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21 Jump Street topped the box office this weekend with a whopping estimated $35 million
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By Scott Mendelson HollywoodNews.com: There isn’t anything too surprising about a well-marketed and well-reviewed mainstream comedy opening well on its debut weekend, especially when there are no new releases to compete against. Still, 21 Jump Street topped the box office this weekend with a whopping estimated $35 million. If[...]
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HollywoodNews.com: Six actresses – Rose Byrne, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig – from the hit comedy “Bridesmaids” will be presenters at the 84th Academy Awards, telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced today. McCarthy received her first Oscar® nomination this year for[...]
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By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Sequels aren’t always a good idea. Here’s why. Universal reportedly is contemplating a sequel to the massively successful “Bridesmaids,” a summer smash that somehow finds itself in the Oscar race (where comedies usually don’t compete, though to be fair, most comedies aren’t as funny as “Bridesmaids”). And why[...]
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By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Summer 2011 officially is drawing to a close, and the producers of R-rated comedies will be sad to see it go. Audiences have flocked to most raunchy comedies released into the marketplace over the summer, with three R-rated films crossing the $200 million mark worldwide. The latest,[...]
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India’s EdTech Startup Report Bee Acquired by Singapore’s XSEED Education
By Suman Chaudhary Feb 1, 2019
XSEED Education, an education company headquartered in Singapore, has acquired Chennai, India-based edtech startup Report Bee for an undisclosed amount, reported several media outlets.
By integrating Report Bee’s assessment platform and suite of products, XSEED seeks to make it easier for schools to make real-time assessments, provide personalized student feedback, and analyze data to diagnose teaching gaps.
Fouded in 2011, by Ananthraman Mani, Bala Ganesh S. and Anjan T, Report Bee provides a cloud-based software solution that allows schools to assess, report and analyse the performance of individual students, classes and teachers.
Post this acquisition, all three Report Bee founders will join the XSEED technology product team.
In September 2015 Report Bee raised undisclosed amount in angel funding round led by India Educational Investment Fund, an early-stage impact investment fund wholly backed by Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. In June 2016, the startup had received non-equity based assistance from Microsoft Accelerator Bangalore.
“This is an important step towards becoming a complete education technology company. Report Bee brings on board capabilities in analytics, reporting, personalized assessment, and product design that compliment the XSEED Method, products and philosophy,” said Ashish Rajpal (in aboce picture), founder and CEO of XSEED, who is a Harvard graduate.
Besides Report Bee, XSEED has acquired Delhi-based Pleolabs in 2015. Pleolabs develops online technologies for teachers, students, parents, and administrators.
Headquartered in Singapore with development centers in Delhi and Bangalore, XSEED reaches a million children in 8 countries.
The XSEED Method has been implemented by 3,000 schools across India, the Philippines, Dubai, Riyadh, Qatar and Oman.
As of 2018, the XSEED method is practised in an estimated 3,000 schools across Asia, serving children from birth to thirteen years old. XSEED Education serves over 1,000,000 children.
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Jharkhand gets its 1st Govt-Run Co-Working Facility; To Select 12 Startups
By Suman Chaudhary Mar 1, 2019
The first government-run co-working space was inaugurated at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Innovation Lab (ABVIL) in Kanke road in Ranchi, Yesterday.
With 24 workstations in total, this is the first such initiative to provide a workspace to the startups from all over Jharkhand in the state capital.
The facility will be made available for operations to 12 startups selected by ABVIL completely free of cost.
Two workstations will be allotted to each startup as per their requirement and they can also exchange ideas and learn about marketing initiatives from the team at ABVIL at the same time.
ABVIL is an initiative by Government of Jharkhand in association with Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad to build a world-class innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the State.
“The startups will be getting a token amount before the election season begins across the country. They have been promised a monthly stipend and they will be receiving the same the next week,” said Vinay Kumar Choubey, secretary of the department of information technology and e-governance of Jharkhand.
The startups selected for incubation by ABVIL are supposed to receive a monthly stipend of Rs 8,500 for each member for up to three members per startup and Rs 10,500 for women members. While 49 such startups have been selected till date, 20 have completed the documentation,” Umesh Prasad Sah, director of information technology in Jharkhand and interim CEO of ABVIL, said.
The community plug and play workspace will be a major step towards development of the concept of community offices in Jharkhand. “As of now, we are providing the space and services free of cost to the startups selected by ABVIL. When the building at for ABVIL Ratu Road is ready, we will also be renting out workstations in community workspaces so that more startups have a chance at accessing affordable workspaces in Jharkhand,” Sah said.
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D K Singh, director of Dhanbad-based BIT, Sindri, also welcomed the startups whose ideas have been selected for incubation at ABVIL. “The doors of BIT Sindri is also open for the entrepreneurs who are based in or near Dhanbad as we are also offering our Institute premises for co-working space from April this year. They are welcome to use our resources free of cost to set up their startup ideas into functional business models,” Singh said.
The present entrepreneurs on the occasion also welcomed the move by the department. Hemlal Mahato, a Giridih-based farmer who has started an organic farming-based startup with his fellow villagers said, “Having a corporate presence in the state capital is very crucial to building a market for any startup. The decision to provide us an office space free cost is a huge relief, as we can now have our team members working from Ranchi.”
The news above was first published in Times of India
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Brij Mohan Anand: Dead 30 years ago, still living through his scribbles
A self-taught artist, Brij Mohan Anand (1928-1986) was a die-hard socialist, who painted to voice his protest. The scribbles made on his scratchboards represent the fascism that was trying to penetrate Asia.
UPDATED: May 18, 2016 12:19 IST
BM Anand depicted India and Asia as women.
Thirty years after the maverick's death, his visions in the form of scratchboards, landscapes, pen and ink drawings, novel covers and posters made an appearance in an exhibition in the Capital, the city that was his home. Brij Mohan Anand (1928-1986) was a die-hard socialist, who questioned everything from feudalism to imperialism. A selftaught artist, he was a painter and an illustrator, who painted to voice his protest.
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His works are being exhibited in an exhibition titled 'Narratives for Indian Modernity: The Aesthetic of Brij Mohan Anand'. In 1972, Anand created a greeting card from a scratchboard composition that said Stop Burning Asia and sent it to various foreign embassies in India with the sign-off 'Long Live Freedom Fighter' and a clear injunction, "Will they ever leave you alone. Here they come again. The cultural parasites. Awake! Oh, Asia."
A self-taught artist Brij Mohan Anand (1928-1986) was a die-hard socialist.
When India held its first nuclear test in Pokhran, Anand protested again through his scratchboard paintings. These boards, his daughter Kriti Anand says, were brought in exclusively from a company in the UK since they weren't available in India at that time. "He always surprised me. I was only19 when he passed away," says Kriti.
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"He had no formal education; never went to college. But his ideas blew my mind. We would get a lot of visitors-from elite publishers to sabziwallahs. Father ensured that they all ate and drank from the same dish as us. There was no hierarchy. But many famous artists who hung out with him and praised him during that time, conveniently wiped Brij Mohan Anand from their memory after his death. This exhibition was put together with no money at all. And none of these works are on sale. I wanted Delhi to see his work, his vision."
He painted to voice his protest.
Scribbling socialism
Anand poured out his angst on his scratchboards. He did initially paint colourful landscapes of Punjab, families and everyday scenes. But when the seeds of socialism were sowed, Anand took to scratchboards, where there is no way to correct a faulty stroke.
His scribbles represented fascism trying to penetrate Asia and various agencies donning the garb of religion and brainwashing the kid, that is Asia. He also depicts India and Asia as women, trying to ward off evils of imperialism and feudalism. "My father had seen a lot. From hearing the tale of his brother Madan Mohan being shot during the Jallianwala Bagh massacre to being one of the last ones to catch a train from Lahore to Punjab, he had a lot to say," says his daughter Kriti Anand who has set up a BM Anand Foundation to help needy kids.
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The scribbles made on his scratchboards represent the fascism that was trying to penetrate Asia.
"He wanted the country to see his work," Kriti says. And so it seems. Because one of the favourite lines of Anand that he kept repeating was one penned down by Mirza Ghalib. "Chand tasveer-e-butaan chand haseeno ke khatoot, baad marne ke mere ghar se ye samaan nikla." (A few photographs, a few letters from beautiful women; this was all that was found in my home after my death).
Narratives for Indian Modernity: The Aesthetic of Brij Mohan Anand' is on till May 22 at Main Art Gallery, second floor, India International Centre.
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If you're looking to cut costs, you can find savings in your software support contracts
By Pete Babb
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When the economy is bad, businesses hold off on buying new enterprise apps and instead try to prolong the life of the ones they have. But there's still the significant expense of vendors' support contracts. Third-party support contracts may be the answer to reducing that cost.
Software vendors don't want to lose those support revenues, especially since they're making less in new and upgrade sales. Some even have tried to raise their support income through schemes such as tiered support (a debacle at SAP) or all-or-nothing support (Oracle's most recent approach to extracting nore money from customers) -- but doing so risks driving customers even faster to third-party offerings.
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Software vendors will tell you that their support is better than the third-party support and, thus, worth the higher cost. Though it's true that third-party support is usually cheaper, it neither as feature-complete nor as up to date as vendor support.
Here's how to evaluate the third-party support option.
Is third-party support right for you?
The answer depends mainly on two factors, says Forrester Research analyst Paul Hamerman: where the application is in its lifecycle and how important it is for you to stay current with software upgrades. "If [a user] has an installation that's a couple releases back, customized, and difficult to upgrade, third-party support is a more viable option," he says. "If it's an expanding business or a new installation, third-party isn't a good option because you're off the enhancement pack."
If you are set with your software deployment, don't need to get software updates, and primarily want someone to turn to when you run into bugs, you're in a good position to take on third-party support.
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What should be in the support contract?
Jason Mark Anderman, president and co-founder of WhichDraft.com, has negotiated many maintenance agreements and has even created one of the leading contract templates for software support. "You need to strike a deal that sets expectations properly and creates a strong sense of trust," he says. "If you don't have that, things often go wrong."
Perhaps the most important aspect of the service contract is that it clearly defines who is expected to do what, and at what cost. Will you be responsible with providing the service vendor with onsite office support? Is the support vendor required to address a bug, even if it can't reproduce it? Does escalating a problem also escalate the cost? The contract should explicitly answer these types of questions, Anderman advises.
Both sides should also be very clear on fees, when they are levied, and how much they will cost. Neither side wants surprises when it comes to money, so it is very important to define hardware and software resources, what actions will result in what charges, and how the payment process should work. "You want to set up a situation where it never comes to litigation," says Anderman. To do that, "you cover all your bases so that terms and procedures are clearly defined."
The contract should spell out exactly what happens when something goes wrong. If there's a bug, you want the contract to define the bug: What priority is it? Critical? Somewhat important? Easily worked around? Based on those priority levels, you need certain vendor resources to come into play.
If, for example, you have a major system shutdown, you'll want a rapid response. Your support contract should spell out the nature of that response -- a callback within one hour, the bug fix within a certain negotiated time period, and so on -- and make sure to specify whether this happens during business hours only or 24/7. "You need to establish hard deadlines for response time and correction time," Anderman notes. "If you can't get hard times for that, then you want 24/7 coverage with X amount of resources working on it until it's corrected."
Anderman recommends putting a requirement in the contract for a primary support contact or a project manager whose job is to coordinate everything and be the sole liaison with the support vendor. That way, you'll have a consistent relationship with somebody who knows what you need, you'll know who to contact, and your contact will be fully aware of any bugs that have been reported in the past.
This sort of one-to-one relationship is invaluable when it comes to getting problems fixed -- and it's something you're more likely to find with a third-party support vendor than with a big software vendor that also sells support for its products.
You should also think about the potential for escalating bugs up the support vendor's chain of command and how that escalation should work. Anderman notes that a clearly defined escalation clause can be a helpful provision in case a high-priority bug needs to be moved up the executive chain, perhaps even as high as the support vendor's CTO, in order to guarantee that critical bugs get the appropriate response.
How should you handle negotiations?
The basic conundrum of software support is this: You can spend a lot of money and get full support, or you can spend much less money for lesser support. But with good negotiations, you can get what you need out of a support contract, leave out the parts that don't apply to you, and save a nice chunk of change.
Before entering negotiations, Anderman asks two basic questions about the support vendor: "How bad does it want my client's business?" and "How big is the company?" These questions help him ascertain a support vendor's flexibility in negotiating a support contract. Big support vendors tend to be rigid, often preferring to offer set packages or otherwise dictating the terms of the contract to the customer. Bigger support vendors also have many more layers of management than smaller ones, so it's less likely the salesperson you're dealing with will have the authority to adapt their negotiating terms.
Smaller third-party support vendors are generally more able to wheel and deal than, for example, the support division at Oracle, Anderman says. These companies do nothing but offer support, so they typically are more willing to accommodate your needs.
But even bigger support vendors can bend a bit if they really want your business.
Regardless of size, if you have certain demands that a support contract must meet, a vendor that wants to land that contract will try to accommodate you. If a support vendor presents you a contract on "take it or leave it" terms, your choice is simple, Anderman says: Take it or leave it.
You can also try playing third-party support against vendor support. Go to the software vendor and ask, "This is what this other company is offering me; can you come with a better deal?" Presenting a company with a credible threat of losing your business can go a long way toward convincing it to make some concessions to keep you. After all, with the support revenue stream becoming critical, even big software vendors are learning the value of losing a small piece of that revenue versus losing the whole contract to a competitor, Anderman says.
Ultimately, what's most important is that you get your software support needs covered at a price that works for you. These days, you have many more options than just your software vendor to accomplish this goal.
This article, "Is it time to switch to third-party software support?," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in enterprise software at InfoWorld.com.
Pete Babb is an associate editor at InfoWorld.
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8 December 2014 at 1:37am
Hold company bosses responsible for cold calls, Government told
Unwanted automated calls came top in a poll of Britain's top annoyances. Credit: PA
Heads of companies should be held responsible for nuisance phone calls to consumer's private numbers as they make lives a misery, a Government task force has recommended.
Over a billion "cold calls" are made every year much, most of which distress the people who pick up, the expert report said.
Complaints to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) reached 18,594 for live calls and 22,072 for automated messages between April and June. Most focused on accident claims, payday loans and debt management.
The high number of complaints about this distressing sales practice has lead the ICO to call on the government to hold executives to account if their company fails to follow the rules on cold calling, the Nuisance Calls Task Force said.
Which? executive director Richard Lloyd, who chaired the panel, said:
Consumers have suffered nuisance calls and texts for far too long.
They are often confused or misled by requests for consent to being contacted, so today we set out recommendations to introduce tougher rules and more action from businesses, the regulators and the Government.
Only through concerted and coordinated action will we put people back in control of their data and help bring this modern day menace to an end.
– Richard Lloyd
The report said consumers often do not realise they have given permission to receive messages and called for them to be able to easily revoke consent.
Companies should ensure any sales leads they buy have been fairly and legally obtained and records of what consent has been obtained, as well as how and when, must be kept.
Culture minister Ed Vaizey said: "For too long nuisance calls have plagued consumers, often at very inconvenient times of the day and in some cases leaving vulnerable people like the elderly too scared to answer the phone.
"That's why we're determined to tackle this scourge through the first ever nuisance calls action plan.
"We've already made progress including making it easier for Ofcom to share information with the ICO about companies breaking the rules, and we're currently looking at lowering or removing the legal threshold before firms could be hit with fines of up to £500,000."
Justice minister Simon Hughes said: "Unwanted marketing calls and texts can bring real misery for the people on the receiving end and this Government is determined to tackle the problem.
"We have already increased the level of fines available to punish rogue companies.
"We now want to make it easier for the Information Commissioner to take action against these companies which break the law. Those responsible should be held to account, and we will review how they are made to answer for any wrongdoing."
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Fossa portrait - 3, Kirindy Reserve, Madagascar
Before we were about to start a morning hike in Kirindy, Henriette spotted this Fossa near our lodge. I went into pursuit and was close to losing it when the Fossa bumped into other tourists, forcing it back in my direction. Note that at Kirindy, the Fossa is common to see as it is somewhat domesticated. In the wild you are unlikely to ever see one. They are widespread throughout Madagascar, yet typically local populations are small.
The Fossa is Madagascar's top mammalian predator. It has an interesting taxonomy. Despite its cat-like appearance, it is believed to be more closely related to the mongoose family:
https://www.jungledragon.com/wildlife/browse/animalia/chordata/mammalia/carnivora/eupleridae
It's an iconic species typical of Madagascar, there isn't a comparable species anywhere else.
The most impressive fact about the Fossa is that over 50% of their diet consists of lemurs. Surprising a lemur in the canopy, who have keen senses and are always on watch, takes an extraordinary skill. For this purpose, the Fossa has flexible ankles, which allow it to climb up and down, as well as jump between trees. Although rare, there have been reports of multiple Fossas cooperating in a hunt, evidence here:
Well, some may consider another fact even more impressive: the male of the Fossa at times can be considered a five-legged animal as it has an unusually large penis that may reach up to its front legs when erect. Not only is it huge, it's also spiny. The female has equally strange genitalia, it grows an enlarged, penis-like clitoris that is also spiny. This clitoris reduces in size as she ages, it is believed that during the female's first years, this masculization helps her against harassment by young males. The Fossa is the only known species in the world where this process occurs without hormones being involved.
Despite being the top predator of Madagascar, one does not have to be terrified when seeing one. It's best described as an oversized, very muscular cat. Surely it can do significant damage when provoked, but it's unlikely to be a life threatening encounter. Fossas typically will not grow beyond about 10kg of weight.
Now extinct, there once was a second species of Fossa: Cryptoprocta spelea, or Giant Fossa. It was almost identicial yet twice as large or heavy. The extra size likely was needed to hunt the Giant lemurs of Madagascar, which have also gone exctinct. Check out this illustration:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simon_Bearder/publication/262067793/figure/fig3/AS:669429562081292@1536615853540/Some-subfossil-lemur-species-with-extant-Indri-one-of-the-two-largest-living-lemurs.png
The Indri (in black) is the only species in the illustration still extant, and currently the largest species of lemur.
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The fossa is a cat-like, carnivorous mammal that is endemic to Madagascar. It is a member of the Eupleridae, a family of carnivorans closely related to the mongoose family. Its classification has been controversial because its physical traits resemble those of cats, yet other traits suggest a close relationship with viverrids . Its classification, along with that of the other Malagasy carnivores, influenced hypotheses about how many times mammalian carnivores have colonized the island. With genetic.. more
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Desert Challenger
17 jul, 2012 i Artiklar / Magazine / Volume 8 – 2004 av Olle Lindau
Finishing Tamiyas Challenger I as a First Gulf War tank
by Mattias Linde
The story of a tank
When I first saw the Tamiya kit of the now famous tank used by the British in the Gulf, I was excited by the sleek look and the uniform color. I immediately knew this was a tank I wanted to build. What I wanted to do was build it straight out of the box but heavily dusted with sand, and there lay the challenge.
When I got the model home and opened it for the first time, I found out that the decal sheet was missing. Naturally I contacted the distributor and asked them to provide me with a new set of the decal sheet. – Yes, of course, they answered, it will take about 3 months to ship it from Japan to Sweden. As I was in no hurry to finish the model and also had plenty of other models to build, I was confident the sheet would finally find its way to my door in a couple of months’ time. Meanwhile I started slowly to build the model.
About a year later I realized I still hadn’t got the decal sheet by my mail, so I made another call to the distributor and asked where my order had gone. The answer this time was that the person I spoke to last time apparently been absent for a long time and my order had been lost during the changing of personnel. –But, of course, we will send a new order to Japan. It will take about 3 months. So I continued my slow building of the kit.
So, what happened this time? Nothing! About seven months later the building of the model was finished and the paint was already airbrushed on to the model, so to be able to proceed, I needed the decals. To my rescue came a Japanese colleague at work, who was to go back to Japan for a week, so I asked him if he could buy the decal set directly from the Tamiya factory from the address provided in the assembly instructions. – No problems! Two weeks later I had it in my hand and could rush home to finish the model.
The construction of the lower hull was basically straightforward following the instructions from A to B. The only difference was in the adding of the side-skirts. For the seam between the side-skirts and the upper hull to be invisible the skirts were glued in place in mid construction prior to painting. But to be able to fit the tracks and wheels at a later stage, the upper and lower parts of the hull remained unglued to each other until the weathering process was completed which was made possible by the way Tamiya fits together its hulls with a slot in the back and poly caps in the front. The frontal add-on armor needed the bolt spacers thickened with plastic card to eliminate the gap between the add-on armor and the lifting hooks just inside the headlights. It was left on the building table until the final moment. The two spare fuel barrels at the back are made up by two halves plus circular sides and the seam between the two halves is right on the top and plainly visible if not treated properly with wet/dry sand paper.
The turret didn’t need much attention except some filling with Milliput in the front right corner. The two big lifting hooks, one on each side of the barrel, received welding lines at the base with Milliput. Great care was spent to sand down the longitudinal seam between the two halves of the barrel so it would be invisible.
I used two different paints for the overall sand color of the tank. I don’t think I intended it from the beginning of the painting process, but because both colors were virtually identical I used both in alternating layers to produce the final finish. The two colors were Model Master Acrylic Sand and Vallejo Model Air Sand Yellow. Of the two paints I liked the Vallejo the best because it is easy to airbrush and doesn’t clog inside the airbrush. Model Master on the other hand dries fast so you can apply more layers quicker, but it also means that it easily starts drying already inside the airbrush.
To prepare the surface for the decals almost the whole tank was airbrushed with Model Master Acrylic Clear Gloss and then the decals were applied with the help of Micro Set and Micro Sol. Then the whole tank was sprayed with Model Master Acrylic Clear Flat to restore the overall flat finish.
The large chevrons stood out a bit in contrast to the sand color, so they needed to be toned down a bit, receiving a thin layer of sand paint. At the same time the tracks were airbrushed with the same sand color and would later receive black charcoal powder on the big pads on the outside and the areas touched by the rubber wheels.
That left only the tires to be painted plus some minor detail painting. For the tires I used a stick of compressed charcoal that I rubbed against the edge of a knife to produce a fine powder. This powder was then worked into the tire with the help of a hard-tipped color shaper tool which looks like a rubber brush.
Because this is a vehicle which was used in the desert I try to have the usual washes down to a minimum and only apply it on the motor deck.
My goal here was to have a sandy finish, like a sandstorm has just swept over the tank and left quite a lot of sand all over it.
For this task the pigment powder came in handy. The pigments were bought in an art supply store.
I mixed three different colours, Light Ochre, Unburned Terra di Sienna and Titanium White in about 1/3 equal parts with slight adjustments until the right color appeared.
Then I poured white spirit over the mixture and took a brush and started applying this wet substance all over the tank, but especially in crevices and around the rim of the wheels, making it build up in thick layers.
A bit of the white spirit was soaked up by a tissue but the rest was left to dry by itself
On the large flat surfaces the result looked just like the powder had been applied with a brush. It looked awful. But with the help of a dry paintbrush it was easily corrected and smoothed out, leaving the sand powder where I wanted it.
One problem with pigment powder and the way I applied it is that it doesn’t contain any binder to make it stick to the paint underneath. The solution was to give the whole tank a final coat of clear flat varnish to seal the pigment.
Applying a clear coat is no problem since the pigment powder is very strong in color and does not loose its intensity like pastel chalks often do.
The hard-tipped color shaper tool was also used to apply charcoal powder on the engine vents behind the turret as well as the rubber pads on the track. Finally all the black rubber areas on the wheels and track received a slight dusting of sand.
The colour shapers were used to apply the pigments and char coal powder and a stick of charcoal was used for colouring exhausts and rubber areas.
The only thing remaining was painting of the commander turret’s view-port gloss black, adding two antennas made of 0.5 mm flexible metal wire and adding some crew gear. The Verlinden set Tank Crew Gear fit nicely. They were painted with Humbrol 116 Matt US Dark Green and the straps with Humbrol 155 Matt Olive Drab. Finally they received a dusting of the mixed sand pigment powder to highlight the texture of the cloth and bring it more in tone with the rest of the tank. The drum for telephone cable at the rear of the turret had a soft metal thread painted with Humbrol 33 Matt Black and winded up around the empty drum.
I did not feel like building a complete base in a desert surrounding for this model, but I thought a plaquette would suit my need. And besides, it is good to have something other than the tank itself to grab while handling it. A wood-screw is a simple way to fasten the model to the base and is hardly seen because of the relatively low profile of the tank and its large wheels and side skirts.
All in all I would have to say it was a quite enjoyable project of a kit that almost fell together by itself. Painting one color camouflage tanks means that you don’t have to go through the painstaking process of masking and spraying successive layers of different paint to achieve the final camouflage.
The use of pigment powder instead of pastel chalks grounded to a powder meant a new and interesting technique and the ability to seal in the powder inside a layer of varnish, which means no more danger of getting fingerprints all over the dust or smear it around.
This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholm Magazine in February 2004.
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Digital Privacy Act will require firms to report data breaches: Moore
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Published: April 4th, 2014
In the slew of announcements from the Digital Canada 150 strategy today, measures to protect privacy weren’t forgotten – while details about updates to privacy legislation were scant, it was made clear the government will pursue a new requirement that firms report data breaches to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Speaking from Waterloo, Ont. on Friday, Industry Minister James Moore said he would be in the House of Commons next week to unveil new legislation called the Digital Privacy Act. The act is designed to be an update to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), he said. After referencing the recent Target data breach, Moore gave one clue about what to expect in next week’s legislation.
“What we will put in place in this legislation is a mandate that firms that have this private personal information, if there’s any data breach, they can’t sit on it, they have to immediately inform those customers,” he said. “They have to tell them about the mitigation taking place to protect the information and they have to inform the privacy commissioner.”
Moore added the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada would be getting new powers and responsibilities to protect Canadians’ privacy online. Though he did not outline exactly how the privacy commissioner’s role would change, he indicated the Digital Privacy Act wouldn’t dramatically change the office’s role.
A private member’s bill previously brought to the House of Commons “went too far in my view in providing prosecutorial powers to the privacy commissioner. This one doesn’t do that,” he said. “It provides new tools, but it still provides the ombudsman role for the privacy commissioner.”
Critics say Moore’s digital strategy effort falls short
It was a long time in the making, and it wasn't worth the wait. That's the general sentiment expressed by several critics of Minister of Industry James Moore's Digital Canada 150 plan. The
Published on: April 4th, 2014 Brian Jackson @brianjjackson
Industry Minister unveils Canada’s digital economy strategy in Waterloo
Industry Minister James Moore unveiled a long-awaited national digital economy strategy at Waterloo-based OpenText Corp this morning in an announcement that was live-streamed online. The plan, dubbed Digital Canada 150, will include 39
In an emailed statement, a spokesperson for the privacy commissioner said the office was also still waiting on more information.
“What we can tell you at this point is that we are encouraged by this morning’s announcement and look forward to seeing the details. For some time now, our Office has been saying that PIPEDA needs to be updated to better protect the privacy rights of Canadians and ensure consumer trust in the digital economy,” the email read, adding the law needs to be modernized for stronger powers for enforcement, as well as a mandatory policy getting companies to report data breaches when they occur.
What remains to be seen is the exact wording of the legislation for both data breach reporting and the privacy commissioner’s role, said John Lawford, executive director of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC).
“It’s not very clear. Aside from vaguely defined enforcement powers, we don’t know how it will translate,” he said. “During the question and answer part after, Moore did say the [privacy] commissioner can’t be proactive, and won’t be an inquisitor … But the wording is all important.”
Like the privacy commissioner’s office, one thing PIAC is hoping for is a policy where businesses must inform the privacy commissioner if they’ve suffered a data breach. Right now, that’s a voluntary action – but PIAC wants the privacy commissioner to be able to fine businesses if they fail to say anything.
Still, for a strategy that was four years in the making, the lack of detail was disappointing for David Christopher, communications manager of OpenMedia.ca. Nor was he optimistic about the kind of new powers the privacy commissioner would be receiving.
“He seemed to downplay the prospect of giving the privacy commissioner extra powers,” Christopher said. “It seems like that’s not going to be beefed up the way it needs to be.”
To read the Digital Canada 150 report, head over here.
With files from Brian Jackson.
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THE LOVE STORY OF MISSY CARMICHAEL
by Beth Morrey
An isolated, prickly septuagenarian in London who has lost her husband works to overcome her fears that she is a burden to those around her.
Millicent Carmichael—Missy—married the man she loved, Leo, in 1959. But after a half-century of living, loving, and growing older in a huge house in Stoke Newington, London, he is gone, and she is bereft. Her son and grandson, both of whom she dotes on, live more than 9,000 miles away in Australia, and she is recently estranged from her daughter, who lives nearby in Cambridge. Missy is a difficult person with sharp edges—she knows this, her Leo knew this—and she is at loose ends, having lived in a community for all this time without getting to know anyone because she held so tightly to her family she made no time for anyone else. But now, the loneliness is crushing her. A few life-changing moments happen in quick succession: She faints in the park and meets neighbor Sylvie, who kindly sits with her for a bit; her home is robbed while she feigns sleep; and she agrees to do a favor for brusque neighbor Angela—journalist, friend of Sylvie, and single mother to Otis. And so Missy finds herself tending to a vivacious dog of indeterminate breed, Bob, that she neither wanted nor feels capable of taking care of. Debut author Morrey has deftly created a series of love stories, interwoven together and told in snippets through time: Missy’s undying devotion to Leo, despite his—and her—many flaws; her devotion to her children, which she often isn’t able to verbalize; and her growing niche in the community that Bob—her Bobby, her unexpected companion and confidant—introduces her to during their daily walks. There are no saccharine moments to mar this tale.
Pain, grief, and hurt are all part of life in this moving portrayal of the many forms love can take.
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Publisher: Putnam
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Process to register your pet as a support animal is easy, and it's easy to abuse
By: Jace Larson
You see service dogs everywhere—from airports to walking on the streets. But some people are abusing the system, in order to save on pet fees on planes and apartments. It’s a whole lot easier to get your dog registered as a support pet than you may think.
Shana Duffy, who has bipolar disorder, is someone who medical professionals agree needs Apollo, her emotional support dog.
"I had a traumatic experience happen, and I no longer felt safe in my own home," says Duffy.
Duffy says Apollo has improved her life.
"Ok, I'll be blunt; there was one night I was thinking about killing myself and the thought popped into my head, 'Who is going to take care of Apollo?' What's going to happen to my dog if I do this?’ And that was enough for me to stop thinking about it."
An emotional support dog is not the same as a service dog, which does something physical for its owner.
The law allows emotional support dogs on an airplane for free. In a hotel or apartment, a landlord cannot ban the dog or charge a pet fee. There's no requirement for an emotional support dog to be trained.
So, how easy is it to get a certification for a support dog? The NOW’s investigative reporter Jace Larson went through the process to try and his get his pet designated as an emotional support dog.
First, Larson went online to Pet Certify Express. The service costs $99, and then you are prompted to answer a lol of questions online. The questions inquired about life events that may have cause great physiological stress, including situations like divorce, breakups, financial trouble, unemployment and deaths in the family.
After answering the questions honestly, Larson’s pet Rocky was deemed an emotional support dog.
Cathy Castagna-Petersen was the supposed licensed professional counselor who approved Rocky. She claimed to be licensed in Colorado until 2020. However, an investigation revealed her license expired in 2013.
Calls to Pet Certify Express and Castagna-Petersen went unanswered.
Shana Duffy says stories like this ruin it for people who need the help, often times having to answer to people doubting her.
"I have no fear in telling people, 'Hey, I was inpatient in a psych facility and a doctor told me to get a dog. So, when you get your medical degree we can have this conversation again. But my doctor said I should do this and there are a lot of benefits to it.'"
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Do What You Do
In the same key as the original: C♯m
# Soul # 80's # 1984
Play the karaoke of Do What You Do
Lyrics of Do What You Do
as made famous by Jermaine Jackson
Original songwriter : Ralph Dino, Larry J Di Tommaso
This title is a cover of Do What You Do as made famous by Jermaine Jackson
Share your thoughts about Do What You Do
What Cha' Gonna Do For Me
Why Can't We Live Together
I Need Your Lovin'
Shake You Down
I Can't Help It
Older (Live)
Whatever U Want
Tony! Toni! Toné!
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NewsTroubleshooters
Troubleshooters: Oak Haven Home
By: Andy Liscano
Some people are still trying to recover from the destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey.
Tonight an Aransas Pass couple tells their story.
About how they’ve hired 2 different contractors, but they’re still not satisfied with the work that’s been done.
Wanda and John Johnson are still picking up the pieces from Harvey.
In April they hired Mark Leal of M&M Painting and Remodeling.
“I thought i could trust him,” Wanda Johnson told the Troubleshooters.
The Johnson’s told us Leal only worked a few days, but still got paid $7000.00.
That didn’t end well however, as this text between Johnson and Leal seems to indicate.
So in May, the Johnson’s hired Calvin Collins of Calvin’s Remodeling, they say, to finish what Leal didn’t.
They’ve already paid Collins more than $13,000.00.
Collins has been the subject of a previous Troubleshooters report.
Get this. Johnson and Collins both tell us they know one another.
Johnson saying of Collins “Calvin is actually a nice guy. He really is. It’s just his mouth overrides his brain, to put it nicely.”
The Johnson’s just aren’t satisfied with Collins’ work.
They got the wrong plywood, and it’s splitting. It’s falling apart already.”
We asked Collins about that by phone.
“We told her to tear that, tear that ceiling down. I mean, it’s an old ceiling. She just wanted it painted, so we primed and painted it.”
“$800.00 to do this wiring that Calvin and them said they were gonna do, and didn’t do,” Johnson said.
To which Collins responded that he told Johnson, his crews don’t do electrical work.
The Johnson’s have other issues about Collins’ work.
Like not hauling away debris.
And the split in these wooden support posts.
“That’s why I got a hold of you. Help me. What do I do people ? Johnson exclaimed.
Like we mentioned earlier, both sides say they know one another.
That’s why Collins is a bit surprised by this.
“We just went in there to help her out because that other contractor kind of screwed her over for a bunch of money.”
The Johnson’s estimate Harvey caused $38,000.00 in damage to their home.
And that it’s going to take $5000.00 more to get it looking like it used to.
For his part, Collins told us he’d contact Johnson today to try to get this resolved.
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Cops: Heroin Overdose At Occupy Santa Cruz Camp
A 20-year-old man overdosed on heroin inside of a tent at the Occupy Santa Cruz camp in San Lorenzo Park, police said Friday.Tyler Forshey, of Reno, Nevada, told officers he injected heroin into himself and quickly lost consciousness, Santa Cruz police said.Another Occupy Santa Cruz protester successfully revived Forshey with chest compressions at 9:40 p.m. Wednesday.Forshey was transported to a hospital after police arrived, and he was charged with being under the influence of heroin. PHOTOS: Inside Occupy Santa Cruz Occupy Santa Cruz has been plagued with drug dealing, public drunkenness, and fist fights since it began nearly 50 days ago.The camp is made up of nearly 100 tents, tee pees and even a "geodome" clustered in a park usually occupied by youth soccer camps next to the Santa Cruz courthouse.It's part of a nationwide political movement protesting against Wall Street greed and economic inequality.In Los Angeles, city leaders hope the seven-week-old Occupy LA encampment will disband sometime next week. More than 480 tents were erected on the lawns of City Hall and has remained largely peaceful since police and city officials established a relationship early on based on dialogue instead of dictates.There are about 400 occupiers in San Francisco, based in the financial district's plaza.Oakland occupiers continue to have the strongest presence in California.On Oct. 25, when Occupy Oakland was hit by the largest police raid, a dozen outside law enforcement agencies helped Oakland police during their tear gas-filled clash with occupy demonstrators.Law enforcement agencies who helped with the raid included the Gilroy Police Department and the California Highway Patrol .After warning protestors they would be evicted if they did not leave the main camp, hundreds of law enforcement officers raided the encampment before dawn with tear gas and bean bag projectiles, and ultimately arrested more than 80 people.Images of police actions that day served to galvanize support for the Occupy movement after news emerged that the clash left an Iraq War veteran with serious injuries.The forcible Oakland protest eviction, the first of its kind on a large scale, marred the national reputation of the city's mayor and police department while rallying encampments nationwide beset with their own public safety and sanitation issues.But after police cleared the camp last month, Mayor Jean Quan changed course and allowed protesters to return.The mayor's reversal strained relationships with city police and other San Francisco Bay area law enforcement agencies. PHOTOS: Occupy Oakland In Action
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. —
A 20-year-old man overdosed on heroin inside of a tent at the Occupy Santa Cruz camp in San Lorenzo Park, police said Friday.
Tyler Forshey, of Reno, Nevada, told officers he injected heroin into himself and quickly lost consciousness, Santa Cruz police said.
Another Occupy Santa Cruz protester successfully revived Forshey with chest compressions at 9:40 p.m. Wednesday.
Forshey was transported to a hospital after police arrived, and he was charged with being under the influence of heroin.
PHOTOS: Inside Occupy Santa Cruz
Occupy Santa Cruz has been plagued with drug dealing, public drunkenness, and fist fights since it began nearly 50 days ago.
The camp is made up of nearly 100 tents, tee pees and even a "geodome" clustered in a park usually occupied by youth soccer camps next to the Santa Cruz courthouse.
It's part of a nationwide political movement protesting against Wall Street greed and economic inequality.
In Los Angeles, city leaders hope the seven-week-old Occupy LA encampment will disband sometime next week. More than 480 tents were erected on the lawns of City Hall and has remained largely peaceful since police and city officials established a relationship early on based on dialogue instead of dictates.
There are about 400 occupiers in San Francisco, based in the financial district's plaza.
Oakland occupiers continue to have the strongest presence in California.
On Oct. 25, when Occupy Oakland was hit by the largest police raid, a dozen outside law enforcement agencies helped Oakland police during their tear gas-filled clash with occupy demonstrators.
Law enforcement agencies who helped with the raid included the Gilroy Police Department and the California Highway Patrol .
After warning protestors they would be evicted if they did not leave the main camp, hundreds of law enforcement officers raided the encampment before dawn with tear gas and bean bag projectiles, and ultimately arrested more than 80 people.
Images of police actions that day served to galvanize support for the Occupy movement after news emerged that the clash left an Iraq War veteran with serious injuries.
The forcible Oakland protest eviction, the first of its kind on a large scale, marred the national reputation of the city's mayor and police department while rallying encampments nationwide beset with their own public safety and sanitation issues.
But after police cleared the camp last month, Mayor Jean Quan changed course and allowed protesters to return.
The mayor's reversal strained relationships with city police and other San Francisco Bay area law enforcement agencies.
PHOTOS: Occupy Oakland In Action
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Hope grows for Baby Carter: Ichthyosis symptoms improved with cannabis cream
By: Darcy Spears
We first met Carter and his parents a year ago. Baby Carter suffers from Lamellar Ichthyosis, a rare skin disorder with no care that causes dark scales because of dead skin cells that don’t flake off. Despite corrective surgery, Carter’s skin is so tight that he can’t shut his eyes and spends most of his time indoors. His parents used to apply oatmeal baths and coconut oil several times a day just to provide a little bit of relief for their son. But now they’re hopeful that a cream made from cannabis oil will continue to show amazing improvements to his skin.
Before and after photo showing how the effects of the cannabis cream on Carter’s back
The results of medical marijuana are still up for debate by some, but for Carter’s parents Zach and Shai, there are no questions about it. “It’s a miracle plant, that’s what it is,” Zach told us. “It showed us from the first time that we used it, that it was worth continuing to use,” Shai added.
Before and after photo of Carter’s scalp
Carter’s mom Shai still gets emotional talking about when she first realized the cannabis cream was working. “I cried a lot. A lot. I still cry. I'll be in the bathtub just scrubbing his back and the scales just fall right off in the bathtub. And I'll just cry.” Her tears of relief have replaced tears of heartache and worry.
Before and after photo of Carter’s chest
Most people think of comfort food when they think of their grandmother’s kitchen. But Carter’s grandma cooks up something to comfort her grandson’s skin. She makes the cream in her kitchen using cannabis oil and other essential oils, giving him a gift no doctor has been able to provide yet. The before and after pictures show dramatic results.
So how does the cream work? Dr. Scott Jacobson says cannabis taps into the nature of our own bodies. “The endocannabinoid system is found throughout the body--in the brain, in the immune system, the nervous system as well as in the skin. Actually, skin cells have endocannabinoid receptors in them. And so putting them on topically you're going to get that action directly where it's needed.”
Dr. Jacobson says cannabis is also known to reduce inflammation. For Carter and his family, it’s a big step forward.
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High Fives 7/23
MAGIC 105 1. "Bad Blood:" Taylor Swift 2. "Cheerleader:" OMI 3. "See you Again:" Wiz Khalifa 4. "Can't Feel My Face:"...
High Fives 7/23 MAGIC 105 1. "Bad Blood:" Taylor Swift 2. "Cheerleader:" OMI 3. "See you Again:" Wiz Khalifa 4. "Can't Feel My Face:"... Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/entertainment/local/pulse/2015/07/22/high-fives-7-23/32014103/
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2. "Cheerleader:" OMI
3. "See you Again:" Wiz Khalifa
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5. "Honey, I'm Good:" Andy Grammer
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1. "Nolsey:" Sorority Noise
2. "Jimjams:" Miracles Of Modern Science
3. "Broken Cash Machine" Modern Baseball
4. "Go Away" Poema
5. "Roll Up Your Sleeves" Meg Mac
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1. "Jim, Jack and Hank:" Alan Jackson
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Home News PrivatBank launches prepaid products in Ukraine together with InComm
PrivatBank launches prepaid products in Ukraine together with InComm
News August 19, 2016 —by Valentina Kirilova 0
PrivatBank has announced it has partnered with the prepaid product and transaction services company InComm to launch prepaid products to its customers in Ukraine.
The partnership between the two companies will afford Ukrainian customers the opportunity to purchase prepaid codes and immediately top up their or anyone else’s account without incurring any additional fees.
Olga Khudik, Head of PrivatBank e-Commerce department, commented:
Together with InComm, we are opening the opportunity to the more than 45 million Ukrainians to use one of the world’s most popular services. The purchase of the prepaid codes through PrivatBank guarantees the payment security and authenticity of the codes for our customers.”
PrivatBank customers can purchase prepaid codes through the web version of Privat24. The purchase of prepaid codes through the PrivatBank mobile application will be available in August 2016. Account funds can be used to add credit to video chat and voice call applications. The two companies plan to expand the product line in the future.
Frank Monaco, InComm
Frank Monaco, Executive Vice President and General Manager, InComm International, said:
We are pleased to have taken the first step in our strategic partnership with PrivatBank to supply prepaid codes to their customers in Ukraine. In conjunction with our product partners and PrivatBank, we are pleased to work together to achieve a successful and exciting launch.”
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From Busted to Pete Tong: All the brilliant acts you can see at De Montfort Hall's Gigs in the Gardens events
Have you got your tickets yet?
Becky JonesWhat's On Writer
Busted are coming to De Montfort Hall
It's almost time for Gigs in the Gardens at De Montfort Hall - and we can't wait.
The series of seven large-scale outdoor events begins this Friday and finishes with a bang on Monday, August 26.
The outdoor shows are a highlight of Leicester City Council’s Summer In The City programme.
Major works were carried out last summer to improve the outdoor infrastructure of De Montfort Hall, increasing the capacity to 6,000, making more outdoor events possible.
Tickets are currently still available for the gigs - so take a look below and see which acts you fancy going to see...
Friday, August 16: Bugzy Malone, Yxng Bane and Wretch 32
Bugzy Malone’s debut album Walk With Me reached number two on the UK iTunes album chart and his music videos have had millions of views on YouTube.
Yxng Bane first made waves when he dropped Lone Wolf on Soundcloud two years ago as a 19 year-old. Since then, Yxng Bane’s released a stream of dancehall-fused rap and R&B tracks and is yet to release an official music video that hasn’t topped a million views.
Wretch 32 has come a long way since his days with Grime collective Combination Chain Gang. In 2011, the rapper hit the peak of the UK charts with Don’t Go, one of three top five charting singles from his debut Black and White.
Tickets £38.50 in advance. Click here to buy. Gates open 5pm.
Saturday, August 17: Busted, Professor Green and Scouting For Girls
Busted released their debut single "What I Go to School For" back in September 2002 - and now, almost 17 years later, they're coming to Leicester to wow us with their hook-laden pop songs.
They're returning to the Hall with Half Way There, a collection of semi-autobiographical numbers. Don't worry - there will be plenty of their older hits too.
Hackney born and raised rapper Professor Green - otherwise known as Stephen Manderson - has released two top three albums and amassed a career tally of more than 2.5 million combined sales in the UK alone.
Scouting for Girls’ debut LP featured three top 10 hits - She’s So Lovely, Elvis Ain’t Dead and Heartbeat. The pop-centric London trio will be bringing a collection of new material and classic songs to De Montfort Hall.
Professor Green is coming to De Montfort Hall
Sunday, August 18: Kaiser Chiefs, The Vaccines and The Twang
Indie icons Kaiser Chiefs will be performing tracks from across their extensive catalogue of work, hot on the heels of the release of their new album.
The Vaccines come to De Montfort Hall’s gardens following their sold-out 2019 tour. They return to their roots with new album Combat Sports - ranging from pure rock n roll through to powerpop.
Birmingham rockers The Twang formed in 2004 are best known for songs including Twit Twoo, Elusive Soul and Put It On The Dancefloor.
Friday, August 23: Groove Armada (DJ set), Pete Tong and Danny Howard plus Dirty Secretz
Groove Armada - made up of Andy Cato and Tom Findlay - have been one of the best loved and biggest selling dance acts for more than two decades. Enjoy a DJ set from the duo responsible for hits such as 'Superstylin' and 'At the River'.
Few dance DJs can claim the influence that Pete Tong has commanded for the past 20 years. Now resident in the US, he continues to push boundaries – in the clubs and on the radio - for all denominations of electronic dance music.
Dance music broadcaster, DJ and producer Danny Howard gets a million listeners tuning in to his Saturday afternoon Dance Anthems slot on Radio 1. His work as a music producer has seen him gain a global audience and was helped in no small way when dance music legend Erick Prydz asked Danny to remix Break Down The Doors.
Guests will be also be able to enjoy a newly-announced DJ set from 'pioneer DJ artist' Dirty Secretz.
Saturday, August 24: Curated by BBC Introducing East Midlands
This will be a day-long celebration of local musicians, including electronic-indie band Demons of Ruby Mae, artist and producer Harri Georgio, singer-songwriter Judith Ude, pop singer Mason Bailey, alt rock band Oceans Apart and singer-songwriter Ro Jordan.
Tickets in advance £20 adults, £5 under 18s, under 5s free but still require a ticket. Click here to buy. Gates open 12pm.
Sunday, August 25: Years and Years, Jax Jones and Nina Nesbitt
Years & Years’ sound has been described as electropop mixing R&B and 90s house sounds. Their biggest single King from their debut record reached number one in the UK singles and made top 10 charts around the world.
Jax Jones brings an idiosyncratic approach to pop music, underpinned by a belief that pop — and house, and every other sort of music — is at its best when the rules are bent slightly out of shape.
