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Professor Jonathan Kay to judge Digital Health Awards
May 24, 2019 /in Fellows, News /by Joe Jubb
We’re delighted to announce that the FCI’s Vice Chair, Professor Jonathan Kay, has been confirmed to judge at the Digital Health Awards.
We know so many of you have done remarkable work over the past 12 months, so why not celebrate success and get some recognition by entering or nominating a colleague for an award.
Categories include: CCIO, CIO, CNIO or Future Digital Leader of the Year, Team of the Year or Outstanding Contribution.
The online form is quick and easy – just confirm who you are putting forward, for which category and 3 reasons why.
There’s just one week to go until the 31 May deadline, so don’t delay, enter today.
The Digital Health Awards are an integral part of the Digital Health Summer School, which brings together leaders in Health IT including CIOs, CCIOs, clinical information leaders, CNIOs and Future Digital Leaders for two days of collaboration and education. This year will be held at the University of Leeds from 18th-19th July.
The FCI is a Network Partner of the Summer School and is sure to have a large member presence. We are also planning a Faculty social event, so look out for further details soon!
Tags: Awards, Digital Health, Founding Fellow, Summer School
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The Faculty of Clinical Informatics has partnered with Digital Health Rewired
"My advice to the next Labour government on technology in the NHS": Professor Trisha Greenhalgh shares her…
Sharing digital blueprints across the NHS to improve services for patients and... Applications are now open to join the Faculty of Clinical Informatics!
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What It's Actually Like Becoming A Mum At 21
by Laura Doyle
The average age of women starting families in Ireland is 32.5 years.
The average age of women starting families in Ireland is 32.5 years. Mothers under 30 accounted for nearly 30% of births in 2015 compared with 10 years previously, when the under 30s accounted for nearly 40% of births.
And the age of first-time mums is slowly increasing. Being a young mum has become more and more unusual. I was a young mum - I had my son at 21. I have to say now, almost 10 years later, I still stick out like a sore thumb waiting at the school gate.
I had a surprise pregnancy at 21 and certainly feared the unknown. But being a young parent can also be wonderfully invigorating. I found such drive when I became pregnant, I wanted to prove all the people that eye-rolled at the thought of a “young mum” wrong. I was determined to do what I needed to do to give myself and my unborn baby the best possible life. Even if I was absolutely terrified too!
You hear all the horror stories first and foremost. People tell you how horrific labour is, how tired you will be, how you will never go out again and when you do you will only want to come home again out of sheer exhaustion. But nobody really tells you how your life will also change for the better.
How this new little person will make you want to be the best possible version of yourself. The love you will feel as soon as that little one is placed in your arms. And how much you are going to love this new world.
However, parenting is a whole new world. One you don’t even get a glimpse of until you’re thrown in at the deep end baby in arms. This was me at 21, I had no preview of what was to come and no friends that were mums. It was extremely isolating.
That was my biggest struggle I think being a young mum, not having close friends to lean on. Parenting is half raising your little ones and half finding your “tribe” to help you do that.
At 21 the close friends I had didn’t have children and they had no idea of what I was going through, how could they. Parenting is like an exclusive event with absolutely no sneak preview. So, finding your tribe is essential. The friends I had didn’t understand or acknowledge my new role as a mum and I found myself left out of my old life, desperately trying to find my feet in my new one.
I couldn’t or simply didn’t want to go on the nights out and last minute get-togethers I previously lived for. Hard for some old friends to accept or understand. But I had this beautiful baby boy and he was my world now. Even I didn’t fully understand who my new “mum self” was. But she loved that baby, even more than herself and she would do everything in her power to be the best mum she could be.
Truth be told, 10 years later and 3 more children, she still does!
Laura Doyle, Mum of 4. Kyle 9, Noa Belle 4, Briar 2 and Milla 12 months. Breastfeeder, co-sleeper, coffee drinker. Staying positive and inspired by the chaos of it all. Follow her on Instagram.
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Mum of four, Gentle parent living on coffee and trying always to stay positive and motivate in the midst of the madness.
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Public Release: 8-Dec-2016
Scientists determine how much damage memory devices can take in mass transit accidents
IMAGE: Steve Cain is a senior research support specialist in the Integrated Electronics Engineering Center (IEEC) at Binghamton University. view more
Credit: Jonathan Cohen/Binghamton University
BINGHAMTON, NY - While investigating mass transit accidents, especially in air travel, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials often rely on digital clues left behind in flash memories of any and all electronic devices -- both personal and professional -- at a crash site. With the physical forces and high-temperature fires associated with many crashes, memory units are often damaged and sometimes unreadable.
Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have figured out how much damage memory units can sustain before becoming unreadable and new repair techniques to retrieve clues off of damaged units, which might help prevent future tragedies.
"The biggest surprise was how much punishment these devices can take before ceasing to function," said Steve Cain, who is the project manager and a senior research support specialist in the Integrated Electronics Engineering Center (IEEC) at Binghamton University. "As part of their post-crash investigations, the NTSB collects anything and everything at the scene, including personal electronic devices. If the device was active during or just before the crash, it is possible that the data stored in the memory can provide clues as to the cause of the crash. Most of the time the device is ruined, but sometimes it is intact."
The interdisciplinary Binghamton group of Cain, Preeth Sivakumar, Jack Lombardi, and Mark Poliks along with James Cash, Joseph Gregor, and Michael Budinski from the NTSB, presented "Fire Damage and Repair Techniques for Flash Memory Modules: Implication for Post-Crash Investigations" at the Fall 2016 International Symposium of Microelectronics.
Scientists found plastic coverings started to break down after three hours of exposure to temperatures of 300 degrees Celsius, or about 572 degrees Fahrenheit or more, but memory chips were still readable.
Researchers pointed out that even with the pressures and forces in play during past crashes, temperatures typically only reach those levels for short periods of time.
"Data integrity was maintained even in a plasma discharge," Cain said. "Basically, if the device doesn't burn up, there is a reasonable chance of the data being retained in the chip. The only problem is that the connections to the memory chips may be broken, so that the data cannot be read."
For the second part of the study, researchers addressed the readability issue. The team purposely damaged memory units and then extracted memory chips using acid, lasers, plasma, or mechanical polishing.
Lasers were the most effective extraction method and mechanical extractions was the simplest, but each method still damaged the wire bonds within memory chips and made many unreadable. A specialized metallic ink from a precision printer was used to restore functionality.
"These results expand the investigative scope for aviation accidents, where the data rather than the device is of paramount importance," the team concluded. "It is possible to repair the interconnections of flash memory modules, provided the chip is intact."
Steve Cain
scain@binghamton.edu
@binghamtonu
http://www.binghamton.edu
Fall 2016 International Symposium of Microelectronics
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING/ELECTRONICS
TECHNOLOGY/ENGINEERING/COMPUTER SCIENCE
Steve Cain, Binghamton University (IMAGE)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4071/isom-2016-THP51
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Official Trailer for Dramedy 'Punching Henry' Starring Henry Phillips
"I think I'm failing very well doing what I love." Well Go USA has debuted a quirky trailer for an indie dramedy titled Punching Henry, a semi-autobiographical look at the life of comedian Henry Phillips. Henry is self-described as a "rambling troubadour extraordinaire" who combines folk music with stand up comedy in an awkward little act. Lured to Los Angeles by a veteran TV producer, Henry ends up making tough decisions about chasing fame and success. The cast includes J.K. Simmons, Sarah Silverman, Tig Notaro, Jim Jefferies, Doug Stanhope, and more. This looks like a heartwarming, amusing little gem that hopefully profiles Henry Phillips in the best light, even if he doesn't achieve success. It's worth a look.
Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Gregori Viens' Punching Henry, direct from YouTube:
In this semi-autobiographical, hyper-intelligent comedy, a journeyman comedian (played by Henry Phillips himself) is lured to L.A. by a TV producer (J.K. Simmons) who wants to make him a reality star. As reality sets in, he must decide whether his legacy will be to tell jokes for a living or become the butt of them. Punching Henry, formerly known as And Punching the Clown, is directed by Los Angeles-based filmmaker Gregori Viens, of The Loner and Island of Roses previously. The screenplay is by Gregori Viens and Henry Phillips. This first premiered at the SXSW Film Festival last year. Well Go will release Viens' Punching Henry feature in select theaters + on VOD starting February 21st this winter. Who's interested?
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Well, there's something about a person fighting with itself that is worth seeing here. Since, we sometimes get to be our biggest enemies and our biggest support at the same time ...
shiboleth on Feb 3, 2017
All good comedians in the cast... unfortunately the movie looks terrible. Didn't David Cross do some quickly forgotten movie like that about a video going viral a couple years back?
Terry Craig on Feb 7, 2017
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VIDEO: Recollections of how BOAC’s Comet won the transatlantic jet race
By Max Kingsley-Jones2018-10-04T09:12:33+01:00
Six decades ago today, on 4 October 1958, a BOAC de Havilland Comet 4 became the first jet airliner to fly revenue passenger services across the Atlantic, operating in each direction between London and New York. In achieving this feat, the UK long-haul flag carrier beat its great US rival Pan American, which was gearing up to be the first airline to operate a jet across the Atlantic with the Boeing 707.
BOAC is a forerunner of British Airways and the UK airline celebrated the transatlantic anniversary this week at its Waterside headquarters near Heathrow at an event attended by former Comet navigator Capt Hugh Dibley and one of the New York-London flight’s original cabin crew, Peggy Thorne - now aged 91.
“It was marvellous” recalled Thorne (pictured above right with her BOAC colleagues). “We were used to travelling to New York on Boeing Stratocruisers which took up to 20 hours. We couldn’t believe the flight was possible in such a short time.
“Our customers loved it – they ate and drank from when they got on board until the time they got off.”
Former BOAC stewardess Peggy Thorne (centre) with her modern-day equivalents (left to right) Sophie Picton
Capt Dibley, who joined BOAC just as the Comet 4 flew those historic inaugural crossings, went on to serve as navigator on the de Havilland jet. He subsequently spent many years as a pilot on the BOAC and BA Boeing fleets, firstly flying the 707 and later the 747 before flying the Lockheed TriStar.
FlightGlobal asked Capt Dibley about the great rivalry between those two 20th century airline icons as they raced to complete the historic world-first. And he explains how it would be the 707, rather than the pioneering Comet, that would go on to transform commercial aviation.
"Pan Am perceived themselves as the world leaders," says Capt Dibley. "The BOAC Comet 4's debut really took the wind out of their sails!"
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Woman fatally shot in front of her children by security guard
By Natalie Hee, FOX 26 News
HOUSTON (FOX 26) - Houston police say a mother of three attacked a security guard with a bat and was shot and killed in Southeast Houston Monday. The shooting happened at The Park at Sutton Hall Apartments on the 11900 block of MLK Boulevard.
Investigators said two sisters were inside an apartment with four young kids when one of the women began having some sort of mental crisis. Police said the woman took a sledgehammer and began bashing the walls of the apartment.
Police said the sister ran downstairs with her infant and asked the security guard for help, fearing for the children’s safety.
“She was taking a sledgehammer and bashing the walls. The woman had a 3, 5, and 7-year-old child in the apartment with her. Security went up to the door tried to reason with her and at one point, one of the children got close to him so he grabbed he child and took her out of the apartment where the sister was,” said Capt. Larry Crowson with the Houston Police Department.
Police said the woman in crises grabbed a bat and began hitting the security guard when he tried to grab her children. Investigators said the security guard feared for his life and shot her.
The woman was transported to the hospital where she died.
Police said the security guard is now In police custody and is being questioned by investigators. Investigators said this case will likely be turned over to a grand jury.
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Georgia toddler with Down syndrome named 2018 Gerber baby
DALTON, Ga. - After a nationwide search, Gerber has found this year's Gerber Spokesbaby, 18-month-old Lucas Warren from Dalton, Ga.
Baby Lucas was picked out of more than 140,000 entries to the contest thanks to his adorable smile and giggle.
He is also making history as the first winner of the Gerber Baby Photo Search to have Down syndrome.
“Lucas’ winning smile and joyful expression won our hearts this year, and we are all thrilled to name him our 2018 Spokesbaby,” said Bill Partyka, Gerber's president and CEO. "Every year, we choose the baby who best exemplifies Gerber's longstanding heritage of recognizing that every baby is a Gerber baby, and this year, Lucas is the perfect fit.”
Courtney Warren, Lucas' mom, said that's she happy that Lucas has this platform to spread joy.
"We hope this opportunity sheds light on the special needs community and educates people that with acceptance and support, individuals with special needs have the opportunity to change the world – just like our Lucas!" she said.
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According to the family, Lucas loves a capella and has just started signing the word "more" in American Sign Language. His dad has been in the Georgia National Guard for six years helping repair helicopters, and his mom works part-time.
As the new Gerber grand prize winner, Lucas will be named the 2018 Gerber Spokesbaby and his family will receive $50,000, which his parents are going to put toward his education.
The first Gerber baby was Ann Turner Cook, who celebrated her 91st birthday last year. Gerber launched its Photo Search contest in 2010 and has annually been choosing a baby to represent their brand.
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Voltron: Legendary Defender Trailer & Poster Debut for Upcoming Netflix Series
Keven Skinner previews May 11, 2016 dreamworks, netflix, Rhys Darby, Steven Yeun, tyler labine, voltron, voltron: legendary defender 0 Comment
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Space X Falcon 9 Dragon Spacecraft Launches (UPDATE) Third Time's a Charm For Transporter (VIDEO)
Apr 18, 2014 04:45 PM EDT | By Justin Stock
Space X, Falcon 9 Dragon Spacecraft
Space X's successful launch of its Falcon 9 rocket dragon spacecraft will put the transporter to the International Space Station without further delay.
The spacecraft is carrying about 5,000 pounds the equivalent of 2,200 kilograms of freight to put more supplies on the station NBC News reported Friday.
"Dragon has been deployed successfully from the Falcon 9 rocket," George Diller a commentator with NASA said 10 minutes following the spacecraft's ascension into space.
Efforts to test the spacecraft's ability to land, and show it could be re-ignited and decrease its speed while heading back towards earth in another major feat was still difficult because of rough waves in the Atlantic NBC News reported.
According to Space.com, the trip is the third of 12 scheduled trips the organization's Dragon cargo spacecraft will take to the station, the first of which was initiated in 2012. The second came in 2013.
Six cargo pieces are also fastened, two of which to one of its compartments, which is something that has never been secured onto the rocket before Space Flight Now reported.
The mission is part of a $1.6 billion agreement involving 12 flights to put about 44,000 pounds of equipment on the station.
According to Space Flight Now, NASA is corresponding with the International Space Station using an Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science also known as a OPALS via a connection out of Wrightwood, Calif that is expected to show and evaluate how it works by way of a tracker when the station hovers an antenna in Wrightwood at 100 second intervals.
The launch was originally scheduled for March 16 until bacteria contamination forced them to delay the travels until at least March 30 Space Flight Now reported.
Machinists were worried the bacteria could cause the rocket to lose gas leading to greater issues for the rocket.
According to NASA.gov, a Multiplexer-Demultiplexer (MDM) backup computer mal-function was not picking up commands like it usually does. The administration is now expected to fix the computer through a spacewalk April 22.
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Danilo Luis Hélio Pereira is a Portuguese defensive midfielder who plays for FC Porto. He began his...
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July 9, 2013 by Stefan Blitz
I decided that this week’s introduction to my Venture Brothers review should not be about the show itself, but rather my own pet project:
“The Fast Lane is for Passing.”
I’m bringing awareness to everyone that the far left lane on the freeway is called the passing lane. So if by chance someone is close behind you in the passing lane, please move to the right so that person may pass you.
Because of those unaware, men and women all over the country are stuck at a snail’s pace and unable to get home in order to write a review for The Venture Brothers until 11:30 pm. Those unfortunate souls are left in white-hot fury and forced to guzzle two energy drinks in order to turn their articles in on time.
So please, remember what T.F.L.I.F.P.’s spokesman, Darren McGavin from A Christmas Story, says: “Sons of bitches! Naddafinga! GET THE FUDGE OVER YOU BUMPUSES!”
(This applies to you, 1986 Ford Escort on the 101 freeway)
Anywho, on to episode 6: “Momma’s Boys.”
This episode really focused on the Venture Brothers: Hank, Dean and Dermott. Well, Dermott is a Venture half-brother but you get what I’m saying.
The show starts with Hank and Dermott practicing their band Shallow Gravy in full swing, leaving Dr. Venture to wonder about the friends’ strange idea of band costumes. Not to be outdone, the ever morose Dean is now speaking lovingly to an unknown on the Venture house phone; leading Dr. Venture to assume that Dean has a new girlfriend.
Meanwhile, we discover that Dr. Venture continues to have nightly calls with “Teddy,” a Teddy Ruxpin-esque toy that the Doc grew to truly love during his capture in a past episode “Every Which Way but Zeus.” It appears that Hank and Dermott have been calling Dr. Venture and keeping him busy conversing with the toy so the two friends cam leave the Venture compound.
Unfortunately, this backfires for Hank and Dermott. Venture now has it in his head that Teddy is kidnapped by the evil “Grumpy Bandersnatch” and taken to Bygolly Gultch. Overcome with guilt, Hank finds out not only does Teddy exist, but he is a supervillain locked away in Dunwich Asylum for hugging Ronald Regan too hard.
Hank decides to team up with Henchman 21, H.E.L.P.E.R., and Dermott to find the REAL Teddy for a genuine conversation with his dad. 21 convinces Dean that the only way to get into Dunwich is to be supervillains, commit a crime, and then get arrested. So the four embark on a hilarious bank robbery as supervillains: Dean is now the mustachioed “Enrico Metassa” (literally translated as “Hank Hank’), 21 is back as “The Viceroy,” Dermott is “Flying Side Kick,” and H.E.L.P.E.R. is “Crime Robot.”
We then find Dean in Dunwich Asylum waiting to meet the mysterious person he’s been speaking to nightly. It’s quickly revealed that the voice on the other end is Myra Brandish, Dr. Venture’s crazed ex-bodyguard (last seen in the episode “I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills”). Dean is convinced that she is the Venture Brothers’ mother and he wants to have a relationship with her.
Dr. Venture and Sgt. Hatred embark on a road trip to find Bygolly Gulch. They have a few entertaining moments figuring out how to use the map function on Hatred’s vPhone; Jonas Venture’s newest invention.
Enrico Metassa, The Viceroy, Flying Side Kick and Crime Robot are quickly apprehended by the police during their robbery, triggering 21 to evoke his rights as a henchman with the Guild of Calamitous Intent. The police decide to send both 21 and Dean to Dunwich, but choose to send Dermott and H.E.L.P.E.R. to a normal jail.
Dr. Venture and Hatred notice that the road to Bygolly Gulch appears to look worse every mile. When Dr. Venture finally questions why things look so crappy, Hatred realizes that he typed “Bygone Gulch” and not Bygolly Gulch.” As Dr. Venture starts to complain, their transport flips and crashes on a cliff edge a stone’s throw from Dunwich. Stuck on the cliff with no escape, the two decide to confess their worst secrets. Hatred reveals he was an O.S.I. traitor and Venture reveals that Dermott is his child.
Toiling away in a normal prison, H.E.L.P.E.R. and Dermott finally get their phone call. When Dermott tells H.E.L.P.E.R. that he doesn’t know who to call, the robot suggests in H.E.L.P.E.R. speak (which Dermott realizes he can now understand) the he contact Dr. Orpheus telepathically. Orpheus appears within seconds, noting that for some strange reason he felt a Venture contacting him; places the police officers in a deep sleep; and, wipes Dermott and H.E.L.P.E.R.S.’ records from the station’s computers. Later, Dermott inquires what Orpheus was talking about and Orpheus simply restates what he said earlier: he felt a Venture was calling for him. Dermott suddenly makes the deduction that Dr. Venture is his real dad.
Back at Dunwich Asylum, Myra finally hypnotizes all the supervillains using “Momma Tattoos” and quickly takes over. She reveals her plan to transport Dean into her womb and then give birth to him like she should have. Hank, now being held at Dunwich, calls shenanigans at her comment and convinces Dean that Myra was never their mother and Dean agrees. The Venture Brothers break the hold Myra had on the other prisoners and stop the riot. The confusion gives the Venture Brothers, 21, and the prisoners a chance to escape the asylum.
As Venture and Hatred’s transport inch closer to the edge of the cliff, they’re suddenly pulled to safety by the real Teddy (having escaped from Dunwich).
Venture has a happy conversation with Teddy and part ways, Hand and Dean end up closer as brothers, and Dermott leaves the Ventures with their jaws dropped after calling the Dr. Venture “dad.”
This was a very interesting episode. Although the usual flair the viewer is used to was almost non-existent, it was satisfying nonetheless.
I felt the meat of the story were two things:
The first is the boys growing as people and coming closer as brothers. Finding out that they still don’t know who their mother is surely strikes a blow to both of them (Dean more than Hank), but having worked together to come to that conclusion definitely strengthened their relationship.
The second was Dermott finally realizing he’s a member of the Venture clan. It was fun seeing his reaction to the epiphany in Dr. Orpheus’ car, only to reveal his knowledge to the Venture family in his usual, laissez-faire way.
Not a huge action and pop culture-packed episode, but meaningful to any solid Venture fan. Like many of the episodes this season thus far, it makes me wonder where the family is going to go from this point on… and that’s a good thing.
So until next week: GO TEAM VENTURE!
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Festivities and Fails
Devon Ling-Efird and Grace Chinowsky|January 8, 2020
Wintertime is a season full of tradition and culture, whether it be a time to celebrate your faith or spend time with family and friends. In this years’ Messenger Holiday Page, we reached out to the Garfield student body to capture the traditions that are not always represented. Unfortunately (?), along with these wholesome traditions comes mishaps and disasters. We wanted to accurately portray both sides of the holiday season, so we curated the best selection of Garfield’s festive traditions and fails.
By Grace Chinowsky and Devon Ling-Efird
“Each year one day I take nuts/frozen peas and go out and feed as many bird as I can.”
Sofia Ruiz
“I have an advent calendar at my house where everyday you put up a different thing that’s from the nativity scene. No one in my family is religious but we still do it. It’s like a Spanish cultural thing, because in Spain everybody has one in their house. I’m going to be in Spain this year, and on the sixth in all Spanish cities they have a parade with the Three Kings coming into town.”
“Burnt popcorn. Duh.”
Gabrielle Stork
“It’s Korean tradition, we dress in traditional Korean dresses… A big part of Korean tradition is respect for your elders, so whether it’s your grandparents or your aunt or uncle, you [pay your respects] and bow, and then they give you cash…and depending on how big your family is, you can get a significant amount.”
“Glitter turkey statue from Cap Hill Goodwill. She was $9.99 and gorgeous.”
“Eat seven fish/seafood on Christmas Eve.”
Aviv Pinker
“The big Jewish holiday that happens in the wintertime is Hanukkah…it’s a super super
fun holiday that doesn’t have a
ton of super religious components… there’s not a lot of prayer or anything, it’s just a fun holiday to celebrate to hang out with family and eat good food.”
“Dutch Christmas on December 5th called Sinterklaas.”
Stefawn Todoran
“One year, I was on a long trip to Romania to visit my grandparents for the holidays. My grandparents live in a rural area, so the house has a really big amount of land surrounding it. On Christmas Eve, we set up a huge tree in our front yard, decorated it with shiny ornaments, the whole nine yards. The next day, how- ever, I woke up and looked out the window and saw that the tree had completely been stripped of all the ornaments. A few weeks later, my mom and I were walking through the market and saw some Roma selling our ornaments to people in town.”
“I have this aunt who is disrespectful and on bad terms with the rest of the family, and she showed up as an uninvited member at a Christmas family gathering. This resulted in a fist-fight between her and another member of the family. Punches and food were thrown. It ended when my other aunt pushed her out of the house and she went away.”
Chander Boyd-Fleigel
“This was when I was four, my family goes to church on Christmas Eve. I used to get so bored during service, so I would always bring my toys to play with quietly during service. At my church we do this thing where we sing Silent Night at the end of service and we light candles for everyone too. My dad wanted me to participate so he took my toys and put the next to him. I wanted my toys back so I jumped across his lap, but he was holding a candle and my hair caught on fire.”
Autumn Henson
“I used to have a cat named Mr. Tickles. We used to have a 14-foot Christmas tree. We would just cover it in LED lights and they were the ones that gave off a lot of heat so the tree would get really warm. [Mr. Tickles] was always really attracted to warmth so every year, when he was a kitten, he was small enough that he could climb up into the tree and find one spot that was surrounded by LED lights and he would sit in there. One year, we didn’t fix the tree very well and he climbed up to the top branches and weighed it down so much that it tipped over onto our couch. It was the middle of the night and freaked out my parents.”
Devon Ling-Efird,
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Ghostbusters translation assistance. Anyone?
Discuss the Ghostbusters movie that was released in 2016.
Ghostbusters translation assistance. Anyone?#4876057
By Lensman - August 8th, 2016, 11:55 am - Posts: 5
- August 8th, 2016, 11:55 am #4876057
As a huge fan of the franchise, I decided to translate this movie to my language.
Actually, I have already translated over 95% of the movie.
However, some parts are really incomprehensible.
So, I need someone who is -preferably- native English speaker, to give me a hand.
If anyone owns a copy of the film and can help, I would be very grateful.
Just 40 or so sentences.
E.g. At 16:08 minute, Erin and Abby talk about "APX shift" or "MAPX shift".
I can't tell.
Which is it? And what does the acronym stands for?
Lensman
Joined: August 8th, 2016, 11:45 am
Re: Ghostbusters translation assistance. Anyone?#4876113
By Kingpin - August 8th, 2016, 6:43 pm - Posts: 13064
- August 8th, 2016, 6:43 pm #4876113
Welcome aboard, Lensman.
As a note, it might be a little tricky to get this translation finished in the near future... as there aren't supposed to be any copies out there yet (even though obviously there are through piracy).
By Lensman - August 9th, 2016, 2:41 am - Posts: 5
- August 9th, 2016, 2:41 am #4876144
It is definitely tricky. Yes.
Copies through piracy aren't that good to be honest.
I've been translating movies for years.
For this one a proper english subtitle has not yet been released.
So. I have been trying to translate by listening to dialogues. Pretty hard and time consuming thing.
However, I have completed almost 95% of the movie.
It would be a shame if I don't give it a try anyway for the remaining dialogues.
Just need some assistance for a few sentences.
Actually, I've been missing 50 sentences and not 40 as I said earlier.
So, I'm pretty close.
I'm open to suggestions about the first sentence i posted.
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to assist me.
Last edited by Lensman on August 9th, 2016, 6:56 am, edited 1 time in total.
By mrmichaelt - August 9th, 2016, 5:15 am - Posts: 3001
AP-xH shift. I don't think an acronym was ever spelled out, but it's a sign you're in the presence of a ghost -- your ears pop.
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mrmichaelt
How would you say it in your own words?
Sentence #2
At 22:09 the girls were stealing the equipment when the annoying Dean shouted at them, what?
"Hey that [blank] [blank] garbage belongs to this school".
Perhaps there's one or two words in the blanks.
At 30:22 Abby says...
"[blank] lawsuit waiting to happen"
At 32:42 Patty says...
"...as the first chinese [blank] in New York. Did you know that?"
At 35:10 Erin says...
"it looks like a fishing scorch"
Ok, that "scorch" is a tool for fishing or is it just a cut or burn caused by a fish hook?
"Alright, Holtzmann, now is not the time you messing with me".
and Abby shouts something totally incomprehensible.
Something like "karim..."
At 36:43 Holtzmann says...
" ok, Erin [blank] [blank]"
and Abby responds probably with a phrase...
"[blank], Aladdin".
At 38:21 Abby says... "...anytime"
to the annoying internet comment
and Erin responds to Abby...
"no, no, no, [blank]"
"...and he used chromium aloe for the whole"
Is chromium aloe a real thing? I didn't find any info about it online.
"Contactors of the Metaphysical Examination".
Is a "Contactor" a real thing?
Sentence #10
"...the one where you [blank] almost [blank], remember?"
By Kingpin - August 10th, 2016, 5:00 am - Posts: 13064
- August 10th, 2016, 5:00 am #4876274
This is what I can recall from memory:
"Hey that useless garbage belongs to this school".
"You're a lawsuit waiting to happen"
"...as the first chinese gambling den in New York. Did you know that?"
"it looks like fission scorching"
"Alright, Holtzmann, now is not the time to mess around".
"...and he used a chromium alloy for the whole"
"Conductors of the Metaphysical Examination".
"...the one where you were almost killed, remember?"
By Ivo Shandor - August 10th, 2016, 6:03 am - Posts: 580
AP must stand for "air pressure" not sure about the XH.
My shirt arrived a few days ago!
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By Lensman - August 10th, 2016, 6:06 am - Posts: 5
Thanks, Kingpin.
I'll strike out the ones you got right.
Code: Select allSentence #3 At 32:42 Patty says... "...as the first chinese [b]gambling den[/b] in New York. Did you know that?"
Code: Select allSentence #4 At 35:10 Erin says... "it looks like a [b]fission[/b] scorch]"
Code: Select allSentence #8 At 38:57 Holtzmann says... "...and he used [u]chromium alloy[/u] for the whole"
Code: Select allSentence #9 At 39:40 Erin says... "[b]Conductors[/b] of the Metaphysical Examination".
Code: Select allSentence #10 At 41:33 Holtzmann says... "...the one where you[b] were almost killed[/b], remember?"[/quote]
Regarding the AP-xH shift, to be honest I don't hear any "H" sound.
All I hear is "...an APX shift". Something like that.
The APX acronym does not ring any bells to me. I mean, googled it and found nothing.
I'll post some more sentences in a sec.
Again, guys, thanks for the assistance.
By CasperGemini - April 2nd, 2017, 4:41 pm - Posts: 1
- April 2nd, 2017, 4:41 pm #4892188
I noticed Ivo Shandor's Shirt is using a similar font and shading on the borders as the movie "Beetlejuice"...
CasperGemini
By Kingpin - April 2nd, 2017, 6:10 pm - Posts: 13064
The glowy text is often how the Ghostbusters logo was depicted on merchandise, Ivo was simply reflecting that with his T-shirt.
By pferreira1983 - April 9th, 2017, 5:14 am - Posts: 1400
- April 9th, 2017, 5:14 am #4892422
I do wish new Ghostbusters merchandise had that, it would make it look less bland. Yes 2009 video game, I'm looking at you!
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Location: London, WIMBLEDON
By Kingpin - April 9th, 2017, 6:11 am - Posts: 13064
Glows are trickier to render because you basically have to depict them as a halftone dot pattern, even after all my years of photoshop and illustrator mucking about I still find it difficult to create a halftone pattern I'm happy with, meanwhile just typing the text in white, or black against a coloured background is easy for something that the designers probably can't spent too much time on.
With today's technology I thought it would be easier.
As we've established with a few members of this forum in recent years, it isn't always easy as some people assume it is (although I wish it was easier to make halftone patterns in Photoshop/Illustrator, if it were I'd use them more often for my T-shirt design work).
By Sav C - April 9th, 2017, 10:56 am - Posts: 1624
- April 9th, 2017, 10:56 am #4892461
That's just for T-Shirt printing, right?
I love this town!
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Joined: April 5th, 2016, 9:36 am
By Kingpin - April 9th, 2017, 12:37 pm - Posts: 13064
- April 9th, 2017, 12:37 pm #4892465
Mostly, but not exclusively, it can be used in general printing as well, and often shows up in manga publications. You can make glow effects without halftones on things like business cards and posters, but sometimes the effects can vary. It's very useful for making glow effects on graphics you want to scale to any size, if you can save the pattern as a vector file.
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By pferreira1983 - April 16th, 2017, 7:45 am - Posts: 1400
- April 16th, 2017, 7:45 am #4892649
I don't understand Kingpin. Back in the 80s they managed to do the glow on the titling absolutely fine. Why in this day and age with advancements in graphical technology can they find it harder to add a glow, maybe you can explain?
By Kingpin - April 16th, 2017, 1:07 pm - Posts: 13064
- April 16th, 2017, 1:07 pm #4892670
Back in the 80s they managed to do the glow on the titling absolutely fine.
It's not glows in general, just using halftone patterns to render glows on some printed packaging, and on T-shirts.
My prevailing memory of T-shirts bearing the Ghostbusters title logo is of black text on a light background, and at most, with a stroke added to it to suggest the glow. Pretty basic to what can be achieved now.
If you can locate a 1980s Ghostbusters T-shirt with a glow like the "Conductors of the Metaphysical Examination" one, then I'd be interested to see it, but I'm willing to bet you the majority of Ghostbusters T-shirts in the 1980s didn't feature any glow effect on the text.
I believe that glows of the quality of the one seen on the "Conductors of the Metaphysical Examination" shirt are a more recent phenomenon, thanks to the advance of T-shirt printing methods. Let's remember that T-shirt designs were much more simple in the 1980s than they are now.
It was easier to print the glow effect on flat cardboard packaging, compared to on fabric, which is why it was present on the old Ghostbusters VHS boxes and Kenner toys, even so, I imagine you'd still find it's probably achieved with a halftone pattern, like so:
Why in this day and age with advancements in graphical technology can they find it harder to add a glow, maybe you can explain?
I don't find it harder to add glows in general with Photoshop, I find it harder to create half-tone glows because the part of the software that makes them (by converting a colour gradient, or a pattern) doesn't result in the dots being true circles. Because of those imperfections, and my perfectionism, I usually make the patterns by scratch.
By pferreira1983 - April 23rd, 2017, 8:59 am - Posts: 1400
- April 23rd, 2017, 8:59 am #4892873
That absolutely doesn't answer my question but thanks for trying anyway.
By Kingpin - April 23rd, 2017, 10:49 am - Posts: 13064
- April 23rd, 2017, 10:49 am #4892884
I'm not sure I understand the question then, as I thought I did answer it.
Glows on flat, cardboard-based packaging made with non-computer methods are no more difficult to do now than they were in the 1980s, if anything they're probably easier. Glows on fabrics are trickier because you have to work with the flex in the fabric, and whatever limitations you have with screen printing, which I believe is why while we see detailed glows on shirts now, you didn't get them that much, if at all in the 1980s.
Non halftone-style glows are easy to do on computers and on packaging, sometimes they may not look as good as a halftone glow, but they'll still look good enough. Halftone-style glows are trickier, especially if made as a vector file (which is usually the ideal in printing as it can be scaled to any size), because some computer software don't convert the patterns properly into halftone dots.
So you're saying it depends on where the title is printed on?
By Kingpin - April 30th, 2017, 9:52 am - Posts: 13064
That's part of it, yes.
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By Alphagaia - April 30th, 2017, 11:09 am - Posts: 2892
- April 30th, 2017, 11:09 am #4893106
It also depends if it's printed or pressed.
Pressed is more expensive, but gives a better quality, longlivety and sharpness.
Printing however, is cheaper but is capable of halftones a la Photoshop, but works like a picture (if blown up you can see the pixels).
Mad respect to Paul Feig for tweeting his support of Jason and how excited he is based off the trailer. That's awesome of him. There's a lot of fans who could really learn a thing or two from him. You can dislike his movies, but he's a truly good guy and he behaves way better than a lot of people in this fandom.
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Some people seriously think Arya Stark didn't 'deserve' her major 'Game of Thrones' moment
Some of your fave shows and movies have received HUGE Emmy nominations
Sophie Turner just posted a NAKED photo of Joe Jonas and we're SCREAMING
Turns out Cersei herself was not happy with her Game of Thrones ending
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An "exhausted" Kit Harrington checks into rehab for alcohol and stress
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WATCH: Kit Harington's reaction to killing Daenerys Targaryen was more emotional than the episode
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Arya Stark may be getting her own 'Game of Thrones' spin off!
What's west of Westeros? Her spin off show. - by Grace B
In the Game of Thrones series finale, Arya Stark sailed off to discover what was west of Westeros. The youngest Stark daughter said goodbye to her brother Jon Snow, sister Sansa and brother Bran, to travel to parts unknown. Now, fans are begging for Arya to get her own spinoff series to see where her travels take her.
The character arc seemed to close the door on Arya's past as an assassin and faceless man, and instead focus on her as an explorer. One Game of Thrones fan took to Twitter to share thoughts on whether they would watch an Arya spinoff, as well as to propose a title for it.
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However, fans idea of a spinoff was shortlived after Casey Bloys, HBO's Programming Chief, told Deadline that it was not a possibility.
"Nope, nope, nope. No. Part of it is, I do want this show — this Game of Thrones, Dan and David's show — to be its own thing," Bloys said. "I don't want to take characters from this world that they did beautifully and put them off into another world with someone else creating it. I want to let it be the artistic piece they've got. That's one of the reasons why I'm not trying to do the same show over. George has a massive, massive world; there are so many ways in. That's why we're trying to do things that feel distinct — and to not try and re-do the same show."
He added, "That's probably one of the reasons why, right now, a sequel or picking up any of the other characters doesn't make sense for us."
Currently, HBO has three GoT spinoffs in the works. Bloys went on to inform Deadline that the pilot for the first Game of Thrones prequel, unofficially dubbed 'The Long Night', will be shooting in June.
WATCH: Game of Thrones is releasing an official soundtrack!
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Grace is the Digital Content Editor at New Idea. Grace is a lifestyle junkie who has previously interned at Dolly, Stellar and marie claire, as well having written in the fashion and beauty sections at Finder.com.au. When not working, you can find Grace heading for the slopes, playing with her pup or stuck in a seemingly endless Instagram scroll.
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Engineers Just Broke the Capacity Limit For Fibre Optic Transmission
By Maddie Stone on at
So, that Internet apocalypse that’s going to befall us when the our fibre optic cables max out? Maybe not so much. On Thursday, engineers reported in Science that they’d broken the “capacity limit” for fibre optic transmission, opening the door to future networks that carry more data further at lower costs.
As the world’s collective Internet demand continues to skyrocket, electrical engineers have been keeping pace by upping the signal that passes through our fibre optic cables, allowing us to send and receive more juicy data faster. But optical fibre transmission has certain physical limitations. If you boost the power too much, the beams of laser light that carry data start interfering with one another, until eventually, the signal degrades and information is lost.
Whispers of a so-called capacity crunch—a singular moment when the cables simply can’t spit out our cat videos any faster—have taken on a louder, more alarmist tone recently. Some experts have gone so far as to suggest the Day of Reckoning might be upon us in as little as five years.
Which is why the recent breakthrough is so timely. In experiments performed at UC San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute, electrical engineers were able to increase the power of optical signals nearly 20 fold, deciphering information after it had travelled a record-breaking 7,400 miles, without the use of costly electronic regenerators.
In optical fibres, information is transmitted via carriers that operate across a range of different frequencies. As we beam more laser light through our cables faster, the amount of “crosstalk,” or interference, between these carriers goes up. (Imagine a person shouting down a long corridor, his voice echoing and distorting with increasing distance. Similar idea.) Eventually, we reach a point where the signal becomes so distorted that it can’t be decoded at the other end.
To break that distortion-induced capacity limit, the researchers developed wideband “frequency combs” that essentially condition streams of information before they’re sent out, such that any interference that occurs along the way is predictable. At the receiving end of the fibre, the information can unscrambled and fully restored.
Said Nikola Alic of the Qualcomm Institute, a lead author on the new Science paper:
Today’s fibre optic systems are a little like quicksand. With quicksand, the more you struggle, the faster you sink. With fibre optics, after a certain point, the more power you add to the signal, the more distortion you get, in effect preventing a longer reach. Our approach removes this power limit, which in turn extends how far signals can travel in optical fibre without needing a repeater.
There’s a lot more work to be done before this development translates into real world Internet improvements, but it’s a promising step toward a future where optical networks carry our data faster and at significantly lower costs than today. Once again, clever engineers are showing the world that most limits are actually in our imaginations. Meanwhile, the Internet lives on.
[UC San Diego News]
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Children Lebanon Project #15373
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The war in Syria has created the worst refugee crisis in the world. Every day hundreds of children arrive in neighboring countries traumatized, hungry and in need of the most basic things. Along with Syrians fleeing their homeland, are thousands of Palestinian families leaving refugee camps in Syria to already overcrowded and decrepit camps in Lebanon.
MECA has been working for many years to improve the lives of children & families in Lebanon's 12 Palestinian refugee camps--sending medicine & supporting vital programs for children, women and youth. Since the Syrian war, MECA has sent two shipments of blankets, diapers, school supplies, & more. We have supported urgent projects like nutritional counseling and free medical days. We must continue to respond to the requests from community groups to meet the most basic needs of children & families.
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League Two odds for 2019/20 season: Where Cheltenham Town and Forest Green Rovers are predicted to finish with Salford City and Bradford City among favourites
Here is what the bookies think about the 2019/20 League Two campaign
Josh Challies
Updated 14:56, 20 JUN 2019
Luke Varney and Tyronne Barnett
The League Two fixtures were released today as the preparations for the upcoming campaign step up.
The league season begins in August but even now each side are being rated by the bookies.
Forest Green are fancied to be in and around the play-offs once again as they are eighth on the list of title favourites at 16/1 and 10/3 to win promotion.
Cheltenham Town, who finished 16th last season, are expected to struggle by the bookmakers at 40/1 to win the title with only three teams having longer odds than them.
You can get 9/1 on the Robins going up.
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Plymouth Argyle, Walsall, Scunthorpe United and Bradford City were all relegated from League One, while Leyton Orient and Salford City were promoted from the National League.
The relegated sides are naturally among the favourites to earn promotion next season.
The Pools have provided the odds below both on the winner of League Two and to earn promotion in general. It remains to be seen if these odds are in any way correct over the campaign.
David Beckham and Gary Neville are co-owners of Salford City (Image: Getty Images)
League Two Winner
Salford City 7/1
Bradford City 15/2
Mansfield Town 17/2
Scunthorpe United 9/1
Plymouth Argyle 10/1
Northampton Town 11/1
Walsall 11/1
Forest Green Rovers 16/1
Colchester United 16/1
Leyton Orient 16/1
Swindon Town 16/1
Carlisle United 18/1
Newport County 20/1
Exeter City 20/1
Oldham Athletic 25/1
Port Vale 28/1
Crewe Alexandra 33/1
Stevenage 33/1
Grimsby Town 40/1
Cambridge United 40/1
Cheltenham Town 40/1
Crawley Town 50/1
Macclesfield Town 66/1
Morecambe 80/1
EW 1-2-3 at 1/4 odds
Salford City 17/10
Plymouth Argyle 21/10
Mansfield Town 23/10
Northampton Town 3/1
Swindon Town 4/1
Newport County 9/2
Carlisle United 9/2
Oldham Athletic 6/1
Crewe Alexandra 8/1
Stevenage 8/1
Cambridge United 8/1
Cheltenham Town 9/1
Forest Green Rovers' League Two fixtures in full and key dates
Cheltenham Town's 2019/20 League Two fixtures in full: Leyton Orient away to start, home on Boxing Day and Easter Monday
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Tottenham readying Alfredo Morelos swoop ahead of January transfer deadline
Pep Guardiola hails Raheem Sterling for leading Man City improvement and gives verdict on VAR
Soccer Highlights & Goals » Soccer News » Pep Guardiola hails Raheem Sterling for leading Man City improvement and gives verdict on VAR
Pep Guardiola heaped praise on Raheem Sterling for taking his pre-season form into the opening Premier League victory of Manchester City’s season as they thrashed West Ham United 5-0, with the England forward opening his account with a hat-trick.
Sterling scored five goals in as many games for City in pre-season including the opener in last weekend’s Community Shield triumph, and he was at his clinical best to score three second-half goals as City sent out a loud statement to go top of the Premier League – above expected title rivals Liverpool following their 4-1 win over Norwich City on Friday night.
City manager Guardiola was keen to highlight how much of an impact his wide players provide, given the goalscoring threat of Sterling, Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez adds to the strike-force of Gabriel Jesus and Sergio Aguero that last season made them the top goalscorers in the Premier League.
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“He (Sterling) is a guy that, you know when you have a team and a striker who scores a goal, but the people who play outside him as a winger can score goals, your team is going to score a lot of goals,” Guardiola said.
“Today Raheem scored and Bernardo’s going to score and it was an incredible performance today from Riyad Mahrez, an incredible level. So it’s good. I think in all of the pre-season games (Sterling) scored goals from the beginning, so every single game he scored a goal. But in the first half, he can do better.”
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1/22 <b>West Ham:</b> Lukasz Fabianski – 5 out of 10
Was brilliant for West Ham last season, but looked a little bit wobbly an indecisive against City. Poor footwork put him in awkward positions.
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2/22 Ryan Fredericks – 5
Rarely had the chance to venture forward and spent the majority of the game going a reasonable job on Zinchenko
3/22 Fabio Balbuena – 5
Did not offer a great deal of assurance that West Ham have found a good centre back partnership. De Bruyne eased past him like he wasn’t there en route to setting up Sterling to score.
4/22 Issa Diop – 5
Could have done better at the front post to clear Walker’s low cross to Jesus for the first goal. Did not look especially set throughout.
5/22 Aaron Cresswell – 3
Struggled against Walker and Mahrez with little help. Was always second-best in dangerous one-on-one situations.
6/22 Jack Wilshere – 5
Did not get a huge amount of time on the ball and rarely made a huge difference in the final third.
7/22 Declan Rice – 5
Picked up from where he left off last season. Brilliant at breaking up play and was useful going forward.
8/22 Felipe Anderson – 6
Showed glimpses of good play throughout, but did nothing to set the game alight.
9/22 Manuel Lanzini – 7
After a forgettable season ruined by injuries, Lanzini started really well and was always lively in dangerous areas. He looks like he has a great relationship with Haller, something West Ham fans should be excited by.
