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Dell Reconnect
Work for Goodwill
Donation Receipt
Goodwill Offers No-Cost Adult Education Classes through Partnership with Altoona Area School District
Latest News Entries
November 5, 2020 Goodwill of the Southern Alleghenies opens Moxham Food Pantry
August 17, 2020 YouthBuild Johnstown is OPEN and is currently ENROLLING!
February 3, 2020 Marcus & Mack believes in the Goodwill Mission
April 27, 2018 Goodwill, PA CareerLink, and Johnstown’s Vision 2025 Launch Johnstown Youth Corps
April 16, 2018 YouthBuild Johnstown Students to Visit State Capitol for Program Advocacy
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September 8, 2017, Press Release
JOHNSTOWN, PA, September 8, 2017—Goodwill of the Southern Alleghenies announces a partnership with the Altoona Area School District (AASD) Adult Education Program to offer no-cost adult education classes at the Goodwill Career Center on Central Avenue in the Moxham section of Johnstown. Classes will be offered beginning September 11 and will be held Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:00–3:30 P.M. Classes are self-paced, but consistent attendance is encouraged for the maximum benefit.
Classes will be taught by a PA-Certified teacher from the AASD Adult Education Program. Subjects include preparation for the GED® or HiSET® Exam for adults pursuing a Commonwealth Secondary School Diploma, and Reading and Math refresher classes for adults who already obtained their high school diploma, but wish to improve their skills and be more prepared to enter the workforce, a postsecondary school, or a training program.
“We’re excited to partner with the Altoona Area School District to offer classes so adult learners can earn their diplomas and brush up on basic skills to better prepare for postsecondary education or training and obtaining employment,” stated Bradley R. Burger, President/CEO of Goodwill of the Southern Alleghenies. “Our ultimate goal is to help people with barriers to employment to break down those barriers through education,” he added.
Tina Swineford, AASD Adult Education Program Director said, “Our partnership with Goodwill of the Southern Alleghenies is an exciting opportunity to expand our free adult education services to reach more Cambria County residents. Our current classroom in the Greater Johnstown Career and Technology Center is easily accessible to those living near Richland.” She added, “Thanks to this partnership, adult education will be more accessible to those living near the Moxham neighborhood. Education leads to better employment and career opportunities resulting in a stronger community for everyone.”
For more information or to register for classes, please contact Jennifer Galiote, Career and Employer Services Professional at Goodwill of the Southern Alleghenies at (814) 536-3536, ext. 243 or jgaliote@gogoodwill.org.
Goodwill of the Southern Alleghenies (formerly Goodwill Industries of the Conemaugh Valley, incorporated in 1962) is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Johnstown, Pennsylvania serving the counties of Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon, Indiana, Somerset, and a portion of Westmoreland. Revenue from the sale of donated goods in the organization’s 10 Goodwill Retail Stores supports its mission of empowering individuals and families with employment barriers to achieve their fullest potential in the community through work services. Adult and youth services include education and career services, job placement, postemployment supports, and psychiatric rehabilitation. The agency is an independent, community-based member organization of Goodwill Industries International, a 179-member network in the U.S., Canada, and 13 other countries. Learn more at www.GoGoodwill.org.
© 2021 Goodwill of the Southern Alleghenies 540-542 Central Avenue, Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15902
Online Shopping at Goodwill
Through the Shopgoodwill online auction site, you can experience a fun and exciting way to shop for specialty items such as one-of-a-kinds, collectibles, antiques, estate pieces, jewelry, nostalgic items, and more!
At Goodwill of the Southern Alleghenies, we know that our donors value their donations to Goodwill and want us to get the maximum value possible to support our mission. Listing these items on Shopgoodwill allows us to generate more revenue because these items go to the highest bidders who know the values of the items.
Donors can be sure that the revenue generated from the sale of their donated items on Shopgoodwill.com will support job training and employment services for people in their community – just as it does through purchases made in our 10 Goodwill Retail Stores.
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GTA 5 on Xbox One & PS4 Arrives With 1 Huge Problem
Travis Pope
GTA 5, the remake of last year’s Xbox 360 and PS3 best-selling game Grand Theft Auto 5, arrived on the Xbox One and PS4 overnight. So far the experience has been mostly smooth, except for one crucial issue effecting Xbox One and PS4 owners alike. According to some isolated reports, GTA Online players who haven’t logged into the game this calendar year are having big issues transferring their characters to this new version.
Reports of users not being able to transfer their characters to the new versions of the game surfaced overnight, and Rockstar says it’s already looking into the issue. “We are looking into an issue preventing character transfer and GTA Online login on accounts that haven’t played GTA Online since 2013,” the developer’s support website reads. The post doesn’t offer any more detail on the issue besides that. Instead, it encourages users who are running into the issue to login in to the support website for an email notification on when the issue has been addressed.
Read: GTA 5 Update With Online Heists Is Finally Coming
Launched with GTA 5, Grand Theft Auto Online isn’t the single player narrative and story portion of the game. It’s actually a second world inspired by the game’s single player campaign. In Grand Theft Auto Online users create characters that are descended from the story’s characters. There are tons of races to compete and things to do in Grand Theft Auto Online. When tasks in the world are successfully completed players earn more money to build out their character with new clothing, more weapons and better cars and houses.
Of course, it’s an open-world online game so many players simply run around shooting at each other and teaming up for battles with other factions. Grand Theft Auto Online has its own in-game currency but players can also pump real money into the game. Rockstar has kept Grand Theft Auto Online exciting with a steady stream of new content updates and game modes ever since it debuted with GTA 5 for the Xbox 360 and PS3 last year.
With GTA 5 for the Xbox One and PS4, buyers are getting a better game than the original. The setting and characters are the same, but Rockstar makes use of the new consoles’ extra power in some exciting ways. The game looks much better than it did last year. There are more trees, shrubs. Weather effects look better and a lot of the world is rendered in much better detail than it was originally.
The most exciting feature of the Xbox One and PS4 versions of GTA 5 is the first-person mode. Since becoming 3D, Grand Theft Auto games have stayed in the third-person. This allowed users to see their characters and the area around them. It gave the game more of an out-of-body experience. Users can now become their characters in a way they couldn’t before. In this first-person mode players see their hands, the area around them. They don’t actually see themselves though because the camera is set at where their eyes would be.
Read: This is Why You Buy GTA 5 for the Xbox One & PS4
Rockstar heavily modified the original game so that it could allow buyers to feel like they are their character in a way they couldn’t before. Every vehicle now has an interior and users see themselves reach for their phone or pull out a weapon. Reviews on the controls for this new mode are mixed, but they can be customized and Rockstar also added a way for players to switch between first-person shooting mode and the third-person view that they’re used to. All versions of the game will get online heists soon, according to Rockstar.
GTA 5 for the Xbox One & PS4 also includes new races, extra vehicles, and some exclusive rewards. Upgraders also get $1 million in Grand Theft Auto Online currency. Grand Theft Auto 5 for the Xbox One and PS4 costs $60 online or in store. Rockstar has plans to launch a PC version of the game next year.
Related Topics:Grand Theft Auto 5Grand Theft Auto OnlineGTA 5
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Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award
Aviation Pioneer and Leader
John D. Odegard is the founder and former dean of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks. In 1968, John pioneered UND’s aviation program with two donated aircraft and a small office in the Business College, and since then, it has grown to become one of UND’s largest degree-granting colleges, one of the nation’s most widely-respected aerospace education programs, and a leader in atmospheric research.
The program that began with only 12 students now enrolls nearly 2,000 students who come from every state in the nation and several countries. The program and its nearly 500 faculty and staff members are housed in a state-of-the-art aerospace education complex. The school’s flight training facility is one of the largest of its kind in North America. Students fly more than 116,000 flight training hours annually in a fleet of 120 aircraft.
Throughout his 32-year career as an aerospace educator, John’s reputation for leadership earned him industry acclaim and numerous recognitions. In 1982, he directed the development of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) four-year degree designed to prepare technical managers for an increasingly complex National Airspace System. He helped initiate a joint effort between UND Aerospace and the FAA to broadcast aviation classes via satellite to college campuses across the country, and in 1986, lead the development of the SPECTRUM airline pilot training program, an industry standard for commercial pilot training around the globe.
Under John’s leadership, UND Aerospace moved to the forefront of research aimed at modernizing the nation’s aging weather radar surveillance system. In 1987, UND Aerospace established the nation’s first multi-disciplinary space studies program to provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of humankind’s move into space.
