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Elven Empire
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The Elven Empire
The Elven Flag
Founded: August 2014
EE Disbanded: 19th of August 2017
Structure: Chiefdom, Confederation
Allies:
The New Roman Republic
Entaria
Ebonheart Empire
Pure Insanity
The Iron Empire
The Plant Nation
Rivals:
Horsia
1 Welcome To The Elven Empire
2 The Elven Laws
2.1 Article I- Recruitment
2.2 Article II- Ranks and Organization
2.3 Article III- Laws and Rules
2.4 Article IV- Voting
2.5 Article V- War
2.6 Treaty of Lan
2.7 Abolishment treaty.
4 Notable Elves
5 Notable Elven Settlements
Welcome To The Elven Empire
Welcome to the Elven Empire Wiki Page! The Elven Empire was founded by Her Majesty, Queen Reptaria.Followed by the founding of the Dark Elves by King Hades The Elven Empire is the second largest player group Pirate Craft. As the Empire's lore, history and laws are so rich and extensive, it is a simply impossible task to express them all on one page, and as such, this page notates the ingame history and laws of this nuanced crew. This page is a portal page to all other Elven Empire wiki pages.
The Elven Laws
Article I- Recruitment
New Elves are recruited by any leader, but particularly by the Recruiters. They are then given the rank of Elven Citizen, and, if not already in possession of a home, are given one in one of the elven cities, as the recruiter sees fit. Players can also join via the Recruitment Notice, and are also given a home in the Palace if they wish for one. The Empire will not recruit former criminals of the Empire, and those put on the blacklist by the King, or the Commonwealth of Nations, unless there are special circumstances.
Article II- Ranks and Organization
The Empire is divided into four branches, the Government, the Military, the Civil, and the Citizens. An elf’s colour of rank can indicate their branch:
Purple for the Government
Red for the Army
Green for the Civil Branch
Blue for Citizens
The Government Branch
The Queen- she is the head of the Elven Empire and holds absolute authority over it. All power is derived from her. Reptaria is the currently anointed Queen.
The Archchancellor– A position now held by Lord_Vanther, he is the monarch's deputy and may wield his power in his absence. He is also the head of all brewers in the crew.
Princes&Princesses– they may act using the sovereign’s authority and are equal in powers with them. _Iridus_ and anadak are the two princes in the empire.
Royal advisors– the personal advisor to the Queen or King informing them on all actions and acting as a parent figure in a sense but understands the respect and boundries to the crown.The Royal Advisor has a permanent rank.
General of the eternal guard: they are in charge of equipping the army and organizing it. In times of war, they are also the supreme commander of the ground forces. This post is held by Kenzo74
Admiral: they are in command of equipping the navy and are the supreme commander of all maritime forces. This post is currently held by SnapCrackPlays.
Ambassadors-they are in charge of relations with other crews. Each ambassador is delegated to a single crew. Every ambassador has full power to negotiate with the crew he is delegated to, but with no other. Ambassadors do not have leader permissions. App3322 is the current head ambassador.
Head ambassador– he leads the ambassador core and may engage in negotiations with any foreign crew. He is responsible for the activity of all ambassadors and is the one who makes everything negotiated by ambassadors official (actually creates the alliance or rivalry).
Lord of the Law– he is responsible for creating laws and revising the elven charter after consulting his fellow members. He is also responsible for enforcing the laws of the crew by organizing trials for people suspected of breaking the law.
The Military Branch
The military branch provides protection to all elven citizens and is tasked with enforcing the interests of the Empire during armed conflicts. It is headed by the Head of the Guard who may appoint generals and commanders to better organize his soldiers. The military branch not only is responsible for the land troops, but also the navy and any other combat related assets of the elves.
The Intelligence Office is tasked with recording events on the wiki, keeping all members up to date via the website, and learning current news. They also are charged with keeping crime non existent within the empire, by reporting all crime to _Iridus_ and the Eternal Guard. They are recruiting, and looking for members.
Shipwrights build and repair the ships composing the empire's fleet. They are under the command of the military branch and must first tend to projects that are in the use of the empire and only then, if possible, they can work on projects for individual towns.
The Civil Branch
Province Inspector– They are responsible for the activity of all governors in their province. They oversee city activities and must provide a report of the Province’s development and activities every 2 months or whenever requested by the elven council.
Governor– They are in charge of leading a specific settlement. Their responsibilities are managing buildings and expansion of their town, organizing a local defence force when needed, coordinating the residents of their settlement to the good of the empire and (?)collecting taxes from their residents.
Banker– they’re in charge of keeping all collected taxes or fines and managing a vault in which all community resources( donated or obtained via fines) are kept. They’re also responsible for granting resources to builders that have obtained approval for a project. In order to be appointed as a banker, a player must not have any criminal records within the EM. All withdrawals and deposits handled by the banker will be logged by the use of a withdrawal sheet which will be kept in two copies- one will be kept by the player withdrawing or depositing and one by the Elven Archives .
Harbour Master– responsible for managing and building harbors and naval bases in close cooperation with the Head of the navy.
The Elven Suppliers are tasked with supplying the nation, whether this be by brewing, ship-building, farming or mining. They are the backbone of the empire, keeping them fully equipped and prosperous. They also are in charge of fund raising, via running shops, and keep a percentage of the profit. They are currently recruiting, and looking for members. They’re split up into multiple ranks according to their profession:
Blacksmith– responsible for gathering the resources needed for the making of weapons, armor and tools and creating said items.
Tradesman- in charge of maintaining shops either at /warp shops or anywhere else they see fit. They are allowed to sell from the community’s items, but must provide a report at the end of each month detailing what items were sold and what profits were made in the previous month.
Bar Keeper- in charge of getting food and building farms and also responsible for brewing potions and brews under Lord_Vanther’s supervision.
Builder- they must help in projects anywhere around the empire. Their first priority are local projects and then they can help out in any other imperial projects. They are free to start their own projects, but if they need financing from the empire, they must apply by making a post detailing their build idea in this forum.
Engineers- are tasked with working with redstone and completing any technical builds( bridges, gates, automated systems, etc.).
Article III- Laws and Rules
Theft– will be punished as follows: The offender must return the stolen items. On first offence, an extra fine of 40-100$ will be charged or a warning handed out if the item stolen is of negligible value. On second offense, the fine will range from 80-140$. The third offence will be punishable by death or kicking from the crew. Theft is a crime only if committed against a fellow elf or against an ally of the empire ( which may be official or declared by the sovereign)
Killing– is punishable by a fine of 80-150$ on first offence, 160-300 on second offence and expulsion and adding to the CoN blacklist and elven KoS list on third offence. Killing neutral players is not punishable unless they enjoy protection by the crown.
Allied killing– is punishable by the same means as killing a fellow crew mate. The leaders of the allied crew may decide additional punishments if they deem them necessary. This section extends not only to crews officially allied to the EM(which are allies in the crew plugin), but also to crews which the queen has declared to be allies, even if there isn’t an official treaty binding the alliance.
If an Allied Nation is to be convicted into warfare the elven empire has the liberty to intervene to help its ally in the conquest to end and solve the warfare happening between its lands. The Elven Empire has the ability to use hostile actions against the pirate crew or nation that has committed the attack. If the allied nation ignited the attack against another land or crew the Elven Empire will not intervene unless requested to by the Government officials of that land.
Foreigners getting into the EM territory– will need an elven passport which is issued by the Lord of the Law. A tax will be paid by the player who wants a passport made. Passports are valid for 5 (five) real days.(24h per)
Military-civil relationships– Guards are mainly a defense force for the elves, and if you join the armed forces, you must remain with them for at least two weeks. This is to ensure the protection, and safety of the empire. If a player notices the breaking of a law, he must report it on the forums or directly to the Lord of the Law in-game.
Corruption- The punishment for corruption, the act of using a position for illicit purposes, is a fine of $400 to $500 and an optional expulsion. If the corruption badly harms the Empire, they may be placed on the Kill on Sight list.
Abuse of office- is the commission of an unlawful act, done in an official capacity, which affects the performance of official duties. It is punishable by death and/or a fine of $300 to $450.
Treason- The act of direct betrayal to the Crown or to the Empire is a grave crime, and is followed by instant expulsion, and a placement on the Kill on Sight list. This applies to the betrayal of crucial information to the enemy, the attempt to overthrow or kill a monarch, an attempt to dissolve the Empire or harm its citizens on a mass scale, or assist an enemy.
Extra Mentions
Each governor may set additional laws for their settlement as they see fit. These laws must not contradict any part of this Charter. All fees can be also paid in diamonds at the rate of 1 diamond=8£. All punishments must be fulfilled within 7 real days(24 h each) starting with the day on which the sentence was given. If this is not followed, the offender will be kicked from the Empire and placed on the KoS list.
Article IV- Voting
The Elven Empire is a monarchy, and the King holds ultimate power over it. Yet, voting is commonly used to determine the public’s view and aims, allowing them to have a voice in the running of the Empire. All Elves have one vote in the public voting, and all members of the Elven Government group have a vote when the voting is more selective. This voting will be held via comments on the website, online surveys for maintaining anonymity, or ingame via chat or the bulletin board. A vote can be called for by any elf, and the King will then hold the vote. Unless the vote is called for by over three members of the Empire, the King can cancel the vote, if they see fit.
Article V- War
War can be declared by the king/queen, the Head Ambassador or by vote of the other leaders, needing at least 50% +1 of the number of leaders to be in favour. Once at war, emergency powers can be granted by a majority vote of the leaders. Emergency powers allow government officials to make swift decision without consulting their piers. The only powers that are not granted by the emergency powers are disbanding the crew, ending the war or cancelling allies. A war may be ended by the king/queen or head ambassador only after holding a vote in which all elves can take part.
Treaty of Lan
This treaty is to be applied before hostile relations with an empire or even war itself is upon the Elves. This treaty is to try to call a cease of communication for a maximum of 9 days until relations cool down.
Abolishment treaty.
If a nation allied to the Elves has a state criminal, then they are required to return the criminal to Elven custody, if this treaty is applied. Criminals in possession before this treaty is applied are not required to be returned to the Elves.
Signed: TheHattedHatter-High King
Iridus-Lord of the Law / Prince
SnapCrackPlays-Admiral / The Duke Norrington
Ammended:
The Elven Empire has been around for generations, and for more to come. The elves are led by the daughter of Galalexandrea and Enrold making their first born child, Reptaria. She was the pure starlight of the evening sky, and the valor of a great white steed. Later to rule along side her was King Lithvather, a blacksmith assistant in a small town when she was a child. As this young lady began to grow she knew in her mind that she would be the Queen of an empire one day. As the oldest of her brothers and sisters she knew everyone would soon look to her. The Elven Empire was born. The Kingdom of Cornola was a once thriving city and it was there where the queen first started to rule. She has yet to become as powerful as the British, but, she knew one day she would make her people known throughout all the land. Cornola was located north of skymanjay shop, surrounded by mountain ranges.The city had thriving imports and exports until the day they were raided by pirates. There was a noble man in the midst of the elves, he is now known as zoroax999. He helped and guided knowledge to the elves after soon taking departure off to his own path in the world.
One generation came until the city of Cornola was set into flames and raided by athenmos12 and Unic0rnjunk101 the small population of elves had to abandon the home they once had to search for a new home.The elves had found the ground where Evermoor will be, and made a settlement around it named Fort Charles. Fort Charles thrived there for 2 generations, and started to slowly grow. The elves were never known until they started to join the alliance of TUPE. This alliance was between Reptaria and Uni to keep the elves at peace with him and his crew. Evermoor was the biggest city in all of Pirate Craft, and the elves began to thrive and grow in massive numbers; making it a city. The British and Elves began to have friendly communications and the TUPE alliance was holding strong. The city caused a world wide attraction to it but the government of the elves did not want to turn the city into a tourist attraction spot so they locked off the city to begin a militia, and started their very first borders. Generations went by and the cities numbers began to grow and other elves began to forge settlements on unknown lands to start other towns. The Queen, along with her royal advisers and other government members, publicly announced the elves will become an empire. This started the Elven Empire. Soon the empire began to grow more, and more, and more. Good military commanders and government members soon began to leave to go their own ways in the world. Good people like Dr_Solid and KarimNaba
Time started to go by and British citizens and ect. started to spread further out and the elves did not like how close they were getting to their lands. Border conflicts, and small military engagements started to become frequent, and both empires began to grow a small hostility to one another.Generations flew past, and the TUPE alliance had formally declared war on the British Empire knowing that the elves did not like the British at the time. They did not hesitate to accept the TUPE alliance call for help to go to war with the British. As war broke out Evermoor became a prime target to the British and small citizens started to commit treason. The day Evermoor was bombed was a day to remember, Silverstone a elvish citizen betrayed the elves and sneaked in British troops by surprise. They sneaked passed armed guards, and military battalions ready to give their all for the city they called home. Moments went by when the first shots in the city went off and it created mass chaos with innocent elves dying. In the midst of battle, the queen had no choice but to call out a cry for help to all elvish cities nearby. That is where Reptaria and Lithvather we're reunited and fought off the British side by side along with other guards, armed citizens, and soldiers. KarimNaba the princess had came to aid the elves and help fight off the British armies. Cannon fire roared through the city killing thousands of elves and the battle came to a sudden stop, all the men in the cannon bunker were killed and turn of events happened. Dorkito101 , Crabriel , Locknload had fired the cannons along with other British men. The battle came to a stop and the war had ended that day. War raged from Karjat all the way to Evermoor, but on that day all in the city stopped fighting and ran to help the innocent, the elves had proclaimed Lithvather King and again, the Elves became homeless. From that day forth the Elves and British made a vow never to go to war again; for the reason that we would cause to much damage to everyone and that we can do better working together rather than fighting.
After the war the elves had fled to the dark oak forest and there lied a great ranger who lived and owned that land. CallieMav helped the elves build Mirkwood and make a new Elven Capitol. King Lithvather was overthrown after wide-spread riots and violence. Later to come, the Elves held a fast election and Saraphim7 was now the King of the Elves for a short period of time. He had left the elves for the reason he needed to pay attention to his port market town and later joined the British as chief of police. Lathvather was offered a second chance to rule and since then the empire had been prosperous. The Elves had spread their borders and expanded across the world with many forts and kingdoms. While the transitions with the elves happened a pirate arose to soon become the worst pirate warlord in all of time hardtimez . He declared war on the British empire for no reason and waged all out war with all who stood in his way. When the elves got word a world war broke out they had to quickly end there friendship with the outlaws and fight with the British for an all out bloodshed.
As war grew on HardTimez has been attacking newmourous cities and towns and pirate crews. The warlord has a piratecrew named the outlaws and they are allied to red lotus who withdrew from the world war and the outlaws strength weakens. In the early morning in late July the warlord hardtimez has been banned! All began to celebrate in the streets after this amazing surprising event. After the banishment of the worlds most hated dictator the outlaws fled and all battle lines and defences fell to the might of the Elven forces to the east and British to the north. In the weeks following the outlaws disbanded and retreated to the Lotus Empire. The queen and king of the elves fought on and attacked the lotus empire. War raged on for 4 weeks until the 3 nations of British, Elvish, and Lotus made a treaty to not fight each other and all nations are at peace.
On August 6th 2015, the ottoman emperor was banned. _Lego_ will live in rememberance of all. As tensions with Verussia was rising the King Lithvather state rude remarks in a world meeting. As the queen demanded he apologized he left the empire and his King Lithvather position that very moment. Relations with the elves and Verussians are allied and will always stay that way.The Verussian government was cought in a scam to betray the allied powers and wage an all out war. The Elven and British governments held a 2 week trial leading to the Verussians were guilty and to be kicked from the allied, they have stopped all trade an communication with both nations. Mid October 2015 and the Verussian Empire declared an all out state of war against the British Empire lending aid to there ally Delta to attack the British, as the elves and Delta have an ever lasting alliance they will marched on the Verussian Empire to get military movement of the British.
Under the orders of Commander Xadiez and Chief Dorkito the Elven Guards were sent out to the Verussian Desert to the east to take out all Verussian strongholds and settlements forcing the Verussians back to there homeland. The Scorching heat was horrid for most elves for they were used to wet, cool forest areas. As for the Commander and Chief they both had experience with desert campaigns before. Elven troops reach to the strong hold of Vievenhiem main city to the east in the Verussian Empire, the elves surrounded and attacked the city with cannon fire and naval fire and ground raids onto the city and it was slowly being destroyed, as offices and markets were being blown up the elves showed no mercy, for someone they dared to call a friend. About few weeks into the war the Verrusian Former leader KingRS pleaded with the elves to stop the war and that it was nothing but big accident, the elves did not respond in nothing but cannon fire and more attacks. Under orders of the King and Queen the Verrusians will not see the light of day until there empire falls, for breaking trust, friendship, and most of all betraying those who helped them in the worst times possible.
The new capitol of Rivendell has finally finished and is now the capitol of the elven empire, and home to many great elders and warriors that teach new elves there education on what they want to learn.
As days in the empire continues Elven unrest began.. After years of Curruption the Elven Govermnent had to make a drastic decision on how they we to cleanse the Elven Empire so they publicly announced the end of the Elven empire. As the old pirate crews died off there was one small band of people quiet yet very powerful. As the age of war came to an end there crew rised from the shadows and waged war on everyone. CoV is the most vicious pirate crew beating the outlaws and lotus combined. They have became the most despised piratecrew in Elven History launching constant attacks on elven settlements. Killing itocent people. Months have passed since the rising of CoV and other piratecrews out there band together to fight off the major threat. The Elven Empire had issued a national state of emergency demanding all citizens stay away from international meeting spots (warps) which is a hotspot of attacks for CoV. As time goes on the selves still fight hard and will hope one day those savage piratecrew will see its end, or others go there different ways..
As under the oppression of CoV the elves have increased 87.3% in trade with other nations bringing in goods and services. The Elven empire has doubled the production of more towns and the woodland elves have began the construction of there new homeland Vailinor in the Realm of Vailar where Mirkwood and both Rivendell both lie. As the Dark Elves continue to thrive in harmony, led by King Hades and Queen Angel Morvothril Time has came and gone and the Elves still face new threats. As the brave Royal Guard defends our people we the elven people began to construct a new home. A replacement of Evermoor. The kingdom lies to the east and will soon be he most heavily fortified kingdom of all the east in the realm. In March 2017, Queen Reptaria decided to leave the Empire for a while and create a new crew to focus on pvp and getting revenge on our enemies. She crowned TheHattedHatter as the new high king. The coronation was attended by many lords from all lands of the server. Right as the event was about to begin, Reptaria suddenly passed out and, seeing as she couldn't be brought back in time for the ceremony, Lord_Vanther decided to take her place and crown the new king. By the grace of Manwe, he gave Hatter the divine touch and was all the sudden blazing with divine fire. After the king's coronation, the Crown Prince also followed, though his tale is less eventful. As the festivities were ending, the queen finally came back to her senses and rejoined the crowd. After feasting and drinking, all who attended the feast heard the dark knight, Javainvader at the gates of Gondolin and he was not alone. Riverkitty and the former king of the elves, in an act of treachery that shall never be forgiven, were also with him. They are teleported in and quickly proceeded to kill everyone in the throne room and the treacherous old king also lead the attackers into the elven vault which was then emptied. The elven throne itself was blown to pieces and the Grand Hall stood in ruins. That day shall forever live in infamy. "It wouldn't be an Elven gathering without a betrayal, and Java killing everyone."-Lord Vanther
Emielreijs still remains, and rebuilds Gondolin together with lazydog. In June of 2017, her majesty The Queen then returns back to the Elven Empire after receiving word things at home were growing progressively worse day by day. Once she returned she quickly restored order back into the empire, handed back over the right to rule as queen. Now rises a new castle in the Elven Empire, Lethuina. This is house of the Queen herself, the castle is placed on the highest hill in the rocky realm, once the castle is complete and with the queen finally getting herself back to a stable state, from there she will make another city which would be an update remodeled evermoor and the first city in the empire to NOT have walls.
But the times had changed. God sets were more common than ever. Rep states “The time of the Elves is gone now and the time of the humans is starting.” And they left. At this time TarCalen, Greenroyal, is born. He knew his mother, lazy, but not the father. Lord Snow of Gloomsbay. He reads a book in emiels library, about his parents. Guess who’s names were on it, Emielreijs and Lazydog. Half human, half elf. Like Elrond of the old history. Then Tar started, recreated the empire as EM, it grew, again, but it didn’t get its glory back. He married an elf, and got Tiki, his son. Then poison took the mother’s life. Here we are now in the present. Tar adopts the dwarf Swampfoot. The town Miadris grows under the newly forged empire.
Notable Elves
CelticTiger38 ~ Responsible for many new players joining the Elves during his time as head of recruitment.
Raven228 ~ Built many great ships for the Elven navy.
Galaxy219 ~ A former Elven prince, Galaxy was a powerful Elven warrior.
Aidsplays ~ Aids was responsible for getting Celtic and others into the crew.
SBurger6969 ~ Burger is very famous for his jokes.
Quackbot and BlackMambaVenom ~ They built a large fortress that is a landmark of Stonemeadow.
Notable Elven Settlements
Stonemeadow
Lathol
Evermoor
Sailorton
Miadris
Gwinlonde
The Elven Empire is known for exemplary roleplay skills. Roleplay is key when joining the Elven Empire and must have a themed skin when joining, and a uniform skin according to their rank if they join the armed forces.
Elven phrases elves should use in game to keep the roleplay alive are:
Mae Govannen "Well met!"(used as hello)
Mellon "Friend"
Suilad "Greetings"
Elen síla lúmmen' omentielvo! "A star shines at the hour of our meeting"
Proposed Elven Super Weapons
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Updated On: 11 Mar, 2019
A healthy relationship is one where you bestow your true feelings without fearing the demise of the bond. June Shannon probably has learned to evaluate her romantic love life after a series of tragic relationships. Moreover, her affair with Geno Doak has edified her the true definition of love.
Professionally, June Shannon is an American reality star and an actress known for her roles in several series and movies including Dumb and Dumber To (2014), Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (2012) and Mama June: From Not to Hot (2017).
June Shannon's Relationship; Has Four Kids!
The love life of the 39 years old reality stars trails the history of her multiple relationships with men with whom she eventually got impregnated with four kids.
Back in the '90s, June and David Dunn confronted their secretive affairs. After dating for years, the pair welcomed their first child, Anna 'Chickadee' Shannon. Their daughter, Anna was unaware of her father until her biological dad, David released from prison. She was only four years old when their parents were pleading for child support. Later on, David was sentenced in charge of stealing the handgun 1995. Though he was released, his another crime of stealing cartons of cigarettes sent back him to prison in 1998.
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June also was entangled in a love relationship with her boyfriend Michael Anthony Ford in 1999 with whom she shared a daughter named Jessica 'Chubbs' Shannon. The pair started dating just a few months before June got pregnant. As per the Daily Mail, Lauryn 'Pumpkin' Shannon is also one of the daughters from June's relationship with Michael. Heading into Michael's background, he has a handful of criminal cases. He was convicted for sexual exploitation of a child for which he spent a couple of years in prison.
After June's split from Michael, the lady found love in Mark McDaniel in 2000. Her beau Mark also served the prison for a decade for molestation over the child in 2000. June and Mark dissolved their relationship after dating for four years.
Right after June's split with Mark, she moved onto another relationship with Mike Thompson in May 2004. A year later in 2005, the duo was blessed with a daughter, Alana Thompson. They even shared the vows in a commitment ceremony in 2013. But, unfortunately, the lovebirds couldn't turn their relationship into a wedding and split in September 2014. Despite their separation, the estranged couple appeared in Marriage Boot Camp and reportedly reconcile.
June's eldest child, Anna was not happy with their reunion as her step-dad had molested her at the age of eight. Thus, she cut off her relationship with her mom. With the abusive and awful relationship, June's relationship with Mike ended their liaison once again in 2016.
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In the year 2016, June began scripting her love stories with Geno Doak, who has the local remodeling company. Geno has a series of a criminal record including the damage to the property, theft, and burglary for which he served in prison several times.
Despite the criminal background, June does not feel bothered to rejoice a romantic relationship with Geno. She even introduced Geno at the season premiere of her new show, Mama June. The love-birds blossoming relationship can be viewed on their Instagram post.
June Shannon with her boyfriend, Geno Doak (Photo: Instagram)
As per the report of People magazine in August 2018, June is ready to turn themselves into an official husband and wife soon. She even showed her desired of marriage on an Instagram post. However, Geno is nervous about proposing her.
Know About June Shannon's Net Worth
June Shannon has the estimated net worth of $1 million which she accumulates as an American Television personality. She is recognized as a cast member of a famous reality series, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, which covers the daily stories of her daughter, Alana Thompson.
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Her daughter, Alana has the net worth of $800,000. For the three seasons of the show, Alana and her sisters were paid $64,000. Unfortunately, the show was canceled in 2014 as June was reportedly dating a sex offender, Mark McDaniel.
June Shannon was born in McIntyre, Georgia, in 1979 and she celebrates her birthday on 10 August. Her parents; Melvin Shannon and Sandra Shannon divorced when she was two years old. There is yet to disclose about her siblings.
June belongs to the white ethnicity and holds an American nationality. June stands the height of 5 ft 4 inches (1.63 meters) and weighs 73 kg (161 lbs) in weight. Early in 2017, she had undergone through the weight loss, as per the wiki.
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SECP proposes changes in Modaraba Ordinance 1980
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ISLAMABAD (January 10 2009): The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has decided to amend Modaraba Ordinance 1980 to empower the registrars for issuing directives, circulars, codes and guidelines to the Modaraba management companies to safeguard the interests of the investors.
The SECP is also planning to introduce the concept of appointment of 'Trustee' for Modarabas through an amendment in the Ordinance. The SECP on Friday referred the draft of Modaraba Companies and Modaraba (Floatation and Control) (Amendment) Bill 2009 to National Assembly standing committee on finance to amend the Modaraba Companies and Modaraba (Floatation and Control) Ordinance, 1980.
The SECP wanted to incorporate three new sections in the Modaraba Ordinance for improving regulatory framework of the Modaraba sector, empowering the commission to issue regulations for this sector. The SECP would be empowered to impose fine up to Rs 100,000 on Modaraba Companies in case of violation of the proposed regulations. In case contravention continues, Rs 1000 per day would also be imposed as fine on the company.
The Bill seeks to empower the Commission to make regulations and to issue directives, circulars, codes and guidelines, for the purposes of the Modaraba Ordinance. It further seeks to empower the registrar to issue directions to the modarabas and modaraba management companies for the purpose of the Ordinance. The proposed amendments would safeguard the interest of the modaraba investors; bring efficiency in the modaraba management through enhanced operational flexibility; and strengthen the non-banking finance companies sector.
According to the proposed bill, yet to be approved by the standing committee, a new section 18A (Power to issue directions) seeks to would be added in the Modaraba Ordinance 1980. The new section 18A seeks to empower the Registrar to issue directions to modarabas and modaraba management companies in the public interest, etc. Presently, the provisions of the Modaraba Ordinance do not provide such power to the Registrar.
The addition of new section 41A “Power to make regulations” would empower the SECP to make regulations and to issue directives, circulars, codes and guidelines, for the purposes of the Modaraba Ordinance. Presently, the Commission does possess the power of making regulations for modarabas.
Similarly, SECP has also proposed addition of a new section 41B and “Power to issue directives, circulars, codes, guidelines, etc. The addition seeks to empower the Commission to issue such directives, circulars, codes, guidelines or notifications as are necessary to be issued in the public interest. Presently, the Modaraba Ordinance does not contain such provisions empowering the Commission for this purpose.
To remove the practical difficulties and redundancies, the SECP is in the process of finalising a comprehensive review/amendments of the Modaraba Ordinance, including various amendments. The Commission is also planning to introduce the concept of appointment of “Trustee” for Modarabas through amendment in the Modaraba Ordinance. All these amendments will be moved through the Ministry of Finance, subsequent to this Bill. The views of the industry association (Modaraba Association of Pakistan) and the stakeholders have been solicited for the purpose.
Details revealed that the Modaraba Companies and Modaraba (Floatation & Control) Ordinance was promulgated in 1980 to provide the statutory framework for organising business enterprises according to the injunctions of Islam. The Modaraba Companies and Modaraba Rules were framed later in 1981.
Modaraba is a kind of partnership, wherein one party provides finance to the other for the purpose of carrying business. The party, who provides the finance, is called the “Rabb-ul-Mal”, whereas the other party who puts its management skills for the Modaraba is called the “Modarib” (working partner).
Initially the Modarib is required to establish and incorporate a Company under the Companies Ordinance, 1984. After incorporation of the Company, the Modarib applies for registration of the Company as a Modaraba Company (MC) with the Registrar of Modaraba, SECP. After the registration the MC floats a Modaraba which is thereafter listed on the stock exchanges.
The rules/regulations and the regulatory framework applicable to Modaraba and the Modaraba Companies included Modaraba Companies and Modaraba (Floatation & Control) Ordinance, 1980. The Modaraba Companies & Modaraba Rules, 1981. Prudential Regulations for Modaraba.
FOLLOWING IS THE TEXT OF THE PROPOSED BILL WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Modaraba Companies and Modaraba (Floatation and Control) Ordinance, 1980 (XXXI of 1980) for the purpose hereinafter appearing;
It is hereby enacted as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement – (1) This Act may be called the Modaraba Companies and Modaraba (Floatation and Control) (Amendment) Act, 2008.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Insertion of new sections, Ordinance XXXI of 1980. In the Modaraba Companies and Modaraba (Floatation and Control) Ordinance, 2008 (XXXI of 1980), the following amendments shall be made, namely: –
(i) After section 18, the following new section shall be inserted, namely:-
“18A. Power to issue directions:- (I) Notwithstanding anything. contained in any other provision of this Ordinance, where the Registrar is satisfied that it is necessary and expedient so to do –
a) in the public interest; or
b) to prevent the affairs of any Modaraba from being conducted in a manner detrimental to the interest of holders of Modaraba Certificates; or
c) to secure the proper management of any modaraba generally,
He may issue such directions to a modaraba company or the modaraba companies generally, as he may deem fit, and the modaraba company or its management shall be bound to comply with such directions.
(2) The Registrar may, on a representation made to him or on his own motion, modify or withdraw any direction issued under sub-section (1), and in so modifying or cancelling any direction may impose such conditions as he thinks fit.”
(ii) after section 41, the following new sections shall be inserted, namely: -.
“41A. Power to make regulations.- (1), The Commission may, by notification in official Gazette, make 'such regulations as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Ordinance:
Provided that the power to make regulations conferred by this section shall be subject to the condition of previous publication and before making any regulations the draft thereof shall be published in the manner considered most appropriate by the Commission for eliciting public opinion thereon within a period of not less than fourteen days from the date of publication.
2) Any regulation made under sub-section (1) may provide that a contravention thereof shall be punishable with a fine which may extend to one hundred thousand rupees and, where the contravention is a continuing one, with a further fine which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day after the first during which such contravention continues.
41B Power to issue directives, circulars, codes, guidelines, etc. The Commission may issue such directives, circulars, codes, guidelines or notifications as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Ordinance and the rules and regulations made thereunder.”
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The ASA has upheld a complaint regarding comparative pricing claims used by a plumbing and service company called Greenstar Powerflushing, Gas, Plumbing and Heating (Greenstar).
Greenstar had claimed that it was "the only plumbing and service company that has [sic] 100% transparent… pricing system". This claim was challenged on the basis that it was misleading as it did not take into account all relevant competitors.
It was argued in response to the complaint that Greenstar had included a "Three Best" logo next to the claim which made it clear that the claim had been made as a result of a rating Greenstar had received from a website which ranked what it considered to be the top three plumbers in Colchester. Greenstar believed its claim was therefore justified as the other two businesses considered by the website did not list their prices.
The ASA did not accept this defence as, although it acknowledged the inclusion of the "Three Best" logo may have been intended to explain the nature of the claim, i.e. referring to a review of three plumbers in the area, the average consumer would interpret the claim to relate to all relevant competitors. As Greenstar did not hold evidence to show the claim applied to all relevant competitors it was concluded that the claim was likely to mislead.
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This ruling reiterates the importance for businesses to consider whether claims made in advertising are likely to be misleading when viewed by the average consumer and to ensure that they hold adequate evidence to substantiate any comparative claims made in advertising.
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Quantum Advisors pioneered a quantitative as well as qualitative analytical approach to equity investing in India, providing for the first time, consistently applied valuation metrics to evaluate investment opportunities in India's emerging stock markets.They pioneered a quantitative as well as qualitative analytical approach to equity investing in India, providing for the first time, consistently applied valuation metrics to evaluate investment opportunities in India's emerging stock markets. Over the years, Quantum Advisors has continued to enhance its tradition of extensive financial analysis and value investing, and has evolved into an investment advisor and asset manager.
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CA Tehsin Lakkadghat, VP Accounts and Finance, has been with the group for more than 7 years and has seen the group grow from a few members to a 160+ strong team. Initially, was managed manually and in-house using spreadsheets by the finance team. However, as the organization grew, it became increasingly difficult for Ms. Tehsin and her team to manage in-house.
Hence, they decided to partner with ADP, as it has a global reputation in the industry. They set their expectations very clearly from the beginning.
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Handle end-to-end with accurate and on-time delivery of payment.
Take care of all the TDS and year-end formalities like Form 16 and other associated compliances.
Provide a 'dedicated account manager' and support team to assist in case of issues.
Payroll was never a problem when we had about 70 employees. However, when the strength increased to 160+, processing became increasingly difficult to manage in-house. The number of man-hours spent on it was too much. The top management decided that it was the right time to outsource. CA Tehsin Lakkadghat VP Accounts and Finance Quantum Advisors
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The relationship with ADP has been excellent. ADP has taken care of my company's end-to-end. Their account management team and support team are very responsive. I see them as my own employees at the other end of the home. I will definitely recommend ADP for their services. Looking forward for a continued relationship. CA Tehsin Lakkadghat VP Accounts and Finance Quantum Advisors
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ACR Issues Recommendations on Therapies for Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee
Am Fam Physician. 2013 Apr 1;87(7):515-516.
Guideline source: American College of Rheumatology
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The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) has released updated recommendations for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the hip and knee, and has developed new recommendations for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the hand. These recommendations are categorized as strong or conditional. A strong recommendation indicates that most patients, when informed of the quality of the evidence supporting the use of a therapy and the degree to which its benefits outweigh its harms, would choose the recommended therapy, and that physicians may structure their interactions with patients accordingly. A conditional recommendation indicates that although most informed patients would choose the recommended therapy, many would not; therefore, physicians should ensure that the care they recommend is in keeping with their patients' values and preferences.
Recommendations for Osteoarthritis of the Hand
NONPHARMACOLOGIC
The ACR conditionally recommends that physicians evaluate a patient's ability to perform activities of daily living and provide assistive devices to help patients perform these activities, if needed. In addition, patients should be instructed in the use of thermal modalities and other techniques that help protect their joints, including splints for patients who have osteoarthritis of the trapeziometacarpal joint.
PHARMACOLOGIC
Conditional recommendations for the initial pharmacologic management of hand osteoarthritis include oral nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as cyclo-oxygenase-2 selective inhibitors, and topical NSAIDs (e.g., trolamine salicylate). Topical capsaicin (Zostrix) and tramadol (Ultram) are also conditionally recommended.
In patients 75 years and older, the ACR conditionally recommends that physicians prescribe topical rather than oral NSAIDs. In patients younger than 75 years, there is no preference between topical and oral NSAIDs.
Intraarticular therapies and opioid analgesics are conditionally not recommended for initial therapy.
Recommendations for Osteoarthritis of the Knee
The ACR strongly recommends that patients with knee osteoarthritis participate in an aquatic exercise program, and in aerobic or resistance land-based exercise programs. Patients who are overweight should be advised about losing weight.
Self-management programs, manual therapy in combination with a supervised exercise program, psychosocial interventions, and use of medially directed patellar taping are conditionally recommended. Patients should also be instructed in the use of thermal agents, and receive walking aids if needed.
Other conditional recommendations include encouraging patients to participate in tai chi programs, to receive instruction in the use of transcutaneous electrical stimulation, and to be treated with traditional Chinese acupuncture. Of note, traditional Chinese acupuncture and transcutaneous electrical stimulation are recommended only when a patient with knee osteoarthritis has chronic, moderate to severe pain and is a candidate for total knee arthroplasty, but is unwilling to undergo arthroplasty, has comorbid medical conditions, or is taking medications that would contraindicate surgery or that would lead a surgeon to not recommend the procedure.
If patients have lateral compartment osteoarthritis, they should wear medially wedged insoles. For medial compartment osteoarthritis, patients should wear laterally wedged subtalar strapped insoles.
The ACR has no specific recommendations with regard to patients participating in balance exercises (alone or in combination with strengthening exercises), receiving manual therapy alone, using laterally directed patellar taping, or wearing knee braces or laterally wedged insoles.
Conditional recommendations for initial management of knee osteoarthritis include acetaminophen, intraarticular corticosteroid injections, oral or topical NSAIDs, and tramadol. The ACR also conditionally recommends that patients with knee osteoarthritis avoid chondroitin, glucosamine, or topical capsaicin preparations. The ACR has no recommendations concerning the use of duloxetine (Cymbalta), intraarticular hyaluronate injections, or opioid analgesics.
Recommendation for Osteoarthritis of the Hip
The ACR strongly recommends that patients with hip osteoarthritis participate in aquatic exercise programs and in aerobic or resistance land-based exercise programs. If a patient is overweight, he or she should be advised to lose weight.
The ACR conditionally recommends that patients with hip osteoarthritis be instructed in the use of thermal agents, participate in self-management programs, receive walking aids (if needed) and manual therapy (in combination with supervised exercise), and receive psychosocial interventions.
The ACR has no specific recommendations regarding participation in balance exercises (alone or in combination with strengthening exercises) or tai chi programs, or receiving manual therapy alone.
Conditional recommendations for the initial management of hip osteoarthritis include acetaminophen, intraarticular corticosteroid injections, oral NSAIDs, and tramadol. The ACR also conditionally recommends that patients avoid chondroitin and glucosamine. The ACR has no specific recommendations about using duloxetine, intraarticular hyaluronate injections, opioid analgesics, or topical NSAIDs.
AFP Associate Editor
Coverage of guidelines from other organizations does not imply endorsement by AFP or the AAFP.
A collection of Practice Guidelines published in AFP is available at https://www.aafp.org/afp/practguide.
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Trump's ex attorney Cohen has done multiple interviews with Mueller team
Posted: 9:45 PM, Sep 20, 2018
Yana Paskova
<p>Michael Cohen, former lawyer to U.S. President Donald Trump, exits the Federal Courthouse on August 21, 2018 in New York City. Cohen reached an agreement with prosecutors, pleading guilty to charges involving bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance violations</p>
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former attorney, has spoken with special counsel Robert Mueller's team several times over the past month, ABC News reported Thursday.
Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis appeared to confirm the ABC report later Thursday when he praised his client for speaking to Mueller.
"Good for @michaelcohen212 in providing critical information to the #muellerinvestigation without a cooperation agreement. No one should question his honesty, veracity or loyalty to his #family and #country over @potus @realdonaldtrump," Davis tweeted.
The report said the special counsel team has focused primarily on Trump's dealings with Russia. Investigators were also interested in whether Trump or Trump's associates discussed the possibility of a pardon for Cohen.
ABC said Cohen participated in the interviews without a guarantee of leniency for himself.
Cohen is also cooperating with a probe from New York state into the Trump family charity and the Trump Organization, CNN has reported, and he and his attorney met with state tax department officials last week .
The President's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said that if anyone were to believe Cohen, "it's only because they want to get President Trump so badly they have lost any sense of fairness or objectivity."
"Cohen is a professional deceiver," Giuliani said Thursday evening.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel's office, declined to comment, as did the office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Cohen pleaded guilty on eight criminal counts last month and implicated Trump personally in campaign finance violations related to the paying of two women who have alleged they had affairs with Trump. The President has denied those allegations.
CNN reported later in August that Cohen was resigned to going to prison to protect his family. The plea deal indicated Cohen could face three to five years in prison.
The reported cooperation of Cohen with the Mueller probe marked the latest instance of a Trump associate being said to work with the investigation the President has regularly railed against as a "witch hunt."
A federal judge said on Wednesday he was setting a sentencing date for Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, who pleaded guilty last year to lying to investigators and agreed to cooperate with the special counsel. Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has also pleaded guilty to several federal crimes and agreed to cooperate with Mueller's investigation.
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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
1 Timothy Outline
Slaves to honor their masters (1, 2)
False teachers and love of money (3-10)
Instructions for a man of God (11-16)
Be rich in fine works (17-19)
Guard your trust (20, 21)
Marginal References
+Ro 13:7; Eph 6:5; Col 3:22
+1Pe 2:13, 14
Publications Index
w91 2/1 21
w73 260-261; w53 413; w52 95; w48 264; w43 55
The Watchtower,
9/15/2008, p. 31
w08 9/15 31; w91 2/1 21
bw 75-77; w77 223; w53 413; w52 95; w48 264; w43 55
Or “healthful; beneficial.”
+2Ti 1:13
+Tit 1:1, 2
it-1 730, 972
w65 433; w62 382; w48 264
Or “has an unhealthy fascination.”
Or “abusive speeches.”
+1Co 8:2
+2Ti 2:14; Tit 1:10; 3:9
“All Scripture,” p. 236
it-1 730; si 236
w62 526; w48 264
+2Co 11:3; 2Ti 3:8; Jude 10
+1Pe 5:2
w02 7/15 12; w88 8/15 5
w71 767; w52 96; w48 264; w42 127; w33 375
Lit., “along with self-sufficiency.”
+1Ti 4:8
12/1/2014, p. 15
11/15/2011, pp. 19-20
6/1/2003, p. 9
w14 12/1 15; w11 11/15 19-20; w03 6/1 9; w95 8/15 21-22
w85 8/15 13-16; w80 3/1 6-7; g79 8/22 11; w75 119, 121, 123; g73 9/8 11; w68 38; g67 6/8 7; w65 523; g65 3/22 4; g65 9/22 8; w64 260; w63 433; w62 432; w61 111; w48 126, 264; w42 127
+Job 1:21; Ps 49:16, 17
Or “sustenance.”
Or “shelter.” Lit., “covering.”
+Pr 30:8, 9; Heb 13:5
Awake!,
7/2015, p. 13
9/2011, p. 8
8/1/2003, pp. 5-6
6/15/2001, pp. 6-7
Family Happiness, p. 40
g 7/15 13; g 9/11 8; w03 6/1 9; w03 8/1 5-6; wt 103-104; w01 6/15 6-7; w98 1/15 17; fy 40; g94 6/22 31; g88 4/22 7, 10; tp 114-115
g85 2/22 7; w80 3/1 6; hp 61-62; g78 10/8 18; w76 466; w76 499; w75 123; tp73 117-118; g73 9/8 11; g72 5/8 4; w63 167, 433; w62 355; g62 8/8 4; w61 645; w57 208; w51 497; w48 264
+Mt 13:22
+Pr 28:20, 22; Jas 5:1
3/15/2011, pp. 22-23
6/2007, pp. 3, 4-7
w19.11 17-18; w11 3/15 22-23; g 6/07 3-7; wt 103-104; w98 1/15 17; w98 5/15 5-6; w97 7/15 13; g97 9/22 13-14; w88 8/15 4-6; w86 5/1 13
w84 5/15 8-9; w84 7/1 29; w82 7/15 15; w80 5/15 4; w78 6/1 4; g78 10/8 18; w75 569-570; w65 84, 146; w63 364, 420; g63 3/8 5; w62 133, 433; w61 645; w60 357; w57 14, 208, 401; w54 131; w42 127; w30 76
+Mt 6:24
11/2008, p. 6
6/2007, pp. 3, 4-7, 20-21
1/8/2003, p. 27
w19.11 17-18; it-1 55; it-2 427-428; g 3/14 8; w10 9/1 4; g 3/09 5; g 11/08 6; g 6/07 3-7, 20-21; g03 1/8 27; w02 3/1 17; wt 103-104; w01 6/15 5-6; w98 5/15 5-6; g97 9/22 13-14; w94 4/15 13-14; g94 3/22 3-4; w93 6/1 21-22; w88 8/15 5-6, 18; w86 6/15 8; w86 11/15 19
w85 8/15 14-15; w84 7/1 29; g81 12/8 4; g80 8/22 21-22; w79 1/1 15; w79 10/1 15; w78 11/1 24; fl 45-46; g78 10/8 18; w77 131; w77 205; w77 324; w75 4; w75 569-570; w74 113; g74 8/22 19; kj 133; w65 146, 525; g65 3/22 3; g65 7/8 8; g65 10/8 5; w64 435; g64 3/8 17; g64 11/8 15; g63 3/8 5; w62 133, 433, 492, 741; g62 2/8 6, 21; w61 505, 645; w60 357; w57 14, 208, 401; w56 313; w54 131; w48 126; w44 365; w42 126-127, 157; w37 181; en 70; ch 9; wo 22; w33 372, 375
+Pr 15:1; Mt 5:5; Ga 5:22, 23; Col 3:12; 1Pe 3:15
6/15/2008, pp. 10, 12-15
w08 6/15 10, 12-15; w03 4/1 20; w01 6/15 7-8; w90 3/1 10-14; w90 10/15 28-29
w75 185; w75 756; w64 433; w63 131, 654; w60 76
w04 2/15 26-27; w90 10/15 28-29
w82 3/1 18; us 62; w77 240-241; w64 30; w63 21; yb63 36, 318; g62 8/8 7; w61 211; w57 19, 93; w56 241
+Mt 27:11; Joh 18:33, 36; 19:10, 11
sl 254; w66 55; ns 260
+2Th 2:8; 2Ti 4:1, 8
it-2 308-309
w75 756; w73 470; bf 627; g61 4/22 27; w54 103; nh 314
+Re 17:14; 19:16
it-1 1189; it-2 308-309; w08 9/15 31; w05 9/1 27
w78 3/1 18; w78 11/15 31; g71 6/8 27; w66 259; w63 539, 733; bf 627; nh 314; w49 235
+Heb 7:15, 16
+Ac 9:3; Re 1:13, 16
+Joh 14:19; 1Pe 3:18
it-1 1189; it-2 254; w08 9/15 31; w05 9/1 27; g90 8/22 20; w86 8/1 5
w84 4/1 31; w78 11/15 31; sl 254; g73 7/22 4; ad 1067; im 146, 330; g65 6/8 5; w63 234, 733; bf 627; w62 574; g62 11/8 28; w61 583; w59 400; w55 540; dh 34; nh 314; lg 72; w49 48, 148, 235; w48 347; g46 3/27 16; hp42 44; w32 58; w31 76; he 31
Or “Order.”
Or “present age.” See Glossary.
Or “high-minded.”
+Mt 13:22; Mr 10:23
+Ec 5:19; Mt 6:33; Jas 1:17
6/15/2001, p. 8
it-2 1055; w13 6/15 14; w07 8/1 25; w04 2/1 30; g03 1/8 27; w01 6/15 8; w86 6/15 5-6
w84 7/1 4-5, 30; w78 11/15 21-22; w77 520-521; w75 571-572; g65 10/8 7; g64 6/22 20; w63 22, 275; yb63 39; g63 3/8 5; w62 135, 437, 441; w61 111; w53 485
Or “liberal.”
+Ro 12:13; 2Co 8:14; Jas 1:27
Kingdom Ministry,
w13 6/15 14; g03 1/8 27; w01 6/15 8; km 6/00 1; w88 10/15 21
w84 7/1 4-5, 30; w82 8/1 21; w78 11/15 21-22; fl 127; w73 463; w62 441; g62 5/22 28; w61 277; w51 136
+Lu 16:9
Teach Us, pp. 203-204
Bible Teach, pp. 192-193
10/1/2007, pp. 17-18
bhs 203-204; bh 192-193; w07 10/1 17-18; g03 1/8 27; km 9/03 8; w01 6/15 8; w99 8/15 4-7; w95 1/15 4-7
w78 11/15 21-22; w73 76; w73 329; w73 463; g63 3/8 7; w62 437; w61 277; w53 485
+2Ti 1:13, 14; 3:14; 4:5
+1Co 2:13; 3:19; Col 2:8
it-1 1007; w00 5/1 11; w00 12/1 30; w94 4/1 13; w94 12/15 16; w90 7/15 21; g89 6/22 26
w82 8/1 23; w75 101-102; w65 146; w63 265, 362, 689; g63 1/8 25; g63 4/22 26; w62 380; nh 357; g49 8/8 5; g48 11/22 24; w41 213
Parallel Translations
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1 Tim. 6:1Ro 13:7; Eph 6:5; Col 3:22
1 Tim. 6:11Pe 2:13, 14
1 Tim. 6:32Ti 1:13
1 Tim. 6:3Tit 1:1, 2
1 Tim. 6:41Co 8:2
1 Tim. 6:42Ti 2:14; Tit 1:10; 3:9
1 Tim. 6:52Co 11:3; 2Ti 3:8; Jude 10
1 Tim. 6:51Pe 5:2
1 Tim. 6:61Ti 4:8
1 Tim. 6:7Job 1:21; Ps 49:16, 17
1 Tim. 6:8Pr 30:8, 9; Heb 13:5
1 Tim. 6:9Mt 13:22
1 Tim. 6:9Pr 28:20, 22; Jas 5:1
1 Tim. 6:10Mt 6:24
1 Tim. 6:11Pr 15:1; Mt 5:5; Ga 5:22, 23; Col 3:12; 1Pe 3:15
1 Tim. 6:13Mt 27:11; Joh 18:33, 36; 19:10, 11
1 Tim. 6:142Th 2:8; 2Ti 4:1, 8
1 Tim. 6:15Re 17:14; 19:16
1 Tim. 6:16Heb 7:15, 16
1 Tim. 6:16Ac 9:3; Re 1:13, 16
1 Tim. 6:16Joh 14:19; 1Pe 3:18
1 Tim. 6:17Mt 13:22; Mr 10:23
1 Tim. 6:17Ec 5:19; Mt 6:33; Jas 1:17
1 Tim. 6:18Ro 12:13; 2Co 8:14; Jas 1:27
1 Tim. 6:19Lu 16:9
1 Tim. 6:202Ti 1:13, 14; 3:14; 4:5
1 Tim. 6:201Co 2:13; 3:19; Col 2:8
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The First to Timothy
6 Let those who are under the yoke of slavery keep on considering their owners worthy of full honor,+ so that the name of God and the teaching may never be spoken of injuriously.+ 2 Moreover, let those having believing owners not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers. Rather, they should serve more readily, because those receiving the benefit of their good service are believers and beloved.
Keep on teaching these things and giving these exhortations. 3 If any man teaches another doctrine and does not agree with the wholesome* instruction,+ which is from our Lord Jesus Christ, nor with the teaching that is in harmony with godly devotion,+ 4 he is puffed up with pride and does not understand anything.+ He is obsessed* with arguments and debates about words.+ These things give rise to envy, strife, slander,* wicked suspicions, 5 constant disputes about minor matters by men who are corrupted in mind+ and deprived of the truth, thinking that godly devotion is a means of gain.+ 6 To be sure, there is great gain in godly devotion+ along with contentment.* 7 For we have brought nothing into the world, and neither can we carry anything out.+ 8 So, having food* and clothing,* we will be content with these things.+
9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare+ and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge men into destruction and ruin.+ 10 For the love of money is a root of all sorts of injurious things, and by reaching out for this love some have been led astray from the faith and have stabbed themselves all over with many pains.+
11 However, you, O man of God, flee from these things. But pursue righteousness, godly devotion, faith, love, endurance, and mildness.+ 12 Fight the fine fight of the faith; get a firm hold on the everlasting life for which you were called and you offered the fine public declaration in front of many witnesses.
13 Before God, who preserves all things alive, and Christ Jesus, who as a witness made the fine public declaration before Pontius Pilate,+ I give you orders 14 to observe the commandment in a spotless and irreprehensible way until the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ,+ 15 which the happy and only Potentate will show in its own appointed times. He is the King of those who rule as kings and Lord of those who rule as lords,+ 16 the one alone having immortality,+ who dwells in unapproachable light,+ whom no man has seen or can see.+ To him be honor and eternal might. Amen.
17 Instruct* those who are rich in the present system of things* not to be arrogant,* and to place their hope, not on uncertain riches,+ but on God, who richly provides us with all the things we enjoy.+ 18 Tell them to work at good, to be rich in fine works, to be generous,* ready to share,+ 19 safely treasuring up for themselves a fine foundation for the future,+ so that they may get a firm hold on the real life.+
20 Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you,+ turning away from the empty speeches that violate what is holy and from the contradictions of the falsely called “knowledge.”+ 21 By making a show of such knowledge, some have deviated from the faith.
May the undeserved kindness be with you.
