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Performing a variety of unique acoustic versions of songs through from the 60s to modern chart hits, this versatile act is a crowd pleasing favourite guaranteed to put smiles on faces and get toes tapping.
His repertoire ranges from Ed Sheehan to Rhianna & the Beatles to Razorlight.
Ian’s time as a session guitarist saw him experience performances around Europe and supporting acts such as Ellie Goulding and Seth Lakeman and he is now enjoying playing his solo work in residencies across the north west.
David John Jaggs
David John Jaggs is an acclaimed songwriter with a soaring voice and choppy guitar style who approaches every gig, whether as the frontman of his über talented band (The Ragamuffins) or flying solo with similar quantities of two-footed gusto.
Never afraid of being a mischievous scamp and throwing genuine curveballs into his marathon solo sets, one minute he’ll have you singing along with every ounce of breath left in your lungs, the next bringing you to tears with snippets of wistful beauty. Not to be missed!
Joe O'donnell
17 year old guitarist and singer from Ireland based in Liverpool, Singer/songwriter and acoustic covers, has played in top venues in various cities throughout the world such as Madrid, Liverpool and Barcelona and venues such as Hype festival in Ireland.
Nat Kelly
Originally from the North of Ireland, I am a vibrant, extremely unique and dynamic young artist, up and coming in the Liverpool live music scene, giving acoustic sessions a fresh and cutting-edge vibe.
Taking the best of both The Classics and The Charts to produce an original and easy listening experience with an acoustic R&B feel.
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28/01/13 The Year of the Superhero Movie
I thought it was going to be 2012.
Remember all that Oscar hype Dark Knight Rises got back in July? Of course that was before it was actually released. If any DC fans were still holding out hopes, Spider-Man sweetheart Gwen Stacy (AKA Emma Stone) and toddler supervillain Stewie Griffin (AKA Seth MacFarlane) dashed them when they announced the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ official nomination list this month. I like to think Marvel fans are a little more reality-based, though I’m sure a few were holding out hopes for Joss Whedon’s The Avengers too.
Add The Amazing Spider-Man, and three of the top grossing films of 2012 were dressed in spandex. Together they cashed in more than the GDP of Jamaica or Iceland. And yet both the Oscars and the Golden Globes snub them? Co-hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey didn’t even make JOKES about this year’s superhero movies. (Daredevil, AKA Ben Affleck, wins best director, and he can’t even see?!)
Isn’t it time for some kind of Golden Superhero Oscar Globe Ceremony Banquet Thing? Why doesn’t anyone have a category for Best Superhero Film?
Well, because that would be silly. Not to mention demeaning and/or redundant. Did Heath Ledger win Best Supporting Actor in a Superhero Film in 2009?
And just look at last year’s winner. The would-be Best Superhero Film of 2011 also won Best Picture of the Year.
No, I don’t mean Thor or Captain America. Certainly not Green Lantern or Green Hornet. X-Men: First Class was fun but certainly no Oscar contender, and while Australia’s Griff the Invisible deserved lots and lots more attention, Best Picture would be a stretch.
I’m talking about The Russian Affair.
The 1927 classic? Never heard of it?
That’s because it’s the opening sequence of 2011’s The Artist, winner of the Least Watched Best Picture of All Time. I’d not even heard of it until after last year’s Awards ceremony, and it still took me months to rent.
Which was stupid of me. Because not only is The Artist a brilliant film, it’s also the perfect history lesson for a superhero movie buff.
You probably think of the superhero as a relatively recent invader of the silver screen. The folks over at BoxOfficeMojo.com consider the 1978 Superman the Krypton-like explosion that spawned the genre.
Not so.
Captain American turned to celluloid back in 1944, Batman in 1943, Captain Marvel 1941.
But, you might argue, those were just serials. Dinky 10-minute installments that aired each week before the main attraction. Like, say, the 1937 The Shadow Strikes, one of the first superhero films of the sound era.
But not the Silent Age.
Unlike all those other upstart film genres, superheroes hit the big screen back when movies were still movies, not talkies. The Russian Affair (as well as glimpses of its equally pretend sequel, The German Affair) features its pretend star George Valentin in tuxedo, top hat, and domino mask—the quintessential costume of the pre-comicbook proto-superhero, the gentleman thief.
Lone Wolf, Gray Seal, Scarlet Pimpernel, they’re all Batman predecessors, all but forgotten. Except for one. Zorro. Which The Artist inserts into the Valentin’s filmography too, replacing the real life film star Douglas Fairbanks. Director Michel Hazanavicius even reshot the best action sequence, dressing The Artist’s Jean Dujardin in Fairbanks’ Zorro costume. When Fairbanks first pulled on that mask, the avenging bandit was an obscure hero from a pulp magazine serial. A year later, Zorro is an international icon. The Mark of Zorro didn’t win Best Picture in 1920 only because the Academy Awards wouldn’t start for another decade.
But Fairbanks wasn’t the first masked movie star. He and his alter ego Dujardin/Valentin were just catching the wave started in 1916, the first year of the movie superhero.
Like 2012, 1916 saw three rounds of masked do-gooders. In The Iron Claw, Creighton Hale played a mild-mannered assistant by day, the mysterious Laughing Mask by night. By the end he’s wooed his boss’s daughter and thwarted the nefarious Iron Claw.
Francis Ford joined Hale as the similarly clad Sphinx in The Purple Mask, only this time the masked hero has a masked anti-heroine to woo too, Grace Cunard’s lady thief Queen of the Apaches, arguably the first superheroine in celluloid. She leaves her purple mask as a calling card.
But Best Superhero Film of 1916 goes to Louis Feuillade’ classic Judex. The 1930’s Shadow would borrow his cloak and slouch hat, but the master-of-disguise Judex sought revenge against a corrupt banker, while falling in love with and so of course protecting his daughter from villains. I like to show my class the original unmasking scene, Yvette Andréyor creeping into the hero’s bedroom (think Batcave) and discovering his make-up kit. (Nowhere nearly as dramatic as the big Phantom of the Opera scene, but this was shot a decade earlier.)
So when Hazanavicius is ready to shoot a sequel, The Artist II: The First Affair, he’ll have plenty more material to plunder.
Tags: Creighton Hale, Douglas Fairbanks, Francis Ford, Grace Cunard, Judex, Laughing Mask, Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist, The Iron Claw, The Purple Mask
21/01/13 Is Harry Potter a Superhero?
That’s what the folks at MuggleNet want to know. They were looking for a guest speaker to discuss “the comic book superhero qualities of Harry Potter’s adventures” during a podcast interview. My dean, Suzanne Keen, MuggleNet Academia’s first guest, recommended me. How could I resist?
So is Harry a superhero?
The popular answer is a no.
When a student wrote to Yahoo! Answers asking if he could dress as Harry Potter for Superhero Day, the top ranked responder said, nope, Harry’s no superhero (but go as him anyway). 79% of poll participants at a CAWS (Create a Wrestler Superstar) online discussion board agreed. Same opinion at Wiki.Answers.
It’s true, Mr. Potter has no mask and cape, but I have to go against conventional wisdom and answer: Pretty much.
To explain why, let’s break the question into pieces. Definitions of a superhero vary, but here are some basic qualities.
Does he have superpowers?
Well, for starters the kid can fly, teleport, turn invisible, and talk to animals. That puts him right up there with Superman, Night Crawler, Invisible Woman, and Aquaman.
But the issue seems to be whether this makes him special. The yahoo at Yahoo! thinks “the defining characteristic of a superhero is that they use a unique, super-human ability that nobody else possesses.” Wiki.Answers got stuck on the same sticking point, declaring Harry just “a wizard like many others.”
It’s a reasonable objection. Especially when you look at early Golden Age comics. Men in unitards tended to stand alone back then, each in his own universe, with little or no crossover. Even the Justice Society of America started as a reprint omnibus, with characters sharing a cover but not adventures. The idea of a community of superpowered heroes in a single universe didn’t really launch till the early 60’s. Stan Lee even included footnotes, so every episode in every title was part of a continuous web.
Which mean the “unique” criterion is wrong. Lots of superheroes overlap powers. Look at the Captain Marvel family, or everyone who’s ever been named Flash (Daniel Radcliffe said he’d like to add his name to the list). I count about a half dozen guys who can stretch their limbs into knots. Green Lantern belongs to a literal army of identically-clad Green Lanterns. Ultimately the Harry Potter wizarding world is a lot like the superhero world, a community of the superpowered.
And if you really want to push the “unique” angle, Harry’s that too. The sole wizard fated to defeat the greatest villain in history.
Okay, but does he have a dual identity?
Oddly, I’m going to have to go with yes.
He doesn’t have an alias or codename (unless you count “The Boy Who Lived”), or a colorful costume under his robes, but there is plenty of duality. Rowling’s just transferred it from her hero to the world at large. Instead of mild-mannered Clark Kent, we have the mild-mannered muggle world, our world. Which, unknown to us and all the other Lois Lanes, overflows with magic.
Book One strips off Harry’s Clark-like glasses so he can see he is a member of a secret superpowered community. Jump inside a phone booth and suddenly you’re in the Ministry of Magic. Instead of wearing colored tights under his street clothes, he wears his muggle street clothes under his Hogwarts robes. Rowling’s just flipped the trope.
She’s also overturned a common fantasy convention. Most speculative worlds exist somewhere or somewhen else. Rowling conjures the superhero’s secret identity trick to bring sorcery into the here and now. Usually it’s one or the other. Middle-earth, for example, is here but not now. Narnia is now but not here. Le Guin’s Earthsea is neither here nor now. Harry is both.
He’s also King Arthur and Merlin in one. The boy born for greatness must discover his real self. (The BBC’s Merlin had great fun with the secret identity trope too.)
So what’s next? Super orphan?
Harry’s parents, like Bruce Wayne’s, were brutally murdered. Superman lost his parents plus his entire home world. Ditto for Harry. Except that his Krypton was only hiding until his twelfth birthday. In the meantime, Harry was raised by apes. I mean muggles. (Jesus, the secret superpowered son of God, was raised by Jews, but that’s probably a different discussion.)
How about a superhero symbol? Does Harry have a bat or spider or capital “S”?
Yep. Look at his forehead. Captain Marvel sports the same icon. A thunderbolt. And like every good superhero, the icon codes his identity. Captain Marvel shouts “Sha-zam!” (the name of his sponsoring wizard) and down comes a lightning zap to transform him. The same way baby Harry was transformed into a horcrux by Voldemort’s magic blast.
Though I’d say Rowling is more in sympathy with Silver Age comics. A hero’s power is also a curse. Billy Baston’s thunderbolt is a free ticket to superpowered fun and games. Harry’s is a death sentence.
And if you’re going to say a superhero’s emblem has to be worn on his chest, wrong again. The 1930s Phantom sported his iconic skull on his belt buckle. Before that, Johnston McCulley (you know him from Zorro) preferred hoods with his hero’s symbol sewn into the forehead. In fact, guess the name of the proto-superhero he wrote right after Zorro. The Thunderbolt.
Next up: Is Harry a vigilante?
I know, not the first thing that pops to mind when you think “superhero.” But most of them are. Even a government-employed super-soldier like Captain America has to go AWOL on occasion to demonstrate this his superheroic soul is not for sale. Plus governments, all those Commissioner Gordons of the world, are innately incompetent. How long did it take it the Minster of Magic to even acknowledge that Voldemort was back? Meanwhile, the Order of the Phoenix was already in full vigilante mode. To protect the law we must break the law. By the last book, Harry switches to Zorro mode. The government isn’t merely incompetent, it’s corrupt. Voldemort is running everything.
Which brings us to arch nemesis.
Yes, Harry has one, but the superhero parallels run deeper. The ur-supervillain of the Golden Age of Comics, the uber-thug who turned comic books into a massive mass market money maker through the 40’s, was Adolf Hitler. AKA, Tom Riddle.
Rowling did more than scribble a new Lex Luthor or Doc Ock. Lord Voldemort’s DNA was cloned from the ultimate villainy of the 20th century. Eugenics. He’s not just a ruthlessly authoritarian dictator. He Who Cannot Be Named believes in genetically pure bloodlines. The Slytherin agenda is the wizarding equivalent of Aryan supremacy. Muggles are inferior. Wizards who mingle with them muddy the gene pool. Voldemort is Hitler on magical steroids.
And only Harry can stop him. It’s the ultimate battle of good vs. evil. The battle comic book superheroes started in 1938 with Action Comics No. 1. Back when the U.S. was watching fascism sweep across Europe, afraid that democracy could be facing its end.
I could add a bit about Hermione being a mutant (superpowered offspring of normal parents), but I think I’ve made my superhero point.
And now I’d like to apologize to my daughter.
I ran all of this past her after picking her up from high school track practice today. She read all of the Harry Potter books a dozen of times each, literally. And that was after her mom and I and spent years reading them aloud to her and her brother. It’s how they became literate.
After a brief objection or two, she agreed with my superhero thesis. “I never thought of it like that,” she said.
I laughed. “No reason why you would.”
“That’s true,” she said. “But, you know, it depresses me when you say stuff like this.”
“That Voldemort is Hilter?”
“All of it. You’re destroying my childhood.” She was laughing, sort of. “Stop destroying my childhood!”
I’ll tell her to avoid the podcast.
Tags: Clark Kent, eugenics, John Granger, Keith Hawk, MuggleNet, Rowling, superhero definition, Suzanne Keen, Voldemort Hitler
14/01/13 JEAN VALJEAN, WOLVERINE, & WHAT BOYS (ARE) LIKE
Guest Blogger, Christopher Todd Matthews
Just days after the mega-musical’s release, Slate’s David Haglund asked readers to ponder this mystery: “Why [do] Tween Boys Love Les Miz.” Haglund then tried to blow our minds with his answer: Jean Valjean is a superhero.
One can indeed read Valjean as a superhero, and it’s fun to find the pattern: as Haglund and others note, Valjean saves lives, he has a secret identity and a nemesis who wants to uncover it, and the novel describes him as having the strength of “four men.” Chris Gavaler tells me Valjean fits the model of other early superhero prototypes, such as the Count of Monte Cristo and the Scarlet Pimpernel (each of whom shares key elements with Valjean, such as an experience with unjust imprisonment and a backdrop of Gallic revolution). And many critics have noted both the musical’s and the original novel’s sometimes overbearing Christian imagery, so perhaps Valjean is simply Victor Hugo’s echo of what one might call the original superhero, righteous amid injustice: Jesus.
What fun. And I mean it. But there’s a silent premise to all this that, to my mind, tells us something rather more complicated and troubling, about sexual identity and gender expression and their relation to superhero motifs. And that’s because Haglund’s headline comes with an implied tone of mystification—Why in the world would boys like Les Miz?—which deploys a whole series of old-fashioned assumptions about what boys are and what boys like. My god, boys like musicals?!
The implication, of course, is that there’s something weird about boys liking musicals. My guess is I don’t need to pause here to give you a chance to figure out what that “weirdness” is: a boy liking musicals has meant something rather specific in our cultural consciousness for the last several decades. From one point of view it has, as a kind of cruel shorthand, signaled deviance and perversion, but from another it has more positively meant that a boy is embracing alternative forms of boyness. The figure of the musical-loving boy or man, in other words, has long functioned as both an element of gay male identity and as a handy stereotype for mocking “effeminate” men, gay or not.
At the very least, such loving has indicated the willingness of the occasional boy to play along the margins of conventional gendering. I was such a boy, not necessarily gay, though for a while my parents certainly wondered, and I adored Les Mis when I saw it on stage at the tender age of fourteen. To this day I’m terribly low on football-related and power-tool-based conversation topics, much preferring to discuss my favorite Gene Kelley films.
So in part Haglund’s article reminds me how the narratives and iconography of superheroes can be used to normalize boys and gender identity. Horrified that your son likes a musical? It’s OK: it’s probably just a superhero story with songs—and liking superheroes is so natural and normal for a boy. (Go into any store that sells children’s anything and you’ll see the artifacts of such musty old gender dichotomies: Hulk lunchboxes over here, Barbie lunchboxes over there; Spiderman underwear to the left, pretty-princess underwear to the right.) These days superheroes stand for boyness—and boyness means the opposite of girlness, means physical vitality and heroism and violence, means a tidy trajectory toward an uncomplicatedly masculine and heterosexual adult identity.
So liking a musical’s a problem, what with all that prancing and hand-holding, but some good old heroic violence, a few damsels in distress, a dash of vaguely fascistic adoration of musculature and extra-judicial power, and voila, problem solved! It’s really just a superhero movie, about strong boys saving weak girls in a landscape of deep and abiding violence! Phew!
Now, if only there were some sort of dashing, lithe song-and-dance man who could wrap this whole thing up, bringing Gene Kelley and superheroes and Jean Valjean all together in a neat package. Oh wait, there is: Hugh Jackman. Those are two words that could also be used to answer the question “Why do tween boys like this musical?” He’s hot. And sure he was also Wolverine—violence and superheroes and heterosexuality and all that—but, you know, Wolverine was hot too.
Which brings me to my final point: despite our culture’s easy equation of superheroes with conventional boyness, and despite my own earlier dismissal of the normalizing strategies of superhero narratives and merchandise, superhero stories have historically included plenty of room for gay themes and queer readings. There are the secret identities, the split between the generic upstanding public man and the secret, daring hyper-flâneur he becomes at night. There are the homosocial intimacies, most famously in Batman and Robin’s domestic partnership. There is The X-Men’s theme of countercultural struggle. Chris Gavaler points out that the prototypical and maybe semi-Valjeanean Scarlet Pimpernel himself has effete characteristics—dressing like a Dandy and being named after a flower, for instance—that might put him in a lineage of modern gayness. And of course there are all those beefy men in tights, so closely matching certain genres of gay male erotica.
So the fact that Wolverine now sings in a grand costume drama only puts a slightly more legibly queer spin on a set of implications already there, even if invisible to your average mainstream audience.
Perhaps what I most want here is not only to free kids of such assumptions about the nature of gender but also to restore these trickier meanings to superhero stories. There’s something about the superhero template that gives kids on the margins of normal (perhaps especially boys) a place to go, a way of thinking about who they are, of engaging with emotional intensity, of imagining a dramatic and legitimate role for themselves in a world that sees them as hopelessly weird or nerdy or awkward or effeminate. I want the mainstream to give superheroes back—to stop using them to patrol and correct the boundaries of boyhood (and girlhood, for that matter).
After all, when I adored Les Mis, I adored Moon Knight and Spider-Man and a bunch of other comics just as much, and there seemed no contradiction in that. Superheroes were not the guise of normalcy I wore over the shameful secret of loving a musical: they were yet another way of getting around the pressures to be normal.
[Christopher Todd Matthews is a writer who lives in Ann Arbor.]
Tags: Christopher Todd Matthews, David Haglund, Hugh Jackman, JEAN VALJEAN, Les Mis, Slate, Victor Hugo
07/01/13 A Superhero Call to Arms
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun,” says NRA vice-president Wayne LaPierre, “is a good guy with a gun.”
That’s the logic that armed the Golden Age of superheroes. Not just the absolutist good vs. evil, but the gun part too. Back in the 30s and 40s holsters were as common to superhero costumes as masks and capes. The Shadow, The Phantom, Captain America, even the original Batman gunned down his share of bad guys.
But LaPierre was born in 1948, so he would have been an early Silver Age reader. With the exception of World War II throwback Nick Fury and space soldier Captain Marvel, all those Golden Age holsters had been erased.
And of course Nick is also a government employee. The kind the NRA would station in every school as part of their National Model School Shield Program (no relation to Nick’s S.H.I.E.L.D.).
But since the pair of officers patrolling Columbine weren’t enough to prevent that travesty, the program wouldn’t rely just on well-holstered cops. The NRA’s Shield wants “armed volunteers.”
That’s an interesting new concept. I serve on my local PTA board (yes, I take the minutes), and although faculty surveys are pleading for parent volunteers, legally they can’t even serve as study hall monitors. And that’s before we strap on holsters.
But “armed volunteers” isn’t new in comic books. It’s another name for superheroes. The list is long: The Punisher, Judge Dredd, The Comedian, Deathlok, Hitman, Cable, Bishop, Big Daddy, Hit Girl, Wild Dog, The Vigilante. They tend toward the dark side of the superhero continuum, but even mainstream nice guys like Cyclops and Green Lantern have sported firearms. (For a fuller list check out Superhero Packing Heat.)
Since the cost of expanding police patrols to every school in the country would be astronomical (not to mention a debt-buckling, state rights-trampling expansion of Big Government), the Shield Program would need their armed volunteers to go unpaid. Another superheroic quality. Good guys motivated by selfless altruism to protect their communities.
What George Zimmerman was doing when he shot Trayvon Martin in Florida earlier this year. Insurance underwriter by day, by night Zimmerman was a self-proclaimed neighborhood watchman, an armed volunteer patrolling the mean streets of his gated community.
The judge called him “mild,” a “run of the mill” Clark Kent kind of guy, an upstanding student earning a degree in Criminal Justice with dreams of becoming a judge himself. So even if the NRA establishes a rigorous screening process, the School Shield Program will be staffed by many more armed Zimmermen. And fast. LaPierre wants his Shield up and fully running before students return to their classrooms after winter break.
That’s this week.
When the Avengers found themselves understaffed in the 70s, they advertised openings in their volunteer ranks. That’s how the newly-blue Beast joined up. When the Defenders put out a TV ad a few years later, they were inundated with superhero recruits, more than tripling their numbers. Which the Shield Program will need to do too, since police currently patrol a third of public schools. According to International Association of Chiefs of Police estimates, we’d need about 100,000 new school guards.
So if you are a selflessly motivated good guy and know how to shoot a gun, here’s your chance to answer a superheroic call to duty.
That’s how it works in comic books. What better test study do you need?
[A version of this post originally appeared as an editorial in the Sunday, January 6th edition of The Roanoke Times, minus all the cool pictures though.]
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Mexico Bans Poultry from Two Kentucky Counties
MEXICO - On 7 April 2009, the Government of Mexico informed USDA that imports of live birds, fresh eggs, poultry meat products and by products chilled and /or frozen from two Kentucky counties. According to a report by t…
Bachoco Announces First Quarter 2009 Results
MEXICO - Industrias Bachoco S.A.B. de C.V. (Bachoco), the country's leading producer and processor of poultry products, has released its for the first quarter ended 31 March 2009.
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Meat and Poultry Products Not Part of Tariff Hikes
MEXICO - Meat and poultry products are not on the list of US products that will be subject to retaliatory tariffs, published by the Mexican government today in the Official Diary.
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MEXICO - Industrias Bachoco has announced its fourth quarter and 2008 full year results. Although overall operating margin was slightly negative, sales were up in all sectors (poultry meat, eggs, turkeys, feed and pigs).…
Launch of FIGAP/VIV América Latina 2010
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FLA Closes Poultry Shop
MEXICO - Direct action gets the goods in Mexico, claims Frente de Liberación Animal (FLA; Animal Liberation Front).
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MEXICO - Industrias Bachoco S.A.B. de C.V. (Bachoco), the leading producer and processor of poultry products, has announced its unaudited results for the third quarter and first nine months ended 30 September 2008.
Bachoco: Sound Structure for Financial Survival
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Hy-Line Held Technical Seminar in Mexico
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MEXICO - In June 2008, Hy-Line International teamed up with Hy-Line de Mexico and held a technical school in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico.
Arkansas Poultry Ban
MEXICO - The Mexican Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Livestock has banned the import of poultry from Arkansas.
Blessed Chick: Hen that Lays Green Eggs
MEXICO - Ordinary-looking hen with brown feathers has become a celebrity in Cuautitlan, a small village north of Mexico City, because every day she lays an egg with a green shell.
Tyson Foods and Tyson de México Support Flood Relief Efforts
US poultry giant, Tyson Foods and its Tyson de México poultry subsidiary are providing financial support and food to aid flood recovery efforts in southeastern Mexico.
Dealership Vencomatic in Mexico
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Industrias Bachoco and the Mexican Chicken Industry
MEXICO - Like Brazil, South Africa and Thailand, Mexico is still very much a developing country. Its per capita GDP is a mere $10,000 — one-fourth of the GDP here in the United States.
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Vancouver police arrest man following Sunday night carjacking
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Vancouver police arrested man following Sunday night carjacking.
A stolen Honda Pilot crashed into three vehicles in Marpole
Vancouver police have a man in custody following an alleged carjacking that turned into a demolition derby on the city’s west side Sunday night.
The incident started the area of Alma Street and West 4th Avenue around 8:30 p.m.
The VPD says a 35-year-old woman, who is eight months pregnant, was sitting in the passenger seat of an idling Honda Pilot when she was forced out of the vehicle by an unknown man who stole the car and took it on wild ride that ended in Marpole.
About 45 minutes later, police responded to a collision near Granville Street and West 70th Avenue, after the same Honda Pilot crashed into three vehicles.
The driver fled the scene before police arrived, but was arrested on foot a short distance away.
VPD spokesman Cst. Steve Addison says charges are being recommended against a 22-year-old man of no fixed address in connection with the carjacking and the collision.
His name was not released, but Addison said he is known to police.
Addison said no injuries were reported but the female carjacking victim received medical attention.
“We have no information about any injuries but this is a traumatic experience for anybody … and because of her advanced state of pregnancy we wanted to make sure every was OK medically with her,” Addison said.
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Once Upon a Time: Season Seven Contract Negotiations Underway
by Jessica Pena, March 13, 2017
Who’s staying on Once Upon a Time? TVLine reports Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla, Robert Carlyle and Colin O’Donoghue are in negotiations for a possible seventh season of the ABC TV series.
The fantasy drama is currently in its sixth season, and the network has not yet announced whether it will be renewed or not for a seventh. The cast also includes Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas, Jared S. Gilmore, Emilie de Ravin, and Rebecca Mader.
Earlier, we reported that the creators of Once Upon a Time will introduce new characters and storylines if ABC renews the series for a seventh season. Executive producer Edward Kitsis told Collider season six will end one chapter of the show:
We are going to complete some stories this year. There’s one chapter to this book that Henry has, so maybe it’s time for us to get to the end of that chapter. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a second book and a second chapter, just like in everyone’s life.”
It looks like this new chapter will likely include Morrison, Parilla, Carlyle, and O’Donoghue since their season seven contracts are being negotiated. However, the futures of Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas, Emilie de Ravin, and Jared Gilmore on the series remain uncertain.
What do you think? Do you watch Once Upon a Time? Do you think ABC should renew it for a seventh season?
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Vicki Rice
Yes please have another season of Once Upon A Time. A lot of us are fairly new to the series and fell in love with it, especially the characters. I have to admit I didn’t care for the Neverland part. It played out too long. Again, pleassssse keep the series!
Oncer
I love OUAT…s1-3 were my favorite…I liked s4 okay. Let’s just say I skip s5 on my Netflix binge. So far, s6 is great, except it’s pretty much the end of the show. I agree this is the core cast to be kept at this point, but it won’t be OUAT anymore.
As much as I don’t want to see anyone on the show lose their jobs and lively hood. I really think Ouat should just go away. I used to love this show, watch it from the very beginning however by the end of 4th season I was done. The story lines make little sense, they started gutting characters to fix into boxes that wasn’t needed. They have more one dimensional characters then any show should have. They will do story lines just to sell Disney movies and mach ie Frozen. Which the whole story arch slammed into a wall of… Read more »
Please. Keep it on the air!! I love the stories!!!When it does end for good, please give everyone their happy well deserved ending!!
They need to drop “The Savior” nonsense and get rid of the shrill, whiny Belle. My idea: bring back Dr. Frankenstein and introduce other classic literary – and fairytale – monsters to invade Storybrook.
Kimberley Braham
Yes, they definitely should do a season 7. Be interesting to see what the second half of the book involves. So glad Robert Carlyle(Rumplestiltskin/Mr Gold), is part of that part of the story. Hope they go ahead with this. Actors consider it. Will be great final to the series, assuming they make it the last. All up for it.
I am not remotely interested in season 7 UNLESS they bring back Maid Marian(Christie Laing) and do right by her unlike they way she was treated in season 4.
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1 * The entire comic concerning Inkwell. A proud and powerful mare who saved Celestia's life decades ago is now an old half-senile kook that most of the school staff think is overdue for retirement. While the issue has a happy ending, Inkwell surely does not have long left, and the issue as a whole works as a microcosm of all the fanfiction about Twilight having to endure this same fate with her friends.²* In Fluttershy's story, when her art piece ends up being unveiled at the convention by Rarity, the other ponies immediately begin commenting on it, overwhelming the poor pegasus. But there's a small detail that makes the scene even sadder; while some of the comments are criticisms, some of them are actually ''compliments''. While some of the ponies are criticizing Fluttershy's piece (a knitted statue of herself surrounded by butterflies), others are saying things like "Doesn't it make you think of spring?" and "The artist is an expert crafts-pony." But Fluttershy doesn't even seem to notice these compliments until Princess Celestia shows up.²----
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"This fellow Keaton seems to be the whole show"
Buster Keaton buys a ticket at entrance of the Playhouse and joins an audience (consisting of Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, and Buster Keaton) to watch a variety show featuring musicians, comics, synchronized dancers, and a minstrel act — with Keaton filling every role, including that of stagehand. It turns out it was All Just a Dream as Keaton wakes up in a bedroom — actually a stage set that is promptly dismantled. He plays various roles behind the scenes and onstage while pursuing one of the show girls, who is a twin, only slightly daunted by his tendency to confuse the friendly twin with her disinterested sister.
This film is in the public domain and may be viewed in its entirety at Google Video .
Includes examples of
Adults Dressed as Children: Buster dons the traditional sailor suit to portray a juvenile audience member.
All Just a Dream: The first part of the short.
Backwards-Firing Gun: Happens with a wrongly assembled cannon.
Chase Scene
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Buster tries to empty the twins' glass-walled water tank with a teacup. In his defense, he had suffered a Tap on the Head not long before.
Drag Queen: Buster Keaton plays all the audience members — including a flapper with bobbed hair, a harried mother, and a tetchy society dame.
Everything's Better with Monkeys: One of the acts is a performing orangutan.
Exploding Fish Tanks: The twins' act involves a large glass tank filled with water, which is smashed to prevent a drowning.
Human Ladder: Both ladders and an inverted pyramid during the Zouave Guards act.
It Makes Sense in Context: Buster pretending he's an orangutan.
Literal-Minded:
When Buster is told to clock in for the day, he looks at the sign reading "punch clock". So he does.
When the actor-stage manager sets his false beard on fire while smoking, Buster runs toward an axe behind glass labelled "For Fire Only". He thinks for a moment, then smashes the glass, grabs the axe, and hits the actor's burning beard with it (though not with the blade!).
Loads and Loads of Roles: Buster plays not only every member of the audience (which includes several couples, an old woman, and a little kid), he also plays every member of a nine-man minstrel show—and all nine are on-screen at the same time.
Man on Fire: Smoking while wearing a false beard = bad idea.
Minstrel Shows
No More for Me: When Buster first meets the twins, he only sees one of them at a time; when he first sees them together, he thinks he is having a drunken hallucination, so he runs into a back room and removes a bottle of booze from his pocket. Then he finds the twins looking at themselves in mirrors, convinces himself that now the girl has quadrupled herself, and returns to the back room, where he smashes the bottle against the floor and signs a resolution "never to drink anymore". After seeing his own reflection in a triple mirror and establishing that the girls are twins and the "other two" were just reflections, he changes his mind and adds "but just as much" to his resolution.
Painted Tunnel, Real Train: Buster appears to dive into the painted ocean backdrop (in reality he jumps through a slit in the canvas).
Pantomime Animal
Polar Opposite Twins: Buster falls in love with a girl, who reciprocates; unfortunately, he keeps mixing her up with her twin sister, who doesn't.
Proscenium Reveal: The dismantling of Buster Keaton's "bedroom".
Scooby-Dooby Doors: Buster thinks this is what's happening after he unknowingly escorts identical twin sisters into separate yet adjacent dressing rooms. Played straight in a later chase scene.
Sibling Team: The sisters. (Oddly, their act does not exploit the fact that they are identical twins.)
The Stoic: Subverted; Buster is visibly annoyed at one point after mixing up the twins again, and he's very expressive while pretending to be an orangutan.
Super Not-Drowning Skills: The point of the twins' act: "This young lady can stay under water longer than the bottom of a river."
Take That!: The theater program crediting Buster Keaton with every role, and the audience member's remark, "This fellow Keaton seems to be the whole show," are jabs at silent film director/actor/screenwriter/producer Thomas H. Ince, who was not shy about putting his name in the credits of his films.
Tap on the Head
Undercrank: Used for the Zouave Guards routine.
Visual Pun: Buster's treatment of the punch clock. (Ooh, right in the face!)
The Paleface
Films of the 1920s
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Home / Student Life / News & Events / Department News / Athletics / Athletics News Archive / Texas Wesleyan wins first men's golf SAC Championship
Texas Wesleyan wins first men's golf SAC Championship
AMARILLO, TX - After pulling ahead by 10 strokes through the first two rounds of the Sooner Athletic Conference Championship at La Paloma Golf Club, Texas Wesleyan men's golf - ranked third in the NAIA - held steady during Tuesday's third round to claim their first SAC title by those same ten strokes. The victory grants the Rams a spot in the 68th NAIA National Tournament, which will be played at Las Sendas Golf Cub in Mesa, Arizona.
Victor Miron - the leader through two rounds of the tournament - struggled in round three with a +3, 75, but the rest of his teammates were there to lift him up. Taylor Beckstead and Declan Kenny shot their best rounds of the week (72). Futa Yamagishi avoided major blunders and hit even par as well, finishing fourth overall. Tyron Davidowitz finished tied for fifth, capping 74 and 70 rounds on day one with a 73 through the final 18 holes.
Wayland Baptist's Johannes Hounsgaard came surging back after a first-round 73 to shoot a 69 in round two and a scorching 68 in the final 18 to claim first overall. His 68 was only bested by the first round of Texas Wesleyan's Yamagishi - a 67. The Rams' Gerardo Herrera stayed steady and finished 14th, the top individual.
All in all, defending champion Oklahoma City didn't have the depth the Rams did on Tuesday and Texas Wesleyan gave the Stars no opportunity to climb back into contention. Wayland Baptist threatened Oklahoma City for second, but ultimately stayed in third. Southwestern Christian, which entered the day in fourth, shot nine strokes worse than Mid-America Christian in round three, giving the Evangels the fourth-place honor.
The honors came pouring in as soon as TXWES was off the course, headlined by Bobby Cornett receiving the SAC's Coach of the Year award. Miron, Yamagishi and Davidowitz were named to the All-Tournament team. Davidowitz and Yamagishi added All-Conference nods to their resume as well. Hounsgaard (WBU), Sentanio Minnie (WBU), Ty Stiles (OCU) and Jack Madden (OCU) finished off the All-Tournament squad.
Texas Wesleyan men's golf once again has a chance to claim history when it descends upon Mesa May 21-24 to wrap up the athletic year. A regular staple on the leaderboards at the NAIA Championship, the Rams have finished in the top 10 nationally 10 years in a row, gunning for their first national championship since 1999.
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Defending the German copycat
In product design
We’ve been talking a lot about copycats in the web scene, and how the wealth of copycats has given Germany a bad rep. I’ve been part of this bashing, too. But maybe it’s time to switch perspective for a moment and look at this thing from another angle. And so I present you:
A Defense of the German Copycat
As a silly joke goes, “you know your startup is successful if there is a German copycat.” There is a grain of truth in the joke.
Copycats help internationalize! Yet, these copycats are an expression of demand in a market that is underserved by those companies that focus too strongly on the US instead of thinking globally. The StudiVZs, Hyves and Orkuts of the worlds only grew to their peak reach because Facebook didn’t care for, or at least didn’t target, most other countries. Interfaces stayed untranslated, cultural specifics and legal requirements were ignored. As soon as Facebook actually had even weak (machine-translated? crowdsourced?) interfaces in other languages, they easily pulled ahead of everyone else in the game and crushed them. (Except for the legal requirements, which they still ignore. Let’s see where that will go.)
Copycats foster diversity! Often, while copying the basic premise (or even layout) of a service, the copycat tweaks the idea slightly, adapting to a specific need that wasn’t targeted by the original service. This way, they foster diversity – think of them as a user feature request.
Copycats foster innovation! Most importantly, though, think of the mechanic behind innovator and copycat. If no one was chasing the original service, do you think they would keep innovating, or maybe slow down in their development? If you know a well-funded copycat is playing a permanent game of catch-up and has the added advantage of being able to learn from your failures, you know that you’d better keep getting better. Once you have an army of clones chasing you, you won’t stop innovating. This means better outcomes for the users. (Maybe, just like monopolies are kept in check by anti-trust action, a similar mechanism should kick in and a few copycats should be publicly funded to keep the original web service on their toes?)
Update: For the record, I wasn’t serious about this. (In fact, I’m almost shocked how many people took me serious here.) I do see how these points could be legitimately made, and how there is a role that copycats play. As I commented on Parker’s blogpost, I wrote this “…with a bit of a wink. While there’s a legit role for building on the work of others, I still don’t quite get how people get up in the morning to build a clone of another service.” He rightly points out how important it is not to mix up the “copycats” with the “inspired-bys”.
Photo by dotdean (some rights reserved: CC-by-nc)
copycat innovation web service
Sam Figueroa says:
I can see where you are going with this. And I like how you played devil’s advocate here. Yes, I agree a copycat can keep the original service on its toes and push them to innovate. At least when the copycat has gained some traction and is a worthy copy. What I mean by that is if the copycat is just a poor implementation of the original idea it won’t be much of a driving force for innovation. It will just be looked upon as a petty attempt not worth thinking about.
But I can give you a full ACK on the internationalization claim. Sadly, it does take a while for lots of big services to acknowledge the benefits.
Hi Peter, those are definitly valid points! I’d like to share some of our own insights into the topic:
In 2009 we did a small piece on what we came to call “fakesumption”. The focus was China’s vivid scene of fakers and buyers of fake goods: http://www.slideshare.net/TrendBuero/fakesumption
Jörg (you might know him from next11, he curated the mobile track) presented the findings at lift09: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9u532_jorg-jelden-the-future-of-fake-lift_tech
Greets, Florian
Parker Higgins says:
It’s funny that more people are taking you seriously than you expected. I wonder if the people who do more than roll their eyes at this are international? Don’t want to get armchair psychologist on you, but I suspect the modifier “German” here means more than, y’know, from Germany. Maybe it’s kind of a shorthand for the Samwer-style cargo-cult copycats that you’ve had to read about and groan for years.
In the past year especially, a lot of people around the world are learning about start-ups from Germany, and it’s not nearly as grim a picture as you’ve been looking at. There are a number of “inspired-bys” that come awfully close to the original, but many are no more similar than, say, Reddit was to Digg, or Facebook was to Myspace.
Over the past year I’ve been making some of the points you’re joking about in earnest — I’d rather Kickstarter came here for example, but until they do, why shouldn’t somebody fill that niche in German? I think those people could probably get up in the morning with the same general ease that Kickstarter employees do, even though the latter were knocked for being an IndieGoGo “copycat” until it became clear they were doing something special.
@Peter 2nd try. Not sure, what happend to my comment. Maybe I failed to post it, or it didn’t get approval. Still wanted to share this:
Yes, copycats are lame. Not original, not innvovate. And there’s often an ugly side to how ruthlessly they are copying. But some of them still answer to consumer demand in the most pragmatic way: Give people what they want, when they want it.
There’s more truth in what you wrote than you might think. (even if you don’t seem to have been serious about it)
We did this small piece on fakers and buyers of fakes in China in 2009: http://www.slideshare.net/TrendBuero/fakesumption I think you have to take a broader approach on the topic, trying not to forget the demand side.
Cheers, Florian
Peter Bihr says:
Florian, good points. And no, I wasn’t seriously defending copycats. However, there is (as Parker pointed out) a big difference between copycats/clones on one side and “inspired-bys” on the other. A better way than to just look at the service might be to try to judge the teams by their motivations. Tricky, admittedly, and error-prone; however, I trust we can somewhat reliably estimate who’s in it just for the money, and who to make a difference. This can be expressed in the style of the product, in love for detail, in company culture, in the track record of founders and investors.
I’m not going to name a negative example here, but rather a positive one: Take 6Wunderkinder, who announced the Berlin Anti-Copycat Alliance. Now, their first spin-off product is a to do list. That’s hardly something new, so they could be labeled a copycat. However, I don’t think anyone would, because they still found a different take on the subject (here: design & usability), and they’re clearly not just in it to quickly grow and sell to AOL or what-have-you, riding the big to do list bandwagon. (If there is such a thing.) To be fair, they’re also working on a larger product yet to be released, so we’ll see where they take it.
My point, though, to sum it up: I agree, some of the point I jokingly listed could contain more truth than I’d like. In this case, I’ll gladly attribute them not to copycats, though, but to those who really actually strive to fill those gaps we talked about, not just to freeride on someone else’s success to make some money quickly. (And, for the record, I still don’t think government-funded copycats are a good idea. ;)
Update: Florian, after I read your second comment I checked – your first one was caught in the spam filter. Just pulled it out there and approved. Sorry about the delay.
@Peter No, worries. Thx for sharing! Always a pleasure to follow your thoughts. :-) I hate copycats just as much as the next guy, esp. when they’re just about copying, growing and selling their rip-off product. What I wanted to add to the discussion is the point, that there are a lot of shades of copying. That’s why I posted our presentation about Chinese fakers. There are some really interesting dynamics at work there. But they – agreably – don’t apply to the start-up scene… ;-)
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Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1881 - 1894)
Sat 4 Jun 1892
ARMIDALE.
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THIS is the capital of New England, and, in point of size, the largest, and perhaps the most important, town on the table land. It is connected with the metropolis by rail, the main
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THIS is the capital of New England, and, in point
of size, the largest, and perhaps the most
important, town on the table land. It is con-
nected with the metropolis by rail, the main
northern line to Brisbane passing through it.
This pleasant retreat has proved more attractive
to tourists and others than is generally known.
The city has been not inaptly termed the
'Cathedral City' owing to the number of fine
churches within its limits. To these the citizens
are not slow in calling one's attention. There
still remain many residents who delight in re-
counting their experiences connected with the
early settlement of these parts. The first family
to seek its fortunes here was that of Captain
Dumaresque, who held land to the extent of fifty
miles north and south of Armidale. They were
shortly followed by others of the early pioneers,
who, in their turn, allotted portions of land to
The first court house of the district – a bark
gunyah – was situated near the present site of
Solomon's photo studio ; the second court house,
of shingle, was erected on the site of the present
one, the late Mr. Bradshaw being first chief con-
stable. Owing to glowing reports spreading
abroad, it was reasonable enough to find the tide of
humanity flowing in this direction, and the
embryo city soon began to assume some sort of
shape. Land was put up in Sydney in half-acre
allotments, and disposed of at £4 each. Signs of
progress were appearing in every direction, all
traces of native savagery vanished by degrees,
and the town was laid out, streets arranged, and
matters respecting the furtherance of the place
discussed. To the late Captain Gorman was
allotted the laying out of the streets, which, to
the credit of Armidale, are well preserved and
cared for to the present day. Of the sale of land
there is a story to the effect that the land on
which the present Tattersalls Hotel and some of
the best business houses of the city stand, was
parted with for an 'old black horse,' valued at
about £10. Major Innes, then police magistrate
at Port Macquarie, is credited with erecting the
first store, managed by Mr. Patterson. This was
afterwards sold to Mr. John Mather, who,
in turn, sold out to the late Mr. John Moore.
Of the religious denominations, the Rev. Mr.
Trickham appeared for the Church of England,
followed by the Roman Catholic body under
the late Father McCarthy and the Presbyterians
under the Rev. Mr. Morrison. The services were
held in a bark gunyah on the present site of the
Catholic College. In those delightful times the
window panes of this gunyah were stuck in with
flour paste, as no putty was obtainable, and the
story is told of the late Father McCarthy's visit
to it one Sunday morning, when to his astonish-
ment, he discovered the panes of glass strewn, out
upon the ground in innumerable pieces; it
turned out on enquiry that the gunyah had been
attacked by soldier birds, who betrayed a weak-
ness for stale pastry. Of the liquor sold in those
times it is easy to understand how piles were
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made by the enterprising landlords when one had
to pay as much as a sovereign for a bottle of well
watered rum. These were apparently easy days
to prosper in. The wages, up to the outbreak of
the Rocky River goldfields, were not over enticing,
as station superintendents were in receipt of the
munificent sums of 8s. and 10s. per week. The
rush served to alter things considerably ; the
wielders of the pick and shovel soon set out in a
mad torrent. Numbers were enriched, and 'big
blankets' were knocked down wherever opportu-
nity offered. Tradespeople benefited with the
rest, and big profits were made in their different
lines – grocery particularly – the "squatters'
sugar" selling at 1s. per pound. It was served
out in big black lumps, and required the use
of an axe to make it presentable. Such times are
over now, and a thing of the past, for this city is
now a delightfully progressive and attractive
place, enjoying the kindest allusions from all
sides.
Of the principal buildings it is needless, to say
that they are in every way a credit to the people.
The illustrations on the opposite page serve to show
plainly enough the excellence of construction and
finish. The city is laid out on a gradual slope,
and within sight of the Great Dividing Range.
The main street – Beardy Street – possesses the
principal public and private buildings, and good
accommodation can be had in several well-ap-
pointed hotels. At the south end of the town,
and near the cathedrals, a fine park, beautifully
planted with choice trees, serves to adorn this por-
tion ; facing this, the New England Ladies' Col-
lege has been erected and enjoys one of the finest
views to be had. This establishment was built by
Mr. P. P. Bliss, and has proved attractive to
lady students from all parts of the colony. It
possesses a fine reception room, private sitting
room for lady principals, class rooms, four music
rooms, and bedrooms charmingly decorated by the
students (prizes for the neatest and most tasteful
being given). This college is capable of accommo-
dating 120 resident pupils. The Ursuline Convent
and Cathedral, a handsome semi-Gothic building,
is situated almost opposite. Further to the
west of the town, the Railway Station, together
with residence and sheds, is situated, and con-
nected with the town by busses, cabs, etc. Armi-
dale possesses two newspapers, viz: the Express
and Chronicle. The mines of Hillgrove, to which
Armidale is greatly indebted for its recent ad-
vancement, are situated about twenty miles to the
east, and it is to these mines that attention
is anxiously turned. The farming is progressing,
but not to any great extent. There are some fine
sheep runs In the vicinity. The photographs
from which our sketches are taken were kindly
supplied to our artist by Mr. Solomons, of Armi-
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Inside the Tony-Award Winning Costume Design of Phantom
Written by: Lily Rybarczyk
On the heels of Thanksgiving, the streets of Pittsburgh are officially decked for the holiday season. It’s fitting that tickets for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera are officially on sale (ahem...tickets made a great stocking stuffer for Phans), and that the spectacle itself will transform the Benedum February 20-March 3, bringing light to what always feels like an endless winter.
Similar to Pittsburgh after Light Up Night, The Phantom of the Opera promises to dazzle you with its aesthetically lush design, from set to costumes. Costume designer Maria Björnson received numerous awards for her inspired work on Phantom, including two Tony Awards for Best Costume and Set. Cameron Mackintosh’s spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical continues to incorporate her original costume designs, even including some of the original pieces, now 25 years old.
Björnson’s designs bring to life not only the iconic style of the 1850s, but also stay true to the opulence of the Paris opera. With over 230 extravagant costumes and 1,200 detailed individual pieces, it’s been said that a current creation of Phantom would never have ended up on stage due to costs. Now the style of the show is as iconic as the story itself. Read on to see how Björnson’s original sketches translate to the stage.
The Phantom’s Suit
The Phantom wears a silk tailsuit, which is normal evening attire for a sophisticated man of this time. From his dress to his dance-like movements, he is the most elegant thing on stage. The two-piece tailsuit is made of woven patterned silk.
Carlotta Guidicelli - The Managers’ Office
This dress is Carlotta’s everyday office wear; she is an opera diva, after all. Carlotta’s ensemble includes a metallic brocade bodice and skirt, with ruffles, braid and jet decor.
Ballet Chorus - “Hannibal” Slave Girl
Björnson had to create costumes for several distinct fake operas. One way she differentiated the costuming was by providing each a very specific color palette. “Hannibal” was red, green and gold, with little bits of purple. True to operatic fashion, this Ballet Chorus costume from the “Hannibal” opera scene in Act I presents a romanticized version of a slave girl. It’s made of parti-color velvet with gold metallic trims.
Ubaldo Piangi - “Hannibal” costume
The lead tenor of the Opera Populaire, Ubaldo Piangi, plays the role of Hannibal in the opera of the same name in Act I. His elaborate costume stays true to Björnson’s dedicated palette, including a green brocade tunic with a multicolor skirt and lattice fringe, and painted cleastic armor with sculptural decor.
Footman - “Masquerade”
This is what the footmen still wear at the Paris Opera: a velvet tailcoat with metallic embroidery, ivory and gold brocade waistcoat and breeches. The ensemble is worn with white stockings and white wig.
Christine Daae - “Don Juan Triumphant” Costume
Inspired by Spanish folklore style, this costume is worn by Christine in the opera of “Don Juan Triumphant” when she plays the character of Zerlina in Act II. Björnson created all the costumes of “Don Juan” in earthy tones. This piece is made of silk taffeta with contrast embroidery and a brocade stomacher.
Sam Fleming, the US Costume Associate, joined the production in 1989 and has become the definitive voice in the room for all things costume-related—from building new costumes for new cast members to arranging repairs for the mountain of hand-sewn beading. In this video, she shares the details of the designs, fabrics, and more that create the onstage grandeur.
Don’t miss the stunning costumes, as well the beloved story and music, only at the Benedum Center February 20-March 3!
Photos and video courtesy of the Phantom of the Opera touring production
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The Arts have the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, exciting the imagination and encouraging them to reach their creative and expressive potential. The term ‘creativity’ plays a critical role in all arts subjects. For the Western Australian Curriculum, the following explanation of the creative process is useful:
The Arts entertain, inform, challenge, and encourage responses, and enrich our knowledge of self, communities, world cultures and histories. The Arts contribute to the development of confident and creative individuals, nurturing and challenging active and informed citizens. Learning in the Arts is based on cognitive, affective and sensory/kinaesthetic response to arts practices as students revisit increasingly complex content, skills and processes with developing confidence and sophistication through the years of schooling.
Music has the capacity to engage, entertain, challenge, inspire and empower students. Studying music stimulates imaginative and innovative responses, critical thinking and aesthetic understanding, and encourages students to reach their creative and expressive potential.