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Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt has been taking the world by storm. It's been non-stop for Nina since signing her new deal with Cooking Vinyl, with the likes of a tour of the US with Jake Bugg, and sold-out UK and US headline tours.
Monday, August 26: Bardi Symphony Orchestra
The Bardi Symphony Orchestra are promising a spectacular, family-friendly finale to the Gigs in the Gardens summer series.
Local musicians will be performing a raft of popular film and stage classics before a firework encore.
The performance’s first half will feature The Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back, Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission, The Lion King Suite, Moon River, the Les Miserables suite, plus music from Out Of Africa and Pirates Of The Caribbean.
The second half will include scores from The Big Country, West Side Story, The Pink Panther and Phantom of the Opera, a James Bond medley and a singalong finale from The Sound of Music.
For the firework encore, the audience will be treated to some of film composer John Williams’ most popular works, including Star Wars, Jaws, Superman, Harry Potter , Indiana Jones and ET.
Tickets £10 adults in advance, children under 18 free but still require a ticket. Click here to buy. Gates open 5pm.
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Ancient Egypt Gallery Guided Tour
The Ptolemaic period (323-30 BC) comes to life in the Ancient Egypt Gallery. Students learn about the ancient Egyptians’ civilization, beliefs, and customs, and how these people interacted with their Greek and Roman neighbors. Enter a recreated tomb which houses an authentic 2,300-year-old mummy, and learn how modern technology revealed some of this mummy’s secrets.
Layered Experience: Pairs well with Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (Planetarium Show), Ancient Egypt & Its Art (Class), and Forensic Crime Lab (Class).
Available to Grades: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Program Type: Guided Tours Subject: History & Social Studies, English & Language Arts
Cost: $2.00 per student & chaperone
Art Exhibition Guided Tour: Frank Hayden
Artworks by Baton Rouge artist Frank Hayden are found throughout our city, from the campuses of LSU and Southern University to public plazas. Students will learn about the life and work of this preeminent Louisiana sculptor whose artworks, which reflect deep spiritual and humanistic concerns with universal themes, are made of wood, plaster, fiberglass, and stone.
This Art Exhibition Guided Tour is available from March 24, 2020 - September 15, 2020.
Program Type: Guided Tours Subject: Art, History & Social Studies
Science Station
Interaction with STEAM-focused exhibits makes learning meaningful, relevant, and exciting. Hands-on, minds-on activities in this unique gallery space encourage students to playfully engage in innovative, open-ended learning experiences. Design and building stations will elevate your students’ love of discovery.
Available to Grades: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Program Type: Hands-On Galleries Subject: Art, Math, Life Science, Physical Science, Earth & Space Science, Science & the Environment
Solar System Gallery Guided Tour
Explore the history of our universe from astronomy to paleontology in the Solar System Gallery. Students will encounter interactive displays that allow them to virtually travel to the Moon, learn about gravity, and more. An exhibition of minerals and fossils, including a 65-million-year-old authentic Triceratops prosus skull, will teach students about our aging planet.
Layered Experience: Pairs well with Dinosaur Passage to Pangaea, Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia (Planetarium Show) and all astronomy-themed planetarium shows.
Program Type: Guided Tours Subject: Life Science, History & Social Studies, Earth & Space Science, Science & the Environment
100 River Road South, Downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802
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How lithium-rich Chile botched a plan to attract battery makers
Published: - Jul 19, 2019
Economy Environment Chile Investment Lithium reserves
In March 2018, the Chilean government unveiled big news: Corporate investors, including South Korean electronics giant Samsung, would build three factories in Chile to produce battery parts for electric vehicles
Brine pools from a lithium mine, that belongs U.S.-based Albemarle Corp, is seen on the Atacama salt flat in the Atacama desert, Chile, August 16, 2018/ Reuters /Ivan Alvarado
Reuters | Dave Sherwood
Chile had lured the companies with an enticing offer. In exchange for helping the South American country, the world’s No. 2 miner of lithium, jumpstart its own EV battery industry, the firms would get a guaranteed supply of the coveted metal at attractive prices for nearly three decades amid a global race to lock down supplies.
Leer en español: Chile arruina un plan para atraer fabricantes de baterías en busca de reservas de litio
Now that arrangement is falling apart. Chile’s government has failed to deliver the bountiful, bargain-priced lithium it had promised in a fast-changing market, according to a Reuters review of regulatory filings and internal documents from a state development agency.
Chilean chemical company Molymet, which had planned to build one of the battery parts factories, last week announced it is scrapping that effort; it declined to say why. That follows a similar defection by South Korea’s POSCO. The steelmaker in June said it was pulling out of a joint venture to build a Chilean plant with Samsung’s battery unit, citing worries about lithium supplies. Samsung told Reuters it is now reviewing the project.
China’s Sichuan Fulin Transportation Group Co, meanwhile, has yet to get its planned Chilean factory off the ground. Fulin did not respond to requests for comment.
The deals hinged on the globe’s top producer of lithium - Albemarle Corp - boosting output from its Chilean operations to supply the planned factories. But Albemarle’s expansion has been hampered by technological and regulatory hurdles. The U.S.-based miner has feuded with Chile’s government over the price battery makers would pay for its lithium. And it does not produce lithium hydroxide in Chile, the type of processed lithium required by POSCO-Samsung.
While Chile possesses the world’s largest reserves of the “white gold”, it has not capitalized fully on those riches. Like Albemarle, the nation’s other big lithium miner, SQM, has struggled to boost output amid strong global demand, which is expected to triple by 2025. The government, meanwhile, has been slow to allow new players to enter the market.
Chile’s latest stumbling effort to woo battery makers shows that uprooting that industry from Asia will not be easy, says Emily Hersh, a managing partner with the Washington D.C.-based consultancy DCDB group.
“It’s a big reality check,” Hersh said. “Chile is a powerhouse in the production of battery chemicals. If they can’t do this, everybody needs to pay attention and figure out why.”
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RARE DEAL
Then-President Michelle Bachelet in late 2016 struck an unusual deal with Albemarle, the source of nearly half of Chile’s lithium production.
Her center-left government gave Albemarle the green light to more than double its output through 2043. In return, Bachelet mandated the U.S.-based miner guarantee a quarter of its annual production at favorable prices to battery makers willing to set up shop in the country.
Chilean development agency Corfo opened a tender to prospective investors in April 2017 with the hopes of new factories breaking ground by early 2020. It received 12 bids.
But behind the scenes, Chile worried about its ability to deliver the promised lithium, according to government documents viewed by Reuters describing the decision-making process.
State projections showed Albemarle producing 64,000 tonnes of lithium by 2020, with as much as 16,000 tonnes of that earmarked for the new factories, according to the tender documents.
But the three winning projects combined called for 28,496 tonnes of lithium, according to the documents, nearly twice the amount Albemarle was required to supply.
“It would only be possible to satisfy the requirements of Fulin and Molymet, on the one hand, or Posco-Samsung, on the other,” said an internal Corfo memo dated March 9, 2018.
The documents show the agency pinned its hopes on Albemarle speeding its expansion. The company in March 2018 applied to increase its export quota to as much as 145,000 tonnes of lithium annually.
But Chilean regulators in September rejected that plan, saying the miner had failed to prove it had the technology necessary to produce the extra lithium without straining water resources.
Albemarle now says it is on track to boost production capacity to over 80,000 tonnes of lithium by 2021, still short of what the government needs to make good on its promises to the tender winners.
The state has “mistaken its wishes for reality,” said Jaime Alee, a Santiago-based lithium consultant.
Corfo declined repeated requests for comment.
Albemarle and the government also bickered over the price at which the company was obligated to sell its lithium.
Corfo, now under the direction of center-right President Sebastian Pinera, threatened Albemarle with arbitration in October 2018. In January, the parties struck a deal but have not released details of their agreement.
An Albemarle spokesman told Reuters that Corfo had misrepresented to the battery makers the way the price was to be calculated.
Eduardo Bitran, the former head of Corfo, said the terms were clear.
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EXTENDED LIEN PRIORITY TO EXTEND ASSOCIATION BUDGETS
A new bill, passed on April 29, 2019 (N.J.S.A. 46:8B-21), signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy, extends lien priority for condominium associations and creates similar lien priority protections for homeowner associations. For many years, the New Jersey Condominium Act has permitted the filing of liens against condominium units when assessments remain unpaid. Homeowner association, because they were not included in the Act, provided for the filing of liens in their governing documents. These liens served as the basis for foreclosure against units in serious arrears. The ability to file liens and foreclose provided a substantial benefit to the fiscal stability of community associations throughout the State. Without the ability to file liens and foreclose on them, abandoned units, units falling into serious disrepair due to owner inability to afford to pay maintenance or afford repairs, and units in which residents are otherwise judgment-proof, would substantially increase the monetary burden on those who do pay their maintenance fees, and would reduce the marketability of all Units in the community.
BILL PASSED IN NEW JERSEY REGARDING WHEN TENANTS ARE REQUIRED TO MAKE PAYMENTS AFTER EVICTION AND/OR LOCKOUT
A new bill titled NJ S3124, was signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy on January 13, 2020. This bill requires landlords to allow tenants to pay rent up to three business days after an eviction order or lockout is executed and requires landlords to accept rent payments by any means.
New Legislation Regarding Tenants Payments to Landlords in New Jersey
The new bill is titled S1493 Sca (1R) and it was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday, January 13, 2020. Generally, the new legislation aims at landlords who require renters to agree to automatic monthly debit payments as a condition of entering a new lease or renewing a lease. The new legislation prohibits landlords from requiring residential tenants to pay rent and other related charges through electronic funds transfer and it requires landlords to provide receipts for cash payments.
New York Housing Right to Counsel
New York City has established a city-funded right to counsel for low-income tenants facing eviction proceedings. The right to counsel law, Local Law 136 of 2017, amended the New York City Administrative Code § 26-1301 et seq. The law now requires New York City to build up the capacity of the City’s nonprofit legal services organizations over five years so that by 2022, the nonprofit organizations will be able to provide attorney representation for every low-income household in New York City that is subject to eviction in Housing Court.
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5 things you might not know about... Shappi Khorsandi
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Some lesser-known snippets about the British-Iranian comedian
1 Khorsandi grew up in west London in the 1980s after her Iranian family fled in exile to the UK. At the age of 11, she wrote to the Ayatollah Khomeini to ask him not to kill her father, a journalist and comedian whose stock-in-trade was political satire. Seems that her plea fell on deaf ears as Scotland Yard came to the family home to warn them of a plot they had uncovered to have Shappi’s pappy assassinated.
2 During her teenage years, Khorsandi suffered from bulimia, recalling how she would mop up any leftovers from the big Middle Eastern buffet-style dinner parties that her parents would throw. She has noted that her bulimia waned when she began taking to the stage to tell jokes.
3 She has a young son, Cassius, with fellow comic and now ex-husband Christian Reilly. She cites the terror of being away from her son for too long as the main reason she turned down I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here.
4 For last year’s Sport Relief, she performed a cheerleading routine to Toni Basil’s ‘Mickey’. Although she’s appeared on Question Time, she insists that busting out some acrobatic televised moves for charity was the most nerve-wracking thing she’s ever done.
5 She had a teenage crush on Sylvester Stallone in his Rambo period. She still blames him today for her failing a bunch of crucial exams.
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Wilhelm Character Analysis
Wilhelm is Werther’s close friend. As Wilhelm lives far from Werther, their friendship occurs through letters—in fact, Werther’s letters to Wilhelm constitute the bulk of the book. Wilhelm never appears bodily in the text, and his responses to Werther’s letters are never printed, though Werther’s replies shed some light on their content. These clues show Wilhelm to be someone deeply concerned for Werther’s well-being, and they suggest that Wilhelm would act as a moderating force against the whirlwind of emotions Werther experiences if he were only present and able to do so. It is Wilhelm that assists Werther in finding employment with the Ambassador, and Wilhelm who constantly reminds Werther to find solace in his old hobbies of reading and drawing. When Werther is at his most desperate, Wilhelm intends to go to him, but Werther (who is already contemplating suicide) requests that he postpone the trip for a while.
Wilhelm Quotes in The Sorrows of Young Werther
The The Sorrows of Young Werther quotes below are all either spoken by Wilhelm or refer to Wilhelm. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Penguin Classics edition of The Sorrows of Young Werther published in 1989.
Book 1: May 4-13, 1771 Quotes
Poor Leonore! And yet I was innocent. Was it my fault that, while I was taking pleasure and amusement in the wilful charms of her sister, a passion was growing in that poor heart?
Related Characters: Werther (speaker), Wilhelm, Leonore
Unlock explanations and citation info for this and every other The Sorrows of Young Werther quote.
Dear friend! do I need to tell you that you who have so often endured seeing me pass from sorrow to excessive joy, from sweet melancholy to destructive passion? And I am treating my poor heart like an ailing child; every whim is granted.
Related Characters: Werther (speaker), Wilhelm
Book 1: May 15-22, 1771 Quotes
I well know we are not equal, nor can be; but…he who supposes he must keep his distance from what they call the rabble, to preserve the respect due to him, is as much to blame as a coward who hides from his enemy for fear of being beaten.
You ask why the torrent of genius so rarely pours forth, so rarely floods and thunders and overwhelms your astonished soul?—Because, dear friends, on either bank dwell the cool, respectable gentlemen…
Related Symbols: Storms
I shall now try to see her too as soon as possible, or rather, on second thoughts, I shall avoid doing so. It is better for me to see her with the eyes of her lover; perhaps she would not appear to my own eyes as she does now, and why should I ruin the beautiful image I have?
Related Characters: Werther (speaker), Wilhelm, Farmer Lad, Widow
Book 1: Jun 19-Jul 6, 1771 Quotes
It is good that my heart can feel the simple and innocent pleasure a man knows when the cabbage he eats at table is one he grew himself; the pleasure he takes not only in eating the cabbage but in remembering all those good days, the fine morning he planted it, the mellow evenings he watered it and the delight he felt in its daily growth.
Book 1: Jul 8-19, 1771 Quotes
No, I am not deceiving myself! …Yes, I can feel—and I know I may trust my own heart in this—Oh, dare I utter the words, those words that contain all heaven for me?—I can feel that she loves me!
Related Characters: Werther (speaker), Lotte (Charlotte S.), Wilhelm
Book 1: Oct 20, 1771-Feb 20, 1772 Quotes
And this glittering misery, the tedium of these awful people cooped up together here! and their greed for rank, and the way they are forever watchful and alert for gain or precedence: the most wretched and abominable of passions, quite nakedly displayed.
Wilhelm Character Timeline in The Sorrows of Young Werther
The timeline below shows where the character Wilhelm appears in The Sorrows of Young Werther. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book One: May 4-13, 1771
...someone he refers to as his “dear friend” (later, this character is revealed to be Wilhelm). The letter tells of Werther’s great joy to be away from home, despite being away... (full context)
...to enjoy, such as reading books and drawing. He playfully expresses concern about this to Wilhelm, yet he seems content in his new lackadaisical lifestyle. He loves simply wandering the countryside,... (full context)
The next letter opens with Werther responding to Wilhelm, who has asked if he ought to forward Werther’s books to him. It’s an idea... (full context)
Book One: May 15-22, 1771
...it nonetheless regrettable. As if to illustrate his goodwill towards the lower class, Werther tells Wilhelm about a servant girl whom he helped to carry water. (full context)
Class remains on Werther’s mind in his next letter to Wilhelm, which opens with another lament: that no members of high society are to be found... (full context)
Werther recounts to Wilhelm his recent meeting with a young man known simply as V. V is a recent... (full context)
Werther’s next letter to Wilhelm, dated May 22, opens with a long and philosophical treatise on the meaning of life.... (full context)
...the future. Society has too many rules that keep an artist from flourishing, he tells Wilhelm, although he knows that the other man won’t agree. While those rules might be good... (full context)
Having sent Wilhelm two rather lengthy and heady letters, Werther begins his next letter by chiding himself. He’s... (full context)
Book One: June 16, 1771
...gap of more than two weeks occurs between letters and Werther is forced to beg Wilhelm’s forgiveness. He suggests, though, that if Wilhelm were truly thinking, he might already know why... (full context)
Having calmed somewhat, Werther proceeds to tell Wilhelm of his meeting with Lotte. Some of his newfound friends had held a ball in... (full context)
Book One: June 19-July 6, 1771
Werther has apparently sent the first portion of his memories to Wilhelm, and he resumes writing them three days later. He begins with the simple fact that... (full context)
In his next letter to Wilhelm, Werther discusses Lotte’s habit of visiting the sick and dying. Recently she and Werther have... (full context)
Book One: July 8-19, 1771
...remains uncertain that she did so in order to see him. His following letter to Wilhelm opens with a confession from Werther that he acts like an “oaf” at the mere... (full context)
...same meagre budget. Lotte relates this story to Werther, who in turn relates it to Wilhelm. Werther is amazed at the way Old M. deceived himself about the household expenses. But,... (full context)
Werther is not, however, deceiving himself about Lotte, he assures Wilhelm over the course of the coming days’ letters. Lotte loves him; he is sure of... (full context)
Book One: July 19-August 12, 1771
Wilhelm has offered to help Werther find a job with the ambassador. It’s not a suggestion... (full context)
Wilhelm reminds Werther that this fate was inevitable—after all, he knew that Lotte was engaged before... (full context)
...that things maybe aren’t as unbearable as he’s made them out to be. He tells Wilhelm that he could actually be living the best possible life if he weren’t thinking so... (full context)
Book One: August 15-September 10, 1771
In his next letter to Wilhelm, Werther remarks that Lotte’s siblings, who once preferred Lotte’s method of slicing bread, have come... (full context)
Several days later, Werther confesses to Wilhelm that whatever comfort nature once provided him is completely gone now, and even his books... (full context)
...the way he, Lotte, and Albert have. Nor is this fruit strictly symbolic: Werther tells Wilhelm that he has spent much of the summer sitting in the fruit trees of Lotte’s... (full context)
...he can envision no other end to his misery than “the grave.” By September 3, Wilhelm has convinced Werther to leave Wahlheim to find employment with the ambassador. A week later,... (full context)
Book One: October 20, 1771-February 20, 1772
Some ten days later, Werther writes Wilhelm to inform him that he’s begun work for the ambassador. It’s a difficult job, especially... (full context)
...of her friendship with Werther, who is of a lower class. Werther writes angrily to Wilhelm about this, saying that even kings must take some guidance from those of the lower... (full context)
Book Two: March 15-May 25, 1772
...story is the workplace gossip of the day. Werther recounts all of this angrily to Wilhelm, whom he blasts for suggesting the job in the first place. (full context)
...been mocking Werther ceaselessly ever since he left the Count’s home. Werther regrets (privately, to Wilhelm) that none of the aristocrats have mocked him to his face. If they were to... (full context)
As a result of his humiliation, Werther resigns from the court. He asks Wilhelm to let his mother know, though he hopes that she will not try to stop... (full context)
...he relives the scenes of nature that he first encountered as a boy. He tells Wilhelm that he can’t understand the value of being able to repeat random, disconnected facts (such... (full context)
...care about Werther’s book-learning and not about his feelings. In response to this, Werther tells Wilhelm that anyone can know what he knows, but only he can feel the things he... (full context)
Book Two: June 11-November 3, 1772
...than a month at the Prince’s lodge, Werther decides to leave. The Prince, he tells Wilhelm, is too wrapped up in intellectual concerns and has grown boring. Furthermore, Werther has decided... (full context)
...in the places where he and Lotte once spent time. Returning to Wahlheim, he tells Wilhelm, feels like a ghost returning to the castle where it once lived, only to find... (full context)
...their fall colors. It’s a change he sees happening in himself, as well. He asks Wilhelm if he remembers the story of the farmer lad. While Werther was away working for... (full context)
In his next letters, spanning from October 10 to November 3, Werther speaks often to Wilhelm of his increasing melancholy. He recognizes the way that he has attached himself to Lotte... (full context)
Book Two: November 8-December 6, 1772
Lotte chides Werther for drinking too much, and Wilhelm suggests that his friend should seek comfort in God. Werther, however, responds that God cannot... (full context)
Book Two: Editorial Interlude
...and comes close to jumping into them, ending his life. But, in a letter to Wilhelm the following day, he remarks that it was not yet his time. During the storm,... (full context)
Book Two: December 20-21, 1772
Wilhelm offers to take Werther in, saying that it would be better for him to leave... (full context)
Gill, Sean. "The Sorrows of Young Werther Characters: Wilhelm." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 3 Aug 2017. Web. 28 Jan 2020.
Gill, Sean. "The Sorrows of Young Werther Characters: Wilhelm." LitCharts LLC, August 3, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2020. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-sorrows-of-young-werther/characters/wilhelm.
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State lawmakers are tackling whether marijuana should be legalized in Tennessee. Rep. Rick Staples (D-Knoxville) introduced a bill that would change Tennessee’s controlled substances laws to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana statewide. It would also authorize counties to hold referendum elections to allow marijuana growing, manufacturing, delivery and retail sales within their boundaries.…
A Monterey man was sentenced to 10 years to serve last Tuesday in Overton County Criminal Court. After a two-day jury trial in November, he was found guilty in court of all charges presented against him. Shannon C. Harvill, 47, of Monterey was found guilty after the death of Shannon Cook, 27, of Crawford. For…
With tax time approaching, Sheriff John Garrett wants to warn local residents to be on the lookout for IRS scams. The sheriff wants to warn people that scammers will call people, claim to be an IRS representative and demand money. For more on this story, pick up a copy of this week’s Livingston Enterprise on…
LMS 5th grader Elijah Wilborn was surprised with a visit from his father, Spc. Dustin Wilborn, who has just returned from a 10-month deployment to Poland. For more on this story, pick up a copy of this week’s Livingston Enterprise on newsstands now, or subscribe online at livingstonenterprise.net.
Overton Countians are bracing for a bad flu season. According to reports from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there have been four pediatric deaths related to the flu in the state of Tennessee—two in Middle Tennessee and two in the Eastern part of the state. Only influenza deaths involving pediatric patients and pregnant women…
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Obituaries 1/28/20
Jackie Donaldson Funeral services for Mrs. Jackie Donaldson, age 73, of Cookeville, were held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22 at Cookeville First Baptist Church. Pastor Scott McKinney officiatec. Interment followed in the Sylvester Robins Cemetery in Monroe. Her family received friends Tuesday from 4 until 8 p.m. at the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper Huddleston…
Wayne Hancock Wayne Hancock, 75, of Monroe passed away Jan. 14 from the Livingston Regional Medical Center. Funeral services were held Jan. 18 at the chapel of Speck Funeral Home. Interment followed in the Hancock Cemetery. Bro. Aaron Dillon officiated. He was born in Overton County. He was a 1962 graduate of Livingston Academy. He…
Obits 1/14/20
Mildred Louise Conaster Mildred Louise Danner Conaster, 88, of Livingston passed away Dec. 30 from the Cookeville Regional Medical Center. Funeral Services were held Jan. 3 at the chapel of Speck Funeral Home. Interment followed in the Potter West Cemetery. Bro. John Copeland officiated. She was born Jan. 23, 1931 in Overton County. She was…
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Casualty and Outlander actresses move to the West End
The Waking The Dead and Casualty actress Claire Goose is about to join forces with Outlander's Rosie Day for a new West End performance.
The pair will star in the World Premiere of the 'Girl Who Fell', an examination of how the use of social media between parents and children can have tragic consequences.
James spoke to both actresses and the writer Sarah Rutherford.
The 'Girl Who Fell' is at Trafalgar Studios until the 23rd of November.
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India’s Jet Airways loses two top executives as rescue hopes dim
Tuesday, 14 May 2019 09:45 PM MYT
Jet Airways CEO Vinay Dube speaks at an aviation conference in Mumbai, India, January 16, 2019. — Reuters pic
BENGALURU, May 14 — The chief executive and head of finance at Jet Airways have both quit, the Indian company said today, further eroding hopes of a rescue of the debt-laden carrier that grounded operations last month.
Jet, once the biggest private carrier in the country, owes vast sums to its lessors, employees, fuel suppliers and other parties. It stopped all flights from April 17 after its lenders refused to give it any more funds to keep the carrier flying.
Jet, also saddled with roughly US$1.2 billion (RM5.01 billion) in bank debt, was crippled by mounting losses as it attempted to compete with low-cost rivals Interglobe-owned IndiGo, SpiceJet Ltd and Wadia Group-owned GoAir.
The airline has been rapidly shedding aircraft in recent weeks, as lessors have rushed to deregister and repossess planes in the wake of the turmoil.
It has also lost hundreds of pilots, cabin crew and engineers to rivals and seen its valuable slots reallocated to rivals, further eroding any residual value and hopes of new investors stepping in to rescue the airline.
The departure of Chief Executive Vinay Dube comes hard on the heels of the resignation of Chief Financial Officer Amit Agarwal, announced earlier in the day. Agarwal’s resignation was effective May 13, the company said in a statement.
Separately, the Economic Times newspaper reported today that Jet’s Chief People Officer Rahul Taneja had also resigned. Reuters was unable to confirm the report.
For months, Jet has tried to convince investors, including Etihad, to pump in money and save the airline. But suitors had some qualms and a deadline for any interested parties to submit binding bids for the carrier ended on Friday with no such offers.
State Bank of India (SBI), Jet’s lead lender and the bank overseeing the sale process, said at the time it had only received three conditional offers, including one from Etihad.
“This had to happen,” said analyst Ronil Dalal of Ambit Capital. “Considering the kind of bids that have come in and the monetary value of those bids, it seems like it is too little.”
“It was long expected that Jet will eventually shut down and I think now that’s coming to fruition.”
Jet and SBI did not immediately respond to requests for comment on what options exist for Jet.
In its regulatory filing, the airline said Dube and Agarwal resigned due to personal reasons, without providing further details.
Dube took over as the airline’s CEO in August 2017, filling in a spot that had been vacant since early 2016. Agarwal had been acting as CEO during that time.
Jet’s shares closed 7.33 per cent lower at 128.9 rupees today, while the broader Mumbai market closed 0.66 per cent higher. — Reuters
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Uber licence to operate in London revoked
Popular ride-hailing service to continue as appeal against Transport for London decision is expected to be launched shortly.
Uber has had its licence to operate private hire vehicles in London revoked after authorities discovered that uninsured drivers had serviced clients for at least 14,000 trips.
Transport for London (TfL) made the announcement on Monday morning, following the end of a two-month probationary extension granted in September.
In September, Uber had been told that it needed to address issues with checks on drivers, insurance and safety. Uber was found to have failed to satisfy the request by TfL. This is the third time TfL have revoked Uber’s licence.
In a statement, TfL said it identified a “pattern of failures” by Uber, which include breaches that placed passengers and their safety at risk.
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The decision will not result in Uber cars immediately disappearing from London’s streets, as the firm has announced its decision to appeal. Uber may continue to operate pending the outcome of that appeal, providing it formally sets proceedings in motion within 21 days.
When Uber had its licence revoked in September 2017, it eventually managed to persuade judges to award it a 15-month licence to continue. Following the end of the 15-month extension, Uber managed to secure a further two-month extension, taking the company into this morning’s decision.
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Chicken Coop, Cave and Children
5 CHILDREN, AGES 1-10 FOUND LIVING IN CAVE
Four of the youngsters believed to be offspring of Manson 'Family' member
Tom Paegel Times Staff Writer
Five Children ranging in age from 1 to 10 were found living in a manmade cave beneath a dilapidated chicken coop on an abandoned ranch four miles west of Lancaster, sheriff's deputies reported Wednesday.
Four of the youngsters were believed to be the children of Dennis Rice, a Manson "family" member who was indicted Dec. 18, 1970, along with four others on charges of having conspired to murder Barbara Hoyt, a state witness in the Tate-LaBianca trial, by giving her an LSD-spiked hamburger.
The children were identified as Kathryn Rice, 10, and her brothers, Joseph. 7, Samuel,6, Nickolas, 3. A fifth child, a girl believed to be about 1 year old, was not identified.
2 Youths Booked
Sheriff's Sgts. Armond J Licht and Carolyn Boston went to the ranch at 4011 W. Ave. I on a tip that a 14 year old runaway girl from the Los Angeles area was living there.
The officers said they found the girl, whose name was withheld, and the five children.
Also taken into custody were two 19 year old "hippie types" identified as Patrick R. Walleman and David Lee Stoffer. They were booked at the Antelope Valley substation on suspicion of endangering the health and safety of minor children and on suspicion of possession of marijuana.
Sheriff's deputies said the children were "very dirty", poorly clothed and appeared to be undernourished. The were taken to McLaren Hall in El Monte.
Investigators were trying to determine how long the children had been living in the 3-by-9 foot plywood-lined cave.
This much is known about the four Rice children: A missing persons report was filed at Temple City sheriff's station last Feb. 14 by their mother, Sarah Rice,29, Santa Rosa, formerly of Temple City. The report stated that she had separated from her husband and left the children in his care because she was "in poor health and not capable of caring for them."
Husband Left
The report added that Mrs. Rice understood that her husband had left the children in the custody of "members of the Manson family" when he was jailed.
She told investigators, the report said, that her husband warned her not to notify authorities because the children's lives would be in danger.
The report also stated that Mrs. Rice contacted "some Manson followers who were living in a van truck." She said they told her they knew where her children were but would not tell her.
The whereabouts of Dennis Rice was not immediately learned Wednesday.
However Rice and his codefendants were given 90-day jail sentences after pleading no contest to a reduced charge of conspiring to prevent a witness from attending a trial in the Hoyt case. He later was given a jail sentence in an unrelated misdemeanor assault case.
From: The Los Angeles Times July 1, 1971 and sent to us by Paul Dostie, thank you Paul!
Posted by DebS at 2:25:00 AM
Labels: Dennis Rice
ColScott said...
Yeah as I said before. really sad the Dennis is passed away. Fine upstanding family man.
Somebody,
Please tell me who that baby belonged to. It's preying on my mind.
According to my calculations, Ivan Pew was the right age to have been that baby.
Pugh. LOL.
You could be right.
Farflung said...
For those who aren’t from California, there are certain cities which are considered portals of despair, weirdness, or general WTF-ness. Salton City, Corona, and Lancaster fit those descriptors for various reasons, but suffice it to say; if you read a news account from those towns it won’t have a happy ending.
Lancaster is on the high desert of Los Angeles County and attracts defense industry employees on one side of the spectrum, and anti-gubberment conspiracy wackos on the other end. Certainly a bizarre pairing, but each group is needed to resonate off the other I suppose.
The housing reflects the same oddly happy detachment from reality which is demonstrated by the residents of Lancaster. Bluegrass lawns are forced to grow in front of wind blasted, two story, stucco homes, which in spite of having air conditioning units running furiously, keep the upper floors uncomfortably hot. Then there are trailers in various stages of decay scattered around the outskirts of town. The wealthier trailer occupants will also have a lean-to on one side of their abode, or added to one of several vehicles on the property. The fencing of choice is chain link, and No Trespassing signs replace Hello Kitty and NFL banners found in suburbia. It’s the separate, but adjacent views of America conjured by the likes of David Lynch and Hunter S. Thompson; or Trona without the glitter.
If you copy and paste these numbers into Google Maps you can see the ‘Rice Farm’:
34.704435,-118.202076
Over forty years later and this slice of heaven apparently developed into a desert storage area for….. sand. Yep, those are piles and piles of sand deposited along the former chicken ranch and daycare center. Charming place for children to run and play, but in defense of Rice, the children were never subjected to any dangers outdoors since they were hiding in a cave, richly appointed with plywood walls.
@orwhut, probably not Ivan as the article says the baby was a girl. The article could be wrong about the gender.
Do you figure that the Patrick Walleman who was arrested was really TJ? If so, maybe the baby was one of his children with Bo.
@ Farf thank you for answering the mystery about what looks like puffy things when doing a google map of the Lancaster address! I thought it one of the strangest images I've encountered and couldn't make heads or tails of what it was.
Damn. Looks like a total wasteland...
Patty wonders if Dennis had a good relationship with his kids later in life? Anyone? Col don't speak I'll of the dead or the leprechauns will come for you.
@ Patty I tried to figure that out before posting by looking through records at Ancestry. Two of the boys have addresses in the same town where Dennis lived. The third boy lived in another state. I could not find the daughter but likely she has married and has a different last name.
I also tried to find what happened to the ex-wife and beyond two divorce filings, both from Dennis, I could not find her either. She and Dennis filed for divorce Oct. 1968 in LA County and then again April 1976 in Sonoma County. They were originally married Aug, 28, 1961 in San Francisco.
Thanks for answering. I've run across that photo at least twice recently and both times have noticed that the baby was unidentified. It's being a girl would pretty well eliminate Ivan.
If Patrick Walleman was 19 at the time the article was published, he probably wasn't TJ. CharlieManson.com gives TJ's dob as 12-18-42 making him 28 for most of 1971.
from a reader: "ANONYMOUS INPUT
In Onjya Sipe's book, Devil's Dropout: Manson Follower Turns to Christ, she said the baby was hers."
Look what I found. The child herself, even commented about it, on this very blog. My memory never was very good. http://www.eviliz.com/2012/02/babies.html?showComment=1332869304025#c5416935253445560802
Ajerseydevil said...
What was Dennis locked up for. Was this the Barbara Hoyt incident or Hawthorne Shoot out
The Times clipping is dated July 1, 1971, and the Hawthornw shootout didn't occurr untill August 21, 1971. I also think the article or the post mentions it was the Barbara Hoyt incident.
Thank you whut! Patty missed that whole exchange the first time around.
Thanks orwhut
the baby was a little girl I believe she was onya sipes daughter. sipes wrote about it in her book. dennis rice should have done time for child endangerment.
supposedly all of rice's children became christians and are involved in various ministerial work.
Thanks orwhut for reminding us about that.
Poor kids!
I just finished reading Onya Sipes book, can't recall the title of the book at the moment but her daughter was one of the chicken coop kids.
I think the book was titled "Devil's Disciple." there has been a couple available on ebay recently.
Wasn't it below a chicken coop in the Lancaster area where a gay pedophile in the 1920s stashed the boys he kidnapped? This was the basis for the recent suspense film, "The Changeling". I think it was produced by Clint Eastwood. It was a riveting account of an earlier historic crime spree in the Southern CA desert. There were amazing cgi effects showing old Los Angeles.
Yes, Lancaster is high on the creepiness scale.
Yep, the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. The town changed its name to Mira Loma after that incident.
Just for the record... the children were not living in the cave. They were told to run and hide there when the authorities arrived. Patrick Walleman is definitley NOT TJ Walleman, although he may well be his brother. The children, although clearly dirty, were being loved and cared for by the 14-year-old runaway referenced in the story. She had run away to be with Pat Walleman. She said they were quite happy and not neglected.
Too young, shoot me an email. We'd like to chat with you.
Emily P Strange said...
Too Young is right -- the "cave" was a hidey-hole to run to in case authorities showed up. The baby was the daughter of Kitty and Bobby. I was there. I left - walked out carrying another little one -- a baby boy named Gabriel, around a week before. In fact, the Family (who I had just left when I walked out) blamed me for the raid. I had nothing to do with it. But I am glad the kids were rescued. I don't know who the "runaway" is -- when I was there, it was just Beau and me and the kids. I left Beau alone with the kids when I left. Mayve some other kids came in afterwards? Does anyone know if Beau was there when they were raided?
I was known as Jenny then BTW -- and NO, I am not the Ginny/Jenny who called into a talk show with Tex (no idea who that was) although I did join up with the family approximately the same time as the Ginny/Jenny who called in said she did. Someone impersonating me? If Tex recognized their voice, he would know it wasn't me as I only met him once if at all. (there were some members I had little to do with, depending on where we were. I was mostly in the Duarte House -- the cave outside of Lone Pine, the ranch where the kids were found in the raid, and another run down old mountain resort we were at for a while too (I was driven in blind folded / told to lay down on seat so I could not see out) to both the last two places). Spent a few days at the Hall of Justice in the van.
AND I am the Jenny Ojya Sipes mentions in her, it seems, almost entirely fictional account of her very brief time with the family. I hate to say it as we were tight friends as teens but it seems she wanted to profit from that brief experience and had to grossly gild the lily to make the book marketable.
I am stunned at the prices I see on it now -- and its pure fiction.
Too Young -- do we know each other?
Hi! Im trying to find any discussion about the fact that the kids participated in the orgies as they said in the 1973 documentary, but NOBODY seems to talking about this. I've read so many articles about the manson family and the individual members. I've found out that the children in the documentary are Kathryn, Nicholas and Joseph Rice, Dennis Rice's children. I understand that the Rice children don't want any publicity, but I am so curious about this. I mean, nobody is talking about it, but they mention it in the first documentary ever made. Is it even true? Why didn't more than 20 people react to this? How did Charlie make that happen?
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Islanders enjoy weekend at Seafood and Music Festival
Like Woodstock 50 years ago, the Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival delivered “three days of peace and music.”
Islanders enjoy weekend at Seafood and Music Festival Like Woodstock 50 years ago, the Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival delivered “three days of peace and music.” Check out this story on marconews.com: https://www.marconews.com/story/life/2019/03/25/islanders-enjoy-weekend-seafood-and-music-festival/3266396002/
Lance Shearer, Correspondent Published 10:13 a.m. ET March 25, 2019 | Updated 7:41 a.m. ET March 26, 2019
Photos: Marco Island Seafood Festival, 2019
Patrons stroll the line of seafood vendors to make their selections. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
Grilled fish and shrimp tempted patrons' tastebuds. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
Pam Phillips of Rolling Thunder uses her "hog" as a recliner. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
Maria Blandin and Matt Minyard shop for paintings. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
Deena Vollinger brings her own shade with her. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
Margaret Gorski of Rolling Thunder opted for a tzatziki chicken platter. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
Festival originator Stan Niemczyk pauses for a moment in his coordinating duties. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
Laura and Jim Wandry recycle retired surfboards into artworks. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
One Night Rodeo guitarist Erol Ozsever lays down a solo. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Special to the Nap
JRobert Houghtaling makes a beer delivery. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
Barry Howe and wife Sandy sell Barry's photographic views of Marco Island. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
One Night Rodeo guitarist Erol Ozsever, left, frontman Cory Hildreth and bassist Duane Allison. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
One Night Rodeo bassist Duane Allison. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
One Night Rodeo frontman Cory Hildreth sings. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
One Night Rodeo guitarist Erol Ozsever, left, and frontman Cory Hildreth. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
One Night Rodeo frontman Cory Hildreth engages the crowd. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
Festival-goers shop for merch including clever T-shirts. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Special to the Nap
Mary Jo O'Regan sings the National Anthem on Sunday afternoon. The Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival returned to Veterans' Community Park for the 11th year over the weekend, drawing record crowds. Lance Shearer/Correspondent
Like Woodstock 50 years ago, the Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival delivered “three days of peace and music.” But Marco Island also threw in seafood.
In fact, seafood was back in the title of the festival, held this past weekend at Veterans’ Community Park, after an abortive and short-lived name change last year removed “sea” from the food in the event’s official name. And whether it was the seafood, the music, the picture-perfect weather or just the laid-back small-town Americana vibe, this year’s festival was the biggest ever, said organizers.
“Saturday night was our biggest ever, with 4,800 people,” festival chair Stan Niemczyk, who came up with the idea for the festival 11 years ago, said on Sunday afternoon. “And we’re up over 9,000 total – both records.”
Festival-goers came to hear a succession of bands, playing music in a variety of genres. Friday night’s headliner was Disco Inferno, after sets by Myles Loud and the Greg Miller Band, who play a soul-infused blend of pop. On Saturday, always the biggest attendance of the weekend, Jimmy Buffett tribute band the Landsharks returned to Marco Island, channeling all things Margaritaville – which is the name of Buffett’s club, where the Landsharks were hired to be the house band after performing with the original “parrothead.” In essence, the Landsharks offered attendees a “shrimpburger in paradise.”
The Landsharks were preceded on Saturday by opener Joe Marino & All the King’s Men, followed by the Ben Allen Band, a guitar-driven country rock outfit that has developed their own following of fans who show up wherever they are performing.
Sunday’s closing act was Tampa-based One Night Rodeo, another group straddling the line between “a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll,” leaning on the country side. They followed Smokin’ Joe and Connie, playing feel good rock and pop covers.
The seafood component of the festival came from a lineup of traveling vendors, who make the rounds of festivals up the east coast, and down to the Seafood Festival in Everglades City. Most of the purveyors, said organizer Dianna Dohm, “have been with us from the beginning,” although “Mobstah Lobstah,” a Mafia-themed seafood trailer, was new this year and always seemed to have a line of hungry people waiting.
A tent city of crafts vendors sold everything from turmeric to T-shirts, cigars to chairs, and signs with messages like “just another day in paradise” and “hurricane evacuation plan: 1. Grab beer 2. Run like hell.”
California transplants Jim and Laura Wandry sold the recycled surfboards they turn into works of art. The boards are lightweight, and “a surfboard takes a million years to break down,” said Laura, so hanging them in your home gives them a place to stay while they do.
The festival runs on volunteer labor, said volunteer coordinator Dennis Pidherny. He estimated that over 175 volunteers put in thousands of hours to keep it functioning smoothly, even with paid crews setting up and cleaning up.
Three civic organizations working together, the Marco Kiwanis plus the Sunrise and Noontime Rotary Clubs, plus students from Marco Island Academy, Lely High School, and Marco Island Charter Middle School, all helped out over the weekend. The festival has taken in over $70,000 per year for the charitable endeavors of the service clubs, with each club receiving between 22 and $25,000, said Dohm, although numbers for this year were not available at press time.
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For carriers of Lynch syndrome, an elevated cancer risk runs in the family
BY Ronda Wendler
When Craig Bunk began experiencing severe abdominal pain, blood loss and fatigue, his family doctor thought a stomach ulcer was to blame. Bunk wasn’t so sure.
“My brother Blake died at age 21 from colorectal cancer,” he says. “The disease runs in our family, so I wanted a second opinion.”
Bunk knew just who to call: Patrick Lynch, M.D., a longtime professor of Gastroenterology at MD Anderson. Lynch had treated Blake before his death and identified the genetic mutation that caused the young man’s cancer. Then he’d tested Blake’s family members for the same faulty gene. The results? Blake’s brothers and father had also inherited the mutation that causes a condition known as Lynch syndrome. Named for Lynch’s physician father, Henry Lynch, who helped discover it, the genetic disorder greatly elevates cancer risk.
Constant vigilance
Bunk, now 50, was 35 when his cancer hit, typical of the young age at which most Lynch syndrome patients are diagnosed with cancer.
“Most genetically associated cancers occur by age 50 or younger,” Lynch explains. “Some patients with Lynch syndrome get the same cancer more than once, or develop different cancers at different times.”
Careful, frequent monitoring is the key to treatment.
“We want to catch cancer early when it’s curable,” Lynch says, “or even better, prevent it from happening altogether. With Lynch syndrome, constant vigilance is required.”
Lynch syndrome patients begin colonoscopies at age 20 to 25. People at average risk start at age 50. Lynch syndrome patients repeat their colonoscopies every two years until age 40, then yearly thereafter. People at average risk have colonoscopies once every 10 years.
“Studies show that Lynch syndrome patients who have colonoscopies every couple of years lower their chances of colorectal cancer by 60 percent,” Lynch explains. “During colonoscopies we can detect potentially precancerous growths known as polyps and remove them before they develop into colon cancer.”
Underdiagnosed
“Knowing you have Lynch syndrome is half the battle,” Lynch says. “The other half is doing something about it with frequent screenings to prevent cancer or catch it early.”
Yet most people from Lynch syndrome families don’t realize they have it.
“That’s a problem,” says Lynch, “because they’re not taking precautions that can save their lives, such as getting their colons checked more frequently and at younger ages.”
Lynch syndrome affects men and women equally, and parents with the mutation have a 50 percent chance of passing it to their children.
“But if you don’t know you have the defective gene, you’re unwittingly passing it on to the next generation,” Lynch says.
Finding these unknowing Lynch syndrome carriers, he says, could save lives and countless cancer treatment dollars.
Read more about Lynch's campaign to raise Lynch syndrome awareness in Conquest magazine. He’s working with software developers to create a program that enables family histories to be collected online, making outreach to at-risk relatives easier.
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Craig Bunk, his son Foley and other members of their family face a 50% chance of inheriting Lynch syndrome.
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LONDON: FOG, c1905. Alvin Langdon Coburn's photograph 'Portland Place,' c1905
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WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE, c1911. The Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn, New York
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AUGUSTUS JOHN (1878-1961). Welsh painter. Photographed by Alvin Langdon Coburn in 1914
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Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), British science fiction writer. H. G. Wells studied biology at the Royal College of Science, London, UK, under Thomas Henry Huxley before becoming a journalist and then an author. He wrote numerous books in a writing career spanning more than 60 years. The most famous include 'The Time Machine' (1895), 'The War of the Worlds' (1898), 'The Invisible Man' (1897) and 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' (1896). He has become known as the father of modern science fiction. This photograph, by US photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966), was taken at Sandgate on 2 November 1905.
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Historic Districts & Sites in Lafayette Louisiana
Historic Districts & Sites
Louisiana has the most colorful history of any state and of many countries. Beginning long before the Louisiana Purchase, our state took shape in prehistoric times. We have had a past of many battles, on the battlefield and in the political arena. Louisiana's architecture is a lasting impression of French and Spanish rule. Today, there are many reminders of the past in our museums, plantations, historic sites and attractions.
As the largest city in Lafayette Parish, Lafayette, Louisiana mixes all the amenities of urban life, including universities and medical centers, with the unmistakable influence of the region's venerable Cajun and Creole cultures. Visitors can learn about the area's roots by touring either the Acadian Cultural Center or Vermilionville. Built as 19th century bayou villages, each folk life center operates as an interactive museum. This heritage is still prominent in the city's lifestyle cultural traditions.
Lafayette is said to have more restaurants per capita than any other American city, and many of them specialize in the distinctive, seafood-laden regional cuisine. Numerous music clubs feature homegrown talent, including both traditional and contemporary Cajun and Zydeco performers. Two popular festivals, Festival International de Louisiane in April and Festivals Acadiens in October, draw many thousands of visitors to town and anchor a calendar year full of celebrations of the area's vibrant culture.
Fort Jesup State Historic Site
This Mexican-American War-era fort is central to a little-known chapter in American history.
Gretna Historical Society
Gretna, in Jefferson Parish, is home to one of Louisiana's largest National Register of Historic Places districts.
Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site
Tour a replica of the first European settlement in what would become the Louisiana Purchase.
Louisiana's "Must See to Believe" Festivals
These are some of the unique, the beautiful and the offbeat Louisiana festivals you'll want to experience yourself.
Famous Streets Across Louisiana
Get to know Louisiana a little better via its iconic streets in cities around the state.
Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site
Stand at a cultural crossroads in Louisiana’s first state park.
Birding in Louisiana, Bird Watcher's Paradise
The state’s location on the Mississippi Flyway attracts an “overwhelming number of birds,” says Jennifer Coulson, head of the Orleans Audubon Society.
Haunted New Orleans Hotels
New Orleans' Hotels offer luxurious and elegant accommodations but some have an extra element – paranormal activity that will leave you thinking you might have seen a ghost.
Port Hudson State Historic Site
Walk the hallowed grounds where the longest siege in U.S. military history took place.
Trip Itinerary - 24 Hours in the Lake Charles Area
Get to know the city, the cultures and the sites of the Lake Charles area.
