs, private sector companies, civil society organizations and development actors including international financial institutions.
“This conference is a unique opportunity to bring together all the actors involved in the response,” said UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi. “Together we are sending a strong message to Venezuelan refugees and migrants and their generous hosts in Latin America and the Caribbean, that the world has not forgotten them and that we will support them in their moment of need.”
The International Solidarity Conference – which brings together humanitarian and development actors, the private sector, civil society, international financial institutions, as well as host and donor governments – aims to raise awareness of the crisis, reaffirm global commitments to host countries and communities, assess best practices and achievements, confirm international support for a coordinated regional response and call for greater international technical and financial cooperation with the region.
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In Geneva: William Spindler, [email protected], +507 63827815
In Brussels: Maeve Patterson, [email protected], +32 470 99 54 35
IOM:
In Geneva: Angela Wells, [email protected], +41 79 403 53 65
In Brussels: Ryan Schroeder, [email protected], +32 492 25 02 34
In Brussels: Maja Kocijancic - [email protected], +32 2 298 65 70
In Brussels: Christina Wunder, [email protected], +32 2 299 22 56
In Brussels: Xavier Cifre Quatresols, [email protected], +32 2 297 35 82
For more on the International Solidarity Conference: https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/69079/stories-venezuelans-searching-shelter-and-safety_en
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Tristan Fund Acquires French Logistics Warehouses for €56 Million
Source: Tristan Capital Partners Press Release
CCP III, the core plus fund advised by pan-European real estate investment manager Tristan Capital Partners, has acquired two prime logistics warehouses in southern France from Groupe Carnivor for a total of €56million.
The assets are located on a four-building logistics park at St. Martin de Crau, northwest of Marseille. CCP III will acquire buildings A and C on the park, comprising a total of 112,075 square meters of space, at a yield of 8.4%. Maisons du Monde has signed 12-year leases for both buildings.
Cameron Spry, Head of Investments for Tristan Capital said: “This is the latest logistics investment for the fund and combines an attractive rental income yield for a prime property and a tenant with whom we have an existing relationship. The St. Martin de Crau purchases sit squarely in our strategy of acquiring logistics assets as the dearth of new development in top locations offers attractive prospects for these properties.”
St. Martin de Crau is in the southern Rhone triangle beside the main axis that connects to the A7 Autoroute du Soleil to Lyon, the A9 motorway to Spain and the A8 to Italy, whilst also benefiting from direct connections to the Ports surrounding Marseille. Building C was completed in the fourth quarter 2012, whilst building A was delivered in Q1 2013.
Tristan’s Curzon Capital Partners III (CCP III) raised €420 million from institutional investors in February last year, deploying the proceeds rapidly. The French purchase follows the fund’s acquisition of two logistics centres in Hamburg and the Saarland in February for a sum in excess of €30 million.
Advisors involved in this transaction were Salans (for Legal), Racine (Tax and Corporate), Arcadis EC Harris (Technical & Environmental) and Etude 1768 (Notaires).
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Jerry Jones: Cowboys Will Stand For The Flag Or “Your Ass Will Be Off The Team”
Aprail Mathews July 30, 2019 Politics, Stories, US News, Viral
If any of his players want to take a knee during the National Anthem, don’t expect to see them on the roster for much longer.
This is why the Dallas Cowboys are my team; I love the attitude. Sure some grown immature snowflakes will call out Jerry Jones, but it’s his team, and he loves America.
Just as Jones sets requirements for his team, he expects commitment and loyalty. If he’s paying the salaries, why can’t he impose these rules on his team? If you have a problem with this, then you don’t want to be a Dallas Cowboy, or you should explore joining another team where they let you disrespect the American flag, but that won’t happen in Dallas.
As the Dallas Cowboys begin training camp, Owner Jerry Jones wants to make one thing very clear to his team before the 2017 NFL season begins.
Last season, Jones told CBS Radio’s 105.3 The Fan, “I got to give a big pat on the back to our entire team, our coaching staff, our entire organization. We strongly, strongly support the flag in every way we support — and it’s almost ridiculous to be saying it — the people who for generations and generations have given it all up so that we can get out here and show off in front of millions of people on television.”
Free agent Quarterback Colin Kaepernick made headlines after he knelt during the National Anthem last season with the San Francisco 49ers.
We’ll see which Cowboys are standing and still want to be employed as they kick off the NFL’s pre-season taking on the Arizona Cardinals in the Hall of Fame game on Thursday, August 3.
I am not angry Jones is taking this stance, I love it. If I lived in the area, I would have bought season tickets for the next 20 years based on this alone.
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MANILA, Philippines – The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has reminded motorists that the number coding scheme for private and public utility vehicles will be lifted in several dates this...