John was honored with the FAA’s Excellence in Aviation Award and Distinguished Service Award for his many achievements in aerospace education and aviation safety. He was honored by the National Air Transportation Association with its Excellence in Pilot Training Award and received the prestigious Frank G. Brewer Trophy from the National Aeronautics Association for his distinguished and inspiring leadership in creating new educational opportunities. He was named North Dakota Business Innovator of the Year and was inducted into the North Dakota Entrepreneur Hall of Fame, the North Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame and the Norsk Hostfest Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame.
He served as a consultant and guest speaker for many national governments, multi-national corporations, airlines and educational institutions. In North Dakota, he was a prominent figure on numerous boards and committees, and served for 20 years on the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission. He is widely published on subjects of aviation education and flight training, and co-authored a leading textbook, Airport Planning and Management.
John passed away in 1998 at the age of 57.
Presented: October 15, 2015
Portrait Painted By: Vern Skaug
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GARRY HUMPHREYS
Mainly (but not exclusively) on music and musicians
Protect our shared history, memorials and monuments
I've signed the attached petition - I agree with all the points made by the proposer - please consider signing also.
http://chng.it/WjvKfTdsSZ
Whatever decisions are taken, they must be taken as the result of a proper democratic process.
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Open letter from Simon Rattle and Mark Elder:
There are so many pressing problems to solve in the UK that it takes courage even to mention the desperate situation of classical music in the time of Covid-19.
There’s a real possibility of a devastated landscape on the other side of this; orchestras may not survive, and if they do, they may face insuperable obstacles to remain solvent in our new reality. What we write applies, of course, to all types of music, not just classical music which is our area of expertise. Our music is essentially a live experience and requires all the participants, performers and listeners alike, to be in the same room together. What we may do individually over the internet in these months is all well and good, but the living core of our work is a live communion, a sharing of space, art and emotion which is both vital and healing.
This healing will become ever more necessary in the coming time as we attempt to bear witness and understand what we have all gone through. In such an existential crisis, the realisation of our shared vulnerability will surely change and deepen our relationship to all the arts. In our own field we are asking ourselves; how can we get back to live music? How can we give our audiences the courage to gradually return?
More immediately, how can we maintain musical continuity when orchestras are silenced? And how do we nurture a generation of young musicians whose prospects look bleak just as they embark on a career in this ever more uncertain world?
The recent extension of the furlough scheme is a blessing and enables many organisations to hang on. For freelance musicians, which include four of the London orchestras among others, huge problems remain. Currently many freelancers fall between the cracks of the government’s self-employment schemes. We need to find a way to sustain some kind of backbone of income so that we will eventually be able to play whenever that will be possible. At the most basic level, despite all appearances to the contrary, musicians are humans. They need to eat and pay their bills. But we also need to play together and train, just like any sports team, albeit in a totally new environment. Crucially, this musical team is part of a complex structure that is focused around, and serves, its home town or city.
Our venues will have to learn to shepherd audiences in and out of performances in safety, and accept that at maximum only 25% capacity will be allowed, with all the economic knock on effects that this reality implies. We MUST find a way to play together soon, even without an audience, if we are to maintain anything like our normal standards, and we badly need clarity from government, a timeline, of when that might be and how it can be implemented. We understand that we cannot expect to revert to everything as it was before; we will be creative and tireless in making contingency plans and solving problems.We will have to reinvent the wheel in so many ways. Learning to play while remaining distanced from each other will be much harder than it may initially seem.
All musicians of whatever genre share the magnificent problem of an art form which is, fundamentally, songs transmitted to people in a room. When will our audiences have the chance to experience this once more?
We refuse to believe that live music will die, but it will not survive merely on energy and optimism. It will need support and understanding, particularly when it ventures out in public once more. The first year of performing with fewer musicians to a much smaller public will be our toughest time, and we will need a helping hand to make it through.
In Mainland Europe orchestras are gradually opening up and finding different ways to deal with the problems of distancing. Good practice is being built up: in the UK we must gain time by learning what has already been proved to work, rather than starting from the beginning yet again, with people not from the performing arts making the decisions. Until we have some practical idea of what our future might entail, musicians in our country will continue to feel out in the wilderness.
Sir Simon Rattle, OM, CBE, Music Director, London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder, CH, CBE, Music Director, Hallé Orchestra
From today's Church Times (copyright):
Paul Vallely: Don’t try to erase the past, study it
Colston’s statue should be in a museum, says Paul Vallely
WHEN a Roman patrician donated a new bathhouse, aqueduct, or road to a city, he would often have a prominent stone inscribed D.S.P.F., or de sua pecuna fecit. It meant “paid for with his own money”. In return, his fellow citizens often put up a statue to him. When the great man fell from public favour, the statue was often torn down — a practice, as I learned while researching my forthcoming book on philanthropy, which became a great symbolic gesture in any revolt or sedition.
The lessons of history go far wider than that, as we have seen this week with the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston, once lauded as the city of Bristol’s greatest philanthropist, but now reviled as a slave-trader. The event tells us something about the nature of history, the need to remember, the danger of forgetting, and the fact that we do not stand detached from history, but are part of it.
The need to remember is perhaps the easiest of these lessons to learn. Colston gave the contemporary equivalent of about £25 million to build schools, almshouses, hospitals, and churches, although he excluded as beneficiaries the Catholics, Dissenters, and Whigs whom his politics led him to despise. But his fortune was built on the sale of 84,000 slaves, of whom 19,300 died in the ships that he used to transport human beings from Africa to the Caribbean, and then bring tobacco, sugar, and rum back to Britain. It is hard to argue that such tainted money can ever be fully redeemed by good works.
The danger of forgetting is clear from those who fail, or refuse, to understand that, at the time, slavery was generally condoned by the educated churchgoing classes. John Locke, that most celebrated philosopher of liberty, was a shareholder in Colston’s company. The protester who sprayed “Churchill is a racist” on his statue in Parliament Square may remember historians’ revelations that Britain’s wartime leader privately used derogatory anti-black language — but appears to have forgotten that the choice in 1940 was between Churchill’s slang and Hitler’s genocide.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, several Eastern European countries took down their statues of infamous Communist dictators, but, rather than destroy them, placed them in statue-parks so that children could learn something of the context that the past gave their present. History is a better option than the uncontrolled emotion on show in Bristol this week. Liverpool, whose splendid array of Grade I listed architecture is a testament to another city whose greatness was built on slavery, has responded to the complexity of its own history with a Slavery Museum, in which future generations can learn to comprehend the complexity of their own chequered past.
In such ways do we make our own history in an honest and healthy fashion. Colston died in 1721. The notorious statue was erected only in the era of Victorian imperialism — almost 200 years after his death. Removing the statue to a museum would merely have been another stage in the way a city makes its history — and one from which its children could learn far more than this week’s attempts simply to erase the past.
Quote for the times
'Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.'
After a few years without a website, when the company that looked after it closed, I've now finally got a blog up and running and this is its first post! It's somewhat different from the website, because my activities have changed, and I've virtually given up singing (or, at least, singing for money!), am no longer on the recorded music societies' speakers' circuit and, though I'd love to do more conducting, the opportunities have never really arisen.
However, one of the things I'm happiest doing is writing, beginning many years ago with concert programme notes, and this still continues, with occasional forays into CD liner-note writing. Around the turn of the century I began to write music and arts reviews for the Church Times (I'm still happily doing this) and mainly but not exclusively musical obituaries for the Independent newspaper, and it was a very sad day when the print version of the Indy ceased and obituaries of the kind previously published were excluded. There was a great frisson being telephoned by the obituaries editor and asked to produce an obit and researching, writing and filing it within 12 to 24 hours. I miss that! (It was also pure pleasure to work with the Indy obituaries editors: first, Jamie Fergusson, then Diana Gower and last - but certainly not least - Chris Maume.) Obituaries have crept back into the Indy, but not to the same extent, and for a nominal fee only. Some of my 'advances' have been used in the digital edition (the first was of Sir Neville Marriner) and the Church Times has taken others.
Programme note writing is for anyone who wants them, some on a regular basis, and a particular pleasure has been writing for Midsummer Opera, not least because of its varied and eclectic repertoire - always a challenge, and for me stimulating because it often takes me far beyond my main areas of musical interest.
I'm also in sight of completing a major project that must for the moment remain under wraps but I hope may be revealed soon. Watch this space.