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The increasing demand all over the world for Afghan carpets, rugs and other piled goods, as well as killims has stimulated a lively interest in this time-honored craft. The production of Afghan woven good is extremely varied, and falls into two main classifications: namely the Turkoman and the Beloutch and the Beloutch-type. Both are produced by pastoral people of entirely different origin, yet who had the same needs and a constantly available source of wool. Thus, many of their products were made to serve similar purposes, though each is quite distinct in technique of weave, in color and design.
Not least of the charms of the Afghan carpet is that it is among the few products left the world today that is still made entirely by hand. Carpet production in Afghanistan is from beginning to end a cottage industry, and for the buyer, represents good value in terms of wear, beauty and adaptability to surroundings. Another characteristic of Afghan carpets is that they are wholly of wool and all designs are rectilinear.
The Turkoman Carpet
All Turkoman carpets are woven in the north of the country between Maimanah to the west and Kunduz to the east, apart from Sarouq carpets which are made in Maruchak and Mauris which are made in and around Herat in the west of Afghanistan. The word Mauri means “from Merv” the city in the Turkmenistan from which the weavers of these goods originated and include members of the Tekke, Yamoud and Sarouq tribes.
The wool used in Turkoman weaving is renowned in the trade for its lustrous and hard-wearing properties. It comes from the famous indigenous breed of Karakul sheep, which is equally renowned in the fur trade for its Karakul lambskins. The Karakul sheep is a fat-tailed breed having a dual fleece, that is, two types of wool growing simultaneously. The outer fleece has longer staples than the soft crinkly wool of the inner fleece, which when carefully sorted and blended produce ideal carpet wool.
Carding and spinning is carried out by hand, by both men and women. The balls of wool are made into skeins which are then dyed, either by the weaver’s family in its own compound or by professional dyers in the bazaar.
Though aniline dyes have been used since their invention at the turn of the century, there is now a growing tendency among the Turkomans to revert to the use of natural dyestuffs. Those most commonly used are madder, the root of a spindly bush which grows abundantly in many of the carpet-producing areas, for red; walnut peel for dark brown; pomegranate peel for light brown, and sparak, a wild flower from the steppes, for yellow. The blues in Turkoman carpets are generally indigo.
Weaving- traditionally on a horizontal loom – is usually done by women. All sizes of carpets and rugs, ranging from mats to runners to the “over-sizes”, are made throughout the year. Larger carpets, however, because they are usually woven in the open are mainly produced during the summer months.
The majority of Mauri carpets and rugs are of single weft, whereas in the main other Turkoman goods are double wefted. The Persian or Sennah knot is generally used.
When weaving a carpet, no set plan is followed: the design is entirely executed from memory – a testimony to the fact that Turkoman designs and symbols are of unknown age and representative of their own particular culture.
Most Turkomans in Afghanistan belong to the Ersari tribe, a large ethnic group sub-divided into clans, many of which have their own individual carpet motifs and designs whose origins and symbolic meanings are far from clear. Perhaps the two best-known designs are the “fil-poi” or elephant’s foot, a large octagonal gul and the smaller Tekke gul, or “Bukhara pattern” as it is now called in the trade, and within these motifs there is a wide variety. In addition, there is a large range of different Ersari designs. Other Turkomans who weave carpets in Afghanistan are the Tekkes, Yamouds and Sarouqs, who all have their distinctive weaves and designs.
Besides carpets and rugs, the Turkomans produce countless items made with wool for their daily domestic needs – wood and metal being unobtainable or difficult to come by. For example, the doorway of the yurt, the circular wood-framed tents in which Turkomans live, is closed by a type of carpet called a “purdah” (curtain), also called a hatchlou or Ensi, fringed at the bottom and having at the top a cord with which to tie it to the framework.
Other items still woven by the Turkomans for their daily use include:
the juwal, often made in pairs is a large bag used for storing clothes or larger household goods, and was kept hung on the inside of the yurt. When migrating these bags were tied one on either side of the camel, whence the western name of “camel bag”. Though these are still made, only on very rare occasions, such as the escorting of the bride to her new home, will one see juwal on a camel;
the khourgine or donkey bag, is still very much in use. This bag is in a joined pair and used as a saddle bag for horse or donkey, as well as over a man’s shoulder. These are also made in a flat weave.
the torbah, a single bag, either knotted and piled or flat-woven, in different shapes and sizes according to is purpose, includes the much sought-after namak donne used for storing the rock-salt.
Another decorative furnishing is the jallar, a woven bag hung over the inside entrance of the yurt, distinguished by its fringes and sometimes having long side-pieces, when it is called jallar poidar or jallar with legs.
The horse, especially prized and the camel have always been very much part of the traditional Turkoman way of life, consequently saddle cloths and various decorative trappings for these are still being made for everyday use.
Although this list is not conclusive, it is hoped that it will give some indication of the variety and richness of the woven items produced by the Afghan Turkomans.
The Beloutch and Beloutch-Type Carpet
Herat, in the west of Afghanistan, is the major marketing centre for a wide region where a large and varied production of carpets, rugs and flat-woven pieces, including killims, is woven; goods from this area are traditionally known as Beloutches. Some of the these goods are made by nomads and semi-nomads, many by people now sedentary who, though not strictly of the Beloutch tribe, have acquired some their techniques while imparting to their work their own tribal charm and rustic character which is so much sough-after today.
In such a large region, inevitable there is a broad variety of weaves and designs as well as types of wool used. Generally speaking, the majority of wool comes from the local strains of the Ghiljai and Gaadi breeds of sheep, whose soft wool readily develops a natural sheen though use. The Beloutch production, like that of the Turkoman, is entirely hand made, from shearing and spinning into dyeing and knotting. The Herat Beloutches are all wool as opposed to the Meshed Beloutches from Iran which have cotton warps. A wide variety of both chemical and natural dyestuffs are used.
Weaving, always on a horizontal loom, frequently takes place in the open under a shelter just outside the weaver’s tent, and is always done by women and girls who learn this craft when very young.
Besides carpets and rugs, the Beloutches, like the Turkomans, make knotted and piled bags of different shapes and sizes used for storage purposes. In addition they make baby cradles, saddle bags, harness for camel and donkey and sometimes horse, and all the numerous things required in daily life, as well as the decorative and functional pieces which play such an important role in betrothals, marriages, and dowries.
For the nomad of this area, the prayer rug or jai namaz is above all a vital need and is perhaps his most significant personal property. On this prayer rug, he, whose unsettled life, is a constant struggle with nature and the elements, makes his devotions to his Creator five times a day.
Killims are a flat-woven fabric made of wool. The variety of weaving techniques, of designs and colors is considerable, ranging from the simple yet charming striped killims of the Pasthun-speaking kouchis to the elaborate Beloutch killims of subtle design, often with decorative embroidery of great richness. The different types of killims made in this region are becoming very popular in Western markets, as are those of woven by Uzbeks, Turkomans and Hazaras in other areas of Afghanistan.
Flat-woven domestic pieces such as grain and flour sacks are also made in the Beloutch area, often with either woven or embroidered patterns, and bags of all shapes and sizes, sometimes highly decorated with cowrie shells, small mirrors, buttons and tassels.
All the items mentioned above are sought in the Western markets because they are both decorative and useful. For instance, killims can be used either as floor coverings (the purpose for which they were woven), wall hangings, bedspreads, etc. Donkey bags make excellent newspaper or knitting holders when draped over the arm of a chair. Juwals and the large torbahs when stuffed become striking floor or chair cushions. Tent bands enhance pelmets or curtains; camel halters and neckbands, the gaily decorated cradles and small bags make handsome wall ornaments, while a camel bell can be hung in many places, including outside the door.
A classical Mauri rug, locally called “rangi tchoub” because the yarn has been dyed with vegetable dyestuffs. These very fine pieces, often single-wefted are woven in Herat City.
Sarouq rug. One of Afghanistan’s finer quality rugs and which comes from Maruchak.
This fine quality rug bearing the “Kepsi Gul” of the Yamouds comes from Andkhoy. Like all the best quality Afghan pieces, the yarn is hand-spun Karakul wool, and this piece contains some natural dyestuffs.
The Ghaba Saqal, from the Ersari sub-clan, whose striking design adds to the wide variety of production from the Andkhoy area.
The above is from an illustrated catalog published by The Export Promotion Department, Ministry of Commerce, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (Post reign of Mohammad Zahir Shah) There was no exact publication date on the catalog.
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Victoria’s Secret reveals new bra worth a million Dollars
Oziga Follow on Twitter Send an email November 6, 2018
The day after tomorrow, on the 8th of November, the wings will be taken out again and the longest legged models on earth will walk the catwalk for Victoria’s Secret’s annual show. One model, however, will not just walk the first best set of lingerie on the catwalk, but wears the new ‘Dreams Angel Fantasy’ bra that worth just a million euros.
Ever since the first ‘Fantasy Bra’ by Victoria’s Secret was presented on the catwalk in 1996, it is one of the moments that everyone looks forward to during the annual show of the lingerie brand. From how much it costs to how many stones have been used, the bra is always a busy topic.
The ‘Dreams Angel Fantasy’-bra of this year is made by Swarovski and is set with no less than 2,100 diamonds. A total of 930 hours has been worked on and the shiny little diamond has a price tag of 1 million dollars or about 875,000 euros. The Swedish model Elsa Hosk is the chosen one to wear the bra during the show.
For the first time ever, a replica of the bra will be for sale in certain stores in the US, and that for ‘only’ 220 euros.
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Atlanta Braves' Tyler Flowers hits a three-run home run off Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Zach Eflin during the fourth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Braves retain Tyler Flowers for 2020
Gabriel Burns, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Braves are keeping veteran catcher Tyler Flowers for 2020, an expected decision that’s all-the-more important following Brian McCann’s retirement.
Flowers had a $6 million club option with a $2 million buyout. The Braves’ decision was due Monday, when they opted to buy out the deal and re-sign Flowers for $4 million, paying him the same money had they picked up the option (the move saved $2 million on next year’s payroll).
MLB.com was the first to report how the Braves would handle Flowers’ contract payout.
The Roswell native hit .229/.319/.413 in 85 games last season, splitting duties with McCann. Flowers is lauded for his pitch framing prowess and clubhouse leadership.
When McCann announced his retirement following the team’s National League Division Series elimination, it increased the likelihood the Braves would retain Flowers. They simply lacked any internal options to replace him.
The team does have 2019 first rounder Shane Langeliers, a former college catcher who could debut as early as the middle of next season. But given the team’s postseason aspirations, it couldn’t afford to lose Flowers’ leadership and game management skills.
Flowers, who’s been with the Braves since 2016, has caught 85 or fewer games in three of the last four seasons. He’ll have a new backstop partner for the third consecutive season after working with McCann and Kurt Suzuki the past two campaigns.
The Braves will also announce their decisions on team options for outfielder Nick Markakis and starter Julio Teheran on Monday.
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New respite program helps homeless people heal
Anne Hillman, Alaska Public Media
Brother Francis Shelter Respite program manager Robin Dempsey sits in the new respite area. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)
A new community partnership is freeing up hospital resources by proving people without homes a place to heal. Brother Francis Shelter in Anchorage is working with the area’s three main hospitals to provide respite care for sick or injured people who are homeless.
During her 26 years as a home health care provider, nurse Deb Seidl has treated people living in homeless camps and out of campers–anywhere she could consistently find them. But she said healing on the streets is hard.
“To be sick or to be just not well – maybe it’s an injury – to be on the streets is scary,” Seidl said. “It’s difficult to heal. There’s so much to try to pull together.”
Wounds are more easily infected without running water, and overcoming an illness is harder without some place to sleep all day. This causes people to go in and out of the hospital taking up beds and using emergency department services. They need one basic thing.
“For healing, housing is often that first prescription,” Seidl said.
So a couple of years ago, a team at Providence began looking for a community partner that could provide short-term respite housing for people who are homeless. They found it with Catholic Social Services.
“Here we are in the Brother Francis Shelter Medical Respite Area,” BFS Program Director Lisa Caldeira said as she walked into a quiet hallway at the back of the largest emergency shelter in Anchorage. The area has five double occupancy bedrooms, a small common room with large plastic rocking chairs, a kitchen, and an office for a case manager.
“It is meant to be a space for peace and calm and healing,” Caldeira explained. Some people stay there for a week, others for months.
The pilot respite program started with just two beds in October 2016 then quickly grew to four. Some of the 18 patient-guests who stayed there received in-home health services, like nurses who changed bandages on wounds or physical therapists. Others just had a space to rest while getting over pneumonia or a broken bone.
Caldeira said during the pilot phase, Providence donated care to patients, giving the partners time to figure out details like visiting protocols and compliance with Medicare requirements.
“We were able to practice and make mistakes and figure out how medical respite could work here at the shelter and for Anchorage,” Caldeira said.
Now the respite area is officially open and has space for 10 patient-guests, like Ed McLaughlin. He joined the respite program because of a broken knee.
“If it wasn’t for back there,” McLaughlin said, pointing to the respite area, “my only other options would be sprawl out on the floor out here like the general population does that’s staying here, or be out on the streets.”
McLaughlin said because he’s had time and space to heal, he may not need surgery. He hoped to be back doing seasonal jobs soon and not returning to the shelter.
For Vicki Hannah, the new respite program offers hope. She moved to Anchorage from Seward to seek medical care but can’t afford housing. Without housing, she can’t get the surgery she needs.
“The doctors don’t like to do surgery for people who are homeless,” Hannah said, echoing the sentiments of some of the medical providers. “So I was going to have to wait until Alaska Housing put me in a place, but now I might be able to have it done sooner.”
But Hannah can’t pre-book a room in the respite area. Patients are connected to the program through the hospitals who contact the shelter and together they see if the program is a good fit. The patient-guests have to be able to care for themselves and be willing to share space. For people who stay longer than a week or so, the case manager will connect them to longer-term services and rapid re-housing. 14 of the 18 patient-guests who participated in the pilot respite program did not return to homelessness.
The program is based on similar models at homeless shelters in Washington and California.
“Probably doing this has been the highlight of my career,” Seidl said. “Part of it is to be in the room with community leaders and hospital leaders that have a common goal and all have the community and community members’ best interest at heart.”
Seidl and others say this is the first time they can remember Providence Hospital, Alaska Regional Hospital and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium collaborating on a project. Construction companies and architects volunteered time to re-do the space at the shelter. They are also opening a clinic at Brother Francis.
Seidl said anecdotal evidence shows that emergency department visits are down since starting the program, but they don’t have hard data. However, she has heard one concrete response from participants: “It is so good to feel safe.”
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Trend Micro Strengthens Middle East Leadership Team as Value of Cybersecurity Market Surges to SAR83 Billion by 2022
Published July 1st, 2019 - 10:14 GMT
Rasheed Alodah
Trend Micro Incorporated has bolstered the Middle East leadership team with a new managing director for Saudi Arabia and a new head of sales operations in Middle East and North Africa (ME
Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, has bolstered the Middle East leadership team with a new managing director for Saudi Arabia and a new head of sales operations in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to support surging demand for cybersecurity, with research showing that the region’s cybersecurity market is set to reach a record high of SAR83 billion[1] by 2022.
With Saudi Vision 2030 boosting nationwide digital transformation and the G20 economy’s diversified growth, the Kingdom is facing high volumes of cyberattacks. Trend Micro research for Q1 2019 shows Saudi Arabia had the highest number of malware threat detections, and the second-highest number for email threats and malicious URLs, in MENA.
As a result, Saudi CIOs are investing in cybersecurity systems and transforming processes. The Kingdom’s cybersecurity market has been growing at a rate of 15 percent CAGR, projected to reach SAR13 billion in 2019[2]. Saudi Arabia is expected to contribute the largest market share to the MENA cybersecurity market from 2017 to 2022[3].
“The Kingdom’s record-high cybersecurity market illustrates the urgency that public and private sector organizations face in their secure digital transformation,” said Dr. Moataz Bin Ali, vice president, Middle East and North Africa, Trend Micro.
Supporting the region’s secure digital transformation, Trend Micro has appointed Rasheed Alodah as country managing director for Saudi Arabia, and Muayad Simbawa as head of sales operations for MENA. Both will report directly to Dr. Moataz Bin Ali.
“Our new appointments for the Kingdom and for MENA bring strong experience and leadership skills to secure strategic verticals,” added Dr. Moataz Bin Ali. “Government and public sector, energy and oil and gas, and education are our priority markets where we see the strongest demand. These industries handle sensitive business and citizen data that need comprehensive security.”
Rasheed Alodah is responsible for Trend Micro Saudi Arabia’s business strategy and sales, and works closely with regional leaders to take business to the next level. He was promoted from director of strategic business at Trend Micro Saudi Arabia, and has 12 years of experience.
Muayad Simbawa is responsible for Trend Micro’s regional sales operations, including driving sales processes, growth, and profitability. He was promoted from director of enterprise business for Trend Micro Saudi Arabia, and brings 12 years of experience
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10 Spine-Tingling Books To Read Based On Your Favorite ‘Stranger Things’ Character
Aubrey Fredrickson September 24, 2016 Book Lists, Classics, Crime Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Stephen King, Suspense/Thriller No Comments
If the first season of Stranger Things left you with a craving for the weird and supernatural, look no further than these 10 spine-tingling books that will have you on the edge of your seat. The Netflix series was a goldmine of intriguing characters and we’ve selected one book for each, so pick your favorite character and let us help you find your next read!
1. Eleven
Did you find yourself captivated by the troubled young girl with special talents? Then you’ll love Firestarter by Stephen King. Charlie can start fires with her mind and is on the run from a government agency that wants her and her powers.
2. Mike Wheeler
If you found yourself relating to Mike and his gang of outcasts, then you might want to check out another of Stephen King’s masterpieces. It is a classic horror story about a band of young boys—and one girl—who battle a monstrous evil in a small town.
3. Dustin Henderson
Cory Jay Mackenson, the main character and narrator of Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon, says in his opening chapter, “I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians.” He, like Dustin, has no problem accepting the supernatural. In fact, both boys seem to thrive on it.
4. Lucas Sinclair
Unlike Dustin, Lucas is suspicious of Eleven and wary of getting too involved. If you connected with this cautious character, you might also find yourself drawn to Will Halloway in Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.
5. Will Byers
The Boys of Summer by Richard Cox centers around a boy who spends four years in a coma after a terrible tornado whips through Wichita Falls, Texas. When he does wake up, Todd has strange abilities and is plagued by hallucinations. His story might make us wonder what lies in wait for Will Byers after his time in the Upside Down.
6. Nancy Wheeler
Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan is a comic book series perfect for readers who loved Nancy, the monster hunting big sister. The story starts the morning after Halloween, but there’s still plenty of creepy stuff going on when this group of young girls head out on their paper route.
7. Jonathan Byers
If you felt for Jonathan Byers, out to rescue his little brother, The Last Child by John Hart also tells a story of a brother’s search for a lost sibling, in this case a twin sister. This suspenseful crime thriller will keep you glued to the page.
8. Joyce Byers
Joyce, the mother who refuses to give up hope after her son’s disappearance, would certainly be able to sympathize with the main character of Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay. Elizabeth Sanderson’s son, Tommy, has also vanished mysteriously, leaving behind a mother desperate for answers.
9. Jim Hopper
In the Woods by Tana French follows Rob Ryan, a Dublin detective haunted by mysterious events of his own childhood which seem to be replaying themselves. He’ll have to dig into his own past to solve the murder of a young girl. If you were most intrigued by Jim Hopper, Hopkins’ Police Chief, you’ll enjoy this crime thriller.
10. The Monster
Couldn’t get enough of the monster? You should definitely check out The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft. The tentacled sea beast, Cthulhu, is a mainstay of the horror genre and not to be missed for monster lovers everywhere.
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Airport, China (PEK)Beirut, Int, Lebanon (BEY)Belem, Val de Cans Intl. Airport, Brazil (BEL)Belfast, Belfast, Great Britain (BFS)Belfast City, Belfast City Airport, Great Britain (BHD)Belgrade, Surcin, Serbia (BEG)Belo Horizonte, Confins Pampulha, Brazil (PLU)Belo Horizonte, Tancredo Neves Int., Brazil (CNF)Belo Horizonte, Belohorizonte, Brazil (BHZ)Benghazi, Int, Libya (BEN)Bergamo, Orio al Serio, Italy (BGY)Bergen, Flesland, Norway (BGO)Berlin, Tegel, Germany (TXL)Berlin, Int. Airport, Germany (BER)Bhopal, Bhopal, India (BHO)Biarritz, Bayonne Anglet, France (BIQ)Bilbao, International Airport, Spain (BIO)Billund, Int, Denmark (BLL)Birmingham, Int, Great Britain (BHX)Birmingham, Seibels/Bryan Airport, USA (BHM)Bishkek, Int, Kyrgyzstan (FRU)Bodrum, Bodrum civil airport, Turkey (BJV)Bogotá, Int, Colombia (BOG)Boise, Boise Gowen Field Airport, USA (BOI)Bologna, G. Marconi, Italy (BLQ)Bolzano, Francesco Baracca, Italy (BZO)Bonaire, Flamingo Field, Netherlands Antilles (BON)Bordeaux, Merignac, France (BOD)Bossembélé, Bossembélé civil airport, Central African Republic (BEM)Boston, Logan Itl., USA (BOS)Bourgas, Intl. Airport, Bulgaria (BOJ)Brasilia, Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek Intl. Apt., Brazil (BSB)Bratislava, International Airport, Slovakia (BTS)Brazzaville, Maya Maya, Congo (BZV)Bremen, Neuenland, Germany (BRE)Breslavia, Strachowice Airport, Poland (WRO)Brest, Guipavas, France (BES)Brindisi, Papola Casale, Italy (BDS)Brisbane, International Airport, Australia (BNE)Bristol, Lulsgate International, Great Britain (BRS)Brive-La-Gaillarde, La Roche, France (BVE)Brunswick, Glynco Jetport, USA (BQK)Brussels, National, Belgium (BRU)Bucaramanga, Palonegro, Colombia (BGA)Bucharest, Otopeni, Romania (OTP)Bucharest, Int. Airport, Romania (BUH)Budapest, Ferihegy 2, Hungary (BUD)Buenos Aires, Int., Argentina (EZE)Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Airport, Argentina (BUE)Buffalo, Greater Buffalo, USA (BUF)Bujumbura, Int, Burundi (BJM)Bukhara, Bukhara, Uzbekistan (BHK)Cabinda, Cabinda, Angola (CAB)Caen, Carpiquet, France (CFR)Cagliari, Elmas, Italy (CAG)Cairo, Itl., Egypt (CAI)Calgary, Calgary Intl., Canada (YYC)Cali, International Airport, Colombia (CLO)Calvi, Sainte Catherine, France (CLY)Cambridge, Int., Great Britain (CBG)Campo Grande, Antonio Joao, Brazil (CGR)Cancun, International Airport, Mexico (CUN)Canton, Baiyun, China (CAN)Caracas, Simón Bolívar, Venezuela (CCS)Cardiff, Rhoose Wales, Great Britain (CWL)Cartagena, International Airport, Colombia (CTG)Cartago, Cartago Santa Ana Airport, Colombia (CRC)Casablanca, Mohamed V, Morocco (CMN)Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco (CAS)Catamarca, Coronel Felipe Varela International Airport, Argentina (CTC)Catania, Fontanarossa, Italy (CTA)Catumbela, Catumbela, Angola (CBT)Cayenne, Félix Eboué, French Guiana (CAY)Cephalonia, Int. Airport, Greece (EFL)Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India (IXC)Changsha, International Airport , China (CSX)Chania, Souda, Greece (CHQ)Charkiv, Civil Airport, Ukraine (HRK)Charleston SC, Charleston International Airport, USA (CHS)Charleston WV, Yeager Airport, USA (CRW)Charlotte, Charlotte/Douglas Intl Airport, USA (CLT)Charlottetown, International Airport, Canada (YYG)Chattanooga, CHA Lovell Field, USA (CHA)Chengdu, Chengdu Shuangliu Intl. Apt., China (CTU)Chennai, Chennai International Airport, India (MAA)Chetumal, International Airport, Mexico (CTM)Chicago, O'Hare Int, USA (ORD)Chicago, Chicago, USA (CHI)Chios, Int., Greece (JKH)Chisinau, International Airport, Moldova (KIV)Chongqing, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, China (CKG)Christchurch, International airport, New Zealand (CHC)Cincinnati, Greater Cincinnati Intl Airport, USA (CVG)Città del Capo, Cape Town Airport, South Africa (CPT)Ciudad del Carmen, International Airport, Mexico (CME)Ciudad Juarez, International Airport, Mexico (CJS)Clermont-Ferrand, Aulnat, France (CFE)Cleveland, Hopkins Itl., USA (CLE)Cluj, International Airport, Romania (CLJ)Cochin, Cochin Intl., India (COK)Coffsharbour, International Airport, Australia (CFS)Cologne, Cologne, Train Main Railroad St., Germany (QKL)Cologne, Cologne/Bonn, Germany (CGN)Colombo, Bandaranaike Intl., Sri Lanka (CMB)Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Municipal, USA (COS)Columbia SC, Columbia SC Metropolitan Airport, USA (CAE)Columbus GA, Columbus Metropolitan / Fort Benning, USA (CSG)Columbus MS, Golden, USA (GTR)Columbus OH, Port Columbus Intl Airport, USA (CMH)Comiso, Gen. Vincenzo Magliocco, Italy (CIY)Comodoro Rivadavia, General Enrique Mosconi International Airport, Argentina (CRD)Conakry, Int, Guinea (CKY)Copenhagen, Kastrup, Denmark (CPH)Corfu, Int. Airport, Greece (CFU)Corrientes, Doctor Fernando Piragine Niveyro International Airport, Argentina (CNQ)Costanza, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Romania (CND)Cotonou, Cadjehoun International, Benin (COO)Cowley, Intl. Airport, Canada (YYM)Cozumel, International airport, Mexico (CZM)Crotone, International Airport, Italy (CRV)Cuiabá, Marechal Rondon Int., Brazil (CGB)Curaçao, Hato Airport, Netherlands Antilles (CUR)Curitiba, Afonso Pena Int., Brazil (CWB)Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina (COR)Dakar, Int, Senegal (DKR)Dakhla, Aeroporto civile Dakhla, Morocco (VIL)Dalian, Dalian Zhoushuizi Airport, China (DLC)Dallas, Ft Worth Intl, USA (DFW)Dallas, Love Field, USA (DAL)Damascus, Int, Syria (DAM)Dammam, Int, Saudi Arabia (DMM)Dar Es Salaam, Dar es Salaam International Airport, Tanzania (DAR)Daytona, James M Cox Dayton International, USA (DAY)Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach International Airport, USA (DAB)Deauville, Saint Gatien, France (DOL)Deer lake, Deer Lake Airport, Canada (YDF)Dehradun, Dehradun, India (DED)Denpasar, Ngurah Rai, Indonesia (DPS)Denver, Denver International, USA (DEN)Des Moines, Municipal, USA (DSM)Detroit, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, USA (DTW)Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA (DTT)Dhaka, Hazrat Shahjalal Intl., Bangladesh (DAC)Diyarbakır, Diyarbakir Airport, Turkey (DIY)Djerba, Zarzis Int., Tunisia (DJE)Djibouti, Ambouli, Djibouti (JIB)Doha, Int, Qatar (DOH)Doncaster, Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, Great Britain (DSA)Dothan, Municipal, USA (DHN)Douala, King Fahad Intl., Cameroon (DLA)Dresden, Dresden International, Germany (DRS)Dubai, Dubai Bus Station, United Arab Emirates (XNB)Dubai, International airport, United Arab Emirates (DXB)Dublin, Civil Airport, Ireland (DUB)Dubrovnik, Int. Airport, Croatia (DBV)Dundee, Riverside Park, Great Britain (DND)Dundo, Dundo, Angola (DUE)Düsseldorf, Rhein-Ruhr Lohausen, Germany (DUS)East Midlands, Nottingham East Midlands Airport, Great Britain (EMA)Edinburgh, Turnhouse, Great Britain (EDI)Edmonton, Edmonton Intl. Airport, Canada (YEG)Eindhoven, International Airport, Netherlands (EIN)Ekaterinburg, Koltsovo Intl., Russia (SVX)El Ayun, Hassan I El Ayun Airport, Morocco (EUN)El Calafate, Comandante Armando Tola International Airport, Argentina (FTE)El Paso, El Paso Intl., USA (ELP)Entebbe, Int, Uganda (EBB)Erkliet, Erkliet, Turkey (ASR)Errachidia, Errachidia civil airport, Morocco (ERH)Esquel, Aeroporto Brigadier General Antonio Parodi, Argentina (EQS)Evansville, Evansville Regional Airport, USA (EVV)Exeter, Exeter International Airport, Great Britain (EXT)Faro, International Airport, Portugal (FAO)Fayetteville, Fayetteville Municipal, USA (FAY)Fergana, Fergana, Uzbekistan (FEG)Fez, Int, Morocco (FEZ)Figari, Sud Corse, France (FSC)Florence, Amerigo Vespucci, Italy (FLR)Florence, Gilbert Field, USA (FLO)Florianópolis, Hercílio Luz Int., Brazil (FLN)Foggia, International Airport, Italy (FOG)Formosa, Formosa International Airport el Pucù, Argentina (FMA)Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood Itl., USA (FLL)Fort Myers, Reg. Southwest Apt, USA (RSW)Fort Myers, Fort Myers, Page Field, FL, USA (FMY)Fortaleza, Pinto Martins Apt., Brazil (FOR)Frankfurt, Int. Airport, Germany (FRA)Fredericton, International Airport, Canada (YFC)Freetown, Lungi Intl., Sierra Leone (FNA)Fuerteventura, Puerto del Rosario, Spain (FUE)Fukuoka, Intl. Airport, Japan (FUK)Funchal, Santa Catarina, Portugal (FNC)Fuzhou, International Airport , China (FOC)Gainesville, Jr Alison Municipal, USA (GNV)Gassim, Gassim International, Saudi Arabia (ELQ)Geneva, Cointrin, Switzerland (GVA)Genoa, C.Colombo, Italy (GOA)Giuba, Giuba, Sudan (JUB)Gizan, Jizan-Re Abd Allah bin Abd al-Aziz, Saudi Arabia (GIZ)Glasgow, Glasgow, Prestwick, Great Britain (PIK)Glasgow, Abbotsinch International, Great Britain (GLA)Goiânia, Santa Genoveva, Brazil (GYN)Goldcoast, International Airport, Australia (OOL)Gothenburg, Landvetter, Sweden (GOT)Goulimime, Goulimime civil airport, Morocco (GLN)Grand Cayman, International Airport, Cayman Islands (GCM)Grand Rapids, Kent County International Airport, USA (GRR)Graz, Graz, Austria (GRZ)Greensboro, Piedmont Triad Intl Airport, USA (GSO)Guadalajara, International Airport, Mexico (GDL)Guaranì, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay (AGT)Guayaquil, Simón Bolívar, Ecuador (GYE)Gulfport, Gulfport/Biloxi, USA (GPT)Ha'il, Civil Airport, Saudi Arabia (HAS)Halifax, Stanfield Intl. Airport, Canada (YHZ)Hamburg, Fuhlsbüttel, Germany (HAM)Hanga Roa, Mataveri, Chile (IPC)Hangzhou, Int, China (HGH)Hanoi, Noi Bai Intl Apt, Vietnam (HAN)Hanover, Langenhagen, Germany (HAJ)Hartford, Bradley Intl., USA (BDL)Havana, José Martí, Cuba (HAV)Helsinki, Helsinki-Vantaa, Finland (HEL)Heraklion, Nikos Kazantakis, Greece (HER)Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan (HIJ)Ho Chi Minh, International Airport, Vietnam (SGN)Hobart, International Airport, Australia (HBA)Hong Kong, Int, China, Hong Kong (HKG)Honolulu, Honolulu Intl., USA (HNL)Horta, International Airport, Portugal (HOR)Houston, Houston Intercontinental, USA (IAH)Houston, Hobby Airport, USA (HOU)Huambo, Huambo-Albano Machado, Angola (NOV)Huatulco, International Airport, Mexico (HUX)Humberside, Int., Great Britain (HUY)Huntsville, Huntsville-Madison County Jetplex, USA (HSV)Iași, Civil Airport, Romania (IAS)Ibiza, Es Codolar, Spain (IBZ)Iguazu Falls, Cataratas, Brazil (IGU)Iguazú, Cataratas del Iguazú International Airport, Argentina (IGR)Ilheus, Jorge Amado, Brazil (IOS)Indianapolis, Indianapolis International Airport, USA (IND)Indore, Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar , India (IDR)Inverness, International airport, Great Britain (INV)Irkutsk, International Airport, Russia (IKT)Islamabad, Benazir Bhutto Intl., Pakistan (ISB)Islip, Long Island-MacArthur Airport, USA (ISP)Istambul, Sabiha Gökçen, Turkey (SAW)Istanbul, Ataturk, Turkey (IST)Ixtapa - Zihuatanejo, International airport, Mexico (ZIH)Ixtepec, Ixtepec, Mexico (IZT)Izumo, Intl. Airport, Japan (IZO)Jackson, Allen C Thompson Field, USA (JAN)Jacksonville, Jacksonville International Airport, USA (JAX)Jaipur, Jaipur, India (JAI)Jakarta, All airports, Indonesia (JKT)Jakarta, Halim Perdanakusuma Intl., Indonesia (HLP)Jakarta, Soekarno Hatta Intl., Indonesia (CGK)Jeddah, King Abdulaziz Int., Saudi Arabia (JED)Johannesburg, O.R. Tambo, South Africa (JNB)Joinville, Lauro Carneiro de Loyola, Brazil (JOI)Juazeiro Do Norte, Orlando Bezerra De Menezes, Brazil (JDO)Jujuy, Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport El Cadillal, Argentina (JUJ)Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan (KOJ)Kahului, International Airport, USA (OGG)Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Airport, Russia (KGD)Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA (MKC)Kansas City, Kansas City Intl., USA (MCI)Karachi, Quaid-e-Azam Intl, Pakistan (KHI)Karlsruhe , Baden Baden Airport, Germany (FKB)Kauai Island, Lihue Municipal Airport, USA (LIH)Kavala, Int., Greece (KVA)Kazan, International Airport, Russia (KZN)Keflavik, International Airport, Iceland (KEF)Kelowna, Intl. Airport, Canada (YLW)Kemerovo, International Airport, Russia (KEJ)Keywest, International Airport, USA (EYW)Khabarovsk, Novy, Russia (KHV)Khartoum, Civil, Sudan (KRT)Kiev, Borispol, Ukraine (KBP)Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine (IEV)Kigali, Int, Rwanda (KGL)Kilimanjaro, Int, Tanzania (JRO)Kingston, Norman Rogers Airport, Canada (YGK)Kinshasa, N'Djili, Democratic Republic of the Congo (FIH)Knoxville, McGhee Tyson, USA (TYS)Kolkata, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Intl. Apt, India (CCU)Komatsu, Kanazawa di Komatsu , Japan (KMQ)Kona, Keahole, USA (KOA)Kos, Int., Greece (KGS)Kosice, International Airport, Slovakia (KSC)Krakow, Jana Pawła II Intl., Poland (KRK)Krasnodar, Pashkovsky, Russia (KRR)Krasnoyarsk, KJA, Russia (KJA)Kristiansand, Kjevik, Norway (KRS)Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia (KUL)Kuito, Bie Silva Porto, Angola (SVP)Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan (KMJ)Kunming, Changshui Intl. Airport, China (KMG)Kuwait, Int, Kuwait (KWI)La Aurora, La Aurora Intl Airport, Guatemala (GUA)La Coruna, La Coruna Alvedro Airport, Spain (LCG)La Rioja, Capitán Vicente Almandos Almonacid Airpor, Argentina (IRJ)Lagos, Murtala Muhammed, Nigeria (LOS)Lahore, Allama Iqbal Intl., Pakistan (LHE)Lamezia Terme, S.Eufemia, Italy (SUF)Lampedusa, International Airport, Italy (LMP)Lanzarote, Lanzarote, Spain (ACE)Larnaca/Nicosia, Int. Airport, Cyprus (LCA)Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain (LPA)Las Vegas, McCarran International Airport, USA (LAS)Leeds, Bradford, Great Britain (LBA)Leipzig, Leipzig Int., Germany (LEJ)Leopoli, Leopoli Airport, Ukraine (LWO)Libreville, Int, Gabon (LBV)Liege, International Airport, Belgium (LGG)Lille, Lesquin, France (LIL)Lima, Jorge Chávez Itl., Peru (LIM)Linköping, Saab, Sweden (LPI)Lisbon, Portela de Sacavém, Portugal (LIS)Little Rock, Little Rock Regional Airport, USA (LIT)Liverpool, John Lennon Airport (Speke), Great Britain (LPL)Livingstone, Harry Mwanga Nkumbula, Zambia (LVI)Ljubljana, Brnik, Slovenia (LJU)Lomé, Int, Togo (LFW)London, London, Great Britain (LON)London, Heathrow, Great Britain (LHR)London, London City, Great Britain (LCY)London, Ontario Canada, International Airport, Canada (YXU)Londrina, Gov. José Richa, Brazil (LDB)Lorient, Lann-Bihouet, France (LRT)Los Angeles, Int, USA (LAX)Louisville, Standiford Field, USA (SDF)Lourdes, Tarbes Intl., France (LDE)Luanda, Quatro de Fevereiro, Angola (LAD)Lubango, Lubango, Angola (SDD)Lublin, Lublin Airport, Poland (LUZ)Lucknow, Chaudhary Charan Singh, India (LKO)Luena, Luso di Luena, Angola (LUO)Lugano, Agno, Switzerland (LUG)Lumumbashi, Luano, Democratic Republic of the Congo (FBM)Lusaka, Lusaka International, Zambia (LUN)Luton, Luton, Great Britain (LTN)Luxembourg, Findel, Luxembourg (LUX)Luxor, Int, Egypt (LXR)Lynchburg, Municipal Airport, USA (LYH)Lyon, St. Exupéry, France (LYS)Lázaro Cárdenas, Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico (LZC)Maastricht, Zuid-Limburg, Netherlands (MST)Maceió, Palmares, Brazil (MCZ)Macon, Lewis B Wilson, USA (MCN)Madrid, Barajas, Spain (MAD)Malabo, Saint Isabel, Equatorial Guinea (SSG)Malaga, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spain (AGP)Malindi, Int, Kenya (MYD)Malta, Luqa International, Malta (MLA)Malé, Ibrahim Nasir Intl, Maldives (MLE)Manaus, Eduardo Gomes Int., Brazil (MAO)Manchester, Itl., Great Britain (MAN)Manila, Ninoy Aquino Intl., Philippines (MNL)Manizales, La Nubia, Colombia (MZL)Mar del Plata, Astor Piazzolla international Airport, Argentina (MDQ)Maroochydore, International Airport, Australia (MCY)Marrakech, Menara, Morocco (RAK)Marseille, Provence, France (MRS)Matsuyama, Matsuyama, Japan (MYJ)Mauritius, Sir Seew. Ramgoolam Itl, Mauritius (MRU)Medellin, International Airport, Colombia (MDE)Melbourne, International Airport, Australia (MEL)Melbourne FL, Regional Airport, USA (MLB)Memphis, International Airport, USA (MEM)Mendoza, Gobernador Francisco Gabrielli International Airport El Plumerillo, Argentina (MDZ)Menongue, Menongue, Angola (SPP)Menorca, Aerop De Menorca, Spain (MAH)Merida, International Airport, Mexico (MID)Metz Nancy, Lorraine, France (ETZ)Mexico City, Benito Juarez Itl., Mexico (MEX)Miami, Int, USA (MIA)Milan, All airports, Italy (MIL)Milan, Malpensa, Italy (MXP)Milan, Linate, Italy (LIN)Milwaukee, General Mitchell Field, USA (MKE)Minsk, Minsk, Belarus (MSQ)Mobile, Mobile Municipal, USA (MOB)Mombasa, Moi International, Kenya (MBA)Moncton, Greater Moncton Intl. Airport, Canada (YQM)Monterrey, Escobedo, Mexico (MTY)Montgomery, Dannelly Field, USA (MGM)Montpellier, Fréjorgues, France (MPL)Montreal, Dorval, Canada (YUL)Montreal, Montreal, Mirabel, Canada (YMX)Moscow, Sheremetyevo, Russia (SVO)Moscow, Moscow Airport, Russia (MOW)Moscow, Domodedovo, Russia (DME)Mulhouse, Euroairport, France (MLH)Mumbai (Bombay), Int, India (BOM)Munich, Franz Josef Strauss, Germany (MUC)Murmansk, Civil Airport, Russia (MMK)Muscat, Seeb, Oman (MCT)Mykonos, Int., Greece (JMK)Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach International, USA (MYR)Mytilene, Int., Greece (MJT)N'Djamena, Int, Chad (NDJ)Nador, Taouima Airport, Morocco (NDR)Nagoya, Intl Airport Chūbu, Japan (NGO)Nairobi, Nairobi, Wilson Arpt, Kenya (WIL)Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta Itl., Kenya (NBO)Nanjing, Lukou International Airport , China (NKG)Nantes, Château Bougon, France (NTE)Naples, Capodichino, Italy (NAP)Nashville, Nashville Metropolitan Airport, USA (BNA)Natal, Augusto Severo Int., Brazil (NAT)Navegantes, Ministro Victor Konder, Brazil (NVT)Ndola, Ndola, Zambia (NLA)Neuquén, Presidente Perón international Airport, Argentina (NQN)New Delhi, Int, India (DEL)New Orleans, New Orleans, USA (MSY)New York, NEW YORK, USA (NYC)New York, J.F.K., USA (JFK)Newcastle, Int, Great Britain (NCL)Niamey, Int, Niger (NIM)Nice, Côte d'Azur, France (NCE)Nizhniy, Nižnij Novgorod-Strighino Airport, Russia (GOJ)Norfolk, Norfolk International Airport, USA (ORF)North bay, Garland Airport, Canada (YYB)Norwich, Weather Centre, Great Britain (NWI)Nouakchott, Int, Mauritania (NKC)Novosibirsk, Tolmachevo, Russia (OVB)Nukus, G.nukus, Uzbekistan (NCU)Nuremberg, Int., Germany (NUE)Oakland, International Airport, USA (OAK)Oaxaca, International Airport, Mexico (OAX)Odessa, International Airport, Ukraine (ODS)Ohrid, St. Paul the Apostle Airport, Macedonia/FYROM (OHD)Okayama, Intl. 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Flights from Minneapolis (MSP) to Amman (AMM)
To Jordan
Minneapolis to Amman
Weather in Amman
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Screwfix, Ely opening hours
Ely is one of the stores that belong to the Screwfix brand, located at Unit 104, Lancaster Way Business Park, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 3NX, in Ely, Cambridgeshire county. It serves visitors arriving from nearby localities, like Aldreth, Apes Hall, Chettisham, Coveney. Ely is normally open on Monday: 07:00 - 20:00, Tuesday: 07:00 - 20:00, Wednesday: 07:00 - 20:00, Thursday: 07:00 - 20:00, Friday: 07:00 - 20:00, Saturday: 07:00 - 18:00. Its Sunday opening hours are: 09:00 - 16:00.
Lancaster Way Business Park
CB6 3NX
Other brands in vicinity are Marks & Spencer in Ely Bp - only 0.38 miles away, Post Office in Witchford - about 0.85 miles away, Tesco in Ely Superstore - at a distance of 1.02 miles, Costa Coffee in Ely - Tesco - only 1.24 miles away and KFC in Ely - Leisure Village - at a distance of 1.24 miles.
Marks & Spencer in Ely, Witchford Road (0.38 mile)
Post Office in Witchford (0.85 mile)
Tesco in Ely (1.02 miles)
Costa Coffee in Ely, Ely - Tesco (1.24 miles)
KFC in Ely (1.24 miles)
Clarks in Ely (1.28 miles)
Argos in Ely (1.29 miles)
Boots in Ely, 49 High Street (1.34 miles)
New Look in Ely (1.34 miles)
WH Smith in Ely (1.36 miles)
Sports Direct in Ely (1.37 miles)
Card Factory in Ely (1.38 miles)
Superdrug in Ely (1.38 miles)
Iceland in Ely (1.39 miles)
Wilko in Ely (1.39 miles)
Waitrose in Ely (1.47 miles)
Sainsbury's in Ely (1.55 miles)
ALDI in Ely (1.57 miles)
Costa Express in Ely (1.67 miles)
The Co Op Food in Ely, 30 Main Street (3.92 miles)
Asda in Soham (4.23 miles)
Caffe Nero in Ely (4.36 miles)
The Co Op Pharmacy in Cottenham (5.44 miles)
Well Pharmacy in Cambridge, 222 High Street (5.44 miles)
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5.7-inch Galaxy Note 3 to be unveiled at IFA 2013 in Germany, “industry officials” claim
Galaxy S4 vs Galaxy Note 2
A South Korean report reveals where the Galaxy Note 3 will be unveiled and mentions the size of the display, apparently confirming some of the previous rumors on the matter.
In an article speculating on a potential Samsung vs Apple “phablet” war, The Korea Herald says that according to “industry officials,” the Galaxy Note 3 will be announced at IFA 2013 in Germany and will feature a 5.7-inch display.
While reports so far pointed to an IFA 2013 announcement for the handset – that’s where the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Note 2 were also launched – when it comes to screen size, most rumors say the handset will offer a large 5.99-inch display, but some think the handset will pack a 5.7-inch panel.
The previous Galaxy Note generations had 5.3-inch and 5.5-inch displays (Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 2, respectively), so jumping to 5.7-inch for the next version makes some sense, assuming that Samsung wants to keep adding 0.2 inches to the display of the new Note model.
However, the publication doesn’t mention more details about the handset, nor does it reveal who those industry sources are.
What the Herald does say is that Samsung has an advantage over Apple in the even the latter would launch its own extra large iPhone next year, as rumored, since Samsung has been building various such devices so far.
Galaxy Note 3 concept
Increased Internet speeds provided by LTE-Advanced support in upcoming devices seems to be a factor that would motivate manufacturers, Samsung and Apple included, to create bigger smartphones. Here’s what one of those official apparently had to say about it:
“The revolutionizing LTE-A technology, which allows the users to search and download at up to 150 Mbps right in the palm of their hands, is expected to encourage more companies to explore a variety of ways to commercialize larger handheld devices from now on,” an industry official said. […]
“Slower mobile connection speeds back then [when the original Galaxy Note was launched] not only prevented the smartphone users from doing more on their devices but also held back the handheld makers from diversifying their products with different sizes,” the official said.
“The concept of the phablet can now be truly realized with the introduction of the LTE-A network and the apparent eagerness of handheld makers to answer the growing global demand for larger and more innovative mobile devices.”
On a different note, pun not intended, same publication sort-of-mistakenly suggests that the Galaxy Megas come with a stylus. The Galaxy Mega 6.3 and Galaxy Mega 5.8 are two supersized but mid-ranged smartphones announced by Samsung a few months ago, both lacking a built S Pen, even if they have support for a stylus.
Similarly, the Herald says the LG Optimus G2 will come with a 5.5-inch display when it launches later this year. But that’s contrary to what most rumors say. The device – which is rumored to be called LG G2 sans the Optimus part – is rumored to have a 5- or 5.2-inch display. The LG Opimus Pro, already available in stores, has a 5.5-inch display.
That said, we’ll take these new Galaxy Note 3 details with the appropriate grain of salt, just like we do with all rumors, until the handset will indeed become official.
Phones, Rumors, Samsung Galaxy Note 3
PhonesRumorsSamsung Galaxy Note 3
Source: Korea Herald
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Zombie Motors Wrecking Yard – Supersonic Rock’n Roll Review
On March 7, 2017 By Zephyrus
"Supersonic Rock’n Roll is a hard hitting redneck rampage through the dusty deserts of the Australian outback. If you've never been, Zombie Motors is about to take you on a tour, like it or not." Undead outback tours? That could be a money maker!
Gorephilia – Severed Monolith Review
On March 6, 2017 By Ferrous Beuller
"Gorephilia. Just the word, let alone the cover, should clue you in as to what genre this release belongs to. Like most people, it's not a term that often finds itself in my daily vocabulary, heard only by local restaurant staff when instructing them as to how to cook my fucking cow. Turns out in Finland it means grim, Morbid Angel worshiping death metal." Gore is hell. [Gorephilia. What else can we really add to that one? Rich man, gore man, Incantation man, die!]
Persefone – Aathma Review
"Cherry picking the best parts of acts as diverse as Symphony X, Opeth, Arcturus and even Pain of Salvation, whilst focusing them through an unmistakably melodeath filter, Persefone manages to be impressive from pretty much all angles." Name dropping is both art and science.
Hark – Machinations Review
On March 2, 2017 By Huck N Roll
"I love music that takes chances. Those chances can be a myriad of elements: fusing disparate styles, unexpected arrangements (or non-arrangements), unique vocal delivery, you name it. Despite the fact that I love olde-school metal as much as the next Druhm, take a chance in your music and you’ll at least garner a close listen from the Huckster." Take a chance, take a chance.
O.R.k. – Soul of an Octopus Review
On February 27, 2017 By Huck N Roll
"It’s hard to go wrong when you pluck fruit off the King Crimson tree. The band’s branches extend far and wide throughout not only progressive rock, but metal as well (they go way further than that, but for the purposes of this site we’ll truncate things there). Those branches have influenced generations of musicians, some of whom have been lucky enough to collaborate with the band itself, or at least with various members. How does that relate to the oddly named O.R.k.?" The Lord of all Prog has been invoked and you must read. [This band has a connection to King Crimson. What else do you need to know, you philistines?]
Pyogenesis – A Kingdom to Remember Review
On February 27, 2017 By Dr. Wvrm
"Oh, I’ve heard death and I’ve heard black. I’ve heard prog metal albums that I thought would never end. I’ve heard so much shit that it’s all started to blend, but I never thought I’d see Pyogenesis again." The cease and desist letter is inbound.
Disperse – Foreword Review
On February 26, 2017 By GardensTale
"Music, like any craft, is different for those who practice and create it and those who only consume it. The learned are better able to distinguish between what is crafty and what is easy, gaining a perspective that appreciates elegant complexity more than a casual listener would. I am not a musician, nor a professional critic, but I like to think (or delude myself) that I have gathered enough listening and analyzing experience to at least meet the pros halfway." Go the extra mile to the halfway point.
Manetheren – The End Review
On February 26, 2017 By Eldritch Elitist
"One of my favorite subjects in any form of media is the end of the world. There is an indescribable (and perhaps sadistic) pleasure I gain from witnessing people grapple with the prospect of the complete obliteration of their species and its history; the more micro the focus, the better. Zooming in on a select few and examining how they choose to spend their final, consequence-free hours feels like the purest hypothetical exploration of the human psyche." I'd rebroadcast NFL games without express written consent.
Aeternam – Ruins of Empires Review
"Us no-wage slaves ceaselessly cranking the almighty Angry Metal Guy Patented Review Mill (patent pending) usually have the choice between handing a review in at least 12 days before release or receiving 50 lashes and a metalcore promo. But now and then, the brutal roar of Steel Druhm's voice comes through the trap door above, barking orders to review a promo that has already been released but is so good it still requires a write-up, lest the unwashed masses find themselves missing out. Such was the case with Aeternam's latest opus, Ruins of Empires." Sand, Steel and slave labor.
Born Again – Strike with Power Review
On February 24, 2017 By Treble Yell
"Motörhead may no longer be around to kill your lawn but, in their wake, churn flotsam and jetsam inspired to take up the axe and split our eardrums asunder. The aptly titled Born Again proffer to raise a pint to the metal gods of yore with their debut Strike with Power in the hopes of rekindling the embers left by Lemmy, et al. The danger in carrying the flame left by music’s Übermensch is that it can be difficult to escape their long shadow and the line between homage and second-rate irrelevancy is thin." We miss Lemmy.
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BRITISH RAILWAYS (BR) 1948-1968
Britain's railways were natonalised on January 1st 1948 as part of the progressive programme of the post-World War 2 Labour government, forming British Railways (BR), with its distinctive lion and wheel 'crest' which soon became widely applied. The system was divided into six regions, based loosely on the previous 'Big Four' private companies (GWR, LMSR, LNER and SR). The new regions were the Western, London Midland, Eastern, North Eastern, Scottish and Southern, each having their own allocation of steam locomotives, while the Southern also had an extensive electrified system, with smaller electric operations on the Eastern and London Midland Regions. A small number of diesel locomotives, mainly shunters but with a handful of express engines, could also be found scattered across the Regions. BR soon started designing and building its own fleet of new Standard steam locomotives and then during the 1950s, under the Modernisation Plan, the steam loco was gradually phased out as diesel and electric motive power gradually took over. The last BR steam train operated on 11/08/1968.
This collection will feature images of steam, diesel, electric traction as well as infrastructure and personnel.