Broadway in Louisiana – Big Shows, Glitzy Musicals
Professional touring groups keep theaters across the state alive with glitzy productions straight from Broadway.
Secrets of Poverty Point
This UNESCO World Heritage site is an archaeological wonder with little-known stories to tell.
10 Cajun Essentials: Guide to Cajun Culture in Louisiana
Want to experience everything Cajun? Try these top ten Cajun things to do in Louisiana.
Try out a few new sayings in Cajun! You'll sound like a local in no time.
Discover the Plantation Parade
These four plantations will take you on a trip through time to discover the stories of Louisiana's past.
Louisiana's Spring Music Festivals
What are the sounds of spring in Louisiana? Jazz, Cajun, country, R&B and just about any other music genre you can think of!
Top 10 Things to Do in Lake Charles
Indoors or out, Lake Charles offers heart-pounding excitement for visitors.
Locust Grove State Historic Site
Louisiana’s plantation past comes alive at this small family cemetery.
10 Must-Visit Louisiana Festivals
Are you ready to party Louisiana style? Then punch your ticket for these 10 fabulous fests and experience what we do best: food, music and rollicking good times!
Louisiana’s No Man’s Land
Immerse yourself in the history of Louisiana's "Wild West."
Rebel State Historic Site
Country and gospel music come together with Civil War commemoration at this west Louisiana museum.
Mardi Gras Parades in Cajun Country
Here are just a few of the parades scheduled around south Louisiana in Cajun Country during Mardi Gras and Carnival season 2020.
African-American Heritage Trail Itinerary: New Orleans
Use this itinerary to discover the deep history of the African-American Heritage Trail in New Orleans.
Audubon State Historic Site
See the landscape and wildlife that inspired one of America’s most famous naturalists.
Mansfield State Historic Site
See the Civil War site where the Confederates won a hard-earned victory against Union invaders.
Civil War: In Louisiana Feelings Were Mixed
In the lead-up to the Civil War, Louisiana was a reluctant secessionist.
A Visit to Frogmore Plantation, Where Cotton is Still King
Walk through high cotton and pick some yourself at this 19th-century plantation.
Don't Miss Dishes - Bayou Bounty Trail
Classic Cajun cuisine is on the menu in the Acadiana cities along the Bayou Bounty trail.
Our Own Music: Cajun and Zydeco
Outside of the Crescent City, Cajun and zydeco music reign supreme.
Culinary Trail Signature Dish: Boudin
Boudin, a spicy Cajun sausage, is one of the region's most popular eat-on-the-go foods.
Crowning Kings and Queens of Cajun Music
How much music, food and fun can you pack into a festival? Find out during Le Cajun Music Awards!
Travel Back in Time: Louisiana's Historic Unique Sites
These historic sites and attractions around Louisiana offer visitors a glimpse into the past.
Otis House at Fairview-Riverside State Park
Learn about the history of 19th century Madisonville entrepreneur while walking the grounds of a magnificent state park.
Top Louisiana Live Music Venues
To truly understand the appeal of Louisiana music, you've got to hear it live. Here's where to go to let the beat catch hold.
Cajun Country on Display: Festivals Acadiens et Créoles
Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, held each October in Lafayette, cover the sweep of culture in the region, including its European, African and Indian roots.
Things To Do With Kids: Cajun Country
Cajun Country is the perfect spot for families to “pass a good time.” Here are a few of our top kid-friendly picks in southern Louisiana.
History Comes Alive at the LSU Rural Life Museum
You’ll feel as if you are traveling through time as you walk among historical displays at the LSU Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge.
Louisiana’s Historic Architecture
Louisiana has preserved it's cultural heritage through architecture.
Cajun Christmas in Southern Louisiana: Traditions and Events
Cajun Country in Louisiana celebrates the holidays just like the rest of the nation. However, they like to throw in some Cajun holiday traditions that make for a merry ol’ time!
Top Things to do in Lafayette
Located in the heart of French Louisiana—the Acadiana Region—Lafayette offers the best of Cajun culture.
African American Heritage Trail Itinerary: Cajun Country
Make your way on I-10 West from Baton Rouge towards Cajun Country to take in the plentiful impact of African American History Trail.
Cane River National Heritage Area
Historic landmarks, colonial forts and Creole plantations are highlights of the Cane River National Heritage Area.
Louisiana Football Tailgating Tips
The boys of fall take to the field, and we couldn’t be happier to cheer them on. Learn about a few of our local college teams—and find out where to celebrate their victories this season.
Making History at Frogmore Plantation
Learn the stories of Civil War soldiers, cotton kingpins, slaves and sharecroppers at a 19th-century plantation where cotton is still farmed today.
Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site
Head south of Baton Rouge for a look into Louisiana’s shipping history.
Family-Friendly Mardi Gras Events in Louisiana
Mardi Gras 2020 is here and there are so many family-friendly Mardi Gras parades and activities, you'll find the perfect revelry for every age.
Soulful for Fall: Enjoying Louisiana in the Fall
Discover the best of things to do in the fall in Louisiana - part 2!
Louisiana Honors Its African-American Heritage
Get to know the people and places of Louisiana that played important roles in African-American history.
Top Ten Things to Do in Acadia Parish
From antiques and candy shops to historic opera houses and Cajun food, get ready to explore a simpler side of Louisiana.
10 Things to Do in Natchitoches Parish
Explore Natchitoches Parish, the land of Cane River, teeming with history and beauty around every corner.
Kent Plantation House State Historic Site
Tour the grounds of an opulent 18th century sugar plantation, one of Louisiana’s oldest.
Culinary and Restaurant Experiences in Lafayette
Lafayette is in the heart of Cajun Country where seafood is king.
Louisiana's Culinary Hall of Fame Part 2
These are the culinary heavy hitters of Louisiana cuisine.
Five Experiences for Swamp People Fans
Fans of the hit History Channel show "Swamp People" will find these Louisiana experiences give them a taste of life on the swamp.
Seasonal Souls: Making the Most of the Fall Season in Louisiana
Discover these fall things to do in Louisiana - Part 1!
Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site
Tour the house and gardens of a luxurious 19th century cotton plantation.
Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site
Walk through Civil War history at these central Louisiana forts.
Cajun Classics: The Plate Lunch
Discover a distinctly south Louisiana take on the traditional “meat-and-three.”
Shop Louisiana Farmers Markets
Fresh-food markets are popular throughout Louisiana, and visitors can enjoy shopping them just as locals do.
Day Trip Ideas Near Poverty Point
After exploring Poverty Point World Heritage Site, stay in the area for one-of-a-kind experiences.
Centenary State Historic Site
Tour the grounds of Louisiana’s oldest college, founded in 1826.
Festival Season Kicks Into High Gear in the Fall
There's no shortage of fall weekend fun in Louisiana, where autumn's arrival brings a variety of food, music and culture festivals.
African-American Heritage Itinerary: Plantation Country
Explore the African-American Heritage Trail in the Baton Rouge and St. Francisville Area with this itinerary of things to do.
Los Adaes State Historic Site
At this 300-year-old site that was once the capital of Texas, you’ll get an up-close look at battles waged between two global superpowers.
African-American Heritage Trail Itinerary: Crossroads
Get your itinerary and trip ideas for exploring the African-American Heritage Trail in the Crossroads region of the state.
Ten Things to Do in Vernon Parish
Take a trip into territory that was once Louisiana's Wild West. Its rich history, gorgeous nature, delicious food and fun festivals will fill feed your soul.
How to Pack for Your Louisiana Tailgate
Here’s what to bring to score points at your pre-game party
Fine Art & Galleries
Pamplona Tapas Bar
City: Lafayette
631 Jefferson St. Lafayette, LA 70501
PAMPLONA Tapas Bar and Restaurant is located in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana, a thriving culinary mecca centered in the heart of traditional Cajun Country. We reel in, sauté and perfectly plate...
House of Broussard
City: Broussard
100 W. Main St. Broussard, LA 70518
House of Broussard is a unique gift shop that specializes in home decor, giftware, and special occasions. We specialize in interior decorating, gifts for men, women, and babies, custom drapery,...
Mouton Plantation
338 N Sterling St Lafayette, LA 70501
The Mouton Plantation is a bed & breakfast in downtown Lafayette, offering a quiet respite from the hustle and bustle of the city while still being centrally located. Originally built in 1820, the...
Bayou Vermilion District
300 Fisher Rd. Lafayette, LA 70508
A beautiful Cajun/Creole heritage & folklife park that recreates life in the Acadiana area from 1765 to 1890. Vermilionville park features self-guided tours, costumed craftspeople, live...
Alexandre Mouton House/Lafayette Museum
1122 Lafayette St. Lafayette, LA 70501
The Alexandre Mouton House is a lovely house museum located in the heart of downtown Lafayette. Original structure built in early 1800s by the found of Vermilionville, Jean Mouton. Later became...
LARCs Acadian Village
200 Greenleaf Dr. Lafayette, LA 70506
Acadian Village serves as a monument to the proud culture of the Acadian People. As a folk life museum, it offers an authentic vision of Acadian society in South La. during the 19th century.
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
914 St. John St. Lafayette, LA 70501
St. John Cathedral c. 1916 is a prominent landmark of downtown Lafayette. The 500-year-old Cathedral Oak, cemetery, museum & gift shop are on the church grounds. Pre-arranged tours are available....
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park & Preserve - Acadian Cultural Center
The Acadian Cultural Center, a unit of the National Park Service, depicts the story of the Acadians who settled the prairies, bayous & marshes of southern La.Displays and exhibits explain the...
Festival International de Louisiane in Lafayette, Louisiana ©Festival International de Louisiane
Beauregard-Keys House in the French Quarter
See incredible live music at the Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette, Louisiana
View a Clementine Hunter mural in the African House at Melrose Plantation.
Y Lafayette Sign
Experience Acadian or Cajun music and culture at Lafayette's Festival Acadiens et Creoles.
Winter Quarters State Historic Site
Get boudin and a variety of smoked and barbecue meats at Johnson's Boucaniere.
Photo ©Cajun Market Donuts
Renovated exterior of Shreveport Municipal Auditorium ©Chris Jay
Tour the Professor's House at the Centenary State Historic Site.
Roddie Romero playing at the Grouse Room in Lafayette
You can't help dancing to the Cajun and zydeco music at Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette.
The beautiful Wingate House in the Historic District in Leesville.
Visit Arabi's two historic districts: Old Arabi Historic District and Friscoville Street Historic District
Port Hudson Historic Site's Annual Civil War Re-enactment.
Boiled crawfish in Lafayette, Louisiana
Acadian Cultural Center Exhibit
Rosedown Plantation in Louisiana
Historic Front Street in Natchitoches
The historic City Hall Arts and Cultural Center in Lake Charles.
Head to the Jean Lafitte Blacksmith Shop in New Orleans
Michael Doucet is a Cajun fiddler, singer and songwriter with the band BeauSoleil from Lafayette, Louisiana.
Madisonville's Tchefuncte River lighthouse was built in 1837.
Enjoy Festival Acadiens et Creoles in Lafayette every October.
Boudin links on the grill.
Gumbo from Cafe Vermilionville
The historic New Llano Colony Store and Post Office building still stands in Vernon Parish, Louisiana.
The Pine Leaf Boys at the Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette, Louisiana
Take a tour of Shreveport's Municipal Auditorium, former home of the Louisiana Hayride.
Head to the historic Grand Opera House of the South in Crowley, Louisiana
Natchitoches' historic buildings.
Regulars order the Bluesiana Salad at Charlie G's in Lafayette.
Noel Acadien au Village in Lafayette ©Noel Acadien au Village
Nottoway Plantation
Oak Alley Plantation, Restaurant and Inn, on River Road in Vacherie, Louisiana, boasts an Antebellum mansion and B&B accommodations in century-old cottages set in 25 acres of lush, oak-lined grounds.
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See below for a selection of the latest books from Entrepreneurship category. Presented with a red border are the Entrepreneurship books that have been lovingly read and reviewed by the experts at Lovereading. With expert reading recommendations made by people with a passion for books and some unique features Lovereading will help you find great Entrepreneurship books and those from many more genres to read that will keep you inspired and entertained. And it's all free!
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Paperback / softback Release Date: 14/05/2020
An entrepreneur is someone who has a great, innovative idea that identifies the need for the creation of a new business, taking on the financial risk in the hope of profit and driving that business forward in a measured way. This book draws on the stories, experiences and words of iconic business figures from around the globe and across the years - from Andrew Carnegie and Oprah Winfrey to Steve Jobs and Sunil Mittal. Each chapter deals with a specific aspect of entrepreneurship and the lessons they can teach us, such as: - If you want to become big, you need to think big. If you're content for your business to tick over, that's fine. But if you want it to be a world-beater, you need a world-beater's mindset - Don't forget what makes your business scalable in the first place - Prepare your company for growing pains. Expansion brings inevitable problems but an entrepreneur should do everything possible to ready their business - Try to predict what lies ahead - but remember Warren Buffet's wise words: 'Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the future' Each study includes quotations from and about its main subject, along with words of wisdom from other relevant famous names. Informative, educative and thought provoking, How to Think Like an Entrepreneur presents the ideas and methods of the business greats, allowing the reader to expand their understanding of what drives and informs successful entrepreneurship.
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Hardback Release Date: 14/05/2020
Supermaker
Author: Jaime Schmidt Format: Hardback Release Date: 05/05/2020
In just seven years, Jaime Schmidt went from making natural products in her Portland, Oregon kitchen to turning her brand into a household name and selling her company in a nine-figure acquisition. Supermaker is her guide to business and career development on your own terms. Through unfiltered storytelling and instructive takeaways, the acclaimed entrepreneur, founder of Schmidt's Naturals, and icon of the Maker Movement shares how you too can start or grow your own business with her secrets on marketing, sales growth, product development, customer engagement, scaling operations, and partnerships. Following Jaime's journey from market stand to global brand, readers will take away: * The keys to establishing a financially successful business for entrepreneurs and professionals ready to go from maker to magnate. * Tactical approaches to branding, PR, sales, marketing, culture development, and team management. * Candid advice and storytelling from an industry disruptor and proven executive. Following her growth from kitchen to acquisition, Supermaker is a riveting mix of inspiration, the honest airing of mistakes, and indispensable instruction. * A go-to guide for the passion-to-profit journey. * The perfect read for aspiring entrepreneurs, makers, creatives, and anyone with an interest in selling their products online, retail strategy, or digital marketing. * Great for anyone who enjoyed Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie, Craft, Inc: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business by Meg Mateo Ilasco, and The Girls' Guide to Starting Your Own Business: Candid Advice, Frank Talk, and True Stories for the Successful Entrepreneur by Caitlin Friedman.
Tofurky Story How We Delivered Plant-Based Meals to the American Dinner Table
Author: Seth Tibbott Format: Hardback Release Date: 30/04/2020
From treehouse dream to global brand, Tofurky's Founder and Chairman shares his story of selling millions of plant-based food products without selling out. Success doesn't happen overnight. Except for Seth Tibbott, to whom it does-but only after fifteen years of intrepid failure. In Search of the Wild Tofurky tells the triumphant tale of how a self-described hippie with no business training but plenty of enterprising goals grew a $2,500 startup into a global brand and ushered in a plant-based foods renaissance along the way. Tibbott took home a grand total of $31,000 in his first nine years of striving to bring to the people a nearly unknown soy product-tempeh-he knew in his gut was revolutionarily tasty. He eschewed a buttoned-up lifestyle and resided in tipis, trailers, and a treehouse; rented workspace to piano-repairing circus clowns; and even briefly counted the infamous Rajneeshees as clients. Tibbott was never one to chase the money or try to fit in. Instead, he built a business that fit him. Thus Tibbott discovered the secret sauce ingredients that took his now-international brand from fameless to fame-ish to famous: bootstrapping, building business intuition, and staying true to his belief in eco-friendly practices. In Search of the Wild Tofurky proves that a good idea can change the world and make money, no matter the naysayers or the sometimes harsh twists and turns of the unconventional path. Look no further for a delightfully unexpected $100 million story of hope and hustle.
Shaping Entrepreneurship Research Made, as Well as Found
Author: Sankaran (University of Virginia, USA) Venkataraman Format: Hardback Release Date: 29/04/2020
Shaping Entrepreneurship Research: Made, as Well as Found is a collection of readings designed to support entrepreneurship research. Focused on a worldview in which the future is open-ended and shapeable through human action - i.e. made , this collection reframes entrepreneurship as a science of the artificial rather than as a natural or social science. It posits an open-ended universe for the making of human artefacts even if large swathes of nature and society are not within the control of the people making them. The book explores the notion of made through 25 foundational readings - classics from the history of ideas. Organized into five sections, each classic is individually introduced by the editors in one of five chapters written to explain its relevance and significance for a made view of entrepreneurship. Readers will benefit from exposure to these classic ideas and ongoing research in a variety of areas that fall somewhat outside the line-of-sight of traditional entrepreneurship research. Both individually and collectively, the readings suggest opportunities to ask new questions and develop new ways of framing entrepreneurship research that carry the discussion beyond worlds found to worlds made as well as found.
Author: Sankaran (University of Virginia, USA) Venkataraman Format: Paperback / softback Release Date: 29/04/2020
Marketing Judo Building Your Business Using Brains Not Budget
Author: John Barnes, Richard Richardson Format: Paperback / softback Release Date: 28/04/2020
I strongly advise anybody wanting to start up their own business to read Marketing Judo Sir John Harvey-Jones Marketing Judo aims to inspire people who want to build a brand or business but don't have the budgets for conventional marketing. That's the position the authors found themselves in when they bought the one Harry Ramsden's fish and chip restaurant in Yorkshire over ten years ago. They fell into a way of thinking, which they now call Marketing Judo. In judo, you lever other people's strengths or assets to your own advantage. In judo, your mind matters more than your size. In judo, anyone can become a black belt if they move quickly, train hard enough and keep their balance when others don't. Marketing Judo offers a framework for developing strategies and plans for small companies to do exactly that. It is a collection of real stories and events, from both the author's experiences and from other companies, from which the Marketing Judo principles evolved.Around the world, big companies have never been so vulnerable. It's always possible to find a competitive advantage, however big your opponent is, so join us on the Tatami or judo mat and learn how to use your brains rather than budgets, as we take you through the six principles of Marketing Judo. Available as a short, entertaining easy read book or as an audio CD or cassette, featuring the authors live in front of an audience of businesspeople in Leeds.
Understanding Social Entrepreneurship The Relentless Pursuit of Mission in an Ever Changing World
Author: Jill (New York University, USA) Kickul, Thomas S. (Baruch College, USA) Lyons Format: Hardback Release Date: 24/04/2020
Understanding Social Entrepreneurship is the leading textbook that provides students with a comprehensive overview of the field. It brings the mindset, principles, strategies, tools, and techniques of entrepreneurship into the social sector to present innovative solutions to today's vexing social issues. Kickul and Lyons cover all the key topics relevant to social entrepreneurship, including a detailed examination of each of the steps in the entrepreneurial process. This third edition includes several new features: A process-oriented format, taking students through discovery, design, development, and delivery Two new chapters: one on lean start-up and design thinking for social entrepreneurship, and another on unconventional approaches from developing countries Updated and new case studies, with improved global coverage Voices from the Field sections that explore evidence-based research from the field Bringing together a rigorous theoretical foundation and a strong practical focus, this is the go-to resource for students of social entrepreneurship at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A companion website includes an instructor's manual, PowerPoint slides, a test bank, and other tools to provide additional support for students and instructors.
Author: Jill (New York University, USA) Kickul, Thomas S. (Baruch College, USA) Lyons Format: Paperback / softback Release Date: 24/04/2020
The IDEATE Method Identifying High-Potential Entrepreneurial Ideas
Author: Daniel A. Cohen, Gregory Arthur Pool, Heidi M. Neck Format: Paperback / softback Release Date: 14/04/2020
Generating new ideas that create substantial value is at the very core of entrepreneurship. The IDEATE Method is an ideation method empirically proven to help students identify problems, develop creative solutions, and select the most innovate entrepreneurial idea. Authors Daniel Cohen, Gregory Pool, and Heidi Neck emphasize the importance of deliberate practice and repetition as they guide students through each phase of the method: Identify, Discover, Enhance, Anticipate, Target, and Evaluate. Goal-directed activities and self-reflection questions help students develop their entrepreneurial mindset and skillset.
Entrepreneurial Marketing A Blueprint for Customer Engagement
Author: Beth L. Goldstein Format: Paperback / softback Release Date: 14/04/2020
Entrepreneurial Marketing offers a cutting-edge perspective on how to create a customer-centric, multi-channel marketing program. Emphasizing the role of entrepreneurial marketing in the value-creation process, this book helps students learn how to view the customer engagement experience through the eyes of their target market to effectively build a sustainable brand. Packed with practical tools, examples, and worksheets, the text allows students to immediately apply what they learn to their new venture idea. EM Subject Line: New text-Entrepreneurial Marketing: A Blueprint for Customer Engagement EM Teaser: Request your FREE review copy!
The Fifteen Percent Overcoming Hardships and Achieving Lasting Success
Author: Terry Giles, Ben Carson Format: Hardback Release Date: 01/04/2020
Foreword by Dr. Ben Carson! Learn what sets high achievers apart in this riveting tale of triumph over tragedy, from one of today's most successful entrepreneurs. On the surface, Terry Giles has a classic American success story. By 30, he built one of the largest criminal defense firms in Southern California and generated tens of millions in revenue working with high profile clients. By 34, he left the legal profession and achieved even greater success as an entrepreneur, seemingly overnight. But as Giles observes in The Fifteen Percent, no one goes through life without facing serious obstacles. Speaking from his own hard-won experience from a difficult upbringing to America's loftiest boardrooms, Giles answers the question that took him years to answer: Why do some people overcome hardships better than others? Giles attributes his own success to being part of the fifteen percent of people who are able to rise above despair and succeed against all odds. Using examples from his career and life-defending child sex abuse victims, his involvement in Monica Lewinsky's trial, and even managing Dr. Ben Carson's 2016 presidential campaign-he illustrates these ideas in action. In each chapter, you'll learn valuable skills including fearlessness; embracing underdog status; visualizing the future; and positive thinking; proving that you do not have to be a victim of bad circumstances to adopt the superpowers of the fifteen percent. Entertaining, inspiring, and full of useful insights you'll turn to again and again, The Fifteen Percent will help you overcome whatever's holding you back, so you can achieve lasting success.
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1999: WCW Idiotized
Top Reasons Why List...
I'm a man of many conspiracy theories, some of which I believe in faithfully and others which I posit simply because they seem logical and explain that which is seldom properly explained. When it comes to professional wrestling, my theory is that Vince McMahon Jr. has been in charge of the entire industry in North America since his father handed off the WWF to him almost forty years ago. I strongly believe that he was a silent partner in the ownership of the WCW and the ECW, and that the current WWE network was indeed a 'network' many decades prior to its official status as such. If you follow the theory through, then it would seem that WCW and ECW were tools for McMahon. He could test out new talent and he could shuffle around stars in order to re-brand and totally control the industry. Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) played a very similar role in the early years of the video game industry and like McMahon Sr. had "competition" that allowed for the breaking down of territorial zoning restrictions on distribution and exhibition of products. In fact, most media forms in entertainment have featured companies that silently set up fake competition for themselves in order to slowly get a stranglehold of their respective territories and then industries.
That being said, wrestling is a rigorous physical form of performance where injuries happen and it is a lucrative business where politics play a role and contract disputes are inevitable. Therefore, development certainly can happen on the fly. With that said, I believe that the decay of the WCW in 1999 was so pronounced that it signifies the machinations of the puppet master, McMahon. In that respect, it was orchestrated and engineered in a systematic way. In its last years, WCW was used to test many elements of professional wrestling that McMahon then implemented into the WWE. In the end, his goal was to chase off the dilettantes (like myself) and consolidate the blue-collar "rednecks" and ghettoized masses that have become the primary consumers of the professional wrestling product. This development has occurred much to my chagrin, but McMahon has consolidated his power and control over the industry and milked it financially to its maximum potential becoming a legitimate billionaire in the process. Professional wrestling is now a base form of entertainment lacking widespread appeal, and it also proliferates non-creative writing, plodding and predictable story arcs, as well as its demonstration of a penchant for soap opera drama. In addition, the characters are bland and forgettable... but let me provide a concise list to illustrate my points and defend my position.
10. Hell hath Greater Fury...
The widespread appeal of professional wrestling was curtailed in 1999 through developments in WCW and none was more profound than the overuse of women in the ring as wrestlers and in story lines as objects of desire. Wrestling during the Hogan eras (face era in WWF and WCW and heel era with the WCW's nWo) had mass appeal, where virtually all North American boys knew who the stars were and tuned in at some point during the week to check out matches on television. The drama was cartoonish, but heroes and villains were defined in a polarized way and the physical impressiveness of the wrestlers was awe-inspiring. The drama was that of physical contests between acrobatic behemoths - hyper-masculinity was the theme. It was almost supernatural and perhaps served as a combative substitute and outlet for a generation of youth that knew of war through previous generations and education in world history, but who had no real expectations of fighting in any wars themselves.
WCW started to devote a considerable amount of time to developing female characters. It began with special features on the dance troupe, the Nitro Girls. For a few years, the Nitro Girls were eye candy providing female grace to accompany male brutality when they performed dance routines throughout the arena during shows. In 1999, WCW started pushing audiences to learn about the Nitro Girls as individuals. Kimberly Page had been a valet for many years before featuring in the Nitro Girls troupe, but then started a lengthy story line where she betrayed her husband, DDP, and shacked up with the vice-president of WCW, Eric Bischoff. The drama was executed in a ham-fisted way and Kimberly wasn't a good enough actor to sell the pathos effectively. Suddenly, professional wrestling's hermetically-sealed fantasy space was infected by daily dramas, such as divorce, jealousy, and sexual frustration.
The push for female wrestling surged in 1999 and by 2000, multiple matches at events had female wrestlers performing. The moves had no impact, the routines were poorly choreographed, and at the end of the night it was really just a striptease for slathering plebs among the rowdy rabble. Tylene Buck, Torrie Wilson and Stacy Keibler were passed around among male wrestlers. Where feuds were once about issues of male honour or dominance and physical challenges, now they were defined through pathetic jealousies and sexual frustration. The Kidman-Franchise "Viagra match" exemplified this point. The women were strippers, not wrestlers... fitness models at best. The WWE has taken the success of adding female eye candy in WCW and implemented it overwhelmingly for their current production slate. In fact, "the Divas" have their own shows on the network. If you think to tune in randomly to a wrestling show today on WWE network, it will be iffy that you see actual wrestling between two men, and more likely you will be privy to some kind of soap opera sequence or a Diva match featuring low impact moves that simply render physical beauty into its crudest form and quite gratuitously.
Long gone are the days of a Miss Elizabeth who is seen and not heard, who exemplifies grace and an active resistance to brutality. Her demure persona and silence became a surrogate for males to project the best features of femininity from their imagination onto her and to find a balance between real life values and a repressed desire for physical brutality. Miss Elizabeth was magical. The Divas are nasty, brutish and short. If wrestling ever hopes to regain the general public's interest and wide appeal, it is essential that its producers minimize the use of women in romantic dramas and as eye candy in the ring when performing as wrestlers.
9. Immigration to the Extreme...
WWE had to know how a massive influx from a neighbouring promotion would work. In 2001, the WWE was going to have a wave of immigration and needed to find a home for a stable of WCW wrestlers. In 1998-99, WCW tested the waters for WWE by importing virtually all of the stars from the ECW. In addition, the ECW influx allowed a test for cruder work on the mic by wrestlers as well as allowing the development a hardcore wrestling circuit. The transition was a mixed bag, but mainly unsuccessful. If you think WWF and WCW were low-brow then you surely missed out on the ECW. Those guys were just assholes and the fans were a thousand times worse. The fans at ECW didn't even chant wrestler names, but instead chanted "E-C-dub" ad nauseam. The brand was hailed for its product differentiation from the mainstream promotions. The fans reveled in their base and debauched values and behaviour. It wasn't rough around the edges - it was mad jagged. WCW imported Raven, Stevie Richards, and Perry Saturn who worked well together and then later they added The Sandman, The Franchise, Lance Storm, Mike Awesome, Chris Candido, Bam Bam Bigelow and Terry Funk. All were crude and unrefined (perhaps save Lance Storm) and most of the latter acquisitions (from 1999 on) spat endless profanities across the mic. Almost all of the ECW wrestlers promoted the extreme wretling form and they made ample use of chairs, tables and ladders to wear down and defeat opponents. Blading had greater usage and brutality was hailed as a universal value and sign of masculinity and power.
The junk of the ECW brand littered the WCW but fans embraced the physical and cultural detritus with open arms. WWE learned that the extreme form was welcomed by a core audience of "poor trash"... gratuitous profanity not so much and the more extreme wrestling personas didn't have legs as gimmicks in the mainstream form. WWE curtailed the verbal vulgarity and extreme wrestling form over time. Truth be told, they had been promoting extreme wrestling themselves in the mid-90s through characters such as Mankind and the Undertaker, while Stone Cold Steve Austin was infamous for his profanity. The real lesson for WWE was learned regarding how stardom translates across promotions. Many of the ECW wrestlers quickly fell flat in WCW and as a result WWE was very cautious when launching their WCW "Invasion" angle in 2001. But while WWF superstars that had been shifted to the WCW in the mid-90s were getting injured and retiring, the new wrestlers didn't serve the WCW well... and in fact by 1999 the promotion was made a proving ground for the patron promotion, WWE. This only accelerated the demise of the WCW, weakened both the WCW and ECW brand, and ultimately led to the invasion angle being a failure.
8. Promos, and Promos, and Promos... Oh My
In 1999, Monday Nitro began running promos at the beginning of the episodes instead of the expected intimidating nWo congregation in the ring or energetic Nitro Girl dance routine. The promos recapped events from the previous episode of Nitro. Such promo slots were previously reserved as teasers for recent pay-per-view events in order to encourage those that had missed them to order the encore. The lengthy promos in 1999 could be considered relatively useless for those who had been watching the week before and could also be considered filler. It was a strange production choice for WCW - a promotion that was heavily criticized for under use of a massive stable of stars. The promos were a way of testing a feature of programming that WWE was interested in. In fact, the last few years has seen WWE broadcasting become primarily filler encouraging and propagandizing an interest in serial addiction for core audiences. Lengthy promos are in fact antithetical to the hermetically-sealed fantasy of wrestling that provoked such wide appeal during the Hogan eras. WWE has shown a profound disinterest in wide appeal and is most eager to seduce and consolidate a target audience and then saturate them with banal promos and other forms of trite propaganda. As previously mentioned, you are unlikely to see wrestling when randomly tuning in to the WWE network these days (although admittedly, RAW still has had a similar format for the past twenty years). It is unclear whether the promos were effective for WCW, as the promotion was tanked a few years later, but perhaps they were effective (one would have to examine instances of ordering or reordering PPV event encores as well as any privately gathered survey date on whether audiences were being persuaded to tune in the following week for Nitro). A promo recap can have the effect of making the audience feel ignorant, which can then encourage loyalty to the program. There is a smug satisfaction in being able to utter affirmations that you are already in the know. Also, promos have the effect of rendering their audiences into a fluxed state of passive and active as viewers. Repetition is received passively while new content is actively engaged. This fluctuation can be manipulated with spots of information in between that is decoded in line with the meaning that was intended when encoding, thus reducing instances of aberrant decoding. WWE implements this technique of passive-active alternation through picture-in-a-picture highlight features during matches.
7. Soap Opera's Dirty Tricks...
In 1999, Monday Nitro started airing taped segments that truly challenged audiences to define what was "fake" about professional wrestling. For most of the audience during the Hogan eras, it was known and understood that wrestling was planned, choreographed, and rehearsed performances. The drama was fake and the impact of blows was never intended to injure. However, the new taped segments were so contrived that it undermined the fantasy of wrestling. One such promo involved a "hidden" camera following an unknown seductress through hotel hallways while stalking the veteran champ Ric Flair's impressionable young son, David Flair. The camera was intrusive although intended as providing a discrete keyhole aesthetic and the drama was marked as contrived and phony. It became difficult to see David Flair as anything but an actor and the fact that he wasn't a gifted wrestler didn't help the matter. These kinds of segments continued throughout the following years creating an odd mix of fantasy, drama and "reality". The WWE was able to test how such segments were received, but really Western society's push toward the staged "reality" television format came to dominate regardless of the contributions made by professional wrestling. WWE continues to produce hokey segments where the cameraman is expected to be banished from the imagination of the viewer simply by virtue of the fact that the transcendental subject position is supposedly so enticing and titillating. This kind of non-critical engagement is geared for a specific audience of limited intellectual capabilities. Unfortunately, such segments preclude the possibility of professional wrestling having wide appeal - the "reality" is too fake and the drama is too staged.
6. The Face Bone's Connected to the Heel Bone...
In 1999, there was a penchant for frivolous face- and heel-turns in the WCW. Perhaps, it was an experiment in how "attitude" was forged or could be forged. With little to no motivation, fan favourites such as DDP, Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko heel-turned while Kevin Nash randomly showed his callousness and then benevolence in both saving former friends and opponents or hanging them out to dry, and all willy-nilly. These kinds of unexplained acts and erratic behaviour needlessly confused audiences. The most confounding heel turn was with Ric Flair because of how unexpected it was. Audiences wanted to "Woo" with the veteran champ, but he went ballistic and turned on the crowd night after night. Suddenly, he was promoting the decadent lifestyle which he had earned and the rest of us were nothing more than untouchable peons. It suggests that the New Blood angle was suddenly imposed and this further hints at the moment where McMahon stepped in and took over the WCW more thoroughly than previously when he was silent partner. This would imply that the WCW staff were not aware of exactly when the sale was planned - but of course this makes a lot of sense for large mergers and acquisitions. The New Blood angle was awkward at best and detestable for most of the dilettantes (those that defined the wide appeal of wrestling fans during the Hogan eras). The New Blood angle sought to stigmatize veteran wrestlers as pariahs that were blocking opportunity for young wrestlers. That kind of bastard rhetoric was unnecessary as most of the legends were nearing retirement anyway and deserved a greater degree of dignity for having put wrestling on the map in the world of entertainment. McMahon came back to the New Blood themes many times in the 2000s with the WWE. He set himself up as the old hegemon who needed ousting. Perhaps, the gratuitous face- and heel-turns in 1999 at WCW helped him to see how productive and successful sudden shifts could be. It remains to be seen, but certainly the frivolity discombobulated WCW audiences to no end.
5. After the Lightning Came...
WCW Monday Nitro was hugely successful in ratings from its launch in 1995 until halfway through 1999. It faded fast after that. Meanwhile, WCW Thunder had launched at the beginning of 1998, when the company realized that they needed a whole other show to showcase midcard talent. The main event of Thunder in 1998 was pretty unimportant and only in 2000 did major story events take place on Thunder. The problem with pushing the importance of Thunder was that WCW was admitting to its audience that they had lost the ratings war with WWF. Thunder was moved from its competitive Thursday slot to Wednesday and WCW started to fill the program with important matches and story line developments to attract audiences. The error was in not focusing on bolstering the Nitro episodes with the best content. Thunder was always set up as B-quality fare, where fans wouldn't miss much if they didn't tune in. Once interest was being lost in Nitro, the effort should have been to strengthen it and desert Thunder. Confidence would have been restored by the fans in the producers and the ratings would have gone up. If you follow my conspiracy theory on the matter, then tanking both Nitro and Thunder makes sense. Dilettante fans were ostracized because they would have only been interested in Nitro and were now finding out that Nitro was weaker in order to strengthen Thunder. Dilettantes were missing out on developments through skipping episodes of Thunder. Chasing off the dilettantes would then allow a more concentrated focus on the core audience which was expected to convert over to WWE after the buyout. I believe that chasing off the dilettantes was the plan from the beginning and it was imperative because they may have condemned the merger as underhanded and irrelevant. Meanwhile, the splitting up of compelling content for the two programs recalls the folly of Hitler fighting on two fronts - spreading yourself thin makes for a nice door mat. WCW got trampled in the ratings war.
4. Making Alan Smithee Proud...
If you go back and watch Monday Nitro episodes during the inception of the nWo, the directing is brilliant. Whoever the directors were, they knew when to cut to different angles and how to conceal bad selling or botches. By 1999, the directing on Nitro was in the gutter. The matches featured awkward cuts where the most important action was often missed. Static cameras stupidly captured all kinds of botches and terrible sells, especially on heel kicks and drop kicks. Finishers were framed through unflattering angles, such as numerous instances of Buff Bagwell's Blockbuster. It was amateur hour to be sure. In addition, new wave television directing (zooms, handheld, rapid cutting) was implemented inappropriately for out-of-ring sequences. There is one sequence where Sting is being attacked by dogs unleashed on him by the Steiners. The cuts are terrible, the angles are terrible and the handheld feel is stilted while closeups are awkwardly framed. There is such a marked transition starting around 1999, that I have to continue to rely on my conspiracy theory and posit that the poor directing was demanded either openly or at least through replacing gifted directors with clumsy, non-intuitive buffoons. You will certainly lose many of the dilettantes with poor directing for choreographed performance because it is the dilettante viewers that are the most critically engaged and notice fault more readily. They are taken out of the fantasy unlike core audiences that remain in an intellectual slumber. Again, perhaps WWE wanted to chase off the wide appeal audience as they tanked WCW. In fact, WWE has now implemented even worse directing, where camera zooms and rapid cuts are used endlessly to sell the impact of moves and/or conceal poor sells and botches. In effect, the camera does the selling which only lowers the bar for wrestling skill and ultimately leads to a decay in the quality of talent - which it has accomplished abundantly in the last two decades. Whatever, these crack directors were learning in film school was poorly implemented in professional wrestling. Imagine ballet or gymnastics were filmed the way WWE matches are now filmed - it would be difficult to follow the grace of movement as the camera would continuously interrupt the performance with its own interpretation of the action. With wrestling it is no different. In effect, wrestling through WWE style directing (which started in WCW in 1999) has shifted the entertainment form firmly away from being considered a sport. Sports are not filmed with decoupage classique editing systems or new age digital systems because such systems resist critical engagement. That has been the goal of WWE - to breed a lulled mass of passive consumers. Such endeavors simply refuse the renewed interest of dilettantes that would constitute professional wrestling having wide appeal as it did during the Hogan eras.
3. World Heavyweight Chump...
Starting in 1999, WCW started shifting title belt holders on a weekly basis. Perhaps, it was to encourage hype because there was an assurance that the main events would have consequences. Unfortunately, the value of the title and the title holder are diminished when they are put into a volatile flux. Holding a title becomes a casual endeavor and there is a sense that defeat is imminent making the characters in the drama appear weak. WCW seeing their ratings slip may have been trying to find a magic formula by seeking out the best champs possible from among their roster, but they surely would have been better served to commit to some characters that could carry the load. A decade ago, WWE was criticized for doing the same thing, but seems to have calmed down in recent years and allowed champions to defend their titles for long stretches. The dilettantes began to lose interest in WCW in 1999 partly because the promotion was not putting over their top stars. Fans began to feel foolish cheering for winners that lost.
2. Myth of Power, Illusion of Control...
In 1999, WCW was well entrenched in offering the fans an understanding of the inner workings of the business. Years earlier, Eric Bischoff had stepped forward and revealed himself as an owner who played favourites and he was involved in matches in order to sway outcomes. Bischoff as the puppet master was acceptable, but things began to degenerate. Rowdy Roddy Piper was assigned the toothless title of Commissioner. It was unclear what the duties and responsibilities included, but he was able to intervene on behalf of WCW against the machinations of Bischoff who acted on behalf of the nWo gang. This intervention was confusing but did create some balance. However, after Piper there was a battle for control between Bischoff and Flair. Suddenly, Flair was the boss. At first, this was popular but quickly Flair let power go to his head. Then, Sting came in as boss... which made little to no sense. Finally, Vince Russo started throwing his weight around. The attempt to educate fans about the business was severely undermined by the contrivances of ownership, power and control. "The Cat" Ernest Miller became a Commissioner in 2000 and although he performed the role very well there was a sense that his authority was imaginary. Behind Russo, Bischoff and the rest were Turner producers (and perhaps McMahon) wielding the real control of the programming. It was a sensible deduction but rendered the drama of power struggles during shows to ridiculous absurdity. McMahon never had the same problem because he was in fact the all-powerful controller of programming for WWE. This begs the question as to whether WCW was emulating the McMahon role with their power struggles in order to validate the hegemony of Nitro or if the illusions of control were arranged dramatically to be undermined as a method of ultimately weakening the WCW brand and strengthening McMahon as a cult of personality leader.
1. Bastardizing the Brand...
In 1999, the nWo had all but fallen apart. The split into Wolfpac and Hollywood factions had taken its toll on the perceived power of the gang. Hogan had descended deeper into the heel role, Nash had shown that he had soft spots, and Hall was pretty much A.W.O.L.. Eventually, Scott Steiner was put in charge of nWo Hollywood but he was no leader and then Macho Man dropped off the face of the Earth. The dynamic of the nWo was faltering and fans sensed it. The "finger poke of doom" brought the world heavyweight title back into Hogan's possession and the sundering of the nWo was mended. However, Hogan assumed the role of leader of the Wolfpac, turning his back on the Hollywood faction. All of the "A-list" superstars were deemed Wolfpac, while Hollywood faction nWo members were the B-list midcarders. This severely weakened the nWo brand. Millions of white-and-black nWo merchandise on the market became anathema and associated with being second rate. The B group of nWo became pawns for Hogan, but they were useless. The father figure of Hogan had in effect walked out on his children to hang out with his poker buddies. It was an unforgivable vice for the lore of the legend. One rule of business is that you do not bastardize your greatest success the way the WCW did to the nWo. You mine as well tell your wife that she looks fat in the new dress while you're at it. But, the lesson wasn't learned because Vince Russo proceeded to bastardize Hulk Hogan and his exit from WCW was portrayed as an ostracism. This misstep crippled the WCW brand. It was claimed as a political move that was necessary because Terry Bollea (Hogan) was so difficult to work with. I have to wonder. Meanwhile, these developments confirm my conspiracy theory as WWE couldn't control the effects of the merger if Hulk Hogan was looked toward as an authority figure. If Hogan condemned WWE as the company he left behind, it would weaken the reputation of the WWE during the merger, however if he lauded the WWE then fans might feel betrayed and see him as a pawn to the evil machinations of the McMahon's hegemonic company. It was potentially a double-edged sword demanding that the safest course of action was to disintegrate the nWo and remove Hogan prior to tanking the WCW and merging the promotions.
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3 troopers injured as truck strikes vehicles on New Jersey highway
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Emergency service personnel work at the scene of an accident with multiple injuries on eastbound Interstate 280 in West Orange, N.J., Tuesday, July 30, 2019. A dump truck hit and injured two state troopers investigating an accident on the major New Jersey highway. (Mitsu Yasukawa/The Record via AP) (Mitsu Yasukawa/AP)
Three New Jersey state troopers responding to a highway accident were injured after a dump truck crashed into emergency vehicles.
The accident occurred Tuesday morning on eastbound Interstate 280 in West Orange as troopers were investigating an accident.
The troopers were taken to local hospitals. State police say two troopers suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries and a third had minor injuries. Their names weren't disclosed.
Several other people at the scene at the time of the crash weren't seriously injured.
Footage from the scene showed a dump truck lying partially on its side against the guardrail of the highway. Photos showed the front of the dump truck pushed up against the back of an ambulance.
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McKesson Releases New Reporting Solution for EnterpriseRx
Reports Director Designed to Improve Business Intelligence and Performance Monitoring Across All Pharmacies
McKesson Pharmacy Systems LLC (MPS), a software division of McKesson Corporation, announced the launch of EnterpriseRx™ Reports Director today at the 2010 National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Pharmacy Technology Show.
Reports Director is the latest solution to be added to EnterpriseRx, the leading pharmacy management system among large retail chains today.
“Reports Director gives our customers immediate insight to the wide variety of business metrics they need to reach their specific business goals,” said Brent Burns, senior vice president of strategy, product management and marketing, McKesson Pharmacy Systems. “Whether the goal is to improve labor efficiency, streamline inventory management or improve profitability, EnterpriseRx Reports Director makes it easy to define the analytic scope and deliver a customized report to key stakeholders.”
When metrics are generated by Reports Director, each user has the option of viewing finished reports in spread sheets or graphic formats that are easy to understand and read. Reports can range from a simple comparison of weekly inventory levels across the organization, to more complex marketing reports such as those determining the percentage of patients in a specific geographic location following similar medication regimens. In addition to the custom report design tool, Reports Director includes pre-defined report templates and a scheduling tool that enables specific reports to be automatically generated at regular intervals.
“Evaluations from pharmacists who participated in the beta phase of this product’s development stated that Reports Director is a solution that serves more than just the pharmacy team,” said Holly Lewis, vice president of product management, McKesson Pharmacy Systems. “Pharmacists were particularly enthused about the ability to create customized reports in EnterpriseRx and to set up a schedule to send requested information direct to directors, finance managers and supply management teams without compromising their patient responsibilities.”
While many of the reports produced support business improvement, Reports Director is also capable of providing information that directly improves patient care. Pharmacies can use the tool to identify patients with certain medical conditions so that they can begin offering specialized counseling for specific conditions or conduct health fairs targeting patients with related illnesses or life circumstances. Pharmacies can even query for patients who are taking certain medications and provide cognitive services, suggest supplemental treatments or lower cost alternatives. Reports Director can also make drug recalls, third party audits and state or DEA audits simpler by generating data required at the click of a button.
“Reports Director generates reports using data from EnterpriseRx that is housed outside of the production server,” Burns said. “This ensures that users can have immediate access to data at anytime without impairing the responsiveness of EnterpriseRx at the store-level.”
Reports Director is part of EnterpriseRx Release 2.3 that became generally available in July 2010. This release includes further enhancements to the overall system and upgrades that align with McKesson’s newest data hosting services.
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Thomas Jefferson Foreign Policy
Thomas Jefferson- Domestic Affairs Timeline created by toastytoaster. In History. Dec 3, 1800. Election of 1800 Electors meet in their states and cast votes for.
Its foreign policy lacks definition and coherence. Franklin Roosevelt (usually in that order), followed in various rank order by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, Theodore Roosevelt,
Public messing around with sensitive foreign policy issues. That’s the president’s job. at the time, vice president) Thomas Jefferson to try to stave off possible war between France and the U.S.
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30-1-2019 · 98 quotes have been tagged as foreign-policy:. ― Thomas Jefferson tags:. should have done was accept the assistance of foreign.
AP US Thomas Jefferson Foreign Affairs. Thomas Jefferson signed these Acts into law on December 22 in order to restrict American ships from engaging in foreign trade.
Starting with Thomas Jefferson and ending with Lyndon B. Beschloss is critical of Truman’s failures to conclusively end a clash that haunts American foreign policy to this day. The author is an.
31-1-2011 · Best Answer: Thomas Jefferson’s ideals were a non interventionist policy meaning that he wanted to trade freely with countries and leave them alone as long.