Music exists distinctively in every culture and is a basic expression of human experience. Students’ active participation in music, individually and collaboratively, draws on their own traditions and life experiences. These experiences help them to appreciate and meaningfully engage with music practices and traditions of other times, places, cultures and contexts.
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Another area that Tuart Hill Primary School offers to the students is music. The students have the opportunity to be involved in the school choir, which is comprised of students from year 3 to 6. The choir performs at events such as the Osborne Park Show, Big Voice Music Festival, ANZAC day ceremony and aged care home Christmas visits. The students also have the opportunity to learn to play an instrument through the Instrumental Music / Schools Program.
Visual Arts incorporates all three fields of art, craft and design. Students create visual representations that communicate, challenge and express their own and others’ ideas, both as artists and audience members. They develop perceptual and conceptual understanding, critical reasoning and practical skills through exploring and expanding their understanding of their world, and other worlds.
Visual Arts engages students in a journey of discovery, experimentation and problem-solving relevant to visual perception and visual language. Students undertake this journey by utilising visual techniques, technologies, practices and processes. Visual Arts supports students’ ability to recognise and develop cultural appreciation of visual arts in the past and contemporary contexts through exploring and responding to artists and their artworks
Visual Arts at Tuart Hill Primary School
A specialist teacher works with each class in order to deliver an engaging, varied art program. The art program includes many areas such as craft, painting, collaging, clay, sculpture, murals and other activities. Students can enter completed works in to local competitions, have displayed or installed around the school.
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There is a growing “performance divide“ in freight forwarding, based on differences in customer/product mix, IT functionality and management, which is likely to lead to a pick-up in sector M&A, according to a report by investment bank, Jefferies International.
“While the sector enjoyed the strongest volume growth in years (8% in air, 4% in sea and 3% in road freight), yields were under pressure, due to increased freight rates, which resulted in relatively sluggish EBIT growth of 5% on average in the first half of 2017,” it underlines according to Lloyds Loading List.
“There were large differences in performance, with a 31% EBIT drop for Panalpina, a 1% decrease for Kuehne+Nagel (but a 4% increase on an underlying basis) and a 54% EBIT increase for DSV, driven by the integration of UTi. We expect the growing performance divide will lead to a pick-up in sector M&A, with both DSV and XPO Logistics recently expressing an interest to further consolidate the fragmented freight forwarding sector,” the report added.
In an assessment of three major players in the sector as investment opportunities, Jefferies reiterated its 'buy' rating on DSV, “as the 'best in class' freight forwarder and leading consolidator in the sector.“
It upgraded Panalpina to 'hold,' “as an increasingly likely takeover target,“ and downgraded Kuehne+Nagel to 'underperform,' “as it's at peak performance.“
DSV had “the strongest growth track record and the highest and least volatile profit margins,” it added.
“We have further increased EPS (earnings per share) estimates by 4%-8% and our DCF (discounted cash flow)-based price target to DKK 500, reflecting better than expected profitability in air & sea. DSV indicated it will resume its acquisition strategy, with an appetite for relatively larger targets in excess of $1.0 biilion. We think this would be an important catalyst for the stock, given management's strong acquisition track record.”
Turning to Kuehne+Nagel, Jefferies said the Swiss-based group was “at peak performance,” as it has met its 5% EBIT margin target since 2015, despite still relatively low profitability levels in Overland and Contract Logistics.
“We have increased EPS estimates by 2%-4%, reflecting the acquisitions in perishables air freight logistics. We downgrade our rating to underperform with a CHF 140 price target, as Kuehne+Nagel has become the most expensive freight forwarder, at a 12% premium to the sector, while it is at peak operational performance.”
As for Panalpina, Jefferies said ITN had suffered the most from higher freight rates and a restructuring-driven earnings recovery has so far failed to materialise, with the operating performance further deteriorating after the strategy update by the new CEO in September 2016.
“We have cut FY17E EPS by a further 24%, now assuming a 12% drop in FY17E EBIT, as a yield recovery is looking less likely. We upgrade our rating to hold with a CHF 110 price target, as Panalpina has become an increasingly likely takeover target in our view, with sector M&A expected to pick up.”
The report concluded by highlighting the valuation of freight forwarding firms and the risk factors they are exposed to.
It said the sector was trading “at 11.9x FY18E lease-adjusted EV/EBIT. DSV and Panalpina are trading in line with the sector, while Kuehne+Nagel trades at a 12% premium and Deutsche Post DHL at a 16% discount.”
Risk factors include macro-economic risks, impacting freight markets, rate volatility, the ability to maintain competitive IT systems and increasing competition from suppliers.
Source used: Lloyds Loading List
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Internet-connected users in Australia and New Zealand will be able to subscribe to Netflix and instantly watch a curated selection of popular movies and TV shows in high-definition or even 4K where available. At launch, the premium and unique Netflix offering will include such original series as Marco Polo, BoJack Horseman and, among many kids’ titles, DreamWorks Animation’s All Hail King Julien.
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A word from... Tom Kristensen
Tom Kristensen holds the record for the most wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with nine and is considered by many to be the greatest driver ever to have raced there.
You announced the end of your professional career at a press conference on Wednesday and appeared to be very relaxed about it. How easy was it for you to take this step?
Ive had a feeling inside that kept getting stronger in recent months. I felt that the right point in time to end my career had come. Im very happy about and proud of what Ive achieved. And I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to work for outstanding teams and together with great team-mates. Obviously, this is a big step now but Ive always followed my intuition and it wont mislead me now either. Allan McNish and Dindo Capello have confirmed to me how difficult it is to make a decision like this but at the same time Im happy and will no doubt be able to enjoy my free time.
Have you already digested the fact that your career will be over shortly, in just a week from now, after the finale of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC)?
Of course its not easy to really fathom the end of my career and Im no doubt going to miss the fact that I wont regularly be sitting in a race car anymore. But to me it was important to make this decision as long as I was still ahead of the power curve. Im going to continue to contest a few races here and there in the future, such as the Race of Champions or some historic events. Im also very much looking forward to my new role at Audi and to having more time for family and friends. Ive had 35 near-perfect years in motorsport but Im sure that there are a few other great things in life.
What were the most emotional responses you received?
It was incredible to see the tremendous amount of positive feedback and all the messages were very sympathetic. The news about my retirement on my Facebook page resulted in more than 45,000 Likes and 3,500 direct comments. I owe a great debt of gratitude to many people, particularly my fans. Ive received a flood of statements that deeply touched me from the school class of my son Oswald, to Jacky Ickx and current race driver colleagues, through to politicians and members of the royal family.
Year after year, thousands of your fellow Danes have been flocking to Le Mans to see you. Theres even been a dedicated Danish camp alongside the track that you visited every year. What will become of this now?
My compatriots have really been showing huge enthusiasm. But Im sure theyll continue to show strong support in the future. Im going to keep visiting them at Le Mans in the next years. Now Ill even have more time for them and for all Audi fans. Plus, there are many other Danish race drivers at Le Mans who deserve their applause and encouragement.
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Dr. Wayne A. Taylor
The best that I can determine is that the rule probably had its origin in the USDA in the 1920-30’s. But no confirming documents exist. There are actually three versions of the rule:
Take the square root of the lot size to get the sample size. Accept on zero defects. This version of the rules determines the sampling plan to use.
Take the square root of the number of cartons, open that number of cartons and select the required number of samples from them. In this case, the sampling plan including the number of samples is already determined. For example, if the sample size is 20 and 50 cartons exist, SQRT(50)+1=8 cartons must be opened. Select 3 samples from 4 cartons and 2 from the remaining 4. The square root of n plus one rule is used to obtain a representative sample.
Take the square root of the number of drums, sample from this number of drums and composite the samples together to run a single test. For example, if 50 drums are received, take samples from SQRT(50)+1=8 drums, composite them together and measure the characteristic of interest. The rule is used again to obtain a representative sample.
Much of the discussion seems to confuse these distinct uses. Rule 1 should never be used. Sampling plans should be selected based on operating characteristics such as AQL and LTPD using tables of sampling plans like those given in my book Guide to Acceptance Sampling or one of the many standards such as ANSI Z1.4. The operating characteristic does not depend on the lot size as explained in the article “The Effect of Lot Size”. Therefore, such plans can be selected independently of lot size. One reference that might be of interest is:
Keith Borland (1950), “The Fallacy of the Square Root Sampling Rule,” Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, 39, No. 7, p373-377.
This reference describes why the square root of n plus one rule should not be used to select a sampling plan.
Rule 2 and 3 represent a reasonable compromise in many cases balancing the cost of testing with the precision of the results. However, there are certainly situations rule 2 and 3 should not be used. For example, printing defects where the process could produce 100 consecutive bad units all packed in a single carton and then correct itself.
Despite the lack of justification and documentation, this rule is commonly used. For example:
GUIDE TO INSPECTIONS OF MANUFACTURERS OF MISCELLANEOUS FOOD PRODUCTS – VOLUME 1
“For microscopic filth, excess shell, etc., sample the square root of the number of bags in the lot. Collect a minimum of six and a maximum of eighteen subs each consisting of 900 grams (2 lbs) taken 340 grams (2/3 lb) from each of the three bags. Collect the subs in duplicate for the 702(b) portion.”
“For retail size containers, sample the square root of the number of containers in the lot with a minimum of six and a maximum of 18 – 900 gram (2 lb) subs.”
“Bulk containers – collect 1 pint in duplicate from each container in lot. Sample 55 gal drums on a square root basis, collecting 1 pint from a minimum of 6 and maximum of 24 in duplicate.”
Investigators Operations Manual – FDA May 1996
Subchapter 420, Section 427.2 on random sampling states: “Sample size is usually described in your assignment, IOM Sample Schedule, Compliance Program, or the applicable schedules. If none of these furnish the sample size, a general rule is to collect samples from the square root of the number of cases or shipping containers but not less than 12 or more than 36 subs in duplicate. If there are less than 12 containers, all should be sampled. Discuss sample size and 702(b) requirements with your supervisor. See IOM 422.1. “
All reference to this rule has been deleted from the 2005 version.
I would love to hear from anyone who has further references, information or examples.
Acceptance Sampling Standards
STAT-18: Statistical Techniques for Normality Testing and Transformations
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Normality Testing and Transformations
Process Validation (Process and Supplier Testing)
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Tomorrow's news
by Kerry Northrup
What will the news be like in the continuing evolving age of information? Ifra, an international association of newspaper organizations, has created a 10-minute video to provide a peek into the future of the newsroom while highlighting issues that present-day newsrooms must face in making the transition to the new publishing industry. Although early prototypes of the Daily Me have proven disappointing, "it cannot be ignored that the news industry, like most industries, is moving from a product-based business model to a service model under pressure of the Information Economy," writes Ifra's Kerry Northrup. "And good service requires some degree of personalization. The publisher of Tomorrow's News has profiled its readers, listeners, viewers and users sufficiently that it knows their collective interests and even individually where they work." Northrup, who plays a prominent role in Ifra's work as a worldwide leader in publishing strategies and technology, here provides Ubiquity a summary description of what lies ahead for the newspaper industry in the 21st Century.
by Greg Farman
No matter where on earth, it isn't hard to find creative individuals who see the advantages that technology can confer.
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July 16, 2019 / 4:54 AM / 6 months ago
Changing habits: China's pig farms clean up to beat swine fever
Dominique Patton
BEIJING (Reuters) - A devastating outbreak of African swine fever that has killed millions of pigs in China is changing attitudes in a country where farm hygiene has often been seen as lax by international standards.
FILE PHOTO: Local husbandry and veterinary bureau workers in protective suits disinfect a pig farm as a prevention measure for African swine fever, in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, China August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
From farms to feed mills to transport, people involved in the pork industry say biosecurity has been tightened, with sales of disinfectants and truck cleaning washes booming as farmers try to fend off the virus.
Farm owner Ma, whose 4,000 herd pig farm was visited by Reuters last year, says she is disinfecting inside and outside pig barns every other day, instead of once or twice a week.
She has also invested in her own truck for delivering pigs to the slaughterhouse and bringing in feed supplies to try to prevent contamination.
“We don’t let other trucks come in. It’s safer to have your own truck,” Ma told Reuters by phone, adding that nobody is allowed to visit in case they bring in the virus.
The change in mindset comes as the disease - which is not harmful to people but kills almost all pigs it infects - has reached every province of the country. There is no cure and, importantly in changing long-term habits, no vaccine.
Official June data released this week showed China’s pig herd - the world’s largest at over 400 million head a year ago - has since shrunk by more than a quarter, although some industry insiders say the numbers may be far higher.
Standards of cleanliness on farms, many of which are small-scale, vary widely, say industry participants, while trucks that transport pigs, feed and other supplies are often not properly cleaned and disinfected between trips.
African swine fever, which spreads through blood, faeces, and other fluids, can last for months on farm surfaces or equipment that has not been properly cleaned.
“We see some significant step-ups in biosecurity measures. People are now recognizing that something needs to be done,” said Matthias Arnold, an executive at the Material Protection Products unit of German chemicals firm Lanxess, which sells a popular disinfectant.
SALES BOOMING
Sales of gluteraldehyde, a chemical proven to kill the virus, are up three or four times since last year, said Pan Yunping, general sales manager at Jiangsu Kangbat Biotechnology Engineering Co Ltd in China’s eastern Jiangsu province.
Demand for Belgian firm CID Lines’ Cid20, which also contains aldehyde, has more than doubled from last year, and the firm is unable to meet demand, said Niu Yufeng, China business development manager.
Use of cleaning products like detergents and water sanitizers is growing too, said Niu. Farms need to be thoroughly cleaned before disinfecting.
Stricter measures are also in place in feed mills.
“Just moving through different spots in feed mills now you have to disinfect, change clothes, fill in forms,” said Jonathan Wilson, China manager at Alltech Inc, a supplier of additives to feed makers.
“I never saw this during bird flu in 2013, this is a big improvement,” he added, referring to one of China’s worst disease outbreaks before swine fever.
Large farms are installing more truck washes made by Germany’s Karcher or domestic rival Mellberg Cleantecs, said the firms, as well as drying stations for the disinfected vehicles.
Mellberg Cleantecs has also set up a joint venture to sell disinfectants and cleaners produced by Germany’s Envisal, while U.S. company Decon Seven Systems, is registering its hydrogen peroxide-based D7 product for the Chinese market.
HIGHER COSTS
There is still some way to go.
The government provides disinfectants to many small farms for free, but the improved practices are raising costs at a time when many farmers are already struggling with losses caused by the disease.
Analysts at Huatai Futures say additional costs of about 0.5 yuan to 1 yuan per half kilogram, or up to 220 yuan ($32) extra per pig, are needed for new biosecurity systems.
To save money, some smaller farms have been using cheap products like calcium oxide, also known as quicklime, which does not effectively kill the African swine fever virus, said Edgar Wayne Johnson, veterinarian at Enable Agricultural Technology Consulting, a farm services company.
Others like chlorine are effective against the virus but are unreliable because of their volatility.
“Some people are changing and some will go out of business,” cautioned Johnson. “Some unfortunately will take more than one punishment.”
FILE PHOTO: Workers in protective suits are seen at a checkpoint on a road leading to a village near a farm where African swine fever was detected, in Fangshan district of Beijing, China November 23, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
Still, says Lanxess’ Arnold, habits are changing.
“If you’re saving on money for the right biosecurity protocols, you pay it off multiple times. This awareness and understanding in the market is increasing.”
(Graphic: Swine fever in China - tmsnrt.rs/2QMhmzL)
Reporting by Dominique Patton. Additional reporting by Beijing Newsroom; editing by Richard Pullin
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WINTER 2017 WEATHER BLOG
With not enough time to deliver a forecast for winter 2017 I decided instead to blog my old piece of research into references found in old texts about climate change, that old debate about whether the world is square round, doomed or saved….or just endlessly fascinating.
I am blogging this tp give fodder to the debate on climate change and global warming, with no bias or preference, just a tour of the debate over the centuries but in brief.
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/charles-lyell/the-students-elements-of-geology-hci/page-23-the-students-elements-of-geology-hci.shtml shows evidence of climate change through plants.
http://www.icecap.us/
http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/pf/pf12.htm
Paradise Found, by William F. Warren, [1885], at sacred-texts.com
Some interesting findings to suggest that rather than being scaremongered into believing carbon emissions and burning fossils will destroy the planet ( though for sure some of the e methods of exploiting them do cause tremendous pollution and irreversible desecration of the environment), should we be delighting in the fact that climate change could take us back to our very origins. Here’s a tour of some ancient texts reportage of climate change down the ages:-
CHAPTER IV.
THE TESTIMONY OF PREHISTORIC CLIMATOLOGY.
Ver Iliad erat, ver magnus agebat Orbis.—Vergil.
One of the most startling and important of the scientific discoveries of the last twenty years has been that of the relics of a luxuriant Miocene flora in various parts of the Arctic regions. It is a discovery which was totally unexpected, and is even now considered by many men of science to be completely unintelligible, but it is so thoroughly established, and it has such an important bearing on the subjects we are discussing in the present volume, that it is necessary to lay a tolerably complete outline of the facts before our readers.—A. R. Wallace 1880).
It is now an established conclusion that the great aggressive faunas and floras of the continents have originated in the North, some of them within the Arctic Circle.—Principal Dawson (1883).
All the evidence at our command points to the Northern hemisphere as the birth-place of the class, Mammalia, and probably of all the orders.—Alfred Russel Wallace.
Another well-known naturalist says: “It should also be observed that in the beginning of things the continents were built up from North to South,—such has been, at least, the history of the North and South American and the Europeo-Asiatic and the African continents; and thus it would appear that north of the equator, at least, animals slowly migrated southward, keeping pace as it were with the growth and southward extension of the grand land-masses which appeared above the sea in the Paleozoic ages. Hence, scanty as is the Arctic and Temperate region of the earth at the present time, in former ages these regions were as prolific in life as the tropics now are, the latter regions, now so vast, having through all the Tertiary and Quaternary ages been undisturbed by great geological revolutions, and meanwhile been colonized by emigrants driven down by the incoming cold of the glacial period.” …..
……Professor Friedrich Müller, of Vienna, and Dr. Moritz Wagner, both of whom place the probable cradle of the race in some high latitude in Europe or Asia, lay the utmost stress upon the mighty climatic revolution which came in with the glacial age, ascribing to it the most stupendous and transforming influences that have ever affected mankind. 1 In our view the deterioration of natural environment reduced the
vigor and longevity of the race; in theirs it changed one of the tribes of the animal world into men! Which of these views is the more rational may safely be left to the reader’s judgment. Few will be disposed to accept the doctrine that man is simply a judiciously-iced pithecoid.
….We must now be prepared to admit that God can plant an Eden even in Spitzbergen; that the present state of the world is by no means the best possible in relation to climate and vegetation; that there have been and might be again conditions which could convert the ice-clad Arctic regions into blooming Paradises.—Principal J. W. Dawson.
Mr. Scribner’s answer to the question, “Where did Life begin?” human as well as floral and faunal life should be included. After examining these fresh lines of evidence it is believed that the reader will find more impressive than ever the words with which our author concludes his charming tractate:—
“Thus the Arctic zone, which was earliest in cooling down to the first and highest heat degree in the great life-gamut, was also first to become fertile, first to bear life, and first to send forth her progeny over the earth. So, too, in obedience to the universal order of things, she was first to reach maturity, first to pass all the subdivisions of life-bearing climate and finally the lowest heat degree in the great life-range, and so the first to reach sterility, old age, degeneration, and death. And now, cold and lifeless, wrapped in her snowy winding sheet, the once fair mother of us all rests in the frozen embrace of an ice-bound and everlasting sepulchre.”
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/rag/index.htm
RAGNAROK:THE AGE OF FIRE AND GRAVEL.BYIGNATIUS DONNELLY,
Ragnarok, The Age of Fire and Gravel, proposes that a comet impacted the Earth several tens of thousands of years ago; the impact produced the ‘Drift’ layers of gravel which have been attributed to the Ice ages; this event destroyed a civilization which had high technology, a civilization which vanished completely except for some myths; the disaster was accompanied by catastrophic fire followed by years-long cloud cover and extreme cold. Humanity survived only by hiding in deep caves; when they re-emerged they had to restart civilization from scratch. Donnelly provides extensive geological, archeological, astronomical and mythological evidence for this theory. The book is not academic and often sensationalistic, but his populist style does not seem to detract from the argument.
Today, mass extinction from cometary impact is considered mainstream science, supported by a huge body of physical evidence.
More recently the book When the Earth Nearly Died When the Earth Nearly Died by D.S. Allan and J.B. Delair [1995] (reissued as Cataclysm: Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C.), brought together a mass of evidence that a catastrophic impact of extrasolar material occurred in 9,500 B.C.
You can also read how it may be that the Zoroastrians may have left us evidence that they were preparing for a nuclear disaster and how it may be that climate change is a result of extra terrestrial impacts of earth with comets and other objects…..
http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/we/index.htm Wonderful Ethiopians
of the Ancient Cushite Empire by Drusilla Dunjee Houston
[1926, no renewal] read how the desert regions of Africa have been subjected to horrors of horrors….CLIMATE CHANGE!
CHAPTER III. ANCIENT ETHIOPIA, THE LAND.
The Nubo-Egyptian desert was once abundantly watered and a well timbered region. With the exclusion of the narrow Nile valley, all of this is generally a barren waste today. Geology reveals that in the primitive ages, this country had a moist climate like the Congo basin; but these conditions prevailed in remote geological times, probably before the creation of the delta. The changes that turned the Sahara into a burning waste in time made Upper Egypt dry and torrid. Keane describes its climate as often fatal to all but full blooded natives. Under those brazen skies the children of even Euro-African half castes seldom survive after the tenth or twelfth year. Passing southward, we find that ancient edifices occur throughout the whole extent of Ethiopia. In the olden days, the climate there was favorable to the nurturing and development of a high type of civilization and produced an Ethiopian so superior to the later types, that they were called by the ancients, “the handsomest men of the primeval world.”
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/lly/lly64.htm
The Lore and the Lure of the Yosemite The Indians Their Customs, Legends and Beliefs, and the Story of Yosemite Herbert Earl Wilson
Not only Africa but the Yosemite Valley as well…..was affected by climate change and not a motor car or airplane in sight….
‘It is known that since the beginning of time the surface of the earth has undergone various changes brought about by its cooling and shrinking and by internal eruptions and disturbances.
During one of these disturbances the region between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains was affected. Here the surface of the earth was broken into great blocks and one of these, four hundred miles long and eighty miles wide, was pushed up at its eastern edge, separating it from the depressed region to the east, leaving a steep scarp, and pulled down at its western edge giving it a gentle slope to the sea.
The streams which flowed in diverse directions before the uplift of this block now were given a definite course flowing down the slope to the west and forming broad shallow valleys. One of these streams was the Merced River which now flows through the Yosemite Valley.
After a great period of time there occurred a second upward thrust which raised the eastern edge of the block to an elevation of several thousand feet making a distinct mountain range, later known as the Sierra Nevada. This second uplift gave to the western side a greater incline so that the Merced River was given enough velocity to enable it, through the millions of years elapsing before a third series of uplifts, to cut a narrower valley within its old broad valley.
The tributary streams which flowed parallel to the range and at right angles to the Merced River were not benefited by the tilting of the block, hence the deeper the main river cut the higher the side streams were left above it. With the broadening and leveling of its bed the Merced lost its cutting power and flowed lazily over the valley floor.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/gibbon/01/daf01026.htm
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1 by Edward Gibbon 1776
We can learn ever so much about the impact of climate change in this book……
Find out how Germany has been affected by CLIMATE CHANGE…….which meant that vines brought to the dinner table were still frozen posing a problem for hungry diners…and find out if the reindeer ever lived in Germany…
‘The modern philosophers of Sweden seem agreed that the waters of the Baltic gradually sink in a regular proportion, which they have ventured to estimate at half an inch every year. Twenty centuries ago the flat country of Scandinavia must have been covered by the sea; while the high lands rose above the waters, as so many islands of various forms and dimensions. Such, indeed, is the notion given us by Mela, Pliny, and Tacitus, of the vast countries round the Baltic. See in the Bibliotheque Raisonnee, tom. xl. and xlv. a large abstract of Dalin’s History of Sweden, composed in the Swedish language.
Diodorus Siculus, l. v. p. 340, edit. Wessel. Herodian, l. vi. p. 221. Jornandes, c. 55. On the banks of the Danube, the wine, when brought to table, was frequently frozen into great lumps, frusta vini. Ovid. Epist. ex Ponto, l. iv. 7, 9, 10. Virgil. Georgic. l. iii. 355. The fact is confirmed by a soldier and a philosopher, who had experienced the intense cold of Thrace. See Xenophon, Anabasis, l. vii. p. 560, edit. Hutchinson. Note: The Danube is constantly frozen over. At Pesth the bridge is usually taken up, and the traffic and communication between the two banks carried on over the ice. The Rhine is likewise in many parts passable at least two years out of five. Winter campaigns are so unusual, in modern warfare, that I recollect but one instance of an army crossing either river on the ice. In the thirty years’ war, (1635,) Jan van Werth, an Imperialist partisan, crossed the Rhine from Heidelberg on the ice with 5000 men, and surprised Spiers. Pichegru’s memorable campaign, (1794-5,) when the freezing of the Meuse and Waal opened Holland to his conquests, and his cavalry and artillery attacked the ships frozen in, on the Zuyder Zee, was in a winter of unprecedented severity. – M. 1845.
Note: The passage of Caesar, “parvis renonum tegumentis utuntur,” is obscure, observes Luden, (Geschichte des Teutschen Volkes,) and insufficient to prove the reindeer to have existed in Germany. It is supported however, by a fragment of Sallust. Germani intectum rhenonibus corpus tegunt. – M. It has been suggested to me that Caesar (as old Gesner supposed) meant the reindeer in the following description. Est bos cervi figura cujus a media fronte inter aures unum cornu existit, excelsius magisque directum (divaricatum, qu ?) his quae nobis nota sunt cornibus. At ejus summo, sicut palmae, rami quam late diffunduntur. Bell. vi. – M. 1845.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080496.htm Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Ages
A good source of ancient documentation quite long but this link takes you to the bit about climate…http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080496.htm
Are the Romans responsible for climate change…..read on….
Chapter XXVII.—Doctrine of “Climates” Untenable.
“Moreover, we ought to remember the things which have been mentioned, that in the one country of India there are both persons who feed on human flesh, and persons who abstain even from the flesh of sheep, and birds, and all living creatures; and that the Magusæi marry their mothers and daughters not only in Persia, but that in every nation where they dwell they keep up their incestuous customs. 847 Then, besides, we have mentioned also innumerable nations, which are wholly ignorant of the studies of literature, and also some wise men have changed the laws themselves in several places; and some laws have been voluntarily abandoned, on account of the impossibility of observing them, or on account of their baseness. Assuredly we can easily ascertain how many rulers have changed the laws and customs of nations which they have conquered, and subjected them to their own laws. This is manifestly done by the Romans, who have brought under the Roman law and the civil decrees almost the whole world, and all nations who formerly lived under various laws and customs of their own. It follows, therefore, that the stars of the nations which have been conquered by the Romans have lost their climates and their portions.
Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin, 6th ed. [1872], at sacred-texts.com
Let’s see what Darwin had to say on the issue of climate…but surely he isn’t arguing we can adapt to climate change ….is he???….
‘The capacity of enduring the most different climates by man himself and by his domestic animals, and the fact of the extinct elephant and rhinoceros having formerly endured a glacial climate, whereas the living species are now all tropical or sub-tropical in their habits, ought not to be looked at as anomalies, but as examples of a very common flexibility of constitution, brought, under peculiar circumstances, into action.
How much of the acclimatisation of species to any peculiar climate is due to mere habit, and how much to the natural selection of varieties having different innate constitutions, and how much to both means combined, is an obscure question. That habit or custom has some influence, I must believe, both from analogy and from the incessant advice given in agricultural works, even in the ancient encyclopaedias of China, to be very cautious in transporting animals from one district to another. And as it is not likely that man should have succeeded in selecting so many breeds and sub-breeds with constitutions specially fitted for their own districts, the result must, I think, be due to habit. On the other hand, natural selection would inevitably tend to preserve those individuals which were born with constitutions best adapted to any country which they inhabited.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/tbr/tbr094.htm
Now lets visit and old treatise named the Bible and see what Revelations we can find there …..millennia old I might add, that inform us of how old climate change actually is….THE NEW EARTH.
Rev. 21:1.
“Thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; He is God; that formed the earth and made it; He established it, He created it not a waste, He formed it to be inhabited.” See also Jer. 4:23-26. What caused the earth to become a waste after its original creation is not expressly stated. Some awful catastrophe must have befallen it. It is clear from the account of the Fall of Adam and Eve that sin existed before man was created. The inference is from Ezek. 28:12-19, and Isa. 14:12-14, that when the earth was originally created that Satan was placed in charge of it, and that he and his angels rebelled and led astray the inhabitants of the Original Earth, and that the Pre-Adamite race are now the demons who as they are permitted liberty seek to re-embody themselves in human beings that they may again dwell on the earth. It is clear that the Original Earth was inhabited, or God would not have blessed Adam and Eve and said–“Be fruitful and multiply and REPLENISH the Earth.” Gen. 1:28. It does not follow however that those inhabitants were human beings like ourselves. No human remains have been found ante-dating the creation of man.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/tbr/index.htm The Book of Revelationby Clarence Larkin [1919]
‘Is there a conflict between the biblical and scientific theories of the origin of our planet and climate change??
There can be no question but what the Earth in its original formation required millions of years. There is ample time in the statement of Gen. 1:1 that–“In the BEGINNING God ‘created’ the heaven and the earth,” for all the “Geologic Ages” that science declares were necessary for the creation of the Earth. There is no conflict between the Bible and Science as to the time occupied in the formation of the Earth.
Happily, we are told not to worry about the earth being overcome by a natural process of climate change because:-
‘NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH.” 2. Pet. 3:13. These words of Peter reveal the fact that this Earth is to pass through 3 stages. First the Original Earth that “perished” by WATER. Second the Earth that is now, that is to be renovated or cleansed by FIRE. And the New Earth that is to exist forever. See the Chart “The Three Stages of the Earth.”
Goodness me…. a new earth that will last forever……..amazing…
“And I saw a new Heaven and a NEW EARTH: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.”
http://www.sacred-texts.com/piri/index.htm
Why haven’t we got a map to show how the UK was once joined to mainland Europe and other geo changes that would give us a better idea about how climate change is a natural process, pre the motor car, air travel and energy giants trying to charge us more for setting up sustainable fuel systems that none of us will be able to afford?
Such a map does exist though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map
The Piri Reis map is a patchwork which has gaps (most notably the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica) which can be explained as non-overlapping areas between the source maps. Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings and Hapgood’s other book The Earth’s Shifting Crust, in which he advanced a theory of polar shifts, are controversial, and earned him the scorn of official academia.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/jei/jei14.htm
A Journey to the Earth’s Interior
by Marshall B. Gardner
Finally, in 1999 the http://www.dailycal.org/ featured an article by Westyn Branch-Elliman entitled Longterm Climate Change Due to Astronomical Cycles.
‘’Climate cycles on Earth are directly related to astronomical cycles in the solar system, UC Berkeley researchers have found.
The team of scientists collected evidence of ice ages stored at the bottom of the oceans and found that there is a distinct pattern of cycles – an ice age that lasts approximately 90,000 years is followed by a warm period that lasts approximately 10,000 years.
“Astronomy is responsible for almost all climate changes,” said project leader Richard Muller, a UC Berkeley professor of physics and a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. ‘’
In addition, the researchers examined the astronomical cycles caused by variations in the tilt of Earth’s orbit. They found that the tilt cycles match the cycles of the ice ages.
“When we look at ancient records of planets, these astronomical cycles appear in the climate record,” Muller said.
Due to gravitational forces caused by other planets, the tilt of Earth’s orbit changes depending on the position of these other objects.
“The orbit of the earth around the sun is constantly changing due to the gravitational effects of other planets,” Muller said.
The law of gravitation is dependent on the distance between two objects. When objects are closer together, they exert stronger forces on each other than when they are farther apart.
Other planets orbit the sun, so their proximity to Earth varies over time. Due to gravitational forces exerted by other planets, the tilt of Earth’s orbit changes in a cyclic pattern.
“By using the laws of physics, we can figure out what kind of cycles (other planets) induce on the orbit of the earth,” Muller said.
The two planets that most strongly affect the tilt of Earth’s orbit are Jupiter and Venus, Muller said. Jupiter is large an massive, so the planet exerts strong gravitational forces on Earth. Venus is relatively close to Earth, so it also has a large effect on the tilt of the orbit.
“Jupiter, which is the biggest planet (in our solar system), is the most important,” Muller said. “The other planet that is very important is Venus. Even though it is much smaller, it comes much closer to the earth.”
…………………………………………………. All of civilization has taken place during this short and relatively unusual warm period, which won’t last very long,” Muller said. “We have been through 10,000 (years of this warm period), so some time in the next 10,000 years, another ice age will arrive.”
FOOTNOTE Astro-meteorologists have been watching planetary cycles down millennia using satellite technology to forecast weather and still do so proficiently and accurately today.
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Summer 2015 Part Two, W Yorks and Yonder
Summer Weather Part Two 2015 AUGUST 2015
The following weather forecasts proved very challenging as the atmosphere remains unsettled due to
so much going on celestially and affecting the atmosphere surrounding planet earth. Do take time to
read my Aug 29th -Sept forecast where I draw from a 19th century successful and much respected British weather forecaster named Saxby whose book you can download FOR FREE here:-
https://books.google.com/books?id=oQoFAAAAQAAJ
For those wanting a look at how well forecasting weather long range using ancient earth satellite technology is, please do visit my other blog at http://www.amazingweather.wordpress.com
which used to report on the outcomes of weather to give an idea of how accurate my long range forecast was.
July 31st-7th August 2015
It took a while to study the charts for this phase due to so much going on and echoing previous years of seismic outcomes, which need a lot of research and cross checking.
Firstly there are seismic factors operative which I haven’t timed or located precisely, because my main focus has to be the weather with limited time available, rather than EQ or extreme weather in other parts of the globe to ours. However, I can say I expect an EQ to west UK regions, Blackpool area, as well as/or instead of Tectonic plates in Irish sea which often tremors across to southern Brit shores.
I also firmly expect EQ to SW China, in early August, centring a few tens of kilometres east of where
one struck Yunnam region in 2013, this may arrive later, around 10th, when a lot of disturbance rocks
things up. Taiwan also looks vulnerable too, as well as NE of New Zealand in the southern hemisphere,
However, back to the weather and this phase is a very unsettled one with so much going on up in the
heavens, so don’t expect a smooth ride weather wise, I certainly won’t be booking days away.
Some very bad weather is tempered by some good weather trying to control it, and as they battle with
each other we will end up with some good some bad…. From the outset a slow moving system is
moving in with some gloomy outlook at times, but don’t worry it wont be allowed to rain on your parade
for long…..but we can expect some thunder, lightening and hail and sporadic hail outbursts to keep
your investment in your umberella worth the buying of it…
The warmth will be more due to cloud keeping temps from being too cool mostly fair to north unless
otherwise specified.
Here is a quick tour 31st July-7th Aug:-
31st and 1st Very unsettled; isolated hail and sporadic localised showers active during the day, cool and some clear skies by early to late evening, but some humidity and cloud around, with mists to some valleys.
2nd Seismic outbursts likely today. Northerlies active trying to clear away the bad weather vibes,
occasionally very gusty as day gets older, some rainy outburst potential early morning before
breakfast. More cloud, rain and mists likely to NW of our region, but it wont stay around all day.
3rd Some isolated showers localised, so not widespread or long lasting. Very unsettled again some
occasional sun spells but not reliable for the great outdoors during the day, the evenings will generally
4th An improvement today on former days for our region with some calmer conditions along with more
sun and settled weather.
5th Showers around sunrise more cloud around with more showery outcomes likely to NW than we get
6th Some cloud here and more windy than yesterday, but occasional sun outbursts, cloudier to the
north however, and fairer to southern regions with temps rising on previous days, but this could result in some thundery outbursts during daytime for some localities.
7th-14th August
This phase sees mists and mizzles to the west regions of Britain for 7th-8th. The weather continues to remain unsettled until 10th when static is high and headlines could be about the EQ I mentioned earlier. Days after 10th is when weather calms down a bit and slowly takes bad outburst to the east of us. Some thundery spells likely for first few days but some areas will not get the rain that threatens to accompany them in sudden showery bursts for some localities in our region.
We don’t revisit the highs of July just yet, but this will change later in the month ……………temps will try
to rise but be thwarted by cool northerlies at times and some sudden showery stuff bringing in some
cooling, though precipitation will not be heavy. Temps look set to be cooler than July’s highs, but with rising trends over first half of the phase.
7th Some northerlies around keeping things cool, mists/mizzles to West Brit, mists could also lie in valleys Addingham, Ilkley etc. Some showery outbursts likely around 6-9am moving around different localities.
Cloud competes with sun spells during the day.
8th-9th Shows some annoying showery intermittent spells from mid-day 8th-mid-day 9th keeping
things cool and some thundery outbursts could also threaten to spoil play, some localities wont get the
rain just the thunder. Restless weather continues but by 9th we could see more sun between clouds
instead of behind them with warmth from the sun wrestling with cool spells.
10th Remains variable breezy/windy/gusty NW around, especially on high land, these will blow gloomy
clouds away so that later in the day we will see a more settled outcome arriving with cool drier air
conditions remaining over next few days with more sun around but on 11th rainy/showery outbursts
expected around 6-8pm. 12th should be a normal summer day but still some breeziness around. 13th
could revisit thundery or static outbursts on high ground to the NW regions, trickling over to W Yorks
and yonder (overnight into 14th) and sudden mini squalls could spoil sea going activities also, usually
this trend also sees some blue skies as well so I don’t expect much cloud to linger but sudden cool
conditions can catch you off guard if outdoors.
14th-22nd August
There are drought indicators from now on but also some indications of precipitation which I don’t expect to be heavy or prolonged, or even useful for filling up lakes, reservoirs or rivers, which do look sadly quite depleted nowadays, probably due to high abstraction levels, which does leave a worrying trend for landscapes dependent upon higher levels.
There seems to be a low blocking an Azores high sadly, so I don’t expect glorious high temps, unless
you are holidaying in the Azores which looks quite sultry. The low runs across NW Scotland also
reaching Cork regions of Ireland bringing some showery stuff into play as well as intermittent drizzly bits
with a few expected reports of hail as well.
Some t/storms also expected during this phase, —–yet again…this is the year for t/storms folks, enjoy
the weather drama! I will watch for headlines around buildings being damaged due to lightening strikes
in our region, and to high pylons or electricity systems W Yorks and Yonder…hopefully I’m
wrong……Happily I don’t expect a lot of heavy precip. to arrive with it, and most will arrive overnight or
late evening, but from the outset it does look like gusty sometimes strong windy conditions flail around
from the NW for a few more days, annoyingly, as it will keep off any benefit of higher temps from
sunshine outbreaks. This phase reminds us of 16th July phase when rain and overnight t/storms didn’t
stop play but did keep you on your toes, or under your cagoule for half an hour or so, if outdoors walking
the fells.
14th Should be a good day outdoors overall, but some hail potential intermittent and short lived, but
being blown around by some blustery weather, in between it will but mostly sunny and fair weather,
apart from those cool windy bits that occasionally gust around on exposed places where they will rev
up a little to strong and speedy, so take your ear muffs if mountain climbing….
15th The winds still active with cooler temps but should be a dry outdoor day with sunshine around.
16-17th rising temps could create a bit of static that creates thundery threats, mostly overnight, some
sultry conditions around followed by quick dashing about showery stuff just after mid day, and sun
with cloud, but bright weather expected for daytime activity and once any showery stuff quickly
moves on. Cloudier to northern parts, fairer to southern ones, 17th brighter than 16th. These two days
look to be the warmest for this phase.
18th-19th some showery outbursts again, spartan and intermittent with gusty westerlies veering
around on 19th. Again the showery stuff looks to arrive after lunch, but wont be too heavy and will
leave brighter conditions once they pass over, could be quick sleet or hurting hail showers.
20th Gusty and variable N.Westerly winds expected to be lively again but bright weather around during
daytime.
21st Some cloud developing today between sunny spells, the evening is clearer and brighter skies
prevail until more showery threats spoil play around 6-9 pm by 22nd the cloud could get thicker but
some warm sultry weather around due to cloud keeping the earth warm overnight.
22nd -29th August
Mist, mizzles and humidity breaking out from Cornwall up to Wigton areas Cumbria and over towards NE Scotland with highs coming over from Azores to west of that line of weather, with expectation of warmer trends moving down S Eastwards as days progress, culminating in a lovely summer day by 26th.
What else did you want to know?
22nd-29th can bring in some cloud spells with 27th-29th being mild and fair weather but again with mists expected in valleys and over watering places. Generally that’s all that’s required to cover what
should be finer weather generally for us to enjoy for this phase, any thundery outbursts on 23rd would
only serve to freshen the air and will be short lived but cracking around 6-10pm
29th August to 5th September
Last 3 phase charts proved really tricky due to so many things going on weather wise and needing detailed tracking to pull out weather for W Yorks and Yonder. However, here goes with an added advantage of lessons learned from a man called Saxby ( 19th century weather forecaster) who, pre expensively funded met office, delivered trusted, relied upon long range weather forecasts using lunar phases and a priori knowledge of the use of these by Kepler etc. Farmers would circulate these forecasts as would mariners who knew as a result when to avoid storms on days singled out by Saxby.
Saxby found that at times of New Moon perigee and either equatorial or at highest point in the sky in
the north or south hemisphere, cyclones would form to the east of Trinidad and then travel to Britain 9
days later (7th Sept in this instance 2015) creating many sea and other disturbances 3-4 days after perigee, which is on 30th in this instance. And so although the Moon on 29th August is Full, rather than Saxby’s preferred NM, I take it too to be a cyclone breeder due to being FM 29th, perigee on 30th and on equator travelling North on 31st, heralding a big storm coming over to Britain.
Interestingly the charts I use for forecasting with, mapping celestial events with terrestrial locations,
show that on 29th nearby Trinidad Pluto Squares Uranus (with a very wide orb or distance), indicating weather is being brewed in that region, as Saxby would warn at a New Moon in his developing forecasting system.
Saxby tells us that dangers to shipping would pass N W of GB at a NM, and we can see, that in the Full
Moon chart Saturn is semi square Pluto at a point to NW of Scotland, about 50 degrees North latitude,
20 deg longitude, heralding some stormy weather brewing out to sea in NW Scotland, and creating bad
weather for sailors in that region for this phase from 29th onwards. This system will travel inland bringing some turbulence with it and travel to SE Scotland and perhaps the North Eng taking 4+ days to travel over from point of brewing at sea to N Eng, after 29th. It will be interesting to track and verify this at the end of August.
Meanwhile in W Yorks and Yonder (and in the Lakes) the Full Moon usually indicates clearer skies after sunset to sunrise, which is good news for campers wanting to stay dry overnight! Here are the outcomes I expect for this phase:-
29th Warming trends but unsettled weather. Sporadic variable showers, heavy for some further west,
localised and not long lasting around 4-6pm, cool breezes blowing on exposed areas and mists and
mizzles around in valleys and near watery places such as bogs and wetlands on fells and moors.
30th More early mists and mizzles as sun rise with some precipitous weather mid morning but should
leave a drier afternoon with some sunshine and warmth-should be a good day.
31st Unsettled again- some cloud around with some shower attempts aroun7-9, this is the day when
NW Scotland sees rough weather out to sea, , but here we will see some sunshine with warmth.
1st Mists, sun, cloud, hazes, unexpected localised hail outbursts, all in the weather mix, depending
where you are in W Yorks, the warmth will breed showery outburst for many around 4-6pm. By 9pm
mists will be forming to valleys and watery places. Some blustery south easterlies today and tomorrow.
2nd Rain clouds forming further west herald intermittent but refreshing quick showery outbursts in the morning, sun but with cloud around mostly during the day and evening, higher rainfall expected further west…lakes area….
3rd Some gusty breezes blowing clouds away so sun can break through and temps should be better
today with more sunshine to enjoy.
4th secondary sea disturbances warned by Saxby for today, so watch sea forecast, squally sea going,
and in some valleys. Weather could develop as sticky, static and clammy with N Westerlies strong at
times on high ground—Lakes and Pennines and moors and fells which foil temps rising as high as we
would like, but sunshine will be out there between some cloud hanging around, and showery outburst
7-9 am likely, but clearing as day progresses to blue overnight skies.
5th Generally sunny with temps warming but I’m not ruling out a quick shower between 3-5 pm, some
gusty breezes and winds around keeping things cool.
6th A clear start with sunshine and warmer trends. Rainfall expected to travel east today and be heavy
to the east of W Yorks than any that might threaten these parts. Read 6th for next phase to get a
clearer picture……………
5th-13th September
A quick tour of the highlights for this phase. Sunshine won’t be absent; prolonged sunnydays not on offer, cloud will quickly form then move on to be rapidly replaced with other cloud that on occasions will block out the brightness of the sun. The trend is for static conditions mostly.
Thunderstorms are likely to break out again, and they will be cracking and a wonderful spectacle. Days
singled out are 8th overnight, when strong gusty winds whip around (keep your tent pegs well
hammered, and don’t forget the gyre ropes and moor your boat safely) and t/storm again 12th at late
pm to evening time but again overnight so migrating t/storms around Britain likely to provide
excitement.
The northern lights will provide more spectacles that are fascinating to watch once skies clear up.
We can expect much wind around sometimes quite strong and keeping things cool, causing those sea
problems due to the cyclone activity mentioned earlier, these should subside greatly by 10th.
Rain will be heavier to southern England/E Anglia as with earlier rain that delivered one months precip
in one day on Friday 24th July. 11th looks likely candidate for rainy weather to travel up England and
beyond.
12th looks cool but clearer skies and sunshine but not a lot of warmth, unless you stay sheltered, 6th
gives the best of the warmth which afterwards begins to wane.
The 9th-12th are better weatherwise, but13th seems the most likely candidate for a better sunny day
and good outdoor weather…..but read on….
13th-21st September
During this phase we move towards the equinox on 23rd September, with 13th being a solar eclipse, but a few emerging factors celestially are revving things up across the globe and Pakistan and surrounding countries look to be on the receiving end of the worst they can bring this time of year.
We look gloomy this end of the globe here is a quick un-detailed tour which isn’t very optimistic it looks
likely fogs and mists and sea frets are further over to the East, but some fogs around major routes in our
area, to upset travel at this stage generally. Temps are on the cool side too.
13th is cloudy gloomy with easterlies bring in some gloom with a fast moving rainy mass far west
coming our way falling from before sunrise on 14th and I’m not sure it wont stay around, but things will
remain unsettled until 15th when easterlies veer westwards clearing the gloominess and leaving a way
towards drier conditions with blue skies and woolly clouds.
16th rain over to the west is causing problems to travel there we get sunshine and cloud with the rain
arriving again in the evening around 4 pm for a couple of hours.
17th cloudy start with mists likely clearing at sunrise humidity prevails but some brightness and sunny
spells from after sunrise could stay around during the day.
18th Highly unsettled and this is the day Pakistan and regions will encounter the worst of the flooding
monsoon levels. Here it will vacillate between sun and cloud but don’t expect a great outdoor
19th I expect rain to fall from 1am onwards leaving it wet and muggy for the morning dash, with
perhaps fogs and mists to contend with.
20th looks clearer and more settled. Warmer in Aus, than here, and it’s their Spring breaking out! Today
should bring a better day but not anything to write home about.
21st Some showers around, intermittent but very obvious around 1-3pm when it will be gloomy…oh
dear, return for the Autumn outlook later
Mayburgh Henge, sadly only one standing stone remains, finders not keepers please put them back! They belong to all of us.
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Kimball and Rusiecki named #9 UltraRunners of the Year
By UltraRunning Magazine on 12/24/2013 Featured, News
Nikki Kimball
Nikki Kimball of Bozeman, Montana checks in at number nine. Kimball, a physical therapist, is a three-time Ultra Runner of the Year (2003, 2004, 2007) and remains highly competitive, finishing second in four of the five races she ran in 2013 – including the highly-competitive Western States 100 and Run Rabbit Run 100. Kimball was also the women’s winner at The North Face Challenge 50K in Colombia.
Place Female Place Time Event Distance (miles)
12 2 7:04:07 Angels Staircase 37.3
8 2 20:59:13 Run Rabbit Run – Hare 100
31 2 9:57:20 TNF Challenge – Bear Mtn 50
2 1 4:52:39 TNF Challenge – Colombia 31
14 2 19:21:43 Western States 100
Brian Rusiecki
Brian Rusiecki, winner of four races during the year, is the number nine male. Rusiecki is an electrical engineer and lives in South Deerfield, Massachusetts with his wife Amy, who is also a top ultra runner. He completed an impressive ten ultras in 2013, winning the Cascade Crest Classic 100 Mile and the Mountain Masochist 50. He also won the Bull Run Run 50 Mile for the second straight year.
Place Time Event Distance (miles)
2 4:53:54 Bimblers Bluff 31
1 6:18:41 Bull Run Run 50
1 18:44:44 Cascade Crest 100
4 7:06:00 Cayuga Trails 50
1 7:09:18 Mountain Masochist 50
5 6:55:22 Nueces 50
1 6:30:30 Pineland Trail 50
2 7:19:19 TNF Challenge – Bear Mtn 50
5 16:05:11 Vermont 100
2 6:33:43 Vermont 50
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Irina on 12/27/2013 1:38 pm
Bear Mountain 9:57:20 why 7:19?
I’ts the wine sorry- GOOD JOB GUYS
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Blaž Zgaga o katastrofalni medijski sceni v Sloveniji
Pregledni prispevek novinarja Blaža Zgage, soavtorja novinarske peticije leta 2007, danes delujočega v tujini, o mizerni kriminalni medijski situaciji v Sloveniji, objavljen na strani Evropskega centra za medije in medijsko svobodo (European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, ECPMF), ki združuje 25 organizacij iz celotne Evrope.
Zgaga panoramsko opisuje lastniško situacijo in prevzeme v vseh ključnih slovenskih medijih, v treh glavnih slovenskih dnevnikih: Delu, Večeru in Dnevniku, dogajanje na RTV Slovenija in Janševih medijskih satelitih, analizira prevzem Pro Plusa, ki je lastnik Pop TV in Kanala A, preko globalnega naložbenega sklada KKR in v režiji družbe United Group.