PHOTOS OF BR WESTERN REGION (WR) STEAM LOCOS
PHOTOS of BR SOUTHERN REGION (SR) STEAM LOCOMOTIVES
BR LONDON MIDLAND REGION (LMR) STEAM LOCOS
PHOTOS OF BR EASTERN REGION (ER/NER) and BR SCOTTISH REGION STEAM LOCOS
PHOTOS OF BR STANDARD STEAM LOCOS
PHOTOS OF BR DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES
PHOTOS OF BR DIESEL MECHANICAL MULTIPLE UNITS (DMMU)
PHOTOS OF BR ELECTRIC LOCOS
BR PEOPLE AND INFRASTRUCTURE - STATIONS, DEPOTS ETC
BR LOCOS IN SCRAPYARDS IN 1960s
PHOTOS of BR WESTERN REGION (WR) DIESEL LOCOS
PHOTOS OF BR SOUTHERN REGION ELECTRIC LOCOS AND MULTIPLE UNITS (EMUs)
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Horizon Chase: cool racing game with retro graphics
Posted on November 27, 2015 Author Esther Koudijs 0
Horizon Chase plays nice, looks nice, and is very addictive.
A retro racing game
Horizon Chase is already available for iOS for a while and is seen by many as one of the best mobile games this year. The game is a fast-paced racing game which both the gameplay and graphic style reminiscent of earlier games. That experience is now available on Android. In Horizon Chase, you control a car and take on different jobs against other cars. Characteristic of the game is the speed at which you drive because you are going rapidly from corner to corner while avoiding objects and enemies.
The controls of Horizon Chase is pretty simple. On the screen you see four virtual buttons: accelerate, steer left and right, and a nitro button. The latter is used to obtain temporary even more speed.
Striking about Horizon Chase is the graphic style. The game looks very colorful and sharp, with nifty effects. In the game, you race through 32 different cities and each with its own look. The difficulty will, as you get into the game, get harder, and this is important to keep upgrading your car with new parts.
Download Horizon Chase for Android
Horizon Chase is an absolute must and can be downloaded via the link below. The first five courses can be played for free, after which you can purchase the full game for $2.99. For installation of Horizon Chase, you need 189MB of free storage and Android 4.0.3 or higher.
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Barnegat getting 148 more condos for seniors
New homes are coming to Barnegat. Here's what you should know.
Barnegat getting 148 more condos for seniors New homes are coming to Barnegat. Here's what you should know. Check out this story on app.com: http://on.app.com/2zCnz8G
Amanda Oglesby, @OglesbyAPP Published 5:34 p.m. ET Nov. 30, 2017 | Updated 5:57 p.m. ET Nov. 30, 2017
This architectural rendering shows Barnegat Crossing II, 148 units of age-restricted condominiums on Lighthouse Drive which were approved by the Barnegat Planning Board on Tuesday.(Photo: Amanda Oglesby)
BARNEGAT - This township of some 22,000 residents is about to get larger – and older.
Barnegat's Planning Board recently approved the construction of 148 age-restricted two-bedroom condominiums on Lighthouse Drive, near the future site of the Barnegat Crossing shopping center and age-restricted apartment community.
The condominium community, called "Barnegat Crossing II," will be limited to residents age 55 and older and will include an outdoor pool and clubhouse within Barnegat's fast-growing neighborhoods west of the Garden State Parkway.
The latest approval marks a trend that will bring hundreds of new residents to this once forested section of the township.
Major development projects in Barnegat stalled over the last decade as a result of the economic recession of 2008 and 2009, but the township's luck has changed, Mayor Albert Bille said. Watch the video above to get the latest news on construction projects underway throughout the Jersey Shore.
“Now the builders are finally coming and breaking ground, because they see a lot of potential in Barnegat right now," he said.
Construction on the mixed-use Barnegat Crossing shopping center – where 151 age-restricted apartments will be erected over groundfloor restaurants and shops – is already under construction, he said.
An architect's rendering shows the complete Barnegat Crossing, where age-restricted apartments will be erected over ground-floor restaurants and shops. (Photo: Courtesy of Cardinale Enterprises)
“The steel is up. Concrete is being poured as we speak," Bille said. “I definitely think you’ll see by summer some major progress."
The township Planning Board on Tuesday unanimously approved plans by Cardinale Enterprises of Jackson to build Barnegat Crossing II on a nearly 10-acre parcel on Lighthouse Drive. Cardinale owns both the Jackson Crossing shopping center and condominium properties. The company also owns and operates Jackson Crossing and has plans to build another commercial development on Route 33 and Millhurst Road in Manalapan.
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“We’re hoping it (Barnegat Crossing) will be a jewel for the town," Bille said.
The mayor said the project will provide more housing choices for seniors and restaurants and shops for all of the town's residents.
An artist's rendering of Barnegat Crossing off Lighthouse Drive. (Photo: Courtesy of Cardinale Enterprises)
Another 634 age-restricted homes are already complete or are underway west of the Parkway, Bille said. The building boom in this part of the township is expected to raise more than $5 million a year in property taxes for the township, without burdening the local schools with new students, he said.
"Barnegat has become a very desirable place to live," said Bille. “If you need to increase ratables, they (age-restricted communities) may be one of the best – if not the best – ratable to have.”
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Design Vanguard 2009: Neri & Hu Design and Research Office
For their Neri & Hu Collection, the architects have designed products ranging from tea cups and salt-and-pepper shakers to tables and chairs. The objects combine clean modern lines with an easy-going, playful sensibility.
Photo courtesy Neri & Hu
The architects renovated and reskinned a five-story office building on a tree-lined street in the French Concession to create a new headquarters for their architecture firm and their furnishings retail company, Design Republic. They clad the ground floor with wood and inset large windows and glass doors to provide access to a new Design Republic gallery and store. (The original store is on the Bund.) “We approached the store as an extension of the street,” states Neri.
Photo © Derryck Menere
Set in the basement of The Opposite House, a boutique hotel designed by Kengo Kuma, Punk combines heavy materials such as blackened bronze with smoky-glass panels to create an edgy bar targeted at club kids who have grown up and become more affluent. The architects enclosed the bar with a double-layer screen made of perforated bronze plates on the outside and glass and wood on the inside. Colored light between the screen’s two layers and wood shelves and booths add warmth to the otherwise industrial palette of materials.
In this entry to a design competition, the architects envisioned the project as a “new landscape” with a series of buildings floating above expansive pools of water that serve as an abstract element separating the new from the old. The billowing facades of the buildings reflect and refract light rippling from the surrounding water. Visitors enter the complex from below ground, one level below the datum of water, then can gather in plazas and ascend grand stairs leading to the buildings. Neri and Hu see the new landscape as comprising the ground, the water, and the clouds.
Rendering courtesy Neri & Hu
The architects envisioned this restaurant in The Opposite House hotel (on the same level as Punk Bar) as a clearing in the forest and wrapped it with a wooden screen evocative of trees. Inside the main dining room, they kept the ambient light level low and suspended naked bulbs at various heights to create abstract “birds” flying above the tables. A raw bar with a long concrete counter anchors one side of the room and draws attention with a large mirror surrounded by a purple-lit wall. The mirror allows diners at the bar to watch the chefs from in front and behind as they prepare dishes. Beyond the main room, five private dining rooms provide an alternative experience, their walls and floors clad in warm oak. These smaller spaces also offer customers a hint of the city beyond the forest — in the form of glass clerestory panels printed with urban scenes and lit from behind.
At this flagship store for the Pedder Red shoe brand in Hong Kong’s Central district, Neri and Hu designed a two-story wooden box that provides storage space while also grabbing attention. The architects clad the box with strips of stained-oak arranged in a woven pattern to evoke the stitching found on shoes. Deep niches on the outside of the box are painted red and provide display space for merchandise, while the red continues on the inside where a spiral stair leads to the second level. At most stores the storage area is hidden away, but here it takes center stage. The architects say they wanted to break with retail conventions and make the storage box the heart of the store.
Although a small commission, this memorial site for a family brings together many elements that run through Neri and Hu’s body of work — in particular the use of architecture and design to interpret culture. Here they apply their skill at shaping objects and designing furniture to create markers and pavers set within a bamboo grove at Suzhou Cemetery. Carving out a path in the grove, they establish a simple but elegiac procession leading to an outdoor room where an angled metal wall honors the family’s dead and looks onto a small lawn where people can gather and remember.
Clifford A. Pearson
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
From teacups and branding to hotels and master planning, Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu have embraced a broad swath of design work since starting their firm, Neri & Hu Design and Research Office (NHDRO), in Shanghai in 2004. Coming from Michael Graves’s office, both partners saw nothing unusual in moving from one scale to another — designing ceramic salt-and-pepper shakers one moment, then the plan for the mixed-use Legation Quarter in Chengdu the next. “It helps us develop a multifaceted approach,” says Neri. “Today, there’s a lot more crossover between fields. Marcel Wanders goes from products to hotels. Sejima designs furniture. Even Zumthor does a candlestick for Alessi.” Hu adds, “It opens your mind so you don’t get caught up in your own world. Doing just a certain type of architecture—with all the theory and history—can trap you in a box.”
The husband-and-wife team has taken an entrepreneurial approach to their careers, moving beyond design in 2005 to found Design Republic, a retail company that sells furnishings and furniture from local and international companies to China’s emerging middle class. And they helped bring the interiors trade show 100% Design to Shanghai in 2008 and 2009. Recently they completed their own headquarters building at 88 Yuqing Road in Shanghai, which houses a Design Republic store on the ground floor and offices for NHDRO and Design Republic upstairs. Now they have 22 projects on the boards, including a boutique hotel, called The Water House, on the Bund in Shanghai; a Westin hotel and museum in Xian; a seven-story residential complex in Shanghai; and houses in Shanghai, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States. NHDRO’s 70-person staff hails from roughly 20 different countries, which is helping the firm tackle more international commissions. “Working globally has created a different dynamic in the office and forced us to rethink how we do things,” states Neri. In response to the expanding scale and scope of their work, Neri and Hu have hired an old friend from the U.S. who has experience working on and managing large architecture projects.
“One recurring theme in our work is exploring cultural identity,” states Hu, who was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States at age 12. (Neri was born in the Philippines and moved to the U.S. when he was 15.) Since both of the partners are members of the Chinese diaspora and studied and worked in the U.S. for many years, they bring a different perspective on what it means to be Chinese or Asian. “We interpret culture through architecture,” she explains. “I think we’re becoming more abstract — using signs and symbols and materials to express identity. And we’re exploring certain nonvisual vehicles — such as poetry, literature, and storytelling — to do this.” Neri and Hu’s path from Michael Graves and Postmodernism to a growing abstraction contrasts with that of architects like Yung Ho Chang, who returned to China in 1993 after studying in the U.S. and took a more Modernist stance until recent years, when he began to incorporate elements taken from China’s vernacular and craft traditions. Ironically, both NHDRO and Chang may end up in the same place after coming from different aesthetic directions.
“It’s all about the appropriateness of a particular approach to a specific project and place,” says Neri. “Sometimes we end up contradicting ourselves, because we’re still experimenting. It’s both exciting and frustrating.” The firm is working on a 35-story tower in Hunan, for example, and wrestling with a new scale and new ideas. “It’s a design breakthrough for us, but it’s borderline ugly,” Neri laughs. “Our only fear is that we’ll just become commercial” like so many other Chinese firms.
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Blasted at the Lyric
BLASTED: has not been performed in London for nearly a decade but with Sean Holmes’ production at the Hammersmith Lyric it seems it has finally found a suitable home with a terrific cast to boot. Let’s just hope that this play continues to amass the recognition it rightly deserves.
Suresh Patel
When No One Is Watching
WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING: This company shows that there is just as much to glean from the making of art and theatre as there is from the work of art itself. They created their own opportunity; they made their own play; they told their own story; and they did so in a way and in an environment that achieved an all-too rare sense of collectivity among a bunch of individuals.
Tania Moore
SUNDAY: Descending into an industrial alley to find the concrete refuge feels raw and arguably more interesting than the more polished events. The expansive interior is an ideal backdrop for the diverse work, which is found inside.
Katie Barkes
Mark Ronson on Tour
MARK RONSON: The set started with a catchy but alien instrumental track, “Circuit Breaker”, typifying Ronson’s new sound. Old favourites were not forgotten; one of Ronson’s enduring partnerships is with Phantom Planet frontman Greenwald, and their collaborative cover of Radiohead’s “Just”, is one of Version’s strongest legacies.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: These exhibitions focus on the stories of individuals, which is incredibly moving, as we get a glimpse into hardships that could so easily be avoided. They are a good supplement to the International Slavery Museum, which documents a much-publicised history of the abuse of previous generations.
David Trennery
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary
LES MISERABLES: It’s worth the ticket price just to hear Owen Jones sing ‘Bring Him Home; and if you aren’t, at the very least, blinking furiously by the end then make an appointment at your local hospital to get the stone surgically removed from the place where your heart should be.
Angela Meredith
CHANGE: The painting is in Eine’s signature font – making it instantly recognisable as his work. The mural stretches 21 metres long in letters 2.4 metres high and Eine has carried out the commission free of charge for the Flavasum Trust.
Scorched: The Old Vic Tunnels
SCORCHED: A succulent story of mystery and revelation, aptly served in the enigmatic atmosphere of the Old Vic Tunnels, and garnished with the always-popular topic of war and its irreparable effects on the human condition.
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Vistas of Longing - Painters and Their Landscapes
5 x 45' (ENG, GER, FRE)
These proverbial landscapes of renowned artists are actually inspired replicas of nature’s creations. Watch as we link famous paintings with the primal forces of nature.
Was it the gleaming white light of southern France that cultivated impressionism? Did the chalk cliffs of Rügen cast a spell on Caspar David Friedrich? William Turner – did he actually let himself be tied to a ship’s mast to transfer the destructive scene of the rough Wallisian Sea onto canvas? Via animation we create visually spectacular transitions between paintings and real landscapes giving the impression of moving between the worlds of Cézanne, Picasso, and co.
The tableaus are the landscapes of their souls. Through new documentary footage, we link the paintings with various aspects of the region highlighting the mystical allure of the primal forces of nature. The protagonists – the present day inhabitants of these landscapes – provide an excellent connection between the past and the present by helping us to trace the artistic magic of these painters.
1. Caspar David Friedrich and Rügen
Rügen - not far from the coast of Vorpommern, Germany's largest island rises out of the Baltic Sea. Their diverse landscapes inspired Caspar David Friedrich, a native of Greifswald, to create some of his greatest masterpieces in the 19th century. The documentary follows the traces of the painter in his homeland and meets people who share his enthusiasm for this unique maritime region.
2. Paul Cézanne and the Provence
Home, landscapes and light. The world-famous painter Cézanne has worked intensively with Impressionism. Provence gave him inspiration and frame. The vast landscapes are recurring motifs and the light reflects the splendour and naturalness of this French region. Charming backdrops, captured in countless works. These are the landscapes that Cézanne once hiked, with his easel, his canvas and his colours.
3. William Turner and Wales
The film discovers the diverse landscapes in the North of England that inspired William Turner. From the rolling hills of Yorkshire to the rugged east coast with its numerous castles and the lake district in the west, Turner found his destiny as a landscape painter as a young man in the impressive panoramas of northern England. Today's inhabitants know about the beauty of their homeland. With much regional pride they passionately cultivate the special traditions of the North.
4. Pablo Picasso and Barcelona
Barcelona - the pulsating capital of Catalonia. Pablo Picasso spent his youth here around the turn of the century. It is a stylistic epoch - both for the up-and-coming cultural metropolis and for the young artist. The documentary follows Picasso's paths and explores many motifs he has captured in his pictures: the cathedral of Barcelona as well as the red light district, but also the mountain landscape 'Terra Alta', further south in Catalonia. The special atmosphere of these places, which fascinated Picasso even then, is conveyed by talking to the locals at the latest.
5. Tizian Vecellio and Venetia
In the heart of Europe, in northern Italy, lies the region of Veneto. The Italian artist Titian once lived and worked here. Today he is regarded as the forerunner of landscape painting. People, mountains and landscapes in Titian's art take shape through the colours and their shades. Especially for his colour, "Titianrot", Titian remains unmatched and constantly inspires many artists of all kinds: sculptors, painters, chefs and even ice-cream makers.
Five Painters - Five Landscapes:
Original Title: Sehnsuchtsmotive - Maler und ihre Landschaften
Length: 5 x 45' (ENG, GER, FRE)
Resolution: HD
Film by: Ina Kessebohm, Mirella Pappalardo
Produced by: Gebrüder Beetz, ZDF, arte
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About Ashoka Netherlands
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By Bill on February 1, 2019
Bill Drayton is a social entrepreneur with a long record of founding organizations and public service. As a student, he founded organizations ranging from Yale Legislative Services to Harvard’s Ashoka Table, an inter-disciplinary weekly forum in the social sciences. After graduation from Harvard, he received an M.A. from Balliol College in Oxford University. In 1970, he graduated from Yale Law School. After working at McKinsey & Company, he taught at Stanford Law School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. From 1977 to 1981, while serving the Carter Administration as Assistant Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, he launched emissions trading (the basis of Kyoto) among other reforms. He launched Ashoka in 1981. He used the stipend received when elected a MacArthur Fellow in 1984 to devote himself fully to Ashoka. Bill is Ashoka’s Chair and Chief Executive Officer. He is also chair of three other organizations; Youth Venture, Community Greens, and Get America Working! Bill has won numerous awards and honors throughout his career. In 2005, he was selected one of America’s Best Leaders by US News & World Report and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. Other awards include the Yale Law School’s highest alumni honor, the National Wildlife Federation’s Conservation Achievement Award International; and the National Academy of Public Administration National Public Service Award. As one of three members of the Leadership Team, his special responsibilities are leadership of the new group entrepreneurship and social financial services programs as well as staff search and marketing functions.
Living in a Changemaker World Requires a New Framework for Thinking and Acting
The Historic Moment
Why are income distributions getting worse everywhere — regardless of the nature of the economy or of ideology? Why are there worsening “us versus them” politics spreading across the world? And why do so many people feel pushed to the margins?
We are living in a truly historical turning point as a world that has largely been defined by repetition is replaced by one defined by its opposite, change. The rate of change and the extent of interconnection, each multiplying the other, in the world have been accelerating exponentially for at least 300 years. Globalization and technological innovation connect us in unprecedented ways, lowering barriers and allowing everyone to participate.
At the same time, the demand for repetition work has been falling exponentially since 1700. In the past, value came from efficiency in repetition (think assembly lines and law firms). People learned a skill (e.g., banker or baker) and repeated it for life in a workplace with many walls. All this is dying. These are facts.
Now, value comes from contributing to and adapting to change. In an everything-changing (and thereby causing all around to change) world, one must be a changemaker to play.
However, being a changemaker requires sophisticated skills that are almost the opposite of those required in the disappearing world of repetition. And an everything changing and therefore an “everyone a changemaker” world must everywhere be organized in fluid, open teams of teams.
The New Inequality
Much of the world’s population has learned how to contribute to and adapt to change and how to be effective members of the ever-changing, open teams of teams that are how this new reality is organized. Moreover, they help one another become better changemaking players as the game accelerates — because that is critical both for team success and personal happiness. This portion of humanity is doing very well.
However, the very large other part of society does not have the changemaking skills needed to play in today’s new reality where everything is changing ever faster.
The result: The world is sharply and increasingly divided by a new inequality.
And, unlike other inequalities, this one gets worse every year as change accelerates and those in the game help one another become ever more skilled and confident — while those on the losing side fall further behind faster and faster.
Why are income distributions getting worse everywhere? Because there is a bidding war for those with changemaking skills and disappearing demand for those without. (Anyone who has not mastered changemaking’s complex skills will hurt others and will disrupt teams.)
And that’s why “us versus them” politics is fast spreading across the world. When society tells so many people: “Go away; we don’t need you; it’s your fault; and, by the way, your kids don’t have a future,” we are hurting them in the deepest way possible. And they respond with lasting fury.
A world so divided, a world so profoundly hurtful to so many, is deeply dysfunctional and, worse, unethical.
The New Framework
What are changemaking’s critical skills?
Cognitive Empathy. This, the foundational skill, which must be mastered in childhood and continuously developed thereafter, requires one’s cerebral cortex and one’s mirror neurons (“I feel your pain”) learning to work together consciously to understand and map the world’s fast morphing kaleidoscope of people and contexts. Without this, one will hurt others and disrupt groups — and therefore be pushed aside. (It is no longer possible to be a good person by diligently following the rules because, as change accelerates, they cover less and less.)
Sophisticated Teamwork. Essential a new world. Collaborative Teamwork in fluid, open "team-of-teams": where we give small groups the freedom to experiment while driving everyone to share what they learn across the entire organization.
New Leadership. The old model of telling others what and how to repeat now is both ineffective and a barrier to organizational adaptation to the new game. The new leadership starts with envisioning new opportunities, bringing the right team together, and designing the synaptic architecture needed for the group to work together. That enables all in the teams to contribute on all these levels.
Changemaking. Before a leader can thus envision/enable/ensure, (s)he must have the abilities to grasp the patterns of change across millions of interconnected actors all in motion; to foresee what these patterns will be in futures coming into the present faster and faster; to spot needs/opportunities for a better world; to imagine how to engineer the best (and fast-evolving) team of teams; and to develop the skills required to convene and continuously empower and keep focused (and refocusing) both individuals and teams.
The world’s most urgent task — and therefore Ashoka’s core strategic focus — then is to help everyone “see” the new reality and grasp how they all can be contributors, and all be powerful, i.e., all be changemakers.
Then we can all work together to tear down the new inequality and to improve how the evolving new world is designed. There are two necessary foundation stones here:
We must redefine what success in growing up requires. Children must master cognitive empathy and young people (teens) must practice and practice being changemakers (all four skills). The test: What percent of teens know they are changemakers? The future of any community or society will turn increasingly on how they do on this measure. (The same skills are needed over life, which now requires all groups to hire for and help all their people become changemakers.)
Organizations must quickly change into fluid, open teams of teams — of changemakers.
Ashoka's Theory of Change
Then there is the follow-on work of applying these universal principles to geographies (e.g., metro Seattle or India), demographic groups, and fields (e.g., the environment or social finance).
Over the last six years, Ashoka has developed a theory (now practice) of change that allows our community to work together actively to engineer these changes. This “Collaborate Entrepreneurship Jujitsu” (CEJ) process, which has served prior major framework change movements well, is taking hold.
The Ashoka community and movement is uniquely positioned to succeed in this work. We intuited “everyone a changemaker” from the start (as have most Fellows). We have been consciously building our understanding and approaches for a dozen years and have as good a grasp as anyone.
We also have the unique and critical advantage of 3,600 Ashoka Fellows (plus other entrepreneur partners).
As change accelerates, such first class intrapreneurs constitute perhaps the only truly reliable focus group foretelling the future. They won’t bet their life work without at least intuiting what society will be like when their creation matures and must fit twenty years hence. We, therefore, can rely on the patterns in their work (e.g., of our more than 1,000 Fellows focused primarily on young people, 90 to 95 percent put them in charge) as guides.
They create thousands of “how-to” models.
They are the right people we need to co-lead the CEJ process. They were born to change the world and have lots of practice doing so.
The CEJs, especially when Fellows are co-leading, hugely help the Fellows and their work.
Civic Engagement Citizen / community participation Youth Years
2019's Top 5 Most Innovative And Impactful Social Enterprises
What Is A Changemaker?
Everything You Change Changes Everything
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New browser that pays you to watch ads or you can choose that you watch none
Thread starter tecate
Start date 20 Apr 2019
There's a new web browser launching - Brave - which does the following;
- blocks ads
- As a consequence - web browsing is up to 8x faster.
- Pays you to watch ads if you choose to watch them
- Allows you to contribute to content providers.
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Interesting idea, they don't call out how you'll be 'rewarded' beyond the option to reward content producers if you choose to see ads and earn credits.
Others like Epic Privacy browser (also Chromium based) have attempted to go all out in disabling tracking and ads, but Google has stymied their growth with a change in white label search rules that no longer serves them ads unless they reveal users' full IP addresses.
Content providers are rewarded in cryptocurrency tokens. A cryptocurrency (BAT) has been launched specific to the browser. There are two options - the user can choose to tip the content provider or choose to view ads and be paid in crypto - then having the ability to choose to distribute the crypto to one or more content providers. Naturally, content providers have to register in order to receive contributions.
Could be one for @Brendan Burgess to try out. Tipping is one thing but to encourage people to view ads (that they would otherwise be exposed to anyway - ordinarily) and automatically set the browser to distribute those funds to AAM - sounds like a no brainer and that user support could be garnered for that.
A couple of screenshots which illustrate the above - here.
I can't find the info on the backend technicals on how they achieve this. However, it is the work of a mozilla co-founder - so from that respect, it has credibility.
tecate said:
Content providers are rewarded in cryptocurrency tokens. A cryptocurrency (BAT) has been launched specific to the browser.
Yeah, spotted that, but no mention of how you can cash those in or how they are valued.
Tipping is one thing but to encourage people to view ads (that they would otherwise be exposed to anyway - ordinarily) and automatically set the browser to distribute those funds to AAM - sounds like a no brainer and that user support could be garnered for that.
It is an interesting business model alright. For revenue, they depend on people choosing to see ads. So it's an ad blocker where they need you to chose to see ads, perhaps limited to a subset of trusted publishers. To service the ads, you end up with all the tracking that users of alternative browsers usually look to avoid. Google services and most other won't serve paid ads unless the browser provides them with sufficient data to track and profile the user.
They use a combination of methods, proxying and anonymising all requests, removing all referrer information from requests, blocking all third party cookies and clearing first party cookies and cached data on exit.
Basic Attention Token (BAT) is a fully fledged cryptocurrency. Its value you can find here. Click on the 'markets' tab to see where it can be traded.
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It seems they have stripped out the evil parts of that Chromium base they're using to deal with the google services issue. You can read more on that here.
Revenue breaks down as 15%/15%/70% - user/brave platform/content provider - for ad revenue.
Yeah, but what they don't call out is that the calls to serve ads are separate, and without providing the tracking data with the ad request, you don't get the revenue.
Ok, but it sounds like you have the option to go either way. That's the way personal data markets are developing. The user can take back control of it - and decide if they want to give it away - at a cost.
Yeah, true, and at least by default everything is blocked. Some of the more ad revenue dependent sites will block traffic from such browsers. But hey, most of us can live without access to the Kilkenny People Firefox has great privacy & ad-blocking capabilities in a better supported browser, but you do need to tweak a few settings to get there.
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I've just tried this & can now actually see content on indepedent.ie and thejournal.ie without those massive ads.
Firefly said:
No worries. I wasn't happy when I first used the browser as I had difficulty with a few sites...but just need to change a couple of settings re. the 'brave shields' tab (top right) if that happens.
Be sure to sign up for 'rewards'. We'll make a crypto user out of you yet :-D
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I've collected up $35 over the last few months whilst being exposed to less advertising than I would normally with Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.
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Grand Prix Commission Tweaks Testing Regulations Further
By David Emmett 12/04/2019 No Comments
The Grand Prix Commission is working through the unintended consequences of the decision to restrict testing in all three Grand Prix classes.
Those restrictions have been a positive aid in reducing costs, but have made it impossible to use riders not currently under contract unless their contracted riders are absent due to illness or injury.
Adding a further layer of complexity to this is the current state of the MotoGP rider’s market: with everyone out of contract at the end of 2020, and a large crop of Moto2 riders looking to step up, the factories want to take a look at riders not currently on the MotoGP grid.
In previous years, such rookies would be given a private test – that happened with Johann Zarco, Alex Marquez, and Brad Binder, to name a few. But with private testing now banned, that has become impossible.
As a result, the GPC has decided to allow non-contracted riders to run alongside contracted riders at MotoGP tests, subject to the proviso that they share riding time: i.e. only one of them can be on the track at the same time.
So for example, should Yamaha decide to give current Moto2 rider Luca Marini a test, he could share a garage with Valentino Rossi, but Marini would have to ride in the morning, Rossi in the afternoon.
This measure also allows the four MotoGP manufacturers without concessions to get a shot at younger riders.
The testing restrictions do not apply to factories with concessions, so Aprilia and KTM are free to give Moto2 riders or riders from other championships a test on the bike at private tests.
The fact that this has come up as a subject – with the objective of evaluating future riders mentioned explicitly – suggests that this is something factories and teams are currently looking at very seriously.
It is another sign that the riders market for 2021 could be very hectic, and shake up the grid significantly.
The first test where we are likely to see young riders given some time on the bike is probably Barcelona.
The preseason tests at Sepang and Qatar are too important for the start of the season, and the post-race test at Jerez is the first chance the teams get to bring updates for the season, and try to find solutions to problems uncovered by the first few races.
The other rectification to the regulations was to align MotoGP wildcards and MotoE. For example, as a concessions manufacturer, Aprilia have the right to enter test rider Bradley Smith as a wildcard rider in six events. However, wildcard riders are currently forbidden from appearing in consecutive events.
With Smith also racing in MotoE making it impossible to wildcard and race in MotoE on the same weekend, and other test riders also having race programs outside of MotoGP on a fixed schedule, that rule has been dropped.
Source: FIM; Photo: MotoGP
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One of MotoGP's most respected journalists, David Emmett is the proprietor of the esteemed MotoMatters. We are very grateful to republish David's work here on A&R...though dread the day we ever again get in a car with him.
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AthletePromotions » Baseball Celebrities » Scott Rolen
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Scott Rolen was born April 4, 1975 and is a Major LeagueBaseball third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds. He is an eight-time Gold Glovewinner and six-time All-Star.
On July 31, 2009, Rolen was traded to the Cincinnati Reds along with cashconsiderations for Edwin Encarnacion, Josh Roenicke and Zach Stewart. Duringthe 2010 season, Rolen regularly started at third. His performance helped theReds win the Central Division that year, their first division championship in15 seasons. Rolen also won his eighth Gold Glove as a member of the Reds, thethird team with which he received the award.
A middle-of-the-order hitter throughout his career, Rolenhas a career .284 batting average as well as a .370 on-base percentage and a.500 slugging percentage. He has 1,892 Hits, 302 home runs, and 1,186 RBIs, aswell as having scored 1,131runs (as of July 18, 2010).
In 1999, Rolen created The Enis Furley Foundation (named after one of Rolen'sdogs), wanting to help children and their families who struggle with illness,hardship, or other special needs. The scope of the foundation was intentionallyleft broad to give the flexibility to respond to a wide range of personalcircumstances. Externally, the Enis Furley Foundation is active in communityoutreach programs, Hot Corner Kids, and the construction of outdoorretreats, such as Camp Emma Lou (named after another one of Rolen'sdogs. Rolen's goals for his charity efforts are simple To have fun, have ablast. Let's play.
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Cristen
[ 2 syll. cris-ten, cr-ist-en ] The baby girl name Cristen is also used as a boy name, though it is far more popular for girls. It is pronounced KRIHSTihN †. Cristen is of Latin origin and it is used mainly in English. Cristen is a form of the Dutch, English, German, Greek, and Scandinavian Christina.
Cristen is rare as a baby girl name. At the modest peak of its usage in 1982, 0.008% of baby girls were named Cristen. It had a ranking of #970 then. The baby name has experienced a drop in popularity since then, and is used only on an infrequent scale today. Out of the family of girl names directly related to Cristen, Christina was the most popular in 2018. Cristen has in the last century been mainly given to baby girls.
Baby names that sound like Cristen include Christyn, Cristin (Irish), Cristyn (Welsh), Crystin, Crystyn, Kristin (English, German, and Scandinavian), Kristyn (English), Krystin, Cairistìne (Scottish), Carsten, Chrisstine (English), Christain (English), Christan, Christann, Christen (English), Christian (English), Christiane (French and German), Christin (Scandinavian), Christine (Dutch, English, French, German, and Scandinavian), and Christyne (English).
† Pronunciation for Cristen: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; S as in "see (S.IY)" ; T as in "tee (T.IY)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"
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Graffitied Police riot shield in Jersey Banksy's first local exhibition
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A local artist whose quirky banknote graffiti saw him dubbed 'Jersey's Banksy' is staging his first ever home exhibition, featuring a transformed Police riot shield.
Olly Killip, who rose to prominence after turning the Queen into the Joker on a Jersey pound note and featuring alongside real-life Banksy in a book, is displaying his works at Studio Eighteen until 24 December.
Olly started drawing just over two years ago, after picking up a pencil by accident as his mum was drawing. He spent four hours on his first sketch, and hasn't looked back. Since then, he has spent hundreds of hours painting, inking, pencilling, colouring and more recently spray painting. He also sold his apartment and moved to a part-time job to spend more time on his art.
“I have always been seen as a crazy character in the office,” Olly explained. “I am good at my job, but I have also this creative mind. I wanted to be able to give the same attention to my artwork. It’s my sole passion.”
Pictured: Olly's banknotes were featured in the book 'Cash is King.'
Olly says he continuously tries to push himself to try new things and one of his experiments paid back big time this year. Bob Osborne, a ‘mixed media artist’ scouting for money artists, contacted Olly after seeing one of his graffitied banknotes, a portrait of Heath Ledger's Joker drawn on a Jersey pound note on Queen Elizabeth II's face.
Osborne gave Olly two weeks to complete more work on banknotes, leading to two sleepless weeks for the young artist. He drew "irreverent" designs on Jersey and Guernsey notes, as well as more exotic ones his friends gave him. This included an old Chinese bank note featuring Mao Zedong, which Olly gave the 'Trump touch' to before titling it 'Make China Great Again.'
A post shared by Olly Killip (@bluntroller87) onDec 3, 2018 at 1:05pm PST
Bob Osborne liked the banknote so much he featured it in his book 'Cash is King’ along with three other banknotes "defaced" by Olly. Famous artists such as Banksy also appear in the book. Olly's Chinese banknote was also picked among the 300 other designs published in the book to feature at an exhibition at Saatchi Gallery. It became so popular that it was the first design to sell at the private exhibition.
While he's been selling works in the UK since then, Olly said he is really excited to see his work be shown in Jersey for the first time. Some of his banknotes have been on display as part of Studio Eighteen's annual Christmas exhibition. "I have around 20 works going into it so my work is making quite an appearance," Olly said. "If my works go well it could establish me in the local art scene which would be nice as it saves flying my work to London and Paris which is what I’ve been having to do until now."
Pictured: The Christmas Exhibition features new works from Studio 18's artists.
Other local artists feature in the exhibition, such as Carolyn Ainsworth, Susan Crismas-Wood and Greg Pallot. David Barnett, the owner of the gallery, said that the purpose of the exhibition is to show new work from the gallery's artists.
The exhibition includes a variety of styles, mediums, from acrylic to oils, and subjects, from atmospheric landscapes to traditional Jersey scenes, including some more abstract ones.
"Our philosophy is to keep works of all different types of art that suits everyone taste. There is something for everyone," said Mr Barnett.
Studio Eighteen's Christmas exhibition continues until Monday.
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Holyrood 2016: NHS is top priority to voters, BBC poll suggests
By Brian Taylor Political editor, Scotland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2016-scotland-35960611
Image caption The poll suggests a strong backing for spending on the NHS in Scotland
Voters in Scotland attach high priority to protecting public spending on the NHS, a poll for BBC Scotland suggested.
And they also give big billing to the idea that a Scottish university education should continue to be free for students from Scotland.
For our survey, Ipsos MORI interviewed 1,002 people across Scotland between 18 and 29 March.
Respondents were asked to rank a range of policies from one up to 10, generating an average score.
Part one - BBC Scotland poll suggests voters divided on tax
Ipsos MORI boss Mark Diffley on the "don't touch it" issues
Read my blog on where voters want their taxes spent
A guarantee that NHS spending would be increased so that it at least keeps pace with health spending in England drew apparent support. It was rated 8.3, the highest response in our survey.
There was lower support for the Conservative idea of reintroducing prescription charges for those able to afford them. Roughly a third of respondents were reasonably happy with the idea but that was outweighed by those who were sceptical or hostile. The net rating was 5.3.
The second top spot in our survey - the silver medal, if you like - went to education. Or, more precisely, the idea that all students from Scotland should be able to attend Scottish universities for free.
That policy, implemented by the SNP, is now endorsed by Labour and the Liberal Democrats. Conservatives support a charge, paid back when students graduate and are earning a reasonable salary. In our poll, free university education rated 8.1.
BBC Scotland election poll
Who? - 1,002 voters aged 16 and over
When? - Carried out between Friday 18 March and Tuesday 29 March
How? - On the telephone with data being weighted by gender, age, working status, housing tenure and region.
By? - Ipsos MORI Scotland
Still with education, there was a respectable rating of 6.7 for narrowing the attainment gap by giving more money to schools with a high proportion of kids from poorer backgrounds.
There was also substantial apparent support for the idea of subsidising the cost of developing new sources of energy that are less harmful to the environment. That rated a net 7.7.
Still with energy and the environment, there is the question of fracking, or unconventional drilling for shale gas. Most backed a ban - but many did not, generating a net score of 6.2 for the idea of prohibiting this practice in Scotland.
Scotland's public expenditure in 2014-15
£68bn
£11.5bn Health
£7.6bn Education and training
£2.8bn Policing
£2.7bn Transport
GERS report 2014-15
It is currently subject to a moratorium imposed by the Scottish government, with Nicola Sturgeon signalling she is deeply sceptical about fracking. Labour and the Greens favour a ban, as do the Liberal Democrats (after some internal machinations). The Conservatives say fracking could help the economy.
Among other issues;
cutting Air Passenger Duty, when Scotland has the power, rates 6.1
a ban on growing GM foods rates 5.7, close to the midway point
a Labour policy to give an extra £3,000 to people who have saved £3,000 for a first home deposit is rated 6.5.
Then there's the suggestion of scrapping the law which, among other things, seeks to restrict football supporters from singing songs that some people find offensive. Labour has led opposition to this SNP measure.
The idea of a ban rated 4.9, the lowest in our survey - although the idea is far from universally dismissed. Opinion tended to be fairly polarised.
What about the constitution?
Finally there is the constitution. Respondents were asked to give their view on whether there should be another referendum on Scottish independence in the event that Britain votes to leave the European Union.
The net rating for this question was 5.6, right down the centre of a range from one to 10. However, that does not tell the full story.
Roughly one third of respondents rated this issue 10, meaning it should get top priority. One third voted One, meaning it should never happen. And the final third? They were somewhere in the middle.
The first part of our poll looked at your views on income tax, council tax and welfare.
BBC Scotland Holyrood election 2016 poll
Eleven questions on health, education, fracking, independence and sectarianism (plus mean score)
Guarantee that for the next five years spending on the NHS in Scotland will be increased by at least the same rate as spending on health in England - 8.3
Allow all students from Scotland to attend Scottish universities for free - 8.1
Subsidise the cost of developing new sources of energy that are less harmful to the environment - 7.7
Give schools with high numbers of children from poorer backgrounds more money to spend than other schools - 6.7
Give first time home buyers who have saved £3,000 an extra £3,000 towards their deposit - 6.5
Ban all drilling for shale gas, known as fracking, in Scotland - 6.2
Reduce the tax on aeroplane tickets in Scotland - 6.1
Ban farmers in Scotland from growing genetically modified foods - 5.7
Hold another referendum on Scottish independence if Britain votes to leave the European Union - 5.6
Introduce charges for prescriptions for those of working age in order to raise money for the NHS - 5.3
Scrap the ban on people at football matches singing songs that some people find offensive - 4.9
All figures are mean scores based on answers provided between one and 10. One means the policy should never be put in place, and 10 means that it is very important and should be put in place quickly.
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13 Oct 2019 (7:30pm - 8:30pm)
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With Billy Bragg, Paul Mason and Selina Todd.
To close the 2019 festival, we are delighted to present this very special event with a panel of lively, inspiring and thought-provoking writers, activists and speakers.
Join songwriter, musician and activist Billy Bragg, writer and Professor of Modern History at Oxford University Selina Todd, award-winning writer, broadcaster and film-maker Paul Mason and writer and broadcaster Stuart Maconie as they come together for the first time for a stirring discussion about our political and social economies - past, present and future.
In a time when it’s easy to feel beaten by world events and daily news, our panel will discuss how we have the capacity to change the narrative and why we need to embrace our universal rights, examine our freedoms and use our individual and collective powers to rebuild the world around us.
Exploring themes of democracy, optimism, faith in humanity and activism, don’t miss this impassioned discussion which is sure to encompass politics, social mobility, and possibly a bit of revolution.
Chaired by Stuart Maconie.
About the speaker:
Billy Bragg was born in 1957 in Barking, and for over thirty years has been a tireless
recording artist, performer and activist. His albums include Life’s a Riot with Spy Vs. Spy, Talking with the Taxman About Poetry Tooth and Nail and, most recently, Bridges Not Walls. In 2015, he published his selected lyrics, A Lover Sings, followed in 2017 by Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World, which was shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize, and was a Rough Trade, Mojo, and FT Book of the Year 2018.
Paul Mason is recognised as an influential public intellectual across Europe. He commands large audiences among both grass-roots movements and institutions alike, filling halls of hundreds, sometimes thousands, from Amsterdam to Berlin, Seattle to Zagreb, Sydney and Seoul. He has a unique voice – both angry and reasoned, learned and accessible, international and local – always engaged in storytelling. Previously economics editor of Channel 4 and BBC Newsnight, he is an award-winning writer, broadcast and film maker. His first book was Sunday Times bestseller Postcapitalism.
Selina Todd is Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. She grew up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and was educated at Heaton Manor Comprehensive School and the Universities of Warwick and Sussex. She writes about class, inequality, working-class history, feminism and women’s lives in modern Britain. Her book The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class 1910–2010 was a Sunday Times bestseller and was described by the Observer as ‘a book we badly need’. Based on the voices of working-class people themselves, it charted the history of ordinary workers, housewives, children and pensioners over the turbulent twentieth century. The history she writes is one of anger and defiance, but ultimately of hope for a better future – one that we can build by knowing more about our past.
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Link Wray Live In '85 & Growling Guitar (CD)
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(Ace Records) 25 tracks (77:37) - 'Live in '85' recorded at various gigs in January & February... more
Link Wray: Live In '85 & Growling Guitar (CD)
(Ace Records) 25 tracks (77:37) - 'Live in '85' recorded at various gigs in January & February 1985 - 'Growling Guitar' contains a variety of hard to find material plus some previously unreleased tracks.
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Wray, Link - Live In '85 & Growling Guitar (CD) CD 1
01 Rumble
02 It's Only Words
04 Medley / Mystery Train
05 I Got A Woman
06 Baby Let's Play House
07 Jack The Ripper
09 King Creole
10 I'm Counting On You
11 Rawhide
12 Born To Be wild
13 Climbing A High Wall
14 Genocide
15 The Earth Is Crying
16 Growlin'Guts
17 Hungry
18 Ace Of Spades `69
19 Ruby Baby
20 Hang On
21 Summer Dreams
22 Sorrento
23 Peggy Sue
24 Alone
25 Girl From The North Country
26 You Hurt Me So
27 The Fuzz
Link Wray may well have been the loudest rock guitarist I’ve ever heard in a concert setting.... more
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Link Wray may well have been the loudest rock guitarist I’ve ever heard in a concert setting. Considering that over the decades I’ve also luxuriated in the teeth-rattling fretwork of Roy Buchanan and Dick Dale, that’s saying a whole lot (granted, I’m not a heavy metal devotee). That extraordinary volume boost was a necessity for Wray; a childhood bout with the measles had robbed him of a good portion of his hearing (and some of his eyesight too, for that matter). Dedicated Wray fans didn’t mind a temporary bout with deafness in the slightest following one of Link’s signature shredfests; his pulverizing power chords and screaming staccato lead licks were the very definition of what rock guitar has always been and should forever be, making it a small price to pay. What’s more, Link never stopped epitomizing the concept of cool. He proudly wore a leather jacket and shades onstage well into his 70s, when his demographic peers outside the music business had long since donned cardigan sweaters and settled into comfy easy chairs. Stardom didn’t come easily for Wray; he and his brothers had to work long and hard to escape the impoverished circumstances of their youth and find a foothold in the music industry. Fred Lincoln Wray, Jr. was the middle musical sibling, born May 2, 1929 in Dunn, North Carolina. Vernon was five years older than Link, born January 7, 1924 in Fort Bragg, N.C., and Doug five years younger (July 4, 1934). The Wray boys did some singing at the same church services where their mother, a full-blooded Shawnee Indian, preached the gospel. Link picked up some early guitar lessons when he was eight from an African American slide specialist called Hambone, who taught him the rudiments of how to play the blues. The Wray family moved to Portsmouth, Virginia during the mid-‘40s, but Link was in no particular hurry to embark on his musical career—he didn’t buy his first electric axe until 1949. Link was drafted in ’51, stationed first in Germany and then in Korea, where he was felled by tuberculosis. Finally back in the U.S. in 1953, he bought a Les Paul guitar and a Premier amplifier and got serious about his playing. But he was never quite able to duplicate the elegant, complex technique of his hero, Chet Atkins, so he developed his own mind-melting attack. Jazz guitarists Tal Farlow, Les Paul, and Barney Kessel and country picker Grady Martin also caught his ear, although he wouldn’t end up playing like any of them either. The Wrays formed a country band in 1954 to play the rough-and-tumble gin joints around Portsmouth and nearby Norfolk, recruiting their cousin, Brentley ‘Shorty’ Horton, to play bass and provide comic relief with Doug on drums, Vernon on rhythm guitar and occasional piano, and Dixie Neal, the brother of Gene Vincent’s bassist Jack Neal, on steel guitar. They were billed as The Lazy Pine Wranglers for a time, then Lucky Wray (Vernon’s temporary alias, stemming from his gambling skills) and The Palomino Ranch Gang. A connection with pioneering country broadcaster Connie B. Gay in Tidewater, Virginia led to the group minus Neal relocating to Washington, D.C., where Gay had established a popular television program, ‘Town and Country Time,’ hosted by young accordion wielder Jimmy Dean. For all its political sophistication, D.C. was loaded with hillbilly talent and plenty of watering holes in which to showcase it. In addition to the personable Dean, Marvin Rainwater and guitarist extraordinaire Roy Clark were part of the bustling scene. All three of them recorded for producer Ben Adelman, the owner of Empire Studio there (West Virginia native Patsy Cline cut her first demos, long since lost, under Adelman’s supervision with Dean’s Texas Wildcats backing her). Although his legend rests solidly on a legacy of blistering instrumentals, Link’s debut release in January of 1956 for Adelman’s Kay label paired two of his raucous rockabilly vocals, I Sez Baby and the all but incomprehensible Johnny Bom Bonny, as half of an EP that Link shared with the obscure duo of Bob Dean and Cindy. Adelman indefatigably hustled his finished masters to various labels; he found a home for three country-oriented singles by the considerably smoother-voiced Lucky Wray (It’s Music She Says, Got Another Baby, and Teenage Cutie) at H.W. ‘Pappy’ Daily and Don Pierce’s Starday Records in 1956-57, the last one sub-billing Link and Doug on its label. Starday released the masters through its custom service rather than issuing them on the main label, intending them for regional exposure only with the manufacturing costs paid by the artists themselves. Right in the middle of it all, the TB that Link had contracted in Korea sent him to the hospital in the summer of 1956 all the way until March of the following year. A grueling operation to remove his left lung largely put an end to any serious singing aspirations; from here on, Wray would concentrate on his blazing guitar technique and mostly leave the vocal duties to others, in particular his brother Vernon, whose prospects looked bright once Bernie Lowe and Kal Mann’s Philly-based Cameo Records brought him aboard in mid-1957. The songwriting duo was on a real roll, having penned Elvis’ pop chart-topper (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear. Their label was too, scoring its own number one seller that same year with Charlie Gracie’s Butterfly. As Lowe led the choir-cushioned orchestra, Vernon crooned the Mann/Lowe copyright Remember You’re Mine, issued in June of ’57 after the label flipped the singer’s name so he was billed as Ray Vernon. Cameo even sprang for a full-page ad promoting the single in ‘The Billboard.’ But any hopes of a hit were dashed when Pat Boone covered the tune for Dot, taking it into the Top Ten and leaving Ray’s original in the dust (its bouncy flip Evil Angel might have nicely suited Gracie). Cameo responded to Boone’s cover by replacing Remember You’re Mine with I’ll Take To-morrow (To-day) as Evil Angel’s plattermate; Link’s biting axe was prominent on the new ballad, unlike its sedate predecessor. Cameo tried again with Ray that autumn with the rocking I’m Counting On You, penned by Atlanta-born blues shouter Chuck Willis (1957 was a big year for Chuck; his revival of the ancient blues C.C. Rider for Atlantic, perfectly tempoed for dancing The Stroll, sailed to the top of the R&B charts). This time, Link made his presence felt with a searing solo, and even if the arrangement was a tad rough around the edges, Ray’s encore outing stood as a contender for hitdom yet didn’t quite make the grade.
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Jordon Sangha: Midfielder Recalled From Rushall Olympic Loan Spell
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If you’re a bass player with solid ability, untapped potential and the ambition to be a fully rounded musician, then the Artist Development Diploma in Music Performance can help turn your passion for music into a career.
This two-year vocational course is equivalent to three A-levels, and is all about developing your performance skills and musical style, improving your technique, getting yourself noticed by connecting with the music industry, and steadily building your confidence towards that of a professional musician.
You’ll gain a fundamental understanding of the way the music industry works, plus will study music theory, music history, and musicianship skills, such as sight reading and ear training. All in all, it’s a fantastic grounding to understand modern music and the industry that surrounds it.
You’ll have the opportunity to learn in a creative environment where you’ll develop strong connections with fellow aspiring musicians, and will be guided by your tutors and prominent music industry professionals to help steer you towards your future career or study goals.
Successful completion of the course will gain you a nationally recognised RSL qualification, and the diploma is a great gateway to either taking your first steps in a music industry career, or continuing on with study in the form of a music degree at BIMM.
UK and EU students aged 18 and under are eligible for free funding (subject to academic requirements).
Graduates can progress directly to employment in the music industry, or can continue their study with a BA (Hons) in Professional Musicianship in Guitar, Bass, Drums or Vocals at BIMM.
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Fleetwood Town will wear commemorative poppy shirts in their next two games
Lewie Coyle and Alex Cairns
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Fleetwood Town will wear poppies on their shirts for the first time in their history for two of their upcoming games.
They will don the poppies, in support of the British Legion, and will wear the specially embroidered shirts for their clashes against Bolton Wanderers tomorrow and Barnet in the FA Cup on November 10.
The historic shirts will be available to purchase for Town fans after they have been used in the games but more details on that are yet to be announced.
This week, Town’s Alex Cairns and Lewie Coyle went to Memorial Park in Fleetwood, a memorial in which the names of 329 local men that lost their lives in World War One are remembered, to pay their respects ahead of Remembrance Day.
Town chairman Andy Pilley said: “Fleetwood is a proud town and for us to pay our respects in this way is important for the club.
“I’m sure it will be a real honour for the players to be wearing a poppy in both matches on their shirts.
“To see two of our players visit the Memorial outside Highbury was superb, as it means so much to the club with it being on our doorstep.
“We also look forward to selling the shirts after the games to raise vital funds for the Royal British Legion and continue to support the great work they do.”
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There has been an average of 2.1 goals scored per game over the last 5 matches in the English Premier League where Watford have been at home, and Aston Villa have been away.
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Watford vs Aston Villa Head to Head
In the head to head battle, Watford and Aston Villa have met 2 time(s) in the last 5 seasons in the English Premier League, with Watford winning 100% of home matches, with 8 goals being scored in 2 matches.
Watford drew their last English Premier League home game with a 0-0 draw against Tottenham and have now won 60% of their last 5 English Premier League home matches.
Aston Villa drew their last English Premier League away game with a 1-1 draw against Brighton and have now won 20% of their last 5 English Premier League away matches.
* Match Data is based on Watford at home and Aston Villa away from home.
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LAMENESS EXPERT SUE DYSON REWARDED FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTS AND A LEGACY OF RESEARCH
Monday, November 14, 2016 - Lara Pocock Dr Sue Dyson, expert in equine orthopaedics, has returned from the University of Kentucky having been inducted to their UK Equine Research Hall of Fame. As Head of Department at leading veterinary research charity, the Animal Health Trust (AHT), where she has dedicated almost 35 years to treating hundreds of patients each year, she is honoured for her service and contribution to equine research. Sue collected her award surrounded by her peers, colleagues and previous inductees, who have nominated her for this accolade.
With a strong background as a rider and a particular interest in lameness and poor performance in sports horses, Sue has an in-depth knowledge and understanding of performance problems in horses of all disciplines. Her contribution to horse health, welfare and improved performance is justly recognised with this world-renowned achievement. We speak to Sue about what this means to her, and her life in research…
Sue, what does this award mean to you?