10/22 John Stones – 6
Not given the greatest amount of work to do, but did everything to a decent standard.
11/22 Sebastien Haller – 7
Looks like one Haller of a signing. His hold up play was brilliant throughout and he was a handful for City defenders.
12/22 <b>Manchester City:</b> Ederson – 8
Produced a brilliant double save to deny Hernandez and Lanzini from close range using instinctive reactions.
13/22 Kyle Walker – 7
Was brilliant in attacking areas and created the first goal with an Olympic-like run beyond the defence.
14/22 Aymeric Laporte – 7
Impressed when tested by Haller.
16/22 Oleksandr Zinchenko – 6
Kept the defence on his toes when he got forward with some decent runs, but they did not result in anything profitable.
17/22 Kevin De Bruyne – 7
Was short of his best but still produced a really good display. Drifted past players with the ball and always made the right decision in the final third.
18/22 Rodri – 6
Fernandinho’s shoes take some filling and Rodri will quickly find that out. He was mostly good on the ball but was caught in possession in dangerous areas a couple of times, one which resulted in a VAR check for a penalty to see if he fouled Lanzini in the box afterwards.
19/22 David Silva – 6
City’s newly-appointed captain had a quiet match before being brought off in the second half.
20/22 Riyad Mahrez – 7
Will get a lot of game time following Sane’s injury. Started the season really well with some very nice runs from the right. Won the penalty in the second half.
21/22 Gabriel Jesus – 7
Picked ahead of Aguero and justified the decision with a goal in the first half.
22/22 Raheem Sterling – 9
Began the campaign with two goals and was involved in lots of City’s best one-touch play. His runs from deep had West Ham scrambling and were key to his brilliant hat-trick
Guardiola wasn’t satisfied with the landslide victory given that City were only 1-0 up at the break.
“In terms of five goals, it is the perfect start yes,” he explained. “But the performance of the first half was far away from where we want to be. But the other (half) is normal.
“We knew it was difficult away from home, 12:30pm kick-off, hot. We are still not in the top condition and I knew that we missed and lost a lot of simple balls, so it’s so difficult to have a good tempo of our game.
“It was important to get three points, a clean sheet. At 2-0, they have a chance. Overall for the first game it is an incredible result. The second half was much better. More calm, but still we have many things to improve.”
City also involved themselves in a moment of Premier League history as they became the team responsible for the first VAR-overturned decision, with Gabriel Jesus having a second goal ruled out after Sterling was judged to have been offside.
Replays showed that Sterling was the offside by the smallest of margins, with referee Mike Dean relaying that it was his armpit that was judged to have been the body part behind the last defender, while City also endured two other nervous VAR reviews when Sterling’s second was reviewed for a possible offside and Sergio Aguero’s saved penalty was ordered to be retaken as West Ham goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski had come off his line.
Raheem Sterling scored three goals as Manchester City thrashed West Ham (Reuters)
It left fans chanting in opposition of VAR, singing “What the f*** is going on?”, but Guardiola stressed that it will take some getting used to – not just for the players and managers but for fans as well.
“You have to be mentally strong when VAR is not on your side,” the Spaniard added. “You think at 0-3 the game is almost over but at 0-2, then you have to make an incredible save to prevent it going 1-2 and the game is completely different.
“In that period where you are celebrating, you have to be calm and be strong, it is going to change the dynamic not just for the team but for the spectators. The spectators were quiet, and after 0-3, 0-2, they were looking and thinking ‘oh we can celebrate’. It will be a good lesson for our future but it is what it is.”
VAR played a big role in costing City a goal and handing them one minutes later (AP)
Guardiola also gave his verdict on new signing Rodri’s first Premier League appearance, with the Spain midfielder starting alongside Kevin De Bruyne and David Silva.
“The same as the team,” Guardiola noted, “so he started like this, like that (shaky) but after he grew up with the rhythm of the team.
“It’s important with even losing some balls that he always had the personality to ask again and ask again and play. He never dismissed that or got sad with what was going on, and again he gave a good performance.”
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It’s Time to Bring MTA’s Paratransit Into the 21st Century
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There is a reason why Access-A-Ride is better known as “Stress-A-Ride” for the approximately 170,000 New Yorkers who depend on it.
The bill for Access-A-Ride will hit $616 million this year and the MTA is seeking additional funding from the City of New York. It’s mind-boggling to think this service can cost the cash-strapped agency so much for such low-quality service. That’s why before anyone kicks in additional funding, the MTA must fundamentally transform the way it runs its paratransit program and bring it into the 21st century.
Is the MTA Correctly Performing its Bus Network Redesigns?
(photo: Marc A. Hermann/MTA New York City Transit)
In the year since I wrote “Designing Bus Routes to Attract Passengers and Reverse Declining Ridership,” the MTA announced the results for the Staten Island Express Bus Redesign, completed a Bronx study, and began studies of the bus networks in Queens and Brooklyn.
These studies make incorrect generalizations resulting in formulas attempting to correct problems. It is not
What's The [DATA] Point? 275, with MTA Board Member Veronica Vanterpool
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Veronica Vanterpool, an outgoing MTA Board member appointed by Mayor de Blasio, joined the podcast to discuss her work in transit advocacy and on the MTA Board, key MTA-related
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(photo: Benjamin Kanter/Mayoral Photo Office)
Last month, two videos of incidents in Brooklyn emerged on social media that led to a public furor over policing in the city’s subway system. In one, several police officers aimed their guns at an unarmed young black man (and many fellow passengers nearby) and then aggressively arrested him despite him having shown no indication of resistance. In the second, an officer could be seen punching black teenagers in the face as other officers attempted to bring a stop to a brawl in a subway station.
Those incidents were widely seen as a
With Support from Electeds, East Harlem Community Board Approves Resolution Condemning Subway Policing Plan
(photo: NYPD)
The MTA’s crackdown on fare evasion and homelessness in the city’s subway system, at the behest of Governor Andrew Cuomo and with support from Mayor Bill de Blasio, is facing a chorus of criticism over the criminalization of poverty and targeting largely of New Yorkers of color. Rather than a police response, these issues can be better handled by stronger safety net programs, including discounted Metrocards, and outreach from social workers, some critics say, while others also point out the MTA is in no fiscal position to hire the planned 500 new
MTA May Have Halted Subway Ridership Decline, But Gains Very Fragile
The New York City Transit and Bus Committee of the MTA Board reported at its October 2019 meeting that weekday ridership of the subway grew 1.4% in September of this year compared to last, and that there have been four straight months of subway ridership gains. The MTA put out a gushing October press releasethat subway weekday ridership this September was up 4.5% over
Facts Don't Support Expanding the Size of the MTA Police Force
(photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Patrick Cashin)
MTA Chair and CEO Pat Foye says the transit authority’s operating budget is in “dire” condition and independent budget watchdogs are alarmed its deficit is growing to unmanageable levels. Citizens Budget Commission estimates the MTA will be $740 million in the red in 2023 -- and this does not include new debt payments for the new, massive $51.5+ billion 2020-2024 capital plan. Separately, NYPD data shows subway crime is down 3% from
Max & Murphy Podcast: The MTA's New $52 Billion Plan to Save the Subways & More
(photo: Patrick J. Cashin/Metropolitan Transportation Authority)
September 25, 2019 - Max & Murphy Podcast: The MTA's New $52 Billion Plan to Save the Subways & More
The MTA Board just passed a new five-year, $51.5 billion capital plan largely aimed at upgrading the New York City subways. Nicole Gelinas of the Manhattan Institute joined the show to discuss the new capital
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On Monday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) released an 11-page slideshow “overview” partially summarizing the details of its nearly $55 billion 2020-2024 capital plan. The unveiling seemed like Christmas morning - according to MTA CEO/Chair Pat Foye, the plan will sell itself. Everyone will get the pony that they asked for. NYCT President Andy Byford was “ecstatically happy” and elected
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The 2016 state law was merely an “IOU," there had been no specific source of funds identified for how the state would pay the money, nor has there been any plan developed since enactment in the state budget that
‘Breaking Car Culture’ in New York City Likely Dependent on Expanded Mass Transit
(photo: City Council)
If City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, like-minded lawmakers, and a chorus of transit advocates get their way, New York City will become far less dominated by cars over the next few years.
Talk of “breaking car culture” by increasing options and protections for bikes, buses, and pedestrians
Slowing Down 14th Street Bus Plan is Anything But Progress, or Progressive
One of the most frustrating things about local New York City politics is that many people who believe in progressive ideas on the national stage do an about-face when it comes to progressive change on the local level, often when that change might actually touch their day-to-day lives in some way.
This phenomenon has been captured perfectly by the current debate around the 14th Street busway -- a pilot program approved by the mayor, which would prioritize public transit and trucks over private cars on one of the
Max & Murphy Podcast: Transit Organizing & the Future of the MTA
(photo: John McCarten/City Council)
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John Raskin, founder and executive director of Riders Alliance, a transit advocacy group, joined the show to discuss his organizing work over the past seven years and the future of the MTA as he plans to depart the nonprofit after several major wins, including
A French Lesson in Fare Evasion
(photo: Kevin P. Coughlin/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
I just returned to New York City from a month in Paris, where my husband was doing legal work. A regular public transit user at home, I was the same in Paris, making use of its Metro system. But because I did not inform myself of all the rules, I violated one of them and had to pay a fine. The experience helped me think about the fare evasion challenge we’re dealing with in New York.
As in our subway system, there is one fare to travel throughout the city on the Paris Metro. I bought discounted “carnets”
Everyone Agrees City Buses are in Crisis. What's Being Done?
Mayor de Blasio rides the bus (photo: Edwin J. Torres/Mayor's Office)
Elected officials, advocates, and especially riders agree: the city’s bus system is broken.
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Corey Johnson Wants to ‘Break the Car Culture’ in New York City. What Does That Mean?
Speaker Johnson on the train (photo: City Council's office)
Imagine a New York where cars no longer rule the road, and pedestrians and cyclists reclaim dominance of the city’s public space. While a New York where cars don’t dominate the streets may seem like a fantasy, to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, it is the future.
In recent months, Johnson -- a Manhattan Democrat in his second year leading the 51-member City Council -- has gone full bore touting the idea of “breaking car culture,” or prioritizing pedestrians, cyclists,
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Gov. Cuomo on the subway (photo: the governor's office)
At the end of the state legislative session that just finished several steps were taken to consolidate Governor Cuomo’s power over the MTA. First, he swapped out two of his ‘independent’ appointees to the MTA Board for two members of his state cabinet, Robert Mujica, his budget director, and Linda Lacewell, commissioner of the Department of Financial Services.
Second, in order to legitimize the board appointment of someone who is not a resident of the MTA region, the law was changed to provide that the state budget
The MTA is Fiscally Exhausted
(photo: MTA/Patrick Cashin)
We call it the distraction circus. Donald Trump’s advisor, Steve Bannon, called it “flooding the zone with sh*t” to befuddle the news media and critics. Whatever you call it, the endless kerfuffle Governor Cuomo is stirring around the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is obscuring what we think are the MTA’s potentially catastrophic money problems.
Yes, even after new revenue from congestion pricing is factored in, the MTA is still in big financial trouble.
Five very big things jump out in terms of the MTA’s
Reorganizing the MTA with a Transparent, Public Process
(photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
In advance of the MTA Board meeting taking place today (Wednesday, May 22), Reinvent Albany and ten other groups including Riders Alliance, TransitCenter, Regional Plan Association, and others sent a letter asking the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to make sure that the process for developing its reorganization plan -- as
'Blow Up the MTA'? Not Yet
Council Speaker Corey Johnson (photo: John McCarten/City Council)
With subway and bus riders so frustrated with poor service, it is understandable that city leaders are talking about changing the governance of the MTA and its New York City Transit (NYCT) division as a solution.
Most notably, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson has come up with a well-intentioned but ultimately misguided plan to break NYCT off from the MTA and vest full responsibility for its funding and operation in a mayor-controlled structure he’s named Big Apple Transit, or
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Gov. Cuomo inspects track work (photo: Kevin P. Coughlin/Governor's Office)
The subway (plan) is delayed again.
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But while the Metropolitan
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MTA Chair Pat Foye (photo: Marc A. Hermann/MTA)
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(photo: governor's office)
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Every five years, the MTA issues a report of its capital needs for the next 20
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(Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin/Office of the Governor)
For nearly a year, activists have raised alarm-bells about how New York is creating the digital equivalent of widespread “stop & frisk” -- expansive new surveillance systems. One of the latest missteps comes from Governor Andrew Cuomo, who last July launched an MTA facial recognition program to scan drivers as they cross bridges and tunnels. For months, simply
The Devilish Details of Albany’s MTA Budget Package
My organization, Reinvent Albany, applauds Governor Cuomo and the legislature for passing congestion pricing in the state budget. Yet we are concerned about it being undermined by boundless exemptions for politically powerful interest groups, and a proliferation of other new structures and requirements for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) that passed along with the tolling program.
Paradoxically, the MTA legislative “reform” package also included a deal for the Legislature to approve new CEO/Chair Pat Foye without
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American azaleas are nature-made for Upstate
The word “azalea” conjures up a romantic image.
American azaleas are nature-made for Upstate The word “azalea” conjures up a romantic image. Check out this story on greenvilleonline.com: http://grnol.co/2opGSio
The Greenville News Published 4:53 p.m. ET April 11, 2017 | Updated 11:15 a.m. ET April 12, 2017
Considered to be the deepest red-pink variety, ‘Clyo Red’ is an especially garden-worthy specimen.(Photo: Marian St. Clair)
For me, the word “azalea” conjures up a romantic image of a plantation ornamented with an allée of majestic live oaks and rows of evergreen shrubs blooming in a riot of vibrant colors. These flowering ornamentals, imported long ago from China and Japan, bloom profusely for a few weeks each spring and then fade into the background as inconspicuous green mounds for the rest of the year.
Flowering stems of many of these Asian beauties were displayed at the Hills are Alive Flower Show presented by the Carolina Foothills Garden Club on April 3rd at the Westin Poinsett, proving their persistent popularity among southern gardeners. They paled in comparison, however, to the even more striking blooms of the American azaleas contributed by exhibitors.
Growing on North American mountain tops for thousands of years and still seen along county byways, these native ornamentals, also called deciduous or wild azaleas, have their own unique charms. Like Asian azaleas, they’re members of the rhododendron family, but while the evergreens have a mounding form, the American azaleas are often taller, with a more open growth habit that is not as densely twigged or foliated.
Native plants, in general, are lauded for their resilience and hardiness, as well as their wildlife value and role in the ecology of local environments. American azaleas fit this profile. They provide nectar for butterflies and hummingbirds, often thrive in areas where exotics will not survive, and add a natural, informal quality when utilized in the home landscape.
Several species of American azaleas bloom in spring, but many others bloom in summer or fall. Many types are fragrant and a few even have bright yellow flowers. And, as their name implies, deciduous azaleas lose their leaves in autumn, often in a shower of brilliant color.
Native azaleas are also relatively free of pests and diseases, making them low-maintenance plants. Even pruning is discouraged, as it spoils their graceful form.
Fortunately, native azaleas grow in the Upstate as if they’re right at home and many are. Of the 15 known species, seven grow wild in South Carolina, and 12 species can be found in neighboring Georgia.
Though still not as well-known as their Asian cousins, local businesses have responded to increasing demand for these plants and knowledgeable gardeners are now likely to find a number of selections at nurseries across the Upstate. Plus, next Saturday, April 22, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., many types of native azaleas will be offered at the spring sale of the Upstate Native Plant Society, which will be located at Conestee Park, 840 Mauldin Rd. in Greenville.
Over the years, I’ve purchased several species of native azaleas at the NPS sale, including the Florida flame azalea (Rhododendron austrinum). This upright, vertical species is easy to grow and early to bloom, making it one of the most popular for the home garden. Yellow, gold, or light orange flowers offer a honey-suckle like fragrance, and the plant flourishes in our acidic soils. The shrub likes regular moisture, but is resistant to drought once established.
For a softer hue, look for the Piedmont azalea (Rhododendron canescens), which has pink flowers and a sweet to musky scent. Many consider this azalea to be the most beautiful native shrub of the South.
My favorite native, however, is a selection named ‘Clyo Red’, which I ordered years ago from Woodlanders. Considered to be the deepest red-pink variety known, and possibly a hybrid between R. canescens and R. flammeum, it’s touted as an especially fine and garden-worthy specimen.
If you’d like to know more about these indigenous plants, American Azaleas, written by L. Clarence Towe, is an excellent book. You might also plan to visit the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, home of the National Native Azalea Collection, during the Annual Rhododendron and Azalea Flower Show presented by the Southeaster Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society, which is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, April 29-30.
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Click here for the Membership Advancement Guide in the 2014-2016 GFWC Club Manual (See page 12 for formation of a new club.) For forming a Juniorette Club click here for the Juniorette Guide.
Clubs−and even individuals−are encouraged to make the commitment to building a new GFWC club or federating an existing club. While it may seem obvious for a club to sponsor one of the same category, this does not need to be the case. A general club could sponsor the formation of a collegiate club out of a local university, or a Junior club could sponsor a Juniorette club made up of some of the clubwomen’s daughters and their friends. Individuals may find they are in an area with no existing club, and could consider getting in touch with a local women’s club to discuss Federating, or begin the process of establishing a brand-new club themselves. All clubs and individuals interested in forming new clubs should contact the leaders in their state federation, as well as GFWC Headquarters who can assist with building new clubs.
All GFWC Active clubs are defined as a general, Junior, Juniorette, or International club. No matter what
membership category, when building new GFWC clubs think of creative ways to harness potential members.
Workplace Clubs: In looking for sources of new clubs consider the workplace: government, university, or corporate offices. While these clubs would meet during work hours, they would draw women who already have something in common. Women in such clubs might hold breakfast, lunch, or dinner meetings convenient to the workplace schedule. Workplace clubs would function the same way as other clubs, choosing community projects, building friendships, and discussing topics of interest.
Single Issue Clubs: Although GFWC offers diverse Community Service Programs, a club is not required to participate in all program areas. It is acceptable, and often beneficial, for a club to address a single issue. For example, community members interested in historic preservation may want to form a GFWC club that focuses on that particular interest. A single issue club would be an Active membership club with voting privileges.
Collegiate Clubs: Colleges and universities can be an excellent source for GFWC members. Campuses often face the same challenges in conservation, crime, and safety, as other traditional communities. A collegiate club could meet the unique needs of the campus as well as accommodate the lifestyles of students.
Excerpted from www.GFWC.org. © 2010 General Federation of Women's Clubs 202-347-3168 www.GFWC.org. Used with permission. May not be reproduced for sale or profit.
To form a new club affiliated with GFWC Massachusetts or GFWC Massachusetts, Junior Membership, their bylaws state:
For the formation of Juniorette Clubs, GFWC of Massachusetts bylaws state:
If you are interested in starting a new Club, contact Mary Ann Pierce, membership chairman, at 781-444-3189 or MAPGFWC@msn.com for more information.
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Grigor Dimitrov Plays Marcos Baghdatis in the First Round of Rome Masters on Sunday
In his debut participation at the ATP Masters in Rome Grigor Dimitrov will play Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus. The match is on Sunday and is third in a row first one starting at 1 pm CET. Baghdatis and Grigor know each other very well, they played doubles together in several tournaments. The Cypriot is not in his best form currently - apart from the win over the player of Benin Theofile Segodo at Davis Cup tie, he has 6 subsequent losses at ATP tournaments. It will be 5th match between Dimitrov and Baghdatis and so far Grigor leads 3-1 with wins in Rotterdam and Brisbane earlier this year and at Wimbledon last year and loss back in 2011 in Munich.
Grigor Dimitrov is in the 4th quarter of the draw with No 2 Roger Federer, No 8 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, No 9 Richard Gasquet whom Grigor could meet in Round 2, and No 13 Tommy Haas. The seeded players in the quarter of world No 1 Novak Djikovic are Tomas Berdych, Stanislas Wawrinka and Marin Cilic. The third quarter includes Andy Murray, Juan Martin del Potro, Nicolas Almagro and Key Nishikori. And Rafael Nadal may face David Ferrer, Janko Tipsarevic or Milos Raonic on his way to the semifinals.
Grigor Dimitrov will play with Frederik Nielsen of Denmark in the doubles tournament. In the first round the opponents of the Bulgarian-Danish pair will be Santiago Gonzalez (Mexico) / Scott Lipsky (USA).
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Light as air: The LG gram 13, 14, and 15 (2018) review
By Kenny Yeo - 10 Mar 2019
Page 1 of 2 - What's new?Page 2 of 2 - Performance Analysis & Conclusion
Page 1 of 2 - What's new?
Note: This article was first published on 7th July 2018.
Light as air
LG updated its gram lineup of notebooks last year just before CES 2018 with the latest 8th generation Core processors. It took them a while but LG finally launched the notebooks here in May. And now that we have had the chance to handle and test the notebooks in our labs, here’s our verdict on LG’s latest.
What’s not new?
Since the new gram notebooks are largely similar to last year’s models, let’s start by highlighting a couple of important things that are unchanged.
Design - Yup, as you can see, the new gram notebooks are identical in terms of design. Their dimensions are unchanged too.
Materials - The gram notebooks still have what LG calls ‘Nano Carbon Magnesium’ alloy chassis - a blend of magnesium and carbon fiber. Unfortunately, this also means that chassis flex is still present. This is just the nature of the alloy and doesn't mean that the notebook isn't strong. In fact, as you will find out later, the new gram actually meets MIL-STD-810G standards of ruggedness and can withstand up to 200kg of pressure.
Ports - The selection of ports are also largely unchanged, except for one particular SKU which we will talk about later. This makes the gram one of the few ultraportables currently on sale to come with full-size USB Type-A ports. The downside, of course, is that the gram is thicker than its rivals. However, it makes up for that with its low weight.
Processors - The gram notebooks have all been updated to feature Intel’s newest 8th generation quad-core Core processors. The gram 13 will only come with the Core i5-8250U while the gram 14 and 15 will come in two SKUs, one with the Core i5-8250U and the other with the Core i7-8550U. Here are all the various SKUs available.
LG gram SKUs
LG gram 13
Processor Memory Storage Price
Intel Core i5-8250U 8GB 512GB SSD S$1,999
Battery - All models get larger batteries. In the gram 13, the battery capacity is now 72Wh, up from just 34.6Wh. The gram 14 and gram 15 both now have 72Wh batteries as well, up from 60Wh.
Weight - Unfortunately, the substantially larger battery of the gram 13 means it has put on weight. As a result, the gram 13 now weighs 965g - that's 125g more than last year’s model. It is still a remarkably light notebook, but this year’s model does not invoke the same sense of wonderment as last year’s. At just 840g, last year’s gram 13 was incredibly, almost ridiculously, light. The weights of the gram 14 and gram 15 are mostly unchanged at 995g and 1,095g respectively.
Fingerprint scanner - The power button doubles up as a fingerprint scanner and can log users in very quickly. However, Windows Hello isn't supported.
Thunderbolt 3 - This only applies to the gram 15 with Core i7 processor. That particular SKU is the only one that comes with a Thunderbolt 3 port. Yes, it’s an odd choice and we don’t buy LG’s explanation that only buyers of that particular notebook will likely need a super fast interface. If you are going to have a USB-C port, it might as well be Thunderbolt 3.
Webcam - The webcam has been repositioned to the top of the display. No more unflattering video angles. Hooray!
MIL-STD 810G - A common criticism of the gram notebooks is that they feel somewhat flimsy. But that’s inherent to the materials used. They are in fact very strong. To prove their point, the new gram notebooks meet the MILD-STD810G standards of ruggedness. It is dust, shock, temperature, and pressure resistant. Most impressively, it can withstand up to 20Gs of shock and 200kg of pressure. If you still find it difficult to stomach how a super thin and light notebook can still be that robust, this live demo should instill the confidence you seek:-
Touchscreen - Last year gram notebooks have no touchscreen. Now, the gram 13 will come with touchscreen capability, but only the gram 13. The gram 14 and 15 will still come with regular displays so don’t be poking around on their screens.
Colors - The gram 13 and 15 will only be available in white, while the gram 14 will come in ‘dark silver’, which is really just a fancy way of saying grey. Personally, I very much prefer the dark silver finish on the gram 14 since the white finish on the gram 13 and 15 is far too striking for my tastes and stains could be a concern. Your mileage may vary, of course.
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Serena Williams Just Won Her First Wimbledon Match Since Becoming A Mum
She never stopped being the GOAT
By Harper's BAZAAR Staff
Serena Williams has done it again. Just months after winning her first Grand Slam match since giving birth to daughter Alexis Olympia in September 2017, the tennis champ is back at Wimbledon. This occasion marks her second Grand Slam tournament since giving birth, as the tennis star reached the fourth round of the French Open before having to withdraw due to a pectoral injury, ahead of a match against old rival Maria Sharapova.
The tennis star ended up winning her first Wimbledon match against Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands, with a final score of 7-5 6-3. As CNN reports, Williams was very happy to be back at Wimbledon. “It’s a great feeling to be back. It’s been a couple of years since I played on grass, so it is difficult trying to find the rhythm,” she said.
Related article: Serena Williams Shares The Reality Of Returning From Maternity Leave
1 day until #Wimbledon ? In this moment, 22 was the greatest feeling, but ultimately getting to 23 was even better. Never let anyone put a limit on how far you can go.
A post shared by Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) on Jul 1, 2018 at 8:35am PDT
For the second round, Williams will face either the Czech Republic’s Tereza Smitkova or Viktoriya Tomova of Bulgaria.
When she returned to the French Open in May, the 23-time Grand Slam champion gave a shoutout to mothers who have been through difficult recoveries from pregnancy. “Catsuit anyone?” she wrote. “For all the moms out there who had a tough recovery from pregnancy—here you go. If I can do it, so can you. Love you all!!”
Related article: Serena Williams On How Her Daughter Olympia Inspired Her New Fashion Line
Catsuit anyone? For all the moms out there who had a tough recovery from pregnancy—here you go. If I can do it, so can you. Love you all!!
A post shared by Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) on May 29, 2018 at 12:05pm PDT
As Williams revealed to CNN, she suffered from a pulmonary embolism and a hematoma after giving birth, and has since become an advocate for mothers and babies in need. As husband Alexis Ohanian said, “Supermama is back.”
Supermama is back. Second time is even better. Is that Vibranium? #RG18 #catsuit
A post shared by Alexis Ohanian Sr. (@alexisohanian) on May 29, 2018 at 11:18am PDT
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Tottenham Hotspur signing Dani Ceballos would be ultimate revenge on Real Madrid
Tottenham must pursue potential signing of Dani Ceballos.
Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly still keen on signing Spanish midfielder Dani Ceballos, according to Calcio Mercato.
Ceballos has struggled for regular game time since his summer move from Real Betis, and his situation is understandably attracting interest from clubs in England and Italy.
Signing Ceballos would not only be a major coup for the club, but it would see them finally inflict revenge on Madrid for taking Luka Modric away from them.
Spurs sold Modric for £30 million in 2012, a fee which has gone onto look ridiculously cheap.
Ceballos, 21, was signed by Real as a potential successor to the Croatian, with Spanish newspaper Marca reporting Madrid see Ceballas as the 'natural heir' to Modric.
If Real are then foolish enough to sell Ceballos after just a few months, Tottenham should snap their hand off and try to strike a deal.
Just like how Modric has enjoyed the best years of his career in Madrid, Spurs would be acquiring Ceballos for the best years of his.
Ceballos has started only two La Liga games this season, plus just four substitute appearances, and has still managed to net twice.
January is the perfect time for Tottenham to put Madrid's commitment to the midfielder to the test.
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3022 — Association Between Sexual Harassment and Adverse Outcomes After Controlling for Other Traumas
Murdoch M_ (Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research/Minneapolis VA Medical Center)
Pryor JB (University of Illinois-Normal)
Gackstetter GD (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)
Hodges J (Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research/Minneapolis VA Medical Center)
O'Brien N (Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research/Minneapolis VA Medical Center)
Cowper D (Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center)
Fortier L (Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research/Minneapolis VA Medical Center)
Schult T (Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research/Minneapolis VA Medical Center)
Military sexual harassment frequently covaries with other trauma experiences. Because analyses often omit the latter, they could confound previously reported associations between sexual harassment and adverse psychological and physical outcomes. We examined the association between sexual harassment; selected psychological symptoms; and physical, work, role, and social functioning in several active-duty samples after controlling for other trauma experiences.
Cross-sectional survey using well-validated measures. Effective response rates ranged from 76% to 100%. Active duty respondents included 204 troops at a Southern Army installation, 187 Midwestern Tri-Care enrollees, and 607 nationally representative VA enrollees. Women (39%) and enlisteds (83%) were oversampled.
Across samples, most (94%) reported childhood physical or emotional abuse; 19.5% reported childhood sexual abuse. Since entering the military, subjects reported 2.2 trauma events on average; 14.8% reported combat exposure. Almost 80% of women reported military sexual harassment and 11.7%, sexual assault. Among men, 43.8% reported sexual harassment and 1.7%, sexual assault. Before adjustment, sexual harassment severity was significantly associated with greater symptoms of PTSD (r = .23), anxiety (r = .16), depression (r = .16), and somatization (r = .26) and with poorer work, role, and social functioning (r = .14) and physical functioning (r = .13; all p’s < 0.0001). After adjustment for other traumas, it remained marginally correlated with PTSD symptoms only (adjusted r = .09, p = 0.049), but the other tests had low power. The small-magnitude association between PTSD and sexual harassment was completely explained by our sexual harassment measure’s inclusion of work-related rape.
The association between study outcomes and sexual harassment attenuated substantially when other trauma experiences were controlled. Because most adjusted tests had low power, we cannot exclude a small association between psychological and functional outcomes and sexual harassment.
Multiple trauma experiences are common among military personnel and need to be controlled when exploring the impact of sexual harassment on psychological and functional outcomes. How sexual harassment is defined (i.e., is work-related rape included?) is also likely to affect findings.
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Globe means more to Oh after some time to reflect
Globe mean...
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Now that she's had a few weeks to reflect on her experience as a Golden Globes host and winner, actress Sandra Oh realizes even more what it meant to Koreans and immigrants.
At a news conference on Saturday, the "Killing Eve" star said she has had several young people approach her to say how much the moment meant to them. Oh, who co-hosted the Globes with Andy Samberg, thanked her parents in Korean when she won best actress for the BBC America series.
"The significance of these wins are not lost on me at all," Oh said. "I didn't want to waste a moment and not be completely there."
During the after-parties, "I didn't need one drop of alcohol because I was so high," she said.
Still, remembering how petrified she felt before the show, she said she's not interested in another hosting gig.
Oh turns next to the second season of "Killing Eve," which begins airing on April 7. BBC America says that during its debut season, "Killing Eve" was the first program in many years where every episode reached a larger audience than the one before.
Season two picks up about 30 seconds after the end of the first season, when the M15 spy that Oh portrayed stabbed Villanelle, the assassin she's been hunting down and become obsessed with, in the stomach.
Mini-spoiler alert: Villanelle, played by Jodie Comer, survives.
Actress Fiona Shaw, the veteran actress who portrays the British spy chief Carolyn Martens, said she believes one reason the series took off in its first season is because it captured the unsettled feeling that many people have of not knowing what will come next. The actors feel the same thing before getting their scripts.
Besides accolades and ratings, people involved with the show have learned from their families that the show was su
Besides accolades and ratings, people involved with the show have learned from their families that the show was successful. Emerald Fennell, writer and executive producer, said her mother would text her late at night with suggestions on how the show could kill people.
"I feel like my dad is watching it as a fan, not just because I'm in it," Comer said.
There's also a higher caliber of potential victims (the series seems to take glee in killing off male characters).
"We now have people that want to be part of the show and want to be killed," Comer said.
Fennell is the new top writer and producer behind the show, replacing predecessor Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
"It's terrifying," Fennell said. "It's lucky that I came on board before (the
"It's terrifying," Fennell said. "It's lucky that I came on board before (the first season) came out. Otherwise, it might have been hiding-under-the-bed time for me."
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The Influence of Pop Culture on Drug and Alcohol Use
Drugs in pop culture can have a huge influence on people young and old as the media flaunts the positive side effects of drug use but negates sharing what is difficult about addiction. As more media finds its way into homes and lifestyles, it is easier to see the influence creeping in. Learn more about how pop culture influences views of drug and alcohol use.
Drugs in Pop Culture
Drugs in pop culture have a commonplace reference and outright usage in popular music, movies and literature. Children see drug references in cartoons, movies and listen to it in music. Kids will emulate behaviors seen and develop oral fixations on candies and juices which can lead to habitual smoking and drinking later. Drugs in pop culture has a more profound effect on young people than most like to admit.
Influence on Teens
Many teens are stressed by school causing anxiety in social lives and personal lives at home. The introduction of drugs and alcohol can open doorways to unhealthy methods of alleviating stress. It is not always the case as peer pressure plays a role in teen substance use also. Peer pressure is constantly being reinforced by recurrences of drug and alcohol use in movies and television. Some artists even use street drug names like Molly or Mary Jane to teach kids about drugs. Certain television programs and movie characters try to justify drug use by stating how it enhances awareness, expands mental boundaries or makes everything look more enjoyable.
Drugs transcend all avenues of entertainment including sports. The sports world has been scrutinized for being a place where drugs are more acceptable. This includes performance enhancing drugs, athletes through the ages have been accused and convicted in a number of drugs cases which seem to openly endorse alcohol and make it look enticing for individuals to try.
Society watches drug culture evolve on the pop scene whether it is acceptable in a fiction show or ones which are reality television with young people living in a house together and going out drinking and partying every night.Today’s acceptance of drugs in pop culture make it seem more glamorous than it is and glosses over the devastating impact it has on families and society. The shows construe a message it is possible to do more with drugs and live well than it is without. Music, movies and television are all notorious for overselling the benefits of alcohol and drugs while not looking at negative consequences which occur with usage. It is not surprising society has young smokers and drinkers who are not living the full lives deserved due to the ravages of addiction.
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Aboriginal rights, title and the duty to consult - a primer
“The doctrine of Aboriginal rights exists… because of one simple fact: when Europeans arrived in North America, Aboriginal peoples were already here, living in communities on the land, and participating in distinctive cultures, as they had done for centuries. It is this fact, and this fact above all others, which separates Aboriginal peoples from all other minority groups in Canadian society and which mandates their special legal status.” – Chief Justice Lamer in R. v. Van der Peet, para 30.
Aboriginal rights, title and the duty to consult are mighty topics that have been evolving ever since 1763 when King George III issued the Royal Proclamation, albeit with a gap between 1876 and 1951 when the Indian Act’s punitive policies restricted movement of Indigenous Peoples as well as their access to lawyers. After the 1951 amendments to the Indian Act, the courts were inundated with cases by Indigenous Peoples who finally had recourse to address their pent up frustrations regarding ownership of property, rights and title, and right to self-govern. The logjam of court cases finally began to move in 1973 with the Calder decision (see below).
The Canadian Constitution Act was patriated in 1982, to include, Section 35, which includes a commitment to recognizing Aboriginal treaty rights. The repatriated Constitution set the stage for the Supreme Court of Canada to begin to weigh in on issues related to Aboriginal rights and title. The underlying belief was that once treaty and Aboriginal rights were recognized in the Constitution as “constitutional rights” that recognition provided a legal status protecting Aboriginal rights and title. In reality, the burden fell upon Aboriginal Peoples to define, through litigation, the nature and quality of those rights - the law began driving political will.
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So, what does all of this mean in terms of Aboriginal rights? Here’s a snapshot of the basics:
Aboriginal rights exist in law;
Aboriginal rights are distinct and different from the rights of other Canadians;
They include aboriginal title, which is a unique communally held property right;
Aboriginal rights take priority over the rights of others, subject only to the needs of conservation; The scope of aboriginal title and rights depends on specific facts relating to the aboriginal group and its historical relationship to the land in question.
The legal and constitutional status of aboriginal people derives not from their race but from the fact they are the descendants of the peoples and governing societies that were resident in North America long before settlers arrived;
Aboriginal rights and title cannot be extinguished by simple legislation because they are protected by the Constitution Act, 1982.
Government has a duty to consult and possibly accommodate aboriginal interests even where title has not been proven; and
Government has continuing duty to consult, and perhaps accommodate, where treaty rights might be adversely affected. [1]
And here are brief summaries of the court cases that defined the above bullets:
Calder, 1973 (Calder decision recognizes Aboriginal title)
For many years, the Government of Canada refused even to entertain the concept of Aboriginal title. That policy mountain moved in 1973, shortly after the release of the Supreme Court of Canada's landmark decision in Calder v. Attorney General of British Columbia.
Guerin, 1984 (Guerin decision established Crown’s fiduciary duty to protect Aboriginal title)
The Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had a “fiduciary responsibility” for Indians and lands reserved for Indians - that is, a responsibility to safeguard their interests. This duty placed the government under a legal obligation to manage Aboriginal lands as a prudent person would when dealing with his/her own property.
Sparrow, 1990 (Sparrow decision recognizes Aboriginal right to fish)
The 1990 Supreme Court Decision in R. v. Sparrow was the first Supreme Court of Canada decision which applied s. 35, of the Constitution Act, 1982 which states “The existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed”.
Delgamuukw, 1997 (Delgamuukw decision confirms Aboriginal title exists)
The three commonly called Delgamuuk cases are a critical part of the constitutional puzzle of Aboriginal rights and title for British Columbia and all of Canada.
Haida, 2004 (Haida decision established the duty to consult & accommodate)
The Haida case is significant because a unanimous Supreme Court of Canada set out the basic principles applicable to the duty to consult.
Tsilhqot’in, 2014 (Tsilhqot’in took the test to prove title and applied it)
The Tsilhqot’in decision is significant because the Supreme Court of Canada awarded the land to the Tsilhqot’in Nation.
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...But Hope May Be Just Across the Street
Grace Meredith is a beloved contemporary Christian recording artist whose career--and personal life--hits unexpected turbulence. She feels grounded--in more ways than one. Grace s fiancé, bothered by her outspoken stance on purity and her near-constant travel, has broken off their relationship. Exhausted and unable to continue her current concert schedule, Grace returns home to Chicago, where she is soon stranded in a major snowstorm. Facing new questions about her future and her faith, Grace finds herself connecting for the first time with the residents of her neighborhood. What she discovers in these unexpected relationships could change everything.
Welcome to the Neighborhood The first in the Windy City Neighbors series, Grounded is an uplifting, contemporary story about ordinary people wrestling with the spiritual and practical issues of real life. The series employs the innovative storytelling technique of parallel novels, each with its own drama and story arc, but whose characters lives become intertwined and affect one another. Grounded welcomes you to Beecham Street--a typical, isolated American neighborhood that might just be a place of hope.
If you would like to read the first chapter of Grounded, go Here.
Worthy Publishing (May 7, 2013)
Neta and Dave Jackson
I have not ready any books by either of these authors and I was impressed. I always find it amazing that two people can write a book together and it turn out good. I would think it would take a lot of patience to figure out an entire story line that satisfied each person. Anyway this is a delightful fun book that focuses on real life issues. Granted Grace is a famous singer but she has her own personal struggles which was nice to read about, famous people struggle too! Grace has a past that eats her alive but she portrays an entirely different life in order to get away from her past. While it doesn't have to be anything major, I think a lot of people could relate to the difficulty of forgiving yourself of your past choices. The setting for this book is fun and easy to imagine and the characters are easy to relate with. It is a fairly predictable book, I knew how it would end but I am excited to read the next book in the series!
I recommend for an light easy read.
"I received this book from CFBA for free in exchange for an honest review."
As a husband/wife writing team, we are enthusiastic about books, kids, walking with God, gospel music, and each other! Together we are the authors or coauthors of over 120 books. (You can see our Publication Record by clicking HERE.) In addition to writing several books about Christian community, we have been privileged to coauthor numerous books with expert resource people on a variety of topics from racial reconciliation to medical ethics to ministry to kids in gangs.
But over the years the we have especially enjoyed writing for children and young people! This includes our award-winning TRAILBLAZER series, historical fiction about great Christian heroes and heroines for young people ages 8-12, and the four-volume HERO TALES: A Family Treasury of True Stories from the Lives of Great Christians, and the companion book, Heroes in Black History.
Somewhere along the way, our own children grew up! Son Julian is Director of Experience Design for the Alder Planetarium in Chicago where he “provides the experience of exploring space” for visitors. He has two sons, Liam Isaac and Elijah David. Daughter Rachel graduated from Eastern Mennonite University and after working in the field of rape-crisis prevention went on to earn a Masters Degree in counseling from the University of Illinois. She is now a counselor at “Uni High School” in Champaign, Illinois. She is the loving mother of Havah Noelle (our first grandchild!) and Noah Zion, our youngest grandchild. The Jackson family also includes a Cambodian foster daughter, Samen Sang, who has four children.
We live in Evanston, Illinois, where for twenty-seven years we were part of Reba Place Church, a Christian church community. We are now members of a multi-racial congregation in the Chicago area.
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Childish Gambino Takes Home Multiple Grammys For 'This Is America' Song, Video
The rapper, also known as Donald Glover, made history by taking home Song of the Year. It's the first time a rap song has won the category.
By Jenna Amatulli
Childish Gambino claimed the Grammy Awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Music Video and Best Rap/Sung Performance on Sunday for his song “This Is America.”
The rapper, whose real name is Donald Glover, took the internet by storm in May with the visually striking, heavily allusive video, which took on topics like gun violence and black oppression in America.
The video, filmed in a warehouse, featured Glover performing African dance moves alongside actor and musician Calvin the Second (who many viewers thought initially was the father of Trayvon Martin) and a choir. The choir scene appeared to be a reference to the 2015 mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, where a white supremacist gunman killed nine black churchgoers.
Glover’s Grammys for Best Music Video ― alongside video director Hiro Murai and producers Ibra Ake, Jason Cole and Fam Rothstein ― and Best Rap/Sung Performance were awarded prior to the show Sunday. The song was also nominated for Best R&B Song but lost to “Best Part” by H.E.R. featuring Daniel Caesar.
He did not attend the ceremony but still made history. The win in the Song of the Year category marked the first time a rap song has won that Grammy Award.
Congrats Best Music Video winner - "This Is America" Childish Gambino (@donaldglover); @MuraiHiro, video director; @ibralikezebra, Jason Cole & @FamRothstein, video producers #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/7w5fsclCiY
— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) February 10, 2019
“This Is America” took the award for Best New Video over competitors “Apeshit” by the Carters (husband-and-wife team Beyoncé and Jay-Z), “I’m Not Racist” by Joyner Lucas, “Pynk” by Janelle Monáe, and “Mumbo Jumbo” by Tierra Whack.
You can follow along with all the winners at the 2019 Grammy Awards here.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story incorrectly indicated the father of Trayvon Martin appeared in the music video for “This is America.”
2019 Grammy Awards Red Carpet
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Study to identify possibilities for standardising legislation across the EU on violence against women and children and sexual-orientation-based violence
The study included a mapping of legislation against the three forms of violence in the EU Member States, an overview of relevant international minimum standards for protection against these forms of violence and recommendations to the EU institutions and governments of the Member States on how to enhance the effectiveness of work to combat these forms of violence.
Violence against women (VAW), violence against children (VAC) and sexual–orientation-based violence (SOV) include elements of interpersonal violence, inequality and human rights. These three forms of violence put fundamental rights in jeopardy.
The Member States of the European Union have a broad spectrum of laws relating to VAW, VAC and SOV. This project aimed to assess the possibilities and opportunities of and needs and potential hurdles to standardising legislation across these three fields of violence for EU Member States, with the purpose of enhancing the effectiveness of combating VAW, VAC and SOV.
The research included the following steps, which form both the empirical keystones of the study and the outcomes of the project. In the first stage of the project there was a mapping and analysis of relevant legislation on VAW, VAC and SOV and its implementation across the EU Member States. As a next step relevant (international) minimum standards relating to the three fields of violence were mapped and developed into a set of minimum standards providing the highest attainable compliance with existing human rights obligations of the EU and its Member States. Simultaneously, the project explored which law and policy-making methods would be necessary and appropriate in order to implement these standards.
Part of the study was also an assessment of current research knowledge on the factors and conditions which are conducive to the perpetration of VAW, VAC and SOV. An interactive visual model was produced which showed the interplay between factors. Finally, the conclusions and recommendations of the study covered the feasibility of standardisation at the EU level and also offered a guide to EU Member States seeking to prevent and protect against VAW, VAC and SOV as part of their human rights obligations.
Report(s) / events
The project resulted in a comprehensive report with five technical annexes. One of these annexes is a matrix which provides an overview of relevant legal provisions in force in the EU Member States, an overview of existing relevant international standards and proposed additional standards, a glossary of proposed terms, research working definitions and an explanatory document and bibliography.
Another product of the project is the model of factors at play in the perpetration of VAW, VAC and SOV. This included an introduction to the model, the model itself (factor and path model), a review of relevant research, a description of factors and possible interventions and a manual. The report, its annexes and the model have been translated in German and French and are available under related publications at the right hand side of this page.
The main report of the study concludes that, depending on the field of law and nature of the required legal or administrative action, the EU has a legal basis on which to act and to harmonise or coordinate policy development and implementation at the level of the EU and by the EU Member States. Where this is not the case, the study identified steps that can be taken by the EU Member States themselves to prohibit violence, to provide adequate protection and to ensure redress.
Although all EU Member States have ratified the international human rights instruments which oblige them to combat VAW, VAC and SOV, the implementation of general and specific legislative measures is frequently inadequate. The study recommended a comprehensive approach comprising different measures in different areas of law as well as for different administrative, social and educational measures.