Kerry had violated the Logan Act, a 1799 law that prohibits ordinary citizens from negotiating with foreign powers. diplomacy had become a particularly contentious issue. Led by Thomas Jefferson,
Alexander Hamilton and American Foreign Policy. Alexander Hamilton and American Foreign Policy. Urged on by Hamilton’s Cabinet rival Thomas Jefferson,
Since 1805, U.S. intelligence agencies have been taking out Middle Eastern enemies and failing to predict the next crisis. Isn’t it time for an overhaul?
Led by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams. who had a commanding grasp of politics, including foreign policy, that sprang from his intellect, his medical training and practice, and his formation in the.
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Thomas Jefferson was in favor of the government. He believed that the government should protect the citizen’s rights and that people had the right to ensure the.
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The only way to confront these foreign conspiracies, he believed. “Conflict is the normative experience for nations.” Quoting Thomas Jefferson, he defined “restraint” as the willingness to go to.
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PARIS — President Trump has left his chief foreign policy negotiator a deeply damaged diplomat, perhaps as profoundly wounded in his world standing as any predecessor back to Thomas Jefferson, the.
or John Quincy Adams crafting the Monroe Doctrine that guided U.S. foreign policy for more than a century — are quickly dispatched in a matter of sentences or a few paragraphs. Philosophical and.
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Thomas Hobbes, in Leviathan. was that he accept oversight by Parliament in a range of financial, judicial, and foreign policy arenas. William agreed. It represented a tectonic shift away from.
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Summary: Jefferson’s conceptions of the US national interest, and of the diplomatic postures by which it was most fit to be advanced, still inform US foreign policy.
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Thomas Jefferson groomed his two successors. negotiating on peace missions and criticizing presidents of both parties for how they handled foreign policy — most recently, Obama, for failing to.
Thomas Jefferson, as the American. he continued his involvement in American foreign policy. The French Revolution, Jefferson supported the publication of.
For that reason the controversy should act as Thomas Jefferson’s famous “fire bell in. Russia’s presumed Clinton hack seems minor compared to attempts by foreign governments to influence U.S.
During the course of the years, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison dealt with major domestic and foreign policies. These policies helped shape the way for the
Former U.S. president Thomas Jefferson once said Cuba "would be the best. "We must be prepared to face a tougher U.S. (foreign) policy, whoever the president might be," he added. Political.
This is the widely accepted narrative, articulated by smart commentators as diverse as the former GOP foreign-policy adviser Max Boot (who says. The chairman and vice chairman, the Republican.
Those words were written by Thomas Jefferson on Dec. 10. the conversation was about American foreign policy and, more specifically, about what Americans can do to make the world better. Throughout.
and foreign policy falls more clearly within the presidential domain. Consider the Jay Treaty of 1795. Prior to that compact, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson had urged Congress to slap tariffs on.
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Why I'm heading Stateside to find the voice of football
I’m confronting my fears this weekend and jumping on the great bird in the sky and heading for NYC.
If I make it, there are a few things I’m looking forward to.
My bezzie mate lives upstate and he will be getting a visit, probably to the complete annoyance of his wife, who knows the whirlwind of destruction that tends to follow me around Stateside.
My old coach lives in Manhattan, and not that he knows it yet, but I intend to beg, steal or borrow some floor space from him or his mates so that I can rest my weary head.
But, more than anything, I am looking forward to escaping these idiot commentators I’ve had to put up with for the last few days and once again falling into bed with Messrs Gray and Tyler.
It says something about the state of football on terrestrial TV when I have to put myself through hours of torture and about 3,500 miles to get some decent commentary.
As always, the Yanks do it that slightly bit bigger and better.
And let’s be honest here, 99.5% of the population over there couldn’t even tell you what the offside rule is. that’s probably being a bit generous, too.
ESPN, though, has seized the day and poached Sky’s best boys for a bit of moonlighting.
I can’t wait. On the night of the 22nd I am heading north of the city to watch the NY Mets play the Detroit Tigers.
I will probably participate in a bit of post-match hospitality before heading into the night for a moonlit tour of NYC.
Then, the next morning at 10am, England kick off against Slovenia. The comfort I will garner from the dulcet tones of Gray and Tyler is immeasurable. The world will be a better place!
And, in my best atheist manner, I am praying that England progress to the last 16. Because then on the 26th I can once again settle down in a New York City bar and feel completely at home in the company of Andy and Martin.
Last week I spent a few days trying to immerse myself in all things New York City. I travelled up to Camden to see New York’s finest, The Strokes, performing their first gig in 44 months. I read a few books on the city and tried to figure out a plan of attack for my stay.
No need to worry, however much I tried to think American, I resolutely refused to drink any Budweiser. I do have SOME standards!
So, my next column will come tinged with the Stars ‘n’ Stripes and a little bit of Gray and Tyler.
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Akshay Kumar turns saviour
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Mumbai - In 1991, filmmaker Ravi Shrivastava started his film 'Dwarpal' with Akshay Kumar in the lead. The film got shelved and Ravi lost all his fortune. The filmmaker, now suffering from a kidney ailment, has been seeking help from film artists' union and the IMPPA but has not received a positive response from the film bodies yet. Mumbai Live wrote about Shrivastava's plight on 17 October. Soon after, Akshay Kumar stepped forward to help Shrivastava. “Yes sir, my team has reached out to him...Already taken care of,” Akshay tweeted in response to the issue. Good Samaritans are still around in the industry, then.
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by Jim Casey | @TheJimCasey | July 29, 2019
Lady Antebellum headlined Good Morning America’s Summer Concert Series in Central Park on July 26.
In addition to performing crowd-favorites such as “Bartender” and “Need You Now,” Lady A treated fans to a rendition of their current single, “What If I Never Get Over You.”
The new tune, which was helmed by longtime producer Dann Huff, finds Lady A’s Hillary Scott and Charles Kelley trading heavy-hearted vocals over a failed relationship. The duet was penned by Laura Veltz, Sam Ellis, Jon Green and Ryan Hurd.
“It’s been several years since we’ve had a chance to release a duet like this as a single,” says Charles. “When we played it for our team their excitement reassured us this song was the one to lead with out of the gate. It’s been a bit of our magic from day one. Our very first song in 2006, ‘All We’d Ever Need,’ was just written for Hillary, but she said, ‘Charles, you should sing a verse too’ and that’s how we started the co-lead singer thing.”
Watch Lady A perform “What If I Never Get Over You” on GMA.
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Cutest Wild Animal Babies in National Parks
Katherine RivardNPF Blog
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National parks are home to some of our nation’s cutest inhabitants. Mammals, birds, reptiles, and more – of all shapes and sizes – depend on the delicate ecosystems within the National Park System to conserve the circle of life. And if you visit during the right time of year, and trek into the parks at the right time of day, you just might be lucky enough to spot some of the cutest wildlife babies this country has to offer. Just remember to always watch from a distance for your safety and for theirs!
Read on to learn about some of the unique baby animals you can spot in their natural homes when you find your park.
California Condors
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“The face only a mother could love” swaps to “the face only an offspring could love” given that the sweet, fluffy baby condor’s looks are irresistibly cute compared to those of its bald-headed mother. The young are hatched within nests placed in caves on the face of steep cliffs. A single, pale, aqua-colored egg is laid. Then, the pair takes turns staying with the egg for approximately 55 days of incubation. A real modern-day coupling, both parents assist in feeding and warming the chick. The new chick fully develops its flight feathers within 6 months, though still dependent on its parents for its first 1-2 years.
Sadly, condors – the largest land birds in North America, with wings spanning 9.5 feet – have not been seen in the Redwoods in over a century. They remain one of the rarest birds in the world, despite ongoing recovery and re-introduction programs.
In 2003, the Yurok Tribe identified the return of the California condors to their territory as a top priority. The National Park Foundation is proud to be working with the Yurok Tribe and other partners to build a facility and monitoring program that will allow condors to be released within Redwood National and State Parks in Yurok ancestral territory.
Tiny turtle bodies with clumsy little flippers can be spotted hurtling toward the Gulf in spurts of energy each year at Padre Island National Seashore. There are five species of sea turtles within the Gulf of Mexico – all of which can be found at the seashore and its adjacent waters.
April to September at the seashore is sea turtle nesting season, and visitors who return between May and August might be lucky enough to see a hatchling release. The releases take place around sunrise and are not always predictable, though the park attempts to update predicted times for releases. Given that sea turtles spend only about 1% of their lives on land, these opportunities to see this dash toward the waves are an incredible experience!
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Bison (the correct name for buffalo) are America’s largest land mammal and as of 2016, earned its accolade as one of our national mammals. At birth, these heavyweight champs are already 30-70 pounds. The new calves are born between March and May and are called “red dogs” because of their reddish-orange color.
Within a few months, their color changes to the characteristic brown color of the adult bison and horns begin to grow. They communicate with their mothers using pig-like grunts. There are currently 17 protected bison herds in 12 states across the United States. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is just one park committed to preserving these giant beasts and their homeland. The park’s herd lives in Windmill Pasture and can be safely viewed from 100 yards away.
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Puppies! Yes, wolf pups are adorable, but they do grow up and then they’re ready to hunt elk, bison, deer, and other prey within parks like Yellowstone National Park. In the past decade, wolf numbers in the park have fluctuated between 83 and 108 wolves.
The best time to see these large predators is between dawn and dusk, particularly in the northern range of the park. The average mother wolf has about five pups, which are usually born in April. With help from National Park Foundation grants, the park carefully monitors wolf packs in the park and keeps track of pup counts at dens each year.
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What’s smaller than a beaver and even more rare than a raccoon? A porcupine! And these funny-looking, nocturnal rodents parent “awwww”-inducing porcupettes. Born with quills that are still soft, the newborn’s quills harden within minutes in the fresh air. In another hour or so, the porcupette will already be able to climb trees!
Porcupines spend most of their hours sleeping away the day in trees. While resting, 75% of their body’s system is focused on digestion. Babies are usually born in April or May and can sometimes be spotted shuffling around Devils Tower National Monument.
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Alaska’s parks are brimming with wildlife, and Kenai Fjords National Park is no exception! This park is home to TWO types of puffin! These adorable birds parent fuzzy little pufflings, each pair focusing on one egg per breeding season to ensure higher chances of success.
These precious chicks stay on land in their nests, being fed fish, until they’re ready to leave. They then head out alone for the open sea in the middle of the night. They only return 2-3 years later, once they are fully breeding adults.
When you think of Carl Sandburg, you should think of poetry, human rights, and… goats! After one of Sandburg’s daughters requested a cow to care for, Sandburg suggested a goat instead. The purchase of two goats quickly turned into a full flock for Lillian Sandburg, Carl’s wife.
Lillian Sandburg became known for her well-bred goats, which were able to produce far more milk than any others. Today when you visit Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, be sure to visit the Connemara Farms Goat Dairy and fawn over the playful kids.
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The namesakes for northern-Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, black bears have long called this park home. However, spotting a bear while visiting is rare, and the chance of seeing a cub is even rarer. Those lucky enough to spot these playful babies will feel their hearts melting as the little bears tag along with their mother, climb trees, or wrestle with a sibling.
Little black bears are born hairless weighing 10-16 ounces, yet can grow to weigh 50-60 pounds by their first summer. But remember, despite preferring to stay away from humans, these hungry animals are known to rummage for food, and if they feel threated, they can be dangerous.
Remember to use bear boxes when camping in the park and stay a safe distance away! Bears that become accustomed to human food (it can happen even after just one cookie!) can have their food-seeking behavior altered, lose their natural fear of humans, and are far more likely to become aggressive and tenacious in further attempts to snag a snack. Be sure to keep the bears (and yourself) safe by properly storing food.
North American River Otters
They may not be holding hands on their backs like sea otters, but river otter pups are just as endearing! With their thick coats and slender bodies, these water dwellers are excellent swimmers and use their webbed toes to quickly push through the park’s waters. They love to play and socialize and have even been known to tuck in their front feet and slide down icy hills as though they’re sledding!
If you see them while visiting San Juan Island National Historical Park, listen to see if you can hear them chattering away with chirps and whines, but don’t come too close! Like many wild animals, otters can become aggressive if they fear for their young. You’re most likely to see these playful mammals along the American Camp bluff trails, at Jake’s Lagoon, or in Garrison Bay at English Camp.
Ozark Hellbender
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This funny amphibian perfectly explains why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover OR its name. When visiting Ozark National Scenic Riverways, the Ozark hellbender will be a rare and fascinating sight. It might look a bit slimy and its name sounds demonic at best, but these large amphibians are found only in the rivers of the Ozarks and are a crucial part of the ecosystem. With flat long bodies that grow up to 2 feet in length, their skin is bunched up in fleshy folds that allow them to breathe underwater.
Sadly, the population of this giant salamander is aging rapidly as reproduction has dropped for several years, causing a slow and steady decline that was not easily recognized due to their long lifespans. If you do spot a hellbender, you’ve gotten lucky to see one of these shy, nocturnal natives! Be sure not to disrupt this harmless friend.
From giant winged scavengers to friendly dairy goats — the parks are home to an impressive array of animals. Often times, the help of additional grants and support from partners like the National Park Foundation are crucial in ensuring that native animals continue to thrive in their habitats.
Next time you #FindYourPark/#EncuentraTuParque, keep your eyes peeled for the wildlife that call the parks home. Then keep your fingers crossed and you might just be lucky enough to see some young ‘uns trailing behind!
Thank you for the wonderful insights into these baby animals! It is meaningful to learn something new to pass on to my grandchildren.
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Istvan Szekely is an outstanding representative of the newly emerging younger generation of Hungarian pianists. After early study of the piano from the age of five, he entered the Béla Bartók Music School in Budapest, and, after winning first prize in the First Liszt International Youth Piano Competition in 1977, embarked on a course of study at the Ferenc Liszt Academy. There his teachers included Dezso Ranki and Zoltan Kocsis. Relatively early in his career Istvan Szekely won a number of prizes, including an award in the 1981 Liszt-Bartok Competition in Budapest and first prize in the 1983 Salamanca International Piano Competition. He performs frequently in Hungary and has given concerts in Eastern and Western Europe, as well as in Japan.
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Guy Aron
Michelangeli’s pianism is superb throughout, with wonderful clarity of articulation and intuitive phrasing that never seems hurried.
[Michelangeli’s] imperious technical command is always evident, and the dynamics are carefully shaped without sounding calculated…the La Scala orchestra plays well.
Michelangeli’s early accounts of the Grieg and Schumann concertos have sensitivity, fantasy and authority… © 2013 MusicWeb International Read complete review
David Denton
In his later years Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli cancelled as many concerts as he gave, only adding to the aura of mystique that surrounded this remarkable pianist. He was still in his teens when he was named the winner of the 1939 Geneva International Piano Competition, the world losing sight of him in the war years until in 1946 when he made a sensational debut in London. He had apparently served in the Italian air force, but had made a limited number of recordings for the German Telefunken label. They contained both the Schumann and Grieg concertos with the La Scala Orchestra in magical performances that show a strong musical personality, his freedom of tempo and rhythm bringing a sense of total spontaneity. Already there was an imperious quality to his playing, his accompanying conductors, Antonio Pedrotti and Aleco Galliera, having to respond to his every nuance. Fluid fingers bring a crystal quality, though he was also well equipped to bring white-hot excitement to the Grieg concerto, the first movement cadenza—a very personal statement—never having sounded more brilliant. His central movement is heavier than we often hear, his finale tingling with excitement. I have to add that it was not universally acclaimed among critics when first internationally released, but they had yet to experience the freedom of expression both works would receive in the years to come from a whole raft of pianists. © 2012 David’s Review Corner
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22.04.2004 Sports News
Electrical repairs at NSC to coast 20 million cedis
Accra, April 22, GNA - The cost of restoring power to sections of the National Sports Council (NSC) facilities, which were gutted by fire at the Accra Sports Stadium on Wednesday, April 21 has been put at 20 million cedis.
A press statement signed by Mr Mammah Hamid Issakah, Public Relations Officer on behalf of the Acting Chief Executive said the Accounts, Marketing and Personnel offices are without electricity and light could only be restored to those area if the cables are changed. It attributed the cause of the fire to a faulty underground cable, which had been interrupting power supply and was changed by the staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana.
"During the course of work, the main power supply was pot off to allow for change of the faulty cable. When power was restored after work, a panel board at the Marketing Department caught fire but electricians at the stadium quickly cut off supply to the stadium," the statement read.
It assured soccer fans that personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service have done an appraisal of the fire and the extent of damage it has done and have declared the stadium safe.
The statement guaranteed Liberty professionals and football lovers, the use of the electronic scoreboard and the public address system during their African Confederation Cup match against Petro Huambo at the Accra Sports Stadium on Sunday.
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Bye Bye Mahama, Ghana’s First One-Term President!!!
By Eric Bawah
LISTEN JAN 5, 2017
Have you taken time to observe the countenance of the defeated president of Ghana after the declaration of the results of the 2016 General Election? Just visit any abattoir near you and see the face of a dead goat and you will understand why I am asking you this question. The face of the man looks like that of a dead goat. If you watch him closely you will see two things: either he cried in the night or fought with somebody before facing the cameras. It seems Mr. Mahama will surely wet his pillow with tears the day after Nana takes over the reins of power in January 7.
The motorcade which will lead his convoy on that day to the Black Star Square will be the same motorcade which will take him to his residency on that day. After that, no motorcade will lead his convoy for the unforeseeable future. That is why the sages say whatever goes up comes down. In no time, it will dawn on Mr. Mahama that his driver will have to stop at the traffic lights when the devices signal red. Yes, in no time Mr. Mahama's driver will have to join the long traffic jam in Accra and for the first time in eight years, Mr. Mahama will feel the pain of being stuck in traffic. That is how life is.
Mr. Mahama had not seen any electoral defeat before. On three occasions he was voted to become the Parliamentarian of the people of Bole/Bamboi. Then he inherited the presidency when Professor Mils died and later declared the winner of the 2012 presidential election by Atuguba and his other four judges at the Supreme Court election petition. So when defeat came knocking on his door on 7th December 2016, the man became devastated. President Mahama cannot simply bear the pain of defeat. He is not courageous enough.
But who is to blame? This is a man who has criss-crossed the length and breadth of Ghana telling whosoever cared to listen that he will win the election hands down because according to him he has done so well that Ghanaians will never hesitate to give him the nod for the second time. He went about mocking Nana Akufo Addo that if God says you will not be a president you will never be president and that he has been ordained by God to be president of Ghana. For the past six months, a day never passes without the president commissioning one project or the other. He claimed that no president had ever performed so well as he did and that posterity will judge him. The man did not recognize the works of the founder of the party he was leading and neither did he even recognize the works of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah not to talk about the works of Mr. Kufour. The pride in him did not allow him to give due respect to these gentlemen who did their best to bring the country this far.
President Mahama opened his ears so wide and ready to listen to only good news about himself. His handlers and party big wigs competed among themselves to tell him only the good news and promised him that winning the election was a done deal and he too believed in their stories. Some shameless chiefs who knew the realities on the ground collected V8 cars and told him that they and their people will vote for him because only he will be able to develop the country. There was this particular chief from the Brong Ahafo Region, Nana Krawiri, the Omanhene of Sunyani Traditional Area who told John Mahama that he will win eighty to ninety percent of the votes in the region. The man did not know that even his close family members will vote against the president. At the end of the day, the NPP won all the two constituencies in his domain. Nana Addo won almost all the constituencies in the Brong Ahafo Region. Nana Krawiri, what are you promising Mr. Mahama again? Speak up because chiefs are not supposed to tell lies!
As for the Gbese Mantse, he has no shame in his dictionary. It was this disgraceful chief who said he will abdicate his stool if Nana Addo won the election. I thought he would be courageous enough to go by his words but there he sits with his protruding stomach and giggling as if he had seen the testicles of his father in-law. Another chief also threw decency to the dogs and told the president when he visited his palace that if no chief is bold enough to say it, he will say it and followed it with “JM Toaso”. All over the country, these shameless chiefs were falling over each other and worshiping the president more than the way they worship God because they all wanted favors. Now that the scale has turned, I wonder what they will say next. Animguase akwaaba!
Mr. Mahama did hide behind his attack dogs and paid them to go on an insulting spree, targeting his number one opponent in the person of Nana Addo. These disrespectful, uncouth and uncultured boys went haywire and took Nana Addo to the cleaners. Led by this idiotic guy called Salifu Maase alias Mugabe, these upstarts threw caution to the dogs and insulted the statesman to the extent that people asked: Why are they insulting the man this way? What has Nana done to them? Can't the president call his boys to order?
Thankfully, Nana Addo kept quiet and went about campaigning and appealing to the conscience of Ghanaians to vote for a change. You see, people voted for Nana Addo out of anger. The man, Nana Addo believes that the gentleman does the kindest thing. He believes people are basically good, and have the right to be free. He believes bigotry and prejudice are the worst things a person could be guilty of. In fact, he believes in the Golden Rule and in the power of prayer. All along, Nana Addo continues to believe that Ghana is not just a place in Africa, but the hope of Africa. That is why he said he believes in Ghana.
WHEN HONOUR IS PEELED FROM RICHES
No Jupiter can convince me that the out-going President Mr. John Dramani Mahama and his wife, Madam Lordina Mahama and their family members are not fabulously rich. I am yet to see someone who can put his or her hands in the fire and swear the Asantehene's great oath that Mr. Mahama and his wife are poor. The truth is that, until Mr. Mahama became the president of Ghana and ordered the create, loot and share brigade to go out there to steal from the nation's coffers, the man and his wife were not as rich as they are today. The numerous mansions, the “Dubai Connection” and the fat foreign bank accounts attest to the fact that Mr. Mahama did serve himself but surely not Ghanaians.
One is not saying that it is not good to be rich but to be rich at the expense of the poor man walking the streets is unacceptable. Today, the name John Mahama, his wife Lordina Mahama and his functionaries are synonymous to corruption. So you now understand why I say honour is peeled from riches? Despite the riches and other landed properties, the man will forever live with a disturbed conscience. Mr. Rawlings ruled this country for eight years and left behind an enviable track record. During his tenure of office, an appointee dared not steal and he made sure they were whipped into line.
When Mr. Kufour held the reins of power, he announced to the whole world that he would have zero tolerance for corruption. After his tenure of office none of his appointees went to jail for being corrupt or doing anything untoward. He too left office after serving the nation for eight years and still carries his shoulders high. The one-term presidency of Mr. Mahama is replete with a chain of corruption and thievery. The man will be remembered for leading a government of looters and history will write his name in bronze. If Mahama has any dream of becoming the president of Ghana again, he should drop the yam because Ghanaians will never do the mistake again to give him any chance to mess up the economy the way he did.
Ghanaian voters have sent a very clear message to politicians that they will punish any politician who will take their votes for granted. Appointees of President Akufo Addo should take note that we are all going to be watchmen over them. Some of us will never hesitate to spill the beans when we see corruption camped anywhere. Some supporters of the NPP were maimed and beaten into pulp before and during the last elections. These people will never sit down for a few government appointees to muddy the waters. Four years is just around the corner and as such, the NPP should not allow a few persons to destroy the party by doing anything that will give the NDC guns to fire at the party. Nana Addo told Ghanaians that he is not corrupt, has never been corrupt and will never be corrupt. If a leader makes such pronouncement, it means whosoever works with him should tow that line. I rest my case for now while I fly into the firmament where angels dwell, to rest.
Eric Bawah
Eric Bawah, © 2017
The author has 98 publications published on Modern Ghana. Column Page: EricBawah
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Daniel Beard QC
Call: 1996 | 2018 (Ireland) | Silk: 2011
dbeard@monckton.com
MA (Hons) Cambridge (First Class) Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL), Oxford
“He has a very refreshing style: he really does break up arguments by advancing points in a genuinely novel way.” - Chambers UK Bar 2020
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Daniel Beard is widely regarded as one of the Bar’s leading specialists in competition, EU, regulatory and public law. He is noted as a “first rate” advocate.
He has appeared in courts from Haverfordwest to the Falkland Islands. He regularly appears in High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court in the UK as well as in the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
In EU law matters, Daniel has appeared in a large number of cases in the Court of Justice and General Court in Luxembourg.
He acts in arbitrations and his work has developed in various international jurisdictions including in the Middle East, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Daniel has won various awards for his work including Chambers and Partners EU and Competition Silk of the year and Legal 500 EU/Competition Silk of the Year.
Prior to taking silk, Daniel was a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel and standing Counsel to the Office of Fair Trading.
Judgment in Royal Mail abuse of dominance case with all-Monckton cast list
Daniel Beard QC successfully represents the Competition Commission of Hong Kong in first cartel case under new law
High Court rules on binding findings in Servier
EU, Public procurement
Brexit ferry case settled
FCA issues its first decision under competition law
Court of Appeal rules on temporal scope of EU competition law
Who’s Who Legal UK Bar 2019 – Monckton Chambers in top eight leading sets and members recognised for nine practice areas.
Chambers Global 2019 – Recognition in Dispute Resolution (Russia) and Competition Law (UK)
33 members of Monckton Chambers in seven of The Lawyer Top 20 cases for 2019
Daniel is recognised as an outstanding competition and regulatory lawyer and has appeared in and advised upon many of the leading cases over recent years. He appears regularly in the Courts and the Competition Appeal Tribunal both for private clients and regulators in damages actions, judicial review challenges and infringement appeals.
Damage actions in which he is or has been involved include:
air cargo (Emerald v BA);
gas insulated switchgear (National Grid v ABB);
electrical carbon cartel (Emerson v Morgan Crucible);
synthetic rubber (Cooper Tire v Shell);
methionine (Moy Park v Degussa);
generic drugs (NHS v Norton);
pay-for-delay (NHS v Servier);
rail haulage (ECSL v EWS);
water services (Albion v Dwr Cymru);
copper tubes (KME v Toshiba);
copper fittings (Newson v IMI); and
interchange fees (M&S v Mastercard/Visa).
As a result of his very extensive involvement in damages claims (both for defendants and claimants), Daniel has a great deal of experience with multi-national and domestic proceedings from pre-litigation preparation through to full trial including dealing with jurisdictional (conflicts of laws) issues.
Mergers and market investigations
Daniel has a great deal of experience of merger and market investigation and advisory work. He has appeared in the majority of UK merger and market investigation cases litigated over the past decade. Cases include:
Interbrew v MMC (Interbrew/Bass);
IBA v OFT (Isoft/Torex);
Sky v Competition Commission (Sky/ITV);
Eventim v Competition Commission (LiveNation/Ticketmaster);
Ryanair v OFT (Ryanair/Aer Lingus);
Tesco v Competition Commission (groceries investigation);
BAA v Competition Commission (airports inquiry);
Hanson v Competition Commission (aggregates);
BMI v Competition Commission (private health care);
AKZO v Competition Commission (AKZO/Metlac); and
SCOP/Eurotunnel v Competition Commission (MyFerryLink)
CAT Appeals
Daniel has very extensive experience in CAT litigation and has acted in numerous CAT appeal cases including:
GISC v OFT(insurance);
Apex v OFT (roofing);
Brannigan v OFT (newspapers); and
Kier and others v OFT (construction).
Utilities regulation
Daniel has a broad knowledge of utilities regulation particularly in the energy and telecommunications and media fields. In relation to energy matters, for example, apart from advising regularly on regulatory issues he has acted in the only energy licence modification reference considered by the Competition Commission (the market abuse condition reference) and in the only licence modification appeal to go to hearing (Eon v GEMA) as well as dealing with various regulatory judicial review matters.
In relation to media and telecommunications he has been involved in telecommunications appeals before the CAT such as BT v Ofcom (0880 and 0845 numbers); general media appeals such as Sky v Ofcom (Pay TV appeal); and media and telecommunications judicial reviews such as T-Mobile v Ofcom (spectrum auction).
Commercial and intellectual property litigation
In addition he has also been involved in a wide range of other commercial and intellectual property litigation involving competition and EU law issues including Philips and others (MPEG) v Harvard (IP and competition law issues); Honda v David Silver (IP and free movement); London Stock Exchange v Plus Markets (regulatory competition issues). He advises and acts in a variety of urgent injunctive relief cases.
Daniel has very wide experience of EU law quite apart from his competition law work. He deals with EU law issues in the domestic courts covering matters from interpretation of EU legislation to Francovich damages claims. He regularly appears in the EU courts in Luxembourg. The issues arising in his EU court cases have ranged from State aid to international treaties on child abduction and from air transport to the designation of Melton Mowbray pork pies. Cases include:
T-892/16 Apple v Commission (GC) acting for Apple challenging €13bn State aid ruling (pending)
C-413/14 Intel v Commission (appeal to the CJEU against €1bn penalty)
Opinion 2/13 EU/ECHR (ECJ) acting for the UK in relation to EU accession to the ECHR
Opinion 1/15 Canada PNR (CJEU) data sharing arrangements with Canada
Opinion 2/15 Singapore Trade Agreement (CJEU) question whether the Singapore trade agreement was consistent with EU law
C-203/15 & C-698/15 Tele2/Watson (CJEU) lawfulness of data retention regimes
T-486/11 TP v Commission (GC – appeal against €120m fine for abuse of dominance)
C-236/09 ABC Test Achats (CJEU – unisex insurance premiums case)
C-411/10 and 493/10 NS (CJEU – Impact of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and operation of the Dublin Regulation on asylum).
C-71/10 Sitefinder (CJEU – environmental data access regulations in relation to mobile phone masts)
C-497/10PPU Mercredi (CJEU – urgent procedure parents rights in relation to child taken overseas)
C-623/17 Privacy International (CJEU) bulk data gathering lawfulness (pending)
C-169/06 Northern Foods Plc -v- UK and The Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association (ECJ – protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs)
C-402/07 & C-432/07 Sturgeon & Others -v- Condor Flugdienst Gmbh and Bock and Lepuschitz V Societe Air France Sa (ECJ – acting for the UK Government in references to the ECJ on air passenger compensation)
T-144/02 Eagle -v- European Commission (GC – successful damages claim against the EC for unlawful discrimination)
C-431/04 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ECJ – pharmaceuticals intellectual property licensing)
T-116/01 P & O European Ferries (Vizcaya) SA -v- European Commission (GC – State Aid, actions for annulment, purchase of services by state at market price)
He has also been involved in a large number of EU cases concerning sanctions imposed against terrorists or those suspected of involvement with oppressive regimes or nuclear proliferation. Cases include:
T-85/09 and C-595/10P Kadi v Council and United Kingdom v Kadi (General Court and ECJ – sanctions on suspected terrorist concerning fundamental rights and the interaction between EU law and international law, in particular in relation to UN Security Council Resolutions)
T-181/08 Pye Phyo Tay Za -v- Commission (Court of First Instance – Challenge to EC sanctions regulations relating to Burma)
T-145/09 Bredenkamp v Commission (General Court – challenge to sanctions relating to Zimbabwe)
C-548/09 Bank Melli (ECJ – challenge to sanctions relating to Iranian nuclear proliferation programme)
17 Apr 2019High Court rules on binding findings in Servier
01 Mar 2019Brexit ferry case settled
06 Dec 2017Air Cargo Claimants can appeal
Daniel has advised and appeared for a broad range of clients in relation to public and administrative law and human rights matters.
He has acted in relation to judicial review and public law challenges in relation to a range of regulatory matters including: telecommunications; energy; media plurality; mergers and competition procedure.
He has also acted in a large number of general domestic public law and human rights matters from library closures to war pensions.
Cases include:
Watson & Davies v Secretary of State for the Home Department – challenge to emergency legislation on data retention
Long v Secretary of State for Defence – leading case on Article 2 ECHR duties.
Guantanamo Bay Litigation – Deghayes and others and Al Rawi v Security and Intelligence Services, Foreign Office, Home Office (High Court; Court of Appeal; Supreme Court – damages claims by Guantanamo Bay detainees and use of closed material procedures in civil proceedings)
ZO (Somalia) -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department (Supreme Court – EU and immigration law)
Viggers -v- Pensions Appeal Tribunal (Administrative Court – war pensions)
Quark Fishing v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (House of Lords – territorial ambit of the Human Rights Act; public law damages)
Bullivant -v- Home Secretary (Administrative Court – Control Order proceedings; quashing of Control Order)
Daniel has developed vetting security clearance and has worked on a range of security related matters. He has also acted as a Special Advocate in relation to SIAC and Control Order cases (including the quashing of a Control Order in the Bullivant case).
Administrative & Public Law: “Highly recommended: a very able, strategic advocate.” “I think he’s first class in competition law judicial review. He’s a very knowledgeable advocate who has good judgement.” – Chambers UK, 2020
Telecommunications: “Very measured and able to distil often very complicated and technical concepts into understandable advice, without losing sight of the overall story. He really is excellent at setting out the story of the case.” “A tremendous advocate who fights hard for the client and works out which arguments to push.” – Chambers UK, 2020
European Law: “Able to work across multiple potential fronts of legal challenges and to work with us on putting a case together in record time.” “He has a very refreshing style: he really does break up arguments by advancing points in a genuinely novel way.” – Chambers UK, 2020
Competition Law: “Has thousands of hours’ experience on his feet, which shows in his delivery.” “He thinks quickly on his feet when asked questions by the judge and doesn’t get flustered.” “Daniel is a very persuasive advocate both in appellate courts and at first instance. He knows the law back to front and has a good strategic view.” – Chambers UK, 2020
Leading silk in Competition: ‘‘A clear and compelling advocate with a particular strength in follow-on cases.’’ – Legal 500, 2020
Leading silk in EU Law: ‘‘An excellent tactician and consummate advocate.’’ – Legal 500, 2020
Leading silk in Telecoms (regulatory): ‘‘He is a very clear and compelling advocate with particular strength in follow-on cases.’’ – Legal 500, 2020
“One of the foremost competition silks at the Bar who is described as “a brilliant technician, a very talented advocate and fantastic in court” – Competition, Who’s Who Legal UK Bar 2019
“Singled out as one of the Bar’s leading lights when it comes to telecoms. Respondents effuse that “clients love him and his ability to turn around a losing point in court”- Telecoms, Who’s Who Legal UK Bar 2019
Administrative & Public Law: “Extremely clever, very diligent, and well prepared for court appearances. He has a great ability, even when a judge is not on his side, to persuade people of his case through sheer force of character.” “A really stylish advocate and a really good lawyer: powerful, punchy, persuasive.” – Chambers UK, 2019
Competition Law: “When you have something tricky, he’s the man to work with him.” “Tactically, he is a great advocate, and it’s always a pleasure to have him on your team.” – Chambers UK and Chambers Global, 2019
European Law: “He is very knowledgeable and very bright.” – Chambers UK, 2019
Telecommunications: “Good on the black-letter law and at managing cases. He communicates well with clients and is effective on his feet.” “If you are acting for an underdog his advocacy style is good because he can be tenacious.” “An excellent oral advocate who is tactically astute.” – Chambers UK, 2019
Leading silk in Administrative and public law (including local government): ‘‘A gifted advocate, very skilled at ensuring that the strongest possible case is put to the judge.’’ – Legal 500, 2018
Leading silk in Competition: ‘‘Delivers submissions very successfully and persuasively.’’ – Legal 500, 2018
Leading silk in Telecoms (regulatory): ‘‘A highly impressive advocate.’’ – Legal 500, 2018
Leading silk in EU Law: ‘‘Delivers submissions very successfully and persuasively’’ – Legal 500, 2018
Administrative & Public Law: “He’s a very able advocate and very strategic.” – Chambers UK, 2018
Competition Law: “He is a brilliant competition lawyer and would be my first choice for competition law – he has a beautiful presentation manner, is very persuasive and does a really good job of explaining complicated contexts.” – Chambers UK, 2018
European Law: “He is quick-thinking, pragmatic and down-to-earth.” – Chambers UK, 2018
Telecommunications: “He really gets on top of the fine details and commands the courtroom with his detailed knowledge of complex telecom matters.” “A wonderful advocate who is quick on his feet and brilliant at identifying the subtleties of a case.” – Chambers UK, 2018
Leading silk in Administrative and public law (including local government): ‘‘Unflappable and supreme on his feet.’’ – Legal 500, 2017
Leading silk in Competition: ‘‘An exceptional advocate and the go-to silk for state aid matters.’’ – Legal 500, 2017
Leading silk in Telecoms (regulatory): ‘‘A skilled and persuasive advocate.’’ – Legal 500, 2017
Competition – Future Leaders 2017: Barristers Analysis: “Daniel Beard QC comes highly recommended as “an incredibly effective competition QC” and “one of the best in the jurisdiction”. Clients say he is “extremely intelligent and witty” and that they “wouldn’t hesitate to work with him on any matter”.” – WHO’S WHO LEGAL (WWL) 2017
Administrative & Public Law: “An extremely smart lawyer.” “He is imaginative and presents academically.” “Punchy and to the point.” – Chambers UK, 2017
Competition Law: “Daniel has a fantastic grip of detail and always takes a very strategic approach.” – Chambers UK, 2017
European Law: “He has good insight into the regulator’s thinking, is a very fluent advocate and is good on his feet.” – Chambers UK, 2017
Telecommunications: “He has the ability to focus in on one or two intuitive points for the judges. Dan is very good at encapsulating your case in one neat idea, which is very useful.” – Chambers UK, 2017
Leading silk in Administrative and Public law: “One of the top EU silks.” – Legal 500, 2016
Leading silk in EU and Competition: “Probably the best competition advocate available.” – Legal 500, 2016
Leading silk in Telecoms (regulatory): “A very clear and compelling advocate.” – Legal 500, 2016
Competition: Lauded by his peers and clients alike, who describe him as having “supernatural intelligence” and “a peerless command of technical issues”; he is also considered “a masterful strategist”. – WHO’S WHO LEGAL (WWL) UK BAR 2016
Media & Entertainment: The award-winning Daniel Beard QC is known for his “boundless knowledge of the sector” and for producing “excellent and highly accomplished work”. – WHO’S WHO LEGAL (WWL) UK BAR 2016
Telecommunications: The “excellent” Daniel Beard QC is described as “an incredible legal strategist” with a “fantastic work ethic”. – WHO’S WHO LEGAL (WWL) UK BAR 2016
Administrative & Public Law: “He is clear, calm and organised.” “Really impressive – he is very good at having an ostensibly casual approach while in fact being thoroughly prepared.” – Chambers UK, 2016
Competition Law: “Incredibly popular with clients, and also very erudite and cerebral.” “He’s commercially aware and tactically astute.” – Chambers UK & Chambers Global, 2016
European Law: “I think he is pretty outstanding as an advocate and generally he is a very accomplished EU lawyer.” – Chambers UK, 2016
Telecommunications: “A safe pair of hands on any regulatory matter.” “In court he is very pragmatic. He goes through things stage by stage and explains things very well.” – Chambers UK, 2016
“An excellent oral advocate; sharp and quick-witted on his feet.’’ Leading Silk in Administrative and public Law. Legal 500, 2015
“A master tactician who always focuses on what turn out to be the key issues.’’ Leading silk in Aviation. Legal 500, 2015
“Clear-headed and articulate, a fine and determined advocate.’’ Leading silk in EU and competition Law. Legal 500, 2015
“Exceptionally able and a great lateral thinker.’’ Leading silk in Telecoms (regulatory) Law. Legal 500, 2015
Competition Law: “A fearless advocate who really holds his own in court.” “He’s extremely clever, very insightful and also very user-friendly.” – Chambers UK, 2015
European Law: “He advises very well on the strategy and adds value to any case.” – Chambers UK, 2015
Telecommunications: “A heavy hitter who thinks strategically.” “He is commercial and focuses on the key issues.” – Chambers UK, 2015
‘A clear thinker, who is very good on his feet.’ Leading Silk in EU & Competition Law. Legal 500, 2014
‘Outstanding as an advisor and an advocate.’ Under Telecommunications Law, Daniel Beard QC, is a leading Silk. Legal 500, 2014
Under Competition Law: According to many he is the best of the younger competition silks. He gains strong praise for his expertise in damages claims and his knowledge of the regulatory bodies.”A class performer, who is tactical, flexible and a good advocate.” “He really knows his subject and puts his points forward with clear authority.”Chambers UK, 2014
Under European Law: A popular figure who regularly acts as government counsel on matters before the European courts. He has made a number of recent appearances before the ECJ, and has a broad EU practice that encompasses wide-ranging issues such as terrorist sanctions and matters pertaining to aviation law. “A very good advocate who is surgical in his analysis.” “He can think outside the box and give clear advice.”Chambers UK, 2014
Under Telecommunications Law: Recognised particularly for his ability to understand the regulators’ mindsets. He is instructed by overseas and domestic clients both to provide opinions and to appear in court. “He is very good at explaining complex issues to the court and making them accessible.” “Very flexible and highly tactical.”Chambers UK, 2014
“The immensely popular Daniel Beard QC ‘provides sound strategic advice‘ and is ‘good on his feet‘, most notably in damages actions.” Leading Silk in EU & Competition Law. Legal 500, 2013
Under Telecommunications Law, Daniel Beard QC, “whose ‘brain is as big as a planet’;” is a leading Silk. Legal 500, 2013
Under Telecommunications: “Daniel Beard QC is “always one to consider instructing” in the most taxing and complex competition cases within the sector. He is a “very bright and articulate” advocate who has proved his mettle in cases such as the recent intervention by Top Up TV in support of BT against Ofcom’s position on pay TV provision. This matter raised the regulatory implications of the ongoing convergence of telecoms, internet and broadcasting technologies.” Chambers UK, 2013
“Instructing solicitors and fellow barristers are all quick to confirm his strength in the competition sphere, and describe him as being “very insightful and just excellent all round.” He has been involved in some of the key cases of the last year, and has particular experience in damages actions.” Chambers UK, 2013
Daniel Beard QC is recommended as a leading silk in EU and Competition Law. Legal 500, 2012
“Recent silk Daniel Beard QC comes highly recommended for his competition law expertise and has been dubbed “the star of his generation” by a number of market commentators. Instructing solicitors applaud his “outstanding feel for, and understanding of, competition litigation in the UK,” noting that he “perfectly comprehends the workings of the Competition Appeal Tribunal.” He was recently instructed by the defendant in Emerson Electric v Morgan Crucible, with regards to a follow-on claim against members of an alleged cartel which produced motor components.” – Chambers UK, 2012
Under Telecommunications: “new silk and expert on competition law Daniel Beard QC is praised for being “commercially focused, super-bright, cogent in his advice and decisive in his interventions.” He recently acted for Cable & Wireless in BT and Everything Everywhere v Ofcom in the CAT. This case looked at the pricing of calls to 0845 and 0800 numbers.” – Chambers UK, 2012
Daniel Beard QC is a recommended leading silk in Public & Administrative law. Legal 500, 2011
EU & Competition Law recommend Daniel Beard QC as a leading silk. Legal 500, 2011
“”Highly regarded in the regulatory sphere, Daniel Beard’s stock continues to rise in private competition work. His “first-rate advocacy” has kept him consistently handling some of the most significant cases in the UK. He has represented Shell in the OFT’s rubber cartel case, and recently acted for Enron in its damages claim against English Welsh & Scottish Railways (EWS). Maintaining his strong regulatory work, Beard also acted for the UK Competition Commission in its decision to reduce BSkyB’s stake in rival ITV.”” – Global Competition Review: Barrister Survey, 2011
“Standing counsel to the OFT, Daniel Beard is arguably the most prominent junior acting in this field. Sources were particularly complimentary about his “towering performances in court,” stating that they are of a silk standard. He is “an exceptionally effective adviser without ever being pompous.” Key work highlights for him include Cooper Tire & Rubber v Shell, and National Grid v ABB, Alstom, Aveva and Siemens”. Competition/European Law – Chambers UK, 2011
Daniel has written numerous articles on competition and public law. He was a founder of the Competition Law Journal, Jordan Publishing. He speaks regularly on competition, EU and public law matters and has appeared on the BBC and Channel 4 News.
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Child trust funds scrapped in Osborne cuts
Esther Armstrong
Child trust fund (CTF) vouchers will be scaled down from August and scrapped altogether from January 2011, under new spending cuts announced by Chancellor George Osborne.
While, CTFs will still exist as a tax-free savings and investment vehicle, families will no longer benefit from government contributions.
Currently, parents receive £250 for every newborn child and another £250 when the child turns seven. From August, initial payments will drop to £50 and the secondary payment will be scrapped.
For babies born into lower income families, initial payments of £500 will drop to £100 after 1 August. Children currently get this if their household income is less than £16,190.
Additional payments of £100-£200 made to families with children eligible for disability allowance will continue for this year, but will also wind up at the start of 2011. This money will be channelled towards providing more respite care for the children.
In a bid to tackle the monstrous budget deficit inherited from the last government, Osborne announced over £6 billion worth of cuts to be made this year. The cuts to CTF contributions will save £320 million this year and £520 million in 2011-12.
Chief secretary to the Treasury David Laws admits the move will come as a “disappointment to some parents”, but adds that to continue such a policy would be dishonest, since future generations would end up footing the bill if the deficit was not tackled now.
Existing holders of CTFs will still be able to top up funds with up to £1,200 a year, but without the added incentive of cash from the government they might be better off looking into alternative savings and investment routes.
George Ladds, head of investment and pensions research at financial provider Fair Investment Company, backs the decision to scrap CTFs:
“I have always found them to be an odd concept. The assumption that as parents we are incapable of saving for our children without funding from the state is slightly insulting.
“Those who can afford to save will, and shouldn’t be getting hand outs to do so, while those who can’t afford it have much bigger things to worry about, like paying bills. This is money they could do with now, not in 18 years time,” he says.
Justin Modray, former IFA and founder of candidmoney.com, thinks the government’s move is disappointing. He calculates children born on or after 1 January 2011 will miss out on £1,200 by not getting any contribution from the government.
This is what the £250 government vouchers at birth and age seven would otherwise have been worth when they reach age 18, assuming 6% annual growth after charges.
David White, chief executive of Children’s Mutual, has urged families to continue saving for their children into CTFs, as a tax-free investment vehicle.
He says: “We are staggered by George Osborne’s announcement today. The CTF is the single most important savings policy to date and this sort of short-term cut does not address the pressing need for families to save.”
Currently 1.4 million parents, family and friends contribute to CTFs with over £22 million added each month.
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May 3, 2019 by Paolo Reva Leave a Comment
Should I Buy a 4K Monitor for Gaming? – Pros and Cons and If It’s Worth It6 min read
Buying a 4K monitor for gaming is easier and more enticing nowadays thanks to the massive price cuts and abundant availability of options on the tech market. It used to cost thousands of dollars for a 4K TV when it first became available in 2013, and it wasn’t any different for the first few displays meant for personal computers. The availability of UHD content and game compatibility was also non-existent back then, unlike now where its advertised left and right by graphics card companies and game developers or publishers.
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You can now buy a 4K monitor for as less than $300 like the Philips 276E8VJSB which has decent capabilities or a true gaming variant like the Asus MG28UQ for a few more bucks. Gone were the days when high-refresh UHD monitors like the Acer XB273K were only part of our imagination since they are starting to pop up one after the other. This evolution is showing us that the category is already knocking on our doorsteps (and bank accounts) to do the upgrade, but is it worth it?
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Pros of Buying a 4K Monitor for Gaming
The first and most considerable advantage of a 4K monitor for gaming is its massive pixel count which equates to a larger field of view and more exquisite detail. Games look sharper due to the additional image depth the extra pixels provide, bringing the user more eye candy to enjoy. The sharper and cleaner lines and edges also reduce the need for post-processing effects such as Anti-Aliasing which translates to more frames per second in most titles.