As a lameness clinician, I feel humbled and honoured to have been elected to join an elite band of scientists in the UK Equine Research Hall of Fame. I owe a huge debt of gratitude, not only to the friends and colleagues with whom I’ve had the privilege to work, most particularly at the Animal Health Trust, but of course also to the horses, which provide endless challenges. I have been constantly inspired to try to improve the welfare of these fantastic athletes.
You have a specific interest in sports performance, but did you have any aspirations in research when you first began?
I have always had a thirst for new knowledge and quickly learnt that by thorough documentation of clinical observations certain patterns emerged which could be translated into recognition of a new lameness condition. I didn’t think of this as research – just learning on the job. It was quite a lot later when I began to investigate specific problems in a more hypothesis-driven way.
How do you feel equine research has developed over time?
I have been fortunate to have had a career coinciding with the development of advanced imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging. This has resulted in recognition of new injuries, a need to validate our interpretation of the images and to understand more about the pathogenesis of injuries, so that ultimately we may be able to take preventative measures. We also need to learn how better to treat injuries; currently our ability to diagnose outstrips our ability to treat successfully.
What do you feel are your biggest achievements in research?
I have proved the usefulness of local analgesia and highlighted its limitations for identification of pain causing lameness, a crucial step in lameness diagnosis. I have teased out a variety of conditions in the proximal metacarpal and metatarsal regions causing pain and lameness and greatly increased our knowledge about suspensory ligament injuries. I have validated ultrasonography, scintigraphy and MRI for routine diagnostic use. I have also demonstrated the importance of correct saddle fit for optimal development of the horse’s back muscles, demonstrating how horses change in their back dimensions over time and the need for correct saddle fit. All of which, as is always my objective, have contributed to huge improvements in the practical application of veterinary medicine, supported by robust scientific evidence.
How does your clinical work link to your research, and what are the benefits and difficulties?
Our clinical cases are integral to our research. Without them and the willingness of their owners to contribute their data to our research projects, we would not be able to advance veterinary techniques as comprehensively as we do now. At the AHT we have developed a cycle, whereby our clinical patients feed into our research, and in turn our research results are fed back into the industry to develop veterinary and owner knowledge to support the care of horses worldwide.
A typical example of the integral link is the observation that the most common cause of a saddle slipping persistently to one side is hindlimb lameness. In a prospective clinical study, abolition of lameness by diagnostic analgesia resulted in resolution of the saddle slip. The presence of lameness, often difficult to perceive by owners, may therefore be highlighted by the presence of saddle slip. Improved success with treatment of lameness requires early diagnosis, which in turn requires owners to recognise the presence of a problem. Current work is focussing on the assessment of facial expressions and other aspects of horse behaviour when ridden as indicators of pain. The difficulties relate to education of the horse owning public and all allied equine health professionals, and also the acquisition of funding.
What does the future hold for you and your research?
There are many unanswered questions and the learning process proceeds endlessly – and excitingly. We hope to continue to improve our understanding of the relationship between hindlimb lameness and thoracolumbar function, and to increase our knowledge of the causes of sacroiliac joint region pain. If funds could be found I would love to try to establish whether there is a genetic component to suspensory ligament injuries to try to better understand why they occur.
Sue continues to investigate equine health and welfare, inspired by the resilience of these athletes; she still works tirelessly to improve their care for years to come.
For more information on Sue’s and the AHT’s extensive equine research visit: http://www.aht.org.uk/horses
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Phil Vickery announces Coeliac Chef of the Year 2010
By Becky Paskin
24-Nov-2010 - Last updated on 12-Mar-2017 at 00:24 GMT
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TV chef Phil Vickery, who is also food ambassador for Coeliac UK, talks us through the annual competition, and highlights the necessity for gluten-free options on menus
Celebrity chef Phil Vickery has announced the winners of Coeliac UK’s Gluten-free chef of the Year competition, which helps raise awareness for the increased need for gluten-free menus.
Run his year in association with the Craft Guild of Chefs and the Institute of Hospitality, the competition saw Michael McCamley, head chef at Venue Catering in Northern Ireland take the title following a 90-minute cook-off.
Shanice Parris, catering student at Westminster Kingsway College, was given the title of Up and Coming Gluten-free Chef of the Year for the second time running.
Vickery, who is also food ambassador for Coeliac UK, talks us through the annual competition, and highlights the necessity for gluten-free options on menus.
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A compelling and beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who wants to die.Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.
Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death.
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Sanjay Leela Bhansali pays tribute to Zohra Sehgal
Created: Jul 11, 2014 - 5:00 am IST
“My experience of working with Zohraji in the two films I did with her, would remain with me until I die. She was a miracle woman. A legend beyond explanation. And look at her range! In Hum…Dil De Chuke Sanam I put her in a Gujarati Ghagra-choli. In Saawariya she wore a Catholic dress. She could create her own universe for each character without going into too much background detail. I certainly hoped to complete a hat-trick of films with Zohra Sehgal by doing one more film with her. I hoped she’d out-live us all. I think I’m the only contemporary director who had the privilege of working in two films with Zohraji. And both the films Hum…Dil De Chuke Sanam (HDDCS) and Saawariya were made memorable by her presence on the sets. Everything else will fade. But my experience of working with Zohraji is timeless, just like the lady herself. And that reminds me, though me there was a decade-long gap between HDDCS and Saawariya she had not aged one bit in those ten years…not a single extra wrinkle, not one extra grey hair! She was a miracle woman! At 94 when she worked with me in Saawariya Zohraji was still the sprightly gamine with dancing eyes. Her sheer zest for life and her understanding of the movie camera made all of us look like film students in front of her….
I remember when Ranbir Kapoor and I went to pick her up at the airport when she arrived to shoot for Saawariya. She looked at Ranbir and said, ‘Do you know I’ve worked opposite your great-grandfather Prithviraj Kapoor and your grandfather Raj Kapoor? You’re the third generation of Kapoors I’m working with. I don’t know how she missed out working with Randhir and Rishi Kapoor. She had come laden to Mumbai with her pictures with Prithviraj Saab and Raj Saab to prove her point to Ranbir. From the first day she insisted on calling him ‘ Ranbir Raj.’ They were the two youngest people the sets. I swear I felt old watching Zohraji’s energy on the sets of Saawariya. All of us would be dead tired by evening. But at 6 pm Zohraji would grandly announce, ‘Let’s have a glass of wine before we got back to work.’ She loved her role because for the first time she played a Catholic character in Saawariya. She got a chance to wear her hair stylishly, put on Western clothes and she specially loved the crimson lipstick.
Once she had those in place she was in full form. Do you remember that scene where she insists on singing an English-language song for Ranbir? The song was her own. It was something she remembered from the past. And what a memory she has! At 94 she remembered not just all her own dialogues, but every single dialogue of every character in Saawariya and earlier in HDDCS. In fact I remember when I had picked her up from the airport for the first time she rattled off all her lines and then all the lines of all the other characters and warned me, ‘Don’t you dare change one line.’ On the sets if anyone forgot his or her lines, guess who promptly piped in with the correct lines??!! …Zohraji’s exuberance is infectious. The power and the magnetism in her eyes are still with me. I wanted to work with her for the longest. She had started her career with Uday Shankar’s dance troupe and had played a part in Udayji’s dance ballet Kalpana. I worship Uday Shankarji. So for me Zohraji was part of a legacy that I revere beyond the normal. I wanted her to play Aishwarya Rai‘s blind old but jovial and zesty grandmother in HDDCS. When Zohraji agreed I was besides myself with joy. She was 84 at that time. But she brought to the sets the energy level of a 19-year old.
I remember an incident where one of my assistants asked her to look toward the characters and react. She snarled back, ‘How can I LOOK at someone when I’m blind?’ She remained in character throughout. That Bhavai song ‘Suno Suno’ that she sings with Aishwarya and the rest of the Gujju family in HDDCS? Zohraji managed it in one take. She was temperamental in a very positive way. While some actors throw their weight around to feel important, she rages when she sees incompetence, mediocrity or compromise on the sets. At 84 she was such a strong woman that when in a scene she had to playfully pull Salman and Aishwarya’s ears their ears went red. They asked me in a whisper if I could ask Zohraji not to put so much strength into her ear-pulling. But I didn’t have the guts to correct her. No one told Zohraji what to do. She was a free spirit. I’d often see her with her granddaughter on the sets. But she didn’t need any help. She did everything on her own. Once she had some female relatives over from Pakistan. She giggled and laughed and whooped it up like Sonam Kapoor would with her friends.”
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Cabarete is a kiteboarding paradise! More and more enthusiasts are discovering Cabarete as the place to experience the hottest new water-sport on the planet.
Ranked among the 10 best sites in the world, Cabarete is where it's at for this exciting sport. It is windsurfing that put Cabarete on the sporting map since the late 80s.
Surfing and Boogie-Boarding
The north coast of the Dominican Republic is one of the best-kept secrets in the surfing world. Safe, clear, warm waters and clean uncrowded waves for you to surf all by yourself make it one of the best spots in this part of the globe.
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From the tranquil Cabarete lagoons to the reef swells in the Bay of Cabarete, Kite Beach and Encuentro, there is a perfect spot for every level of Stand Up Paddle Boarding.
Somewhere between a gentle stroll in the park and an army obstacle course, canyoning is the adventure activity par excellence of the Dominican Republic. Climbers will love it; swimmers will love it; hikers will love it; eco-freaks will love it; we loved it, and so will you.
Imagine riding the perfect wake on a perfectly flat river in a perfect tropical surrounding. That's what you get in Cabarete.
Whether you're an experienced diver or a beginner, you're bound to enjoy underwater exploration (or snorkeling) nearby. Marvel at the spectacular panorama of the abundant colorful marine life in these incredibly clear Caribbean waters.
World class mountain-biking tours are offered by an internationally renowned local firm. Scenic daily excursions range from beginner trails to challenging advanced-level rides through the bush
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The mountainous terrain behind Cabarete spells out heaven for dirt-bikers. It is literally some of the best and most beautiful playground for enduro-bikers in the world. Motocross professionals in Cabarete have all the gear you may need for the most exhilarating day of your trip to the Dominican Republic.
Several equestrian ranches nearby offer horseback riding for either trotting along the beach or exploring lush mountain and valley trails.
Avid golfers can play on a 9-hole public course minutes west of Cabarete. An hour to the east is one of the most beautiful greenways in the Caribbean, the Cabrera/Playa Grande Golf Course designed by the famous golf-architect Robert Trent Jones, with 10 of its 18 holes running alongside towering ocean cliffs. He also designed the 18-hole course at the Playa Dorado Beach Resort, located half an hour to the west.
At edge of the village are the renowned Cabarete Caves, part of the El Choco National Park - a must-see. Expert guides show you around and exhibit relics of Taino natives, the original pre-Columbian inhabitants of the island of Hispaniola.
There's something here for everybody, from challenging adventure-sports tours to more relaxing overland sightseeing expeditions! Wander around just outside the village or behind its serene lagoon. Head off on your own in a rented car or motorcycle to view breath-taking scenery and experience memorable moments being treated to the warm hospitality of the Dominican people. If you rather go with an experienced guide, there are also many organized tours departing from Cabarete.
Spinning classes are available every day from the Spinning Studio located on top of Janet’s Supermarket. www.cabaretespinning.com
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Hannah BakerBusiness Editor
Workers could be earning a lot more money if they were paid for all the hours spent working overtime, according to a new survey.
More than half of employees don’t feel they’re paid enough, but need to work an extra 4.63 hours each week to get the job done.
Although many companies are starting to wind down for the festive period, 65 per cent of those surveyed by experiences club Boundless admitted working extra hours on Friday nights, Saturdays or Sundays.
And nearly a quarter (24 per cent) said although their boss didn’t expect them to work at the weekend, if they weren’t on top of things on Monday their boss wouldn’t be happy.
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A third of those polled said Monday was a complete nightmare if they didn’t work at the weekend and when asked why they worked longer than contracted hours, 43 per cent said it was the only way they could get their job done properly.
If the average employee was paid for all the extra hours they worked, they would earn £3,359, which is enough to buy more than 20,00 mince pieces.
Darren Milton, head of brand and content for Boundless, said: “All this extra work puts a huge strain on people’s work-life balance. It is crucial that people maximise their spare time and make the most of it, or we risk work dominating our lives.”
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by Jinal Shah – Follow @jinaltshah
The morning after President Donald Trump signed the divisive executive order barring refugees and other immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries to enter the United States, a Texas mosque was burned to the ground.
The Islamic Center of Victoria, previously burglarized and spray-painted, caught fire around 2 a.m. on Saturday. Although the officials are unclear about the cause of the fire, the timing of the fire is peculiar given that it occurred just hours after Trump fulfilled his campaign promise by signing the “Protection of the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” order.
The president’s order indefinitely suspends admissions for refugees entering the United States from war-torn Syria, bars refugees from certain “terror-prone” Muslim majority countries — Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran, and Iraq — for 120 days, creates an entry-exit biometric tracking system for all visitors to the United States, and requires in-person interviews for all non-immigrant visa applicants.
Trump’s rash immigration ban has sparked protests and fear among civil rights organizations, Muslim Americans, immigrants, newly arrived refugees who say that the ban will further stigmatize minority communities, already distressed by the anti-Muslim sentiments and a wave of hate crimes stocked by a racially charged presidential campaign.
“Today’s announcement will criminalize people of color based on their religion and national origin and reinforces a climate of suspicion and increasing violence aimed at Muslim communities living in the United States. Our nation is better than this,” said Suman Raghunathan, Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) in a statement released soon after the immigration ban.
Raghunathan also noted that president’s orders on creating entry-exit policy system would reopen the wounds caused by the implementation of the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) that was dismantled at the end of 2016.
“Under the guise of “national security,” the 2002 National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) forced immigrants from Muslim-majority countries to register at local immigration offices for lengthy interrogations,” she said. “Over 83,000 individuals registered; over 13,000 were placed into deportation proceedings, resulting in zero terrorism-related convictions.”
Other immigration-related actions taken by the president on Wednesday, include ending federal grant funding to sanctuary cities and states, which opt out of reporting undocumented immigrants, increasing funds to operate detention facilities and ending the “catch and release” policy. These policies have sparked anxiety among undocumented immigrants and their children.
In a press conference on Wednesday, National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad echoed Raghunathan, “We have already seen an unprecedented spike in anti-Muslim bigotry in recent months, the negative perceptions and association created by these orders will very likely cause a further increase in hate crimes, discrimination, and bigotry against ordinary law-abiding American Muslims.”
Throughout his campaign and even after winning the election, he wielded a political strategy of fear mongering and xenophobia. He pandered to people’s fears, which are rooted in pernicious stereotypes about these minority communities.
The scary part was that it worked.
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In a report, titled “Power, Pain, Potential,” released earlier this month, SAALT documented 207 instances of hate violence, Islamophobic, and xenophobic political rhetoric against South Asian, Arab, Middle Eastern, Sikh, Hindus and Muslim communities between November 2015 to November 2016 — an alarming 34 percent increase in less than a third of the time covered in their 2011- 2014 report Under Suspicion, Under Attack.
About half of Americans (49 percent) think at least some U.S. Muslims are anti-Americans.
Approximately 196 or an astounding 95 percent were animated by anti-Muslim sentiment.
Of all the incidents documented, 140 were acts of hate violence while 67 were acts of xenophobic rhetoric.
While more than half of the 67 documented incidents of xenophobic rhetoric came from political figures, the then president-elect Trump alone was responsible for spewing one in five (20 percent) of the Islamophobic and xenophobic statements.
While the communities have long known that xenophobic political rhetoric engenders hate, academic institutions are now beginning to explore the connections between rhetoric and hate. The report mentioned a study done by California State University, San Bernardino, which appeared to show a possible relationship between rhetoric and action.
The research stated that anti-Muslim hate crimes increased by an astounding 87.5 percent in the days directly following President-elect Trump’s speech after the San Bernardino attack callings for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
And now as President Trump translates some of candidate Trump’s populist radical rhetoric into policy statements, Muslim and other immigrant community members fear more hate and violence.
But there is hope in the sheer number of people, many non-Muslim, who flooded the streets and airports from coast to coast to protest Trump’s Muslim ban, in the organizations that are leading the fight against Trump’s unconstitutional policy.
“What’s really needed for these impacted communities is to come together, organize and build relationships to help each other in fighting anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant sentiments. We see [anti-Muslim sentiments] in policies, but they are ideologically driven by white supremacy, xenophobia, and Islamophobia, and we need to tackle that,” said Fahd Ahmed, executive director of Desis Rising Up and Moving, a grassroots immigrant rights organization.
Jinal Shah is a New York-based freelance writer, who specializes in news, health, food, travel and lifestyle. She loves to travel (paid for or otherwise) and knows the difference between a traveler and a tourist. Shah also believes that the best stories come from Mumbai’s locals. And when she is not writing, she can be found on the sidelines observing people and the world at large.
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Ambergris Cay: Beach Bum Central
11/8/2006 — By Jason Cohen
Ambergris Cay in Belize has some of the Caribbean's top diving--then again, the scruffy island is also one of the world's best spots for doing nothing at all
'Wanna pet the shark?'
The offer comes from a 21-year-old snorkel guide named Tony, who is bearing sardines. Two beige nurse sharks piggyback one another at our port side, almost begging as smaller fish pick off the chum before it even hits the water.
But I've owned cats more likely to tear into flesh than the four-foot nurse sharks at Hol Chan Marine Reserve. A protected three-square-mile area off Ambergris Cay, Hol Chan (Mayan for "little channel," named for a cut in the 140-mile reef) abounds with sharks, fish, and stingrays. They feel the thrum of an approaching boat, swim over when the engine stops, partake of the buffet, and then chill out at the bottom of the Caribbean until summoned by another outboard dinner bell.
Throw in a hammock and a rum-based cocktail of your choice, and that's also pretty much what life is like for humans at Belize's top vacation destination.
Welcome to paradise!" the baggage handler hails as I unfold from the 13-seat plane that has brought us from the mainland to San Pedro, the island's only town. I've been told by a few travelers (and one Belizean) that the former fishing village is too touristy, but hey, there's something to be said for Internet cafés and water you can brush your teeth with.
Ambergris Cay has grown since its days as the off-the-radar sunshine playground that Madonna sang about 20 years ago in "La Isla Bonita" (an odd title, come to think of it, given that English is Belize's official language). The locals include a fair share of expat businesspeople, but leaving your type A personality on the mainland is apparently a requirement.
Upon my arrival at The Tides Beach Resort, a shirtless bartender named Butch greets me by first name and directs me to a spacious, no-frills room with an ocean view, A/C, a minifridge, and 60 channels of American TV. I never do get asked to sign a piece of paper or produce a credit card. "It's Belize, go with the flow," owner Sabrina Paz says when I finally meet her.
Sabrina's husband, Elmer "Patojo" Paz, has run Patojo's Dive Shop here for 17 years. With three atolls, the world's second-largest barrier reef, and (just a few hours offshore) the Blue Hole, Ambergris Cay attracts both experienced divers and novices getting certified on vacation. In 1998, the couple tore down their beachfront home and replaced it with a three-floor, 12-room Spanish colonial, including living quarters for themselves and their six kids, who are often around the pool or on the pier doing their homework. (Or not doing it: Megan, their 12-year old, wonders why she has to finish high school when she plans to be a dive master like Dad.) The arrangement gives The Tides a family bed-and-breakfast vibe without the actual feeling that you're sleeping over at a stranger's house.
The roads on Ambergris seem to range from unpaved to nonexistent. Cars are scarce, the north side of the island is accessible only by golf cart or boat, and the beach is something of a thoroughfare for single-gear bikes with back-pedal brakes. On my first stroll around town, I decide that renting a golf cart or a bike won't be necessary. San Pedro is small, the streets are safe, and cab rides rarely cost more than $5. The only reason not to walk is the humidity, which is unavoidable in any case.
For dinner that night I choose Elvi's, which began as a takeout window more than 30 years ago and still has a sand floor. It's priced for tourists, but my $14 is well spent on Mayan-style fish cooked to a nice char in a banana leaf with roasted peppers, onions, and tomatoes, plus a heavenly scoop of coconut rice. It's served by the cook himself, who offers a friendly shoulder tap and instructs me (ha, ha) not to eat the leaf.
The next afternoon, Tony, a family friend of Patojo's who has been guiding formally for one year and informally since he was around 13, takes me out to Hol Chan. Six or seven other vessels are already there--a number that can easily quadruple during high season (December to May), since most guides run a daily trip at 2 P.M. (Groups of six or eight might want to spend a little more for a private morning excursion with Grumpy and Happy.) Some divers prefer to avoid Hol Chan, going instead to the Mexico Rocks coral and the Bacalar Chico Marine and Wildlife Reserve up north, or some spot along the reef (every guide has his own "secret" location). For an amateur like me, the real-life Finding Nemo oceanscape is dazzling: blue tangs and parrot fish; silvery, thin barracudas; and flat flounder. Moray eels and a little octopus are hidden in the coral but are spotted easily by Tony. "I come here every day," he shrugs.
We proceed to Shark Ray Alley, so named because it's where those friendly nurses and southern stingrays congregate. Swimming a few feet below the surface with one ray alongside you and another on the ocean floor is both thrilling and discomfiting. The rays are mostly harmless, as Tony demonstrates when he proffers a morsel of sardine to a curious stingray, then picks the ray up with both hands. Along with hugging a shark, this is every San Pedro tour guide's favorite parlor trick; all the guides agree that Steve Irwin's death was a freak occurrence.
Wednesday evenings at San Pedro's beachfront bar scene mean one thing: the chance to watch a chicken do its business (yes, that kind of business). If your ticket matches the numbered square the poultry performer poops on, you win $100. The World-Famous Chicken Drop has gone down at the Spindrift Hotel's Pier Lounge every Wednesday at 6 P.M. for 18 years. You pay 50¢ for a number picked from a jar, toss back a few happy-hour drinks, and gather around an outdoor pen to see how fast fresh coconut and half-cooked bacon travel through the animal's system. "That'd make anybody crap," promises Pier Lounge owner Jan Brown, a 63-year-old former Texan who recently posed seminude, à la the film Calendar Girls, to raise money for San Pedro's new primary school.
One gambler gets to drop the chicken in the pen, and this week, the honor goes to a brunette named Stacy, one of a dozen buddies from all over the U.S. who have been on the island for a week. Her instructions are to gently shake the chicken three times. "Then you gotta blow up its butt for good luck," Jan insists. Stacy shakes, gamely blows, and the chicken totters on the very square it lands on for 10 seconds, and then . . . plop. The hundred bucks goes to Jason, another member of the group. Jan then reveals the unofficial rule: The winner has to clean up the mess.
"How many of you went diving today?" Jan asks the crowd. "Anybody see a ruin?"
"Anybody see a pool?" Jason retorts. "Anybody see some horseshoes? I saw the bottom of a bottle."
Indeed, you'll probably spend a lot of time just staring at the Caribbean, Belikin beer in hand. Might be at a bar, might be at a restaurant, might be at a resort--and not necessarily the one you're staying at. Most beaches are small, and the tepid water is thick with sea grass. The entire shore of Ambergris is public, which makes it easy to hop from bar to beach to resort.
The Xanadu Island Resort, where I stay for the last part of my trip, proves suitable for sitting around and not doing much of anything. Its freshwater pool is beachfront and surrounded by palm trees. My loft suite comes with a full kitchen and the use of a bike and a kayak. There's a hammock on every porch.
After checking in, I walk the mile into town to El Fogon, a tiny palapa restaurant tucked a block west of the airstrip. Fogon means "hearth," and that's what dominates the dining area: fresh-cut wood stacked up beneath three iron burners. Tender "stew beans," as opposed to the more commonplace Creole beans and rice, taste like peppery smoke itself, melting in my mouth.
One of my neighbors at Xanadu is Mark Wilson, a Brit who first came to Belize in 1988 and has been back a dozen times since. "It's the biggest f--ing jewel in Queen Elizabeth's crown," he says. Earlier in the week, Mark was sitting at Estel's--a place where you can get a drink before the stroke of noon, and breakfast well past it--when a cornrowed Creole named Ernesto passed by with a load of freshly filleted barracuda. After a brief conversation, Ernesto sold Mark on a fishing trip, including snorkeling with manatees on the side. Mark and his girlfriend, Angell Crosland, graciously allow me to third-wheel.
Most manatee tours venture 30 miles down the coast, but Ernesto (who's 43, looks 30, and has a voice like Mike Tyson's) knows a spot that's closer. He and his goateed partner, Oliver (who sports a 30-stitch spearfishing scar on his right wrist), launched their two-man operation, Cari'Bean Tours, just last year, though they've worked for other operations for years.
It's nice just to be out on open water, to see the turquoise shimmer of the Caribbean without the muddled undertone of sea grass. Angell and I are both total novices at fishing, and we enjoy reeling in little snappers and grunts, never mind the fact that my ratio of caught fish to lost bait is one to four. We also don't have any luck trolling for 'cudas, and soon enough, it's time to put away the rods and go snorkeling.
Led by Ernesto, we swim and swim, and then swim a little more. The current isn't strong, but this close to the reef, the waves are bouncy. We make a long circle and appear to be heading back to the boat, but Ernesto peels off in another direction. He gives us the "quiet" signal; just like that, we're 10 feet behind three manatees. The big gray beasts swish slowly through the ocean. When they surface for a breath, we come up with them and get a good look at their whiskered snouts.
Back on the Cari'Bean, Ernesto completes our luncheon menu by free diving 20 feet to catch a lobster with his bare hands--doing it with gloves damages the coral--and four more with a hook. He dips the cutting board into the ocean to clean off our morning bait, rinses off the fish, and slices delicate fillets. We anchor at an isolated beach, and Ernesto dumps the fish and lobster into foil, along with a few dollops of butter and barbecue sauce, a can of salsa, green pepper, onion, cilantro, and a squeeze of lime. It takes all of five minutes to cook on the fire. By the time it's ready, we all have rum punches and fresh tortillas in hand.
I'm as content as a nurse shark with a belly full of sardines, yet somehow I'm feeling a little jealous--of Ernesto, Oliver, even the manatees. After all, they come here every day.
The Tides Beach Resort 011-501/226-2283, ambergriscaye.com/tides, from $65
Xanadu Island Resort 011-501/226-2814, xanaduresort-belize.com, from $100
Estel's 011-501/226-2019, breakfast platter $7.50
Elvi's Kitchen 011-501/226-2176, Pescador Dr., Mayan fish $14
The Pier Lounge 011-501/226-2002, Barrier Reef Drive
El Fogon 011-501/206-2260, #2 Trigger Fish St., stew beans $1
Patojo's 011-501/226-2283, Hol Chan snorkeling excursion $35 plus $10 park fee
Grumpy and Happy 866/771-3159, grumpyandhappy.com, snorkeling trip for eight $400
Cari'Bean Tours 011-501/601-8586, caribeantoursbelize.com, full-day manatee tour $150
Ambergris Cay basics
Between Tropic and Maya Island airlines, there are 20 flights a day from Belize City to San Pedro. The 10-minute flight costs about $100 round trip. A water taxi is $15 each way, though the ride takes an hour and the marine terminal is a 30-minute cab ride from the airport.
Hotels in San Pedro are simpler and smaller than the isolated, upscale northern resorts. The hotels and resorts south of San Pedro fall somewhere between the two extremes.
There are limited street addresses in San Pedro. The two main drags, Barrier Reef Drive and Pescador Drive, are universally referred to by their former monikers: Front Street and Middle Street, respectively. U.S. dollars are accepted everywhere, but traveler's checks are still a good idea. Only one ATM in town (at the Belize Bank on Barrier Reef Drive) accepts foreign cards, though all the banks will process credit-card cash advances.
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Will United add more baggage fees?
10/3/2012 — By JD Rinne
Courtesy zenobia_joy/Flickr
Nothing quite kills vacation fun like a baggage fee, which we've all gotten used to in the past few years. (We know you hate it—47 percent of you said that extra charges for baggage were the "most outrageous fee" of all in our Readers' Choice poll). But at least we've seen the worst of it, right?
Maybe not. In a story published this week in Crain's Chicago Business, United president John Tague said that he thinks annual revenue from baggage fees can nearly triple—up to $1 billion a year. United currently reaps in $350 to $400 million in annual revenue from baggage fees.
According to the article, about 40 percent of the bags flying on United get a fee, mostly because international flights are exempt from baggage fees (unlike bags flying domestically, which cost $25 right now).
Although Tague isn't quoted directly about whether United will add a fee for baggage on international flights, he did say fees will, over time, become "more or less ubiquitous."
Well, that's not so encouraging, is it? United was the first airline to begin charging a baggage fee domestically, and the entire industry followed.
Plus, the fact that United and Continental are merging to become the world's biggest airline, means that if the company started accessing a new baggage fee (or raised current fees), it will affect a lot more people on a lot more flights.
And late last week, Congress got into the act, indicating that they might pass legislation that would tax airlines for the money they make on ancillary fees. It's a vicious circle: the government imposes taxes, the airlines lose money, so they raise fees.
Escalating fees—yet another challenge for today's modern traveler. But let's hope that baggage fees stay where they are—at least for now.
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TARZAN RETURN TO PAL-UL-DON
Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs Series #1. Our Highest Recommendation. By Will Murray. Cover art by Joe DeVito. The first new Tarzan novel in years, Tarzan: Return to Pal-ul-don, is being released by Altus Press. Written by the well-respected Will Murray (The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage series), this is an authorized sequel to one of ERB's best novels, Tarzan the Terrible.
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The first new Tarzan novel in years, written by the well-respected Will Murray (The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage series), this is an authorized sequel to one of ERB's best novels, Tarzan the Terrible. It is late 1941. After flight training with the RAF, John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, is given a mission to locate a British military intelligence operative, whose plane went down in the vast African wilderness. Tarzan's mission returns him to his roots, dealing with dangers both known and unknown in the prehistoric land filled with carnivorous saber-tooth tigers and triceratops--and man-killing spider people.
"Having been an Edgar Rice Burroughs fan since 1968," says Murray, "the opportunity to bring this iconic character back to life means a great deal to me. I've pulled out all the stops to faithfully replicate the storytelling style of the great Edgar Rice Burroughs and recreate the original era of Tarzan of the Apes."
Featuring a new cover painting by artist Joe DeVito, a veteran of Marvel comics who currently creates the covers for Wild Adventures of Doc Savage series.
Says DeVito, "After sculpting the Centennial Tarzan statue for ERB, Inc. in 2012, I was hoping to get a crack at a Tarzan painting as well. This book provided an opportunity to combine them both!"
Bud here: I've read this and loved it. I devoured the Tarzan novels as a 11 or 12-year-old, have re-read many over the years, and I maintain this is AS GOOD a story as anything ERB wrote. It takes me right back into those wonderful days of uninhibited african adventures with the mighty Lord of the Jungle. Good stuff!
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Tuning the 'West Midlands Engine' for the road ahead
Business and public sector leaders came together to discuss what lies ahead when the new West Midlands Combined Authority comes into being next year
West Midlands Combined Authority seminar hosted by Trowers & Hamlins
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With less than a year to go before the new West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) comes into force, there is still plenty of debate over what effect it will have on the region's business and political landscape. The Birmingham office of law firm Trowers & Hamlins hosted a West Midlands leaders' round table event, bringing together senior public and private sector figures to discuss four keys areas authority will be expected to address.
* Peter Axon, chief finance officer, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust
* Suzie Branch-Haddow, director, Greater Birmingham Professional Services Academy
* Jonathan Browning, chairman, Coventry & Warwickshire LEP
* Paul Kehoe, chief executive, Birmingham Airport
* Coun Ann Lucas, leader of Coventry City Council and board member of Coventry and Warwickshire LEP
* Mike Lyons, programme director, HS2
* maria Machancoses, programme director, Midlands Connect Partnership
* Ian Oakes, deputy vice-chancellor, University of Wolverhampton
* Kevin Rodgers, chief executive, WM Housing Group
* Coun Bob Sleigh, leader of Solihull Council and chairman of WMCA shadow board
* Amanda Tomlinson, chief executive, Black Country Housing Group
* Karl Tupling, executive director Midlands, Homes and Communities Agency
* Jeremy Vanes, chairman, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
* Pam Waddell, director, Birmingham Science City
* Amardeep Gill, partner (public sector commercial), Trowers & Hamlins
* Tonia Secker, partner (housing and regeneration), Trowers & Hamlins
* Rebecca McGuirk, partner (employment), Trowers & Hamlins
* Yetunde Dania, partner (housing management), Trowers & Hamlins
* Hilary Blackwell, partner (housing and regeneration), Trowers & Hamlins
* Jeremy Hunt, partner (housing and regeneration), Trowers & Hamlins
➤ CONNECTIVITY
What role does transport infrastructure play in enhancing the economic success of the region and what benefits can be derived from HS2 and the projects proposed as part of the region's devolution agreement? What impact will a devolved transport budget have on the region and how will the various projects be brought together to deliver the best outcomes?
Mike Lyons: In terms of connectivity, HS2 is absolutely key and it is clearly established now in Birmingham with a team that is rapidly growing at Two Snowhill. In the next few weeks, we are due to launch the largest civil engineering procurement in Europe worth £7 billion of which approximately £2.5 billion will be related to this region. We are working closely with people here to ensure we don't just deliver what's in the HS2 Bill itself but making sure our plans are integrated to those of Solihull and UK Central and also Curzon Street and the Eastside regeneration.
Paul Kehoe: HS2 is going to change the economic geography of not just this region but the whole of the UK. It's about building something which makes this country smaller. HS2 is a great opportunity but let's not forget West Coast Mainline and Stevenson's railway because HS2 will give us back the mainline and improve Coventry and the Black Country. It will help our freight get to the ports because the train lines are currently clogged with inter-urban expresses. It's three or four train paths an hour that could go to other uses.
Bob Sleigh: The hub around the airport, NEC, Resorts World and the stop on the HS2 line offers us a unique opportunity from a connectivity perspective to attract inward investment. We are already seeing people making choices to move to that locality because of the unique connectivity we have here.
Maria Machancoses: What devolution is allowing us to do here in the West Midlands is think about what comes next. This is about rebalancing the economy and supporting regional airports, taking devolution to the next level and empowering the combined authorities. Cities like Nottingham and Leicester are all coming together to seriously influence future investment programmes.
➤ HOUSING
What are the housing infrastructure requirements for the region and how can the acute housing shortage be tackled? Will the new planning powers to be conferred on the elected mayor deliver change and what should the WMCA's land commission's priorities be?
Karl Tupling: I can't remember a time when we've actually had more money and opportunity with a government which has placed housing right at the top of the agenda. We can either spend a lot time working out how to weave that into a devolution deal or get on with building pipelines.
Amanda Tomlinson: When it comes to housing, what we've been lacking is some sort of masterplan or big strategic plan regionally. Each local authority will have its own specific housing development plans but the potential to link up what we do with housing on a much bigger plain is great. There's an annual need nationally of around 200,000 homes while we recently launched the garden city for Black Country which will deliver 45,000 homes up to 2020 although that still doesn't meet the need. It's great having these individual plans but linking it to the super economic plan is essential.
Kevin Rodgers: The overheating of the housing market and the crash that everyone's now forgotten about was driven by too much demand and not enough supply and for me the opportunities are around supply. In the West Midlands, it's not easy. We can calculate how many thousands of homes we need but then you say 'where are they going to be built?'. It's always politically poisonous as the easiest place to build is in the areas where you've never built before.
Karl Tupling: Broadly speaking, across the country something like 80 per cent of new homes are delivered by 20 or so of the largest housebuilders, meaning the remainder are built by small companies. If we to achieve the level of growth which is required, we have to find a way of harnessing the wealth of local and regional SMEs and locking them into a commitment to take on apprentices.
➤ HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INTEGRATION
Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell is to oversee the delivery of a five-year blueprint to transform health and social care. How will this initiative feed into the role of the WMCA and what benefits should be sought?
Jeremy Vanes: One of the positives, in terms of the scale of the combined authority, is the ambulance service is already there and has been for years so we have a perfectly natural and organised system. The five-year forward plan for the NHS is vague but it does say we need to get on and do some transformative stuff otherwise we'll run out of money even more than we are doing currently. The NHS in the region is very good at delivery and we have some world-class organisations here. But the NHS is run by an elite group of civil servants directly accountable to the secretary of state or the regulator. We're not very good and visible in normal political circles locally, let alone regionally.
Ann Lucas: The key players missing from this big agenda is the employers. More are getting involved but how many of them have routes so they can get their workers in if there are no buses and what shower facilities do they have? There are some things that are so easy to do but there doesn't seem to be the willingness or acceptance of whether employers can do that.
Peter Axon: The scale and breadth of conversations we're going to have over the next few months are absolutely critical. There's a lot more that needs to be done over the next 12 months to get where we realistically need to be in the partnership agenda. We've spent a lot of time in the NHS in the competition realms but I think now we've moved into a different world and with that creates a different culture and, of course, the hardest thing to shift in life is culture because that's moving hearts as well as minds on.
➤ SKILLS AND INNOVATION
The aspiration is for the WMCA is to create a coherent employment and skills strategy and support the region's science and innovation. How is it best to deliver these two agendas and how should they be linked to allow future growth? What is the role of academic institutions in delivery of this?
Jonathan Browning: There are many pragmatic lessons we see, day in day out, in Coventry and Warwickshire, a lot of it around the automotive sector but also in advanced manufacturing and engineering. There is an awful lot of work on the marketing and branding of apprenticeships to make them more appealing, not just to the individuals themselves but very much among parents. There's a bigger barrier among them than there is with the individuals themselves. As big and as complex as the challenge is, the output has to be that we've made it easier to do business in the West Midlands than it was before we had the combined authority. It cannot become more complex, more impenetrable. It has to be simpler, faster and easier to do business in the West Midlands as a result.
Pam Waddell: I would like innovation to be seen not as a challenge but as an opportunity. The role of the combined authority is to use the region's science and innovation capabilities to solve the challenges the combined authority has. Innovation doesn't just happen in the universities. It happens in all of the organisations we work in such as the NHS and big companies. It's getting those different sectors to work together that is the key.
Ian Oakes: We can't undertake research for research's sake, we have to bring about that knowledge for some kind of business benefit. The term 'skills gap' is used over and over again but it doesn't mean we have no skills or that our system is broken. It just means that, for emerging sectors, we haven't got enough young people or people in employment with the right knowledge to take that forward. One of the reasons we have a skills gap in advanced manufacturing is that, 20 years ago, careers advisers and parents were saying to young people 'Don't go into advanced manufacturing'. Nowadays, it has moved on hugely but we have to make up a lot of lost ground to get that message back into schools.
Suzie Branch-Haddow: Lots of the young population, once they've graduated, will go to the other parts of the world so what's essential for me is employers working with educational institutions in order to grow our own talent as a city and a region. Our professional services sector has not been very good over the years at engaging with young people in various wards and areas of the city so it needs to open up more. We can solve the problems through delivering apprenticeships and employer engagement. Our academy is around two and a half years old and we're starting to see young people, who never even knew our sector existed beore, progress to university or enter our sector. I walked some students recently down Colmore Row to attend a session on networking and they had never been down that street in their lives. If we make that work in this sector, which is quite a traditional one, and grow our own talent, then we can roll it out to all the other key growth areas across the region and actually have something really concrete. It's about staying global but also growing our own local talent.
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Airport facial recognition: What you need to know
9 Jun 2019 by Jenni Reid
The use of biometrics by airlines and airports (not to mention banks, tech firms and governments) is soaring.
International Air Transport Association President Gloria Guevara recently called it the “future of travel”, with 71 per cent of airlines and 77 per cent of airports currently investing in biometric programmes.
Recent years have seen big advances in facial recognition technology, meaning it’s more accessible and effective than ever before – promising numerous new conveniences and impressively futuristic systems, but also raising concerns over privacy and data protection.
Here, we break down what’s going on, and what you should know about it.
‘Biometric’ refers to the analysis of biological data, which could apply to fingerprint matches, iris scans, voice recognition or other measurements of physical characteristics. However, it is facial recognition which is really taking off, and which you’re likely to start encountering more and more.
You’ve probably already used e-passport gates when entering a country – these match the picture in your passport against the face staring into the camera, and read the other information contained in it, such as your nationality. It usually takes between six and ten seconds to do this, and requires you to hold your passport into a scanner to obtain the information, sometimes failing to read it as you do (to the frustration of many a passenger).
New departure systems will work differently, theoretically allowing you to walk through check-in, bag-drop, security and aircraft boarding without showing a passport or boarding pass once (in practice, no airlines are currently offering this, not least because it’s best to check passengers have a passport so they don’t show up in a new country without one).
It works because a database already contains your picture, whether obtained through documents like visas, by submitting it online in advance, or via a booth at check-in. That database must be able to communicate with others, chiefly those that know which passengers should be on which flight, and those that snap pictures of passengers as they move through the airport checkpoints.
The picture is stored as a ‘template’ rather than an actual photograph, creating a kind of map using numerous points on a face. When the picture is taken at the airport, it creates another such template, and cross-references it with the flight database. If it hits the threshold for a match – 90 per cent, for example – the passenger is approved. The whole thing happens very quickly, usually in less than two seconds, and you barely have to glance at the camera for it to capture your image.
Who manages the database will depend on the systems used in each airport or country – it could be the airline, airport or a government agency such as the Transport and Security Administration. How long it is stored for will also vary – some airlines will allow the images to be deleted as soon as you leave the airport. Others plan to keep it stored for months or even a year.
What will it be used for?
Initially you will likely see it in arrival and departure systems as described above, with biometrics used at check-in, bag-drop, security and boarding as well as at immigration on entry.
But there are wider applications. There are already airports in China with screens that scan your face in order to provide information about your flight.
Business Traveller saw several examples of such technology at the Passenger Terminal Expo in London earlier this year, including an eye-level screen displaying gate numbers that highlights yours as you look at it (see our video below for a demo), and a wheelchair that uses facial recognition to identify your gate, drive you there, and then drive itself back to a parking spot.
The @panasonic stand at @PTExpo was fascinating - facial recognition used to highlight your gate number... (1/4) pic.twitter.com/bdAeL0G0ek
— Jenni Reid (@jenni_biztravel) April 16, 2019
One attendee mentioned even further uses, for example in advertising or to locate passengers late for their flights – though these would likely fall foul of regulatory hurdles, at least for now.
Following tests at Amsterdam Schiphol, KLM’s chief executive Pieter Elbers said he has considered using facial recognition technology in airport lifts so that staff can prepare for a passenger’s arrival.
Where can I find these systems?
In as little as five years’ time, it will probably be easier to say where you can’t find them.
The technology is being introduced across the US. In November 2018, Delta launched the country’s first end-to-end to biometric terminal for international departures at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. It worked for several years with the US Transport and Security Administration on the system, which obtains the photographs from a Customs and Border Protection database. Images are stored for a year, officials said, and the system is currently opt-out.
Business Traveller visited the airport on the launch day, and the process was remarkably smooth, approving passengers almost instantly as they glanced at the camera.
Delta plans to make McNamara Terminal in Detroit end-to-end at some point this year, and it has run tests at JFK, Minneapolis-Saint Paul International and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
The US Department of Homeland Security says Customs and Border Protection is working toward implementation of biometric exit technology to cover more than 97 per cent of departing commercial air travellers within the next four years. The government sees it as a key way to “support the homeland security, defence, and justice missions”. For airlines, it’s a way to provide added convenience for passengers.
San Jose Mineta International Airport, Orlando Airport, Miami International, LAX and JFK are just some of the other places introducing their own systems with various airline partners.
There is plenty going on outside of the US, too.
Tokyo Narita aims to introduce a new “One ID” process sometime in spring 2020 that will provide passengers with an end-to-end automated experience, with facial data captured at a self-service kiosk on arrival.
Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru has launched a biometric roll-out, and India’s Civil Aviation Ministry wants other airports to follow suit to tackle long queues.
In Qatar, Hamad International is introducing an end-to-end biometric system, while Dubai International has been working with Emirates on a ‘smart tunnel’ that will allow passengers to pass through immigration checks in 15 seconds.
Cathay Pacific is trialling biometric boarding at Amsterdam Schiphol, while Heathrow says it will roll-out facial recognition at “each point of the departing passenger’s journey” this year, and Gatwick has partnered with Easyjet on its own trial.
We could go on. There are several websites entirely devoted to tracking the latest updates in biometric technology.
Should I be worried about all this?
There are certainly valid concerns about the proliferation of facial recognition technology.
On the one hand, we already acknowledge that we will be closely monitored and give up personal information in order to travel by air. When asked by Business Traveller about possible privacy concerns, a senior US Customs and Border Protection agent pointed out that the only information being given up to these cameras is your face, which is arguably less exposing than showing your flight details and personal data to various individuals.
However, some say that your face is a particularly sensitive piece of data as it cannot be changed, and the growth of biometric systems mean you could start to be identified at any point and for any purpose.
As Matthew Brennan, a writer on tech in China, summarised it in a recent Twitter post: “Your face is a unique identifier, it’s the real-world equivalent of an email address, passport or phone number that can be used to track and identify someone.
“But it’s much more powerful than any of these traditional identifiers as it can never be changed (without surgery) and it doesn’t require the person’s consent. The moment you are on camera is the moment you can potentially be identified by your face and profile data started to be stored about your behaviour.”
As we discussed in our recent feature on biometrics, campaigners have argued that the public has not been consulted on the growing use of such technologies, and warn of dystopian consequences.
The Georgetown Law Centre on Privacy and Technology in Washington DC is one organisation with concerns about its growing use. In a 2018 report, it called biometric airport screening a “solution in search of a problem”, arguing that government agencies had failed to justify its introduction while there were still flaws in the technology.
It also argues that such programmes stand on “shaky legal ground.”
“Congress has repeatedly ordered the collection of biometrics from foreign nationals at the border, but has never clearly authorised the border collection of biometrics from American citizens using face recognition technology,” it states.
The debate taps into a broader one about facial recognition. Because of course, it is not just in airports where this technology is on the rise – serious concerns have been raised about China’s use of the technology to create an unprecedented nationwide surveillance system that can monitor practically every move of a citizen, including persecuted ethnic minorities. While most governments are still relatively secretive about their use of facial recognition in activities such as crime prevention, in China it is used in everything from vending machines to large screens that name and shame jaywalkers.
And it is not just China under the spotlight. Last year, India’s Supreme Court put limits on a government programme that was seeing biometric information being increasingly required to access public and private services, from welfare collection to banking.
Campaigners have also called Amazon’s facial recognition services, which are sold to US police forces, “perhaps the most dangerous surveillance technology ever developed”.
There are huge debates at play here – biometrics may well change the way we pay for things, provide ID, get into buildings and events, check-in at hotels and more.
Its introduction in airports will be less of a sea-change. They are a setting where we already have a fairly low expectation of privacy, and will bring tangible benefits for passengers.
But many passengers will no doubt still be glad that many of the new systems are opt out. It remains to be seen whether they will stay that way.
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California is now entering the fifth year of a major drought. On January 17, 2014, the Governor of California declared a statewide drought emergency. By many measures, 2014 and 2015 have been the worst years of the drought. Based on the U.S. Drought Monitor, as of December 29, 2015, over 95 percent of California’s $43-billion agricultural sector was experiencing severe, extreme, or exceptional drought.
However, in California, exposure to local water shortages, which is what the Drought Monitor measures, are only part of how the drought is affecting farms. California agriculture relies heavily on irrigation, and much of the irrigation water is supplied by large-scale State and Federal water projects that store and transport water across hundreds of miles. Therefore, the degree of drought exposure based on local weather does not fully capture the potential impacts. Many other factors, such as surface water availability, groundwater access and cost, irrigation technology choice, crop insurance enrollment, availability, and water rights, influence the vulnerability of farms to ongoing drought.
With California facing water shortfalls in the driest year in recorded state history, Governor Jerry Brown proclaimed a State of Emergency and directed state officials to assist farmers and communities that are economically impacted by dry conditions.
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Water Rights Programs – State Water Resources
Drought Resources for Farmers – CA Dept. of Food and Agriculture.
Drought Information – Dept. of Water Resources.
California Water Crisis: Curtailments – California Farm Bureau links and information.
U.S. Drought Monitor – a weekly map of drought conditions.
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California Groundwater Data – from the US Geological Survey.
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California's currently in its fifth year of severe drought.
The time period of June 2015-May 2016 has been the 3rd warmest on record for California. California saw 2015 as the warmest year on record.
On January 17, 2014 California State Governor, Jerry Brown, declared a drought state of emergency.
On May 9, 2016, California State Governor, Jerry Brown issued an order to continue water savings as drought persists.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the El Niño event of 2015-16 has dissipated and has opened the door to its opposite: a La Niña.
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How does drought affect surface water?
Careful observation and analysis of the movement and condition of surface water is essential for understanding this resource, especially during times of drought. The California Water Science Center uses a network of over 400 streamgages to collect real-time data on surface water at locations across the state.
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Rejecting Keystone XL would be 'tragedy,' TransCanada exec says
President of energy and oil pipelines Alex Pourbaix said denial of project would mean more oil by rail
by Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press
CALGARY—A denial of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would lead to more oil moving across the continent by rail, an executive with pipeline builder TransCanada Corp. said, calling such an outcome a “tragedy.”
“While we view rail as a complementary short-term solution until more pipeline capacity is brought online, more rail terminals will be built to fill the capacity gap if Keystone XL is not approved,” Alex Pourbaix, president of energy and oil pipelines, told an investor conference.
“And I think it’s a real tragedy if this situation continues indefinitely, as pipelines are obviously much more cost-effective. They are statistically safer and more environmentally friendly to transport oil.”
By the end of 2015, Pourbaix said rail loading capacity in Alberta is expected to double to 800,000 barrels per day—almost as much as the long-stalled Keystone XL pipeline would carry south of the border.
At the same time, Pourbaix said Gulf Coast rail unloading capacity in the United States is expected to exceed 900,000 barrels per day.
All this is happening ahead of a big increase in oilsands production, with Suncor Energy Inc., Imperial Oil Ltd. and Royal Dutch Shell set to collectively add 370,000 barrels per day of new output through new projects in coming years.
TransCanada filed its initial permit for Keystone XL to bring oil to the U.S. Gulf Coast more than five years ago.
The pipeline has become one of the more politically divisive issues south of the border, pitting environmental and landowner interests against national security and economic ones.
Some opponents view the pipeline as a major contributor to global climate change, saying it would enable growth in Alberta’s oilsands.
Others are focused on local concerns over the impact on land and water in the event of a spill.
Pipeline supporters would prefer the U.S. buy its oil from Canada than from unstable regimes elsewhere in the world.
They also point to the jobs and other economic benefits the pipeline would bring.
With Keystone XL and other pipelines mired in regulatory delays, Canadian and U.S. oil producers have been increasingly turning to rail to get their crude to market.
But scrutiny over the safety of that mode of transport has intensified after a series of high-profile events this year.
Most notably, a train laden with oil from North Dakota’s Bakken region crashed into the town of Lac Megantic, Que., this summer, killing 47 people.
Pourbaix said he does see a role for rail to fill the gap until pipelines are built and that TransCanada could look at opportunities in that line of business.
“We are a ways from announcing anything but … we have really ramped up our business development activities working with rail companies and we’re looking at a number of opportunities in that regard,” he said.
Pourbaix said TransCanada has learned from what has been a frustrating Keystone XL experience as it pursues another major project—its $12-billion Energy East pipeline.
Through a combination of new and repurposed existing pipe, TransCanada aims to send more than one million barrels of crude per day to refineries and export terminals in Quebec and New Brunswick.
It expects to file a regulatory application next year.
“I like to think we continue to learn by experience and a lot of the things we’re doing on Energy East, for example, have benefited from our experience in Keystone XL,” said Pourbaix.
A lot of this has to do with how TransCanada deals with communities along the route.
“I cannot tell you how active our team is in getting into these local communities. We spend a lot of time listening, a lot less time talking and we go at it in a very humble manner,” said Pourbaix.
“And I think a lot of those initiatives that we’ve really modified or changed a bit over time are helping us with the support we’re seeing so far. But make no mistake about it—it’s a challenging world.”
As well, Pourbaix says TransCanada will look to share more of the pipeline’s upfront costs with customers so that it’s not on the hook for everything in the event of a delay.
“I don’t think you’ll ever see a situation again where TransCanada is willing to make the commitments that we made on Keystone XL in terms of capital commitments and development costs prior to projects being approved,” he said.
“We’re increasingly seeking to share or place a lot of that cost on our shippers because the costs are just too big and the timeline is such that we think it’s reasonable to share those costs.”
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December 30, 2016 , by NCI Staff
Many gene fusions, including the MLL-AF4 fusion, are formed when pieces from two different chromosomes trade places, known as a translocation.
Researchers have created a long-sought-after mouse model for the most common form of infant leukemia, an aggressive form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) for which prognosis is poor. The model closely mimics how this cancer arises and progresses in humans.