Feasibility study to assess the possibilities, opportunities and needs to standardise national legislation on gender violence and violence against children (2010)
European Commission – DG Justice
Osnabrück University (UniOS , in cooperation with the Deutsches Institute für Jugendhilfe und Familienrecht (DIJuF)), Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) – London Metropolitan University the International Victimology Institute (INTERVICT) – Tilburg University
European Union Member States
Feasibility study to assess the possibilities, opportunities and needs to standardise national legislation on violence against women, violence against children and sexual orientation violence (19 September 2010)
Feasibility study to assess the possibilities, opportunities and needs to standardise national legislation on violence against women, violence against children and sexual orientation violence - Annexes (19 September 2010)
Machbarkeitsstudie zur Bewertung der Möglichkeiten, Aussichten und des bestehenden Bedarfs für die Vereinheitlichung der einzelstaatlichen Rechtsvorschriften auf den Gebieten Gewalt gegen Frauen, Gewalt gegen Kinder und Gewalt wegen sexueller Orientierung (18 September 2010)
Machbarkeitsstudie zur Bewertung der Möglichkeiten, Aussichten und des bestehenden Bedarfs für die Vereinheitlichung der einzelstaatlichen Rechtsvorschriften auf den Gebieten Gewalt gegen Frauen, Kinder und Gewalt wegen sexueller Orientierung - Anhange (18 September 2010)
Étude de faisabilité visant à évaluer les opportunités et les besoins en termes d’harmonisation des législations nationales relatives à la violence contre les femmes et les enfants et à la violence fondée sur l’orientation sexuelle (17 September 2010)
Étude de faisabilité visant à évaluer les opportunités et les besoins en termes d’harmonisation des législations nationales relatives à la violence contre les femmes et les enfants et à la violence fondée sur l’orientation sexuelle - Annexes (17 September 2010)
Model of factors at play in the perpetration of VAW, VAC and SOV (19 September 2010)
Faktoren, die die Täterschaft von Gewalt gegen Frauen, Gewalt gegen Kinder und Gewalt aufgrund der sexuellen Orientierung begünstigen (19 September 2010)
Facteurs intervenant dans la perpétration d'actes de violence contre les femmes ou les enfants, et d'actes de violence fondés sur l'orientation sexuelle (19 September 2010)
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:: Issues > Democracy
ElBaradei: Egypt’s democracy needs less talk more action
Egypt urgently needs a new beginning. Dissent is escalating as political opposition become vocal. Those from many different ideological orientations, parts of society, and faiths unite with a single voice in seeking social justice.
Monday, December 27,2010 11:51
IkhwanWeb
According to former IAEA chief Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei Egyptians demand an accountable and transparent system of government, with meaningful checks and balances. His theory has been backed by many opposition trends including the country’s strongest political opposition the Muslim Brotherhood, which has continually called for reform and freedom only through tolerant and peaceful methods. According to the group economic opportunity for all Egyptians and the right to live in dignity and freedom is not much to ask where the rights of the Egyptian people should not be trampled in exchange for an elusive promise of stability.
ElBaradei has stressed in an article published in "Washington Post" that Egypt has been struggling with theories and realities in numerous aspects.
In theory, Egypt has a constitution and laws that reflect the will of its people. But in reality, the provisions reflect the iron grip of the ruling regime.
In theory, Egypt has multiple political parties in practice, however founding such a party requires nearly unattainable permission from a NDP dominated committee which has kept Mubarak in power for three decades.
In theory, Egypt has an elected president however the country has been governed by only three rulers who have only relinquished their posts after death. Despite differences in style and vision, all have presided over an authoritarian and repressive political system.
ElBaradei highlights that again in theory, Egypt has a democratically elected parliament. In practice, one-third of the members of its upper house are appointed by the president. He cites:
"In no way is the Egyptian parliament representative of the Egyptian people. Although about 10 percent of Egyptians are Coptic Christians, the Copts hold only 3 seats in parliament. The Muslim Brotherhood, a religious movement that managed to win 20 percent of the seats in the 2005 parliamentary elections, was shut out of the November elections and now holds no seats. The Wafd, the largest liberal party, won six seats. Both boycotted the run-off vote because of the substantial fraud committed and documented during the first-round voting last month".
Egypt has a court system; in reality however legal decisions are often ignored when they oppose the government’s wishes.
Despite annual growth in gross domestic product of nearly 6 percent the past few years, ElBaradei notes there is an obscene gap between rich and poor which worsens daily. Over 40 percent of Egyptians are expected to survive on less than $2 per day and almost a third of the country is illiterate.
For the country to be saved from tunnelling into an even darker abyss where democracy must mean more than merely going through the motions. High time has come for Egypt to experience genuine democracy which responds fairly to the needs and aspirations of its entire people.
tags: ElBaradei / Democracy / Political Opposition / Muslim Brotherhood / Egyptian People / NDP / Mubarak / Parliamentary Elections / Social Justice
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Moyes admits Zaha likely to go out on loan in January
Zaha: Set for loan move
Wilfried Zaha was Alex Ferguson's final signing as Manchester United manager, a £15m parting gift to David Moyes.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/moyes-admits-zaha-likely-to-go-out-on-loan-in-january-29706889.html
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Capped by England four days after his 20th birthday, and bought by Ferguson on the trusted advice of his son Darren, Zaha appeared to present a welcome alternative at Old Trafford to Nani or Ashley Young.
Yet Moyes has yet to grant Zaha a single minute of competitive football. The manager indicated yesterday that the winger might finally be given his club debut in this evening's League Cup tie against Norwich City, although he offered no guarantees.
It is difficult to remember any English club buying a player for a similar fee and then failing to give them exposure to any first-team action for such an extended period. Zaha, a maverick winger who was born in the Ivory Coast and raised in south London, effectively joined United in the summer because although Ferguson arranged the deal to buy him in January, he was loaned back to former club Crystal Palace for the remainder of last season.
Having inspired Palace to promotion to the Premier League, he took part in United's tour of the Far East, impressing to the extent that he played for England against Scotland in August. Three days before that, he had started United's final pre-season game of the summer, the Community Shield against Wigan. Since then: nothing.
Zaha has acknowledged he has plenty to learn and has always stressed his ambition in his first season at United was to earn time on the field, aware that appearances could be limited. But his lack of involvement has led him to seek a loan move to a rival Premier League club in January.
Moyes confirmed yesterday that United were considering granting Zaha's request.
"I just don't think we have had the right opportunity to get him on as much as would have liked," Moyes said. "We don't want to put him in too quickly.
"I've said I would look at it in January as I wanted to have him here for six months to see how we work. I told him we would try to get him minutes but the competition in the wide areas we have with Nani, Antonio Valencia, Ashley Young, Adnan Januzaj and even Shinji Kagawa playing off the side means we are as strong there as anywhere.
"It's not that Wilf has done anything wrong, it's just that we have big competition and we have to try to make sure he gets some playing time.
"Unfortunately, we haven't done that with Wilf and, if it's still the case in January, we would look at it (sending him on loan). But he is very much in my plans and in my thoughts all the time."
The bafflement of certain observers at Moyes's failure to deploy Zaha has led to some unfounded conspiracy theories being aired on the internet.
But it seems more likely that Moyes simply does not rate Zaha as highly a Ferguson did. (© Daily Telegraph, London)
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NLD lawmakers attending parliamentary proceedings in the Lower House. / Htet Naing Zaw / The Irrawaddy
By Htet Naing Zaw 28 November 2016
NAYPYIDAW — Five lawmakers from the National League for Democracy (NLD) were dismissed from their posts in Lower House parliamentary committees, announced Speaker U Win Myint on Monday.
Among them are chairman U Sein Win and member Dr. Soe Moe Thu from the Farmer and Labor Affairs Committee, secretary Dr. Aung Khin of the Health and Sports Development Committee, Bill Committee member U Nyan Linn and member of the Economic and Financial Development Committee U Aung Hlaing Win.
U Sein Win told the media that he was dismissed from the chairmanship of Lower House Farmers and Labor Affairs Committee because he had sued fellow party members for defamation and fraudulence against the will of the party’s senior leaders.
He filed a complaint in October with Maubin Township police station against his fellow party members, including a divisional parliament lawmaker as well as a company owner, for alleged misuse of his book of guidelines on farmland dispute settlement.
“I was relieved of party duties, according to the rules and regulations of the party. I would say I am not wrong. It is a criminal case and I had no choice, but had to report it to the police as it can’t be solved internally,” U Sein Win told The Irrawaddy.
He defended the prosecution he initiated, quoting State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in saying, “we won’t be different from the previous government if we forgive the faults of our own [NLD] members.”
Meanwhile, Bill Committee member U Nyan Linn was relieved after an alleged drunken brawl at a motel in Rangoon’s Shwepyithar Township. He was then sued by the motel and is facing trespassing charges.
Dr. Soe Moe Thu was dismissed in connection with a reported extramarital affair.
U Aung Hlaing Win told The Irrawaddy that he was dismissed because he criticized the government for constructing a new bridge across Rangoon River to Thanlyin Township with Japanese loans and called for equal distribution of international development loans to ethnic regions, in a parliamentary session on Nov. 22.
“The next day, U Win Htein summoned me to his room, and said my discussion had caused trouble for the government,” said U Aung Hlaing Win, referring to the NLD spokesperson. “He asked me, ‘what if the ethnicities had made those demands?’”
“I don’t oppose building a new bridge with Japanese loans. But I only suggested the equal sharing of future international loans with ethnic regions,” he added.
Several NLD lawmakers told The Irrawaddy that U Aung Hlaing Win’s previous questions and discussions in the Parliament had also posed troubles to the government.
According to sources within the legislature, Dr. Aung Khin was dismissed from his post so that he could be moved to another parliamentary committee for the same secretary post. The Lower House also reshuffled the parliamentary committees to fill vacant positions.
Translated from Burmese by Thet Ko Ko.
Topics: National League for Democracy, Parliament
Htet Naing Zaw The Irrawaddy Htet Naing Zaw is Senior Reporter at the Burmese edition of The Irrawaddy.
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/ NME Awards 2012 now open for submissions
NME Awards 2012 now open for submissions
This year there will be 16 awards categories judged by five independent judges
by Georgina EnzerApril 03, 2012, 12:39 PM
Network Middle East's Innovation Awards 2012 are now open for nominations.
The Network Middle East Innovation Awards are now open for nominations. This year there will be 16 categories, including Networking Professional of the Year, Best Fixed Networking Vendor and Best Security Solution Vendor.
The awards will be judged by a panel of five independent analysts and industry professionals and are presented to the very best implementations, vendor offerings and key individuals and organisations in the Middle East market.
The Network Middle East Awards, which are now in their eighth year, set out to honour the projects, people, suppliers and service providers that have excelled in the regional networking sector over the past twelve months.
To view the full list of nomination categories and submission details, please visit the Network Middle East Awards site here. The deadline for submissions is April 18th 2012.
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Airload Master carrying out Pre-Flight Check on the Airfield, RAF Lyneham 1985
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image: a runway, with a member of the ground crew crouching in front of the nose of a Hercules aircraft. The figure seems miniscule in comparison to the scale of the aircraft in the foreground.
History note
Artistic Records Committee commission, 1984
Airload Master carrying out pre-flight checks on the airfield, RAF Lyneham
Boyd & Evans '85
1945-1989 (production)
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Antlers sign Japan U-23 defender Daiki Sugioka
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by Dan Orlowitz
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Which leadership approaches win a company admiration?
Fast-food brand Greggs has won the coveted overall award in Management Today’s 2019 Most Admired Companies list. How has it achieved such an impressive result?
Once a brand that people dangled nervously between verbal tweezers, fast-food company Greggs has capped 2019 with a stunning top spot in Management Today’s Britain’s Most Admired Companies list.
Unveiled on 3 December, [1] the totemic ranking – which placed McDonalds and Royal Dutch Shell as Top Three runners-up – honoured Greggs not just with the overall award, but with other, important gongs such as Use of Corporate Assets, Quality of Management and, significantly, Inspirational Leadership.
As Management Today explained, the award marks a staggering, 66-place jump for Greggs, which has pulled itself out of commercial difficulties to achieve annual sales in excess of £1 billion for the first time across its almost 2,000 branches.
The publication noted that the firm has been particularly successful with how it has chosen to reinvent itself, focusing on the food-to-go market, extending its opening hours and embracing shifts in consumers’ dietary preferences – to the extent that it caused something of a stir earlier this year with the launch of a sausage roll packed with Quorn.
Described on Greggs’ website as, “The most hotly debated sausage roll since, well… the sausage roll,” [2] the vegan product made serious waves online, which only intensified when Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan entered the fray and condemned the humble, pastry tube on Twitter as a sign of rampant political correctness. The hysteria escalated when Morgan arranged a skit on his show in which he squeamishly sampled the product, providing it with a generous slice of free advertising that was then widely shared online – with Greggs doing its best to stoke the buzz.
Indeed, in its summing up, Management Today credited the firm’s “savvy” social media strategy for providing “a masterclass in how to capture customers’ hearts, minds and money without the expense of traditional advertising campaigns”.
Interviewed in May, Greggs CEO Roger Whiteside hailed the vegan sausage roll for galvanising public interest in the firm. “More people are coming,” he said. “Awareness of the brand has never been higher and the vegan roll has helped with publicity and encouraging people to come and have a look at what we’re doing.” [3]
Which approaches contribute to the sort of inspirational leadership that has propelled the company out of the doldrums and into a place of respect and admiration?
The Institute of Leadership & Management’s head of research, policy and standards Kate Cooper says: “At its essence, this story highlights all the benefits that stem from forward-looking leadership. Greggs’ success indicates that companies that are keeping in touch with a younger demographic – recognising, in this case, the huge growth of plant-based diets – are going to be well placed to open up further opportunities as time goes on. Particularly when we consider veganism’s powerful influence on the takeaway market – for example, it recently emerged that Domino’s are launching a vegan pizza, [4] so this is clearly a transformative time for the fast-food industry as a whole.”
She notes: “People in that younger demographic are going to be buying products for the next 50 to 60 years – so it’s crucial for firms at this point in time to get right the various things that those consumers want, and then keep in touch with them. Trends and fashions change, and current estimates suggest that anything between 1% and 7% of the UK population are either vegan or following plant-based diets. That’s a huge market. And when we consider the reasons why people are making this choice, the factors we hear about again and again are climate change and animal welfare. So if an organisation sets out to serve consumers with those concerns, that makes a really positive statement about its values.”
Cooper adds: “In terms of talent attraction, we at the Institute know from our recent research on values how important such a statement can be, and that’s echoed in what we have heard from our research partner Glassdoor. So, while Greggs has undoubtedly made a series of very shrewd business decisions, they’re not in any way cynical, because they’re aligned with the demands of a values-driven consumer movement.”
For further insights on the themes raised in this blog, check out the Institute’s resources on future readiness
Source ref: [1] [2] [3] [4]
Image of Greggs sausage rolls and packaging courtesy of abimages, via Shutterstock
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Carolyn Janssen and the Digital Sublime
Massive Failure. 64 x 126 in. © Carolyn Janssen.
Editor’s Note: This feature was originally published on our previous platform, In the In-Between: Journal of Digital Imaging Artists, and the formatting has not been optimized for the new website.
The grandiose cyber-scapes of California artist Carolyn Janssen colorize a new approach to the sublime. Her mountains, vistas and gullies created from hundreds of images- obfuscated and re-mixed- are populated with hordes of female figures singing in harmony, piled atop one another, and engaging in alien cultural customs. From a wide spectrum of influences, ranging from pre-modern to contemporary visionaries, Janssen creates a world unto her own. A digital mess where her own form runs free in a bizarre and beautiful fantasy world.
Gregory Jones: First off Carolyn, what drew you into photography initially, and who were among your earliest influences?
Carolyn Janssen: While contemporary photography provides a critical location for my work, my earliest influences were painters. Intrigued by the morality painting of Hieronymous Bosch and Bruegel the Elder, the landscapes of the Hudson River School, and the world-building of Henry Darger and Paul Noble, I was drawn to images of vast, complicated mythic worlds. In graduate school, I began to re-contextualize these historic tropes—particularly religious painting and epic landscapes—by subverting the materiality (going digital instead of offering the aura of paint) and by populating the stories with packs of digital clone women. Photography and Photoshop offered the most fluent and materially compelling platform to do so.
Since then, photographers Andreas Gursky and Justine Kurland have been influential for me, and I am particularly excited by the work of Debbie Grossman, Polly Borland and Lydia Anne McCarthy. I really love contemporary photography’s current relationship to painting, performance and sculpture; this blurring of traditional approaches offers room for great conceptual play.
Detail from Massive Failure. © Carolyn Janssen.
GJ: Your work primarily consists of landscapes build up through digital construction, and personal photographs are incorporated in such a way as to create narratives within these scenes. Talk about your process of assembling these pictures. Why choose personal photographs?
CJ: Personal photographs provide creative freedom, but also offer interesting conceptual fodder. Digital kitsch and social media platforms are big influences for me, two places where the personal photograph reigns supreme. We are the “selfie generation,” perpetually documenting ourselves, propping-up our personal brands and creating idealized fantasies. My work definitely examines our (and my own) contemporary use of technology to design sublime personal representations.
In that sense, it’s important that I use pictures from my personal context. I intentionally take mundane snapshots and absurdly process, saturate, abuse and “anoint” them to achieve this hyper-superficial, aesthetic surface pleasure. I find this kind of over-the-top polishing and “photo-shopping” to be both revolting and alluring, which I honestly love. I use these self-portraits like action figures or video game characters to design narratives.
As for my process, I take snapshots of whatever I find appealing as I travel about. I’ve amassed hundreds of pictures of ornately manicured bushes, weird rotting fruit, and piles of bricks. Additionally, I make small, complex sculptures out of food, plants, ice and fire. The temporary nature of these sculptures interests me, especially in their contrast to their permanent final portraits. They feel like altars to the present moment, and point to the performative nature of my work.
Small Baptism. 60 x 144 in. © Carolyn Janssen.
Detail from Small Baptism. © Carolyn Janssen.
GJ: These images can be described simply as digital potpourri, which is a style we’ve been seeing more of over the past few years. It’s interesting to me how digital kitsch has come to represent a type of dystopian attitude; perhaps towards public life, or perhaps about picture-making itself. Does this sentiment resonate with you? Are there other common themes emerging from this aesthetic that you’ve recognized?
CJ: I love digital kitsch and see it as a wonderful, beautiful thing. It has a certain sense of humor, earnestness and efficiency that I find endearing and fun. The history of the aesthetic is also amazing. As I understand it, it evolved in the mid-90s with the introduction of AOL as new users began to add content to the Internet. Unaware of the “correct” way to make elegant digital material, a clunky aesthetic evolved that has come to influence both high design and art. Now digital kitsch has even come to be a critical tool in social and political commentary; the Binders Full of Women and Feminist Ryan Gosling memes come to mind.
Taking on digital kitsch feels like a very honest way for me to use Photoshop. As I am working, I really try to exploit and utilize the “photoshoppy-ness” of the program, the same way a painter might exploit the inherent qualities of paint. Gradients, blurs, copy and paste are all fluent metaphors in our contemporary visual language, and I am excited to witness their long-term influence.
That said, the artificiality of digital kitsch can feel emotionally flat, which is maybe what you are getting at. It can contain an ironic, detached sarcasm, which legitimately critiques our culture’s obsession with surface. In that sense, I love that artists are essentially borrowing the “secret” strategies of CGI, fashion retouching, and advertising in order to deconstruct our culture’s attachment to digital glitter.
Yonder Eternal. 64 x 168 in. © Carolyn Janssen.
Detail from Yonder Eternal. © Carolyn Janssen.
GJ: The figures in these pictures read to me as biblical in a sense; as characters in a post-apocalyptic land, or as pioneers of a new society forming new cultural customs. It should be noted that the characters are all women, presumably self-portraits. They seem alien to me, even in this alien world you’ve made. What is their role in these environments? To what extent are they meant to reflect your own self?
CJ: I am fascinated by how art has historically dictated philosophies of belief—Greek Orthodox icons to Star Trek: Next Generation to Buddhist devotional painting. Art, literature, and film are powerful ways of expressing utopian visions of how to live; I love that basic visual concepts—like mood, color, and content—all convert to become effective tools to influence ideals.
My work takes on these strategies in attempt to deconstruct and humorously observe these strategies and tropes. I project my own kooky cosmology and design my own epic narratives based on my experiences. I use the work as an opportunity to create my own morality paintings, my own science fiction fantasies, complete with references to Lisa Frank, girl Tumblr blogs, feminism, and our digitally expressed lives. They reference the video games, movies and religious art I’ve digested, and reveal a perhaps sincere desire to create and live in my own complex, mythic universe.
I am specifically interested in the ways we have historically told stories about women. Often in these epic narratives and traditional tropes, women are kept to the sidelines, are stereotyped or are just completely absent. I am curious about providing a world where all the villains, heroes, anti-heroes, victims, demons, angels, damsels in distress and monsters are women. Just to see what happens…
Prescience. 64 x 126 in. © Carolyn Janssen.
Detail from Prescience. © Carolyn Janssen.
GJ: Your work tackles ideas of the sublime; doing so by the sheer amount of visual information you provide, as well as through the large scale of your prints. These are techniques found widely throughout the pictorial tradition, from Albert Bierstadt and all the old pre-modern Landscape masters, to contemporaries such as Gursky and Beate Gutschow. Where does your interest lie in the sublime? Is it the experience itself, or is it the tradition you are harking back to? And do you think addressing the sublime through digital imagery makes your work more relevant to today’s viewers than past grandiose paintings?
CJ: I take on the sublime because I am such a sucker for it. I love epic, beautiful, huge depictions of gorgeous landscapes, from Bierstadt to those perfect desktop images of beaches found online. Ultimately, I am intrigued by the sense of longing these images evoke for something not really there. Our human relationship to desire fascinates me, as well as the disappointment that kicks in when we eventually realize the image isn’t really what we are longing for. That whole journey from desire and longing to disappointment intrigues me.
It’s one reason I choose to make my work as candy-coated and visually seductive as possible—to incite that allure, but then disappoint. I am interested in the tension of allure created by using digital pixels instead of the aura of paint, by making beautiful landscapes out of artificial objects and garbage, and by presenting characters that can be uncomfortable.
Neutropia. 32 x 64 in. © Carolyn Janssen.
Detail from Neutropia. © Carolyn Janssen.
GJ: Last but not least, what’s coming up for you over the next year, photographically or otherwise? Do you plan to continue working in this vein?
CJ: Absolutely. I have many more ideas that I look forward to exploring with this work. I currently have a solo show titled Small Baptism at the Julie Saul Gallery, which is also featuring a solo show by Nikolay Bakharev. This fall, I will be showing with the Julie Saul Gallery at the Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam, and as part of a two-person show at Lump Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina with Lee Delegard. I also plan to work more in sculpture and video. Stay tuned!
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Installation of Massive Failure. From the exhibition, Currents. Currently on view at CAM Raleigh.
Carolyn Janssen is a California-based artist that creates digital phantasmagoric landscapes. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. Janssen has recently exhibited at the Julie Saul Gallery, CAM Raleigh, and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Her work has been featured in Beautiful/Decay Book 9: Seven Deadly Sins and Womenzine.
Interview by Gregory Jones.
All Images © Carolyn Janssen.
Special thank you to the Julie Saul Gallery
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Setting fees & charges
Two-part tariff
Water management charges
The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of NSW (IPART) determines the maximum prices for the monopoly water management services provided by the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation (WAMC). Functions relating to the delivery of water management services in NSW are the responsibility of both the department and WaterNSW.
The cost of delivering the management of the state’s freshwater resources incurred by the department and WaterNSW is partly recovered through the water management charges. The part that is recoverable is defined as monopoly services.
The management of the state's freshwater resources involves:
setting water policy
developing statutory water sharing plans
negotiating interstate and national water agreements
determining how available water is allocated to water users, particularly during times of drought
approving the extraction, use and trade of water
monitoring the quantity and quality of water extractions
monitoring the ecological health of our aquatic ecosystems
maintaining the systems that allow all of the above functions to be delivered.
These services are essential to protect the health of the state's freshwater resources and ecosystems and to ensure water can be made available to water users and the environment on a timely and sustainable basis.
IPART sets three categories of fees and charges
Recover the cost of resource management activities, predominantly undertaken to manage the impacts of water extraction. Separate charges apply to each water source and river valley or groundwater region, reflecting the different cost structures for the water management activities undertaken in these systems.
Fees for transactions
Requested by licence holders on their licences and approvals, as well as applications for new licences and approvals, recover the cost of processing these transactions. They apply on a statewide basis because the cost of processing transactions is the same across all valleys.
Metering charges
Recovers the cost of reading and servicing meters for water extraction by licence holders and also apply on a statewide basis.
The current IPART determination started on 1 July 2016 and it will end on 30 June 2020. Visit the report on setting the current prices.
Details of the current fees and charges can be found at WaterNSW.
Administrative framework
The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal Act 1992 requires IPART to set maximum charges for WAMC's monopoly water management services. The department and WaterNSW, delivers these services on behalf of the corporation. The Act also requires the Minister for Land and Water to seek the Treasurer's approval to waive or reduce charges below the maximum charge.
The Water Management Act 2000 makes provision for the Minister to impose fees and charges, noting that they cannot exceed a relevant IPART determination. Water charge rules in the Commonwealth Water Act 2007 give the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission responsibility for reporting on, monitoring and publishing information on charges – but not setting charges – for water planning and management services in the Murray-Darling Basin, including the department’s water management services in NSW that fall within the Basin (all inland valleys). These arrangements help ensure that processes for setting and implementing charges are adequately disclosed, are transparent and adhere to the requirements of relevant legislation.
IPART pricing review
In 2015/16, IPART determined the maximum prices for the monopoly water management services provided by the WAMC. The department and WaterNSW, currently deliver services on behalf of WAMC. These charges recover a share of the costs incurred in providing these services to customers.
Pricing submission
The department’s pricing submission, the IPART report and their determination are detailed below.
Summary of the Department's submission to IPART ((PDF 360.9 KB))
Department of Industry pricing submission
IPART Review of Prices for WAMC – June 2016
IPART Determination 2016
Page link: https://www.industry.nsw.gov.au/water/what-we-do/fees-charges/setting-fees-charges
NSW Government Water Action Reform Plan
Learn about the changes which will ensure that we have an equitable and transparent approach to the management of our water for future generations.
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American Crystal Sugar reports net earnings of US$186.7M in fiscal Q1, a 39.4% drop from year-ago period as weather issues hurt this year's crop, delayed start of sugar beet processing season
Jan 17, 2012 – Industry Intelligence By Nevin Barich
Original Headline: Weather, lockout both crimp Crystal
Agricultural Products & Raw Foods
LOS ANGELES , January 17, 2012 (Industry Intelligence) – American Crystal Sugar Co. reported net earnings of US$186.7 million for its fiscal first quarter, a 39.4% decline from the year-ago period as weather issues hurt this year's crop and delayed the start of sugar beet procession season, the Star Tribune reported Jan. 16.
The Minnesota-based company’s beet production declined 30% in tonnage compared to the prior year. Company vice president Brian Ingulsrud attributed 85% of the production decline to beet crop issues.
Weather impacted the beet crop, but Ingulsrud admitted the Aug. 1 lockout also impacted the company financially.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that the sugar beet harvest declined 24% in Minnesota statewide in 2011 compared to the previous year.
The primary source of this article is the StarTribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 16, 2012.
Chicago Board of Trade agricultural futures close higher on Jan. 17, with corn rising US$0.1375 to US$3.8925/bushel following a 3.1% plunge during the previous session; March wheat up US$0.0525 to US$5.705/bushel
Chicago Board of Trade agricultural futures close lower on Jan. 16 following significant gains prior to a US-China trade deal; March corn down US$0.12 to US$3.755/bushel; March wheat falls US$0.08 to US$5.6525/bushel
Little Leaf Farms receives US$38M in financing from Bank of America as it plans expansions in Massachusetts, North Carolina and Pennsylvania; company expects to double farm’s growing capacity to 10 acres in Devens, Massachusetts
Colombia's nearly 540,000 coffee growers earned revenues of 7.2T pesos last year, making it the second-highest figure in the history of the Colombian coffee economy, data shows
Chicago Board of Trade agricultural futures close mixed on Jan. 14; March corn down US$0.005 to US$3.89/bushel; March wheat up US$0.0625 to US$5.685/bushel; March soybeans unchanged at US$9.4225/bushel
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Ruth: My name is Mike [Ruth]. I work at Cruise Automation, the self-driving car company. Well, maybe the other self-driving car company, but we're working on really cool stuff. What I want to talk a little bit about today is really canaries, all things canaries. What are they? Where did they come from? Who do they work for? All different types. Then, maybe towards the end, talking a little bit about how you can take these and really put them into anything and make a canary out of any device that might be on your network.
But first selfish plug, I really enjoy working at this place. If you guys are interested in working on similar challenges that of all the topics that really are out here at QCon today - data science, machine learning, security, all that type of stuff, feel free to either sync up with me after or take a look at the slides there.
Canaries & Coal Mines - A History
Who has heard the term "canary in a coal mine" before? All right. I had this plan that no one was going to raise their hands, and I was going to make a joke, like, "Yes, I don't like being told what to do either." But you all raised your hands, so thanks for being a great audience. Perhaps less of you know maybe where the term came from, although, maybe for those of you know who already do, some refresher. The idea with canaries and coal miners is that years ago, decades ago, what would happen was it turns out coal mines are a little dangerous, not only because tunnels collapse, but also because of the sort of lethal gases that are in those mines. So carbon monoxide, in particular, happens to be translucent. You can't actually see it, and also odorless, so you can't smell it. In high enough quantities, it's lethal.
They were many deaths, and what they decided to do was they decided to take an actual canary with them down there. So because canaries are smaller, they happen to have a faster metabolism, faster heart rate, the effects of carbon monoxide, actually, impact them more. Unfortunately, they would die. However, it would actually give coal miners an early warning, a detection, that says, "Hey, this is actually unsafe for us. We need to evacuate." Hopefully, they would be able to survive. So that's kind of where the term "canary in a coal mine" comes from. It's a little gruesome. Kind of irresponsible of them, but I guess it saved them.
The idea of a canary sort of stemmed from that, and we have a lot of different ways to use canaries these days. One example is a warrant canary that you might be familiar with. That's when you have a website of some variety with a bunch of legal texts and at the very bottom, there's a line that says, "We have never served customer data to a government agency," for example. But then one day, perhaps that line goes away, and an astute observer could have looked at that page and said, "Wait a minute. That used to say something there. Maybe that statement is no longer true." As a result, you can identify that perhaps something has changed. So that's one version of a canary.
Climate canary is another one where you have a species of animal that happens to be actually showing the effects of changes in climate a bit more than perhaps other animals in that ecosystem. In doing so, humans or other animals can look and observe those changes and behaviors, and they can actually do something with those observations.
Software Canaries
We have a handful of different types. For example, this might be the most popular example of canaries, is the software canary. This talk isn't going to talk or focus too much on them, but I think it's a pretty good place to start. How does this work? So you have a process. You have an application. It's located some amount of memory on it. Then inevitably, these processes and applications they have inputs, and they have an input buffer, so that's also a located a subsection of that memory.
The way that a canary would work is you would actually place that in a continuous memory space right after the input. If you have this input that's vulnerable to say, a buffer overflow, what would happen is that that input would then, as the name suggests, overflow and the first thing it'll hit is that canary. And so the idea here is that you have a monitor that's constantly looking at that address space of the canary, over and over and over again, and it knows that the canary itself, that value should never change. It should say, "Static," over and over again.
In the event of a buffer overflow, what would happen is that the value inside that canary will eventually change. Then you can identify, "Hey, something happened that should never happen. Let's alert on that and let's do something, like, say, kill the process." So there are a lot of different types of software canaries. That happens to be just one use case. Again, if you're interested, by all means, go and take a look at what software canaries are all about.
We've talked a little bit about where the term canary comes from. We've talked a little bit about software canaries. There are other different types, too, that, I think, more align closely to honeypots. That's when a canary sort of impersonates a device that's on a network. Maybe it's an AD server or maybe it's some sort of SIFT server, or maybe it looks like a desktop of some kind. So the idea here, and it's very similar to honeypots, where you have a device that's impersonating another device with the intention of looking appealing. In this case, it's appealing to an attacker or an individual who probably shouldn't be in that network.
The difference is here, though, honeypots, they tend to be similarly attractive. However, they're isolated. They're sandboxed. They're away from critical assets, despite looking like a critical asset. In doing so, you actually keep them open. You want individuals, attackers, to come in, and the reason for that is you want to see what they're doing. You want to see if they're trying to exfiltrate data. You want to see if they're trying to pivot to other machines. You want to see sort of what code they're running there. And as a result, you can actually take that and then make informed decisions.
Canaries, on the other hand, while they may look appealing, they are also deployed right beside other critical assets in your environment. The idea here is they should not ever be tampered with. In doing so, if they are tampered with or if they are ever attempted to be accessed, they need to alert automatically, or right away. The idea here is that immediate instant response is required as a result. So they're a little different. One's kind of for research. They are intended to be found. The other not intended to be found and immediate action needs to be done.
Hardware Canaries
What does a canary kind of look like? There are a couple different types. We're going to start with hardware canaries here. Like I mentioned, these are physical devices, have some sort of software that's running on them, and they're intended to impersonate something. There are different types that you can use. I've thrown a couple up here. I'm not trying to sell you on any one or the other, but I have the most experience using a lot of Thinkst products, so a lot of examples and demos today might be using their tools. But I'm all for the right tool for the job. If you want to create your own canary service, by all means. My opinion happens to be if you have an open source library and it hits 80% of the use cases that you might be looking at, maybe you spend the time working on that 20% and commit those changes upstream. But, to each their own.
There are a couple of tools. Thinkst is a company that provides a handful of canary services. I like them a lot. One of them is OpenCanary. They have open source variant that allows you to spin up some type of hardware device that looks like a lot of different personalities that can masquerade, like I was saying, as some sort of critical asset on your network. There also happens to be paid-for services. The value there might be, like, you don't have the time or, the resources, but you might have the money. That might get you certain things. That might get you a management UI to handle all of the canaries that you're deploying. They might be able to provide you with an alerting system, so you're really [inaudible 00:08:13], those types of things.
I want to show you really, at a high level, what deploying a hardware canary might look like. I will see if I can run this video real quick. Right now I'm in the Ubuntu container and I'm going to go through the processes on trying to deploy an open canary. I can't see it on here. So I will do the play-by-play up here. It only runs Python. It's all automated. So it's pretty convenient in that regard. If you take a virtual environment and you set up one and then activate it, which we're going to do right about now, then you can start to pull in through PIP or you can build it your own, the OpenCanary Library. You'll notice I already did that because I'm not crazy, and I wanted to make sure that it worked beforehand. But I also had a config lying around that you'll see that I'll delete right here, because we want to create a new one so we can see what's going on.
When you try and run OpenCanary, it's going to say, "Hey, you don't have a config." That's because we just deleted it. So what you can do is they give you a pretty nice template that you can use. And you can copy that template over and then we'll go and take a look at what's actually in there. So the way that OpenCanary works, and this is the way that a lot of different canaries work, so if you're trying to impersonate other devices on your network, you want to be able to have all of those protocols available. If you go and take a look at the configuration file here, you have all these different modules, FTP, HTTP. You can run a web server. You have a lot of different personalities and permutations to provide, and really, you can just be creative with it. The idea here is you want to trick typically a person into wanting to go to whatever this device is if they end up seeing it on the network.
We go and create a unique device ID. We see that FTP is enabled. We're also going to just use a simple use case of writing to a log file here. And then we're going to enable SSH. Really what this OpenCanary is going to be is it's going to be an SSH server with FTP on it. You can tell that there's a lot of different options though. Let's start it now that we have our config. You'll notice that we have a handful of information here. One is that the node ID is that OpenCanary QCon SF demo, so we have a unique ID. We also notice that a couple of modules have been started, the Canary SSH and Canary FTP modules.
Now we'll try and SSH into this device. I didn't run this for the docker file when I really should have, because now you have to get unique and creative with finding out what the IP is. You have to do these weird OC statements. All right, there it is. Also, at this point, SSH just refused to use my connection, and so I panicked a little bit. I thought for a second, "Should I just destroy this whole demo? Should I just, go back and redo it again? What's going on here? No, no, I'll actually persevere." So I persevered through this. I'm like, "Why isn't this working?" So I go and try and check if OpenCanary is still running. I try and start it again. It says, "Hey, yes. That's still running." I think it was really just a weird issue with this container. So I said, "Okay, it's still running. Let's try again." All right, it worked.
The idea here isn't that you actually get SSH access. It's someone who's going to try and hit this device over and over again. You're going to, in some way, prevent them from getting access while still logging the attempts made. So it doesn't matter what the user is. It doesn't matter what the credentials are that's being passed in here. The most important part is, one, someone tried to access it. And two, we've logged it and alerted properly on it.
You'll see I tried three times. It failed, as we expected. So now let's go and take a look at the logs and see sort of we can find in there. We go to this OpenCanary log that was created, not with less because that's not in this, but with them. There's a lot to parse through here. You can go back and look at the recording if you want to take a look at all these logs. But one of the things you can notice is we have the QCon demo ID. We know that we're actually interacting with this Canary device. We know that the source host, where it came from, happens to be the same location because I did it in the same shell. But it also happens to show the destination and what sort of things the individual was trying to log in as. Of course, super secret password is probably not going to be the password of any SSH server, but you should probably try it, just in case. And that's it. I mean, you can do a lot more with OpenCanary, but that just happens to be a quick little example.
Let's get out of here. Because this is all in Python, this is actually pretty portable. You don't need to be dependent on a specific instruction set. So this can exist. I've tried this on Linux VMs. I've tried this in a container. You can put on a Raspberry Pi, which is pretty sweet because it's a small little form factor. I will say, if you are putting them on the Raspberry Pis, you might want to have a conversation with your IT or security department before you start plugging them in kind of all over your corporate network.
A funny story. The Thinkst canaries, the hardware ones that you can actually purchase, they happen to come in a really sleek form factor. So they look a lot like Raspberry Pis. When you plug them into your data center, they're a little too small to sit anywhere in particular. The chances are they might end up on the top of a server rack or hidden behind the back of a server chassis. When your IT folks don't know that you've actually put them in your network, and they round the corner and see what would appear to be a Raspberry Pi plugged into a switch, they tend to panic. Maybe have that conversation with folks if you end up putting these things into your network. I learned that one the hard way.
Virtual Canaries
We kind of already covered virtual canaries. But we can see sort of the same parallels happening with canaries as we see with sort of all infrastructure. At one point in time, we had to deploy canaries onto physical devices. But once you've turned them into an image or an MI or a container, right, they become much more portable. You don't actually need to manually go and configure a canary every single time if you've already got a docker image with it already configured.
Then you can start deploying them into places where you don't have physical access like cloud environments, for example. There are some risks I suppose, and these are the kind of the same challenges that you would see in any sort of pipeline, is that if you want to start uniquely tailoring personalities, but you want to do that in an automated fashion, you probably need some sort of config management to be able to handle that.
Application Canaries
The other type of canary. This is the Application Canary. We've got two use cases here. Use case one is pretty much the same thing. You can take something like an OpenCanary, and you can go in and put a web server on it. You can have it alert if you try and resolve whatever URL it's listening in on. That's effectively the same thing as what we just saw.
Use case two, I think, is a little bit interesting. Instead of going to a website or an application and having that alert you as to someone being there, because maybe that someone should never have been able to get there or there was no good reason for an individual to have ever been able to go there, instead of having the alerts come from going to the application itself, we can actually have the alerts come from actually using a pair of credentials while going there. This actually changes the value of the canary itself, because instead of it being the application, you can now store this string, it's basically just a string, anywhere you want. You can store it wherever you store all your other credentials or all your other secrets. That probably means on a Post-it next to your monitor or on Mac OS notes. Hopefully not. But if you do do that, having canaries actually sit there is probably not a bad idea.
We can see now that we've gone from hardware to virtualizing it, to actually just turning it into a string. I'm going to show you kind of what that looks like, use case number two. Interesting story about this. I was actually randomly pinged on Reddit of all places, and they said, "Hey, I saw you talking about canaries on this forum or wherever. Here's my service. I've actually just created this thing. Would you care to take a look at it?" I said, "Sure." What this person ended up doing, it's called Tamarin. He ended up creating a bunch of different websites and sprinkled them all onto the internet. And so there's really no good reason to ever need to go to one of these things.
However, if you do end up there, you'll notice that they take all different types of personalities. One looked like an enterprise login. One might look like a photo bucket for storing photos. The other might be a place to store your crypto. All of these places that might have actually important information or valuable resources that might be interesting to an attacker, he has all these websites out there. The idea is you create these fake credentials, you store them somewhere, and if that location happens to ever be compromised, they'll know to be able to take those credentials, go to this random site out on the internet and try and use them. In doing so, you'll have some sort of awareness as to, "Hey, that location, that database, or that secrets management store, that's been compromised. Something has used the sets of credentials that should have never been used before."
Let's take a look at kind of what that looks like. Let's see if I do this song and dance again here. I should say that this is a fairly new service. It's a work in progress. One of the biggest critiques I had was, "Hey, aesthetics is actually super important, because if you have a website that kind of looks sketchy, chances are an attacker who has credentials probably isn't going to risk it, right?" There's a mental block that says, "Who's going to store all of their crypto here if it doesn't look like it's a legitimate place." So that was kind of the biggest critique I had of this service. But I suspect that that will get better over time.
How does this work? We have the site here, and this is the main console. I don't know if you can actually see. What we're doing is we're creating these new bait credentials, is how they call them. We have a username, we have a password and then we have a web hook of some kind. We can send it to an email, we can send it via text, which I don't know if I'd want to do that, or you can send it via web hooks, say to Slack or wherever it is that you want it to go. We chose email and then when we go and create these credentials, again, this is in the console, we can see that it's actually associated with this site bitcoino.com right here. So if we go to bitcoino.com, we'll notice the completely inconspicuous place. "The Crypto Concierge" is what it's called.
The idea is, if you try and login here with any sort of credentials, that's going to fail. It's going say, "Hey, you have an incorrect password." But if you go and take these bait credentials, presumably stored in a location that sensitive to you, and you use those, it will go, "Oh, hey, your subscription has actually expired," indicating that perhaps these credentials at one point were valuable, but they can no longer be used. But on our end, we can see if we go into our alerts email, “Hey, that actually triggered an alert.” And it says, "Okay, this is the description of the bait credentials. This is the source IP where it came from. And here's a user data string." So you can kind of get an idea of where this individual was coming from, and what was it that perhaps you need to look for. That's basically at a high level. You can go back and take a look at the incident once you reload this page. But in the sake of time, I'm going to end it there.
Participant 1: Question: I'm just curious how often do you get a take rate or hat you're expected interaction rate, or how do you justify doing it, and how vigorous is that feedback loop, I'm wondering? Is this sort of a makes-you-feel-good measure, or what's the experience like?
Ruth: I will say that they pay for themselves. If you're going for the paid version, and I guess even if you're not, I would say they pay for themselves over and over again, from personal experience anyway. Jared was talking - I don't know if anyone in the room was able to make the talk prior - but he was saying how one of the most important things when trying to identify how to mitigate attacks is how do you know that you've been attacked. How do you identify that? This is actually a really great mechanism as an entry point into, "Someone's in my network. They're doing things that they shouldn't be doing. And they happened to have tripped on or hit a device that they shouldn't have." No one else is hitting it. Then you know as a result, perhaps that incident responses is required. So from that perspective, yes. That might not happen often, if you've put a lot of defense in, a lot of time and effort into your defenses, but if it does happen, you want to know about it right away. And these are very helpful with that.
Canary Tokens
We're back on track. Application canaries we had noticed that we had gone from a hardware device to a virtualized device to what would seem like a string. Now we literally have the option to take these strings and use them as canaries. And so this is kind of a joke slide. But if you take a look at the bottom right corner, these are the folks from Thinkst at Black Hat 2015. They were talking about, "We have this cool idea. It's not really a new concept. But we wanted to create this idea of canary tokens."
And one good example is the City of Agloe. I'm not sure if anyone has heard of the City of Agloe before, but perhaps for any of you enterprising cartographers, the idea here is that I think back in the late 1800s, there was a mapmaker, and he found, I guess, that he was too good. People started copying his maps. He was like, "I'm sick of this." So what he did was he put this city, Agloe, on his maps so that whenever someone tried to copy him, he could say, "No, no. That city does not exist. I created that. And I know now that you have done something that you probably shouldn't be doing." But not to worry. You can put Agloe actually on your maps now because the city exists actually, because of all of the attention that that little trick got. That's an interesting little tidbit.
Anyway, so they were talking about canary tokens back in 2015. A colleague of mine, Karl Molnar, actually presented at Kent Tech West earlier in the year. Ge decided, "Maybe we can do something a little different with this. If we have a string, we can use that as some sort of bait or some sort of alert. Maybe if we inject that as a string into our binaries, that might actually help in the event that someone tries to reverse them. They might see that and then we can do cool interesting tricks as a result." I'm not going to get into too many details there. But if you're interested, definitely go take a look at his talk. I have all the links in the presentation as well.
Here we are today, canaries are strings. They're embedded in different places, embedded, all that stuff. Hopefully, if someone does a canary talk in the future, they'll take this slide and we'll just have slides all the way down, presentation of a presentation of a presentation. Canary tokens. Now that we have these strings, we can make them whatever they want. Are there any services that can actually do that? The answer is yes. If you see a type that you need that doesn't exist, definitely make your own. If you go to Canary Tokens, that's an open source library. PRs are accepted, I'm sure. Generate your own tokens. Use them from the site itself.