This blog will take a while to evolve, so please be patient, and keep visiting as, overtime, different features are added. One thing that is a welcome advantage over my previous website is that I can now control everything myself, without having to ask someone else to do so. On the other hand, my computer expertise, although pretty good, isn't as good as the professionals', so please forgive anything that isn't quite right. No doubt it will improve with time and practice.
This is all happening at the time of coronavirus, so to everyone reading this, keep safe and well - and keep coming back!
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I am a retired freelance baritone based in London and Suffolk. I studied singing with Norman Platt, Nigel Rogers and (principally) John Carol Case, and appeared as a soloist and as a member of various professional ensembles, including the choirs of Southwark Cathedral, St George’s Hanover Square and The Temple Church and my song recitals with the pianist Patricia Williams revived much unjustifiably neglected English song. I was chairman of the English Song Award, secretary of the Association of English Singers and Speakers and joint editor, with Michael Pilkington, of A Century of English Song, an ongoing series aiming to make available in practical performing editions distinctive British songs of the last hundred years. I now concentrate on writing concert programme and CD liner notes, and regular arts and music reviews for the Church Times. For 12 years until it became wholly digital, I wrote (mainly but not exclusively musical) obituaries for the Independent newspaper. I studied conducting with Bryan Fairfax and have a long-term ongoing interest in the life and music of the composer Arthur Somervell.
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Honk Heard Around the World: Saudi Spring for Women Drivers Begins Now!
Posted on June 16, 2011 by Tinamarie Bernard in Lifestyle, Religion
On June 17th, she started to drive the car, not pose in front of it.
In a defiant move against the repressive treatment of females in Saudi Arabia, women across the Kingdom will do something commonplace around the world but forbidden in their country: they’ll start driving. Consider it the shot across the hood (much like the protest against virginity checks in Egypt) and a wake-up call that the Arab Spring will only flourish when women’s rights are on the forefront of democratic changes. Many international organizations point out that when it comes to environmental issues, improving the welfare of women and children must take center stage.
The ‘Women2Drive’ campaign has strong grassroots support, relying heavily on social networking. The official Arabic twitter account, @W2Drive has over 8500 followers (the English account has about 1500), and the number of copycat support groups, particularly on Facebook, number in the many dozens.
We’ve been following this development since May, when we first heard of the story of Najla al-Hariri, a Saudi woman who defied the ban on women drivers in the ultra-conservative kingdom for four days in her sea side city of Jeddah, “to defend her belief that Saudi women should be allowed to drive.”
“I don’t fear being arrested because I am setting an example that my daughter and her friends are proud of,” Hariri told AFP, adding she was offering driving lessons for women. Her act of defiance may have inspired the group of Saudi women to launch the Internet-based campaign as a national protest against the gender apartheid in their country.
Saudi women are banned from driving and traveling without authorization or guardianship from male relative escorts, and cannot vote in municipal elections. In public, they are obliged to cover from head to toe. A recent BBC documentary even discussed the discomfort they face in such simple acts as shopping for personal undergarments: because they can’t work in retail stores, they have to buy bras from male clerks, a further affront to their personal sovereignty.
Farzaneh Milani – chairwoman of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia, is the author of “Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement.” – wrote a widely circulated New York Times Op-Ed on the movement, pointing out that the restrictions have no basis in Islamic beliefs.
“Gender apartheid is not about piety. It is about dominating, excluding and subordinating women. It is about barring them from political activities, preventing their active participation in the public sector, and making it difficult for them to fully exercise the rights Islam grants them to own and manage their own property. It is about denying women the basic human right to move about freely.”
Metaphorically, the symbolic nature of turning a key to open a new door hasn’t been lost on many observers, including Milani. “The women demonstrating for the right to drive in Riyadh are seasoned negotiators of confined spaces and veteran trespassers of closed doors and iron gates. They are a moderating, modernizing force to be reckoned with — and an antidote to extremism.”
“Their refusal to remain silent and invisible or to relinquish their rights as citizens is an act of civil disobedience and moral courage. Their protest, and those of their sisters across the Middle East, represents a revolution within revolutions — and a turning point in the contemporary history of Islam.”
Women2Drive began training sessions for participants June 15. The campaign begins Friday, June 17. “We will continue to achieve justice wished for the Islamic religion, society and human values,” they state. Given the global response and support thus far, we share their enthusiasm that once women are in the drivers seat, democratic change will find modern roots in a region that is struggling to emerge from ancient restrictions.
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Read more on women’s issues:
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Egyptian Women Forced to Take ‘Virginity Tests’ asserts Amnesty International
Olympia Snowe Leads US Women Senators in Renewed Call for Women’s Rights in the Middle East
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2 thoughts on “Honk Heard Around the World: Saudi Spring for Women Drivers Begins Now!”
Tinamarie Bernard says:
I hope so too, Oman. Very cool of you to say this. Let’s imagine that it’s not a one time ride.
Oman Holidays says:
the Mini estate takes me back in time, to the car I learn to drive in – it also has the same rust problem! Fun, stable and very economical – its a wonderful car for a city.
She will be able to squeeze through narrow streets, park in incredibly tight places and pile lots of shopping in the back . Good luck to her in the experience on the 17th – fun all the way I hope .
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Letters from Anne and Martin: A Dramatic Presentation
This event is brought to you by a partnership with the Central Florida Urban League!
The traveling production of Letters from Anne and Martin balances the experiences of two legendary figures: Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank.
Through the inspirational words of their hopes and plans for a peaceful and unified world, Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl not only serves as a reminder of the atrocities experienced during the Holocaust, but of the importance of learning to accept our differences and embrace diversity. Furthermore, in response to his arrest during a peaceful demonstration and the defense of his strategy toward nonviolent resistance to racism, Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, is one of the most important written documents of the civil rights era. To this day, Anne & Martin’s words still resonate as a testament to how one voice can carry the voices of millions that have been silenced.
This unique adaptation of combining their iconic words illustrates how both Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were born during the same year and although they lived on continents 5,000 miles apart and suffered fates in different decades, they still shared parallel experiences living in the shadow of hatred and prejudice. Despite being faced with unfair persecution, he in the Jim Crow South and she in Nazi-occupied Holland, the African-American Civil Rights Movement leader and the Jewish Holocaust victim, believed in fairness and justice for all.
This live dramatic performances features professional actors who bring to life the courage and eloquence of Anne and Martin’s stories. These performances show how injustices still exist and also promote constructive ideas on how to confront intolerance and discrimination today.
Special thank you to the Central Florida Urban League!
This project is made possible by a grant from Duke Energy through United Arts of Central Florida.
Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church
412 E Kennedy Blvd
Holocaust Center of Florida
info@holocaustedu.org
https://www.holocaustedu.org
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Phil O'Keefe: In The Studio Trenches
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Katy Perry loses plagiarism lawsuit
By Zipperhead,
July 30, 2019 in Phil O'Keefe: In The Studio Trenches
Zipperhead 1,725
Zipperhead
I'll admit it, I like to look at Katy Perry (she was awesome in the banned Sesame Street video). The little bit of her music I've heard I can not stand.
But apparently she's been sued for stealing a "beat" from a Christian rapper and the jury decided on behalf of the rapper. Lotsa money is about to change hands.
I read the article and was curious about the stolen beat. I listened to both tracks and what I hear is "boom boom clap" for both songs. What?
If you care here's a link to the CNN page where both music vids are posted. Am I missing something? What is in the rap song that has been stolen for the Perry song?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/30/entertainment/katy-perry-dark-horse-verdict/index.html
And if you don't listen to the tracks I don't blame ya a bit!
Zooey 2,419
The Sesame Street episode is banned? I watched that on PBS with my kids!
Anywho, for purposes of rap music, "beat" doesn't mean the drums or percussion. It means the entire instrumental track. If Katy Perry's producers used the actual sound recording of that beat without a license, then I am not surprised at the verdict. That's an easier case to make than proving Katy Perry plagiarized the composition.
Phil O'Keefe 12,610
Phil O'Keefe
As I said in another thread on this subject, pretty soon you won't be able to use a snare backbeat on 2 and 4 or a I IV V chord progression without risking a lawsuit...
I think we need to return to the idea of a jury of our peers - at least on something like copyright infringement lawsuits. The juries should be comprised of musically educated people. The general public - the average folks who wind up on copyright infringement juries - apparently totally lack the basic understanding of musical fundamentals to the point where they really don't seem to be able to make knowledgeable, intelligent and fair decisions on what is, and what isn't legal in terms of copyrights and infringement anymore.