The overall cure rate of childhood B-cell ALL has improved dramatically in recent decades. But this same success has not extended to children under age 1 with the most common type of infant leukemia, an aggressive ALL subtype known as t(4;11) pro-B ALL or MLL-AF4 leukemia. About two-thirds of infants diagnosed with this leukemia subtype relapse or die within 5 years.
For nearly two decades, researchers have been trying to develop a mouse model of this ALL subtype that closely reflects the human disease. This goal may finally have been achieved, reported a research team led by Michael Thirman, M.D., of the University of Chicago, and James Mulloy, Ph.D., of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, November 14 in Cancer Cell.
The new model “provides a giant step forward,” Nancy Zeleznik-Le, Ph.D., of Loyola University Chicago, wrote in an accompanying editorial on the study. In particular, she continued, having an animal model that closely resembles the human disease “may be particularly valuable for studies of therapies directed at this…leukemia with an unfavorable prognosis.”
Overcoming Technical Challenges
In B-cell ALL, the bone marrow makes too many immature B lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell. In patients with the pro-B, or early pre-B, subtype of B-cell ALL, these dysfunctional cells (leukemia cells) are at a very early stage of B-cell development. The leukemia cells eventually crowd out healthy cells in the bone marrow and blood.
The MLL-AF4 subtype of B-cell ALL results from the joining, or fusion, of parts of two separate genes: the MLL gene from chromosome 11 and a gene known as AF4 from chromosome 4. The resulting MLL-AF4 fusion protein is a transcription factor that alters the expression of numerous genes in affected cells.
Leukemias with MLL gene fusions account for about 70% of infant ALL cases and about 6% of ALL cases in older children, and the MLL-AF4 fusion is found in about half of MLL gene fusion cases for both infants and older children with ALL. Infants and older children whose leukemia cells carry MLL fusions have a poor prognosis.
To create the new model of MLL-AF4 leukemia, the researchers had to overcome two key challenges. Their initial attempts to use a type of virus called a retrovirus to transfer the human MLL-AF4 fusion gene into the genome of mouse cells failed because the retrovirus carrying the fusion gene did not replicate well. But when the researchers replaced the human AF4 gene fragment with the slightly different mouse version, Af4, the levels of virus increased 30-fold.
The researchers then put the retrovirus carrying the MLL-Af4 human–mouse fusion gene into blood-forming stem cells from mice and transplanted those cells into laboratory mice. That led to challenge number two: The mice with the transplanted cells developed acute myeloid leukemia, instead of ALL.
To overcome this second challenge, the team tried transferring the retrovirus carrying the MLL-Af4 gene into blood-forming stem cells from humans, instead of into mouse stem cells. The researchers transplanted them into a strain of mouse with a deficient immune system, which permits the growth of human cells that would otherwise be rejected by the mice.
That approach was successful. By 22 weeks after transplant of human stem cells carrying the MLL-Af4 gene, the mice developed leukemia with “hallmarks of classic t(4:11) pro-B ALL,” the authors wrote. These hallmarks included an enlarged spleen, infiltration of leukemia cells into multiple organs, and the presence of specific types of immature B cells in the bone marrow and bloodstream.
All Fusion Partners Not Alike
To further assess whether the leukemia that the mice developed is similar to the human disease, the team compared several molecular features of leukemia cells from the mice with those of leukemia cells from patients with the MLL-AF4 fusion.
These experiments showed that the mouse model closely mirrors molecular aspects of the disease in humans, including the ability of the fusion protein to associate with certain proteins critical for altered gene expression and for leukemia development, targeting of the fusion protein to specific chromosome regions, and distinct gene expression patterns.
The study also provided some possible new glimpses into the human disease.
For example, the MLL gene can have about 80 different gene partners in the MLL fusion leukemias. And it’s not entirely clear whether all leukemias induced by MLL fusions are identical.
To examine this question, the study authors did a comparative analysis of mice with B-cell ALL induced by MLL-Af4 or by a fusion protein encoded by the same MLL gene fragment but fused to a fragment of another gene, AF9. The specific changes in gene expression seen with one MLL fusion partner were different from those seen with another partner, they found, indicating that leukemias induced by MLL fusions to different gene fragments are indeed different.
This is an important insight, the researchers believe.
“Although different MLL-fusion proteins share some common properties, each has its own genetic and biological features associated with particular fusion partner proteins,” they wrote. “These differences could potentially impact response to therapy and highlight the need for models specific to each fusion.”
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Resources and Waste Strategy: a shift in responsibility
21st February 2019 /0 Comments/in Plastics, Sustainable packaging, waste management /by Abbie Brown
The plastic and packaging challenge
In January 2018 Theresa May pledged to eliminate avoidable plastic waste by the end of 2042 in the government’s 25 Year Environment Plan. It was, however, criticised as being vague with no definite plan or policy. Concerns about plastic continued to hit the headlines: ‘Supermarkets flooding UK with 59 billion pieces of plastic packaging a year’; ‘UK plastics recycling industry under investigation for fraud and corruption’; ‘One-third of UK plastic is not easily recyclable analysis shows’. One year later, in December 2018, the government released its Resources and Waste Strategy paper for England, their ‘blueprint for eliminating avoidable plastic waste’, with the hope of being able to tackle these issues.
Key Aims
Ensure producers, rather than councils, pay the full net costs of managing packaging waste
Drive the production of more resource-efficient products
Ensure the export of packaging waste is done in an environmentally responsible way and secure a level playing field between accredited domestic reprocessors and exporters
Ensure it is easier for consumers to know what packaging they can recycle
Stimulate demand for recycled plastic and reduce the use of the single-use plastic
Introduce extended producer responsibility for packaging by ensuring that producers pay the full costs of disposal for the packaging they place on the market
Introduce mandatory labelling on packaging and improved communications (funded by producers)
Introduce legislation to specify a core set of recyclable materials to be collected by all local authorities and waste operators
Invest £3 billion by 2042 on developing new waste infrastructure
Introduce a plastics tax – this tax will apply to plastic packaging containing less than 30% recycled plastic
Set minimum design requirements which consider whole lifecycle impacts and aim to drive the production of more resource efficient products
How will the new regulations impact businesses?
One of the biggest impacts on businesses will be the extended producer responsibility charges on the packaging. ‘Producers’ refer to businesses who place disposable packaging on the market including retailers, supermarkets and manufacturers.
The current system requires companies that handle over 50 tonnes of packaging a year and have a turnover above £2m to comply. Currently, these producers are required to pay approximately 10% of the total cost required to collect and sort waste. They are required to purchase packaging waste recovery notes from UK reprocessors or waste exporters to show that they’ve recovered and recycled a minimum level of packaging waste.
Local authorities foot the remaining 90% of the costs. The proposed changes will require producers to cover the total cost of managing their waste and is also likely to extend to smaller producers. This means not only more producers will be responsible for paying for the cost of recycling and recovering any packaging waste they put on the market, but also that those currently paying should expect fees to increase.
This initiative is also likely to include modulated fees. This means producers will have to pay more if products are harder to reuse or recycle and contain a higher proportion of virgin raw materials, although details of this are reliant on government consultation.
Many other European countries already have extensive producer responsibility schemes where producers fund the collection of key recyclables and pay up to 5 times more than producers in the UK.
This has helped countries such as Germany and Austria to achieve some of the highest recycling rates in the world, at 66% and 55% respectively, according to Eunomia’s ‘Recycling – Who Leads the Way?’ report. The UK, in comparison, has recycling rates of 43%, showing there is significant room for improvement.
Plastics Tax
In addition to the extended producer responsibility scheme which will cover all types of packaging, the government is also set to introduce a new plastics tax that will apply to all plastic packaging that includes less than 30% recycled material. Whilst this is not due to come into effect until April 2022, the paper has outlined that businesses are expected to change their practices before the tax is introduced.
Businesses are already doing this and at present over 72 retailers have voluntarily signed the UK Plastics Pact aiming to ensure 30% average recycled content across all plastic packaging by 2025
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What is the policy missing?
While the government’s Resources and Waste Strategy is a great start to tackling the UK’s recycling and waste issues, many of these policies lack clear timelines and are reliant on several government consultations as shown in the diagram below. However, all businesses should be prepared for a number of changes to come into force by no later than 2023.
Our Waste, Our Resources: A Strategy For England
It is also unclear how new funds from extended producer responsibility and the plastic tax will be used. The government has not outlined whether these taxes will be an additional source of income to councils for funding waste management or if the taxes will replace current funding. There is an urgent need to invest in the UK’s recycling infrastructure if the UK is to cope with an increase in recyclable materials.
At the Whitehall and Industry Group Plastic Waste Reduction and Recycling Workshop it was estimated that even if we continue to export recycling at our current rate, we will still need another 600 tonnes of capacity in the UK.
Whilst the government has committed to spending £3 billion on waste infrastructure by 2042 this seems minimal compared to the £700 million plus currently spent by councils on waste management in England alone per year. There is also no clear guidance on what types of packaging and materials producers should turn to. The government is awaiting a review of bio-based and biodegradable plastics and it is still unclear when the government will put forward a list of core materials to be collected by all authorities.
This lack of guidance puts the onus on businesses to innovate themselves.
How should your business respond?
Despite some of the limitations of the resources and waste policy, we think overall it provides a real opportunity for businesses. As the strategy points out “we use five million tonnes of plastic in the UK every year, nearly half of which is packaging”.
Consumer awareness and customer pressure is growing as the environmental implications of this volume of packaging and plastics are becoming increasingly evident.
In the last two years, we have already seen a boom in re-usable coffee cups, metal straws and bamboo toothbrushes ousting conventional uses of plastic. With the onset of taxes and legislation from the government, now is the time for businesses to reconsider their packaging options, innovate and start future proofing.
We have outlined a four-step approach for businesses to minimise the environmental impact of their packaging-
Firstly, businesses should review what packaging is necessary and what can be phased out
Ecover has invested in refilling stations where customers can save both money and plastic by taking their old bottles to stores to refill washing up liquids, laundry liquids and all-purpose cleaners, thereby reducing the number of plastic bottles produced.
Where it is not possible to reduce or remove packaging businesses should increase the recycled content of their packaging to minimise the amount of virgin material needed
In June 2018 Highland Spring introduced a trial of the UK’s first 100% recycled bottle, labelled eco bottles. Last month in January 2019 it was announced they will now be permanently launched as customers expressed ‘significant desire’ for more eco bottles.
Thirdly, businesses should ensure they procure products which can be easily recycled by customers and staff
Co-op provides clear instructions on how to dispose of packaging with 3 labels – green means widely recycled, black means check your local recycling and black with a cross means not currently recycled. This ensures that products end up in the correct waste streams and help to increase recycling rates.
Finally, businesses should actively help to boost recycling rates by encouraging customers and staff to recycle more
Coca-Cola is investing in several initiatives to help collect and recycle the equivalent of every bottle they sell globally by 2030 – this will mean working with many partners including local communities, NGOs, customers and consumers.
Initiatives like those outlined above both prove to consumers that companies are taking action to use packaging more sustainably and will help future proof against new taxes and charges. For example, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and McKinsey estimated that the FMCG sector could save a potential £650 million in material costs from recycling alone.
The Resources and Waste Strategy has shown that the government is taking our plastics and packaging problem seriously and that businesses should expect the legal requirements around packaging and especially plastics to change rapidly in the near future. It is it now up to businesses to innovate and step up to meet the government’s challenges to help reduce plastic consumption and responsibly deal with waste and its environmental impacts.
You may also like to read: We have a problem and a lot of plastics
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By starting now, you have the chance to get ahead of the legislative curve and address one of the greatest sustainability challenges of our time.
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Scott Morrison has admitted that the controversial $74 childcare subsidies per day is too low
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SOCIAL SERVICES Minister Scott Morrison has conceded that a controversial recommendation to cap childcare subsidies at $74 a day could hurt working families and keep mums out of the workforce. Mr Morrison, who is continuing to work on the federal government's new approach to...
Childcare: New ideas for parents and kids
SBS Insight - March 17, 2015
Ask any parent and they will say childcare is a big concern for families today - especially for new parents who are weighing up the option of returning to work. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the need for child care services is set to increase as the number of children aged 0-12...
Six ways Australia's education system is failing our kids
The Conversation - Rachel Wilson, Bronwen Dalton & Chris Baumann - March 16, 2015
While Australia has recently lifted levels of investment in early childhood education, this investment has not been reflected in high levels of early childhood participation. In Australia, just 18% of 3 year olds participated in early childhood education, compared with 70% on average across the...
Children need chores to teach mastery, responsibility: study
The Australian - Jennifer Breheny Wallace - March 16, 2015
Giving children household chores at an early age helps to build a lasting sense of mastery, responsibility and self-reliance, according to research by Marty Rossmann, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. In 2002, Dr. Rossmann analysed data from a longitudinal study that...
Qld plans opt-in child vaccination laws
SBS News - March 12, 2015
Queensland's government is planning new child vaccination laws, but the opposition wants evidence they will increase vaccination rates. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is planning for opt-in laws allowing childcare centres to ban unvaccinated children from their premises. Ms Palaszczuk...
Status quo is not an option: Scott Morrison
Financial Review - Phillip Coorey - March 12, 2015
Social Services Minister Scott Morrison has indicated he will adopta single, tapered childcare rebate in which low and middle- income earners would be rebated a higher percentage of childcare fees, as recommended by the Productivity Commission. In an interview with The Australian Financial...
Childcare: it's all about politics, and business
Business Spectator - Alan Kohler - March 12, 2015
Australia's childcare operators are on a knife-edge and lobbying hard as new Social Welfare Minister Scott Morrison prepares to reform the subsidy regime for their industry, in response the Productivity Commission's report last October on early child education and care. And some...
Abbott points to Canadian model of early learning but doesn't see the whole picture
The Conversation - Charles E Pascal - March 12, 2015
As a Canadian researcher, it was good to read Prime Minister Tony Abbott's recent reference to my country as justification for investing more in childcare. Unfortunately, he seems to be focusing on only half of what's needed. He said if Australia could shift its low rate of female workforce...
Affinity Education in $75 million equity raising
Financial Review - Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Jake Mitchell - March 11, 2015
Affinity Education Group will launch a $75 million equity raising to fund an acquisition on Thursday. The raising, an accelerated renounceable entitlement offer (AREO) underwritten by Canaccord Genuity and CBA, will be priced at $1.18 a share. Affinity last traded at $1.34. The proceeds...
Preschools seeking $4000 cash boost per child in pre-election commitments
Mosman Daily - March 9, 2015
A CAMPAIGN demanding more money for preschools in NSW believes $4000 a year per child would make it easier for families to access the vital service. Independent preschool providers are calling for increased funding of the sector as part of the A Bigger Slice of the Cake campaign...
Bridging employment gender gap will require more than loosely-framed G20 goals
The Age - Larissa Waters - March 9, 2015
The government's aims to increase women's participation in the workforce, but its goals are not supported by current research, policy initiatives or ideological transformation. With the release of the intergenerational report, we've heard a lot about women and work. The government...
Gender quotas key to curbing pay inequality: Queensland Minister for Women Shannon Fentiman
ABC News (7pm News) - Jessica van Vonderen - March 9, 2015
Gender quotas are the key to addressing pay inequality in Queensland, the state's Minister for Women Shannon Fentiman says. When asked by the ABC about whether the Labor Government should consider "positive discrimination" legislation to close the gender pay gap, Ms Fentiman...
Territory childcare crisis forcing centres to break the law
NT News - Jill Poulsen - March 8, 2015
CHILDCARE centres in the Territory are regularly breaking the law, as the shortage of qualified workers in the NT reaches crisis point. Documents seen by the Sunday Territorian as part of a special investigation into childcare reveal Goodstart centres in the Territory have breached laws...
Samantha Maiden: Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin's goodwill tour means there won't be a farewell visit
Sunday Telegraph - Samantha Maiden - March 8, 2015
Instead, taxpayers are spending more on childcare without clear evidence that women are working longer. Mr Morrison shares these concerns, recently comparing the childcare rebate to the first homeowners’ grant, suggesting it was inflationary and has delivered price gouging by providers...
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Here are 6 places to see great drag in Houston
https://www.chron.com/life/hoffman/article/Ex-radio-personality-recalls-life-in-rock-1772837.php
Ex-radio personality recalls life in rock
Published 5:30 am CDT, Monday, March 24, 2008
Author and former radio personality Dayna Steele's new book, Rock to the Top: What I Learned About Success From The World's Greatest Rock Stars is part self-help, but mostly fun stories about superstars.
Photo: KIRK SIDES
When I moved to Houston back in the '80s, Houston radio had stars up and down the dial.
It seemed every station had a big-time morning show with hosts who were characters and real celebrities around town.
There was Moby, Stevens and Pruett, John Lander and Hudson and Harrigan. Glenn Beck, now a popular TV talk host on CNN, was a hot rock jock in Houston on KRBE.
Of that crew, only Hudson and Harrigan are still on the air in Houston, doing mornings on country KILT-FM.
The most successful woman in radio during the '80s was undeniably Dayna Steele, who did middays on KLOL. No one was more involved in charity events than Steele.
Today, no longer in radio, Steele runs a successful consulting company called Steele Media Services. She is a businesswoman, motivational speaker, mom and, now, author.
Her new book, Rock to the Top: What I Learned About Success From The World's Greatest Rock Stars ($17.95, Brown Books Publishing) is part self-help, but mostly just a ton of fun stories about superstars like Mick Jagger, Sting, Van Halen, David Crosby, Aerosmith and what radio was like "before corporations started buying up all the stations and turning radio from an art form where personalities thrived to a modern business that cares only about the bottom line."
"We were given so much freedom. We were a part of Houston life. We were allowed to be creative. I'm convinced that there was only one station like KLOL in the country. We couldn't have done it in any other city. The way radio is now, all the shows are the same. I think you can take any morning show today, plop it in another city, and nobody would know the difference."
When Steele started giving motivational talks about 10 years ago, she noticed that the question-and-answer session always evolved into KLOL stories and dish about rock stars.
"People would ask how they can start a successful business, and do I know Van Halen? Yes, I know Van Halen ... and lots more rock stars. I had a really great run on radio. When I left radio, I put all those photos and memories in a box in my closet.
"When I decided to write this book, I just went back into that box and dug up a lot of wonderful memories. The book is a combination of business advice and my personal story. I had an incredible life when I was doing the radio show," Steele said.
It took a lot of persistence to write the book, including "stalking poor Gene Simmons until he agreed to do the forward." It took a lot of guts to run some of those photos, too.
"Most of of the pictures are me and rock stars. It's like a history of my and Jon Bon Jovi's hair. But my favorite is the one of me from second grade," she said.
The most famous photo is a Health & Fitness magazine cover from 1996. Steele is naked and seven months pregnant with son Dack. The photo, of course, was a takeoff on Demi Moore's famous pregnant Vanity Fair cover.
"I especially love that photo. It created a lot of attention, mostly because a Houston YMCA banned it from their lobby because they considered it pornography. The person who took the photo went on to make a lot of money taking photos of pregnant women."
She weaves rock-star stories with simple how-to advice in business.
"It's not surprising that the biggest, most successful rock stars are the ones who work the hardest and do the right things to get ahead. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards work harder at their craft than anybody. They do the right things and are always prepared. You don't have to be a rock star for lessons like that.
"For example, I can't tell you how many times I give a business speech and someone comes up to me afterward. We talk a while, and I'll ask for their business card. They say, 'I forgot to bring one.' You should always have your business card and paper and pen. You need to be smart, but you also need to have common sense," she said.
Steele says she doesn't miss doing a radio show, but does long to be behind a microphone when big stories break or a major artist releases "a new piece of music."
"That's when I get a little twinge about radio. But doing it day in and day out? No way. I much prefer running my business and doing field trips with my kids," she said.
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Cincinnati Bengals saga: 90 minutes after Zac Taylor says A.J. Green will play, he misses practice
“I don’t want to speculate what happened,” Zac Taylor said. “I said what I said in the press conference, and then I learned that afterward.”
Cincinnati Bengals saga: 90 minutes after Zac Taylor says A.J. Green will play, he misses practice “I don’t want to speculate what happened,” Zac Taylor said. “I said what I said in the press conference, and then I learned that afterward.” Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2019/11/06/cincinnati-bengals-wr-a-j-green-misses-practice-wednesday/2510369001/
John Fay, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 3:09 p.m. ET Nov. 6, 2019
About 12:30 Wednesday Bengals coach Zac Taylor uttered the words everyone in Bengal-land has been waiting to hear:
“I do think A.J. will play this week.”
That would be A.J. Green, the team’s best player who has been out all year with an ankle injury. An hour and a half later, when practice began, Green was not at practice.
“It came after the walkthrough,” Taylor said. “He went and got some treatment. It just didn’t feel great, so we held him out of practice today. Now, we’ll go just by day-by-day.
“We felt good about the progress he was making. That’s why I said what I said. I didn’t feel like he could practice today. We’ll get through tonight and see where it’s at (Thursday).”
Taylor wouldn’t or couldn’t say if Green had a setback.
“I wouldn’t want to say anything,” Taylor said. “I literally learned when I walked out on the field. We’ll get more information and find out (Thursday).”
Did he get hurt in the walkthrough?
“I don’t want to speculate what happened,” Taylor said. “I said what I said in the press conference, and then I learned that afterward.”
So does this change Green’s status for Sunday?
“I don’t know what it does,” Taylor said. “We’ll go day-to-day and see what we’ve got (Thursday).”
So the saga continues. Taylor began his press conference by saying Green would play.
“He’s been making great progress this week,” Taylor said. “(Last) Wednesday was a good day. Monday was a good day. Now, he’s getting back into the fold. We’ll have a good plan in place for him on Sunday.”
Green, 31, has only played in one game since Oct. 28 of last year. He was limited to nine games by a right foot injury last year. He missed three games with the injury and then re-injured it in his first game back – that required season-ending surgery.
He injured his ankle in the first practice of training camp this year. That injury required surgery, as well. It was speculated that he’d miss four to six weeks at that point. We’re up to 13 weeks.
Coming off an ankle injury, the question isn’t about straight-ahead running so much as cutting – the key to running good routes. But, at the press conference, Taylor said Green was progressing on that.
“A.J. has gotten better every single day I’ve seen him,” Taylor said. “I think he’s making great progress. I don’t want to get too specific. But he’s getting confident, and we’re getting confident.
Then whatever happened Wednesday happened.
ON DALTON: Taylor was asked if Andy Dalton’s mechanics suffered as the team struggled.
“I think Andy competed his tail off,” Taylor said. “He did what he could do to help us win games and be efficient in the passing game. We’re right there in the top 10 fringe of the passing game. Andy did a great job in that regard.”
GLENN UPDATE: It sounds like left tackle Cordy Glenn will not be in the starting lineup Sunday.
“Day-to-day,” Taylor said. “(Wednesday’s) another practice. We still haven’t gotten through a padded practice yet. (Thursday) will be a big day.”
Either John Jerry or Andre Smith will start at left tackle. Smith started the first five games at left tackle before a left ankle injury sidelined him. Jerry started the last three games.
Taylor said John Miller would be back a right guard. Miller missed the last two games with a groin injury.
LAWSON BACK: Carl Lawson, who missed four games hamstring issues, is back. Lawson, one of the team's more dynamic pass rushers, missed Game 3 and 4 with the injury, returned for Game 5, re-injured it and missed the last two games.
“It feels like it’s been a while for him,” Taylor said. “We had a two-minute drill last week, and he had a sack. You thought, ‘who’s that guy.’ The bye came at a good time for us.
“Guys like him got back in the fold.”
GALLERY: Top 100 Bengals players in history
In honor of the NFL's 100th year, here is the countdown of the top-100 players in Bengals history. For the full list: https://bit.ly/2KZxfAV Michael E. Keating
No. 100. Brian Pillman File
No. 99. Dre Kirkpatrick Sam Greene
No. 98. Brian Blados (No. 74) Gerry Wolter
No. 97. Barney Bussey Michael E. Keating
No. 96. Larry Kinnebrew Hoda Bakhshandagi, ASSOCIATED PRESS
No. 95. Carl Zander (No. 91) Michael E. Keating
No. 94. Bruce Reimers (No. 75) Gary Landers
No. 93. Harold Green Michael Snyder
No. 92. Alfred Williams File
No. 91. John Copeland Saed Hindash
No. 90. Darryl Williams Scott Halleran, Getty Images
No. 89. Clint Boling Meg Vogel
No. 88. Jermaine Gresham Jeff Swinger
No. 87. Adam Jones Kareem Elgazzar
No. 86. Rey Maualuga Sam Greene
No. 85. Reggie Kelly Jeff Swinger
No. 84. Eric Steinbach Jeff Swinger
No. 83. Jon Kitna Michael E. Keating
No. 82. Lewis Billups George Rose, Getty Images
No. 81. Reggie Nelson The Enquirer/Sam Greene
No. 80. Dhani Jones Gary Landers, Cincinnati Enquirer
No. 79. Bobbie Williams Jeff Swinger
No. 78. Levi Jones Joseph Fuqua II
No. 77. Kevin Huber Sam Greene
No. 76. Cedric Benson Jeff Swinger
No. 75. Domata Peko Sam Greene
No. 74. Tony McGee Saed Hindash
No. 73. Rufus Mayes (No. 71) Ran Cochran
No. 72. Essex Johnson Ran Cochran
No. 71. Darnay Scott Michael E. Keating
No. 70. Jess Phillips Fred Straub
No. 69. Tyler Eifert Kareem Elgazzar
No. 68. Eddie Edwards Gerry Wolter
No. 67. Robert Geathers Jeff Swinger
No. 66. Doug Pelfrey Phaedra Singelis
No. 65. Eric Thomas Jim Callaway
No. 64. Ross Browner LM, ASSOCIATED PRESS
No. 63. Paul Robinson File
No. 62. Rodney Holman Stephen Dunn, Getty Images
No. 61. Ickey Woods Michael E. Keating
No. 60. Terence Newman Gary Landers
No. 59. Deltha O'Neal Cara Owsley
No. 58. Shayne Graham Jeff Swinger
No. 57. Pat McInally File
No. 56. Louis Breeden Gerry Wolter
No. 55. Rich Braham Jeff Swinger
No. 54. Mike Reid AP
No. 53. Solomon Wilcots AP
No. 52. Brian Simmons Craig Ruttle
No. 51. Stanford Jennings Rick Stewart, Getty Images
No. 50. Tim McGee John Samora
No. 49. Greg Cook File
No. 48. Joe Walter Doug Pensinger, Getty Images
No. 47. Leon Hall Gary Landers
No. 46. Rudi Johnson Steven M. Herppich
No. 45. Dan Ross AP/AL BEHRMAN
No. 44. Vontaze Burfict Kareem Elgazzar
No. 43. James Francis Patrick Reddy
No. 42. Eddie Brown Annalisa Kraft
No. 41. Tommy Casanova Fred Straub
No. 40. T.J. Houshmandzadeh Jeff Swinger
No. 39. Jeff Blake Steven M. Herppich
No. 38. Lee Johnson Michael E. Keating
No. 37. Carlos Dunlap Kareem Elgazzar
No. 36. Terrell Owens Michael E. Keating
No. 35. Bill Bergey Ran Cochran
No. 34. Carl Pickens Gary Landers
No. 33. Dave Lapham File
No. 32. Lorenzo Neal AP/Al Behrman
No. 31. Jonathan Joseph Jeff Swinger
No. 30. Coy Bacon Ed Reinke
No. 29. Bruce Kozerski Annalisa Kraft
No. 28. Jim LeClair Rusty Kennedy
No. 27. Bob Johnson File
No. 26. Charlie Joiner Fred Straub
No. 25. Pete Johnson Michael E. Keating
No. 24. Justin Smith Michael E. Keating
No. 23. Andy Dalton Kareem Elgazzar
No. 22. Cris Collinsworth John Samora
No. 21. Jim Breech Rusty Kennedy, AP
No. 20. Bob Trumpy File
No. 19. Geno Atkins Kareem Elgazzar
No. 18. Carson Palmer Jeff Swinger
No. 17. Takeo Spikes Michael E. Keating
No. 16. David Fulcher Gary Landers
No. 15. Isaac Curtis File
No. 14. Willie Anderson Craig Ruttle
No. 13. A.J. Green Sam Greene
No. 12. James Brooks Glenn Hartong
No. 11. Andrew Whitworth Cara Owsley
No. 10. Reggie Williams File
No. 9. Lemar Parrish Fred Straub
No. 8. Max Montoya File
No. 7. Corey Dillon Craig Ruttle
No. 6. Tim Krumrie File
No. 5. Chad Johnson AL BEHRMAN, AP
No. 4. Ken Riley Dick Swaim
No. 3. Boomer Esiason Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images
No. 2. Ken Anderson File
No. 1. Anthony Muñoz Stephen Dunn, Getty Images
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What Will November Bring?
An intense partisan rift and congressional electoral dynamics set the stage for an intriguing midterm election.
Energized by their hatred of Donald Trump, Democrats are eagerly preparing for the 2018 midterm elections. Republicans see the president’s low approval ratings—and polls that show their party behind—and wonder what they can do to avoid a bloodbath. The downcast, but sober, response: not much.
Modern American politics are polarized and presidential. Devotees of both parties increasingly view the other side as an existential threat to their values, reducing the number of so-called swing voters whose shifts in party allegiance historically have decided elections. The expansion of executive power over decades means that the president, not Congress, now sets the tone of national discussion—and shapes his party’s image. Unless the party openly revolts against its own chief executive, its electoral fate is largely outside of its control.
Consider the fate of moderate Democrats in the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections. Thirty-four House Democrats voted against Obamacare in 2009, yet half of them still lost their reelection bids in 2010. Their Republican-leaning districts were out to punish a party they now vociferously opposed, and their own congressmen’s breaking with the party did nothing to alleviate their anger. By 2014, only four of the 34 remained in the House.
It was more of the same for moderate Senate Democrats in 2014. Republicans had not defeated more than two Democratic incumbent senators in an election since Ronald Reagan’s 1980 victory, in which the GOP gained 12 Senate seats. In 2014, Republicans knocked off five Democratic incumbents, including one from Colorado, a state that President Obama had won in 2012. They picked up four other open seats previously held by retiring Democrats, including another in a state—Iowa—that Obama had won just two years earlier.
Trump is an even more polarizing president than Obama. Gallup reports that his average job approval rating in his first year is at least ten points lower than any of his predecessors’. This has led to Democratic victories throughout 2017, in both special elections like the Alabama Senate race and in regularly scheduled off-year races. Even a recent uptick in Trump’s approval has not pushed his rating above 40 percent. Democrats accordingly lead in the generic ballot polls by an average of 7.8 percent— just about the margin that they need to win back the House.
While individual polls differ greatly on the Democrats’ margin—it ranges from a high of 14 points to a low of five—they largely agree on the correlation between opinions on Trump and partisan proclivities. The most recent ABC/Washington Post poll, for example, gives Democrats a 12-point lead in the generic ballot. It shows Trump backers supporting Republicans by a 90-6 margin and his opponents backing the Democrat by an 88-6 margin. The most recent CNN poll gives Democrats only a five-point lead but has nearly identical numbers among Trump backers and opponents as the ABC poll (88-7 GOP among Trump backers, 85-10 Democrat among Trump opponents). Republicans will gain many more votes if they can improve Trump’s numbers than they will by trying to improve their paltry share among Trump opponents.
Congressional Republicans’ effort to run a separate party-branding effort will be complicated by the very different incentives facing their House and Senate candidates. The House GOP majority rests on 23 Republican-held seats in congressional districts that Hillary Clinton won in 2016. These seats are either in heavily Hispanic areas of Texas or South Florida or well-educated and affluent suburbs of large cities. The voters that GOP candidates need to hold on to these seats are those who voted for Romney in 2012 and Clinton in 2016. Data from the Voter Study Group show that Romney-Clinton voters tend to be more culturally moderate, pro-immigration, and pro-trade than Trump voters. A House-centric strategy, therefore, would downplay those issues and emphasize policy areas that dominated prior campaigns—taxes and defense, for example.
The playing field is different for Senate GOP candidates, who have an historic opportunity to gain seats from Democrats in states that Trump won with landslide margins. Five Democratic Senate seats are up for reelection in states—Montana, North Dakota, West Virginia, Missouri, and Indiana—that Trump carried by margins ranging from 19 to 41 points. Four other Democratic seats are at stake in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Florida, states that Trump won narrowly. Only one Republican up for election—Nevada’s Dean Heller—holds a seat in a state that Clinton carried. Trump support has held up in most of these states: a September poll showed Trump approval above or close to 50 percent in Florida and in all five heavily Trump districts in which the Democrats hold seats. The Senate GOP incentive, therefore, is to motivate Trump backers from all parties to vote. That means stressing jugular issues like building the wall and protecting American jobs.
So far, it looks like Trump is pursuing a Senate-focused party-branding effort. The brief government shutdown was caused by a dispute over immigration and the border wall. Discussions about what to do with the so-called Dreamers will continue throughout the winter. The president has also announced punitive tariffs on some Chinese imports, and more tariff decisions loom. Trade will dominate political discussion in the spring, when the renegotiation of NAFTA is scheduled to conclude. Both issues alienate moderate suburbanites but energize rural and small-town Republicans and Trump-friendly Democrats.
Republicans will need that energy in November. Both 2017 election results and poll data show that Democrats are much likelier to vote than Republicans and Trump Democrats. If the enthusiasm gap holds, Democrats could outperform expectations, holding onto shaky Senate seats that would otherwise be lost with a less dramatic turnout. Reducing or eliminating that enthusiasm gap is crucial for Republican hopes—and that means stoking the flames on contentious issues like immigration and trade that drive passions in both directions.
Improved Republican and Trump-Democrat enthusiasm could wind up helping House Republican candidates, too. Some of those Clinton-GOP seats are very close; enthusiasm equality could help keep a few in hand. This will be even more crucial in a second set of seats—districts won by Trump. Democrats hold twelve such seats, and gaining a few of them could protect the GOP House majority. Republicans also hold 12 seats in districts won by Obama and Trump. Holding these rural, less-educated, and poorer districts will require a different focus than maintaining the Clinton-GOP House seats. A Senate-focused strategy might be better-suited to these areas than a more traditional GOP approach.
Republican hopes in Congress ultimately rest on the president. The party’s best hope lies in coordinating a message in line with what Trump is likely to do anyway—emphasizing the populist issues that helped fuel his victory. It might work, but anything else is likely to be drowned out by Trump’s priorities and send a muddled message to the voters whom the party needs if it is to overcome united Democratic opposition.
Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and is an editor at UnHerd.com. He is the author of The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.
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Solutions that work: Positive relationships can counter harmful effects of stress on the brain
poverty, trauma, low-income, toxic stress, brain development, prenatal care, depression, anxiety, violence (Show more tags)
poverty, trauma, low-income, toxic stress, brain development, prenatal care, depression, anxiety, violence
By Nancy Cambria
Nancy Cambria reported this story with the support of the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism and the National Health Journalism Fellowship, programs of USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism.
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Fourth-grade classmates Rayell Hickman (left) and Kendal Bolden decorate the desk of his sister Jamyla Bolden at Koch Elementary School in September. Jamyla was killed in a drive-by shooting on Aug. 20, 2015, while doing her homework inside her mother’s bedroom.
There’s hope for fighting toxic levels of stress in children — hope you can actually see in brain scans from research conducted by St. Louis psychiatrist Joan Luby.
In scientific terms, the images show that children’s brain development can be sheltered from the ravages of trauma, such as violence, abuse and poverty.
In more human terms, the brain scans show that positive relationships with parents, family and others can protect and heal.
Luby’s research at the Washington University School of Medicine has documented that children in poverty without that support have smaller volumes in parts of their brain dealing with stress management, learning and executive decisions. Children in the same stressful circumstances, but with positive supports, have normal-sized brains.
It’s a concept that has been reinforced through other research. Children and adults cope with stress better when they have developed emotional resilience. And that resilience is built through positive relationships.
That kind of support can lower a child’s abnormal output of stress hormones — a key biological threat to health and development.
The takeaway for parents is a hopeful one: When stress threatens the well-being of children, simple, proven techniques work. It’s a message that has relevance to all parents, regardless of neighborhood or income level.
Ruth Coleman got a crash course in stress when she, her husband and her four children were in the midst of losing their Warrenton home to foreclosure. They were forced to move into a mobile home in a rural town.
But thanks to a referral from her youngest son’s Early Head Start program, they were already taking a parenting class that offered techniques to help the family cope.
She said the class gave them strategies to keep perspective and maintain a sense of humor. So, when her youngest children, ages 4 and 8, started loudly arguing over a banana during an interview, she let it slide because, “it’s not going to make a hill of beans whether they were fighting over a banana today.”
Coleman said she now lets her youngest son direct his play with her. Letting him make the rules took away power struggles and enabled her to better bond with him — a key factor in keeping toxic levels of stress at bay.
Ultimately, child advocates in St. Louis say toxic stress is a preventable health problem here — with adequate public and civic investment.
St. Louis has programs and initiatives dealing with toxic stress. But only 30 percent of the children in the region in need of mental health and behavioral support get it, according to a survey by the St. Louis Mental Health Board.
Investment has been further hindered by biases against the poor, who are likely to need the services most.
“We are far too likely to point fingers at poor parents and households when they need our help and support,” said Anne Kessen Lowell, the former director of SouthSide Early Childhood Center.
Luby argues this is not rocket science. Solutions have been known for years.
She and others point to a blueprint for combating toxic stress among children and families in St. Louis.
Strengthen family bonds
Unique Davis, 11, of the Old North neighborhood in St. Louis, has a father who went to prison when she was 5. He’s serving an 18-year sentence.
Depression and anxiety are rampant among children who have parents or other loved ones in prison. In Missouri, the number of children with parents in prison is about 48,000, about the population of Chesterfield.
These children worry fiercely about their parents, and vice versa, said Hakee Mitchell, founder and executive director of Assisting Children of Prison Parents, an organization in Ferguson that offers tutoring and mentoring.
In November, the group arranged for Unique to visit her father.
Moments after Unique spotted him in the prison visitors’ room, she ran into his arms. They played cards and talked about the future when her dad would someday be free.
“It’s almost like a sense of calm comes over them,” Mitchell said of the prison visits. “It’s like, ‘OK, I’ve had questions, and now they’ve been answered.’ ”
Know trauma symptoms
Toxic stress and trauma trigger outbursts over incidents that other children handle more easily. From elementary grades through high school, that can lead to suspension or expulsion and possible juvenile court involvement.
Jennings schools Superintendent Tiffany Anderson wants staff and students to understand trauma and ways to de-escalate that stress response.
Under the guidance of Washington University School of Medicine pediatrician Sarah Garwood, the school district received a $60,000 grant from Missouri Foundation for Health to help staff and students better understand trauma and stress.
It is one of many trauma education initiatives taking place locally and statewide in the fields of education, health, youth services and juvenile rehabilitation.
Staff and students are learning how past trauma can be reactivated by triggers such as certain words or smells or confrontation that reminds children of past violence. They focus on tamping down confrontations. The district plans to create safe places in each school for students to work through sudden anger and other painful emotions.
“We’re giving teachers a new framework on how they respond to student behaviors,” said Anthony Robinson, the district’s director of secondary education.
Start before birth
Babies born to depressed or stressed mothers are less likely to receive the nurturing they need. And that hurts brain development when it’s needed most.
It’s why Cynthia Rogers, a psychiatrist and researcher with WU’s School of Medicine, created a program at Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s hospitals that screens new mothers for depression.
In late October, Keonshay Clark, 22, was identified as needing help after she gave birth to her second daughter, DaKodah, at Barnes-Jewish. She needed to find a new place to live within the month.
Social workers at the hospital referred Clark to Nurses for Newborns, a home-visiting program that tracks the health of the baby and supports the mom.
“We are really there to lift them up in their parenting role,” said Melinda Ohlemiller, chief executive at Nurses for Newborns, who said about 40 percent of the new moms they serve test positive for depression.
Empower moms with hope
New moms dealing with toxic stress often feel isolated and hopeless.
Kendra Copanas, chief executive of the Maternal Child and Family Health Coalition, said mothers, particularly in the African-American community, often do not seek help.
Copanas said agencies in St. Louis are trying to break that isolation in unique ways. The maternal child coalition, for example, recently started a “Letters of Love” campaign in which volunteers write letters of congratulations and support to expectant and new moms in stressful situations.
The coalition also hosts a mothers support group. One of the members is Shanette Upchurch, 42, a mother of four from Riverview. Upchurch copes with isolation, depression, debt and a history of abuse. Work is hard. Twenty years ago, Upchurch said she saw firsthand how toxic stress in her life was damaging her children. It was the day she was called to come quickly to the school office. She found her kindergartner throwing desks and chairs in the principal’s office.
Therapy revealed her son had absorbed years of trauma from watching his mother being beaten by a partner. He was exhibiting a “fight or flight” response common to children under intense stress.
Her son is now a high school graduate, employed and an involved dad.
“But it took so much just to get him as a functioning person,” she said.
Five years ago, after her youngest child was born, Upchurch signed up for home-visiting services and therapy, and joined the support group. She said the group changed her outlook on life and parenting. She’s so hooked she convinced her daughter, 19, and her daughter-in-law to join.
“I need to be at these meetings,” she said. “When I come here it’s like family.”
Teach parenting strategies
Some parents never got the nurturing they needed when they were young and have few parenting models, said John Constantino, a psychiatrist and researcher with WU’s School of Medicine. These parents may not know the best ways to fully connect with their own children, particularly amid high stress.
Constantino is managing a federally funded trial program in the St. Louis region to protect children from toxic stress. It uses a specialized parenting education program to train groups of parents with children enrolled in Early Head Start programs.
The program supplies “good enough” parenting tips and teaches praise as a first response. Ultimately the strategies help parents better enjoy their parenting role, and their children’s behavior improves, Constantino said.
“It makes parents more attuned to protect their kids from their stress,” Constantino said.
Coleman, who took the class with her husband amid their foreclosure crisis, said the class taught her the value of simple but focused play time with her children.
“That type of play says, I’ve got this 15 minutes with you,” she said. “No matter what else is going on in my life, you’re my center of attention for this 15 minutes.”
Encourage wellness
One evening a month, Dr. Thomas Kernan takes off his white medical coat and heads into a conference room at an Affinia Health Care clinic to conduct a Mind-Body Skills Group for patients, most of them low-income, dealing with toxic stress.
Kernan, along with a social worker, teaches relaxation and breathing skills, guided imagery and meditation to help patients reduce stress. He said regular relaxation techniques can be as effective as medication to alleviate high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and other maladies.
Kernan is a graduate of the national Center for Mind Body Wellbeing, which has studied the effects of stress relaxation and mindfulness in struggling populations around the world, including refugees. In St. Louis, he said his patients typically have histories of trauma.
“All of these kids and families that I see that are exposed to these toxic effects of stress would benefit from learning some self-care skills to help decrease those effects,” he said.
Kernan goes so far as to hand out to patients a self-recorded, 15-minute CD called “Soft Belly,” which promotes breathing through your belly, mimicking how infants breathe. He tells them to use the CD five times a week.
With his soothing voice and ambient music and ocean waves in the background he asks patients “begin to breathe through your nose and out through your mouth, relaxing and letting go with each exhalation … letting your belly be soft.”
Talk about stress
Wellness programs of all sorts are now considered a necessity for health, particularly among the poor — so much so that the St. Louis Regional Health Commission launched the wellness initiative Alive and Well STL to reduce toxic stress regionwide.
It aims to make the concepts of stress reduction and positive relationships more universally known and practiced in the region. Benefits should ultimately trickle down to children.
Connie Fisher of Mental Health America of Eastern Missouri, who gives stress information training through the initiative, said people still lack basic information on reducing stress. Even 10 to 15 minutes a day of mindfulness — being completely present in the moment — can make a huge difference, she said.
More widely, Alive and Well STL aims to remind everyone they have power to help someone in pain during stressful times. They may not be able to change gun violence or poverty, but the group argues that small words and actions can incrementally make a big difference.
“A big part of this is the availability of caring and loving supportive people around us,” said Joe Yancey, chief executive of Places for People and spokesman for the Alive and Well initiative. “Because the reality is, at the end of the day, my well-being is dependent on the well-being of my neighborhood, of my co-workers, of my child’s school and its families.”
[This story was originally published by St. Louis Post-Dispatch.]
Photos & videos by Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Remove Failure to Respond to CFP Board
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Article 3(f) (15)
Keyword(s): Professionalism; Churning; Misrepresentation; Professional Discipline; Bankruptcy; Suitability; Forgery; Employer Policy Violation; Customer Complaints; Fraud Related to Professional Activity; Unauthorized Transaction; Fitness; Disclosure to Clie
Standard(s) Violated: Article 2.1; 606(a); Article 3(a); 606(b); 201; 607; 406; 102
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional (“Respondent”) violated CFP Board’s Standards of Professional Conduct when he: 1) was the subject of at least five customer arbitrations alleging unsuitability, unauthorized trading, misrepresentation, churning, fraud and violations of both state and federal securities laws; 2) was alleged to have falsified customer account documents; 3) was permitted to resign from his firm due to unacceptable business practices; and 4) filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy.
Keyword(s): Professionalism; Other Ethics; Arbitration; Professional Discipline
Standard(s) Violated: Article 102; 406; 606(b); 607; Article 3(a); 201; 606(a)
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional (“Respondent”) violated CFP Board’s Standards of Professional Conduct when he: 1) sold the major asset of his investment advisory firm for his own benefit and to the detriment of his minority shareholders, who were also investment advisory clients; 2) failed to disclose on his state insurance license renewal application that he had been named in National Association of Securities Dealers (“NASD,” now known as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority or “FINRA”) arbitrations and customer complaints; and 3) engaged in an adulterous relationship with his client while both were married.
Keyword(s): Professionalism; Felony-Tax; Fraud Related to Professional Activity
Standard(s) Violated: Article 102; 607; 606(b); 606(a); Article 3(a); Article 3(c); 201; 406
Summary: Whether a CFP® certificant violated CFP Board’s Standards of Professional Conduct when he: 1) set up a fraudulent tax scheme that he sold to clients; 2) assisted clients in filing false tax returns; 3) was convicted of tax fraud conspiracy felonies; and 4) was convicted of tax fraud felonies for his individual tax returns.
Keyword(s): Diligence; Disclosure to Clients; Fitness; Customer Complaints; Arbitration; Employer Policy Violation; Professionalism
Standard(s) Violated: Article 606(b); 201; 406; 606(a); 607; Article 3(a); 701; 102
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional (“Respondent”) violated CFP Board’s Standards of Professional Conduct when he: 1) failed to clarify his lack of involvement in recommending and endorsing a particular investment to his clients; and 2) executed transactions on a client’s behalf without first confirming that the proper written authorization was in place.
Keyword(s): Diligence; Professionalism; Disclosure to CFP Board; Employer Policy Violation; Professional Discipline; Supervision; Arbitration; Customer Complaints
Standard(s) Violated: Article 406; 606(a); 606(b); Article 3(a); Article 3(d); 607; Article 3(e); 201
Matter Type(s): Client Dissatisfaction; FINRA Discipline; FINRA Arbitration
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional (“Respondent”) violated CFP Board’s Standards of Professional Conduct when he: 1) allowed a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) member firm (“Firm”), of which he was the Chief Compliance Officer, to participate in securities offerings during its suspension without satisfying the requirements of the suspension; 2) allowed a representative of the Firm (“Representative”) to act as a principal when the Representative had been suspended by the National Association of Securities Dealers (“NASD,” now known as FINRA) from acting in any principal capacity; 3) processed commissions from securities offerings through a non-member company; and 4) was subject to three FINRA arbitrations and one state securities division investigation.
Keyword(s): Diligence; Arbitration; Professionalism
Standard(s) Violated: Article Article 3(a); 701; 201; 406
Summary: Whether a candidate for CFP® certification violated CFP Board’s Standards of Professional Conduct when he: 1) did not meet with a client (“Client”) regarding a discrepancy in the number of checks written from the Client’s Cash Management Account, which was later found to involve unlawful activity by the Client’s health care aide; and 2) did not bring the matter to his branch manager’s attention.
Keyword(s): Employer Policy Violation; Misrepresentation; Professionalism; Professional Discipline; Diligence; Fraud Related to Professional Activity
Standard(s) Violated: Article 606(a); 606(b); 406; 102; Article 3(a); 201; 607; 701
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional (“Respondent”) violated CFP Board’s Standards of Professional Conduct when he obtained waivers of Contingent Deferred Sales Charges (“CDSCs”) for approximately 14 customers by claiming that these customers were disabled, when, in fact, they were not.
Keyword(s): Failure to Respond to CFP Board; Failure to Cooperate with Staff; Settlement; Misrepresentation; Professional Discipline
Standard(s) Violated: Article 406; 606(a); 102; Article 3(d); 202; 501(a); 607; 201
Summary: Whether a CFP® certificant violated CFP Board’s Standards of Professional Conduct when she impersonated a client in order to effect a transfer of accounts from one Broker-Dealer to another.
Keyword(s): Diligence; Failure to Respond to CFP Board; Employer Policy Violation; Unauthorized Transaction; Professionalism; Professional Discipline
Standard(s) Violated: Article Article 3(a); 607; 606(a); 201; 701; 406; 606(b)
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Ball & Albanese
by Eimear Lynch
The best hotels, sightseeing, and beaches in Islamorada. Reported by Eimear Lynch.
The only noises you'll hear are the gulls cawing above you–and the flop of a fish as it hits the boat's deck
A hammock’s about all there is on the Moorings Village’s secluded beach.
LAZY LOUNGER A hammock's about all there is on the Moorings Village's secluded beach.
Eat, fish, sleep. That’s the mantra on this tiny key halfway between Miami and Key West, comprising just a few hotels and shops scattered on either side of Highway 1. Here, the real draw is the excellent fishing: Even fledgling anglers can catch something in Islamorada, which holds the title of sportfishing capital of the world.
Roberta Freymann kurta from
the shop at the Moorings ($85).
But that’s for tomorrow. Right now, it’s time for a toes-in-the-sand dinner at the Morada Bay Beach Café. Though locals gossip about duplicitous town restaurants that (horrors!) secretly ship their fish in from the Bahamas, this place definitely doesn’t—the proof is in the superlative tuna tartare (81600 Overseas Hwy.; 305-664-0604; entrées from $21). Sleep at the Moorings Village, a cluster of elegant Cape Cod–style cottages on one of the key’s only true beaches, known simply as Moorings Beach (305-664-4708; doubles from $300), or at Casa Morada, a serene B&B-like hotel helmed by three Ian Schrager alums (305-664-0044; doubles from $299).
The next day will be action-packed, so begin with an indulgence: a fresh-from-the-oven cinnamon bun from Bob’s Bunz (81620 Overseas Hwy.). Then pick up some beach wares from the Moorings’ store, which is full of breezy cotton frocks and sun hats, and from two local boutiques—Wild Lily (81933 Overseas Hwy.; 305-517-9222) and Blue (82229 Overseas Hwy.; 305-517-9225)—both of which carry a sophisticated assortment of cover-ups. Stop into World Wide Sportsman if you’re in need of serious fishing gear (81576 Overseas Hwy.; 305-664-4615).
After all that fishing, sun, and sand, you’ll be craving a margarita ... and a soundtrack of serene island tunes. Acoustic guitarist David Feder, who plays at the Morada Bay Beach Café, shares his ideal mellow-evening mix:
“Tryin’ to Reason with Hurricane Season”
“Jamaica Farewell”
“Redemption Song”
Islamorada Playlist by Conde Nast Traveler on Grooveshark
Have a light lunch of peel-and-eat shrimp or stone crabs at Cheeca Lodge’s oceanfront Tiki Bar (305-664-4651; entrées from $13). At 3 p.m., you’ll board a boat at the hotel’s dock and take a two-hour snorkeling expedition to reefs teeming with rainbow fish and angelfish (305-517-4451; two-hour snorkeling cruise, $50 per person). Then head to Lazy Days to watch the sun set and eat an early dinner of catch of the day prepared “Lazy style”—topped with scallions, tomatoes, and Key lime butter (79867 Overseas Hwy.; 305-664-5256; entrées from $15). After that, you’re in for the ultimate authentic fishing adventure: Get to Robbie’s Marina by 7:30 p.m. to board the Capt. Michael, an industrial barge that takes beer-bellied regulars out on evening excursions. Even beginners will return from the four-hour trip with a few sizable snappers—or mahimahi or grouper, depending on the season (877-664-8498; $40 per person).