Članek, ki najbrž nikomur ne bo všeč in ga slovenski mediji skoraj zanesljivo ne bodo povzemali, zaključuje Zgaga z depresivno ugotovitvijo o katastrofalnem duhovnem stanju slovenskega novinarstva:
»Ob takšni zgostitvi medijskih lastnikov s kriminalno preteklostjo in sedanjostjo, ob skorumpiranih politikih in agresivnih baronih z Wall Streeta, je danes kot poklicni neodvisni novinar v Sloveniji skoraj nemogoče delovati. Mnogi izkušeni novinarji so že zapustili poklic ali so bili prisiljeni, da ga zapustijo. Po drugi strani se zdi nova generacija mladih novinarjev že v celoti prilagojena poslovnim interesom in ciljem lastnikov novih medijev. Poklicna solidarnost med slovenskimi novinarji je pozabljena že dolgo nazaj. Obenem pa poklicna in osebna etika novinarjev, predanim kriminalcem, politikom in »barbarom«, dosega vedno nižje in nižje stopnje.«
Članek spodaj povzemam v celoti, na voljo je tudi v bosanskem jeziku:
Media in Slovenia: among criminals, politicians and “the barbarians”
Once praised as a role model country for the Balkans, Slovenia as the most developed part of former Yugoslavia, an EU and Nato member today, is facing many challenges in its media landscape. The transition from a former socialist republic to a parliamentary democracy brought some successes and failures where the media ownership structure seems to remain one of the major blunders, as media owners openly or covertly control editorial policies.
During the transition period local oligarchs made a fortune mostly by collaborating with local post-communist politicians in dubious privatisation processes, which was arbitrary and similar to developments in Russia and other transitional countries. An important issue that affects Slovenia’s media landscape nowadays is that almost all mainstream media owners are under criminal investigation for gross crimes by the FBI-like National Bureau of Investigations and Special Prosecutors which deals with corruption, organised crime and terrorism. Some of them were convicted already.
Stojan Petrič, owner of the Kolektor industry and construction group, who in 2015 purchased the previously most influential daily Delo and the tabloid with highest circulation Slovenske novice, is under investigation for abusing his position and the trust in his business activity. The police revealed that a group of perpetrators, including Petrič, gained at least 1,8 million euros of illicit money.
But his actions as the new owner of Delo are troubling too. Immediately after the takeover he appointed Gregor Knafelc, chief of public relations in Petrič’s main holding company FMR, as acting editor-in-chief of Delo. Knafelc, without a single day of journalistic or editorial experience, consequently fired many of Delo’s media workers, mostly renowned and experienced journalists, and thereby significantly changed the editorial policy of following and covering business related topics. Knafelc was replaced on 1 December 2017 with new acting editor-in-chief, therefore the newspaper will remain without an editor with a full mandate for the next period again.
“Loyalty” and “unity”
In an unusual interview given in February 2018 to his own newspaper Delo, Petrič said that he expects “loyalty” and “unity” from Delo journalists. He praised the Chinese political system and said that smaller nations should follow the Chinese model. He also announced new media takeovers in Slovenia.
Delo today is just a pale shadow of the respected and influential newspaper it once was, comparable to The Times or Le Monde in the UK and France. However, Delo’s credibility crisis did already start in 2005, when Janez Janša’s right-wing government came to power and started meddling intensively with the editorial policy, helped by then owner Boško Šrot, who is serving a sentence of five years and ten months for abuse of office authority in a chain sale trading of a 7.3 per cent stake in the holding Istrabenz in 2007, and who had been given an additional sentence of 5 years in 2014 for abusing his position or trust and for money laundering. Šrot is still in prison.
In October 2017 prosecutors filed a request for a court investigation against Stojan Petrič and co-defendants, who denied any wrongdoings.
Slovenia’s second largest newspaper Dnevnik is owned by the DZS financial group since 2003. DZS’s main business is the tourism industry. Its owner Bojan Petan is under criminal investigations in Slovenia and other countries for different crimes. He faces up to eight years in prison for the alleged crime of abuse of position or trust in business activity during the privatisation of the Terme Čatež tourist resort which allegedly resulted in dozens of millions of euros of illicit gains and damages to the company. Additionally, he was investigated for organised crime and money laundering by special prosecutors in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He denied any wrongdoing.
Business operations in offshore countries
Petan was also co-owner of the major advertising, PR and lobbyist agency Pristop, together with his business partner Franci Zavrl, the founder of Pristop and former owner of the left-leaning weekly magazine Mladina, who is the husband of investigative journalist Anuška Delić who worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on the Panama and Paradise Papers. Both Petan and Zavrl have business operations in offshore countries and have been investigated by the police for the alleged misappropriation of dozens of millions of euros. The Slovenian elite criminal police conducted house searches in Petan’s and Zavrl/Delić apartments and many other offices in June 2014. Also this investigation is ongoing, and the accused deny all wrongdoing.
Finally, Bojan Petan is well connected, and his business empire serves as a safe haven for many former intelligence and government officials. Sebastjan Selan, former chief director of the main Slovene intelligence agency Sova became one of the most important managers in his business empire. Some other former spies work for DZS, too. Meanwhile former government spokesperson Darijan Košir became the news deputy editor of Dnevnik and simultaneously runs his own PR company.
A criminal case against Petan is still pending. He denies any wrongdoing. But prosecutors dropped the charges against Zavrl in this case. However, this was not the only close encounter of Zavrl with police investigators. He was investigated by Finnish and Luxembourg police for alleged money-laundering of millions of euros in the Patria arms deals*, which was one of the major scandals in Slovenia during the past decade. Also these criminal charges have been dropped.
Former Prime minister Janez Janša, who was together with Zavrl arrested in 1988 by the Yugoslav People’s Army in a “Roška trial” which triggered the so called “Slovenian spring”, a popular movement which lead to democratic changes and Slovenia’s succession movement in then Yugoslavia, was convicted to two years in prison for bribery in the Patria deal. The conviction of Janša was confirmed by all of Slovenia’s regular courts, including the Supreme Court. However, the Constitutional Court later repealed these judgements and demanded retrial in the Patria bribery, then a statute of limitations had passed.
Illicit gains
The third mainstream daily Večer was purchased from Delo by Uroš Hakl and Sašo Todorovič. They paid just one million euro for this newspaper in 2014, but the deal was mostly financed by debt and they immediately started to sell some real-estate owned by the newspaper to finance the takeover.
Todorovič is the former chief executive officer of T-2 telecommunication provider. Hakl is the former director at the Pristop PR agency and was also investigated for the alleged abuse of office and official duty. Hakl and co-perpetrators allegedly made more than a million euros of illicit gains from state aid, that was given to the most impoverished Slovene region. Hakl is facing up to eight years in prison. The criminal case against the co-owner of Večer is currently under court investigation, and he denies all wrongdoing, too.
Another media mogul is Martin Odlazek, who is also a printing and waste management “baron”, and who was sentenced to six months in prison for abuse of position and trust in business activity in 2013. He served his sentence under house arrest. But his criminal past didn’t prevent him from expanding his media empire and starting the new tabloid Svet24 and many other weekly magazines, including the purchase of the right-leaning weekly Reporter. He also owns several Slovene radio stations.
In Slovenia’s television landscape the public broadcasting service RTV Slovenija continues to serve as a political playground for major political parties who implement their influence on the editorial policy though the programme council where 21 of 29 members are elected by the parliament. A recent example happened in July 2017 when new CEO Director General of RTV Slovenia Igor Kadunc attempted to replace the director of the tv programmeLjerka Bizilj for violating editorial standards as she supported news-editor Jadranka Rebernik who approved the promotional programme of the neo-Ustasha Croatian singer Marko Perković ‘Thompson’ in prime-time. Kadunc’s proposal was then repealed by the programme council with a majority of votes from right-wing council members. This case confirms that politics are still controlling public broadcaster editorial policy through many proxies.
The owner of the majority shares of the smaller private television station Planet TV and 100 per cent shares of the widely read online outlet Siol.net is the state owned major telecommunication company Telekom Slovenije which again offers many channels for political influence behind the scenes.
The small party television station Nova24TV, founded by the right-wing SDS that is led by Janez Janša, on the other hand received significant financial investment from Hungary. Some Hungarian media owners who are close friends of Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban invested at least 800.000 euros in this small TV station and in exchange received significant capital shares in a media outlet that is constantly spreading right-wing political propaganda. Also SDS’ weekly magazine Demokracija is owned by friends of Orban today. Janez Janša, whose party is a member of the European People’s Party, is closely affiliated with Orban and his anti-immigration and anti-liberal politics.
But the seismic shift in the Slovene media landscape happened in July 2017. Pro Plus company was the owner of the tv channels POP TV and Kanal A who are reaching 70 per cent of the viewers in the Slovene market and who receive an even higher share of advertising revenues in Slovenia. The company was bought by United Group, owned by the New York based private equity firm KKR (Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts) for 230 million euros. Before that, Pro Plus belonged to Central European Media Enterprises (CME) incorporated in the tax haven of Bermuda.
“The Barbarians at the Gate”
Two founders of KKR, Henry Kravis and George Roberts are known as inventors of leveraged buy-outs and their take-over of the RJR Nabisco company in the US was made into a Hollywood movie in 1993: The Barbarians at the Gate. However, these “barbarians” find strong support for lobbying in the Balkans in KKR Global Institute chairman David Petraeus, former director of the CIA and commander of US military forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. He served also in the Nato peace operation in the Balkans.
Petraeus visited Slovene Prime Minister Miro Cerar on 18 May 2017 and lobbied for the purchase of Slovenia’s major television company which also owns the most visited online outlet: 24ur.com. Additionally, KKR bought Croatia’s most watched tv channel Nova TV simultaneously, but Croatian regulators did not approve this part of the deal. Minority shareholder and chairman of United Group, Dragan Šolak met premier Cerar on 19 April 2017, too.
Without a doubt, after Petraeus’ lobby work the Slovene Agency for Protection of Competition Protection Agency (CPA) did probably greenlight the 230 million euros KKR deal despite the fact that such an investment is creating a vertical integration in the media and telecommunication markets as it bears the danger of a monopoly in many other local markets. Moreover, the appointment of CPA’s new director Andrej Matvoz raises many questions about his independence. Despite him lacking any experience in this demanding field of law, he was appointed by the Minister of Economic Development and Technology as acting director. But the Slovene court later declared the decision as illegal. Additionally, the Slovene Commission for the Prevention of Corruption filed charges against Matvoz for cheating in an expert exam to the Slovene police. Nevertheless, all these serious questions didn’t keep the ruling political coalition from confirming Matvoz in the parliament.
Intensive lobbying is also confirmed by a decision of Slovenia’s Ministry of Culture which formally determined that Pro Plus is not a related party of POP TV and Kanal A programmes which are owned by Pro Plus with 100 per cent of the shares. Thus, the Ministry of Culture excluded itself from making any decision about the United Group (KKR) takeover in its role as a regulator of the media industry.
United Group, registered in the Netherlands, also owns the SBB and Telemach telecommunications company, Sportklub, Total TV, Net TV and many other media companies in the region of former Yugoslavia. It reaches 1.74 million households and made 488 million euros of revenues in the last year. It is one of the most important telecommunication and media providers in the Balkans, offering also mobile phone services, and it airs the N1 TV channel, the local partner of CNN in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia.
The Serbian-Slovenian minority owner of United Group, Dragan Šolak – one of the richest man in the Balkans – regularly operates in offshore countries. According to the Croatian weekly magazine Nacional*, its subsidiary United Media with headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland, managed to funnel 6.7 million euros out of Croatia to secret bank accounts in Liechtenstein and Cyprus for broadcasting licenses without paying any significant tax. Additionally, KKR and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) are hiding their ownership of United Group behind a complex corporate structure with more than a dozen offshore companies in tax havens of Delaware, the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg.
Among such a concentration of media owners with a criminal past and present, with corrupted politicians as well as aggressive Wall Street barons it’s almost impossible to work as a professional independent journalist in Slovenia. Many experienced journalists already left their profession or were forced to leave. On the other hand, a new generation of young journalists seems to be fully adapted to business interests and the goals of new media owners. Professional solidarity among Slovenian journalists lies in the long forgotten past. The professional and personal ethics of journalists who are serving these criminals, politicians and “barbarians” tend to reach new lows again and again.
* The Patria scandal was unearthed in 2008 in collaboration between Finnish journalist Magnus Berglund (YLE) and author of this article.
** The investigative story in Nacional was written by the author of this article.
The author of this article started his journalistic career at the national desk of the newspaper Delo in 1993. In 1998 he joined Večer where he spent the next ten years. In 2007 he initiated the petition against censorship and political pressure on journalists which was signed by 571 Slovene journalists, one quarter of all professional journalists in the country. Because of mobbing and censorship he quit Večer and works as a freelance journalist since 2008. He is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and one of the Information Heroes of Reporters Without Borders. His articles are regularly published in the Croatian weekly magazine Nacional.
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Mixed Doubles Curling in Pyeongchang: Wrap-Up and Medals
15 February 2018 . 5 min read . by Andrew
The mixed-doubles curling playoff round provided ample tension and excitement.
Canada took on Norway in the first semi-final. John Morris started strong against Norway, impressing with a surgical double to clear the rings of Norwegian stones in the first end. Kristin Skaslien's error with her final shot allowed Kaitlyn Lawes a chance at four, but her draw was heavy and the Canadians only scored two in the opening end. By their standards, the first half of the game was difficult for the Canadian pair, with Lawes' uncharacteristic heavy draw weight to blame. In the fourth end, Lawes needed to make another shot under duress, but instead of throwing the original call, a hit and stick, she opted for a draw. Perhaps overcompensating for her earlier heavier draws, Lawes' final stone came up short, stopping short of the four foot.
Entering the half leading by just one, Morris was emphatic in his belief that Kaitlyn would turn things around with an interview with CBC's Colleen Jones. The Canadian commentary team of Mike Harris, Joan McCusker, and Bruce Rainnie made much of Morris' speech and his excellence as a teammate, crediting his speech with a predicted turn around in Lawes' game. While one of Morris' strengths is his positivity as a teammate, surely Lawes deserves most of the credit for her play in the second half of the semi-final.
And turn things around she did. In the fifth, Morris threw a freeze that went deep with his last stone, and Lawes needed to make a freeze against the Norwegian shot stone. Lawes made a great shot, putting the pressure on Skaslien to deliver with hammer. She couldn't -- she wrecked on a guard, and it was a steal of two for Canada and changed the course of the game. Down 5-2 in the sixth end, Norway used its power play, a tactic the Canadians have defended remarkably well to that point. Morris missed a double with his last shot of the end but Lawes picked him up by hitting and sticking and keeping Norway to just two points.
Lawes continued to turn things around in the seventh by playing an inturn freeze for three. It was a great shot with an equally great sweep and gave Canada a commanding lead going into the eighth end. Her final shots in ends five, six, and seven were essential to the 8-4 Canadian victory. Lawes finished the semi-final having curled at 58%. While well-bellow her typical excellence, it was a considerable improvement over the 43% she curled through four. For his part, Morris was excellent, curling at 82% while his counterpart Magnus Nedregotten curled at just 66%. Despite some notable misses, Skaslien had a good game numbers-wise, curling at 77%.
The Olympic athletes from Russia played Switzerland in the second semi final. OAR's Alexsandr Krushelnitckii, who had a disappointing round robin, picked the right draw to have his game of the tournament. He curled at 86% or 23% higher than his round robin average. Switzerland scored two with hammer in the first and OAR matched with a pair of its own in the second. The draw was evenly matched through, OAR was 76% for the game and Switzerland was 78%. The difference was Switzerland was able to steal in ends four and eight to secure a 7-5 victory.
Norway's second half slide continued in the bronze medal game against OAR. Anastasia Bryzgalova and Krushelnitckii started fast, scoring two with hammer in the first end, then stealing in the second. Down 3-0, Norway clawed two back in the third, but then promptly surrendered two in the fourth to enter the break down by three. Nedregotten and Skaslien scored two with the hammer in 5 to get within one. They held the OAR pair to one in six, but could stop Krushelnitckii and Bryzgalova from stealing in seven and eight for the 8-4 win and bronze medal.
No doubt Norwegian errors contributed to the score line. Skaslien curled at 64% and Nedregotten curled at 65%, both below their round robin averages. But the Russian athletes play should not be ignored. Krushelnitckii continued his strong play from the semi-final game, curling at 79% while impressing on draws (83%). Bryzgalova saved her best game for a medal contest. One of the best players of the tournament, Bryzgalova curled at 83% in the bronze medal match. Critically, she curled at 83% on nine takeouts, best Nedregotten who threw the middle three stones for Norway, who managed to curl at just 71% on seven takeouts.
Canada's gold medal match performance was the opposite of its stressful semi-final draw. Morris and Lawes got out to the early lead, securing two with the hammer in the opening end. Switzerland's Martin Rios set up a score of two for the Swiss with a nice double on his final throw of the end.
The third end was the turning point of the gold medal game. Rios missed the open hit to take out three Canadian stones wide, setting the stage for Lawes to throw for four. In the hack, Lawes was forced to call a technical timeout because the handle of her stone was loose. Once tightened, she was able to refocus and throw one of the greatest shots of the mixed doubles tournament. But she also did an excellent job sweeping her own throw, a perfect tap back for four.
Desperate and sensing the gold was slipping away, Switzerland called their power play in the fourth end. Morris and Lawes did what they had done all Olympics, successfully defending the power play, once again holding an opponent to one. Canada got two with hammer in five.
Canada stole two more in six, and then it was handshakes. While Rios struggled in the final, his teammate Jenny Perret had a great game, curling 75%. But it was not enough when faced with the excellence of Lawes and Morris.
The Canadian pair fully deserved the gold. After dropping the opener to Norway, Morris and Lawes went 8-0 to close out the tournament. Canada had a goal differential of +37. China was the only other team with a positive differential and they were only +3. Lawes and Morris were the best players of the tournament, both integral to the win.
While the mixed doubles tournament wrapped up a successful introduction to the Olympics, generating significant spectator interest and even some new curling fans, not everyone was swayed that mixed doubles curling deserves to be at the Olympics. All sports are arbitrary. Their rules are created and agreed upon. Some sports, like curling, are centuries old, which provide an artificial air of legitimacy that newer sports (or newer incarnations) like mixed doubles lack. But that does not invalidate mixed curling. While the sport made its debut at the Olympics, it has had a world championship for a decade and has been on the curling tour for almost 20 years.
It is not the relative newness of mixed curling that rankles critics, but men and women competing together as equals, equally responsible for their team's athletic success. Surely many will point out Lawes couldn't have won without Morris. Fewer will acknowledge that Morris couldn't have won without Lawes either.
The IOC and other sporting bodies should encourage mixed competition and gender diverse competition. Mixed curling isn't fake and it isn't made up (at least not any more than any sport). It's a way forward.
(Photo credit: Team Canada/Twitter)
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By Marcello Marinisi - Digital Strategist on October 9, 2019
In the daily battle of every marketing (or Digital Marketing) consultant/manager there always comes the time when it is necessary to deal with the definition of the target of a company or a specific product.
At one time we used to talk simply about target audiences, today things have become a bit complicated and the digital media scenario has given us new challenges in defining potential consumers to deliver our messages to promote our products /services.
The concept of “persona” was introduced for the first time by Alan Cooper in 2004, in the IT field, and since then has also been very successful in marketing, especially in digital marketing. In the end, it is an enrichment of the original concept of “target audience”, which in some way represents the broader container within which the concept of buyer persona fits.
But what exactly is a buyer persona?
What is a buyer persona?
A buyer persona is an ideal construction. It is a way to outline a portrait as close as possible to the reality of the type of consumer that could be interested in our product or service. If we stopped here, we would follow the definition of target audience and we would not have added anything.
Buyer personas, in reality, reach a level of sophistication such as to represent a sort of augmented ideal consumer. In fact, the basic concept of targets is enriched with details and indications that give us a very faithful portrait of what, presumably, could be the real buyer of our product.
To do this it is necessary to resort to insights that allow us to build the phases through which the purchase decision matures and which are collected thanks to the provision of detailed interviews with potential customers and analysis of competitors’ targets.
These insights allow you to:
explain what the urgent problem or need has caused the person to look for a solution to his need;
disclose the expectations that the buyer has towards the product or service he intends to buy also in relation to the problem that it will have to solve;
motivate the possible barriers to the purchase against the different options that it finds on the market;
manifest the criteria with which the potential customer decides to purchase one solution rather than another.
In other words, through the definition of the buyer personas we can be able to go beyond the mere demographic data and enrich the profile of our ideal client with sociographic, psychographic, behavioral and motivational details. Also managing to define the reference value system of our target (yes, because in the end we are always talking about targets).
Defining the boundaries of our buyer personas can allow us to understand much more about our consumer. We can understand:
what he thinks;
what he feels;
what worries him;
what he hopes;
his expectations;
his plans;
his beliefs.
As you can guess the concept of buyers personas allows us to greatly enrich our knowledge of our potential customers and puts us in a position to dominate every operational aspect linked to the so-called buyer journey.
But is all this really as extraordinary as it seems? What are the parameters within which all this target definition technique can still be valid?
To answer this question we must take a step back and understand how our society has changed and how, in parallel, our way of interacting with others and with consumer products has changed.
Liquid society shatters all borders
We live in a heterogeneous society, within which it is increasingly difficult to determine clear and defined boundaries, yet in marketing we continue to talk about defining this or that aspect of individuals.
In the past it was quite simple to be able to identify the peculiar characteristics of a group of individuals and it was equally obvious to assume that these characteristics would have remained unchanged for a long period of time.
Defining and analyzing a target was a complex operation, but not entirely impossible.
When in the last century the first scholars carried out the first researches on consumption and on buying behavior, they did it in a society that was, in many respects, quite stable.
As much as these studies remain very current, the fact remains that in the last few decades the borders of our Western contemporary society have become progressively more and more indeterminate, so much so as to make it extremely difficult to build a credible target.
Lifestyles become evanescent, undetermined. Consumers are no longer driven by contingent needs or necessity, but they are driven by desire, by dreams, by the realization of a status. Personalities are often contradictory and conflicting. You can be an environmentalist, even if you ride in SUVs and drink water in plastic bottles, there are smokers that are health fanatics, rich scruffy and poor who show off their latest smartphones. The twentieth-century definitions are hard to resist the blows that liquid modernity has inflicted on our comfort zones.
Unfortunately, with the peace of many, the concept of personas takes little account of these aspects. In post-modern society it is consumption itself that defines the consumer, who is increasingly individualistic, but at the same time eager to belong to new tribes but with completely uncertain boundaries. In the total disintegration of these boundaries, what is the point of talking about specific targets and buyer personas?
The problem is relevant both from an ontological (purely academic) point of view and from the point of view of marketers who must account for and explain the results of their strategies.
On the other hand, the concept of target is fundamental in defining other aspects of strategic planning, such as brand positioning. How can you give it up?
Centering the target is of vital importance and any mistake can be very expensive, both in terms of investments thrown away and in terms of results.
All companies need a target to sell their products or services to; just as Alessandro Manzoni needed to address his five readers to be able to imagine who he was telling his story, what his audience was, his ideal audience.
To create the right message it is essential to know who we are addressing and in what context. Otherwise we may find ourselves in the unpleasant condition of making a mistake in register and making our message less effective.
If consumers have become unseizable, elusive and indefinable because of the very nature of the society in which we live, then what is the point in talking about target and buyer personas?
Does it still make sense to talk about targets and buyer personas?
I will reveal the end of my reasoning, even before it collapses: yes, it still makes sense. But…
There’s a but.
Without prejudice to the goodness of the buyer personas as a target definition methodology and having emphasised some (not all) of the limits that this system brings with itself, it can be said that it is necessary to examine how it is possible to consider this way as valid to define the target and when instead it is completely superfluous.
In particular, I will take two extreme cases into account in order to make my reasoning clearer: a product/service of large consumption and product/service of niche.
In the first case, that of the product/service of large consumption, the effort to build an highly detailed profile of the potential client is almost useless. The why is explained soon.
The more the range of action of our product is expanded, the more the boundaries within which it is possible to encompass a potential ideal client become widespread and evanescent. There are too many variables involved, the sophistication of an inference of this kind becomes so complex that it makes every effort absolutely vain, meaningless. In this case, it would be much more useful to analyze the networks of relationships of our real customers and methodologies linked to Big Data.
In such a case we would surely find more benefit from a careful analysis of the target market and competitors, rather than an in-depth definition of our buyer personas.
Instead the speech, the niches are self-defined by nature and markets of this type are characterized by light entropy and low entry barriers.
The niches are extremely interesting because they are like a sort of photographic Safari in a reserve: all the consumers / customers you need are there, you just need to know where to look for them and take good pictures. It is precisely in this case that the definition of buyer personas can really be useful to you and can make sense.
Although the concepts expressed above remain valid even within a niche, having taken due methodological care, the analysis of the target could lead to good results.
The current consumer is attentive, shrewd, selective, autonomous and, to be reckoned with, extremely unfaithful to the brand. His identity is multifaceted and contradictory and his personality is more like a patchwork than a photographic portrait.
Being able to define this profile with a good degree of approximation is almost impossible. We must play with cunning and experience, be able to fully understand the nature of our market (segment) of reference and have clear the general strategies within which the company must make its own choices.
Having understood this, we can also venture into the definition of a specific ideal target (of a buyer personas), but we must pay close attention to these particular aspects linked to the changes in our society.
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WHERE WE ARE NOW…. The plan, apparently, was to get a Senate vote on the stimulus by the end of today. What’s the landscape look like right now? Everything remains very much up in the air.
The Senate Democratic leader expressed optimism Friday about prospects for a massive economic recovery package, though a Republican colleague said she was feeling less encouraged. President Barack Obama used the cudgel of his office — and the latest dire jobless numbers — to challenge lawmakers to act swiftly.
On Capitol Hill, centrists from both parties scrambled to cut the massive, $900-billion-plus price tag of the package in hopes of making it more palatable to Republicans…. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada reflected the fierce sense of urgency among Democrats and the White House amid the party’s fear that Republicans were turning public opinion against the costly bill.
“The world is waiting to see what we’re going to do in the next 24 hours,” Reid said on the Senate floor, citing the bleaker economic picture.
We can only hope the world isn’t watching what lawmakers are doing, because this would be awfully embarrassing.
The goal is to put together 60 votes, because the Senate Republican minority won’t allow an up-or-down vote on a recovery package in the midst of a serious recession. (This point seems to be verboten in most media coverage of the deliberations.) Democrats have a 58-member caucus, but Ted Kennedy is still recuperating, Ben Nelson is still conservative, and Al Franken is still waiting for Norm Coleman to give up. Chances are, Democrats will need three Republican votes.
There are only four Senate Republicans who are even open to the idea of using a government stimulus to spur economic growth — Susan Collins (Maine), George Voinovich (Ohio), Arlen Specter (Pa.), and Olympia Snowe (Maine) — and one of the four, Voinovich, dropped out of negotiations today and will reject the package.
At this point, Collins is apparently discouraged, wanting to cut more from the bill than Democrats are prepared to accept; Snowe is looking into the tax-cut portions of the bill to find possible savings; and no one seems to be sure what Specter’s up to.
Just to step back for a moment, Obama won an impressive national victory in November, Democrats increased their Senate majority to 58 (59, with Minnesota), and Democrats now enjoy a 77-seat majority in the House. Despite all of this, the strength of the U.S. economy is largely dependent right now on the arbitrary whims of these three center-right Republicans.
Senate Majority Leader Reid said a vote on the package tonight is still a possibility. Stay tuned.
Post Script: I’m a little fuzzy on my Senate procedures, but Kevin Drum noted the other day that if Senate Republicans balk at a rescue plan and filibuster the proposal, “the Democratic leadership would just turn around and consider the bill under budget reconciliation rules, which require only a majority vote to pass. Sure, they’ve already said they’d prefer not to do that, but if they have to they will. And since the bill is all about short-term spending, it would obviously qualify under reconciliation rules.”
Does anyone know if that’s the case? And if so, doesn’t that mean the Democratic leadership can just stop trying to make more cuts to a bill that probably isn’t big enough anyway?
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Congress Watches Contract Vehicles
By Neil Munro
Members of Congress will propose heavy-handed legislation to restrict procurement rules if industry can't persuade government procurement officials to refrain from creating new, wide-open contract vehicles, industry officials are warning.
"We do need to be careful" to ensure that Congress does not overreact, said Steve Kelman, who recently left the post of director of the White House's Office of Federal Procurement Policy to return to teach at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.
"Sooner or later, the authority will be taken away" by Congress if the agencies do not restrain the number of contracts and contract winners, said Kelman.
In the last year, government agencies have awarded governmentwide acquisition contracts promising to buy up to $66 billion worth of equipment and services, said Bob Dornan, senior vice president at Federal Sources Inc., a research firm based in McLean, Va. That $66 billion of promised sales is far greater than what the government will actually buy, he said.
Moreover, agencies also are awarding many blanket purchase agreements and indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts, which have largely the same effect as the GWACs, said Dornan.
To win a share of these contracts, contractors first are forced to spend money trying to become one of the many winners of each GWAC, said John Howard, president of Wordpro Inc., Rockville, Md. Contractors must then spend more money persuading government officials to allocate some of the contract work to their companies, he said.
This pressure to invest in marketing will hurt the medium-sized firms first, Howard said. Large firms with revenues of more than $350 million can absorb the marketing costs, and small firms with revenues of less than $70 million can find niches safe from the large firms' marketing teams, he said.
Kelman, Dornan, Howard and others spoke about the impact of sweeping procurement reform month at a meeting Oct. 5-7 in Richmond, Va., of the Industry Advisory Council, a government-industry group formed to improve procurement policies.
The extra marketing costs for companies selected to compete for contracts under GWACs and other vehicles are tacked onto the price of equipment and services delivered to the government, Howard said. "We have to get control of the system" before Congress passes an expensive, burdensome regulatory response, he said.
Government officials argued that they are already taking steps. Valerie Wallick, director of the Navy's Naval Information Systems Center, said the Navy would direct Navy procurement officials to rely on existing contracts before establishing new contracts, she said
"We don't want to invest government resources where they should not be spent," she said.
Industry should work with the government to come up with a reasonable solution, argued Howard. If not, Congress will try to impose regulations on procurement officers more burdensome than those legislated in the 1980s by then-Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas, he said.
"Jack Brooks will look tame because the pendulum does not stop in the middle," Howard said.
Some officials defended the new procurement environment. "The benefits of competition and the free-market system outweigh the duplicative marketing expenses," Kelman said.
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We are proud to be able to offer the largest and most comprehensive place-based curriculum in the country.
Our Journey, launched by Vivacity in 2018, is Peterborough’s own time line. It is an interactive website full of hundreds of stories that tell the city’s tale from the Big Bang to the present day. Using the site you can explore the events and people that have shaped Peterborough. You are also able to create your own timelines on the site, using your stories as well as those on Our Journey. These can safely be shared with your class and wider school as they are private and password protected.
For schools, at a small annual fee, there is an added dimension to the site, designed specifically for the teaching of local history, to help with pupils’ understanding of the difficult concept of chronology and to support teaching and learning across all areas of the National Curriculum. It is a place-based local curriculum but set within national and global contexts, packaged within a comprehensive set of toolkits:
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The toolkits are stand-alone though visits to Vivacity’s heritage sites, Flag Fen and Peterborough Museum, for learning outside the classroom sessions (LOTC) will enhance the learning.
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What was Peterborough like before the arrival of the Romans? This unit delves into the lives of local prehistoric people considering their appearance, their diet and their environment. Using evidence from Flag Fen and Must Farm these lessons are a great introduction to archaeology and to Bronze and Iron Age life.
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Are you on the market for a new foosball table? I do not blame you if that’s the case. Foosball tends to be an addictive game, and once you start playing it, it gets difficult to stop. As a result, a foosball table tends to act as a great addition in your game house, apartment, or office.
If you are new to foosball or wondering what game we are talking about, foosball is a game that requires you to keep an eye on a small ball that rolls across the table’s surface. The table includes knobs and handles that help you to control the players to prevent the opponent from scoring in your goal.
Hence, the game is suitable for players of all ages, where observers find it fun to watch. Having in mind that it only takes the best foosball table to enjoy the game for years, in this article, we present the best sportcraft foosball tables for 2020.
In selecting these tables, we paid attention to various features such as the goalie setup, customer reviews, size, table surface, recommended skill level, construction materials, table levelers, and counterweighted men. So, if you are looking for a perfect foosball table for beginners, experts, use in small or big spaces you can be sure to find a foosball table that is suited to meet your needs.
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10. Costways Indoor Arcade Game Foosball/Football Table
This is an indoor foosball table. Whether you are looking for a perfect table for use in recreational living rooms, a vacation house, or college dormitories, you can expect the Arcade Game Foosball table to suit your needs. The foosball table comes in a range of sizes with the longest having a 48” length and the shortest a 37” length.
Besides that, it comes in three color options, including dark brown, blue-black, and blue-red. The table is a perfect choice for one that is designed to last. This is because of the robust wood construction and solid steel rods. Furthermore, it is an ideal choice for a foosball table that is convenient to use since it features ball serve cups and internal ball retrievals at each goal.
The scoring device is another addition designed to count the game process. Besides the foosball table, you can expect to receive 8steel rods, two footballs, 11 red players, an instruction’s manual, and 11 yellow players after making a purchase.
9. Fairview Game Rooms Furniture Style Home Foosball Table
Are you looking for a high-quality foosball table that is designed to fit onto any modern rooms? If that’s the case, you have the Furniture Style Home Foosball Table for your taking. Beautifully designed, the table includes beautiful Queen Anne style legs and a veneer inlay cabinet.
Plus, it includes score counters embedded into the cabinet top further enhancing a sleek look. The table is made using heavy-duty all-wood construction to enhance durability. Its three goalies mean that you do not have to incorporate two sloped corners by the goalie. You can get the table in two color options- chestnut or mahogany.
8. Portzon Foosball Table
Cultivate good exercise habits in your family once you get them Portzon’s Foosball Table. This table is designed for all ages, which makes it suitable for use by teens and adults. Also, it is designed for use in a range of places, which makes it ideal for use in outdoor settings, offices, recreational rooms, among others.
The foosball table is made using high-quality medium-density fiberboard. This material isn’t susceptible to mold damage, which makes it a perfect choice for a foosball table that is designed to last. Furthermore, it features stainless steel rods. The rods are resistant to bending and rusting to guarantee quality performance.
You can get the table when looking for the best foosball table that is comfortable to use. The reason is its ergonomic handle featuring a slip-resistant textured surface to enhance comfort. On top of that, the table is safe to use since it features a ball and men made using odorless and high-quality ABS material.
7. Kettler Cavalier 58 in. Outdoor Foosball Table
Complete the look of your gaming room with Kettler Cavalier Outdoor Foosball Table. Designed for indoor and outdoor use, the table is made using high-quality laminate and waterproof resin to guarantee protection from outdoor elements. On top of that, it packs high stress-resistant steel rods featuring an anti-rust chromium plating. As a result, the foosball table is a perfect choice for one that is designed to guarantee sturdiness.
Kettler Cavalier Outdoor Foosball Table includes a high-speed glass plating field. This design helps to ensure great performance without sacrificing durability and style. Moreover, the table features nylon bushings to enhance smooth high-speed action and reduce wear and tear.
The ball pockets located at the rear of each goal are another addition of the table designed to ensure easy ball retrieval. Also, there are side and corner ramps that ensure that the ball is always in play. The table comes with five balls and leg levers to ensure a level playing surface. It includes telescoping rods and resin score counters that use grey and blue cubes for easy identification of the winning party.
6. Tornado Tournament 3000 Foosball Table
Provide your family with endless hours of competitive gaming once you get the Tournament 3000 Foosball Table. The table features a thick commercial-grade split cabinet to ensure maximum strength. Additionally, it includes 8-sided molded handles that feature a non-slip surface. Because of this, you can expect to benefit from a comfortable grip, which makes the table suitable for hours of playing.
The table includes an abacus scoring unit to help keep track of the goals. Also, it includes a three-goalie setup with patented Tornado counterbalanced players to ensure precise ball control. The chrome-plated hollow steel rods are heat-treated to provide added strength. Furthermore, there are solid legs that feature leg levelers making the table suitable for use on unstable ground.
5. Garlando G-500 Indoor Foosball Table
This is an indoor foosball table designed for use by beginners and experts. The table includes ten standard white balls. Furthermore, there are telescoping steel rods that roll with a lot of ease because of the steel ball bearings. The color-coordinated abacus scorers and the red and blue team colors are other pluses of the table designed to ensure easy player’s identification.
The foosball table includes plastic handles with ergonomic grips to enhance comfort after hours of use. Its balls are served through a filler located on each side of the table. The table’s playfield features a plastic lamination with silk screened printed white lines on a green background to ensure smooth rolling of the ball. You can expect to have an easy time trying to recover the balls, thanks to the exit located on the rear side of each goal.
4. T&R sports 60″ Soccer Foosball Table
Are you looking for a foosball table that is designed as a great addition to modern decors? If that is so, this is a perfect choice. Availed in black and oak, you can expect it to match a range of modern decors. Besides that, the table includes chromium steel player rods that roll on slide bearings to ensure smooth rolling.
The table features a graining decoration MDF that is not only strong but also stylish. Plus, it includes raised corners to protect the balls from rolling out of the table’s surface. The four drink holders are another plus so that you can play the game while sipping a beverage without worrying about it spilling on the table.
3. EastPoint Sports Preston Foosball Table
Whether you are looking for the best foosball table for use in the garage, gaming room, or basement, you can get the Preston Foosball Table with an assurance that it will act as a great addition to any family living area. The table includes two foosballs enabling it to keep the game going during maximum play.
Plus, it adopts a bead-style scoring so that you can keep track of the action. The steel player rods are another addition designed with high-performance player rod bushings enabling the ball to spin and slide easily. The table comes with oversized leg levelers making it suitable for use on unstable ground.
2. ESPN Arcade Foosball Table
Are you an enthusiast foosball player who wants to play the game without having to go all the way to a sport’s center? If that is so, the Arcade Foosball Table is a perfect choice. Easy to assemble, the table doesn’t require any tools and comes with a complete set of supplies making it easy to assemble. On top of that, it includes premium-quality ball bearings to ensure flawless performance of the rods.
You can use the foosball table when placed on any surface, thanks to the 4″ leg levers designed to provide an even and leveled play surface. On top of that, the levelers include rubber rings on the surface to protect the floors from scratches. The foosball table comes with chrome-plated rods enabling it to withstand the most intense play time.
1. Carrom Signature Foosball Table
Surprise your friends by organizing an indoor sports activity once you incorporate Carrom Signature Foosball Table. This is a high-quality table that features heavy miter-fold black vinyl legs to enhance stability. Furthermore, the table includes a water-resistant screen-printed surface that is designed to guarantee durability and smooth rolling of the balls.
The premium octagonal wood handles are another plus of the table designed to ensure precise player control. You can take advantage of the built-in cup holders so that you can enjoy a favorite beverage without worrying about accidental spills.
If you are a serious foosball fan, then you know that a foosball table is an excellent addition to any space. That said, reviewed in this article are the best Sportcraft foosball tables for 2020. Therefore, avoid settling for cheaper products but the reviewed products, having in mind that we paid attention to several features before selecting them to ensure the best experience for you.
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India-China Collaboration for Moon Exploration Could Lead to Counter US Space Dominance
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An offer to work jointly with New Delhi to discover the Moon might enhance bilateral relations by Beijing. India’s second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, blasted off...
An offer to work jointly with New Delhi to discover the Moon might enhance bilateral relations by Beijing. India’s second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, blasted off from the Sriharikota space station on Monday. After the successful launch, Chinese Overseas Ministry spokesperson Hua Chungying introduced that Beijing was able to work with India and different countries to explore the space.
China’s mission, the Chang’e-4, efficiently reached the far side of the Moon in January. Changing Chungying believes that joint work would promote a “shared mission of humankind” aimed toward studying extra in regards to the Moon and beyond. The supply might be a manner for Beijing to rebuild relations with New Delhi and prevent Washington from securing a monopoly on the Moon or space in general, analysts believe.
Making ready joint missions in space is a “very sophisticated” endeavor, Beijing School, President of the International Institute of Space Law, advised RT. As such, the Chinese provide is extra of a diplomatic overture than a concrete, ready-to-execute proposal. This doesn’t exclude the potential for the two nations working collectively in a space in the future, however.
Dr. Ram S. Jakhu, a professor of international space law at McGill University, thought equally, noting that the invitation “eventually might, or ought to, lead to joint ventures.”
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The Seasons of Our Lives
By Gretchen M. Krampf - Winter, 2016
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that break us open and help us blossom into what we were meant to be. Elizabeth Lesser
It’s early afternoon and as I look out upon Fishing Bay, I notice the shifting light on the water. The days are getting shorter and autumn is moving toward winter, reminding me how Life, like the seasons, carries us through cycles of change. Change is what we can count on, and while some love change, others resist anything that disrupts their sense of routine and the familiar.
Change, in the form of a move, job loss, serious health issue, end of a relationship or death of a loved one are significant life events and often precipitate a period of transition that includes grief and adjustment to the loss. Change, in the form of exciting life events a new marriage, new baby, or new job are seen in a more positive light, yet these, too, are preceded by endings and require a period of transition.
In those early years, the Springtime of Life, everything was fresh and new, seeded with potential and possibility. Developing capabilities, physically, mentally and relationally, through play, education and experiences, each of us changed rapidly through childhood into early adulthood. The suppleness and flexibility of youth may grant us greater ease integrating changes when we are young.
Shifting into the brightness of Summer, we found ourselves in a dynamic stage of life with increasing commitments and responsibilities. Many of us focused on building our careers and businesses, committing to long-term relationships and having children.
Moving toward Autumn, some of us have ended marriages, been dealing with life-altering diagnoses, and experienced our parents passing. Our children have grown, our interests and work may be changing and perhaps we are now grandparents. Still vital, our colors are vibrant as our energies shift and we begin sensing what lies ahead.
Winter is beckoning us into our Elder stage that of Wise Woman and Sage. Perhaps we have parents and relatives who are in their later years and, caring for them, we are beginning to see our future selves.
I was into my forties when I began noticing that the process of moving through a loss or ending didn’t result in a straight path to a new beginning. In fact, it was more like a winding road, a period of integrating the change. What helped was reading William Bridges classic, The Way of Transition. In it Bridges wrote Transition is not just a nice way to say change. It is the inner process through which people come to terms with a change, as they let go of the way things used to be and reorient themselves to the way that things are now. He named this place of uncertainty and confusion the Neutral Zone, where we may find ourselves feeling unsettled, unsure of our footing or the next step, low in energy and confused. In this act of passing from one state into the next, we often find ourselves transformed.
How can we recognize and best care for ourselves when we are in this process of transition? In our resistance to change, we may feel stuck, paralyzed by fear, gloomy and unable to see a way forward resulting in ongoing suffering. It takes courage to let go of the inner connections you had to the way things were. The question that always helps you to shift your focus from the change to the transition is, “What is it now time for me to let go of?” Stepping into this inquiry, through journaling, in conversation with trusted friends or counsel with professional support, you can find support and build the courage to keep going. As you discern what you are ready to release, and begin envisioning and building the next steps, create time and space for self-care, in rest, exercise and time in nature. Honor and acknowledge what is sloughing off and even create a ceremonial process to honor and release that old you. And celebrate what you are becoming.
As Bridges says, since change is a wall and transition is a gate in the wall, its there for you to go through. Transition represents a path to the next phase of life. May you walk this path with ease and grace.
Gretchen M. Krampf is a catalyst for change. A teacher, coach, retreat host, facilitator, wisdom-seeker and community-gatherer, Gretchen delights in holding space for people as they discover their courage, develop potential and move through transitions. The mother of three, grandmother of four, she lives on Orcas Island with her husband, Paul.
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Washington Post Told America of Globalist Plan to be Implemented by 2025
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By Daniel Taylor
If you don’t want to believe what alternative media has warned about for decades, the Washington Post told us what was coming 11 years ago in a 2008 “future history” piece.
What was warned about by the Post?
Illegal immigrant gang wars, “permanent insurrection against state and federal immigration agents.”
Americans are forced into compact cities
Google dominates our lives with “Google Life Services”
Citizen journalists are monitored by the feds
Implantable chips allow freedom of travel in and out of safe zones
Small scale terror attacks plague the country
This was forecast in the Post’s “hypothetical” future history of Washington D.C. in the year 2025.
Here are some excerpts from the article:
“After years of nationwide economic decline, energy crises and sporadic small-scale terrorist hits…” the “Ververs” move away from the city centers to find safety.
“The drive from Washington to Konterra took long enough; now, the checkpoints at the gateways that controlled movement in and out of the inner District could stretch any workday by two or three hours, especially for people like Paula who still had no security clearance implants and little prospect of being able to afford any.”
“In this era of e-attacks and cyber meltdowns, energy rationing and angry protests, the path to social and economic mobility was clear: It was all about physical proximity. If you could somehow arrange to live near where you work, get your kids into nearby schools and subscribe to food and other suppliers close to home, you could make it.”
“…Paula was desperate to find a way to keep Paxten far from the gang battles that too often crossed the river from Virginia, where Salvadoran and Mexican gangs had set up what seemed like a permanent insurrection against state and federal immigration agents.”
“Victor was assigned to monitor and massage bloggers and citizen journalists who wrote about and took shots at the feds.”
In Konterra, Petra wouldn’t be a minority — no one is. Fed High, like all of Prince George’s County, had no dominant racial or ethnic group. And with the entire county school system now operated by Google PeopleShaping
The new subscription retailing was catching on in cavernous buildings… Here, people could spend a good chunk of their day, moving seamlessly from their work pod to take in a movie with a friend, choose the dinner items that would be delivered before they got home… and all for one monthly Google LifeServices subscription fee.
Technocrat Jeff Bezos, a key player in implementing this agenda, now owns the Washington Post.
This article first appeared at Old-Thinker News.
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10 ideas we fund that might surprise you
Research can help to improve health in many different ways, which is why Wellcome funds a broad range of people and projects. Here are just 10 of the great ideas we’re supporting right now.
Credit: Mitch Blunt for Wellcome. CC BY
We're celebrating some of the great ideas supported by Wellcome. Marcel Dicke is exploring the potential of insects as sustainable and healthy food.
We think you’ll be surprised by at least one or two ideas in this list. If your interest is piqued, watch each researcher explain their work in 60 seconds.
1. Improving animal health to help humans
When the bluetongue virus infects a herd of sheep, goats or cows, only some of the infected animals get sick and die. Understanding why could help farmers deal with the disease more effectively.
Massimo Palmarini is Director of the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. He has a Wellcome Investigator Award to investigate bluetongue virus.
Understanding an animal infection like bluetongue could help us tackle related viruses, like Zika and chikungunya, that infect people.
Watch Massimo explain the connections between human and animal health.
2. Learning from the liver how to regenerate
The liver is a fascinating organ, not least because it can grow back after injury or surgery. If we knew how it recognises that it’s damaged, and how it regenerates, could we use that knowledge to help treat diseases like liver cancer?
Rather than studying real livers, or cells grown in a flat dish, Meri Huch has managed to create small liver organoids. These are groups of cells, grown in 3D, that are able to recreate the important structures and behaviours of the real-life organ. Her work at the University of Cambridge is funded through a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship.
Find out more about your amazing liver in Meri’s video.
3. A pharmaceutical fix for drug resistance
Drug-resistant infections is a priority area for Wellcome. We need new antibiotics, and we need to look after the ones we have more carefully. But every time we take an antibiotic, it risks promoting the development of resistant genes in our gut bacteria.
Ryan Donnelly is Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at Queen’s University Belfast, and has a Wellcome Collaborative Award to develop microneedles for delivering antibiotics across the skin.
If successful, it will mean we have a way of taking new and existing antibiotics – and other drugs – that is as simple as a pill but doesn’t ever go through the gut.
Watch Ryan describe how microneedles work.
4. Supporting nurses in moral distress
Georgina Morley is a bedside critical care nurse at Barts Heart Centre in London, and a PhD student studying moral distress in nursing at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine at Bristol University.
Her PhD, funded through a Wellcome Research Award for Health Professionals, involves interviewing critical care nurses from two NHS hospitals to understand their experiences of moral distress and ethical issues they encounter while carrying out clinical care.
Research suggests that moral distress is associated with ‘compassion fatigue’, which can affect the quality of patient care and cause nurses to leave their jobs.
Georgina tells us why it’s vital to support nurses if we want them to stay in the health service.
5. Network analysis to improve mental health diagnoses
Can we improve the way mental disorders are classified? At the moment, people with the same symptoms can get different diagnoses, while those with different symptoms can get the same diagnosis. And, of course, people can experience symptoms of more than one disorder at a time.
Knowing how such symptoms relate to each other, and how they develop through childhood, could help to improve psychiatric classification and eventually help treat people more effectively.
At the University of Liverpool, Praveetha Patalay has a Seed Award in Science, which she is using to test whether network analysis can help to unpick the complex interactions between different mental health symptoms.
Watch Praveetha explain how much there is still to learn about mental health.
6. Modelling maths to beat bacteria
Meriem El Karoui, a Wellcome Investigator at the University of Edinburgh, uses sophisticated maths to test theories about how bacteria develop tolerance to antibiotics.
Differences between her mathematical models and her experimental results point to where new discoveries and understanding are needed. This kind of new knowledge could lead to faster and better ways to treat people, and limit the rise of antibiotic resistance.
Watch Meriem confess just how much she loves bacteria – and maths.
7. From eyeball injections to eye drops for sight loss
Each year, 26,000 people in the UK develop wet age-related macular degeneration (wAMD). This is a condition in which blood vessels grow where they shouldn’t at the back of the eye. The result is that your central vision slowly erodes in a fog of smoky greyness. Current treatment involves the injection of a drug directly into the eyeball once a month.
Exonate, based in Cambridge and Nottingham, have a Seeding Drug Discovery Award from Wellcome’s Innovations team to optimise a new drug for wet AMD. Their drug targets a protein to switch off the growth of blood vessels in the eye, which should stop further sight loss. It will also be in the form of eye drops, avoiding all those injections.
Watch Exonate’s Chief Executive Catherine Beech and Chief Scientific Officer David Bates explain the science and its potential impact.
8. Making a meal of mini-livestock (aka insects)
Feeding the world a healthy diet without destroying the planet is a big challenge for the 21st century. We almost certainly have to eat less meat, which is far more damaging to both people and the environment than a plant-based diet. But how will we get all the protein and micronutrients, like zinc and iron, that we need?