Since it's no longer a device, and it's a string, these opportunities grow tremendously. What can we do now with strings, versus that we couldn't do with a device that was on the network? I'm scared to now try and do another demo because it took 20 minutes out of our time here but we'll see. I just won't zoom in. That's what we'll do. This is much better resolution, so I think we should be okay. So this is a canary token screen. We have the option to go and create a handful of different token types. We saw a couple of them on the previous screen, DNS tokens, documents, credentials maybe. We're just going use a simple example of a URL token.
[Inaudible 00:29:45] here is very similar to the ones we've seen before. I'm sure you're seeing a pattern. We set the place where you want the alert to go, if it's ever triggered a unique description, which is important because if you have many of them, you want to uniquely identify the token type to the actual location or where it's being stored. Then when we create this guy, for some reason, this thing wasn't turning green to create it, but it seemed to work anyway. It says, "Hey, you've got the string." Then it suggests some clever ways that you might actually want to go and do this. You could embed it into an image source. You might be able to store it an email, tag it with a saved label, and be like, "Hey, I need this help." You could use C names for this. You can get creative with how it is that you actually want this to be triggered.
What we're going to do, we're just going to actually go right to it. If you were to go there, it's on a single pixel, you can't see it. But the important part is if you get into digital to trigger that, you get an alert. So similar to bait credentials - instead of in a credentials file or with your credentials, you can store it anywhere You can get creative with it, too. In what ways can you force someone by going to a certain area to automatically generate an event, trigger that, and have an alert respond. Here's a bit more of a beautified version of perhaps what we saw earlier. Canary token has token type, source IP, user agent data, all that type of stuff.
Canaries at Scale
This has basically been all a refresher up until this point. If you guys were familiar with canaries before, you may not have necessarily learned anything new. If you have learned something new up until this point, awesome. I'm glad to hear that. So what makes this talk unique is really what can we do now that we have these strings and these virtual devices to really scale that out? And I contend that there are probably four main or three main things that we need to be able to do that. You probably need some sort of library or wrapper for your clients to generate those tokens. You probably need some automation framework of some kind to actually create the tokens themselves. And then, you need to be able to pragmatically embed those into wherever it is that you want them to go.
What would that look like? Maybe something like this. This is a kind of high-level architecture of what it might look like. So step one, is you have this client come in. You say, "Hey, I want a token that will perhaps authenticate to your Lambda GSF Azure variant, whatever it is that you've got going.” Service architecture seems to be a pretty good fit for this. It will go and create- I used the canary tokens as an example, but like I said, you could use whatever it is that you want. They just happen to be an open source variant. They go and create the actual token itself. It sets up the endpoint and then if it's ever used, now that it's been sent back to the client, you can have that trigger like we saw.
I wouldn't suggest taking this and using it, perhaps, in a production environment. This is mostly kind of pseudo code. But you can kind of see, based on this, what that might look like. So Canary Tools is the non-free version of the canary token service. That's the pay-for version by Thinkst. But the idea here is you'd set up a client, you get back some sort of token-type with it, and you'd provide the description and the kind, the type that you want. Then based on that, you would go and hand back whatever it is that you want. So for AWS keys, you would need an access key and you need a secret key. If you wanted to set up a DNS Canary token, there would be hosting of some kind.
That's kind of on the automation side of things. And the wrapper would need to then call into it. It would be like, "Hey, if you're using AWS, if you're using GCP, make sure you set up a client to this serverless function.” Make sure that you generate your event, give it all the information that it needs, receive back that payload. And then, from that payload, you can go and actually parse through it to get a specific token that you wanted. In this case, you might want AWS credentials, and you may want to put that in your AWS credentials file. From GCP, you might want service account credentials, so you want that JSON key. Canary type for DNS, maybe you put that somewhere. You can get creative with it.
That's kind of at a high level what this might look like. I have a demo to show you all of that in action. So this is going to be pretty simple since we saw what these were doing. We have our AWS credentials location. We have this canary automation script that we can run. We can give a description of the token that we want. And then we'll say, "Hey, let's go and create AWS credentials for us please." I'll run this and say, "Hey, now you've got a new pair of credentials." If we go in there and take a look, oh hey, there they are. You take a look at what those are in the credentials canary file. Now you have - dramatic pause - an access key and a secret key. If you were to use those, they would trigger in the same way that we've seen in the past. And similarly, if we don't want AWS credentials, and if we instead want a DNS record, we can get that, too. So this is extensible. All of the different token types, you can build those out.
This would be what it would look like. I had some hurdles to jump. So this is a console that you look like, guys, when you go and create database credentials and when you go and create a DNS. Those are just examples. You saw that there are a lot of different types.
Can We Do Better?
But a client hitting this framework once every so often, that's not really too exciting. That's kind of kind of baseline. So what else can we maybe do, if we have this type of automation, that might be a little better? Maybe we can hook that into a source control. Maybe we can, on certain events, merge this into our CIC pipelines. What that might look like is something like this. This is kind of the end goal of what we kind of want to get with canaries. We no longer have a client, but maybe, perhaps, whenever we're ready to merge a PR, we have a hook from that, for let's say, call it whatever, whatever source [inaudible 00:36:52] you have. You have a hook that goes and actually fetches and creates a token for you. It sets up that endpoint. Then through all your normal CIC processes, you actually use that token and you inject it into the locations that you want them in.
Now you've got tokens distributed into your infrastructure, and now you've got tokens distributed into your Kubernetes environments. Every Kubernetes manifest now has a secret in it, for example. Every VM or cloud instance has AWS and GCP credentials. Every database has a unique canary user in it. So now you have all of these uniquely tailored canaries that just about every device that you have is able to alert on its use. The point here is that those secrets, they should never be used. But they're not actually used for anything. But if someone goes and finds them and then tries to use them, well, they will alert in a certain way and then you'll know that these things are being used incorrectly.
What are the implications? We kind of went over them already. You can put tokens on anything. So long as you can trigger that event function, whatever it is, you can get one. Now you have an alertable tampering device on every single one of the things in your environment. It's limited only by your creativity, and perhaps possibly by the fact of actually having a CIC pipeline in the first place.
What are some of the implications on the bad side? So the biggest concern, I would say, is an increased rate of false positives. So if you have tokens everywhere, and someone in there just trips, you put them in the wrong locations, or you kind of configure it in the wrong way, people might just trip over these canaries over and over again. If they do so and you get alerts, you're going to get fatigued by those alerts. So there's sort of some risk involved if you have them in too many places, or if you have them in places that perhaps they shouldn't belong in.
The other problem becomes, hey, where do you store a list of all your canaries? You don't want to go stumbling over them accidentally. However, you also don't want to have a list available that may eventually end up in the wrong hands, and then people can circumvent or sidestep those canaries entirely. If an attacker, for example, has access to your Slack, and your Slack happens to be where you have a bunch of canary notifications or alerts for things like that, that could be a problem. So you have to make sure that the sensitivity and the isolation is there.
The last thing on canary AWS credentials- one thing that should probably be noted, you don't want to get crazy with AWS credential tokens, unfortunately. There was a great article by Rhino Security Labs not too long ago, which showed, hey, people can get actually clever with trying to bypass certain credential canaries for AWS, because not all events go to CloudTrail, and CloudTrail tends to be where you send out SMS and how the alerts come. So just be careful with that credential type is all. And that's it. Thanks.
Participant 2: I understand for the SQL connection string, how you trick someone to putting that if they find it. But if you put a password or username or credential combination, how can you trick them or lead them into where to try those credentials? Does that make sense?
Ruth: If it's just a random string sitting somewhere, how do you know where to use that string correctly? I've seen a couple of ways that this is solved. One of them is, the format is pretty obvious. Access key ID, secret key ID, those are probably AWS credentials. A lot of secret stores will have files. You can name the file something. Oh, the contents of inside of it go to the name of the file. The Tamarin application canary use case, if you were to copy them and put them somewhere, it actually stores a string of the URL along with it. So you may need to consider how to do that. But you might want to give subtle nudges or indicators depending on the format, so that they might know where they need to go. Anyone else?
Participant 3: How do you deal with the case where you're distributing these canaries, but then you also have tooling to scan your own sites or containers, and find credentials so that you're not clicking them?
Ruth: I think it's maybe twofold. One is, you learn real quick because all of the canaries start triggering and then you probably want to whitelist your sources. So if you have scanning tools, a lot of people use things like Nessus, Nexpose, these types of scanners. You probably want to whitelist the source from them, so they probably have the same IP every time. If you're using open source variants, you might need to put that functionality into your infrastructure. If you're using paid-for variants, they tend to have whitelisting as a capability.
And the other part is also, but if you have a list of the canaries, perhaps you can get intelligent with where you do and don't look as well. Those are probably the two sides. So from a scanning perspective, maybe you know that a canary exists somewhere, and you don't try and actively trigger it. And from the Canary's automation side of things or from the infrastructure side of things, maybe you know that this is a scanner, and don't worry about it, if it does trigger it.
Participant 4: A lot of your assumptions were that the attacker is somebody from outside unfamiliar with the system. Let's say I'm storing a lot of personally identifiable information and I don't want even somebody inside my organization to have access to those credentials. Do you have any tricks for keeping people unaware that the canary exists?
Ruth: Well, I would actually say that those types of individuals are the number one false positive individuals. They are the ones that are actually causing canaries to trigger probably the most often. In fact, so that means that if you are responsible for doing incident response, chances are you're tracking down a lot of your own employees, being like, "Hey, what are you looking at? Where are you go in there?" And so you need to identify, was this actually a malicious intent, or was it accidental, or just pure curiosity? I think it actually solves that problem in and of itself, simply because those individuals shouldn't be doing that and they take the form of an attacker regardless.
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A quarter of healthcare IT professionals in the US and UK aren’t confident in their organization’s ability to deal with cyber-threats, despite the vast majority (85%) having increased spending over the past year, according to Infoblox.
The security vendor polled over 300 professionals working at healthcare organizations (HCOs) on both sides of the pond, to compile its latest report, Cybersecurity in healthcare: the diagnosis.
It revealed that despite a large increase in spending overall, many HCOs are struggling to cope with the volume and sophistication of modern online threats.
It doesn’t help that a fifth still have Windows XP machines running on their network, while 18% have connected medical devices running on the legacy OS.
Over a quarter (26%) said they either can’t or don’t know if they can update such systems, which is worrying considering the explosion in endpoints of late: nearly half (47%) of HCO pros surveyed manage over 5000 networked devices.
Even more concerning, a quarter said they would pay the ransom if hit by a disruptive cyber-attack, while 85% claimed to have a ‘plan’ in place if such a situation occurred.
It’s not clear exactly what these plans are, but the NHS for one was floored by the WannaCry attacks in May.
A recent National Audit Office (NAO) report revealed that over a third (34%) of Trusts and nearly 600 GP practices were affected, with an estimated 19,000 operations and appointments cancelled.
Rob Bolton, Infoblox general manager for Western Europe, argued that HCO IT professionals need to better understand what’s running on their network, keep machines updated with the latest patches, and develop the capabilities to identify malicious behavior.
“Undoubtedly, this activity won’t all be seamless, but controlled chaos is ultimately better than the significant disruption of services or the loss of sensitive data that cyber-attacks can cause,” he told Infosecurity Magazine.
“Companies also need to ensure they’re spending their cybersecurity budget strategically — firewalls, IDS, and anti-virus alone can’t defend against the plethora of increasingly sophisticated attack vectors. In addition to technologies, organizations should not neglect end-user training and awareness. Cyber-defenses that protect against these evolving threats, such as thorough DNS security and threat intelligence, will prove crucial.”
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The second box is the InmateAid Inmate Search. This database of inmates is user-generated content for the purpose of accessing and utilizing any or all of the InmateAid services. If you need our assistance creating your own inmate profile to keep in touch, email us at aid@inmateaid.com and we will assist you in locating your inmate.
As a last resort, you might have to pay for that information if we do not have it. The Arrest Record Search will cost you a small amount, but their data is the freshest available and for that reason they charge to access it.
Visiting hours for Hebron NE Police Jail. For Directions call 402-768-6139
Federal Holidays 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
No cellphones, you will be searched before visiting. NO personal belongings. Persons under probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.
If the visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate's extended family. If the visitor is under the age of 18 and is not a family member of the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
The Hebron NE Police Jail is located at 324 Olive Ave, call 402-768-6139 to find out about new arrests or outstanding warrants. This is a police jail for housing inmates immediately after their arrest. Local police departments are not built for long-term inmate holding, they are for very short-term stays because there are not enough cells. There are no visits, commissary or phone accounts available to the offenders.
If they are to remain incarcerated, it will be most likely to the Thayer County Sheriff's nearby facility.
Custody/Security Level
The Hebron NE Police Jail is a very short-term lock-up used for temporary inmate holds. The security is heavy as the police department maintains their center of operation here, too. Call for new arrests at 402-768-6139. Inmates are not afforded similar privileges as a county or city jail. there is no commissary or mail. No phone calls as a service for the inmate. Any offender movements are escorted while handcuffed and shackled. If you land here, it'll be no more than a 72-hour stay. The next stop is the nearest county jail
How To Send Things
There are strict procedures for everything related to "sending things to an inmate" in a Police Station - medium facility. This includes sending money for commissary packages, sending mail like letters with photos, magazine subscriptions, buying phone time, postcards and greeting cards, and even distance learning courses (get your degree, you've got a lot of extra time). You also need to know about visitation, what are the hours and rules.
All of the information you could ever need to know is below, patiently scroll the page and get as much information about Hebron NE Police Jail that you'd ever want to know. If there is anything that you were looking for, but don't see, please email us at aid@inmateaid.com.
How To Send Money:
How to Send an Inmate Money in Nebraska
Here are some general guidelines for sending money to an inmate's trust account; but not specific to a particular facility, institution or jail. Inmates need money to access several privileges like weekly shopping at the commissary, making phone calls, using the email service where offered, using the electronic tablets where offered and paying their co-pay when needing the medical or dental services. Some county jails require a per-night fee for the jail’s expenses.
What is a Commissary?
A commissary is a store within the jail. Commissary day is usually held once a week and can only be used if the inmate has funds in their commissary account, like a bank account within the institution. If the inmate has a job, their paycheck is deposited into this account, too.
The Commissary sells various products that the inmates may purchase if they have money on their books. Items sold are clothing, shoes, snacks and food, as well as hygienic products like soap, shampoo, and shavers. The commissary also sells products like books, magazines, televisions, radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, electronic tablets, songs and educational programming. They also sell paper, envelopes, and stamps allowing the inmate to write their loved ones, friends and family. Facilities will provide stamps and paper to inmates who are indigent – eligible where no money has been in their commissary account for at least 30 days.
How you send money to an inmate?
Sending money to an inmate varies from state to state, depending if it is county, state or federal, their ways of accepting money for inmates’ changes by the money transfer company they’ve contracted with. Federal Prisons and some state-level prisons have centralized banking systems which means that you do not need to know where they are specifically, just that they are in the state systems of for instance the California, Texas, Florida DOC or the FBOP to name a few.
How do I send money using MoneyGram?
Some facilities will allow you to deposit cash through the lobby window stand-alone kiosk in the lobby or visitation room. Most facilities will also accept a postal money order mailed to the institution’s inmate mailing address made payable to the full inmate’s name.
Electronic banking allows friends and family members to send the funds online, and correctional departments are starting to favor this method because it is less work for staff and more accurate/easier to keep track of, as well as being more convenient.
Regardless of the method of sending funds, there are several key things you will need to know:
• Inmate’s full committed name
• Inmate’s ID number
• Inmate’s location – or a system like the federal BOP
Before sending any funds you should find out what online transfer companies the institution your inmate is incarcerated in uses. You can find this information on our site by navigating to the facilities page click on the Money Transfer button under the address and phone number.
Pay close attention to the rules of the facility. Sometimes they will require money senders are on the inmate's visitation list. Some correctional facilities have a deposit limit, like $200-300 at a time, but in federal, there is no limit.
MoneyGram, JPay, OffenderConnect, AccessCorrections, JailATM, WU, Touchpayonline, tigercommissary, smartdeposit are some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities. MoneyGram is by far the oldest and most trusted.
Who else can access the money you send?
An inmate with fines or restitution will be subject to commissary/trust account garnishment. If the inmate has these financial obligations, they will be extracted from the inmate’s bank account. It may be a percentage or the entire amount depending on the situation. We recommend inmates who are going into their bid contact the counselor and make an arrangement beforehand. If you go in knowing they are taking 20-25% of all deposits is better than have them take it all and you find out in the commissary line when the account is zero.
Why is my inmate asking for more than I normally send?
This is generally a signal that the inmate is doing something they shouldn’t and need money to get them out of or through a situation. It could be gambling, it could be extortion it could be other things you don’t need to know on this forum (for now). Set boundaries with your inmate. Tell them that “this is the amount I can send each month” and that is it. There are no extras beyond the boundary. Also, NEVER send money to the account of another inmate on your inmate’s instruction. This is a sign that something is not right. If the corrections people discover this, and they do more times than not, it will result in some severe disciplinary action to the inmate, and certainly the loss of all privileges.
Who can I call if I suspect something?
We recommend speaking with the counselor or case manager of the facility and use a generic reference in the event that your suspicions are wrong. You needn’t put them in a more difficult position if they are.
Inmate Care Packages:
How to Buy Inmate Commissary Care Packages Online
Show your loved one how much you care – order a package today! The facilities usually have a weekly limit of about $100 per inmate, plus processing and tax. The orders do NOT count towards the inmates weekly commissary allowances Deposits can be made online for inmates 24/7 using a credit/debit card
There are also a few services that allow you how to order inmate commissary online. These trusted providers are approved and share revenue with the prisons from the sales to the inmates.
Here is a list of other similar programs prison commissary: Keefe Group, Access Securpak, iCareGifts, Union Supply Direct, Walkenhorst's, CareACell
Inmate Commissary:
What is Inmate Commissary?
Prison commissary (also sometimes referred to as inmate canteen) is a store for inmates housed within a correctional facility. While the very most basics may be provided for by a given correctional department, there are also other important goods/services that Florida prisoners and inmates must buy. For instance, supplies such as supplementary food, female hygiene products, books, writing utensils and a plethora of other things are examples of things that can be purchased as part of an inmate commissary packages for goods.
What is an Inmate trust account?
When you add money to an inmate account, the prison funds are stored on an inmate trust fund. This prison account basically acts as a personal bank account of an inmate. They will use this account to make Inmate Calls, pay for postage to Send Photos from Inmates, send emails from inmates, purchase Items from Commissary, receive wages from jobs, and more.
How To Send Mail:
This is how to send your inmate at Hebron NE Police Jail letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines
Incoming and outgoing inmate mail is subject to inspection for the presence of contraband that might threaten the safety, security or well-being of the jail/facility, its staff, and residents. Inmates may receive only metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4" x 6" as mail. Writing must be in pencil or blue or black ink. Any other mail will be returned to the sender. If no return address is available, unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate's locker until the inmate's release.
Inmate mail cannot contain any of the following: Create an immediate threat to jail order by describing the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape that realistically are a danger to jail security; Advocate violence, racial supremacy or ethnic purity; No current inmate-to-inmate mail will be allowed and will be destroyed.
The easiest workaround is to look over the mailing services of InmateAid. We have an automated system for sending your loved one that special message or picture. We send thousands of pieces of mail per month with NO issues with the prisons or jails. The envelopes display the InmateAid logo, the mail room knows for certain that the contents will not be compromising. This trust was established in 2012.
How To Send Greeting Cards and Postcards:
Greeting cards are great for the holidays and birthdays. The ones from the store often have more than just the message because the policies surrounding appropriate content (no nudity or sexually suggestive material no matter how funny), and they cannot have glitter, stickers or anything else that makes the card different from a normal plain old card. Instead of going to the Hallmark store in the mall and looking around for hours - go to our easy to search Greeting Cards service.
It takes literally 45 seconds and it's very affordable for what you're getting (and what they are getting, too!). Select from 100s of birthday, anniversary and every holiday you can think of, and VERY easy to send from your phone on InmateAid:
Don't forget Christmas, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, Father's Day, New Year's, Ramadan, Hanukkah, Passover, Easter, Kwanzaa or Valentine's Day!
In less than a minute and only $0.99, this act of kindness will be worth a million to your inmate. If you have a picture or two and don't want to write a long letter. Type out a little love in the message box and send your latest selfie... only 99 cents!
Don't wait until the moment has passed, it's easy and convenient to let them know you're thinking of them at every moment.
How To Send magazines and Books:
Send magazines to Hebron NE Police Jail at 324 Olive Ave, Hebron, NE
Send the best magazines and books to your Inmate in jail or prison, it's the gift that keeps on giving all year round, There is nothing more exciting to an inmate (besides their release date) than getting their favorite magazine every month at mail call.
Magazines and books must come directly from the publisher. You are not allowed to send single magazines in an envelope. They need to come directly from the publisher with your inmate's name affixed to the address label. Magazine subscriptions are easy to set up, it takes literally 2 minutes.
You know when you go into the grocery and browse the new magazines on display? You see hundreds. Inside they place a little card that if you fill it out and send it in with your inmate's name, ID number and facility address - you drop it in the mail and in 8-12 weeks your inmate gets an issue every month for a whole year. Thankfully, there is an easier way, just CLICK here and browse yourself. Select a title or two and add your inmate's name to the order. It's fast, it's reliable and it's at a discounted rate for your convenience.
How To Save Money on Inmate Calls
The prison phone companies have a monopoly at the facility they have a contract with. Profits are shared so there is no incentive for their representatives to show you how to save money. They post their rates and in almost every case, there are at least two pricing tiers. Depending on where you are and where your inmate is, the type of phone number you use will make all the difference.
In federal prison, the answer is simply that a new local number will change your inmate's call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute. Fed gives you only 300 minutes per month, the local line service is only $8.95, no hidden fees or bundling of other unwanted service charges
For the other facilities that are not federal, it used to be that a local number was the answer. Now, its market intelligence and InmateAid has made it their business to know what the best deal is in every scenario. And we can tell you that in 30% of the cases, we cannot save you a penny - and neither can anyone else. But we will give you a refund if we can't save you money.
For more specific information on inmate calls, you will want to navigate to the facility your inmate is incarcerated in through our site by going to Prison Directory and following the links to the Discount Telephone Service - get an honest estimate before you buy.
Ask a former inmate questions at no charge. The inmate answering has spent considerable time in the federal prison system, state and county jails, and in a prison that was run by the private prison entity CCA. Ask your question or browse previous questions in response to comments or further questions of members of the InmateAid community.
Great Deals For You and Your Inmate
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The most-sold used car in every state in 2019 proves how dominant pickup trucks still are in the US
The Ford F-150 is by far the most popular used car in America, taking the top spot in 32 states. Pickup trucks were the most popular car in 39 states.
After former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn fled Japan by hiding inside a musical instrument case, Yamaha is warning people to not do that
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Nissan is reportedly making more serious plans for a possible end to its alliance with Renault following Carlos Ghosn's dramatic escape from Japan
Plans for a possible split include how Nissan would change its board of directors and manage independent engineering and manufacturing processes.
The fugitive and former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn says Hollywood has contacted him about his unbelievable escape from Japan
Former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn says he's a 'fugitive of injustice' and won't comment on whether any Americans helped him escape from Japan in a box.
I drove the Ford F-150, Chevy Silverado, RAM 1500, Toyota Tundra, and Nissan Titan to find out which full-size pickup truck was the best — here's the verdict
I reviewed a variety of trim levels and price points, so this comparison isn't perfect. But it should give you an idea of how the pickups rank.
The 24 coolest vehicles we saw at CES 2020
Among the brands that have brought vehicles to this year's edition of CES are Mercedes-Benz, Ford, and Jeep.
Japan's minister of justice responds to Carlos Ghosn's press conference urging the fugitive former Nissan executive to surrender. Read the full statement here.
Japan wants Ghosn to "engage in all possible efforts to make his case within Japan's fair criminal justice proceedings," the statement reads in part.
Ousted Nissan head Carlos Ghosn and wife Carole are now both wanted by Japan. Here's the story of the couple's intense relationship.
The couple is currently staying in a mansion bought by Nissan for Ghosn in Beirut, Lebanon — a country that does not extradite to Japan.
Carlos Ghosn unleashes on Nissan and Japanese prosecutors in a lengthy press conference
The automotive executive is on the run after escaping house arrest in Japan and resurfacing in Lebanon late last year.
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Carlos Ghosn rips Nissan's investigation into his alleged conduct at the company, calling it a 'gross perversion of the truth'
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Ghosn said he'd "no longer be held hostage by a rigged Japanese justice system where guilt is presumed, discrimination is rampant, and basic human rights are denied."
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What's inside a clam?
David Anderson and Benji Jones
Like oysters, mussels, and scallops, clams are bivalve mollusks — aquatic invertebrates encased by a shell made of two valves.
Inside their shell, you'll find some truly bizarre anatomy. They have a retractable foot, for example, which they use to bury themselves underground.
Research has shown that razor clams can use their foot to liquefy the ground around them, essentially turning it into quicksand.
Giant clams farm microalgae. In exchange for a place to live, the algae provide the clams with byproducts of photosynthesis, such as sugars, allowing them to grow into giants.
What's inside a clam? A retractable foot, a siphon for sucking up water, powerful muscles, and, sometimes, a pearl. And you thought oysters were fancy.
Following is the transcript of the video.
Narrator: What you're looking at is a clam's foot. That's right, clams have a foot. And some species can extend it several inches. But as it turns out, a foot is just one of the many bizarre features you'll find inside a clam. Like oysters and mussels, clams are bivalves, a kind of mollusk that's encased in a shell made of two valves, or hinging parts. And that shell comes in all different sizes.
There are small clams, like these, which are often used for cooking. And then there are giant clams, which can grow more than a meter long and weigh as much as 250 kilograms. But no matter their size, clams have some truly bizarre stuff going on inside. And to get a closer look, we went clamming.
Benji Jones: Oh, God. [laughing]
Narrator: That's marine biologist Soren Dahl, who took us clamming on Long Island. At first, we didn't have much luck.
Benji: I got one, but it looks like it's dead.
Soren Dahl: Old shell.
Benji: Oh, I got a crab.
Narrator: Then we stumbled upon what's known as a honey hole. It's basically a clammer's code word for jackpot.
Benji: Hey! I got two! [laughing]
Soren: All right!
Narrator: And in the end, we found about a dozen hard clams.
Benji: This right here is my recently collected, my recently collected clams, and I have a lot of them.
Narrator: Now, to see what's inside, you can't exactly pry one open with your bare hands. And that's thanks to these two muscles. They run from the inside of one shell to the other, and when clams sense a threat or find themselves out of water, they contract, causing the clam to, you know, [snapping] clam up. So, to get one open, you need to cut through those muscles.
Soren: Now, you have your, this is your hard-shell clam.
Benji: Both of, so those two muscles together create a muscle that goes from here to here?
Soren: Yep, this goes from this side to that side.
Narrator: And what about that strange foot?
Soren: This is the foot, right here.
Narrator: So, it might not be as impressive as this, but that's just because here the foot is retracted. Soren: And they'll extend this out of the clam, and they can push themselves along the bottom and use it to dig a hole to help bring themselves into, like, a burrow.
Narrator: And some clams are particularly dexterous with their foot. The razor clam, for example, can bury itself 70 centimeters underground. It uses rapid movements of its foot to fluidize the ground around it, essentially turning it into quicksand. But if you think clam feet are bizarre, check out this thing: the siphon. Siphons are essentially two connected straws that clams stick out of their shells. One pulls in water, which contains food particles and oxygen, and the other expels waste. And none is more impressive than the one belonging to the geoduck clam.
It's so big the clam can't even close its shell. While siphons allow clams to eat and breathe, some clams have another, more advanced tactic for getting nutrients. Instead of just sucking food out of the water, giant clams farm it themselves. Like coral, they have a symbiotic relationship with microalgae.
The clams provide algae with a place to live and photosynthesize, and in exchange, algae gives the clam byproducts of photosynthesis, such as sugars, which enables the giant clams to grow, you know, giant. Now, on rare occasions, there's something else you might find inside a clam: a pearl. That's right, oysters aren't the only pearl producers out there. Clams, too, will form these shimmering clumps to trap irritants that enter their shells. In fact, a fisherman once found a 34-kilogram pearl inside a giant clam.
So, yeah, clams aren't just fascinating; they might also be precious. Plus, they actually play an important role in their environment. By sucking up particles to eat, they function like natural water filters, making marshes, lakes, and other habitats more livable. And, on top of that, they're delicious to eat. Not to mention, really fun to collect.
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THIRD UPDATE Reality check for Spencerites; ZOG bans legal, peaceful protest in Charlottesville; Trump pussies out; rightwing Jew/Manchurian plows car into leftists, killing one, injuring 19
August 13, 2017 John de Nugent English 22
James Alex Fields plowed his Dodge Charger into leftists. His mother, Samantha Lee Bloom., is Jewish, so he is Jewish. I suspect he is a Manchurian Candidate, programmed like Dylann Storm Roof to make us look terrible with this horrible,. ISIS-Type massacre.
I note he was in the US Army for a mere four months…..then was discharged….. a real Manchurian scenario.
My short video on this .https://johndenugent.com/images/jdn-charlottesville-car-killer-13-aug-2017.mp4
https://johndenugent.com/images/jdn-charlottesville-car-killer-13-aug-2017.mp4
Antifas go airborne… This is a dangerous game. They can do this to us, too. It just takes a car and a willingness to go to prison for many years. 😉
…..A word to Spencer hotshots
It has been quite a weekend and a good one in a way. Let the Spencerian Alt-Righties get a strong whiff of reality. Repeatedly I have read his toxic meme of derogatory, arrogant remarks about WN “Boomers,” as if these young guys were going to go to Charlottesville and kick the cops’ ass, yes, defy the police state, which has been hounding WNs since J.Edgar Hoover’s FBI of the 1940s!
Richard Spencer’s divisive quote:
18. The ‘68ers
The generation born between the years 1945 and 1964 abrogated its duty to safeguard and pass down a civilization to its children. The so-called “‘68ers” engage in childish narcissism of the most extreme kind; they bear responsibility for today’s lamentable state of affairs; and they are seemingly unable even to recognize their culpability.
A new generation of leadership is desperately needed.
Spencer was almost whining in a vid how his rights were not respected and he got roughed up. Well, Spencer, we “Boomer WNs” have been getting the “full treatment” for decades before you were born: beaten, defamed, framed and murdered.
It is barely bold to wear a fashy haircut, Spencer… and look like a Bond villain….
But we yelled “Get the faggots out” (of the Georgetown student council) and wore the full swastika stormtroop uniform in front of cops who were WWII vets.
Interrupting Bill Clinton and Elie Wiesel, who both departed from their remarks to say “people like that over there is why we need this Holocaust Museum” 😉
The only thing I will add for you young and inexperienced WNs is what I shared today from my own 40 years of activist experience … Ever since Obama won, in Nov. 2008, the Zio-feds simply do not permit any successful, large WN gatherings at all, unless of course you are the judeophile Yalie Jared Taylor and are handled by a hard-leftist Jewish concubine such as his Evelyn Rich. (See my site and enter “Evelyn Rich”.)
https://johndenugent.com/?s=%22Evelyn+rich%22
….The good thing about Charlotteville
One real good thing about the Charlottesville event was the old divide between Yankees and Rebels is over. We are all REBELS now, North and South united! As Rockwell said: Your uniform now is your skin!
Best song about the Confederates
.https://johndenugent.com/images/Mr-Confederate-Man.mp4.mp4
https://johndenugent.com/images/Mr-Confederate-Man.mp4.mp4
……Booh-hoo-hoo now for the poor leftists who denied freedom of speech and assembly to the WNs — and one flipped out
how many have the extreme left killed in the 20th century? Only 100 million!
WNs drove hundeds of miles at their own expense to attend a peaceful rally; which the militarized robo-cops cancelled by force despite a permit and federal court order. ONE got pissed, and just O-N-E went nuts. This is what happens when freedom of speech and peaceful assembly are denied! THE FEDS WANTED AN ATROCITY TO HAPPEN!
Fields drove 545 miles from Toledo, Ohio, using $64 in gas, for eight hours, to get to a fully legal, peaceful rally in Charlottesville, Virginia which the robo-cops brutally shut down! Derek Weimer, a history teacher at Randall K. Cooper High School in Union, Kentucky, where Fields had grown up, said Fields was “very infatuated” with Nazis and Adolf Hitler. Weimer also said Fields had been prescribed antipsychotic medication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=Weg3fP0lZmE Best vid yet on the car:
People do not realize how important the 2015 federal “op” with Dylann Storm Roof was — the “Charleston Church Shooting”. Roof was/is a Manchurian Candidate. NO blacks were killed. It was orchestrated to trigger the current avalanche of removal of all flags and statues honoring the Confederacy — the eternal symbol of nine states breaking out in ARMED-WHITE-MALE-REVOLT!!!
I was in this program until I ran away at age ten! This program is real and used constantly! Its victims do not even know they are mind-controled, making them the perfect too!
My personal triumph of the will over the secret, federal MK-ULTRA and Manchurian Candidate programs for the kids of the “elite”
…….James Alex Fields, Jr.’s mother’s name is Samantha BLOOM
http://fox8.com/2017/08/12/charlottesville-car-crash-suspect-idd-as-man-from-maumee-ohio-troopers-killed-in-copter-crash/
“Samantha Bloom, of Ohio, confirmed details about her son’s car and his trip to Virginia, saying she received a text from him last week that said he’d gotten some time off from work and was going to a rally.
She said her son hadn’t given her any details about the rally but that she told him “to be careful” and to peaceful.
Bloom became visibly upset as she learned that dozens of people were injured during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.
Bloom said she and Fields had just relocated to the Toledo area from Florence, Kentucky, a Cincinnati, Ohio, suburb”
The article mentions nothing about his father, so apparently his mother is divorced, and now uses her maiden surname Bloom, while her son still uses his father’s surname Fields. Bloom is definitely Jewish, and Fields, although of Anglo-Saxon origin, can also be Jewish:
https://www.houseofnames.com/bloom-family-crest/Jewish
If his mother is Jewish, as indicated by her surname Bloom, then by Talmudic law, so is her son. He’s also dark-haired, dark-eyed, and swarthy, which suggests that he’s a Jew. If so, it would explain his murderous instinct and deliberate sabotaging of the Alt-Right by committing this vile, premeditated act of terrorism, which only benefits the Jews.
James Alex Fields, Jr., of Ohio, who was the driver of the car in Charlottesville, is ex-military, which makes me wonder if he was told to do this by ZOG:
http://coed.com/2017/08/12/james-alex-fields-jr-charlottesville-suspect-arrest-driver-rams-car-into-protesters-white-nationalist-rally-counter-protest-injuries/
“Fields was listed as an active duty service member of the United States Army from August 18 to December 11, 2015.” That is a really short term of service – less than four months, which is suspicious in itself.
To understand the rage of the WNs — but not to condone the act by Fields, which I condemn — the cops shut down a legal, permitted, peaceful protest, and then they let antifa both march AND openly advocate m-u-r-d-e-r.
Spineless weenie Trump, whom our white outrage propelled into the White House, blames the victim for “hate.”
Virginia, Virginia…. once the beating heart of the South.
A police helicopter crashed also ……two state troopers dead https://www.rt.com/usa/399438-police-helicopter-crash-charlottesville/
My daughter Erika has a nursing degree from U. Virginia/Charlottesville
My reincarnation studies heavily utilize the scientific work of Dr. Jim Tucker of U. Va./Charlottesville:
https://johndenugent.com/reincarnation-evidence/
I predict that the jewsmedia will go nuts over this Dodge Charger driver, hide that he is Jewish — and claim “Nazis” are terrorists.
It is time for a new Aryan religion, because things are getting critical. Trump has sold out, he is heading us straight into WWII anyway, and the Deep State is out to crush Trump totally, and then our cause, and then finally genocide our race.
…..Idiot Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe spouts the exact opposite of the truth about great Virginian founding fathers
“You pretend that you are patriots – but you’re anything but a patriot. You wanna talk about patriots, talk about Thomas Jefferson, George Washington – who brought our country together. Think about the patriots today who are putting their lives in danger – they are patriots – you are not,” he said. McAuliffe went on to stress that outsiders that had come to Virginia to promote hatred were less than welcome.
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBFIYXl6mME
“Our message is plain and simple: Go home. You are not wanted in this great Commonwealth. Shame on you.”
Referring to the US being a global melting pot, “the nation of immigrants” since it its early years, McAuliffe argued that“diversity, the mosaic tile of immigrants is what makes us so special.”
“My message is clear – we are stronger than you. You have made our Commonwealth stronger. You will not succeed, there is no place for you here – there is no place for you in America,” he said.
My message to you, Terry McCaulife, is that Jefferson and Washington were slave owners — and, especially Jefferson, overt white supremacists! (and so were Andrew Jackson and Ben Franklin, a nordicist who wrote a famous essay, “America, a Land of Opportunity” in 1750, saying America should take in only NORTHERN Europeans!)
One my videos go back up on the reborn Sonnenrad.tv, you will see the proof! THE FOUNDING FATHERS AND OTHER FAMOUS PREISIDENTS WERE WHITE NATIONALISTS:
……Retired career Army vet and activist Paul Lovett wrote me
The following is what I posted on my Facebook:
“This [murderous car attack] is what happens when the right of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly is institutionally denied to peaceful pro-White people.
When the anti-White NWO tyrants and Leftist agitators push it too hard, it only takes one disgruntled and demoralized White man to lose it and commit such an atrocity.
I am condemning this horrific evil act, but I am also reminding the anti-freedom traitors that denying the rights of pro-White people will only make matters worse.”
……Molyneux and Faith Goldy on the event
.The Alt Right showed up to peacefully protest, then the left attacked. Now the government is blaming the Alt Right. It’s official, the government hates white people.The Alt Right showed up to peacefully protest, then the left attacked. Now the government is blaming the Alt Right. It’s official, the government hates white people.
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UpF8H1Zjcw
……The 2008 experience
In November 2008 Margi and I and an associate drove 450 miles in an 18-year-old Honda (given us by a supporter, but with a very, very bad transmission, and we had to stop twice because of it) to support David Duke’s Euro (as in “European-American”) conference in Memphis, Tennessee.
When we got there, the leftist/antifa One Peoples Project had already struck, calling in death threats to the staff of the hotel in their homes,and the hotel cancelled.
The minions of the fat black queer Darryl Lamont Jenkins were behind this, and the FBI arrested no one.
We got another hotel –after a nearby Mississippi county banned us with blatant illegality — and spoke.
Margi spoke, and sang a wonderful art song by the great Stephen Foster..
Duke, James Edwards and Margi
I was interviewed by a Jewess with the huge French tv network, Canal Plus. (They did not use it, I suppose, because I come across as reasonable, intelligent, educated and all-American. Actually, I have been under a total media blackout since the year 2010.)
OPP then used this terroristic tactic successfully again of calling in death threats to the homes of hotel staff in downtown Washington DC! Attorney General Eric Holder, President Obama, and FBI director and Deep-State THUG Robert Mueller — the same one now trying to indict Trump on some charge, any charge –had no problem whatsoever with overt terroristic threats to a hotel, theCapitol Skyline Hotel, located four blocks from the US Capitol.
The Capitol Skyline hosted a hugely successful WN gathering (an American Free Press & Barnes Review co-event) in 2006 with 450 attendees, while Bush was still president. but under Obama the ability to meet peacefully rapidly became very difficult.
…….Darry Storm Roof and the genesis of the Demonizing Dixie 21016-present
Margi and I also went paid our respects at that November 2008 gathering at the Confederate statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis (removed from the park after the 2015 Darryl Storm Roof shooting hoax)
No blacks were killed at all in this Confederacy-demonizing “op”.
Why would any WN, especially a Christianity-respecting Southerner, object to old black ladies studying the Bible inside their church? Those were not black gang-bangers or BLM!
I had a supernatural experience exactly 24 hours before the “shooting” hoax, down to the exact second. The Roof massacre was a MAJOR FEDERAL “OP.” designed alongside the subservient media to demonize all armed white male resistance — which is what the Confederacy was.
Every word we are taught about slavery is a lie. Sephardic Jews proposed the slave trade to the kings of Portugal, Spain, France and England, justifying it with reasoning from their own book, the Talmud, about some “curse of Ham by Noah.” These same Sephardim ran the slave importing and auction business, including the Monsantos (ancestors of the infamous GMO company today). They persuaded the greedy kings of England to FORCE the slave trade onto the white Americans of the thirteen colonies, who objected. The colonial legislatures of both Georgia and Virginia BANNED further importation of blacks — and were overruled by their royal governors!
But once slavery began, tobacco and cotton growers HAD to buy slaves from Jews to compete against those other plantation owners who had fired their paid white farm workers and brought in the unpaid black slaves! Almost all Southerners wanted to end slavery as an immoral, cruel, and dangerous practice, and send the blacks elsewhere.
And as some still do to white Americans today! The South rose up in 1861 not out of a hatred of Northerners, or of high tariffs, or any love of slavery and of the doctrine of states’ rights, but only for this:
to PROTECT WHITE WOMEN, CHILDREN AND SENIORS FROM A FEARED BLACK CRIME WAVE!
Just read about the horrific Christian-Newsome rape-murders in Knoxville, Tennessee! I have a whole video I did in 2011 on this unbelievable racial hate crime, but it is down. I will be uploading it soon to the new Sonnenrad.tv!
Dylann Storm Roof was an obvious Manchurian Candidate sent to make the white cause look terrible by”slaughtering” old ladies and their pastor, a state senator as well, during their study of “God’s Word.”
Roof burns the US flag…. as ordered by his Manchurian handlers
“Peaceful black folks massacred while worshipping the Lord…” None were killed; all got huge payoffs and entered the Witness Protection Program and left town.
Song “Mr Confederate Man”; Confederate statues — and our manhood — go down; CIA high-fiving self over anti-Confederate upshot of utterly fake Dylann Storm Roof church massacre
Nuclear war and nuclear winter — the video that supports the Van Rensburg prophecy about the fates of the northern and southern hemispheres
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–5 August 2017 cash from M in Oregon
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–5 August 2017 from R in Michigan a wonderful little book by Eckhart Tolle, Practicing the Power of Now
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Reincarnation facts
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UFOs, the Reich AFTER ’45, and whites as colonists on this planet
Solutreans – the white first Americans
The Jewish murder-war on the Kennedys
Captain Ramsay’s “The Nameless War“ – how Jews do revolution
https://johndenugent.com/?s=captain+ramsay
Youtube channel JdN
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdM4JLEj28mcxclsqGYiMQA/videos
Normans – white nordic aristocrats who married with Jews to create the current Judeo-Anglo-American ruling class
White safety zone – Upper Peninsula of Michigan
White South African tragedy
Hitler’s moral and strategic disaster in Russia
Hitler’s love for the British people
Who really IS JdN?
Hitler’s Landsberg prison cell in 1924
President Putin uses my website to send Trump a message
The Obama White House calls me directly with a threat
The Hebrews of the Bible were roaming criminal hordes
Washington Post blasts JdN
My lady Margaret Huffstickler on Reichsmusik
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dodge charger charlottesville
james alex fields
Islam and the Occident — Hervé Ryssen
Watson announces he is leaving YouTube; Sonnenrad video platform is back; my 2011 video is returning, proving American whites already became a minority in 2005
Here’s a video of Samantha Lea Bloom playing stupid for AP reporters (second video). She had already given an interview to a local news outlet (see my previous comment), so she already knew that her Jewish son had committed this act of terrorism, yet she played dumb like it was the first time she’d heard of it. Also note how she smiles and laughs at several points – unable to contain her glee that her Jewish son has basically destroyed the Alt-Right movement with his act of terrorism. She doesn’t seem upset at all, which means that her son will probably be secretly released with a new identity and rewarded for his false-flag attack:
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/mother-charlottesville-suspect-just-knew-going-rally-thought-052807000–abc-news-topstories.html
John de Nugent
Thank you for more excellent data and analysis.
This theory would certainly explain a lot and shield her from all ostracism.
Someone on the Daily Stormer discussion boards pointed out that the airbags for James Alex Fields, Jr.’s 2010 Dodge Challenger did not deploy, even though he hit the back of another car with sufficient force to destroy the front of his own car. A probable Jew troll then countered by saying that airbags don’t deploy if seat belts aren’t worn. However, that is FALSE. The driver’s side airbag will ALWAYS deploy in a moderate to severe crash – scroll down to see the first comment from a master automobile technician in this link:
https://www.quora.com/Will-the-airbag-be-active-if-the-seat-belt-is-not-used
From the master automobile technician’s answer:
“The driver airbag will always go off, because it is assumed that there is someone driving the vehicle. If the driver isn’t wearing the seatbelt, well, I have nothing good to say about that. Some driver-side airbags may deploy at different rates, depending on seat position or weight sensors.”
As for the speed of impact necessary for the airbags to deploy, scroll down to see the first FAQ answer in this article, under the title “What is meant by a ‘moderate to severe’ crash?”:
https://www.nhtsa.gov/equipment/air-bags
“Frontal air bags are generally designed to deploy in “moderate to severe” frontal or near-frontal crashes, which are defined as crashes that are equivalent to hitting a solid, fixed barrier at 8 to 14 mph or higher. (This would be equivalent to striking a parked car of similar size at about 16 to 28 mph or higher.)”