Many of the new titles we’ve seen like the Division 2 or Battlefield V look gorgeous in 4K due to the expansion in added details for the environments. Don’t get us wrong; they still look great in HD or QHD, but the general feel portrayed by the level designs is much more engrossing in 4K. Some may even argue that games in 4K at low to medium settings generally look better than one in 1080p at ultra.
Workflows will also be unimpeded for our gamer-slash-professionals friends since you have more screen space which is equivalent to four 1080p screens stacked into a rectangle. Manipulating four windows into position and simultaneously viewing their content has never been this easy, as far as 16:9 monitors are concerned.
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4K monitors will also look better for gaming no matter what size you pick thanks to the tighter pixel pitches. 1080p is great for displays up to 24 inches while QHD fits perfectly into 27-inch variants, but for the rest, its 4K all the way. The advantages will still be visible even if you go with a 43-inch 4K monitor like the Philips 436M6VBPAB, so the size limit relative to crispness and sharpness is eliminated for desktop setups.
Finally, upgrading to a 4K monitor for gaming can be considered future-proof since that is the current growth trend in media, games, and gadgets. It’s also worth considering that PC monitor technology has slowed down to a snail’s pace due to the limited or incremental developments we’ve seen along with some failures in categories like OLED monitors. It’s unlikely that we will see a higher resolution anytime soon because we still are at the precipice of maximizing UHD’s potential and practicality.
Cons of Buying a 4K Monitor for Gaming
The main downside of choosing a 4K monitor for gaming is its cost which goes beyond the price you pay for the display itself. It’s true that UHD monitors have come down in pricing considerably, including the 144Hz variants, but the upgrades will not end there. As we all know, it takes a ton of GPU power to run games at a stable 60Hz, so you will have to spend a lot on top-end GPUs like the RTX 2080 Ti which by itself, is already worth more than a powerful gaming rig.
GPU technology is barely catching up to the requirements of a 4K monitor for gaming, and their costs have already increased by a considerable margin. If this trend continues, we might see Nvidia’s next “Ti” card which should be fully capable of 4K 60FPS at ultra at more or less two grand (yikes)!
There are more affordable GPUs that are accepted as capable options like AMD’s Vega64 GPUs which have shown excellent aging after several driver cycles. However, some titles will push towards multi-card configurations such as SLI, NVLink, and Crossfire if one card isn’t entirely sufficient. Most available video cards in the upper brackets are already great at 1440p 144Hz, gaming, but ramping it up to 4K will bring them to their knees.
Of course, the GPU cost will trickle down to the rest of your PC since you have to consider bottlenecks as well. Top-end GPUs require the middle to upper-class of processors so they can run at 100% and use every ounce of processing power to render high-resolution frames. Games in 4K consume more RAM as well, plus, you will also need a hefty power supply and well-ventilated case, so everything runs peachy.
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And then, there’s the case of 4K 144Hz monitors which are tremendously expensive at this point if you want the whole shebang. An example like the Asus PG27UQ which has all the goodies like DisplayHDR 1000, G-Sync HDR, and Quantum Dot treatment costs roughly two grand if you include sales tax. There are cheaper non-HDR options already available like the Acer XV273K, but you still have to play close to four digits for those as well.
Is Buying a 4K Monitor for Gaming Worth It?
The shortest answer is NO unless you have a cache of cash lying around that isn’t needed on necessities or more critical priorities. 4K gaming, especially at higher refresh rates, is simply too expensive for the regular working individual with a decent income. It’s doable if you have reasonable expectations like dropping graphics options to get to a stable 60Hz with a GPU or playing at 2K and only using 4K for everything else. Although we know many will argue that doing so is missing the point of upgrading to a 4K monitor for gaming.
You are better off with a 2K 144Hz setup which provides upgraded sharpness but is a more doable setup or settling for 1080p 144Hz or higher since its the widely accepted competitive gaming format. We can only recommend buying a 4K monitor for gaming if your PC is ready and can handle it decently using its current specifications. Another reasonable instance is if you are future-proofing, but otherwise, it can become a huge cash dump if you try to chase the ideal performance level with more upgrades.
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Olivia Jade 'really angry' with mother Lori Loughlin after college admissions scandal
More than a week after Lori Loughlin was charged for allegedly paying to ensure her daughters were admitted to the University of Southern California, Loughlin's daughter Olivia is reportedly furious at her parents for ruining her career.
Olivia Giannulli, better known by her online name, Olivia Jade, and her sister, Bella, are "suffering in their own ways from the fallout of their parents' decisions," according to an unnamed source quoted by Entertainment Tonight.
Olivia, 19, is a famous YouTube influencer who said she didn't even want to go to college until her parents "pushed" her. She wanted to focus on her career, but n"ow she's devastated because everything she built implode before her eyes . . . she feels they ruined everything," ET's source said.
ET reports Tresemme and Sephora, who both sponsored the beauty vlogger, dropped Olivia since the scandal.
Loughlin and her husband were among 50 people charged in the scandal. The parents allegedly paid $500,000 for their daughters to gain admission to USC as recruits for the rowing team, though they weren't actually athletes.
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2013 Cadillac XTS Priced From $44,995
Viknesh Vijayenthiran April 6, 2012 Comment Now!
The 2013 Cadillac XTS luxury sedan, which goes on sale this spring, has been priced from $44,995 including destination.
Only one powertrain is available for now, a 3.6-liter V-6 rated at 300 horsepower and 264 pound-feet of torque, and matched to a six-speed automatic.
Customers do, however, have the choice between standard front-wheel drive and optional all-wheel drive configurations on the XTS.
Projected fuel economy ratings are 17/28 mpg city/highway for the front-wheel drive model and 17/27 mpg for the all-wheel drive.
Customers can also choose between three different options packages: Luxury, Premium and Platinum. The XTS Platinum model represents the highest level of technology and luxury, including a unique front appearance, wheels and interior colors, materials and trim.
All XTS models come standard with Brembo brakes, GM’s latest HiPer Strut front suspension, air suspension at the rear, and Magnetic Ride Control. The latter is the world’s-fastest reacting suspension technology and is found on exotic supercars including those from Ferrari. The XTS also comes with Cadillac’s new CUE infotainment system, which uses a capacitive touch-screen as its interface, the same technology used on smartphones and tablet PCs.
If that’s not enough, Cadillac has also introduced new short- and long-range radar systems with the XTS. These systems are used for adaptive cruise control, front and rear automatic brakes, and rear cross traffic alert. Another new feature is a safety alert driver seat that vibrates to alert the driver.
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Tigers Downed by Spinners
CT late rally falls short against Lowell
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By Elijah Gonzalez / Connecticut Tigers | September 1, 2019 7:40 PM
Norwich, CT - Kingston Liniak went 4-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored, but the Connecticut Tigers (34-41) fell 5-4 to the Lowell Spinners (41-34). This was Liniak's first four-hit game of the 2019 season.
The Spinners took the lead in the top half of the second with an RBI single from Antoni Flores off of Jack Dellinger (Loss, 0-1).
The Tigers pushed across their first two runs of the contest on an RBI double by Eliezer Alfonzo and an RBI single by Yoandy Rea . These were the only two RBIs in the contest for both players.
Jaxx Groshans delivered a sacrifice fly to tie the game in the top of the fourth. Alex Erro followed later in the inning with a single to center to make it 3-2.
Lowell added to the lead in the top of the fifth frame. Nick Decker singled to make it 4-2, and Groshans delivered his second sacrifice fly RBI to make it 5-2. Decker finished the contest 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored for the Spinners.
Those were the final runs of the contest for Lowell after Doug Domnarski and Cristhian Tortosa combined to pitch 4.2 scoreless innings of relief for Connecticut. Domnarski went 2.2 with two hits and two strikeouts in his debut. Tortosa pitched two innings with no hits and two strikeouts.
Liniak helped cut into the lead with an RBI double off of Jorge Rodriguez (Win, 1-0) to score Kona Quiggle to make it 5-3. On a drop third strike later in the inning, Liniak came in to score to make it 5-4.
The Tigers threatened in the final frame of the contest. After a single by Liniak and a walk by Kreidler, Dylan Spacke (Save, 1) produced a double play to end the contest for the Spinners. Spacke went one inning with one hit, a walk and a strikeout in the game.
The Connecticut Tigers will be back in action one final time in 2019 as they take on Lowell. You can catch all the action at Dodd Stadium on the Norwich Courtyard by Marriott Connecticut Tigers Radio Network on 1310 WICH. Elijah Gonzalez will have the call. First pitch is scheduled for 12:05 p.m.
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CHANGING THE STORY OF HOMELESSNESS
Milk Crate Theatre is proudly a Gold Mental Health First Aid skilled Workplace.
Pathways, the next step for Headway graduates
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Milk Crate Theatre begins the second stage of it's artist skills development program for participants. Pathways is an opportunity for five graduates from the 2017 Headway program to work one-on-one with practicing professional artists to develop their own pieces of performance work in a supported and tailored mentorship program.
Milk Crate Theatre has engaged five outstanding mentors to work with graduating Headway artists. Pathways mentors and participants include; Alison Bennett, performer and director, working with Margaret Baldwin, actor, visual artist and writer; Platon Theodoris, writer, director and filmmaker, working with Owen Gill, actor, musician, composer; Teik-Kim Pok, experimental performance maker and arts educator, working with John McDonnell, actor, writer and performer; Donna Abela, playwright, dramaturge and teacher, working with Pauline Trenerry, poet, playwright and actor; and Alyson Evans, performer, theatre-maker and community artist, working with Georgina Wood, actor, writer and visual artist.
Mentor, Alison Bennett, working with Margaret Baldwin
Mentor, Platon Theodoris, working with Owen Gill
Mentor, Teik-Kim Pok, working with John McDonnell
Mentor, Donna Abela, working with Pauline Trenerry
Mentor, Alyson Evans, working with Georgina Wood
Pathways will be a more focused experience for participants, as they work closely with mentors over the coming months to develop new performance pieces that will be presented at Australian Technology Park in August. Still garnered by a strong support system, the challenge for participants will be in finding themselves – and believing IN themselves – as artists.
The Pathways program follows on from Milk Crate Theatre's initial artistic skills development program, Headway. Offered to nine participants in the second half of 2017, Headway gave participants the opportunity to expand and deepen their artistic practice. Developed and delivered by our Artistic Director Margot Politis, Headway focused on advancing the skills required for participants to facilitate creative processes and produce their own artistic work independently. All program graduates received a statement of attainment in partnership with TAFE NSW.
Pathways and Headway is supported by Family and Community Services NSW, Australian Technology Park, City of Sydney, Australia Council for the Arts, Create NSW and StreetSmart Australia.
To find out more about the Pathways program and to read about Pathways participants and mentors, click here.
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By Alyssa Osterdock | December 9, 2019 at 6:31 PM CST - Updated December 10 at 11:04 AM
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (TNN) - The National Alliance on Mental Illness in Wichita Falls will be closing at the end of this year. The NAMI President David Kelley says the closing was not an easy decision.
“We do have support in the community and the people who support NAMI are very passionate about it,” says Kelley. “The problem is that there’s not enough support.”
Even though the group will be closing, anyone with mental health issues will still be able to find help. Different resources will be available through different mental health organizations in Texoma.
“It will be a void but with the local behavioral health community being Red River and all the other independent health providers, we will find a way to pick up that void,” says Red River Chief Executive Officer Jon Lasell.
Red River hospital has numerous members of their staff who were members of NAMI, but are ready to continue helping with behavior health at the hospital.
I’m very proud of the accomplishments that we’ve been able to be part of over the last few years, and I hope that at some point NAMI will resurface in Wichita Falls,” says Kelley.
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Viewing emails spreads Bagle variants
By Celeste Biever
Simply previewing an innocuously titled email in Microsoft Outlook is enough to unleash the latest variants of the Bagle virus, which has ravaged the internet for the past two months.
The latest variants circulated widely on Thursday in Korea and Australia and are expected to spread gradually to Europe and America as the day wears on.
“It’s a very sneaky trick,” says Graham Cluley, a consultant at anti-virus software provider Sophos in the UK. “It shouldn’t be possible that just viewing an email can execute code – but if you have not patched your computer, you are in danger.”
Earlier versions of Bagle were insidious because they hid in the password protected zip files of email attachments, which anti-virus software does not normally scan, or pretended to come from a computer administrator. But to infect a computer, the recipient of the email still had to download the attachment.
In contrast, the newest versions of Bagle – Q, R, S and T – are not attached to emails at all. Instead, they are hosted by about 600 home computers throughout the network that were turned into “zombies” when infected by earlier versions of Bagle. These machines are now controlled remotely by the Bagle virus writers.
Zombie computers
When a user reads or previews a Bagle-laden email, the computer contacts one of the zombies, which are programmed to send out copies of the virus in response. The recipient’s computer automatically downloads and executes the virus file by exploiting a flaw in Windows Internet Explorer that Microsoft released a patch against five months ago. Computers patched against this flaw will not be infected.
The virus disables security applications on the computer such as firewall and anti-virus software, making the computer vulnerable to further attacks from viruses and hackers. It also invades any file-sharing directories on the computer’s hard-drive, in the hopes that people scouring peer-to-peer networks will accidentally download the virus file as well.
Finally, the virus scans infected computers’ hard drives for email addresses buried in text files, cached web pages and Outlook address books, and sends itself on.
Spoofed addresses
Common subject lines including “Re: Thanks :)” and “Fax Message Received” characterise the latest Bagle emails, which are also hard to spot because they appear to come from spoofed addresses harvested from the net or from infected computers’ hard drives.
Bagles Q and R have so far only spread widely in Korea – Cluley says that it seems that computers do not always manage to download the full versions from zombie computers. “It may be that the virus writer hasn’t quite ironed out all the bugs in his code,” he says.
The first virus to spread without requiring a recipient to download an attachment surfaced in 1999 in the form of Bubbleboy. “In theory it should be a very effective strategy,” says Cluley. As the day wears on and the US computer system kicks in, the virus could take hold or the author could write a new version, he warns.
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26 arrested on drug charges at Dead & Company concert, police say
By Nicholas Spangler nicholas.spangler@newsday.com Updated November 7, 2019 9:21 PM
Twenty six people were arrested on drug charges and three people were taken to hospitals when Grateful Dead offshoot band Dead & Company played Nassau Coliseum this week, Nassau police said.
Police said in a release that 16 people were arrested for illegal use or sale of nitrous oxide, a misdemeanor. Ten people were arrested for felonies including possession of or selling Ecstasy pills, psilocybin mushrooms, LSD and Diazepam, sometimes known by its brand name, Valium.
Those arrested on felony charges included residents of Long Island, New Jersey and Illinois.
A police spokesman said he did not know if the three people taken to hospitals had used illegal drugs, or details of any heightened enforcement the department had planned for the band’s shows on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Officers from the department’s Bureau of Special Operations, Critical Incident Rapid Response Team and the Third Precinct participated in “coordinated efforts of drug enforcement,” according to the release.
The Grateful Dead played regularly at the Coliseum starting in the early 1970s, when the arena first opened, and Nassau police have made hundreds of drug arrests of concertgoers and band followers over the years, including one of a man with 2,000 tabs of acid in his possession.
A spokesman for the Coliseum said in an email Thursday that the arena "is committed to providing a safe and positive experience for all guests attending concerts and events at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. … The arrests referenced are a police matter that occurred outside the building and we have no further information or comment on the matter."
The band’s website did not list contact information.
Tickets for this week’s shows ranged from $58.50 to $203.50.
By Nicholas Spangler nicholas.spangler@newsday.com
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Loden Vision Centers Appoints Veteran Healthcare Leader as Chief Executive Officer
Press Release - updated: Jan 14, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn., January 14, 2020 (Newswire.com) - Loden Vision Centers, a leading comprehensive ophthalmology company with 5 locations across the greater Nashville and surrounding areas, today announced the appointment of the senior executive, Matthew Pierre, to serve as its Chief Executive Officer.
After an extensive national search, Mr. Pierre was selected by Loden Vision Centers’ Founder and Medical Director, James C Loden, MD. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with such a talented healthcare leader who embodies our principles of clinically-excellent care, expertise, and innovation,” said Dr. Loden. “Matthew is a proven, results-oriented executive who will ensure that Loden Vision Centers continues our focus of providing patients with the high-quality personalized care they deserve in an environment that is comfortable and convenient using the most advanced technology.”
Mr. Pierre is a tenured healthcare executive, having previously worked at private equity firm Artemis Real Estate Partners where he leveraged his deep operational expertise to manage healthcare-related joint venture and operator relationships, set strategy and execute business plans to drive value, improve performance and evaluate investment opportunities.
Prior to private equity, Mr. Pierre led the Transformation Office at Brookdale Senior Living, the largest seniors housing owner/operator where he was responsible for the development and execution of initiatives to drive the strategic plan. He oversaw the merger integration of all acquisitions, including the due diligence and merger integration for the largest public company seniors housing acquisition in history valued at $2.8B.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Pierre worked within the Strategy & Operations practice at Deloitte Consulting, where he specialized in strategic planning, revenue enhancement, operations improvement, cost reduction, and mergers & acquisitions.
“I have spent my career-defining strategy and executing high growth plans for healthcare businesses,” said Mr. Pierre. “The field of Ophthalmology is exciting, and I am honored by the opportunity to work with an industry visionary like Dr. Loden and help continue their rich history and tradition of eye excellence across Tennessee. The skills of our physicians are remarkable and the growing patient needs are critical throughout the eye care industry.”
Mr. Pierre holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin, with double majors in Entrepreneurship and Finance, Investment & Banking. He earned his undergraduate degree from Southern Methodist University, with double majors in Finance and Organizational Behavior.
Mr. Pierre is passionate about improving the healthcare industry, has co-authored numerous publications and speaks at various healthcare conferences. He previously served as a board member of the National Investment Center on the Future Leaders Council.
Loden Vision Centers is Tennessee’s leading iDesign LASIK provider and Nashville’s most awarded refractive surgery practice. During nine of the past ten years, Loden Vision Centers has been named ‘Best LASIK Clinic in Nashville’ by readers of the Nashville SCENE. They have also been voted ‘Best LASIK Doctor’ and ‘Best LASIK Clinic’ by The Tennessean’s Toast of Music City the last seven years of the contest. Loden Vision Centers is also recognized as a national leader and center of excellence in laser cataract surgery, premium cataract lens implant technology and breakthrough diagnostics. Loden Vision Centers is a rapidly-growing integrated full-service comprehensive ophthalmic provider, offering patients access to numerous ophthalmic surgeons and specialists at 5 convenient locations spanning greater Nashville and the surrounding area. Loden Vision Centers was founded by James C. Loden, MD in 1999. Today, Loden Vision’s track record of providing clinically-excellent care spans over 20 years, and its services include laser cataract surgery and lens implantation, glaucoma management, retinal disorder treatment, corneal services, and LASIK laser vision correction. For more information about Loden Vision Centers, please contact Deann Wiggers at 615-859-3937 or visit http://www.LodenVision.com.
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Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations that developed between 3000-1200 B.C.E. in Greece and the basin of the Aegean sea. Ancient Greek writers recanted stories of heroes but, nothing was actually known about the Aegean civilization until the late nineteenth century. There are in fact three distinct regions covered by the term, Aegean Civilization: Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland. Crete is associated with the Minoan civilization from the Early Bronze Age, while the Cyclades and the mainland have distinct cultures. The Cyclades converge with the mainland during the Early Helladic ("Minyan") period and with Crete in the Middle Minoan period. From ca. 1450 (Late Helladic, Late Minoan), the Greek Mycenaean civilization spreads to Crete. Crete may have acted as a cultural bridge, since the culture and civilizations that evolved there appear to have engaged in commerce with a number of different centers, such as Ancient Egypt and the Middle East. There is some evidence that this culture was more egalitarian in terms of male-female relationships, so much so that it has even been surmised that the role of women may have contributed to the civilization's demise, attracting the animosity of others for whom women were relegated to more 'menial roles.'
1 Periodization
1.1 Mainland
1.2 Crete
1.3 Cyclades
2 Commerce
3 Evidence of Aegean civilization
3.1 Internal evidence
3.2 External evidence
4 The discovery of Aegean civilization
4.1 A Reconstruction
4.2 Ludwig Ross
4.3 Alfred Biliotti
4.4 Schliemann
4.5 Staes
4.6 W. M. Petrie
4.7 Sicily
While historical reconstruction from archaeology inevitably includes an element of imaginative reconstruction and sometimes of wishful thinking as people see what they want to see, if gender roles were more equal this testifies to their being more than one narrative of how gender has been constructed, and even if in most societies men have claimed a socially superior status from women, they have not done so in all societies.
Early Helladic EH 2800-2100 B.C.E.
Middle Helladic MH 2100-1500 B.C.E.
Late Helladic LH 1500-1100 B.C.E.
A Minoan fresco
Main article: Minoan civilization
Early Minoan EM 3650-2160 B.C.E.
Middle Minoan MM 2160-1600 B.C.E.
Late Minoan LM 1600-1170 B.C.E.
Early Cycladic 3300-2000 B.C.E.
Kastri = EH II-EH III (ca. 2500-2100) B.C.E.
Convergence with MM from ca. 2000 B.C.E.
Commerce was practiced to some extent in very early times, as is proved by the distribution of Melian obsidian throughout the Aegean area. We find Cretan vessels exported to Melos, Egypt and the Greek mainland. After 1600 B.C.E. there are indications of very close commerce with Egypt, and Aegean things made their way along the coasts of the Mediterranean. No traces of currency have been found, unless certain axeheads, too slight for practical use, were used for this purpose. The Aegean written documents found outside the area, have not yet proved to be epistolary (letter writing) correspondence with other countries. Representations of ships are not common, but several have been observed on Aegean gems, gem-sealings and vases. They are vessels of low free-board, with masts. Their familiarity with the sea has been proven by the free use of marine motifs in their decorating.
Later in the twentieth century, discoveries of sunken trading vessels along the coasts have brought to the forefront an enormous amount of new information regarding the culture.
Evidence of Aegean civilization
For details of monumental evidence the articles on Crete, Mycenae, Tiryns, Troad, Cyprus, etc., must be consulted. The most representative site explored up to now is Knossos (see Crete) which has yielded not only the most various but the most continuous evidence from the Neolithic age to the twilight of classical civilization. Next in importance come Hissarlik, Mycenae, Phaestus, Hagia Triada, Tiryns, Phylakope, Palaikastro and Gournia.
Internal evidence
Structures: Ruins of palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome- or cist-graves and fortifications (Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern Anatolia), but not distinct temples; small shrines, however, and temene (religious enclosures, remains of one of which were probably found at Petsofa near Palaikastro by J. L. Myres in 1904) are represented on intaglios and frescoes. From the sources and from inlay-work we also have representations of palaces and houses.
Structural Decoration: Architectural features, such as columns, friezes and various mouldings; mural decoration, such as fresco-paintings, coloured reliefs and mosaic inlay.
Furniture: (a) Domestic furniture, such as vessels of all sorts and in varioius materials, from huge store jars down to tiny unguent pots; culinary and other implements; thrones, seats, tables, etc., these all in stone or plastered terra-cotta. (b) Sacred furniture, such as models or actual examples of ritual objects; of these we have also numerous pictorial representations. (c) Funerary furniture, e.g. coffins in painted terra-cotta.
Art products: E.g. plastic objects, carved in stone or ivory, cast or beaten in metals (gold, silver, copper and bronze), or modelled in clay, faience, paste, etc. Very little trace has yet to be found of large free-standing sculpture, but many examples exist of sculptors' smaller work. Vases of all kinds, carved in marble or other stones, cast or beaten in metals or fashioned in clay, the latter in enormous number and variety, richly ornamented with colored schemes, and sometimes bearing molded decoration. Examples of painting on stone, opaque and transparent. Engraved objects in great number e.g. ring-bezels and gems; and an immense quantity of clay impressions, taken from these.
Weapons, tools and implements: In stone, clay and bronze, and at the last iron, sometimes richly ornamented or inlaid. No actual body-armour, except such as was ceremonial and buried with the dead, like the gold breastplates in the circle-graves at Mycenae.
Articles of personal use: E.g. brooches (fibulae), pins, razors, tweezers, etc., often found as dedications to a deity, e.g. in the Dictaean Cavern of Crete. No textiles have survived.
Written documents: E.g. clay tablets and discs (so far in Crete only), but nothing of more perishable nature, such as skin, papyrus, etc.; engraved gems and gem impressions; legends written with pigment on pottery (rare); characters incised on stone or pottery. These show two main systems of script (see Crete).
Excavated tombs: Of either the pit or the grotto kind, in which the dead were laid, together with various objects of use and luxury, without cremation, and in either coffins or loculi or simple wrappings.
Public works: Such as paved and stepped roadways, bridges, systems of drainage, etc.
External evidence
Monuments and records of other contemporary civilizations: E.g. representations of alien peoples in Egyptian frescoes; imitation of Aegean fabrics and style in non-Aegean lands; allusions to Mediterranean peoples in Egyptian, Semitic or Babylonian records.
Literary traditions of subsequent civilizations: Especially the Hellenic; such as, e.g., those embodied in the Homeric poems, the legends concerning Crete, Mycenae, etc.; statements as to the origin of gods, cults and so forth, transmitted to us by Hellenic antiquarians such as Strabo, Pausanias, Diodorus Siculus, etc.
Traces of customs, creeds, rituals, etc: In the Aegean area discordant with the civilization in which they were practiced and indicating survival from earlier systems. There are also possible linguistic and even physical survivals to be considered.
Mycenae and Tiryns are the two principal sites on which evidence of a prehistoric civilization was remarked long ago by the classical Greeks.
The discovery of Aegean civilization
The curtain-wall and towers of the Mycenaean citadel, its gate with heraldic lions, and the great "Treasury of Atreus" had borne silent witness for ages before Heinrich Schliemann's time; but they were supposed only to speak to the Homeric, or, at farthest, a rude Heroic loser beginning of purely Hellenic civilization. It was not until the 1900s when Schliemann exposed the contents of the graves which lay just inside the gate, that scholars recognized the advanced stage of art which prehistoric dwellers in the Mycenaean citadel had attained.
There had been, however, a good deal of other evidence available before 1876, which, had it been collated and seriously studied, might have discounted the sensation that the discovery of the citadel graves eventually made. Although it was recognized that certain tributaries, represented e.g. in the XVIIIth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar forms, were of some Mediterranean race, neither their precise habitat nor the degree of their civilization could be determined while so few actual prehistoric remains were known in the Mediterranean lands. Nor did the Aegean objects which were lying obscurely in museums in 1870, or thereabouts, provide a sufficient test of the real basis underlying the Hellenic myths of the Argolid, the Troad and Crete, to cause these to he taken seriously. Aegean vases have been exhibited both at Sèvres and Neuchatel since about 1840, the provenience (i.e. source or origin) being in the one case Phylakope in Melos, in the other Cephalonia.
A Reconstruction
From reconstructing the historical and record, the Minoan Civilization appears to have been a flourishing culture that engaged in trade and commerce with a developed agricultural polity. Men and women appear to have enjoyed the same social status. It has even been surmised that the role of women may have contributed to the civilization's demise, attracting the animosity of others for whom women were relegated to more 'menial roles'. Greek civilization and myth would draw on that of the Minoans. Archeology on Crete has shed light on aspects of Homer's epic. A much debated question is what caused the demise of this ancient civilization. One possibility is that life became too comfortable, that too much was invested in luxury items, too little in what was needed to sustain society. The Minoans appear to have been a peaceful, trading people rather than warriors who aimed at conquest, so it is possible that they were defeated by the Mycenaeans. Other theories include annihilation by volcanic eruption.
Ludwig Ross
Ludwig Ross, the German archaeologist appointed Curator of the Antiquities of Athens at the time of the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece, by his explorations in the Greek islands from 1835 onwards, called attention to certain early intaglios, since known as Inselsteine; but it was not until 1878 that C. T. Newton demonstrated these to be no strayed Phoenician products. In 1866 primitive structures were discovered on the island of Therasia by quarrymen extracting pozzolana, a siliceous volcanic ash, for the Suez Canal works. When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighboring Santorin (Thera), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found. These were dated by the geologist Ferdinand A. Fouqué, somewhat arbitrarily, to 2000 B.C.E., by consideration of the superincumbent eruptive stratum.
Alfred Biliotti
Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth "Mycenaean"; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, supposedly being of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date. Nor was a connection immediately detected between them and the objects found four years later in a tomb at Menidi in Attica and a rock-cut "bee-hive" grave near the Argive Heraeum.
Schliemann
Even Schliemann's first excavations at Hissarlik in the Troad did not excite surprise. But the "Burnt City" of his second stratum, revealed in 1873, with its fortifications and vases, and a hoard of gold, silver and bronze objects, which the discoverer connected with it, began to arouse a curiosity which was destined presently to spread far outside the narrow circle of scholars. As soon as Schliemann came on the Mycenae graves three years later, light poured from all sides on the prehistoric period of Greece. It was recognized that the character of both the fabric and the decoration of the Mycenaean objects was not that of any well-known art. A wide range in space was proved by the identification of the Inselsteine and the Ialysus vases with the new style, and a wide range in time by collation of the earlier Theraean and Hissarlik discoveries. A relationship between objects of art described by Homer and the Mycenaean treasure was generally allowed, and a correct opinion prevailed that, while certainly posterior, the civilization of the Iliad was reminiscent of the Mycenaean.
Schliemann got to work again at Hissarlik in 1878, and greatly increased our knowledge of the lower strata, but did not recognize the Aegean remains in his "Lydian" city of the sixth stratum. These were not to be fully revealed until Dr. Wilhelm Dorpfeld, who had become Schliemann's assistant in 1879, resumed the work at Hissarlik in 1892 after the first explorer's death. But by laying bare in 1884 the upper stratum of remains on the rock of Tiryns, Schliemann made a contribution to our knowledge of prehistoric domestic life which was amplified two years later by Christos Tsountas's discovery of the Mycenae palace. Schliemann's work at Tiryns was not resumed till 1905, when it was proved, as had long been suspected, that an earlier palace underlies the one he had exposed.
From 1886 dates the finding of Mycenaean sepulchres outside the Argolid, from which, and from the continuation of Tsountas's exploration of the buildings and lesser graves at Mycenae, a large treasure, independent of Schliemann's princely gift, has been gathered into the National Museum at Athens. In that year dome-tombs, most already rifled but retaining some of their furniture, were excavated at Arkina and Eleusis in Attica, at Dimini near Volo in Thessaly, at Kampos on the west of Mount Taygetus, and at Maskarata in Cephalonia. The richest grave of all was explored at Vaphio in Laconia in 1889, and yielded, besides many gems and miscellaneous goldsmiths' work, two golden goblets chased with scenes of bull-hunting, and certain broken vases painted in a large bold style which remained an enigma until the excavation of Cnossus.
Staes
In 1890 and 1893 Staes cleared out certain, less rich dome-tombs at Thoricus in Attica; and other graves, either rock-cut "bee-hives" or chambers, were found at Spata and Aphidna in Attica, in Aegina and Salamis, at the Heraeum (see Argos) and Nauplia in the Argolid, near Thebes and Delphi, and not far from the Thessalian Larissa. During the Acropolis excavations in Athens, which terminated in 1888, many potsherds of the Mycenaean style were found; but Olympia had yielded either none, or such as had not been recognized before being thrown away, and the temple site at Delphi produced nothing distinctively Aegean. The American explorations of the Argive Heraeum, concluded in 1895, also failed to prove that site to have been important in the prehistoric time, though, as was to be expected from its neighborhood to Mycenae itself, there were traces of occupation in the later Aegean periods.
Prehistoric research had now begun to extend beyond the Greek mainland. Certain central Aegean islands, Antiparos, Ios, Amorgos, Syros and Siphnos, were all found to be singularly rich in evidence of the middle-Aegean period. The series of Syran built graves, containing crouching corpses, is the best and most representative that is known in the Legean. Melos, long marked as a source of early objects but not systematically excavated until taken in hand by the British School at Athens in 1896, yielded at Phylakope remains of all the Aegean periods, except the Neolithic.
A map of Cyprus in the later Bronze Age (such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter in Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum) shows more than twenty-five settlements in and about the Mesaorea district alone, of which one, that at Enkomi, near the site of Salamis, has yielded the richest Aegean treasure in precious metal found outside Mycenae. E. Chantre in 1894 picked up lusterless ware, like that of Hissariik, in central Phtygia and at Pteria (q.v.), and the English archaeological expeditions, sent subsequently into north-western Anatolia, have never failed to bring back ceramic specimens of Aegean appearance from the valleys of the Rhyndncus, Sangarius and Halys.
W. M. Petrie
In Egypt in 1887 W. M. F. Petrie found painted sherds of Cretan style at Kahun in the Fayum, and farther up the Nile, at Tell el-Amarna, chanced on bits of no fewer than 800 Aegean vases in 1889. There have now been recognized in the collections at Cairo, Florence, London, Paris and Bologna several Egyptian imitations of the Aegean style which can be set off against the many debts which the centers of Aegean culture owed to Egypt. Two Aegean vases were found at Sidon in 1885, and many fragments of Aegean and especially Cypriote pottery have been turned up during recent excavations of sites in Philistia by the Palestine Fund.
Sicily, ever since P. Orsi excavated the Sicel cemetery near Lentini in 1877, has proved a mine of early remains, among which appear in regular succession Aegean fabrics and motives of decoration from the period of the second stratum at Hissarlik. Sardinia has Aegean sites, e.g. at Abini near Teti; and Spain has yielded objects recognized as Aegean from tombs near Cadiz and from Saragossa.
A satellite photograph of Crete by NASA
One land, however, has eclipsed all others in the Aegean by the wealth of its remains of all the prehistoric ages— Crete; and so much so that, for the present, we must regard it as the fountainhead of Aegean civilization, and probably for long its political and social center. The island first attracted the notice of archaeologists by the remarkable archaic Greek bronzes found in a cave on Mount Ida in 1885, as well as by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna. But the first undoubted Aegean remains reported from it were a few objects extracted from Cnossus by Minos Kalokhairinos of Candia in 1878. These were followed by certain discoveries made in the S. plain Messara by F. Halbherr. Unsuccessful attempts at Cnossus were made by both W. J. Stillman and H. Schliemann, and A. J. Evans, coming on the scene in 1893, traveled in succeeding years about the island picking up trifles of unconsidered evidence, which gradually convinced him that greater things would eventually be found. He obtained enough to enable him to forecast the discovery of written characters, till then not suspected in Aegean civilization. The revolution of 1897-98 opened the door to wider knowledge, and much exploration has ensued, for which see Crete.
Thus the "Aegean Area" has now come to mean the Archipelago with Crete and Cyprus, the Hellenic peninsula with the Ionian islands, and Western Anatolia. Evidence is still wanting for the Macedonian and Thracian coasts. Offshoots are found in the western Mediterranean area, in Sicily, Italy, Sardinia and Spain, and in the eastern Mediterranean area in Syria and Egypt. About the Cyrenaica we are still insufficiently informed.
Minoan civilization
Mycenaean Greece
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Brown, Dale (ed.). 1993. Wonderous realms of the Aegean. Alexandria, Va.: Time Life Books. ISBN 9780809498758
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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
All links retrieved November 23, 2019.
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With Revenue Flowing From China, YPB Looks to USA for Next Regional Expansion
With one instrumental deal, YPB Group Ltd (ASX:YPB) has secured a major foothold into the world’s largest consumer economy – the USA.
YPB is going to work hand in hand with one of America’s well established printing firms to make fake proof labels and packaging for some of the biggest brands in the world, and put them on sale immediately.
A single print run can yield 1,000,000 items with YPB collecting up to US$0.30 cents each – that’s potentially US$300,000 a pop – and can be ordered in bulk.
There’s potential here for YPB to make millions of dollars – regularly.
In fact, revenue is expected to grow to over $10M over the next 5 years in the USA alone – with YPB planning to repeat this formula in the big Asian markets also.
This could be just the start of big global revenues coming its way.
$26M over the next 4 years has been committed in contracts from YPB’s existing clients in China – part of which is now on its way, now that deliveries of its high tech anti-counterfeiting technology have begun.
And to win more business, YPB has just set up a hub in South-East Asia and appointed a new global Chief Operating Officer so it can go after an even bigger slice of the Asian market.
It’s going to concentrate on expanding its presence and also work to bag global giants for clients – like the $10BN e-commerce site Alibaba, which has a well-publicized and costly struggle with fakers .
Could a deal with Alibaba be next on the agenda for YPB?
The way things are going, we wouldn’t be too surprised...
YPB Group Limited
ASX:YPB
YPB Group Ltd (ASX:YPB) is currently capped at around $30M and first featured on the Next Tech Stock in January 2015 with the article $1.7 Trillion is Lost Globally to Fake Products: Does this ASX Tech Company Have the Solution?
You read that right – counterfeiting is a $1.7 trillion dollar industry that spans the globe and is a huge problem for legitimate retailers and governments.
It’s become so serious that recently luxury brands including Yves St Laurent, Gucci and Kering joined up to sue the $10BN e-commerce giant Alibaba for not doing enough to stamp out the fakes on sale.
Fakes can damage a business severely – the share price of online craft marketplace Etsy suffered an 8% drop after a Wall Street analyst warned as many as 5% of the site’s goods may be fakes or violate trademark laws.
Fakes cause lost revenue and a damaged business reputation – and they can also kill. Over 300,000 people in China die each year from fake medicines.
So whoever can detect the fakes and protect companies from them can save lives and do the business world a service it’s willing to pay for:
The market for anti-counterfeiting packaging and authentication technology is predicted to rise to $126BN by 2019 and YPB is positioning itself as the go to company for protection from fakes.
YPB has developed a range of advanced technology products that authenticate goods and protect them from imitations.
The first offering is an invisible tracer – or covert marker – that can be attached to any product and cannot be copied or removed once installed. It can then be detected with a handheld scanner that shows the product is authentic.
The company has also just launched a mobile app and website called Brand Reporter which puts the power to detect the scanners in the hands of consumers and creates a social network that users can access to spread the word about fakes.
Brand Reporter is now selling to consumers in both the USA, China and across Asia, creating a growing pool of users that will enhance the effectiveness of YPB’s tech products.
These products are already generating revenue for the company, and we followed YPB’s swift momentum in the article YPB to Supply Technology to the Chinese Government which details its growing revenue stream.
Right now the first payments from YPB’s existing clients are starting to come in and the company has launched a wide range of initiatives, deals and new products that could see its global ambitions come to fruition.
Research analysts Finola Burke and Moira Daw from Edison recently covered YPB, arriving at a A$0.37/share valuation – that’s over 60% higher than YPB’s current share price. Whilst reports like these are very detailed, there is no guarantee this price target will eventuate – and other factors should be considered before making an investment in the company.
You can read the full report here :
In this article, we are going to run you through all the latest news from YPB, starting with its new move into the world’s largest economy – the United States of America...
YPB moves into US security printing market
Security printing market in the USA is predicted to reach $35BN by 2018 – and YPB has just done a deal to enter this potentially very lucrative sector with its anti-counterfeiting technology.
YPB has signed a Binding Agreement with US security printing firm Continuous Forms Control (CFC):
CFC is a California based printing company with over 40 years in the industry – and it’s now going to work directly with YPB to attack the global market for printing and packing.
YPB and CFC will jointly develop a sales and distribution platform for printed packaging and forms that contain YPB’s invisible tracers.
As soon as they’re printed, these products will go on immediate sale in the USA to CFC’s well-established paying client base that includes fashion labels, product packaging and pharmaceutical labels.
YPB’s Invisible Tracer technology will be put into the inks CFC uses for printing, and then the scanner will be used to authenticate the products. The Brand Reporter app will be made available for consumers to scan the products and authenticate them.
This new application for YPB’s technology will see the company making regular revenue from sales to manufacturers. Roughly, a single print run of 250,000 items priced at 30 cents each should brings YPB $750,000...
There is also scope for YPB to acquire CFC through a sale and purchase agreement which should be closed soon.
At The Next Tech Stock we see this as a highly strategic move by YPB.
It can use the CFC deal to gain more customers in the USA and put its anti-counterfeiting products into their packaging and supply chains, steadily making itself an industry standard within its massive manufacturing sector.
The aim here is for mass print runs, which could bring significant steady revenue onto YPB’s books, and with CFC’s list of clients that’s certainly possible.
Remember, the security printing industry should rise in value to $35BN by 2018 – and YPB is now going after a big slice of that spend.
This is a bridgehead into the USA for YPB, and it goes hand in hand with the company’s accelerating plans to spread its fake busting tech across the world.
Asia hub to focus YPB’s growth plan
YPB’s name in Chinese means “You Pin Bao” or in English “Excellent Brand Protection.”
China is so far YPB’s biggest customer base and it’s already proving its abilities to detect and protect from fakes through a number of deals with small and medium sized Chinese manufacturers.
YPB is also aiming to secure contracts with big firms, such as the $10BN Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, which is trialling various methods to fight counterfeiting.
Big names like Alibaba represent YPB’s ideal clients in Asia – by providing technology solutions against counterfeiting to major groups, labels and manufacturers.
At the same time, it also wants to accumulate as many new customers as it can no matter the size, and spread its presence across the region.
To bring that about, YPB is moving to set up a South East Asia hub in Thailand that will help create more business opportunities in the ASEAN economies.
The Bangkok hub will be based around a high profile security company YPB recently acquired for $500,000, Intellectual Product Protection Group Limited (IPP Group), which is linked to the US Department of Homeland Security and is a leader in the field of government security.
YPB intends to expand IPP Group’s forensic laboratories and set up operations in Beijing where its anti-counterfeiting expertise can be hired out to Fortune 500 companies manufacturing sensitive goods.
We think this move shows how serious YPB is about expanding throughout Asia, and could lead to some high profile contracts coming its way.
And right now, there’s a lot of things coming YPB’s way...
Revenue to flow from Chinese deals
YPB is set to receive total gross revenues of A$26M over 4 years from its existing Chinese clients who are taking delivery of invisible tracers, master batches of inks and handheld scanners.
The major customers for these products are Hicap, which makes up to two billion bottle closures every year that are sold around the world, and Shenzen Shensaier, which supplies high-end inks to tobacco and wine manufacturers in China.
Scores of products made in China will soon be protected by YPB’s anti-counterfeiting technology and money will be flowing back to pay for it.
And this is just the beginning.
YPB has a four-year contract with Hicap and a five year term with Shenzen, so these deals represent significant regular business for YPB and the first revenues are just the start.
This is a very important milestone for YPB – it’s done the hard work to develop the products and find clients.
Now it can get paid – that’s a big achievement and signals that YPB is set to take its place at the forefront of fighting fakes.
New tech and new deals coming for YPB
YPB’s revenue platform is now firing on all cylinders:
Its scanners and invisible tracers are on sale in China and the first revenues are now flowing from the deals it’s done there. The establishment of a hub in South-East Asia could bring even more deals, and accelerate the IPP and counterfeit protection services YPB is offering.
The deal with CFC in the USA gives the company a foothold in the country, which is can use to kick in the door and sell its anti-fakery products the length and breadth of the land.
Brand Reporter is already on sale in the USA, China and across Asia, and everything YPB is doing will work to accelerate its success.
This adds up to a steadily growing pot of revenues, all from helping companies detect counterfeit goods and protect from them – an effective solution to a serious problem.
Looking ahead, at The Next Tech Stock we’re anticipating more deals to be announced, who knows what YPB is cooking up next.
On the technology side, we’re looking forward to seeing these hit the shelves:
It’s a YPB scanner – but smaller and cheaper to buy. This could open a whole new aspect of sales on the consumer market for YPB. There are also plans afoot for a new consumer app called Brand Bounty, and we look forward to seeing more details on that.
In the coming months we reckon YPB could generate some serious momentum and some serious revenue – and we look forward to seeing what we can bring you on YPB next time!
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Paterson police officer from Wayne dead after one-car crash
An officer who lived in Wayne is dead after a single-vehicle accident on Getty Avenue in Paterson. The road was closed on Sunday afternoon.
Paterson police officer from Wayne dead after one-car crash An officer who lived in Wayne is dead after a single-vehicle accident on Getty Avenue in Paterson. The road was closed on Sunday afternoon. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2HiqneX
NorthJersey.com Published 1:17 p.m. ET April 22, 2018 | Updated 8:33 p.m. ET April 22, 2018
Raw video shows the fatal scene on Getty Ave. where a one-vehicle crash occurred . The person involved in the crash died, Sunday, April 22, 2018.
An eyewitness said a police vehicle was moving southeast on Getty Avenue in Paterson when it crashed into a parked vehicle on the opposite side of the road.(Photo: Kevin R. Wexler/NorthJersey.com)
A Paterson police officer whom friends described as a loving, kind-hearted family man was pronounced dead after a one-car crash on Getty Avenue late Sunday morning, according to the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office.
Police Officer Tamby Yagan, a Wayne resident, was on duty and crashed into a parked car, city officials said.
The Prosecutor's Office said police arrived to find that a Paterson police officer had been involved in a crash with a parked vehicle while in his cruiser. "The officer was the only person involved in the crash and was transported to Saint Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, where he later died from his injuries," a press release said. There were no other injuries. The crash remains under investigation.
Tamby Yagan (Photo: Courtesy of Paterson Police Department)
"He was a cop's cop," said Police Director Jerry Speziale. "He's somebody who went above and beyond. He was a true community person."
Speziale said Yagan also was a devoted father to his young son. "He was a well-rounded person," the director said.
Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said of his colleague, "He was a great worker, and his death is truly a loss to Paterson's Police Department and its residents."
It was not clear whether the accident was the cause of his death, or whether the officer, who was 41, suffered a medical emergency before the 10:50 a.m. crash. The case is being investigated by the New Jersey State Police and the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office. Officials said there was no indication Yagan was involved in a pursuit.
Photos: Fatal scene in Paterson
An eyewitness said a police vehicle was moving southeast on Getty Avenue in Paterson when it crashed into a parked vehicle on the opposite side of the road. Kevin R. Wexler/NorthJersey.com
According to an eye witness, who did not want to give their name, a police vehicle was moving at a high rate of speed south east on Getty Ave. in Paterson Sunday morning. The witness stated that the vehicle spun out and ended up crashing into another vehicle that was parked on the opposite side of the road. The witness stated that there were no occupants in the parked vehicle but the driver of the police vehicle was taken away in an ambulance. Sunday, April 22, 2018. Kevin R. Wexler/NorthJersey.com
Before joining the Paterson police force, Yagan was a volunteer firefighter in neighboring Prospect Park for six years, said the borough's fire chief, Douglas Struyk.
"He would give you the shirt off his back," Struyk said of Yagan. "You could call him any time of night and he would be there for you."
Struyk described Yagan as an outgoing man who also was an avid bodybuilder. The fire chief said Yagan had grown up in Prospect Park and left the Fire Department after getting the police job in Paterson in 2005.
Tamby Yagan (Photo: Provided by Paterson Police Department)
Prospect Park Mayor Mohamed Khairullah in a Facebook post called Yagan a "longtime personal friend and one of the kindest souls I have ever met."
Khairullah said Sunday evening that he and Tamby, as young men, spent their evenings together and played football every weekend.
"I was in Texas last night. I saw he posted that he was balling with his son at tee-ball, and to get the tragic news today ... was devasting, to say the least."