Marcel Dicke, at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, has been funded through Our Planet, Our Health to lead a collaboration exploring the potential of insects as sustainable and healthy food.
Learn how researchers are finding out whether the iron in crickets gets taken up when people eat them.
9. Food poverty and health in the UK
How will the growing use of food banks affect the UK’s future health? Claire Thompson, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is exploring this question through a Wellcome Research Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences.
She is interviewing food bank users, organisers and volunteers, as well as speaking to the health and social service professionals who refer people to food banks.
In the UK, food banks are run by charities rather than the state. Claire’s research will investigate how food banks work in practice, define more clearly the health challenges of food poverty, and inform future policies so that everyone has access to a healthy and nutritious diet.
Claire explains why the increasing use of food banks is such an important issue for the UK today.
10. Population data for mental health planning
Looking at large groups of people over long periods of time is helping to develop a better understanding of how schizophrenia and other serious mental health conditions develop, and who is most at risk.
James Kirkbride has a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship from Wellcome for his research at University College London. He uses data collected from people throughout their lives to identify environmental risk factors for schizophrenia, such as urban lifestyles, migration and ethnicity. For example, he has found that refugees are at higher risk compared with other people who have migrated from the same countries.
Watch James explain how his research helps mental health services plan better for the different needs of different population groups.
These 10 projects are a fraction of the thousands of researchers in the UK and around the world whose work is funded by Wellcome. Our support helps them to generate new knowledge, explore what good health means, and create better ways to study, treat and prevent disease.
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Wendell Foster - Owensboro Kentucky
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Photo by Alan Warren, Messenger-Inquirer/[email protected]
Long-time resident John Susong, left, pulls out clean towels out of a hamper as Leola McHenry, laundry aide, and long-time resident, Mary Varley, right, fold towels on Friday at Wendell Foster. Susong has lived at Wendell Foster for 44 years and Varley is coming up on 50 years this year.
By Renee Beasley Jones Messenger-Inquirer
Guests who visit Wendell Foster in the morning may hear the voice of Mary Varley — who would love a job in broadcasting — on the intercom as she greets campus residents and staff with a weather report.
Wendell Foster’s residential cottages, administration building and therapy facility are tucked in a 15-acre area between Triplett and Center streets. The campus that serves developmentally disabled clients blends in so well with the surrounding community it often goes unnoticed.
But it’s a bustling campus with about 80 residents and 350 employees, not counting outpatient therapy services.
“I’m enjoying it,” Varley said of living at Wendell Foster. “And I’ll tell you a secret. I (would) never (have) believed I’ve been here this long.”
This year marks her 50th year at Wendell Foster. She and her twin, the late Katie Varley, arrived the year they turned 18.
She is one of several residents who have lived at Wendell Foster for decades.
Gary Blair moved to Wendell Foster when he was just 6. Now, he’s 72.
Blair remembers Wendell Foster, the organization’s founder.
“He was like a dad to me. He called me his boy,” Blair said.
In 1937, Wendell and Edith Foster learned their infant daughter had severe cerebral palsy. Social stigma at the time kept families from taking disabled children out in public.
Therefore, the Fosters set out on a mission to find other developmentally disabled children in Owensboro. In a door-to-door search, they found seven and offered their home as a meeting place. Their backyard became a physical and occupational therapy area.
That outreach was the genesis for today’s Wendell Foster.
Edward “Butch” Freels, 73, has lived there since he was a toddler. He lives in a cottage with Blair, his constant companion for many years.
Freels is a greeter at Sts. Joseph and Paul Catholic Church.
“Everybody knows him,” said Jeff Hagan, Wendell Foster director of marketing and public relations.
Blair and Freels remember when celebrities — Bob Hope, Roy and Dale Rogers, Paul Harvey, Liberace and Gene Autry — came to visit. They weren’t hired to come, Blair said. They made the trip because the facility became well-known across the nation, and they wanted to meet its residents.
“(Liberace) played the piano,” Freels said.
The Wendell Foster campus has become a live-work-play atmosphere through the years. It’s a place where residents and staff break down traditional roles and interact like family, Blair said.
As one small example, Hagan threw open the door for a resident making her way into Cottage A.
“Hello, Diane,” he said, with a broad grin. “Welcome home.”
Staff take the time to know little tidbits about residents, such as Varley loves broadcasting and weather, and Freels is a “Gunsmoke” fan.
Another long-time resident, John Susong, loves to fold laundry. That’s his favorite chore on Friday afternoons.
They know Freels likes to work the concessions booth.
Blair drives his wheelchair all over town — even out as far as Kentucky 54. Hagan said Blair has driven his current wheelchair 6,440 miles, which is enough to make three round trips to Miami.
Staff members take pride in Blair’s sense of independence.
“It’s not sad,” Hagan said of life at Wendell Foster. “(Blair) is happy. He’s glad to be here.”
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8 Essex Place
An application (00418/8/P4) for a new building providing flats and ground-floor offices has been approved.
Empire House, 408 – 430 Chiswick High Road and surroundings
(00248/408-430/P1) Permission granted in April 2015 for the comprehensive redevelopment of the site for residential led mixed use development, including alterations and additions to Empire House, erection of a 7/8 storey block and four 3-storey townhouses on Essex Place and a 5-storey block on the corner of Essex Place and Acton Lane, creating a total of 137 dwellings.
WCGS comments submitted on this application are available here.
Judicial Review launched by local resident with support from community groups including WCGS. A complete new application was submitted by Lend Lease in February 2016 (application 00248/408-430/P2) with very minor changes.
WCGS comments submitted on this new 2016 application are available here.
This second application was approved by the Planning Committee in May 2016 but was withdrawn by the applicant in June 2016 so that permission reverts to P1.
An article in the local media in November 2016 reported that Sainsbury’s had acquired the freehold of its carpark and suggested that the two companies had been in exploratory talks to see if there was a way forward towards a comprehensive development of the combined Sainsbury/Lend Lease site. A further article on W4 in March 2017 indicated that Hounslow Council was seeking investors to redevelop the site surrounding the supermarket at international property conference MIPIM in Cannes .
While there has been no activity on site for months and marketing has ceased, enquiries of the developer and the Council concerning the consented scheme have drawn a blank.
The Society, along with other local residents’ groups, considers that the depressing sight of the empty shops in a key parade within the town centre and of the car-parks with the felled trees is causing harm to the visual amenity of the town centre and the Turnham Green Conservation Area and could well be having a negative impact on local businesses.
.No response was received from Lendlease to the Society’s request for an explanation for the lack of action or to its suggested interim measures to mitigate the negative impact (November 2017).
Lendlease has now (April 2018) put the site up for sale.
Chiswick councillors are in communication with Lendlease about taking some action on the empty shops and car-parks (October 2018).
Please see the article on W4
Please note that the former Valentina premises for which there is an application for a new shopfront etc is quite separate from the Empire House/Lendlease scheme.
Conduit House 309-317 Chiswick High Road
(00248/309-317/P8) Demolition of existing building and the erection of a 5-storey building with total of 21 residential units plus commercial space, basement car park and landscaping was refused in December 2015 but allowed on appeal in August 2016.
Another consented scheme which is not being progressed with the result of yet more empty shops.
Demolition work is now underway (November 2018).
Bond House 347- 353 Chiswick High Road
(00248/347-353/PA1) Prior Approval granted for conversion of office to residential August 2015. (00248/347-353/P27) Permission was granted April 2016 for change of use from office to medical.
Conversion of this building is complete and the Medical Centre is open.
367 Chiswick High Road (Labour Party HQ)
(00248/367/P6) Application for conversion of ground-floor offices to residential withdrawn in March 2016. WCGS requested that any future development should not entail harmful changes to the exterior of this unique and historic building. (00248/367/P7) Permission was granted for modified proposals in September 2016.
492-496 Chiswick High Road (above Wickes)
(00248/492-496/P7) Erection of an additional floor and reconfiguration of the internal layout of the existing first floor to provide in total 7 self-contained residential units was refused in June 2015. (00248/492-496/P8) New application for slightly modified proposal was refused in December 2015 and an appeal was dismissed in July 2016.
(00248/492-496/P9) New application with further modification was approved by Planning Committee in February 2017.
(00248/CY/P1) Demolition of 500 Chiswick High Road and 30-32 Chiswick Road. Redevelopment to provide 61 residential units, including 5 town houses, plus office space, a basement level and cycle and car parking with landscaping. Permission was granted in July 2014. Application for changes (00248/CY/P2) including increase to 69 residential units, layout, detailed design and landscaping; permission was granted August 2016.
Construction well advanced; further changes to uses on ground-floor/basement approved in July 2017.
510 Chiswick High Road (formerly Institute of Advanced Motoring)
(00248/510/PA1& 2) Approval was granted for conversion of offices to 21/23 residential in March/April 2016. Applications for modifications including addition of windows (00248/510/P1) and 3 storeys (+6 units) (00248/510/P2) still in progress in March 2017; that for infill of undercroft (00248/510/P3) was withdrawn in September 2016.
Modified proposal (00248/510/P2) for addition of 2 floors (4 residential units) approved in April 2017 bringing total number of residential units to 27. Work is in progress.
512-18 Chiswick High Road (Mortlake House)
(00248/512-518/P31) addition of 2 storeys to provide an additional 4 maisonettes. The building is currently retail (Halfords) at ground level plus 5 storeys of residential (20 flats). Application was refused December 2013 and an appeal was dismissed in July 2014.
A proposal (00248/512-518/P32) to add 2 floors (8 residential units) was approved on December 2016. Work is in progress.
Chiswick Business Park: Pedestrian Bridge
New applications were submitted to LB Hounslow (00248/D/P62) and LB Ealing because the 2012 permissions had been allowed to lapse. WCGS commented especially with respect to link to occupation of Building 7. Application was approved by LB Hounslow Planning Committee in December 2015 – with no deadline and no link to Building 7; Legal Agreement was still not signed by February 2017.
Legal Agreement signed in May 2017; construction underway with footbridge expected to be completed by the end of 2018.
See also Gunnersbury Station here.
The Building (office block next to the Gunnersbury pub)
(00248/578-586/P14, P15 and AD3) Applications for change of use of the ground floor of this building from office to retail were submitted in October 2017. A Co-op local store was proposed. The Society is pleased that the application was approved by Hounslow Council in January 2018 with conditions relating to deliveries.
1 Arlington Cottages
(01094/H1/P3) Proposal to build a 3-bed house in the rear garden of this Listed building.
WCGS comments submitted on the application (October 2018) are available here.
58B Wellesley Road
(01177/58B/P11) Proposal to replace roof with an extended glazed top storey.
WCGS comments submitted on the application are available here.
This application has been called in to the Chiswick Area Forum (November 2018).
Highway Land outside Gunnersbury Station; Media screen
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Main » Movies » American Son
The original name: American Son
Director: Kenny Leon
Cast: Kerry Washington, Steven Pasquale, Jeremy Jordan, Eugene Lee
Genge: Drama
Kendra Ellis-Condor (Kerry Washington) tries to find out at a police station in southern California why and where her 18-year-old son Jamal could have disappeared. The top student, who was about to go to college, was out with some friends in the evening, but did not return and did not answer. While waiting for her exiled husband Scott (Steven Pasquale), Kendra is questioned by Officer Paul Larkin (Jeremy Jordan) - whom the worried mother can not quite believe that his questions, whether her son's criminal record, a street name or gold teeth did not mean racist. When Father Scott, a white FBI agent, finally joins in, the interview quickly turns into a discussion about the role of gender, skin color and class affiliation in the police procedure.
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Iowa Court of Appeals Upholds Huser’s Murder Conviction
Posted 12:03 pm, October 28, 2015, by Kelly Maricle, Updated at 12:05PM, October 28, 2015
Vernon Huser (WHO-HD)
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Court of Appeals has affirmed Vernon Huser’s first degree murder conviction.
Huser was found guilty in Polk County court in 2013 of the murder of Lance Morningstar. Prosecutors say he hired Louis Woolheater, who is serving a life sentence for the murder, to kill Morningstar because of an affair Huser’s ex-wife had with Morningstar while she and Huser were still married.
Huser was found guilty in his first trial in 2010 but won a new trial on appeal in 2011.
The second trial also resulted in a guilty verdict and Huser appealed again. He claimed the district court abused its discretion in denying his motions for mistrial based on the admission of“backdoor” hearsay statements used during testimony. He also claimed he should have been allowed to offer evidence from an alleged co-conspirator of Woolheater’s that would offer a motive for murder independent of Huser. In his appeal he challenged the sufficiency of the evidence to convict him as well.
The court disagreed in its ruling, saying the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the mistrial motions and there was sufficient evidence for a conviction in the case.
Huser is serving a life sentence in prison.
Read the entire ruling here.
Topics: Lance Morningstar, louis woolheater, murder, Vernon Huser
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Des Moines Big Band Celebrates 60th Season
Posted 5:44 pm, November 3, 2019, by Maria Lisignoli
DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Des Moines Big Band is celebrating its 60th season this year and their drummer has been around for 59 of those seasons.
Every Wednesday night, the Des Moines Big Band takes the stage at Noce downtown.
"Downtown is on fire. Downtown is the place where we needed to be and we always knew that," said Bryan Schumacker, who plays tenor saxophone in the Des Moines Big Band.
Band members said being downtown brings out a younger audience, along with the fans who have loved them for years.
Those fans have seen drummer Jim Eklof since the beginning. He has been in the band for 59 years.
"I came on board the second year it existed as such, and that was my sophomore year at Drake," Eklof said.
Eklof said the drums are a unique instrument. He said, "It’s all about rhythm and steadiness and interpretation."
The band strives to have the audience experience live music with all of their senses.
"Seeing the drummer hitting the drums or watching the trumpet player push his valves down or looking at the piano player’s hands and saying 'I don’t know how they do that,'" said Des Moines Big Band's lead trombone player Paul Bridson.
For these musicians, this band is a family.
"We’ve come up through the decades together and we’re not only musically aligned, but we are personally aligned in that way," Schumacker said.
The Des Moines Big Band plays at Noce every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. until their season ends in May.
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About WriteTech Content
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Matching, participation gift challenges part of Wednesday’s WVU Day of Giving
WVU's third Annual Day of Giving is Wednesday (Nov. 13).
Donors to West Virginia University’s third annual Day of Giving on Wednesday (Nov. 13) could see their investments grow immediately thanks to other generous University supporters.
Several alumni and friends have issued challenge and participation matches for the 24-hour online fundraising effort designed to raise dollars for the University’s greatest priorities and opportunities, as well as scholarships and unrestricted funds at both the University and unit specific level. This includes WVU Health Sciences and the WVU regional campuses. Among them:
University-wide Matching Gift Opportunities
The first $50,000 raised during Day of Giving will be matched dollar-for-dollar for an extra $50,000.
1,000 Mountaineers for $100,000 – The first 1,000 gifts of $100 or more will be matched up to $100 each.
Donations made to any Greatest Needs Fund on Day of Giving will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to a total of $25,000.
Donations made to general scholarship funds on Day of Giving will be matched up to a total of $18,000.
WVU Faculty and Staff Match: Gifts made by WVU faculty and staff will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to a total of $25,000 by members of the WVU Board of Governors and WVU Foundation Board of Directors.
First Time Donor Match: The first $10,000 raised from first time donors during Day of Giving will be matched dollar-for-dollar.
University-wide Participation Challenges
Social Media Challenge: If 1,000 people share of a photo of themselves on social media with the Flying WV logo, it will unlock an additional gift of $20,000. Use #WVUDayofGiving with your photo.
Lunch Hour Challenge (Noon – 1 p.m. EST) – The participating group that receives the most donations during the Lunch Hour Challenge will receive an extra $2,500 for its Greatest Needs Fund.
Happy Hour Challenge (5:30 – 6:30 p.m. EST) – The participating group that receives the most donations during the Happy Hour Challenge will receive an extra $2,500 for its Greatest Needs Fund.
Night Owl Challenge (9 – 10 p.m. EST) – The participating group that receives the most donations during the Night Owl Challenge will receive an extra $2,500 for its Greatest Needs Fund.
A generous donor has agreed to contribute $2,500 to the top three student organizations that receive the most donations on Day of Giving.
Beyond the University-wide special initiatives, many individual colleges and schools, including WVU Health Sciences, also have various matching gift opportunities and participation challenges. Donors are encouraged to check out the “Challenges” tab at the top of the WVU Day of Giving web site.
Students, faculty and staff also will have the opportunity to participate in WVU Day of Giving with events planned on the Morgantown campus on Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Market at WVU Health Sciences and from 1 - 3 p.m. at the Mountainlair. The events will include the opportunity for people to make a gift on the spot.
During the first two years of WVU Day of Giving combined, more than $9 million was raised.
“We are really looking forward to another successful WVU Day of Giving,” said Mary Esposito, who is heading up the effort for the WVU Foundation. “We encourage everyone to make a gift, large or small. Every donation is important.”
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Environment and Natural History
All Points of the Compass
While the Vietnam War raged, senior political leader Charles Tran Van Lam recorded his family's domestic life on his Super 8 camera.
Andrew Denton's Gallipoli: Brothers in Arms
This story is the result of a visit by Andrew Denton to Gallipoli in 2006 for ANZAC Day, 25 April.
Anzac Day March (Past Years)
The Anzac Day marches from past years may be ordered on DVD for each capital city upon request as 'a lasting memento' of each year's significant commemorations.
Australian Story - Show of Force (Afghanistan)
Australia has a proud history of entertainers visiting war zones to lift the morale of our troops. On the face of it, a tour of Afghanistan and Iraq would not appeal to everyone.
Casualties of War follows the personal journey of 28 year-old Chris as he adjusts to civilian life after serving in the army for 11 years with the elite special forces in East Timor.
Centenary of the Australian Army Parade
Coverage from the Australian War Memorial of the celebrations held in honour of the Australian Army on the occasion of their hundred year anniversary in 2001
Compass - Embracing the Enemy
At Gallipoli the Turks shot at our diggers but today they walk side by side with Australian ex-servicemen men and women in Anzac marches around the country.
Compass - Plagued by Memories
Dementia is a sleeping giant for aged Australians. In this program we focus on a specific group of elderly people - survivors of the Holocaust living in Australia.
Compass - Story of the Salvos
This story of music, faith and heroism focuses on the Brunswick Salvation Army Band whose fate in World War II is one of the most tragic and little told episodes of Australia's wartime history.
Compass - Walking Wounded
Walking Wounded is a moving story about ageing WWII veterans who fought as very young men, only to spend the rest of their lives suffering the consequent trauma in silence.
Compass - Windows to Sandakan
For 62 years Philip Handel's stained glass windows have graced churches and cathedrals around Australia. Now he's completing the final stage of his last and most difficult commission yet.
Fall of Singapore, The
Companion piece to `The Burma Railway' from the same production team, dealing with the prior event of the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in February 1942, during WWII.
Four Corners - ANZACS
From Iraq to Solomon Islands and Afghanistan to East Timor, Australia's Army is stretched tight.
Four Corners - About Woomera
To its backers, Woomera detention centre played a humane yet crucial role in housing the growing numbers of boat people landing on Australia's shores.
Four Corners - Flying Blind
For more than 30 years Australia has rested its security on the seemingly ageless wings of its F-111 fighter fleet. But in aviation circles these days there are doubts and rumblings.
Four Corners - Pakistan on the Brink
Talk to any major western leader and they will tell you Pakistan is a key ally in the war on terror.
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About RDC
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Ms. Jorjena Barringer, Project Manager
BLM Anchorage Field Office
Attention – BSWI RMP
4700 BLM Road
Anchorage, Alaska 99507
Via email to [email protected]
Dear Ms. Barringer:
The Resource Development Council for Alaska, Inc. is writing to provide brief comments on the Bering Sea – Western Interior (BSWI) Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP).
RDC is an Alaskan business association comprised of individuals and companies from Alaska’s oil and gas, mining, forest products, tourism and fisheries industries. RDC’s membership includes Alaska Native Corporations, local communities, organized labor, and industry support firms. RDC’s purpose is to encourage a strong, diversified private sector in Alaska and expand the state’s economic base through the responsible development of our natural resources.
RDC is writing in support of Alternative D as it is the alternative most consistent with the intent of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), the Alaska Land Transfer Acceleration Act (ALTAA), the Alaska Statehood Act and Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). Alternative D “provides the fewest management restrictions at the planning level and the most flexibility at the project-specific implementation level.”
Further, Alternative D relies on existing federal laws and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) than alternatives B and C, to determine how best to manage multiple uses. This is most appropriate as much of the BLM land in the planning area is currently used primarily for hunting and fishing, with limited existing resource development. Other than the current Donlin Gold project, no other major resource development projects are currently pending.
With regard to Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs), RDC continues to have significant concerns about the intention of BLM’s actions to apply ACECs, particularly in the flawed Alternative B.
RDC is concerned our previous comments in letters regarding the ACEC application in BSWI have been largely ignored. RDC has expressed concern that ACECs add an unnecessary “protection” of BLM managed public land that already has protections and restrictions in place. Moreover, some of the existing ACEC and Research and Natural Area (RNA) designations are unwarranted as existing state and federal regulations provide protection for the resources that were used to initially justify the designations.
As a reminder, past federal government promises assured access for resource development in this area and others not set aside through ANILCA. Alaska accounts for 70 percent of all national park lands in the United States, as well as 53 percent of all federally-designated Wilderness.
Much of the actions to apply ACECs appear to be blanket closures to resource development, particularly mineral entry, and lack justification for the closure.
In conclusion, RDC urges BLM, as a multiple-use agency, to select Alternative D. RDC applauds BLM for offering Alternative D as it is a priority of RDC to advocate for increased access to and across public lands for resource and community development. Thank you for the opportunity to provide brief comments.
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Why Diversity Matters to Our Participants
By Dynasti Hunt
Picture this: You’re headed into your first fitness class in a new studio space, excited for the workout that you’ve signed up, slightly nervous because you’re not quite sure what to expect...and as you enter the room, you set up your equipment, take a deep breath, look around...and notice that no one looks like you. Everyone else, including the instructor, has the same body type, appears to have the same ethnicity, looks like they have been taking this workout class together forever, and you are the only one that looks like you. Now...how do you feel?
For many of our class participants, this is a defining moment that determines whether or not they come back to class even before it begins; not because the workout is ineffective...but because somehow in a group class, we have managed to make them feel very much alone in an environment that’s intended to be open and welcoming. This is the story our participants are sharing post-workout classes, with their fitness instructors, their friends, and their studios and their concern remains the same: Why are the class offerings diverse but not the people leading and taking the class?
The importance of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) across the fitness sector is not a new topic by any means. If we take a step back and reflect honestly, we’d recognize that D&I is not just a current trending topic in the fitness industry; it's always been a focus that never quite received the attention it deserves. This may be partially because when we talk about Diversity and Inclusion in the group fitness space, it often translates to mean let’s focus on the diversity of the classes offered and not necessarily who is in the classes. D&I is really about the people and creating a safe space for everyone where they feel accepted as they are to workout. Instead of diversifying our class offerings, we need to make an intentional effort to diversify the people composition of our class participants.
By traditional definition, Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) is defined as “the collective mixture of differences and similarities that includes for example, individual and organizational characteristics, values, beliefs, experiences, backgrounds, preferences, and behaviors” while inclusivity speaks to “the achievement of a work environment in which all individuals are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources, and can contribute fully to the organization's success” (SHRM). And while these traditional definitions still hold true, the actual evolution of how they translate into tangible action has changed. Individuals are actively pushing for spaces where they can truly bring their whole self to the environment they are in and feel accepted, seen, and heard. This same push is present in the fitness community also, as participants are looking for environments where they feel accepted and included.
We are in a space where our class participants are looking to have an experience where they feel safe in their workout experience. Participants want to feel connected to those who look like them and be able to say to themselves, “Yes, I belong”. When a participant sees another participant with who has a similar body type, also wears her hair natural, and looks like them, they instantly begin to feel more community because they are not the “only” in the room. Participants are looking to walk into a fitness space and see immediate “critical mass,” a term noted by Claude Steele in his book, Whistling Vivaldi, where there are enough minorities in a setting that the individual minority no longer feels uncomfortable or an interfering level of identify threat. From race to age to body type to gender, participants no longer want to be the “only” in the room...and are either actively seeking out spaces where they are not or beginning to create their own.
When participants feel that they are welcome and included, they return to those spaces, resulting in longer participant retention, higher return on investment for studios, and ultimately, an increase of bottom-line profit. This, however, cannot be the main driver behind why D&I matters to a fitness space. Participants are looking for real, authentic commitment and experiences that demonstrate to them that inclusivity is not just a thought; that there are real actions being taken to ensure they feel welcomed.
So where should you start with bringing D&I into your own fitness space? Here are three strategies to consider:
Rethink Your Instructor Recruitment and Development Strategies: Participants often cite one of the first things they notice in their classes is the diversity, or lack thereof, of instructors actually leading the class. It’s important that studios begin to evaluate the composition of their own instructor teams and if they are creating a homogenous environment simply by who they choose to lead their classes. From evaluating this, studios can then take a more intentional focus to hiring a more diverse staff that they support, meaning that in the same way our participants desire to bring their whole self to the space, instructors are encouraged and supported to do the exact same.
Redesign Your Participant Marketing Outreach: In a world where marketing continues to be key to reaching new and current participants, it is equally important that diversity is shown through marketing materials. If a participant signs up for a new class, then goes to the space’s Instagram page and sees no one that looks like them on it, it may signal to the participant that they will be entering a space where they will not feel included...all before they ever even step into the studio. Being mindful of sharing diverse stories of instructors and participants on all marketing materials, from the pictures to the content, builds a feeling of inclusivity for participants and signals that they are not sweating alone.
Engage Your participants in the Conversation: Ask your participants, particularly those who have yet to return, direct questions about how included they actually feel when attending a class in your space. Instead of asking how the workout was, ask if they felt welcomed and included. Did they feel like they saw others who looked like them and made them feel connected? These questions will allow you to go beyond the surface and hear from participants on how your D&I focus is working and if they find it authentic, inclusive, and truly helping them to feel that they belong every time they step into your space.
While these are three of many strategies that can be taken, the important first step is to acknowledge that Diversity and Inclusion matters. It matters to our participants. It matters to our instructor staff. It matters to each individual who desires to walk into a fitness space and feel that they have a safe place to sweat, grow, and build community. And because of this: it should matter to us. It’s not enough to diversify the class offerings when it appears that the same homogeneous approach is applied to the clientele who attend the class. Just like in the workplace where there is an intentional focus on diversity, the same must be applied to our fitness spaces too.
Dishman, Lydia. Millennials Have A Different Definition of Diversity and Inclusion. Forbes. 2015
Society of Human Resource Management, www.shrm.org
Steele, Claude. Whistling Vivaldi. W. W. Norton & Company. 2010
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Rural broadband deployment report receives mixed reviews
05/29/19 4:52 PM By Ben Nuelle
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Some 4.3 million rural residents gained access to fixed broadband in 2017, but 21.3 million Americans still lack the service, according to a new Federal Communications Commission report.
The number of Americans lacking access to a fixed broadband connection of 25 Mbps/3 Mbps dropped more than 18% in 2017, according to the 2019 Broadband Deployment Report released Wednesday.
“We’ve been tackling this problem by removing barriers to infrastructure investment and promoting competition,” FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement.
Commissioner Mike O’Reilly, appointed by President Barack Obama, is glad more Americans are gaining access to broadband, but is dismayed by the report’s reliance on what he calls "purported 'insufficient evidence'" when evaluating fixed and mobile broadband usage.
“Data shows that fixed and mobile service are undoubtedly substitutable for many Americans,” O’Reilly said. “Fixed and mobile providers are in fierce competition with one another for customers.”
O’Reilly would like to see those markets evaluated together rather than separately.
Mike Romano, senior vice president of industry affairs and business development with NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, tells Agri-Pulse there’s a good amount of progress to be recognized in terms of additional investments made by operators in rural areas.
However, “there is certainly a need to do more and continue to advance broadband where it’s not but sustain it where it is,” Romano said.
Romano added NTCA suggested in comments the FCC examine not just the availability but the quality of broadband moving forward to support applications such as distance learning and telemedicine.
The broadband community and Congress have long shared concerns about the accuracy of FCC broadband deployment maps. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue went as far as calling them “fake news.”
“Issues with broadband mapping have gotten a lot of attention recently because [the number of Americans without access] could be even higher than what the government says,” outreach director for Connect Americans Now, Jon Conradi, tells Agri-Pulse.
A recent Microsoft report questioned the accuracy of FCC’s broadband maps.
In December 2018, the FCC launched an investigation into potential violations of mapping rules by service providers in submitting the data, and the challenge process has not yet concluded.
Among other highlights of the report, high-speed services of 250Mbps/25 Mbps broadband for rural Americans increased by 85.1 percent in 2017.
Broadband providers deployed fiber networks to 5.9 million new homes in 2018 and capital expenditures increased by approximately $1.5 billion in 2017, reversing the declines of 2015 and 2016.
Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said the report deserved a failing grade and was nothing more than the agency patting itself on the back.
“The report will come as news to members of Congress who in hearing after hearing have chided this agency for its inability to deliver the promise of broadband to communities they represent,” Rosenworcel said.
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Sen. Lincoln welcomes Senate passage of tough Wall Street legislation
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Washington, May 20 – Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) issued the following statement Thursday after the Senate passed the “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010” on a bipartisan 59-39 vote. The legislation includes Lincoln’s strong reforms for the derivatives market, overcoming repeated attempts by her committee’s Ranking Member Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and others to water down those provisions.
“This historic legislation is about more than just changing the way Wall Street does business. It’s about helping families save for college, protecting retirees, ensuring small businesses can get loans and creating new jobs on Main Street.”
“As Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, I was proud to craft the bill’s strong derivatives title. My legislation brings a $600 trillion market into the light of day and ends the days of Wall Street’s backroom deals. These strong reforms will rein in the greedy behavior that nearly destroyed our economy, hurting Arkansas small businesses and costing millions of Americans their jobs.”
Lincoln promised to “continue to stand up to Wall Street lobbyists and special interest groups to advocate for these reforms as we work to get this bill signed into law.”
Critics of Lincoln’s derivatives provisions charged they would drive up costs to end users and could drive lucrative derivatives business overseas. Lincoln, CFTC Chair Gary Gensler and others responded that the greater transparency provided under new trading rules will bring down end users costs and result in a more user-friendly market now that real-time trading information will be available to all users rather than known only to Wall Street financial firms.
In Thursday's 59-39 vote for the bill, four Republicans crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats: Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Scott Brown (R-MA). Two Democrats missed the vote since their votes were needed for passage: Sens. Arlen Specter (D-PA) and Robert Byrd (D-WV). The two Democrats who voted against passage, Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Russ Feingold (D-WI), were registering their disappointment with a bill they felt wasn't tough enough on Wall Street.
With Senate passage of its Wall Street bill Thursday, the next step is for the Senate and House to hammer out differences between the Senate bill and the version passed by the House last December. Democrats hope that step will be relatively straightforward and result in a final bill which can be signed by President Obama within the next month or so.
President Obama himself welcomed the long-sought Senate victory for legislation which he had considered one of his primary objectives. He commented Thursday that “Over the last year, the financial industry has repeatedly tried to end this reform with hordes of lobbyists. Today, I think it is fair to say that those efforts have failed.” He predicted that “Wall Street reform will bring greater security to folks on Main Street. This is not a zero-sum game where Wall Street loses and Main Street wins.” He said “Every American has an interest in a healthy financial sector.”
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An Taisce's Clean Coasts Symposium and Ocean Hero Awards 2014
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An Taisce’s annual Clean Coasts Symposium & Ocean Hero Awards were held on Wednesday 19th November at The Royal College of Physicians, Dublin. The Clean Coasts Symposium brought together key stakeholders in the area of marine litter such as coastal communities, policy-makers, NGOs, tourism bodies, the science community, plastics industry and the fishing industry. The presence of marine litter in our oceans is a global concern that requires action. Adequate measures are needed to address the pressure of litter in the marine environment both at sea and on land whereby public awareness and community action plays a vital role. Clean Coasts is about engaging communities in the protection of our beaches, seas and marine life. There are currently 423 Clean Coasts groups participating in the programme. The prestigious Clean Coasts Ocean Hero Awards are about recognising the invaluable work done by these committed volunteers across the country on a daily basis to protect Ireland’s beautiful coastline.
Speaking at the Symposium Martin Dorey said, “The 2 minute beach clean can be whatever you want it to be. You just pick up a few bits whenever you go to the beach and put them in the rubbish. Simple. Every piece of litter you remove from the marine environment is a piece of litter that will no longer entangle wildlife, break into thousands of tiny pieces and end up in the food chain or ghost fish for eternity. Every piece counts.” He added, “It is wonderful to be working with An Taisce’s Clean Coasts programme to promote the 2 Minute Beach Clean in Ireland.”
Speaking at the event, Annabel FitzGerald, Coastal Programmes Manager, An Taisce said, “We organize hundreds of beach cleans mobilizing thousands of volunteers to remove considerable quantities of marine litter from our coastline. For example, during The Big Beach Clean weekend in September, 103 Clean Coasts groups removed 33,442 litter items from 128km of coastline. This was done in one weekend and serves as an indicator of the magnitude of the problem of marine litter.” She added that, “the top ten litter items included the usual suspects; recreational litter like plastic bottles and aluminum cans, cigarette butts, fishing litter such as ropes and nets and sewage related litter such as cotton bud sticks.”
Speaking about Clean Coasts Ocean Hero Awards, she added “All 423 Clean Coasts Groups should be incredibly proud of the impact they have made in protecting the coast. Collectively they have removed over 500,000 pieces of litter from the Irish coast during 2014. The Ocean Hero Awards are about celebrating these coastal custodians and will hopefully inspire others to join the movement for litter free seas.”
For a video of the presentations, please see the attached youtube link.
The Clean Coasts Programme is operated by the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce and is supported by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Coca-Cola and Fáilte Ireland.
Ocean Hero Awardees
School of the Year Award
Poulfur NS, Wexford
“In a year in which our community remembers and celebrates the Ocean Heroes of our parish (whose acts of valour in 1914 saw 9 of them losing their lives whilst saving the lives of others) whom we remembered during the Clean Coasts Programme this year, we are humbled by the honour bestown upon our school and community by being awarded Ocean Hero School of the Year 2014. Our project drew together the very best of local (Sandra and Anne of Hook Residents Association), county (Cliona Connelly - Wexford County Council) , national (Aidan Gray and An Taisce Clean Coasts) and school efforts and has left a lasting legacy with the children, the future of our community.”
Event of the Year
Lissadell and Drumcliffe/ Rathcormac Clean-up of Coolbeg
"Drumcliffe bay is an important aspect of our local enviroment and we in Drumcliffe Rathcormac Tidy Towns greatly appreciate the help and advice of Clean Coasts in our efforts to maintain the health and cleanliness of this important natural resource."
Newcomer of the Year Award
Burrenbeo Trust Conservation Volunteers
“The Burrenbeo Conservation Volunteers is an active voluntary community that works towards the sustainable management of the Burren (north County Clare and south County Galway), by addressing key conservation issues in the region, e.g. coastal clean ups, habitat management and dry-stone wall building and repair. The spring storms hit the Burren coastline hard this year resulting in vast amounts of debris being carried far inland. With a lot of hard labour and the support of Clean Coasts we have made a huge difference, leaving a large section of the Burren coastline visibly cleaner. We would like to thank all our volunteers for taking part in this project and the Clean Coasts team for all their support and advice. Our future plans include monitoring the Burren coastline and working to keep it as clean and litter free as possible.”
Dan Clabby
Business of the Year Award
Dingle Oceanworld Aquarium
“Oceanworld Aquarium has been involved with Clean Coasts for the past number of years. We organise and co ordinate beach cleans on the Dingle Peninsula as well as educating people about the importance of clean seas and awareness of coastal clean ups.”
May Burns
“It is a privilege to be involved in something as important as caring for our coastline. Becoming involved with the Clean Coasts group has helped us in the North-West to focus on protecting the wonderful natural resource that is our ocean.”
Group of the Year Award
Wexford Sub Aqua Club
"Wexford Sub Aqua Club, delighted to have been the first Irish dive club to get involved with the Clean Coasts programme. Founded in 1971 and a member of Cleancoast since 2007"
Long Term Contribution for Clean Coasts by an Individual
Margaret Browne, Sandycove, Dublin
Sandycove Coastcare Group: “The immense popularity of Sandycove beach involves a proactive approach to maintain not only its appeal for visitors but also to raise awareness and protect the precious rich marine habitat. To that end the Sandycove Coastcare Group was established 10 years ago and in addition to the physical efforts involved in maintaining the upkeep of the coast it has attempted to build community spirit, team-work along with a sense of pride and respect for our natural environment.”
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I'm trying to figure out what I can do creatively. It's about trying to find new things and trying to figure out voices and borrowing from things and learning as much as possible so that I have an archive of things to borrow from.
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Dr. Gavin Armstrong is committed impact entrepreneur. He is currently serving as the Founder and President of Lucky Iron Fish™, a social enterprise attempting to alleviate iron deficiency around the world using a simple health innovation. Through this role he was awarded the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Social Entrepreneur category in 2016.
A long term advocate and activist against hunger and malnutrition, Gavin is the first Canadian to receive the William J. Clinton Award for international work against hunger and is the inaugural recipient of the international Michaelle Jean Emergency Hunger Relief Award. He has also helped Lucky Iron Fish win multiple Cannes Lion awards including the Grand Prix and several Clio Design Awards including the Grand Prix in health. He has also received a Silver Innovation Award from the Edison Foundation. In 2015 Conscious Company Magazine featured Gavin as one of the seventeen 'Rising Social Entrepreneurs' of the year. In 2016 He was awarded with the Social Innovator of the Year Award from the Lewis Institute at Babson College.
As an undergraduate student, Gavin signed the University of Guelph up to be the first Canadian University to become members of Universities Fighting World Hunger (UFWH), an organization of universities worldwide dedicated to promote awareness of, and take action against, hunger and malnutrition. He served as the coordinator of the 6th Annual UFWH Summit, the first time that the conference had been held in Canada, and attracted more than 450 delegates, 50 speakers and raised more than $130,000 to support the conference. Gavin also instituted an annual event at the University to pack food for emergency relief: Since 2011 this event has packaged over 1 million meals and Gavin has raised over $250,000 to support the initiative.
Gavin is also a strong supporter for increasing educational opportunities for the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, developing new opportunities to fund a solar power program that will power the schools and raising money to build a new school in the camps. He has also developed links between the University of Guelph and Universite de Nouakchott (Mauritania) to boost food production and capacity in one of the poorest regions of Africa. He is also currently serving on the Executive Committee for the Cambodian Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
Gavin holds an honours bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Guelph. During this time he was elected as the Communications and Corporate Affairs Commissioner for the student union, served on the Senate, the Board of Governors, the Presidential Task Force on Sustainability, the BetterPlanet Project steering committee and cabinet (the capital campaign of the University), and as the student co-chair for the United Way Campaign.
He is also a 2015 fellow at the Unreasonable Institute in Boulder Colorado and has a PhD in biomedical science from the University of Guelph
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Science has come a long way since botanist Carl Linnaeus built his catalogue and plant extracts were the medicine du jour. As a strategy, immunotherapy is now blossoming for diseases of the central nervous system, even though final success in the clinic remains elusive at this point. Roughly 40 different passive and active vaccination trials are ongoing for Alzheimer’s and other neurological disorders.
What are the targets, the challenges, and the possibility of success? The 2nd International Conference on Neurodegenerative Disorders: Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, took on these questions at Linnaeus’s alma mater, Uppsala University in Sweden.
Uppsala: Conference Puts Uppsala on Immunotherapy Map
Founded in 1477, Uppsala University in Sweden has a long tradition of advancing the cutting edge of medicine, from its pharmacopeiac gardens tended by Carl Linnaeus of taxonomy fame, to a seventeenth-century anatomy theater hosting public operations and dissections. In this day and age, the institution aims to lead in part by hosting a conference on new technologies that are pushing toward earlier diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, which are looming as twenty-first-century health crises of aging Western societies. Organized by Lars Lannfelt, Martin Ingelsson, and Lars Nilsson, the 2nd International Conference on Neurodegenerative Disorders: Immunotherapy and Biomarkers took place at Uppsala University 26-27 May 2011. At about 150 attendees, the small size of the meeting belied its impact. Most participants questioned by a reporter said this meeting targets the right niche at the right time, calling it “a keeper.” With potential immunotherapeutics mushrooming, Roger Nitsch, University of Zurich, quipped that before long, Lannfelt’s catalogue of antibodies might rival Linnaeus’s one of plants.
Immunotherapy for AD started about a decade ago with Elan/Wyeth’s active immunization program targeting soluble amyloid-β (see ARF related news story), and that is still the leading target of many academic and industry labs. At the same time, this meeting showed that programs targeting other forms of Aβ (see below), tau (see Part 2), and proteins involved in other neurodegenerative diseases (see Part 3) are rapidly catching up.
One reason immunotherapy has become so attractive to drug developers is that it bypasses the need for medicinal chemistry, noted Peter Seubert, from Elan Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco. Medicinal chemists tweak small-molecule drug candidates to improve safety, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacokinetics. Their work can be time consuming and expensive. Antigens and antibodies do not need such delicate manipulations. Another draw of immunotherapy is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, a small proportion of antibodies made by the immune system or injected into the bloodstream do appear to cross the blood-brain barrier into the central nervous system—something scientists at the meeting puzzled over but seemed to accept. A case in point is bapineuzumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody that is being closely watched by observers in research and beyond. It lowered brain amyloid when given intravenously to patients enrolled in a Phase 2 trial (see ARF related news story on Rinne et al., 2010). A current Phase 3 trial powered to test for cognitive outcomes is expected to end in 2012. Though no data are officially available yet, Seubert noted that the trial has not been scuppered by vasogenic edema, as some had expected following the appearance of this side effect in some patients in Phase 2 (see ARF related news story). In April 2009, Elan dropped the highest doses of bapineuzumab from the trial in an attempt to mitigate this risk (see ARF related news story). Later that year, JANSSEN Alzheimer Immunotherapy Research & Development, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, acquired all rights to Elan’s Alzheimer's immunotherapy program.
Brendon Binneman, from Pfizer Inc., Groton, Connecticut, reviewed ponezumab, this company’s humanized mouse monoclonal antibody to the C-terminal end of Aβ (see ARF related news story and clinical trials). The company is awaiting results of a Phase 2 trial begun in 2008, and will not present ponezumab data at ICAD next month in Paris, France. Binneman said Pfizer believes this antibody acts via the peripheral sink hypothesis, which posits that antibodies that mop up Aβ in the bloodstream help to coax the peptide out of the brain by tipping the blood/brain equilibrium. Binneman said the company likes to think of it as “brain dialysis.” This would make it similar to Lilly’s solanezumab, which is in Phase 3 (see ARF related news story). In Phase 1 safety trials, ponezumab had a long half-life of about 20 days in blood. Only about 0.5 percent of the infused protein made its way into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). After a single dose in humans, total plasma Aβ levels rise, as does CSF Aβ, which Binneman considered evidence that the peripheral sink idea might be working. The antibody appears to be safe so far, with no evidence of encephalitis or vasogenic edema. Ponezumab is modified to reduce activation of the innate and cellular immune systems, and it does not bind to Aβ well in tissue. These may be beneficial properties, said Binneman, because the antibody may be less likely to cause the type of blood vessel damage that leads to microhemorrhage or vasogenic edema.
Lars Nilsson, also from Uppsala University, described preliminary work using mAb158 to develop a PET ligand for protofibrils in the brain. To test the concept, he labeled the antibody with radioactive iodine I-125, and found this left the antibody’s immunoreactivity intact. He then tried to detect the radiolabeled antibody in mouse brain in vivo by SPECT, but found that it lacked the sensitivity of PET. Changing tack, Nilsson infused the mice with antibody, then removed the whole brain and imaged it ex vivo. After a single injection, the antibody peaked in the brain after three days but took almost a month to disperse. This is much longer than PIB, AV-45, and other amyloid ligands take to vacate the brain. Nilsson is trying to optimize the ligand by using F(ab) fragments and I-124, which has a shorter half-life. He did say that the antibody can detect protofibrils in the mouse brain at young ages before amyloid has accumulated, suggesting that if this ligand could be perfected, it might serve as an early marker of pathology and complement current plaque ligands.
Other immunotherapies aimed at different Aβ species are in various preclinical stages. Cynthia Lemere, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and Thomas Bayer, University of Gottingen, Germany, collaborate with the German biotech company Probiodrug AG, based in Halle, Germany, to target truncated Aβ with a cyclized glutamate (pyroglutamate) at the amino end. Pyroglutamate Aβ3-42 is reputed to be highly toxic and likely to form oligomers (see ARF related news story). In Uppsala, Lemere reported on her prevention and therapeutic tests in mice of a monoclonal antibody from Probiodrug. When given intraperitoneally over 32 weeks as a prophylactic to young APP/PS1 mice, the antibody reduced cortical plaque deposits and lowered Aβ and pyrogluAβ in the hippocampus and the cerebellum. It calmed inflammatory gliosis as judged by the number of microglia sprouting the inflammatory marker CD45. As a therapy given to 23-month-old mice for seven weeks, the antibody had a less robust effect, showing only trends for decrease in pyrogluAβ and reduction in cerebellar pathology. In addition, Lemere reported on an active vaccination trial in six-month-old J20 mice. Given monthly over eight months, pyrogluAβ3-9, coupled to keyhole limpet hemocyanin as an adjuvant, elicited an immune response that generated mostly IgG1, IgG2a, and IgG2b antibodies. Immunized animals had fewer fibrillary plaques in the brain than controls, less gliosis, and yielded less guanidine hydrochloride soluble Aβ. Interestingly, mice inoculated with a control, full-length Aβ accumulated less pyrogluAβ than mice immunized with the truncated pyroglutamate antigen. Lemere said that this is most likely because the former vaccine prevents the deposition or promotes the removal of plaques that trap pyroglutamate Aβ. The point of the comparison, she said, was to test if pyrogluAβ acts as a seed for plaques. “In terms of plaque pathology, we saw reductions with both antigens. I do think pyroglutamate Aβ is a seed, but I don’t think it is the only seed,” she told ARF.
Bayer and colleagues raised antibodies against pyrogluAβ3-38 (see Wirths et al., 2010 and Wirths et al., 2010). They chose this antigen because it aggregates more slowly than pyrogluAβ3-42, and fast aggregation might complicate the immune response. The scientists identified the antibodies by their binding to human brain tissue in immunohistochemical assays. In biochemical assays, Bayer was surprised to find that one, 9D5, had an unusual binding pattern. It does not react with full-length Aβ1-42, nor with Aβ3-42 monomers, dimers, or oligomers greater than 20-mers. Under native conditions, it does seem to bind pyroglutamate Aβ oligomers in the 4- to 20-mer range, and it can block aggregation and reduce toxicity of pyrogluAβ. In three-month-old 5xFAD and APP/PS1KI mice, 9D5 detected no antigen. At six months it did detect some Aβ species, and immunoreactivity in neurons and microglia grew from there over the course of the next six months, Bayer said. Unlike generic Aβ antibodies, 9D5 did not react with plaques in brain tissue of non-demented people. When asked if this means plaques are not a reservoir of pyrogluAβ peptides, Bayer replied that plaques react strongly to other antibodies that specifically recognize pyroglutamate Aβ. In contrast, 9D5 reacts with plaques to a minor extent, showing preference for neurons, microglia, and blood vessel walls. This would fit the theory that small amounts of pyrogluAβ oligomers in the 4- to 20-mer range can form seeds for aggregation, said Bayer. He also presented a small mouse study indicating that 9D5 reduces plaque load and stabilizes cognition as judged by an elevated plus maze test. Injected once per week (10 mg/Kg) into 4.5-month-old 5xFAD mice, the antibody reduced both pyroglutamate Aβ and full-length Aβ plaques. Bayer believes this finding suggests that these small, 4- to 20-mer, pyroglutamate Aβ oligomers act as seeds for aggregation.
For his part, Lannfelt expressed concern about procedural artifacts in the study of truncated pyrogluAβ, specifically the suggestion that brain tissue that has been stored for some time contains much more pyrogluAβ than fresh brain tissue. Lemere replied that this has not been an issue in her hands. On the contrary, she said, leaving tissue too long in fixative can dramatically reduce pyrogluAβ signals, something researchers should keep in mind. Lemere told ARF that she found a distinct difference between tissue that is briefly fixed (two weeks) and routinely fixed (months to even years). In the latter, the fixative seems to mask staining for pyroglutamate Aβ, most likely because of molecular crosslinks that form when tissue sits in formaldehyde.
Lannfelt, who co-founded the Swedish biotech company BioArctic Neuroscience, is developing antibodies to protofibrillar forms of Aβ. The pharma company Eisai Inc. is now testing a humanized monoclonal antibody (BAN2401) in Phase 1. Both Lannfelt and Eisai’s Andrew Satlin summarized this program’s status at the AD/PD meeting in Barcelona last April (see ARF related news story).
In addition, Lannfelt and colleagues are using antibodies to Arctic peptides to develop assays for protofibrillar Aβ. Frida Ekholm-Pettersson, from Uppsala University, described a sandwich ELISA test using the monoclonal antibody mAb158, the mouse forerunner of BAN2401. The ELISA detects protofibrils in extract from human AD patients, but not from people who had frontotemporal dementia. Ekholm-Pettersson said she has not tested the assay on samples from people with other neurodegenerative diseases yet. To confirm that the assay does indeed detect protofibrillar species, she separated synthetic Aβ by ultracentrifugation and analyzed fractions by atomic force microscopy. The antibody detected Aβ species of median size, that is, in the second of three size fractions. The researchers are still characterizing the structures. The ELISA also detects protofibrils in human plasma, but the researchers ran into interference problems when trying to assay cerebrospinal fluid. They are still working on resolving those issues. Ekholm-Pettersson cautioned that one of the problems with this, and similar assays, is that human fluids can contain heterophilic antibodies that recognize immunoglobulins from other species. In this case, it appears that human antibodies recognize the mouse monoclonals. She depleted human fluids of IgG immunoglobulins to overcome this interference.