The airbags in James Alex Fields, Jr.’s 2010 Dodge Challenger did NOT deploy, even though he hit the back of another car with enough force to destroy the front of his own car. And as the above articles prove, the driver’s side airbag should have deployed, whether he was wearing his seatbelt or not. Had the driver’s side airbag deployed as it should have, it would have enveloped Fields, pinning him in his seat, and would have prevented him from backing out at high speed like he did.
This means that the airbags in his car were likely disabled prior to the crash taking place. If so, this means that it was done with ZOG assistance, since the 20-year old Fields is unlikely to have had sufficient mechanical knowledge and aptitude to disable the airbags himself. It involves removing the front seat and deliberately triggering the inertial sensor (usually located under the front seat) to deploy the airbag. It’s a very involved and dangerous process which requires wearing hearing and eye protection, etc.:
https://itstillruns.com/disable-airbags-7611625.html
If the airbag was purposely disabled beforehand, it means that the crash was pre-planned well in advance. Someone else on DS claimed that the 20-year old Fields would not have been able to back out at high speed like he did, and that a trained driver must have done it, but Fields could easily have been trained to do that, and there is a clear photo of him in the car right after the crash – it’s him. Also, as this photo shows, he IS wearing his seatbelt, so the DS troll’s counterargument is null and void – there’s no good reason why his driver’s side airbag didn’t deploy, other than it was purposely disabled prior to the crash:
https://everipedia.org/wiki/james-alex-fields-jr/#lg=1&slide=13
Intriguing…. I guess the non-deployment of the airbags, alarming in itself, would suggest either lousy Chrysler quality OR someone wanted to silence Fields, just as Lee Harvey Oswald was forever silenced by Jack Ruby.
A friend just told me that the Japanese airbag maker “Takata” (How he spelled it to me) has had considerable quality problems…
In my experience, Chryslers are truly great styling and quality, err, not so much. 😉
Red Ice website was hacked by professional hackers, probably Israeli, during the Charlottesville Alt-Right rally:
https://www.dailystormer.com/red-ice-on-their-website-and-twitter-accounts-being-hacked-during-charlottesville-event/
Here’s an article on James Alex Fields, Jr. – this whole article stinks of Jewish propaganda bullshit. It portrays Fields as a violent, medicated psychotic and racist, which is how the Jews would like to portray all white patriots. Yet, in that Robbie Parker-tier AP interview with his smiling and laughing Jewish mother, Samantha Lea Bloom, she said that Fields had an African-American friend. Shades of “Dylann Storm Roof,” who also had black friends, yet supposedly hated blacks. She also posed for that very friendly selfie photo with her son, who supposedly beat her and threatened her with a knife. Right. This article is total Jewish bullshit – that kid is no admirer of Hitler or Germany – he’s a Jewish infiltrator who was sent to Charlottesville on a mission to destroy the Alt-Right movement, which he largely succeeded in doing:
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/suspect-deadly-virginia-car-ramming-due-court-070406706.html
Thank you –posted it https://www.facebook.com/john.denugent.3/posts/259391351221753
Joe Sigur
Good work, Spencer is a fucking dip shit. THis is what he says it means to be alt-right. THey blame baby boomers for every ill known to man. INterestingly, us baby- boomers were protesting against the generation that supported Jews instead of Hitler in WW II. Do you think Spencer might name that group? No cause that would defame Jewry!
Of course he blames the generation and not the fabian society for doing what they did to the boomer generation because that again would be naming Jews
His quote:
Thanks for this divisive quote by Spencer!
I posted the divisive, cynical and wrong-headed Spencer quote here (near the top):
https://johndenugent.com/english/third-update-reality-check-for-spencerites-zog-bans-legal-peaceful-protest-in-charlottesville-trump-pussies-out-rightwing-jewmanchurian-plows-car-into-leftists-killing-one-injuring-19/
Do you have a screenshot of the tweet or a source and exact date of this utterance? That is how I operate — credibility. (Thpenther has blocked me on Twitter, btw.)
of course, posted on Alt-right.com
https://altright.com/2017/08/11/what-it-means-to-be-alt-right/
He’s proud of the quote, haha.
Not sure you’ll buy my 6 race theory but I think it’s pretty right on. Whites, who love to see themselves as the master race are much of the problem to truly fighting the Jew race as they have adopted Jew spin on so much
It’s he and his goofy midget bunch that is going to save America. No, but it looks they are going to get us all defined as terrorists
Spencer depends on his prospective alt-right clientele not to know the JWO is an evolving apparatus that started some might claim in 1492 in a myriad of ways. Every generation since that time is responsible for where we are today
But since Spencer won’t name the Jews and is Jewish himself and the alt-right looks to be run by Jews, he simply isn’t going to tell the whole truth about source causes which basically makes the alt-right a Masonic operation
Why concretely do you assert Spencer is Jewish? Facts, please.
No one agrees more than I, of course, that many important and evil figures have been part-Jewish — I include in that long list Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush and, of course, Churchill and FDR — and that the Norman aristocrats in England (such as the Spencers, and Churchill was a Spencer) have interbred with Jews, though my family did not.
https://johndenugent.com/the-norman-conquest-gives-the-english-to-the-talmud/
How about Lyndon Johnson?
The Daily Stormer and InfoStormer has been down for many hours now. May be doing editing of their web site!
Indeed, LBJ, and I was among the first to prove he was Jewish via his mother, Rachelle Baines. Thanks for reminding me, LOL, distracted and multi-tasking, of my very own work. 🙂
https://johndenugent.com/the-jewish-war-on-the-kennedys/lyndon-johnsons-jewish-mother-and-the-1967-israeli-attack-on-the-uss-liberty/
@Lobo – Regarding the Daily Stormer site being down, I guess you didn’t see my comment on a previous article, reposted here:
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/white-nationalists-charlottesville-just-beginning-191353499.html
…which says:
“A neo-Nazi website that helped promote the gathering said there will be more events soon.
“We are going to start doing this nonstop. Across the country,” said the site, which internet domain host GoDaddy said it was shutting down after it mocked the woman killed in Charlottesville.”
Although they didn’t mention the name of the website, they’re talking about the Daily Stormer, because Anglin did mock the dead antifa woman yesterday in an article as being a “fat, childless, 32-year-old slut,” or words to that effect, which I thought was a really stupid and insensitive thing to do. I just checked dailystormer.com, and they are DOWN, maybe permanently, unless they manage to find a new web hosting company. But, Anglin brought it on himself with his stupid, juvenile “humor” that he persists in engaging in. If he had done the right thing and condemned James Alex Fields, Jr. for his terrorist false-flag attack, and said his actions don’t represent the Alt-Right (which they don’t), GoDaddy at least wouldn’t have had that excuse to shut his site down. Really stupid on Anglin’s part. It’s a shame that someone like him has (had?) the most popular Alt-Right website.
Here’s another article which does mention DS by name:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-dumps-neo-nazi-website-violating-terms-service-202454707.html
Here’s another article exposing one of the “Alt-Lite” Jews from Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media who was behind the Daily Stormer shutdown:
https://altright.com/2017/08/14/discord-shuts-down-alt-right-server/
Miles Mathis and #Spencergate
https://spencergate.wordpress.com/
Not officially Jewish
http://mileswmathis.com/spence.pdf
My analysis is there are two master races and we may assume many young leaders that emmanate from those two races are doing so to control. Spencer has ties to both
This is my twist on the race narrative
https://blindlight.org/index.php/item/852-a-different-slant-on-race
All these WNs supported and many continue to support a Jew loving Donald Trump. With that stance, WNs are saying being white is more important to join us than outing Jews
I know you had high hopes for Trump and I am glad you saw the light. I will admit preferring Trump to Hillary, a known proven problem but my public stance was, he was no Hitler and never bought your Patton claim
No doubt W.N.’s figured Trump to be the best choice at the time and if he gets one or two of his campaign promises done, it is a start.
Trump is far from perfect, and is only a first step. The Jews are very worried about the alt right and the followers they are gaining and are trying desperately to stop the movement via Charlottesville!
Here are some interesting comments from members of the N.C. KKK.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/article167161427.html
enkid
excellent stuff here! he looks goofy, this kid, and has that yiddish look, just by looking at his forehead. I had not come here in a bit since this site was down for a while last time i checked_ also infostormer is down for me.
Here’s the latest on the Daily Stormer site:
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/neo-nazi-website-daily-stormer-183300139.html
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/shunned-by-godaddy-and-google-racist-daily-stormer-moves-to-russian-domain/
Now Anglin is being sued for defamation by a Muslim comedian named Dean Obeidallah, after Anglin falsely accused him of being the “mastermind” of the bombing at the Ariana Grande concert (another of Anglin’s juvenile attempts at “humor”). So, Anglin now has two lawsuits hanging over him:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/national-business/article167471112.html
Currently, DS is only on the Dark Web at this site, which can only be accessed using a TOR browser:
http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/
To download the TOR browser:
However, I believe more and more that the ex-leftist Anglin and the Jewish “Weev” (Andrew Aurenheimer) were assigned by their ADL paymasters the task of building up, then destroying, any semblance of a future white nationalist movement, by being as obnoxious, racist, and offensive as possible, thereby giving the Jews an excuse to shut down ALL forms of white nationalism, whether offensive or not. The Daily Stormer played a key role in organizing the Charlottesville rally, and Anglin had dubbed this summer “The Summer of Hate,” as if he knew what was being planned there – a terrorist attack by the Jewish “Nazi” James Alex Fields, Jr.
Also notice that Anglin’s location remains completely unknown, despite being probably the most vilified man in America right now. He has joked about living in Lagos, Nigeria, but is probably still in the U.S., yet supposedly no one can find him to serve him the lawsuit papers from the first lawsuit, which is why that first lawsuit against him hasn’t gone forward.
Right. The U.S. legal system, in conjunction with the police and FBI, can find ANYONE living in the U.S., so there’s something very suspicious about that. Anglin is being protected by his ADL paymasters, because he has served them so well. The leftist media and antifa are “doxxing” every minor WN who attended the Charlottesville rally, listing their names and addresses, reporting them to their places of employment, etc., but Anglin remains strangely untouchable.
“Weev” is supposedly living in Ukraine or Russia, which is also very suspicious, since both countries are very anti-Nazi due to World War II. Who is paying for Weev’s expenses to live there in a foreign country, where he likely doesn’t even speak the language, let alone have a job? Similarly, Anglin obviously doesn’t have a job either, so who is paying for his expenses, wherever he is? Although they did collect over $156,000 from their gullible supporters for the first lawsuit, so Anglin may be living off that money now.
As I’ve said before, the Daily Stormer was launched from the ADL honeypot site Incogman.net, which has never been hacked or shut down, despite being every bit as obnoxious, offensive, and racist as DS. I believe that the DS site was one massive Jewish-run PSYOP to demonize and label white nationalists as hateful, violent, domestic terrorists, and recent events have only confirmed that in my mind. “Mission Accomplished” for the Jews and their well-paid lackeys Anglin, “Weev” and Fields. Here’s one small example of what Anglin, “Weev” and Fields have accomplished for white nationalists, and this will probably soon be made federal law:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-terrorism-neo-nazis-treated-181105943.html
Well done, lads! Your shekels are in the mail.
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Feature Film "Songs My Brothers Taught Me"
I have been following the development of the film SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME for quite a while now. I can recall many years ago when I first heard it was being developed through the assistance of the filmmakers lab at the Sundance Institute. Now the film has finally been made and being released!
As a First Nation filmmaker, actor, storyteller and avid film-goer I am always seeking out films that honestly depict and speak to the experience of being a First Nation person in today's contemporary world. So many films throughout the history of filmmaking have failed to represent our stories in a respectful and powerful way and only perpetuate harmful stereotypes and cliches about what it means to be Indigenous and First Nation on Turtle Island. SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME, written and directed by Chloe Zhao, looks promising in breaking the mold by presenting an achingly honest reality about the trauma that native peoples, families and communities deal with, about reconciliation and how First Nations Peoples have been directly affected by colonization, assimilation and genocide.
Be sure to watch the trailer below and visit the film website at http://songsthemovie.com/ to find out where you can watch the film in a city near you. Currently, the film is playing in limited release and select cities in the USA but hopefully with enough interest it will expand to more theatres in more cities across Turtle Island.
Film Synopsis:
With an older brother in jail and living with their single mother on Pine Ridge Reservation, Johnny and his sister Jashuan's lives develop new challenges when their absentee cowboy father suddenly dies. The loss prompts Johnny to strike out for Los Angeles, but would mean leaving behind his beloved sister.
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Generator Hostel Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands - Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport
Very Good 1138 Reviews
The quaint, tree-lined Oosterpark setting
Local coffee is delivered (on bicycle) to the café every morning
The hostel’s former life as the zoological department of the University of Amsterdam
Rentable bikes on the property—perfect for the 30-minute ride to Dam Square
There is no air-conditioning.
For larger parties, there is a suite that sleeps six
The property belongs to an up-and-coming hospitality brand with 12 hip hostels across Europe
Guests under 16 are not allowed
A former school building turned contemporary caravansary in budding Amsterdam East that stylishly revamps the hostel concept
The hostel gets a graceful makeover at this former university facility housed in a century-old brick building. The previous library (the bookshelves are still intact, though they’ve been stripped of their tomes) is now a dimly lit event space, while the lecture hall has morphed into a quirky bar with one major change: instead of displaying equations, the enormous chalkboard advertises drink specials. Even the original boiler room was left behind, though the old coal furnaces were removed to make room for a late-night basement-level club complete with a dance floor. Though you’re sure to spy a few members of the backpacking brigade here, it’s really purveyors of fine design—and an irresistible deal—that are attracted to the boutique-like flair of this pleasing space.
You’ll find all the hostel hallmarks—storage containers, a basic desk-and-chair combo, a plethora of plug sockets—in the twin and quadruple rooms here, which exude a clean and minimalist Scandinavian feel save for the accent walls, which are splattered with graphic prints by local artists. Opt for a room on one of the top two floors, which have floor-to-ceiling windows that look towards leafy Oosterpark.
The sun-drenched Nescio café, named after a Dutch writer, is a consistent crowd-pleaser—and not just because it’s open until 11 p.m. Skip the self-serve continental breakfast for a benedict bagel or their spin on French toast (slathered with peanut butter and jelly). In the evenings, there’s a reliable grab-and-go pizza and sandwich selection in addition to tasty health-conscious mains like zucchini noodles laced with mint and parmesan.
Amsterdam East is the city’s latest hipster haven, where speakeasies cozy up to traditional Turkish bakeries and the hottest clubs stand beside Surinamese supermarkets. The main draw here, though, is Oosterpark, a picnic-friendly spot that also features a number of historic sculptures and monuments.
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563hansye
It is ridiculous that my wallet which contains 500 euros of cash and some of my documents got stolen within my room. I even booked a private room in advance to prevent that from happening. The manager were extremely unfriendly and accused me on blaming them of losing my wallet inside their hotel, under their security system. They offered no compensation, and they are unwilling to take any responsibility for their utterly disgraceful staff and security system. Also, on the next day, one of the other guests has also reported that his room has been entered and his luggages were gone through illegally without his concern. In addition, be extremely cautious before you book this hostel, because in Netherlands, police won't help you as much as you expect them to do under this circumstance.
Rooms were too noisy, a bit overpriced
bavin981844
There was too much noise coming from upstairs, i was staying at the 2nd floor and the isolation brw 2nd and 3rd floos is not good, the hostel is too expensive, the drinks were expensive. The cold water tap in the room(no. 233) was not working properly
Good location. Good staff. Nice environment by the park which is nice. Clean, well decorated. The food at the bar ????????
marionytul1k5kci2019
Good location. Good staff. Nice environment by the park which is nice. Clean, well decorated. The food at the bar is not good enough considering the price. Facilities were ok. They do free tour every morning to visit Amsterdam !
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Jiskha Homework Help
MY question is if a cylinder has a volume of 72cm cubed and a cross-sectional area of 18cm squared. Work out the height of the cylinder
Can someone show me how we do it by the steps
The cross-section of a cylinder is a circle.
so pi(r)^2=18
solve for r
let the height be h cm
volume of cylinder = pi(r^2)h
72 = pi(r^2)h, but you know r, so you can now find h
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Directors and Executive Team
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Karoon is committed to a high standard of corporate governance and fostering a culture that values ethical behaviour, integrity and respect. Operating in accordance with these high standards is essential for sustainable long-term performance and value creation.
As a listed entity Karoon must comply with the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (‘Corporations Act 2001’), the Australian Securities Exchange (‘ASX’) Listing Rules and other Australian and international laws. The ASX Listing Rules require Karoon to report on the extent to which it has followed the Corporate Governance Recommendations contained in the ASX Corporate Governance Council’s Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations (‘ASXCGC Recommendations’).
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The road ends at the AFC Championship for Arrowhead Express
by: John Asebes
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – It is all aboard the last ride of the Arrowhead Express.
“We will probably leave around 7 a.m. That will put us in the tailgate mode around 10:30 a.m.,” says superfan Kelly Kennedy.
The AFC Championship on Sunday will be the last stop for the diesel bus driven by Kennedy.
“There was no way, just no way we could justify that,” says Kennedy
One look at the cost to be in Miami to watch the Big Game, should the Chiefs make it, and he knew it just was not happening.
“We started looking at the tickets and were like, yeah, maybe not so much,” he says.
But you won’t hear Kennedy complaining. Forget the bus, he will still have home-field advantage with the best seats in the house.
“I will be sitting here with a drink in the cup holder and screaming as loud as we can scream,” says Kennedy.
Which means the end of the road for Kennedy and the Arrowhead Express’s last stop.
“I can sit at home and watch it down in my cave on my 150-foot screen,” he says. “The bus and the boys will be here.”
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Man who sued neighbor over Wi-Fi won't pay court fees
Court battle cost neighbor, landlord $85,000 to defend themselves
Updated: 8:53 AM MST Jan 10, 2013
Alana Grimstad
Santa Fe Bureau Reporter
A woman who was sued because her neighbor claimed her electronics made him sick, may have moved. But she can't run from the thousands of dollars of court fees she's had to spend to defend herself.
The Santa Fe woman who was sued because her neighbor said the electromagnetic pulses from her computer made him sick must pay thousands in legal fees even though she won the case.Arthur Firstenberg said it's enough punishment he lost the case. He says he's suffered by having to live near Raphaela Monribot and he shouldn't also have to pay her court costs. A judge in Santa Fe agreed, saying Firstenberg can't afford the nearly $85,000 it cost two people to defend themselves in court, for things like expert witnesses.Firstenberg sued his neighbor, Monribot, who was renting a home adjacent to his. In the suit, Firstenberg claimed Monribot's computer, cellphone and other electronic devices caused him great harm by hurting his health. He said he suffered from everything from headaches to heart complications as a result of the electromagnetic currents.A judge dismissed the lawsuit, saying there wasn't enough evidence to move forward to trial."The case was really about the science and whether there is scientific evidence to show these symptoms are associated with electromagnetic fields. And the answer was clear to the judge. There are not," explains Monribot's attorney, Christopher Graeser. "She was using electronics that everybody had in their house. Our client did nothing wrong."Now, Firstenberg is appealing and that means more legal fees and court costs for Monribot. For example, Monribot's attorney says the appeal is 6,000 pages and cost $2,400 to copy from the court.
SANTA FE, N.M. —
The Santa Fe woman who was sued because her neighbor said the electromagnetic pulses from her computer made him sick must pay thousands in legal fees even though she won the case.
Arthur Firstenberg said it's enough punishment he lost the case. He says he's suffered by having to live near Raphaela Monribot and he shouldn't also have to pay her court costs. A judge in Santa Fe agreed, saying Firstenberg can't afford the nearly $85,000 it cost two people to defend themselves in court, for things like expert witnesses.
Firstenberg sued his neighbor, Monribot, who was renting a home adjacent to his. In the suit, Firstenberg claimed Monribot's computer, cellphone and other electronic devices caused him great harm by hurting his health. He said he suffered from everything from headaches to heart complications as a result of the electromagnetic currents.
A judge dismissed the lawsuit, saying there wasn't enough evidence to move forward to trial.
"The case was really about the science and whether there is scientific evidence to show these symptoms are associated with electromagnetic fields. And the answer was clear to the judge. There are not," explains Monribot's attorney, Christopher Graeser. "She was using electronics that everybody had in their house. Our client did nothing wrong."
Now, Firstenberg is appealing and that means more legal fees and court costs for Monribot. For example, Monribot's attorney says the appeal is 6,000 pages and cost $2,400 to copy from the court.
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Man sues Oregon clinic over donated sperm used for 17 kids
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A man who says his donated sperm was used to father at least 17 children in violation of an agreement that allowed for no more than five has sued an Oregon fertility clinic.
Dr. Bryce Cleary believes it�??s possible that he has many more children from his sperm donations 30 years ago, the Oregonian/OregonLive reported .
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court says Cleary donated his sperm when he was a first-year medical student at Oregon Health & Science University in 1989 after the hospital�??s fertility clinic solicited him and other classmates.
In March 2018, his lawsuit says he began to learn that his sperm donations successfully resulted in the births of some children after two young women, born through the fertility clinic process, contacted him.
The suit says the young women told him they used Ancentry.com data as well as �??specific and substantive information�?? given to them by the fertility clinic to identify more siblings and Cleary himself. Cleary then sent his own DNA to Ancestry.com, discovering that he had at least 17 offspring born through his sperm donations.
Cleary is �??profoundly distressed�?? as he wades through the �??moral, legal, ethical, and personal obligations�?? he now feels toward those 17 children, the lawsuit said. He is seeking $5.25 million.
OHSU spokeswoman Tamara Hargens-Bradley said it treats any allegation of misconduct with �??the gravity it deserves. In light of our patient privacy obligations and the confidentiality of protected health information, we cannot comment on this case.�??
Cleary, who had three sons with his wife, as well as adopted a daughter, says the clinic also breached another promise that all of the children be born to mothers living outside Oregon.
Cleary, who lives in Corvallis, learned that at least two of the offspring have attended the same schools as the children he raised with his wife, according to the lawsuit.
Information from: The Oregonian/OregonLive, http://www.oregonlive.com
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Situated inside a busy UK international airport terminal, above the Virgin Atlantic check-in area, Regus Express Heathrow T3 is a flexible workspace, ideal for travelling entrepreneurs and long-term business users alike. With its private office space, public business lounge and spacious co-working areas, you can be certain there’s a working environment to suit you. There are also a dozen large and small meeting rooms, so if you need somewhere convenient to hold a conference, you’re covered. In fact, whether you’re staying for a few hours, a week, or even a year, the quick-connect Wi-Fi, 24-hour access, shower facilities and admin support at this centre will ensure your productivity soars.
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Modelling of river channel and floodplain dynamics under environmental change
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Advanced Degree (Master's or JD)
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Floodplains and river valleys represent many ecosystem services such as biodiversity, carbon storage, and water buffering. However, these ecosystem services could change under influence of climate change, land use change, urbanization or management of water resources. A sustainable management of floodplains therefore requires fundamental insights into the mid- to long-term geoecohydrological dynamics of rivers and floodplains. In this project you will develop a numerical model that simulates channel morphology dynamics (incision/aggradation – bank erosion/point bar deposition) following changes in flood hydrology and sediment transport. For the latter, you will make use of existing hydrology and spatially distributed erosion and sediment delivery models. The combination of a river channel morphology model with a hydrology and sediment transport model will make it possible to forecast how environmental change may impact flood frequency and sediment deposition in floodplains. Available data on changes in channel morphology will be used to validate the channel morphology model, whilst sediment load and discharge records will be used to validate the hydrology-sediment transport model. Whilst many hydrology, sediment transport and river channel morphology models do exist, these often do not interact sufficiently to simulate the impact of changes in e.g. climate or land cover on flood frequency when also the river channel morphology changes. There is thus a need to develop channel hydrology models that are capable of simulating changes in river channel morphologies following changes in controlling factors such as river discharge, sediment transport and riparian vegetation. With this project, it is aimed to develop such a novel and dynamic model that is capable to couple hillslope processes,channel processes and floodplain processes and that is able to simulate the impact of changes in the driving forces on the morphological evolution of channels and floodplains.
We offer a fully funded PhD-scholarship for 2 years at the Division of Geography and Tourism within the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (KU Leuven, Belgium) , which can be extended with another 1 to 2 years.
Alternatively, excellent postdoctoral researchers with relevant expertise will also be considered for this position, however, with a limitation of 2 years.
Leuven is a medieval university town a charming place with many historical buildings. The University of Leuven is among the oldest universities in Western Europe, and today it is the largest university in Belgium. Situated at the heart of Europe, KU Leuven offers a vibrant and international setting, supported by fast connections to several European cities (twenty minutes by train to Brussels, two hours to Cologne, three hours to Amsterdam, and an hour and a half to Paris). The KU Leuven Arenberg Doctoral School (https://set.kuleuven.be/phd) supports training of the PhD students. Currently 60% of the doctoral students are international students. KU Leuven pursues an equal opportunities and diversity policy.
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have (or are about to finish) a Master degree in a relevant discipline (physical geography, earth sciences, geology, environmental sciences, hydraulic engineering, etc.) or that already obtained a PhD in the field of numerical modelling of river channels
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have ample experience with numerical modelling techniques (e.g. matlab, python, R or other programs).
are able to work independently but also within a team of researchers.
have a critical and creative mindset, as well as a strong motivation.
are willing to contribute to geomorphic field work in rivers and floodplain environments.
are willing to contribute to the BSc and/or MSc programs in Geography (e.g. through supervision of practical sessions and/or field trips).
For more information please contact Prof. dr. Gert Verstraeten, tel.: +32 16 32 64 11, mail: gert.verstraeten@kuleuven.be or dr. Nils Broothaerts, tel.: +32 16 37 22 86, mail: nils.broothaerts@kuleuven.be.
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MSI X600 Review
By Avram Piltch - LAPTOP Online Editorial Director 2009-08-09T04:00:00Z
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MSI's 15.6-inch notebook is the slimmest and lightest in its class and offers good graphics performance.
Lightest, thinnest 15-inch notebookStrong graphics performanceGood battery life
Keyboard a bit crampedWarm temperaturesWeak speakers
The MSI X600 is the 15.6-inch entry in the company's X-Slim series of super-svelte notebooks. Like the X340 did for 13-inch laptops, the X600 ($799) pushes the envelope of portability for 15-inch systems by offering an incredibly light chassis with MacBook Air-like curves. The combination of a discrete ATI GPU and an Intel Ultra-Low Voltage processor give the X600 both good graphics performance and strong battery life. For less than the X600's $799 price tag, you can find heavier 15-inch notebooks with better overall performance or longer endurance, but overall this notebook has plenty of appeal for those who don't need an optical drive.
Slim, Lightweight Design
At just under an inch thick, the X600 may just be the slimmest 15-inch notebook yet. It's half an inch slimmer thanthe Gateway NV Series, and about 0.2 inches slimmer than the Sony VAIO NW and the Acer Aspire Timeline 5810T. The notebook's slim profile is possible because MSI omits an internal optical drive, although the company bundles an external DVD burner.
At 4.8 pounds, the X600 is also the lightest 15-inch notebook we've tested, coming out 0.8 pounds lighter than the Sony VAIO NW and Gateway NV, and 0.6 pounds lighter than the Aspire Timeline 5810T. However, the DVD burner itself is 0.8 pounds, so if you take it with you, you'll be carrying the same 5.6 pounds worth of notebook as you would with the Gateway and Sony systems.
Like the X340 and the MacBook Air, the X600 has slick, rounded curves. However, unlike the aluminum Air and MacBook Pro, the X600 is made out of lightweight glossy plastic, in either black or silver. We recommend the silver version, which is resistant to fingerprints.
MSI managed to pack plenty of ports into the X600's slim chassis. In addition to the standard audio jacks, 2-in-1 memory card reader, VGA, Ethernet, and 2 USB ports, the X600 has an eSATA/USB port for connecting to high-speed backup devices and an HDMI-out jack for outputting high definition video to a television or HDMI-compatible monitor.
Keyboard and Touchpad
The wide chassis allows the X600 to have a large, 103-key keyboard, complete with numeric keypad. The keys offered decent tactile feedback, and the board does not suffer from flex. Unfortunately, typing on the large keyboard was a bit uncomfortable because there's too much space between the wide, flat keys on the home row and the undersized backspace, enter, and right shift keys. When trying to correct typos or enter a hard return, we had to stretch our right pinky finger farther than normal, and kept missing the appropriate key.
When taking the Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor test the first time, we kept missing these vital keys, and produced a weak 74 word per minute (80 is normal for us). However, after we got used to the keyboard, we took the test a second time and returned a strong score of 86 words per minute. However, even after we got used to it, our right pinky was still uncomfortable with the long motion needed to hit enter and backspace.
The large touchpad, with its accurate textured surface, is more pleasant to use, and even supports multitouch gestures. We were able to zoom in and out on the desktop by pinching and scroll up and down in Internet Explorer by dragging two fingers. The touchpad buttons were responsive, though we wish they were separate rather than a single bar.
Display and Webcam
The 15.6-inch display on the X600 has a native resolution of 1366 x 768, which is typical for LCD panels of this size; considering that the 13.4-inch X340 has the same resolution, we would have preferred more onscreen real estate. With more than 768 pixels of vertical space, users would have to do far less scrolling when viewing Web pages and reading Word documents. The glossy screen is reasonably bright when viewed directly, but colors wash out when viewed from above or from greater than a 45-degree angle. We also were able to see our reflection in the screen if the lid was not at the correct angle.
The X600's 1.3-megapixel webcam provides good image quality, even in low light. When conducting a Skype call, our friend reported that our image was smooth and sharp, even when we waved our hand rapidly in front of the camera.
You probably won't want to use the MSI X600 as a home theater substitute. Video was smooth, but extremely blocky and filled with noise, both when we watched a streaming HD video of Fringe from Fox.com and when we watched a DVD of Dark City (using the external optical drive).
Though the X600's optical drive does not support Blu-ray, its ATI Radeon HD 4330 graphics chip is fast enough to play back Blu-ray discs. Using an external Blu-ray drive, a trial version of CyberLink PowerDVD 9, and an HDMI cable, we were able to output a Blu-ray disc of Heroes to a 32-inch Samsung HDTV. The disc played smoothly, though the picture suffered from some visual noise.
The sound coming from the two bottom-mounted speakers was tinny and incredibly distorted, both when we watched videos and when we listened to music. Even at maximum volume, it sounded like we were listening to people speak (or sing) through a pillow.
Intel's Ultra-Low Voltage processors are designed to save space and power, not return blazing fast speeds. So we weren't surprised when the X600 and its 1.4-GHz Core 2 Solo processor got a rather low score of 1,850 on PCMark Vantage, a program that measures overall system performance. That score is well below the 3,138 category average for mainstream notebooks, and trails way behind the Gateway NV (3,262) and Sony VAIO NW (3,334). However, it is significantly higher than the Acer Aspire Timeline 5810T, which also has a low voltage processor.
The processor also caused the X600 to lag behind the pack on our transcoding test, in which we convert a 5:05 MPEG-4 video clip to AVI format using Handbrake. The X600's time of 18 minutes and 30 seconds was well behind the 5:43 category average for mainstream notebooks and the 7:20 and 7:22 returned by the Gateway NV and Sony VAIO NW. However, the X600 was a bit faster than the Acer Aspire Timeline 5810T, which took 20:01.
Despite the weak performance on these particular tests, we had no problem performing common everyday tasks such as surfing the Web, editing documents, browsing photos, or making Skype calls.
The X600 booted Windows Vista Home in a rather slow 1 minute and 10 seconds, but its speedy hard drive could not have been to blame. The 500GB, 5,400-rpm Western Digital drive completed our LAPTOP Transfer Test, in which we copy 4.97GB of mixed media from one folder to another, in just 3 minutes and 40 seconds, for a rate of 23.1 MBps. That score is significantly faster than the 18.7 MBps category average for mainstream notebooks, as well as the 17.5 and 18.3 MBps returned by the Gateway NV and Sony VAIO NW, respectively.
The MSI X600's ATI Radio HD 4330 discrete graphics chip helped the system achieve a strong score of 2,246 on 3DMark06, which measures graphics performance. This score was more than double those of the Gateway NV (942) and Sony VAIO NW (1,000), and almost quadruple that of the Acer Aspire Timeline 5810T (574).
While that score is below the category average of 2,971 for all mainstream notebooks, it's important to remember that the mainstream notebook category contains some high-end gaming systems, and other premium performers like the 15-inch MacBook Pro.
The graphics performance on the X600 is even good enough to do some gaming. At 1024 x 768 resolution, the system got a frame rate of 25 fps in the graphically-intense Far Cry 2, which is about average when compared to other mainstream notebooks, but way ahead of competitors like the Gateway NV and Sony VAIO NW, which had slideshow-like rates of 5 and 6 fps, respectively. At its native resolution, the X600's frame rate dropped to a mere 13 fps, which is not really playable, but still way better than the 3 fps that both the Gateway and Sony got.
The X600's Intel WiFi Link 5100 802.11n card produced a transfer rate of 19.2 and 15.5 Mbps at distances of 15 and 50 feet from our test router. These rates were close to the category averages of 19.1 and 15.8 Mbps.
On our LAPTOP Battery Test, which involves continuous surfing over Wi-Fi, the X600 lasted 4 hours and 11 minutes, which is well above the 3:23 category average, and nearly an hour longer than the Sony VAIO NW (3:23) and Gateway NV (3:20) systems. However, the Acer Aspire Timeline 5810T lasted a whopping 6 hours and 10 minutes, which is two hours longer.
MSI told us that an expanded nine-cell battery will be available as an accessory, but pricing was unavailable at the time of this review.
Green Testing
Despite using an ultra-low power processor, the X600 isn't that much more efficient than other mainstream notebooks. It took 3 hours and 13 minutes for the X600 to fully recharge. During that time, it consumed an average of 45.7 watts, for a total of 8820.1 watts. The X600's LAPTOP Battery Efficiency Rating (total watts while recharging divided by battery life) of 35.1 is only about 3 watts below the mainstream average, and more than double that of the Acer Timeline 5810T. The MSI X600 is not rated by EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool).
While the X600 won't burn your fingers or singe your lap, it will make your wrists uncomfortably warm. While measuring the temperature during our battery test, we found the area between the G and H keys to be a reasonable 90.5 degrees Fahrenheit (temps below 95 are OK, while 90 degrees or below is ideal), and the back bottom was 91 degrees. However, the touchpad reached an unpleasant 99.5 degrees. While using the system, we were constantly aware of the heat beneath our wrists, and tried to avoid resting them on the deck, which was adjacent to the touchpad (and just as hot).
Software and Warranty
The X600 comes bundled with some applications to help you take advantage of all its features. Ulead Burn Now 4.5 lets you write to DVDs and CDs using the external optical drive. ArcSoft Print Creations lets you print photo albums, greeting cards, and calendars. MSI EasyViewer provides an attractive interface for viewing photos, though we prefer the simplicity of Windows Vista's built-in photo viewer.
MSI EasyFace facial recognition software lets you log into the system just by staring into the camera. We found its accuracy to be a mixed bag. When we attempted to log in immediately after configuring the software, EasyFace was so fast that it registered our face before we had a chance to put our fingers on the keyboard to type our Windows password. However, it failed to detect our face the next morning in the same room but with different light, and we were forced to type our password instead.
In an attempt to make the Windows UI more attractive and easy-to-use, MSI has created its own dock software, called MSI S-Bar, which sits above the task bar and contains shortcuts to your favorite applications. While you can customize the S-Bar to have any shortcuts you want and to auto-hide when other applications are on top of it, some may find it to be an eyesore. If you don't like it, the S-Bar is easy to disable or uninstall.
MSI backs the X600 with a generous three-year limited warranty, and offers tech support from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. (EST) Monday through Friday.
The MSI X600 impresses with its thin profile and very light weight, strong graphics performance, and solid battery life. Its sub-five-pound frame, coupled with a unique combination of an Ultra-Low Voltage processor and discrete graphics, are innovations you won't find elsewhere.
However, if multimedia playback is more important, you might prefer the Sony VAIO NW, which provides Blu-ray playback and crisp audio for the same price. If value and processing power are paramount, the $599 Gateway NV, which has a much faster processor, might be more your speed. And if you want longer battery life, the Acer Aspire Timeline 5810T lasts two hours longer for $200 less. However, if you want the thinnest and lightest 15.6-inch notebook on the block, the MSI X600 is an attractive choice.
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HTC Arrive Review
By Brian Oliver Bennett - LAPTOP Senior Writer 2011-03-21T04:00:00Z
A large keyboard, tilt-up display, and strong audio quality make the HTC Arrive a satisfying Windows Phone 7 device.
Fast and responsive performance
Good keyboard
Excellent speakers
High-end design
Solid call quality
Bulky and heavy
No 4G data
Slow camera
Even in the face of the Android onslaught, Windows Phone 7 devices are making strides. The new $199 HTC Arrive for Sprint is an excellent case in point. This device features a large sliding QWERTY keyboard and a tilt-up display that makes it easy to view content. This is also the first Windows Phone 7 handset to support copy and paste. When you add Microsoft's time-saving Live Tile interface to HTC's solid hardware you have a compelling combination. How compelling? Read on.
When you pick up the HTC Arrive, the first thing that strikes you is its heft. At 6.5 ounces, it's heavier than the HTC Evo 4G (6 ounces), the HTC Evo Shift 4G (5.8 ounces), and the HTC Thunderbolt (6.2 ounces). However, the Arrive definitely feels high-end; it's clad in a sophisticated palette of graphite gray, silver, and black. Measuring 4.6 x 2.3 x 0.6 inches, the Arrive is about as thick as the HTC Surround (0.5 inches) and the Shift 4G (0.6 inches), but its rounded edges help disguise its bulk.
The 3.6-inch screen on the Arrive is framed by slick-looking metallic grilles on the top and bottom, with a notification light peeking through on the top left. Below the display are backlit feather-touch buttons for Back, Search, and Start. There's no front-facing camera, though. The grille-like border surrounding the keyboard has larger openings, which provides a nice contrast to the display.
Click to enlargeA 3.5mm headphone jack and power button are located on the top edge of the Arrive. The back of the phone houses the 5-megapixel camera and flash. A gray metal battery cover hides the phone's power cell. The left side has a volume rocker and microUSB port, while a dedicated camera button sits on the right.
The HTC Arrive's 3.6-inch WVGA (800 x 480) touchscreen display is nearly identical to its Android cousin, the HTC Evo Shift 4G. However, this screen tilts upward about 45 degrees when you slide out the keyboard, making it more laptop-like. In other words, you don't need a kickstand to view content on a desk or table. The panel is not as big or as gorgeous as the 4-inch Super AMOLED display (800 x 480) on the Samsung Focus, but images looked vibrant and text in Office looked crisp.
With a push, the HTC Arrive's spring-loaded keyboard slides open, snapping into position with authority. This phone's backlit five-row QWERTY layout is fairly well designed--with a couple of exceptions. The dedicated number row is certainly welcome, and the flat rectangular keys have a good amount of spacing and provide a small click when pressed. Still, the key travel could have been a little deeper. By comparison, the Evo Shift 4G's keyboard lacks a number row but feels slightly more sturdy.
Just like on the Evo Shift 4G, HTC thoughtfully provides a Shift and an Fn key that light up when pressed. We question, however, the need for a special button to pull up an extensive list of emoticons. A dedicated @ or .com key would be much more useful.
Click to enlargeAs a Windows Phone 7 device, the HTC Arrive has the familiar Live Tile interface that occupies the phone's home screen. These large tiles sport clean, streamlined icons for launching applications and in some cases have slick animations. They definitely make the phone feel lively, fresh, and keyed in to your personality.
For example, the People tile syncs in real time with your Facebook account, and shows images in its background. Default tiles include Internet Explorer, Mail, Messaging, and People, along with a TeleNav GPS app for driving directions.
A separate HTC Hub features a weather/clock plus some suggested apps for download. If the stock selection isn't for you, tiles can be pinned or removed from the home screen at will, adding to the level of personalization. Also nice is the lock screen, which displays agenda items and the number of new messages received.
Despite its attractive interface, Windows Phone 7 has been criticized for lacking features its competitors (Android and iOS) have. These include multitasking, full Twitter integration, and cut and paste. The first two aren't coming until later, but thankfully a recent update has added cut and paste.
We were able to highlight words in e-mail just by touching the screen and then sliding the little markers. We then simply copied and pasted the info into a calendar entry. This feature doesn't seem to work across all programs, though. For instance, while we could paste text from an SMS into an e-mail, we couldn't paste it into a Facebook message.
Windows Phone 7 also isn't optimized for landscape-oriented phones like this one. The home screen, main menu, and apps such as Facebook and Slacker only displayed in portrait mode.
Click to enlargeThe Windows Marketplace now offers more than 10,000 apps. Of course, the Apple App store has more than 300,000 and Android boasts more than 200,000. Still, the selection is getting better all the time. While we could find Facebook and Slacker, Tweetdeck wasn't available, nor was Angry Birds. We also had trouble with Foursquare: Upon launch, the app couldn't sign us in. However, we were able to stream movies using the Netflix app, something we can't do (yet) on Android.
E-mail and Messaging
As with other Windows Phone 7 handsets, e-mail on the HTC Arrive is made easy by a clean and thoughtful interface. The phone supports Google, Outlook, and standard POP and IMAP accounts, and you can swipe through e-mail categories such as flagged, unread, and urgent. Selecting multiple messages at once is done by handily clicking on the left side of the screen. Accounts can't be unified, though.
Text messages are displayed with cute conversation bubbles, and a thoughtful icon lets users quickly attach photos. Photos can only be sent via SMS, and Windows Phone 7 still lacks a separate and powerful instant messaging app such as Google Talk for Android.
Using its 3G connection, the HTC Arrive loaded full desktop web pages pretty quickly. The handset opened the New York Times homepage in 13 seconds; it took the phone a faster 9 seconds to render Yahoo.com, and 12 seconds to load ESPN. Mobile versions were a little faster, with ESPN, the New York Times, and Yahoo loading in an average of 8.6, 10.3, and 9.5 seconds, respectively. Pinch and zoom gestures were also very smooth and let us manipulate pages with no noticeable delay.
Using the BandWidth app in the Marketplace, we measured an average download speed of 1.5 Mbps and 500 Kbps for uploads. That's pretty good, but 4G phones like the HTC Evo Shift 4G delivered download speeds between 6.7 and 9.4 Mbps. Upload performance for the 4G handset were twice as fast, at about 1 Mbps. You can't use the Arrive as a hotspot, as you can with Android phones.
Click to enlargeRunning a 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and outfitted with 576MB of RAM and 512MB of ROM, the HTC Arrive felt very quick. Graphical elements spun with speed, and we flipped through menus without seeing any lag. Data-intensive apps such as the Marketplace took about 4 seconds to load, which is not bad at all.
The Arrive comes with a whopping 16GB of internal memory, which should supply plenty of storage for music, photos, and apps. Just keep in mind that you don't get a memory card slot.
A major selling point of Windows Phone 7 is access to Xbox Live games. While the selection isn't as vast as Apple's, you can definitely have some fun on the Arrive between meetings. We were quickly destroying bad guys when playing The Harvest. Blasting Storm Troopers was also fun in Star Wars: Battle For Hoth. Even better: We had the option of trying these games before actually spending money.
Make no bones about it: The HTC Arrive has killer audio, at least for a phone. Located on the left side of the keyboard, the speaker pumps out audio that's loud and clear; at max volume, Deluka's "Cascade" really rocked, filling a small room. SRS Enhancement, which we downloaded from the HTC Hub, added more depth to tunes, too. More bass would be great, but you'll be hard-pressed to find better audio on a phone, save the HTC Surround.
The HTC Arrive's powerful audio pairs well with the included Zune music service, another of WP7's entertainment strengths. Songs can be downloaded directly to the phone via the Zune marketplace, with tracks costing $1.29 and albums going for $9.99. A Zune Pass subscription includes all-you-can-eat downloads for $14.99 a month, three months for $44.97, and a year for $149.90.
Zune video downloads are much more complicated. Users must first download a movie using the Zune desktop app and then sync it with the phone. Also, users must put up with Microsoft's confusing point system for purchases.
Camera and Camcorder
The HTC Arrive comes with a 5-MP camera with flash, which shot average photos. Colors in daytime shots of a park showed pleasingly green grass, blue sky, and bright flowers, but details weren't very sharp. The camera's autofocus was also a little slow, taking about a second to lock on. Still, it's nice to have a dedicated shutter button that fires up the camera even when the phone is locked.
The Arrive can also 720p video. The footage we took looked a little blocky, an effect that worsened as we panned around. As with all Windows Phone 7 devices, the Arrive doesn't let you simply drag and drop files onto your desktop via USB. You must use the Zune software, which is annoying.
Call Quality and Battery Life
On our test calls using the HTC Arrive, callers said we sounded loud and clear--even in a crowded Manhattan park filled with Saint Patrick's Day revelers. Callers' voices were pleasing to our ears, with no distortion.
Click to enlargeWith a 1,500 mAh Lithium-ion battery, the Arrive is rated to provide up to 6 hours of talk time. During periodic usage, which included web surfing, playing music, and reading e-mail, we observed a good 9 hours of runtime. So you should be able to make it through most or all of a workday with this phone.
The HTC Arrive is definitely one of the best Windows Phone 7 devices yet. While the $199 price is a little steep, this phone stacks up well against the Samsung Focus for AT&T. The Focus has a better AMOLED display and a lighter design, but the Arrive has an excellent physical keyboard and very good audio. For $50 less, the HTC Evo Shift 4G on Sprint offers much faster 4G connectivity and access to a lot more apps. But if you like the idea of owning a Windows Phone 7 handset, the Arrive is a solid choice for work and play.