Anywho, for purposes of rap music, "beat" doesn't mean the drums or percussion. It means the entire instrumental track. If Katy Perry's producers used the actual sound recording of that beat without a license, then I am not surprised at the verdict.
I don't disagree - if they sampled the track, even if they slowed it down (the tempos are not the same on the two tracks) or otherwise manipulated it, they should be paying a licensing fee.
That's an easier case to make than proving Katy Perry plagiarized the composition.
My understanding is that that was the decision - the composition itself was determined to have been plagiarized due to having a similar "beat." I could be mistaken, but I haven't heard that the original track was allegedly sampled. As I understand it, the writers of the Katy Perry track testified that they had never heard the track that their song supposedly stole from. But that's not enough by itself to prevent a possible infringement case loss - especially if the song that was allegedly copied from had wide enough distribution / dissemination...
Gray’s attorneys argued that the beat and instrumental line featured through nearly half of “Dark Horse” are substantially similar to those of “Joyful Noise.”
Perry’s attorneys argued that the song sections in question represent the kind of simple musical elements that if found to be subject to copyright would hurt music and all songwriters.
“They’re trying to own basic building blocks of music, the alphabet of music that should be available to everyone,” Perry’s lawyer Christine Lepera said during closing arguments Thursday.
Perry and the song’s co-authors, including her producer Dr. Luke, testified during the seven-day trial that none of them had heard the song or heard of Gray before the lawsuit, nor did they listen to Christian music.
Gray’s attorneys had only to demonstrate, however, that “Joyful Noise” had wide dissemination and could have been heard by Perry and her co-authors, and provide as evidence that it had millions of plays on YouTube and Spotify, and that the album it’s included on was nominated for a Grammy.
“They’re trying to shove Mr. Gray into some gospel music alleyway that no one ever visits,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Michael A. Kahn during closing arguments, when he also pointed out that Perry had begun her career as a Christian artist.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/katy-perrys-dark-horse-improperly-copied-christian-rap-song-jury-decides
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I agree that the Marvin Gaye/Blurred Lines verdict set a dangerous precedent. However, is this the same kind of case? From the link in the OP, it looks like the claim was infringement of copyright in a sound recording--aka unauthorized sampling. I should read up on the lawsuit more. I'll check it out. The CNN article says that the claim is that they "used the underlying beat" which might be leading me to the wrong conclusion.
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As I said in another thread on this subject' date=' pretty soon you won't be able to use a snare backbeat on 2 and 4 or a I IV V chord progression without risking a lawsuit...[/b']
wasn't there a thread about a recent decision that seemed to pull that back and ruled that only what was on the published sheet music (i.e. lyrics and melody) was protected?
Although I have to admit to being a bit confused because it sounded to me as if people here (including you)
were not in favor of that ruling. I'll have to try to find that thread. It was just a couple of weeks ago, IIRC.
Copyrighting a 'beat' is a tough call. Does Brian May own the 'beat' to "We Will Rock You"? Hard to argue that anyone using that beat these days wouldn't owe him a cut.
Crazy thing is that pop songs these days all seem to have half-a-dozen or more people with songwriting credits. What's the big deal to tack on a couple of more to Katy's song?
Although apparently the song sold/downloaded something like 13 million copies. Probably adds up to a nice little chunk of change.
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I agree that the Marvin Gaye/Blurred Lines verdict set a dangerous precedent.
However, is this the same kind of case? From the link in the OP, it looks like the claim was infringement of copyright in a sound recording--aka unauthorized sampling. I should read up on the lawsuit more. I'll check it out. The CNN article says that the claim is that they "used the underlying beat" which might be leading me to the wrong conclusion.
Check the info and link in my second post. They say they never heard the original, and if that's true, then it's highly unlikely they sampled it and used it on the Katy Perry track.
Yeah, you're right. The claim was infringement of the composition.
This looks a lot like the Blurred Lines verdict. I don't think the two compositions are close enough to say that one is a copy of the other. The similarities are a similar sparseness of production, the drum pattern, a keyboard part that alternates between two half tones, and Juicy J. saying "you know who it is."
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Except that "beat" doesn't mean "beat" for purposes of hip hop. It means everything in the song that is not rapping.
I think most of these copyright infringement cases are bonkers.* Music has an indisputable history of developing by way of musicians taking chord progressions, rhythms, etc. from their peers or prior generations and then adding their own spins on it.
Neither that CNN article nor the brief NPR story I heard mention anything about sampling. Instead, they seem to just discuss plagiarism.... Whole sub-genres have developed from using the same rhythm though; the "blues" has only a small handful of basic chord progressions. Sheesh. Inspiration does not equal plagiarism.
If there were an accusation of sampling in this case, then I would think the "discovery" phase of the lawsuit would involve bringing out the individual tracks from the Katy Perry song and visually comparing to sound waves of tracks in the rap tune; correct me if I'm wrong, but that's how the plaintiffs could prove sampling occurred. (How many folks in a randomly selected jury would understand that???)
*There are some cases of clearer plagiarism, where artists use the exact same modern chord progression, by which I mean progressions with non-chord tones or notes out of the key placed in the same positions; this is different from using a I - IV - V progression, etc., to convey certain moods. Radiohead said outright that they had a song by the Hollies with a I - III - IV - iv progression in mind when writing "Creep," so a few members of the Hollies are included in songwriting credits for "Creep." That's a rather rare chord progression though. Other things, like I - vi - IV - V or bVI - bVII - I are used to evoke where listeners have heard them before; that's been common practice in chordal music for centuries. Claiming copyright of a specific rhythm is even more questionable, so it seems to me, unless there are very specific other factors involved.
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I agree - that's a tough call. On one hand, that's hugely iconic and widely known... and a fundamental "hook" of the song... OTOH, it's essentially two eighth note floor stomps followed by a quarter note hand clap... do you have any idea how many songs use that basic rhythm? Some use it occasionally, while others use it a lot... although kick / snare is more commonly used instead of stomps and claps. But the rhythm itself? I don't know if it's unique and distinctive enough that I'd give it copyright protection and prohibit every other musician on the planet from using it in a composition unless they pay up... IMHO, it's too musically fundamental, and too much of a common "building block" (like a I IV V progression or a 2 / 4 backbeat) to be restricted in that way. That same basic rhythm was used by others prior to WWRY too, so there's a prior art argument that could probably be made too. However, if it's sampled, then you get into the protections provided by the SR copyright (sound recording), and that's a completely different story - it is definitely covered under that.
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The lawyers in these cases work very hard to prevent anyone with any useful understanding of the subject from being seated as a juror.
I was tossed from an auto liability jury once when they discovered that I had the training and experience to drive race cars. The contention from the lawyer was that I might discount expert witness testimony and apply my own knowledge instead.
I don't believe that is the case here. I haven't listened to the clip, but reading the article it doesn't appear that they used a sample (which would be a no brainer for infringement) and their defense was that what they used was too short to be considered stealing anything.
If it's just a simple drum pattern? Hard to see how you can say that anyone 'owns' it. But if it is unique enough, I could see the argument.
I haven't heard the beat in question to know.
I agree - that's a tough call. On one hand, that's hugely iconic and widely known... and a fundamental "hook" of the song... OTOH, it's essentially two eighth note floor stomps followed by a quarter note hand clap... do you have any idea how many songs use that basic rhythm?
Isn't that Queen's "We Will Rock You"?
If there were an accusation of sampling in this case' date=' then I would think the "discovery" phase of the lawsuit would involve bringing out the individual tracks from the Katy Perry song and [b']visually [/b]comparing to sound waves of tracks in the rap tune; correct me if I'm wrong, but that's how the plaintiffs could prove sampling occurred. (How many folks in a randomly selected jury would understand that???)
I derailed the thread with my speculation about sampling. I was thrown by the CNN article that says they "used the underlying beat." A "beat" in hip hop is the instrumental backing track.
Yes. That's what we were talking about.
Hey...wasn't it you who started the thread a couple of weeks ago about the ruling that said only what's on sheet music is 'protected'? At least for older songs?
Can you look that up again. I'd be interested to contrast that ruling to this one. Maybe the difference was that only applied to songs that were copyrighted prior to the timeframe where you could submit a recording for copyright
No harm, no foul. I agree that "beat" can mean much more than just the rhythm. Thinking there might be sampling involved seems reasonable to me, because otherwise, this case comes across as just plain bonkers. It seems that with sampling out of the picture, the thought that the jury was selected specifically for lack of musical experience is the way to explain the outcome.