"We don't even know the circumstances," making the loss even harder to fathom, Khairullah said. "We're hoping for some answers, obviously, for the sake of his family. We pray for them to have the strength, particularly because he has a young son who is 6 or 7 years old who was hanging out with his father a few hours ago, and now he's gone forever."
"There's not a mean bone in his body," Khairullah said of his boyhood friend. "And his death is a tremendous loss to the city of Paterson and to his family and friends."
Officers view the scene of a fatal accident in Paterson involving a Paterson police vehicle. (Photo: Kevin R. Wexler/NorthJersey.com)
Aslon Goow Sr., who is running for City Council in Paterson, said Yagan was a fellow member of the Circassian community and was "really, truly a gentleman."
Goow said he was out campaigning when he heard the news.
"It's really a tremendous loss for everybody," he said.
"I never heard a person say a bad thing about him," said Goow, who said he was headed to the hospital Sunday afternoon. "He always used a lot of discretion in conducting himself in police matters, and I think that's one of the greatest tributes to him."
Circassia is a historical region of present-day Russia near the Black Sea. Just a few thousand people of Circassian descent live in North America, with a large, close-knit cluster in North Jersey, centered around Paterson.
A tweet from the New Jersey State Police Benevolent Association on Sunday said, "We have lost one of our own in the line of duty today. #Paterson Officer Tamby Yagan was committed to protecting and serving. His tragic death leaves a loss for all of us." It was signed by President Patrick Colligan.
We have lost one of our own in the line of duty today.. #Paterson Officer Tamby Yagan was committed to protecting and serving. His tragic death leaves a loss for all of us. Keep Officer Yagan's family and friends as well as Paterson PD in your prayers- President Patrick Colligan pic.twitter.com/FoZsEoOkdp
— New Jersey State PBA (@NJSPBA) April 22, 2018
The largely industrial area of Getty Avenue near Hemlock Street was shut down all afternoon Sunday as investigators worked.
The Prosecutor's Office asked that anyone with information about the incident call the tips line at 877-370-PCPO.
Check back for more on this developing story.
Staff Writers Keldy Ortiz and Matt Fagan and Staff Photographer Kevin R. Wexler contributed to this article.
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Wednesday should have been the first practice back for Jets tight end Chris Herndon after his four-game suspension. It wasn't.
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Andy Vasquez, NFL writer Published 3:26 p.m. ET Oct. 9, 2019 | Updated 6:14 p.m. ET Oct. 9, 2019
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FLORHAM PARK — Wednesday should have been the first practice back for Jets tight end Chris Herndon, after his four-game suspension for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy.
Instead, Herndon had to miss the practice, and perhaps much longer, after another hard-luck injury for the Jets.
Herndon injured his hamstring on Friday, running routes on his own as he prepared to return. Gase seemed doubtful that Herndon would be able to get back on the field this week, before the Jets host the Cowboys.
“It’s a legit hamstring [injury],” Gase said. “It’s not ideal.”
Gase classified Herndon as “week-to-week.” It’s just the latest bit of bad luck for the Jets, who have been decimated by injury and illness on the way to a 0-4 start. Sam Darnold missed three games with mono, C.J. Mosley hasn’t played since Week 1 with a groin injury and now Herndon suffered an injury at the worst possible time, right before he was supposed to return.
“I feel bad for him,” Gase said “Just because he’s been waiting to get back. For that to happen, I know the guys were looking forward to him getting back, too.
New York Jets tight end Chris Herndon (89) rushes against the New York Giants. The Jets face the Giants in the first preseason game at MetLife Stadium on Thursday, August 8, 2019, in East Rutherford. (Photo: Danielle Parhizkaran/NorthJersey.com)
“I know how he’s been itching to get back out there. It’s tough to be, you go through what you have to go through and you’re around [the team] but you can’t do anything. And to finally be able to get a chance to get on the field and now you can’t.”
Herndon caught four touchdown passes last year and built a strong connection with Darnold. The hope was he could give a boost to the struggling offense as Darnold returns from his illness this week. Now that will almost certainly have to wait.
Gase admitted he was frustrated when he got the news.
“I don’t know if I can say [what I said],” Gase joked.
But after everything that's gone wrong this season, Gase didn't spend time lamenting or questioning the latest bit of bad luck.
"No," Gase said. "I think I used all of those up already."
C.J. Mosley likely out Sunday
Mosley probably won't play this weekend, missing his fourth straight game with a groin injury. But the Jets are optimistic one of their best defensive players will be back soon.
The starting inside linebacker didn't practice Wednesday, and Gase said Mosley's chances of playing against the Cowboys are not good.
"It would be hard," Gase said. "I think we're looking at doubtful, at best."
Mosley was hurt in the third quarter of the Week 1 loss to the Bills and hasn't practiced or played since. If he doesn't play Sunday, it will be his fourth straight missed game. But Gase sounded optimistic that Mosley could return in Week 7 against the Patriots.
"We're close," Gase said. "And we have a good plan to get him back sooner than later. It’s just it was a little bit longer than any of us thought."
The Jets and Mosley initially hoped that Mosley would be able to make a quick return. But as his rehab progressed, that outlook changed.
"I think the injury was probably a little more severe than obviously any of us felt or he felt as well," Gase said. "But we’re on the back end of this thing."
Gase said Mosley had problems moving laterally as he tried to return, and that because of it, the Jets had to adjust his timetable.
"His pivot, burst and then kind of that next stride, and that’s where it’s been hard for him," Gase said. "So we kind of took a different approach as far as the progression that they’re going through now, and it’s looking better now the closer we get to this thing being over."
Two starters return
Outside linebackers Brandon Copeland and Jordan Jenkins, who came into the season as the projected starters, practiced together for the first time since before the season.
Jenkins suffered a calf injury in the Week 2 loss to the Browns. He was limited in his first practice since the injury. Copeland was eligible to practice for the first time since returning from a four-game suspension for violating the NFL's policy on performance-enhancing drugs.
"You are looking at a guy that was playing really well before he left," Gase sadi of Copeland. "All of sudden you get him back and then Jenkins gets healthy -- all of a sudden we get two starters back."
Still, several startesr did not practice Th
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by Will Peters | Apr 24, 2019 | Marketing | 0 comments
The automotive industry is expected to increase spending on digital advertising from $13.57 billion in 2018 to $15.65 billion in 2019. With so much spending on digital advertising, there’s scope for some amazing, creative campaigns.
At a loss for how to attract new customers? Let these 5 unique automotive digital marketing campaigns inspire you to create something eye-catching.
1. Ford Mustang
Here’s the setup. You’re an up-and-coming male actor. Your agency sends you to a meeting with the star of a new dating show.
The star turns out to be a beautiful young woman and the meeting is going well. She invites you to take a drive in her hot, red Ford Mustang. So far, everything looks good and you’re having a wonderful day.
This is the scenario faced by a number of actors recruited for this Valentine’s Day promotion. The video prank was dubbed “Speed Dating” and its impact turns on the prejudicial view that women aren’t great drivers. It turns out that in this case, she is an amazing stunt driver.
Once you take your seat your driver treats you to the most hair raising, drive of your life. She accelerates, turns, spins, and the exciting ride fills the air with burning rubber.
One of the actors must have winced when he saw the completed video. He actually asks the stunt prankster if she wants him to drive the car. The reply is a simple “no”, as she puts her foot to the floor.
To be fair most of the young male actors seem to enjoy the experience. The actors are thrown about but survive unscathed. The video campaign quickly went viral.
2. Toyota Prius
When millennials are buying a car, they have a lot to consider. Of course, like any car buyer, they need to think about features and benefits but Toyota felt they had some special needs.
Millennials may be great research skills but there’s so much information out there, Toyota felt they could help.
Millennials have concerns about the environment. Their world is tech-enabled. They may not be experienced at buying a car.
Toyota launched the Prius c, using a YouTube channel that they called the Game of Life. This interactive digital and video content provided help with negotiating, form filling, technical information and more.
Hybrid engines were demystified helping confirm Toyota’s ecological credentials. Bluetooth was explained for millennials who would appreciate the way it integrated their car with the essential digital tools of their lifestyle.
The campaign acknowledges the balance that 20 and 30 somethings are seeking behind career and lifestyle, coffee culture and ethics. The car with the answers, according to Toyota, is the Prius c.
3. Ford Canada
Ford in Canada had redesigned its family of vehicles but they had a challenge. How could they get the Canadian car buyer to give them a try? The answer was to encourage them to try out much more than a new car.
The launch of the family of Ford cars was an important strategic step. Previously to the 2015 launch of the new look Ford family, each of the cars looked like they were from different families. The Mustang, Focus, and Fusion were distant cousins at best.
Unifying the brand in this way was intended to associate the cache of the Mustang with the less impressive Focus, Fusion, and Fiesta. A good strategy but one that needed communicating effectively. The aim was to get the Canadian consumer to give Ford a try knowing that they wouldn’t be disappointed.
The campaign consisted of live events where people could “Try More”. Consumers could try a range of new things including creative art projects, live music performance, and ax throwing. At each of the live events, there was also an opportunity to test drive a new Ford.
The “Try More” live events provided great content for social media and there was also a 30 second commercial and digital display. According to Peter Jansen, Ford of Canada’s director of marketing, the campaign is a long-term project.
4. BMW 1 Series
Engaging your customers is one of the challenges of digital marketing. There’s so much content out there, how do you break through the noise? BMW has done it with a neat microsite solution.
The microsite allows users to upload images through Facebook. The images of buildings are then arranged to form a portrait. The images appear to make up a cityscape and a portrait at the same time.
Once created, the city streets are explored by a BMW 1 Series car. Users can engage friends by tagging landmarks which their friends can then visit. As their friends are involved then also can create cities representing a face and the network continues to grow.
A great example of consumer engagement, branding, and in-your-face digital marketing.
5. Chevy Sonic
Chevy had done some serious work on the engineering of the Chevy Sonic. They felt that they needed to respond to customer demand for better fuel economy and improved safety. The time for launch came in 2014 and some creative thought was put into digital marketing.
Safety and economy are important but they are difficult concepts to work with when you want to create some excitement. Chevy came up with an ingenious solution.
They got some celebrities with reputations for fun and excitement to perform stunts in the new more economical and safer Sonic! For example, Rob Drydek performed a kickflip, turning the car through 360 degrees. He may be a professional skateboarder but he was an amateur driver.
Within 4 months of the Sonics launch, the number of shoppers on websites had increased by three and a half times before any traditional advertising. The digital campaign had paved the way for a triumphant Super Bowl commercial based on the stunts.
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With so much competition, these examples of creative automotive digital marketing have broken through. They grab the attention and imagination of their target audience effectively. Take inspiration from their success.
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Bulls should have their pick of forwards
Paul Ladewski
Jun 27, 2007 at 12:01 AM Jun 27, 2007 at 4:52 PM
Bulls have ninth pick, and there should be several candidates available.
The forward position is an area of need for the Bulls this offseason, when P.J. Brown is expected to leave as an unrestricted free agent and restricted free-agent Andres Nocioni might follow him out the door in a sign-and-trade move.
Tyrus Thomas is to play extended minutes at power forward opposite Luol Deng next season, but more and better numbers are needed there.
In that case, the Bulls couldn’t have picked a better time to fill the need, as the draft is especially deep at the wing spots.
If the front office stays put with the ninth overall pick in the first round, it should be in position to pick and choose from several candidates at the position.
The potential lottery picks at the position:
- Kevin Durant (6-foot-10, 215 pounds, University of Texas). He didn’t score high in the measurables at the predraft camp, but the kid can play. Considered to be a combination of Kevin Garnett and Tracy McGrady, Durant can score from anywhere from the rim to the 3-point arc. And he can rebound and block shots, too.
- Al Horford (6-10, 246, Florida). Some doubts persist about his interior defense, but there are few if any about his ability to score and rebound.
- Jeff Green (6-8, 225, Georgetown). An excellent passer and rebounder who can play either forward position. Green can score, too, although he lacks quickness and needs to be more assertive at times.
- Brandan Wright (6-10, 200, North Carolina). He lacks physical strength, but his length and freakish athletic skills cannot be overlooked.
- Yi Jianlian (7-0, 230, Guangdong Tigers). Runs the floor and shoots the perimeter shot like a small forward. Yi played against inferior competition overseas. As a result, he might not be able to make an immediate contribution at the next level.
- Corey Brewer (6-8, 185, Florida). Has the size and athleticism to play small forward or off guard effectively. Upper-body strength is an issue at this stage, but Brewer appears to have a future in the league as a defensive stopper and 3-point specialist.
- Joakim Noah (7-0, 223, Florida). Reminds some of a taller, more mature Tyrus Thomas in some ways. Noah plays with considerable energy, especially at the defensive end, but his offensive game is a work in progress. Like Brewer and Horford, his experience with a two-time national championship team improves his stock considerably.
- Al Thornton (6-7, 221, Florida State). May be the best pure athlete available. While his abilities as a passer and ball-handler leave much to be desired, the 23-year-old Thornton has a lethal first step and advanced midrange game.
Brewer, Noah and Thornton worked out for the Bulls earlier this month, while Yi had a private session for team officials in Los Angeles.
Other probable first-rounders: Josh McRoberts (6-10, 240, Duke), Jason Smith (7-0, 233, Colorado State), Tiago Splitter (7-0, 245, Tau Victoria), Julian Wright (6-9, 211, Kansas), Thaddeus Young (6-8, 210, Georgia Tech).
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This is a resource released as part of the E-Portfolio Toolkit based on experience of developing the “Year Abroad E-Portfolio”, undertaken by the School of Languages at Leeds Metropolitan University.
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Montessori Math-Numerals and Quantities
Students will have the opportunity to see numerals matched with objects in this informative Montessori video. Students can first count dots as they line up with their corresponding number and then watch the numbers as a set line up with their numeral. This is a great resource for the early childhood classroom. (3:40)
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New Jersey Doctor Self-Described as ‘Candy Man,’ ‘El Chapo of Opioids’ Accused of Distributing Opioids to Patients, Falsifying Records: Feds
Published on May 13, 2019 at 1:54 pm
NJ doctor who called himself “Candy Man” and “El Chapo of Opioids” is accused of distributing opioids without a legitimate medical reason
Robert Delagente, 45, of Oakland, is also accused of falsifying medical records to cover it up, according to federal prosecutors
Delagente was a doctor, beginning in May 2014, at North Jersey Family Medicine in Oakland
A New Jersey doctor who called himself “Candy Man” and “El Chapo of Opioids” is accused of distributing opioids without a legitimate medical reason and falsifying medical records to cover it up, according to federal prosecutors.
Robert Delagente, 45, of Oakland, is charged by complaint with one count of distribution of controlled dangerous substances and one count of obstruction of justice, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced Monday.
Delagente was scheduled to appear Monday afternoon in federal court in Newark.
His attorney did not immediately respond to request for comment.
According to court documents, beginning in May 2014, Delagante was a doctor at North Jersey Family Medicine in Oakland who allegedly called himself “Candy Man” and “El Chapo of Opioids” when describing himself in conversations pertaining to prescribing painkillers.
Court documents allege that Delagente knowingly prescribed controlled substances, such as oxycodone, Percocet, Tylenol with codeine, and various benzodiazepines without a legitimate medical purpose, ignoring dangers of the medical risk of overdose, drug abuse, and death that can accompany prescriptions of highly addictive opioids.
In one case, according to court documents, Delagente prescribed controlled substances without ever seeing the alleged patient for a medical visit or even discussing with the patient the medical need for the prescription.
The court documents go on to allege that Delagente allowed patients to ask him for controlled substances via text message and would write a prescription for patients that he would leave at the front desk, without requiring an office visit or consultation of any kind.
Delagente allagedly allowed patients to dictate the strength and dosage of the prescriptions. Additionally, it is alleged that Delagente also prescribed the dangerous drug combination known as the “Holy Trinity,” comprised of opioids (usually oxycodone), benzodiazepines (usually alprazolam) and muscle relaxers (usually carisoprodol).
According to prosecutors, Delagente failed to monitor patients for addiction and ignored drug screening tests to determine whether certain patients were taking illicit drugs.
It is alleged that Delagente prescribed controlled substances to patients he knew were addicted to opioids or other controlled substances.
In one case, according to court documents, one patient allegedly texted Delagente that the patient “probably can’t stop the pk’s,” referring to painkillers and a few days later, when the patient was having trouble obtaining pain medication, the patient allegedly wrote to Delagente that “If I go 4 days without [painkillers] I am in huge trouble.”
In response, Delagente allegedly wrote “I will leave you a short supply RX [prescription] at the front to pick up.” The court documents say that Delagente then allegedly wrote the patient a prescription for 120 tablets of 30-milligram oxycodone for 30 days, prosecutors say, adding that Delagente at one point told this patient: “I’m literally sticking my neck out and can lose my medical license or [be] arrested for what I just did.”
Delagente was also charged with altering medical records of patients who received controlled substance prescriptions from him after law enforcement officials had subpoenaed the records from him in late April 2019.
Delagente faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine on the distribution of controlled dangerous substances charge and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on the obstruction charge.
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Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) Postgraduate Admission Form for 2019/2020 Academic Session
Olusegun Modified: 13th August, 2019 www.abuad.edu.ng ABUAD Postgraduate Form: ₦10,500 Deadline : 30th September, 2019
ABUAD postgraduate form for 2019/2020 academic session is out. Admission applications forms for the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Ekiti State, postgraduate programmes leading to the award of MSc, PhD & PGD Degrees are currently on sale. See more details below….
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for admission into the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) postgraduate programmes for the 2019/2020 academic session.
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ABUAD Postgraduate Admission Requirements
A. Postgraduate Diploma Programmes
The criteria for admission into the PGD programme are stated below:
(i) All candidates must have five credit passes including English, Mathematics and three other relevant subjects at ‘O’ Level (WAEC, NECO, GCE, NABTEB and IGCSE).
(ii) Candidates with Bachelor’s degree from any NUC approved University must obtain a minimum of 3rd Class degree in the relevant discipline.
(iii) Holders of HND in relevant programmes from approved Institutions with a minimum of Lower Credit may also be considered for admission.
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The criteria for admission into the Master’s Programme (M.Sc.) are as stated bellow:
1. All candidates must have five credit passes including English, Mathematics and three relevant subjects at ‘O’ Level (WAEC, NECO, GCE, NABTEB and IGCSE).
2a. Professional Master’s Degree Programme
(i) Candidates for professional Master’s degree programme must obtain a minimum of Second Class Lower Division in the relevant discipline of Afe Babalola University or equivalent of any other University approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
(ii) Candidates with University degree in Third Class or HND plus a University PGD at credit level pass, (i.e., CGPA of 3.0/5.0) or 50% on weighted percentage average may be considered for admission into professional Master’s degree programmes.
(iii) All candidates must demonstrate adequate intellectual capacity, maturity and effective decision making and problem solving potentials.
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(i) Candidates with Bachelor’s degrees from the relevant discipline of Afe Babalola University or equivalent of any other University approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC) must obtain a minimum of second class lower division with a CGPA of 2.5/5.0 for an academic programme.
(ii) Candidates with at least a third class degree or HND and University PGD in the relevant discipline of Afe Babalola University or equivalent of any other University approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC) with CGPA of 3.0/5.0 may be considered for admission into academic Master’s degree programmes.
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i. A Master of Science (M.Sc.) Degree of Afe Babalola University or any other University recognized by the Senate of Afe Babalola University with minimum of 60% or a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.50.
ii. Any candidate with CGPA less than 3.50 with a minimum of 3.00 shall be admitted to M.Phil. /Ph.D. programme in the first instance, with the opportunity to convert to the Ph.D. programme later.
iii. An M.Phil. Degree in relevant discipline of any University recognized by the Senate of Afe Babalola University, with a minimum of 3.50 CGPA.
IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE STATED ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMMES, ALL APPLICANTS ARE TO NOTE THAT:
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Friday's Gun Control Bills Should be on 1st Reading in House
There were nine bills scheduled to be on the agenda for the House Public Safety Firearms Subcommittee this morning but the meeting was cancelled. However, the gun control bills that were reported out of committee on Friday will be on 1st reading in the House with final passaged expected on Thursday. Those bills are:House Bill 2 - "Universal" Background Checks would criminalize private transfers of firearms without first paying fees, with limited exceptions. Most transfers between friends, neighbors, or fellow hunters are not exempted. These proposals would have no impact on crime and are completely unenforceable. This bill is different than what passed earlier in the Senate.House Bill 9 Requires the reporting of lost or stolen firearms within 24 hours of gaining the knowledge that this has occurs. This bill victimizes gun owners who suffer loss or theft of their property with a fine if they don’t report a lost or stolen firearm within 24 hours of discovering them missing.House Bill 421 Rolling back pre-emption. This bill allows local governments to enact their own gun control ordinances, potentially resulting in a patchwork of laws and the Second Amendment not being protected across the state. It goes much further than the bill that passed the Senate earlier.House Bill 1083 Minors access to firearms. This bill severely restricts parental decisions about firearms in the home while attaching excessive penalties for violations.House Bill 674 ""Red Flag" bill. This bill allows the seizure of an individual’s firearms on baseless accusations without a hearing or other opportunity for the person to be heard in court. It permits the government to seize firearms based on weak evidence and nebulous standards of evidence. While the Senate bill that passed last week is bad (HB240) is bad this bill is much worse.
House Bill 812 Handgun rationing (one gun-a-month) arbitrarily rations an individual’s right to lawfully purchase a handgun to once within 30 days. This bill is different than what passed the Senate as HB812 does not include an exemption for people with a concealed handgun permit.
Please continue to call and email your delegate and urge them to opposed these bills.
On the Senate Calendar on Final passage today is SB 479 Protective orders; possession of firearms, surrender or transfer of firearms, penalty. This bill takes away the right to possess a firearm if an individual is subject to a permanent protective order that does not deal with family abuse.
There is one good bill on final vote today in the State Senate - SB 173. Prohibition on possession of stun weapon on school property; exemption for holder of concealed handgun permit. Allows the holder of a valid concealed handgun permit to possess a stun weapon on school property while in a motor vehicle in a parking lot, traffic circle, or other means of vehicular ingress or egress to the school. This bill reported out of committee unanimously last Wednesday. Please contact you Senator and urge them to support this bill.
Also, please continue to contact your delegate and urge them to oppose HB961 - the Governor's bill to ban the future sale of modern sporting rifles and handguns that are capable of holding a magazine larger than 10 rounds. This bill would ban most of the firearms currently sold in Virginia and would require you to register existing firearms that you own that fit the description in the bill.
Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee Results
Wednesday's final vote on SB240, the "red flag" bill, in the State Senate was almost foregone conclusion after yesteday's session where the bill was amended and engrossed to a third vote on a party line vote. Nothing really changed today. Much of the ground that was covered in debate today was a rehash of yesterday. Democrats continued to say they added many due process protections and compared what would happen in this legislation to what happens when someone goes to the magistrate to report domestic violence, and that the protections in SB240 are more extensive than what would occur in a domestic violence situation. The bill now moves to the House. Senator Stuart made an excellent closing argument on the floor that can be found below.
Senate Judiciary had a marathon meeting that started around 4:00 PM and lasted until approximately 7:30 PM. All but one of the good bills that were listed in yesterday's update were defeated. The Northam Administration stated their goal is not punishment but instead preventing acts before they occur. Translated, restricting the rights of law abiding gun owners is viewed as crime prevention instead of locking up violent criminals.
One bill of great importance was SB353, patroned by Senator John Bell (D- Loudoun). As drafted, the bill was targeting all outdoor shooting ranges. VSSA's lobbyist met with the Senator and was told it was a drafting error. When it was finally Senator Bell's turn, a substitute bill was distributed. It was significantly amended and became very clear that the target was not ranges like VSSA's 26 affiliated ranges, or other membership based ranges, but was targeting what the patron called "make shift" ranges on private property. As the patron continued he referenced what he said was the failure of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to deal with several instances that occurred over the past couple of years in Loudoun County. Several members of the committee, including Democrat Chap Peterson, questioned whether this was something better suited for local zoning boards to handle rather than the General Assembly. After about 30 minutes, the Committee decided to pass the bill by for the day.
One interesting note, at least one Democrat member of the committee, Senator Chap Peterson is apparently growing weary of the number of firearm related bills that have been heard by the committee. At one point he asked "Why does everything have to be about guns?"
A summary of the bills and the action taken is below.
SB75 Allowing access to firearms by minors; penalty. Stricken at the request of patron (14-Y 0-N)
SB76 Protective orders; possession of firearms; penalty Stricken at the request of the patron (14-0)
SB614 Prohibition on carrying of certain firearms in public places; County of Albemarle and City of Charlottesville; penalty. Stricken at request of the patron.
SB781 Leaving an unattended handgun in public; penalty - Stricken at the request of the patron.
SB18 Firearms; criminal history record information checks; age requirement; penalty. Provides that a person must be at least 21 years old, or must be at least 18 years old by the effective date of the bill, to purchase a firearm in addition to "universal" background check. - Stricken at request of the patron
SB13 Possessing or transporting a weapon within Capitol Square; penalty. Again, members on both sides were not ready to move forward with the bill as drafted so it was passed by for the day.
SB15 Carrying weapon into building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; penalty This bill was debated, it was passed by for the day due to numerous questions that legislators on both sides had. When Senator Edwards asked the patron if they could take it by for the day Senator Peterson was heard to say "how 'bout for the year".
SB207 Purchase of service handguns or other weapons by retired sworn law-enforcement officers - Reported unanimously
SB476 Risk management plan; coverage for injury or death on public school or college property; concealed handgun prohibition. - Rereferred to General Laws and Technology
SB477 Risk management plan; coverage for injury or death on state property; concealed handgun prohibition. - Rereferred to General Laws and Technology
SB372 Protective orders; possession of firearms; surrender or transfer of firearms; penalty. Incorporated into SB479 (13-Y 1-N)
SB479 Protective orders; possession of firearms; surrender or transfer of firearms; penalty. Reported (10-4) (Senator Norment joined the majority Democrats)
SB509 Local hunting and firearm regulation. Reported from Judiciary 12-0 and rereferred to Senate Agriculture
SB593 Licensed family day homes; storage of firearms - Reported 12-3 and rereffered to Rehabilitation and Social Services
SB82 Violation of protective order; armed with firearm or other deadly weapon; mandatory minimum sentence; penalty. Passed by indefinitely (8-Y 6-N 1-A)
SB83 Brandishing a firearm; law-enforcement officer; penalty. Passed by indefinitely (7-Y 6-N 1-A)
SB84 Concealment of firearm in committing felony; penalty. 01/22/20 Senate: Passed by Indefinately (9-Y 5-N)
SB85 Stolen firearms; penalties. Passed by indefinitely (9-Y 5-N)
SB86 Use or display of firearm in committing felony; penalty. Passed by indefinitely (9-Y 6-N)
SB88 Discharging firearm; penalty. Passed by indefinitely (9-Y 6-N)
SB89 Violation of protective order while armed with firearm or other deadly weapon; mandatory minimum sentence; penalty. Passed by indefinitely (9-Y 6-N)
SB173 Prohibition on possession of stun weapon on school property; exemption for holder of concealed handgun permit. Reported with amendments (13-Y 0-N)
SB248 Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund. Reported substitute (9-Y 4-N) Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (Substitute removes all references to guns
SB263 Concealed handgun permits; demonstration of competence. Removes the option for concealed handgun permit applicants to demonstrate competence with a handgun by completing an electronic, video, or online course conducted by a state-certified or National Rifle Association-certified firearms instructor. Reported Judiciary (7-Y 6-N) Democrat Creigh Deeds joined GOP members in opposing the bill
SB319 Security of public property. Passed by indefinitely (9-Y 6-N)
SB353 Outdoor shooting ranges; prohibited adjacent to residential areas; exceptions; civil penalty. This bill was discussed extensively, a substitute was offered that made it clear the bill is not aimed at ranges like the 26 VSSA affiliated ranges but instead at private individuals who have built ranges on their private property. In the end the bill was passed by for the day as committee members believed it still needed more work. Senator Chap Peterson especially seemed to think this was a local matter and not one for the General Assembly.
HB581 Allowing access to firearms by minors; penalty. There was debate on the bill. Senator Chap Peterson was not comfortable with the language nor with the raising of the penalty from a misdemeanor to a Class 6 Felony so the bill went by for the day.
SB928 Possession, purchase, and transport of certain firearms in certain localities. Provides that a person may lawfully possess, purchase, or transport a firearm or firearms magazine that he would otherwise be lawfully permitted to possess, purchase, or transport on January 1, 2020, while he is in a locality that has adopted an ordinance, resolution, or motion that authorizes the possession, purchase, or transportation of such firearm or firearms magazine within such locality. Passed by indefinitely (9-Y 5-N)
SB490 Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearms following conviction for assault and battery of a family or household member; The bill provides for a process by which a person convicted of such crime may petition the circuit court for a reinstatement of his right to possess or transport a firearm and the factors a court shall consider in determining such reinstatement. There was much debate on this bill. The committee heard from the public and then passed the bill by for the day, mainly because it was getting late and there is more work that needs to be done with the bill.
Three Gun Bills Advance to Final Vote, Governor Temporarily Bans Guns on Capitol Grounds and Reduces Points of Access to One for Lobby Day
Today, the Virginia Senate advanced SB 35 (Chipping away at state preemption), SB 69 (Handgun Rationing), and SB70 ("Universal" Background Checks) to a final vote. Expect these to be on the floor calendar for tomorrow. SB240 (Red flag bill) was passed by for the day as there were multiple substitutes to consider. Continue to contact your senators and urge them to oppose all of these bills, even if your senator is anti-rights. They need to hear from gun owners to know we opposed these bills.
For those planning to come to the annual Lobby Day at the Capitol on Monday, Governor Northam announced a temporary state of emergency beginning Friday extending to Tuesday morning, that includes a ban on firearms and other items that could be used as weapons on Capitol Grounds. He has also reduced the number of entrance points to one for Monday. All attendees will be required to enter through the entrance at 9th and Grace Street.
Photo by Mel Leonor, @MelLeonor RTD ReporterThere will also be multiple road closures:
1) West bound traffic on East Main St. from North 14th St. to North 9th Street. Alternate routes will be Canal Street or the Downtown Expressway.
2)North bound traffic on N. 9th Street from East Cary to E. Broad Street will be closed. Alternate route will be N. 7th Street.
3)East Grace Street between N. 8th St. and N. 9th St. will be closed to all traffic.
4)East Franklin St. between N. 8th St. and N. 9th Street will be closed to all traffic.
Please be aware of these changes and plan accordingly.
Only One Gun Bill on Docket in Senate Judiciary Wednesday Afternoon
The Docket for Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee meeting has been posted and the only firearm related bill is:
S.B. 51Patron: SpruillCarrying a concealed handgun; consumption of alcohol in a public park; penalty. Prohibits a person who carries a concealed handgun onto the premises of any public park or other public space when alcoholic beverages have been approved for sale or consumption therein from consuming an alcoholic beverage while on the premises. A violation of this provision is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
This language would be added to the code section related to carrying concealed in a restaurant that serves alcohol.
Bill Would Increase Taxes on Guns and Ammo
A bill introduced in the House of Delegates would implement an additional sales tax on all firearm and ammunition purchases. House Bill 960 is awaiting a committee referral. The Sportsmen's Alliance has more:
HB 960 would require all individuals who purchase a firearm or ammunition to pay a new tax in addition to the taxes already incurred by the Pittman-Robertson Act and state sales taxes. The funds from this new tax would be earmarked for a student mental health and safety fund, which would be used to hire full time school counselors, social workers and school psychologists.Contact your member of the House of Delegates and tell them that the taxes you currently pay on firearms and ammunition provides funding for the selection, restoration and improvement of wildlife habitat, and for wildlife management research. Let them know that you currently pay an 11-percent federal excise tax on sporting arms, ammunition and archery equipment, and a 10-percent tax on handguns and oppose any additional taxes on your constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Legislative Update - Senate Judiciary Advances Gun Control Bills
After an hour delay in starting this morning's committee meeting, caused by the new rules banning firearms in the building, causing staff and members to now go through metal detectors, Democrats wasted no time advancing their gun control agenda.
The following bills were reported out of committee and are headed to the floor. Many of them were combined versions of multiple bills and we are waiting for the substitution versions to be printed.
SB 35 Firearms, etc.; permitted events.
SB 69 Handguns; limitation on purchases, penalty.
SB 70 Firearm transfers; criminal history record information check, penalty.
SB 240 Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk of injury to himself, etc., penalties.
The meeting got off to a less than friendly start when it was brought to the attention of State Senator John Edwards that he had assured the committee that no gun bills would be taken up at today's meeting because State Senator Stanley had to be away from the session today. But when the the agenda came out on Friday, a number of gun related bills were included on the docket. Senator Mark Obeshain made a motion that all of the gun bills go by for the day, a motion that after some discussion, failed on a party line vote.
Then, even though the bill was not on the docket, Committee Chairman John Edwards announced that State Senator Richard "Dick" Saslaw had requested that his "assault weapon" ban bill SB16, be stricken. Again their was back and forth about the rules, which indicate that bills not on the docket (which SB16 was not) could not be stricken at this time, In a second violation of the rules, the bill was stricken.
The first bills to be taken up were SB22 and SB69, both of which would reinstate handgun rationing. SB22 was rolled into Senator Mamie Locke's SB69 and that is the bill that advanced on a 9-5 party line vote. It does include an exception for individuals that hold a valid concealed handgun permit. SB69 now goes to the floor. Contact your state senator and urge him or her to oppose the bill. You can find talking points on why gun rationing fails by clicking here.
Next up was so-called "universal" background checks. Again, Senator Saslaw had a bill, SB12, and Louise Lucas had SB70. SB12 was rolled into SB70 and that is the bill that was taken up. During discussion of the bill, State Senator Chap Peterson said he had concerns about the word "transfer" in the bill. This word is how similar laws in Washington state have required background checks simply for lending your gun to someone at the range. While SB70 included exceptions for loaning someone a firearm at the range, Senator Peterson said he was concerned about inclusion of the word, and offered a substitute, that dealt strickly with sales of firearms but it also appears that it removed all of the exceptions in the bill, including for sales to immediate family. You would be able to give firearm as a gift, but not sell it to your daughter, son, or brother. We are awaiting the printed copy of the substitute to confirm what it appeared from discussion was the case. It should also be noted that neither Secretary of Public Safety Brian Moran, nor the gun ban lobby, were happy with the substitute. The bill was reported on a 9-5 vote and heads to the floor. Contact your Senator and urge him or her to oppose SB70. You can find talking points on why "universal" background checks don't reduce crime by clicking here.
Next up was Senator Barker's "Red Flag" bill (SB240). There were a number of line amendments to the bill resulting in a substitute to be passed by the committee. None of the amendments address the flaws in the bill such as simply requiring "probable cause" for an order to be issued confiscating someone's firearms before the respondent has an opportunity to defend themselves and other flaws in the bill. VSSA is awaiting a copy of the substitute but none of the amendments change our opposition to the bill. State Senator Joe Morrissey said he was going to vote to report the bill but had concerns that needed to be addressed. He told the VSSA legislative team after the meeting that he would not vote for the bill on the floor in it's current form . VSSA will continue to work with Senator Morrissey to see additional amendments can be added to address the 13 items that have been identified to make the bill constitutional. Contact your Senator now and urge them to oppose the SB240.
Finally, SB35 and SB450, both dealing with local control of firarms, specifically related to allowing them in the chambers of local governing bodies and permitted events. The Democrats said they are simply letting the local governments determine if they want firearms in their board and council meetings and at events requiring a permit. Like the other bills, SB35 advanced to the floor. Contact your Senator and urge them to oppose SB35.
Shooting Ranges, Gun Shops, Clubs Sponsoring Buses to Richmond January 20th
Some shooting range, gun shops, and clubs have set up buses to Richmond for the Annual Lobby Day on January 20th. While a number of gun bills may have already been heard by then, they would still have to be taken up in the other house of the legislature (i.e. Senate bills taken up in the House and vice versa) before they go to Governor Northam. If we don't stop them in one house we may stop them in the other. So, it is critical that a large number of gun owners show up in Richmond , talk with your legislators, and let their voice be heard on both January 13th, the day NRA has designated, and on January 20th. Below is a list of buses we are aware of that will travel to Richmond on January 20th if you want to avoid parking issues. If you are driving, please be aware that entry into the Pocahantas building will be difficult with only one access point so please arrive early if you want to speak with your legislators.
Charlottesville: Rivanna Rifle & Pistol Club has organized two buses to leave Charlottesville at 6:00 am to arrive in Richmond by 8:00 am and will leave Richmond at 2:00 pm to return to Charlottesville. Cost is $30 per seat to cover expense of buses. Contact Timothy Rogers at trogers307@hotmail.com to reserve a seat.
Culpeper/Warrenton: Bus by Rivenoak Armoury LLC. Contact rivenoak.armoury@gmail.com for details.
Draper (Pulaski County): New River Sports is chartering a bus that leaves 3376 Kirby Rd (Frontage Rd) Draper, VA at 3:30 AM. Cost is $50/rider. Contact nrsportsva@gmail.com or 540-980-1133.
Lynchburg: SafeSide Tactical has a bus that starts in Roanoke. All riders get a free “shall not be infringed” T-shirt and over $150 in coupons from area retailers. Lynchburg Bus - $35 leaves SafeSide Lynchburg at 5:00 am https://www.safesidetactical.com/rangemanagement/classdetail.cfm?class_id=2297
Manassas: Fairfax County Rod and Gun Club is planning two buses from Manassas for club members. If you are a member, contact the club.
Patrick County: The Patrick County GOP has a bus from Stuart, Virginia leaving at 3:30 am and returning around 9:30 PM. Tickets are $50 per person and may be purchased from Eventbrite at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/patrick-co-gop-bus-to-richmond-for-lobby-day-2a-tickets-86869353575?ref=eios
Roanoke: SafeSide Tactical has a bus. All riders get a free “shall not be infringed” T-shirt (graphics coming soon) and over $150 in coupons from area retailers. - Roanoke bus - $35 leaves SafeSide Roanoke @ 4:30am https://www.safesidetactical.com/rangemanagement/classdetail.cfm?class_id=2295
Shenandoah County: The Shenandoah County GOP has two buses coming. They leave from Woodstock at 6:30 AM. They plan to be in Richmond by 9:00 AM and riders will meet with Delegate Todd Gilbert. Contact Dianne Wyss for more information at info@shencogop.org.
Winchester: CK3 Guns in Stephens City will be sponsoring a bus. Departing Winchester and making a stop in Front Royal. Tickets are $35/seat. For details contact Chuck Klingenberg at ck3guns@gmail.com.
Senate Bill Targets Outdoor Shooting Ranges
On January 6th, State Senator John Bell prefiled SB353, a bill that would prohibit the operation of an outdoor shooting range, defined in the bill, within 500 yards of any property zoned for residential use, with one exception, the range must have used the "Range Design Criteria" developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Health, Safety and Security. VSSA has a number of affiliated ranges and it is possible that some of these have used the above criteria when they were constructed, but this bill would also prevent individual land owners from constructing a range on their property for private use unless it complies with the above criteria. An individual in violation of the law were it to pass would be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $1,000 nor more than $100,000 for the initial violation and $5,000 per day for each day of violation thereafter.
Gun owners need to be contacting their legislators as bills continue to be filed. Emails are fine should be short (no long missives) but phone calls are better. Be polite, and focused in your message.
The Democrats have renamed the Senate Courts of Justice Committee to Senate Judiciary. The Committee members are:
Edwards (Chair), Saslaw, Norment, Lucas, Obenshain, McDougle, Stuart, Stanley, Chafin, Deeds, Petersen, Surovell, McClellan, Boysko, Morrissey
The Democrats on the committee that are most likely to be receptive to gun owner interests are Senator Edwards (the Chair of the committee), as well as Senators Deeds and Petersen.
Gun Bills Likely to Move in 1st Full Week of General Assembly
VSSA's lobbyist is getting indications that Northam's gun control bills will move the first full week of the legislature. That's the week of January 13th. This likely explains NRA-ILA's focus on the first meeting of Senate Courts of Justice on January 13 and why gun owners need to be contacting their
Graphic by NRA-ILAdelegate and senator now. You can send an email but a phone call to their Capitol Office phone would be even better. If you are going to be in Richmond, schedule an appointment to meet with them but arrive early for your meeting because access to the Pocahontas Building is not easy and if there are large numbers of people attempting to enter it can take a while as there is only one access point.
Additionally, special focus should be given to Senator John Edwards, who is the incoming chairman of Senate Courts of Justice and until recently was an ally of gun owners. Senator Edwards needs to hear especially from gun owners in his district (Roanoke, Montgomery, and Giles). Roanoke Rifle and Revolver club is in his district so members of the club need to contact Senator Edwards by email and by phone and urge him to oppose any bills that restricts the rights of law abiding gun owners and especially SB16, which would ban many of the guns that used at RRRC for competition and target shooting. Members of RRRC that have youth that shoot in competitive programs need to have those young shooters contact Senator Edwards and let him know that they would be negatively affected by SB16 and that they don't want their competition firearms banned.
Bearingarms.com: GOP, 2A Groups Reject Virginia “Red Flag” Proposal
In Friday's eBullet, VSSA shared the article about SB 240 - Senator Barker's "Substantial Risk" or "red flag" bill, from Bearingarms.com. A follow-up article was posted on Saturday that shared comments from Delegate Todd Gilbert and from VSSA. From Delegate Gilbert:
“Our concern with this bill and others like it is that these bills go too far, and open the door for abuse that would not only endanger citizens but also law enforcement. There is room to tweak our existing, proven system of dealing with those who may be a threat to themselves or others while preserving due process, but this bill comes up short.”And comment from VSSA:
“As with other laws of this type, it does nothing for those ruled to be a risk to no longer be a risk other than taking the firearms. It takes guns prior to a hearing to determine if the individual is a risk, and it gives immunity to law enforcement if someone’s firearms are damaged or stolen while in law enforcement custody. It has none of the constitutional protections that for instance, Dave Kopel, recommends for the law to be constitutional.”
I did not go into detail in my comment on those protections but I will list them here. In testimony before congress last spring, Independence Institute Research Director Dave Kopel listed the following constitutional protections that should be part of any "Extreme Risk Protection" or red flag laws:
Petitions initiated by law enforcement, not by spurned dating partners or relationships from long ago.
Ex parte hearings only when there is proof of necessity.
Proof by clear and convincing evidence, which has been corroborated.
Guarantees of all due process rights, including cross-examination and right to counsel.
Court-appointed counsel if the respondent so wishes.
A civil remedy for victims of false and malicious petitions.
Safe and orderly procedures for relinquishment of firearms.
Strict controls on no-knock raids.
Storage of relinquished firearms by responsible third parties.
Prompt restoration of concealed carry permits for the falsely accused.
Prompt return of firearms upon the termination of an order.
Renewal of orders based on presentation of clear and convincing proof.
Not allowing time-limited orders to be bootstrapped into lifetime federal prohibition.
When you read SB 240, it does include allowing firearms to be stored by third parties. Also, only law enforcement can go to a judge to request such an order as Kopel mentions in his list, but the bill only requires that a judge determine there is “probable cause” that someone poses a “substantial risk” to themselves or others, not the "clear and convincing evidence" that Kopel listed. Probable cause is a very low legal bar. SB 240 is more about confiscating firearms that providing assistance to those in crisis or public safety.
Will GOP Help Pass Some Gun Control?
State Senator Tommy Norment seems to think so. He believes that so called "universal" background checks and so called "red flag" laws will be two likely candidates. From Cam Edwards at Bearingarms.com:
He made the statement at the annual Kaufman & Canoles Business Leaders Forum at the Princess Anne Country Club in Virginia Beach. During the luncheon, Norment and Virginia Beach Del. Barry Knight (R-81st District) talked about some legislation Virginia can expect to see.
Norment’s official position as co-chair of the Senate Finance Committee makes him the man at the tip of the spear for all things budget-related. His position as Senate majority leader has changed as Democrats take control of the Senate.
Norment said it’s clear recent gatherings at local government meetings supporting gun rights are making a statement. There’s no legal impact, but the protests are expressions of pro-gun values.
“Universal background checks, I predict, is coming out no matter what the governor has said. It is going to happen because there is majority of Republicans and Democrats who will pass it,” he said.Cam mentioned that he has heard that some legislators in suburban districts seem to think that the uprising of gun owners is tied to SB 16. I agree with Cam that these legislators need to reconsider that position because SB 16 is only one of the bad bills. Make sure you are contacting your legislators and let them know your position on all of the bills that would restrict your rights.
Suffolk, Amelia, Accomack, Pass Resolutions that Avoid Declaring 2A Sanctuary Status
Last night, Accomack, Amelia, and the City of Suffolk held board and council meetings. All three stopped short of declaring their localities 2A Sanctuaries.
Suffolk did not have a resolution item on their agenda but the Suffolk News Herald reports that the council chambers were packed with gun owners. Council added it, read it and passed it before supporters of a Second Amendment Sanctuary City resolution had a chance to speak. The resolution simply states support for the U.S. and Virginia Constitutions.
Unlike Suffolk, Amelia had scheduled a special meeting for the purpose of passing a sanctuary resolution. In the end however, as Bearingarms.com's Cam Edwards tweeted from the meeting last night, without hearing public comment from a packed high school auditoriaum, passed a watered down resolution that simply asked the General Assembly not to pass unconstitutional laws.
So, the board of supervisors just approved (without hearing public comment) a resolution that does NOT declare Amelia County a #2A Sanctuary, but urges lawmakers not to pass unconstitutional gun laws.— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) December 19, 2019 Gun owners faired a little better, but not much, in Accomack County where the Board passed a resolution that stopped short of declaring Accomack County a Second Amendment Sanctuary county but took a stand supporting the second amendment.
Photo by Shore Daily NewsThe operative language in the Accomack resolution is:
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board, recognizing that certain legislative initiatives are expected to be introduced in the 2020 General Assembly, requests that as part of our legislative agenda, our State Delegate and State Senator diligently review and oppose any such legislation that may unconstitutionally restrict the 2nd Amendment rights of our county’s citizens, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board directs its staff to forward a copy of this resolution to the County’s elected representatives in the Virginia General Assembly.The Shore Daily News reported that a former sheriff and current board member spoke against passing a sanctuary resolution and letters were presented by Sheriff Todd Godwin and Commonwealth’s Attorney Spencer Morgan while stating support for the rights of citizens to keep and bear arms but also stated that neither had the authority to ignore laws that were legally passed and certified as constitutional by the courts.
Reports from Suffolk indicate gun owners were not happy with the resolution that was passed. In Amelia, Cam Edwards reported that he wasn't sure if those in attendance understood what was passed due to the poor quality of the sound system in the auditorium.
Six More Localities Join 2A Localities Bringing the Total to 101
Beginning yesterday afternoon, five more localities joined the Second Amendment Sanctuary movement. The first was Mathews County, which had a huge turnout, many of which took off from work to attend the meeting and show their support for the resolution. It was approved on a vote of 4-1. Then came Frankly County where another large crowd showed up in late afternoon. That resolution also passed unanimously (7-0).
Photo Courtesy WSLS News10Then the evening meetings began. Prince Edward County met at Prince Edward High School and another large crowd filed the auditorium.