There’s plenty to do at the resort for your sleepy last day. The Moorings has a good swimming beach and a tennis court, and Casa Morada offers kayaks, sunrise yoga classes, and courts for both boccie and tennis. Around noon, pick up sandwiches from the Midway Café (80499 Overseas Hwy.; 305-664-2622; sandwiches from $8) and take them to Anne’s Beach, the only sandy public stretch. You can sit at a covered wooden picnic table and watch shorebirds swooping down to the water for lunch; all you’ll hear are their cries, the waves, and the rustling of the palms.
Co-owner, Casa Morada
High Decibel “I love the monthly Full Moon Parties at a restaurant called Morada Bay Beach Café, which is in an old Key West–style home with beautiful wraparound porches and an indoor-outdoor bar. Every one of their parties feels like a beachy Fat Tuesday bash, with a bonfire, people walking on stilts, and even fire breathers. It all ends with a fantastic fireworks show [81600 Overseas Hwy.; 305-664-0604; for party schedule, go to moradabay-restaurant.com].”
Low Decibel “We’re such a skinny island that if you stand in the middle of U.S. 1, you can see both the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. I like starting on the gulf side and boating out into what they call the Back Country, where you can see dolphins and sharks. You can rent a boat through A1A Watersports [305-664-8182; half-day rentals from $249] or go out with a captain from World Wide Sportsman [305-394-7484; four-hour fishing trip, $425 for two people].”
St. Pete Beach’s cheap-chic Postcard Inn on the Beach feels like a retro motel with mod, surfy interiors.
The best places to eat, stay, & shop in six Floridian hot spots:
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London to Paris Cycle
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Thailand Cycling Tour
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3 Peaks Challenge
Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge
Welsh 3 Peaks Challenge
Snowdon Trek
Ben Nevis Trek
Scafell Pike Trek
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My 3 Peaks Challenge by Charlotte Ball
When my husband told me in January that his New Year’s resolution was to climb a mountain I was supportive. One mountain soon tired into three. Little did I know that he planned on dragging me along with him!! So there we were, about to hike over 25 miles of rough and rocky terrain, whilst battling against unpredictable weather conditions throughout and ascending a total of roughly 3500m.
Can't be that hard, can it?
Before I knew it, July had come and it was time to travel to Letchworth and meet the rest of our group (thankfully everyone was really nice). We had a couple of drinks and some food, everyone was feeling positive! The 10 hour drive to Scotland was gruelling, but we tried to get as much sleep as possible to prepare us for the day ahead.
Oh Ben Nevis, what can I say about you. Honestly, the climb was horrible. We faced one of the worst rain storms I've ever seen, constant heavy rain (that was practically horizontal), strong winds and scarce visibility; especially toward the top. About 3/4 of the way I got a pain in my hip and I thought that I wasn't going to finish it. I sat down, caught my breath and took some ibuprofen and my husband told me that we could stop. It was very tempting. But I couldn't, I told myself I could do it. And I did. At the bottom of the mountain we got ourselves some much deserved burgers and slept.
Scafell Pike
A 1am wakeup call is never pleasant, especially when all of your joints hurt and you’re expected to climb a mountain in the dark. The ascent wasn't actually that bad as it was so dark that we could only see as far as our head torches would let us, which made it feel quicker. By the last third of the mountain, the Sun had started to rise and we could see where we were going; a good thing too as there was no longer a path! Just loose boulders and stones! But we made it, and we took our time on the way down to take in all the scenery we'd missed during the night (and because our joints were hurting!)
Mount Snowdon
Last one, we were feeling pretty positive starting Snowdon, two thirds through, one more to go! The weather had cleared and the views were spectacular! I would recommend climbing Snowdon just for them. The ascent was the quickest we had done, but in parts the steepest, at times it was difficult to pull yourself up! We were all shattered and in need of a breather "Just another 10 minutes and we'll take a break" - you said that 15 minutes ago! By the time I'd reached the top of the climb, with a 5 minute climb to the summit I felt like I was dying, one of our leaders told me to look back and appreciate what I had just climbed. It filled me with elation and spurred me along to finish the challenge!
My advice to novice mountain climbers doing the 3 peaks challenge would be to do the 36 hour stint as we did – it's easier, more fun and a whole of a lot let stressful! Plus you can take time to appreciate the scenery, which is gorgeous! Train as much as possible even if it's continuous walking, but make sure to brave all weather conditions. Keep drinking! One of the most important things is to keep yourself hydrated on both the assent and the decent of each mountain. Work as a team, there is nothing worse than being at the back feeling like your slowing everyone down. Encourage your group to keep their spirits up so they can complete their challenge.
I'm extremely thankful to everyone at Challenge Central, without them I never would have been able to complete this challenge; I will never forget their support and guidance.
By Charlotte Ball
info@challengecentral.co.uk
Challenge Central Muddy Lane Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3TB
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Muscles and Management takes an in depth look at all things training and business.
Gerry DeFilippo is a gym owner from northern New Jersey with a business degree in management from Rutgers University. He started his gym/sports performance business during his last semester of business school and almost three years later he runs the day-to-day business aspects of Challenger Strength as well as heading the strength training.
This podcast will take on any and all topics in both strength training, personal fitness and business and welcome the perspective of some of the best coaches and business minds in the industry. Whether you are an aspiring gym owner, athlete or coach you will enjoy all aspects of this podcast as we dive into the "ins and outs," of the sports performance industry as well as what it takes to excel in business.
Episode #17 Improper Use of Unstable Surface Training, Training Pro Athletes and Strength and Speed Training Principles with Jason Spray
https://www.buzzsprout.com/238054/1056798-episode-17-improper-use-of-unstable-surface-training-training-pro-athletes-and-strength-and-speed-training-principles-with-jason-spray
In this episode Gerry welcomes guest Jason Spray. Jason is a former NSCA National Strength Coach of The Year, 15 year strength coach at Middle Tennessee State University and has trained NFL pros like All-Pro Safety Kevin Bayard and Tennessee Titans running back and former Alabama standout Derrick Henry.
Gerry and Jason immediately tackle the topic of unstable surface training and the recent videos that have surfaced involving the training regimen of New Orleans Saints All-Pro running back Alvin Kamara. They both give their joint takes on why unstable surface training is not necessary and should not be a priority, and better alternative to use with athletes if you do need to utilize it.
Then, Jason talks about the key training principles and coaches which have shaped who he is as a strength coach, and talks about the importance of creating a "buy-in," with athletes when they train. All that and more on this episode!
Episode #16 Why I'm Against Unstable Surface Training as a Means of "Sport Specific," Training
https://www.buzzsprout.com/238054/1050074-episode-16-why-i-m-against-unstable-surface-training-as-a-means-of-sport-specific-training
In this episode Gerry goes on a heated and passionate rant about the use of unstable surface training in the world of sports performance and strength and conditioning.
Hear all about the video of a pro athlete that went viral, why Gerry WAS NOT a fan of the way balance training was being emphasized and his scientific breakdown on what is wrong with it and what can be done that better benefits athletes.
This episode retouches on the idea of sport specific training and why trainers and athletes alike should be careful about bringing sports directly into strength training. In addition, Gerry does a breakdown of training transferability to sport, how you can maximize the level of correspondence training has to sport, and why training on an unstable surface is the exact opposite of what an athlete wants to do!
Episode #15 Life of Independent Baseball, Trying to Get Signed, Hitting Data and Analytics and Training with TJ Ward
https://www.buzzsprout.com/238054/1026901-episode-15-life-of-independent-baseball-trying-to-get-signed-hitting-data-and-analytics-and-training-with-tj-ward
In this episode Gerry sits down with TJ Ward. TJ played college baseball at Division 1 University of Hartford having a very successful playing career and leading Hartford to their first conference championship in school history. TJ is now one year removed from his college career and hopeful of getting signed by an affiliate of a Major League Baseball team. He currently balances his baseball playing career in the USPBL while also serving as the hitting coach for Division III Ramapo College in New Jersey.
TJ discusses his college recruiting process, things all players should look for and why no player should ever look down on or shrug off a school no matter how small or unknown.
In addition, he gives great insight on dealing with adversity and failure at the college level and the importance of finding a veteran player to learn from.
Finally, Gerry and TJ get into what has made their training together effective, and finish off with a look at how TJ uses data and analytics both for his own swing and career and in setting lineups and working with college hitters as a hitting coach.
All that and more on this episode!
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Villers-sous-Montrond B&B - Bed and Breakfast - Villers-sous-Montrond Holiday Rentals
Pupillin B&B
Featuring a garden, a bar, and a terrace, La part des anges offers accommodation in Pupillin with free WiFi and garden views. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. If you would like to discover the area, cycling is possible in the surroundings. Lons-le-Saunier is 36 km from La part des anges, while Dole is 37 km away. The nearest airport is Dole - Jura Airport, 51 km from the accommodation.
La Claveline
Arbois B&B
La Claveline offers accommodation in Arbois, 400 metres from Pécauld Château. This bed and breakfast comes with a dining area, a kitchenette with a microwave, and a flat-screen TV. A continental breakfast is available daily at the bed and breakfast. The nearest airport is Dole - Jura Airport, 35 km from La Claveline.
Closerie Les Capucines
Set in a renovated, 17th-century convent, this B&B is in Arbois. You can relax in the garden, by the plunge pool, in the sauna or on the rooftop sun terrace, from where you can watch the stars after nightfall. All of the rooms at Closerie les Capucines have a parquet floor and a contemporary décor. Each room features a TV, a desk and a private bathroom with a hairdryer, bathrobe and free toiletries. A continental breakfast with local jam and honey is included. It is served every morning in the breakfast room and guests can admire the garden views. Free Wi-Fi is provided throughout the property. Free bicycles are available to discover the area and Chamagnole is 23 km from the B&B.
Gîte des Vignes
Arbois B&B & Gite
Flat (65m2) for 4 persons - 2 rooms - 2 bathrooms - american kitchen - calm residential area at 500 m from town center.
Arbois Le 1876
Offering free bikes and a garden, as well as barbecue facilities, Arbois Le 1876 is set in Arbois, less than 1 km from Pécauld Château. Housed in a building dating from 19th century, the apartment is in an area where guests can engage in activities such as hiking and table tennis. This apartment is fitted with 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Dole - Jura Airport, 33 km from the apartment.
Les Pétunias
Hugier B&B & Gite
Old farm in contry's stones from 1870, renovated in the architectural spirit of the region. A quality accommodation(hosting) in a quiet and green rural environment(middle). Ideal starting point for your holidays in Franche-Comté, a peaceful and unforgettable stopping place, to take care of yourself or relax by the pool. Diner on request based on local produce from our garden and the orchard.
Maison d'Hôtes "Les Egrignes"
Cult B&B
Set on a 5-hectare park, Les Egrignes offers accommodation in Cult. Free WiFi is featured throughout the property and free private parking is available on site. The building dates back from the 19th century and offers guest rooms with a seating area. A shared living area with a piano and facilities for making coffee and tea are available. You will find a shared kitchen at the property. Packed lunches can be requested 24 hours in advance and a continental breakfast including homemade jam is served every morning. A range of activities are offered in the area, such as skiing, horse riding and cycling. The bed and breakfast also offers free use of bicycles. Besançon is 23 km from Les Egrignes, while Dole is 31 km from the property. Les Egrignes is 26.5 km from Micropolis Convention Centre. The nearest airport is Dole - Jura Airport, 38 km from Les Egrignes.
Che'Val d'Amour
Écleux B&B
Che'Val d'Amour is located in Écleux, a 2-minute drive from the city centre. You can play pétanque, table tennis or use the board games. The rooms at Che'Val d'Amour have a private bathroom also with a shower. Some feature a terrace and free Wi-Fi access is available in public areas. A continental breakfast is available daily. After breakfast, you can rest in the garden, on the terrace. This guest house offers an outdoor kitchen with barbecue facilities, open from May to September. There is also a shared lounge with boards games for children. Activities in the surroundings are cycling, fishing and hiking. The accommodation is situated 6.1 km from Mouchard and its train station. The property offers free parking and guests can visit the owner's horses.
Che' Val D'Amour
Ecleux B&B
3 Bed and Breakfast - in an old renovated farmhouse in the heart of nature close to the forest - home barn with fireplace and lounge - capacity: 13 people - Che'val Love it also stays in a caravan with a horse
Apartment Rue de Marnay
Chenevrey-et-Morogne B&B & Gite
Apartment Rue de Marnay is located in Chenevrey-et-Morogne and offers barbecue facilities. This apartment provides air-conditioned accommodation with free WiFi. The apartment is equipped with 2 bedrooms, a TV and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a microwave, a fridge, a washing machine, an oven and a stovetop. Besançon is 24 km from the apartment, while Dole is 33 km away. The nearest airport is Dole - Jura Airport, 51 km from Apartment Rue de Marnay.
Domaine de Fontenelay
Gézier-et-Fontenelay B&B
Located in Gézier-et-Fontenelay, Domaine de Fontenelay offers accommodation with an outdoor pool, barbecue facilities and a garden. Complimentary WiFi is available. The units have a fully equipped kitchen with an oven and a microwave. A flat-screen TV and DVD player are available in some units. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. Domaine de Fontenelay offers a children's playground. Ski storage space is available on site and skiing can be enjoyed within close proximity of the accommodation. Besançon is 25 km from Domaine de Fontenelay, while Vesoul is 46 km away. Dole - Jura Airport is 69 km from the property.
Aiglepierre B&B & Gite
Set in Aiglepierre, appartement offers accommodation with a terrace and free WiFi. The property features garden views and is 37 km from Dole. The apartment is fitted with 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a dishwasher, a microwave, a washing machine, a fridge and an oven. There is a garden with a barbecue at this property and guests can go hiking nearby. Besançon is 42 km from the apartment, while Lons-le-Saunier is 46 km away. The nearest airport is Dole - Jura Airport, 37 km from appartement.
Bernard et Denise Dole
Mouchard B&B & Gite
Terraced house to the owner. On the ground floor relaxation area with sofa bed. First floor: kitchen, CH1: 1 bed 2 pl, pl 1 1 bed, CH2: 1 bed 2 pl, bathroom, separate wc. WIFI access. Garden furniture and barbecue. Cleaning fee ( 50). All inclusive. Stage paragliding and spa fitness 10km; balloon to 7 km.
Chambres et Table d'hôtes
Rennes Sur Loue B&B & Gite
Border of the department of Jura, a small village along the river, Loue, a former farm Grandfather, comfortable guest rooms with private bathroom independent. Possible host table every night with the menu, garden vegetables, products and wines.
L'Aumônerie
Liesle B&B & Gite
Cottage in franche comté
Lolotte et Gégé
Audeux B&B & Gite
Situated in Audeux, Lolotte et Gégé features accommodation with a patio and free WiFi. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. A terrace is available on site and hiking can be enjoyed within close proximity of the apartment. Besançon is 14 km from Lolotte et Gégé, while Dole is 47 km from the property. The nearest airport is Dole - Jura Airport, 54 km from the accommodation.
La Villanelle
Pelousey B&B
Located in Pelousey, La Villanelle offers accommodation with a patio or a terrace, free WiFi and flat-screen TV, as well as a garden and a bar. All units are equipped with a microwave, fridge, a kettle, a toaster and coffee machine. All units are air conditioned and include a seating and/or dining area. Continental and buffet breakfast options are available daily at the bed and breakfast. A children's playground can be found at La Villanelle, along with a shared lounge. Besançon is 12 km from the accommodation, while Dole is 47 km away. The nearest airport is Dole - Jura Airport, 56 km from La Villanelle.
Duplex Vauban
Dannemarie-sur-Crête B&B & Gite
Duplex Vauban is set in Dannemarie-sur-Crête and offers a shared lounge. This apartment offers air-conditioned accommodation with free WiFi. The apartment features 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Besançon is 16 km from the apartment, while Dole is 34 km away. The nearest airport is Dole - Jura Airport, 56 km from Duplex Vauban.
Gite 3 étoiles L'appart D'eliot
Pretty cottage 3 stars on the outskirts of Besançon 3 bedrooms, sleeps 7 Very well equipped In the quiet countryside park, wifi
Gite 4 étoiles Le Jardin D'inès
Montferrand Le Château B&B & Gite
Pretty cottage 4 stars on the outskirts of Besançon 3 bedrooms sleeps 6 parking, free wifi
Cabane SPA Insolite
Charnay B&B
Located in Charnay, Cabane SPA Insolite provides accommodation with a balcony and free WiFi. The bed and breakfast comes with 1 bedroom, a fully equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, and 1 bathroom with a shower and free toiletries. A continental breakfast is available daily at the bed and breakfast. Cabane SPA Insolite offers a children's playground. Guests can swim in the outdoor swimming pool, go hiking or cycling, or relax in the garden and use the barbecue facilities. Besançon is 21 km from the accommodation, while Dole is 46 km away. The nearest airport is Dole - Jura Airport, 57 km from Cabane SPA Insolite.
Pom Paille
At the heart of the Jura vineyards, Veronique and Bruno welcome you to their cottages
Le Lac d'Amour
Chissey sur Loue B&B
4 guest rooms in a renovated house in the valley of the Loue
Rosabonheur
Emagny , Besançon B&B
Nearby Besançon, we would host you for charming leg or stay in a xixth century typical country house with a lot of character, elegantly renovated, where old stones mix harmoniously with modern style.
Le Détour
Buffard B&B
Le Détour is a Bed and Breakfast Inn. The guest rooms are located in the outbuilding of a property dating from the beginning of the 17 th Century. This mansion is a perfect retreat in a delightful area in Buffard
Les Jardins de Fraîche Comté
Roset Fluans B&B
Near to the caves of Osselle and of saline royal of Arch and Senans. In 30mn of Dole, 18km of Besançon (20mn), along bike - road. We receive you in a pedagogic farm-garden, with production of our fruits and vegetables, and animals for amenity (hens, ducks, nanny goats). evening with local products on reservation. Activities on Bare place of the garden, nourrissage of the animal. Activities in surroundings Walkings in forest, bike - sort for mailing (Nantes-Budapest), tourism... Fish, equestrian activities in 10km. Besançon, city classified in the worldwide heritage of the UNESCO, its citadel, its historical centre.
La Ferme à L'armure
Pouilley Les Vignes B&B
Farm to Armor is nestled in a charming village of Doubs, Pouilley les Vignes, located 4 km from Besançon. This former farmhouse is restored from a dozen years by a loving couple of old stones and wood, always harmoniously together to warm accommodation and a refined decoration. Farm to Armor has a single room for two to four people and a suite that can accommodate four to six persons.
Au Doubs Repos
Vorges Les Pins B&B & Gite
Located ten minutes from Besancon, between the Doubs and Loue, Doubs At Rest, offers 5 guest rooms in the countryside. Peaceful, hiking, bicycle path, a canoeing kayaking Quingey, fishing, visiting the caves of Ossett, the citadel of Besançon, and Salines Royales. . . . All this before enjoying the local produce and farm (table d'hote). . .
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Bed & Breakfast Eure
Vitot B&B - Bed and Breakfast - Vitot Holiday Rentals
La Grenelle
Houlbec Cocherel B&B
On the edge of Valley Eure, this property has many charme.Arborée, very flowery summer she will reveal his secret: a spring-fed laundry in whose shadow you settle for a relaxing breakfast or a . You can also enjoy a good meal and breakfast: 17 euros per person
La Chambrée des Colombes
Sainte-Colombe-près-Vernon B&B
Located in Sainte-Colombe-près-Vernon in the Upper Normandy region, La Chambrée des Colombes has a garden. The property features garden views and is 42 km from Lyons-la-Forêt. A flat-screen TV is provided. The bed and breakfast offers a terrace. Évreux is 22 km from La Chambrée des Colombes, while Giverny is 18 km away. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 91 km from the accommodation.
Gîte au Charme des Pommiers
Thiberville B&B & Gite
A tidy half-timbered house in a beautiful green area of 5000m ² close to a busy market town.
Le Voltaire
Rouen B&B & Gite
Situated on the ground floor, this apartment is located in Rouen and features free WiFi and free private parking on site. Featuring 2 bedrooms, this apartment has a fully equipped kitchen with kitchenware, coffee machine and washing machine. A living room with a flat-screen TV and DVD player is also provided. Bed sheets and linens are provided. The apartment is 1.8 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. Rouen University Hospital is 2.2 km from Le Voltaire. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 74 km from the property.
La Maison des Douces' Eure
Cierrey B&B
Located in a rural setting, just 10 km from Evreux and 8 km from Pacy-sur-Eure, La Maison des Douces’Eures offers B&B accommodation in Cierrey. The property is surrounded by a wood and often animals such as pheasants, hares and deer can be seen in the area. Accessed by a private entrance, the open-plan accommodation has a private shower room and toilet. You will find a kettle and wardrobe in the room. The bed and breakfast also offers free use of bicycles and games for children. Hiking is a popular activity in the area. Giverny is 20 km from the property and Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport is 79 km away.
La Maison des Douces'eure
Between Pacy sur Eure and Evreux, discover our beautiful countryside, woodland, undulating, orchards and wildlife very present in the environment. We suggest you stay with us in a nice room, stylish, simple and modern. We will be delighted to welcome you and ensure your well-being during your stay. The room is new, access ground floor, separate entrance, Private parking. You will have private toilet and shower room. We are at your disposal to best meet your needs and facilitate your arrival in Normandie
Chambres d'hôtes Le Domaine du Centaure
Villez-Champ-Dominel B&B
Providing garden views, Chambres d'hôtes Le Domaine du Centaure in Villez-Champ-Dominel provides accommodation, free bikes, a garden, a shared lounge and a terrace. There is a fully equipped private bathroom with shower and free toiletries. A continental breakfast is available daily at the bed and breakfast. Guests at Le Domaine du Centaure can enjoy billiards on site, or hiking in the surroundings. Évreux is 16 km from the accommodation, while Giverny is 49 km away.
ROUEN A 10 min du centre ville
Rouen B&B
Located in Rouen in the Upper Normandy region, ROUEN A 10 min du centre ville has a patio. It is situated 2.7 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen and provides free WiFi plus a shared kitchen. The air-conditioned homestay also features a fully equipped kitchen with a dishwasher, a seating area, a washing machine and 1 bathroom with a bath and a shower. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 84 km from the homestay.
Eco-appart Jardin des plantes
Set in Rouen, just 2.7 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Eco-appart Jardin des plantes offers accommodation with a terrace and free WiFi. This apartment comes with 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 82 km from the apartment.
l'Escale de Broglie
Broglie B&B
Situated in Broglie, 43 km from Pont-Audemer, l'Escale de Broglie features a seasonal outdoor swimming pool and free WiFi. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. At l'Escale de Broglie you will find a restaurant serving French cuisine. Guests can relax in the garden at the property. Lisieux is 30 km from the accommodation, while Pont-l?Évêque is 49 km from the property. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 59 km from l'Escale de Broglie.
Appart' Grand Voile
Within 2.8 km of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen and 4 km of Rouen Kindarena Sports Hall, Appart' Grand Voile provides free WiFi and a terrace. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with cable channels, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 84 km from the apartment.
Chambres d'Hôtes Les Hostises de Boscherville
Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville B&B
Les Hostises de Boscherville is a 19th-Century house located in Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville, just 500 metres from Saint-Georges Abbey. You can enjoy the homemade breakfast every morning. The rooms at Les Hostises de Boscherville are decorated in a contemporary style and include a flat-screen TV. Each one also has free Wi-Fi and an en suite bathroom, while some also include views of the abbey. Homemade cakes, marmalade and yoghurts are just some of the items available for breakfast. On Friday, Saturday and public holidays, the hosts can also prepare Normandy specialities for dinner if you reserve in advance. Free private parking, a communal kitchen and a shared lounge are just some of the other facilities available on site. You can also borrow one of the 4 free bicycles or visit Rouen, which is 12 km away.
Les Rives de l'Andelle
Romilly-sur-Andelle B&B
Situated in Romilly-sur-Andelle, 45 km from Évreux, Les Rives de l'Andelle features a garden and free WiFi. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental or a gluten-free breakfast. Les Rives de l'Andelle offers a terrace. Guests at the accommodation can enjoy table tennis on site, or hiking in the surroundings. Rouen is 24 km from Les Rives de l'Andelle, while Forges-les-Eaux is 47 km from the property. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 82 km from the bed and breakfast.
Studio avec jardin dans propriété privée Rouen 5min Armada
Featuring a garden, Studio avec jardin dans propriété privée Rouen 5min Armada provides accommodation in Rouen with free WiFi and garden views. Housed in a building dating from 2019, this apartment is 3.2 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen and 4.4 km from Rouen Kindarena Sports Hall. The apartment also offers a flat-screen TV, a fully equipped kitchenette with a microwave, a seating area, washing machine and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 82 km from the apartment.
Manoir de Captot
Canteleu B&B
This manor house located just a few minutes from Rouen's historic town centre, will enchant you thanks to its charming caracter and home comforts.The three double bedrooms are extremely spacious and boat their own ensuite bathroom.Breakfast, accompanied by home-made preserves, is servied in the dining room. Spacious and secure private parking. Excellent base from wich to explore Rouen's museums,Caen, Bayeux, Honfleur,Giverny, Etretat, Mt-St-Michel etc...... WIFI
La Risloise
Corneville-sur-Risle B&B
La Risloise is situated in Corneville-sur-Risle and offers a shared lounge and a terrace. The accommodation is 47 km from Trouville-sur-Mer. With free WiFi, this bed and breakfast features a satellite flat-screen TV, a washing machine and a kitchen with a dishwasher and microwave. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy hiking nearby, or make the most of the garden. Deauville is 47 km from La Risloise, while Honfleur is 30 km from the property. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 41 km from the accommodation.
Studio au Jardin des Plantes ROUEN
Sotteville-lès-Rouen B&B & Gite
Situated in Sotteville-lès-Rouen in the Upper Normandy region, Studio au Jardin des Plantes ROUEN features a terrace and garden views. It features free WiFi, free bikes, a garden and a restaurant. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Continental and buffet breakfast options are available each morning at the apartment. A bicycle rental service is available at Studio au Jardin des Plantes ROUEN. Rouen is 3.7 km from the accommodation, while Forges-les-Eaux is 46 km from the property. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 82 km from Studio au Jardin des Plantes ROUEN.
Le Brécy B&B Rouen
Offering free WiFi and garden views, Le Brécy B&B Rouen provides accommodation situated in Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville, just 1.1 km from Saint-Georges de Boscherville Abbey. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. Guests at Le Brécy B&B Rouen can enjoy hiking and cycling nearby, or make the most of the garden. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 80 km from the accommodation.
Gite de l'Ancienne Crèmerie du Manoir de l'Aumônerie
Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville B&B & Gite
Featuring a garden and barbecue facilities, Gite de l'Ancienne Crèmerie du Manoir de l'Aumônerie offers accommodation in Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville with free WiFi and garden views. The property, housed in a building dating from 13th century, is 2.1 km from Saint-Georges de Boscherville Abbey. This apartment is fitted with 2 bedrooms, a kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. If you would like to discover the area, hiking is possible in the surroundings. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 81 km from the apartment.
Chambres d'Hôtes Le Pressoir
Located in Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville, Chambres d’Hôtes Le Pressoir is 13 km from Rouen and 9 km from the A150 motorway. It offers a garden, a terrace and free Wi-Fi access. Free bike rental is available on site. With a private entrance, all rooms are individually decorated and feature a wardrobe, an electric kettle and a private bathroom with a shower. Upon request and upon prior reservation, a continental breakfast can be enjoyed every morning at Chambres d’Hôtes Le Pressoir. This property is 15 km from the Botanical Garden in Rouen and 14 km from Rouen-Mont-Saint-Aignan Golf Course. Free private parking is available on site. The owner’s horses can be admired in the area.
La Grenouillère
Gisay-la-coudre B&B
On the road between Paris and Deauville two pretty bed-rooms in an ancient sheep-house.
Clos de Mondetour
Fontaine Sous Jouy B&B
Welcome to the Clos de Mondetour, Bed and Breakfast, near Giverny, in the heart of one of the most beautiful villages of the Vallée de l'Eure. You will love the tranquil, almost idyllic character of this beautiful property situated beside the river. Aude and Gregoire are passionate about old buildings and this is the reflect in the restoration of their XVI century home. They have renovated three bright, well exposed rooms to the highest comfort. Using authentic paint finishes, antiques, family linen and treasures along with refined decorative touches, they have created an overall impression of comfort and charm.
Les Cloches de Corneville
Situated in Corneville-sur-Risle, Les Cloches de Corneville offers accommodation with a garden. This bed and breakfast offers free WiFi. Free private parking is available on site. At the bed and breakfast, the rooms have a wardrobe and a flat-screen TV. The private bathroom is equipped with free toiletries. Les Cloches de Corneville offers a sun terrace. Table d'Hotes can be provided upon prior request. The area is popular for cycling and fishing. Deauville is 37 km from the accommodation, while Honfleur is 27 km away.
Au Moulin de l'Andelle
Pitres B&B
Offering views of the river and of the garden, Au Moulin de l'Andelle is located in Pitres. Free private parking is available on site. Located on the 3rd floor with no lift, the room comes with a seating area and a flat-screen TV. For your comfort, you will find a coffee machine, a microwave and a refrigerator in the room. It is also equipped with a private bathroom featuring free toiletries and a hairdryer. Au Moulin de l'Andelle features free WiFi throughout the property. There is a shared lounge at the property. Rouen is 23 km from Au Moulin de l'Andelle, while Forges-les-Eaux is 46.5 km away. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 80.5 km from the property.
Chateau La Perelle
Campigny B&B
La Perelle is situated near Pont Audemer also known as the "Venise Normande", thanks to the numerous canals making their way through this lovely city. Christophe and Steven will offer you a warm welcome in their residence and will be glad to guide you to the 5 bedrooms - all with en - suite bathrooms, and the nicely decorated living rooms. Based on conviviality and refidement, your need to escape will undoubtedly be fulfilled!
Chambres d'hôtes La Tribu
Quévreville-la-Poterie B&B
Chambres d’Hôtes La Tribu is situated in the centre of Quevreville-la-Poterie, just 16 km from the centre of Rouen, 7 km from A13 motorway. It offers free Wi-Fi internet access and a large garden with a terrace. Accessed by a private entrance, the guest rooms at La Tribu have a view of the garden and include a seating area and a wardrobe. The private bathroom is fitted with a shower, a hairdryer and free toiletries. A continental breakfast with bread, pastries, fresh juice and homemade jam is served every morning at La Tribu. Guests can also enjoy a lunch or dinner with homemade products upon request at least 24 hours before arrival to the property. Extras include a trampoline for children and table tennis. Several restaurants and a shopping centre can be reached within 5 km of the property. Free private parking is available on site and Quevreville-la-Poterie Church is 200 metres from the property. The property is a 1-hour drive from Giverny, Le Havre and Honfleur.
Roulotte des Crins D'or
Hauville B&B & Gite
Ideally situated to explore Normandy, our gypsy caravan like accommodation offers a romantic and memorable holiday break. Fully equipped to accommodate 4 to 5 people, it is located in the Norman Seine River Meanders Nature Park, 300 meters away from the Brotonne Forest (7000 hectares) and close to our thatched farmhouse.
Misaka
Jouy-sur-Eure B&B
Situated in Jouy-sur-Eure in the Upper Normandy region, Misaka has a terrace and garden views. The property, housed in a building dating from 2017, features free WiFi. The bed and breakfast comes with a flat-screen TV. The accommodation is equipped with a kitchen with a microwave and toaster. A continental breakfast is available every morning at the bed and breakfast. Misaka offers an outdoor pool. Barbecue facilities are included and guests can also relax in the garden. Évreux is 16 km from the accommodation, while Giverny is 24 km from the property. Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport is 97 km away.
La Gentilhommière de Normandie - chambres d'hotes de charme
Sainte Barbe sur Gaillon B&B
Rooms of hosts of charm in a residence of 17th and beginning 19th century located at Sainte Barbe sur Gaillon near to Giverny, Lyons la Foret, Evreux, Rouen, Paris and Versailles.
B&B La Gentilhommière de Normandie
Sainte-Barbe-sur-Gaillon B&B
La Gentilhommière de Normandie is located in Sainte-Barbe-sur-Gaillon, a village with half-timbered buildings, a 5-minute drive from shops, bars and restaurants. It features a terrace, a game room and a communal living room with a fireplace. Claude Monet's home and gardens are 22 km away. Providing free Wi-Fi throughout, the property offers rooms with air conditioning, a private bathroom and a garden view. Breakfast is served every morning at La Gentilhommière de Normandie. Regional products can be bought 5 km away at Noes Farm, situated in Saint Aubin sur Gaillon. Guests staying at La Gentilhommière de Normandie can relax in the flowery garden on the sun loungers. Only a 15-minute drive away, you will find Louviers Museum, Gaillard Castle and a sport centre. Aquaval Aquatic Center, a golf club and a horse riding club are also available 5 km from this B&B.
Les Capucines Bleues
Saint Victor De Chretienville B&B
Romantic guest house in Norman property 1850 warm green and serenity guaranteed! breakfast!
La Charterie
Saint Aubin de Scellon B&B
Nestled in the Park, this beautiful mansion surrounded by her old farm buildings half-timbered 18th century, impresses with its harmonious lines and its bell tower perched high.
Ferme de l'Abbaye
Jumieges B&B
Within the loops of the Seine, on the way fruit and close to the Abbey of Jumieges, The Abbey Farm offers guest rooms and a cottage in an old farm surrounded by animals backyard where we again cider and jams as before.
Grand Quevilly Centre Ville
Le Grand-Quevilly B&B & Gite
Grand Quevilly Centre Ville is situated in Le Grand-Quevilly. This apartment has 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests at the apartment can enjoy hiking nearby, or make the most of the garden. Rouen is 6 km from Grand Quevilly Centre Ville, while Forges-les-Eaux is 49 km from the property. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 81 km from the accommodation.
Grand appartement refait à neuf
Located in Le Grand-Quevilly in the Upper Normandy region, Grand appartement refait à neuf features a balcony. This apartment comes with 3 bedrooms, a kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. Rouen is 5 km from the apartment, while Forges-les-Eaux is 49 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 82 km from Grand appartement refait à neuf.
La Barre en Ouche B&B
" Le Chalet " is on bedroom cottage, fully indépendent , private property new construction , area : 50m2 with any confort , the room is on the first floor of et cabin made entirely of wood with a view of nature , very enjoyable and friendly space perfect for a long stay Kitchen indépendent a tut equipment for the résidentds in long stay breakfast served at the ower's garden , parking and the garage secure entry and exit
L'Atelier de Job
La Barre-en-Ouche B&B
Featuring a garden, a bar, and a shared lounge, L'Atelier de Job provides accommodation in La Barre-en-Ouche with free WiFi and garden views. There is a dining area and a kitchenette complete with a dishwasher, a microwave and a fridge. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. L'Atelier de Job offers a terrace. A bicycle rental service is available at the accommodation, while cycling can be enjoyed nearby. Lisieux is 43 km from L'Atelier de Job, while Évreux is 40 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 72 km from the bed and breakfast.
AU MANOIR DE LA BARRE
AU MANOIR DE LA BARRE is set in La Barre-en-Ouche and offers a garden and a terrace. The property has garden views. The bed and breakfast is fitted with a cable flat-screen TV. Lisieux is 43 km from the bed and breakfast, while Évreux is 41 km from the property. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 66 km from AU MANOIR DE LA BARRE.
Les Jardins de l'Aulnaie
2 bed and breakfast of charm close to Giverny, Vernon, Evreux, in an old farmhouse on 1 ha park bordered by a stream. 90km from Paris. 60km from Rouen.
Le Moussel Bed & Breakfast
Lieurey B&B
''Le Moussel'' is the ideal place if you like the countryside and peace and quiet while being able to visit the charming tourist attractions that surround us. A warm welcome awaits you at our cosy Normandy home, we offer modern comforts with a touch of originality to make your stay a happy one. ''Le Moussel'' is within easy reach of the ports of Le Havre, Caen, St. Malo & Cherbourg. From Lieurey you can visit Bernay, Cormeilles, Deauville-Trouville, Harcourt village, Honfleur, Pont Audemer, Le Bec Hellouin, Les Andelys, Lisieux, D-Day beaches, Monets Gardens at Giverny, Rouen
La Ferme des Isles
Autheuil Authouillet B&B & Gite
Conveniently located on the Impressionist trail only 50 minutes West of Paris, 25 minutes from Monet's enchanting home in Giverny where he painted his famed waterlilies, 30 minutes from historic Rouen where Joan of Arc met her tragic fate, and 2 hours from Landing Beach Omaha Beach ,la Ferme des Isles awaits you in a tranquil environment, nestled between earth and water, stone and sky. You can swin in the river or in pur new swiming pool.
Au Temps des Cerises
Under their roof 4 rooms(chambers) d hotes with any comfort, entree independante, toilet, TOILETS has every room(chamber), television WIFI, ROUTED BY ABBEYS, ROUTES FRUITS, BASE OF LEISURE AND GOLF Has 800M, TABLE D HOSTS ON RESERVATION 24€ included wine PROMB: 3NUITS RESERVED AN OFFERED MEAL GREEDY PLATE 15€
La Chaumière
Saint-Martin-Saint-Firmin B&B
Set in Saint-Martin-Saint-Firmin, La Chaumière offers free WiFi, and guests can enjoy free bikes, a garden and a shared lounge. All units comprise a seating area, and a fully equipped kitchen with various cooking facilities, including a dishwasher, a microwave, a fridge and an oven. A continental breakfast is available every morning at the bed and breakfast. La Chaumière offers a hot tub. A barbecue is available on site and hiking can be enjoyed within close proximity of the accommodation. Deauville is 49 km from La Chaumière, while Honfleur is 33 km from the property. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 44 km from the bed and breakfast.
Haras Le Vieux Clos
Le Plessis Grohan B&B
Guest house near Evreux and esquestrian facilities, Normandie. Gîtes de France 4 épis/Charme et Traditions. Typical normand house 10 mn near Evreux, 40 mn Giverny, Castels, Golfs,1h to Paris and Normandy beaches
Chateau Du Landin
Le Landin B&B
Chateau Du Landin is a property dating back to 1756, set in Le Landin, on the edge of Brotonne Forest. Views of the Seine River and Jumièges Lake can be enjoyed while relaxing in the outdoor hot tub, on the terrace. The bed and breakfast also features a fitness room with hot tub and sauna. At the bed and breakfast, the rooms are fitted with a wardrobe, a flat-screen TV and a private bathroom. All guest rooms at Chateau Du Landin come with a seating area. A continental breakfast is served each morning at the property. Bicycles are at guests' disposal for free and cycling is among the activities that guests can enjoy near the accommodation. Rouen and Pont Audemer are both 41 km from the property. The nearest airport is Deauville – Normandie Airport, 65 km from the bed and breakfast.
Appart Privé dans le Château du Landin
Le Landin B&B & Gite
Appart Privé dans le Château du Landin is situated in Le Landin and offers free bikes, a garden and a terrace. This property offers access to a pool table. The apartment features 2 bedrooms, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a hair dryer and free toiletries. A flat-screen TV is available. A continental breakfast is available each morning at Appart Privé dans le Château du Lan. At the accommodation guests are welcome to take advantage of a hot tub. Rouen is 35 km from Appart Privé dans le Château du Landin, while Pont-Audemer is 34 km from the property. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 63 km from the apartment.
Val De La Haye B&B
Our house has two bedrooms all equipped with private entrance and access to the family garden. the dining area allows you to prepare a fast food breakfast can be served according to your schedule. The small dogs are accepted. The rooms are made available from 14:00 until 11:30 the next day.
620 Rue du Coteau Fleuri
Ymare B&B & Gite
Located in Ymare in the Upper Normandy region, 620 Rue du Coteau Fleuri features a terrace and garden views. This apartment provides a 24-hour front desk and free WiFi. This apartment comes with 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. There is a garden with a barbecue at this property and guests can go hiking and cycling nearby. Rouen is 16 km from the apartment, while Évreux is 43 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 88 km from 620 Rue du Coteau Fleuri.
Au Charme Des Pommiers
Thiberville B&B
Furnished room on the second floor of a beautiful house from the 19th (bed 2 people and 1 single bed) and private health adjoining.
Jumièges B&B
15 km from Rouen, near the Abbey of Jumieges, on the road of fruit, you are invited to come and enjoy great peace of the countryside in the Seine valley. Patrice and Marie-Claude welcome you to their authentic timbered home in Norman. Its park with various species consists of a fruit orchard. At the discretion of the flowers of cherry, apple, plum for old varieties, you can stroll. A 18 hole golf course and a leisure complex at 3 km await you. The evening, the breakfast table is based on the cuisine of Normandy (apples, calvados, cream). The breakfast consists of jam made from fruit orchard (plums, raspberries, blackcurrant) on request, sausage (goose rillettes) of fried eggs or omelettes, cheese (Neufchatel or Camembert) . Possibility of reducing of regional products: cider, calvados, knob, Norman aperitif.
Château du Mesnil
La Vieille Lyre B&B
Nicolas and Andre took care fool in the restoration and decoration of this small 19th century castle. Very inspired, it is of exceptional quality. The room is spacious, bright and also offers a very large bathroom and a balcony overlooking a beautiful view of the countryside. In the refined atmosphere, you can also enjoy the heated pool and spa. Bedroom upstairs 1 bed 2 pers. 1.60 x 2 m, large bathroom with toilet. 10,000 m² of enclosed garden with swimming pool and spa, garden furniture and sun loungers. At your disposal, the dining room and lounge owners, with fireplace.
Côté Seine Coté Jardin
Portejoie B&B
Along the Seine, 1hour from Paris, 30mn from Rouen,40mn from Giverny, near the zoological Green house BIOTROPICA,nearby golf Vaudreuil,Gaillon and Les Trois Lacs
Appartement au bord de l'Eure
Léry B&B & Gite
Featuring accommodation with a terrace, Appartement au bord de l'Eure is located in Léry. The property has river and garden views. The apartment features 3 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 2 bathrooms with a shower. A buffet breakfast is available daily at the apartment. There is a garden with a barbecue at this property and guests can go hiking and fishing nearby. Rouen is 28 km from Appartement au bord de l'Eure, while Évreux is 33 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 90 km from the accommodation.
Chateau de Melleville
Évreux B&B
Boasting a swimming pool, a garden and a shared lounge and views of the pool, Chateau de Melleville is situated in Évreux and features accommodation with free WiFi. There is a seating and a dining area in all units. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a buffet breakfast. A terrace is available for guests to use at Chateau de Melleville. Le CADRAN is 5 km from the accommodation. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 109 km from Chateau de Melleville.
La Chaiserie
La Croix-Saint-Leufroy B&B
Located in the heart of the Eure Valley and set in a traditional-style property, La Chaiserie offers a landscaped garden with a vegetable patch and a terrace. It offers 3 guest rooms with parquet flooring and a small holiday home. The rooms and holiday home at La Chaiserie have a private bathroom with free toiletries and a hairdryer. Free Wi-Fi access and an LCD TV are provided. Guests staying in the guest rooms will enjoy a continental breakfast including homemade cakes, pastries and organic, fair-trade products. Breakfast is served every morning until 09:30. Guests staying at the holiday home can order before arrival, a breakfast basket composed of milk, coffee sticks, tea, sugar, butter, fruit juice, jam and crispbreads. The property is located a 10-minute drive from A13 Highway and 15 km from Evreux. Giverny is 30 km away and Aubevoye Train Station is 11 km away.
Gite des Roses eure
Andé B&B & Gite
Rental in Normandy Eure "the house of Roses" has Ande near Louviers two flats and a studio room mil roses in the village center, the Rose cottage in an area of 100 m² with 2 bedrooms on a plot of 800m², the cottage is independent, for 6 people room studio mil independent roses too, for 2 persons, ground floor with shower and toilet, bed 160/200. and the second cottage of washerwoman for 5 people located 300m from the Rose cottage, with 2 bedrooms on a 3000m² of land along the Seine a total of 13 guests
location in the Eure in Normandy on a bed of roses Andé 300m of the mill Andé Gite and bed and breakfast located in the Andes in the Upper Normandy Eure in the heart of the village, the stone cottage in the country of 100 m² 2 bedroom independent of each other on a plot of 800m ², the cottage is fully independent, quiet up to 6 people and a petanque available in the court and a football in the living room and a guest house on the same ground two independent people on the ground floor with walk-in shower and toilet + a small kitchenette
Le Val d'Andé
Le Val Ande guesthouse approved clévacances Prefecture approved three key 3 stars in this charming stable 1873 following the spacious dimensions will seduce you without context
les Gites du Val d'Andé EURE, valley de Seine
Ande has in Eure, three cottages and bed and breakfast. Near Louviers, Giverny, Portejoie, Rouen. eure cottage, stable family following house Rouen, the barn 3 bedrooms Normandy cottages, small 2 bedroom house family following the VAL D'ANDE Eure Seine Valley in the center of the village, in the district historical. The cottages can accommodate 20 people. is the day meed-weel, weekend, week, month. Discount depending on length.
Chambre Du Panorama
Barneville-sur-Seine B&B
Located in Barneville-sur-Seine, Chambre Du Panorama provides accommodation with free WiFi and a garden with a terrace and garden views. The accommodation comes with a flat-screen TV and a private bathroom with shower and a hair dryer, while the kitchenette features a microwave, a fridge and a stovetop. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. Rouen is 35 km from Chambre Du Panorama, while Pont-Audemer is 35 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 64 km from the accommodation.
Chambre d'Hôtes du Panorama
Barneville sur Seine B&B & Gite
In a half-timbered Norman house, one of the most beautiful panorama on the valley of the Seine we you accueillont in our 3 guest houses PANDA.We have 3 rooms(chambers) for 8 persons all in all, every bedroom possesses its shower-room and private toilets. We are in the regionnal natural reserve of the buckles of the Norman Seine.
La Ferronnerie
Barneville sur Seine B&B
Table and Guest House 3 ears GDF. We welcome you to our old press , in Barneville sur Seine, 5 km from the A13 and A28 exit Bourg-Achard, in the Parc Naturel Régional des Boucles de Seine Normande. Our 3 bedrooms have a private bathrooms with and a free WI-FI access. The CHAMPÊTRE bedroom reflects the charm of Normandy. The MARINE bedroom was created on the theme of the and sea includes the materials used in the past to build boats. The CAMAIEU bedroom, on the ground floor is distinguished by the authenticity and nobility of its materials.
Manoir de La Houlette
Saint Pierre du Vauvary B&B & Gite
The Manor of the rod, a unique setting, is 100 km from Paris, 25 km from Giverny, 30 km from Rouen. We offer a large cottage complémtement independent located in a park of 4.5 hectares in French with a magnificent panoramic view over the Seine valley and meanders. The lodge consists of 4 bedrooms + large living Doulas of 55M ² with a fully equipped kitchen. Our spacious guest rooms (about 18m ² room) with private bathrooms offer modern comforts. You'll appreciate the context, the independence of the house and cottages, calm, nature, close to various attractions: Museum of Claude Monet in Giverny, Rouen, PARIS, Deaville ..., shopping centers : Leclerc, Carrefour ... and sports facilities and leisure: The Golf du Vaudreuil, recreational boating center of Lery Laying the Trail of the valley of the Seine ... on site, the accessibility of the train station VAL DE REUIL and Highway A13 (exit No. 18 is 3km). The Manoir de la Houlette Welcome.
Le Prélude
Thevray B&B & Gite
Norman house with half-timberings, dated to 1850 and restored. Located at the heart of the 'Pays d'Ouche' close to Beaumesnil (Normandie-Eure) ...
Le Vaudreuil B&B
Ideally located in the center of the village, 3kms from the A13 motorway, halfway from Paris and the Normandy coast, our guest room can accommodate one to four people. It consists of a living room with sofa bed, a bathroom with shower and a bedroom with a large bed. Its totally independent entrance allows you to come and go as you please.
La Pommeraie
Saint Georges Du Vièvre B&B
In a typically Norman setting: 3 guest rooms in 2 small independent houses.
Gite Cote Cour
Le Vaudreuil B&B & Gite
Between Rouen and Giverny, 1 hour from Paris, the center of the charming village of Vaudreuil, renovated town house furnished with care for 6 people, enclosed courtyard with garden, close to golf courses, boating, site Biotropica, and many sights and activities in the valley of the Eure. 1 bedroom (1 double bed, 1 single bed) 1 bedroom (3 single beds) each bedroom with ensuite shower room.
Studio Meublé face à la gare - 200m du centre ville
Évreux B&B & Gite
Studio Meublé face à la gare - 200m du centre ville is located in Évreux. It is set 1.4 km from Le CADRAN and offers a 24-hour front desk. This apartment is fitted with 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 104 km from the apartment.
LE RELAIS DU BON'EURE
Located in Évreux in the Upper Normandy Region, 1.2 km from Le CADRAN, LE RELAIS DU BON'EURE features a sun terrace and views of the garden. Rooms are equipped with a flat-screen TV. Certain rooms have a seating area to relax in after a busy day. You will find a kettle in the room. Rooms have a private bathroom fitted with a bath or shower. Extras include free toiletries and a hairdryer. There is a shared lounge at the property. The nearest airport is Deauville – Normandie Airport, 80 km from LE RELAIS DU BON'EURE.
Bernay B&B & Gite
Studio is set in Bernay. Lisieux is 31 km from the apartment, while Évreux is 49 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 50 km from Studio.
Domaine du bas Caumont
Caumont B&B & Gite
Gite, chambres d'hôtes, Bed and Breakfast near Rouen, close to Rouen. 5mn from motorway A.13 & A.28. 2:00h Le Mans 2:30h Calais 2:00h Mont St Michel 1:30 Beauvais WIfi, Parking, 7 restaurants in a touristic normand village at the end of the road, near LA BOUILLE. Welcome in Normandy, in an amaizing Valley where big ship cruise to the port in front of us.
Hameau des Essarts
Grand-Couronne B&B
Set in Grand-Couronne, 45 km from Lyons-la-Forêt, Hameau des Essarts offers a garden and free WiFi. Continental and vegetarian breakfast options are available every morning at the bed and breakfast. A barbecue can be found at Hameau des Essarts, along with a shared lounge. Rouen is 14 km from the accommodation, while Évreux is 45 km from the property. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 74 km from Hameau des Essarts.
Zen et Decouverte
Conches En Ouche B&B & Gite
A 1 hour 20 from Paris by car or direct access by train from St. Lazare, discover this beautiful town which is named Norman residence of a nobleman who had enjoyed the place during a pilgrimage to Conques in the Dordogne. The place is notable for its castle, its majestic church. Surrounded by forests, groves, beautiful walks or hikes are open to visitors. The mills along the river Rouloir are unique and serve a pond for them to indulge in fishing activities. The place is famous for its equestrian center hosts more than 90 beautiful horses and thoroughbreds. It is the place of training the elite of the horse.
Les Coteaux de St-Philbert
Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle B&B & Gite
Set in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle, Les Coteaux de St-Philbert features free WiFi, a garden and barbecue. Deauville is 53 km away. Free private parking is available on site. The accommodation features a flat-screen TV and DVD player. Some units include a seating area and/or terrace. There is also a dining area and a kitchen equipped an oven, and a microwave. A toaster, a fridge and stovetop are also available, as well as a coffee machine. Each unit is fitted with a private bathroom with a shower. Towels and bed linen are featured. Free use of bicycles is available at the property and the area is popular for cycling. A selection of activities are offered in the area, such as fishing and canoeing. Honfleur is 39 km from Les Coteaux de St-Philbert, while Rouen is 48 km from the property.
Chambres D'hôtes le clos de la Bertinière
Bosgouet B&B
Located in Bosgouet, Chambres D'hôtes le clos de la Bertinière provides free WiFi, and guests can enjoy free bikes, a garden and a shared lounge. Fitted with a terrace, the units feature a flat-screen TV and a private bathroom with a hair dryer. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. A continental breakfast is available daily at the bed and breakfast. The restaurant at Le clos de la Bertinière serves French cuisine. Rouen is 28 km from the accommodation, while Pont-Audemer is 29 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 60 km from Chambres D'hôtes le clos de la Bertinière.
Home Saint Jacques
Conches-en-Ouche B&B
Set in Conches-en-Ouche, Home Saint Jacques offers accommodation with free WiFi and flat-screen TV, as well as a garden and a shared lounge. There is a private bathroom with shower in all units, along with a hair dryer and free toiletries. A continental breakfast is available every morning at the bed and breakfast. If you would like to discover the area, hiking and cycling are possible in the surroundings. Évreux is 17 km from Home Saint Jacques, while Dreux is 46 km from the property. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 89 km from the accommodation.
Chambre ambiance campagne chic
Freneuse B&B
Chambre ambiance campagne chic is situated in Freneuse and offers a garden and a terrace. The property has garden views. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. Rouen is 18 km from Chambre ambiance campagne chic, while Évreux is 44 km from the property. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 83 km from the accommodation.
les riflets
Featuring a garden and a terrace, les riflets offers accommodation in Conches-en-Ouche with free WiFi and garden views. This property offers access to a balcony. A flat-screen TV with satellite channels and a DVD player are featured. Hiking can be enjoyed nearby. Évreux is 18 km from the bed and breakfast, while Dreux is 47 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 88 km from les riflets.