Tempering the general enthusiasm about immunotherapy at this conference, Dave Morgan, University of South Florida, Tampa, offered some cautionary notes. For one, he is troubled that some antibodies can have acute effects in mouse models. Since Aβ takes a long time to accumulate, Morgan said he finds it surprising that a single antibody dose can repair the brain. 3D6, the mouse precursor to bapineuzumab, for example, reverses cognitive defects in Tg2576 animals after a single dose. Lannfelt echoed this concern, saying that if accumulation takes decades, then perhaps it is best not to try to remove it too quickly. Aβ trapped in blood vessel walls can cause microhemorrhages, for instance, which may be exacerbated if therapy is too aggressive (see ARF related news story). Morgan showed that age may play a role in this. Looking at young mice with aggressive Aβ accumulation and older mice with more gradual pathology, his group found that microhemorrhages are much more prevalent in the older mice. Monocyte recruitment into the brain was also more rampant in the older mice. To some extent, this effect might be due to age-related differences in the immune system. The overriding point, Morgan said, is that age—which mice model poorly—is an important factor to keep in mind when developing immunotherapies for AD.—Tom Fagan.
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Targeting extracellular Aβ with immunotherapy is one thing, but could antibodies even drive the clearance of tau, a predominantly intracellular protein? In the last few years, scientists have turned their attention to vaccinating against various forms of this potentially toxic protein, and the strategy seems to pay some dividends, at least in mice. Tau immunotherapy was well represented with new data at the 2nd International Conference on Neurodegenerative Disorders: Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, which took place 26-27 May 2011 at Uppsala University, Sweden. Even big pharmaceutical companies are now getting in on the act.
Martin Citron, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, Indiana, is best known for his studies on the β-secretase that cleaves amyloid-β precursor protein (APP), but in Uppsala he confessed to being a bit of a closet tauist. He noted that the AD field has come to appreciate in the last five to 10 years that amyloid pathology is an early event in the disease, and that by the time patients become demented, interventions targeting Aβ may be too late. Two alternative strategies are to diagnose and target Aβ earlier, or to go for targets that lie downstream. Citron thought tau might fit the latter category because tau pathology continues to worsen in the symptomatic phase of the disease. The problem, he said, has been figuring out how to target it.
Citron reported on a passive immunotherapy strategy using antibodies (PHF1 and MC1) that recognize neurofibrillary tangles. He injected these into two different models: the JNPL3 mouse (Lewis et al., 2000), which expresses a human tau transgene containing the P301L mutation that causes frontotemporal dementia, and a mouse expressing human tau with the P301S mutation that has more aggressive pathology and also more consistent transgene expression (Allen et al., 2002). He treated two-month-old JNPL3 mice for four months with PHF1 and MC1 (15 mg/kg three times per week for two months, then 10 mg/kg twice per week). While neither antibody treatment altered total tau levels in the mice, they did lower the amount of insoluble tau stained by the AT8 antibody. Citron said the JNPL3 model varied greatly from animal to animal. For quantitative analysis, he developed an AT8-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for insoluble tau. Citron believes that a 64 kDa, hyperphosphorylated tau fragment recognized by AT8 is the biochemical correlate of neurofibrillary tangles. He said the 64 kDa tau correlates with the extent of tangle pathology in both Alzheimer’s disease and transgenic mouse models. The AT8 ELISA detected no signal from brain tissue samples taken from human controls, but did detect tau in tissue from AD patients. He said neither the PHF1 nor MC1 interfere with the assay, indicating that it is suitable for monitoring the effects of these antibodies in vivo. With this ELISA, Citron detected significant reduction of AT8 tau reactivity in brain extracts from the treated JNPL3 mice compared to controls. Whether the ELISA could be used as a diagnostic test is unclear. That would require a test of biological fluid, such as CSF, and Citron said it is unlikely that much of the insoluble tau would make its way there.
Citron used the P301S model to measure behavioral effects, since the JNPL3 animals show no behavioral phenotype until they are quite old. In the P301S mice, tau pathology damages the spinal cord and the animals have severe motor problems by five months of age. Citron treated two-month-old animals for three months with twice-weekly doses (15 mg/kg) of both PHF1 and MC1. Treated mice performed better on the rotarod and lost less weight than did controls who got an equal amount of a generic immunoglobulin G. Similar to the JNPL3 animals, total tau stayed unchanged, but the ELISA revealed a decline in AT8-reactive insoluble tau. Tangle pathology is rampant in the P301S animals, but the immunotherapy attenuated it. Citron noted that the antibody treatment also appeared to improve neurodegeneration.
How does this passive immunotherapy work? Citron does not know, but said the simplest hypothesis would be that it neutralizes extracellular tau, which somehow is driving pathology. Tau is an intracellular protein, but evidence is accumulating that tau can be secreted from cells and taken up by others (see ARF related news story and ARF news story on Frost et al., 2009). Alternatively, the antibodies might be taken up into the cells and neutralize tau there, he said.
Einar Sigurdsson, New York University, also broached the subject of how tau immunotherapies work. He agreed that multiple mechanisms—extracellular and intracellular—are likely involved in tau immunotherapy. Sigurdsson’s group was the first to show that active immunization against tau can rescue phenotypes in mouse models and might be a viable strategy for tauopathies (see ARF related news story on Asuni et al., 2007 and ARF related news story on Boutajangout et al., 2010). His group also reported that passive tau immunotherapy clears tau pathology in mice and stems their functional decline (see Boutajangout et al., 2011). To address how these antibodies work, Sigurdsson has isolated immunoglobulin Gs (IgGs) from vaccinated mice, labeled them with a fluorescent tag (FITC), and then re-injected them into mice to see where they go. He showed that they not only enter the brain, but also seem to get inside neurons where they co-localize with tau. Interestingly, he said, the antibodies do not penetrate the brains of control mice—at least in quantities this method can detect. He believes a damaged blood-brain barrier explains why the antibodies gain access to the brains of the transgenic animals.
How do the antibodies get inside neurons? Sigurdsson said that work on ex-vivo slice cultures suggests cells take up the antibodies and that they co-localize with endosomal/lysosomal markers, such as LAMP2. Isolated lysosomal fractions from these cells contain the antibodies and tau. Sigurdsson’s group presented some of these data at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease in Hawaii last July. He said that it is well known that several receptors on most cells, including neurons, bind antibodies. He speculated that antibodies enter via receptor-mediated endocytosis, traveling in endosomes that then fuse with autophagosomes containing tau aggregates. The antibodies would then drive disassembly of the aggregates, freeing tau up for lysosomal degradation. Alternatively, he suggested, antibodies might diffuse into cells through damaged membranes, bind to tau aggregates on the inner surface of the plasma membrane, and get processed by autophagosomes. Sigurdsson is also interested in a ubiquitin ligase system that binds antibodies attached to viruses and targets them for destruction. He thought this system might be involved in the tau antibody response as well.
Sigurdsson’s lab has newer monoclonals in development. One of them, 4E6G7, is a phospho-tau-specific antibody. It reduced tau pathology and also rescued cognition in the radial arm maze, a closed-field symmetrical maze, and in an object recognition test as well. Even though treatment began late, he saw improvements, said Sigurdsson. He thought this bodes well for translation to human studies.
Scientists are also looking to other tau immunotherapy strategies, including specifically targeting tau oligomers. Rakez Kayed, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, reviewed his lab’s progress in this approach. He has made polyclonal (T22) and monoclonal (TOMA) antibodies to tau oligomers (see ARF related news story). In Uppsala, Kayed reported that his group isolated a specific tau oligomer directly from human AD brain by using the antibodies to immunoprecipitate tau from soluble fractions enriched with extracellular material. The oligomer is a dimer or possibly a trimer. Kayed said he is not sure which, because oligomer migration on electrophoresis gels does not always predict size. He said they also established a causative relationship between this putative tau dimer/trimer and memory deficits in mice. Specifically, injecting it into the brains of normal mice weakened their ability to remember novel objects.
TOMA injected into the brain reduced tau pathology in eight-month-old P301L and 14-month-old Tg2576 mice. Injected intravenously into the latter, the antibody rescued memory deficits as judged by a novel object recognition test. When given as a single intravenous injection (30 μg), TOMA reduced tau oligomers detected biochemically and immunohistochemically. Surprisingly, Kayed said, it did not reduce AT8-reactive tau species phosphorylated at serine 202/threonine 205, which is in contrast to other immunotherapies directed at tau, including those of Citron and Sigurdsson above. Kayed did not want to speculate why AT8-reactive tau was not reduced. He did claim that TOMA recognizes oligomers in human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), suggesting that these oligomers, present at ng/ml levels, could become the basis for a new diagnostic test. In three separate experiments, two of them blinded, his group measured these oligomers in CSF taken from 25 AD patients and 25 normal controls, Kayed told the audience.—Tom Fagan.
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San Francisco: Tau—Time to Shine as Therapeutic Target? 17 May 2011
Uppsala: Immunotherapy—Not Just for AD Anymore
As immune-based therapies targeting Aβ and tau are beginning to show promise for the treatment of Alzheimer’s, what about other disorders of the nervous system? At the 2nd International Conference on Neurodegenerative Disorders: Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, which took place 26-27 May 2011 at Uppsala University, Sweden, researchers outlined potential immunotherapies for Parkinson’s and other synucleinopathies, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and even prion diseases. The last have been a tough nut to crack, because the immune system strongly recognizes prion protein as “self” and fails to mount a response to prion antigens. The variety of different immune strategies discussed at the meeting spoke to how seriously scientists are pursuing this approach.
Eliezer Masliah, University of California, San Diego, reported on immunotherapies against α-synuclein, the principal component of Lewy body aggregates that characterize Parkinson’s and other synucleinopathies. Masliah told the audience that he is not interested in targeting Lewy bodies per se, but toxic α-synuclein oligomers. Though α-synuclein is predominantly an intracellular protein, it also extrudes from cells in different forms (see Lee et al., 2005), and synuclein toxicity propagates from cell to cell (see ARF related news story). Oligomers extruded from cells could be mopped up by antibodies, suggested Masliah. Together with Dale Schenk and Dora Games at Elan Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco, California, Masliah previously developed an active α-synuclein vaccine that helps rid mice of the protein (see ARF related news story on Masliah et al., 2005). At Uppsala, he reported on a passive immunotherapy.
To test it, Masliah and colleagues used an α-synuclein transgenic mouse model of Lewy body disease in which the protein deposits in the temporal cortex and hippocampus. These mice lack full motor control and have poor cognitive skills (Masliah et al., 2000). Masliah reported on a monoclonal antibody, 9E4, that recognizes the C-terminal end of the protein and labels intraneuronal synuclein aggregates in brain tissue. When six-month-old α-synuclein mice received twice-weekly intraperitoneal injections of 9E4 for six months, they outperformed control transgenic mice on both the rotarod test of motor function and the Morris water maze test of spatial learning and memory. The treated transgenic mice performed about as well as wild-type controls.
How does 9E4 rescue this phenotype? By fluorescent labeling, Masliah and colleagues tracked the antibody as it entered the central nervous system, where it labeled granular structures inside neurons of the temporal cortex and the CA1 of the hippocampus. The antibody co-localized with α-synuclein, and also with lysosomal markers including LC3. The results hinted that 9E4 protects mice by penetrating deep into the brain, reacting with α-synuclein, and ferrying it to lysosomes for degradation. In support of this, the treatment reduced the amount of α-synuclein in the cortex and hippocampus, while a control IgG had no effect. Treated mice exhibited more post-synaptic density 95 and synapsin 1 protein in the brain, suggesting synapses were protected against α-synuclein toxicity. 9E4 reduced the amount of calpain-cleaved α-synuclein. This truncated form of synuclein is believed to serve as a template for aggregation. Much of this work was recently published (see Masliah et al., 2011).
Another antibody seems to encourage glial cells to take up and destroy the protein. Named 274, this antibody completely obliterated α-synuclein accumulation in astroglia, said Masliah, yet had little effect on neurons. Masliah concluded that antibodies can dispatch the protein in at least two ways: by stimulating lysosomal degradation in neurons, and by activating clearance in glia. The latter could be more important for multiple system atrophy (MSA), a disease characterized by glial accumulation of α-synuclein. Masliah said he plans to test 274 in a mouse model of MSA, where the myelin basic protein promoter drives overexpression of α-synuclein in glia.
Martin Ingelsson, Uppsala University, reported a different approach toward synuclein immunotherapy, focusing on antibodies that recognize induced protein oligomers. Because α-synuclein oligomers are fleeting entities, Ingelsson and colleagues developed a screen to find chemicals that coax the protein to form stable oligomers. Two chemicals generated from lipid oxidation, 4-oxo-2-nonenal (ONE) and 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal (HNE), turned out to potently induce α-synuclein oligomerization, though with slightly different outcomes. Atomic force microscopy revealed that ONE-induced oligomers are amorphous and less dense, while oligomers formed in the presence of HNE have a protofibril-like structure, Ingelsson said. Both are toxic to neuroblastoma cells (see Näsström et al., 2011).
Mice immunized against these induced oligomers generated an antibody, 49G, with some promising characteristics. It recognized antigens in brain tissue of PD patients and also brain samples from transgenic α-synuclein mice. In fact, the antibody detected antigens in the brain of A30P α-synuclein mice as young as four months old, some six months before these mice normally begin to display pathology. This finding supports the idea that oligomers form well in advance of visible protein aggregates, and suggests that early treatments with antibodies like 49G could slow or halt the disease process. Ingelsson said that cells take up the antibody, which then seems to attenuate α-synuclein aggregation. While the antibody may help clear such aggregates, it also seems to prevent their formation: When cells express synucleins attached to different domains of green fluorescent protein (GFP), 49G reduces the fluorescence that occurs when synucleins bind together and effectively reconstitute the full GFP. Ingelsson plans to test the antibody in a preclinical trial using transgenic mice to see if it will limit pathology.
Jean Pierre Julien, from the University Laval in Québec, Canada, outlined two different therapeutic strategies for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—traditional antibodies and intrabodies. The latter are antibody genes hidden, Trojan horse-style, inside viral vectors. Julien and colleagues generated traditional monoclonals against the copper-zinc superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1), which misfolds when mutated to cause rare familial cases of ALS. Three of them, B8H10, D3H5, and A5C3, did not recognize wild-type SOD1, but did recognize a range of different mutants, suggesting that they bind to epitopes that emerge when the protein adopts non-native conformations (see Gros-Luis et al., 2010). In a G93A SOD mouse model of ALS, the antibodies detected aberrant protein aggregates in motor neurons before any onset of symptoms. Slowly pumped into mouse brain ventricles at around the time of disease onset (85 days old) D3H5 increased survival by six days when administered over 28 days. When treated from day 65, mice survived nine days longer than controls. Julien said that the antibody mostly ends up in motor neurons and microglia, which have both been implicated in pathology in ALS (see ARF related news story).
Antibodies lacking the antibody Fc tail also extend lifespan in this mouse model, though less efficiently than the full antibody, said Julien. Nevertheless, this opens up the possibility of using single-chain antibodies, which may penetrate the brain more readily than full-sized immunoglobulins and are less likely to induce unwanted immune reactions. Julien has started treating mice with single-chain antibodies, but said it is too early to know what effect they have. Julien is collaborating with Biogen Idec, Boston, Massachusetts, to develop humanized antibodies for clinical trials. Though SOD mutations cause but a minor fraction of ALS cases, aggregates of the protein form in tissue from sporadic cases, too, (see ARF related news story), suggesting that an anti-SOD therapy might have broad utility.
Furthermore, Julien reported discovering an interaction between TDP-43 and p65/RelA, a member of the NF-κB family of transcription factors. TDP-43 aggregates occur in nearly all cases of ALS and some other neurodegenerative diseases, such as frontotemporal dementia and some Alzheimer’s cases, making it an attractive therapeutic target. What role the protein plays in pathology is still unclear. It is an RNA-binding protein, and when it aggregates, it alters expression of many genes (see ARF related news story). Julien found the interaction between TDP-43 and p65 using an immunoprecipitation approach. He said that in ALS spinal cord neurons, p65 shifts into the nucleus, suggesting that it may be playing a role in pathology, which is the opposite of what happens with TDP-43, which mislocates into the cytoplasm. Exactly how the two proteins might conspire to promote disease is unclear, but Julien reported that withaferin A, an NF-κB inhibitor, reduced neuronal toxicity induced by glutamate, and also reduced gliosis and nuclear p65 in TDP-43 transgenic mice, supporting p65 as a potential drug target. Julien said he is working on intrabodies to target the TDP-43/p65 interaction to see if they can reduce pathology in TDP-43 mouse models.
One group of neurodegenerative diseases that have been particularly challenging from an immunotherapy perspective are the spongiform encephalopathies, or prion diseases. As Claude Carnaud, INSERM, Paris, France, pointed out, the cellular prion protein (PrPc) is ubiquitously expressed in the body, even in immune cells, so the immune system recognizes PrPc as “self” and will not attack it. The immune system is a poor reservoir for prion antibodies, those that do remain have low affinity, and new epitopes formed upon conversion of PrPc to toxic prions do not seem to trigger immune responses, said Carnaud. In short, researchers must be inventive if they want to evoke the immune system to tackle prion diseases.
Carnaud reported on two possible tacks. Dendritic cell vaccination uses bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (these are cells of the immune system) to spur naive B cells to produce antibodies to PrPc, breaking the immune tolerance for this ubiquitous protein. Adoptive T cell transfer uses T cells from a host that has no immune tolerance, such as a PrPc-negative mouse. Carnaud and colleagues have had some success treating mouse models of prion disease with both approaches.
For the former, the authors first established which prion peptides elicited the best immune response by injecting several into PrPc-negative animals, which lack immune tolerance toward the protein. Next, they used the most antigenic peptides to load up dendritic cells to present the antigens to the immune system of wild-type mice. Dendritic cells harboring a peptide corresponding to PrPc amino acids 98-127 not only induced an immune response, but lengthened the survival of mice injected with a lethal dose of scrapie prion. The animals survived an average of 254 days, versus 212 days for controls (see Bachy et al., 2010). Survival time correlated with the amount of anti-PrPc antibody in the serum.
For adoptive cell transfer, Carnaud and colleagues also used cells from PrPc-negative animals challenged with prion antigens. They transplanted T lymphocytes from those animals to wild-type mice. The transferred cells protected the animals from amassing toxic prion in the spleen. Adoptive T cell transfer also extended the lifespan of mice injected with scrapie by about 30 days, said Carnaud (see also Gourdain et al., 2009). Protection did not correlate with anti-prion antibodies in circulation, suggesting that this method evokes a predominantly cellular immune response. Whether either of these strategies would work in humans remains to be seen. The approach would be to remove a patient's immune cells, expand them to great numbers while challenging them with a suitable antigen, then put them back into the patient. Oncologists are studying this strategy to overcome immune tolerance to cancers (for a review, see Schumacher et al., 2009).
Immunotherapies for AD, PD, and some other neurodegenerative diseases are in their infancy. In contrast, natalizumab (tysabri), produced by Biogen Idec, is approved for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) in the US., and relapsing-remitting MS in the EU. As Biogen’s Alfred Sandrock pointed out, many other immunotherapies for MS are in various stages of development. Alemtuzumab, which depletes CD4/CD8 T cells, is currently in Phase 3, and results should be available soon, he predicted. In Phase 2, the therapy reduced disability by 70 percent, and relapses by 75 percent. Ocrelizumab, sponsored by Genentech and Hoffman-La Roche, suppresses B cells and reduces lesions and relapses. Though there was one death reported in Phase 2 and a trial for lupus has been halted, that treatment is entering Phase 3 for MS as well. Daclizumab, being developed jointly by Biogen and Abbot (see related news), is also in Phase 3, and results are expected this summer.
Sandrock said the late progression phase of MS is still difficult to tackle. Losses and gains of the myelin sheath that insulates axons characterize this phase of the disease. Remyelination is a hit-and-miss affair, and it is unclear why, said Sandrock. Blocking the protein leucine-rich repeat and Ig domain-containing 1 (aka LINGO-1), which suppress myelination by limiting maturation of oligodendrocytes, might be one potential avenue for boosting remyelination. Sandrock and colleagues found that knocking down LINGO-1 with interfering RNAs boosts maturation of oligodendrocytes and promotes remyelination. In a mouse model of MS, an anti-LINGO-1 antibody increases myelination. In humans, this can be measured using magnetization transfer ratio, a form of magnetic resonance imaging. Anti-LINGO-1 therapy has entered Phase 1, and Sandrock said Biogen hopes to begin Phase 2 next year using MTR as an outcome measure. Researchers at the meeting took encouragement from the relative success of the MS programs and in the breadth of new potential treatments entering or in clinical trials. The general feeling was that if immunotherapy can work for MS, then similar treatments for AD, PD, and other neurodegenerative diseases may follow suit.—Tom Fagan.
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Clashes in Syrian City of Daraa Despite it Being ‘Safe Zone’
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Intense clashes broke out in Syria's Daraa on Monday between government forces and insurgents with both sides shelling parts of the southern city that has been declared a safe zone under a recent Russia-sponsored deal, opposition activists and state media said.
Daraa, the site where Syria's crisis began in March 2011 with anti-government protests, is one of four "de-escalation zones" announced earlier this month during cease-fire talks in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Russia, Iran and Turkey agreed to establish the zones in Syria, signing on to a Russian plan under which President Bashar Assad's air force would halt flights over designated areas across the war-torn country.
Violence had been reported in the "de-escalation zones" since the deal was struck but Monday's clashes were among the worst.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government forces fired 11 missiles on rebel-held parts of Daraa as insurgents, including members of the al-Qaida-linked Levant Liberation Committees shelled government-held parts of the city.
Daraa-based opposition activist Ahmad al-Masalmeh said insurgents repelled a government attack on the city's Manshiyeh neighborhood adding that troops fired as many as 20 missiles on the city.
State news agency SANA said the shelling of government-held parts of the city wounded two women and a child. It added that the Syrian government respects the Astana deal but has vowed to retaliate to any violation.
The violence came as U.S.-backed Syrian fighters marched closer toward the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State group. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces has been the most effective group fighting IS extremists in Syria who have lost wide areas around Raqqa over the past months.
The Kurdish-led forces and the Observatory said the U.S.-backed fighters captured the village of Salhabiyeh, west of Raqqa.
In the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, which is contested between IS and the Syrian government, airstrikes targeted several neighborhoods held by IS killing and wounded dozens.
Omar Abu Laila, a Europe-based opposition activist from Deir el-Zour, said the airstrikes were likely carried out by Russian warplanes, adding that seven people were killed and more than 20 wounded. The Observatory said 10 people were killed, including three IS members.
Earlier Monday, IS claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in northwest Syria that killed at least 14 insurgents. The extremists said in a statement that the attack against Ahrar al-Sham fighters was carried out by one of its members who parked his booby trapped motorcycle outside the group's office and detonated it along with an explosive belt he was wearing.
Ahrar al-Sham had blamed IS for Sunday's attack in the village of Tal Touqan in Idlib province. Ahrar al-Sham said the attacker blew himself and his motorcycle up amid the fighters, killing and wounding dozens.
Source: Voice of America
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Art Pop-Up Shop in Battersea
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We are getting together under the same roof the work of different artists. Painting, Photography, Art, Craft, Ceramics and Jewellery. This art pop up shop is taking place in Battersea (The Gallery on the Corner - 155 Battersea Park Road - SW8 4BU) from Thursday August 15th til Sunday August 18th. FEATURING: Charlie Pi: http://goo.gl/hPN0H0 Denise Yeats: http://goo.gl/fiQV7N Gaye Black: http://goo.gl/REX2MN Charlotte Kessler: http://goo.gl/lDW0eI Laura Parra: http://goo.gl/urH45N Tutte Newall: http://goo.gl/MwYoKm
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Volume 25 No. 3 — 1 October 2010
Under Twenty-Five and the ‘Lost’ Stories of Murray Bail and Peter Carey
Bronwyn Lacken
Lacken explores early uncollected stories by Carey and Bail, published in the anthology Under Twenty-Five, and assesses their significance in the development of the two writers.
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Published 1 October 2010 in Volume 25 No. 3.
Cite as: Lacken, Bronwyn. ‘Under Twenty-Five and the ‘Lost’ Stories of Murray Bail and Peter Carey.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 25, no. 3, 2010. https://doi.org/10.20314/als.e32ee4c717.
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WHAT'S IN OUR CHRISTMAS EVE BOX
I can't believe this will be my last post before the big day, we're just three sleeps away now and it still feels as though Christmas has completely jumped upon us. I had already really logged off for my Christmas break so to speak but I couldn't resist having one last festive post before I did, and what is better to end with than what we pop in our Christmas Eve box? I posted last years and it feels a little right of passage for me now, so here's what is going in this years. I try to include a bit of everything without going overboard as of course they're getting lots just the next day. However this year we are being a bit cheeky and the boys will get their basket on Christmas-eve-eve as we're busy on Christmas Eve itself as my parents, and it would go to waste otherwise.
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5 REASONS WE LOVE ELF ON THE SHELF
(image by Alana at Baby Holiday)
Elf on the shelf is very marmite isn't it? If you're not sure what I'm talking about, then it's a fairly common tradition now, that seems to be picking up more popularity year after year. A little elf visits your house usually on the first of December, right the way through up until Christmas eve when he flies back to the North Pole to let Santa know whether the little ones have deserved a place on the nice list. Of course during those few weeks it's entirely up to you how you use the elf, so many just have him watching carefully, others make him get up to naughty tricks which there are plenty of inspiration on Instagram. We're an Elf household, we love it, it works fantastic and I can't see the harm in a little bit of extra Christmas magic during December. But I know that as much as we love it, there are so many out there that really don't see the point, they don't quite 'get it' or simply think it's a waste of time.
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE | TODDLERS
I've always found toddlers amongst some of the easiest to buy for, they have usually discovered their favourite television character by this point and so that's always a sure fire way to go. Toddlers are usually sectioned off on most websites for gifts, and even if you aim a bit older or younger - you're still probably going to get it right. Let's face it, they are easily pleased. My very own toddler is two and a half, and whilst the term 'toddler' doesn't seem so fitting when he can give Usain Bolt a run for his money (especially when you've got your hands full and he makes a dash for it in Asda - thanks Pip) he is most definitely fitting in the toddler category and I just know he'd love all of these gifts.
A FULL TERM OF SCHOOL
We're within touching distance now of the end of the first term of school for Noah and whilst it's gone so fast, it also feels like he's always been there and this has forever been our routine. I would love to sit here and be able to portray what I'm sure many would deem a more 'real' version of motherhood and say we've struggled through, finding it difficult, but that's pretty far from the truth and I couldn't be prouder of Noah and how he's taken to school life. I know that isn't the case for so many and I'm pretty confident there will be times between both boys in which we'll really struggle with school life but for now things are running pretty smoothly so I'm feeling incredibly grateful that I'm able to say that.
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE | KIDS
My eldest has just turned five and I'm finding the older they get the smaller the presents come yet the price tag increases somewhat, so I've tried to create a guide that's not going to break the bank and will appeal to both boys and girls. I'm focusing on the age range from three to six and hopefully there is something for everyone.
THE GIFTS YOU CAN'T WRAP | CHRISTMAS 2018
I'm sorry if you're someone who isn't a big fan of Christmas in November, because unfortunately I definitely am. You can probably expect the big C to be mentioned in most posts from now until January and there's zero shame from me about that. Christmas isn't just a time of year, it's a way of life right? I think because when you have children it suddenly means something entirely different doesn't it? You see the magic through their eyes, it's so special and even talking about it now gets me so excited, especially that Patrick is that bit older now and can really understand what everything is about. But Christmas certainly isn't all about money, presents and food, though across blogs this month I'm sure the gift guides will be endless, mine being no exception, I wanted to talk about some of the presents that money can't really buy.
THE IMPORTANCE OF OUTDOOR PLAY
We love being outdoors, in fact, try and keep my boys inside for a day and we all go a little stir crazy, they're just happier with dirt under their fingernails and muddy puddles beneath their feet. For me if we didn't get out and explore at some point over a weekend, I'd feel like I'd done not only them but myself a disservice, because everything just feels a little less stressful when we're outside. They can run, jump, scream, stomp and it doesn't feel half as alarming as it does when we're stuck inside the confines of four walls with the theme tune of peppa pig in the background. Outdoor play for us isn't an option, it's essential.
A YEAR GONE BY
It feels like the cliche statement to make as we get closer to the end of the year but my oh my has twenty eighteen flown by. It truly feels like moments ago we were in the depths of winter with crazy snow that never seemed to go away, and yet here we are headed straight for the colder months again, seemingly in the blink of an eye. I've found myself looking back this week on photos, very much giving my own take on Facebooks 'this time last year' pop up, and I can't quite believe the difference. Sure it doesn't feel like a hot minute since we were donning woolly hats and wellies, but the photos show me just how much life has changed it that time period. My boys are most definitely boys now and really shaking away the last elements of babyhood - it's bittersweet but I just love reflecting back and seeing how much they've grown.
PARENTAL WORRIES
I think from the moment you see those two blue lies, the word 'pregnant' or a little red cross on that stick, you're saddled with worry. It's natural, and I think I'd be worried if I didn't worry which is every bit as silly as it sounds. It can vary drastically, from worrying if your kids will eat their lunch at school that day - maybe they'll be hungry, what if they don't drink enough and feel super thirsty? Then there are the bigger things, the stuff that creeps into your mind at three o'clock in the morning to keep you awake at night, what happens to my kids when I'm not around? Will they have their own family, house and life? The scale of worry is a vast one, but it's never ending as a parent, you can't escape it from the moment you're aware of their existence.
PEPPA PIG MOBILE MEDICAL CENTRE | REVIEW
It's no secret that Peppa Pig is a hit in our household, as with most families as I think Peppa Pig is a little bit of a staple in most households these days. Patrick is very familiar with all the characters so when we were given the chance to review the Mobile Medical Centre, as soon as he saw the box he began to shout 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear'.
OUR AUTUMN BUCKET LIST 2018
I'm a tad slow off the mark with this one, as I know we're well in the midst of autumn now, even if the weather hasn't quite got the memo. I can't complain, I like that we're able to wear chunky knits and chelsea boots again now - but it's not even nearly hats and gloves weather, it's perfect for us. Autumn always has, and will be my favourite season, not just for the weather but the fact it always holds so much excitement - that big run up till Christmas is undoubtedly the best time of the year. If I'm entirely honest though I've been stuck in a bit of a slump and it's only over the past week has that fog slightly lifted for me so I wanted to cheer myself up by planning out the things we want to do this autumn.
VAMPIRINA TOY COLLECTION | REVIEW
I know with the run up to Christmas in full swing, there's a huge focus on toys and what to grab for your little ones. I'm sure I'm not alone in having already begun to pick up pieces for my boys, and if you're on the look out for some fantastic toys this Christmas, then definitely look no further than the Vampirina collection. We were lucky enough to be selected to review some of their new and existing line and I can tell already that they're going to be a huge hit, as my two have loved getting stuck into all of the pieces. We enjoy nothing more than snuggling down watching episodes of our favourite vampire so when the toys arrived, the boys were over the moon to see what was in store.
PJ MASKS SUPERMOON ADVENTURE TOYS | REVIEW
The boys are huge PJ Masks fans, so we jumped for joy when we found out we were being sent a big selection of new and existing PJ Mask toys, and I truly mean jump for joy - with Noah asking if it was Christmas when he opened the box. We were kindly send the items and you can be in with a chance of winning some of them during a fantastic Twitter party that will be hosted on October 17th from 1-3pm following the #PJMasksToys hashtag. Definitely make sure you check that out and see all the fun games we'll be getting up to whilst the party is in full swing.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TAKE A SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK | A MONTH OFF
Social media is all consuming, I don't envy teenagers today who have grown up in a world where the amount of likes on an Instagram photo dictates your mood for the rest of the evening, when life is a constant competition over who has more followers and who looks better with the cat filter on snapchat. I love my job, I really do, working for yourself is so liberating and full of a lot of perks but the pressure to constantly be active on social media is hard, it's a swamp and if you don't move fast you can so easily be bogged down.
BRIO LIFT & LOAD WAREHOUSE REVIEW
The boys in this household love playing with train tracks, and I say boys because it really isn't just Noah - no, Patrick and John are as equally dotty about curating their own little worlds with tracks and trains. And me being the practical parent, when I think of train tracks I never really look further than Brio, our house is littered with their toys, from their push and pull cars to their tracks themselves so when the opportunity came up to get our hands on the brand new Lift & Load Warehouse set and expand the boys train tracks, I couldn't turn it down.
WORKING FROM HOME - FINDING YOUR PURPOSE
The number of people working from home has increased rapidly over the past few years, is it any wonder with the extensive digital industry we now have? While this is an attractive option for many of us, it has it's fair share of downsides as well. One of the main issues I've found is you can quite often struggle to find the same sense of purpose working out of the house, as you do in a more traditional environment. Not only can a lot of people suffer from loneliness, but there is a myriad of distractions too. So, here are a few top tips to help with increasing the sense purpose that working from home gives you.
PEPPA'S LAUGH & LEARN LAPTOP | REVIEW & GIVEAWAY
Peppa Pig, what household with children doesn't know the familiar theme tune or can't recite 'flying high, in the sky' off the top of their heads? Certainly we do here. Noah never really had his head turned by Peppa, but Patrick is another story and his is well and truly spun. That being said we don't actually have many of the Peppa toys at home so when the chance came to check out the laugh and learn laptop, we took it with both hands.
TO NURSERY OR NOT TO NURSERY
Since Patrick turned two, and truthfully the months leading up to his second birthday, I wondered when he'd start nursery again. We took him out in December last year once I began to work from home and it was probably one of the best choices we made, for a dozen reasons, but knowing when to put him back in hasn't been such an easy choice. It's actually a playgroup we're uhming and ahhing over, and it doesn't accept little ones till they turn two, hence the wait - but yet I've found myself almost three months after his second birthday and I still haven't filled in the registration form.
STICKLE BRICKS REVIEW
Working in nurseries for over five years, it's rare that I wont have seen most toys in some variation before. Of course with that, toys fall into ones that I think are fantastic, and ones that aren't so much. Stickle Bricks have always fallen into the former category, yet for some reason we've never owned any at home ourselves, so when the opportunity came around to test out some sets, we grabbed it with both hands and here's how we've found them.
SO SCHOOL BEGINS
It always felt so far away, that first year they're born sometimes the days pass like weeks and the weeks themselves feel like they're never ending. But from a parent that just waved her son off at the school gates, I promise you time flies. Not when you're having fun, not when you're having bad days either, I don't really know how or when these years passed us by but they have and whilst I'm tinged with a bittersweet feeling, I'm excited for Noah to begin what I'm sure will be one hell of a roller coaster ride through education.
WHAT THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS TAUGHT ME
We're officially in September and with Noahs' first day at school mere days away, I wanted to reflect on the six weeks holiday as a whole. Initially when they rolled around I was thankful, Noah before now was attending school on a part time basis every afternoon (a strange set-up that any child who turned four before December last year was able to do) and whilst he loved school it was really disruptive every day going back and forth four times. I craved the holidays. But as they came closer the realisation that it'd be me and the boys flying solo for 95% of the time was in truth, a little intimidating - they fight like cat and dog at the minute and I didn't want to end the month of August being able to add referee to my CV.
WORKING FROM HOME IN THE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
I'm always going to be one to scream from the rooftops all of the benefits that come with working from home, but of course with the perks come the pitfalls too - of which they are plentiful, believe me. Yet during the summer holidays this year, I've realised just how truly lucky I am to be working from home. Sure it's been difficult at times, and not having the most reliable childcare situation has meant a lot (and I mean A LOT) of super late nights, but it's also meant I'm home with my kids and whilst a lack of sleep is apparent, there are so many other issues we've managed to avoid that had I been still in my 9-5 job out of the house, we would of had to face.
BACK TO SCHOOL WITH TESCO F&F
With the fresh school term creeping closer and closer, I knew I had to bite the bullet and accept that Noah is starting school. Internal sobbing aside for a moment, it was time to go uniform shopping and whilst it's still upsetting that I'm losing him to education, the idea of kitting him out top to toe and seeing him all suited and booted was exciting. We headed to Tesco as we'd heard such great things, with an 82% 'would buy again' rating on Mumsnet, that spoke volumes to me along with a whole host of fantastic claims F&F are making this year - we knew it would be a crime not to road test them.
I'll admit that I have much higher standards this year for uniform, that I did when he began part time school hours in January. Noah is a fresh shirt every day kind of kid, if there is paint out he'll be in it, food colouring up to his arm pits and powder paint galore by a Friday afternoon. I wont lie, I found it exhausting and trying not to roll my eyes when he would ruin another t-shirt. After all, it isn't exactly his fault - kids learn through play and I want him to be able to get as messy and creative as he likes without having to worry that his Mum is going to moan about the mess. Tesco really agree with their own stance that 'Kids come home with stains - it's the sign of an active day. But with a bunch of new quality updates in F+F's school uniform, like stain-repellent and As New technology, you can guard against those lunchtime spills and hat-trick celebrations.' I mean if that isn't music to any parents ears then I'm not sure what would be. Plus they've even guaranteed their uniforms for 100 days, so you can have confidence that their uniforms will last, and if they don't? Bring them back for an exchange.
After heading to store and picking up the pieces we need, I was firstly impressed that even our local store which is quite small, had a super easy to find section all laid out for back to school. Even if I was sending John in for something (a brave task) with just how well presented everything was I'm sure he would have found it with ease. My first impressions of the uniform are fantastic, we opted for the plain polo t-shirts which at £2.50 for a pack of two is a serious purse pleaser, we also chose a pair of the slimmer fitted school trousers in grey.
I can already massively tell the difference between our new F&F school trousers, and his old pair on feel alone, something I really recommend doing as it truly shows the quality and extra mile Tesco have gone to. The knees are without a doubt reinforced, which is perfect if you've got a son or daughter like mine that loves nothing more than to skid on their knees, we're usually about a week into the term before I start to see the bobbling and fading so reinforced is exactly what he needs. When it comes to t-shirts, Noah can wear either white or navy and whilst my Mum brain is screaming 'opt for navy', not many other children do so I don't want him to stand out for my own selfish washing reasons. The stain repellent technology is a huge appeal for me, it's not something I've heard of before and I'm intrigued to see by the end of our 100 days, if it's lived up to expectation. The polos are comfortable, no itchy collars and not a sign of stiffness to them, given they're wearing school uniform for such a long period of time of course you want them to be as comfortable as possible, so F&F have taken care of that worry for you.
Overall I am really impressed with the uniform, there are a lot of big claims and something tells me I'll be sat here in one hundred days screaming and raving about F&F. We're only at the very beginning of our education journey with Noah, as he's about to take his first steps into foundation in just a couple of weeks - so if we've hit the uniform jackpot this early on, I'll be incredibly impressed.
100 Days Later
With the end of term in sight, and our 100 day guarantee almost up, it only seems appropriate to look back and really see if the proof was in the pudding or more aptly, the reinforcement was in the knees on our Tesco F&F trousers. We was always incredibly impressed with the uniform from the start, from the fit to the feel but durability was a big issue for us, Noah goes through school trousers faster that Patrick goes through nappies so I was definitely intrigued to see how we would get on. In October I actually went back to Tesco and grabbed Noah another set, not through need but more greed, he's at his Nanas fairly often and it made sense to have some extra pairs and even though the trousers are two months apart in age almost, you can tell absolutely no difference in them - a telling tale for just how well they wear. They haven't grown baggier in the wash which is something I've found with competitor brands, they become slack after a while, yet our F&F's are still going strong and fit him incredibly well.
It isn't all about the trousers though, having t-shirts that can stay white are pretty vital and an almost impossible task when you have a five year old that seems to think body painting is part of the national curriculum. But we're here, approaching Christmas and not a paint stain in sight. One t-shirt isn't as gleamingly white as the others but I think that's more a faux par on my washing skills than any smear on F&F, given all 7 of the others are in immaculate condition. They've withstood every chalking session, after school ice lolly and play dough play date, I always felt frustrated that his school uniform entailed wearing white shirts but it's not even a worry on my mind anymore. I know I don't have to snap up new t-shirts every half term to ensure he's looking tip top and I have Tesco's F&F to thank for that.
*This is an advert collaboration between Mumsnet and Tesco however all opinions are completely our own.
PJ MASKS LIGHTS AND SOUNDS ROBOT REVIEW
If you haven't heard of PJ Masks then you must have been hidden under a rock, my boys are absolutely infatuated with them. Having met them in the flesh this weekend, you can imagine how many times we've heard the words Owlette and Catboy in the past twenty four hours. So when the opportunity to road test the brand new PJ Masks Lights and Sounds Robot came up, we grabbed it with both hands, which I'm grateful for as having had a good week or so experimenting with it, I know it's one of those toys that is going to be kicking around the house for quite some time.
DOING IT FOR 'THE GRAM'
We all laugh and joke don't we, as bloggers or just as people who are pretty active on social media, that something is 'instagrammable' or 'insta-worthy'. I've watched every blogger and their dog this summer head to lavender fields, sunflower farms and pick your own patches, the photos are always beautiful, fit in with any Instagram dream grid and firmly tick off a box for being part of the bandwagon. But why? Why do we do it? I thought it over this weekend, as I debated making an almost two hour drive for lavender glory before giving my brain a reality check and talking some sense into myself. And perhaps these are the reasons I'll never be the owner of a swipe up function, or never truly be '#goals', should we be pushing ourselves to visit beautiful places every weekend or is it all for the sake of a picture and selling a dream that is so far away from our reality?
DISNEY PUPPY DOG PALS TOY COLLECTION REVIEW
If you've got little ones, you'll almost certainly have heard of Puppy Dog Pals, the friendly animation series on Disney Junior where little pugs Rolly and Bingo go on crazy adventures around their town (yes I'm thoroughly invested myself - ok) Well when we received some of the brand new launched Puppy Dog Pals toy collection, I knew the boys would go bonkers and rightly so, it's pretty amazing. I always find little figures really long lasting toys, Patrick enjoys them at two and Noah is still really into them at almost five, so naturally when I opened the box and saw what was released, I was excited for them.
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND | LITTLE LIFE BACKPACKS
The summer holidays are in full swing, so with what seems like every other British family, we're enjoying as many days out as we can. Who knows how long this beautiful weather will last (it's already been months it feels like, I know) so we truly want to cherish every moment as when autumn and winter hits I'm sure we'll be doing what we do best and having a good old moan. My boys need a exercising, like animals, they have to get a run out or they'll be going up the walls and ultimately send me crazy in the process. When LittleLife sent us some of their Buzz Lightyear backpacks, it was the perfect excuse for another fun filled summer day out - just with that little Disney magic on top.
THE BENEFITS OF VILLA HOLIDAYS FOR FAMILIES
I feel as though we've tried and tested most varieties of holidays as a family. We've done all inclusive, half board and villa vaycays too, all of which have their own pros and cons but in terms of family holidays I do tend to lean on the side that staying in a villa just slightly outweighs the other options for a variety of reasons. Don't get me wrong it's lovely to have someone cooking the food for you, cleaning the plates from your table and making you drinks on tap - but when it comes to having children in the mix sometimes there is a convenience in a villa that you just can't get anywhere else. When we head off on our own it's usually my parents villa in Alicante, it's picturesque, a home away from home and thanks to all of the below, it actually feels like we had a holiday when we come home.
GETTING A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP
It's fair to say good sleep feels a bit of a myth to me, I would say John too but I think that boy could sleep on a washing line as my Nan would say. Sadly, our youngest hasn't adopted this trait from his dad and alas has caused complete havoc with this thing they call sleep, for the last two years. I'm probably giving him a bit of a bad rep as *touch wood* over the few months we have come to see more full nights sleep than broken, which is a huge achievement. But whilst my little Pip isn't a big fan of a good nights sleep, I certainly am and it's something I've lusted after since becoming a parent almost five years ago.
OUR TRAVEL REGRETS
Given that no matter how much we travel, it's always going to be something we don't do all too often - we're bound to make mistakes, do things wrong and generally regret some of the choices we make. I'm no exception, though with each journey we take as a family we learn a thousand new things, there is so much we realise that we haven't quite worked out yet and actually, are still getting massively wrong. Just last month we ventured off to Turkey and I already know a dozen things that I'd do differently if we had our time over, but there's a dozen more that I learnt from our trip last year to Spain. With children especially they're ever changing and always growing meaning that while you can plan every last detail till your hearts content - you can't always predict what will happen and how things will end up.
HOME RENOVATIONS AND THE LESSONS I'VE LEARNT
We've lived here now for long enough to know a little bit about DIY, or so you would think. In truth we probably know about as much as we did when we first moved in and held our first paintbrush - utterly clueless and completely winging it. But that's all the fun of decorating, right? Making mistakes and hoping you learn something along the way. Maybe we're an exception and most people do get it right after one or two shots, but we're still here years down the line trying to get our house exactly how we want it. I thought I'd share with you the tips and some advice I wish I'd knew when we started out all those years ago.
27 FREE ACTIVITIES FOR TODDLERS THIS SUMMER
With the summer holidays here for most people (or about to begin for the lucky ones who got an extra week of school) it can be seriously hard keeping everyone entertained 24/7. Whilst it's perfectly acceptable to sit around and do nothing, I could happily do it all day, my boys would not take as much enjoyment from it as I would - they need to be kept busy. Funds are unlimited so not everyday can be a day out and we all have things we have to get done at home too, so I've put together a list of 27 things you can do this summer with your little ones that wont break the bank.
THE FIVE STAGES OF A TODDLER TANTRUM
The terrible twos aren't a myth, if you've escaped them then just count yourself lucky though I'm sure the threenager or the what-the-fuck fours will most definitely haunt you instead, it's so rare anyone gets away unscathed by their toddlers. You may even be in the elite category that ends up dealing with all three and if you've found yourself there then I salute you because I am well in truly in the midst of a classic terrible two-er. His name is Patrick and he likes to yo-yo between the loving, cuddly and carefree boy he's always been to then the feisty, temperamental and quite frankly emotionally unstable state he's grown to enjoy showing off. The peak times to relish this aspect of his personality appear to be during public outings, particularly if the setting is a calm or tranquil one OR at bed time - because who doesn't love a meltdown when you should have been asleep an hour ago?
FEELING LIKE WE'RE ON FAST FORWARD
Life has been manic, for the past month everything has been non-stop and just as we're starting to swing back into our normal routine over the next week or so, Noah will break up from school and the holidays will begin, oh the joy! I am excited to have him home, I truly am but I don't feel as though I've had a minute to even blink lately as everything has been so full on. Between holidays, broken cars, school trips, inset and sports days, I've not really known whether we're coming or going and feel like I've got 101 plates being spun at any time. It's mentally exhausting and I'm definitely being a bit of a jack of all trades.
MARK WARNER HOLIDAYS FOR FAMILIES
When you're looking to go abroad as a family it's so important that everyone is catered for, from the kids, right the way through from babies to teenagers and then the adults too. You all want to come back feeling like you've enjoyed yourself and actually had a break which is something that isn't entirely easy when you have smalls in your family. Under 5's aren't exactly easy normally, so chucking them into unfamiliar surroundings is always a big risk but if you're like us and enjoy your holidays in the sunshine - then it's one worth taking. My boys need to be busy, they're on the go 24/7 and I worried if they'd be a little restless on our latest trip to the Phoakia Beach Resort in Turkey, thankfully I couldn't have been more wrong as Mark Warner seem to have family holidays down to a tee.
FLYING WITH A TODDLER | TOP TIPS
A flight with a toddler is never going to be a walk in the park because let's face it, even a walk in the park isn't always that pleasant with a little one in tow is it? Patrick is no exception, he's wild, independent and the very last thing on his to-do list is to sit still for almost five hours on a flight. Which just so happens to be exactly what we needed him to do a couple of weeks ago and I'll be honest and admit I was nervous, this isn't our first time travelling with our babes on a flight, far from it - Noah is a seasoned flyer. But our wild child is another kettle of fish and I knew it would be a constant battle of wills, which it was. Looking back at both the departing and returning flights, I know what worked and what really didn't and if I can help one person have a slightly smoother journey then my tips will have served well.
A HOME AWAY FROM HOME - TRAVELODGE STOCKPORT
As a family we generally try to keep our trips away from home, overnight, minimal. That is unless we're heading off on holiday of course, because in truth it can be really hard when you have small children. When you're used to spreading out across a house and all having your individual space, the thought of being holed up in one small hotel room hasn't hugely appealed to me. But with a flight departing from Manchester I didn't really want to risk driving up the same day as I just knew traffic wouldn't be on our side. We opted for a Travelodge, mainly because I roughly knew what to expect, we'd stayed in them before and my main priority was a good night sleep which I was pretty confident we could get there.
MARK WARNER PHOKAIA BEACH RESORT
Where oh where do I begin with our Mark Warner break? There is so much to talk about that I'm going to be dividing the posts up over the next few weeks, with this being a general round up of our thoughts on the entire trip. If you're here looking for the in-depth reviews of the childcare, facilities, hotel or food then stick around and hold tight as I want to give them the detail they deserve. So, cast your minds back to March when we were selected to be Mark Warner ambassadors, it was a huge deal for me as we're so passionate about travel and showing our boys as much of the world as we can - we were delighted. Even more so when we realised we'd be headed to the brand new resort in Foca, Turkey, only opening a mere month before we made our trip, I knew it was going to be something special. And that it was.
JOIE PACT PUSHCHAIR - A TRAVEL MUST HAVE
When I found out that we had been selected as Mark Warner Ambassadors this year, I knew that travel was on the cards, but more importantly, travel with a toddler. Patrick has just turned two and whilst he is fiercely independent, there wasn't a cat in hells chance I would be visiting another continent without a suitable pushchair for him to travel in. As much as I'm sure he'd protest that he doesn't need to sit in one. I researched long and hard on which pushchair would be best, we have a fair number of previous flights under our belt so I had pretty specific expectations in mind for what I wanted, after all if we were in Turkey and suddenly realised that the stroller wasn't working for us, there wouldn't be much we could do about it. You could say my standards were set a little too high, so I was wary nothing would match up.
PATRICK YOU'RE TWO
I can't believe I'm writing this given it only feels like yesterday we eagerly anticipated your arrival, wondering who you'd be and how you'd change the dynamic of our little family of three. Nothing could have prepared us for you though, my fierce, wild boy - the child that ultimately had we had you first, I'm not sure we'd have considered a second. You're testing but you're worth every single challenge you throw our way, and believe me there have been many. I knew during your first year that your personality was shining through and as predicted, over the last twelve months it's grown even more - you've come completely into your own and turned from a baby to a toddler (welp!)
SLOW SUNDAYS
The weeks lately have been hectic, I say weeks but it's probably been more months if I'm being entirely honest. I spoke about it briefly on Instagram, you know the analogy of being a duck seemingly gliding through the water but actually beneath the surface they're furiously pedalling with no signs of slowing down. That's me, I'm the duck. There isn't one specific thing nor are there any huge reasons as to why life is so full on right now, it just is and with Noah about to break up for school break in just over four weeks, I know it's going to get a whole lot busier, so with that in mind I wanted to really flick the brakes on and try and appreciate the art of slow living, even if my version of slow is more like a canter.