Auditorium is pretty close to capacity with a steady stream of folks still coming inside. We’re almost ready to begin the meeting with at least 350 in attendance and more on the way. pic.twitter.com/JpFn8wNuz1— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) December 17, 2019Bearingarms.com's Cam Edwards was live tweeting from Prince Edward and shared that one speaker identified himself as a member of the Virginia National Guard, said he was speaking in his capacity as a private citizen and asked for approval of the #2A Sanctuary resolution to a round of cheers from the crowd.
York County also approved a resolution last night making it a Constitutional County. There are several other localities that have previously approved resolutions that took the route that York County did last night. The resolution passed on a vote of 4-1, and according to 13 News, the one supervisor that voted against the resolution said she was torn:
Noll said she was torn because she supports the second amendment and gun rights, but disagreed with the process. She said the resolution came too soon and too fast for a thorough vetting of the legal ramifications the county might face.Shortly after 11 PM, Stafford County passed a Sanctuary resolution. Gun owners turned out by the thousands. WJLA ABC News 7 reported that over 2000 people showed up, and there were even food trucks and a "Party in the Parking Lot". The Board Room only held about 200.
Photo by WJLA ABC News7 Heather Graf
Photo by WJLA ABC News 7The Board voted 7-0 to officially designate Stafford as a Second Amendment Sanctuary. WJLA's Victoria Sanchez reported via Twitter that the Stafford County Democratic Party issued the below statement:
The Stafford Co. Democratic Committee sent me this statement regarding #SecondAmendmentSanctuary:
“... we do not support the effort of gun rights activists to enlist local governments to aid in their push to dramatically reinterpret the historic meaning of that right.” @ABC7News pic.twitter.com/w3inv4Tyed— Victoria Sanchez (@VictoriaSanchez) December 18, 2019 Finally, the Town of Vinton, which is in Roanoke County, passed a resolution by a vote of 4-1.
Accomack and Amelia County will consider resolutions tonight.
House and Senate Election Maps Comparison to 2A Resolution Map
Do you see anything similar in the two election result maps and the 2A Locality Map?
That upper right hand corner is where there is a concentration of Democrat House and Senate Districts. It is also where there are currently no 2A Localities. That one blue spot in the lower west are the districts that include Roanoke as a majority portion of the population. That explains why they are blue but almost all of the district except Roanoke have passed 2A resolutions.
Bearingarms.com: Separating Fact From Fiction with Governor Northam's Gun Control Plans
As is to be expected, with the giddiness of the Democrats to restrict our rights after winning a majority in the state legislature, there has been some disinformation about several of the pre-filed bills and their potential impact on Virginia gun owners. Yesterday, Cam Edwards did a great job of dispelling some of the myths that have popped up on social media. Cam covered bills like SB64 and SB 67. He corrected the myth that Northam said he would call out the National Guard to enforce any gun bills passed - that was actually a suggestion from former slip-and-fall lawyer turned congressman, Don McEachin. Cam ends with this:
The truth is, the bills that have already been introduced are bad enough that we don’t need to invent any new ones. Here’s a partial list of the legislation Virginia’s anti-gun lawmakers, including Governor Northam, are considering:
banning the most commonly produced and owned rifles in the United States
banning magazines that can hold more than ten rounds of ammunition
requiring background checks on most transfers of firearms
fining gun owners who fail to report lost or stolen firearms
prohibits individuals convicted of misdemeanor assault and battery of a family member from owning a gun.
banning bump stocks and binary triggers
turning state-owned and leased buildings into gun free zones
rationing handgun purchases to one per month
stripping parents of their ability to decide when their child is responsible enough to access a firearm.
weakening firearms preemption law by allowing localities to ban firearms from permitted events.
Those are just the worst of the bills that have already been pre-filed before the legislative session begins in early January. Bills can be filed until January 17th, and we know that there will be more heading our way, including an Extreme Risk Protection Order or “red flag” firearms seizure bill. Second Amendment supporters need to be armed with the facts in the weeks ahead, because if we focus on the fictions, we’re only going to be hurting our ability to effectively push back on the infringements headed our way.It doesn't help our cause if we just read parts of the bill and don't read the full bill in context. Like Cam said, it's bad enough what Northam has said he want's to do, so we really don't need to misrepresent bills to make him look bad.
Safeside Tactical Providing Buses to Gun Owner Lobby Day
SafeSide Tactical in Roanoke is providing buses for gun owners in the western part of the Commonwealth to travel to Richmond for Gun Owner Lobby Day on January 20th. All you have to do is click here to sign up. The price is $35.00.
3:30am Secure Parking Gates open @ SafeSide
4:30am bus will leave from SafeSide Roanoke
5am Stop @ Big Boyz Guns (Blue Ridge) for pickup
8am Arrive in Richmond
2pm Leave Richmond arriving back in Blue Ridge/Roanoke by 6pm.
All riders will get a free "Shall Not Be Infringed" T-shirt and coupon pack from local vendors valued at over $150 (details will be added).
Safeside also had this suggestion on the web site:
Please consider dressing professionally so we can show the gun haters that WE THE PEOPLE are made up of all walks of life. They also have a bus starting in Lynchburg. Click here for information on that bus.
Study on Expanded Background Checks in Washington, Oregon, Yield Different Results
Last week the Crime Report had this article about a study of Oregon and Washington's "expanded" background checks since passage in 2014 and 15.
State laws in Washington (2014) and Oregon (2015) extended existing background check requirements to private purchases of handguns. Washington, for example required all private sales of firearms to be conducted through a federally licensed firearms dealer, who in turn conducts the check.But the study by the University of California Davis Violence Prevention Research program found that pre-firearm checks for private sales increased by only 4 percent between January 1999 and December, 2018.
In contrast, a similar statute in Oregon resulted in an 18 percent increase in such checks over the same period. The study authors did not offer conclusive reasons for the difference, suggesting that Washington State’s figures represented a “gradual” accommodation with the new regulations. “The new laws may have had effects that we were unable to measure or detect,” said the study.I have always said part of the reason that these laws have lower than expected increases in background checks is because the gun ban lobby believes that a large number of private sales occur when they are actually only a small percentage of the firearm market.
Localities Continue to Approve 2A Resolutions
Last night, two more localities, Montgomery County and Pulaski, passed Second Amendment resolutions, bringing the total number of localities to 95. More meetings are scheduled for tonight.
Tuesday December 17:
Mathews County will vote on a 2A resolution during their 1:00 PM meeting. The meeting will be held at 17 Church Street, Mathews, VA.
Franklin County - There is no resolution on the agenda. There are five cititizens signed up for the Public Comment portion of the agenda and one of those may ask the board to consider a resolution.
Stafford County - There is a 2A resolution item under New Business on the 7:00 PM portion of the agenda.
York County - The agenda includes consideration of a "Constitutional County" during the 6:00 PM meeting
Clarke County - There is no resolution for consideration on the agenda but there is a public comment period so that is an opportunity to ask the board to consider and pass a resolution.
Prince Edward County - Will hold a special meeting Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Prince Edward County High School Auditorium, 1482 Zion Hill Road, Farmville, Virginia. The Board will receive citizen input and consider a resolution regarding declaring Prince Edward County a Second Amendment Santuary County. The meeting is open to the public; however, only citizens and taxpayers of Prince Edward County will have the opportunity to provide input. This is the only item on the agenda for this special meeting and no other items will be discussed at this time.
Vinton Town Council - Council meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month. An agenda was not available on the web site at the time this was posted but by clicking the link ahead of Tuesday the agenda may be available.
Board meetings continue to draw 500-1000 people. If all of the folks who have shown up to board meetings show up to Gun Owner Lobby Day at the Sate Capitol on January 20th, we could have a crowd approaching 100,000. Remember, as Bearingarms.com Editor Cam Edwards has said on multiple occasions, these resolutions are a defensive position and are just a starting point. We need to show up at the General Assembly when it convenes in January.
You can find links to the above meeting agendas by clicking here.
There are now 91 Sanctuary Localities in Virginia
After last night's local governing board meetings, there are now 91 localities that have passed resolutions declaring themselves 2A Sanctuary Localities, or in a couple of cases (Henrico County for example) that they will uphold the Constitutions of Virginia and the United States. The gun ban lobby and Governor Northam have taken notice. At Chesterfield's Board of Supervisors' meeting on Wednesday, there was a massive turnout of gun owners, both inside the Board meeting (the Public Meeting Room only holds about 290 people) and outside at a rally with an estimated crowd of between 2000 and 3000 people in front of the Old Courthouse building where State Senator Amanda Chase. There was no resolution on the agenda but during their public comment period, they allowed 15 people to address the board on matters not on the agenda. It was clear from the number of anti-rights speakers (about half of those signed up to speak) that the gun ban lobby has taken notice of the push back around the state. There is a GOP majority on the Chesterfield Board and they should have included a resolution on the agenda. For what ever reason, they have chosen not to at this time. A new Board will take office in January and we will have another opportunity for a resolution to be considered.
You can find updated information about the list of localities that have passed resolutions on the VSSA web site.
Next week's board meetings include:
Monday December 16:
City of Roanoke - There is no resolution on the agenda but there is a "Hearing of Citizens" on the 2:PM part of the agenda which is a good time to again urge the city to pass a resolution.
Montgomery County - There is an item on the agenda to consider a 2A resolution during the meeting scheduled for 7:15 PM.
Wednesday December 18
Accomack County - The Board will have a public comment period and have an item listed as "Discussion of Second Amendment Resolution" on the 5:00 PM agenda.
Amelia County - The Board will consider a 2A resolution at the meeting scheduled for 7:00 PM at Amelia County High School
Anderson and Associates Law Firm Gives Gun Law Updates
Found this thanks to the VA2ANews You Tube Video channel. It is highly recommended you listen to this. The Attorney talks about the new talk about the so-called "grandfather" clause in the "assault weapons" ban bill. Let me be clear, VSSA opposes registration, and VSSA opposes a ban on modern sporting rifles. It is VSSA's responsibility to keep members and gun owners informed so that is why this video is being shared.
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Barney Irvine: 'High-risk' regional highways need addressing
16 Jul, 2019 5:00am
Govt claims to want to boost safety - so why chop highway spending? Photo / File
By: Barney Irvine
"Very low-value projects with low traffic volumes…they simply don't stack up."
That's how Transport Minister Phil Twyford last week described the 12 state highway projects around the country which the Government has recently decided to down-scale and postpone, as part of a shift in investment priorities away from roads and towards public transport and rail.
It's also how he justified his decision not to heed calls by the Business Advisory Council to build those roads (up to their original specifications) to help stave off a looming "infrastructure crisis."
The AA doesn't believe these projects are of low value, and nor will many of the people in the regions that are set to miss out.
The 12 projects were originally put forward because they respond to very real safety and congestion challenges. They encompass some of the most dangerous stretches of highway in the country, and some of New Zealand's fastest-growing areas.
That's why the Transport Agency, in recommending down-scaling the projects, has made it clear that much of the new roading and safety infrastructure that the projects encompass will need to be delivered – and delivered soon – if the Government is to achieve its own goals for safety and congestion.
This is going to cost $1.3 billion over the next decade.
The Ministry of Transport expects the amount of driving done on New Zealand roads to increase by around 15 per cent by 2028, yet investment in new roads is set to fall by nearly half.
Possibly the most concerning thing is that the Government is now saying there's no money in the kitty for these changes.
We don't think this is good enough, particularly for a Government which has clearly identified road safety as the number one transport priority.
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It's important to bear in mind that, for a number of these projects, planning was well down the track before the decision was made to re-evaluate. In 2017, people in Northland were told by NZTA that work would start on Whangārei to Port Marsden this year.
The affected communities have been given no information on when they'll see a lasting solution.
We don't expect that all 12 roads will be built in full, immediately. In many cases, some down-scaling will be justified.
Barney Irvine. Photo / File
But the people travelling on these high-risk highways cannot be forced to wait. In the short-term, the Government needs to find space in the transport budget to get these urgent safety projects happening.
In the longer term, there are serious questions about whether the Government has got the balance right in terms of infrastructure investment. The Ministry of Transport expects the amount of driving done on New Zealand roads to increase by around 15 per cent by 2028, yet investment in new roads is set to fall by nearly half (from $1.63 billion today to around $860 million). This can only mean bad news for road safety and congestion.
No one is questioning the value of investment in public transport and rail, but it can't come at the cost of adequate investment in the road network. New Zealand desperately needs both.
• Barney Irvine is the principal advisor on infrastructure with the New Zealand Automobile Association
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e5 Tug” – Electric Tug Powered by Battery and Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Tokyo Kisen Co., Ltd. and e5 Lab Inc. have jointly developed the new concept design of “e5 Tug,” electric propulsion harbor tugboat powered by large-capacity battery and a hydrogen fuel cell.
The e5 Tug is a harbor tug fully electrified and designed to minimize environmental footprint.
The e5 Tug is equipped with a propulsion system running on “e5 powertrain platform”, devised and planned by e5 Lab, which utilizes a large-capacity battery system as a main power source and a hydrogen fuel cell and generator as the auxiliary power source.
This electric propulsion system will ensure sufficient bollard pull and continuous cruising time necessary for harbor tugboat which requires a large-capacity power to function. Furthermore, CO2 emission is minimized by incorporating fuel cell.
This joint project is drawing upon knowledge and experience of Tokyo Kisen as a tugboat operator and e5 Lab is undertaking concept planning / development, design, and project management.
We will proceed with the project by seeking advice from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, ClassNK, and others for the regulatory compliance. After the final investment decision, we aim to launch the tug for commercial operations at Yokohama Port and Kawasaki Port in 2022.
e5 tug outline
Type of vessel Harbor tugboat
Operating area Yokohama Port / Kawasaki Port
Propulsion 2 x 1500kW azimuth thruster
Towing power 50 tons
Service speed 14 knots
Main features of e5 Tug
Environmental performance It reduces CO2 emissions in all operational phases such as push / pull, transit and standby (it can also be reduced on the basis of Well-to-Propeller measure).
Contribution at the time of disasters It has a function of power supply from ship to shore in the event of a disaster and can be used as an emergency power source. Fully electrified powertrains can adopt the most suitable energy sources (lithium-ion battery, hydrogen fuel cell, all-solid-state battery, LNG generators, etc.) in accordance with technological progress.
Future scalability In the future, it will be possible to achieve zero emissions on Well-to-Propeller basis in combination with renewable energy.
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Gliding On star Ray Henwood dies
Ray Henwood helped co-found Wellington's Circa Theatre. Photo: supplied
Veteran New Zealand actor and star of Gliding On, Ray Henwood, has died. He was 82.
This story was first published by RNZ
A pillar of Wellington's Circa Theatre since co-founding it in 1976, Henwood appeared in many plays, films and television programmes, notably the sitcom Gliding On.
Circa Theatre confirmed Henwood's death today,
Henwood also did one-man performances as the poet Dylan Thomas and the actor Richard Burton - both fellow Welshmen.
He graduated in chemistry at Swansea University before emigrating to New Zealand aged 25 and worked as a teacher and forensic toxicologist while developing a second career as an actor, eventually turning professional in 1970.
Drawing on his work as a forensic chemist, he campaigned against the use of cannabis and was author of the 1970 book A Turned On World - Drugs in New Zealand.
Henwood is survived by his second wife, the retired judge Carolyn Henwood, and their two children, one of whom is the comedian, Dai Henwood.
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1580256000000 1580169600000 1580083200000 1579863600000 1579777200000 Last week recap 1518652800000 Daily Commentaries
Wednesday was a day of big swings and reversals for all the FX majors after US CPI data. AUD/USD back to 79 cents, more than a full cent off its daily low.
By Nick Parsons
After the much-hyped US CPI figures, Wednesday was a day of some stunning reversals in global equity and foreign exchange markets. Immediately prior to the CPI release, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 150 points at 24,810. Less than 10 minutes later, it had fallen almost 500 points to 24,350. Barely ninety minutes after that, the index had rallied 370 points off its low and added a further 100 points before the close. It was a similar tale of extreme swings in FX. AUD/USD stood at 0.7860 just before the inflation numbers and, as stocks tumbled, it fell almost a full cent to the 0.7775 area. Two hours later, the pair had regained all its losses and more to a best level of 0.7885 and by the close of business in New York it was back on a 79 cents big figure for the first time since February 5th.
After the NAB business survey earlier in the week, yesterday we saw the Westpac survey on consumer confidence fell by 2.3% to 102.7 in February from 105.1 in January. The bank notes, “The survey was conducted over the week of February 5 – February 11. That week was marked by a wave of volatility in global share markets. The Australian market, which was more stable than most, still experienced some significant swings, being down a net 4.6% for the week while the US market (S&P 500) was down by a net 7.2%... Extensive media coverage of these developments would have unnerved respondents on two fronts – the impact on their own financial position and concerns for general global stability. These concerns appear to have been acutely felt by retirees whose confidence fell by 13.5%”. Looking at the details, Westpac point out, ““Developments in the components of the Index are consistent with the likely impact from last week’s market volatility. In particular respondents’ assessments of their own finances suffered, the ‘finances vs a year ago’ sub-index fell by 4.5%; and the ‘finances, next 12 months’ sub-index fell by 3.1%. We assume that these components have suffered temporary set- backs associated with market volatility. On face value the ‘year ago’ component is sending a very weak signal about likely spending prospects.”
We noted earlier in the week that Commonwealth Bank of Australia have changed their interest rate forecasts to remove the two hikes they previously had penciled-in for 2018. Westpac haven’t yet done this but note, “While we are less optimistic about the unemployment rate and the growth outlook, the Bank’s forecasts are not entirely out of line with our own view and, arguably, consistent with steady rates over the next few years.” NAB, meantime, still has two 25bp hikes in its forecast profile for H2 2018. Let’s see what today’s labour market report does to all those forecasts. The Australian Dollar opens in Asia at USD0.7910, with AUD/NZD at 1.0745 and GBP/AUD1.7690.
AUD / NZD
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The New Zealand Dollar traced out pretty much the same pattern as its Australian cousin in the wild period either side of the US CPI figures. The NZD/USD pair stood at 0.7325 just before the numbers then plunged to a low around 0.7245. Two hours later it was more than a cent off the low at a more than one-week high of 0.7350 and finished the day as the top performer of all the major currencies we track here with NZD/USD at 0.7360 and the all-important AUD/NZD cross down near a 6-month low of 1.0745.
The RBNZ's March quarter survey showed firms lifted their two-year inflation expectations to 2.11% from 2.02 % in the prior period, while one-year inflation expectations remained steady at 1.86%. Elsewhere in the survey, unemployment rate expectations are the lowest since September 2008. The unemployment rate in one year is expected to be 4.55% but then increase to 4.68% two years ahead. The official unemployment rate reported by Statistics New Zealand for the December 2017 quarter was 4.5% (this was released after the survey was completed). Official unemployment is now at a nine-year low. One year ahead expectations for annual growth in wages, meantime, have increased to 2.48% from 2.25% and two-year ahead expectations increases to 2.68% from 2.57%.
Today we’ll get to see data on home sales in New Zealand and on Friday its the manufacturing PMI survey. The New Zealand Dollar opens in Asia this morning at USD0.7365 and AUD/NZD1.0745.
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The British Pound spent most of Wednesday morning steadily falling and by lunchtime in Europe was by some distance the worst-performing of all the major currencies. GBP/USD fell from a best level overnight of 1.3920 to 1.3885 immediately before the US CPI numbers then dropped to a low just a few pips above 1.3800. It was then the quickest of all the major currencies to reverse its losses and went on to a day’s high around 1.4000; more than a full cent above where it had been prior to the US data release.
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson gave what was billed as a major set-piece speech on Brexit yesterday. He said there are three main branches to the opposition to Brexit: A geo-strategic concern that Britain is a relatively small nation that has made a mistake in choosing to leave such a major international alliance, a spiritual and aesthetic concern – that people feel we have pulled up a drawbridge – and an economic fear that Britain will be worse off outside the EU. The Foreign Secretary said Brexit “need not be nationalist, but can be internationalist” and sought to allay those three concerns, acknowledging that he “runs the risk of causing further irritation” in making such an argument. More practically, Mr Johnson warned against a second referendum, telling his audience, “I say in all candor that if there were to be a second vote I believe that we would simply have another year of wrangling and turmoil and feuding in which the whole country would lose. So let’s not go there.”
The problem with any UK Ministerial speech is that it simply draws attention to the practical problems of Brexit without showing any detailed roadmap forwards. This problem begins at the very top of government, with Prime Minister May trying so hard to keep her divided Cabinet together, that no concrete proposals are ever advanced, for fear of provoking rebellion. And, to the extent that Brexit itself then becomes the topic for journalists and the media, the GBP often then struggles with the subsequent political fallout. There are no UK economic statistics scheduled for release this Thursday and the pound opens in Asia this morning at USD1.3995, GBP/AUD1.7690 and GBP/NZD1.9000.
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It’s hard to know where to begin with today’s US Dollar commentary so let’s stick initially to the facts and figures. The USD index peaked last Thursday around 90.25; a level it almost, but not quite, regained on Friday afternoon. From then on, as stock markets recovered, its index against a basket of major currencies fell over a full point to a low during Sydney time yesterday around 89.05. When January CPI came in above consensus expectations (see below) the index jumped to a high of 89.60 as 10-year bond yields hit 2.89%, the DJIA fell 460 points and the USD strengthened against all the currencies we follow here. Within 2 hours, however, the stock market was back in positive territory on the day and the USD had a stunning turnaround; losing almost a full point by the time European traders headed for home and hitting the lowest level in 10 days.
The much-hyped January CPI figures came in higher than consensus expectations which were for a m/m gain of +0.3% which would have taken the annual rate down from 2.1% to 1.9%. Instead, CPI rose 0.5% m/m and the annual rate was unchanged at 2.1%. The so-called ‘core’ rate of inflation which excludes food and energy prices and is seen as a better measure of underling inflation trends, was one-tenth higher than expected at +0.3% m/m (the biggest monthly increase since last January) which lifted the annual rate from 1.7% to 1.8%. Indeed, the actual unrounded figure for core inflation was just 1/1000th of a point from being revised up to 0.4% m/m. For all the angst over CPI, we should remember that – unlike the RBA, RBNZ or BoE – the Fed does not target this measure of inflation. It tracks a different index, the personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy, which has consistently undershot the central bank’s 2 percent target since mid-2012 and tends to run around 0.3% below core CPI. In this sense, the panic over higher than expected CPI looks a little overdone, even if there’s no denying an upward trend.
As well as inflation numbers, the January retail sales data were also released. These were quite a bit softer than consensus forecasts with the headline number falling -0.3% m/m versus expectations of a +0.2% m/m increase. The ‘core’ number excluding auto sales was unchanged on the month compared to forecasts of a +0.4% increase. This was the first monthly drop in retail sales since last August and was accompanied by downward revisions to some of the back data. Details showed a significant decline in building materials & furniture while online sales and restaurant spending was unchanged. After the data release, analysts rushed to revise down their Q1 GDP estimates. JP Morgan moved from 3.0% to 2.5%, BAML from 2.3% to 2.0% and Morgan Stanley from 3.3% to 2.9%. The Atlanta Fed which just a few weeks ago was up at 5.2% and was 4.0% at the beginning of this week is now down much closer to the pack at 3.2%. The USD index opens in Asia this morning around 88.75.
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The calm which had engulfed the euro is now decisively over. EUR/USD traded on three different ‘big figures’ on Wednesday, tracing out a very similar pattern to that described above for the GBP. The pair edged lower throughout the Asian day and European morning, falling from a high of 1.2390 to 1.2345 immediately prior to the US CPI and retail sales numbers. The EUR then plunged to a low around 1.2285 but within ninety minutes had completely unwound its losses and went on to a best level of 1.2435.
Figures released by Eurostat confirmed the January 30th preliminary estimate that GDP in the Eurozone rose 0.6% in Q4 last year. Growth slowed a little in Germany and Italy, while the pace of expansion accelerated in the Netherlands and Portugal. Germany’s upswing – despite a slowdown in quarterly output – continues to be a key ingredient for growth in the euro area. Momentum at the end of last year was driven by a strong increase in exports, according to a national report. Government consumption and equipment investment increased, while private spending remained largely unchanged and construction slipped. The Dutch economy also benefited from buoyant global trade. GDP increased 0.8% in the fourth quarter, exceeding consensus estimates. Italian growth slowed to 0.3%, leaving it lagging behind France and Germany and providing a note of caution ahead of general elections next month. GDP increased 0.7% in Portugal.
A fascinating Bundesbank study published yesterday shows that cash no longer makes up most of the money spent in Germany. Cash accounted for 47.6% of German transactions by volume last year, down from 53.2% three years earlier and below the 50% mark for the first time since polling started in 2008. Cards grabbed a 39.4% market share last year compared to 33.4% in 2014, mirroring a global trend that has long taken hold in many other countries including Sweden and Britain. Internet payments also grew but still accounted for a modest 3.7% of total volume. Germans and Austrians are the biggest users of cash among countries in the euro zone’s richer “core”, according to a recent study by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bundesbank survey found most Germans thought that cash was useful to teach children about the use of money and to ensure a better control of one’s personal finances. The vast majority also believed the abolition of notes and coins would cause problems to parts of the population, such as the elderly, while only just over a third saw it as a way to fight tax evasion and money laundering. The EUR opens in Asia today at USD1.2435, AUD/EUR0.6360 and NZD/EUR0.5920.
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The Canadian Dollar had pretty much exactly the same price action as all the other major currencies on Thursday (though of course we have to invert it for comparison) but having reversed all its losses in the immediate aftermath of the US economic data, it didn’t then go on to make the same degree of gains as the GBP, EUR and others. USD/CAD jumped from 1.2575 to a high around 1.2645 and after coming back to its starting point within a couple of hours, could then only move another 50 pips lower even as WTI recovered more than a dollar from a 2018 low of $58.30 to $59.30.
In economic data, January’s Teranet National Composite House Price Index rose 0.3% from the previous month, a touch higher than the historical average for January and a second consecutive monthly increase. The composite index was up 8.7% from a year earlier, the smallest 12-month rise since May 2016 and a seventh consecutive deceleration from the record 12-month gains of 14.2% last June. Moreover, only four of the 11 metropolitan markets surveyed showed gains – the first time since January 2016 that a rise in the Composite Index has had so little breadth. The rise was due mainly to a second straight monthly jump of the index for the important Vancouver market (1.2% in January on the heels of 1.3% in December). The Toronto index rose 0.2%, the Victoria index 1.0% and the Montreal index edged up 0.1%. For Vancouver, January was a ninth consecutive month without a decline. The cumulative rise over that period was 14.5%; comprised of 18.2% for condo units and 11.4% for all other housing. Vancouver and Montreal were the only markets surveyed whose index reached an all-time high in January
Today we’ll get to see the ADP payrolls report but coming almost a week after the official labour market data, it’s unlikely to have a great deal of market impact. At lunchtime local time there’s a speech from Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Lawrence Schembri. The Canadian Dollar opens in Asia this morning at USD/CAD1.2525, AUD/CAD0.9910 and NZD/CAD0.9225.
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Johnny's Group King & Prince Making Major Debut
A Johnny's group, King & Prince, is set to make a major debut soon. The group is merge of Mr. KING & Prince.
The group will consist of Johnny's Jr. members Sho Hirano, Ren Nagase, Kaito Takahashi, Yuta Kishi, Yuta Jinguji & Genki Iwahashi.
Up until this point, Hirano, Nagase, and Takahashi have been part of the group Mr.KING. Members Kishi, Jinguji, and Iwahashi have been part of Prince. Instead of having these two groups separate, they have instead merged to be called King & Prince.
Coinciding with the debut, a new label, Johnnys' Universe, was formed under Universal Music.
More details regarding the debut will be available at a later date.
Labels: Genki Iwahashi, Johnny's Jr., Johnnys' Universe, jpop news, Kaito Takahashi, King & Prince, Mr.KING, Prince, Ren Nagase, Sho Hirano, Universal Music Japan, Yuta Jinguji, Yuta Kishi
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Project #35 | Building a New School in Uganda
Our partnership with Building Tomorrow
Our $60,000 partner project with Building Tomorrow went towards the total construction of a primary school in Uganda. Each BT Academy provides learning space for 323 children with seven classrooms, an office, a library, toilets and a playing field. BT Academies are often the first permanently built place of learning many students attend. When BT performs their initial assessments they focus on the number of students within a 2km radius unable to attend a formal school, the availability of local building resources, and overall accessibility among other variables.
Teachers Hired
Schools Built
Meet Nansamba Margaret
She is a 13-year-old orphaned child, enrolled in primary 4 at BT School of Mabaale. After losing her parents to HIV/AIDS, Margaret and her three siblings were forced to relocate to live with their paternal grandmother. Margaret currently lives in Mabaale village with her grandmother (Mangadelene) and her three younger siblings. Eventually, their irregular attendance led to dropping out. The children spent their days working in the garden to provide food for the family, and performing other chores. They also turned into caregivers for their aging grandmother. When Building Tomorrow started its project in Mabaale village Margaret’s grandmother was one of the first members to commit to participating actively to work on the site. School leadership enrolled all four children in appropriate class grades, while working with the district probation and community development offices to empower the family through economic strengthening programs.
Through the district offices, a volunteer fit parent was assigned to the family to regularly monitor their wellbeing and to offer guidance on family strengthening. The children and their grandmother have since been trained by the National Advisory Agricultural Coordinator on appropriate farming practices. Currently, the family engages in both crop farming and animal husbandry. Now the children have the guarantee of food at home, and surplus harvests are used as in-kind school fees. Today, because of the construction of BT School of Mabaale, Margaret and her three siblings receive an education and are destined for success.
If you want to support future projects like this you can make a donation to our children’s education fund.
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What Next For Barnsley?
Ian Wilkinson at 12:00:00 0
With Barnsley once again featuring at the wrong end of the Championship table the supposedly imminent takeover of the club cannot come quick enough for fans and players alike. A point against local rivals Sheffield Wednesday is to be applauded but just one win in the last eight games shows that the uncertainty around the club needs to end.
Although all fans have been touched by the way Patrick Cryne has battled his illness and kept them informed of developments concerning the future of the club, there are some who have been vocal about the time it has taken for the takeover to complete and frustrations are beginning to show.
Imminent Takeover?
If – as had been hoped – the consortium headed by Chinese billionaire Chien Lee manages to formally take over in the next couple of months then it would give Paul Heckingbottom a chance to invest in some new players in the January transfer window and potentially push for promotion or a playoff spot.
The club are third favourites for the drop at around 6/4 and that’s an adequate reflection of the season so far. Sunderland are expected to recover after a disastrous start so it’s surely the time for quick action.
But these kinds of business deals can drag on and if it doesn’t go through in time then that would be a massive blow for the club – leaving Barnsley in a perilous position going into the New Year.
It has been a tough few months for the club and with only a handful of victories Barnsley are already looking nervously towards the bottom of the division. It could be argued that the club’s position belies the way the side has played and performed so far but – as the saying goes – the table doesn’t lie and more three point hauls are definitely needed quickly.
Don’t Wait and See
One thing that manager Paul Heckingbottom will be very clear on is the need for the squad he has right now to be performing better. Barnsley may have been unlucky against Hull and Wednesday but they need to make their performances count – and put away chances – if they are going to climb the table.
Only Burton Albion have had fewer touches in the opposition box in the Championship this season and that needs to change quickly. Tom Bradshaw is the top goal scorer at the moment but he needs some help from his fellow attackers to ensure Barnsley are taking three points home on a more regular basis. Chelsea loanee Ike Ugbo has only one goal in a Barnsley shirt this season so he is one player that needs to make a bigger contribution to the side.
A Step Into the Unknown
With uncertainty over the completion date of the Chien Lee led takeover it is very difficult for Paul Heckingbottom - and the club as a whole - to plan ahead and that makes it difficult to know what the January transfer window holds. The summer saw a lot of players coming in and out of the club – including the loan signings made before the deadline – and without a takeover deal in place it would seem unlikely that much business could be completed in the New Year.
On the other hand, if there is money to spend, Barnsley may be able to pick up some new players – including some from overseas – to push the club back up the table. Chien Lee’s association with French club Nice will excite many fans as it could mean some squad players from the Ligue 1 club swapping the south coast of France for Oakwell in the New Year.
Uncertainty Reigns
With recent rumours of the takeover collapsing, Paul Heckingbottom has gone on record to vent his frustration at the situation - and with an injury to defender Adam Jackson he knows that an influx of funds would be ideal come the turn of the year. But with the fans still squarely behind the team it may be the support that helps Barnsley stay up this season – even if the takeover eventually goes through.
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Krzysztof Bobinski
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JBT FoodTech will supply and install an Automatic Batch Retort System
JBT Corporation Announces $4 Million Contract Award for Sterilization Technologies JBT Corporation (NYSE: JBT) announced today that its JBT FoodTech business has signed a contract valued in excess of $4 million with a North American-based food processor. JBT FoodTech will supply and install an Automatic Batch Retort System to enable the processing of vegetable products in unconventional packaging. "We are very pleased to be providing JBT's leading sterilization technologies for another alternative packaging application," said Steve Smith, Vice President and General Manager for JBT FoodTech's Food Processing Systems Division. The project is scheduled to be complete by the first quarter of 2014. This release contains forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are information of a non-historical nature and are subject to risks and uncertainties that are beyond the Company's ability to control. These risks and uncertainties are described under the caption "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission that may be accessed on the Company's website. The Company cautions shareholders and prospective investors that actual results may differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements.
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Kevin Groves
It’s no secret that the debate between FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) usually starts and ends with licenses. With Konami and EA Sports in a race to secure as many licenses as possible, sometimes every gamer suffers in the long run. While the PES community is filled with a plethora of option files, FIFA 17 is as a “pick-up-and-play” game as we’ll see in the footy genre.
1) Pick Up And Play
Gamers can be an impatient bunch. In this digital era of game installs, patches and tuners, it’s quite refreshing to boot up FIFA 17 and have most of the leagues, players and so on at your fingertips. Unless you want to spend the time to edit tactics, you can jump right into your favorite mode (career mode, FUT, etc.), download the latest roster and have at it. On the other hand, starting a Master League in PES often requires patience as option files are created. FIFA players can be weeks into their career mode before their PES Master League even begins.
2) Authenticity
PES option files are often littered with tiny errors. Whether it be typos or a slightly off kit colors, there’s a rush for these creators to get them out and be the first to market. As a result, the discovery of an error can sometimes dampen the experience. While FIFA isn’t immune to errors (think Manchester City’s third kit), the sheer number of errors is significantly less, and when combined with authentic broadcast packages (Barclay’s Premier League, Budweiser FA Cup, German Bundesliga), the experience can often blur the lines of reality. In the future, hopefully this attention to detail will carry over to other leagues such as Spain’s La Liga and Italy’s Serie A.
3) Trickle-Down Effect
There’s to more to licenses than just the visual aesthetic. Cosmetically, licenses are instantaneously recognizable, but when combined with dedicated commentary and graphical overlays, the total package of FIFA 17 really shines. Despite the sometimes repetitive commentary about your club, the plethora of names and lines makes the immersion factor greater than PES — where the game lacks such refinements as a complete names database (both club/city and player names). Furthermore, FIFA 17 boasts an impressive, albeit curiously not ready for release, authentic presentation package for the English Premier League (both league and cup play) and German Bundesliga. It’s little touches like these that help separate FIFA from PES in terms of a “total package.”
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The unkindness of strangers
James Canfield's distillation of "A Streetcar Named Desire" highlights NW Dance Project's premieres, with Sarah Slipper's dance of love
June 14, 2019 // DANCE // Bob Hicks
The funk and sweat and desperate seediness of New Orleans are so thick in the air above James Canfield’s new dance Sketches of Connotation that you can almost smell them rising from the stage of Lincoln Performance Hall. It’s an intoxicating aroma.
Sketches, Canfield’s distilled evocation of Tennessee Williams’ beautiful nightmare of a play A Streetcar Named Desire, is the anchor of NW Dance Project’s fifteenth-season-ending Summer Premieres program, which opened Thursday and continues Friday and Saturday nights, and it’s a gorgeous, exquisitely crafted piece of dance theater, the work of a choreographer who’s stayed true to his longtime vision of dance as a reflection of popular culture and who now, as a veteran artist, seems fully in control of his considerable imaginative skills.
William Couture, Anthony Pucci, Colleen Loverde, Kody Jauron, Katherine Loverde, and Franco Nieto in the world premiere of James Canfield’s Sketches of Connotation. Photo: Blaine Truitt Covert
NDP’s program of three premieres also includes company artistic director Sarah Slipper’s Save Me the Plums, a sweet and often funny dance of love and loss performed beautifully by Andrea Parson and Franco Nieto; and Felix Landerer’s angsty All’s Been Said, in which a dancer in a polar-bear mask declaims about magicians and climate change.
Sketches of Connotation isn’t a story ballet, but an emotional and visual variation on the themes in Williams’ tale of corruption, desire, sex, rape, and psychological brutality. Canfield scatters narrative touchstones across the piece to keep you grounded – the men’s card game, a model streetcar on a skewed and creatively minimal framed-in suggestion of a set, Blanche’s breathless arrival on the scene carrying a pert oval suitcase, that big old ominous bed – but it’s really the texture of the thing, the unspoken desires and prejudices, the unspeakable actions behind the smiling surfaces, the fragility and fright and dark impulses igniting the action, that he’s after.
Canfield, who was artistic director of Oregon Ballet Theatre from its founding in 1989 until 2003, has always had a deep affinity for popular music and the ways that it can combine with dance, and his choices to go with his Streetcar variations are inspired, suggesting at times the deep and desperate mythology of Williams’ story and at times the bright-eyed grin of New Orleans, putting on a happy show in the foreground while tense and brutal things are happening in the back. They also provide this skilled company of dancers with a propulsive structure for Canfield’s twisting, exaggerated, tense, and suggestive movements, which are beautifully attuned to the psychological and emotional thrust of the play. The music ranges from Doris Day’s quasi-philosophical Que Sera, Sara to Bobbie Gentry’s raw and broken-hearted ballad Ode to Billy Joe to Eric Burdon and The Animals’ House of the Rising Sun to a gut-pounding version by the metal band Disturbed of Paul Simon’s The Sound of Silence, and, oddly yet effectively, The Hokey Pokey. Far from being scattershot, this musical mix of hijinks and distress creates an ideal soundtrack for a tale of shiny surfaces and fractured dreams.
The dancing is stellar, led by the quartet of Katherine Disenhof as Stella, Colleen Loverde as her fragile sister Blanche, William Couture as Blanche’s would-be suitor Mitch, and Anthony Pucci as that fine-honed lump of muscle and aggression Stanley, Stella’s husband and Blanche’s instant intimate enemy and assailant. There is a sadness and despair beneath the summer storm of Streetcar, a kind of American haunting as we watch a sweet bird of youth flutter, and fall, and die. Canfield is exceptional in his staging of dualities within scenes, the split between apparent reality and deeper reality, and his motions can cut almost ruthlessly to the quick: the sudden shock of inevitability when, after the rape, Stanley casually rolls the bed frame over Blanche’s prone body, imprisoning her inside her own violated mind. Alas, poor Blanche, whose very name implies a startled shrinking-away. She’s always depended on the kindness of strangers. But in this sultry tenement apartment, the intimate strangers are not kind.
Andrea Parson and Franco Nieto in the world premiere of Sarah Slipper’s Save Me the Plums. Photo: Blaine Truitt Covert
SARAH SLIPPER’S SAVE ME THE PLUMS has the juicy sweetness of fresh-fallen fruit, the savor of a summer’s desire, the sweetness of a just-plucked love. Like Canfield’s Sketches it drips with intimations of love and sex, but in a less fraught and dangerous way. Yes, it has its sadness: the affair seems to end. But life goes on.
Slipper and Plum’s two dancers, Andrea Parson and Franco Nieto, have had a long and (I’m going to say it) fruitful relationship, and it pays off here. What we get to see is two mature and genuine stars at work and play together, doing a kind of intimate courtship dance, a delicate tease of pleasure and occasional passion. The whole thing has a Midwestern subtle frankness, a wholesome hankering, love a-blooming in the fields and plains, with Parson in a loose-flowing gingham-y dress and Nieto in sturdy yet form-fitting work clothes (Alexa Stark’s costuming is exceptional for all three premieres).
Much of Slipper’s movement vocabulary for this piece comes from social dance, and Parson and Nieto bring it grace and lyricism, a touch of sexiness, some coy comedy of exaggeration. Nieto is athletic, compact, muscular; more Gene Kelly than Fred Astaire. Parson, a wonderful mime, is mischievous, gamine, eager – not the aggressor so much as the instigator. You get the sense that she’s more open to the possibilities, and Nieto shies away. “What do you think?” he asks her. “I love it!” she replies. “It’s too simple,” he demurs, to which she expounds: “I love it love it love it!” The seeds of temptation and fruition and decay are in the exchange.
We get a douse of water like a sensual baptism, and a dribble of plum juice from the eager consumption of the fruit, and a sense of something slipping sweetly away. Jeff Forbes, who lights the entire evening with his usual aplomb, deftly moves the scenes along like subtle cinematic fades, giving things a twilight glow. As I was watching part of me was thinking this dance could really be shorter than it is, and a larger part of me didn’t mind, because watching Parson and Nieto go back and forth was such a pleasure. Things do, indeed, slip away: The piece ends with a voiceover of Pablo Neruda’s poem of love and loss and romantic reflection Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines), and we all move tenderly into the night.
Kevin Pajarillaga, Franco Nieto, and Colleen Loverde in the world premiere of Felix Landerer’s All’s Been Said. Photo: Blaine Truitt Covert
THE PROGRAM OPENER, FELIX LANDERER’S ALL’S BEEN SAID, is nominally about climate change and the resulting threat to species, but it’s hard to tell that while you’re watching. The piece, made of discordant, purposely awkward and isolating movements, begins in silence and then bursts out in a repetitive electronic drone, a sort of anxious backbeat that won’t leave you alone, like a hectoring busybody out to teach you a lesson.
Movements are sharp and kinetic and well-performed by the trio of Colleen Loverde, Franco Nieto, and Kevin Pajarillaga, who are clothed in icy white and maintain a frozen emotional distance. At times Pajarillaga is encased in a kind of walking-stick open structure, boxed and trapped. At one point Loverde emerges wearing a polar-bear mask and addresses the audience, not about climate peril but about a magician’s trick that is about to be revealed: something will disappear, and then it will reappear, but you probably won’t see it because you’re not really watching. Somewhere, offstage, a finger seems to be wagging. “I didn’t see anything disappear,” someone behind me said as the piece ended. “Did you see anything disappear?” I couldn’t enlighten him. The magic eluded me.
All’s Been Said is visually striking and technically taut but strikes me as emotionally inert. I don’t doubt its intent or earnestness, but it’s not my cup of iced tea. It might be yours.
NW Dance Project’s Summer Premieres repeats at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 14-15, at Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland State University. Ticket information here.
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Universal’s new hotel, others could put pinch on I-Drive’s little guys
Sep 15, 2019 | 6:41 AM
Universal Studios' Endless Summer Resort and other hotel construction in the works has some nearby smaller hotels on edge.
It’s been a seemingly endless summer of setbacks for the Days Inn by Wyndham Orlando on International Drive.
Business slowed first when Universal Studios in June debuted its first-ever “value” hotel property east of Interstate 4, the 750-room Surfside Inn & Suites, next door.
Then, as Hurricane Dorian barreled toward Central Florida, a rush of cancellations came just before the usually fruitful Labor Day weekend. Eventually, the hurricane veered off farther into the Atlantic Ocean.
Now, General Manager Amjid Akram fears losing more business to Universal, which is opening an even larger I-Drive hotel in the spring.
“A lot of people will stay in that hotel, unless they are on a limited budget,” said Akram, whose hotel has 256 rooms. “I’m definitely a little nervous.''
Universal and other hotel builders are coming on strong with new properties on the tourist strip, leaving smaller hotels in a bind.
It’s happening more quickly on the north side of I-Drive, where Universal’s behemoth, 2,050-room Dockside Inn & Suites is scheduled to open in March to complete the company’s Endless Summer Resort.
That comes on the heels of Surfside and the 600-room Aventura Hotel, which opened across Interstate 4 last year.
The smaller hotels may have to offer more amenities, such as room discounts and bundles for theme park visits, said Michael Terry, associate professor at UCF’s Rosen School of Hospitality.
The I-Drive corridor is home to more than 100 hotels, with the majority being smaller businesses with fewer than 300 rooms.
Les Harris, general manager at Homewood Suites by Hilton. Friday, September 06, 2019. (Sarah Espedido / Orlando Sentinel) User Upload Caption: Homewood Suites (Sarah Espedido / Orlando Sentinel)
Dockside will become the second-largest hotel in the I-Drive region, behind Universal’s Cabana Bay Beach Resort.
Hotels are competing harder for a dwindling number of potential guests, said Les Harris, general manager of the 133-room Homewood Suites by Hilton Orlando Theme Parks on the southern part of I-Drive.
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“By November (2020), I’ll have 2,000 more rooms within a half-mile of me,” he said. “It’s difficult."
And it’s not just Universal getting into the act.
By January 2021, the International Drive area near the convention center will see another 1,151 rooms open, on top of the 2,050 expected at Dockside.
The new properties are being built by high-profile companies such as Aloft, Hilton, Holiday Inn and others.
“You will lose some business because families are going to want to go (to Dockside),” Harris said. “It’s sort of a waiting game. You have to see how people react. But, in the end, you can feed off big brother, if you’re strategic.”
The competition on the International Drive corridor represents a smaller version of what has been happening in other areas of Orlando.
Existing hotels have to regularly evolve, add new amenities and renovate to keep up in one of the biggest markets in the world, one which is home to 129,000 hotel rooms.
“In this industry, you have to be constantly reinventing yourself in a number of areas,” Visit Orlando CEO George Aguel said. “Even classic hotels have to evolve. The demand and competition mandate that.”
When hotels first started offering wifi, for instance, it would come at a cost.
However, once one hotel decided to offer it for free, others had to follow suit.
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“Competition is the mother of all invention,” Aguel said.
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Once completed, the Endless Summer Resort will encompass 6 percent of the available hotel rooms in the I-Drive corridor, as defined by Visit Orlando research.
For its neighbors, however, it’s going to represent a new property to keep an eye on.
“We are not in direct competition,” Akram said. “Their rates are much higher. But it’s going to hurt a little bit because that’s a huge hotel, and if someone wants to upgrade, they might want to check out the new hotel. It will definitely impact us.”
Data/multimedia specialist Adelaide Chen contributed to this story. Got a news tip? msantana@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5256; Twitter, @marcosantana
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Freshman engineering major earns NY club’s first award.
By Terri Stone
Taylor Fitzgerald won over the New York Capital Region Buckeyes and earned the club’s first scholarship.
This time, her mom was right.
Taylor Fitzgerald thought she had her college choice nailed down. After years of listening to a neighbor talk up Penn State, she was ready to depart for State College to study engineering.
That is, until her mom suggested they go to a college fair at her local high school. She wanted to stop by and visit their neighbor’s booth and thank him for encouraging Taylor.
As it turned out, they also met Mary Margaret Thomas, who was dressed in scarlet and gray and had a positive and infectious attitude.