Le Vert Galant
Normanville B&B
Situated in the eure region in Haute-Normandy, Le Vert Galant is a fine new residence on the edge of a wood with an impressive view of the valley of Iton. Next to the village of Normanville, Le Vert Galant is 1 hour from Paris or Deauville and 30 minutes from Giverny or Rouen.
Rue des Fougeres
Louviers B&B
At Louviers in a town house with garden, you will have a private area of 17m2 one bedroom and a bathroom / WC. The room is equipped with a clear and comfortable bedding (bed adjustable head and foot).
La Maison du Verger
Acquigny B&B
Upstairs : - 1 family suite with 1bedroom (1 king size 140 + 1 baby bed) private bathroom and W.C. - 1 bedroom (1 king size 160 + 1 comfortable sofa bled) private bathroom and W.C.
La Dimière - Appartements de standing en hyper-centre
Louviers B&B & Gite
La Dimière - Appartements de standing en hyper-centre is located in Louviers. Each unit comes with a sofa, a seating area, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, a well-fitted kitchen with a dining area, and a private bathroom with a hair dryer. Fishing can be enjoyed nearby. Rouen is 33 km from the apartment, while Évreux is 25 km away. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 95 km from La Dimière - Appartements de standi.
Le Menillet
Saint Elier B&B
Near Conches-en-Ouche and Evreux, 1 hour from Paris and the Normandy coast, come and enjoy the quiet of the countryside. Near Conches-en-Ouche and Evreux, one hour from Paris and from the Normandy coast, enjoy the calm of the countryside.
Chateau d' Emalleville
Émalleville B&B
Set in a 16-hectare park with an orchard and a French garden next to a castle, the 18th-century Chateau d' Emalleville is 9 km from Évreux. It features tennis court and a heated pool. Each room is individually decorated with exposed beams and period-style furniture. Rooms are located in separate buildings around the French formal garden. They feature views over the gardens or the pony paddocks, and are equipped with a private bathroom. Breakfast is served daily in the dining room with exposed stone walls and large windows opening onto a flowery garden. Guests can also choose between 3 restaurants in Acquigny, 7 km away. Guests can relax in Chateau d' Emalleville‘s living room beside the original fireplace, and with satellite TV and while using the free Wi-Fi. Free private parking is provided. Chateau d' Emalleville is located 30 km from Giverny, 42 km from Rouen and 95 km from Paris.
Le Clos Sainte Hélène
Glos Sur Risle B&B
Le Clos Saint Helena is an authentic Norman house nestled in a park of 9300 m2, ideally situated for walks in the forest of Montfort. The house is equipped with comfortable family suites of 2 rooms with bathroom and toilet. Breakfast is included. a city tax of 0.70 per day per person is payable locally.
Château de Saint Léger
Saint-Léger-de-Rotes B&B
Set in Saint-Léger-de-Rotes, 48 km from Pont-l?Évêque, Château de Saint Léger offers a garden and free WiFi. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. Château de Saint Léger offers an outdoor pool. Guests at the accommodation can enjoy table tennis on site, or hiking in the surroundings. Lisieux is 37 km from Château de Saint Léger, while Évreux is 47 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie, 56 km from the bed and breakfast, and the property offers a paid airport shuttle service.
Chambres du Jardin Fleuri
Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf B&B
Set in Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf, Chambres du Jardin Fleuri offers accommodation with free WiFi and a garden with a barbecue and garden views. The bed and breakfast offers a flat-screen TV and a private bathroom with a hair dryer, free toiletries and bidet. Some units feature a seating area and/or a terrace. Chambres du Jardin Fleuri offers a continental or buffet breakfast. Rouen is 23 km from the accommodation, while Évreux is 46 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 85 km from Chambres du Jardin Fleuri.
Boséjour
Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf B&B & Gite
Located in Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf, Boséjour provides accommodation with a balcony and free WiFi. The accommodation is 42 km from Lyons-la-Forêt. This apartment is equipped with 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a bidet. Rouen is 23 km from the apartment, while Évreux is 47 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 80 km from Boséjour.
Chambre d'hotes de la Vallee
Montaure B&B
Located in Montaure, Chambre d'hotes de la Vallee features accommodation with a private pool, private parking and free WiFi. The property features garden views and is 47 km from Giverny. The bed and breakfast also provides a flat-screen TV and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests can swim in the outdoor swimming pool, go hiking or relax in the garden. Rouen is 31 km from the bed and breakfast, while Évreux is 33 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 94 km from Chambre d'hotes de la Vallee.
Au Paddock du Bec
Le Bec-Hellouin B&B & Gite
Offering a garden, Au Paddock du Bec is situated in Le Bec-Hellouin. Deauville is 48 km away. Free WiFi is provided in some rooms. The accommodation has a seating and dining area. There is also a kitchenette, equipped with an oven, fridge and stovetop. Free private parking is also available at this apartment. Au Paddock du Bec also includes a barbecue. The property also offers packed lunches. Honfleur is 40 km from Au Paddock du Bec. The nearest airport is Deauville – Normandie Airport, 45 km from the property.
F2 47 m2 Caudebec étage 1 SWEET HOME
Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf B&B & Gite
F2 47 m2 Caudebec étage 1 SWEET HOME is located in Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf. The accommodation is 43 km from Lyons-la-Forêt. Rouen is 23 km from the apartment, while Évreux is 44 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 81 km from F2 47 m2 Caudebec étage 1 SWEET HOME.
F2 47m2 Caudebec étage 2 SWEET HOME
F2 47m2 Caudebec étage 2 SWEET HOME is located in Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf. The accommodation is 43 km from Lyons-la-Forêt. Rouen is 23 km from the apartment, while Évreux is 44 km away. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 81 km from F2 47m2 Caudebec étage 2 SWEET HOME.
Le Refuge du Clos du Moulin
Brionne B&B
Le Refuge du Clos du Moulin is 3 km from the centre of Brionne and 18 km from the A28 motorway. With a garden, this property offers a tipi, a yurt and a wooden caravan. Each accommodation type has garden views. Guests have access to shared bathroom facilities. Breakfast is served every morning at Le Refuge du Clos du Moulin. Restaurants can be found 2 kilometres away. This property is 40 km from Lisieux and 42 km from Évreux. Free private parking is available on site.
La Bergerie du Vert Galant
Houetteville B&B & Gite
Near Vert Galant in Houetteville on the banks of the Iton, the Bergerie is an old farmhouse completely restored authentic. Comfortable cottage of 120 m² for up to 10 people. A stay of 35 m² with his family table and open fire. A fully equipped kitchen, 3 bedrooms with large beds, a shower cabin with Hammam and massage.
Mesnil -en-Ouche B&B
Two beautifully decorated rooms with private bathrooms and conveniently located in the heart of the Pays d'Ouche on the road from Paris to Deauville.
Le Pommier Doux
La Haye-Malherbe B&B
Four guest rooms welcome you to Sweet Apple at the heart of the Domaine du Château d'Argeronne (25 ha). Located 30km south of Rouen, Argeronne is ideal for exploring the region, to rest or enjoy nature. Halfway between Paris and Deauville, many sights of Normandy are easily accessible. In a family, a hearty breakfast is served in the dining room overlooking the castle and horses. Besides the riders can come together with their horses.
Soir à Pressoir
Beaumontel B&B
Situated in Beaumontel, 41 km from Pont-Audemer, Soir à Pressoir features a garden and free WiFi. The restaurant at the bed and breakfast specialises in local cuisine. Soir à Pressoir offers a barbecue. Guests can swim in the indoor pool, go hiking or fishing. Lisieux is 45 km from the accommodation, while Évreux is 33 km from the property. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 65 km from Soir à Pressoir.
Le Murmure de la Falaise
Beaumont-le-Roger B&B
Featuring free WiFi, a garden and a sun terrace, Le Murmure de la Falaise offers accommodation in Beaumont-le-Roger, 46 km from Rouen. Beaumont-le-Roger Train Station is 1 km away. Some units include a seating area where you can relax. Every room has a private entrance and bathroom. For your comfort, you will find free toiletries and a hairdryer. Guests will find restaurants in the village or in the surroundings. Many activities are available nearby including a tennis court and an equestrian center. Champ de Bataille Golf and Castle are 15 km from the property. The bed and breakfast also offers bike hire. Lisieux is 41 km from Le Murmure de la Falaise, while Évreux is 27 km away. Bernay is 17 km away.
Gite du Meunier
Bosrobert B&B & Gite
Cottage 4 ears - contemporary style - completely redone - capacity 5 people (possibility 7) - any comfort - nice benefits
L'Anerie du Moulin du Parc
Old nonsense mill (mill XII century)
Manoir d'Hermos
Saint Eloi de Fourques B&B
Sixteenth century manor. Its building was commissioned by Robert de Thumery under Francis I in 1535 and completed in 1550 under Henry II by Claude Ier de Lorraine Duc de Guise, he repeatedly used as hunting lodge to Henry IV. In 1679 a chapel dedicated to St Peter and St Paul was built on the floor. In 1893, the Windsor Industrial English, Hermus make their family estate
B&B - Le Vertbois
La Haye-du-Theil B&B
Set within the woods of La Haye-du-Theil, B&B - Le Vertbois offers a garden, a terrace and a tennis court. An array of activities is available on site, including cycling and hiking. All of the rooms at B&B - Le Vertbois have an independent access and terrace. Each one features an electric kettle and a desk. Breakfast is included in the rate, except for the Chalet, and served each morning in the dining room, in the main building. Dinner can be served at the property, at a surcharge and upon prior request. Restaurants and shops can be found 5 km from the B&B. Free Wi-Fi access is provided throughout at the property. Free private parking is possible on site and Rouen is 35 km from B&B - Le Vertbois.
Petit Manoir du Bosc
La Neuville-du-Bosc B&B
Providing garden views, Petit Manoir du Bosc in La Neuville-du-Bosc features accommodation and a garden. Free WiFi is provided. A continental breakfast can be enjoyed at the property. Évreux is 34 km from the bed and breakfast. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 88 km from the property.
Le Saint Aubin
Amfreville La Campagne B&B
This restored with passion now finds its full prestance.3 rooms. . . 3 styles to accommodate you. Each room has a bathroom and toilet, access indépendant.la decorated in soft tones gives pride to the use of flax, natural fiber whose culture is emblematic in Normandy. Hearty breakfasts and original, everything is implemented for a pleasant and pure relaxation
Pressagny L'orgueilleux B&B
4 miles away from Claude Monet's house in Giverny and from Vernon railway station (direct 45 mn trains to the center of Paris, at Gare Saint Lazare), your B&B stands in a village along the river Seine. Peaceful ancient master house, preserved from any noise or disturbance with its vast tree bordered garden welcomes you suites. Private bathrooms and living rooms,wi-fi, libraries, cupboards, hair dryer, towel-dryer etc.Many castles and museums near by, beautiful landscapes and hiking path by the riverside down the house. English spoken. No smoking, no guest pets allowed. CB Paypal OK.
Le 31 - Gîte La Pacéenne
Pacy Sur Eure B&B & Gite
Nice apartment in the heart of town in Pacy-sur-Eure
Les Chardonnerets
Port Mort B&B
Giverny 18 kms, 10 kms The Andelys, Jacqueline and Gérard you a warm welcome in their modern house in Port-Mort, a village on the Seine. After enjoying the quiet of the night, we will help you start your day with a serving breakfast in the bright dining room or on the terrace when the sun with us. You can: organize your visits by consulting the documentation available, Relax with a game of billiards, petanque, relax in a sun lounger with a good book or magazine, or for athletes play table tennis, take a cardio session.
Le Clos Dormont
Saint Pierre de Bailleul B&B
Clos Dormont welcomes you to a charming property, in a quiet hamlet where you will discover a remarkable view.
attractive guest houses full of charm which a family continuation(suite) with a capacity of 7 persons all in all situated in a big garden afforested with swimming pool expect for you in 20 mn from Giverny, 1 Paris time and 1 hour 15 of the Norman coast(ribs). Every room(chamber) possesses a different theme and is tastefully decorated .La table d'hôte (produced régionnaux) is available on reservation. Gateaux and jams house in breakfast
L'Erabliere
Tosny B&B
The Erabliere, guest house by the river Seine in Normandy, is situated into the landscape of the Impressionnists, between Chateau Gaillard and Giverny.We receive all the year, week and week end (closed in January)
Le Jardin Brodé
St Martin de Boscherville B&B
At the heart of the village, 200m from the Abbey, Jacqueline & Guy share their fenced flower garden & welcome guests to their 18thC. house. The silence is only broken by bird song. Hearty breakfasts served in a vast beamed room with trad. furniture. Gr.floor dble bedrm (140 cm bed), with priv. lounge area, shower rm & wc. Gite au Jardin label.
Le Brécy Chambres d hotes Rouen
ROUEN-St Martin de Boscherville B&B
Bed and Breakfast Rouen Normandy Le Brécy is an elegant manor located on the Norman abbeys road in Seinevalley. Between park and garden, you will stay in a spacious charming bedroom allying the refinement of yesterday and the current comfort. An elegant familyhouse which reflects the french traditional goodtaste for holidays ! “ “Elsewehre but like at home” ! Peacefull. The generous breakfast is offered in the 18th century dining-room. A beautiful charming guesthouse and a nice address near Giverny, Honfleur. For long stay, an appartement with doublebedroom, livingroom with kitchnett
Manoir Le Clos Bonport
Lery B&B
In the valley of the Seine and Eure, the manor house with its distinctive architecture and its large garden with flowers and trees with pool and tennis, welcomes you for a relaxing stay. Near Giverny, Rouen, Louviers, Evreux, many sightseeing. Watersports, golf courses, hiking trails, a few minutes.
Le Logis Normand
Saint Jean de La Lequeraye B&B
You are in their guesthouse of Alain (retired chef) and Marie France Vochelet. You must reserving for dinner. The room is quiet, with views over the countryside. The entrance, bathroom (shower) and toilets are independent.
L'Abbatiale
Bernay B&B
Light, the house is located opposite the museum in the city center .. - 1 single bed, desk, private bathroom - wifi, tv -1 double bed, desk, private bathroom -wifi, tv - 1 suite (living / dining room with sofa , fireplace, private bathroom) - wifi, tv The non-smoking rooms (smoking allowed on the terrace). Pets are not allowed. 1 night for 1 person 50 1 night for 2 people 54 1 night for 3 persons 75
Acquigny B&B & Gite
in a pretty village at the confluence of the Eure and iton and close to the castle of acquigny discover this house with these 5 rooms equipped a kitchenette and a private bathroom.
Le Soleil D'or
Nassandres Sur Risle B&B
Located 130 km from Paris, in Normandy, in the golden triangle-Rouen-Evreux Lisieux, the Soleil d'Or welcomes you in an area of one hectare, bordered by the river Risle. Six cottages are available.
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Harcourt B&B
In a green setting on a beautifully wooded plot of 3700m2, Le Vieux Cadran is a charming Norman property of the 19th century, in the heart of Harcourt Village. Its 2 charming guest rooms, independent of the house, will seduce you with their originality. Ideally located you can visit nearby: the castle of Harcourt, the castle of Le Champs De Bataille, the golf of Le Champs de Bataille, the village of Bec Hellouin (label of the most beautiful villages of France) and its Abbey, the Castle of Beaumesnil ..... Everything is together to spend a pleasant stay
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Marbeuf B&B & Gite
4 rooms with 10 sleeping arrangements: 1 bring to room temperature double bed in the rez of putting on with bathroom and approachable TOILET handicapped, 1 room on the floor with 1 double bed, 1 with 4 simple beds, 1 room with 2 simple beds and 1 bathroom, 1 TOILET
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That’s not usually the case.Hughes holds the USNDT record with 197 points over his two seasons after putting up 86 in 41 games in 2018.Douglas is huge, measuring out at 6, 204 pounds on Tuesday.He’s further weighed down by a weight vest, which seemed like a good idea when he pulled up in his Ford F-150 at 7 a.m.
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Chemist’s rescue mission saved doctoral student trapped in Isis war zone
It sounds like the plot of an action film, but a chemist at a Swedish university organised a daring rescue of her Iraqi doctoral student and his family after they became trapped in an Islamic State (IS) war zone. The rescue took place in 2014 but has only recently come to light.
In 2014, Firas Jumaah was working on supercritical fluid chromatography and mass spectrometry of natural products under the supervision of analytical chemist Charlotta Turner. But in early August that year, Jumaah dropped everything and left for Iraq. His wife and two children had travelled to their hometown in Dohuk in northern Iraq for a family wedding when Isis went on the offensive, threatening the lives of people in that region. ‘My wife was panic-stricken, the actions by IS shocked everyone,’ Jumaah said. ‘I took the first plane there to be with them – what kind of life would I have if something happened to them and I was not there?’
Jumaah and his family are Yazidis, an ethno-religious group that has suffered brutal persecution by Isis who declared them devil worshippers. In August 2014, Isis captured a town in Iraq’s north, forcing 50,000 Yazidis to flee to the nearby mountains. Isis murdered, kidnapped and enslaved many of those remaining in the region. ‘I followed the news and got really worried, thinking about him all the time,’ says Turner.
Together with many other Yazidis, Jumaah and his family were hiding in a disused bleach factory. But food and water were quickly running out in the 45°C summer heat. Gunshots could be heard outside as Isis troops surrounded the town.
‘At that point I had no hope, I was desperate,’ Jumaah told Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio. He sent a Turner a text message, explaining his situation and asking her to remove him from the doctoral programme if he hadn’t returned within a week. ‘I called him – which was weird because it was such a clear phone line even though he was there, in the middle of the war,’ Turner recalls. ‘[Jumaah] was so sad; he sounded like he had given up already.’
Turner was shocked – and furious. ‘What was happening was completely unacceptable, I was so angry that [Isis] had found its way into our world, exposing my doctoral student and his family to this and hindering the research.’ She got in touch with the dean of the chemistry faculty, who put her in touch with the university’s chief security officer, Per Gustafson.
‘He’s very professional,’ says Turner. ‘He’s always ready, behaving like some kind of James Bond and people are almost mocking him because there’s never anything happening – Lund University is a very peaceful place.’
Armed rescue
Within a few days, Gustafson had hired four armed security guards in Iraq. Using two 4x4 vehicles, they reached Jumaah’s hideout on 18 August. Dressed in bulletproof vests, the family endured a six hour ride along tiny mountain roads – all the major roads were closed – to Erbil airport. There, they boarded a plane to Turkey and then on to Sweden.
‘I have never felt so privileged, so VIP,’ said Jumaah ‘At the same time, it was difficult and I felt like a coward because I left my mother and siblings behind.’ Although both his mother and siblings escaped, it took them several years to rebuild their destroyed houses and return to a normal life.
‘After everything that happened, I have friends who believe I was a secret agent, they cannot believe a professor in Lund had the power to rescue a normal doctoral student,’ Jumaah said. ‘People have told me I’m naïve, but I just wanted him home and to be safe in Lund,’ explains Turner. ‘He’s part of my research group – we’re almost like a family.’
Back in Sweden, Jumaah threw himself into his work with renewed energy. ‘When he came back, Firas was a completely different person,’ recalls Turner. ‘He was brilliant, extremely motivated, nothing was difficult anymore.’
Jumaah has now finished his thesis, publishing five papers in the process. His work has contributed to the group’s goal of understanding how vitamin D is stored in the body. He is now working for a pharmaceutical company near Lund and has been granted permanent residency in Sweden as returning to Iraq is not currently an option.
Jumaah and his family are also repaying Lund University for the rescue. Although the exact costs of the rescue haven’t been disclosed, taking the family out overland was the cheaper of several options that included flying the family out in a helicopter.
Turner has stood up for her students on other occasions. At a conference, two Sudanese men threatened her postdoc – also a Sudan national – because of the way she dressed. A complaint to the conference organiser quickly shut them down. ‘To me, it’s totally unacceptable if these kind of things interferes with our research,’ says Turner. ‘In my group we talk a lot about values, that we should respect each other and that we all count as equal. Research has nothing to do with religion or where you’re from.’
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Italian doctors on trial for manslaughter after refusing abortion
More than two-thirds of obstetricians exercise ‘right to object’ to terminations
Hannah Roberts, Marianna Giusti
Seven Italian doctors who refused to perform a potentially life-saving abortion are fighting accusations of manslaughter in a trial that is expected to set a precedent for Italy’s medical attitude towards the procedure.
The trial held in Catania, Sicily, focuses on the circumstances of the death, in 2016, of five-months-pregnant Valentina Milluzzo. Members of Milluzzo’s family, who gave evidence on Tuesday, said that when the 32-year-old was admitted to hospital with complications, doctors said her unborn twins would not survive but refused to terminate the pregnancies on moral grounds, which ultimately led to fatal sepsis. . . [Full text]
Author Project AdministratorPosted on October 28, 2019 December 27, 2019 Categories Abortion, Italy, Lawsuits, NewsTags Valentina Milluzzo1 Comment on Italian doctors on trial for manslaughter after refusing abortion
‘Assisted suicide is not always a crime’: rules Italian court
AFP in Rome
Italy’s constitutional court has ruled it was not always a crime to help someone in “intolerable suffering” kill themselves, opening the way for a change of law in the Catholic country.
Parliament is now expected to debate the matter, which was highlighted by the Milan trial of an activist who helped a tetraplegic man die in Switzerland.
Anyone who “facilitates the suicidal intention … of a patient kept alive by life-support treatments and suffering from an irreversible pathology” should not be punished under certain conditions, the top court ruled. . . [Full text]
Author Project AdministratorPosted on September 25, 2019 December 18, 2019 Categories Assisted suicide, Italy, Law, NewsLeave a comment on ‘Assisted suicide is not always a crime’: rules Italian court
Abortion is legal in Italy, but most doctors refuse to perform them
Public Radio International
Italy legalized abortion 40 years ago. But according to a group of Italian gynecologists, access to the procedure has been declining for years now.
The main reason is that fewer doctors who work in Italy’s public health facilities are willing to perform abortions. Italy’s abortion law requires all hospitals to provide access to the procedure. But the law also gives gynecologists the option to declare themselves “conscientious objectors.”
“For example, in the public University of Rome, we have more than 60 doctors but only two provide abortion, only two,” said Silvana Agatone, a gynecologist in Rome. . . [Full text]
Author Project AdministratorPosted on December 18, 2018 April 19, 2019 Categories Abortion, Italy, NewsTags Silvana AgatoneLeave a comment on Abortion is legal in Italy, but most doctors refuse to perform them
From women’s ‘irresponsibility’ to foetal ‘patienthood’: Obstetricians-gynaecologists’ perspectives on abortion and its stigmatisation in Italy and Cataluña
Silvia De Zordo
This article explores obstetricians-gynaecologists’ experiences and attitudes towards abortion, based on two mixed-methods studies respectively undertaken in Italy in 2011–2012, and in Spain (Cataluña) in 2013–2015. Short questionnaires and in-depth interviews were conducted with 54 obstetricians-gynaecologists at 4 hospitals providing abortion care in Rome and Milan, and with 23 obstetricians-gynaecologists at 2 hospitals and one clinic providing abortion care in Barcelona. A medical/moral classification of abortions, from those considered ‘more acceptable’, both medically and morally – for severe foetal malformations – to the ‘least acceptable’ ones – repeated ‘voluntary abortions’, emerged in the discourse of most obstetricians-gynaecologists working in public hospitals, regardless of their religiosity. I argue that this is the result of the increasing medicalisation of contraception as well as of reproduction, which has reinforced the stigmatisation of ‘voluntary abortion’ (in case of unintended pregnancy) in a context of declining fertility rates. This contributes to explain why obstetricians-gynaecologists working in Catalan hospitals, which provide terminations only for medical reasons, unlike Italian hospitals, do not experience abortion stigma and do not object to abortion care as much as their Italian colleagues do.
De Zordo S. From women’s ‘irresponsibility’ to foetal ‘patienthood’: Obstetricians-gynaecologists’ perspectives on abortion and its stigmatisation in Italy and Cataluña. Global Public Health 2018 Jun; 13(6): 711-123. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2017.1293707. Epub 2017 Mar 5.
Author Project AdministratorPosted on June 1, 2018 February 8, 2019 Categories Abortion, Ethical Commentary, Italy, Journal Article, SpainLeave a comment on From women’s ‘irresponsibility’ to foetal ‘patienthood’: Obstetricians-gynaecologists’ perspectives on abortion and its stigmatisation in Italy and Cataluña
Pro-Abortion Groups Say Christian Medical Professionals Should be Forced to Participate in Abortions
Rebecca Oas
In early August, an international group of abortion advocates met in Uruguay to discuss the potential removal of conscience protections for healthcare providers with regard to abortion.
Religious freedom is an obstacle to women’s health, according to conference organizer International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC). The group encourages advocates to ensure “that professional bodies recognize that personal beliefs can seriously undermine the provision of women-centered, professional health services.” . . . [Full Text]
Author Project AdministratorPosted on August 17, 2017 March 3, 2018 Categories Abortion, Christianity-Catholicism, Ghana, Italy, News, Religious Freedom, UruguayTags International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC), Universal Declaration of Human RightsLeave a comment on Pro-Abortion Groups Say Christian Medical Professionals Should be Forced to Participate in Abortions
UN Censures Italy for High Number of Doctors Who Won’t Perform Abortions
Thomas D. Williams
The Human Rights Committee of the United Nations has censured Italy for failing to provide ready access to abortion throughout the country due to a “high number of physicians” who refuse to carry out the procedure for reasons of conscience.
In its recently released report on Italy (2017), the UN Committee specifically names conscience objection as an obstacle to insuring the availability of abortions throughout the predominantly Catholic nation.
In a section devoted to “voluntary termination of pregnancy,” the Committee notes its concerns over “reported difficulties in accessing legal abortions owing to the high number of physicians who refuse to perform abortions for reasons of conscience and their manner of distribution across the country.” . . .[Full text]
Author Project AdministratorPosted on March 29, 2017 March 5, 2018 Categories Abortion, Italy, NewsTags International Planned Parenthood Federation European Network, United Nations Human Rights Commitee1 Comment on UN Censures Italy for High Number of Doctors Who Won’t Perform Abortions
Italy Needs Abortion Doctors
Barbie Latza Nadeau
ROME — If a woman wants to end her pregnancy in Italy, she has the legal right to do so under the public health system within the first 90 days, or first trimester, of the gestation. The law, known in Italy as Law 194, has been on the books for nearly 40 years, but it has one major flaw, say pro-choice advocates: It allows for doctors, nurses, anesthetists, and other assistants to an abortion procedure to be conscientious objectors. Boiled down, that means that many administrators of hospitals and clinics who do not support the pro-choice law simply hire abortion doctors who object to performing abortions.
The practice of hiring conscientious objectors is all-too-common across Italy. The national estimate of conscientious objectors hired as public health gynecologists mandated to perform abortions is around 70 percent, meaning seven out of 10 doctors can, but won’t, do the procedure. . . [Full text]
Author Project AdministratorPosted on March 6, 2017 March 6, 2018 Categories Abortion, Italy, NewsTags Free Italian Association of Gynaecologists for the Application of Law 194, San Camillo Hospital, Silvana Agatone1 Comment on Italy Needs Abortion Doctors
Italy’s legal loophole saw woman denied abortion by 23 different hospitals
An Italian woman has revealed she was turned away from 23 hospitals in north-west Italy when she was seeking abortion services, highlighting the disconnect between the country’s abortion laws and its Catholic influence.
The anonymous 41-year-old mother of two came forward to share her story in Il Gazzettino after she became pregnant when her contraceptive failed. She was refused an abortion by her gynecologist and her local hospital, and then began contacting other hospitals which also refused to carry out the procedure.
The hospitals said they didn’t have an opening within the 12-week timeframe, or that they didn’t have doctors who were willing to do the procedure. . . [Full text]
Author Project AdministratorPosted on March 6, 2017 March 5, 2018 Categories Abortion, Italy, News1 Comment on Italy’s legal loophole saw woman denied abortion by 23 different hospitals
Surplus of objectors on abortion creates dilemma for Italy
Claire Granglavè
ROME – Although Italy claims to have one of the most sophisticated abortion laws in the world, what it apparently doesn’t have are doctors willing to perform them.
Law 194, signed in 1978 and approved by popular referendum in 1981 over the Church’s stern opposition, allows for the woman wishing to have an abortion to do so within the first 90 days of pregnancy. It also created public counseling facilities for the purpose of providing women with alternatives to abortion.
One of the main aspects of law 194 is that it permits doctors to be conscientious objectors and therefore refuse to terminate a pregnancy. What makes Italy unique is that an overwhelming majority of doctors fall under this category. On average, seven out of ten doctors are conscientious objectors. . . [Full text]
Author Project AdministratorPosted on March 3, 2017 March 6, 2018 Categories Abortion, Italy, NewsTags Catholic Doctors (Italy), Italian Episcopal Conference, San Camillo Hospital1 Comment on Surplus of objectors on abortion creates dilemma for Italy
Catholics decry plans to hire abortionists at Rome hospital
The Christian Times
Jardine Malado
A public hospital’s decision to hire two doctors who are willing to perform abortions have caused an outcry from Catholics in Italy, where most doctors refuse to carry out the procedure.
Under Italy’s “Law 194,” which was introduced in 1978, abortion is allowed up to 12 weeks into pregnancy for medical and personal reasons, AFP reported. However, doctors in the public service may refuse to perform the procedure on grounds of “conscientious objection.”
The issue sparked controversy after the San Camillo hospital in Rome advertised positions for two gynecologists, stipulating that those appointed should be willing to carry out abortions. Those who fail to conduct the procedure within the first six months of their appointment would put themselves at risk of being fired.
Author Project AdministratorPosted on February 28, 2017 March 6, 2018 Categories Abortion, Italy, NewsTags Italian Episcopal Conference, San Camillo Hospital, Science and Life Association1 Comment on Catholics decry plans to hire abortionists at Rome hospital
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President signs measure to increase opioid treatment
The measure also cracks down on opioid trafficking
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President Trump has signed legislation to make medical treatment more widely available to Americans addicted to opioid drugs.
At a time when Democrats and Republicans have mostly been at one another's throats, the two parties in Congress found common ground and passed a law to help curb a problem that is directly linked to 72,000 drug overdose deaths last year.
Under the provisions of the measure, people on Medicaid will have greater access to substance abuse programs. At the same time, the new law will create harsher penalties when people use the U.S. Mail to distribute fentanyl, an opioid that is highly addictive and more powerful than heroin.
The measure also appropriates federal funds to pay for federal grants to states and organizations that are addressing the growing crisis.
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The bill sailed through the Senate on a 98-1 vote last month after the House passed it by a 353-52 margin. Democrats and Republicans fell all over themselves getting in position to co-sponsor the bill. When it finally came up for a vote it had a near-record 252 co-sponsors.
Despite administration efforts to counter the growing opioid epidemic, some Congressional Democrats say it falls short. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) released a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that found the administration had not used all the resources at its disposal to counter the crisis.
"Communities are desperately in need of more help to address the opioid epidemic," Warren said. "President Trump, as this report shows, has broken his promises to do his part."
White House says it's a priority
The White House says the president has “mobilized his entire administration” to address opioid abuse by directing the declaration of a nationwide public health emergency. A year ago the president said his administration was declaring the opioid crisis a public health emergency, authorizing all executive agencies to use every appropriate power to counter the crisis.
In June, Canadian researchers reported that one in five deaths in 2016 was linked to an opioid overdose. The study found that deaths by opioid overdose increased 296 percent overall.
The largest increase in deaths occurred among millennials. In 2001, only 4 percent of opioid-related deaths occurred in this demographic. By 2016, that number had grown to 20 percent.
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We’ll begin by looking at the history of Barcelona and the growth of the city, exploring the work of urban planner Ildefons Cerda, whose 1859 “enlargement” laid out the modern city. With this architectural context as a backdrop, we’ll make our way through the heart of Barcelona to see two of Gaudí's masterpieces: the Casa Milà (also known as La Pedrera), where we’ll explore its fantastical exterior, and the Casa Batlló, on the Block of Discord, where we’ll spend time on its roof and the apartment inside.
During the course of this Gaudí architecture tour, we’ll also look at the works of some of Gaudí’s followers and rivals, including buildings by Puig i Cadafalch and Domènech i Montaner. We will discuss these Modernista architects’ influence on Gaudí, and look at how they wove their unique points of view and inspirations into their finished designs. By the end, we’ll have insight into Barcelona’s aesthetic evolution and what led Gaudí to deliberately construct fantastical buildings that fight against the modern grid.
Please note that this tour does not include Gaudí's Parc Güell or Sagrada Familia. If you are interested in viewing these sites with us, you may enjoy our Sagrada Familia Tour, or our Full-Day Gaudí Barcelona Tour.
Traveling to Barcelona with children? You may enjoy our Barcelona Tour for Kids.
What is a private tour?
Our private tours are limited exclusively to travelers in your party. They are designed to provide a learning experience that is completely tailored to you and your traveling companions. Private tours give you more flexibility with scheduling (you decide when the walk best fits in your trip), the ability to tailor your itinerary (we'll work to match the itinerary to the interests and dynamics of your group), and more personalized time with your guide.
What is a small group tour?
Our small group tours cover many of the same itineraries as our private tours, but they place you with other travelers in groups of 6 or less. They operate on a pre-scheduled calendar, and are designed to provide an opportunity to engage with and learn from other travelers.
Is this tour walking intensive, and/or wheelchair accessible?
We do cover extensive territory on this tour. The interior of Casa Batlló is wheelchair-accessible, and there are also wheelchairs onsite for rental. Please contact us with any questions. We will be happy to advise if this tour will be appropriate for you, and we can also design a private, customized tour for visitors with mobility concerns.
Is this tour appropriate for children?
For young children (ages 3-12) we recommend our shorter Gaudi Tour for Kids, which is led by experts specially trained in educating children.
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Tour Experts
Aya Eliav is a native of Israel who received a Bachelor of Arts from the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem and studied at the Art Academy of Rome. She led Context tours in Rome for several years before relocating to the modernist city of Barcelona. Passionate about architecture, art and design, she constantly searches for the connections and influences between various art forms. In addition to serving as a Context guide, Aya is an international multimedia artist, with works ranging from painting to performance-art, and she also teaches applied art and painting.
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A native of Barcelona, Biel has a degree in art history from the University of Barcelona where he wrote his thesis on Catalan artists. He is active in the Barcelona arts scene, and as Catalan he has tremendous knowledge of the region's history and culture.
Santiago (Santi) has a PhD in Art History, focusing on Barcelona's cathedral during the Baroque period to 19th century. He is widely published in Spanish and Catalan in a broad range of academic periodicals, and has taught classes at University of Barcelona on Renaissance and Baroque art history, Spanish painting, urbanism and architecture. He previously provided guided tours of several of Gaudí’s buildings, such as the Palau Güell and Güell Pavilions, as well as Modernista walking tours. In addition to teaching and writing, Santi works as a researcher for a well-known antiques dealer in Barcelona, specializing in old drawings and prints studies. Passionate about art history and architecture, Santi recently published a book about his research work in Barcelona’s cathedral through history.
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Aya is great..and very knowledgeable. It would be better if Casa Mila was the indoor sight visited, verses the Casa Batila-which was a nightmare! Too many people, claustrophobic, and no good traffic flow or management. I know the interiors of Gaudi sights are vital-but Casa Batila is not working..and it's winter!
Biel was outstanding! He is a perfect example of what a Context expert is and his tour was interesting, fun, and definitely unique. We learned so much about not only Gaudí but his contemporaries and the city of Barcelona overall.
Bernat was wonderful. He shaped the tour to our group and interests. We learned a lot and really enjoyed it.
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Sandra and Ken Murphy were stunned when a team from Langley’s Acts of Kindness ministry, along with lifetime friends Lola and Bella Howet, arrived in Sandra’s hospital room in Abbotsford on Christmas Eve with news that their home will be the subject of the 2020 Extreme Home Repair. (Michael Dauncey/Church in the Valley – Acts of Kindness)
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Roxanne Hooper
A recent two-foot amputee from Langley City received an early Christmas gift from Church in the Valley and its Acts of Kindness team on Dec. 24.
Sandra Murphy, with her husband Ken at her side, was in Abbotsford hospital on Christmas Eve – having just lost both her feet and several of her fingers to amputation.
The Langley City couple was surprised when a delegation from the Seventh-Day Adventist Church paid them an unexpected visit, but shocked beyond words when they learned the real motive for the stopover.
Murphys will be the 2020 recipients of the Extreme Home Repair, explained AOK pastor Michael Dauncey.
“We figure this news today could be something to brighten up the negative situation right now,” he said of the decision to announce next year’s recipient just ahead of Christmas.
AOK organizers Lorne Brownmiller was also on hand for the announcement at Sandra’s hospital bedside.
“We believe you guys really deserve a Christmas to remember… you’ve had a rough go,” Brownmiller said.
AOK’s annual Extreme Home Repair program sees a team of businesses and community volunteers go in and retrofit homes for people who cannot afford or are not – for various reasons – able to do the needed restore their home to a safe and liveable standard.
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For the past 17 years now, the Aldergrove-based AOK team has tackled these home renovations, typically taking upwards of two weeks in May. The Murphy home will be transformed between May 1 to 18, Dauncey confirmed.
They’ve done about two dozen such repair and renovation projects for deserving people. The jobs have ranged from small projects such as a new roof to total re-dos, he explained. Up to a few dozen nominations a year are received.
The Murphys, including their adult daughter Jillian, were nominated by Aldergrove’s Bella Howet, and her sister, Lola. The sisters have know the family for 53 years, and Bella was the one to surprise the Murphy’s by announcing the news on Tuesday.
“You guys are the most deserving people I know,” Bella said.
“It couldn’t happen to a nicer, more deserving family,” she added between sniffles and hugs.
“I can’t believe this. Nothing like this has ever happened to us,” Sandra said, turning away from her guests to hide the flood of tears she kept wiping away from her face. “It’s so amazing,” she added.
Ken was almost at a lose for words as the reality sunk in.
“It’s so awesome, you guys. Thank you,” he said. “Thank you for just being there like this. This is such an awesome thing.”
Murphys bought a Langley City rancher a few years back, as a fixer-upper project they were going to work on together – Ken being “talented with carpentry,” Dauncey explained.
Sadly, a number of issues arose for the family since then, making the renos impossible – at least short-term. In fact, given Sandra’s amputations, the initial plans for retrofitting the house changed. The only priority was to make it wheelchair accessible throughout, so Sandra could get around in her own home, Bella explained.
“They are a good family with true Christian beliefs and have always opened their house and home to those who needed it. Now they need the help…” she said in submitting the request for the AOK team to help the Murphys.
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After their son died in the summer of 2016, the loss took its toll on this family, Dauncey elaborated. And through all this, Sandra has battled health issues for many years.
Then, just a few months ago, while travelling in the States, Sandra took sick and ended up in hospital with only 85 per cent of her heart working.
Doctors did what they could to stabilize her, then airlifted her back to Canada.
Because of Sandy’s declining health, Ken left his job to be at her bedside while she was waiting for the amputation of her feet and parts of her hands.
“Not only do they have this on their plate, but now they have a home Sandra can’t return too,” Bella said.
Admittedly, although Ken professed to be “handy,” he knew little of what he would have to do to modify their home so it can accommodate Sandra and her wheelchair.
At the very least, she explained, they’ll need a larger, wheelchair-accessible bathroom, and a ramp to allow access in and out of the house to make it habitable for Sandra.
“I do not know what other problems they will have concerning the house,” Bella added.
Dauncey said the selection of this year’s recipient for the Extreme Home Repair was not as difficult as many in past. The Murphys need help, and need help immediately.
“This has all occurred just in the last few months,” he said. “How devastating to lose limbs like this… this family could really use some help right now… this is definitely a special Christmas gift for them.”
“This is a true blessing,” Sandra said. “I can’t believe this… This kind of thing doesn’t happen to us.”
roxanne.hooper@langleyadvancetimes.com
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Market Regulation Department
CME & CBOT RA1005-3
This Advisory Notice supersedes CME & CBOT Market Regulation Advisory Notice RA1003-3 from
July 1, 2010, and is being issued to add E-mini™ Standard & Poor’s CNX Nifty Index, E-micro Standard & Poor’s CNX Nifty Index futures and Dow Jones CME FX$INDEX™ futures to the list of block trade eligible products. E-mini and E-micro Standard & Poor’s CNX Nifty Index futures were launched on Sunday, July 18, 2010,for trade date Monday, July 19, 2010, and Dow Jones CME FX$INDEX futures begin trading on CME Globex on Sunday, July 25, 2010, for trade date Monday, July 26, 2010. These products are eligible to be block traded at the following minimum thresholds:
· E-mini Standard & Poor’s CNX Nifty Index futures – 50 contracts
· E-micro Standard & Poor’s CNX Nifty Index futures – 250 contracts
· CME FX$INDEX futures – 50 contracts (effective Sunday, July 25)
The complete list of CME and CBOT products in which block trading is permitted appears in Section 10 which begins on page 5 of this Advisory Notice. The text of CME and CBOT Rule 526 appears in Section 12 which begins on page 8.
1. Definition of Block Trades
Block trades are privately negotiated futures, options or combination transactions that meet certain quantity thresholds which are permitted to be executed apart from the public auction market. All block trades are subject to the conditions set forth in CME and CBOT Rule 526 (“Block Trades”) and in this Advisory Notice.
2. Participation in Block Trades
Each party to a block trade must be an Eligible Contract Participant as that term is defined in Section 1a(12) of the Commodity Exchange Act. Eligible Contract Participants generally include exchange members and member firms, broker/dealers, government entities, pension funds, commodity pools, corporations, investment companies, insurance companies, depository institutions and high net-worth individuals. Commodity trading advisors and investment advisors who are registered or exempt from registration, and foreign persons performing a similar role and subject as such to foreign regulation, may participate in block transactions provided they have total assets under management exceeding $25 million and the block trade is suitable for their customers.
A customer order may be executed by means of a block trade only if the customer has specified that the order be executed as a block trade.
Orders may not be bunched to meet the minimum block quantity thresholds.
3. Time and Prices of Block Trades
Block trades may be executed at any time, including times during which the public auction market is closed.
Block trades must be transacted at prices that are “fair and reasonable” in light of (i) the size of the transaction, (ii) the prices and sizes of other transactions in the same contract at the relevant time, (iii) the prices and sizes of transactions in other relevant markets, including, without limitation, the underlying cash market or related futures markets, at the relevant time, and (iv) the circumstances of the markets or the parties to the block trade.
The trade price must be consistent with the minimum tick increment for the market in question. Additionally, each outright transaction and each leg of any block eligible spread or combination trade must be executed at a single price.
Block trade prices are reported independently of transaction prices in the regular market and are not included as part of the daily trading range. Block trade prices do not elect conditional orders (e.g. stop orders) or otherwise affect orders in the regular market.
4. Block Trade Minimum Quantities for Outrights, Spreads and Combinations
The block trade minimum quantity requirements for outright futures and options are set forth in the list of block trade eligible products in Section 10 beginning on page 5 of this Advisory Notice. Additional information with respect to spreads and combinations executed as blocks appears below.
a) Intra-Commodity Futures Spreads and Futures Combinations
i) All Products Excluding U.S. Treasury, Interest Rate Swap and GSCI Futures
Intra-commodity futures spreads and futures combinations may be executed as block trades provided that the sum of the quantities of the legs meets the minimum block quantity threshold. For example, 2,000 Eurodollar future calendar spreads executed during RTH hours would meet the Eurodollar futures minimum quantity requirement of 4,000 contracts.
ii) U.S. Treasury and Interest Rate Swap Futures
Intra-commodity calendar spread block trades are prohibited in CBOT U.S. Treasury futures and Interest Rate Swap futures. Parties may not execute contingent block trades in outright contracts to circumvent the prohibition on the execution of block trades in intra-commodity calendar spreads. Additionally, Tandem spreads may not be executed as block trades.
iii) GSCI Futures
In GSCI futures and GSCI Excess Return Index futures the block trade minimum is 300 contracts for each leg of the spread or combination. For example, the minimum quantity for a GSCI calendar spread would require 300 contracts in each leg of the spread for a total of 600 contracts while a GSCI futures butterfly would require a minimum volume of 1,200 contracts.
b) Inter-Commodity Futures Spreads
i) All Products Excluding Short Term Interest Rate Futures
In all products excluding Short Term Interest Rate futures, inter-commodity futures spreads may be executed as block trades provided that the quantity of each leg of the spread meets the larger of the threshold requirements for the underlying products. For example, the minimum quantity thresholds for 10-Year Notes and 30-Year Treasury Bonds during RTH are 5,000 and 3,000 contracts, respectively. Therefore, a block trade in the NOB spread (10 Year Note/30 Year Bond spread) can be executed only if the quantity of each leg is at least 5,000 contracts.
ii) Short Term Interest Rate Futures
In Short Term Interest Rate futures (Eurodollars, Eurodollar E-minis, T-Bills, OIS, One-Month Eurodollar, Euroyen and 30-Day Fed Funds) inter-commodity futures spreads may be executed as block trades provided that the sum of the legs of the spread meets the larger of the threshold requirements for the underlying products. For example, the minimum quantity thresholds for One-Month Eurodollar and Eurodollars during ETH are 200 and 2,000 contracts, respectively. Therefore, a block trade in the One-Month Eurodollar/Eurodollar spread can be executed provided that the sum of the legs is at least 2,000 contracts.
c) Intra-Commodity Option Spreads and Combinations
Intra-commodity option spreads and combinations may be executed as block trades provided that the quantity of each leg of the spread meets the designated minimum quantity threshold.
d) Inter-Commodity Option Spreads and Combinations
Inter-commodity option spreads and combinations may be executed as block trades provided that the quantity of each leg of the spread meets the larger of the threshold requirements for the underlying products.
e) Options/Futures Spreads
In general, options/futures spreads may be executed as block trades provided that the options component of the spread meets the minimum quantity threshold for the outright option or option combination and the quantity of futures executed is consistent with the delta of the options component of the spread. An exception applies to Weather, Real Estate and Non-Farm Payroll options/futures spreads, where the legs of the spread may be summed to meet the 20-contract minimum threshold.
5. Block Trade Reporting Requirements
a) Time Requirements
i) Interest Rate Block Trades
Block trades must be reported to the Exchange by the seller within five minutes of the transaction for block trades executed during RTH and within fifteen minutes of the transaction for block trades executed during ETH and ATH. For purposes of interest rate block trades, RTH, ETH and ATH are defined in Section 10 on page 5 of this Notice.
ii) Other Block Trades Excluding Interest Rates, Weather and Housing Block Trades
Block trades must be reported to the Exchange by the seller within five minutes of the transaction.
iii) Weather and Housing Block Trades
Block trades must be reported to the Exchange by seller within fifteen minutes of the transaction.
b) Reporting Methods
Block trades must be reported to the Exchange via one of the methods described below.
i) Globex Control Center (“GCC”)
All block trades (except for block trades in Weather futures and options executed between 8:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Chicago time, Monday – Friday on regular business days – see subsection iv on the next page) may be reported to the GCC. The seller reports the trade by calling the GCC at 312.456.2391. When the GCC is closed – for example, during the weekend – the block trade must be reported no later than five minutes prior to the opening of the next electronic trading session for that product.
ii) CME ClearPort
Block trades may be electronically reported directly to CME Clearing via CME ClearPort. For information on reporting block trades through CME ClearPort, please contact customer service at 1.800.438.8616 or via email at ClearPort@cmegroup.com.
iii) CME Clearing360 Trade Reporter
Block trades may be electronically reported directly to CME Clearing via CME Clearing360 Trade Reporter, available through the CME EOS Trader web-based front end. For additional information on reporting block trades via CME Clearing360 Trade Reporter, please visit http://cmegroup.com/clearing/trading-practices/cme-clearing360-tradereporter.html or contact CME Clearing Customer Support at 312.207.2525 or via email at CCS@cmegroup.com .
iv) Weather Blocks on CME Clearing360 via Pivot Instant Markets
Block trades in Weather futures and options may be electronically reported directly to CME Clearing360 via Pivot Instant Markets by eligible inter-dealer brokers. For additional information on reporting block trades via Pivot Instant Markets, please contact Angie DiCarlo, Associate Director, CME Group Alternative Investments at 312.930.4515 or via email at Angie.DiCarlo@cmegroup.com.
v) Weather Block Trades Executed Between 8:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Block trades in Weather futures and options executed between 8:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Chicago time, Monday – Friday on regular business days should be reported to Exchange staff by calling 312.648.3935 or 312.648.3936.
When reporting a block trade, the following information will be required:
Name and phone number of the clearing firm representative reporting the trade (unless the block trade is electronically reported);
Buyer’s clearing firm and seller’s clearing firm;
Contract, contract month and contract year for futures;
Contract, contract month, contract year, strike price and put or call designation for standard options, as well as the expiration date and exercise style for flex options;
Quantity of the trade or, for spreads and combinations, the quantity of each leg of the trade;
Price of the trade or, for spreads and combinations, the price of each leg of the trade; and
Execution time (in Central Time) of the trade (i.e. the time at which the trade was consummated).
6. Block Trade Submission Requirements to CME Clearing
Block trades must be submitted for clearing through the front-end clearing UI via the portal under BLOCK entry. Block trades are entered by both the buyer’s and seller’s clearing firm and go through a two-sided match process. Upon entry, confirmation records will be routed back to the firms for bookkeeping purposes. When reporting spread or combination transactions, each leg must be entered individually.
The execution time is required to be entered and must be the actual time at which the transaction was consummated by the two parties, not the time at which the trade is reported by the parties to their respective firms. Thus, if the clearing member has not acted as either principal or agent in the transaction, it must ensure that its customer provides an accurate execution time.
A block trade in a block-eligible option may be executed up to and including the day on which an option contract expires for purposes of offsetting an open option position. The offsetting block trade must be reported to the GCC pursuant to the requirements of section 4 above, and the offset must be reported to CME Clearing no later than the Position Change Submission (“PCS”) deadline on the day on which the option contract expires. The current PCS deadline is 7:30 p.m. Central Time.
7. Block Trade Recordkeeping
Complete order records for block trades must be created and maintained pursuant to Rule 536 and CFTC Regulations. However, as noted in Section 5, the time of execution of the block trade must also be recorded.
8. Dissemination of Block Trade Information
The date, execution time, contract details, price and quantity of block trades are reported upon receipt of the block information by GCC. Block trade information is reported on the MerQuote system and may be accessed by entering the code “BLK”. The information will also be displayed on cmegroup.com at the following link: http://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/blocktrades.html. Block trade information is also displayed on the trading floor.
Block trade prices are published separately from transactions in the regular market.
Block trade volume is also included with other privately negotiated transactions in the daily volume reports published by the exchange.
9. Pre-Execution Communications
The prohibition on prearranged trading and the requirements related to pre-execution communications with respect to certain Globex trades set forth in Rule 539 do not apply to block trades.
10. CME & CBOT Block Trade-Eligible Products
For purposes of the interest rate products in the tables, the following times apply:
ETH: 12:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m. CT, Monday through Friday on regular business days
RTH: 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. CT, Monday through Friday on regular business days
ATH: 4:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. CT, Monday through Friday on regular business days and at all times on weekends
CME Products
Flex Options
Eurodollars (RTH)
4,000 contracts - or 1,000 contracts provided that a minimum of 1,000 contracts are transacted in yrs 6-10
10,000 contracts
Eurodollars (ETH)
2,000 contracts – or 500 contracts provided that a minimum of 500 contracts are transacted in yrs 6-10
5,000 contracts
Eurodollars (ATH)
Eurodollar E-mini futures (RTH)
Eurodollar E-mini futures (ETH)
Eurodollar E-mini futures (ATH)
3-Month Overnight Index Swaps (OIS)(RTH)
3-Month Overnight Index Swaps (OIS)(ETH)
3-Month Overnight Index Swaps (OIS)(ATH)
500 contracts
3-Month OIS/Eurodollar spread (RTH)
4,000 contracts (all legs combined)
3-Month OIS/Eurodollar spread (ETH)
3-Month OIS/Eurodollar spread (ATH)
T-Bills (RTH)
T-Bills (ETH)
50 contracts
T-Bills (ATH)
Euroyen (RTH)
Euroyen (ETH)
Euroyen (ATH)
One-Month Eurodollar (RTH)
One-Month Eurodollar (ETH)
One-Month Eurodollar (ATH)
Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index
Eurozone Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP)
S&P 500*
NASDAQ-100*
200 contracts - outrights only
S&P SmallCap 600, E-mini S&P SmallCap 600, E-mini MSCI EAFE, E-mini MSCI Emerging Markets, E-mini NASDAQ Composite Index, E-mini FTSE/Xinhua China 25, E-mini S&P Asia 50
E-mini S&P CNX Nifty Index
E-micro S&P CNX Nifty Index
TRAKRS Indexes
100,000 contracts
S&P Technology SPCTR , S&P Financial SPCTR
S&P MidCap 400*, S&P 500/Citigroup Growth, S&P 500/Citigroup Value, Nikkei 225
Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI), GSCI Excess Return Index
50 contracts for outrights – 300 contracts for each leg
of a spread transaction
International Skimmed Milk Powder
U.S. Dollar Cash Settled Crude Palm Oil
EUR/USD*, JPY/USD*
AUD/USD, CAD/USD, CHF/USD, GBP/USD, MXN/USD
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5- and 10-Year Treasury Notes (ETH)
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12. Text of CME & CBOT Rule 526
Rule 526 BLOCK TRADES
The Exchange shall designate the products in which block trades shall be permitted and determine the minimum quantity thresholds for such transactions. The following shall govern block trades:
A. A block trade must be for a quantity that is at or in excess of the applicable minimum threshold. Orders may not be aggregated in order to achieve the minimum transaction size, except by those entities described in Sections I. and J.