ENGAGEMENT OVER FOLLOWERS
As a full time blogger a large portion of my job requires social media activity, I'd probably guess it around half. Whilst the likes of Instagram and Facebook are a bit of fun for most people, it may seem that it's the 'easy' part of the job, but you'd be mistaken for thinking that. Posting a quick photo with a seemingly fitting caption isn't the hard task, though capturing said photos can be, it's building a loyal and engaging following - that's the difficult part. There may be a small amount of social media influences who gained a following quickly and authentically for one reason or another, but the majority have to work hard at it day after day, and it can be a pretty gruelling task, especially today in a era of bots and fake followings.
CHERISHING MEMORIES WITH TIMESPRING
I think as parents it's part and parcel to feel bittersweet as you watch your babies grow. I'm always so scared of missing moments that I'll never get back or forgetting the way their voice sounded at a certain age. Whilst there is so many key points that stand out from the past four years of motherhood for me, there are so many that don't too, it doesn't mean they weren't as important or valuable to me, but that's just how life works.
STRAWBERRY PICKING - DAYS OUT WITH KIDS
If you've been around for a moment, you'll know that strawberry picking was on my summer bucket list for the year. Nothing pleases me more than ticking something off pretty promptly, so we decided to do that by heading to a local pick your own farm in the East Midlands. Our farm of choice was the School Farm near Retford, after visiting last year on our second pumpkin picking mission, we noticed that they were opening for the strawberry season and we couldn't resist. I wasn't sure how much they'd have and if there would be any that were truly pick-able, but thankfully the ripe strawberries were plentiful and we managed to fill our baskets up with ease.
SUNDOWN ADVENTURELAND - DAYS OUT WITH KIDS
Where do I start with Sundown? It's undoubtedly our favourite place to visit with the boys, and has been that way for almost four years now. I could shout and scream from the rooftops about it all day, every day, but instead I save that for my Instagram stories when I visit. If you've never heard of Sundown Adventureland, it's a theme park specifically targeted at the under 10's, situated between Retford and Lincoln in the East Midlands. A stark contrast to most other theme parks I know which usually have a small area for the little riders in your group, and generally focus on adults and teens for the rest of the park. Sundown is a toddlers dream, and as an owner of two small children, it's my dream too because they're both completely in their element when we visit. Just last week we weighed up the options of what to do for the day on Patricks birthday, it was a no brainer, and off we went to Sundown.
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The Great Wall of Honesdale
Posted 5:00 pm, January 7, 2020, by Alexandra Gallo, Updated at 06:43PM, January 7, 2020
HONESDALE, Pa. -- An art exhibit in Wayne County that's on display for all to see changes every year. This year's contest started on Monday.
Artists can submit their work for a chance at having it displayed on the Great Wall of Honesdale.
This isn't a typical art exhibit. It's giant-sized featuring 12 pieces of art displayed on 11-by-17-foot panels. And it's on display for anyone driving past to see.
The Great Wall of Honesdale is just one art exhibit put on by Wayne County Arts Alliance. Curators believe this is just one example of what's happening here in Honesdale.
"I predict there will be more murals happening here, so we're becoming a town that's a visual town to pass through. Of course, it's on Route 6, so there's a lot of tourism that goes by," said curator Paul Plumadore.
In fact, it's estimated that more than 100,000 cars a week pass by the mural on Main Street. The contest is now open for 2020 submissions, and organizers are looking for art of any and all mediums.
"It's a way of beautifying the town. It's a way of sharing artistic images. The fact that it changes each year gives the opportunity for a great many artists to display their artwork," said Janet Gaglione of the Wayne County Arts Alliance.
There were hundreds of entries last year. 12 new pieces of art will be selected and put on display here for a year.
"It's going to be exciting to see them all come in. Then it's going to be challenging to select only 12 out of all the submissions," added Gaglione.
The theme this year is "character portraits." The deadline to enter the contest is February 7.
"I'm looking not only for individual really great piece of art but also how they all work together, so that the overall wall when it's viewed, it sort of telling a story of some type," said Plumadore.
A story for all to see for an entire year before the display changes again next year.
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Planning Your Pregnancy
The more you know about your pregnancy and your options, the more you are likely to feel in control. The information given here is based on The Pregnancy Book, which your midwife should give you at your first appointment.
Before you are pregnant
All about conception and getting pregnant
Thinking about the next baby?
Your pregnancy and labour
37-40 weeks pregnantHow the baby develops
0-8 weeks pregnant
9-12 weeks pregnant
13-16 weeks pregnant
40+ weeks pregnant
Your health in pregnancy
Antenatal care and classes
Choosing where to have your baby
When pregnancy goes wrong
You and your baby
What you will need for your baby?
Your life after the birth
The first days with your baby
The first weeks with your baby
General pregnancy topics
Feelings and relationships
Information for dads
Maternity leave and employment rights
Rights and benefits
Make some decisions
If you have a long-term condition (such as diabetes or high blood pressure)
Child Health 0 - 6 Years
Children's Immunisation Schedule
Here's a checklist of the vaccines that are routinely offered to everyone in the UK for free on the NHS, and the age at which you should ideally have them.
Routine childhood immunisations
When to immunise
Diseases protected against
Vaccine given
Site**
Two months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel) Thigh
Pneumococcal disease PCV (Prevenar 13) Thigh
Rotavirus Rotavirus (Rotarix) By mouth
Meningococcal group B (MenB) MenB Left thigh
Three months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hib DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel) Thigh
Meningococcal group C disease (MenC) Men C (NeisVac-C or Menjugate) Thigh
Four months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hib DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel) Thigh
Meningococcal group B (MenB) Men B Left thigh
One year old Hib/MenC Hib/MenC (Menitorix) Upper arm/thigh
Pneumococcal disease PCV (Prevenar 13) Upper arm/thigh
Measles, mumpsand rubella (German measles) MMR(Priorix or MMR VaxPRO) Upper arm/thigh
MenB MenB booster Left thigh
Two to six years old
(including children in
school years 1 and 2) Influenza (each year from September) Live attenuated influenza
vaccine LAIV4 Both nostrils
Three years four months old or soon after Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio dTaP/IPV (Repevax) or DTaP/IPV(Infanrix-IPV) Upper arm
Measles, mumpsand rubella MMR (Priorix or MMR VaxPRO)(check first dose has been given) Upper arm
** Where two or more injections are required at once, these should ideally be given in different limbs. Where this is not possible, injections in the same limb should be given 2.5cm apart.
Immunisations for at-risk children
Target Group Age & Schedule Disease Vaccines required
Babies born to hepatitis B infected
mothers At birth, four weeks, eight weeks
and Boost at one year1 Hepatitis B Hepatitis B vaccine
(Engerix B / HBvaxPRO)
Infants in areas of the country with
TB incidence >= 40/100,000
At birth Tuberculosis BCG
Infants with a parent or grandparent
born in a high incidence country At birth Tuberculosis BCG
There is a good guide on the NHS website which describes various conditions affecting children. There is advice on how to diagnose them, how to treat them and if further advice should be consulted.
NHS childhood illness slideshow
When Should I Worry?
Having an ill child can be a very scary experience for parents. If you understand more about the illness it can help you to feel more in control. This booklet is for parents (and older children) and deals with common infections in children who are normally healthy.
Download the booklet
See the NHS Conditions and Treatments browser for an in-depth description of many common health issues.
These links all come from trusted resources but if you are unsure about these or any other medical matters please contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice
Child Health 7 to 15 Years
Girls aged 12 to 13 years old Cervical cancer caused by human papillomavirus types 16 and 18 (and genital warts caused by types 6 and 11) HPV (two doses 6-12 months) Upper arm
14 years old (school year 9) Tetanus, diphtheria and polio Td/IPV (Revaxis), and check MMR status Upper arm
Meningococcal groups A, C, W
and Y disease MenACWY Upper arm
The Meningitis C vaccination will be introduced during the 2013/14 academic year and the vaccine supplied will depend on the brands available at the time of ordering
Most symptoms of a fever in young children can be managed at home with infant paracetamol. If the fever is very high, they may have an infection that needs treating with antibiotics.
Bupa - more about childhood fevers
NHS Choices - what temperature is a fever?
Head lice are insects that live on the scalp and neck. They may make your head feel itchy. Although head lice may be embarrassing and sometimes uncomfortable, they don't usually cause illness. However, they won't clear up on their own and you need to treat them promptly
Head Lice Factsheet
Nosebleeds (also known as epistaxis) are fairly common, especially in children, and can generally be easily treated.
St Johns Ambulance
NHS Conditions and Treatments
Five health symptoms men should not ignore:
"British men are paying the price for neglecting their health: more than 100,000 men a year die prematurely.
On average, men go to their GP half as often as women. It's important to be aware of changes to your health, and to see your GP immediately if you notice something that's not right." Find out more
Each year about 36,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer, making it the most common cancer in men. It mainly affects men aged over 50.
difficulty in starting to pass urine
a weak, sometimes intermittent flow of urine
dribbling of urine before and after urinating
a frequent or urgent need to pass urine
rarely, blood in your urine or semen and pain when passing urine
These symptoms aren't always caused by prostate cancer but if you have them, see your GP.
Find out more about the symptoms, causes and diagnosis of prostate cancer by using the resources below.
BUPA - Prostate Cancer
NHS - Prostate Cancer
Testicular cancer, though the most common cancer in young men, it is still quite rare. With 2000 new cases being diagnosed each year, this makes it the biggest cause of cancer related death in 15 - 35-year-old males. It accounts for around 70 deaths a year within the UK alone.
What to Look Out For
The most common symptom of testicular cancer is swelling or a pea-sized lump in one of the testes (balls). There is no current screening test therefore it is important that you look out for the following signs and symptoms.
A dull ache, or sharp pain, in your testicles, or scrotum, which may come and go
A feeling of heaviness in your scrotum
A dull ache in your lower abdomen
A sudden collection of fluid in your scrotum
Fatigue, and generally feeling unwell.
NHS - Information on Testicular Cancer
BUPA - Testicular Cancer
It’s estimated that one man in 10 has a problem related to having sex, such as premature ejaculation or erectile dysfunction. Dr John Tomlinson of The Sexual Advice Association explains some of the causes, and where to seek help.
Find our more on NHS
Cervical Screening (Smear Tests)
Cervical screening is a method of preventing cervical cancer by detecting abnormal cells in the cervix (lower part of the womb). Cervical screening is not a test for cancer, but it is a test to check the health of the cervix.
Most women's test results show that everything is normal. But for one in 20 women, the test will show some changes in the cells of the cervix. Most of these changes will not lead to cervical cancer and the cells will go back to normal on their own. In some cases, the abnormal cells need to be treated to prevent them becoming a problem later.
NHS - Cervical Screening
The why, when & how guide to cervical screening
NHS Inform (Scottish Patients)
Cervical Screening information, risks, benefits and tests for patients based in Scotland
This factsheet is for women who would like information about having a cervical smear test for screening. This means having the test when you don't have any symptoms.
HPV Vaccination
Since September 2008 there has been a national programme to vaccinate girls aged 12-13 against human papilloma virus (HPV). There is also a three-year catch up campaign that will offer the HPV vaccine (also known as the cervical cancer jab) to 13-18 year old girls.
The programme is delivered largely through secondary schools, and consists of three injections that are given over a six-month period. In the UK, more than 1.4 million doses have been given since the vaccination programme started.
What is Human papilloma virus (HPV)?
Human papilloma virus (HPV) is the name of a family of viruses that affect the skin and the moist membranes that line your body, such as those in your cervix, anus, mouth and throat. These membranes are called the mucosa.
There are more than 100 different types of HPV viruses, with about 40 types affecting the genital area. These are classed as high risk and low risk.
How you get HPV?
Types of HPV that affect the skin can be passed on by skin contact with an affected person. The types of HPV that affect the mouth and throat can be passed on through kissing. Genital HPV is usually spread through intimate, skin to skin, contact during sex. You can have the genital HPV virus for years and not have any sign of it.
How HPV can cause cervical cancer?
Most HPV infections are harmless or cause genital warts, however some types can cause cervical cancer. Most HPV infections clear up by themselves, but in some people the infection can last a long time. HPV infects the cells of the surface of the cervix where it can stay for many years without you knowing.
The HPV virus can damage these cells leading to changes in their appearance. Over time, these changes can develop into cervical cancer. The purpose of cervical screening (testing) is to detect these changes, which, if picked up early enough, can be treated to prevent cancer happening. If they are left untreated, cancer can develop and may lead to serious illness and death.
HPV Facts and information
NHS - HPV Vaccination Why, how and when is the vaccination given and what are the side effects
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What prevents magic from being used scientifically? [closed]
In a fantasy world that behaves like our world where the same basic laws of physics, chemistry, etc. apply, except for the addition of magical abilities and forces - what prevents magic from being applied in a scientific manner and applied towards technology?
For instance, if the magic user is able to create a small spark at a distance, why not manifest that spark to some gunpowder in a long tube that's closed off on one end so as to propel a bullet out the other end? This would simplify firearm design by removing the need for a fuse, or hammer and trigger. The resulting firearm could rival the deadliness of a pure magic attack and provide a competitive advantage to any group willing to adopt the technology.
Or, to extend the spark idea, why not manifest that spark inside a piston that has some combustible fluid inside, so that the piston can turn a crank? This would simplify internal combustion engines. The productivity gains from (magic-enhanced) internal combustion engines would soon be clear to most of society, and adoption of such technology would quickly follow.
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$\begingroup$ "the same basic laws of physics, chemistry, etc." do not cover magic. $\endgroup$ – L.Dutch - Reinstate Monica♦ Sep 1 '17 at 5:53
$\begingroup$ If you can explain it, it's not magic...if you can't explain it, why would you want it in a tightly designed system? $\endgroup$ – nzaman Sep 1 '17 at 6:09
$\begingroup$ How is this "magic" different from non-magic? Or, phrased differently, what property of your "magic" sets it apart from everything else? "Magic" typically means something along the lines of "effect without a cause" (a spark appearing where there was nothing to cause the spark, for instance). If you can use your magic "scientifically", that would seem to imply that the magic can be explained by following the scientific process; at that point, what you are doing pretty much is science, almost by definition. $\endgroup$ – a CVn Sep 1 '17 at 6:59
$\begingroup$ "Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura" RPG game has both science and magic incompatible with each other. It is explained by saying that 'magical aura disrupts mechanisms' or something like that. Later in the game you can't even walk into some mechanical store with a magician because merchant guy would go crazy about your mere presence. $\endgroup$ – user2851843 Sep 1 '17 at 7:14
$\begingroup$ "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Arthur C. Clarke. The following corollary is relevant to your question: any sufficiently simple and understandable magic, is indistinguishable from technology. Take for instance that peculiar scar on your shoulder, that wards you from that horrible malady known as smallpox. To people that lived 500 years or more ago, that ward is magic. To us, it is simply a reminder that you got a vaccine. @davesherohman has the right of it: consistent magic that can be used in a repeatable, controllable manner, is not magic. $\endgroup$ – MichaelK Sep 1 '17 at 7:42
Anything which is consistent enough to be used in a controlled, repeatable manner to produce predictable effects is subject to the scientific method. Therefore, if you want your magic to be "non-scientific", it must be inconsistent and unpredictable. If you can reliably produce a spark at a precise location, with a precise intensity, every time you want to do it, then you're in the realm of science, even if it's a science that doesn't exist in the real world.
If it's non-scientific "magic", then the location will wander unpredictably, the timing may be off, sometimes you'll get a uselessly tiny spark and other times a massive lightning bolt, and there's a chance that it could produce a flower instead of a spark, even if you do the exact same things every time. And, most importantly, it needs to be fundamentally impossible to overcome this randomness because, as soon as you make it consistent and predictable, it becomes subject to science.
Of course, as an author, it can be difficult to maintain that level of randomness, not to mention that it tends to come off as unsatisfying to our modern scientific worldview. An alternate approach to keeping magic from becoming mundane is to allow it to behave in a manner amenable to science, but require more effort than using real-world technology. You're assuming that firing guns and running engines with magic sparks is easier than the way we do it in reality, but what if it takes serious effort each time to create the spark in just the right place? Then it's easier to use a firing pin or a spark plug than to constantly go to that trouble yourself. Or magic could simply be inefficient, requiring 100 times the energy investment to produce the same result. Who would use it then, unless it's the only option?
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$\begingroup$ Came to write just this. +1 $\endgroup$ – MichaelK Sep 1 '17 at 7:37
$\begingroup$ It doesn't necessarily have to be unpredictable or inconsistent in that way, it could just not work for everyone, or do something entirely different for certain people. Predictable enough to be useful to those who can use it but useless for many or even a majority. $\endgroup$ – Separatrix Sep 1 '17 at 9:25
$\begingroup$ @Separatrix Not all adult humans can drink cow's milk without getting sick. For some people it works to drink milk as adults, for others it does not... they get ill to their stomach. That does not mean that people living in northern Europe and on the British Isles are magical... we just happen to have been "blessed" with a genetic mutation that makes the enzyme Lactase continue to be active into our adult years. $\endgroup$ – MichaelK Sep 1 '17 at 12:02
$\begingroup$ The only way you can make magic not subject to scientific inquiry is to have the magic be entirely unpredictable in such a manner that nothing that humans do, say or think can in any way have an effect on the outcome. But then you also have (for most cases) useless magic because no-one can control it. $\endgroup$ – MichaelK Sep 1 '17 at 13:25
$\begingroup$ @Separatrix Well I contend what you said is no more mysterious or magical than Lactase persistence. It is just an individual trait... some have it, others do not. And unless the author wants to end up with something like the Midi-chlorian debacle, then this stuff should not be over-thought. Just leave it at "Some people have the magic/the Force, some do not". The allure — the magic if you will — of magic is that is not explained. Once it is explained how it works, it is just plain old boring science. $\endgroup$ – MichaelK Sep 1 '17 at 13:39
I don't know if you're a developper, but you could make magic work like an API. Magic is Black-boxed
Your mage can produce a result with a set of commands (spouting latin incantations or making sick gestures), but the key-point is that your mage don't know HOW the gesture connects to the result. He's totally oblivious of how the result is produced.
The result is that you can't reverse-engineer your magic. Maybe you know how to make a fireball, but you can't analyse the process to deduce how to make a little fireball, or a star-shaped fireball. Maybe these things are possible, maybe not ? But you can only cast a basic fireball.
That makes magic very limited : you can use it for what it's meant to do, like burning a bunch of dude or transform a prince into a frog, but neither of these spells can be used scientifically or industrially. Magic isn't flexible enough to be used like this.
Why is it like this ?
I don't have any special Lore idea to explain this situation. Maybe because magic is by nature explainable ? Maybe because a God don't want it to be this way ? Maybe because you have demons workers behind every spell and these guys don't want to go full Germinal ?
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$\begingroup$ The web comic El Goonish Shive has something similar to this answer going on in the background. Magic in EGS is essentially an undocumented API. People can learn to use it, but both the interface and the internals are subject to change at any time. $\endgroup$ – Dave Sherohman Sep 2 '17 at 8:45
Make magic be dependent on emotions.
For example, you would need to use anger to create a spark, and depending on exactly how angry you are and what other emotions you're feeling, the spark manifests differently.
This wouldn't hinder normal use of magic. Getting a bigger spark when you're angrier could be considered a feature. The spark might emit more light if you're scared, shying away others.
Using something dependent on emotions for precise industrial processes is a bad idea.
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To quote a great philosopher Tim Minchin:
You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine
So to explain with your spark and piston. There would be no piston. The whole idea behind engine would never occur to anyone because why? They have magic.
Gunpowder (emphasis on GUN) was made because we needed to inflict dead on someone from a distance greater than sword length. When you can create a spark at that distance why would he need to invent "traveling substance"?
There is a series of books called "The Magic Engineer". Where magic and machines exist but only in the way that black magic is used to make better steel and products while white magic is used to create fireballs and such things. BUT the "mana" is the key factor. Black magic engineers infuse materials with mana while white wizard suck mana out of things to create the wibbly wobbly stuff.
So in the terms of science "mana" is actually energy. To push bullet forward you need to spend energy while to create Cured glass you need to store it.
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The thing that sets magic (well, one type of magic) apart from physics is that a controlling mind is required for it. Imagine having to cast a spell everytime you want to create a spark in that piston engine! Sounds rather impractical to me.
Also, who can cast magic? Is it everybody or only some talented few? Do they need extensive training for it?
In many lores, magic is more of an art than engineering. Difficult and not that tightly controllable. Standard physical technology may outcompete magic simply due to it's repeatability and ease of use. The same reason firearms replaced bows, even though they were less effective at first. But you could equip a group of peasants with guns, train them a couple weeks to shoot volleys, and mow down those archers that had trained for their whole life.
Of course, magic wouldn't disappear completely. Maybe magical heat can be used to produce a superior steel, the wizard being a high prized specialist in the industry...
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Anti-inductivity: it works opposite of whatever past observations would have you believe. Like the stock market!
You can imagine this in any number of ways. Maybe magic is like a fabric or a grid, and if too many pull on the same string or use the same circuit, there's a tear or a congestion, and everything goes haywire. A bit like a magical tragedy of the commons maybe. You could still apply the scientific method, but sharing your results would invalidate them.
In the case of your spark spell, its potency and reliability would diminish with the number of people who knew how to cast it and with the frequency it was cast.
The consequences of this would be that there would be relatively few powerful wizards, all protective of their secrets. Magic items would tend to be unique, and all efforts at mass production of any one pattern would be thwarted by the reality itself. Conservarion of ninjutsu follows naturally. And a clever or lucky protagonist could create a big upset by pushing when everyone's pulling.
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$\begingroup$ Interesting approach. I would definitely +1 this is you can explain further how this works, and why (I know that already, but it will be helpful to future readers) $\endgroup$ – Vylix Sep 1 '17 at 10:22
Nothing stops it. But consider whether your examples are actually helpful or practical.
Firearms have evolved to a stage where the firing mechanisms are highly reliable. The mechanical problems with a gun are not about how to make it go bang - they're all about reloading or (for rapid-fire weapons) barrel overheating. Magic might help to cool the barrel, but it won't solve problems with badly-designed mechanisms (like the infamous SA-80).
Similarly with a car engine. Spark timing on an engine is rather important, and at 6000RPM that's 50 sparks per second on a 4-stroke engine. A human being simply cannot do it fast enough or accurately enough.
Now guiding a bomb to a target - that certainly would be a good application of telekinesis. Telekinesis could also be useful for remote manipulation where getting people or even robots in place is impractical - think blast furnaces or nuclear facilities, for example. Lateral thinking with those kind of skills is a weak point in many works of fantasy. In Star Wars, for example, why do the Jedi not have lightsaber throwing knives? This is one of the hallmarks of modern fantasy - the impact of the magic system is usually analysed properly, not just for fighting but also for its impact on economics, working practises and everyday life.
Charles Stross has two running series of books where magic is systematised and studied scientifically. The Merchant Princes series, starts with the premise that travel between alternative worlds is possible (initially by skilled humans, but eventually reproduced technologically) and expands the scope of this to how it affects economics, societal development and warfare. The Laundry Files has more traditional magic, but with the premise that this magic is the result of algorithms which can be run equally well on electronics as on human grey matter.
For another fantasy example, Scott Lynch's Gentlemen Bastards series is set in a loosely Renaissance-based context, but one in which alchemy works. In medicine, plant breeding, poisons and various other areas, this world does not draw a line between what is alchemy and what is not, because in this world it is all "natural". (Yes, there is also more traditional magic, but the magicians have mostly hidden themselves away, and they don't publicise the extents of their power.)
In one word, Science.
In the case of the internal combustion engine, I cannot see how magical sparks would either simplify or enhance. How does your magic synchronize with the cycle of the engine so that it would fire at the right time? However the spark is generated, I cannot see how it could not be driven in terms of timing by the mechanics of the engine. So one question which you must tackle would be - how does a machine perform magic?
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$\begingroup$ Achieving internal combustion without spark plugs, distributors, coils, wiring harnesses, etc. would definitely simplify and enhance the engine. As for how to synchronize the magical sparks with the rotation of the engine - magic! Maybe to the magical operator it would feel like pedaling a bike, or blowing motorboat noises to anticipate the RPMs of the engine. In any case, it would save a lot of energy to harness the chemical energy of hydrocarbons rather than having to telekinesis the entire mass of the vehicle and occupants. $\endgroup$ – glyphin Sep 1 '17 at 6:32
$\begingroup$ @glyphin "internal combustion without spark plugs, distributors, coils, wiring harnesses" is what happen in Diesel engines. No magic there. $\endgroup$ – L.Dutch - Reinstate Monica♦ Sep 1 '17 at 6:40
$\begingroup$ @glyphin what makes you think that producing a spark magically requires more effort than moving the mass of a vehicle and occupants using magic, (without answering 'science')? Maybe creation by magic is much harder than transportation? $\endgroup$ – Lee Leon Sep 1 '17 at 9:21
I guess the answer really depends on how your magic is defined.
In the "Black Prism" series, magic is derived from light, which can be transformed into solid/liquid state. Different colors of light have different properties, some are used to build walls, others for a very big range of differnt items. I recall that they at least built a magic granade. So there you might find some inspiration.
In the "Kingkiller Chronicles", magic is devided into three (?) schools, where one of them is runes. Those can be used as triggers for items (and weapons). And if I recall correctly, also for engery supply, by taking that engery from cinetic energy of e.g. arrows.
So without a very clear definition of how your magic works, it is hard for us to tell you how you can apply it. But if people have the prcision to fuse a spark at exactly the place they want (note that they can not see into the barrel of your guns), then I am sure your weapon could be used. And if captured by non-magic opponents, they dont give the opponents anything to fight with. It even allows the magician to fire the gun while held by the enemies, which might reak quite some havoc.
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No beeing of this reality can actually cast spells. But we can plead with higher or lower beeings to do something for us. Trouble is, all we have to offer to these beeings is entertainment (this is why we have ritaul dances, fancy sigils, and mumbl spells - the beeings apreciate creative arts) and the spirit of sparks is bored already. In fact, these beeings are like fans of a franchise everywhere: They claim to want the next installment of their performance just like the last one, but in fact want some change, but to have it recognizable. There can be not only infinitvly many of these beeings, but also uncountably many - trick is to come up with a name for a as-of-yet unknown one for a new spell effect.
What stems from this?
Magicians have to be creative spirits, able to think up new forms of expression for the same idea
Magicians need to understand the tastes of the beeings they perform for, to know when they wander to far off formula
Magicians can't really practice, they can research how other mages performed for the same beeing
Magicians need to be really secretive, else someone copies their art before they can use it
Some of the beeings will be angry if adressed in the wrong way. A wise mage may well send an apprentice ahead to try a ritual for a new spell the first time.
Magic becomes harder over the ages, as the extradimensional beeings have seen it all
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A prolific pickpocket who continued to target Tube passengers after being released on bail has been jailed for 30 months.
The Old Bailey heard how Laurentiu-Valentin Trocan, of Parsloes Avenue, Dagenham, was first reported to the British Transport Police in January after he stole a purse at Piccadilly Circus station.
He also targeted another passenger at Holborn on the same day, stealing a phone.
In February, the 38-year-old stole a mobile phone and cash from a passenger on a train between Leicester Square and Russell Square.
He was arrested that same month after plain clothes officers patrolling the Tube identified him as being wanted for theft.
He was released on police bail as investigators prepared a case for trial, but in March, he stole mobile phones on two separate occasions.
He was subsequently arrested for the additional thefts in April.
Trocan claimed that the CCTV footage of the thefts, which all took place between 8pm and 10.30pm, did not resemble him.
However at court he admitted the five counts of theft.
He was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Friday, July 5 when he was also ordered to pay a £115 victim surcharge.
Det Con Jennifer Brown said: "Trocan is a blight for London Underground passengers, he is well known by police for this type of behaviour and I completely welcome this custodial sentence.
"Thanks to overwhelming evidence against him, he had no choice but to plead guilty to the five charges."
She added: "Pickpockets should see this prison sentence as a warning.
"Trocan was identified thanks to our excellent plain clothed officers who routinely patrol the London Underground, they're experts in identifying and cuffing offenders.
"We will continue to work hard to root out pickpocketing and ensure that perpetrators are handed tough sentences."
Mandy McGregor, TfL's head of transport policing, said that the company was working closely with the police to target pickpockets on the network.
She said: "This crime will not be tolerated and we hope that Trocan's sentencing sends a clear message that we can catch offenders and we will push for the strongest action against people who steal from our customers.
"We'd like to remind all customers to keep an eye on their belongings and keep bags and rucksacks closed, as well as reassuring everyone how seriously we take their safety and security. "
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BC-Based 'Digital Technology Supercluster' Officially Launches With $153M in Funding From Canadian Government
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Vancouver, BC, November 29, 2018--(T-Net)--Canada's British Columbia-based Digital Technology Supercluster announced today its official launch and funding allocation by the Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) and funding commitments by its initial cohort of members.
The Government of Canada is investing up to $950 million over five years to support industry-led innovation superclusters across the country and accelerate economic growth, productivity, and competitiveness across five Superclusters.
The British Columbia-based Digital Technology Supercluster will receive $153 million of this funding.
This federal funding has enabled the Supercluster to secure additional commitments of over $200 million from its initial cohort of 29 members, representing 33 organizations.
Members represent a broad spectrum of organizations across sectors including 14 SMEs, 13 large companies and six post-secondary institutions. In addition, there are more than 500 organizations including SMEs, colleges, research organizations and not-for-profits that have become Associates of the Digital Technology Supercluster.
As an industry-led consortium, the Supercluster will leverage BC's strengths and position Canada as a global hub for digital technology innovation, generating new jobs, growing GDP and increasing Canada's global competitiveness through the application of data analytics, quantum computing, and virtual, mixed/augmented reality.
The Supercluster will invest in solutions to enhance industry productivity, sustainability and competitiveness and the development of a diverse and skilled digital - ready workforce. There are already several collaborative projects in development that will support the competitiveness of BC's natural resource sector, improve health outcomes for Canadians, and secure new markets for industrial manufacturing.
Canada's Digital Technology Supercluster is active with the recent appointment of a cross-industry board of directors, the leadership team, and the support and guidance of members, associate and government partners.
"We are thrilled to officially launch Canada's first-ever Digital Technology Supercluster and join forces with leaders from industries across the province and country," says Sue Paish, CEO of the Digital Technology Supercluster. "With funding from the Canadian government's Innovation Superclusters Initiative and in collaboration with a consortium of diverse organizations. Our leadership team and board of directors are looking forward to launching Canada into a digitally-driven future."
"The Digital Technology Supercluster is set to unlock the potential of Canada's digital industries to create thousands of good jobs and grow the Canadian economy," says The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development. "By teaming up with companies of all sizes, academic institutions and not-for-profit organizations, we're building a crucial hub for this sector and developing a culture of openness and collaboration that leads to more innovation, successful commercialization and scale-up."
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Photos – Annual Croquet, Annual Bowls, Gourmet Trips, Major Functions
Trips – Day, Extended, Overseas
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Global Issues Forums
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RAAF Point Cook
A group of Beaumaris Probians visited the RAAF Museum at Point Cook on 3 May. We were welcomed to the Museum by our two volunteer guides who made sure we were comfortable before we started our tour.
In two groups we were taken through the static displays that showed the history of the RAAF from its inception to the present day.
We then moved into the aircraft displays in a series of connected hangers where every type of aircraft used by the RAAF was to be seen.
The superb condition of each aircraft was remarkable, and the amount of information shown was most informative. The knowledge of our guides and their willingness to share with us many stories about air warfare in the two World Wars and subsequently was much appreciated.
Finally, we were able to watch a flying display given by an RAAF pilot who demonstrated the acrobatic abilities of a small single engine trainer aircraft.
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Immigration Museum – April 2018
Photos by Alan Stevens
The Immigration Museum is in a beautiful building that was was originally a Customs House. The main business dealings were conducted on the 1st floor in the Long Room with stock (in bond) stored on the ground floor.
There are theatrettes detailing the stories of “Leaving Home” for so many different people. There were many different immigration stories across the timeline of our short history. The names of immigrant families are listed in the pool and its surrounding walls.
During our visit there was a special Exhibition about Ghandi in the Long Room with it’s beautiful tessellated tile floor. There is also a courtyard at the rear of the Museum.
It was good to see Margaret Howe out and about again.
After the visit we went and had a good lunch!
3 day Bike ride – Bairnsdale to Orbost -November 2017
B24-Liberator – October 2017
REPORT ON LIBERATOR VISIT –By Andy Coogan
Our visit to B-24 Liberator went very well. All twenty members found the hanger easily and were welcomed with morning tea and cakes.
Divided into three groups, excellent commentary was provided by very enthusiastic volunteers who fielded our many questions.
The sheer size of the aircraft impressed with gun turrets and bombing details the most eagerly asked about.
Over lunch it was evident we appreciated the opportunity to see up close this amazing plane which had so significantly contributed to Australia’s, and world freedom.
We acknowledge and thank the wonderful volunteers who made us so welcome and encourage any other Probus clubs to visit.
We saw something very special today, certainly worth the drive to Werribee.
Chinese Museum – July 2017
We had an excellent Tour Leader. He described the horrendous 8-week journey from Hong Kong to Melbourne with a third of them dying enroute, mainly from scurvy. In addition to this hardship they had a 10-pound tax imposed, equivalent to $10,000 today. Many opted to travel to Robe in South Australia and then take a 3-week trek to the diggings carrying up to 120 Kg of goods. The museum had a simulated area of ships quarters: shocking conditions!
The set up their own temples with upside down characters on the door to ward off evil spirits.
The diggings were very difficult and often the tunnels were just big enough for 1 person. Ingestion of quartz dust led to a horrible death of drowning in your own blood. Living past 50 years was rare. The miners needed some respite and it wasn’t long before Chinese theatre companies came to the diggings, however, at that time all performers were men.
We were shown the traditional dragon (Dai Loong) which retired in 2003. These dragons all come from Foshan.
Melbourne has a particular link to the renewed manufacture of dragons in Foshan.
The current dragon was purchased in 2000. It took 6 months to make and is expected to last approximately 30 years.
The dragon is permanently housed at the museum and at 63 metres it is not easy to store other than in a spiralling ramp in the basement.
It is of course brought out every Chinese New Year and needs 68 fit and able men to carry it.
We were very lucky with our timing as a Private Collection of the Han Dynasty was on show. This will be on show for only another 10 months and I urge people to go and see it for themselves. They had a brilliant man named Hang Zheng. He invented a seismograph for determining where an earthquake occurred. This enabled the Emperor to send troops to the affected area and provide assistance.
New Zealand Cruise – March 2017
Our party of 19 departed from Station Pier, Port Melbourne on a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon but really that was the end of the good weather. It rained every day up to the Tuesday of the second week and by Wednesday we were steaming back to Melbourne.
However, in relation to the cruise I believe it was as good as you might expect. The ship has a passenger capacity of 2600.The staff were very well presented, very attentive to detail and nothing was too much trouble. The entertainment on board was very good but because of the weather, some outdoor activities had to be curtailed
Alan Nash celebrated his 80 birthdays and that was enjoyed by all.
Our shore excursions were restricted to Wellington and Dunedin and both were certainly worthy of a visit. Because of the weather, we did not have an opportunity to visit either Auckland or Christchurch. Despite the weather,
I am sure that all who travelled thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Visit to Victorian Parliament
2017 kecked off with s superb visit to the Parliament building where we had a guided tour. We then had an excellent lunch in the parliamentary Café. Excellent value for $30.00. If you haven’t been…Go. Thanks to Alan Stevens for the commentary below plus photos.
“After passing through airport type security we collected in “The Vestibule” (see previous email for floor detail) then on to the “Legislative Assembly Chamber”. I like the look of the new front bench! Whilst most materials used when making this building from 1856 to 1930 were local, it’s understandable that way back then they imported the chandelier from Waterford in Ireland.
The Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council Chambers are separated by the Queen’s Hall, completed in 1879 and has the statue of Queen Victoria. The walls are lined with pictures of former premiers. The room was set up for a financial group’s Australia Day luncheon.
Then on to the Legislative Council Chamber. We used the staircase to get up into the public gallery area.
The use of gold leaf everywhere reflects the desire to show off the wealth and power of Victoria straight after the gold rush (and of course it’s push to be the seat of power rather than the colony of New South Wales). On top of the Corinthian style columns were statues each demonstrating a certain aspect of governance or philosophy e.g. the scales of justice shown.
The Legislative Council Chamber was a no-go zone as it was undergoing a refurbishment (hence the chairs in disarray and backs of microphone boxes removed etc.). However, as no one was working there our guide took us through.
We then entered the Central Reading Room of the library with it’s beautiful spiral staircases on either side taking members up to a gallery above.
After the tour, we went to the 2nd floor for lunch in the Stranger’s Corridor Restaurant which is open to the public. Overall a very successful outing.”
Castlemaine – October 2016
Steam Train ride and lunch at a One Hat restaurant
This was one of our best trips ever for the lucky 41 travellers who came on the trip
The train line to Castlemaine was closed so we had our very own luxury V Line Bus to and from Castlemaine.
At Castlemaine, we boarded the historic Goldfields Railway and chugged the 45 minutes to the quaint little town of Maldon. Another coach was waiting for us to take us back to Castlemaine where we enjoyed a sumptuous two course lunch with cider and wine at the Public Inn, a One Hat restaurant. It lived up to it’s reputation as you see below!
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MCG Trip – August 2016
Marilyn Munroe Expo, Bendigo – June 2016
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Control Limits - are calculated as three standard deviations away from the mean on either side of the mean. Also known as process limits, these are derived basis the process data and represents the area within which natural variation can be expected (common cause variation). Any observation/data point outside the control limits is a reason for investigation and will always have an assignable cause (special cause)
Upper Control Limit - three standard deviations above mean
Lower Control Limit - three standard deviations below mean
An application oriented question on the topic along with responses can be seen below. The best answer was provided by Venugopal R on 10th November 2017.
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Name:Vishwadeep Khatri
Q 42. This question relates to control charts for defects data. While the upper control limit has obvious importance for a control chart drawn for defects, what is the importance of lower control limit in c chart or u chart? Are there certain situations where the LCL is of relevance and other situations where it has no meaning?
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The control limits for Control charts are derived based on its own data, applying the statistical principles applicable for the distribution under which the data falls into. ‘c’ charts and ‘u’ charts are used for ‘count’ data, such as number of defects in as part / sample. The choice of ‘c’ or ‘u’ are made based on fixed or varying sample sizes.
It goes without saying that, when these charts are used for monitoring count of defects, anyone will only want the defect count to be as low as possible. Hence the UCL for defect makes sense, but the question is “why do we require a lower control limit for defect count?”
LCL - little significance:
Some times when the limits are worked out, the lower control limit might assume a negative value; in such cases, the calculated LCL, being negative has no meaning and the LCL is taken as zero. Obviously, no point is going to fall below zero, and hence the LCL is of little significance here, except when the count is zero.
However, if we are using the ‘run’ patterns for our study of stability as per its rules, then the 1sigma and 2sigma limits are also used, apart from the LCL.
LCL - Could unearth important finding:
Where we do have a positive LCL, and if some data points fall outside, it indicates a situation that may be “too good to be true”. It will be worthwhile to investigate the special cause(s) that could have resulted in this occurrence.
1. It could be measurement a error. For eg. a wrong gauge could have been used and it was failing to detect defects.
2. It could be a change of an inspector that added subjectivity in the defect identification, especially if the defect was to be visually identified.
3. Or it could be some genuinely favorable condition that brought down the defect count. These could be opportunities of unearthing some favorable factor that we have been missing or ignoring.
One example from my experience is when we were using ‘u’ chart for plotting the count of character errors in captured data, processed from multiple sites. Few consecutive days we observed the count falling below the LCL. Upon investigation, we realized that one particular processing site was down during those days. Further probe revealed that this particular site was performing with an operating application, whose version was obsolete. Once the correct version was installed, we were able to sustain a reduced mean error count and the control limits could be narrowed.
LCL - More important (than UCL?)
4. It is not necessary that c and u charts should always represent defects, which are always “lower the better”. For eg. a consumer goods company selling a popular brand of shaving cream, wants to do a study to see the number of individuals out of sample who use their product. They pick a sample of individuals in a city every day and find out how many of them are using their brand. In this case, since the sample varies every day and it is a count data, ‘u’ chart applies. However, this is a case where "higher the count, the better". Hence the LCL and the count falling below LCL is of utmost importance.
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The role of a Lower Control Limit in the case of defects or defectives control chart is a very relevant question as who would not like having a process with a defect or defective rate as low as possible. Anyone would probably be happy if some data points fall below the Lower Control Limit. It would be a “Out of Control” problem, which would be good to have. It would create an opportunity for the process owner to investigate the reasons why the process’ defect or defective rate went below the control limit, identify if any best practices had been effective and then replicate these practices elsewhere.
Yet, there could be situations where the Lower Control Limit becomes relevant for other reasons.
Outsourced Process – You have to only meet the requirement, cannot exceed it
There could be an outsourced process, where the customer requires the vendor to inspect and remove defects or errors to the levels the customer has agreed to with the end user. By good process control practices and by using the right methodology and equipment, the vendor may be able to bring down the error rate even below the agreed limits. The customer could react in two different ways. He may accept the output quietly and leave it. Or he may have some other points to worry about.
He may feel that if the vendor’s good work in bringing down the error rate far below the agreed limits is accepted and acknowledged let alone appreciated, the vendor may use such events to try to negotiate a higher rate and increase costs, which as far as the customer is concerned, may not add any value as his contract with the end user is at a higher defect rate. Therefore, the customer if he control charts the vendor’s performance, he would need the Lower Control Limit to tell the vendor that his process is “not in control” and that his “performance has to improve”. The customer may also be worried if the vendor, buoyed by this acknowledged performance, may quote this performance with other potential customers, who would be his own competitors, get more business, become less dependent on him and so on.
Furthermore, the customer may be worried that if he “spoils” his end-user with such “Super-Quality” deliveries, the end-user may get used to this and then start cribbing if the deliveries are within the agreed defect rates, but not significantly better. To avoid this, the Customer may prefer to stick to the agreed norms.
“Negative” Lower Control Limit
In another scenario, the Lower Control Limit when calculated could be negative. Obviously it is not possible to have negative defect or defective rates as this would mean that when the process is run on the input material or information, defects in the input are removed. Negative Lower Control Limits could mean that the process is occasionally capable of operating at zero error or zero defect levels. When a process has a positive Lower Control Limit, this may mean that the process in its present form is not capable of zero defect production and will need to be improved upon considerably.
While in the above two situations, the Lower Control Limit may become more relevant than usual, the following Quality Story would make interesting reading in the context of “Lower Control Limit”.
Quality Story
An American firm scouting globally for buying an automotive spare signed a deal with a Japanese firm @ 25 cents per piece including all packing, transport, taxes, duty etc. and placed an initial order for three million parts. Wanting to impress their vendor on how strict their quality standards were, they added “We accept just three defects for every thousand parts”.
The order was delivered as per the agreed schedule, but accompanied by a bill for $750,900. It did not take the American accountants a very long time to figure out that the bill was $900 more than what was agreed to.
A bit perturbed about this (especially since it was believed that sticking to deals was part of both Japanese tradition as well as Japanese management practice), the firm rushed a cable to the Japanese supplier, requesting for an explanation.
Back came a letter from the supplier, “You had ‘asked’ for 3 defectives for every 1000 parts. At this rate, you will require 9000 defectives for three million parts. We have made extra efforts to produce the 9000 defectives, which works out to an additional 10 cents per piece. The extra $900 is on account of this!”
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Name:Kiran Kumar
Defect as such is an Undesired Outcome.
Importance of lower control limit in c chart or u chart : I believe the LCL for a C & U Chart is more of a lower base as the universal wish is not to have a defect and the "0" line captures the count of instances over the timeline where the defect count is 0.
Are there certain situations where the LCL is of relevance and other situations where it has no meaning?
LCL is of relevance where all achieving a defect count as near to or a zero is Important. In a Hotel Operation, in a Multicourse Meal, the next course being served ahead of its turn/ sooner than the stipulated time is as much a Defect as a course getting delayed !!
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Name:Ronak
Control Charts are basically for
1. To study how a process changes over time.
2. Whether the variation in process are because of common causes
3. How the process has improved because of the improvement done in process.
4. Predicting the expected range of the outcome
In a C chart & a U chart center line is for average, there is an upper control limit and a lower control limit.
There are three rules for control chart which determines that process is stable
1. None of the reading is above USL/ below LSL
2. There are no more than 6 points consecutively above/ below center line
3. There are no more than 6 points consecutively trending upward/downward.
Now if we don’t have a LSL in control chart than we might miss if the process is breaking one of the rule for a stable process. i.e “None of the reading is above USL/ below LSL”
In case of U Chart we can neglect LCL is it is coming negative.
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Name:Sandhya Kamath
Process control cannot be possible without some sort of a reliable system in place for identifying and understanding the variations in the business processes. A control chart can help identify these variations and see how to use them for future improvements. It is one of the seven basic tools of quality control.
Control chart are graphs used to study how a process changes over time. Data are plotted in time order. A control chart always has a central line for the average, an upper line for the upper control limit and a lower line for the lower control limit. These lines are determined from historical data. Control charts are graphs for attribute data and are plotted basis the progress in quality of the product.
When a point falls outside the limits established for a given control chart, those responsible for the process are expected to determine whether a special cause has occurred. Determine whether the results with the special cause are better than or worse than results from common causes alone. If worse, then that cause should be eliminated if possible. If better, then special cause should be retained within the system.
Statistically based control chart is a device intended to be used
- at the point of operation
- by the operator of that process
- to assess the current situation
- by taking sample and plotting sample result
So as to enable the operator to decide about the process. A control chart is like a traffic signal, the operation of which is based on evidence from samples taken at random intervals.
A green signal - Process be allowed to continue without adjustment as only common causes are present.
A yellow signal - Wait and watch trouble is possible. Be careful and seek more information.
A red signal - Process has wandered. Investigate and adjust. and take corrective actions else defective items will be produced. There is practically no doubt a special cause has crept in the system.
The u and the c control charts use the Poisson distribution to model the results.
A U-chart is an attributes control chart used by collecting data in subgroups of varying sizes. U-charts shows how the process, measured by the number of nonconformities per item or group of items, changes over time. Nonconformities are defects are occurrences found in the sampled subgroup. A U-chart is particularly useful when the item is too complex to be ruled as simply conforming or nonconforming. For example, a car could have hundreds of possible defects, yet still not be considered defective. U-charts are used to assess the systems stability, analyse the results of process improvements and for standardization.
C-charts are used to look at variation in counting type attributes data. They are used to determine the variation in the number of defects in a constant subgroup size. The opportunities for defects to occur must be large but the number of defects that occur must be small.
Control chart views the process in real time, at different time intervals as the process progresses. It helps in keeping the cost of production minimum. By enabling corrective actions to be taken at the earliest possible moment and avoiding unnecessary corrections, the charts help to ensure the manufacture of uniform product or providing consistent services which complies with the specification.
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A control chart illustrates the dynamic performance of the process and helps us to
1. Know the historical trend or behavior of a process;
2. Monitor a process for stability;
3. Detect changes from a previously stable pattern of variation;
4. Signal the need for the adjustment of a process;
5. Detect special causes of variation.
Control chart consists
A central line - The center line is the horizontal reference line on a control chart that is the average value of the charted quality characteristic. Use the center line to observe how the process performs compared to the average. If a process is in control, the points will vary randomly around the center line.
An upper line for Upper Control Limit (UCL)– Upper Control limit is the upper horizontal lines. The UCL is based on the random variation in the process with 3 standard deviations above the center line.
A lower line for Lower Control Limit (LCL)– Lower Control limit is the lower horizontal lines. The LCL is based on the random variation in the process with 3 standard deviations below the center line.
For defect data both c-chart and u-charts are used.
The c chart is used to monitor the number of occurrences of an event. It requires that the opportunity for events remains the same from observation to observation while the u chart is used in the same situations as the c chart when the opportunity for events varies from observation to observation
Both UCL & LCL are used to judge whether a process is in control or out of control.
Control limits are calculated from the data and it is the voice of the process –how the process is capable of producing.
If the LCL comes out negative in calculation, then there is no lower control limit and LCL is considered to be Zero.
We know that defects cannot be less than zero (that is negative). Therefore, even though mathematically (in case) we get negative value (lower control limits) - logically we have to take zero.
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In cases where LCL is below zero and in negative range it has to be taken as zero for practical purpose, but it indicates the asymmetrical and non-normal data, which indicates that tests run may have some problem or the pattern of data is difficult to analyze. This implies need of analyzing the outliers and study the process stability, and that’s the relevance of lower control limits. If focus is about reduction of defects to lowest level then LCL may not be relevant, focus would only be to operate below UCL and optimize it further down. If goal achievement is the only focus then LCL will not relevant, but if reduction of process variation in the focus then LCL comes to play.
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Name:Vastupal Vashisth
The c charts are statistical tools used to evaluate the number of occurrences per unit produced by a process. The c chart can be applied to any variable where the appropriate performance measure is a count of how often a particular event occurs and samples of constant size are used. The c chart answer the questions has a special cause of variation caused the central tendency of this process to produce an abnormally large or small number of occurrences over the Tim emerged observed. Not that unlike p or np charts, c charts do not involve counting physical items. Rather they involve counting of events. Like all control charts c charts also consist of three guideline centreline, a lower control limit, a upper control limit. The centreline is the average number of occurrence per unit and two control limits are set at plus and minus three standard deviation. If the process is in statistical control then virtually all subgroup occurrences per unit should be between the control limits and they should fluctuate about the centre line randomly. If lower control limit is not there then central tendency predictions will not be possible because it derived from ucl and lcl both. Absence of lol is of no means g of central tendency and stability of process by c chart. Eg in a plant chance of injuries are there, it can go maximum any level in number but it can't go beyond zero so it's lcl will be zero any how but it will be there while calculation because injuries can't be negative.
Deepti Arora 2
Control limits are different from specification limits. They typically lie between the specification limits and represents 99.7% data in case of a normal distribution. To me LCL will be much more important when we don't want the process to go below the lowest control limit. LCL can also be 0 in some cases where what we are looking at is 0 defects. For example in case of airline industry we would want the no of accidents data to nearing the LCL or ideally should be 0. The UCL and other ranges would be important but not as important as the LCL.