Yes... but my point is that there are many other songs that use rhythmic figures with two eighth notes followed by a quarter note. It's musically very common (although more commonly performed with kick and snare instead of stomps and claps), and that rhythmic figure existed and saw significant, widespread use prior to Brian May writing WWRY.
I can understand the logic behind that. As jurors, you're supposed to judge the case only on what is presented in court. Not on what the juror believe he/she may personally 'know' better than the witnesses.
If you have such training and experience that could influence the jury, then you should probably be called as a witness, not be a member of the jury.
I get the thinking the jury should have some musical knowledge to better understand these cases. But the flip side of that is having jurors with preconceived notions of what should constitute a protected piece of music. The are supposed to not have much knowledge and only rely on the testimony of the witnesses.
It is the job of the lawyers to present testimony and evidence that explains this stuff to them.
Of course they do. They want brainless, uneducated people that can be easily manipulated on juries.
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Concluding Observations, CCPR/C/TUR/CO/1, 13 November 2012: Turkey
8. The Committee is concerned that the current legislation of the State party on discrimination is not comprehensive, thus failing to protect against discrimination on all the grounds enumerated in the Covenant. In particular, the Committee is concerned about the lack of specific reference to the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. (art. 2, para. 1).
The State party should enact legislation on anti-discrimination and equality, ensuring that it includes a comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on all the grounds as set out in the Covenant, as well as the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. The State party should also ensure that reliable and public data is systematically collected on cases of discrimination and their treatment by the competent judicial authorities.
10. The Committee is concerned about the discrimination and alleged acts of violence against people on the basis of their gender identity and sexual orientation, and about the social stigmatization and social exclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in terms of their access to health services, education, or to their treatment in the context of the regulations concerning compulsory military service and while serving in the military (arts. 2 and 26)
While acknowledging the diversity of morality and cultures internationally, the Committee recalls that all cultures are always subject to the principles of universality of human rights and non-discrimination (general comment No. 34, para. 32). The State party should therefore state clearly and officially that it does not tolerate any form of social stigmatization of homosexuality, bisexuality or transexuality, or harassment of or discrimination or violence against persons because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. It should ensure the investigation, prosecution and punishment of any act of discrimination or violence motivated by the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
Link to full text of the report: Concluding Observations-CCPR-Turkey-2012-eng
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Anderson School District 4 calls $79 million bond referendum
Frances Parrish
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Anderson School District 4 residents will be asked to vote in May on a bond referendum to build a new middle school.
After 17 months of planning and researching construction projects for the district, trustees unanimously voted Monday to call a $79 million bond referendum that would pay for a new middle school, upgraded athletic facilities at the high school and new safety features in all the district's schools. Trustee Diana Mullikin was absent.
"It's a wonderful opportunity we have to address the needs of the districts," said Joanne Avery, superintendent of the Pendleton-based school system. "It's a great opportunity to do some amazing things in the community."
The referendum is scheduled for May 2.
The bond referendum is needed because revenue from a 1-cent sales tax passed in November 2014 is not enough to meet all the district's needs, officials said. Part of the $14 million in revenue District 4 expects to receive over the 15-year life of the sales tax will be used for construction of a career center that is expected to open in 2019. Districts 3, 4 and 5 are splitting the cost of the approximately $30 million building.
Besides the career center, the tax revenue is funding a new baseball field and turning lanes for Pendleton High School and access to the 85 acres behind the school on Boscobel Road, leaving little money left for other projects and tough decisions for the board.
"Our board, and I'm thankful for them, they don't come to it (a decision) without a lot of researching and soul-searching," school board Chairman Tom Dobbins said after the meeting. "I hope people realize it's not been a rush decision by us. As we move through the process, we've learned a lot. Unfortunately, Riverside Middle has lived it's life expectancy. We can't afford to invest in the existing Riverside."
A new $46 million middle school would house sixth, seventh and eighth grades and would open in August 2020. Avery said it would take about three years to design and build, and it would be built on the land behind the high school. A new school is more cost-efficient than renovating the existing Riverside Middle, which was built in 1955.
"Pouring capital investments in an old school would still leave us with an old school that would need to be replaced," Avery said.
If built, the new middle school would bear the Riverside name. A motion to that effect passed with three votes, and trustee Danny Brock abstained.
"I feel the name should be brought on with the referendum and decided by the taxpayers who will be paying for the building," Brock said. "I don’t think it’s the duty of the board to decide that. We're not paying for the building, the taxpayers are."
Athletic upgrades at the high school include a new gym, a new track and new fields for soccer and football.
In the wake of the September shooting at Townville Elementary School, the district conducted a safety audit and determined the schools needed swipe-card gate systems for secondary entrances, upgrades to some windows and doors, communication safety rooms, and outdoor fencing.
LaFrance, Pendleton and Townville elementary schools need heating, ventilation and air conditioning upgrades and roof renovations. The three schools would also get playground upgrades. La France and Mount Lebanon elementary schools would get new walking trails.
To pay for the projects, any resident 65 or younger who owns a home valued at $100,000 would pay an additional $160 a year in taxes. Those older than 65 would see a property tax increase of about half that, or about $80 per year, as a result of the state's Homestead Exemption Act.
The projects associated with the referendum would cost taxpayers less then a dollar per day, something Dobbins said is less than a cup of coffee or a soft drink.
"I think that’s one of the things we need to drive home," Dobbins said. "Is it worth cutting out a cup of coffee or a soft drink or an ice cream from Starbucks, QuikTrip or Dunkin' Donuts to provide this for our children? I think we all know the answer to that."
Some parents who attended the meeting Monday night are happy with the board's decision.
"The safety piece, the new middle school piece and the athletic piece is important to the community," said Henry Martin of Pendleton.
Though his son, who is in high school, won't benefit from all of the new plans, Martin is not worried about the increase in taxes.
"This has been a long time decision. I absolutely support it, and I hope it will happen," said Heather Majors of Pendleton. "It's a start in a positive and exciting direction."
Majors has three children in middle school, and though her children won't see the benefits of a new middle school, they could see new athletic facilities.
"One of mine runs cross country and they need that track," she said. "I'm glad to have an answer."
The next step is for the district to put together a steering committee of 15 residents to help run the campaign for the referendum.
Follow Frances Parrish on Twitter @frances_AIM
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A Live-Action 'X-Men' Series May Come To Fox
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Hugh Jackman in a scene from the film 'X-Men', 2000. (Photo by 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images)
The "X-Men" mutants might be headed to your small screen, and not in cartoon form this time.
According to TV Insider, Fox is in negotiations for a live-action TV series based on Marvel's "X-Men" comics. Fox entertainment co-chairman Gary Newman has confirmed that the network is in early talks for the potential series, but things are far from concrete.
While 20th Century Fox owns the film rights to the "X-Men" franchise, Marvel has the last say. (Marvel Entertainment is owned by the Walt Disney Company, which owns and runs ABC, and that ABC currently has Marvel's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and "Agent Carter.") Meanwhile, Marvel also has four new series in the works at Netflix, including the upcoming "Daredevil" and "A.K.A. Jessica Jones."
While nothing is confirmed, "Star Trek 3" writers Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne will reportedly adapt the comics for the small screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The trade also has word that McKay and Payne will share created by credits with "24" producers Evan Katz and Manny Coto, who will serve as showrunners. But still, Marvel has to give approval, so we likely won't hear more until that does (or doesn't) happen. In the mean time, we'll look forward to Sophie Turner joining the "X-Men" universe.
For more, head to TV Insider and THR.
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Croatian National History Museum: a Modern Depository for Exhibits Built
When an earthquake hits, as it happened in Zagreb in March this year, preserving museum exhibits of severely damaged museums becomes a special task. It is always an unexpected, demanding and expensive project.
The building of the Croatian Natural History Museum, whose holdings encompass more than 1.4 million exhibits, was severely damaged in the earthquake that struck Zagreb on 22 March this year. Since the building is about to go through thorough renovation, the Museum and the City of Zagreb had a demanding task of ensuring adequate storage space in which valuable exhibits will be kept in prescribed conditions. Therefore, the largest specialised museum depository in Croatia was built in Zagreb’s city district Novi Petruševec. Current museum standards were met in the process and the conditions were adapted to the sensitive exhibits, taking into account relative air humidity, temperature, suitable lighting, dust and pest isolation and similar.