“My mom noticed Mary first,” said Taylor, of Clifton Park, New York, about a half hour from Albany. “We were immediately drawn to her booth. She was so enthusiastic and told me all about Ohio State.”
Thomas told Taylor about her wonderful professors and her experiences with the university debate team, theater and radio. A native of Toledo, Thomas said that, although her father insisted she visit every Big Ten school before making a decision, she knew Ohio State was her choice right away.
After she earned a bachelor’s degree in education in 1956, Thomas’ career took her from teaching and developing speech and hearing programs for public schools to a job as a juvenile parole officer. She also worked for major insurance companies and now is a part-time caregiver for a global homecare agency.
“Thanks to my education at Ohio State, I’ve had the joy of serving and leading various organizations,” Thomas said. “I am proud to share information and my Buckeye pride with area high school students.”
Jumping on the opportunity
Even though Taylor had finished her college applications by the time she crossed paths with Thomas, she went home and applied to Ohio State that night. She was excited to learn that her area alumni club — the New York Capital Region Buckeyes, for which Thomas serves as president — was preparing to award its first scholarship.
“We are pleased Taylor is our first recipient. Her answers on the scholarship application conveyed her interest and a picture of her accomplishments in and out of school,” Thomas said. “When we interviewed the applicants, Taylor’s personality absolutely popped. She was poised, confident and genuine — everything we wanted in a student to receive our first award.”
Advocating for her university
Last year, Thomas represented Ohio State at three area college fairs and dropped off materials to nearly 40 high schools. Applications from students in the region rose from 45 in 2013 to 58 last year, and the number of enrolled students increased from four to 11.
Thanks to Thomas’ leadership, Buckeye pride and alumni involvement are up in the region, too.
After moving from Florida a few years ago, Thomas sought out local alumni clubs to meet fellow Buckeyes. But she found activities and participation were low. Since she’d served successfully as president of the Southwest Florida Alumni Club, she knew she could turn things around.
Thomas worked to combine alumni clubs from neighboring areas to form the New York Capital Region Buckeyes. “Whenever I hear people say they are an alum or I see someone waving a Buckeye flag or wearing scarlet and gray attire, I talk about our club and invite them to join,” she said.
Getting off to a great start
Now with one semester completed, Taylor is feeling at home on campus. She’s majoring in chemical engineering and has known since middle school she’d follow her father into that field.
Taylor knows her future offers many options, but for now, she’s considering a focus on alternative fuels or cosmetics. Law school and a future as a patent attorney also may be in the cards.
“What has surprised me most about Ohio State so far is the amount of pride students and faculty have for the school,” she said.
Was her neighbor disappointed with her change in plans? “I think a little, but he said the most important thing was that I get a great education.”
It appears she has that covered.
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Happy Tail: Nina has the “right stuff” for agility
by Joan, staff writer
Benah Stiewing, 16, of Baltimore competes and trains in dog agility. She had been working with her toy poodle, Kodi, for several years, but the dog didn’t seem to enjoy it. “And he’s pretty slow,” Benah says. So she and her mom turned to Petfinder to search for a new agility partner for Benah.
Nina shows off her talent for agility.
Though Border Collies are the masters of the sport, Benah wasn’t sure she was ready for that breed’s “endless energy.” So they began looking for an Australian Shepherd, or a mix, and started submitting applications to various animal welfare organizations.
New Spirit 4 Aussie Rescue in Collegeville, PA, approved them as adopters, but unfortunately, the dogs they’d been interested in there had already been adopted. No problem. “The amazing crew of people knew of another dog in one of their foster homes,” Benah says. “It was our sweet Nina.”
Benah and her mom were a little apprehensive at first about Nina because she was a Border Collie/Australian Shepherd mix. “We were worried she might be ‘too much,'” Benah says. But after talking with the foster mom, they decided to take a chance.
“We are Nina’s fourth home. It took her a long time to settle in completely but we loved her and … her intelligence was obvious. Now I can’t even begin to express our deep, deep, deep love for our amazing girl.” Benah has taught Nina lots of tricks, and her first trial in agility is coming up soon.
The teen’s interest in animals goes beyond just dogs and agility. She started a website, steppingupforanimals.org, to spread awareness about factory farming and the joys of a cruelty-free lifestyle. She hopes to begin working in animal welfare when she graduates.
Nina may be Benah’s new best friend, but all animals have a best friend in Benah.
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Community Foundations Forum 2017
The annual National Community Foundations Forum (NCFF17), held October 17-19 in Melbourne, took a deep dive into the SMIRF capital of community foundations. (And no, that does not include small blue creatures).
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NCFF17 explored the SMIRF capital of community foundations: the premise that meaningful change is achieved when community foundations leverage all forms of their capital:Social, Moral, Intellectual, Reputational as well as Financial; building networks and connections to foster a sense of belonging, reflecting and protecting community values, leveraging deep local knowledge, and using their positions as trusted local leaders to empower and support their community.
NCFF17, hosted by Australian Communities Foundation, Inner North Community Foundation and Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, brought together 97 delegates who came to hear from 34 presenters across 15 sessions.
In planning the conference, there was a strong desire to make sure that the conference reflected place, demonstrating and celebrating the shared values of inclusion and diversity by showing, rather than telling, the impact of the groups community foundations support.
Bringing this to life in the opening session was young poet/spoken word artist, Piri Altraide, who performed an evocative piece about belonging, culture and soul. Kevin Nugara, aka Spitfire, gave a beatbox performance that demonstrated the inventiveness and artistic abilities of local youth and hip-hop duo Motley and Ninah Nicole asked the audience what they’d want young people to know about the conference and their part in creating the future. With contributions from the crowd, Motley led the creation of the following rap:
Life’s not fair cos I’m never being heard
I’m not first, not second, don’t even rank third
They tell me there’s a place, tomorrow is ours
If you want to make a change then you have to shift the power
These performers along with eight other young artists (dancers, drummers and a string quartet) were all employed by Outer Urban Projects' social-enterprise, a not-for-profit performing arts company based in Melbourne. Outer Urban Projects is a partner of the Inner North Foundation.
The Welcome to Country from Aboriginal Elder, Uncle Colin Hunter Jnr, was an important reminder that the place we were meeting in was that of the Wurundjeri Clan of the Kulin Nation:
"We need to remember where we came from, to guide where we are headed. Acknowledgement of Elders past, present and future is such a valuable cultural practice, showing respect for our Indigenous culture in Australia and valuing our heritage. It’s also a helpful reminder to value the pioneering work that has been done to grow community foundations which is what brings us to where we are today. So salute to people in the sector who cut the turf in the early days of community foundations and established the Australian Communities Philanthropy, especially Sue Charlton, Catherine Brown, Alice Macdougall and Andrew Lawson."
Conference themes and highlights
Throughout the Forum, online real-time polling encouraged questions and feedback from the audience. Slido.com enabled people to contribute to the conversation without having to rush to microphones, and for delegates to vote on which question was most relevant to them, targeting information and helping our panelists deep dive into issues. It also helped with the buzz, to get people talking with each other, to wrestle with the content and think into the practice of philanthropy that ensures that people have opportunity in their life.
The audience was asked: 'What three challenges face your community?' with responses highlighted in real time as a word cloud. From Cooryong to Sydney, there was a sense of challenge around housing and the impact that barriers to entry have on people, both young and old.
NCFF17 underscored the fact that community foundations are indivisible from their communities as Natalie Egleton (FRRR) said: "The conference reminded me how embedded our relationship are with our communities. One of the very special parts of our work is the trust and connection and depth of the relationships. Our work is effective because we have the relationships."
International keynote speaker Ian Bird (Community Foundations of Canada) repeatedly spoke about 'standing with people'. The symbolism and simplicity of the concept deeply resonated with our audience.
The Belonging Begins with Place panel further explored what it means to belong while acknowledging that discrimination is part of the lived experience for many people. Belinda Duarte (Culture is Life) said it is vital “to break down barriers of racism, find the curiosity in others, practice it, and encourage others to do the same”. Race Discrimination Commissioner Dr Tim Soutphommasane said we need to "Get comfortable about being uncomfortable. As organisations, as people. Because we owe it to the people we work with."
NCFF17 marked the 20th and 10th anniversaries of the Australian Communities Foundation and the Inner North Community Foundation respectively. The anniversary dinner was a wonderful celebration of these important milestones.
Challenges and opportunities
Community foundations are a vital part of the philanthropic landscape in Australia and are increasingly using their SMIRF capital and deep connection to place to respond to the complex challenges and opportunities communities face.
Genevieve Timmons gave her reflections on our sector as part of the Forum’s wrap-up:
1) We are still exploring and pioneering the role and purpose of community foundations, and while this is very exciting, it is also challenging and demanding. Hard work and heavy demands are to be expected, and while it’s a long road, it’s also a privilege.
2) We have the opportunity to speak truth to power about our work, and are qualified to do so. Along the way, we might hit barriers and have to decide to speak up, saying ‘this needs to be different’. Because if we don’t, there is cost to our organisations and our community organisations. One example of this is to focus on efficient processes for granting and decision making, and ensure that donors aren’t draining resources from our communities in how they give their money. We can educate donors to build cost efficient and effective funding partnerships instead of getting people to jump through hoops to attract their grants.
3) We are generosity magnets, not supplicants, and offer a platform for generosity to flourish. The more we can facilitate people’s giving, and provide simple, meaningful ways for people to give to their communities, the more money and resources will come in. We can lay the table for some incredible opportunities for people to be generous. It is a mistake to think we are simply fundraisers for our foundations which can be daunting and exhausting.
4) We need to keep building common and shared language, to strengthen our collective progress and highlight our common goals and values. This means listening deeply to each other and recognising how our communications highlight strenghts and community opportunity, rather than diminishing our communities and engaging in competitions of sorrow to promote how broken down we are. Talking about needs diminishes the people we work with, but emphasising strengths and opportunities is about unleashing potential and removing barriers. Common language also allows us to share data and map the strength of our collective activity.
The inaugural ‘Gathering of Giving Circles’ took place as a side event of the Forum. The event marked the first time leaders in collective giving from across the country have come together to discuss a way forward for the new and rapidly growing movement.
Founders and practitioners Georgia Mathews (The Channel), Sophie Chamberlain (Impact100 WA), Tina Jackson (Impact100 Sydney North) and Gillian Hund (Melbourne Women’s Fund) shared their experiences getting their respective collective giving initiatives off the ground.
Leaders of host organisations (Maree Sidey of Australian Communities Foundation, Catherine Brown of Lord Mayors Charitable Foundation and Gail Rodgers of Geelong Community Foundation) spoke about adapting to accommodate demand from collective giving groups, and James Boyd (Impact100 WA) shared the findings of the recent ‘Collective giving and its role in philanthropy’ report commissioned by the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership and prepared by Creative Partnerships Australia.
The aim? Review the recommendations coming out of the report and agree on immediate priorities for formalising and growing the capacity of collective giving in Australia. The concluding discussion, facilitated by Rikki Andrews (Impact100 Melbourne) and Patricia Burke (Melbourne Women’s Fund) was fruitful. All present were keen to share challenges and opportunities. Attendees walked away having agreed upon the next steps that will be taken to foster greater collective giving in Australia. Watch this space!
For more information about community foundations in Australia and the National Community Foundations Forum, head to the Australian Community Philanthropy website.
Ben Rodgers is Executive Officer at Inner North Community Foundation
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Songs of the Soul – Canada – Wrap-up
October 25, 2015 7:38 pm / Leave a Comment / Pavaka
Our first ever Eastern Canadian Songs of this Soul tour has just wrapped up and it was a lovely success. Audiences in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Winnipeg got the opportunity to listen to the soothing and uplifting melodies composed by Sri Chinmoy as arranged by 6 different music groups. In each case we played in university theatres to audiences ranging from 200 to 400 people. As is customary for this concert series, the audience was asked to hold their applause until the very end of the concert so that we could create a meditative atmosphere for the duration. Thank you to all the volunteers who helped make this possible as well as the musicians who travelled from far and wide to make this offering to Canada. And of course, thank you to all the audience members who came out to share an evening of peace. Please visit www.songsofthesoul.com for photos of past concerts and info about upcoming events. You are also welcome to leave comments on the same website. These are some of the comments received on our feedback cards on the night of the concert:
“Wonderful, wonderful”
“Amazing, peaceful feeling after”
“such a peaceful and meditative performance. Every act was excellent.”
“Absolutely magical, beautiful, transcendental, heart-opening!”
Sangit Surabhi
Shamita and Dohai
Mandu and Visuddhi
The Sahadeva Ensemble
Paree’s Group
Pavaka
Photos by Prabhakar (www.pjtstreet.com) and Kautuhalam
Songs of the Soul Concert Tour in Canada
June 15, 2015 3:13 pm / Leave a Comment / Pavaka
Don’t miss the Songs of the Soul concert series coming to Canada this fall.? These concerts of meditative music are free of charge and feature artists from England, Austria and Canada (in this case).? Songs of the Soul has been all over the world since 2008 and is coming to Eastern Canada for the first time.? These concerts are a tribute to the music of Sri Chinmoy.
Montreal? – October 13
Ottawa – October 14
Toronto – October 16
Winnipeg – October 18
Poster – Montr?al
Japan was cool
March 7, 2015 6:59 am / Leave a Comment / Pavaka
we had a nice? www.songsofthesoul.com? concert tour in Japan in March.? Here are a few photos from this truly unique country.? For concert photos, click on the link.
Mount Fuji from the train
Can you spot Godzila?
Playing at Kamakura
Temple in Kyoto
Temple Arches in Kyoto
Concerts in Ottawa at the Sri Chinmoy Art Gallery
December 5, 2014 3:13 pm / 1 Comment / Pavaka
The last series of concerts of the Pavaka Ensemble were at the beautiful Jharna Kala Gallery in Ottawa.? This is a temporary exhibit of original paintings by Sri Chinmoy celebrating the 40th anniversary of the start of this artistic journey.? The concert is free of charge and the setting is super unique!? The gallery is currently open at 54 Elgin and the exhibit goes until the end of April 2015.? The last concert on March 1st? featured Sumadhur, Sangit Surabhi and The Pavaka Ensemble.?? The previous concerts in December and January were very well attended and well received.
Belarus and Russia: The Full Story
November 29, 2014 9:41 pm / 1 Comment / Pavaka
The Songs of the Soul tour in the Balkans was wrapping up in Subotica, Serbia and everybody was in high spirits.? The organizers, technicians and musicians were wrapping up a series of concerts that had started 10 days earlier in Varna, Bulgaria which had been a lot of fun and presented Sri Chinmoy‘s music to approximately 3000 concert-goers.? I was also in high spirits, but I was also feeling a subtle anxiety creeping in.?? The explanation for this concern was not mysterious to me.? I was about to embark on a new tour as part of one of an ambitious tour project.? At the long-standing invitation of my friend Yuri, I was heading to Brest, Belarus for rehearsals that were to be followed by 6 concerts in Belarus and Russia.? The band was to be comprised of 1 Belarussian, 3 Russians and myself.? I had met these fine gentlemen before but only very briefly and had played very little music together.
A Russian Orthodox Church in Brest.
Before getting to making some music, though, I had to get from Subotica to Brest, neither of which have an international airport.? The solution, naturally (!), was to get a car ride to Budapest, Hungary, 2.5 hours from Subotica, then get a flight to Warsaw, Poland, then get an overnight train to Brest.? That last part was what I was most concerned about.? I had my visa for Belarus, but to travel alone overnight from the European Union into what used to be the Soviet Union had me concerned.? With the very kind help of Jan in Warsaw, who picked me up at the airport, we made our way to the train station and we both agreed that it would be a wise use of my money to buy a first class ticket which gave me a private cabin for the train ride.? As it turned out the ride was quite fine.? The train attendant spoke no English, but we managed to work things out so that I got off in Brest.? This train was traveling from Paris to Moscow ultimately.? Warsaw is only about 200 km from Brest but the ride was 6 hours.? I arrived in the wee hours where Yuri dutifully came to pick up Rostam and myself.? Rostam was just completing 3 days on the train and was arriving from Chelyabinsk via Moscow.
The next 5 days saw the group of 5 of us sleeping, eating and practicing in the Brest Sri Chinmoy Meditation Center.? The Center is a quite nice, newer 2 bedroom apartment on the outskirts of Brest.? I had sent MP3’s and written music to all the musicians a few weeks before, but we still had to get 1 hour of music together in only a few days.? The band consisted of Mahavrata, Sergey, Rostam, Yuri and myself.?? Sergey is a veteran professional drummer? living outside Moscow.?? Mahavrata is an accomplished guitarist, signer, songwriter and flutist.? Rostam was our youngest member and has been practicing meditation for 4 years.? His inspiration and eagerness were invaluable during these 2 weeks.?? Although a fine guitar player, Rostam played various wind instruments in this context.? Yuri was our coordinator, treasurer, translator and singer.? I was traveling with my trusty Telecaster electric guitar and a few guitar pedals.
Brest is a relatively small town in a country that is as flat as? Manitoba where I am from in central Canada.? Belarus is sometimes known as the last European dictatorship as well as Russia’s potato supplier.? Things in Belarus are orderly and people are quite content and happy.? The crime rate is extremely low.? When we weren’t practicing we were running for exercise.? Only once did we go out for sightseeing where we visited a large fort that was very active in the Second World War.? In fact, both in Russia and Belarus, there are many monuments to the war of 1941-1945.? The other attraction for me was Orthodox Churches.? I really like the icons in these churches.? In general, it’s a lot like my native Catholicism both in appearance and feeling.
I had arrived in Brest early on a Monday morning and our first concert was Friday evening at the philarmonic hall in Brest.? We were playing one of the smaller rooms that seats about 220 people.? Our rehearsals had gone fairly well, but by the time the concert time arrived and after a not-reassuring soundcheck, I wasn’t sure that it would all come together.? The advertising in the city seems to have worked because we had approximately 275 people in that room.?? That means that some were sitting on the ground or in the aisles and almost on stage!? During the concert I still wasn’t sure if the audience was hearing something nice because I was making mistakes and I was hearing wrong notes here and there.? It was also getting quite warm with all those people in that small room.? I thought for sure that some people would leave.? At the end of the concert, after 1 hour and 45 minutes, the room was as full as at the start and the crowd gave us an enthusiastic standing applause.? As is usually the case for a concert for meditation we had asked the audience to hold their applause until the very end.?? This helps to create a nice atmosphere.? After one week in Belarus, it seemed that our experiment had been a success.? In spite of various imperfections, the audience felt the peace and harmony that Sri Chinmoy’s songs embody.
This was the view from the stage in Brest.
This first concert turned out to set the tone for our other 5 concerts.? Audiences ranged from 150 to 300 approximately.? In some places the halls were full , but in others, they were not.? After every concert, people stood for the applause and many people came to speak to us after the concert asking questions.? We even got nice comments posted on this very website.? Pretty much every night I would have at least one elderly person going on and on in Russian about how (I presume) they enjoyed the concert.? With my translators usually busy talking to other people, I could only nod and say ‘spaciba’ (Thank you).? I would also get some young people who enjoyed the concert and were practicing some basic English.? I answered quite a few questions about my guitar and the pedals I was using.? I thought it was cool, for example, that a teenager with a Guns and Roses t-shirt would be intrigued by the equipment and mostly that he genuinely enjoyed the music.
Igor, the flutist from Minsk
In Brest and Minsk, our 2 Belarussian concerts, we were joined by Larissa who opened the concert with excellent singing and piano playing.? Also Igor played some flutes at one point.? In St-Petersburg the local boys from the Meditation Center put together some music as well.? It was a first for me to hear Sri Chinmoy’s music as a Bossa Nova!? In other cities it was just our group.? Our set included 1 arrangement by Mahavrata that he and I played by ourselves.? We also had a drum solo by Sergey and 3 songs by Mahavrata and Sergey, who are part of another group called Aspiration Flight.? This would last about 75 minutes.? At the end of each concert we would sing a song which has the following lyrics: “My gratitude heart always knows the way.? My oneness-perfection always is the way”? The fun part is that we sang it first in English then did the same song in Russian.? In Smolensk, we played in a rather small hall that was over full and for this song the entire audience was singing quite loudly.? I stopped playing guitar altogether to let them sing.? It was great!? In the meantime I was doing my best singing along with my phonetic Russian.
Lunch in Tver, prepared by Natasha.? On the far right is Nikolai, our great van driver and host from Moscow.
We travelled by car or van or train between each city.? Both train rides were night time deals where every seat converts to a bed.? That’s not so common here in Canada.? This was considered third class but the wagons were quite new and everybody gets crispy clean bedding for the ride.? To help us with all the organization along the way we had the ever-cheerful and soulful Vlad.? If he wasn’t on the phone coordinating something he was cutting jokes with the guys which were clearly very funny.? And if we couldn’t find him at any given time, he was off meditating somewhere.? He is a young fellow like Rostam who has been practicing meditation for only a few years.? On the day we were in Moscow he very self-givingly brought me to a cosmonaut museum which was a lot of fun.? I felt like I was 10 or 12 years old because at that time I was determined I was going to become an astronaut and was very familiar with names like Yuri Gagarin.
The band + Vlad, in Moscow
When all was said and done, we played for over 1100 people in these 6 free concerts.? In spite of our outer imperfection, the audiences were genuinely appreciative that we should present something like this in their city.? There was a lady in Tver that was almost shocked by how unique a presentation it was, but simultaneously very happy to have had such an experience.? I suppose that if we were anything at all, we were unique.? But then that’s what has always attracted me to Sri Chinmoy’s music -? It communicates a feeling and a consciousness that I’ve never encountered anywhere else before.? The songs can seem simplistic and even childlike, but there is a profundity that can’t be found in any other music.? Most of the arrangements that we played, I’ve performed hundreds of times, yet I don’t get tired of them.? It’s like a musical miracle.
Our concert in Moscow (photo by Turvan)
I feel extremely blessed to have been able to participate in sharing all of this with anyone who is inspired to come to a concert.? I would like to thank all those who attended as well as my brother musicians, all the organizers and the new friends that we made along the way.?? Spaciba!
Spaciba Belarus and Russia!
Thank you for the warm welcome that the Pavaka Heart Band received in Belarus in Russia!? We held concerts for over 1000 people in Brest, Minsk, Smolensk, Moscow, Tver and St-Petersburg.? It was great to share the vibe embodied in Sri Chinmoy’s music and it was great to meet so many lovely people!?? The band consisted of Yuri (Belarus), Rostam, Mahavrata, Sergey (Russia) and Pavaka (Canada).
Free Concerts in Ottawa and Montreal featuring group from the UK
September 1, 2014 12:05 pm / Leave a Comment / Pavaka
The next concerts in the Songs of the Soul concert series will take place in Ottawa on October 5th and Montreal October 7th. These concerts are free of charge, but we ask that you reserve your seats in advance. Both concerts will feature Sangit Surabhi, The Pavaka Ensemble as well as The Sahadeva Orchestra. Sahadeva hails from London England and will lead an English-Canadian group to perform his soulful arrangements of Sri Chinmoy‘s music. Sahadeva’s arrangements are charactarized by jazz, R&B and gospel styles and these performances have been delighting audiences at Songs of the Soul concerts for the past 4 years.? Sahadeva is also keyboardist and vocalist for the group Ananda.
The concert in Ottawa on October 5th will take place at 7pm the Centertown United Church at 507 Bank Street. Call 613 680 5727 for information or to reserve your seats.
In Montreal on October 7th, it will take place at 7pm at the Tanna Schulich Hall of McGill University located at 527 Sherbrook Street West. Call 514 387 5814 or 514 489 5692 for info and reservations.
This is the song Roar, Roar My Lion Heart, from the live recording CD entitled “Call Has Come”:
http://www.pavaka.com/wp-content/uploads/01-Roar-Roar-My-Lion-Heart.mp3
Free Concert in Montreal on Sunday July 6, 2014
June 23, 2014 3:10 am / Leave a Comment / Pavaka
The musical groups Sangit Surabhi from Ottawa and The Pavaka Ensemble from Montreal will present a concert of music for meditation on Sunday July 6th at 4:30pm at the Atwater Library situated at 1200 Atwater Ave.,? Westmount, Qu?bec H3Z 1X4.
After touring Europe, Canada and the US, these two groups want to share their meditative experience with a Montreal audience.? Participants will be invited not to applaud between songs and to simply meditate while listening to the music.?? Seating will be on regular chairs.? No prior meditation experience is needed.? The concert will last approximately 90 minutes.? All music performed will be arrangements of compositions by spiritual master Sri Chinmoy.
This concert is offered free of charge as a community service by the Sri Chinmoy Meditation Centre of Montreal.? No reservations are needed.
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Poster – July 6 – English
Poster – 6 juillet – FRANCAIS
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December 8, 2013 9:55 am / Leave a Comment / Pavaka
Last September saw the Songs of the Soul series head off to Portugal.? On the bill were Alap, Ananda, Mandu and Visuddhi, Sangit Surabhi, Kanala and Sadanand, Pavaka’s group and Sahadeva’s Orchestra.? For this tour Sangit Surabhi was composed of 7 Canadians and 1 Dutch girl to make this (I believe) the highest CanCon* for a Songs of the Soul tour so far.? Pavaka’s group consisted of Christian from Austria, Dave from the UK and myself.? Dave is one of my favourite guitarists out there and this was the first time we were able to collaborate.? I was thrilled!? Dave’s main gig is as the guitarist for Ananda.? Christian is an excellent vocalist, former member of the Vienna Boys Choir and we have a few tours under our belts now.? I also had the opportunity to play bass for Sahadeva’s Orchestra offering soulful, R&B flavoured arrangements of Sri Chinmoy‘s music.
Sadanand at Cabo da roca – The Western-most tip of continental Europe and a Sri Chinmoy Peace Blossom
The tour led us from Lisboa to Coimbra, Aveiro and Porto.? For each evening we met very receptive and good-sized audiences.? I think the biggest crowd was 600 in one of the smaller cities.? It felt really nice to be able to offer a peaceful evening to all of these people.? You can certainly feel a sense of struggle in a country that’s battling a 16 or 17% unemployment rate.? But there is a richness to the culture and to the history of this country that reassures.? You can literally see all the time that has passed in the buildings and monuments, so it gives you a sense that struggles are a passing thing and that there are more victories for humanity ahead.
Mandu on the tram
This was also the tour where the concerts started latest!? It was quite surprising, even to other Europeans on the tour.? Most evenings we started at 9?ish.? It’s like the audiences waited for the concert to start before actually coming in.? It made a few from our group a little antsy at first but in the end it always worked out just fine and the crowd was very appreciative.? It was a little like getting used to the Mongolian audiences who would come and go and chit-chat during the concert, then leave glowing comments about how they loved the evening.
Monastary in Lisboa
All in all, it was another lovely tour and I for one am very grateful to our dedicated, warm-hearted and open-hearted Portuguese hosts.? Obrigado!
p.s.:? There is a slideshow of the tour on You Tube – click here.
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The automated sliding doors open and close for the tenth time, bringing the fifth group of new arrivals through since I’ve arrived here. I search the faces heading towards this direction—parents and their children, businessmen and women in formal suits, and of course, the people my age whose faces light up as soon as they laid eyes on their lovers waiting from behind the bordering metal fences, making me wish I can join them in their blissful joy as they envelop each other in warm, loving embraces.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡlZqPCooGnO
Where the fuck is he? Patience is not a virtue I possess, and it may irritate people and myself sometimes but how can I help something that I’ve been spending years trying to fix only to fail?copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡtxlT8kAEpt
And when he just called you fifteen minutes ago, saying that his plane has already landed and he’s on his way to pick up his luggage, you would’ve thought you would find him already waiting outside the airport building, perhaps waiting for you to arrive at the bus stop even and then take a taxi ride all the way back home, if he didn’t arrange for his driver to pick us up here. I know, all of this seems rather redundant but we did arrange for a dinner date after this, so in my mind it’s better to pick him up from the airport right away than having him stop by the house to pick me up.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡFOMsI0qnV2
Soon, one by one, people start to leave the premises and return to their respective homes until there are only few people left here, including myself. The coffee I’ve bought for myself is already half-empty, and I can breathe a sigh of relief since I’ve already taken Izzy’s coffee home first so she’ll have her beloved beverage as soon as she wakes up, dodging a bullet for myself. A random taxi driver looking for a passenger went up to me and asked if I want a ride, and for a second there I was gonna hit the guy in the face if I turned and saw the mysterious driver who took me to Cam’s place, but upon realizing he was just another middle-aged man desperate to earn money for his family, I ignored him and continued waiting.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3g1u6ESukf
After another five minutes and I’ve become tempted to take a seat on the bench not too far from the exit gate, I spot him appearing from the sliding doors and I can bet that anyone would’ve said that the light has returned to my face. His short auburn hair has grown a little bit longer now, creating bangs that cast a shadow over his forehead. His fair skin has tanned a bit more as well and a short, rough stubble has grown around his jaw. His steel blue eyes can create a glare that would send people shivering in their knees, and yet there’s something in them that has captivated me ever since the day we met.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡjNNEHVZhAo
With his grey suit jacket unbuttoned, exposing the crisp white shirt and red tie he wears underneath, he looks like he’s ready to collapse onto a bed and fall asleep anytime soon.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgcxIUx9is
His eyes glance over the area until they meet mine, and wasting no time at all, he strides over to where I’m sitting, dragging his luggage behind him and throws his arms around me as soon as we’re facing each other, engulfing me in that bear hug I’ve been craving for two weeks now. I yelp as he suddenly lifts me up and spins me around like a man who’s proud of his girlfriend and has missed her to bits, as much as she has missed him as well. It kinda scares me, though, how easy it was for him to just lift my smaller figure up to the air with little to no effort at all.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmJcQPRIkb
After two spins, he sets me down and pulls me in for a short kiss—another thing I’ve been craving for the past couple of weeks that I’ve just realized right then and there.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDZLhHHhZh
“Oh god, I’m so sorry for the delay,” he says, exasperated, wrapping an arm around my neck and pulling me close to him. “There was some problem with my luggage earlier—security thought I had something in there that’s not allowed here, like I have dead rats cooped up here beneath all the clothing, so I had to go to quarantine and everything and it turns out they’ve mistaken me for someone else… Can you believe that? How in the world did they mistake someone like me for someone else?”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKyShgNPp6
I manage a small smile as I remind myself of Drew’s slight ego over himself. It’s something I have to tolerate from day to day, but I don’t mind—most of the time, at least, because I’ve convinced myself that every man nowadays acts the same way. I know both Drew and Cam are like this, too.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡiBs1OiRF1c
I roll my eyes. “Oh, you know how squeamish they get nowadays. Terrorists and all that. Something like that happened here just a month ago, so it’s better safe than sorry for them.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0PQM7ytox
“The most dangerous thing I’ll probably ever bring through those detector things is a bottle of the red wine,” he says, cocking an eyebrow, still unconvinced. “I still don’t think that gives them a reason to pat over my whole body like perverts and rifle through every single piece of clothing I pack in here. Not to mention how bad of a mood I’m in right now, and the hell of a jet lag I’ll have to suffer through for the next following days until my next trip overseas.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡL4hjXzAKp0
“And to think, you would’ve gotten used to it by now.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHBjJpBA4D
“Hey, I’m still new in this whole CEO business thing, all right?” He pecks me on the lips again. “Two years isn’t really a lot of time to settle down.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVDCMpJkT8
“You went to Harvard, for fuck’s sake.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEcaYaKyU9
“But that doesn’t mean that I passed with flying colors.” He wags his eyebrows at me, which I respond with a light shove to the shoulder as he chuckles. “All right, all right, settle down there, feisty little tiger. You haven’t booked anything for us tonight, have you?”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLQ94zzGaE
I shake my head. Half the time, I don’t have the money to.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXAXAnmjIf
“Good, because I’ve already booked for us. I’m making sure that tonight’s gonna be absolutely perfect. Just the two of us and nobody else—in fact, I’m not even going to pick up my phone if anybody calls. Well, maybe an exception for absolute emergencies, but I doubt anything like that’s going to happen today.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAUFKSPurK
God, I hope not.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZvu9z4Jgf
“We’re going to this fancy restaurant that I’ve heard just opened up last week,” he continues as he leads us towards the curb, stopping to pick his phone up and start dialing his driver to pick us up. “I had Harold book us a seat tonight there, and apparently, this place serves the best fettucine alfredo, which I know is your favorite.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzdYwNlT63
One of them, I think to myself, but admire his attempt to cheer me up nevertheless. My actual favorite, as mediocre and boring as it sounds, are just regular ham sandwiches, and I’ll already be more than happy if he just takes me to that popular diner downtown that I know serves the best sandwiches, but Drew likes fancy things because he’s lived his entire life with them, so I doubt I’ll be ever to drag him over there for a quick dinner and maybe watch a movie later on like any regular couples do. And I’ll be lying if I say I don’t want to be pampered by my boyfriend by having dinner in a fancy new, five-star restaurant where you have to book a table otherwise you’re kicked out of the premises.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9zE4epX3To
He speaks up again but I keep quiet as I realize he’s speaking to his driver. I glance up at him and sigh before turning my gaze away and at my folded hands in front of me. I can’t help thinking about how the rest of my life is going to be like this if we ever get married. He’ll be outside the country for most of the time, and I’ll be stuck here, doing whatever it is I may be doing in the future, once I can keep myself busy with an occupation again. If I’m lucky, he might take me somewhere exotic for a vacation or maybe for our honeymoon.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡNyoj2yS7h9
But just thinking about it makes the pit of my stomach to feel uneasy all of a sudden and a voice in the back of my head tells me to wake up and see that this isn’t the life I really wanted for myself. I’ve planned so much more than this; I wanted to become someone who’s not too dependent on my partner, and be able to make it out there on her own when the situation calls for it. I wanted to be considered successful in my own right, and famous for something I’ve put my blood, sweat and tears into, not for being some hot-shot CEO’s trophy wife.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFIAEfnZ9u
Out of everything else—and Cam knows this about me more than anyone else because he’s said so himself just earlier today—I wanted to become a writer, not an editor. Sure that a job as an editor ensures a guaranteed salary paid every month as long as you do your shit right, but I don’t want to have someone else being the boss of me and telling me what I should and should not do. I envy my clients, writers who get to have that shred of freedom I yearn to own myself, and while it’s true that they can still be pressured by publishers who keep on asking them when that manuscript for the new sequel is going to be finished, they can at least work in their most desired environment and their schedules seem much more flexible than that of someone who hides behind their desk and a stack of paperwork everyday.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3j3Hnh6ll0
The more I think about this, the more I realize how right Cam was, for once in his lifetime. Maybe it’s time that I stop working for hopeful clients whose dreams may be crushed by the heartless and greedy publishers I also work for, and maybe become one of those hopeful clients myself. It’s not like I’ve got anything to lose now, do I?copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡK8y8rBHkIZ
By the time I turn back to Andrew, who has decided to receive a call from a business associate of his after promising not to for the rest of the day, I can already see the Mercedes Benz he owns zooming down the street and halting right in front of us. Being the gentleman that he is, he opens the back passenger door and allows me to enter first then he follows, slamming the door shut beside him. The driver, Vincent, leaves the car for a moment to grab Drew’s luggage and put it in the trunk before returning back to the driver’s seat. I greet him with a short wave and he nods back in acknowledgement—something that I’ve been used to due to the manners I’ve been brought up with and natural friendliness that I loathe sometimes—only for Drew to interrupt and state out the name of the restaurant we’ll be going to.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡt5FcFjs2iC
Throughout the entire ride, he continues to share his stories and experience overseas, about the food and the culture, about things I dream of seeing with my own eyes. I lean onto his shoulder and enjoy the smooth ride to our destination, until I think about the taxi again. I can feel my drained self being back there again, thinking it’ll just be another one of those instances where the driver happens to be the talkative type and asks one too many questions about the customers’ personal lives. I can remember his blank gaze when he tells me that ‘things will get better,’ almost as if he was hinting about what was to come—meeting Cam again after so long, being fired from my job, then rediscovering the motivation to start following my dream again.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlVA3jR9Ec
And how his eyes looked. I can never get rid of that image from my mind now, almost like I’ve been watching—no, experiencing a horror movie first-hand. I’d like to think my exhausted mind was too fucked up to have coherent thoughts back then, maybe even causing me to suffer from delusions or something, but it just felt so real, and everything that happened next seemed to orchestrated to be a coincidence.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9olHxNjf81
The ride is short but when we reach the restaurant, the sun has started to set behind the faint outlining of clouds in the distant horizon. A lengthy queue has appeared in front of the building’s double doors, many of them dressed in semi-formal attire that make me feel underdressed with my beige blouse and dark trousers. The car slows down to a halt just a few feet away from the entrance, and as I gather my belongings, Andrew steps out and walks around to open the door for me, giving me a sense of being loved and special even when I’m afraid it might create a scene among the young couples in line eager to get a table inside, with him being quite popular around these parts and all.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡeC7UONdhPw
I have noticed that we’ve already earned a couple of glances and glares and whispers, especially from a group of four young women about as old as I am as they gasp upon seeing my date for the night. Did I mention he’s also quite popular among the ladies? Predictable, seeing how he’s a handsome young bachelor who, for some reason, is dating an average girl who has just lost her job and is still renting a house with her best friend, so I’m not surprised that many think that we won’t last long even though our two-year relationship has yet to show the slightest signs of wavering.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmRPWV8O4N
To my dismay, I’ve noticed that they’ve begun to send secretive flirtatious winks at my boyfriend as if I won’t catch them red-handed when I’m standing right next to him. To my relief, however, he seems to pay them no attention at all as he takes my hand in his and closes the car door shut behind us as he leads me to where the maître d’ stands behind a podium with the open guestbook before him.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ecmVJ9eZi
He gives us a welcoming smile as soon as he realizes who Drew is, and, ignoring the other guests waiting in line, he immediately leads us into the dining room and leads us to our table. I can’t help but gawk at the sights around me and the appetizing smell of mouth-watering food floating in the air, almost not paying much attention to where I’m heading if my arm isn’t hooked around his. This is our tenth date at a lavish restaurant like this and I still can’t get used to it, and I doubt I ever will.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdUn7Ibl00
He pulls the chair out for me to sit—again, such a gentleman—before sitting on his own, then the server comes and hands us two menus. Drew takes only a quick glance his before ordering a little too much for the both of us, including a quite expensive bottle of wine, and when I shoot him a glare after the server has disappeared, he shrugs and stares back at me.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTnJJkER8I
“You can’t keep on starving yourself, Emma,” he says, apparently taking notice of the weight I’ve lost since the past few weeks. “And don’t be shy about eating too much around me. You’re my girlfriend—you shouldn’t be embarrassed of yourself around me.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡE9WQwSAG7z
But I am and I can’t help it, I think to myself. Not when people think highly of you until they realize you’re dating a complete loser.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoNSMVBXgB
“I just don’t feel like eating much,” I say instead, curling my hands into fists as I shift uncomfortably in my seat. The server returns with the wine and hands us a glass each, and I don’t hesitate to take a quick sip of mine even though I prefer any other alcoholic beverage other than this. Ignoring the bitter taste in my mouth, I force myself to look up when I feel his hands reaching over to touch mine, which I’ve realized have folded over each other out of stress, and catch a glimpse of the worry written all over his face before I turn away, not wanting to meet his eyes with the millions of thoughts running through my head.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8vlReGv6P
“Hey, Em,” he murmurs. Both his hands are on mine now, pulling them away from each other so that we’re holding hands in a rather awkward manner now. “C’mon, don’t be like that to me. Tell me what’s on your mind. Is there some trouble at work again? You know there’s always a spot for you in my company if you want to—”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLZaCv3dcb
“No, no, that… won’t be necessary.” I force a smile on my face. “No offense, but wouldn’t it be awkward to have your girlfriend work for you as your employee—a subordinate? And to be honest, I’d rather steer away from jobs that require me to sit behind a desk all day, waiting for time to wind down until I can finally go home.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡNazA3lwFjN
“But, isn’t that what you’re doing right now?”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡhhVNDN2ji8
I sigh. I wish I can say this is the smoothest transition ever made in the whole world while telling your partner you’ve been fired, but it’s not.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8wU7HwDLJP
“Well, that won’t be much of a problem now.” I stretch my smile so it becomes a hesitant grin. “I was… fired, Drew. Laid off. Unemployed.” I pause. “Though, after what happened last Friday, I might as well quit myself.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡWx0w83REJb
Lame excuse when I still need the job, regardless of my personal relationship with the superior—more like personal hatred if you ask me, though. But I don’t want to have him thinking that I was in desperate need in terms of finances, because there’s a chance that he might offer to provide for me just like he did with the job thing, and that will make me feel like I’m indebted to him and I don’t want to feel that with my own boyfriend.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0soN5bPpt
Husband, maybe, but he hasn’t even proposed yet, much less tie the knot between us.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡYx0SFHpis9
“Em,” he begins, apparently at a loss of words. “You do know that something like this isn’t one you take light-heartedly, right?”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8pG8VOcNtV
“I’m aware of that, yes. But I have a solution—well, an unguaranteed solution, but a solution nonetheless. And besides, I get to have fun doing it.” I take a deep breath then say, “I’m gonna be a writer.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVVrjIwuyW
He looks at me, staring at the features of my face and studying it like an art student trying to comprehend the secrets behind the most prestigious, one-of-a-kind paintings in museum exhibits, and then his face morphs into disbelief.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡYwtYo9GNr9
“You’re joking with me, right?”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzyCIurUhU
Frowning, I shake my head. “Why would I be lying to you? I’m being serious, Drew.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgPKH9teD1
“God, I wish you didn’t say that—I mean, it’s just…” He sighs. “You’re crazy, and I love you for it, but you’re crazy. You just got fired from a job that has literally driven you insane, with all the stories from work you’ve been telling me through our Skype calls and everything, only to just dive straight into an occupation right below the one you had before? I mean, half of the stories you’ve told involve how your clients have their hearts broken when the publisher rejects their manuscripts, and more than once, you’ve told me how you were glad you weren’t in their shoes because you can’t possibly imagine how it feels like to be thrown to the curb like that. And yet, here you are now, telling me that you want to become one of them?” He shakes his head again, more firmly this time. “You’re crazy.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCxEAWNgKf
Something inside me is breaking, and I’m not sure what, but his words make me feel utterly taken aback. Almost like a slap straight across my face. And then, for a split second, the world around me devolves into my high school years again, just a year and a half before graduating when teachers start to ask their students where they’re heading, where they will be attending university or college, what they’re going to do with their lives. And innocent but driven little me, who’s been scoring straight-A’s in all those science-y subjects and especially mathematics, tells to the whole world about how she wants to be a novel writer.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHOYkxsLrK
And of course, my younger self was laughed at, and the teachers raised their eyebrows, thinking they hadn’t cleaned their ears for ages.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡFg0v1HEvWi
So I’ve repressed those dreams, especially after graduating from university and realizing how cruel life actually is.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6U4Kv1xLL
And now, when I’m allowed a chance to relive my dreams and perhaps achieve them, my boyfriend thinks I’m insane enough for putting myself in a worse situation than I already am.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbsBaM8CyA
He must’ve seen the sheer look of disappointment on my face because he reacts immediately by reaffirming his grip on my hands, intertwining my fingers between his so that I’d turn back to him and see the guilt clearly written all over his face.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡmdRnJS4nn0
“Look, Emma, I didn’t mean it like that—”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡGU7AZR60pR
“It’s been my dream, Drew,” I murmur, not even caring about cutting him off. “I’ve always wanted to be one of them, as depressing as they may seem. Ever since the first novel I’ve ever read, to classics like Pride and Prejudice, to analyzing amazing works like The Catcher in the Rye that to this day remains one of my favorites, to young adult novels and fucking The Fault in Our Stars, for fuck’s sake. I’ve always wanted to share stories to the world, inspire people the way books have inspired me throughout my entire life.” I stare into his eyes, searching any signs of concession in them. “You know that, right? You of all people should know that about me—you’re my boyfriend, after all.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡMc3eOd1XQz
It doesn’t have to be just him, a little voice in the back of my head speaks up—a voice I’ve repressed along with those broken dreams, and as the broken dreams return, I doubt that this little asshole will want to be left out of the party. Mom knows. Izzy knows. Cam knows—he knows you better than anyone else can ever be.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡxdNoAwhFUF
He was my best friend, I retort back, but soon I realize I’m just thinking to myself, responding to my own thoughts. Of course he knows that about me.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAzNbyFhz5
Drew looks perplexed, but nods solemnly and smiles. “I do. Which is why I’m leaving this decision all up to you, really. I just… it’s hard to believe you still want to stay in this sort of industry even after all that’s happened. But if that’s really your choice, and that’s really what you want, then just go for it.” He gives my hands a tight squeeze. “And I’ll be here with you, for you, supporting you all the way.”copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9lhdz6qB4g
God, I hope so.copyright protection240ＰＥＮＡＮＡbCtY04viJq
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AIDS Walk New York Raises More than $4 Million
The stars of “Pose” (Ryan Jamaal Swain, MJ Rodriguez and Billy Porter) at AIDS Walk New York 2019 Jennifer Morton
15,000 people—including the stars of “Pose”—participated in the event that supports GMHC and other local HIV groups.
May 20, 2019 • By Trenton Straube
A crowd of 15,000 walked, ran and sashayed through Central Park for the annual AIDS Walk New York, raising more than $4 million for Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) and other local HIV/AIDS service organizations.
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TV stars, Broadway belters and local lawmakers rallied and entertained attendees from the stage during the opening ceremony and post-walk show. According to a GMHC press release, celebs at the podium included: Ryan Jamaal Swain, MJ Rodriguez and Billy Porter of Pose; Shangela, Ginger Minj, Milk, Chi Chi DeVayne and Cristal DeMure of RuPaul’s Drag Race; Andrea Navedo of Jane the Virgin; Nico Tortorella of Younger; Selenis Leyva and Dale Soules of Orange Is the New Black; Frenchie Davis of The Voice; comedian Margaret Cho; Miss Universe Catriona Gray; Broadway stars Bonnie Milligan and Brian Stokes Mitchell; and local politicians Kirsten Gillibrand, Jerrold Nadler, Richard N. Gottfried and David Weprin.
“As we enter the presidential election season, we need to stay focused on how to elevate the issue of ending HIV and AIDS at all levels of government—and hold candidates and elected officials accountable for working with us toward our shared goal of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic,” said GMHC CEO Kelsey Louie, in the GMHC press release. “There are still nearly 40,000 new HIV infections across the United States every year, and ending the epidemic is going to require, above all, collaboration. The 15,000 people who came together today in Central Park not only raised money to help GMHC continue its vital work but also sent a powerful message of solidarity to our leaders.”
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“With record low numbers of new HIV infections, New York City and New York state continue to make tremendous strides toward ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic—thanks in large part to the impact of AIDS Walk New York over more than three decades,” added Craig R. Miller, founder and senior organizer of the AIDS Walk. “However, people living with HIV and other chronic conditions continue to face threats to lifesaving health care as well as face a national climate that is hostile to at-risk populations. The $4,001,132 raised today, along with the community support, show that we’re not backing down from our important work.”
This year’s main sponsors included Delta Airlines, Gilead Sciences and ViiV Healthcare.
Since it launched in 1986, AIDS Walk New York as raised nearly $160 million for GMHC and other HIV/AIDS service organizations in the tri-state area.
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