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Name:Srinivasa Vampathi
Control Limits:
For defects data obviously the UCL makes a lot of sense.
I feel the importance of LCL in C or U chart is mainly to see the anticipated defects / non confirmaties that could occur going forward.
This will help us to see or identify the assignable cause for defects.
In C chart the LCL is set for one defect.
LCL could be set Zero also.But there are some instances where LCL is relavent to be kept & in some situations not.
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Name:M.KARTHIK
c-Chart & u-Chart:
The c-chart is used for "Poisson" processes. These are used with random arrival models, or when "counting" attributes. This type of chart, for example can monitor the number of "defects" in each of many equal samples (constant sample size). Occurrence Reporting data (number of reports per month) empirically appear to fit the "Poisson" model, and the c-chart is recommended when charting occurrence report counts.
The u-chart is used when counting "defects" per sample when the sample size varies for each "inspection." A good example at DOE facilities is the number of lost or restricted workday cases per 200,000 man-hours. The number of cases is counted for fixed time intervals, such as monthly or yearly, but the sample size (number of man-hours worked during each time interval) changes.
Calculate and Plot the Upper Control Limit:
Add three times the standard deviation to the average. This is the Upper Control Limit (UCL). Plot the UCL on the graph.
The UCL will be a horizontal line on c-charts.
The UCL will be variable on u-charts. Do not plot the UCL on a p-chart if it exceeds 100%.
Calculate and Plot the Lower Control Limit:
Subtract three times the standard deviation from the average. This is the Lower Control Limit (LCL). Plot the LCL on the graph.
The LCL will be a horizontal line on x-charts and c-charts.
The LCL will be variable on p-charts and u-charts. Do not plot the LCL on a p-chart if it is below 0%.
SPECIAL NOTE: If the LCL is negative (less than zero), and the data could not possibly be less than zero, e.g., a negative number of reports written, or a negative time period, then the LCL is assumed to equal zero.
EXAMPLE C-CHART
The C-chart
The chart below is an example of a C-chart. It is counting the number of occurrence reports per month. Since there are multiple dates on Department of Energy occurrence reports (discovery date, categorization date, final report date), the date used for the basis of the graph is identified on the x-axis label.
The c-chart is used when counting discrete events, as in a random arrival process. Counting events is a good example of a random arrival process, as long as each of those events are independent from each other, and overall occur at a constant rate. This is also known as a Poisson process.
In this graph, an initial 24 month baseline was established at the end of 1994 for January 1993 through December 1994. This baseline remained valid until the end of 1995. Then a shift occurred, with 10 of the next 11 points below average (starting with November 1995). A new baseline was established for November 1995 through September 1996. Note the gap in the two baselines from January 1995 through October 1995. This is acceptable. One does want to avoid overlaps between adjoining baseline averages, however.
The current baseline (Nov 95 - Sep 96) was based on much less than 25 points. It does appear that the new data is coming in lower than the new baseline (but so far, no statistically significant difference has been detected). If a statistically significant difference does generate, perhaps the choice of November 1995 through September 1996 was insufficient. A better alternative may turn out to be to continue to 21.8 average through March 1996, and calculate a new baseline starting in April 1996. This serves to illustrate how control charts can evolve over time, and baselines with less than 25 points may prove to need to be readjusted.
EXAMPLE U-CHART
The U-chart
The chart below is a typical chart used by a safety department - cases per 200,000 hours. Rather than just plotting the number of accidents, this graph plots accidents per 200,000 hours. This allows the rate on the graph to be consistent even with different size work forces.
In this example, the number of cases each month is determined, then divided by the number of hours worked in the month, and finally multiplied by 200,000. The control limits vary from month to month as hours change. When hours worked are low, the control limits are far from the average line. One expects a large amount of variability in the data when there is a small work force. When hours worked are high, the control limits move inward. One expects a small amount of variability.
Note that the initial average was calculated for a time period starting prior to the beginning of the graph. This is typical for an existing graph which has accumulated many years of data, and a decision is made to remove some of the "old" data. In this case, it was decided to remove the data prior to fiscal year 1995. However, the baseline average was left as is, rather than recalculating it for Oct 94 to Jan 95.
There are several significant trends in this graph. First was a decrease from 2.28 to 1.64 in early 1995. The five points from Feb 95 to Jun 95 were greater than one standard deviation below the previous average. However, there was then a significant spike in August 1995. August 1995 reflects special cause variation, and we will assume the cause in question was identified. When developing the proper average to use, it was decided to remove August 1995 from the average. Note the average line cuts through the center of the remaining data for the time interval.
A more recent shift of seven points in a row below average occurred from Sep 96 to Mar 97. As April 1997 remained below the 1.64 previous average rate, an initial baseline was calculated for Sep 96 through Apr 97. During this interval, the Lower Control Limit was mathematically less than zero. Since you cannot have a negative case rate, the Lower Control Limit is not plotted.
This new baseline contains less than 25 points, so it may not be stable. However, this eight point average does provide some basis to determine if a decrease in accidents is continuing, or if the accident rate has steadied out.
The better three answers are provided by Mohan PB, Anirudh Kund and Venigopal R. The best answer is by Venugopal R as it covers the various scenarios for the LCL being seen as important limit for a c chart or u chart.
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Pumping the Procedural Brakes: Arbitration Clause Stays Potential Uber Class Action
Written by Nathan J. Shaheen, Joseph N. Blinick and Tyler W. Henderson
Will an arbitration provision in a services agreement between Uber and its drivers prevent the drivers from bringing a class action for being misclassified as contractors? The Ontario Superior Court recently addressed this question in Heller v Uber Technologies Inc.. The answer, in short, is “yes”.
David Heller commenced a proposed class action against Uber Technologies Inc. on behalf of Uber drivers in Ontario. He alleged that Uber failed to correctly classify him and his fellow drivers as employees. Consequently, he argued, Uber had deprived all class members of their mandatory entitlements under Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA). Mr. Heller sought $400 million in damages on behalf of the class.
Prior to the certification motion, Uber brought a motion to stay the potential class proceeding, based on an arbitration clause in the contracts between Uber and the class members. The arbitration clause required all disputes to be resolved by way of arbitration in the Netherlands.
The Arbitration Clause
In addition to expressly providing that the relationship between Uber and the class members was not an employee-employer relationship, the relevant agreement between Uber and its drivers stated that: (i) the “Agreement shall be exclusively governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Netherlands, excluding its rules on the conflict of laws”, and (ii) “[a]ny dispute, conflict or controversy, howsoever arising out of or broadly in connection with or relating to this Agreement, including relating to its validity, its construction or its enforceability, shall be first mandatorily submitted to mediation proceedings under the International Chamber of Commerce Mediation Rules (“ICC Mediation Rules”)... If such a dispute has not been settled within sixty (60) days after a request for mediation has been submitted under such ICC Mediation Rules, such dispute can be referred to and shall be exclusively and finally resolved by arbitration under the Rules of Arbitration in the International Chamber of Commerce”.
On the stay motion, the question was whether the class members could circumvent the arbitration clause to bring a class proceeding. Mr. Heller argued that he could. Uber disagreed.
Justice Perell agreed with Uber and stayed the proposed class action in favour of arbitration. His reasons included resort to the “competence-competence” principle:
The general rule is that a challenge to the arbitrator’s jurisdiction should be first resolved by the arbitrator. The exceptions to the general rule are where the challenge is based solely on question of law. If, however, the challenges raised are questions of mixed fact and law, the court should refer the challenge to the arbitrator unless the questions of fact require only superficial consideration of the documentary evidence in the record.
Mr. Heller argued it was within the court’s jurisdiction to decide whether the matter is arbitrable because it required an interpretation of the ESA. He further argued that the present case was an exception to the general rule of allowing arbitrators to determine their own jurisdiction.
Justice Perell found “several weaknesses” in these arguments. First, they were premised on Mr. Heller being an employee, which remained a live issue to be determined in the proposed class action. Second, absent express legislative language to the contrary, courts must enforce arbitration agreements. In particular, Justice Perell held that the ESA does not preclude “resort to arbitration”. Moreover, the arbitrability of employment claims “is a complex issue of mixed fact and law to be determined in the first instance by the arbitrator; it is not a simple matter of statutory interpretation to be resolved by the court.”
Justice Perell also rejected Mr. Heller’s argument that the arbitration clause was unconscionable. He noted the classic elements of contractual unconscionability as: (i) pronounced inequality of bargaining power; (ii) a substantially improvident or unfair bargain; and (iii) the defendant knowingly taking advantage of the vulnerable plaintiff.
However, despite acknowledging the undoubted inequality of bargaining power between Uber and its drivers, Justice Perell did not find that Uber used the arbitration clause to take advantage of, or extract “an improvident agreement” from, the class members.
Justice Perell’s decision in Heller follows the modern paradigm of arbitration clauses being presumptively enforceable. It aligns closely with the general principles recently distilled by the Ontario Court of Appeal in Wellman v TELUS Communications Company whereby “arbitration agreements will generally be enforced”.
Although Heller hinges on Ontario-specific legislation, it results in a similar outcome as two 2007 Supreme Court decisions concerning the Civil Code of Québec and Québec’s Code of Civil Procedure. In Dell Computer Corp v Union des consommateurs and Rogers Wireless Inc. v Muroff , the Supreme Court found that arbitration clauses conferring substantive rights to contracting parties will not be affected by one party’s procedural right to bring a class action. The arbitrator’s jurisdiction to determine the validity of an arbitration clause will also remain.
Later, in Seidel v. TELUS Communications Inc., the Supreme Court dealt with a motion to stay a class action proceeding brought under the British Columbia Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act. The Court determined that an arbitration clause in a consumer agreement will hold, absent any legislative provisions otherwise relieving consumers of their arbitration agreements. The declaratory and injunctive relief claims by the representative plaintiff in that case, which were specifically addressed in the BPCPA, were allowed to proceed by way of class action. Claims not covered in the BPCPA (e.g., common law claims) remained under the purview of the arbitration clause. Similarly, with no specific statutory carve-out for employment-related claims in Heller, the plaintiffs were subject to, and bound by, the arbitration clause.
Heller is likely to be appealed. In the meantime, Justice Perell’s decision provides defendants with some comfort that mandatory arbitration clauses (that are not expressly ousted by applicable legislation) may still protect them from potential class actions.
Nathan J. Shaheen, Associate
Joseph N. Blinick, Associate
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Travel: Where to go in 2017
Helsinki's Tuomiokirkko Cathedral in Finland
Published: 10:37 Wednesday 11 January 2017
Sarah Marshall checks out five different destinations for you to consider this year.
The Keulap archaeological site in Northern Peru
:: Best for... history
Machu Picchu has long been Peru's greatest tourist attraction, but the country's jungle-swathed mountains conceal many more lost cities.
A new cable car in the north will improve access to Kuelap, a sacred site built by the Chachapoyas from the 6th century – pre-dating the Incas by several centuries.
The 25-minute scenic ride replaces a winding journey along treacherous hairpin roads, to reach temples and conical houses peeping through a misty forest draped with bromeliads.
A ring-tailed lemur in Madagascar
Plans are also afoot to build a cable car to remote Inca settlement Choquequirao, packaging a two-day trek into a 15-minute journey, prompting Lonely Planet to vote the Sacred Valley site a top place to visit before the car launches in 2018.
Further south, the city of Arequipa, home to mummified Inca princess Juanita, will enjoy greater exposure from May when Belmond launch a new luxury train journey ending in Cusco. The two-night trip on the Andean Explorer sleeper train incorporates a stop at the dizzying 3,800m-high Lake Titicaca, where indigenous Uros people still live on floating islands made from reeds. Visit www.belmond.com
:: Best for... short haul
Next December, Finland celebrates 100 years of independence from the Russian Republic, with celebrations and new openings happening throughout 2017.
A view of Santiago from San Cristobal Hill in Chile
The most exciting project is the designation of new national park Hossa, in eastern Finland's Kainuu region, which will become the outdoor-loving nation's largest protected nature area.
Hike trails, canoe waterways, or seek out Stone Age rock paintings. Overnight in a cabin or embrace the wilderness by camping; bookings can be made at the Hossa Visitor Centre (www.nationalparks.fi/en/hossavisitorcentre).
Although the woodland setting perfectly matches author Tove Jansson's whimsical imagination, you won't bump into any Moomins in Hossa. Instead, head to Tampere, in June, when the newly renovated Moomin Museum opens, showcasing more than 2,000 pieces of memorabilia (muumilaakso.tampere.fi/en).
And everyone is invited to the party from August 25-27, when outdoor tables will be laid across the country for Finland's ambitious Let's Eat Together festival (syodaanyhdessa.fi/in-english).
:: Best for... culture
Offset hours spent snoozing on a sunlounger by clocking up cultural pursuits in 2017's balmy European Capital of Culture. Throughout the year, 300 events will be staged against a backdrop of Hellenistic tombs and Roman fortresses in the birthplace of ancient goddess Aphrodite on the island's south-west coast.
A varied programme will include open-air concerts in the medieval Castle Square, cinema screenings on the beach, dance shows in the street and an art exhibition along the Akamas Peninsula. For more details, visit www.pafos2017.eu
The mosaics of Nea Paphos (Aphrodite's Sacred City) are rated among the most beautiful in the world and have earned UNESCO World Heritage status. In October, archaeologist Sharon Walker from the British Museum will be hosting a series of workshops about the mosaics at Paphos' sophisticated beachside Almyra hotel. Rooms cost from £86 per night with breakfast; www.thanoshotels.com
:: Best for... wildlife
Revered for its endemic wildlife, most notably the charismatic lemur, this African island, lapped by the Indian Ocean, is benefiting from improved infrastructure and accommodation options.
Managed by Norman Carr Safaris, the new Miavana resort sits on Nosy Ankao, part of a private five-island archipelago off the north-east tip of the mainland. Dissected by lagoons and fringed with reefs, it's ideally located for observing the island's marine bio-diversity. Visit between June and November to spot migrating humpback whales. To find out more, see www.timeandtideafrica.com/miavana (the property is due to open early 2017).
A more economical option for exploring Madagascar is G Adventures' new eight-day Baobab & Tsingy Explorer trip, focussing on the central region and its famous spiky rock formations. The trip costs from £999pp, excluding flights; visit www.gadventures.com
:: Best for... long haul
This month, British Airways launch their longest flight, a 14-hour and 40-minute direct route from London Heathrow to Chilean capital, Santiago. (Flights from £680 return if booked in March; www.britishairways.com)
Delve into the life of Nobel Prize-winning poet and political activist Pablo Neruda, the subject of new acclaimed art house film - Neruda - starring Gael Garcia Bernal.
Neruda's three eccentric houses have been transformed into museums; two along the coast in Valparaiso and Isla Negra, and one in Santiago's Bellavista district. Visit www.fundacionneruda.org/en for opening times and entry prices.
A 10-minute walk away, across the capital's fast-flowing Mapocho River, lies trendy area Lastarria, home to new boutique hotel Magnolia.
Built in 1929, the former family home has been restored to its former Neo-Gothic glory, with an elegant bar and reading library. Rooms from £145 with breakfast, visit hotelmagnolia.cl
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Facebook recently introduced a feature that allows you to verify your Facebook profile page. This feature allows you the benefit of being ensured that whomever claims to be running the profile page is indeed the person running the profile page. Naturally, when there is an update like this, it can be daunting to try and figure out what new steps might be required. Never fear, because coming up is the step-by-step guide to verifying your Facebook profile!
What is Verification
The verification process will allow you to claim your Facebook page for yourself. Once you have verified your Facebook page, no one else will be able to set up another profile page pretending to be you. One factor to consider, however, is that Facebook determines which page is worthy of verification by considering the popularity of each page. Nevertheless, Facebook protects against imposters gaining official verification status by requiring a profile page to get authorization from a celebrity, public figure, or brand before they are permitted to verify their page. Those methods of authorization are detailed below!
How Can I Tell a Page is Verified?
When a Facebook profile page has been granted verified status, a blue check mark will appear next to the profile page’s name. This check mark means that the profile page has been approved by Facebook’s verification process, and you can be confident that it is the official page of the person or thing for which it represents.
Who Can Have a Verified Page?
Facebook allows four different types of pages to be approved by the verification process. These four types are:
1 – Profile pages for a brand or company
2 – Celebrity profile pages, such as actors, artists, and musicians
3 – Pages for politicians and other government officials
4 – Pages belonging to journalists
Facebook will consider several factors in determining which profile pages will be qualified under the verification process. As mentioned above, Facebook will consider the amount of daily traffic a profile page receives compared to other profile pages, which have the same name. However, Facebook will grant the official verified status to the types of pages listed above when those pages can provide a letter of authorization from the company or celebrity, through an automatic verification process.
Automatic Verification Process
However, when you can provide an official endorsement by a company or celebrity, such as the letter of authorization, Facebook will not take traffic to the profile page into consideration, but will instead verify the profile page immediately, through the automatic verification process.
In order to make sure your Facebook profile page is successfully verified, you need to keep a few additional pieces of information in mind. One is that you must have certain fields on your Facebook profile filled out if you are going to have your page successfully verified. Once all of the required information is in place, you will have cleared the initial hurdle required by Facebook for the verification of a profile page. It helps to keep every detail 0n your Facebook profile page updated, and include comprehensive detail. By doing this, Facebook’s automatic algorithm will be more likely to identify your page as the proper profile for verification. However, certain key steps can help speed the verification process along.
Link Your Website
First, it helps to link your Facebook profile page to your outside website. You want to make sure you have an online presence beyond Facebook – having multiple websites linked together is a great way to show legitimacy. Once you have set up your non-Facebook website, you want to make sure and link your official page to your Facebook profile.
The About Section
Next, make sure that you fill in the “About” section of your profile with plenty of well-written, informative, and accurate information. This should have all the key details that you wish to convey about the person or thing for which you are setting up the official Facebook profile. In addition, you want to make sure you return to this section and update it when required. There is nothing less professional than having outdated and inaccurate information on your Facebook profile page, which will be one of the first places people, will look when seeking out information from the official source. In addition, Facebook’s algorithms will take note of the frequently updated and accurate information being displayed in the About section of your profile page, and this will make it more likely that your page will receive the official verified status.
The Key Word
Finally, be sure and complete the “key word” section of the profile page. This will include basic information about your contact information, including your email address and (if applicable) your street address. If you are setting up an official Facebook profile page for a business, this will be a very important section, since it will help potential customers locate your business. In addition, it is a huge step forward if you are trying to get your Facebook profile page verified.
Manual Verification
The alternate method for getting your Facebook profile page verified is the manual verification process. This is a more recent update to Facebook’s verification process. Below is the step-by-step guide to gaining verification from Facebook using the manual process.
Apply Using the Form
The first step in the manual verification process is to going to Facebook’s website and access the Facebook verification from page. Once you have accessed the form, enter the relevant information regarding which celebrity you are setting the site up for.
Submit the Authorization Letter
If you are applying for verification of a Facebook profile page on behalf of someone else, provide the applicable letter of authorization.
Only Celebrities or Public Figures
At the moment, Facebook only allows individuals like celebrities or public figures to manually apply for verification. Companies may be permitted to manually apply for verification one day, but not yet.
Facebook Will Respond
Once you have completed the verification process, Facebook will respond within forty-eight hours to let you know whether or not you’ve been approved.
You’re Verified!
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Carnforth Support Group donates Christmas gifts to mental health unit
Bipolar UK's Support Group in Carnforth are holding a present-giving event for patients at The Orchard mental health unit, Lancaster.
(L-R) Siobhan Wilson (Occupational Therapist), Jayne, Cath (Bipolar UK volunteers) and Ann Brown (Manager at The Orchard)
The group will be meeting with Darren Smith, Volunteer Services Manager, and Bev Craw, Ward Manager, at The Orchard. Bipolar UK Support Group attendees Jayne Collins and Cath Mason-Milward will be presenting the gifts on 12 December.
Jayne said, "We have all agreed to buy presents suitable for the hospital policies for each patient who will have to spend Christmas in hospital and away from home. Christmas can be extremely difficult if in hospital and the group just wanted to give the patients a little surprise to open on Christmas Day."
Darren Smith added, "Jayne used to volunteer for Lancashire Care at Ridge Lea Hospital and has always demonstrated a deep empathy and a sincere determination to help and support other people.
"We would like to thank Jayne, Cath and the members at the group for this extremely kind donation. Christmas is a time for giving and the staff here are really looking forward to distributing the gifts and seeing the smiles on the patients' faces."
In 2015, the group also donated presents to the Kentmere Ward at Westmorland General Hospital, Kendal, and wanted to repeat the gesture for another local service.
Our Support Groups are run by Bipolar UK and our volunteer Support Group Co-facilitators and provide people with a safe space to share experiences and information about bipolar. They're free and open to anybody affected by bipolar, including friends, family and carers.
Bipolar UK's Carnforth Support Group meets on the fourth Thursday of every month, 2.00 - 4.00pm, at Carnforth Civic Hall, North Road.
Author: Rebekah Hayes
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'Heartbreak' over roundabout adverts next to Sir Josiah Mason bust
The island in Erdington becomes a focal point for the area during celebrations
Carl JacksonLocal Democracy Reporter
A decision to place advertising signs on an 'iconic' roundabout - home to a bust of famous industrialist Sir Josiah Mason - has been called 'heartbreaking' by a local councillor.
Birmingham City Council will install a pair of 1.6ft tall and 3.2ft wide post mounted signs on the island which connects Orphanage Road and Chester Road in Erdington.
The statue in the middle in honour of Mason, who famously opened a large orphanage in the area, becomes a focal point during various celebrations throughout the year such as St. Patrick's Day and Christmas when it is decorated accordingly.
The Josiah Mason statue on Orphanage Road/Chester Road island in Erdington, all decked out for St Patrick's Day
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The council's planning committee approved the signs earlier today, despite the objection of Cllr Bob Beauchamp (Cons, Perry Common).
He said: "It's a very famous little island in Erdington.
"At each celebration, the celebrations take place on this island particularly Irish day, Christmas, all sorts of things.
"It is part of the make-up of Erdington that the statue in the middle of it gets dressed to suit overnight, in the dark, and it's quite an iconic island.
"The statue in the middle of it is of Sir Josiah Mason, a big industrialist, and Orphanage Road was his orphanage."
The roundabout in Erdington is home to a bust of Sir Josiah Mason.
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Cllr Beauchamp added: "To put something on this island like what's happening in the rest of the city, would be heartbreaking.
"It is a clean clear island for one clear reason, because it is so iconic, and I just feel to clutter it on the Chester Road, which is very busy, is just not acceptable."
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A Tale of Two Covers: If This Goes On edited by Charles Nuetzel and Cat Rambo
Friday, May 24th, 2019 | Posted by John ONeill
Art by Albert Nuetzell and Bernard Lee
If This Goes On seems like the perfect title for a science fiction anthology; I’m surprised it hasn’t been used more often. It was first used by Robert A. Heinlein for his 1940 famous novella, which became a key part of his massive science fiction Future History. The story won a Retro Hugo in 2016, but was renamed Revolt in 2100 for its publication as a novel in 1953. Charles Nuetzel co-opted the title 25 years after Heinlein used it for his first (and only) anthology, published in paperback in 1965, reprinting stories by Fredric Brown, Richard Matheson, A. E. van Vogt, Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, Forrest J. Ackerman, and others (above left).
My recent interest springs, of course, from Cat Rambo’s brand new anthology If This Goes On (above right), funded by a June 2018 $12,000 Kickstarter campaign and published in trade paperback by our friends at Parvus Press in March. It contains 30 brand new SF tales by some of the most exciting writers in the field today, including Andy Duncan, Nisi Shawl, Sarah Pinsker, Scott Edelman, Beth Dawkins, and many more. Subtitled The Science Fiction Future of Today’s Politics, this ambitious anthology looks at what today’s politics and policies will do to shape our world a generation from now. Tales within include:
“Green Glass: A Love Story” by Lily Yu, Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee, and winner of the 2012 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, filters the future of now through a wholly relatable lens: relationships and marriage.
Hugo-winning editor Scott Edelman’s “The Stranded Time Traveler Embraces the Inevitable” expertly employs an age-old science fiction convention to tell a deeply human tale of love, loss, and desperate hope.
Streaming our everyday lives has become commonplace, but in “Making Happy” Zandra Renwick examines a very uncommon consequence of broadcasting your every experience.
Former Minnesota Viking and noted equal rights advocate Chris Kluwe’s “The Machine” deals with one of the most important and hotly contested questions of the day: what truly defines citizenship and American identity?
Nebula winner Sarah Pinsker’s “That Our Flag Was Still There” uses possibly the most powerful symbol in American iconography to create a frightening and darkly illuminating vision of freedom of speech.
NAACP Image Award winner for Outstanding Literary Work Steven Barnes offers up the consequences of integrating technology and surveillance into our daily lives with his detective story “The Last Adventure of Jack Laff: The Dayveil Gambit”
Here’s the complete Table of Contents.
[Click the images for political-sized versions.]
“Green Glass: A Love Story” by E. Lily Yu
“Twelve Histories Scrawled in the Sky” by Aimee Ogden
“Dead Wings” by Rachel Chimits
“Welcome to Gray” by Cyd Athens
“The Stranded Time Traveler Embraces the Inevitable” by Scott Edelman
“Good Pupils” by Jack Lothian
“All the Good Dogs Have Been Eaten” by Gregory Jeffors
“The Sinking Tide” by Conor Powers-Smith
“Mustard Seeds and the Elephant’s Foot” by Priya Srdhar
“Mr. Percy’s Shortcut” by Andy Duncan
“A Gardener’s Guide to the Apocalypse” by Lynette Mejía
“But for Grace” by Hal Y. Zhang
“Hurrah! Another Year, Surely This One Will Be Better Than the Last; The Inexorable March of Progress Will Lead Us All to Happiness” by Nick Mamatas
“The Last Adventure of Jack Laff: The Dayveil Gambit” by Steven Barnes
“Three Data Units” by Kitty-Lydia Die
“One Shot” by Tiffany E. Wilson
“King Harvest (Will Surely Come)” by Nisi Shawl
“Counting the Days” by Kathy Schilbach
“Making Happy” by Camille Alexa
“The Machine” by Chris Kluwe
“That Our Flag Was Still There” by Sarah Pinsker
“The Editor’s Eyes” by Calie Voorhis
“Free WiFi” by Marie Vibbert
“Discobolos” by James Wood
“Fine” by Jamie Lackey
“Bulletproof Tattoos” by Paul Crenshaw
“Call and Answer” by Langley Hyde
“A Pocketful of Dolphins” by Judy Helfrich
“Tasting Bleach and Decay in the City of Dust” by Beth Dawkins
“The Choices You Make” by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
Charles Nuetzel’s 1965 anthology packs a lot of classic SF into 256 pages, including the complete novella “The Climbing Wave” by Marion Zimmer Bradley, cover story of the February 1955 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, with a very early cover by Frank Kelly Freas.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1955. Art by Frank Kelly Freas
Here’s the complete Table of Contents for Nuetzel’s anthology.
Introduction by Forrest J. Ackerman
Preface by Charles Nuetzel
“The Test” by Richard Matheson (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1954)
“The Earth Killers”e by A. E. van Vogt (Super Science Stories, April 1949)
“The Racer” by Ib Melchior (Escapade, October 1956.)
“All the Troubles of the World” by Isaac Asimov (Super-Science Fiction, April 1958)
“Friends and Enemies” by Fritz Leiber (Infinity Science Fiction, April 1957)
“No Land of Nod” by Sherwood Springer (Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1952)
“A Very Cultured Taste” by Charles Nuetzel (1960)
“The Mute Question” by Forrest J. Ackerman (Other Worlds Science Stories, September 1950)
“The Homo Sap” by Charles Nuetzel
“Aquella” by Donald A. Wollheim (Super Science Stories, November 1942)
“The Climbing Wave” Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1955)
Your Life In “1977” essay by Willy Ley (Science Fiction Digest, Vol 1 No 1, 1954)
“Preposterous” Fredric Brown (Angels and Spaceships, 1954)
I usually like to pass judgment on the covers in these A Tale of Two Covers columns, but in this case I think both pieces of art service their respective volumes nicely. The cover of the 1965 paperback is by Albert Nuetzell (any relation to Charles, I wonder?), and it’s definitely got an I-dread-the-future vibe. Bernard Lee’s cover for Cat Rambo’s version, with its submerged, post climate change Lincoln Memorial, is moody and effective, even if it’s not as colorful.
If I were forced to pick a favorite though, I think I’d go with Frank Kelly Freas’ gorgeous F&SF cover from February 1955, illustrating Marion Zimmer Bradley’s “The Climbing Wave,” with its action poses, 50s spaceship-interior chic, and that crazy pastel lighting. There’s a reason Freas is one of the most famous SF artists to ever wield a brush.
Our recent articles in the Tale of Two Covers series include:
Skullsworn by Brian Staveley
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
Infinity Engine by Neal Asher
Chasers of the Wind by Alexey Pehov
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
The Race and The Rift by Nina Allan
The Mammoth Book of Dracula / In the Footsteps of Dracula edited by Stephen Jones
More Human Than Human by Neil Clarke
Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
Nightflyers by George R.R. Martin
Outside the Gates by Molly Gloss
If This Goes On was edited by Charles Nuetzel and published by Book Company of America in 1965. It is 256 pages, priced at 75 cents. The cover is by Albert Nuetzell. It was reprinted in French by Marabout in 1970, but it has never been reprinted in English, and there is no digital edition.
If This Goes On was edited by Cat Rambo and published by Parvus Press on March 5, 2019. It is 296 pages, priced at $19.99 in trade paperback and $9.99 for the digital edition. The cover is by Bernard Lee. Check out all the details at the Parvus Press website.
See all our recent New Treasures here.
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Ohio State Dean Dead Wrong For Hiding Facts About Black Genocide and Abortion
By Rev. Dr. Clenard H. Childress, Jr.
Alan C. Michaels, dean of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Nationwide — In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, “Our primary reason for bringing an end to racial discrimination in America must not be the communist challenge. Nor must it be merely to appeal to Asian and African peoples. The primary reason for our uprooting racial discrimination from our society is that it is morally wrong. It is a cancerous disease that prevents us from realizing the sublime principles of our Judeo-Christian tradition. Racial discrimination substitutes an I-it relationship for the I-thou relationship. It regulates persons to the status of things. Whenever racial discrimination exist it is a tragic expression of mans spiritual degeneracy and moral bankruptcy. Therefore, it must be removed not merely because it is diplomatically expedient, but because it is morally compelling.”
Perhaps it was these words from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King which compelled Ohio State University Law Student, Ms. Madison Gesiotto, to write and have published in the Washington Times an opinion piece regarding the disproportionate number of African-Americans babies killed by abortion. Ms. Gesiotto obviously observed the systemic and deliberate targeting of African-American babies by the racist Abortion industry lead by Planned Parenthood. No doubt her search led to the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, who unquestionably was a devout racist and practiced eugenics. Ms. Gesiotto was probably stunned and appalled by the comments and writings of Margaret Sanger such as, “[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds … a deadweight of human waste … [Blacks, Soldiers, and Jews are a] menace to the race.” Or, “Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock…” (Margaret Sanger, April 1933, Birth Control Review; italics mine.)
Sanger also wrote, “The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” Here, Sanger argued that, because the conditions of large families tend to involve poverty and illness, it is better for everyone involved if a child’s life is snuffed out before he or she has a chance to pose difficulties to its family. Any more than two children Sanger considered a large family. She went on to say, “We should apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.” (Women And The New Race, Chapter 6, “The Wickedness of Creating Large Families.”) As a matter of perspective, Margaret Sanger believed any family with more than two children was large… I was a third child, my mom had five, and we are all doing well, thank you very much.
There is no issue presently impacting Black America more severely than the existing Jim Crow laws of discrimination protecting the Abortion industry and which clearly and empirically substitutes an ‘I-it’ relationship for the ‘I-thou’ relationship as expressed so eloquently by Dr. Martin Luther King. The deliberate and systemic targeting of African-American women for Abortion, led by Planned Parenthood, has killed over 18 million African-American children due to an “unjust law” which relegates persons to the status of things. To see Black Law Students take offense to the “racial overtones” in their condemnation of Ms. Gesiotto reaches new highs for absurdity and represent a devastating disappointment for African-Americans engaged in social activism. Since it’s too early to be on retainer by Planned Parenthood, it appears they have swallowed the pill of ‘Political Correctness’ and drunk the ‘Kool-Aid’ of ignorance, leaving them deluded and incapable of sorting facts from fiction, thereby failing to come to an objective conclusion. The facts are these:
1. The number one killer of African-Americans is ABORTION! If you were to combine AIDS, violent crimes, accidents, cancer, heart disease, and African-Americans incarcerated, it would not come up to half of those killed by abortion. That’s a fact. (U.S. Center for Disease Control.)
2. 1,786 African-American children are killed by abortion each day in America. That’s a fact. Allen F. Guttmacher past president of Planned Parenthood. (The Guttmacher Institute.)
3. 52% of all African-American pregnancies end in abortion. That’s a fact. (The Guttmacher Institute.)
4. African-American’s make up 12.4% of the population but account for 36% of the abortions. That’s a fact. (U.S. Census Bureau 2006.)
5. Planned-Parenthood is the leading abortion provider in America accounting for 20% of all abortions, therefore, the leading killer of African-Americans, and does not, as was erroneously stated, do mammograms. That’s a fact. (The Washington Post and MRC NewsBusters, October 2, 2015.)
So when Dean Alan C. Michaels of Ohio State University, reprimands a student journalist for giving out facts, chiding her for accurate reporting, pressuring her to come beneath the umbrella of ‘Political Correctness,’ this surely should be viewed as totally unacceptable from a man of his position and stature. Dean Michaels’ demand for her to stand with the administration’s policy of hiding the facts – accepting ideology, as opposed to empirical truths – proves we have come to a very sad state of affairs in our universities. For when objectivity is no longer valid, and subjective perspectives not subject to discovery – the actual findings after search for factual evidence – then the system should be declared invalid, corrupt, and be excised.
I reluctantly welcome Ms. Madison Gesiotto to the world of mainstream American Journalism, where facts are not important, especially whenever they do not confirm nor comport with ‘Political Correctness’ and personal ‘Correct’ ideology. Mainstream media now attempts to mold and shape its readers’ ideas in a fashion which will reflect the institutions’ philosophy regardless of the empirical sociological facts. I commend you for your courage, Ms. Gesiotto, and the Washington Times for giving you space to convey your opinion.
Ms. Gesiotto, obviously Ohio State has a contrary opinion and they choose to impose it upon you.
Rev. Dr. Clenard H. Childress, Jr. is the founder of www.BlackGenocide.org – a website designed to reach the Afro-American community with the truth about abortion.
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League One and League Two news and rumours: Sunderland eye Hartlepool youngster | Bristol Rovers player Lockyer 'disappointed' to see Portsmouth's Vaughan escape FA action | Barnsley's Liam Lindsay in demand? | Crawley Town defender Young has praises Manchester United loanee
Tom Lockyer
Here are the latest headlines from across League One on Monday, February 25.
Sunderland and Newcastle United have both been linked with a swoop for Hartlepool United youngster Josh Hawkes.
The 20-year-old has been in dazzling form this season, and TeamTalk claim the North East duo are keeping a watchful eye on Pools prospect.
Middlesbrough, Huddersfield, Burnley and Sheffield United are among the other sides linked with a swoop for Hawkes.
Similar stories emerged this time last year, where reports suggests Sunderland and the Magpies have been monitoring his progress for a long time.
Bristol Rovers defender Tom Lockyer admitted he was disappointed to see Portsmouth striker James Vaughan escape FA action following an alleged punch last Tuesday.
The pair clashed in Pompey’s home draw with Rovers, where Gas boss Graham Coughlan described the incident as an Anthony Joshua-style punch.
“I don’t want to talk too much about it but he knows what he’s done,” he told Bristol Live. “I’ve seen it back and I’m not sure how there’s no action being taken.
“I saw the one with Calvin Andrews, when he got a 12-game ban and I can’t tell you what’s much different.
“Obviously it’s a bit disappointing because I feel, if that was one of us, there would be action taken.
“So for whatever reason they haven’t so that’s just something we’ve got to accept and move on.”
Barnsley could face a battle to keep hold of Liam Lindsay in the summer, according to The Sun.
The defender has featured in 31 of the Tykes' League One fixtures this season as they currently occupy an automatic promotion place.
And should the Daniel Stendel’s men achieve promotion to the Championship, the 23-year-old will reportedly be available for around £2.5million.
Aston Villa have been credited with initial interest in the ex-Partick Thistle man, who made 42 second-tier outings last term.
In League Two, Crawley Town defender Lewis Young has heaped praise on Manchester United loanee Matty Willock.
The 22-year-old forward made his first Crawley start this weekend after completing his loan move last month, and Young feels he will only improve Reds' quality going forward.
He told the Crawley Observer: "Matty was at the Arsenal academy with my youngest brother (Kyle Young) so he's played with three of us now (played with Ashley Young at Old Trafford).
"I thought he was brilliant today. He was unfortunate that he started to tire before the end and that's why he was taken off. He really showed his quality.
"If he can keep doing that over the next 11 games, we've got a fantastic player on our hands."
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MacOSX.com: Apple iBox in production
Yes, this is very much an "Apple rumour", just ahead of Steve Jobs' keynote address to MacWorld on January 6th:
The iBox plugs into your TV and acts as a hub for your digital devices and computers. Unlike the EyeTV from Elgato, the iBox is a standalone machine, not something to plug into an existing computer. The iBox can be scheduled to record TV, but unlike TiVos it does not serve as a "what's on and when" service rather a hard drive / media based recording device (new aged VCR). With its built in 802.11b & 802.11g from its AirPort Extreme card, one can access the home folders of any user on any wirelessly networked Mac or PC. The iBox has its own version of the popular iPhoto and iTunes software which is a welcoming plus to Mac OS 10 veterans and easy for Windows users to adopt as well.
MacOSX.com, "Exclusive Insider Information: Apple iBox in production"
I see this as being a very plausible device, although it's not clear to me how the OS would differ. I would expect the same BSD-base to be used, and then (I guess) a slightly modified version of Quartz, optimized for a "10 foot interface" of being displayed on a TV.
Whatever the truth, I'm definitely going to be watching the keynote broadcast at 9am Tuesday morning.
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5 players to watch in the preseason opener | Bills vs. Colts
Nate Mendelson
Contributing Correspondent
Rookie running back Devin Singletary will make his NFL preseason debut on Thursday night.
The Buffalo Bills will kickoff the 2019 preseason schedule on Thursday at 7 pm against the Indianapolis Colts. Head coach Sean McDermott says the starters are expected to play for roughly a quarter. Outside of the starters, here are five players to watch for the Bills first preseason game.
1. Devin Singletary, running back
The rookie running back has been making a splash in training camp with his ability to cut in between tackles and quickly burst upfield. In a backfield with veterans like LeSean McCoy and Frank Gore, Singletary is primed to get plenty of action during the first week of the preseason.
"Everything is going to hit quicker. Guys are moving faster, guys are bigger. I feel I'm adjusting well," Singletary said. "I'm very confident. I believe in myself. And I've got great guys around me to guide me in the right direction. I feel like I'm doing well so far."
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2. Corey Thompson, linebacker
Thompson signed with the Bills last season as an undrafted free agent and has been backing up Matt Milano throughout training camp. His sideline-to-sideline pursuit ability makes him a perfect compliment when Milano isn't on the field. Thompson didn't even play linebacker until his final year at LSU.
"He's continuing to get better," said teammate Tremaine Edmunds. "I've seen a lot of good things out there, getting more comfortable and communicating, playing a little faster. I'm happy to see the steps he's taken."
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3. Tommy Sweeney, tight end
A seventh-round pick in the draft this year, Sweeney has quickly found himself in a starting role after a slew of injuries to the tight end group. Sweeney has earned praise from his coaches and teammates for his ability to step in and pick up the offense. Sweeney will get plenty of opportunities to display his pass-catching ability and blocking prowess against the Colts.
4. Kevin Johnson, cornerback
Johnson is enjoying his fresh start with the Bills. Currently vying for the No. 2 cornerback spot that belongs to Levi Wallace, Johnson will need to show the reason he was a first-round pick back in 2015. Due to injuries, Johnson has struggled to remain on the field and will need to remain healthy to put his full play-making ability on display.
"It's good to be out here. I'm playing football again. I love playing ball. It don't matter where I'm doing it – I'm a ball player," Johnson said. "But definitely being out here with the Buffalo Bills, getting a fresh start is great for me."
Thursday, Kevin Johnson will play in an NFL game for the first time since September 8, 2018..
5. Corey Bojorquez/Cory Carter, punter
Buffalo fiercest position battle this summer might be at the punter position. Both Bojorquez and Carter finished the 2018 season on the injured reserve. Bojorquez was the Bills' punter for the first eight games of the 2018 season. Special teams coordinator Heath Farwell stated last week that there is a long way to go until a decision is made. The best way to test the punters will be during live game action. That process will begin Thursday night.
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PBC to be suspended from Ghana Stock Exchange
13th Aug 2019 | Source: graphic.com.gh
Mr Kofi Owusu Boateng, MD of PBC
The Ghana Stock Exchange is to suspend the listing status of licensed cocoa buyer, PBC Limited, from the bourse, come this Thursday, August 15.
It follows the company’s inability to comply with two requirements of the GSE, it said in a statement issued Tuesday [August 13] morning.
It mentioned the breached regulations as failure to publish financial results for the 2018 financial year and failure to redeem a debt instrument issued earlier.
“The non-publication is in breach of the continuing listing obligations under the GSE Listing Rules,” the GSE said.
The financial year of PBC, which was previously called Produce Buying Company, ended in September 2018.
The GSE’s notice to suspend the company added that “PBC has also failed to redeem the Tranche P4 of its note program, which matured on December 6, 2018.
Part VI of the GSE Listing Rules outlines that a listed company shall comply with the continuing listing obligations and disclosure policy outlined in the Rules.
The prescribed sanctions for failing to abide by that regulation are specified in Rules 13(4)(c) and 13(4)(e) of the Listing Rules.
They empower the GSE to “suspend listing or compulsorily de-list securities where the company has failed to comply, or is unable, or unwilling to comply for any reason whatsoever with the Exchange’s requirements on continuing listing obligations and also where the company has failed to comply with its Listing Agreement, or other agreements with the Exchange, or has failed to comply with the Exchange’s Rules and disclosure policy as set out in Parts VI and VII of the Rules.”
The planned action of the GSE also comes in the wake of recent protests by staff of PBC against their Managing Director, Mr Kofi Owusu-Boateng, and the Board Chairman, Mr Charles B. Ntim, over allegations of mismanagement.
Last Tuesday, August 6, the staff picketed at the company’s head office in Accra to register their displeasure.
Beyond accusing the board and management of failing the staff and the company, they asked the appointing authority to revoke their appointments and bring in capable hands to revive the company.
PBC, which is the biggest cocoa buyer, is majority owned by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and the Government of Ghana, through the Ministry of Finance.
The two lead shareholders own almost 75 per cent of the company, which recently diversified from its core business of cocoa buying into real estate and shea nut processing through the establishment of the Golden Bean Hotel in Kumasi and the Shea Factory in Buipe.
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Community Advocates Meet with Slate Property Group to Discuss Rivington House
Posted on: April 19th, 2018 at 5:11 am by Elie
Rivington House sheltering the homeless, April 2017
Neighbors to Save Rivington House, a grassroots community organization formed in response to the facility’s sale (and resultant scandal) two years ago, recently met with the Slate Property Group to discuss its future in the neighborhood.
Kathleen Webster, the group’s leader who also heads up the Sara D. Roosevelt Park Coalition, recapped the meeting with new ownership in an email distribution this week:
We had a wide-ranging and honest conversation [with Slate]. Council Member Chin, Deputy Borough President Mathew Washington, and staff members from MBP’s Land-Use Office and Community Board 3 were in attendance to make our positions, thoughts and data known to the developers. The group from Neighbors to Save Rivington House expressed the community’s ongoing, essential need for Rivington House. We reminded everyone that the community lost our long-time neighbors along with the 219 long-term stay beds (while the need for such beds continues to climb). No long-term stay beds have come back into our neighborhood (such as Rivington House would have provided).
We are challenging the new owners to engage with the community to make a substantive effort to help regain what we lost and to find a way to meet the desperate need. We discussed some possible innovative approaches and will meet again. There was some agreement and a will to move forward.
Meanwhile, Slate Property Group already filed paperwork to embark on the Rivington House conversion. Despite the partial stop-work order still in effect on 45 Rivington Street. CetraRuddy Architects is the design firm behind the $17.1 million remodeling, which calls for 102 condos splitting 122,000 square-feet of residential space, including three triplex pads and one duplex. Also proposed in the plans are twelve enclosed parking spaces, bike storage for 54 residents, gym, full spa, lounge, and wine cellar.
The zoning change to residential is still pending, though.
Originally built as a school in 1899, Rivington House was converted to a skilled nursing facility in the early 1990s, serving those living with HIV and AIDS. Since its shutter two years ago, however, the building has since become a major scandal for the de Blasio administration. The Allure Group paid the city $16.1 million to lift a restrictive deed, then sold the property to developers Slate Property Group, China Vanke Co., and Adam America Real Estate for $116 million. All along, hizzoner has maintained that he had no knowledge of the land deal.
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Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez defends against Roamer Alexis Angulo tonight
June 30th, 2018 - Comments Closed
By Chris Williams: WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez will be defending his title tonight against little known Roamer Alexis Angulo on ESPN starting at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Ramirez’s promoters at Top Rank chose not to have him fight in the World Boxing Super Series eight-main tournament this year. It would have been a great way for the 6’2 ½” Ramirez to increase his popularity in a hurry. Instead of letting Ramirez fight in the WBSS tournament in 2018, Top Rank matched him against Habib Ahmed last February. The fan interest in that fight was low, as the casual and hardcore boxing fans had never heard of Ahmed. It was thought at the time that Top Rank would match Ramirez against a good challenger in his second fight of this year, but rather than doing that, they matched him against an equally obscure fighter in Roamer Alexis Angulo. You can argue that match-making like this has really hurt the little popularity that Ramirez has left with his fans, as no one is talking about the Ramirez-Angulo fight.
It appears that Top Rank is positioning Ramirez and Jesse Hart for a rematch. Top Rank promotes Hart, so putting together a rematch between them would be an in house fight. It’s too bad there’s no fan interest in seeing Ramirez fight Hart again, but that obviously won’t stop Top Rank from making that fight. Hopefully they don’t stick Ramirez and Hart together four or five times like they did with Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez. Ramirez needs new blood, preferably talented blood, for him to gain a fan base, but it doesn’t look like he’s going to be matched against the better fighters from the look of things.
Angulo (23-0, 20 KOs) is an eerily similar opponent to Ramirez’s last defense against Habib Ahmed last February. In other words, Ramirez (37-0, 25 KOs) will be facing another small challenger with meager boxing skills and limited talent. It’s unclear why Top Rank keeps matching the 27-year-old Ramirez against such dreadful opposition. Some boxing fans feel that they don’t believe in Ramirez, so they’re not willing to match him against the best fighters in the 168 lb. weight class like George Groves, Callum Smith, James DeGale, Jose Uzcategui, David Benavidez or Tyron Zeuge. For a lot of fans, they would be happy just to see Ramirez fight even likes of Juergen Braehmer or Fedor Chudinov. Those guys would amount to a HUGE step up from the fodder that Top Rank has been feeding him since he won the World Boxing Organization 168 lb. title from paper champion Arthur Abraham two years ago in 2016.
Four years ago Top Rank had high hopes for Ramirez. They had talked about wanting to try and match Ramirez against middleweight champion Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin. When that fight failed to take place, Ramirez was matched against Jesse Hart, who he barely beat last year in a close 12 round decision. Ramirez looked terrible in getting hurt several times by Hart during the course of the fight. Afterwards, Top Rank went back to matching Ramirez against weak opposition in feeding him an obscure fighter
named Habib Ahmed, and now they’re matching him against another poor opponent in Angulo tonight.
The southpaw Ramirez looked great in beating Abraham in 2016 in winning a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision against the past his prime 5’9” former middleweight champion. However, Abraham never rated to be a world champion in the first place, so Ramirez’s win over him meant zero in the big scheme of things. Ramirez has defended his WBO title three times, beating Max Bursak, Jesse Hart and Habib Ahmed. Top Rank isn’t going Ramirez any favors with the guys that he’s being matched against. It’s Ramirez’s job as a fighter to be assertive with his promoters with the way they’re guiding his career. After all, it’s Ramirez’s career that is failing to take off due to the poor match-making that’s being done for him by Top Rank. It makes you wonder if Ramirez has confidence issues in terms of his ability to compete against the best. Ramirez needs to push Top Rank if he wants to take his career to the next level because there’s no reason why he shouldn’t be fighting the top guys like Groves, Chris Eubank Jr., Callum Smith, David Benavidez and Uzcategui.
Top Rank recently inked David Benavidez to a deal, and it was thought that they would eventually match the two together in an in house fight, but unfortunately for them, Benavidez went back to his promoter Sampson Lewkowicz. Instead of that fight being a potential one on the horizon, Ramirez is stuck fighting Angulo, and whoever else Top Rank has in mind for him after that.
“From what I know, he’s a big puncher, and I know that he will try to knock me out,” Ramirez said about the 34-year-old Angulo. ”I’m going to try and knock him out, too. He doesn’t have a loss on his record, but he will on Saturday. I am looking for unification fights. That’s what I want, but first things first. We have a tough fight with Angulo, and after that, we are looking at any of those fighters. Let’s do it. Let’s make it happen.”
It’s good that Ramirez is talking about wanting to fight the other champions after tonight’s fight against Angulo, but it remains to be seen whether Top Rank will follow his wishes. I have doubts whether they’ll try and put together a unification fight for Ramirez, because if they believed in him, why wouldn’t they have put him in the World Boxing Super Series tournament? Why would Top Rank match Ramirez against Bursak, Ahmed and Angulo if they believed in him? You can argue that those are the type of fighters you match against a weak champion that you don’t feel has the talent to beat the quality fighters in the super middleweight division.
Ramirez just turned 27, which is young for a world champion, but he’s not taking advantage of his time as the WBO 168lb champion. Ramirez looked good in stopping his last opponent Habib Ahmed in the 6th round last February, but he was facing a woefully bad opponent, who would have likely been knocked out by even the fringe contenders in the super middleweight division. Ramirez did what he was supposed to do in beating a horribly over-matched Ahmed, but it’s confusing why his promoters at Top Rank is wasting his career by not matching him against better opposition.