Number coding lifted from Dec. 24 to Jan. 2 for provincial buses – MMDA
MANILA, Philippines – The number coding scheme for provincial buses will be lifted during the holiday season, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced. In a memorandum dated December 16...
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Robie de Guzman • December 3, 2019
MANILA, Philippines – The Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP) or the number coding scheme for vehicles in Metro Manila will be lifted starting 12 noon Tuesday, the Metropolitan Manila...
MMDA to lift number coding for ‘Undas’
Robie de Guzman • October 28, 2019
MANILA, Philippines – The Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP) or number coding scheme for all private and public utility vehicles in Metro Manila will be lifted during the Catholic...
Number coding scheme lifted on August 12 – MMDA
Marje Pelayo • August 12, 2019
MANILA, Philippines – The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) reminds motorists that the number coding scheme is lifted for Monday (August 12) which is a regular holiday in commemoration of...
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MANILA, Philippines — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Wednesday (May 8) suspended the implementation of number coding scheme for provincial buses in line with the 2019 Midterm Elections....
MMDA suspends number coding for provincial bus on May 10, 14
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MANILA, Philippines – The number coding scheme for provincial buses will be lifted on Friday (May 10) and Tuesday (May 14), the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said on Wednesday....
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The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has announced that the number coding scheme is lifted on Tuesday, April 23. This, however, covers all Public Utility Vehicles (PUVs) ONLY. In its...
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MANILA, Philippines — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has suspended the number coding scheme for private vehicles in Metro Manila beginning at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, in observance...
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Kirk Triplett shoots record 62 in U.S. Senior Open
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Kirk Triplett blasts from a sand trap at The Players Golf Championship in May. Triplett shot a record 62 in the first round of the U.S. Senior Open on Thursday. Photo by Pat Benic/UPI | License Photo
Kirk Triplett matched the PGA Tour Champions major record with an 8-under 62 on Thursday in the first round of the U.S. Senior Open at Salem Country Club in Peabody, Mass.
Triplett, though, has company near the top as 2011 Senior Open champion Olin Browne Jr. shot a 63 and Doug Garwood carded a 64. Kenny Perry, Duffy Waldorf, Paul Goydos, Tom Lehman, Jerry Smith and England's Barry Lane are tied at 65.
Waldorf aced the 149-yard third hole.
"Even though there's some red numbers on the board, if you got overly aggressive and you missed on the wrong side, you were cooked," Browne said. "The greens were receptive and the wind was down today, so the ball was going where we started it. But if you didn't hit good shots, you're going to pay a real penalty out here."
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Germany's Bernhard Langer, who won the season's first two majors, is in a nine-way tie for 13th at 67.
Triplett started his round at No. 10 and was 4 under at the turn. His round was highlighted when he holed out with a 9-iron from 120 yards on the par-4, 341-yard fourth hole.
"Today I just got some momentum," Triplett said. "At one point during the round, I said, 'OK, this is your day. Grab it. Go.'"
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Triplett, 55, who is trying for his sixth Champions victory, birdied four of his first six holes. His chance for a 61 was denied when he missed a 10-footer for birdie at No. 9.
"It's Thursday night, and there's a whole bunch of guys that are really close," Triplett said. "So I'm more about the tournament than about the individual-rounds accomplishment. I just feel great to be in the thick of it."
Loren Roberts is the only other player to shoot 62 in the U.S. Senior Open, accomplishing the feat in the third round in 2006 at Prairie Dunes in Kansas en route to tying for eighth.
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Rams' Todd Gurley doubtful, Aqib Talib out vs. 49ers
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Los Angeles Rams running back Todd Gurley suffered a quad injury during last week's loss to the Seattle Seahawks. File Photo by Nell Redmond/UPI | License Photo
Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The Los Angeles Rams will likely be without star running back Todd Gurley for Sunday's matchup against the undefeated San Francisco 49ers.
Rams head coach Sean McVay told reporters Friday that Gurley is doubtful for the Week 6 matchup. The tailback missed practice this week due to a quad injury that he sustained in last week's loss to the Seattle Seahawks.
"He's doubtful right now, so we'll have a little bit more clarity [before the game]. We're really just taking our time making that decision," McVay said. "What you know is you've got a lot of confidence in Malcolm Brown and Darrell Henderson."
Gurley led the NFL in scrimmage yards (6,430) from 2015-18, but injuries have derailed the running back. This season, he ranks 53rd with 338 yards from scrimmage and is averaging career lows in rushing yards per game (54), touches per game (15.6) and carries per game (12.8).
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Bloody Point Bar Lighthouse
Kent Island, Maryland - 1882 (1882**)
History of the Bloody Point Bar Lighthouse
This lighthouse is what's known as a "spark plug" type lighthouse. Its gets this name by its shape. The basic buildup of this type of lighthouse is a tower placed on top of a caisson. This particular lighthouse was finished in 1882, and stands 37' tall. Given the high occurance of ice flows, the caisson, which is 30' tall, was made of concrete and covered in iron.