Audio formats supported M4B, M4A, WMA, MP3
Bluetooth Type Bluetooth 2.1 EDR with A2DP
Brand HTC
CPU 1GHz Qualcomm QSD8650
Camera Resolution 5 MP
Carrier Sprint
Company Website http://www.htc.com
Data EV-DO Rev. A
Display (main) 3.6-inch WVGA capacitive touch screen
Form Factor QWERTY Slider
Internal Memory 16GB
Memory Expansion Type N/A
Networks CDMA 800/1900
Operating System Windows Phone 7
Photo formats supported JPEG
Ports microUSB, 3.5mm headphone
Size 4.6 x 2.3 x 0.6
Talk / Standby Time up to 6 hours talk time
Video formats supported MBR, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, WMV, MP4
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n
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WHAT PROGRAM? This could easily go under our F.A.Q., but we get the question often enough that we've devoted an entire page to it. It mostly comes from ATOMS parents thinking of doing ATOMS again or moving up to a team.
We'll try and give some tips to help you decide but ultimately it's up to your and your player. If you've completed a season of ATOMS then we feel confident that your players will have the familiarity with the skills in order to improve them quickly. Obviously some players are natural quick learners and thrive on challenges, others may learn new things at their pace and spending more time building confidence is what they need. Parents will be a pretty good judge of that. No Ego's allowed!
Costs - ATOMS is by far the cheapest hockey around. You'll pay $45 at USA Hockey, then $60 (Both Phases) at LAHA and $62 at the Rink for a Season Pass - ATOMS jerseys are included.
To join a Recreational Team, you'll pay $45 at USA Hockey, then $90 at LAHA and $180.25 at the rink for a Season Pass - Rec Team jerseys are included.
House league team registration is included in the Recreational Team registration. Games are played on the weekends at Los Alamos between teams constructed of LAHA players to achieve competitive balance. All House games are non-checking.
Tournament teams are by invitation only. The rosters are chosen by the coaches based on playing skills and other factors. Registration fees for each tournament are divided evenly between the players traveling for each individual tournament. Team jerseys are required and cost ~$65. The teams travel to other rinks and most attend tournaments in New Mexico and Southern Colorado at an additional cost (however they are optional).
Gear Costs are common to both programs.
Time Commitment - ATOMS has the smallest time commitment as well. There are two practices per week at 1.25 hours each. There are no games, but this year we've allotted time on most Saturdays and Sundays for scrimmages. The scrimmages are optional but they certainly are fun and the players have a great time.
Recreational teams also practice twice per week for 1.25 - 1.5 hours each night. Games are played on weekends at all the different rinks in New Mexico. Game schedules are set so that there are typically 2 games played at a venue and a team will usually only play on one day on a weekend. However, there are occassionaly games on both days of a weekend. Teams also occassionally travel to various tournaments during the season.
Most teams will typically play between 15 and 20 games in a season. Away games are played about 2 times per month
Skills Required and Skill Development - While all LAHA programs will focus on fundamental skill development - the ATOMS program spends most of the time on the individual skills of skating, puck control, passing and shooting. ATOMS players are separated by age and ability so that we can have age/level specific instruction and drills. Individual playing rules are introduced along with these skills. Basic Concepts of team play are introduced later in ATOMS but are not a primary focus of the drills and instruction.
Recreational Teams will focus on idividual skills and team skills. Concepts of team play are taught so that the team may compete in organized games. Team and game play rules are taught to the players. Obviously in order to excecute team skills, the basic individual skills must be present. Players will have plenty of opportunities to improve individual skills. Individual Skill proficiency is not required to play.
Candid Answer - ATOMS is structured so that players from Groups B or C can and do move up a group when their skills improve. Going from Group C to a rec team is not uncommon but also not the typical progression for 90% of the players. Staying within the same ATOMS group is also not unheard of. Even the PROS work on fundamental skills and there aren't ANY LAHA players that couldn't use the whole season just for improving fundamental skills. The players' desire to play then becomes the major factor for change. Players in Groups A and B should consider moving to a team at the completion of ATOMS.
Skill progressions come from the following USA Hockey Publication - Skill Progression for Players and Coaches. If you browse this handbook please keep in mind that the skills and knowlege listed for each level are assumed to be taught in that level and not necessarily mastered before the start of that level.
Every player is different, they play for different reasons, they learn and become proficient at different rates. For that reason it is impossible to give a single answer to the question on where to go next.
Don't hesitate to contact the coaches from both levels to get an idea where your specific player might fit the best.
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3 Easy But Essential Photoshop Tips
By Geoff Harris • December 16th, 2013
It must be odd to create a product or brand that then becomes shorthand for other similar products or brands. Take Adobe Photoshop. If you've only heard of one image-editing software package it'll be Photoshop. In fact, to Photoshop something, is an accepted synonym for altering or manipulating an image.
The ubiquity of Photoshop means that there are lots of excellent tips and shortcuts that show you how to radically alter an image. However, there's generally very little in the way of well...smaller, quirkier and arguably more useful techniques. Here's three that I use regularly.
Spotting dust and other blemishes is strangely easier when the colours in the image have been inverted.
My first digital DSLR was a dust magnet. You either had to clean it every other day or be prepared to remove dust digitally in postproduction. Fortunately, DSLRs have come on a long way and dust is not as big a problem as it once was. However, images do occasionally need dust removing (the image library I supply too quite rightly insists that images are completely dust free). Dust however can be hard to see, particularly in areas light but even tone such as sky.
The easiest way to spot dust is to add an Invert adjustment layer over the image. This inverts the colours, making areas such as sky often close to black. Once you've done this select the image (Background) layer, view it at 100%, and remove dust using either the Clone or Spot Healing brush. When you're happy that you've spotted all the dust you then delete the Invert adjustment layer.
Seeing problems more easily
Try zooming out to see your image more objectively.
Viewing an image at 100% is great when you want to check fine details. However, it's not so good at letting you assess an image as a whole (unless you have an absolutely enormous - and very high-resolution - monitor). Oddly enough however, it's often easier to see the faults of an image when it's relatively small on the screen.
I often zoom out to 5-10% magnification so that I see the image as an almost postage stamp-sized thumbnail. It's certainly easier to spot whether the overall compositional balance of an image is correct than when the image fills the screen (rotating the image 180° helps too).
Sharpening using the High Pass filter
The unsharpened image.
The sharpened image, once it's been flattened
Sharpening an image using Photoshop's Sharpen filter is very destructive. Sharpen works by increasing edge contrast, which tricks the eye into believing the image is sharper. However, apply too much contrast and edges are blighted by an ugly halo. Another way to create the appearance of sharpness is to use the High Pass filter.
Once you've applied the High Pass filter to your layer it should look something like this...
First, create a copy of your Background layer. Next, select the High Pass filter (Filter > Other > High Pass). Move the slider to a value somewhere between 4.5 pixels and 10. The higher the value the more pronounced the sharpening effect. The layer will now look decidedly odd. Don't worry! Go to the Layers palette and set the Blend mode to Overlay.
Your image should now look sharper. To vary the effect change the Opacity of the layer. You can then either save the image as a Tiff or Psd file to preserve the layering or, more daringly, flatten the layers and save the image as a Jpeg (though I'd be tempted not to overwrite the original image, keep that preserved unchanged and save a copy instead).
Geoff Harris
I am a photography journalist and photographer and currently work as the Deputy Editor of Amateur Photographer (AP) the oldest weekly photographic magazine in the world. Before that I served as the editor of Digital Camera, Britain's best-selling photography magazine, for five years. During my time as editor it became the UK's top selling photo monthly and won Print Publication of the Year at the 2013 British Media Awards. As well as being lucky enough to get paid to write about photography, I've been fortunate to interview some of the greatest photographers in the world, including Elliott Erwitt, Don McCullin, Martin Parr, Terry O'Neill, Steve McCurry and the late Mary Ellen Mark. This has been a wonderful learning experience and very influential on my photography. Beyond writing, I am a professional portrait, travel and documentary photographer, and reached the finals of the 2016 Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year competition. I am a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society and hope to take my Associateship whenever I can find the time.
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What Does Liberation Do?
The remedy helps us to deal with the conceptual, spiritual, karmic, environmental and existential issues we all face because it lightens our load. When we are carrying less weight we have greater internal resources at our disposal to use for whatever it is we wish to do.
This substance will give you the breathing space and equilibrium to deal with things while shielding you from some of the more extreme environmental fluctuations we face on a daily basis. It also flushes residual memories from the body which brings to light experiences long forgotten that have been sitting in the subconscious and the cellular memory.
Liberation helps us to resolve the incomplete business of reality and what-if scenarios that we have buried in the past and are therefore unfinished in memory. Liberation also deals with the memories we would normally only deal with as we die when we are forced to deal with our whole lives in a giant flash, most likely in a state of fear. With Liberation we get to methodically work through the mass of our own accumulated memory in our own time and at a pace of our choosing.
If we do this process in advance we may rise above and ride the wave of dissolution that is already upon us, otherwise we will definitely be swept under by the weight of our collective memories.
This remedy uncouples the memories stored in our bodies from the emotions that lock them there so we feel them once again in a flash and then they are free to exit the body. This leaves us stronger and more grounded since that which was bound is bound no more, and the energy that was being used to hold that memory, and the energy of the memory itself, is now free for us to use elsewhere.
This translates into greater focus, less energy loss and greater openness as we are not guarding the wounds anymore, and this allows us to be the person we truly want to be and are – not the person who has been hiding under the covers from all their wounding.
When the boat is taking on water we need to get rid of as much extra baggage as we can in order to weather the storm. Also so that afterwards we may float lightly in the water and ride the waves with ease. This is exactly what Liberation does.
The Ingredients – In depth
The first ingredient in Liberation is this enhanced and layered version of Navaratna, which is made from nine gems, each of which is burnt a hundred times in order to bring out their deeper powers. This formulation was originally made in India by Nagarjuna, an enlightened Buddhist alchemist in the third century, and was specifically designed to flush karma from the body.
It takes a year to make a batch of this as they have to burn and reburn each of the substances separately and then combine them into this formulation.
When I amplified this substance even further, I found that it goes back to unfinished events in one’s past and plays the outcome out as dreams where you see what would have happened if you had married that girl when you were 20, for example, or if you had left the country, or if you had not had that accident…
All of these states represent the ‘what if’ scenarios, which we often can’t let go of and which we ponder endlessly. If left unresolved, these ‘what ifs’ sit and fester in us, tying up energy until they are seen, brought to completion and then let go of.
Since these events did not occur, the unfinished story takes up space in our cells, a story that can never be laid to rest – unless we see it in its entirety in a dream or in a full body waking memory of that event. Then it can fall away for better or worse, and we can make peace with it as we have seen the outcome. The poisoned dart that has been sitting in our flesh can be pulled out to free up space and energy for new outcomes and fresh storylines in the present. The snake eats its tail and then the story falls away.
Now, I would argue that a lot of our karma is bound up in this and we only need to repeat lessons if we have not gone through them and resolved them.
This particular format of the Navaratna affords us the ability to finally put things to rest, often things long forgotten by the conscious mind but buried deep in the body memory and frozen in time.
Somehow this amplified version of Navaratna is able to go back to those frozen states and put them into motion. This allows them to come to completion through dreams and then fall away as they have literally been experienced in the body, not just as an idea.
I have seen this in action a number of times in myself and in others and it astounds me each time I see it work.
The next ingredient, also a strong version of the original, is Shungite which is used traditionally to shield things from electromagnetic fields.
It is also used as a substance which purifies water, which is of particular interest to us as we are made primarily from water. It will clean and filter the water in us so that we can run smoother and cleaner. How exactly it does this is still not known, but it does appear to remove the impurities and the things that would make us sick from the water, and will work in the same way within our bodies.
In addition to this it will aid us in remaining free from the shadow of the various electromagnetic fields that we are bombarded with, most importantly the ocean of wi-fi we all swim in.
PANCH AGNI
The next ingredient is called panch agni and is made from the ash of four fires that have been burning continuously for the last 50 years. I have made this remedy up into a strong version that is more potent than the original. Panch means ‘five’ and the fifth fire is the sun.
In the middle of these four fires there has been someone who has been continuously chanting a purification mantra. Now, it is not one person – they take turns in the middle of the four fires, but the mantra has been going on unceasingly for the last 50 years as have the fires.
This remedy represents the burning up of the obscuring and binding emotions that we all face and is something very special and precious as it represents a distilled continuous focus and timeline of 50 years of a physical and spiritual practice.
This substance, when consumed, gives an incredible sense of our own lightness, as if our cells were being bubbled or boiled in light. It also has the added benefit of flushing residual grunge from the system as it truly embodies the phoenix rising from the ashes, purified of its past patterning.
KUNJIKA
The final main ingredient is also from a mantra, the Kunjika mantra, and for me this represents the right mood of the moment, of transforming whatever is in our path with the attitude of taking no nonsense from the world. Kunjika is aligned to Durga, the aspect of Kali that rides the tiger and goes out into the world punishing those who misbehave.
My experience with this remedy is that it just clears the path before one; things that normally would be an obstruction or a problem just melt away and one becomes quite resolute in one’s actions. It’s as though people sense one’s no-nonsense attitude and so don’t hassle or challenge you, which just makes everything much easier.
Now when all of these things are taken together as one substance it gives one the mood of lightness, which is simultaneously empowered and protected, while ones old memories are dealt with effortlessly and shed in ones dreams or in waking life.
The foundation of Liberation, the pedestal upon which it sits if you like, is an amplified combination of royal jelly, the light of Jupiter (which is all about expansion), the flower of the Protea plant and the reishi mushroom, which bind the main forces together into a smooth whole.
This combination of base remedies and substances generates a calm, relaxed mood from which to process one’s accumulated memories.
Royal Jelly: The essence of regality, the sense of effortless embodiment of ones right to be alive and flourish
Light of Jupiter: light collected from Jupiter’s passage over a night through a telescope into water. This generates the feeling of expansiveness and abundance the mood of celebration
Protea flower: Generates the almost childlike abandon of simple enjoyment of the little things, the feeling of a child watching a butterfly for the first time.
Reishi mushroom: An adaptogenic mushroom which helps tie all the ingredients together. One of the abilities of reishi is to raise up what is too low and lower what is too high so it balances the ingredients out and lets them work in synthesis and harmony.
Alchemical and Quantum Entanglement Processes used in the creation of Liberation
The making of Liberation required the invention of a new technology which essentially folds the substances back upon themselves like a Japanese sword; the layers of the frequency are in essence woven into each other to create a much stronger effect. This allows a much deeper ripple to spread out when Liberation is consumed. Normally we create a ripple in a pond when we take an energetic medicine hence the subtlety but here we are not throwing a pebble in a pond, we are throwing in a grapefruit.
The actual process whereby these stronger effects are created is my own but if we were to image these new enhanced frequencies we would see not an outline of a substance but more of what we see when we cut down a tree and look at its multiple rings. These multiple rings allow for a much deeper and sustained effect on the body which is why people often feel the effect of Liberation even minutes after taking it.
The components of the remedy have also been altered from their original forms using aspects of sacred geometric pattern repetition and sequences of clockwise and anticlockwise rotation which ensures their deeper action on the body.
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The dream and the underworld
by James Hillman
Book, 1979
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Analytical Psychology By Jungian Analysts
New York : Harper & Row, c1979.
vi, 243 p.; 21 cm
In a deepening of the thinking begun in The Myth of Analysis and Re-Visioning Psychology, James Hillman develops the first new view of dreams since Freud and Jung.
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Hillman's slim volume is the best book I have read about the significance and experiential weight of dreams. He opposes the therapeutic and vulgar divinatory approaches that want to merely convert dreams into utilities of waking consciousness. While situating his study within the psychoanalytic tradition, he constructs his theory with extensive reference to classical notions of death and the underworld.
Magicians reading carefully can also find a wealth of pointers about the "astral" and the full range of visionary experiences which access materials from an unconscious source--collective or individual. In fact, this book is one of the most valuable texts I have found for that purpose.
An early monograph by Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld has a style that is more incisive and demanding than his later popular work like The Soul's Code. He often uses untranslated Greek terms in order to orient the reader to what is likely to be at first an alien perspective on the underworld into which we all must descend. Although short, it requires genuine work to read, and it should repay the effort well.… (more)
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James Hillman develops the first new view of dreams sice Freud and Jung. In a profound extension of Jung's ideas of the collective unconscious, Hillman goes back to classical theories in terms of the poetics of mythology. He relates our dreaming life to the myths of the underworld--the dark side of the soul, its images and shadows--and t the gods and figures of death. This leads to a revisioning of dream interpretation in relation to the psychology of dying. He concludes with the long section on specific dream images and themes as they appear in psychological praxis.… (more)
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Power minister Piyush Goyal. India had solar capacity of 9,012.69MW as of 31 December 2016. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint
NDA bets big on solar power, to double capacity by 2020
3 min read . Updated: 23 Feb 2017, 02:46 AM IST Gireesh Chandra Prasad, Utpal Bhaskar
Govt seeks to double power generation under solar parks scheme to 40,000 MW, proposes to extend Rs8,100 crore in assistance to fund 30% of initial project cost
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New Delhi: The government on Wednesday announced an ambitious scheme to double solar power generation capacity under the solar parks scheme to 40,000 megawatts (MW) by fiscal 2020.
The centre proposes to extend Rs8,100 crore in assistance to fund 30% of the initial project cost of developers. India had solar capacity of 9,012.69MW as of 31 December.
The move, which comes in the backdrop of solar power tariffs hitting a record low of Rs2.97 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), is an important step in creating an ecosystem which will enable the scaling of solar power in the country to achieve the target of generating 100GW of solar power by 2022. This is because a solar park will provide the building blocks—land and grid connectivity—to set up big solar projects.
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These parks will be set up in partnership with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) and the state governments.
The cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the scheme, which will lead to setting up of 50 solar parks with capacity of at least 500MW each or more across the country by 2019-20, said Piyush Goyal, Union minister for power, coal, new and renewable energy and mines, at a media briefing.
To be sure, finance minister Arun Jaitley had, in his 2017-18 budget, proposed the additional 20,000MW under the ambitious solar park programme.
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Goyal said the project will also strengthen ties with Nepal and generate employment to 3,000 people in both countries. Hydroelectric power is seen as a source of power that is vital for maintaining the stability of the grid as the share of renewable sources of power, which are susceptible to weather conditions, is increasing in the grid.
Solar power tariff hit an all-time low of Rs3.3-3.309 per kWh—the levelized tariff—for the 750MW project offered by Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Ltd in Madhya Pradesh earlier this month.
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State governments keen on solar parks will allocate land for the project and nominate a project developer to the central government, which in turn will grant Rs25 lakh to the developer for preparing a detailed project report and financial assistance of Rs20 lakh per MW or 30% of the project cost, whichever is lower. The proposed capacity will generate 64 billion units of electricity per year and will help reduce 55 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over the projects’ life cycle, said an official statement.
Doubling of solar park capacity demonstrates India’s commitment to a better future for the next generation and to fight the adverse effects of climate change.- Piyush Goyal, minister for power, coal, new and renewable energy resources and mines
Under the first phase of the solar parks scheme introduced in 2014, 34 projects with capacity of 20,000MW are in various stages of implementation.
Santosh Kamath, partner and head of renewables, KPMG in India, said, “The incentive scheme will help developers lower the cost of infrastructure and thus address risks related to infrastructure creation for solar projects. This will help reduce cost of solar power."
Goyal said the government will promote setting up rooftop solar plants at sports stadia and also bring out a policy to encourage local production of every equipment used in the solar power industry. The government is also keen to promote micro-grids to reach power to remote areas.
“The Prime Minister discussed at length promoting distributed power generation, which will make farmers self-sufficient and producers of electricity. This will improve their efficiency and promote clean energy in interiors of the country," said Goyal.
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The Side Effects of a Detox Cleanse
By Jill Corleone
Jill Corleone
Jill Corleone is a registered dietitian and health coach who has been writing and lecturing on diet and health for more than 15 years. Her work has been featured on the Huffington Post, Diabetes Self-Management and in the book "Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation," edited by John R. Bach, M.D. Corleone holds a Bachelor of Science in nutrition.
If your diet has comprised fast food and alcohol for far too long, you may be tempted to try a detox cleanse to help rid your body of toxic substances and jump-start your journey to a healthier you. However, not only is there no scientific evidence to support the claim that limiting your intake to only fresh juice or a special tea rids your body of harmful substances, but a chance exists that it might even make you sick. Before you fall prey to the detox cleanse circulating your office or circle of friends, consult your doctor to discuss benefits and risks of following such a diet.
A fresh vegetable and fruit juice detox cleanse.
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What Is a Detox Cleanse?
Detox cleanses come in a variety of forms, including drink concoctions made with lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper; fresh juice blends; or special detox teas. They typically require you to abstain from consuming anything other than your special drink. Cleanses can last from three to 10 days or longer, according to a 2008 article published in Today's Dietitian. Although calories vary depending on the type of cleanse you're following, they may provide 800 calories or fewer a day.
Hunger and Fatigue
You may not be surprised to learn that hunger is a common complaint in people following a very low-calorie diet similar in calories to a detox cleanse. According to a 2006 review article published in Obesity Reviews, hunger does not typically abate when following such a restrictive diet.
In addition to hunger, you may also feel tired when following a detox cleanse, which affects your activity level and may decrease your metabolism, says the 2006 article in Obesity Review.
Unhealthy Weight Loss
One of the positive side effects of a detox cleanse is weight loss. However, according to the same review article in Obesity Reviews, you're not losing fat weight on such a severe diet, but precious muscle mass. The loss of your muscle may make you feel weaker, which may in turn further decrease your overall activity level. Also, the less muscle you have, the lower your metabolism, which might make it even harder for you to lose weight once you stop your cleanse.
Gastrointestinal Side Effects
Diarrhea is a common side effect of a detox cleanse. In fact, proponents of these types of diet plans claim that the diarrhea is a sign your body is ridding itself of toxic substances. However, the diarrhea is more likely caused by the sugar from your fresh juice or an herbal substance in your detox tea, such as senna, dandelion or licorice, which can have a laxative effect.
Dangerous Side Effects
A detox cleanse can be harmful to your health. The Today's Dietitian article reports that a long-term detox diet that is not closely supervised by a medical professional may lead to a severe electrolyte imbalance, which may cause life-threatening heart problems. Additionally, long-term use of a detox tea with a natural laxative may affect your digestive system and create a dependency on laxatives for bowel movements.
Detox Cleanse Not for Everyone
Some people should avoid detox cleanses altogether because of its potential impact on their overall health. A detox cleanse for teens, for example, may affect growth and is not recommended. People with chronic illnesses, such as heart disease or diabetes, and pregnant women should also avoid detox cleanses.
KidsHealth: Are Detox Diets Safe?
Today's Dietitian: Spring Cleansing: Assessing the Benefits and Risks of Detox Diets
Obesity Reviews: Fasting -- The Ultimate Diet?
PDR Health: Diarrhea
MedlinePlus: Senna
University of Maryland Medical Center: Dandelion
Purdue University: Licorice
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: Very Low-Calorie Diets
Live Science: 4 Myths About Juice Cleansing
Detox to Get a Flat Stomach
How to Get a Flat Stomach by Cleansing
Can Juicing Cause Diarrhea?
Cayenne Pepper and Lemon Cleanse
Do You Get Stomach Pain After Drinking Detox Tea?
Can You Drink Lemonade When You Have Diarrhea?
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Sex offenders in Hudson Valley skirt rules on photographs, residency
There are hundreds of registered sex offenders in the Hudson Valley, and some are violating state rules.
Sex offenders in Hudson Valley skirt rules on photographs, residency There are hundreds of registered sex offenders in the Hudson Valley, and some are violating state rules. Check out this story on lohud.com: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/2018/10/24/sex-offenders-violate-various-state-rules-hudson-valley-level-3-level-2/1695927002/
Jonathan Bandler, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Published 6:00 a.m. ET Oct. 24, 2018 | Updated 11:52 a.m. ET Oct. 29, 2018
A review by The Journal News/lohud came at a time when sex offenders are under new scrutiny in New York, including a push to further restrict where they can live after prison.
Yonkers police Officer Rich Fernandez of the department's Sex Offender Registration Unit conducts a home visit on Oct. 23, 2018, to verify an offender’s compliance with registration requirements.(Photo: Yonkers Police Department)
Mount Vernon has the most Level 2 and 3 sex offenders per capita in Westchester, just over 13.
Mount Pleasant has 10 sex offenders per 100,000 but that includes those at a homeless shelter
Mount Vernon has seen its population of high and moderate risk sex offenders rise by nearly 40 percent over the past five years
Yonkers is home to 115 Level 2 and 3 sex offenders but only five are overdue on their photos.
Ten percent of sex offenders in Westchester who are deemed a high or moderate risk to re-offend have failed to provide updated photographs as required, a review of the state Sex Offender Registry by The Journal News/lohud found.
That figure is even higher in Mount Vernon, despite a state audit four years ago that faulted city police for not acting on notifications from the state when photos were overdue.
And while the Westchester Department of Probation has a policy of keeping all registered sex offenders more than 1,000 feet from schools and playgrounds, lohud found several probationers who were living closer than that to those locations.
"There needs to be very strict rules regarding residency restrictions because otherwise it leaves departments with too much discretion and then the rules vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction," said Laura Ahearn, the founder and executive director of Parents for Megan's Law and the Crime Victim Center.
Among other findings by the investigation were:
Rockland County has the second fewest Level 2 and 3 sex offenders per capita among the state’s 62 counties. Putnam has the third fewest and Westchester has the sixth fewest.
Yonkers has 125 Level 2 and 3 sex offenders, the most in the lower Hudson Valley, followed by Mount Vernon’s 91.
The City of Poughkeepsie has just under 20 Level 2 and 3 sex offenders per 10,000 residents, the highest per capita rate in the lower Hudson Valley
The review came at a time when sex offenders are under new scrutiny in New York.
Megan’s Law advocates continue to push for legislation that would further restrict residency options for sex offenders; a pardon of parolees by Gov. Andrew Cuomo opened the door for sex offenders to vote at local schools; and questions have arisen about the extent to which the state is housing sex offenders in group homes for the developmentally disabled.
The records are based on figures from New York’s Sex Offender Registry, maintained by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.
The number of registered sex offenders in the region has remained steady over the past two years. As of this month there were 631 in Westchester, 149 in Rockland, 64 in Putnam and 275 in Dutchess.
Statewide, the number has increased to nearly 41,000 from just over 39,000. Twelve years ago, that number was about 24,000.
The public registry online includes all sex offenders assessed as Level 2 – moderate risk to re-offend – and Level 3 – high risk. The public can obtain information about Level 1 offenders, those deemed a low risk to re-offend, but must have a name and at least one other identifier when calling the registry’s hotline.
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GROUP HOMES: Developmentally disabled sex offenders
Users of the registry can check by name, county or zip code. But because zip codes cross city, town and village lines, lohud used individual addresses to determine how many sex offenders were in each municipality.
Police and sheriff’s departments where the offenders live are responsible for keeping tabs on offenders in their jurisdiction, enforcing their annual registration requirements and notifying the community in the event that there are “vulnerable populations” who should know about certain offenders.
The Westchester District Attorney's Office has prosecuted 28 cases of sex offenders failing to properly register over the past two years, including at least eight times when the offender had at least one prior violation.
While Yonkers’ 115 offenders are the most for any municipality, the city has a relatively low number of sex offenders per 10,000 residents at 5.69.
Mount Pleasant is the only other one with more than 10, but the town’s figure is skewed by the presence of 22 sex offenders at the Volunteers of America-Grasslands Homeless Shelter in Valhalla.
The shelter is often a transitional stop for sex offenders when they are released from prison or first arrive in the area. Just in the past two weeks, three sex offenders arrived there and two others left for other parts of the county.
Living near schools
The investigation also identified dozens of sex offenders who live within 1,000 feet of schools, playgrounds and day care centers. However, state rules currently don't prohibit most of them from living in such close proximity to those facilities housing children.
That's because only some offenders under parole or probation supervision - Level 3 offenders and Level 1 and 2 offenders whose victims were under 18 - are barred from living that close to schools. Once off supervision, as most on the registry are, there are no distance limits.
It's a common misconception that all sex offenders are subject to residency restrictions, said Patrick Bailey, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
More than 20 registered sex offenders are staying at the Volunteer of America-Grasslands Homeless Shelter at 25 Operations Drive, Valhalla (Photo: Jonathan Bandler)
"We get that call a lot," Bailey said. "We'll get a call from Suzie Jones saying 'There's a sex offender living next to me, he can't be'. Well, he can. 'Well there's a school.' Yeah, but he can."
The Westchester Department of Probation has a policy restricting all those under their supervision who have sex offender conditions of probation from living within 1,000 feet of schools, playgrounds and day-care centers, said Rob Grady, who supervises the sex-offender unit.
But lohud found at least 15 probationers on the state registry who are currently living closer than that to those locations, including four in Yonkers and three in Peekskill.
After reviewing the list, department officials said seven of them were no longer under their supervision despite what was listed on the registry.
Of the others, two had gotten permission from a judge to live where they are. One is a Level 3 sex offender who lives on Bruce Avenue in Yonkers about 700 feet from Clemens Park. The other is a Level 2 offender on Hamilton Avenue in Peekskill who lives about 900 feet from two schools.
Probation officials said one Peekskill resident whose Smith Street home is less than 720 feet from Peekskill Middle School "is in compliance with his conditions of probation and is not required to move."
The department disputed only one case on the basis of distance, saying a resident of North MacQuesten Parkway in Mount Vernon was 1,056 feet from Hamilton Elementary School.
Another Peekskill resident is close to a park but there is no playground there, they said. And a Yonkers resident is within 800 feet of the North Broadway entrance to Pitkin Park but the playground is on the far side of the park from there.
Another offender on Emmett Place in Yonkers lives about 900 feet from Kinsley Park. Probation officials were under the impression that there was no playground there but there is.
Commissioner Rocco Pozzi said the department will likely make John Azabache, a former Ossining High School teacher who had sex with a female student, move from his apartment on South Regent Place, which has a playground next to his building and is 360 feet from Abendroth Park.
He said Azabache had no violations while on probation "and has consistently passed any and all polygraph examinations, the tool which is most commonly used to weed out offenders."
Catherine Cioffi, a spokeswoman for County Executive George Latimer, said later that Pozzi had decided to also review the cases of the offenders near Peekskill Middle School and Kinsley Park.
The department emphasized that none of the sex offenders under supervision have been convicted of new sex offenses in the past three years.
More than 100 municipalities around New York thought they had found a solution by enacting restrictive residency requirements. But the state Court of Appeals struck them down, ruling that because the state already regulates sex offenders it was not a local matter.
Rockland County passed such a law a decade ago but it was thrown out by a state Supreme Court judge in 2009.
The state Senate passed legislation two years ago after a paroled Level 2 sex offender moved less than 180 feet from a Congers day care center in 2015. That was necessary because the existing law for parolees only covered schools for kindergartners and older students.
A similar measure has stalled in the state Assembly.
"It's been unfortunate the laws haven't kept up," said the bill's sponsor, Sen. David Carlucci, who represents most of Rockland and Ossining in Westchester. "The intent of the original legislation was to keep (sex offenders) from children. That's what we should be striving to do."
Photos required but not always followed
In addition to verifying their registration annually, sex offenders must update their photographs - once a year for Level 3 offenders and every three years for Levels 1 and 2. Failure to do so could result in a felony charge.
Of the 42 offenders identified as not updating their photos as of mid-October, 25 are overdue by at least a year and six are more than three years late.
Thirteen are from Mount Vernon, including one Level 2 offender who has not been photographed since 2007 even though the state registry reports he has otherwise met his reporting requirements.
Among the findings in a 2014 audit of how a dozen law enforcement agencies enforced sex-offender regulations, the state comptroller found that Mount Vernon was among those who failed to follow up on notifications by DCJS that offenders’ photographs were not updated.
One explanation by city police at the time was that they were unaware they had access to a database that regularly alerted law enforcement about offenders who needed to be photographed.
Charles Keitt's page on New York's Sex Offender Registry. Keitt was required to update his photo in February (Photo: NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services)
Police Commissioner Shawn Harris claimed that his department "vigilantly" monitors sex offenders. But a statement he and Mayor Richard Thomas issued Tuesday did not address the issue of why so many offenders in Mount Vernon have outdated photographs.
Mount Vernon has seen its population of high and moderate risk sex offenders rise by nearly 40 percent over the past four years, from 66 in 2014 to 91 this month.
Thomas said the city's high number of offenders is exacerbated by the fact that so many of them committed their crimes elsewhere. He bemoaned that his city shoulders the burden of so many sex offenders while "affluent communities are virtually immune."
Ahearn, of Parents for Megan's Law, said keeping photographs updated was "critical." Otherwise, she said, offenders can change their appearances and the public may no longer recognize them despite their inclusion on the registry.
She said the lack of updated photographs could mean they aren't complying with their other responsibilities either - and offenders who are up to date with their registration requirements generally show less recidivism, she suggested.
"If law enforcement does not enforce the law, offenders think it's not important for them to comply," Ahearn said.
Janine Kava, a spokeswoman for the Division of Criminal Justice Services, said it is up to the offender to provide the photo. She said the agency contacts both the offender and the police where the offender lives when a photo is due - and that it is up to the police to enforce if no photo is provided. Last year, Kava said DCJS processed:
25,293 annual address verifications from registered offenders
42,366 changes to offenders' information
and 24,166 photographs
According to the registry, seven of New Rochelle's 26 sex offenders had outdated photos. Detective Lieutenant Christopher Hearle conceded the photographs were not a priority as long as offenders were reporting to police when they should. He couldn't remember a single arrest for anyone who missed a photograph and did not think it was a priority for county prosecutors either.
"If there's not a problem (with the offenders reporting their whereabouts), we go on with our business," Hearle said.
He said that one of the seven, Curtis Edwards, who had not been photographed since August 2013, was no longer living in the city. Edwards told police in 2015 that he was moving to Ohio. A check Monday of that's state's registry showed Edwards living in Cleveland. The lieutenant said police did not notify DCJS that Edwards had left the state.
That's because law enforcement agencies are not required to notify DCJS when offenders report change of addresses, a loophole in state law since 2002 that was uncovered by The Journal News/lohud two years ago. Senate and Assembly bills to close the loophole and require police notify the state within five days have stalled in committee, though Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski of Rockland, one of the sponsors, intends to push it again next year.
Kava said offenders are required to notify the state of changes and usually do, and that the majority of police departments do report the changes when they get them.
Yonkers police keep tabs
Yonkers is home to more than 190 offenders in all, but only five Level 2 and 3 sex offenders are overdue on their photos. The police department has a team of four officers who keep tabs on the sex offenders and track the registered sex offenders. They conduct home visits to ensure they live where they say they do.
“We’re very vigilant. If they don’t come in we start an investigation,” said Officer Laura Yakaboski, who leads the team. “We know who they are; we track them; and investigate them when necessary.”
She knows them so well that she is certain the most delinquent of the five, Errol Macklin, isn’t even a Yonkers resident. His case was assigned to her department only recently and his proclaimed residence is on a street that does not exist.
“It will end up being a New York City case,” she said.
Of the other four, two have multiple arrest warrants for failing to comply with registration requirements, including the photograph, and police are not certain where they are. Another one is under investigation. The fourth was only a month overdue and Yakoboski believed his picture had been taken, although by Sunday it had still not been added to his page on the registry.
The Rockland Psychiatric Center at 140 Old Orangeburg Road in Orangetown. PETER CARR/The journal news The Rockland Psychiatric Center at 140 Old Orangeburg Road in Orangetown. (Peter Carr/The Journal News) (Photo: PETER CARR, PETER CARR, Staff TJN)
Yonkers police Sgt. Dean Politopoulos, who oversees the sex-offender unit, said the state legislature could help local law enforcement by prohibiting sex offenders from registering as homeless. That designation is allowed but makes it hard to keep tabs on them, Politopoulos said.
All of Putnam County’s sex offenders are up to date on their photos and Rockland and Dutchess counties each have four that are overdue.
Shelters house multiple offenders
The address with the most non-incarcerated sex offenders in the region besides the Valhalla shelter is the Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangetown, which has 14.
As of last week, a building on Rose Street in Poughkeepsie had 13 Level 2 and 3 sex offenders; there were five at The Sharing Community’s shelter on Hudson Street in Yonkers and six at a rooming house on Stevens Avenue in Mount Vernon.
Sheri Marchi, a broker at AEF Realty whose husband owns the Stevens Avenue building, said the location is one of the few that is far enough from schools with cheap enough rent that sex offenders “flock to us.”
“They have trouble getting jobs and moving on with their lives,” she said. “They’ve done something awful but they have to live somewhere.”
Marchi said the entire building has surveillance video and anyone who “does something bad” can expect her to call parole, probation or city police, depending on who has oversight over them.
Rooming house on Stevens Avenue in Mount Vernon where six high- and moderate-risk sex offenders live (Photo: Jonathan Bandler)
She said the sex offenders who move in there are probably the easiest population of renters to manage.
“They’re being watched. They know they’re being watched,” Marchi said.
Grady said that the probation department has a services unit that helps out with issues like housing. They have lists of available rentals, including those that are known to accept sex offenders as tenants and are sufficiently far from schools or parks. So while they don't steer sex offenders to any particular place, the listings generally are for places in the larger cities.
“That’s where the buildings are. In Pound Ridge there just aren’t a lot of apartment buildings,” he said.
Bailey, the corrections spokesman, said that when a sex offender prepares to leave prison, parole officers will begin checking their intended residence months before the release.
“We take it seriously because of the ramifications," Bailey said, though he added later that "it can be difficult for a parolee to find housing, especially if they're a sex offender ... We don’t deny (a location) unless we have to.”
lohud.com data reporter Frank Esposito contributed graphics and analysis
Twitter: @jonbandler
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The New Features Coming To iOS 6
Whitson Gordon
Jun 12, 2012, 5:30am
Apple announced the newest version of iOS at WWDC today, and it's packed with awesome new features for iPhones, iPads and iPod touches alike. Here's a rundown of the best new stuff you'll see in iOS 6 later this year.
A Completely New Maps App with Turn-By-Turn Navigation
The most exciting upgrade is the completely new version of Maps. Apple has ditched Google as its primary maps provider, creating its own system with maps for all over the world. It has listings for local businesses and integrates with Yelp, so you can get reviews and other info right from the map (though that's not necessarily going to be of much use in Australia). You can switch to a traffic view to better plan your routes, and view incident reports to keep up on accidents and when they might clear. All of this is crowdwourced from other iOS users using maps, but Apple didn't explain whether this would be more like Google (where it's all done automatically) or like Waze (where individuals need to manually report things for you to get this information). You also have a photographic 3D view of a number of cities called Flyover, which is very cool but not super useful.
Most exciting, though, is the inclusion of turn-by-turn navigation. Just find your location on the map, and with one tap you can start navigation mode, dictated by Siri herself. The navigation gives you an ETA, and updates it as traffic speeds change. It will also give you an updated route if an accident happens or if traffic gets slow enough to require a detour, and it can even do so from the lock screen. You can also launch navigation right from Siri (if you have a compatible device) and ask her questions.
A More Knowledgeable And International Siri
Speaking of Siri, the voice-commanded personal assistant is getting a pretty good upgrade in iOS 6, too. Not only is she available on the new iPad (sorry, first- and second-gen users), but she knows about a lot of other things this time around, like:
Sports scores, stats, standings, and schedules
Restaurant info like menu information, prices, locations, Yelp reviews, and OpenTable reservations
Movie showtimes, trailers, and RottenTomatoes reviews. It also has some other functionality (like being able to see movies with a certain actor), but it doesn't look like it integrates with an app like IMDB directly.
Siri can also launch apps directly with one simple voice command (like "Play Temple Run"). Siri also has a new "Eyes Free" mode designed for cars, in which you can press a button on the steering wheel to activate her or have her read things back to you. Right now, Apple has already partnered with a number of vehicle manufacturers, including GM, Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Jaguar, and Land Rover.
Lastly, Siri is now available in a number of other languages and locations, including Canada, Spain, Mexico, Italian, Switzerland, Korea, Taiwan, China and Hong Kong. Local search will work around the world, too, which is a good shift. Sadly, Apple didn't say anything about Siri's voice recognition or answers being more reliable, which we were hoping for.
System-Wide Facebook And Twitter Integration
As expected, iOS 6 is going to have Facebook integration akin to the Twitter integration we saw in iOS 5. You can log into your Facebook account from the Settings app and stay logged in on any app that uses Facebook, so you don't have to log in multiple times. You can post photos, web sites, Game Center scores, apps you like, and other elements right to Facebook, as well as "like" apps, music, movies, TV shows, and other iTunes Store items. Facebook events will show up right in your calendar app, and of course, the whole thing integrates with Siri.
The coolest part is that both Facebook and Twitter have been added to the notification dropdown, so you can post a new status without having to open their respective apps.
Passbook: One App For All Your Scannable Tickets And Gift Cards
Passbook is an awesome new app that holds all your airline tickets, movie tickets, gift cards, and other similar items in one central app. It will show you the balance of any of your gift cards as you use them, and let you scan QR codes pretty much anywhere you go. The coolest part is that it integrates with the notification centre, sending you a push notification when you arrive at a location that works with one of your passes. When you're done with a pass, you can just delete it and it won't get in your way anymore. (The challenge here is how well this will work with non-US retailers.)
Do Not Disturb And More Phone Options
The Phone app has received a pretty cool update, including a Do Not Disturb feature that will silence all notifications while it's on. You'll still receive them; your phone just won't make noise or light up when they arrive. You can customise Do Not Disturb to automatically turn on at certain times, allow for phone calls from certain contacts or groups of contacts, as well as tell it to allow calls that happen multiple times in quick succession — such as if someone is trying to contact you in an emergency.
You'll also see a new icon on the lock screen when you get a call, not unlike the camera icon you have on the lock screen in iOS 5.1. When you get a call, you can slide this up to send the caller a message, or have iOS remind you to call them back. You can set the reminder to go off in an hour, when you get to work or get home, or even when you leave your current location.
Priority Contacts, Embedded Media, and Pull to Refresh in Mail
The new Mail app has a cool feature called "VIPs", where you can tell it who your most important contacts are and it will give you a more eye-catching notification on your lock screen when they send you an email. You can also view all messages from VIPs with one tap in your inbox.
Mail also now lets you embed photos and video into a message, open password protected office documents, view flagged messages, and pull to refresh the mailbox.
3G-Enabled FaceTime, Messages And FaceTime Now Work Between All Your Devices
FaceTime also works over your 3G or 4G data connection, which is awesome (though potentially expensive if you're on the wrong plan). In addition, FaceTime and Messages have finally been updated to work much more seamlessly between all your iOS devices. Now, if you get a FaceTime invitation or message on one device, it will show up on your other devices, too.
Safari has received some handy updates, including the ability to sync your open tabs between all your iOS devices, the ability to read articles from your Reading List offline, and upload photos to your favourite web sites right from Safari. It also has a new feature called Smart App Banners, which can detect when you're on a web site that has an iOS app available (like Yelp). If you go to one of those web sites, you'll get a banner that leads you to the App Store to download the app, or if you already have the app on your phone, it'll send you to that app and pick up right where you left off in your browsing.
Photo Stream, Parental Controls, and More
If you use iOS' Photo Stream feature, you now have the ability to share your photo streams with your friends. They'll get a new album in their Photos app with all the photos you've shared, and you can all comment on those photos too.
iOS also has a new feature called "Guided Access", in which you can disable certain elements of the UI so a child can't accidentally change them when playing their games or using apps. You can also turn on a "Single App Mode", which turns off the home button and keeps them in the app they're currently using.
Lastly, Apple hinted at a ton of other features in iOS, like better privacy controls, per-account signatures in Mail, more accessibility options, easier methods for finding a lost phone (it will now dial a set emergency contact if the phone is registered as lost), and over 200 other features.
Lachlan Guest
Jun 12, 2012, 10:34am
ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Unless the iPhone 5 has a screen rivalling the Galaxy SIII or HTC One X, they are going to start rapidly losing.
My non-techie friends are starting to see those lovely big screens and dump their iPhones in droves!
Tony @Tony
It's not easy to include "higher screen resolution" into an OS upgrade.
Sean Guest
All sound like good fun, but I'll still be frustrated until I can attach an image to an email reply, or send a photo via Bluetooth to a non iOS device.
Fairly simple requests I would of thought?!?
From other articles about iOS6, I've gotten the impression that you will be able to attach an image to an email reply (attach photos, videos, direct from the email app). I havent heard anything about bluetooth though, sorry to say
Sonny Guest
Jun 12, 2012, 5:40pm
To send an image in a photo, save the image into Photos. Then Copy the image and Paste it into the email.
Not convenient but it can be done.
To send an image in an email, save the image into Photos. Then Copy the image and Paste it into the email.
Tw1sty Guest
Did you not read the article?
"Mail also now lets you embed photos and video into a message"
While you in an email, you can attach photos and videos...
Byorgen Guest
Jun 12, 2012, 12:55pm
Will there be a version of the step by step navigation that doesn't rely on Siri? I still use that often when walking around the place in Google Maps, though I have the TomTom app for driving.
Fi Guest
Wait, if it doesn't use Google Maps anymore, does that mean we lose the public transport directions?
Tom Guest
Aug 8, 2012, 8:30am
There will most likely be no Turn by Turn navigation in Australia. For a while. Looking at Apple's US website and then looking at the AU version, turn by turn is missing from the iOS 6 Preview page. Looks like we miss out on another new feature.