The value of the project is 15 million kuna at it was entirely funded by the City of Zagreb. The Croatian National History Museum, whose building was severely damaged in the earthquake, is about to go through thorough renovation estimated at 96 million kuna which will be funded by the European Union and the City of Zagreb.
Instructions of the Croatian Red Cross on how to help those affected by the earthquake
Zagreb at the Dinner Table: Traditional Flavours and Best Wishes
A Look from the Outside: Noted Venues and Valuable Museum Holdings
Art Installation: It All started with the Grounded Sun by Kožarić
Beyond the Boundaries: Art Outside Museums
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Is Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:MYGN) Going to Burn These Hedge Funds?
Published on March 22, 2013 at 7:08 pm by Ronald Jay Sy in News
Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:MYGN) shareholders have witnessed an increase in hedge fund sentiment of late.
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ফটোনিউজ: 3 efficient ways to make Internet space safer
Nowadays, it is hard to imagine life without the Internet. Almost all industries and sectors of the economy are closely connected with it. This is why large companies and state institutions take the question of cyber safety very seriously as hackers who illegally steal sensitive information are still a great threat. The world's largest countries have already considered some ideas on how to protect their citizens and their data from foreign large-scale cyber-attacks
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06:02 2020-10-12 EU liberal approach The main aim of the European authorities is to identify, block, and delete inappropriate content. In most cases, these measures apply to terrorist, radical materials, as well as websites that violate copyright. However, law enforcement agencies do not limit themselves only to finding and blocking illegal data. They search for the main source and eliminate the problem, root and stem. By doing so, they have more than once managed to indicate the hideouts of criminal groups and get rid of them. In addition, EU countries are trying to create a filter for user statements on the Internet. The Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech is already in force in the European Union. The main provisions of the document are primarily aimed at tracking and timely deleting user posts that do not comply with legal norms. Besides, Europe has ratified a set of laws that are designed to protect users and their personal data from illegal use. Yet, these laws largely determine the work of legal entities. In case of proven law breaches, they have to pay huge fines. However, all these measures can hardly be called effective. For example, US Company Google regularly pays multimillion-dollar fines and continues to violate the provisions of the law on the processing of personal data of EU residents.
EU liberal approach
The main aim of the European authorities is to identify, block, and delete inappropriate content. In most cases, these measures apply to terrorist, radical materials, as well as websites that violate copyright. However, law enforcement agencies do not limit themselves only to finding and blocking illegal data. They search for the main source and eliminate the problem, root and stem. By doing so, they have more than once managed to indicate the hideouts of criminal groups and get rid of them.
In addition, EU countries are trying to create a filter for user statements on the Internet. The Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech is already in force in the European Union. The main provisions of the document are primarily aimed at tracking and timely deleting user posts that do not comply with legal norms.
Besides, Europe has ratified a set of laws that are designed to protect users and their personal data from illegal use. Yet, these laws largely determine the work of legal entities. In case of proven law breaches, they have to pay huge fines.
However, all these measures can hardly be called effective. For example, US Company Google regularly pays multimillion-dollar fines and continues to violate the provisions of the law on the processing of personal data of EU residents.
06:02 2020-10-12 China's radical approach The Chinese authorities have once tried to create a separate segment of the Internet in the country. However, their attempt cannot be considered a complete success, although the project has some strong features. In this project, all major Internet providers are controlled by the state. This measure makes it possible to filter traffic, as well as monitor everything that happens on the network. What is more, the work of foreign companies is under full control, and if necessary, the government can block foreign services at the network level. At the same time, the attempt to control the local Internet is considered only 90% successful since local users have already learned to use methods to circumvent "the Great Internet Wall of China". Despite the illiberal and tough approach of China's government to the global Internet space, it has a great advantage. If a massive cyber attack takes place and for some reason, China is disconnected from the global Internet, its local network will function normally. Therefore, the country will not lose access to the Internet and will not suffer a major disruption due to a cyber attack. If there are mass riots and civil unrest, the authorities will simply turn off the cell towers, thereby blocking access to the Internet completely. Luckily, there have not been such precedents in China and the government has not resorted to radical measures yet.
China's radical approach
The Chinese authorities have once tried to create a separate segment of the Internet in the country. However, their attempt cannot be considered a complete success, although the project has some strong features. In this project, all major Internet providers are controlled by the state. This measure makes it possible to filter traffic, as well as monitor everything that happens on the network. What is more, the work of foreign companies is under full control, and if necessary, the government can block foreign services at the network level. At the same time, the attempt to control the local Internet is considered only 90% successful since local users have already learned to use methods to circumvent "the Great Internet Wall of China".
Despite the illiberal and tough approach of China's government to the global Internet space, it has a great advantage. If a massive cyber attack takes place and for some reason, China is disconnected from the global Internet, its local network will function normally. Therefore, the country will not lose access to the Internet and will not suffer a major disruption due to a cyber attack. If there are mass riots and civil unrest, the authorities will simply turn off the cell towers, thereby blocking access to the Internet completely. Luckily, there have not been such precedents in China and the government has not resorted to radical measures yet.
06:02 2020-10-12 Russia's balanced approach Apart from the two opposite examples of control over the Internet space, there is also the balanced one that helps to avoid imperfections of previously mentioned approaches. However, there is no such country that has been able to find the "golden mean". For instance, Russia has tried to find a balance between the tolerance of the European region and the authoritarianism of China but to no avail. The creation of a single space of the Runet also turned out to be inefficient as the government was unable to fence it from foreign influence. In particular, Roskomnadzor failed to block the Telegram messenger despite numerous attempts. According to experts, it is extremely hard to control the Internet space in Russia as there are too many Internet providers across the country. For instance, Russia has eight Internet backbones. Of course, they are more or less controlled by state bodies but its control is rather limited. The Russian Internet service provider market is built according to the laws of competition and at the same time has a high degree of diversification. On the one hand, the shutdown of some of them allows the government to redirect the entire load to the remaining ones, which for a certain time will be able to cope with it. On the other hand, the same can happen with illegal and unwanted content as entities responsible for it just start changing places. Therefore, in order to restrict access to certain resources, the Russian authorities should establish some kind of monitoring at the state level. It may complicate the task. In this regard, it is often said that stability and controllability are almost polar opposite terms.
Russia's balanced approach
Apart from the two opposite examples of control over the Internet space, there is also the balanced one that helps to avoid imperfections of previously mentioned approaches. However, there is no such country that has been able to find the "golden mean". For instance, Russia has tried to find a balance between the tolerance of the European region and the authoritarianism of China but to no avail. The creation of a single space of the Runet also turned out to be inefficient as the government was unable to fence it from foreign influence. In particular, Roskomnadzor failed to block the Telegram messenger despite numerous attempts.
According to experts, it is extremely hard to control the Internet space in Russia as there are too many Internet providers across the country. For instance, Russia has eight Internet backbones. Of course, they are more or less controlled by state bodies but its control is rather limited. The Russian Internet service provider market is built according to the laws of competition and at the same time has a high degree of diversification. On the one hand, the shutdown of some of them allows the government to redirect the entire load to the remaining ones, which for a certain time will be able to cope with it. On the other hand, the same can happen with illegal and unwanted content as entities responsible for it just start changing places. Therefore, in order to restrict access to certain resources, the Russian authorities should establish some kind of monitoring at the state level. It may complicate the task. In this regard, it is often said that stability and controllability are almost polar opposite terms.
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Sinatra & Friends
August 3, 2018 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Guest vocalists, Phil Clark and Helen Welch, sing and the CJO swings the classic tunes made famous by Frank Sinatra and his contemporaries. Phil Clark is a talented vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who performs with several top area bands including The Apostles, The Ramshacklers, The Sidewinders, and Phil Clark and The Soul — doubling on saxophone, keyboards, guitar and harmonica. He is also a veteran horn player and vocalist for the venerable HooDoo Soul Band.
British-born singer, Helen Welch, has performed with orchestras and big bands on both sides of the Atlantic including appearances with Glen Miller Europe and the BBC Big Band, as well as The Cleveland Orchestra, The Cleveland Pops Orchestra, The Akron Symphony and The Columbus Jazz Orchestra. Her theatrical appearances include productions of Hello Dolly!, Barnum, 42nd Street, Show Boat, Carousel and the Broadway production of the Leiber & Stoller musical, Smokey Joe’s Café.
Pre-Show Entertainment: Winchester Steel Company at 6:45 p.m.