B. Each party to a block trade must be an Eligible Contract Participant as that term is defined in Section 1a(12) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
C. A member shall not execute any order by means of a block trade for a customer unless such customer has specified that the order be executed as a block trade.
D. The price at which a block trade is executed must be fair and reasonable in light of (i) the size of the block trade, (ii) the prices and sizes of other transactions in the same contract at the relevant time, (iii) the prices and sizes of transactions in other relevant markets, including without limitation the underlying cash market or related futures markets, at the relevant time, and (iv) the circumstances of the markets or the parties to the block trade.
E. Block trades shall not set off conditional orders (e.g., Stop Orders and MIT Orders) or otherwise affect orders in the regular market.
F. CME - The seller must ensure that each block trade is reported to the Exchange within five minutes of the time of execution; except that block trades in interest rate futures and options executed outside of Regular Trading Hours (7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Central Time, Monday – Friday on regular business days) and Housing and Weather futures and options must be reported within fifteen minutes of the time of execution. The report must include the contract, contract month, price, quantity of the transaction, the respective clearing members, the time of execution, and, for options, strike price, put or call and expiration month. The Exchange shall promptly publish such information separately from the reports of transactions in the regular market.
F. CBOT - The seller must ensure that each block trade is reported to the Exchange within five minutes of the time of execution; except that block trades in interest rate futures and options executed outside of Regular Trading Hours (7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Central Time, Monday – Friday on regular business days) must be reported within fifteen minutes of the time of execution. The report must include the contract, contract month, price, quantity of the transaction, the respective clearing members, the time of execution, and, for options, strike price, put or call and expiration month. The Exchange shall promptly publish such information separately from the reports of transactions in the regular market.
G. Block trades must be reported to the Clearing House in accordance with an approved reporting method.
H. Clearing members and members involved in the execution of block trades must maintain a record of the transaction in accordance with Rule 536.
I. A commodity trading advisor ("CTA") registered or exempt from registration under the Act, including, without limitation, any investment advisor registered or exempt from registration under the Investment Advisors Act of 1940, shall be the applicable entity for purposes of Sections A., B., C., and D., provided such advisors have total assets under management exceeding $25 million and the block trade is suitable for the customers of such advisors.
J. A foreign Person performing a similar role or function to a CTA or investment advisor as described in Section I, and subject as such to foreign regulation, shall be the applicable entity for purposes of Sections A., B., C., and D., provided such Persons have total assets under management exceeding $25 million and the block trade is suitable for the customers of such Persons.
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Reaseheath College backs calls for Government to address horticulture skills shortage
REASEHEATH College’s horticulture department is backing a call for Government action to address serious skills shortages within the industry.
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) last week presented its hard-hitting ‘Horticulture Matters’ report to the House of Commons.
The report, created by Britain’s leading horticultural organisations, identifies an alarming shortage of skilled professionals within UK horticulture and demonstrates how this skills gap is threatening Britain’s economy, environment and food security.
Among key findings are that more than 70% of horticultural businesses cannot fill skilled vacancies and nearly 20% are forced to recruit overseas.
As a result, demand has soared for qualified horticulturists to take on highly skilled jobs in scientific research, ranging from the study of plant diseases to the growing of sustainable, secure harvests and advising on plant biodiversity in cities.
The industry believes that embedding horticulture across the national curriculum will encourage talented young people to study the subject to degree level and to consider horticulture as a future career.
Reaseheath Head of Horticulture Iain Clarke said: “We will be extremely interested to see the government’s response to the Horticulture Matters report. The need to inspire young people to choose horticulture as a fantastic career opportunity has never been greater.
“We must engage secondary pupils in this highly technical and science based industry. This is the only way of addressing future skills shortages, particularly in the tackling of big issues such as water and food security within the UK and on a global scale.”
Reaseheath College ensures its training meets the demands of employers and is currently consulting industry professionals as it plans a £3m new build for its horticulture department.
The college has further strengthened its links with industry by involving industry professionals as student mentors in both further and higher education programmes. It is hoped that this new approach will inspire the students to map out long term and successful careers in the industry.
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Beamer - A LaTeX class for producing presentations
The beamer class is focussed on producing (on-screen) presentations, along with support material such as handouts and speaker notes. Content is created in a frame environment, each of which can be divided up into a number of slides (actual output pages). A simple 'action' notation is used to specify which material appears on each slide within a frame. The class supports a range of environments to enable complex slide relationships to be constructed.
The appearance of slides is controlled by a template system. Many of the elements of slides can be adjusted by setting simple key-based values in the preamble. More complex changes can be implemented by altering specific, targeted definitions without needing to re-write entire blocks of code. This allows a variety of visual appearances to be selected for the same content source.
The beamer class is made available under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) and the GNU Public License (GPL). See the information in LICENSE for information on licensing.
Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (2.9M).
beamer – A LaTeX class for producing presentations and slides
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Content is created in the frame environment, and each frame can be made up of a number of slides using a simple notation for specifying material to appear on each slide within a frame. Short versions of title, authors, institute can also be specified as optional parameters. Whole frame graphics are supported by plain frames. The class supports figure and table environments, transparency effects, varying slide transitions and animations. Beamer also provides compatibility with other packages like prosper.
The package now incorporates the functionality of the former translator package, which is used for customising the package for use in other language environments.
Beamer depends on the following other packages: atbegshi, etoolbox, hyperref, ifpdf, pgf, and translator.
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Pile-up with police car on West Ave.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2012, 3:05 p.m.
IN BRIEF: A Conyers police patrol officer on a routine traffic stop found himself suddenly sandwiched between two vehicles when a black Toyota Avalon rear-ended his patrol car Friday. The officer luckily escaped serious injury. The driver of the Avalon was transported to the hospital.
Officer Anthony Cook had pulled over a white Ford F-150 truck during a traffic stop at the former Exxon station on West Avenue shortly before 3 p.m. Friday. A woman apparently heading south on West Avenue pulled into the empty Exxon station, smashing into the back of the patrol car, which crashed into the back of the white Ford F-150, according to CDP Capt. Mike Waters.
Cook suffered a cut on the back of his head and lip but was able to walk away from the crash. The passenger of the Ford reportedly complained of back pain. The driver of the Toyota Avalon was prepared for transport to the hospital via ambulance.
Student released on bond after threat on Yik Yak to shoot up campus
General Manager hired for News
Veteran's Story: Coming Home
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The One Lesson You Need to Learn This Holiday Season
The 'Smile' Trolls Are Only Making Captain Marvel Stronger
The holidays are about kindness. Well, the kindness is hidden beneath mounds of credit card debt from all the gifts you're buying for your loved ones and for the bastards you barely tolerate from your office Secret Santa pool. The kindness is in there, somewhere. So there's no better time of year to tell a personal tale of a tiny moment in my own life when kindness, happiness, respect, and all of those wonderful holiday feelings were something more than some words printed on the $25 Macy's gift card I give my mom every Christmas.
Part 1: Andrew Luck Kills With Kindness
Before I begin, let's talk a little bit about Andrew Luck, quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts. Luck is an incredible quarterback with immense skill, but he also has a secret weapon at his disposal that tips the odds in his favor whenever he takes the field. It's a deadly weapon, and he wields it like a kung-fu master artfully wields the torn-off arm of an enemy to mercilessly beat other enemies. It turns out Luck is a really, really super-duper nice guy who compliments opponents after they tackle him. Opposing defenses are absolutely baffled by this. They have no idea how to react to kindness.
Ariel Skelley/Blend Images/Getty Images
"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME YOU CRAZY BITCH" -a football player
It's a violent sport filled with alpha males raging on horse steroids, and they're more equine than human by now. Yet, here's a guy who says, "Good job!" after getting demolished by armored horse-people, and the armored horse-people have existential breakdowns in response. And all because Luck is a good dude. I really hope he doesn't rape or pummel anyone in the future, or else that sentence will look mighty stupid.
Part 2: A Complimentary Psych-Out
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I played roller hockey in my early teenage years. My team was good, but we had a rival team in our division that knew exactly how to beat us, every time. We hated them. We especially hated their goalie. He was, without a doubt, the best goalie anyone in our age group -- in our league and in others around town -- had ever seen. He was the kind of good that was fun to watch from the stands but agonizing to deal with. None of us would ever have a shot at making it to the NHL, but it didn't matter: we got to play against a goalie that, as far as we were concerned, was as good as a pro.
During an important game that would decide our final playoff positioning, we faced this rival team and their goddamn goalie. He was performing spectacularly that day. He was cutting off shot opportunities with great positioning, he was making acrobatic saves that had us convinced he had a Slinky for a spine, he was establishing a presence by roughing up any opposing player who dared to hammer home an easy goal off of a rebound (that would be me). The game was scoreless after the first period, and already it seemed like our team wouldn't be scoring any goals that night. He was just too good. I hated how much better he was than us. Where we played like kids still trying to see the game's Matrix code, he played like Jesus Neo from the Matrix sequels.
Like this, but hockey.
I hated, hated, HATED him.
And then, I didn't.
I can't tell you exactly what caused it -- maybe he made a particularly impressive save? -- but my hate vacated my brain like it had been sucked out of an airlock to freeze and die in space. It was replaced with one undeniable, immutable vision of truth: this fucker was really good. I had already known that. It was old news. But now it wasn't clouded by my competitive nature, by my need to impress myself, my team, my coach, and my mom, with a goal. I needed something to replace the hate, so I decided to compliment the guy. And that's what I did on his next great save. I said, "Great save!" then skated away. He didn't say anything. He watched me skate ahead like he was trying to figure out what I had just said, like he had misheard me.
Minutes later, he made another great save. I said, "Great save, man!" His thanks were compulsory, like his programming spit out a human's involuntary response to being complimented.
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"BLEEP BLOOP. EXECUTING FILE: C:/DESKTOP/HUMAN_EMOTION/COMPLIMENTS/BEFUDDLED_THANK_YOU.MP3"
Later in the game, I said it again. He gave me a distrustful thank you. Later still, I said it again. He said thank you, and then he complimented me back, still confused, still not quite sure how to handle a sudden and bizarre barrage of compliments. I was slowly building a person's self-esteem when I should have been trying to embarrass him for my own gain -- and it felt nice. It was nice to finally be honest. It was nice to drop the facade of competitiveness, the stupid macho must-win bullshit that keeps people from appreciating and admiring the great talent of a person with whom they're locked in direct competition. We all knew he was good but wanted to believe, for the sake of our pride, that he wasn't that good. More importantly, we wanted to believe that we were better. But I couldn't. Now, I could finally admit it: he was that goddamn good, and apparently telling him that over and over freaked him the fuck out.
Soon after my onslaught of genuine compliments, we scored a goal. Then we scored again. Then I scored. It went on like this until our goals failed to excite anyone, even our easily excitable parents sitting in the bleachers. Something happened to the goalie. Soon after I began carpet-bombing his soul with positivity, he started to break. He wasn't as sharp. His focus had been obliterated.
All I wanted to do was let this guy know that in an instant I went from being a desensitized warrior programmed to hate my enemy, to being a loving, self-esteem-building hippie who admired his work. He couldn't handle that.
Hippie-induced madness.
I unwittingly shattered everything he knew about how the game was played. If he made a good save, I was supposed to skate away in a huff, feeling bad about how I couldn't defeat him, like I had many times before. I was supposed to get mad at him. His skill was supposed to build resentment between me, the only motherfucker doing any work on this team (as I'm sure 14-year-old me thought), and my teammates, the useless pricks clinging to my glory like barnacles to a whale's ass. None of that happened. Instead, I gave him soul hugs and his reaction might as well have included a mechanical wind-down sound as sparks and springs shot out of his head.
I killed him with kindness. That stupid saying is real. Holy shit -- it's real.
Part 3: Moralizing
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The moral of Luck's story, as well as mine, is this: some out there aren't used to kindness, either giving or receiving. They retract from it. It's alien. They don't trust it. Eventually, though, you, through the mere force of being a good person, can make those around you realize it's OK to feel good about themselves and it's OK to make others feel good too. So be kind this holiday season. Be generous. Be complimentary. Go out there and make people feel good for the holidays. Because when all that kindness shit softens their brains and lowers their defenses until they're in a vulnerable, zombified state of self-satisfaction, you can swoop in and destroy them.
Luis is carefully laying a trap so he can finally ensnare the elusive cryptozoological beast called Santa. In the meantime, you can find him on Twitter and Tumblr.
For more from Luis, check out 5 Ways Your Favorite Holidays Change as You Get Older Read more: http://www.cracked.com/members/limpl0uie/#ixzz3MyTytvbx. And then check out 5 Ways Your Favorite Holidays Change as You Get Older.
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UAW says it rejected GM's latest offer, makes counterproposal
Hannah Lutz
Union said latest offer didn't address critical issues
Negotiations stretch into third week
Automaker remains "committed" to reaching an agreement
Terry Dittes, director of the UAW's General Motors Co. department, to members: "There are still many important issues that remain unresolved."
The United Auto Workers union turned down General Motors Co.' latest labor contract offer, proposed late Monday, because it failed to address the crucial issues UAW members are striking for, the union's top GM negotiator told members Tuesday.
The Detroit-based automaker's proposal came as negotiations stretched further into the third week.
"This proposal that the Company provided to us on day 15 of the strike did not satisfy your contract demands or needs," Terry Dittes, director of the UAW's GM department, said in a letter to members. "There are still many important issues that remain unresolved."
The offer "came up short" in many key areas, such as health care, wages, temporary employees, skilled trades and job security, Dittes said.
The UAW responded Tuesday with a counterproposal and awaits GM's response, he said.
GM said in a statement that it will "continue to negotiate and exchange proposals, and remain committed to reaching an agreement that builds a stronger future for our employees and our company."
More than 46,000 hourly workers at GM plants have been on strike since Sept. 16 after the automaker and UAW failed to reach a new labor agreement before their previous contract expired. Thousands of other GM workers have been idled in Canada and Mexico, along with thousands more at GM's suppliers.
As the strike wears on, GM and the union's members are feeling more pressure. For GM, it's reaching a point where it may struggle to make up for lost production. Union workers, meanwhile, haven't gotten a paycheck since Sept. 20 and are now living on $250 a week from strike funds.
The longest U.S.-wide strike in almost half a century at the automaker has lasted 16 days and cost GM $1 billion so far, according to JPMorgan analyst Ryan Brinkman. By the second week of the strike, most of GM's North American plants were shut down.
One important factory that remained operational, a truck plant in Silao, Mexico, stopped work Tuesday due to parts shortages, and its 6,000 employees are being temporarily laid off. The facility builds the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups, which are all-new and just ramping up to full production.
GM shares fell 3.7 percent to close at $36.11 in New York on Tuesday. , the biggest drop since the day after the strike began.
— Bloomberg contributed to this report.
Michigan lifts barriers to Tesla sales, settling lawsuit
GM's remaining MEGA tax credits valued at $2.27 billion after $325 million reduction
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90 seconds of terror at Wildlife World Zoo stemmed from a selfie with a jaguar
A young woman crossed a barrier at Phoenix-area Wildlife World Zoo to take a selfie with a jaguar. A cat attacked, leaving the woman injured.
90 seconds of terror at Wildlife World Zoo stemmed from a selfie with a jaguar A young woman crossed a barrier at Phoenix-area Wildlife World Zoo to take a selfie with a jaguar. A cat attacked, leaving the woman injured. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/03/11/90-seconds-terror-wildlife-world-zoo-started-jaguar-selfie-litchfield-park/3128174002/
Jessica Boehm and Perry Vandell, Arizona Republic Published 9:03 a.m. ET March 11, 2019
Adam Wilkerson was visiting the jaguar exhibit on Saturday evening at Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium and Safari Park in Litchfield Park — one last stop before he planned to leave — when a young woman ran around the corner.
"Help! Help! Somebody help!" she yelled.
Wilkerson and his mother, who were at the zoo with his two children, ran around the corner where a jaguar had another young woman pinned up against the cage — its claw piercing the woman's arm.
Wilkerson's mother grabbed a water bottle from his children's stroller and tried to jam it through a hole in the cage in an attempt to distract the cat. It worked, sort of, with the cat dislodgingits claw from the woman's arm, but keeping its grasp on her sweatshirt.
At that point, Wilkerson and other onlookers grabbed the woman and pulled her away from the cage.
"The whole thinghappened in a minute-and-a-half tops. It was adrenaline the whole time," he said.
According to information from Rural Metro Fire Department and Wildlife World Zoo, the woman crossed a barrier to get closer to the jaguar enclosure to take a selfie. The cat reached out and scratched her arm.
Fire crews took the woman to a nearby hospital with injuries that were not life threatening.
Her name, age and hometown have not been released.
Woman's arm 'in pretty bad shape'
Wilkerson said after they were able to pull the woman away from the jaguar, she "fell down in agony."
An employee from the zoo called 911 after the attack, explained what happened and told the operator the woman’s arm “was in pretty bad shape.”
The 911 operator advised her to keep pressure on the wound, “Keep the cloth on it. Don’t take the cloth off. If it bleeds through, just put another one on top of that, OK?” the operator told her.
“OK,” the employee said. “She’s in, like, pain, like really bad pain.”
“I bet,” the 911 operator said. “We’ve got the fire department en route. We’re going to be there shortly.”
The Wildlife World Zoo, located near Northern Avenue and Loop 303, is a USDA-licensed, private facility with more than 600 species and 6,000 animals on display and is accredited by the Zoological Association of America and the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks & Aquariums, according to its website.
The USDA didn't find any compliance issues with the facility during its most recent routine inspection in March 2018.
Woman crossed barrier to be near cat
Kristy Morcom, a spokeswoman for the Wildlife World Zoo confirmed the incident Saturday evening.
"The visitor sustained non life threatening injuries to their hand from one of our female jaguars. At the request of the family, paramedics were called. At no time was the animal out of its enclosure," she said.
Wilkerson said there is a barrier between the viewing area and the jaguar's cage, but it would be easy for someone to clear.
He said the barrier was about waist-height and surrounded by some shrubbery.
"Any teenager or adult could reach in and touch the cage if they wanted to, (but) it doesn't feel advised to do so," Wilkerson said. "If someone were so inclined to touch the cage, they could if they wanted to."
Morcom, the zoo's spokeswoman, did not return calls seeking additional information on Sunday.
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Cat will not be euthanized
When news of the jaguar attack broke, animal advocates feared the zoo would decide to euthanize the cat in response to the attack, as has occurred in other high-profile zoo animal attacks. Most notably, Harambe, the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo that was killed after a three-year-old climbed into the enclosure.
The majority of social media comments blamed the woman for endangering herself and hoped the jaguar wouldn't be punished.
"We can promise you nothing will happen to our jaguar. She’s a wild animal and there were proper barriers in place to keep our guests safe — not a wild (animal's) fault when barriers are crossed. Still sending prayers to her and her family," the zoo said in a tweet, responding to a concerned Twitter user.
She won’t be put down.
— Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park (@ZooWildlife) March 10, 2019
768 big cat attacks in 25 years
Big Cat Rescue, a nonprofit organization based out of Florida, operates one of the largest big cat wildlife sanctuaries in the world and works to end big-cat abuse in captivity and prevent extinction.
According to research by the organization, there were 768 big cat killings, maulings and escapes in the U.S. involving captive exotic cats between 1990-2015.
The organization tracked headlines across the country to determine that number. According to its website, "there is no reporting agency that keeps such records (so) the actual numbers are certainly much higher."
Seven of the 768 total incidents occurred in Arizona, according to Big Cat Rescue's data.
The organization was able to determine the cat species for 571 of the incidents. Of those incidents, nine involved a jaguar.
Big Cat Rescue allows visitors to view their 80-plus tigers, lions, jaguars, leopards and other big cats, but they consider their sanctuary different than a typical zoo, according to the organization's website.
Mostly because their animals were "abandoned, abused, orphaned, saved from being turned into fur coats or retired from performing acts" — not bred for captivity.
According to the website, Big Cat Rescue "gives educational tours instead of letting the public wander around. This prevents cats from being teased, harassed, or tormented by guests."
Howard Baskin, advisory board chairman of Big Cat Rescue, said the organization would prefer not to see big cats in captivity, but if they must be, they prefer zoos with an Association of Zoos and Aquariums Accreditation, "where at least they're going to be provided for with the higher level of standards they have to maintain."
Wildlife World Zoo has a Zoological Association of America accreditation.
Zoo packed on Sunday
The attack didn't seem to scare away visitors on Sunday afternoon. A steady stream of families pushing children in strollers arrived at the zoo, which is located west of Luke Air Force Base in the middle of vacant land near Northern Avenue and Loop 303.
Dave Keller of Glendale came to the park with his daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter. He had planned to visit for a week and said the jaguar attack didn't dissuade him at all.
The family said they checked out the jaguar's enclosure but didn't see the animal there on Sunday.
The jaguar attack was viewed as a cautionary lesson for some zoo-goers on Sunday.
Jaguars are "definitely not house cats," said Michael Hoffman of Peoria, as he finished a tour of the zoo on Sunday and waited outside forhis group to catch up.
He said when he was inside the zoo, he saw people trying to reach out and "high-five" monkeys with their hands and also feed birds that weren't meant to be fed. If anyone saw the story about the jaguar attack, they didn't take a lesson from it, he said.
Joanna Elm of Cottonwood visited the zoo with her family on Sunday and said she felt perfectly safe. She, and many other visitors, questioned why someone reportedly crossed over a barrier while trying to take a selfie on Saturday.
"Anyone with common sense knows not to cross the barrier," Elm said.
Other high-profile jaguar attacks, escapes
There have been a handful of high-profile jaguar incidents at zoos across the world in the past few years.
But unlike the situation at Wildlife World Zoo, which involved a visitor entering an area that was supposed to be closed off from the public, these accounts involve the jaguars escaping from their enclosures.
Earlier this year, a jaguar escaped its enclosure in a Dubai zoo after workers left the cage door open, according to media reports.
The cat attacked its two zookeepers. Another zoo employee rescued the men by using a fire extinguisher to distract the jaguar. Both were expected to make a full recovery.
In July 2018, a 3-year-old male jaguar escaped from its New Orleans zoo enclosure and killed nine animals — five alpacas, three foxes and an emu — in the middle of the night, according to reports.
The zoo reopened its jaguar exhibit last month, according to local news reports.
In May 2017, a jaguar scaled a rock wall in its exhibit and escaped at the Abilene Zoo in Texas. The cat killed a spider monkey before it was located by zoo employees.
None of the big cats involved in these incidents appear to have been euthanized as a result of the incidents.
Attack witness won't be back soon
As for Wilkerson, who witnessed the attack and captured part of it on cell-phone video, he says he won't be back to the zoo any time soon, even though he knows this was a "freak accident" and not a common occurrence.
He said he wished the best for the woman and the zoo moving forward.
"Somebody did something they shouldn't do and there was a consequence ... But I hope she makes a full recovery and really just has a lesson learned," he said.
What do you think about the jaguar attack? Reach the reporter at jessica.boehm@gannett.com or 480-694-1823. Follow her on twitter @jboehm_NEWS.
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We take a sneak peak around Burton's newest primary school which has just 19 pupils on the roll
It was built in response to the number to homes built in the area
Helen KreftSenior reporter
Henhurst Ridge Primary Academy was built to cater for the growing population (Image: Henhurst Ridge Primary School)
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A new primary school with just 19 pupils on its roll is set to see the number of children going there increase for its second year.
Henhurst Ridge Primary School, in Henhurst Ridge, near Tatenhill, only opened in October and has now released a series of photographs showing what the £5 million building looks like inside.
It was built to cope with the increase in population as part of a 2,000-home development Branston Locks.
The school was due to open to pupils in September 2018, but this was delayed after thieves ransacked the building stealing copper piping.
It resulted in the first intake of 19 children beginning the term at the nearby Scientia Academy, before moving to the new school after repairs had been made.
Before the children broke up for their summer holidays, the school held a ceremony to officially open the premises - which will welcome a reception class with 26 new children, joining the current reception class of who will move up to Year 1 in September.
Year i will have 22 pupils for the start of the new term.
Sneak peak at Henhurst Ridge Primary Academy
The school is also introducing a nursery, and will have four new members of staff.
Head teacher Charlotte Hopkins said: "The inaugural year has been very special.
"As the school is so small it has meant getting to know the children and their families really well and there have been many great events that have brought us together as a community.
"The local community have also played a part in the success of our inaugural year by attending our Christmas performance, first Eco Market and a special concert that 5 in Harmony [of Swad Song fame] performed at.
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"The year has whizzed by and we are all now looking forward to welcoming our new children, families and staff in September as we pledge to give the children in our care 'the roots to grow and the wings to fly'."
During the opening ceremony, children performed a poem about the school values to the 100-plus audience.
The primary school is part of the REAch2 Academy Trust.
Children performed a REAch2 song accompanied by some Year 6 pupils from the sister school – Scientia Academy. The Scientia Academy pupils also played the steel drums as the guests arrived.
There are currently just 19 pupils on the roll (Image: Henhurst Ridge Primary School)
There were speeches from REAch2’s CEO, Sir Steve Lancashire; REAch2’s Deputy CEO, Cathie Painel; and REAch2’s Chief Operating Officer, Katherine Alexander then officially opened the school by cutting the ribbon and unveiling a special plaque.
Councillor Philip White, cabinet member for learning and employability at Staffordshire County Council, then helped the children bury a time capsule with the children's hopes and wishes for the future in and plant the first tree of the school's orchard.
Councillor White said: "The new school at Henhurst is just one part of delivering our ongoing plan to ensure there are enough school places in Burton to cope with growing demand in the area.
"It was fantastic to attend the opening and see the how proud the children are of their new school.
"It was great to see how confident and outgoing they are, and how well they have come together in their first year at primary school.
"I was also really pleased to see so many parents there too - clearly the school is fast becoming a true community school."
Burton is set to get its THIRD new school
At the time of the opening ceremony, there were 19 children on roll and seven staff (including two midday supervisors).
Next academic year, the school will grow by one more year group; 26 children joining in reception and the school is opening a Nursery for three- year-olds and above.
Four more staff will be joining the team - one new teacher and teaching assistant for the reception class; one teaching assistant in nursery and one in Year 1. The Year 1 class will also increase to 22.
The school has the capacity to grow to 420. It is being built in response to the number of new homes being put up in the area.
Henhurst Ridge has joined the same multi-academy trust as Scientia Academy in Horninglow - Reach2, which is the largest primary-only academy trust in England, with 55 under its supervision.
Academy schools are independent of local authority control and receive their funding directly from the government.
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Mainstreaming Fata
Khadim HussainMarch 06, 2017
The writer is a political analyst based in Peshawar.
THE Pakhtuns of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas ought to be congratulated on the success of their relentless struggle, with the support of the Fata political alliance, to shed the shackles of the draconian Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR). The extension of judicial jurisdiction to Fata and election of representatives to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in 2018 are welcome steps. The federal government’s commitment to rehabilitate and repatriate the displaced Fata Pakhtuns by April 30 should also be appreciated.
At the same time, one can’t help but identify some pitfalls in the plan. The first and foremost is introducing the Rewaj Act, which might in many ways be considered synonymous with the colonial FCR. One wonders why a parallel judicial system is required if meaningful mainstreaming is to take place. The entire criminal justice system needs to be revamped — as was pledged in the now ‘buried’ NAP — instead of a creating parallel apparatus.
The second pitfall is that the merger is to take place in stages. The five-year timeline might either land the plan in a lethargic, bureaucratic pigeonhole, or allow for more resistance by vested interests. Over the past 35 years, two types of interconnected economies have taken hold in Fata. The economy of war was established, which was oiled through the black economy. Sizeable groups in Fata’s various agencies, in connivance with some state institutions, have permeated these economies. Hence, the power of the black economy should not be underestimated.
Potential pitfalls in the merger plan remain.
The president might extend judicial jurisdiction to Fata with a single stroke of his pen. A constitutional amendment to Article 247 might be brought in for debate in parliament within weeks. Line departments of KP have already been working in various agencies of Fata. Why take five years when something can be carried out within months?
The rational approach to a KP-Fata merger would be to hand over the implementation plan to the government of KP. Instead of the Fata Development Authority, the relevant KP departments must be given a lead role in implementation. So far, we’ve seen little to no role of the provincial government in the plan.
It’s also strange that the capacity of the Levies is to be enhanced instead of merging Fata’s law-enforcement apparatus with the law-enforcement structure of the KP government. Keeping the Levies force intact might develop a parallel law-enforcement apparatus, which may create confusion on jurisdiction. Merging the two will require more resources and, hence, Fata’s share in the divisible pool must not be less than four per cent.
Another major pitfall in the current scheme is the establishment of a local government after the 2018 election. Doing so before 2018 would provide a level playing field to all political parties, ensure the participation of and representation for all groups, and enhance the capacity of the provincial election commission for the 2018 polls. Establishing a local government immediately will also ensure the effective implementation of development plans.
For effective, smooth mainstreaming, the inclusion of the youth and women must be considered an essential component of the plan. Public service delivery for both groups must be carried out with diligence and at an enhanced pace. Besides providing a quota for Fata students in provincial and federal educational institutions, the government must quickly ensure qualitative and quantitative improvement of Fata’s educational infrastructure.
As far as the development plan for Fata is concerned, it is of utmost importance that infrastructure and institutions be established to enhance indigenous skills for developing products from local resources. Substantial possibilities of exploring minerals and developing agriculture exist, which can lead to large-scale industrialisation.
The idea of connecting Fata with CPEC is admirable, but trade activity and market expansion can only increase when Pakistan and Afghanistan mend fences. Both can benefit if land routes are open on more than a dozen links. It is, therefore, essential for Pakistan to rethink its Afghan policy and let the paradigm of ‘strategic depth’ die a natural death.
China’s One Belt One Road initiative, the Tapi pipeline, initiatives by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the recent declarations at the Economic Cooperation Organisation summit can lead to excellent opportunities for Pakistan’s economic growth, prosperity and political stability if Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Iran, China and Russia agree on finding common interests. Instead of using private militias against one another, the states of the region must move towards the paradigm of geo-economics and human security. Here, perhaps, lies the key challenge in effectively mainstreaming Fata.
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Published in Dawn, March 6th, 2017
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It is essential for Pakistan to rethink its Afghan policy and let the paradigm of ‘strategic depth’ die a natural death. Instead of using private militias against one another, the states of the region must move towards the paradigm of geo-economics and human security. The solution lie in the above two paragraphs,as mentioned by the honourable author of this article besides other fundamental changes in it's FATA policy.
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Jawaid BokhariUpdated April 01, 2019
According to the World Bank report ‘Changing Wealth of Nations 2018,’ human capital is the largest source of wealth in most advanced economies, contributing 70 per cent of the wealth in high-income countries. ─ File photo
CONFRONTED with stubborn macroeconomic imbalances, the PTI-led government’s greatest challenge now is figuring out how to integrate its wealth creation and public welfare policies into an effective strategy.
The problem lies in mobilising enough resources for increased capital spending on human resource development to stimulate investment and minimise the import-export gap. Chronic balance of payments difficulties created as a consequence of a huge trade deficit is a major obstacle in import-oriented economic growth.
According to the World Bank report ‘Changing Wealth of Nations 2018,’ human capital is the largest source of wealth in most advanced economies, contributing 70 per cent of the wealth in high-income countries.
Calling for investment in people, a World Bank policy note ‘Pakistan@100 Growth and Investment,’ notes that the country’s large young population is its greatest asset.
The critical issue is to put the idle manpower to work.
Any meaningful progress can only be made by serious, improved and sustained effort by the provincial governments
The second quarterly report of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), released on March 25, highlights that the incoming labour force needs greater skill and knowledge for CPEC projects. CPEC is soon expected to enter its second phase, focused on industrialisation.
The SBP report urges the government to take serious notice of human capital deficiency. It points out that labour force productivity is ‘on the low side’ when compared with countries with similar stages of economic development. According to the World Bank’s Human Capital Index, Pakistan ranked 134 among the 157 countries surveyed in 2017 and 2018.
While noting the steps taken in this regards, the central bank report also called for an overhaul of the education system, effective enforcement of the Digital Pakistan Policy and expanding/upgrading vocational and technical skills of the labour force.
Any meaningful progress in this regard can only be made by serious, improved and sustained effort by the provincial governments. It also calls for strengthening participatory federalism, more active public-private sector partnerships and much widened community participation.
As Michael Menser author of ‘We decide! Theories and cases in participatory democracy’ says: Policymakers often tend to forget that ‘participatory democracy is a tool for social change … It is about power wielding not over them but with them.’
But for vocational and technical training of manpower for exports, the PTI-government appears to be more focused on a federal subject: nurturing wealth creation.
EVOLVED in consultation with all private sector stakeholders, the Trade-Related Investment Policy Framework (TRIPF) envisages investment packages for 19 priority sectors, anticipating that local investors will develop joint venture proposals to attract foreign partners.
Interestingly, 25 heads of top Malaysian companies, accompanying their Prime Minister, have signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with their Pakistani counterparts for investments worth $800-900 million in various sectors. The MoUs’ implementation will depend on the financial viability of individual projects.
The importance of expanding the manufacturing sector which contributes the bulk of the exports as well as tax revenue cannot be overemphasised.
World Bank data shows that export earnings of manufacturers in total foreign sales of merchandise have risen from 24pc in 1962 to 77pc in 2017. Sharp cuts in imports have also created room for development of import substitution industries. If implemented effectively, TRIPF can ultimately help reduce trade and current account deficits to manageable levels.
For decades, the country’s savings, investment and capital formation have been very low and consequently heavy dependence on foreign capital and financial inflows have now turned prohibitive.
So far issues arising from chronic balance of payments difficulties, adverse terms of trade, fast depreciating rupee and unsustainable debts are being addressed in ways that result in more foreign dependence and transfer of wealth abroad. The flexible foreign exchange and policy interest rates discourage domestic investment.
The expected International Monetary Fund bailout will no doubt bring more dollars as a temporary relief for managing fiscal and current account deficits.
The Fund however would expect the authorities to increase slow growing tax revenues, notwithstanding the fact that the economy is sliding downhill. The latest SBP forecast for growth during FY2019 is at 3.5-4pc. Hence, whether the PTI-led government will be able to provide incentives for trade-related investment remains a big question mark.
But for the hike in electricity and gas rates, besides a few symbolic moves, no serious effort has been made to curb non-development spending.
Addressing the national conference on ‘Taxation: a Pathway to Prosperity” organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Pakistan, the institute’s President Jafar Husain lamented: “We are moving in circles. We are having same changes every five to six years. To increase the tax revenue, we need to document the economy.”
The PTI manifesto pledges to incentivise informal businesses to enter the formal segment of the economy. Authorities expect that the subsidised bank credit to underserved segments will step up the documentation drive. But this is easier said than done.
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Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, April 1st, 2019
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"Any meaningful progress can only be made by serious, improved and sustained effort by the provincial governments." --- How is that supposed to work when provincial governments do not run like business but all the tax money goes into political pockets?
So for producing more human capital Pakistan would require many more madrasahs. The government really does not need to do much on that front. There are enough “charity” organisations to take care of this problem.
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These days, it’s no longer just about technology, it’s about experiences – WOW experiences. We are a team of cinema and technology experts from around the globe – Barco, ALPD, and CGS – who help you in creating surprising experiences. We combine innovative cinema technologies with our unique and comprehensive service models to guarantee your peace of mind. So you can focus on new ways to surprise and delight your customers for years to come. Together, we engage to deliver a world-class cinema experience - the one you’ve been waiting for.
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Qube Cinema is committed to creating a seamless world of Digital Cinema with products that are innovative, powerful, reliable and cost-effective. Qube Cinema is a company with a passion for cinema and a thorough understanding of film, video, audio and computer technology along with vast experience in the production, post-production and exhibition industries - a unique combination of expertise that has helped in the development of the company's digital cinema technology.
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Sony Digital Cinema 4K gives audiences an entertainment experience they’ll never forget in 2D or 3D. There’s a complete family of Sony 4K projection systems to suit every cinema operator, from small boutique screens to the largest multiplex. All our easy-to-use projectors deliver 4K resolution images that viewers love, bursting with rich colour and industry-leading 8000:1 average contrast ratio. Sony’s SRX-R500 series of projectors are also HDR-ready, meeting brightness and contrast requirements for screening the latest 4K movies mastered for High Dynamic Range presentation. Spectacular 4K images are matched by impressively low running costs. The long-lasting HPM multi-lamp array in all our SRX-R500 Series projectors is more energy efficient than traditional Xenon lamps, reducing routine maintenance and cutting the risk of revenue-threatening dark screens. A compelling choice for the big screens, our Premium Large Format (PLF) projection solution outshines costly first generation laser systems, with unrivalled 4K picture quality at light levels up to 60,000 lumens.
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CES+ is the premier partner in cinema solutions. For the past 35 years has been a pioneer delivering innovative first-in-market technology and will revolutionize the industry with his one-of-a-kind Cinema-as-a-Service solution offering to become the disruptive facilitator of the evolution of the modern movie theater operation. CES+ is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and serves clients globally.
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NEC Display Solutions’ Digital Cinema Projector Series offers the most comprehensive digital cinema solution on the market today. These 3D-capable models enable theaters to deliver stunning digital images regardless of screen size, while simplifying theater management and reducing costs. All of NEC's digital cinema projectors meet DCI specifications for performance and reliability, meeting the requirements of today’s cinema industry. NEC also offers full digital signage solutions, highlighted by its award-winning 32”-98” LCD displays, multimedia projectors and desktop monitors for lobbies, concessions and concourses.
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Dolby Laboratories has been a leader in developing many groundbreaking technologies and advancing the science of sight and sound for more than 50 years. Based in San Francisco with offices around the world, Dolby, through industry-leading research and engineering innovation, is expanding creative possibilities and enhancing collaborative relationships spanning musicians, filmmakers, and other artists as well as with businesses and consumers globally. Along with its partners, Dolby creates and delivers incredibly vivid experiences transforming entertainment and communications at the cinema, at home, on the go in mobile devices, and at work. Dolby Laboratories develops and delivers products and technologies that make entertainment experiences more realistic and immersive. By giving everyone the power to see, hear and feel the spectacular, Dolby is ideally positioned to transform the future of audio, voice, and imaging experiences worldwide.
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Bardan Cinema has been a leader in cinema equipment sales in Latin America and the Caribbean for over 40 years. With a well-established reputation and broad customer base that spans independent boutique theaters to large multiplexes, Bardan provides total solutions and services ranging from cinema design, equipment sales, installation, monitoring and VPF implementation. In collaboration with D-Cinema NOC, Bardan now offers comprehensive 24/7/365 proactive monitoring and remote support to exhibitors throughout the region.
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DTS:X transports you into a new dimension of sound immersion by delivering truly captivating entertainment experiences. Be prepared -- this improved lifelike immersion and heightened realism makes horror movies scarier, comedies more laugh-out-loud, and car chase scenes even more intense. Movies are being shown with DTS:X sound at an ever-growing number of theaters in the U.S., China and Europe.
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Christie is a leader in visual solutions for world-class organizations, offering diverse applications for business, entertainment, and industry. A leading innovator in film projection since 1929 and a pioneer in projection systems since 1979, Christie has established a global reputation as a total service provider and the world's single source manufacturer of a variety of display technologies and solutions. Christie offers comprehensive solutions for cinema, large audience venues, control rooms, business presentations, training facilities, 3D and Virtual Reality, simulation and education as well as industrial and government environments.
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DCIP is the largest digital cinema integrator in the world and provides industry leading software and management solutions to exhibitors and distributors.
Cinergy is an enterprise suite of tools that helps you track, monitor, and efficiently manage cinema operations in one centralized platform.
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Unique X, Based in the UK, is a new brand for the future of digital cinema, providing intelligent autonomous solutions and content services. Unique X operates in 65 countries globally. To date, more than 70 million GB of data have been transferred, and over 60 million advertising playlists have been delivered. Solutions include RosettaBridge TMS, RosettaNet Estate Management System, Movie Transit (DCP Content Delivery Network), Basekey (KDM management), RosettaPOS (Point of Sale), RosettaLive (Event Streaming) and our pre-show products of Advertising Accord, Ad Transit and Smart Trailering.
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Moving Image Technologies manufacturers and markets a full complement of cinema exhibition equipment and services to support the industry’s transition to digital cinema, including: custom engineering, systems design, integration, digital technology solutions for 3D, digital cinema, pre-feature on-screen advertising and components. Moving Image Technologies’ mission is to have the most talented, passionate people in cinema working to provide the best presentation tools for the cinema exhibition industry.
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QSC Cinema is the global leader in signal processing, power amplifiers, and loudspeakers for all cinema applications. Our “SystemSynergy” design approach ensures that the entire system, from source to sound, delivers an audio experience as intended by the filmmakers. Beyond cinema audio for the movies, QSC also provides complete audio systems with network control and monitoring for other areas in the cinema entertainment complex, such as lobbies, concession, food service, arcades, and bowling centers.
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GDC Technology Limited is a digital cinema solutions provider. GDC Technology develops, manufactures and sells digital cinema servers, content storage systems, theatre management systems and network operations center software for digital cinema. In addition, GDC is the appointed worldwide certification services agent, with exclusivity in Asia to certify DTS:X immersive sound auditoriums for DTS, Inc. GDC also provides a suite of digital cinema products and services, including integrated projection systems, 3D products, projector lamps and silver screens. GDC's subsidiary, GDC Digital Cinema Network Limited, manages VPF for approximately 5,000 theater screens and 250 motion picture distributors worldwide.
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USHIO manufactures the highest-quality digital cinema projection bulbs available. USHIO xenon short-arc lamps boast a spectrum that is closer to natural sunlight than that of any other artificial light source. In addition to commercializing products for search and spot lights, which demand precise, powerful white beam lamps, USHIO became the first in the world to develop a xenon short-arc lamp exclusively for large scale, theater-use movie projectors.
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The EDCF is a not-for-profit voluntary organisation that aims to act as a "Forum" to discuss key issues surrounding Digital Cinema in Europe. The purpose of EDCF is to provide a basis of common understanding across all European territories of the business and technical matters of digital cinema.
European Digital Cinema Forum Home Page
For more than a century, the people of SMPTE (pronounced “simp-tee”) have sorted out the details of many significant advances in media and entertainment technology, from the introduction of “talkies” and color television to HD and UHD (4K, 8K) TV. Since its founding in 1916, SMPTE has received an Oscar® and multiple Emmy® Awards for its work in advancing moving-imagery engineering across the industry.
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The Inter-Society for the Enhancement of Cinema Presentation, Inc. promotes interactive dialogue and information exchange between cinema-related entities with the goal of resolving issues affecting the overall cinema presentation. Founded in 1978 by Eastman Kodak VP Ken Mason, membership is composed of its four charter trade organizations - International Cinema Technology Association (ICTA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) - along with over 40 member companies, made up of trade organizations, motion picture studios, exhibition companies, manufacturers, technical consultants, and other industry stakeholders.
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The International Cinema Technology Association is a global network of professionals in the motion picture industry. Members of the ICTA are those companies that manufacture, service and create the equipment that goes into movie theatres. Our members are on the cutting edge of new technologies and have been the driving force in digital, 3D, immersive sound systems, high frame rates and lasers. The ICTA promotes technological advancements in the motion picture industry through educational seminars and programs. The ICTA logo stands for excellence and professionalism and when on a member’s letterhead signifies that the company is reliable, competent and committed.
International Cinema Technology Association Home Page
The Union Internationale des Cinémas/International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) represents the interests of cinema trade associations and cinema operators covering 37 countries in Europe and neighboring regions.
UNIC (International Union of Cinemas) Home Page
CineEurope 2020 to be held June 22th - 25th, 2020, promises to bring you another year with the very best in exclusive studio screenings and product presentations, cinematic technologies and innovations and educational seminars to keep your business on top of industry trends.
Produced by The Film Expo Group, CineEurope is the official convention of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), an international trade association representing cinema exhibitors and their national associations across 37 European territories whose focus is to better promote the social, cultural and economic value of cinemas in Europe and internationally.
CineEurope Home Page
CinemaCon, held March 30 to April 2 2020 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, is expected play host to more than 6,000 motion picture theater industry professionals. Since taking its first step in 2011, CinemaCon has evolved and grown to become the largest and most important gathering for the worldwide motion picture theater industry. CinemaCon is truly a global event attracting attendees from more than 80 countries.
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Shenzhen—Nov 19, 2015
GetD Strikes Deal with PVR Cinema, A Major Cinema Circuit in India, for Deployment of 36 UHB+ Light Tripler Polarized 3D Systems.
GetD (Future 3D Group – Shenzhen, China) is very proud to announce new sales order from PVR Cinema circuit for 36 sets of UHB+ light tripler polarized 3d systems. The leading Chinese manufacturer and supplier of 3D smart cinema solutions keeps extending its sales and services network in India. PVR decided to select GetD in order to achieve higher presentation quality in their first class theatres thanks to GetD recognized technology to enhance 3D image brightness and quality.
“We’re happy to work with GetD, not only because of their very competitive price, but also because of their quality products and customer-oriented services.” Tarun Kumar Mazumdar, Vice President Engineering at PVR cinema. “PVR is committed to offering the highest quality 3D presentation, and UHB+ will bring us to the top level in India.”
“We are very honored to be the first choice for PVR Cinema Circuit. We truly hope that exhibitors can choose the best 3D system for their cinema in order to provide moviegoers with the best experience including best light efficiency! As the leading 3D cinema equipments manufacturer in China where 5.000 new screens have been opened every year since 2012, GetD has achieved professional mass production of polarized 3D systems, offering very competitive price and up to 5 years warranty” said Bernard Collard, SVP Int’l Sales & Business Development of GetD. Besides, in order to fit different configurations in the booth, GetD can also provide flexible brackets systems based on different projector brands.
About Future 3D Group and GetD ( www.f3dt.com )
GetD Tech (HK) Co., Ltd (“GetD”), founded in 2005, is a fast-growing 3D products manufacturer and supplier. GetD is headquartered in Shenzhen, China, with key partners in USA, Europe, Russia, Turkey and India. With 6,000 ㎡ factory and 500+ employees, GetD has developed qualified 3D systems and glasses for cinema, home theatre and educational market. GetD is committed to deliver high end quality products at very competitive price as well as customer-oriented services. All GetD cinema products are on Disney & Sony lists of approved 3D equipment with up to 5 year warranty. More info at http://www.getd.hk/index.asp GetD Media Contact: Mrs. Jessica Du, Email: Jessica.du@f3dt.com
About PVR Cinema :
PVR is one of the largest and most premium film and retail entertainment companies in India. Since its inception in 1997, the brand has aimed to redefine the way people watch movies in India. PVR currently operates a cinema circuit comprising 474 screens spread over 106 properties in 43 cities across India. The company acquired the Cinemax properties in 2012 and currently serves 60 million patrons across India. PVR has entered the World Economic Forum’s List of Fastest-Growing Global Growth Companies. More info at http://wwwpvrcinemas.com/
About PVR Cinemas: PVR is the largest and the most premium film exhibition company in India. Since its inception in 1997, the brand has redefined the way entertainment is consumed in the country. PVR currently operates a cinema circuit comprising of 754 screens at 162 properties in 64 cities (21 states &UTs), serving 100 million patrons annually. While the total screen tally of the company stands at 754; PVR offers an array of formats with premium screen category, which stands at 4 screens of Director’s Cut, 31 screens of Gold Class, 08 of IMAX, 14 of 4DX, 06 of P[XL], 08 of Playhouse and 01 of PVR Onyx across the country. For further information, please visit: http://www.pvrcinemas.com/corporate/about-us.aspx
Share your feedback at feedback@pvrcinemas.com PVR Cinemas Directory page
About GetD Tech (HK) Co., Ltd (GetD): GetD Tech (HK) Co., Ltd (“GetD”), founded in 2005, is a fast-growing 3D products manufacturer and supplier. GetD is headquartered in Shenzhen, China, with key partners in USA, Europe, Russia, Turkey and India. With 6,000 ㎡ factory and 500+ employees, GetD has developed highly qualified 3D systems and glasses for cinema, home theater and educational market. GetD is committed to deliver high end quality products at very competitive price as well as customer-oriented services. All GetD cinema products are on Disney & Sony lists of approved 3D equipment with up to 5 year warranty. GetD Tech (HK) Co., Ltd (GetD) Directory page
PVR Cinemas (Gurgaon) GetD Tech (HK) Co., Ltd (GetD) (Shenzhen)
More PVR Cinemas News:
Apr 3, 2019 D-Box Signs an Important First Agreement with PVR Cinemas, Largest Exhibitor in India
Dec 9, 2018 PVR Cinemas and Cinionic Form Long-Term Alliance to Elevate Cinema Experience in India with Barco Projection
PVR Cinemas, one of the largest and most premium film exhibition companies in India, today inked a long-term alliance with Cinionic, the Barco cinema joint venture.
Cinionic Web Page
Cinionic Directory Page
Dec 14, 2017 4DX Forms New Partnership with Malaysia’s Golden Screen Cinemas And Signs Strategic Deal with PVR Cinemas to Launch Another Sixteen 4DX Screens in India
Jun 9, 2017 PVR Cinemas launches its first 4DX screen in respective Bengaluru and Mumbai markets
Apr 26, 2017 PVR Cinemas Doubles its IMAX Footprint with Five-Theatre Agreement in India
Dec 8, 2016 CJ 4DPLEX Signs Deals with Leading Asian Movie Exhibitors at CineAsia 2016
Apr 13, 2016 PVR Cinemas Selects GDC Technology to Develop Smart Monitoring Network
GDC Technology Limited (GDC Technology), a leading global provider of digital cinema solutions, announced today at CinemaCon 2016 that PVR Ltd. (PVR Cinemas), the largest and most premium entertainment company in India with over 500 screens, selected GDC Technology to monitor its digital cinema equipment and automated systems for the entire circuit.
GDC Technology Limited Web Page
GDC Technology Limited Directory Page
Jul 28, 2015 PVR Cinemas Plans to Install Dolby Atmos in 50 Screens in India
PVR Ltd., the largest multiplex chain in India, today announced plans to install Dolby Atmos® in 50 of its cinema screens across the country over the next two years. When completed, this will be one of the largest rollouts of Dolby Atmos screens by any multiplex chain in India until now.
Dolby Web Page
Dolby Directory Page
Nov 12, 2014 PVR Cinemas First to Adopt Barco’s Immersive Sound Technology in New Delhi
More GetD News:
Dec 13, 2016 GetD Official Technical Supplier of 3D Projection Solutions During 3D Stereo Media.
Aug 2, 2016 For the First Time, the 73rd Venice International Film Festival Selects GetD Solutions for 3D Screenings
Jun 16, 2016 Meet GetD Team & Products During CineEurope 2016 in Barcelona
Apr 7, 2016 GetD (Future 3D Group) and ECCO Cine Supply and Service GmbH Announce Excellent Results of Their Strategic Distribution Partnership Before First Presence at Kino 2016.
Mar 29, 2016 GetD to Debut New Product for its Passive 3D Series at CinemaCon
Dec 14, 2015 Getd (Future 3D Tech Group), Leading 3D Manufacturer and Global Provider of Smart 3D Solutions, Is Closing 2015 Events Busy Programme at 3DStereoMedia Prestigious 3D Summit in Belgium
Dec 8, 2015 GetD, Leading 3D Manufacturer and Global Provider of Smart 3D Solutions Will Display its 3D System and Movie Derivatives at Cineasia in Hong Kong
Dec 4, 2015 GetD (Future 3D Group), Leading 3D Manufacturer and Global Provider of Smart 3D Solutions Will Display its New Passive 3D Systems at ISBE in Dubai
Nov 27, 2015 More Sales Cooperation Agreements Finalized By GetD with English and French Preferred Partners to Support GetD Sales in UK and France.
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