US: http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/#maps - Turn by Turn
AU: http://www.apple.com/au/ios/ios6/#maps - No Turn by Turn
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How A Full-Stack Software Engineer Used Lighthouse Labs & ISSofBC To Jumpstart Her Career In Tech
By: Lauren Girdler
October 28 is Lighthouse Labs' five-year birthday! To honour this exciting milestone, we're taking a look back at some of the past events and goals we've achieved, our favourite initiatives we've been a part of along the way, and what kind of impact they had after the fact.
Back in December, 2015 Lighthouse Labs received a call from Kate Armstrong of Emily Carr who, as a result of seeing the press around the Syrian Refugee Crisis, decided to start a program called Startland where she would help refugees coming to BC get the opportunities they needed to restart here as quickly as possible. In working with ISSofBC (Immigrant Services Society of BC), Startland turned into the TechStart and TechWomen programs; where schools like Lighthouse Labs offered scholarships in conjunction with funding and career support from ISSofBC. Those programs have been running for two years now and we're excited to catch up with one of our graduates: Prachi Singh. Prachi, originally from India, already had an Electronics and Communication Engineering degree when she moved to Canada in 2016. After moving to Vancouver, she started looking for jobs in IT but soon realized that she would need some additional education to go forward with her career in Canada. Prachi joined the Lighthouse Labs Web Development Bootcamp in April 2017.
How did you originally hear about ISSofBC?
When I arrived in Canada, I got some useful resources for immigrants at the airport during my immigration process. While I was going through these resources, I started to browse through the websites of all these societies and agencies which help immigrants settle and find a job in Canada and ISSofBC was one of them. I went to their website and learned about a program called Techstart which helps people start their career in tech. After looking into the program, I soon realized that this was exactly what I needed.
What inspired you to pursue a career in tech?
After immigrating to Canada, I took this opportunity to start fresh. During my undergrad I had taken some computer science courses which I thoroughly enjoyed. I have always loved coding and problem solving, so this was something I could see myself building my career in. I knew that the tech industry was booming which meant it would be easier to find a find a job in it. So for all these reasons, it felt right to pursue my career in tech.
Can you tell us about your experience as a student at Lighthouse Labs?
Lighthouse Labs was a great experience for me, which offered a collaborative classroom experience where I learned a lot about Web Development. I really liked their study material and curriculum which I found to be well-organized. Their online tool, Compass, provides the best resources on any topic assembled together for students to access from anywhere. The projects were well-designed so that it became easy to learn any technology in a very short time.
Above all, the highlight of Lighthouse Labs is their instructors and mentors, who are industry veterans with deep knowledge and passion to share their experiences with the students.
Let’s talk about your first year as a developer. When did you find a job and where have you worked?
It’s been more than a year as a developer working in the industry. I started out as an intern at Hack Capital within a week of graduating from Lighthouse. The first year was a continued education for me, only this time it wasn’t in a classroom! In my first year at Hack Capital, I was able to leverage my knowledge from Lighthouse and gained exposure to many different technologies. During my Lighthouse Labs days, I knew that I wanted to be a full-stack developer, and I was glad to have found that role. Being part of the Hack Capital team has been pivotal to my career, and has given me good opportunities to explore diverse technologies.
What do you do now? What technologies are you currently working with?
I am working as a Full-Stack Software Engineer at Hack Capital. Currently, I am working full stack on React Redux, NodeJS and Elastic Search. While working on one of our projects, I became familiar with Docker and AWS.
How has Lighthouse Labs bootcamp prepared you for your current position?
I am currently working on React which is part of the curriculum at Lighthouse Labs. I also made my final project using React and Redux, which really helps me with my current work project. Sometimes, I still go back to my final project code when I have to implement something which is similar to what I did at Lighthouse.
The cumulative software development best practices and mantras I learned from the mentors are part of my daily development. I still go back to Lighthouse in my “alumni hours” to seek help from a mentor on learning a challenging technology or asking questions. Other than that, the experience of building an application in a team environment definitely helped me become a better team player at work.
What would you say to someone who wants to start a career as a developer with Lighthouse Labs?
If you really love coding, problem solving, and want to get started with software development, this is one of the best decision you will make to kick start your career. The tips that I would give would be to be a sponge and absorb as much as you can during your time in bootcamp. Talk to the mentors and ask them questions, because that’s the best way to learn.
What do you love about being a developer and the tech industry where you live?
I love problem solving, learning constantly, and working in a team. Being able to utilize these skills is what I love the most being a developer.
The Vancouver tech scene is big; there are so many startups coming up and good ideas being worked on. There is no lack of opportunities if you have the right skills.
Are you working on any side projects?
Yes, I am working on a Machine Learning project and a React w/ Firebase web app on the side. I am also learning Golang on the side.
Anything else you want to add about Lighthouse Labs, working with ISSofBC, or working as a developer?
ISSofBC has been a very supportive organization. Before starting the bootcamp, I also went through a month long job readiness coaching program at ISSofBC where they help immigrants with job search skills, resume writing, and interviewing skills. They also support the members in looking for job opportunities after the completion of the whole program.
Lighthouse Labs Career Services was a great help. They help the students meet a potential employer and this definitely accelerated the process of my job search.
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Lighting a Path: Women Solar Engineers Transform Zanzibar Communities
A baker’s business takes off when he hires an eccentric 76-year-old woman who specializes in making dorayaki.
The Technicolor Desert: Cinema and the Mojave
Virtually pressed up against the northern boundaries of Los Angeles, the Mojave Desert can be considered Hollywood’s backyard if not its backlot. See the Mojave take on multiple guises in well-loved movies throughout the decades.
Doron's bosses give him the go-ahead to carry out his plan, but he discovers the toll his family has paid.
A three-tiered story centered on a trio of French tourists — played by the same actress — visiting the same seaside resort.
Lighting a Path: Women Solar Engineers Transform Zanzibar Communities | Link TV
Women attending the Barefoot College in Zanzibar are learning solar power engineering, bucking a tradition of entrenched gender roles and marginalization in the workforce. They come from villages across East Africa, where many homes are primarily powered by candles and paraffin lamps. The women are taking their training back to their villages to gain sustainable employment and bring light to homes that were otherwise unable to connect to the traditional electricity grid.
Earth Focus Season 2
Lighting a Path: Formerly Incarcerated Find Green Career Opportunities in Solar
On the outer skirts of Los Angeles County, solar power is generating the growth of green jobs for formerly incarcerated individuals.
Watch Segment
Red Zones and Green Jobs: Creating an Equitable Solar-Powered City
A job training initiative helps formerly incarcerated and other at-risk individuals transition to green jobs, while helping residents in environmentally-disadvantaged zones transition to cleaner energy.
Women attending the Barefoot College in Zanzibar are learning solar power engineering, bucking a tradition of entrenched gender roles and marginalization in the workforce.
Dairy Alternatives: Drought Creates Market for Camel Milk in Eastern Africa
Kenyan farmers facing historic drought are turning to camel milk, a traditional alternative proving to be a sustainable solution.
Dairy Alternatives: Converting Cattle Methane Into Renewable Energy
Dairy farms in California are facing a mandate to mitigate their large contribution to the methane emissions in the state’s atmosphere. This is what some of them are doing to meet this rule.
Adaptation to Global Water Shortages
Anticipating future water needs, two regions on opposite sides of the world turn to technology for answers. Western Morocco, near the Sahara Desert, is currently facing unprecedented drought and groundwater mismanagement. But an ancient method of gathering moisture from fog is being taught to 13 villages, allowing people to have a level of local control over their most basic need. In Central Valley, California, the food basket of the world uses nearly 80 percent of the entire state's water supply.
Two cities, San Francisco and Freetown, brace for climate change using vastly different methodologies. San Francisco's developers are building expensive real estate on floodplains as officials try to heed expert projections on future sea levels. On the other side of the world, a deadly mudslide caused by torrential rains and deforestation in Sierra Leone shows the consequences of city planning that doesn't take climate change into account.
Dairy Alternatives: Rethinking Milk In California and Kenya
The realities of milk production are forcing dairy communities across the globe to rethink the dairy production process. In this episode, we travel to a village in Kenya where the commercialization of camel milk is proving a sustainable solution in the face of drought. In Northern California, the heart of the U.S. dairy industry is finding innovative alternatives to limit the use of water and manure emissions.
Communities and innovators all over the world are creating new sustainable food sources that are resilient to climate change and growing populations. In Madagascar, we see how villagers are closing off marine areas to allow the fish supply to replenish at a natural pace. In San Diego, California, aquaculturists are exploring open ocean farming as a more sustainable model for the fishing industry.
Lighting A Path: Embracing Solar Power In California and Zanzibar
Solar power is changing lives in unexpected places. At the Barefoot College in Zanzibar, Muslim women who have traditionally been marginalized in the workforce are learning solar installation and bringing it back to their villages, which are primarily powered by candles and paraffin lamps. In East Los Angeles, formerly incarcerated individuals are finding green job opportunities as they transition underserved communities into solar power.
Los Angeles is one of the biggest biodiversity hotspots in the world, despite its smog, urban sprawl and snarling freeways. At least 20,000 native and non-native plant and animal species are thriving despite human interference, and in some cases because of it. How can people help make urban habitats more welcoming to non-human urban dwellers?
Dying Oceans: Abalone Restoration In California
The ocean is a sponge for all the greenhouse gas emissions we produce, and entire aquatic ecosystems are beginning to collapse. Off the coast of California, the disappearing abalone population is raising flags about ocean health and the lasting impact of rising sea temperatures, acidification and pollution. Various teams of scientists, volunteers and businesspeople are collaborating to protect underwater species threatened by the invasion of sea urchins.
Fueling Change: Oil Extraction in Alaska and California
The global demand for oil and gas has long-lasting impacts on the communities that supply it. In Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, powerful native communities are at odds over an oil exploration and drilling plan that will boost their economy but have long-term consequences on native species and their environment. In California’s Kern County, the mayors of two neighboring towns face off on the economic benefits and health risks of oil production and their vastly different visions for the most sustainable path to the future.
Sea Level Rising: Living With Water
Louisiana still is learning from Hurricane Katrina. Forecasts are dire for Louisiana to experience the second-highest sea level rise in the world. There is a big movement brewing in New Orleans to build adaptive "resilience zones." In Southeast Louisiana, the native peoples of the Isle de Jean Charles have become the first U.S citizens moving within their homeland displaced by climate change.
Avocado Wars: The Battle Over Water Rights In Chile
The popular demand for avocados, once considered an “exotic” item, is having a devastating impact on a drought-stricken community in Chile. Lying within one of the largest avocado producing regions in the country, Petorca avocado plantations are in a battle over water rights, where claims of illegal water diversion are creating civil unrest.
Populations are dramatically shifting as climate change drives migration. Droughts and floods are driving many people away from their rural, farming communities into big cities. We see how this is manifesting in Mongolia and examine the factors leading to the new community of Haitian people living in limbo at the border between Mexico and the U.S.
L.A. River
Birds, Kids, and Climate: Could Taylor Yard Become a Park That Serves Them All?
Places like Taylor Yard give us a window to explore ways to balance the city's critical needs for green space, livable space and climate change strategies.
How Wildlife Weathers California’s Deadly Wildfires
California’s wildfires have become more destructive and frequent in recent years, leaving behind a profound impact on wildlife.
Guardian of the Forest Killed by Illegal Loggers in the Amazon
The Thomson Reuters Foundation met Paulo Paulino Guajajara in the Amazon on a reporting trip for Earth Focus in January. This week he was killed, the latest fatality in an escalating battle between illegal loggers and indigenous tribes.
Trona's Boom, Bust and Uncertain Future
The economic, social, and environmental woes of Trona are common to communities built around extractive industries. But even after the 2019 earthquake, the residents of the mining town remain "Trona Strong."
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Luton javelin thrower Joanna Blair suspended
Joanna Blair
Published: 17:08 Monday 02 October 2017
A javelin thrower from Luton has been suspended by UK Athletics after failing a drugs test.
31-year-old Joanna Blair is a rising star of the sport and represented Great Britain at the European Athletics Team Championships in Lille over the summer.
UK Athletics stated: “Athlete Joanna Blair has been provisionally suspended from participating in athletics after being charged with having committed an anti-doping rule violation contrary to IAAF Anti-Doping Rule Article 2.1 (presence of a Prohibited Substance or its Metabolites or Markers in an Athlete’s Sample).
“The provisional suspension was issued by UK Anti-Doping and is in accordance with IAAF Anti-Doping Rules.
“The individual now has the opportunity to respond to the charge against her including the right to a full hearing of the case.”
Escaped prisoner Anthony Bolden jailed after kidnapping Sandy woman
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CCHHS 3-Year Strategic Plan Slated For Board Approval July 29
Cook County Health and Hospitals System Board Meeting - May 27, 2016
Strategic Plan Update:
Using input received through Cook County Health and Hospitals System (CCHHS) staff interviews, Richard Sewell, Associate Dean for Community Health Practice at UIC’s School of Public Health, presented an external, internal, and situation analysis of the CCHHS system that identified features of the system’s current state,as well as assumptions, strengths, challenges, and opportunities concerning its future. Sewell will release the preliminary strategic plan for board review on June 17, after which the board will have two meetings (including the scheduled board meeting on June 24) to select about five key priorities along with cost associated with each priority, then approve the draft plan before it is released for discussion and input at a series of public meetings. Once the three-year plan receives final approval at the CCHHS board meeting on July 29, it will serve as the basis for the 2017 budget negotiations to follow, as well as a guide for the budgets of the two subsequent years.
Significant Topics Discussed:
Board transitions. Two board members, Lewis Collens and Dr. Erika Marsh, have resigned. The terms of Mary Richardson Lowry, Carmen Velasquez, and Dorene Wiese will expire on June 30. The nominating committee has met, and decisions on new members are anticipated in the next two months.
Due to a “labor hold”, only 99 vacancies have been filled this year, leaving 635 open positions. At this time last year 448 positions had been filled. Time to hire: 102 days.
CCHHS has 66 days of cash on hand, with 100 days as a goal. Charles Jones, chief of Supply Chain Management, explained the five sole source contracts. Sodexo American was awarded a contract for $8,300,000 to provide food and nutrition services.
Terry Mason, Chief Operating Officer, Cook County Department of Public Health, illustrated in a power point presentation the effect of the 1934-68 practice of “redlining”, defining which neighborhoods could receive mortgages. The practice resulted in still-extant concentrations of poverty, where residents have fewer educational opportunities, shorter life expectancies, and poorer health outcomes. Mason proposed support for pro-equity policies to equalize access to healthcare; training for staff in bias awareness; and stratifying quality metrics by race, ethnicity and primary language. He also proposed an aggressive lead abatement program in affected neighborhoods that conforms to the CDC recommendation.
Observer - Linda Christianson Meeting Length: 3 hours
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Posts tagged with "google"
Google Integrates Assistant App with Siri Shortcuts on iOS
By Ryan Christoffel
Google released an exciting update for its Assistant iOS app today, bringing support for Siri shortcuts and, for the first time, opening lines of communication between the two competing assistants.
Siri and the Google Assistant have historically been unable to work together in any way, but thanks to the opening up of Siri via shortcuts in iOS 12, that changes now. With the latest update, you can set up a shortcut in iOS to immediately, via Siri, trigger any command you’d like to give Google’s Assistant.
Google Maps Adds Commuting Features
Google has announced that later this week, it will add several new features to its Maps app for iOS and Android commuters. The update includes live, personalized traffic data, support for ‘mixed-mode’ commutes, real-time bus and train tracking, and integration with Apple Music, Google Play Music, and Spotify.
The update will include a dedicated ‘Commute’ tab in the Maps app. After users identify their commute, Google Maps will provide live traffic data about the route. The Android app will also include notifications about delays as they happen so you can adjust your trip.
Google Maps will also support mixed-mode commutes. That means, for example, commuters who travel by car, train, and on foot will see commute information relevant to each leg of their journey. Real-time bus and train tracking is being added in 80 cities worldwide too.
Playback controls for Apple Music, Spotify, and Google Play Music is coming to Google Maps. Spotify users on Android will also be able to browse and select content from inside the app.
As someone who used to commute by train every day, I particularly appreciate the focus on public transportation. Google hasn’t said, but hopefully, these new features are included as part of Google Maps’ CarPlay integration too.
Google Maps is available as a free download on the App Store.
Google Is Discontinuing Its Inbox Email App in March 2019→
Google launched Inbox in 2014 as a place to experiment with new email features, some of which made their way into the company’s Gmail app eventually. Although it served as a sandbox for trying new features like email snoozing, Smart Replies, and Nudges, Inbox was not updated nearly as frequently as Gmail. So, it wasn’t surprising to hear from Google yesterday that it plans to end support for Inbox at the end of March 2019.
If you are an Inbox user and want to move your email accounts to Gmail, Google has created a transition guide.
Google Debuts Nice New Look, Password Management Improvements, and Other Enhancements With Chrome 69
Chrome just turned 10 and Google is celebrating with a big update to its Chrome browser on iOS and the Mac. The update, which was announced on Google’s The Keyword blog, includes a redesign of the app’s UI, improvements to password management, answers to common queries directly from Google’s Omnibox, new personalization options, and under-the-hood enhancements.
Front and center is a redesign of Chrome’s UI. Iconography, text fields, and tabs all have more rounded corners than previously. Google has also adjusted the color palette used. The overall effect has a more lightweight feel, especially on the Mac where there is abundant white space.
Chrome’s password manager is improved too. Google says the app is better at filling in names, addresses, and credit card information in web forms. Chrome also generates, saves, and syncs your passwords across platforms.
If all you need is a simple answer to a question, Google’s combination search bar/address bar, which it calls the Omnibox, will now display relevant information as you type on the Mac. Google says the Omnibox will return definitions in the drop-down results as you type as well as information about people and other subjects. In my limited testing, I was able to display definitions from the Omnibox, but I couldn’t recreate the other results demonstrated by Google in its announcement.
Definitions and other information is available from the Omnibox.
Google has also added shortcut management to newly opened tabs, which can also feature a photo of your choice in the background. Google also mentions that it is experimenting with under-the-hood changes to improve Chrome’s overall performance that are covered in detail on its developer blog.
The iOS update is available on the App Store and the Mac version directly from Google.
Google Introduces YouTube Digital Wellbeing Features
If you’ve ever wondered how long you spend watching YouTube, now you can find out. With an update that hit the App Store today, Google has added ‘Time watched’ statistics to the iOS app’s Account view. Tap your avatar in the upper right-hand corner, then ‘Time watched’ for your total viewing time today, yesterday, and the past week, plus your daily average. The statistics are based on your YouTube Watch History, so they don’t include anything deleted from your Watch History or watched in Incognito mode. Nor does Google include YouTube Music listening statistics.
The new ‘Time watched’ section also includes the ability to set up reminders to take a break periodically, which can be set in 5-minute increments between 5 minutes and 24 hours. There’s also a toggle for batching the notifications YouTube sends. There are 10 categories of notifications available in the YouTube app, so batching them if you have several turned on is a welcome addition. Notification digests can also be accessed from the app’s settings. From ‘Time watched,’ you can turn off Autoplay and disable sounds and vibrations too.
Originally announced at Google I/O earlier this year, it’s nice to see watch time statistics added at the app level, even though similar information will be available from the Screen Time feature coming soon with iOS 12. If you haven’t been running the iOS 12 beta, taking a peek at your YouTube usage statistics now is an excellent way to get a feel for the utility of having an objective measure of how long you spend on the service.
Google One Launches with New Cloud Storage Tiers
Breaking out from the Google Drive moniker, Google has launched a set of new cloud storage tiers under the branding Google One. The new name makes sense, since Google Drive storage formerly encompassed space allotted to a wide swath of Google products, such as Photos, Docs, and Gmail, as well as files actually stored in Drive. Now Google One fills the role of covering your storage needs across all Google products and services, which I think will be less confusing. It’s a pattern that follows Apple’s own iCloud branding, where iCloud storage covers a variety of Apple services like Photos and Mail, with iCloud Drive just one of those services.
Along with the organizational change, Google One introduces revised pricing and storage options:
15 GB: Free
100 GB: $1.99/month
2 TB: $9.99/month
As well as 10 TB, 20 TB, and 30 TB options for prices in the hundreds of dollars per month
Google’s pricing is comparable to Apple’s own iCloud storage, though with more options and a more generous free tier. Apple offers 5 GB for free, 50 GB for $0.99/month, 200 GB for $2.99/month, and for 2 TB for $9.99/month.
Google One’s rollout will be staged worldwide, but as of today it appears to be available in the U.S. at least.
Google Introduces News App for iOS to Replace Newsstand
Yesterday at the keynote for Google’s I/O developer conference, the company introduced a News app launching soon for iOS and Android, which will replace the existing Google Play Newsstand app. The app is rolling out some time in the next week, but here are the highlights for what it’ll contain.
Like Apple News, the landing page for Google News is called For You, which is where Google aggregates stories based on your interests. The second tab, Headlines, is strictly about the biggest stories in the world each day. These stories will be the same for everyone within a given geographic region, with no personalized curation at all. Finally, Favorites and Newsstand give you quick access to the publishers you follow, including the ability to subscribe to publications from directly within the app.
For the most part, Google News is a close imitation of Apple News – it has a similar layout, and a similar design with white backgrounds and a heavy focus on photography. The way it best differentiates itself is a feature that I think is the highlight of the app: Full Coverage. When you’re reading a story and want to gain more insights and perspectives on the same topic, tapping the ‘Full Coverage’ option opens a view that aggregates a wide array of sources covering a variety of angles on that story. It’s one way Google is aiming to promote solid journalism while gently combating filter bubbles. Based on the examples that have been shown so far, Full Coverage will list stories on an event timeline, offer answers to frequently asked questions about an event, highlight tweets and opinion pieces, fact checks, videos, and more. It’s meant to be a comprehensive overview of a given story, and I think it looks fantastic.
It’s unclear how widely available Full Coverage will be throughout the app, but we can assume that the most significant news events at least will include a Full Coverage component to them. Google demoed one Full Coverage story focusing on the Puerto Rico power outage situation.
Despite being different in execution, Full Coverage is similar in spirit to the Spotlight tab in Apple News: both aim to provide substantive overviews on a given topic by aggregating a variety of sources. While Spotlight is updated daily to cover a new topic, I appreciate Google’s approach with Full Coverage because it will make those aggregated pages more accessible and relevant to readers. I love Spotlight and check it regularly, but it’s frustrating that Spotlight stories can only be accessed the day they’re published. Apple should take a note from Google News’ playbook and start offering links to previous Spotlight features at the bottom of related stories.
New Ways to Explore and Interact with the World Are Coming Soon to Google Maps and Lens
Google announced a series of new features at its Google I/O developer conference that it will add to Google Maps and the Google Lens feature of its Photos and Assistant apps in the coming weeks and months.
During the Google I/O keynote, the company demonstrated augmented reality navigation that combines a camera-view of your location with superimposed walking directions. The feature, which works with a device’s camera, can also point out landmarks and overlay other information about the surrounding environment.
Google Maps is gaining a dedicated ‘For You’ tab too. The new tab will suggest nearby businesses, restaurants, and other activities based on things you’ve rated, places you’ve visited, and other input. The same sorts of inputs will be used in Maps’ new match score, which will predict how much you will like a particular destination and is designed to help make picking between multiple destinations easier. Maps will also allow users to quickly create lists of suggested destinations, share them with friends, and vote on where to go.
Google Lens, which is incorporated into the Google Photos and Assistant apps, is also gaining new features. Much like the iOS app Prizmo Go, Lens will be able to recognize text in books and documents viewed through the camera allowing you to highlight, copy, and paste the text into other apps. Lens is adding a Style Match feature which allows users to point a camera at something and see similar items too. In a demonstration, Google pointed Lens at a lamp, which generated a list of similar lamps almost instantly.
More than ever, Google is showing what can be accomplished with the vast amount of data it can bring to bear in real-time on mobile devices. The insights that are possible may seem creepy to some people, but if used responsibly, they allow Google to provide powerful contextual information to its users.
Google Launches New ‘Tasks’ App for iPhone
Google Tasks is a service many Google users may be unfamiliar with. Historically it’s been a somewhat hidden feature of Gmail and Google Calendar, but today alongside a redesign of Gmail, Google is helping Tasks break out and receive slightly better treatment with the launch of a new iPhone app.
I have to say up front: if this app wasn’t a Google property, tied to an existing Google service, it likely wouldn’t merit much attention. Essentially it’s a barebones home for task lists, with a couple small task manager-like functions. Each task you create can include additional details in a note area, be assigned a due date, and can include embedded subtasks. And that’s basically it. You can create multiple lists to store your tasks, but there’s not even a smart list that consolidates all your tasks containing due dates.
Ultimately, this is an extremely lightweight task manager that makes Apple’s Reminders, its closest analog, seem like a heavy duty task powerhouse by comparison. Rita El Khoury of Android Police sums it up well in her take on the Android app:
this list of all the things the new Google Tasks app DOESN’T have from @khouryrt is brutalhttps://t.co/0O2or4941s pic.twitter.com/ju4k64BRJS
— dan seifert (@dcseifert) April 25, 2018
I struggle to see who Tasks is for with this first version, and hope it’s quickly iterated upon. If you’re deeply invested in the Google ecosystem, and have very minimal task needs, but want something integrated with Google’s other products, I guess Tasks could be for you. But only on the iPhone; there’s no iPad version at this time.
Google Tasks is available as a free download on the App Store.
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Election Predictions 2016: Here's who's likely to win the presidential election
Whether Donald Trump accepts the outcome or not, Hillary Clinton is on course to become the first woman ever elected president of the United States on Nov. 8, with the latest polls and top forecasts pointing toward a third consecutive White House term for the Democrats.
With less than three weeks until Election Day, Clinton has a number of plausible paths to the 270 electoral votes needed to secure the keys to the Oval Office, while Trump's always-narrow path to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue appears all but closed.
Swing state polls show a clear Clinton lead
Clinton's roughly six-point national lead translates to a decisive advantage in the states that will tip the November election. According to polling averages compiled by RealClearPolitics, Clinton leads in states totaling 333 electoral votes, while Trump takes 205.
Not only has Clinton moved into a slight lead in traditionally Republican Arizona, polls also show that she's within striking distance of Trump in GOP strongholds like Texas, Georgia and South Carolina. Clinton has also led slightly in every recent poll of North Carolina, a state without which Trump has virtually no chance of victory.
The electoral math is brutal for Donald Trump. Win McNamee/Getty Images
Even Utah may elude Trump; recent polls suggest the Beehive State could break for Trump, Clinton or Evan McMullin, a conservative independent who has sought to capitalize on Trump's deep unpopularity with Mormon voters.
Trump does stand a chance of nabbing Ohio and Iowa, states President Barack Obama won twice, but victories there would not be enough to compensate for Trump's near-certain losses in traditional battlegrounds like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Virginia — to say nothing of states like Arizona.
Forecasters predict a solid Clinton victory
With Trump confronting such brutal dynamics, Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight pegs Clinton's chances of victory at about 85%. The New York Times' Upshot model gives Clinton a 92% chance of winning, while the Princeton Election Consortium says her chances are roughly 97%.
The final presidential debate won't threaten Clinton's lead
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton appear after their Wednesday night debate. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
The candidates' Wednesday night face-off in Las Vegas offered Trump his last chance to redraw the contours of the race — an exceedingly difficult task at any rate, and one he failed to accomplish.
Experts said even a draw would mean an effective loss for Trump, given his disadvantage heading into the debate. Yet scientific polls taken after the showdown indicate that viewers think Clinton won. Respondents to a CNN/ORC poll said by a margin of 52% to 39% that Clinton came out on top, dovetailing with a YouGov survey, which found a 49% to 39% spread in Clinton's favor.
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Lessons of Faith in the Midst of Disaster
As parishioners filed out of the morning church service in Escuintla, Guatemala, on a warm June day, some were complaining. Why did they have to keep sitting on plastic chairs?
Their beautiful church had no pews and their priest stubbornly refused to add them. True, pews would obscure the cross mosaic in the floor, but it seemed like a small trade off compared to the comfort of the parishioners.
Survivors of the Fuego Volcano eruption fill the church in Escintia, Guatemala.
Over lunch, families and friends caught up on news and enjoyed a long, leisurely meal. As was their custom, most would return to the church again for an early evening service. But when they left the restaurant and went out to their cars, they were surprised to see a layer of ash all over their vehicles.
The nearby Fuego volcano occasionally spewed ash, but not like this. The gritty sand-like substance had to be hosed off the cars or it would scratch the paint and even the windows. On that day there was so much of it that It took several attempts to get their cars cleaned.
When they went back to church and opened the doors they were shocked: The entire church was full of people, covered in ash and many bleeding from injuries. They had fled when the Fuego volcano had erupted and sought refuge in the first church they found.
More than 430 people were crowded into their church, desperately seeking shelter and help.
“It took us a moment to understand what had happened,” said Maria Claudia de Hegel, a member of the church. “Then we all went to work, helping people and doing what we could.”
They called for medical personnel to come to the church to treat the worst victims, then they helped the others clean the ash off and find new clothes and a place to sleep. They lined up mattresses on the floor of the church.
“At some point it occurred to us that if we had pews in our church we wouldn’t have been able to shelter all these people and make a place for them to sleep,” said Maria. “That was the first miracle,” she said.
Another miracle occurred when Chef Julio Cano arrived at the church with a truck full of food. An event he was catering had been cancelled due to the ash from the volcanic eruption, so he brought gourmet meals to feed both volcano victims and volunteers.
The next day he returned to help organize a kitchen to feed the people. And then he just quit his job and stayed to work free. “We couldn’t believe it,” said Maria. “This incredible chef just decided to quit his job to help feed the victims of the volcano and the volunteers who were helping.”
Another miracle became apparent soon after. The state had recently required the church to add more bathrooms to accommodate their growing congregation. “We thought it was ridiculous that we were required to have 16 toilets for our church. It seemed like such a waste. But thank God we had them when all of these people came to our church!” said Maria. In the following days a construction company donated the labor and materials to build outdoor showers, a water holding tank and other facilities to help the volcano refugees.
After weeks in the church, the state finally opened an official shelter, and the people moved into temporary housing, where they remain. And to this day, Chef Cano still cooks meals for the volunteers who go to the shelter daily to help in whatever way they can.
Recently a team from MAP International delivered Disaster Health Kits (DHKs) to the shelter to help provide comfort and meet the health needs of the those still struggling to recover from the volcano.
Said Maria, “The volcano is no longer in the headlines, but people continue to suffer. We are grateful that we are able to help them in any way. And we are grateful that our faith has grown as God has taught us many lessons.”
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This week's 'Game of Thrones' podcast: Hot goss and zero happy endings
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Welcome to Win or Die: Analyzing “Game of Thrones,” a weekly podcast where we break down the final season of everyone’s favorite TV obsession.
This week, Austin American-Statesman film and culture writer Joe Gross and city hall reporter Phil Jankowski break down “The Last of the Starks,” a “Game of Thrones” episode full of hot goss, “The Godfather” comparisons and zero happy endings.
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Army to Bolster Air Defense Unit at New Mexico Missile Range
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WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. -- The U.S. Army has chosen White Sands Missile Range to serve as home base for an air defense testing unit following a years-long effort to increase the number of active-duty missions at the largest military installation in the country.
The announcement was confirmed Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat who has been advocating for the range.
Heinrich described the 3,200-square mile installation as a national treasure due to its terrain, restricted airspace and expertise.
"At a time when Army installations across the country are facing reductions, adding a new mission to White Sands is a big deal," Heinrich said.
The Pentagon's proposed 2017 budget is largely flat. While slowing plans to buy fighter jets, Army helicopters and Marine vehicles, the nearly $650 billion request calls for increasing spending for cybersecurity and cutting-edge technologies.
The Air Defense Artillery Test Detachment will be increasing its troop strength to 143 soldiers beginning in 2018. The soldiers will come from various units across the Army, according to range officials.
The detachment will be supporting Army missile defense programs that work to put the best equipment in the hands of soldiers deployed around the world.
Along with the extra soldiers will come more missile launchers, radar and other equipment.
The bolstering of the testing unit coincides with Army plans to dedicate a patriot battalion and test attachment to modernize and test air and missile defense capabilities at the missile range and nearby Fort Bliss, Texas.
White Sands Commander Brig. Gen. Timothy Coffin says the testing unit has an important mission and the missile range is the best place for the team.
White Sands provides research and development testing for the U.S. Department of Defense — including the Army, Navy and Air Force -- and private companies. It's also the Army's premier testing range for missile firings, laser research and for identifying vulnerabilities and developing countermeasures.
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Transparency International flags 'crisis in democracy'
TRANSPARENCY International released its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) last week, delivering a generally discouraging view of global transparency with an average score of 43 out of 100, though were a handful of bright spots.
It was another disappointing year in terms of global corruption
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Samantha Hall
The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories on their perceived levels of public sector corruption.
The result is a mirror of last year's average result and represents the continuation of a theme from recent years during which transparency levels have failed, in general, to improve.
Transparency International reported Sub-Saharan Africa had the lowest regional average, scoring just 32. Yet, countries such as Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal have shown significant improvements since 2012, increasing their CPIs to 35 and 45, respectively.
Estonia and Guyana were other significant improvers.
Interestingly, a few countries that would be considered relatively low risk for mining companies have seen their CPI score fall. Australia was listed as one of the countries that has significantly decreased its score, ranking this year at 77.
As well, the United States lost four points scoring at 71. This is the first time the United States has not been part of the top 20 countries since 2011.
Other countries to see a noteworthy drop in transparency were Chile, Malta, Turkey and Mexico.
"This year's index shows that the majority of countries are making little or no progress in ending corruption," Transparency International stated.
"Even worse, it reveals that the continued failure of most countries to significantly control corruption is contributing to a crisis in democracy around the world."
A higher CPI score reflects stronger public institutions, a smaller gap between the law and its implementation and support for public accountability and freedom of press.
Companies need to understand the political structures in the jurisdiction in which they conduct business, as the report shows changes in these structures can lead to higher levels of corruption and instability.
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A sea slug (Polycera quadrilineata)
Polycera quadrilineata.
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Polycera quadrilineata against a black background.
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Polycera quadrilineata on a black background.
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Two Polycera quadrilineata feeding on Membranipora membranacea.
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Other common names - Synonyms Thecacera capitata (O. F. Müller, 1776)
Thecacera capitata (O. F. Müller, 1776)
Polycera quadrilineata may grow up to 3.9 cm, but the maximum recorded length is 4.5 cm. Its body is translucent white with patches of yellow and orange pigments forming five longitudinal lines. Along the mid-line there is a row of oval blotches, merging towards the rear. Occasionally individuals have black streaks, blotches or fine spots on their backs. The front region of the head extends to form an oral veil. The edge of the foot is usually dotted with colour extended into a veil which is usually edged with yellow-orange colour with spots on the flank. The four frontal processes (frontal veil papillae) are coloured yellow. Two sensory organs (rhinophores) are present on its head, they have thick stalks which end with a yellow cylindrical knob. The eggs are spawned in a short white curved ribbon. This species is often found in large numbers.
Common all around the British Isles.
Recorded from America to the Mediterranean.
Polycera quadrilineata occurs on encrusting sea mats (Bryozoa) from the intertidal and sublittoral zones to depths of about 60 m.
Grows up to 3.9 cm.
Translucent white with patches of yellow and orange.
Five longitudinal lines of varying shades along the back.
Four processes on the oral veil.
Polycera quadrilineata is sometimes confused with Polycera faeroensis. However Polycera faeroensis has 8 or more oral veil processes whereas Polycera quadrilineata has four, and the patches of yellow pigments on the body are absent from Polycera quadrilineata.
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Research on seabed beneath Eddystone shows early signs of recovery
Date posted: 6 June 2017
We are excited to report that surveys of the seabed beneath Eddystone, 12 miles off the coast of South West of England, is showing early signs of recovery following protection from bottom-towed fishing gears.
The site has been surveyed by underwater cameras each year for three years by a team from the Marine Conservation Society, the Cornwall Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority, and the University of Exeter.
Princess Yachts, of Plymouth, is funding continued research at the site. Watch this video showing footage from recent underwater surveys at Eddystone and reefs nearby. Eddystone Reefs is a series of jagged rocks below the iconic Eddystone Lighthouse. It is a marine protected area, designated under European law, and the latest results show that numbers of sea anemones and cup corals have more than doubled, tube worms quadrupled, and many other species that can now live on the seabed have thrived, providing shelter and food for fish and other marine creatures. The results demonstrate the benefits of the new network of marine protected areas around Britain’s coast and strengthen calls for greater restrictions on bottom-towed gears in sensitive areas.
Dr Jean-Luc Solandt, MCS specialist on marine protected areas, says “There has been an increase in seven out of ten types of delicate seabed animals, which grow upright and are churned up by the chains and sharp metal teeth dragged over the seabed by trawlers. Two years after the dredging ban, the area covered by bryzoans, which are tiny primitive animals that live in colonies and provide habitat for juvenile scallops, has doubled. When they become dense and carpet the seabed, delicate upright growth forms become a sheltering habitat for other species and filter particles from the water column. By dredging these areas up, scallop dredgers are dredging away their future. Bottom trawls stop the ocean becoming richer. Full recovery of the reef would take 20 to 30 years and this recovery needs to continue to be monitored annually. Surveys led by MCS, University of Exeter and Cornwall Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority will continue for another three years thanks to funding from Princess Yachts International who are based in Plymouth.”
Marketing Director, Princess Yachts, Kiran Haslam says: “We are incredibly proud to be the first motor yacht brand to partner with the Marine Conservation Society and we are 100% committed to this project. The ocean is our playground, and it is a primary concern of the entire Princess community, with not only customers and our company committed, but also our distribution network showing overwhelming support with pledges from Princess Yachts Monaco and Princess Yachts Russia providing substantial financial support to MCS. We hope this news of early signs of recovery at Eddystone will encourage other similar measures and monitoring programmes for some of the other 50 marine conservation zones that have been designated since 2013 which cover over 20% of English waters.
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Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs
Adam Stevens, Bathroom Boy
by Suzanne Yeagley
Q: What was your job title?
A: The title was house cleaner. I was living in San Francisco in the ’90s.
The job before this, I was working at a gym, driving the member shuttle, and I thought I was a good driver but they didn’t.
Q: Why didn’t they?
A: I broke a couple mirrors on the van. And I tend to speed.
Q: Gee, I wonder why they thought maybe you weren’t the best driver.
A: I don’t know.
Anyway, I lost that job and I saw an ad in the weekly for a house cleaner. It was in the back of a flower shop in the Castro. This company was 90-95% gay. There were probably five of us that were straight.
There were a few people who had been male hustlers.
Q: Were they hot?
A: I don’t think so. If they were, they’d still be hustling, right?
Q: Oh my god. OK, what other kinds of people worked there?
A: A lot of artists and musicians. I was a starving wanna-be photographer. At the time I lived in an apartment at the confluence of three freeway ramps. The place was noisy and covered in soot. It was really just a squat where you paid rent.
The alley that the house was on — that’s where they would load and unload jail prisoners. It was right near the Hall of Justice.
Q: This sounds like it’s something out of Superman. The “Hall of Justice.”
A: I don’t know what to tell you. That was the name.
And if you needed bail bonds it was great, because there were two bail bonds places right next to my front door.
It was a really safe area though because there were always cops everywhere.
There was also a karaoke bar under my window.
Q: This can’t be true.
A: The police would go there after their shifts and get drunk and sing “American Pie” over and over, like twelve times in a row, getting progressively drunker.
Q: This is amazing. But tell me about the cleaning job.
A: Right. It was great. It was the kind of atmosphere where you immediately felt accepted. And it paid twice as much as the gym.
In the morning, you’d get there and load up the vans with supplies. The company sold their own cleaning products, called red juice and blue juice, but they were really both just Windex with food coloring. Then you’d banter with the managers and they’d sexually harass you a bit before giving you the keys to the customers’ homes.
Then you’d drive about three blocks and park at a coffee shop. You couldn’t get to people’s houses too early, so you had to kill time. Those were the most fun times. We’d smoke cigarettes and drink coffee, talk about our lives, make fun of customers and people on the street…
We’d give customers nicknames, like “Baby in a headlock,” “The fister,” and “naked guy.”
Q: Expand on each of those please.
A: Well “baby in a headlock” was an older lady who had scoliosis. She had very fine baby hair, and the way she walked, stooped over, made her look like someone had her in a headlock.
Q: Oh dear god. You people were mean. And the other two?
A: The fister was a guy who had a bondage room in his apartment. He had a Catherine wheel.
Q: What is that?
A: You tie somebody on it. It was leaning against the wall…
Q: I don’t understand.
A: You have to google it.
Q: And “the naked guy”?
A: We had a customer who would answer the door naked every time. As if we surprised him getting out of the shower, even though the company had been cleaning his apartment for years. Actually, there were more than one of these. It was much worse when you didn’t know it was coming.
Q: So overall, what was the cleaning job like?
A: It was very voyeuristic — a constant surprise.
There was one customer who had a tiny studio apartment — maybe 500 feet — and the entire surface of the walls was covered with Barbies. You’d be cleaning and wondering, if there was an earthquake right now, how would they find me?
Q: And what was your job, exactly?
A: I was the bathroom boy. The hierarchy was bathroom boy, kitchen guy, and then team leader. I didn’t want to work my way up, really, because the team leader had to take the truck home and parking in San Francisco was hard.
I worked there for two years as the bathroom boy. We were independent contractors though, so you could refuse to do something and the management would back you up.
One time I was cleaning for a woman who ran a charity to feed the hungry. I came to her place and she was on the phone fundraising. Her daughter lived with her, and I went to clean her bathroom, and the first thing I noticed was the smell of alcohol. There were a dozen roses the toilet, and then there was puke all over the place. It had been there for maybe a week! There was also dried hair and ants everywhere. I almost threw up.
So I went to talk to the woman and she put the phone down for a minute and said, “Oh, let me guess, did someone throw up in there?”
Q: So she knew?
A: Yeah. She said, “Don’t worry about it.” So I didn’t have to clean it. But that was the worst.
Q: That’s heart-breaking.
Q: Any other memorable experiences?
A: One time we had to do a move-out for a lady who had lived there for decades and she smoked in every room in the house, and had never had a cleaner. When you went to clean it, the walls were just covered with so much nicotine, and it was so small that you couldn’t turn around without getting some on you. The only thing worse than a move-out clean is a regular customer with OCD…
Q: Should people trust a cleaning crew?
A: I’d say yes, generally. Well, anything you throw away is eligible to be pinched. My coworker used to collect photographs that people threw away and then make up stories about them.
And you should always tip the cleaning crew, especially at Christmas. One time somebody tipped me food and I got food poisoning. Don’t tip food. Always cash.
Q: Any reason you ended up leaving this job?
A: None, other than that I was tired of being poor. I still have friends I made from when I worked there though. It was a great job.
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Home Spazio Mondo news 2018 MÜLLER ANNIVERSARY GAMES
2018 MÜLLER ANNIVERSARY GAMES
1 WORLD RECORD (3000m), 8 NATIONAL RECORDS, 5 MEETING RECORDS, 6 WORLD LEADING TIMES, 2 AREA RECORD, 1 DIAMOND LEAGUE RECORD ON MONDO
Featuring Olympic, Paralympic and world champions the 2018 Müller Anniversary Games was always going to deliver two days of thrilling athletic actions and that are the results for this 2018 edition: one World Record, eight National Records, five Meeting Records, six World Leading Times, two Area Record, one Diamond League Record were set on MONDO!
Here are some of the highlights from this year’s two-day event: spectators on Sunday had only just settled into their seats when they witnessed two World Records being broken in the space of 10 minutes: firstly teenage superstar Kare Adenegan broke the T34 100m World Record. Just few minutes later, Sophie Hahn lowered her own World Record in the T38 200m to claim victory in 25.93 seconds.
Among the 100 m race six sprinters go below 10 seconds in sprint showdown: Akani Simbine (9.94, but 9.93 SB in heats), Yohan Blake (9.95 SB), Mike Rodgers (9.98) and Tyquendo Tracey (9.98, in heats 9.96 PB).
The standard in the men’s long jump was also incredibly high: Luvo Manyonga set a new stadium and meeting record of 8.58m.
Millicent Fawcett Mile provides thrilling finale. The first ever edition of the Millicent Fawcett Mile provided a thrilling finale to the 2018 Müller Anniversary Games, commemorating 100 years since British women first secured the right to vote: Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s Laura Muir was the first Briton across the line, finishing just under two seconds outside Zola Budd’s 33-year-old British record.
Brilliant battle in women’s high jump: an extraordinary Elena Vallortigara (ITA) first improved from 1.96m to 2.00m before improving once again to 2.02m to come within one centimetre of the Italian outdoor record.
World leading times in men’s 800m, women’s 100m hurdles and men’s 4x100m relay: Emmanuel Korir ran the fastest 800m since David Rudisha’s world record run at London 2012 as he stormed to victory in the men’s 800m. Korir’s personal best time of 1:42.05 was the sixth quickest run of all-time and lowered Rudisha’s meeting record from 2011.
In a lightning-quick race, the top nine athletes all set either personal or season bests.
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Bayern Munich ‘turn down Arsene Wenger’
Bayern Munich have reportedly turned down the prospect of appointing Arsene Wenger as the club’s next permanent manager.
The club has commenced its search for a new boss after the club decided to sack Niko Kovac following the club’s 5-1 defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt.
Wenger, who managed Arsenal for a 22 year period between 1996 and 2018, has been out of work since leaving the Emirates.
According to Bild, Wenger called Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on Wednesday afternoon to signal his availability for the role but was told that his services were not required.