To purchase single tickets and tables call the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium at (614) 724-3485 or (800) MONKEYS, or go online to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium website at www.columbuszoo.org.
Click the orange “Tickets” button in the top right corner
Under the “Special Events” drop-down, there is a JazZoo category, click JazZoo
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Single tickets are $35 when purchased in advance and $40 day of. Gates open at 6:30 PM and concerts begin at 8:00 PM. The purchase of any concert ticket includes free zoo admission for the entire day!
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New Maryland Laws Effective October 1 2020
I hope everybody is staying safe.
There are a number of new Maryland laws that became effective on October 1st. Here is a summary of some of the most important ones.
Ban On Use of Use of Foam Containers - HB 109/SB 205 bans the use of foam containers. The ban on polystyrene was delayed from July until October to lessen the burden on the state’s restaurant industry, which has been badly hurt from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Law Preventing Discrimination Based on Hairstyle (Crown Act) - (HB 1444/SB531) The anti-discrimination hairstyle measure expands the definition of “race” to include all textures of hair and hairstyles often worn by African Americans. It specifically safeguards hairstyles such as braids, twists and dreadlocks that are designed to protect the ends of hair by decreasing tangling, shedding and breakage.
The regulation of Black hairstyles dates to the 17th century trans-Atlantic slave trade when millions of Africans were forcibly brought to the Americas for labor, and has continued for centuries in both public and private arenas. The U.S. Army, for instance, banned twists, dreadlocks and cornrows in 2014. It lifted the ban in 2017 amid public outcry.
Ban On Retaliation for Inquiring About Your Own Salary (HB 123/SB 217) prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee for inquiring about their own salary.
Hate crime expansions
1) Hate Symbols (HB5/SB161) The use of a noose or swastika to intimidate someone or a group will be barred, and the state’s definition of a hate crime will be expanded. The noose and swastika measure prohibits the use of both symbols, actual or depicted, on any property without permission of the owner or occupant with an intent to threaten to intimidate. Violating the law is punishable by up to three years in prison or a fine of up to $5,000.
2) Collins Law (HB917-SB606) amends the state’s hate crimes statute to include crimes “motivated either in whole or in part by” hate or bias. Maryland’s existing law covered race, color, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, gender, disability, national origin and homelessness, but required the “sole” motivation for a crime to be hate or bias to prosecute it as a hate crime. Dawn and Richard Collins Jr., parents of the bill’s namesake, campaigned for the legislation in honor of the younger Collins, 23, who was fatally stabbed at a University of Maryland, College Park bus stop in 2017.
Outbreak preparations (Olivia’s Law) - (HB 187/SB 329) will require colleges and universities to create plans to address the outbreak of infectious diseases. It’s named for Olivia Paregol, a University of Maryland freshman from Howard County who died in 2018 after contracting adenovirus. Forty students were sickened that year, including 15 treated at hospitals.
Serious conditions as a result of adenovirus are rare, but they are more common in people with compromised immunity. Olivia was taking a medication to combat Crohn’s disease, weakening her immune system. Her death could have been prevented if the university had not waited 18 days to notify students and parents that the virus was spreading through the College Park campus.
Child Support Relief for Prisoners - Imprisoned parents who owe child support will see some relief starting in October. A new law will allow inmates to have their child support order frozen while behind bars if they are serving a jail sentence of six months or more. Until now, the threshold was 18 months. The law hopes to address the mountain of child support debt that can accrue while a parent is behind bars. An investigation published earlier this year found the system sets poor parents up to fail — saddling many fathers with massive debt, sometimes driving them from their children and sending some into an underground economy to make money.
Speed Camera Suspension of Licences - (HB46/SB177) repeals the state’s authority to suspend a car’s registration if its driver fails to pay a ticket issued for a speed or red light camera violation. Maryland was the only state to allow such suspensions. The state still will be able to refuse to renew a driver’s registration due to unpaid fines.
Passing A Cyclist will allow drivers to drive on the left side of a road in an area marked “no passing” to safely pass a cyclist traveling in the same direction.
Fair Housing — HB231/SB50. The HOME, or Housing Opportunities Made Equal, Act, expands Maryland’s fair housing policy by prohibiting landlords from discriminating against individuals based on their source of income, to include government subsidized housing vouchers, when renting or selling property.
Minority Businesses — HB404/SB499 requires the Department of Commerce to include information on the percentage of economic development assistance distributed to minority businesses.
Repeal of Sodomy Law HB 81 repeals Maryland’s sodomy law. The ACLU reports several states dating back to Illinois in 1961 have already repealed these laws, which were historically used in a discriminatory manner against the LGBTQ community.
Strangulation — HB233/SB212 adds an additional prison sentence of up to 25 years for intentionally strangling someone during an assault.
Sexual Solicitation — HB246/SB231 bans individuals from seeking the consent of a parent or guardian of a minor when attempting to sexually solicit a minor.
House of Ruth — HB620 requires money deposited in donation boxes at Baltimore-Washington International Airport security screening checkpoints go to support House of Ruth Maryland, a center aiding victims of intimate partner violence.
Firefighting Foam Ban — HB619/SB420 bans the training use of fire-fighting foams that contain polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, as of Oct. 1, 2021. As of that date firefighters must use non-fluorinated foam during training. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, PFAS chemicals don’t break down in either the environment or the human body, and can build up over time leading to adverse health effects.
Maternal Mortality — HB286 is designed to address racial disparities in maternal health care. This bill requires meetings convened under the Maternal Mortality Review Program to include stakeholders reflecting the racial and ethnic diversity of women most impacted by maternal deaths in the state. According to the group’s 2019 annual report, at least 40% of the 15 pregnancy-related deaths in 2017 were among non-Hispanic Black women. It is now required for this data to be taken into account and reflected in the diversity of the program.
Suicide Prevention — SB810 permits the State Highway Administration to post suicide prevention information, which includes a hotline number, on highway electronic signs within five miles of a zone designated as a high risk for suicides.
Nursing Homes — HB 364. This week each hospital or nursing facility in the state must begin ensuring personnel wear an identification tag when providing patient care. This mandate comes at a time when elderly care and vulnerability have been critical issues during the pandemic.
Remember to Vote -
Ballots requested by mail are now coming to people’s homes. (My wife’s ballot came earlier this week.) Here is some good commentary by my former colleague, Marc Korman on the two state ballots initiatives. I agree with what he says below:
Question 1: This statewide ballot question would grant the Maryland General Assembly the same power 49 other states have--a power most Marylanders assume we have--to move money around the budget submitted by the Governor. This would not impact Maryland's requirement for a balanced budget and would require the General Assembly to fund the budget within an overall amount set by the Governor. It would also create a line item veto for the Governor on any budget changes the legislature makes. Finally, the legislation does not take effect until the next Governor's first budget. Bottom line: The People's Branch should have the authority to fund the People's priorities. VOTE FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Question 2: The second statewide ballot question would authorize sports betting in the state of Maryland, something every jurisdiction around us has already permitted. The revenue--possibly $20-$40m annually--goes to the education lockbox to fund our state's education programs. For many of us, the state's incremental expansion of gaming from lottery to slots to table games to sports gaming has not been our first choice. But given the actions by other states in our region the fact is much of this gambling will occur whether in Maryland or not. If we can help fund education programs with these dollars, we should. VOTE FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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Home Small Business UPenn Receives $1.5 Million to Enhance E-Business Program
UPenn Receives $1.5 Million to Enhance E-Business Program
By Carol King | November 29, 2000
The University of Pennsylvania Wednesday announced the receipt of a $1.5 million gift from Internet Capital Group (ICG) to enhance its e-business program.
The newly launched ICG/Wharton Forum on Electronic Business will accelerate the growth of e-business and fundamentally change the way business is done, according to a university spokesperson. The collaboration is an extension of the university's Wharton e-Business Initiative (WeBI), formed in 1996.
"We are creating knowledge through research conducted by the Wharton School's 75 faculty members and dialog with industry partners," explained Dr. Raffi Amit, director of WeBI. "We use this knowledge to enhance and augment our educational programs as well as create new ones." Industry partners include The Gartner Group, Charles Schwab & Co., Ford Motor Co., Squibb and British Airways.
The Fellows in e-Business Program is the first effort of the ICG/WeBI collaboration. The program is designed to prepare senior business executives to lead the transformation into a global e-business environment.