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Sydney Singles Take The Search for Love to New Heights as They Conquer Nerves and Meet Their Match
Today, 14 February 2017, under the guidance of dating site eHarmony, five couples put on a brave face to fight first date nerves, at the same time as conquering the Sydney Harbour Bridge, climbing to its summit for Valentine’s Day.
The single climbers, who were matched according to their dating site profiles, not only got to enjoy one of the most spectacular views in Sydney but were also serenaded as they reached the top by stars Aladdin and Jasmine from the Disney’s hit Broadway musical, played by Ainsley Melham and Hiba Elchikhe.
The singles looking for romance and adventure met their date for the first time to take part in a Bucket List activity, taking them 134 metres above the sparkling harbour to enjoy a “A Whole New World” from “way up here”.
Melinda Heffernan, 31 year old from Bondi, said: “Watching the sunrise over the Harbour from the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, is a first date I will never forget. The adrenaline of the climb made my first date experience so less nerve racking and based on first impressions there’s definitely potential for a second date, maybe this time on the ground.”
BridgeClimb and eHarmony came together sharing a common vision, creating romantic connections and seeing Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to spark long lasting love, as well as celebrate it in a romantic yet adventurous setting.
Over a third of Aussie singles (34%) admit they harbour a secret crush, yet 81 percent of singles say they are either too anxious or terrified to ask that person out. The recent research commissioned by eHarmony suggests nerves play a big part in determining if a hopeful will be brave enough to ask their secret crush out on a first date.
Jacqui Manning, eHarmony psychologist and relationships expert, said, “A thrill-seeking date like climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge bonds strangers together in a way a more subdued date does not. These kinds of dates not only release adrenaline, but they also flood the brain with powerful neurotransmitters such as dopamine—the stuff that’s released when you fall in love. Together with the first date nerves, you’ll associate the incredible rush with each other, forging a strong connection and creating an awesome memory.”
BridgeClimb has seen more than 5,000 proposals and 28 weddings at the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Climb Leader Tracy who guided the Valentines up the iconic arches, sharing historical and contemporary commentary about the city and its surrounds, said: “We definitely saw some chemistry amongst the Climbers today and who knows, maybe next Valentine’s Day we’ll welcome one of these couples back on the Bridge for a proposal or even a wedding on the summit.”
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A dry moat, a remnant of an earlier Tudor house, surrounds this Jacobean masterpiece of a stately home. The house at Blickling has been described as one of the most romantic in England, and for good reason. Blickling was designed by architect Robert Lyminge, who also worked on Hatfield House, for Sir Henry Hobart, a fashionable lawyer. Lyminge also designed a formal garden, which was swept away by a new landscape garden in the late 18th century.
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Felbrigg Hall
Felbrigg hall was the home of the Windham family for 500 years, and stands in a beautiful woodland park. The house was designed by Robert Lyminge, who also designed Blickling Hall and Hatfield House, and features a superb Gothic library and great hall.
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Hindringham Hall & Gardens
Hindringham Hall is a secret gem, a picturesque moated manor house built around 1560 but incorporating a 12th-century moat and monastic fish ponds. The Hall was built by Martin Hastings, a courtier to Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of Henry VIII.
Blacksmiths Lane, Hindringham, Norfolk, England, NR21 0QA
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Holkham Hall
A stately Palladian house set in peaceful parkland, the work of William Kent inside and out. A showpiece setting for art, with a wonderful collection of Old Master paintings. The house is set in picturesque landscape gardens and parkland.
Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, NR23 1AB
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Houghton Hall is a magnificent country house built between 1722-35 for Sir Robert Walpole by Colen Campbell and Thomas Ripley. Walpole, the first official Prime Minister in English history, created a neo-classical house in grand Palladian style. The original design for Houghton was drawn up by James Gibbs, but his ideas were substantially altered in the final construction.
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A Tudor extravagance approached over a three arched bridge across a moat, through a massive seven-level gatehouse. The interior belies the Tudor exterior, being mostly Victorian. One treasure is embroidery done by Mary Queen of Scots during her long captivity.
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The royal family's country retreat, Sandringham is a lovely country house set in beautiful gardens and surrounded by a large country park. A ground floor suite of rooms is open to visitors, showcasing royal collections of art and ceramics, armour, and personal objets d'art. There are garden walks, a museum of royal memorabilia, and the beautiful parish church with royal monuments.
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British Justice has failed Zdeněk Makar
Posted on August 12, 2017 by Richard Hunt
Source: London Evening Standard
There are many things wrong with British society, and I have never been afraid to speak of them to Czechs; I hope that then, if I claim something about Britain is really good, they will believe me rather than just suppose I am being “patriotic”.
One of those good things, I always argue, is the British justice system. When I first heard the dreadful news of the murder of Czech citizen, Zdeněk Makar, in London last autumn, I tried to reassure my Czech friends that our police will get the killer, and he will face justice.
The police did their job. Raymond Sculley was very quickly arrested and charged with murder. It’s usually a good sign, when an arrest and charges follow quickly. It suggests the police have received clear and damning evidence. In the meantime details had emerged of “Zed” in the press and social media. I quickly gained the impression of a hard-working and able young man who had gone to Britain to build a career and enrich his life experience, and was clearly succeeding. He had a group of friends there from the Central European countries, equally decent, and now horribly bereft. They organised a fund to ensure he could be returned home to lay to rest.
Having read about him, and the press reports of what had happened I was very confident that he would not have provoked such an assault, and it’s worth explaining why I was so confident.
I’m a born and bred Londoner, and lived there all my working life until I came to Prague in 1993, and return regularly. I have always enjoyed socialising with friends in pubs and clubs. And football, where tribal passions still run deep, is in my blood. I think that I understand “the streets”, and can quickly spot trouble.
And in the UK, trouble comes quickly, often at random. There is an aggressive element in the British DNA, and it flares up under the influence of alcohol and drugs, and in otherwise peaceful and respectable people. When out in the evenings in the big cities, you know how to behave; Don’t engage with people unless you have a good feeling about them, don’t make eye contact with strangers in the streets. Definitely don’t initiate banter with a random group of young guys, no matter how good-humoured you think you are.
Poor Zed didn’t follow those rules on that terrible night last autumn. And I think I know why. After a few years in Prague I started to appreciate that the aggressive undercurrent of the London evening streets didn’t exist here. Czech guys went to pubs where everyone sat down, to enjoy the serious business of consuming fine Czech beer. In London, when you finish your beer you have to go to the bar and spend minutes attracting the barman’s attention. That alone can wind you up. There’s a post-punk song about it. Czech guys are provided a fresh beer by a smiling waitress even before they finish the previous beer. Then they wind their way slowly home, minding their own business. It is one of the many things I appreciate about life here.
Zed wasn’t from Prague but from a smaller town in Moravia, where everyone knows everyone else. And, like most from the new EU countries, he had to make his home in an area of London where he could afford the rent; an area which used to be solidly working class, but which is now a melting pot. New rich money rubs shoulders with the poorest elements of society. And inevitably that will include some low-life. I wouldn’t want to live in Poplar, but to Zed it probably looked OK.
Raymond Sculley and his friends pitched up at Perfect Fried Chicken in Poplar on their bicycles and left them lying on the pavement. Zed arrived to pick up something for dinner, and walking through the bicycles, asked of no-one in particular “What’s this then, a bike gang?”. I imagine him saying this with a faint smile on his face; he has had a drink after work, is in a good mood, and needing a bite to eat.
But one of the gang, perhaps whom Zed made eye contact with, was Raymond Sculley’s nephew, Sean Searle. In court, Searle was said to suffer from ADHD and to have a very short temper. It seems that he didn’t take Zed’s comment in the way it was intended, and followed him into the shop, and gave him some grief.
Sculley then came in to ‘support’ his nephew, and grabbed Zed in a headlock. (All this is captured very clearly on CCTV). Zed has to struggle hard to free himself from Sculley, but does so…and retrieves and pays for his food; because all he really wants to do is get home and have a bite to eat.
Unfortunately what happens next is not so well documented , even though another CCTV camera is available. It is clear that Zed leaves with his food, the gang follow him. Realising that he is in danger, Zed turns around to face his attackers, removes his jacket and drops his food. But Sculley has a weapon – a bike lock and chain. Sculley beats him to death and is recorded as saying while standing over him “Look what you made me do”.
Going into the trial, it all seemed clear. Nobody disputed that Raymond Sculley violently took Zed’s life. Zed was alone, while Sculley was part of a group. CCTV of much of the incident was available.
And yet the jury found Sculley not guilty, neither of murder nor manslaughter.
When I heard this news I was absolutely stunned. The media reports had considerable detail of what happened, as detailed by the prosecution counsel. The report of the defence argument was limited to one sentence. Sculley acted in self-defence.
Self-defence???
I wrote to the British Ambassador in Prague, vainly seeking some clarity. Surely there must be some details not yet published, which would explain the outcome better; not least to the outraged Czech government and citizens? In vain. Her answer was predictably formulaic. But when I published it on Twitter it brought me into contact with Chris Rawlins, a friend of the group. He had been at the trial and is the one British member of the group fighting for Justice for Zed. He is intelligent, reasonable and wonderfully articulate. I am glad the group have him.
Chris expanded on the self-defence argument. When Sculley was questioned by police he never really explained himself at all. In court, apparently making it up as he went along, and often contradicting himself, he claimed that after Zed left the shop he had threatened his nephew, and Sculley again stepped in to ‘defend’ his nephew. The CCTV does not at all support Sculley’s version, but as it is a traffic camera the images are not clear. All that can be seen is that Zed is walking away, with his food, realises he is being followed by the gang, and preparing for trouble, drops his food, and takes off his jacket. Then Sculley assaults him.
Any British citizen can, at any time, be called, at random, to serve on a jury. I could have been one of this jury. So what would I have concluded?
I would have looked at the photos of Zed, and considered the character of the people testifying on his behalf, and then done the same for Raymond Sculley. I would have concluded that on that evening, life looked better for Zed than it did for Sculley. As I have said, most Czech males seem far less aggressive in public than their British counterparts, and no evidence suggested Zed was an exception to this rule; so there would seem to have been no reason for him to seek any confrontation that evening. He had been working, socialising, and needed a bite to eat. Sculley had been smoking pot, and was with a gang, none of whom seem to work. Zed was alone. Sculley was in a gang of four. Zed made a remark to them as he came in to the shop, but to me it sounds cheerful, certainly not insulting. But of course they would have heard his Czech accent. (as they would also have heard a Scottish or Irish accent and also reacted badly to it – not “one of us”).
Sean Searle reacted in a confrontational way to Zed’s remark. I don’t find it reasonable for Searle to have done so. Then Sculley makes a physical assault on Zed in the shop, captured on CCTV. Zed breaks free, and if I had been him I would have got out of there, and left my chicken. But Zed isn’t going to be intimidated and probably feels that if he shows no aggression things will calm down (as they do, back in his home country). He pays for his food, takes it and leaves. The CCTV shows no evidence of Zed doing anything other than walking away. When then did Zed attack Sculley, so that he would respond in “self defence”? Why would Zed, having already been assaulted by Sculley, seek to renew the confrontation, when it is one against four, and he has his dinner?
There is absolutely nothing in the evidence for me to justify Sculley even throwing a punch at Zed, let alone brutally murdering him. I would have found him guilty as charged.
Yet a jury of 12 people saw it differently. They found Sculley not guilty. He walked free from the court, despite it being a matter of record that he beat Zed to death with a bike lock and chain.
And under English law there is no right of appeal. There is, officially, no further way for Zed’s family and friends to get justice for him.
How can this possibly happen, in Great Britain, in 2017, a country which prides itself on its justice system, and frequently criticises countries whose justice systems it considers to be inadequate?
In part 2, I will address that question and discuss what can be done to obtain Justice for Zed.
In the meantime you might consider signing this petition, and following the campaign group on Facebook.
6 comments on “British Justice has failed Zdeněk Makar”
Hi Richard.
Thanks for your effort.I still cannot believe the you can legally kill a man in Britain. i still hope there is something that can be done. There must have been something that change direction of the whole jury. Any chance to find out who test people were? Name of the judge, his photo…let the world know who led the murder walked away free!! Please don’t give up, if there’s anything I can do here in Prague, please let me know.
Thanks Stepan Svatos
Edward Everett says:
Hi Richard, I hope you get this message. Also a Brit here, living in Prague for 13 years now. I am very angry about the Makar case. I realise it comes up against one of the fundamental principles of English law (double jeopardy), but English law is made for changing (by precedent), so what can we do? You said there would be a part two but I don’t see it anywhere. Hope to hear from you. Best, Ed Everett
Rudolf Dvořáček says:
I have signed petition, because I don’t understand why 12 members of jury took this act as self defense.
Richard Hunt says:
Thank you for your replies to my post.
While I don’t know any of Zdenek Makar’s friends or family, I had an extensive dialogue with Chris Rawlins, their English friend whom I mention in the post. He had told me some time ago of the plan to appeal to the ECHR, but asked me to keep that confidential. Unfortunately as we now know, the appeal failed. From the brief summary of the court, it seems that they consider the actual court process in the UK to have been followed in a standard way, and therefore they had no reason to conclude that the UK justice system itself failed to function. We are brought back to the decision of the jury itself, which the ECHR is not able to address or comment on.
While I studied some law as part of my business degree, that was many years ago, and so I am no authority on the matter. So in attempting to answer some of the points raised I have also had to re-educate myself, as did Chris. Please treat my remarks as strictly that of a “layman”.
I think that Czech politicians, particularly President Zeman, misunderstood why no appeal was possible in the UK court. This situation arises only when the prosecution (usually the State) has failed to get a guilty verdict. Behind this lies the principal of “innocent until proven guilty”. The State, with all its resources, is expected to be able to build the strongest possible case. It is not allowed to “have another go” just because it did not get a result first time. A defendant however, can appeal.
There have been cases where the Crown Prosecution Service has been criticised for how it has conducted a case, but Chris believes that in this case they made the strongest case available. He also absolves the judge from blame. he told me that contrary to popular belief, judges cannot ‘direct’ juries towards a decision, and they certainly cannot overturn it. When the verdict was announced Chris said that the judge told the accused “Well, Mr Sculley, it appears you are free to go” in a tone that indicated his own amazement at the jury’s decision.
Brits and Americans take pride in their justice systems, and the jury system is part of it. But perhaps too many of us only see the system in courtroom TV or film drama; these focus on the arguments, and rarely suggest that the jury itself could be a problem in getting a fair outcome. But the CPS barrister told Chris that perhaps 1 in 100 juries return verdicts which seem to defy all logic. The problem lies with the fact that juries are selected completely at random. This is how someone explained to me what kind of jury this random selection can bring:
“Take 12 random people. Maybe people you work with.
2 will be irretrievably stupid, to the point you wonder how they get through life and manage to get dressed in the morning.
2 will hate the police/justice system due to a minor traffic offence or unsolved burglary.
2 simply won’t care and will want to go home.
So at least half of all juries are going to be hard to get a guilty verdict out of.”
It seems that many legal professionals recognise the problem and are looking for solutions. Unfortunately such future changes will not help the family of Zed. Chris says that a case can be re-opened if compelling new evidence comes to light, and the Steven Lawrence murder case has made it possible for a defendant to be re-tried if such evidence is made available. But Steven’s mother Doreen made it her life’s work to keep up the pressure on the police, and eventually her efforts attracted serious media support. Unfortunately Zed’s family are not British, so it is much more difficult for them to know how to conduct such a campaign, especially when they are not living there all the time. I feel for them, and feel ashamed that they have been so badly let down by my country’s justice system. But I do not see an obvious way forward at this time. If anyone hears of some new effort in this case which deserves attention and support, please let me know.
Evan Lewis says:
An interesting article which explains more eloquently some of the aspects of British society that I have ineloquently and therefore ineffectively tried to put across to my Czech friends and family – did a part two ever appear and if so, could you send me a link to it?
Thanks, Evan
Jana Page says:
I would like to read part two too, please.
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In the tradition of Uni the Unicorn and Gaston, this heartwarming and adorable debut picture book tells the story of a young unicorn who was born under the sea to a family of narwhals.
Growing up in the ocean, Kelp has always assumed that he was a narwhal like the rest of his family. Sure, he’s always been a little bit different—his tusk isn’t as long, he’s not as good of a swimmer, and he really doesn’t enjoy the cuisine. Then one night, an extra strong current sweeps Kelp to the surface, where he spots a mysterious creature that looks just like him! Kelp discovers that he and the creature are actually unicorns. The revelation leaves him torn: is he a land narwhal or a sea unicorn? But perhaps, if Kelp is clever, he may find a way to have the best of both worlds.
Told with heartwarming illustrations and spare, sweet text, Jessie Sima’s debut picture book is about fitting in, standing out, and the all-encompassing love of family.
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In New York, Men's Fashion Week Is Hanging On
By Max Berlinger July 12, 2018 05:29
Reduced to a niche event, New York Fashion Week: Men's offers an opportunity for young designers to really be seen. For talented participants, the intimacy can work in their favour.
Jahnkoy, Bode, Willy Chavarria | Source: Courtesy
NEW YORK, United States — Let’s hear it for the menswear market: Sales for luxury men’s apparel and accessories are set to outpace womenswear in the coming years; a recent spate of changes in the creative ranks at big houses like Louis Vuitton, Dior and Burberry has created buzz from press and retailers; and the male-dominated streetwear craze is reaching a fevered pitch.
And yet, New York Fashion Week: Men’s, which ended its seventh edition on Wednesday, has yet to make a definitive mark. Most big American labels, including Ralph Lauren and Thom Browne, have abstained from participating in the standalone men’s shows, organised by the Council of Fashion Designers of America, since its inception. (Both designers declined, through press representatives, to give a reason.) And last season’s tentpole names — Raf Simons and Tom Ford — decamped, leaving the Spring/Summer 2019 roster populated with mostly lesser-known upstarts. Todd Snyder, the week’s marquee designer, closed out the three-day event on Wednesday evening.
“The story is not about who isn’t showing, the story is about who is showing,” CFDA chief executive Steven Kolb said outside promising young designer Emily Bode’s presentation on Wednesday morning. After all, despite speculation otherwise, the event isn’t going anywhere: Reebok just signed on as sponsor for the next four seasons. “I’m comfortable with where it’s landed and what it’s become,” he said. “I think we’re helping a new generation of talent, and you see it reflected throughout the three days.”
What this niche event does offer is an opportunity for young designers to really be seen: in Milan or Paris during the still-big men’s fashion weeks, they would likely be buried by more recognisable names. And there were certainly some standout shows this week. David Hart’s theme — groovy 1970s suiting and sportswear separates — was about as subtle as a jackhammer, but that turned out to be a good thing. In the midst of a sea of droopy, slouchy streetwear, Hart’s straightforward inspiration, rich fabrics and taut execution made his collection instantly stand out as more than just great Instagram fodder, though it was that too. But Hart’s clothing is hard to find at retailers, which is a shame. His knits, especially, are excellent. He’s a talented guy, and it would be nice to see his imprint in the market grow accordingly.
Todd Snyder SS19 | Source: Courtesy
Hart showed during New York Men’s Day, a two-part set of presentations that serves a pre-cursor, of sorts, to the main event. This season the brands that presented lacked focus, a blend of homogenous ideas that, for the most part, would benefit from a distinct point-of-view. At this point, floral-print camp collar shirts, track pants, graphic T-shirts and loose-cut trousers are apt to make the eye glaze over.
One thing that’s nice about Willy Chavarria’s work is that it doesn’t hide the fact that it’s about sex. With his shirtless men and their rippling abs glistening with sweat, there’s an unabashed carnal heat. The before-the-show pantomime of a coach training his team added a homoerotic undertone to the voluminous soccer shorts, chevron-decorated jerseys and track suits made in collaboration with the Danish sportswear brand Hummel.
The second half of the collection was subtler, with baggy dark denim, mesh tops, oversized button-ups, throwback Polo Ralph Lauren energy and T-shirts featuring Canal Street airbrushed images of the World Trade Towers and Maxine Waters. Chavarria is building a foundational aesthetic deeply rooted in Latino culture, and he wisely weaves in bits of ideas — politics, sexuality, immigration, the shifting grounds of identity — without too much flag-waving (though there were ominous upside-down flag graphics on cropped sweatshirts).
“My fashion isn’t like resistance-type stuff," he said backstage, wearing a sweatshirt that had the web address for the pro bono immigration law service Raices. "I just try to be truthful." His clothing, so far, has felt deeply personal.
Alessandro Trincone sent his models down the runway in white babydoll dresses, fringe-strewn gowns, shirt dresses of tiered tulle and hats dripping floating strands of shiny mylar. Advertised as unisex, the collection is a sort of glimpse at a new breed of designer. Neil Grotzinger, who designs the collection Nihl, is a kindred spirit, turning out crystal-embellished wrestling unitards with gaping, curvilinear cut-outs. These pieces have an element of silliness and are limited in their commercial appeal, but at a time when masculinity and the male gaze are under close scrutiny, these designers’ work has some unexpected potency.
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Maria Kazakova of the brand Jahnkoy presented her colorful mash-up of streetwear and global influences as a joyful, aggressive dance performance, divided into three parts moving from chaos to order (if only the world would follow suit). The energy helped accentuate the clothing’s inherent celebratory feel and athletic leanings, but also injected some much-needed excitement into the otherwise lethargic line-up of presentations. Kazakova’s work is dense; there’s a lot to chew on. Are those references to corporate logos, '90s sportswear or traditional Siberian folkloric costume? All three? None? It’s hard to tell and that’s half the fun. In many ways, her work alludes to the disappearing borders — national, ethnic, gender, sexual — that the internet has wrought. Ms. Kazakova is a real talent, reminiscent of a young Miguel Adrover coming up in the early 2000s.
Bode, the show everyone wanted to be at this week, stayed in line with her thoughtful, mediative aesthetic, proving that quiet moments have their own power. Inspired by the family history of her collaborator Aaron Aujla, the collection served as a continued exploration of memory as told through clothing. “This is nostalgic and memory-based which is why, I hope, it feels good,” she said. “This is why I do what I do, to reflect on personal narratives.”
The palette was sepia-toned like a faded family photo, punctuated by marigold, orange, and rich maroon. Straight-leg trousers and boxy shirts were designed, in part, to give the collection a feeling of timelessness, to evoke the 1940s but feel right for contemporary consumers. Aujla’s family immigrated from India to British Columbia, so Bode used khadi, an Indian handwoven textile, and embroidered it with chain-stitched signatures and dates, a wistful touch. Bode appears to be at the beginning of a fruitful career, and it will be interesting to see how she can take the hand-crafted, folksy feel and scale it.
In a moodily-lit space with gravel crunching underfoot in Soho, Public School — which pivoted to a direct-to-consumer business model this past spring — showed a collection of utilitarian wares with a slight dystopian cast. The starting point was the idea of permanence, with designers Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne considering their own archives first. In today’s blink-and-you-miss-it world, there’s power in revisiting old ideas to see how they’ve grown. “You plant these seeds and see what they become,” Chow said. “We need to slow down and allow ourselves to let things sink in.”
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To that point, the duo used deadstock or recycled fabrics, and worked in collaboration with Levi’s, Eileen Fisher and Nike on products that reflected a sense of evergreen stylishness, not seasonal whims. To look at a crewneck sweater made of pinstripe wool typically used for tailoring, or trim gray cargo pants, roomy shirting or blazers tricked-out with oversized tactical pouches served as a reminder that Public School was at the forefront of the luxury streetwear movement.
And finally there was Todd Snyder, who, backstage in white jeans and a dark tee, said he was mining the idea of nostalgia for spring. Set to the Pet Shop Boys, there was a SoCal surf mall rat feeling to the tropical prints short-sleeve button-ups (made in collaboration Reyn Spooner, who originated the Hawaiian shirt), washed-out tie dyes and knit polos.
“I want to take things from your dad’s closet and make them fun. It’s a little campy,” Snyder said backstage. At the end of the day, Snyder excels at making clothes. That’s not as dumb as it sounds. With designers looking to make an impact on small screens and with social media likes and followers, making a striped seersucker suit that’s casual and cool or a cabana shirt that strikes a balance between aggressive and boring takes real talent. Snyder wants to create a striking image but he wants to sell garments, too. In that way, he’s as American as they come.
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QantasLink launches new Moranbah service
By: Jason Whittaker
QantasLink’s inaugural Brisbane to Moranbah service landed in the central Queensland regional centre earlier today (Monday, September 28). The airline will
QantasLink’s inaugural Brisbane to Moranbah service landed in the central Queensland regional centre earlier today (Monday, September 28).
The airline will initially operate five 36-seat Dash 8 Q200 return services each week on the route, before increasing flights to six per week in mid-October.
The new route increases the airline’s Queensland network to 22 destinations.
The Brisbane-Moranbah and return services will initially operate Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, with a fifth service operating on Thursday afternoons.
A Tuesday morning service will be added from mid-October.
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Photos Of Taylor & Derek From 'Bachelor In Paradise' That Prove They Really Are Made For Each Other
By Stephanie Downs
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Taylor Nolan and Derek Peth came out of the most recent season of Bachelor in Paradise as the sole engaged couple in the bunch. The couple's cute love story had fans rooting for them from the start. (Well, at least after they got over their opinions of Taylor from her time on Nick Viall's Bachelor season.) And now, post-show, Taylor and Derek post the cutest photos on social media that prove they're destined to be together forever.
Taylor and Derek failed to find love on their seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Taylor had that whole feud with Corinne Olympios going on during her season, which didn't allow her to focus on her love connection with Nick. Derek wasn't involved in much drama during The Bachelorette, but was left crying in Argentina by his season's lead, JoJo Fletcher. Luckily, the two were able to focus on the "right reasons" and find love with each other on Bachelor in Paradise.
Derek and Taylor's relationship was strong during the entirety of Paradise (that short-lived fight over a certain "f-you" phrase notwithstanding). In fact, they went so strong during Paradise that the two ended up engaged by the end. Derek got down on one knee during the post-show for the season and popped the question to Taylor with a Bachelor Nation classic Neil Lane ring. Hopefully, a Paradise wedding will be in the cards for these two in the future.
But, fans don't have to wait until a televised wedding to see more of the adorable pair. The couple have been posting some seriously sweet photos on social media and these pics prove that the two are made for each other.
Getting G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S
Taylor and Derek know how to clean up well. The two got a little fancy in this pic and Derek couldn't help but gush over his fiancée. He captioned the photo with, "She's so bootyful ... #hadtoputaringonit".
Passing The "Ikea Test"
These two are super cute even when taking a simple trip to Ikea.
This Caption Though
This adorable photo has a more simple caption, but it's still so great. She captioned the cute snap, "I kinda like his face, a lot".
All About That Emotional Intelligence
Taylor and Derek aren't pictured here as a couple, but they may as well be. Derek is getting caught up on some reading here and reading all about "emotional intelligence," a phrase that Taylor used — and was made fun of for using — during her time on The Bachelor.
Post-Engagement Feels
Taylor and Derek are captured here moments after their lovely engagement on the after-show for the latest season of Paradise. They just look so in love surrounded by those classic Bachelor rose petals. How could anyone say they're not made for each other?
That Cute Selfie Aesthetic
They may disagree on their selfie aesthetic sometimes, but they still have an A+ selfie game.
NYC Dreamin'
These two have their selfie game on point. Derek posted the photo, seemingly taken during a New York trip, and captioned it, "I may be in Seattle ... but 'I'm in a New York State of mind'".
Seriously, Their Selfies
They're too good!
#LongDistance
In this photo, Taylor pointed out that she and Derek are long distance, but clearly they're excited to see each other any chance they get.
In A Very Instagram-able Location
He's not afraid of a cheesy caption, is he?
Taylor and Derek were the definition of #RelationshipGoals while they were on Bachelor in Paradise. And these photos prove that they weren't only goals on the show, but are made for each other outside of paradise, too.
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Spanish government scorns latest Catalan independence moves
MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government dismissed Friday the latest efforts by Catalan separatists to advance their independence bid, saying a planned Catalan government in exile would have no legal authority.
The government also said Jordi Sanchez, a prominent secessionist proposed as Catalonia’s new president, can’t take office because he’s in jail in Madrid awaiting possible trial on charges of sedition and rebellion for his part in recent Catalan attempts to break away from Spain.
Government spokesman Inigo Mendez de Vigo said Friday of Sanchez possibly taking power that authorities “won’t allow it.”
Justice Minister Rafael Catala was more circumspect, however. He noted a president would have to take power in person, though he added it would be up to a judge whether to let Sanchez go to the Catalan parliament.
Catalonia’s fugitive ex-leader Carles Puigdemont said late Thursday in a video message from Belgium, where he fled to escape arrest in Spain, that he supported Sanchez for president.
He also said separatists plan to create a kind of Catalan shadow government in exile, called the Council of the Republic, in Belgium.
Mendez de Vigo said such a body would have no power because it has no constitutional basis.
In another twist in the ongoing battle between Madrid’s central authorities and separatist parties and civic groups in Barcelona, the wealthy northeastern Catalonia region’s capital, Puigdemont is taking his fight to the international stage.
His lawyer in Belgium, Ben Emmerson, said Friday legal action has been launched at the United Nations, claiming Spain has violated human, civil and political rights in its crackdown in Catalonia and subsequent legal pursuit of regional leaders.
Emmerson told reporters in Brussels that the Spanish state is trying to “squeeze the life out of the Catalan independence movement.”
He said Puigdemont’s legal team plans to take new legal action each month until Spain agrees to talks on Catalan independence. He didn’t say what that action might be.
Lorne Cook in Brussels contributed to this report.
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Hilti Canada, supplier of quality, innovative and specialized tools and fastening systems for the professional user, recently announced it is again being recognized as one of this year’s Best Workplaces in Canada by the Great Place to Work® Institute. Ranking 16 on this year’s list of 50 Best Large and Multinational Workplaces in Canada, the prestigious ranking complements the recognition that has been granted to Hilti Canada for the last five years.
Hilti Canada was also recognized with the special, “Credibility Award”. This award is given to workplaces with a combined focus on building trust, culture and practices that make the day-to-day relationships with employees a great experience.
“We are excited to once again receive this recognition”, said Avi Kahn, President and General Manager. “Being a great place to work is at the heart of our culture, so when we are appreciated by our team members and an organization like Great Place to Work®, we appreciate that”.
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Benji:
This’ll be another rather mini-update, at least in comparison to previous ones. Expect a few of these while we’re busy building the groundwork.
Parser work continues well. Now that I’ve gotten some of the bigger things mapped out, I’ve been working directly with Crimson on putting it together. Each tag we implement as we work through each draft of the player description requires the property or system behind it be implemented, so it’s not fast work. For instance, if we want to talk about the player’s upperbody secondary fur colour, the player class needs to have that property first, then the parser needs to be told how and where to get that information.
This is rather a change of approach. My first plan was to make the entire list of tags, which I did, and then go through them building each one. However, we’ve found it to be much more sound to implement tags we need, as we need them. This means no wasting time implementing tags we may never end up needing, or tags that simply won’t work or prohibit certain usage, etc. A lot of tags like those have already been made clear and been changed or removed for that reason, and this way we know that every tag implemented already has a need to be there.
It also means we get the game into your hands sooner, which is something we’re also changing our approach to better support. In simple terms, instead of trying to build as much as the game as possible before release, we’re going to build only what needs to be there first. Then, expand out, add features, iterate.
This will mean the first version will likely be something like a GUI where you can move around a map. Then we add more stuff, battles, a location, an npc, more enemies, items and loot drops, and so on. Instead of only having written update posts to assure you we’re working, you’ll be able to see and interact with it, even if what you interact with is extremely basic at first.
This is usually how small titles with small teams develop their games, and with any luck, it should help reinforce the idea that we’re here, we’re working, and we’re going to make Carnal Souls happen, bit by bit.
Crimson:
Just to be clear, when we officially release the game, we will be releasing a complete game experience. I don’t want this update to sound like we’re backing off of our promises or goals. We intend to provide a lot of access along the way to development builds of the game. Those builds will be of varying degrees of quality, and will have feature sets that sort of appear, disappear, change, reappear, etc. While a whole lot of design work went into this game before any code was written (and before I was even part of the team), it’s important for us to frequently challenge the assumptions made in those early design documents.
The Parser is a good example, where hundreds of tags were planned ahead of time. As we begin to write content for the game, we find ourselves needing tags that weren’t part of the original spec. We further find ourselves looking at other tags and seeing less usefulness for them than was assumed at the start. By producing smaller amounts of content in shorter cycles, we build up a more efficient vocabulary for the Parser and Director.
Most of my recent time has been devoted to the Parser and Director. Both are coming along well. We’ve improved the Director syntax, making it more human-readable at glance. Those two systems, along with the battle system, represent the biggest and most complex set of systems that exist in the game. Getting those operational involves a lot of code and not a lot of visual presentation or interface design, so development is going to seem slow for a while from an outside perspective. Once those three systems are mostly complete, development will become more interface focused. That’s when we’ll be able to start sharing more small demos like the Character Creator while we build up the overall game and connect all the parts.
Anyway, sorry if updates seem sparse. There just isn’t anything visual to present for a while and it’s tricky to make the non-visual stuff appear exciting.
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We’ve updated the forum layout to be much more in keeping with the game’s design, and to better match the blog too. Stereo has worked very hard on it and done an excellent job (I helped by pointing out pixels), so show her some love. We’ve got built-in avatars now, so you can choose one of the starting race emblems too, if you like. If there are any problems or glitches with the new layout, let us know on the Site and Forum Support subforum.
You may also notice I’m sporting a new Staff badge and a couple of ribbons for Artist and Writer on the forums. The first step is to make sure we can present all the badges nicely, so I think that can be considered done. We’ll be working on a way to get you all hooked up with your appropriate Indiegogo backer badges sometime in the near future. (I have the ribbons just for display purposes).
Forum avatars have been bumped to 130px for the new layout, so some of you may need to reupload yours to get them to display correctly and use the new pixels.
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Increased measures to protect vulnerable children online welcomed by the IWF
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Religious leaders must take ‘moral lead’ to help end online child sexual abuse
The Catholic Church and leaders of other religions must “take a moral lead” to help end online child sexual abuse as leaders prepare to gather in Vatican City.
EU grant for child protection online amid fears for future funding
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UK’s internet guardian ‘sets standard’ for hotlines worldwide
A unique British charity, which hunts down and removes online child sexual abuse images and videos, has won praise for outstanding good practice from a top EU assessor for its global work with law enforcement and the internet industry to remove tens of thousands of horrific images each year.
Child protection must stay top of world agenda, says UK charity
The Cambridge-based Internet Watch Foundation(IWF) Statement on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Day of General Discussion...
Angola takes vital step to remove child sexual abuse imagery from the internet
Angola has announced a new system for anonymously reporting online child sexual abuse images and videos in partnership with international charity, the Cambridge-based IWF (Internet Watch Foundation).
IWF comments on the Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s speech
The Internet Watch Foundation fully supports Home Secretary Sajid Javid in his warning about the dangers of online child predators and shares his concern about the growing sophistication of these criminals.
India’s online IWF Portal passes milestone of 1000 reports
Indian internet users have taken the message about reporting disturbing imagery of child sexual abuse to heart, after figures from the IWF India Reporting Portal reveal the 1000th report has just been made.
More parents worry about bad language online than about grooming or child sexual exploitation
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Cambridge-based charity the Internet Watch Foundation’s Hotline Analysts scooped the Hidden Heroes Award at the Comms Business Awards last week.
UK Government ratifies Lanzarote Convention to tackle child sexual exploitation
Victoria Atkins MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability, will reaffirm the UK Government’s determination to end the sexual exploitation of children around the world by ratifying the Lanzarote Convention.
IWF’s Deputy CEO Fred Langford becomes President of INHOPE
The Internet Watch Foundation’s Deputy CEO Fred Langford has become the next President of INHOPE (International Association of Internet Hotlines), the umbrella organisation uniting a global network of hotlines tackling child sexual abuse imagery online and child sexual exploitation.
Democratic Republic of Congo launches public reporting system to combat child sexual abuse
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government has today (16 June), on the Day of the African Child 2018, announced a new system for reporting child sexual abuse images and videos in partnership with international children’s charity, the Cambridge-based IWF (Internet Watch Foundation).
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Active shooter drills are traumatizing students, experts say
By Gary Dinges gdinges@gatehousemedia.com
Active shooter drills, which periodically occur at schools across the nation, might be doing more harm than good.
Some even include actors playing gunmen and the sounds of simulated gunfire, according to NPR. That, experts say, is traumatizing many students.
"(T)he analogy that I use is we don't light a fire in the hallway to practice fire drills," Melissa Reeves, a professor at Winthrop University, told NPR. "When we're teaching stranger danger, we don't put a child on a street corner and have someone grab them and scare them. We are able to teach these things through ways where we talk them through it and then we walk them through it and they respond accordingly."
The drills are well-intentioned. Numerous fatal school shootings, such as the ones at Sandy Hook Elementary and Stoneman Douglas High School, have occured in recent years. A number of other planned school shootings have been thwarted by administrators and police, who are often tipped off by fellow students.
Pew Research Center found in a recent poll that 57% of teens worry about school shootings.
But Reeves questions the tactics being used in drills.
"(W)hat these drills can really do is potentially trigger either past trauma or trigger such a significant physiological reaction that it actually ends up scaring the individuals instead of better preparing them to respond in these kinds of situations," she said. "And there's actually examples of where these drills have been done very irresponsibly and they have traumatized individuals or have actually led to bodily harm."
Harvard estimates the odds of a student being killed in a school shooting are 1 in 614 million, NPR says.
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Mass Protest in Paris Inspired by Bretons
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Thousand farmers are expected to protest in Paris today, a protest that the French State is not eager to see in the Capital.
It all started following a meeting on the bridge of Morlaix, Brittany, the idea was to drive up to Paris to protest against the falling food prices. Then the idea was extended to other regions and as of today, the farmers reaching Paris will hand over to lawmakers “the demands and grievances of an agricultural and rural world that is on the brink of exploding and that expects a lot from its national representatives”.
According to the agriculture minister, around 10 percent of farms in France – approximately 22,000 sites – are on the brink of bankruptcy with a combined debt of one billion Euros.
Multiple factors such as changing dietary habits, slowing Chinese demand, Russian embargo on Western products has pushed down prices for staples like beef, pork and milk.
(This news item provided by Breton CL member Joss le Gall.)
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Alliance in Skowhegan grain project testing draws interest
The Heritage Grain Restoration Project hopes to find the best strains for bread and beer production in Maine's cold climate.
By Doug HarlowMorning Sentinel
SKOWHEGAN — Bread makers and beer brewers from all over the state are awaiting the results of a heritage grain project aimed at determining which of the seven strains of wheat and rye being grown in a new study are best suited to flourish in Maine.
Then it’s flour power for baking and brewing, says Richard Roberts of the Maine Grain Alliance.
Richard Roberts, of the Maine Grain Alliance, speaks between rows of varieties of heirloom wheats and grains in Skowhegan on Thursday. The alliance is testing heritage grains to see which are the best for the area for producing bread and beer. Staff photo by David Leaming
“We’re looking for something that’s resistant to fungus and something that survives the winter well,” Roberts said from a grain demonstration plot for the alliance’s Heritage Grain Restoration Project at Maine Wood Heat on North Avenue in Skowhegan. “Most of these grains are winter wheat. We do have some spring wheat, like Red Fife, which has been reintroduced and does very well in Maine.”
Among the grains being grown on the site just north of downtown Skowhegan is a variety called Black Emmer, also known as Farro.
“This is Emmer. This along with Einkorn is one of the ancient grains from the Bible,” he said from the tight rows of grain in a light rain last week. Roberts said Eli Rogosa, author of “Restoring Heritage Grains — Baking with Einkorn,” will be among the featured speakers at this year’s Kneading Conference July 28-29 at the Skowhegan State Fairgrounds.
Other strains of grain growing as part of the project are Ukrainka, Sirvinta, Banatka, and Rouge de Bordeaux wheats; Midsommer, a Danish rye; and a triticale, a hybrid of wheat and rye. There are a total of 60 rows of growing grain in a 50-by-30-foot plot.
The idea is to reclaim heritage wheat as part of the burgeoning organic land movement. Most of the grain currently grown in Maine is for the commodity market, grain for livestock, Roberts said.
The idea now is to interest growers to concentrate on new, organic markets for grains for breads and brewing, he said.
“We were just at a meeting last fall up in Presque Isle with growers, and there were 10 buyers up there,” Roberts said. “There are 70 breweries in the state of Maine, and they all want local, organically grown grain. Then there’s the bakers who want it. And then there’s the organic dairy industry — they’re desperate for organically grown local grain.”
Roberts, 67, of Solon, said part of the plan is to convince wheat and grain growers in Maine to start growing organic products, which would create the market and benefit producers and the growers as well. He said there are a lot of younger farmers who are interested in growing organic wheat, but the test will be to convince the older generation to join the growing organic movement.
Amber Lambke, president of Maine Grains and former executive director of the Maine Grain Alliance, said the seed restoration project aims to restore rare and heritage varieties of grain “by turning handfuls of carefully kept seed into commercially viable quantities for farms.”
The project is building a support network of farmers who can learn from each other, share resources and share equipment, she said. Additionally, the group is engaging bakers interested in the development of marketable products using restored seed.
The project is organized by the Maine Grain Alliance, a nonprofit educational organization based in Skowhegan whose mission is to restore grain traditions from earth to hearth, according to Lambke.
Lambke recently stepped down from her position as executive director of the Maine Grain Alliance to devote more time to her Somerset Grist Mill in the former county jail in Skowhegan. The alliance hired Tristan Noyes as the new executive director.
“I am working closely with Tristan to pass the torch, and he will be formally introduced at the opening of the Kneading Conference this year,” Lambke said.
The Maine Grain Alliance is restoring seed for three different strains of Einkorn, black Emmer, flint corn, and several strains of rare and heritage ryes and wheats, she said. After several years of restoration, the Maine Grain Alliance now holds the western hemisphere’s largest supply of a rare Estonian wheat called Sirvinta, a hearty winter wheat, she said.
Seed restoration work has received support from the Sewall Foundation, the Maine Community Foundation and in cooperation with farms and individuals including the Land Trust 45 Farm, Bingham; Groundswell Seed Farm, Solon; Songbird Farm, Starks; Grange Corner Farm, Lincolnville; Maine Wood Heat, Skowhegan; Blue Ribbon Farm, Mercer; Ben Hoffman, Bradford; Gromaine Farm, Woodland; Richard Searls, Solon; Jeremy Gibson, Solon; Somerset Woods Trustees at Taylor Field, Skowhegan.
Albie Barden, of Maine Wood Heat, is a co-founder of the Kneading Conference and is passionate about the restoration of grain varieties that were once grown in the Kennebec Valley region, Lambke said. The demonstration plot he has in front of the shop that makes wood-fired ovens is a study in the adaptability of a handful of heritage grain varieties to Maine’s climate and a demonstration that gives the project local visibility and inspires people to discover the possibility of growing grains in Maine, she said.
Right now, Roberts said, the idea of the grain project is to “get more and more seeds.”
“We know they grew wheat here in Maine 150 years ago, but you don’t really find anything about what the varieties were,” he said.
Roberts said the alliance is getting samples from seed savers — people who save rare and heritage seeds — trying to find grains from a climate similar to Maine’s long winters. Some of the seeds come from the Ukraine, the Baltic region, Denmark and northern France. Wheat that is grown in the United States, he said, is grown in the drier, different climates of the nation’s Midwest and into Canada.
Roberts said there has been some success growing Sirvinta. Some of the seed came from seed saver Will Bonsall in Industry in Franklin County. Roberts said the alliance harvested 1,000 pounds of Sirvinta last year from that stock.
“We’re trying to find grains that like the climate here in Maine, reintroduce them and grow them out,” he said. “It’s really more of a grow out program. I have three different people that want to grow the Sirvinta grains for us this year. We want to get enough to put it out there to be commercially available next year.
“This market is just getting ready to explode”
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Foodbanks
Universal Credit + Christmas = tough times for Newcastle families this festive season
Trussell Trust says areas where Universal Credit has been fully rolled out like Newcastle see greatest demand for help
Foodbank use in areas like Newcastle where Universal Credit has been fully rolled out has soared by 30% compared to last year, it has been revealed.
The figures come from the Trussell Trust charity that runs them and is also concerned the situation will get even worse leading up to Christmas when demand for food traditionally spikes.
In the North East as a whole from April to September this year, 27,151 parcels of emergency three day supplies were handed out.
This added to a national figure of 586,907 - 208,956 to children - represented a 13% increase in all areas including those which haven’t seen Universal Credit rolled out there yet.
The Trussell Trust is on course to hand out a record number of food parcels this year and as a result has unveiled a five point plan for decision-makers to stop people going hungry this Christmas
Mark Ward, Interim Chief Executive at The Trussell Trust, said: “We’re seeing soaring demand at foodbanks across the UK. Our network is working hard to stop people going hungry but the simple truth is that even with the enormous generosity of our donors and volunteers, we’re concerned foodbanks could struggle to meet demand this winter if critical changes to benefit delivery aren’t made now.”
It’s five point calls for the six week wait for the first UC payment to be cut; better availability of advance loans which are affordable; tackle poor administration; legacy benefits should continue until UC starts; re-think the current four year benefits level freeze.
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Mr Ward said: “People cannot be left for weeks without any income, and when that income does come, it must keep pace with living costs – foodbanks cannot be relied upon to pick up the pieces.”
He added: “Our five point plan isn’t going to fix everything – but these emergency measures would help mitigate some of the damage we’re worried will otherwise take place. Without urgent action from policy-makers and even more generous practical support from the public, we don’t know how foodbanks are going to stop families and children going hungry this Christmas.”
Trussell Trust data reveals that issues with a benefit payment account for 43% of referrals to foodbanks. Of these, 45% of referrals were made due to a wait for a first UC payment. Also, 36% of referrals were because a new claim had not yet been awarded which was also related to Universal Credit.
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A DWP spokesperson said: “The reasons for food bank use are wide and complex, and for this report to link it to any one issue would be misleading.
“We’re clear that advance payments are widely available from the start of anyone’s UC claim, and urgent cases are fast-tracked so no one should be without funds.
“We know the majority of UC claimants are confident in managing their money. Budgeting support and direct rent payments to landlords are also available to those who need them.”
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James A. Haley
The previous post noted the role of trade and the WTO in promoting a reduction in global inequality. The process of globalization, it argued, has allowed China to draw workers into its export industries, driving wages in China higher and reducing global inequality. The WTO acted as a "bonding mechanism," providing some assurance that the reform process in China would continue and that foreign investment in China would find export markets, reducing uncertainty. Empirical support for this proposition can be found here.
Those exports resulted in large trade surpluses, the counterpart of which were large capital account deficits — if you are exporting more goods than you are importing, you must, by definition, be importing more assets (claims) than foreigners are accumulating on you. Think of this process as the mother of all financial intermediation: current account surpluses in China reflected savings in excess of investment; capital account surpluses in the U.S. resulted from dissaving — domestic consumption and investment far exceeding domestic savings. From China's perspective, this made a lot of sense, particularly as its banks were weighted down by non-performing loans to state enterprises on the iron rice bowl. Channeling savings through state banks might have simply thrown good money after bad. Creating the conditions under which foreign capital would come in, bringing with it managerial and technological expertise, made for a far better deal.
But what if other countries tired of accumulating large trade deficits? What would prevent them from imposing trade protectionism or restrictions on this giant process of financial intermediation?
Well, as long as China adhered to its obligations under the WTO, other countries would be prevented from imposing trade restrictions. That was part of the deal to which all parties agreed. And, provided China remained a member in good standing of the IMF, other countries were precluded from imposing payment restrictions that would have the effect of trade barriers.
This underscores the fundamental nature of the IFIs. In effect, they are enforcement mechanisms for supporting cooperative agreements that allow all members to achieve better outcomes than would be attained acting alone. The folk theorem of game theory is that such agreements do indeed dominate non-cooperative equilibrium, but require institution support to monitor and enforce the agreement.
As I have written ad naseum, the global economy today faces some very large adjustment challenges. We have a collective interest in ensuring that the institutions of global governance have the legitimacy, credibility and effectiveness needed to get us through the New Age of Uncertainty.
The opinions expressed in this article/multimedia are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of CIGI or its Board of Directors.
James A. Haley is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and a Canada Institute global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC.
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New Pan Trailer Is A Visually Stunning Trip Through Neverland
May. 19. 2015 7:00 AM
Warner Bros. recently made a strategic decision to push Joe Wright’s Peter Pan origin story, Pan, out of this year’s summer season and back to October 9, where it would have room to breathe, and properly prepare audiences for the journey. Based on the new trailer, though, the move also suggests that Wright needed time to polish his visuals, because this trailer looks more stunning than the previous pass.
When you are creating Neverland from scratch, though, you are going to need every minute in post-production that the studio will allow, so I’m really hoping the Pan move leads to an improved movie-going experience. As we have mentioned in previous articles, Pan will be a new take on the early days of Peter (played by newcomer Levi Miller), starting in a London orphanage and following him on his journey to Neverland, where he’s hoping to reunite with his mother (Amanda Seyfried)… and fulfill a prophecy of a young savior with the ability to fly.
But before he can become Pan, Peter looks like he’s going to have to go through Blackbeard, portrayed here by a scenery-chomping Hugh Jackman. Because Joe Wright is using the original text of author J.M. Barrie as a guide – and NOT the Disney animated feature we all grew up on – we see completely different versions of the classic characters we know and love. While many may come to Pan expecting to see Captain Hook (Garrett Hedlund), the chief nemesis in Wright’s tale is Blackbeard, the pirate. And Hook’s around… but he’s a human adventurer who starts off as an ally of Peter’s. Will he stay that way for long?
This new trailer for Pan also turns up the action that Joe Wright promised us when we visited the film’s London set last year. The production has been keeping a lid on the impact that Rooney Mara’s Tiger Lily will have on this story. From a lot of what we have been told about Pan, Mara will be the breakout action star of the family-friendly fantasy, and this great shot of her battling Blackbeard on the masts of captured pirate ships hints at the large-scale set pieces Wright has cooked up for this feature.
The big question might be how open audiences are going to be to the tweaks and alterations Joe Wright brings to the traditional Peter Pan story. I have been told that there will be loose connections to Wendy, Nana and the Pan characters we’ve grown to love. But Pan looks like it wants to take everything that you know about the Peter Pan fairy tale, and filter it through Joe Wright’s imagination. And that’s more than enough to get me in a theater in October. How about you?
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