It is also claimed that caretaker coach Hansi Flick is likely to remain as Bayern manager until the end of the 2019-20 campaign.
Jose Mourinho, Erik ten Hag and Ralf Rangnick have all been mentioned as leading candidates for the role.
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Ontario Record Muskie:
The Ontario record Muskie weighed 65 pounds and measured 58 inches in length with 30.5 inches in girth.
Toronto's Ken O'Brien caught the great fish on October 16, 1988, in Georgian Bay's Blackstone Harbour, Moon River Basin.
The story goes that it was Ken's first time Muskie fishing. I guess beginner's luck is true sometimes.
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Ontario Man Making Muskie History
December 15 / 2005 - By Gary Ball, For The Sun Times
Ken O'Brien's 65-pound Georgian Bay catch could become the world record-holder, as some famous catches get disqualified
It's starting to look as if Toronto accountant Ken O'Brien, if he just sits still, will wind up as the holder of the world record for muskellunge.
That's for a fish he caught in Georgian Bay in 1988, a fish that is slowly but surely moving toward the top of the list for cheating is uncovered in the old records.
The O'Brien fish, a whopping 65 pounds, is currently the number three muskie in the world. But in the world of muskie fishing, old records have a habit of being thrown out. And, according to the National Post and the Michigan Muskies Alliance and. the World Record Muskie Alliance, (www.worldrecordmuskiealliance.com), the current record holder is about to be turfed out and the number two fish is also being studied for misrepresentation. The current record is held by Wisconsin angler Louis Spray, with a 69-pound, 11-ounce fish he caught in 1949. Second spot is held by a 67-pound, 8-ounce muskie caught by Wisconsin angler, Cal Johnson, also in 1949.
Those two disqualifications (if they happen) would move O'Brien's 65-pound fish to the top of the world record listings. And there is little doubt about the authenticity of the O'Brien muskie (the current Ontario record holder).
O'Brien landed the fish during an annual (mostly fun) challenge muskie fishing match between two teams of anglers on Georgian Bay. No shortage of credible witnesses. The weighing of this fish, on certified scales, was witnessed. And the famous photo of a beaming O'Brien was taken by John Power of Beaverton, at the time outdoor columnist for the Toronto Star. Power, a man who is famous in the outdoor world, is also a suspicious sort and would have been all over any hint of fraud or fakery, as fast (and as savagely) as a muskie hitting a bucktail. I don't think there is any doubt about the legitimacy of O'Brien's fish. At the time he caught the fish, O'Brien was a sometime angler, not one of the muskie hunting fanatics that this fish seems to produce.
For some reason or other, most likely just for the bragging rights, old-time muskie hunters seem to have been more than a little fast and loose with the truth.
It was a Canadian crime scene investigator, Dan Mills who applied modern forensic science techniques (photogrammetric analysis) to photos of the Spray muskie. Mills was asked by an Illinois-based organization, the World Record Muskie Alliance, to study the photos. Mills is a former surveyor and Transport Canada inspector who uses science to reconstruct highway accidents and to determine the height of crime suspects based on photographs.
He concluded that the Spray muskie was a likely fraud, a fish too small to have weighed in at 69 pounds, unless weight had been added to it. Simply put, the fish in the photograph was too short and too slim to match the measurements Spray gave it. Mills figures the fish is 55 inches long, not the 63 inches Spray claimed, and says it had a girth of 10 inches, not the 31.25 inches Spray recorded.
If this fish is disqualified by the U.S.based National Fishing Hall of Fame, it would move the Johnson fish (67 pounds, eight ounces) to world champion.
But Mills has already been asked to apply his forensic skills to photographs of the Johnson fish, which has long raised doubts in anglers' minds.
Ironically, the Spray and Johnson fish moved to first and second spots in the record books only after investigations turned up other misrepresentations in muskie record claims. Ten years ago, a St. Lawrence River fish caught in 1957 was ruled to be a hoax, moving Spray and Johnson up the record-book ladder.
Fascinatingly, the motivation behind misrepresenting big muskies seems only to have been pride, publicity and bragging rights. There was no huge cash prize, not even a hint of equipment endorsement rewards. It seems that they wanted to be world-record holders, not much more than that.
For as long as humans have eaten fish, we have lusted after the most, the biggest, the best. Made sense as a survival strategy, and may even have given the lucky fisherman a boost in status within the clan, or back in the cave.
All anglers, I think, are willing to stretch the truth just a little. Mostly, that's safe stretching, bragging about the one that got away. But even with a fish in hand to be weighed and measured, the temptation is still strong.
As I write this column, I'm sitting under a (replica) mount of a monster lake trout. It's a scale model of a fish I caught in sub-Arctic Manitoba. It's accurate down to the quarter-inch, based on photographs and measurements of length and girth.
I know for certain that the fish was estimated to weigh 49 lbs and a few ounces (I forget how many). However, if you ask me what the fish actually weighed, I'm most likely to tell you 50 lbs. After all, what's a few ounces among friends.
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Cadden wins second Scotland cap
Campbell stars as Scotland U21s win
Strong uptake in season tickets
Cadden reflects on first cap
Trevor Carson keeps NI clean sheet
Chris Cadden makes Scotland debut
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Women’s team put seven past Central
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Chris Cadden earned his second Scotland cap on Sunday morning in the team’s 1-0 defeat in Mexico.
The Motherwell man was given a 35-minute run out by manager Alex McLeish, giving him the chance to stake his claim for the forthcoming Nation’s League matches.
Giovani Dos Santos’ strike early in the first half was enough for the hosts in front of 71,000 at the Azteca Stadium.
Cadden had a chance to make it an even more memorable trip with 10 minutes left on the clock, but his shot from outside the area was saved.
Allan Campbell was again in the starting team as Scotland Under 21s recorded a 2-1 win over South Korea at the Toulon Tournament.
The Motherwell midfield regular played his third consecutive match at the tournament as the young Scots followed up their win over France in midweek.
Chelsea’s Billy Gilmour and West Bromwich Albion winger Oliver Burke were on the scoresheet in the victory against the Koreans.
Campbell’s club team mate Chris Cadden will also hope to pull on the dark blue jersey this weekend, as the men’s senior A squad take on Mexico at 1am UK time on Sunday.
Season ticket sales for the 2018/19 campaign have almost doubled, compared to the same first three weeks of sale the previous year.
After an encouraging 2017/18 under manager Stephen Robinson, which saw the Steelmen reach both national cup finals for the first time in 67 years, we asked you to fuel the fire and make your investment in building on what has been started by the team.
You’ve responded in big numbers already, with many of you making use of our new online ticketing system to buy or renew.
We’d like to thank every single one of you for securing your seat and giving your backing to what we are aiming to achieve in 2018/19.
Season tickets are still available at the early bird price, so get yours before 8 June to secure a discounted price.
We hope that you too want to renew your season ticket and continue your unwavering support as we look to create even more memories.
Many of our great deals from past seasons have been retained. Juvenile tickets have been frozen at £20, and those who purchase adult or concession season tickets can still get up to two juvenile season tickets for free.
This year it’s even easier to buy or renew. You’ll be able to enjoy early bird prices and the convenience of buying quickly and easily online at tickets.motherwellfc.co.uk. There’s also the option to purchase by post, at Fir Park or on the telephone as usual.
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Phil O’Donnell Stand Early bird Regular price
Adults £404 £425
Concessions £235 £245
Juveniles £20 £20
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Concessions are applicable to those aged 60 and over, 16-18 year olds and full time students with a valid matriculation card. Juveniles are applicable to those aged 15 and under.
As before, there are many ways to pay for your season ticket.
Online you can pay by debit/credit card or by using our Zebra Finance option. Click here for more information on our Zebra Finance option.
If you choose to pay by phone, you can pay up front by cash, cheque or debit/credit card. You can also take out a standing order or use our Zebra Finance option.
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It’s been a season to remember for Chris Cadden.
Appearing in two national cup finals and representing his country at under 21 level are achievements to be proud of for the young Scot.
But in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the boy from Bellshill arguably topped the lot.
Trailing 2-0 against Peru, Scotland boss Alex McLeish called on Cadden to replace Aberdeen’s Kenny McLean.
And as he entered the fray with around five minutes remaining in the heat of Lima, it marked a memorable day for Chris, his family, and Motherwell Football Club too.
No player has appeared in Scotland colours whilst plying their trade at Fir Park since Steven Saunders in 2010.
[pullquote]To have travelled with the first team, got some valuable experience out here in Lima and then to have got my first cap was brilliant.[/pullquote]
And Chris, reflecting on a first cap for his country, said: “It’s obviously a moment I’ll never forget. It’s something that my family and I are extremely proud of and I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity.
“The scoreline was obviously not what we would have wanted, but to have travelled with the first team, got some valuable experience out here in Lima and then to have got my first cap was brilliant.”
A proud Scot and a humble man, Chris is equally thrilled by earning his first cap, as much as he is hungry for more.
“It’s something I want to build on,” he explained. “Getting that experience and being around the group has made me determined to build on things from here.”
Off the pitch, Motherwell’s number seven has barely had a rest, with his phone being bombarded with messages.
“There’s been a few messages that’s for sure,” the midfielder joked, “but no, in all honesty it’s great hearing all the kind words from friends and family and it just makes it sink in a bit more to be honest.”
There’s an immediate opportunity for the youngster to follow up on his first cap, with Scotland back in action on Sunday as they take on Mexico.
Trevor Carson played his part in Northern Ireland keeping a clean sheet in their 0-0 draw away to Panama.
The Motherwell goalkeeper played the first 45 minutes in Panama City, in what was his second appearance for his country.
Carson will be in contention to feature again for his country when they play Costa Rica in San Jose on Sunday.
Motherwell youth academy graduate Chris Cadden made his first appearance in Scotland colours on Wednesday morning.
The 21-year-old, an ever-present for the Steelmen and one of our most consistent performers, was rewarded for his progression by coming on as a late substitute in the nation’s friendly defeat in Peru.
Cadden replaced Kenny McLean in the 87th minute in Lima, as Alex McLeish’s side lost 2-0 in the first of two international matches. Scotland next travel to face Mexico on Sunday morning.
Everyone at Motherwell FC is delighted for Chris and are immensely proud to see him represent Scotland at full senior level.
His appearance marks the first for Scotland by a current Motherwell player since Steven Saunders in 2010.
Chief executive Alan Burrows provides an insight into the work going on behind the scenes at Fir Park this summer to ensure nobody becomes complacent and a strong 2017/18 season is built upon.
Motherwell Ladies tightened their grip on top spot of the SWPL2 table with an excellent 7-2 victory over Central Girls at Alloa’s Indodrill Stadium.
It is the ninth successive league win for the women of steel, who have now netted 46 times in their opening 10 league fixtures.
They had to do things the hard way however, after falling behind inside the opening minute when Kim McAlpine struck a superb dipping effort into the roof of Clare Johnstone’s net.
Eddie Wolecki Black’s side responded brightly with Suzanne Mulvey, Sammy Hare and Lauryn Reside all coming close, before Hare levelled just after the 20 minute mark – glancing home Hayley Cunningham’s pinpoint free kick.
Two minutes later, Motherwell completed the turnaround. Mulvey linked with Kirsty McLaughlin, who did brilliantly to release Reside. She angled a shot beyond the keeper that found the net off the inside of the post for her first goal of the season.
With four minutes remaining of the first half, ‘Well went 3-1 ahead. Cunningham’s cross was nodded on by Caitlin Russell and then Niamh Johnston, before a mix-up in the Central defence ended with Shaney McCabe heading into her own net.
It was harsh on the hosts who had more than held their own in a fiercely contested first half, but it wasn’t to be the end of the action. A minute before half time, Abbie Callaghan’s free kick wasn’t cleared by the Motherwell defence and Kimberley-Anne McAlpine lashed the ball into the net from the edge of the box.
After conceding early and late in the first 45 minutes, it was imperative Motherwell were quick out of the traps as the second half began. They managed to do exactly that, scoring within the first 90 seconds.
Russell did well to cut back for Hare, who was denied by an excellent stop. But ‘Well were quick to react and McLaughlin laid the ball back to Cunningham to guide a low effort beyond the keeper.
‘Well were playing with great intensity, so it came as little surprise on 55 minutes when the persistence of Reside in closing down what seemed like a lost cause was rewarded by a poor error in the Central defence. Hare was alert to pounce on the loose ball before blasting into the empty net to stretch the lead to 5-2.
Having played a big role in Motherwell’s attacking threat, Russell got into scoring act with 20 remaining – firing home after the home defence failed to deal with Cunningham’s dangerous corner. The provider of the sixth would then close the scoring on 76 minutes when she converted Mulvey’s cross.
The visitors continued to threaten and Megan Burns would rattle the crossbar in the closing stages and although there were no further goals, little could take the shine off what was a superb second half display from Motherwell.
Motherwell now maintain their eight-point advantage at the top of the table and – not for the first time – demonstrated their ability to fightback from a goal behind.
Next up is a trip north to face Aberdeen next Sunday.
Motherwell will face Queen of the South, Clyde, Edinburgh City and Stranraer in the group stage of the 2018/19 Betfred Cup.
The Steelmen, the defeated finalists in the 2017/18 competition, were top seeds in Friday’s draw and will play in Group G.
The group stage will see us play four games across five match dates: 14 July, 18 July, 21 July, 25 July and 28 July.
Fixtures will be announced in due course, following broadcast selections by BT Sport.
Attendances at Fir Park in the Ladbrokes Premiership saw the biggest increase across the league in the 2017/18 season.
A total of 108,969 people watched our league games across the campaign, a rise of 28% from 2016/17.
Motherwell home matches were the seventh highest attended in the country and were the biggest outside of teams from the major cities.
With the team having reached both cup finals and narrowly missing out on a place in the top six, there’s great momentum behind the side as we prepare for the new season.
Your continued support is vital to ensure we keep building on what we’ve started. Season tickets for 2018/19 are on sale now and are available at a discounted rate until 8 June.
To buy, just head to http://tickets.motherwellfc.co.uk. You can buy online quickly and easily, with the ability to choose and pay for your seat in just a few clicks. For further information, you can read our guide to season tickets here.
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Below you can find a selection of publications on Joseph Beuys. Additional books and catalogues on this topic are available in our shop.
Joseph Beuys and Architecture – Perspectives and Accents
In his book, Wolfgang Zumdick presents hitherto unpublished research on Joseph Beuys’ thoughts and conversations regarding a concrete architectural project. The accompanying drawings are also published for the first time in this volume. An elaborate catalogue section illustrates the architectural references in Beuys’ work.
Drawings on the motif of the house and architectural depictions already appear early on in Joseph Beuys’ work. Tent and hut as early forms of housing represent the nomadic and the sedentary lifestyle. By contrast, Beuys used the image of the palace related to the human head as the seat of the autonomous consciousness. When working on concrete architectural projects, Beuys was primarily concerned with simplicity and measure, societal and social aspects.
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Joseph Beuys – Beethoven´s kitchen
Photographic documentation by Brigitte Dannehl
This book offers the first comprehensive view of photographs and film stills of a forgotten work by Joseph Beuys, ‘Beethovens Küche’ (Beethoven’s kitchen), which is rediscovered and researched in this publication. Text and catalogue provide an exacting scholarly investigation of a work which researchers on Beuys have widely neglected.
Joseph Beuys in the Lower-Rhine region – an itinerary
Franz Joseph van der Grinten describes a journey with 26 stops at places in the Lower-Rhine region which influenced the life and work of Joseph Beuys.
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Beuys und der Schwan
In his study of depictions of swans, which already feature in Joseph Beuys’ early work, Heribert Schulz focuses on their aesthetics and meaning as well as on the myth of Leda and the statement on metamorphosis associated with it.
Animals play an important role in the life and artistic work of Joseph Beuys, with the swan holding a special meaning because of its relationship with his hometown Kleve and to nature in the Lower Rhine landscape.
Beuys is here. Plakate und Multiples aus dem Museum Schloss Moyland
The posters, with their variety of functions and designs, offer an exceptional opportunity to gain an insight into the complex work of artist Joseph Beuys.
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MSPB Law Blog
A blog about legal issues before the Merit Systems Protection Board for federal employees by lawyers.
General MSPB Interest
U.S. Senate Must Confirm MSPB Appointees
By John V. Berry, Esq., www.berrylegal.com
Our law firm has represented federal employees at the Merit Systems Protection Board (MPSB) in hearings and appeals for over 20 years. While the initial hearing process remains functioning at the MSPB, we have not had an MSPB Board to hear appeals from initial decisions of administrative judges since January of 2017. It is hard to believe that the MSPB Board has been without a quorum for almost 3 years. Without a Board appeals cannot be heard and justice is effectively denied to federal employees and taxpayers. Furthermore, without a board there is no way for administrative judges to develop a comprehensive policy as to how to implement or understand the President's Executive Orders on personnel matters. This leaves each judge to make determinations for themselves. This has caused significant confusion on key issues before the MSPB. Basically, the U.S. Senate is depriving the President and federal employees of due process and fairness.
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Posted at 11:59 AM in General MSPB Interest | Permalink
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Proposed Discipline Defense for Federal Employees
We defend and represent federal employees in proposed disciplinary actions. When a federal employee is facing a proposed disciplinary action before their agency it is important for them to speak with an attorney knowledgeable in federal employment law for legal advice and representation in the appeal. This summary discusses some brief thoughts for federal employees as they respond to proposed disciplinary actions.
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Posted at 12:03 PM in Disciplinary Case Issues, General MSPB Interest | Permalink
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Retaining a MSPB Lawyer for MSPB Appeals
We are often asked the question of whether or not it makes sense for a federal employee to hire an attorney for their Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) appeal. This article discusses the reasons why it is very important for federal employees to have an MPSB lawyer represent them in their MSPB appeal and to hire an attorney with experience in this area.
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The Agency's Burden of Proof at the MSPB
We are often asked how the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) evaluates MSPB appeals brought by federal employees. This article discusses the way in which administrative judges at the MSPB review and consider charges sustained against federal employees by their agencies.
Burden of Proof at the MSPB
An appeal brought be a federal employee (e.g. an appeal of a removal action by a federal agency), will be evaluated by an administrative judge based on the evidentiary standard that is appropriate. For cases involving misconduct charges, the standard is "preponderance of the evidence" and for performance cases, it is a lower standard, "substantial evidence." In an MSPB appeal, a federal agency, much like in a criminal case, has the burden of proof to prove the charges alleged. 5 U.S.C. § 7701(c). As a result, the federal agency must prove the charge and establish a connection, or "nexus" between the charge and the efficiency of the service. The "efficiency of the service" is a term which simply means for the good of government operations.
The preponderance of the evidence standard has been defined as the degree of relevant evidence that a reasonable person, considering the record as a whole, would accept as sufficient to find that a contested fact is more likely to be true than untrue. 5 C.F.R. § 1201.4(q). In performance cases, the substantial evidence standard has been defined differently. Substantial evidence has been defined as the degree of relevant evidence that a reasonable person, considering the record as a whole, might accept as adequate to support a conclusion, even though other reasonable persons might disagree. 5 C.F.R. § 1201.4(p). Under this standard, the agency is not required to present evidence that is more persuasive than the evidence submitted by the appellant. Shuman v. Dep't of Treas., 23 M.S.P.R. 620, 624 (1984).
Example: A federal employee is accused of conduct unbecoming because of an allegation that they engaged in a fight at work with another employee. The employee is removed for the alleged fight at work and appeals to the MSPB. The federal agency will have to prove, by a preponderance of the evidence (51% of the evidence at the hearing) that the employee actually engaged in a fight in the workplace.
Example 2: a federal employees is accused of poor performance and placed on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). The agency then removes the federal employee for failing the PIP. The federal employee appeals. In this type of case, the agency must show that the evidence shows that the federal employee could be seen as having engaged in poor performance. This standard of proof is easier for federal agencies to show.
In sum, when facing an MSPB appeal to retain legal counsel familiar with the MSPB. Our law firm represents federal employees before the MSPB and can be contacted at www.berrylegal.com or by telephone at (703) 668-0070. Our Facebook page is located here.
Posted at 11:48 AM in Disciplinary Case Issues, General MSPB Interest | Permalink
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Conduct Unbecoming Charges at the MSPB
What is a Conduct Unbecoming Charge?
Conduct Unbecoming cases at the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) are known to involve the most generalized form of misconduct. In other words, the charge can cover a number of different types of offenses. It is the most common charge used when no others specifically apply. It is important to understand the nature of this type of charge when an employee is defending against this type of charge at the MSPB or during proposed discipline. I have included some samples of conduct unbecoming charges to give a sense of how broad these types of charges can be.
Sample Charges of Conduct Unbecoming
The following are some examples of conduct unbecoming charges that might be lodged against a federal employee:
1. On November 14, 2017, you engaged in conduct unbecoming when you began to argue with co-workers about an assignment that was overdue. You then approached your supervisor, Jim Jones, and told him “I am done here. You can take this assignment and shove it.” Your disrespectful attitude and profanity in the workplace is unacceptable and you.
2. On July 14, 2018, you engaged in conduct unbecoming when you informed others in the office that you were the recipient of the Purple Heart award for military service, when in fact you never served in the military. Your misconduct reflected poorly on the agency.
3. On October 5, 2017 and October 8, 2017, you engaged in conduct unbecoming when you claimed that you worked your full schedule during those two days. After an investigation, it was discovered that you did not work the two days in question, had not been in the office and falsely claimed time for hours not actually worked.
4. On November 5, 2017, you engaged in conduct unbecoming when you shoplifted a television from a local electronics store. You were subsequently caught for the theft, charged and convicted of criminal theft.
Elements Needed to Prove Conduct Unbecoming
A conduct unbecoming charge is proven by demonstrating that the employee committed the general misconduct alleged. In order to prove a charge of conduct unbecoming at the MSPB an agency needs to be able to do so by a preponderance of the evidence. The agency will need to establish that the employee (1) committed the misconduct as alleged and (2) that the conduct was improper or that it detracted from the federal employee’s character or reputation. Crouse v. Dept’ of Treas., 75 MSPR 57 (1997).
Defenses to Conduct Unbecoming Charges
There are a number of different types of methods of defense for general conduct unbecoming charges. The first is to challenge the actual facts alleged. If the facts can be disputed, the charge itself can potentially be defeated. Another potential avenue for challenging a conduct unbecoming charge is to argue that the charge was too vague and thus did not provide a legitimate opportunity to respond. Mason v. Dep't of Navy, 70 MSPR 584 (1996). Other defenses may involve the fact that other employees have engaged in similar conduct but not been charged with discipline. Other potential arguments, including issues where the same conduct has been charged multiple times may be challenged through the merger doctrine (the concept that the same conduct cannot be charged multiple times in the same manner). The number of potential defenses to a conduct unbecoming charge are varied and require the assistance of a attorney knowledgeable in federal employment law to determine the best strategy.
In sum, when facing a conduct unbecoming charge it is very important to retain legal counsel familiar with the MSPB. Our law firm represents federal employees before the MSPB and can be contacted at www.berrylegal.com or by telephone at (703) 668-0070. Our Facebook page is located here.
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Summary of the MSPB Appeals Process
John V. Berry, Esq., www.berrylegal.com
Federal employees meet with us to discuss their options for Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) appeals. While in other articles we go into more depth about various individual aspects of the MSPB appeals process, we thought that it would be helpful to provide a point by point synopsis of the typical MSPB appeals process in chronological order. There are sometimes some differences, but for the most part the major parts of the appeals process follow below:
1. Filing of the MSPB Appeal
The first step in the MSPB appeals process is for a federal employee to file a MSPB appeal. For most actions that the MSPB hears (those involving serious discipline for federal employees), the deadline is typically 30 days from the effective date of the adverse action to file the appeal. The MSPB appeals process is transitioning to electronic filing so it is much more efficient to file the appeal electronically. It is very important to timely file the appeal and to even file it early given that an untimely appeal will likely be dismissed.
2. Receipt of the Acknowledgment Order
Usually, within 1-2 weeks of filing the MSPB Appeal, a judge will be assigned and issue an Acknowledgment Order which basically sets the ground rules and timelines in each case. This order is about 15 pages and provides a lot of information about the processing of the individual MSPB appeal and should be reviewed carefully.
3. Filing of Agency File and Narrative Response
Typically, 20 days after the issuance of the Acknowledgment Order, the MSPB Administrative Judge will require the federal agency involved in the appeal to provide their file on the case to the MSPB and the Appellant. This file will include the documents relevant to the federal agency’s case and also their initial response to the Appellant’s appeal. It is not uncommon for a federal agency’s file to be 50 to 300 pages long, depending on the number of documents associated with the case.
4. Status Conferences
Most administrative judges will schedule a status conference following the receipt of the Agency File. The general substance of these status conferences involve an initial discussion of the issues involved in the appeal and also potential settlement negotiations. A status conference may lead to mediation or other alternative dispute resolution efforts.
5. The Filing of Discovery
Generally, 30 days after the issuance of the Acknowledgment Order, the parties are required to submit initial discovery requests if they choose to engage in discovery. The discovery stage is very important as it is the Appellant’s chance to obtain documents, correspondence, emails, video, audio which the Agency may possess and which could be used during the hearing. One of the most important parts of the discovery process includes the ability to question (under oath) relevant witnesses in an appeal through the deposition process.
6. Case Suspensions
At any point in the process, usually during discovery or when settlement talks are ongoing, a case suspension might be proposed by a party. A case suspension basically freezes the litigation before the MSPB on the case to complete certain tasks, such as complete discovery or to engage in settlement talks or mediation. A case suspension can last up to 30 days, and then, if needed, a second one case be requested. Case suspensions are at the discretion of the Administrative Judge.
7. Pre-Hearing Submissions
Prior to the MSPB hearing, the Administrative Judge will order pre-hearing submissions from each party. These generally include the parties' versions of the issues to be heard, the documents to be used as exhibits in the case and proposed witnesses for the case.
8. Pre-Hearing Conference
Prior to the MSPB hearing, the Administrative Judge will review both parties pre-hearing submissions and rule on witnesses, exhibits and other issues likely to come up at the hearing. A party will want to be prepared to argue for their position during the pre-hearing conference. Typically, the majority of the pre-hearing conference will be used to argue that certain witnesses be required to attend and to provide a basis to the judge for their relevance.
9. The Hearing
The MSPB Hearing typically takes about 1-2 days depending on the number of witnesses involved. During the hearing process, there will usually be opening statements and the examination and cross-examination of witnesses for both sides. A court reporter will transcribe the testimony given. There may be closing arguments and/or written closing submissions prior to the issuance of the Administrative Judge’s decision in the case. The written decision is typically issued 2-6 weeks after the hearing is held.
10. The Appeal
Should the MSPB Administrative Judge issue an adverse decision, either party can file an appeal known as a Petition for Review (PFR) usually within 35 days of receipt of the decision.
In sum, when litigating an MSPB appeal, it is very important to retain legal counsel familiar with the MSPB to assist you. Our law firm represents federal employees before the MSPB and can be contacted at www.berrylegal.com or by telephone at (703) 668-0070. Please visit our Facebook page.
Posted at 08:19 PM in General MSPB Interest, Petitions for Review | Permalink
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MSPB Review of Arbitration Decisions
In certain circumstances, the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) can hear an appellant’s (federal employee) request for a review of a labor arbitrator’s decision. Most arbitration review requests go to the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) at the request of a union. However, some grievants seek review by the MSPB. In some cases, MSPB review is possible where jurisdiction is found.
MSPB Must Have Jurisdiction for Review
In general, the MSPB has review over a grievant’s request to review a decision under 5 U.S.C. § 7121 (d) when the MSPB has jurisdiction over the “subject matter” of the grievance, the appellant has alleged a claim of discrimination under 5 U.S.C. § 2302 (b)(1), and the arbitrator has issued a final award or decision. When it chooses to review a decision, the MSPB often gives greater deference to decisions issued by arbitrators than they do to decisions issued by their own administrative judges.
In general, in order for the MSPB to have jurisdiction to review an arbitration case, the grievant must have alleged discrimination in combination with the other claims and taken the case to arbitration, where appropriate. Where a union elected not to move forward to arbitration, the MSPB found that a grievance's decision was not appealable as a final decision. Knuckles v. Dep't of the Army, 122 MSPR 519 (2015).
When will the MSPB Reverse an Arbitrator’s Decision
The MSPB will reverse or modify a labor arbitrator’s decision only where the arbitrator has made a mistake of law in interpreting civil service laws, rules or regulations. Hidalgo v. Dep’t of Justice, 93 MSPR 645 (2003). An arbitrator's findings of fact are entitled to deference unless the arbitrator erred in his legal analysis. Cambridge v. Dep’t of Justice, 111 MSPR 152 (2009), If an arbitrator has not made specific findings on a particular issue, the MSPB will not defer to the arbitrator's decision to deny an appellant's review request related to that issue. Hollingsworth v. Dep’t of Commerce, 115 MSPR 636 (2011).
A Few Examples Where Reversal Took Place
This is a sparse area of law and there have not been a significant number of cases of arbitration review. As as result, there are not a number of cases to cite. However, depending on the outcome of a labor arbitration and what has been alleged, it may be a potential avenue of appeal, especially where a union is not willing to take the case to the FLRA. There are many potential examples of potential types of cases, but here are a few reversal case examples:
1. The MSPB reversed an arbitrator’s decision that an appellant was removed for cause. The MSPB determined that the arbitrator failed to address the appellant’s claim of affirmative defense that she had been subject to retaliation by the agency. Marshall v. Dep’t of Veteran’s Affairs, 111 MSPB 5 (2008).
2. The MSPB reversed a labor arbitrator’s ruling which found that an appellant's grievances were not arbitrable and could not be heard. The arbitrator found that the union failed to pursue the grievances as required by their collective bargaining agreement because it failed to timely schedule the appellant's requested oral or written presentations to management officials in support of her grievances. The MSPB determined that the arbitrator improperly construed the CBA, as the MSPB could not find language within the collective bargaining agreement requiring that the appellant make a presentation at the required step of the grievance procedure. Morales v. SSA, 107 MSPR 360 (2007).
3. The MSPB reversed a labor arbitrator's decision finding that an individual that had previously filed an EEO complaint could not appeal her removal matter through arbitration, finding that the arbitrator was wrong as a matter of law. Galloway v. SSA, 2009 MSPB 46 (2009).
4. The MSPB reversed a labor arbitrator's decision regarding a removal based on falsification, finding that the charge had not been proven and that evidence of EEO retaliation was present. Fitzgerald v. DHS, 2008 MSPB 17 (2008).
In sum, when litigating an appeal of an arbitrator’s decision, it is very important to retain legal counsel familiar with the MSPB to determine the best possible appeals options. Our law firm represents federal employees before the MSPB and can be contacted at www.berrylegal.com or by telephone at (703) 668-0070. Our Facebook page is located at Berry & Berry PLLC Facebook Page.
Posted at 08:55 PM in Disciplinary Case Issues, General MSPB Interest, Petitions for Review | Permalink
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Lack of Candor Charges at the MSPB
What is Lack of Candor?
Lack of candor cases at the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) are unique. Candor, according to Dictionary.com, is defined as "the state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression." Lack of candor charges seem to be more common today than they have been in the past. In fact, more federal agencies use this charge against federal employees today than ever before. While many individuals would think that lack of candor and falsification charges are the same type of charge, they are not. A lack of candor charge is distinct from a standard falsification charge. A lack of candor charge is more broad than a falsification charge. Falsification cases involve direct evidence of deception. Lack of candor is more a term of art, which can involve more general conduct. Usually, lack of candor cases involve charges alleging that a federal employee did not disclose information that the agency thinks should have been disclosed by the employee.
To prove a charge at the MSPB an agency needs to be able to do so by a preponderance of the evidence. For lack of candor cases at the MSPB there is no need for an agency to prove an intent to deceive, but rather that under the circumstances, the information should reasonably been disclosed for completeness. Fargnoli v. Dep’t of Comm., 2016 MSPB 19 (2016). Lack of candor, however, necessarily involves an element of deception. Parkinson v. Dep't of Justice, 815 F.3d 757, 766 (Fed. Cir. 2016). There needs to be some element of proof that the federal employee knowingly omitted or hid facts from an agency.
Sample Charge of Lack of Candor
The following is one sample of a lack of candor charge:
Charge 1, Specification 1: Lack of Candor
On July 12, 2017, you were interviewed by investigators about the theft of computers from your office. You testified that you did not take the computers when asked. However, even though you were not asked if you knew who took the computers from your office, you had knowledge of the individual that had taken them and did not disclose that to investigators. You did not disclose this information.
Elements Needed to Prove Lack of Candor
Lack of candor generally requires that an agency prove two elements according to the Fargnoli case. These are:
(1) the federal employee gave incorrect or incomplete information; and
(2) the federal employee (he/she) did so knowingly.
The MSPB Board in Fargnoli provided reasoning for a lack of candor analysis in their decision:
Because the agency failed to establish by preponderant evidence that the appellant knew her statement was false, we found the administrative judge was correct in not sustaining the charge. Our reviewing court recently took a similar approach in Parkinson, in which an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was charged with lack of candor under the FBI Offense Code based on his alleged “failure to be fully forthright” in his statements to agency investigators. In that context, the court found that the “element of deception” required under Ludlum entailed that the employee must have “knowingly” failed to be forthright (citing Parkinson, 815 F. 3d at 766-67).
Id. at page 9.
Hence, the key in defending lack of candor cases before the MSPB falls on the issue of whether or not the federal employee knowingly failed to be forthright. Because of the ever increasing number of lack of candor charges, federal employees involved in administrative investigations and disciplinary actions involving this type of issue should retain counsel early to attempt to avoid lack of candor charges and/or defend against them at the MSPB.
In sum, when facing a lack of candor charge it is very important to retain legal counsel familiar with the MSPB. Our law firm represents federal employees before the MSPB and can be contacted at www.berrylegal.com or by telephone at (703) 668-0070. Our Facebook page is located at Berry & Berry PLLC Facebook Page.
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MSPB Lawyers for Federal Employees
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is an appeals forum for federal employees and former federal employees to challenge various types of federal agency actions, such as serious disciplinary actions (adverse actions), retirement appeals, whistleblower matters and other types of cases. The most usual type of appeal for federal employees involves filing an appeal over a serious disciplinary action, such as removal from the federal service. During an appeal a federal employee can choose to be represented by an attorney or not be. In almost all cases, however, the federal agency will be represented in the appeal by an attorney. This article discusses some of the reasons for retaining an attorney familiar with the MSPB process to assist you in an appeal. In other words, the reasons why it is important for a federal employee to retain an MSPB attorney. Here are some reasons why it is important for a federal employee to retain an MSPB lawyer for their appeal.
Federal Agencies Treat MSPB Cases Differently When an Employee Has an Attorney
One of the reasons why it is important to have an MSPB experienced attorney representing a federal employee is that it will very likely make a difference in how the federal agency treats the MSPB appeal at issue. Federal agencies allocate their attorney resources first to cases where an individual has their own attorney. Those cases tend to get the most attention because their are attorneys on both sides of the appeal. In other words, where an appellant has their own attorney, the federal agency involved will focus more on that individual’s appeal merely because they have an attorney. This focus can help to settle MSPB appeals.
The MSPB Process is Much Like a Regular Court Case
One of the most important reasons why it is important to have an MSPB attorney represent a federal employee in the appeals process is the fact that it is a very serious type of appeal, functioning much like a court case. There is a general misperception that the process is designed for an employee to effectively represent themselves. An MSPB appeal functions much like a civil court case where there is discovery, the taking of depositions and the filing of briefs. It is critical that an appellant have counsel to assist them in these difficult and sometimes complex processes. It is often the case where federal employees discovery this fact late and we are contacted after discovery deadlines have passed which can make appeals much more difficult to prevail in and/or settle. It is important to have an MSPB attorney early in the process.
Having an Attorney Can Increase the Chances of Settlement
Federal employees who retain attorneys in the MSPB process, in our experience, are more likely to resolve their MSPB appeals. Part of the calculation by federal agencies, in determining whether or not to settle MSPB cases has to do with risk. Federal agency attorneys evaluate the risk of losing an appeal (a risk which increases when an employee has an attorney), but also other types of risks including the risk of adverse information being disclosed through discovery. Individuals without counsel can run across difficulties such as how to format discovery requests or take depositions which can limit the amount of critical information uncovered in an appeal. This can decrease the chances of settling an MSPB appeal. MSPB lawyers are also able to understand and work out the legal terms of a settlement agreement with federal agency counsel to minimize risk and to attempt to ensure compliance with settlement agreements.
It is Hard for an Employee to Represent Themselves at a MSPB Hearing
One of the most important reasons for having an MSPB attorney assist an appellant in a case is the difficulty for a federal employee in presenting their own case at the MSPB hearing. MSPB hearings typically involve presenting opening and closing statements, presenting and questioning witnesses, cross-examining witnesses and making legal objections to evidence. It is also difficult for a federal employee to question themselves in a case, and their testimony as a result often takes the path of a statement which can have limitations. Having an MSPB lawyer assist them can help lead them through what can often be difficult testimony. We often have federal employees come to us following the filing of an MSPB appeal because they didn't realize how complex the process can be. It is best to secure MSPB representation as soon as possible for federal employees.
In sum, when litigating an MSPB appeal it is very important to retain legal counsel familiar with the MSPB. Our law firm represents federal employees before the MSPB and can be contacted at www.berrylegal.com or by telephone at (703) 668-0070. Our Facebook page is located at Berry & Berry PLLC Facebook Page.
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MSPB Appeals Process for Federal Employees
Many federal employees have a limited understanding of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and what its role is in protecting federal employee rights. The MSPB is an independent federal agency that functions as a quasi-judicial court system protecting certain federal employee rights through an appeals process.
Types of Federal Employee MSPB Appeals
The MSPB generally handles the following types of federal employee appeals:
1. Appeals of removals (terminations) or demotions (discipline or for performance);
2. Appeals of disciplinary suspensions of more than 14 days;
3. Federal retirement-related appeals related to OPM actions;
4. Whistleblower appeals;
5. Denials of within-grade salary increases;
6. Reduction-in-Force (RIF) appeals; and
7. Appeals involving discrimination based on military service (USERRA cases).
The MSPB also has jurisdiction over other types of federal employee appeals, but the ones listed above tend to be the most frequent. Among the 7 types listed above, the most common type of appeal, in our experience, are removal appeals where a federal employee is attempting to contest his or her termination from federal employment.
A Brief Description of the MSPB Appeals Process
An MSPB appeal is a quasi-civil action, with an administrative judge assigned to hear the federal employee’s case. For a federal employee it is much like being a party in a regular civil case. Once an appeal is filed by a federal employee the federal agency will almost always be represented by their own attorneys and it is important for the employee to be represented by an attorney as well. Once a federal employee files his or her appeal (by themselves or through counsel), an administrative judge is assigned and the case begins when the judge issues an Acknowledgment Order. An MSPB appeal provides a federal employee with the ability to seek discovery of facts and documents related to their appeal. This includes the ability of a federal employee to question their supervisors or other agency officials, under oath (taking of depositions), to gather facts in preparation for the upcoming hearing. Through discovery, a federal employee can also seek documentation from the federal agency involved (and possibly others), such as emails, correspondence, video and other materials that are relevant to their legal defense.
An MSPB appeal also permits (and encourages) the parties, where it is possible, to attempt to settle an appeal prior to the hearing stage. A settlement is a compromise between the federal employee and federal agency regarding the disposition of the appeal. In most cases, once the discovery process is complete, the case moves to the pre-hearing stage, a hearing date is assigned and ultimately a hearing is held by a MSPB judge. The entire process of litigating an MSPB appeal, in our experience, usually takes between 120 and 180 days. An MSPB hearing functions much like a traditional court case. (1) there are opening and closing statements, (2) the calling and cross-examination of witnesses, and (3) the introduction of evidence in support of a case.After the hearing is complete, unless the parties brief legal issues following the hearing, the administrative judge will then issue her or her decision. After the close of the hearing or any final briefs are submitted, a decision will then be issued. We have seen administrative judges make decisions from a few days after the close of the record to a few months after. The process can vary. The Administrative Judge's decision can then be appealed by either side to the full MSPB Board (a 3 person appeals board appointed by the President) and then to the U.S. Court of Appeals.
If you need assistance with an MSPB appeal, please contact our office at (703) 668-0070 or at www.berrylegal.com to schedule a consultation. Please also visit and like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BerryBerryPllc.
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Steve Backshall is one of TV's best-known wildlife presenters and was a huge hit on BBC1's Lost Land of the Jaguar, for which he scaled a previously unexplored peak to search for new species in the jungles of Guyana. Steve and his team made a near-death ascent of Mount Upuigma, scaling vertical rock walls as high as the Empire State Building, sleeping suspended in space. In this gripping series the team achieved their mission to find rare and undiscovered species of wildlife to prove that the Guyanan jungle needs to be protected.
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As a TV presenter, naturalist and adventurer, Steve has travelled the globe in search of the wild, weird and wonderful. BBC programmes include some closer to home expeditions for the ever-popular The One Show, Britain's Lost World, Extreme Caving, CBBC Spring Watch, Inside Out and The Nature of Britain. Explorations further afield include the BBC's gruelling and Emmy-nominated epic Expedition Borneo, where Steve made the first ascent of a jungle peak, and first descent into an enormous, unexplored sinkhole; Expedition Alaska, Secret Wilderness: Japan where he met giant salamanders and feisty Macaque monkeys.
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Pruritus (itching) is a common and often distressing symptom near the end of life. The itch sensation may arise from stimulation of the skin itch receptor via unmyelinated C fibers, or itch may arise as a central phenomenon without skin involvement (e.g. opioid induced pruritus). Although histamine causes pruritus, many patients with pruritis show no signs of histamine release. Besides histamine, serotonin, prostaglandins, kinins, proteases and physical stimuli have all been implicated as mediators of pruritus.
Dermatological (dryness, wetness, irritation, eczema, psoriasis)
Metabolic (hepatic failure, renal failure, hypothyroidism)
Hematologic (iron deficiency, polycythemia, thrombocytosis, leukemia, lymphoma)
Drugs (opioids, aspirin, drug reactions)
Infectious (scabies, lice, candida)
Allergy (urticaria, contact dermatitis, drug reactions)
Psychogenic
Management Management of pruritus involves eliminating the cause when possible. Symptomatic strategies include:
Moisturizers: Dryness (xerosis) is very common and may exacerbate other causes. The mainstay of treatment is skin hydration. Note: Most OTC preparations only have small amounts of moisturizer—they are mostly water. Serious dryness requires emollients and moisturizers (such as petroleum jelly) that patients find oily or greasy. Nevertheless, they may applied after bathing, over damp skin, with a superficial covering.
Cooling agents (e.g. Calamine and/or Menthol in aqueous cream, 0.5%-2%) are mildly antipruritic. They may act as a counterirritant or anesthetic. A more direct way to anesthetize the skin is with the eutectic mixture of local anesthetics lidocaine and prilocaine (EMLA cream).
Antihistamines may be helpful in relieving itch when associated with histamine release. Morphine causes non-immune mediated histamine release from mast cells. Although there is not much supporting research, many report benefits of combining H1 and H2 receptor subtype antihistamines. These may have central effects as well as peripheral antihistaminergic effects. Doxepin (10-30 mg PO at bedtime), a tricyclic antidepressant, is a very potent antihistamine and may help in more refractory cases.
Topical steroids may be helpful in the presence of skin inflammation. These are best applied in ointment rather than cream formulations to alleviate dryness. Systemic steroids have been used in refractory cases.
Newer Generation Antidepressants There are accounts of paroxetine being used successfully to treat pruritus associated a paraneoplastic process, opioids or cholestasis. Also mirtazapine has been shown to improve pruritus at low doses of 15 mg/day in small case reports; this is likely due to its known antihistamine effects and its blockage of post-synaptic 5HT2 and 5HT3 receptors.
Opioid Antagonists Low dose, continuous infusions of IV naloxone has the largest body of data supporting its use in adult and pediatric patients with opioid induced pruritus. There are smaller studies suggest oral naloxone may have less favorable results. Small studies suggest a potential role for methylnaltrexone in opioid induced pruritus.
Other: An old-fashioned but effective remedy is immersion in an oatmeal bath (e.g. Aveeno). More recent pharmacological treatments include cholestyramine for cholestatic pruritis; ondansetron for patients with cholestatic, opioid-induced, or renally-induced pruritus. Since the pain sensing neurological system seems to be responsible for pruritis, agents like gabapentin have also been reported to be helpful.
Fleisher A, Michaels JR. Pruritus. Berger A, Portenoy RK, Weissman DE, eds. In: Principles & Practice of Supportive Oncology. Philadelphia PA: Lippincott-Raven Publishers; 1998: pp245-250.
Krajnik M, Zylicz Z. Understanding pruritis in systemic disease. J Pain Symp Manage. 2001; 21:151-168.
Wilde MI, Markham A. Ondansetron: a review of its pharmacology and preliminary clinical findings in novel applications. Drugs. 1996; 52:773-794.
Zylicz Z, Smits C, Chem D, Krajnik M. Paroxetive for pruritis in advanced cancer. J Pain Symptom Manage. 1998; 16:121-124.
Davis MP, Frandsen JL, et al. Mirtazipine for pruritus. J Pain Symptom Manage 2003; 25: 288-91.
Wolfhagen FH, Sternieri E, et al. Oral naltrexone treatment for cholestatic pruritus: a double blind, placebo-controlled study. Gastroenterology 1997;113: 1264-69.
Miller JL, Hagemann TM. Use of pure opioid antagonists of opioid induced pruritus. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy 2011; 68: 1419-1425.
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