The lighthouse was manned until 1960 when a fire gutted the entire inside of the tower. Rather than rehabilitating the interior, it was easier to install the automation equipment. The current optic is a 300mm lens, and is still an active aid to navigation.
Directions: The lighthouse sits off shore off the southern tip of Kent Island. The best view would be from the water. From US-50 US-301, exit at Romancoke Road and follow that south for about 7.1 miles. At this point, Romancoke Road bears left. You will want to continue south on Kent Point Road to the end. This will change names to Willard Point Road. From here, you should be able to get a decent distance shot.
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Tower Height: 40.00'
Focal Plane: 54'
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Memos show that Johnson & Johnson knew about asbestos issues
On behalf of The Law Offices of Wallace & Graham on Thursday, December 27, 2018.
Johnson & Johnson, the monolithic health and beauty company, has long denied the potential for asbestos contamination in their talcum powder products. Marketed as baby powder, this popular Johnson & Johnson product was sold for years to mothers, as well as to adults who wanted to freshen their genitals and avoid dampness in their underwear.
Talc is a naturally occurring mineral, and its deposits in the earth are often quite close to deposits of asbestos. Companies such as Johnson & Johnson should have strict purity and testing standards to prevent potential contamination that could endanger or even kill consumers. Sadly, many companies cut corners in areas that directly impact consumer safety and try to avoid consequences.
The revelation that Johnson & Johnson has known for decades of asbestos contamination in their baby powders is frightening and upsetting. It shows that the company clearly prioritizes profits over the safety of their customers. It also paves the way for more successful lawsuits against the company, as additional people with both mesothelioma and reproductive cancers come forward to hold the company accountable.
Memos acknowledge contamination as far back as the 70s
Starting in 1971 and going through the early aughts, Johnson & Johnson staff, including executives, management at mineral mines, doctors and even attorneys, knew about contamination in talcum powder products made by Johnson & Johnson. Although it was infrequent, internal testing did occasionally turn up asbestos contamination in their products.
Instead of acting on those test results, the company simply did nothing. They did not label their products as potentially hazardous. They did not close mines where contaminated minerals got extracted. They did not pull products off the shelves after failed tests.
They simply went about business as usual, assuming they would never have to face consequences for the danger they created for the public. Even now, as individuals with cancers likely related to asbestos bring lawsuits against the company, they continue to insist that their products are safe for daily use.
Those sickened by talcum powder have legal rights
Asbestos is a particularly dangerous carcinogen. People who apply it to themselves in a powder form run the risk both of inhaling particulate asbestos and having it absorbed into their body through their genitals and skin. In other words, contaminated baby powder could cause both mesothelioma, which is a cancer of the organ lining, or reproductive cancers in otherwise healthy adults.
Although it can be difficult to prove, it is possible to link certain cancers to asbestos exposure. If neither you nor your spouse had career exposure to asbestos and you use talcum powder regularly, you may have grounds for a lawsuit. Exploring your medical circumstances with a knowledgeable attorney who understands these complex cases can be a smart next step.
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CDFI Collaborative Expands Nationally to Advance Access to Capital for Veterans
Veteran LLC provides Leadership, Learning, and Capital to Veteran Entrepreneurs throughout U.S.
Austin, TX – Veteran LLC has expanded to include five additional members: Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation in Wisconsin, Black Business Investment Fund in Florida, Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs in Georgia, Pathway Lending in Tennessee and Alabama, and Economic and Community Development Institute in Ohio. The new members of the community development finance institution (CDFI) collaborative join Main Street Launch in California, Carolina Small Business Development Fund in North Carolina, and Texas PeopleFund in Texas, which in 2018 collectively provided nearly $9 million in capital to veterans.
By visiting vet.loan, veteran entrepreneurs can access business education modules and connect to local community lenders with dedicated programs for veteran small business owners.
Veteran LLC was formed as an investment initiative of JPMorgan Chase’s Small Business Forward program to support women, minority, and veteran-owned small businesses to create local and inclusive economic growth. Of the veterans served by Veteran LLC in 2018, 47 percent were ethnic minorities and 25 percent were female.
“We are humbled and excited by the growth of this collaborative,” said PeopleFund President & CEO Gary Lindner. “Our combined commitment to our nation’s heroes will transform lives through financial equity and new pathways to prosperity.”
One million service members will transition out of the military over the next five years, nearly a quarter of who will attempt to start their own businesses, but only 4.5 percent will succeed due to lack of access to capital and networking. Veterans bring tremendous value to the economy, with nine percent of all businesses in the country veteran-owned, representing nearly six million employees and $1.2 trillion in sales. Veteran LLC will fill a widening capital void among veteran entrepreneurs to ensure they can continue to serve as valuable economic drivers.
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