The model of the Fellows program is radically different than other courses, Amit added. "The four-month program uses a combination of one-week, face-to-face sessions at sites around the globe and is augmented with distance learning and advanced networking technologies to build a learning community," he said. Sessions take place in Philadelphia, Silicon Valley and Barcelona.
The structure of the program is such that participants can immediately apply material covered to their firms through "shadow projects," which they conduct with selected employees in their own company. "In this way, the executive becomes a catalyst for transformation within his or her organization," said Amit. "Further, the course is lifelong. Fellows and participating faculty form a community of learners who jointly develop new knowledge modules as needs emerge."
The second effort is the Technology Entrepreneurship Internship program. "Through this program, MBA students intern at emerging growth technology companies or venture capital firms on both the East and West Coasts," explained Amit. "Once enrolled in the program, participants access a secured course site that will serve as their primary communications hub for course assignments, readings, and online discussions and interaction.
"During their internships, the students have joint learning sessions where ideas are communicated and the students present those ideas to the company. There is no other way that this information can be so easily gained and easily shared. This is a unique opportunity to turn theory into practice," he said. "Since we are holding the class on both coasts, this program provides a great opportunity for students to compare East- and West-Coast perspectives on major technology entrepreneurship issues."
The Internet Capital Group engages in B2B e-commerce through a network of partner companies and provides operational assistance, capital support, industry expertise and a strategic network of relationships.
The collaboration with Wharton will accelerate e-business adoption, according to Walter Buckley, president and CEO of ICG. "The skills, experience and legacy understanding of business evolution within this collaboration represents a cumulative and aggregate B2B knowledge base unmatched in the industry," he said. "We welcome the opportunity to share our knowledge while leveraging Wharton's deep understanding of business evolution and the Fortune 500 to benefit the growth of our partner companies."
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Ing Grish
By John Yau, Illustrated by Thomas Nozkowski
80 Pages, 6 x 8
Formats: Trade Paper
Rights: US & CA
Saturnalia Books (Mar 2005)
cclaimed poet and art critic John Yau, author of fourteen books of poetry, teams up with esteemed painter Thomas Nozkowski to create the exquisite Ing Grish, the second in the Saturnalia Books Poet/Artist collaboration seriesYau’s comic and cutting poetry collides with the work of Nozkowski, whom the New Yorker has termed “the Chardin of contemporary abstraction.” The end result is a dazzling and vibrant concoction of visual and written imagery. All the poems in Ing Grish are new, as are Nozkowski’s paintings and illustrations, which he created expressly for this collection.Ing Grish was named “Book of the Year” by Small Press Traffic in San Francisco.
JOHN YAU is a well-known poet, critic, and editor. He has published many books of poems, most recently Paradiso Diaspora, and several works of prose, as well as monographs on the work of Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and A. R. Penck. His poetry and criticism have been published in dozens of national magazines. The recipient of numerous awards, including being named a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by France, Yau teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
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The High Kings out in full force
Fresh off of playing on Pat Kenny's final Late Late show in Ireland , the High Kings are set to hit the road tou...
Debbie McGoldrick
Celtic Woman took the world by storm when they debuted in 2004, topping the charts and touring to standing-room-only audiences. Now it’s the boys’ turn.
Meet the High Kings, a quartet of ultra-talented Irish musicians who hope to match the smashing success of their corporate sisters. The group was created in 2007 by Celtic Woman’s producer Dave Kavanagh and composer/musical director David Downes.
The members of the High Kings – Darren Holden, Brian Dunphy, Martin Furey (a son of the famous Irish singer Finbarr) and Finbarr Clancy (a scion of the renowned Clancy Brothers) – bring a diverse array of musical styles to the table. But the group is going back to basics, as it aims to freshen up the classic Irish standards and introduce them to a new audience.
Holden, a Co. Kilkenny native well known to Americans, particularly Billy Joel fans, for his years playing the Piano Man in Joel’s stage show Movin’ Out both on Broadway and on national tour, was approached about participating in the group last year and said yes on the spot, even though he and his young family had made plans to move to New York full time so Holden could further pursue his career.
“The Wild Rover” is a long way from Joel classics such as “Big Shot,” but Holden was more than ready to take the leap, especially as he was starting to write his own songs that marked a return to his Irish roots. The opportunity to be part of a group for the first time in his career was also too good to pass up.
“The producers said they were looking to put a new group together based on the Clancys and the Dubliners. They wanted to bring the old Irish songs back into the forefront, making them hip and cool with four young-ish guys who could sing and play and write,” said Holden.
“I could see right away that it wasn’t going to be cheesy, or be like an Irish Il Divo. All of us guys had known of each other, and when we went into rehearsals we clicked. We knew it was going to work.”
The group spent lots of time together in Ireland the latter half of last year getting to know each other’s styles. They also commenced recording their CD with Downes at the helm. The rollicking DVD was recorded in front of an audience in Dublin.
How have the High Kings made many of Ireland’s most beloved songs newly unique?
“The productions are bigger and more orchestrated,” says Holden. “Certain songs are just as they were, but we’ve re-energized and re-packaged them for a new audience hearing them for the first time.”
The High Kings come complete with a full backing band and a world champion Irish step dancer to boot. The show, Holden says, is incredibly energetic.
“We’ve got lots of audience participation. If you come to a High Kings show you better be ready to stand up and sing and have plenty of fun. We’re there to have a good time – not that we don’t take ourselves seriously, but it’s not about that at all. People are really going to love it.”
The legendary High Kings of Ireland, of course, ruled Ireland for many centuries. Today’s High Kings will also be content to dominate not just their native land, but the world at large.
“We were signed by EMI who did Celtic Woman, and they really wanted us,” Holden says. “So that’s a great start. We know that we’re going to get out there and they are going to make sure we have lots of promotion behind us.
“In years to come,” he adds, “we want to be remembered as being the band that brought this back to the forefront of popular music both in America and around the world. We want to go down in Irish history as the High Kings who brought it all back home.”
The group recently played on Pat Kenny's final Late Late show in Ireland, and are about to embark on a few dates around Ireland in the summer. To find out more about the High Kings, and if they will at a town near you soon, visit www.thehighkings.com.
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Students can easily connect with alumni, seek career advice, or share their ISG experience. Through the ISG Alumni Association, alumni also remain aware of new trends affecting students and ISG, and vice-versa for trends affecting business today. Members of the ISG network work, live and travel internationally, thus consistently adding to the globalized web of ISG connections. Formal Alumni delegations are found in Shanghai, New York, London, Tokyo and Paris.
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Sentimentality and a lack of original material prevent this novel from coming to life.
BESS AND FRIMA
by Alice Rosenthal ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 21, 2018
A pair of best friends yearns for love and a larger life.
Two young women: one blonde, one brunette; one conventional, one rebellious. Both Jewish; both employed in the Catskills for the summer tourist season. Both 19. Rosenthal’s (Take the D Train, 2012) new novel is set in 1940 and concerns a pair of Bronx-raised best friends. Frima spends the summer working at her mother’s resort; Bess works at another hotel not far away. Frima falls in love with Bess’ handsome brother, Jack, also employed by her mother that summer. Bess strays a bit afield: She catches the eye of Vinny, an Italian labor organizer. Her brother disapproves, but by the end of the summer, Bess has made some radical plans—to move away from home and, even more shocking, move in with Vinny. In alternating chapters, the novel tells the story from both girls’ points of view. That structure doesn’t quite work: It feels a little too on-the-one-hand-and-on-the-other, especially since the characters are set up to be opposites. Worse is the air of sentimentality that pervades the book, overwhelming brief attempts at humor. Rosenthal’s prose is adequate and her subject matter not uninteresting, but the story feels utterly conventional. This terrain is already well-traversed. Her characters never come fully to life as themselves—only as two-dimensional foils for each other. The dialogue doesn’t convince; nor do the characters’ various motivations. We’re told that Bess, for example, longs to leave home because her parents make her miserable. But we’re never shown why or how they do so. Unconvincing in these smaller details, the novel remains unconvincing as a whole.
Pub Date: Aug. 21, 2018
Publisher: She Writes Press
Categories: RELIGIOUS FICTION
The writing is merely serviceable, and one can’t help but wish the author had found a way to present her material as...
IndieBound Bestseller
by Heather Morris ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 4, 2018
An unlikely love story set amid the horrors of a Nazi death camp.
Based on real people and events, this debut novel follows Lale Sokolov, a young Slovakian Jew sent to Auschwitz in 1942. There, he assumes the heinous task of tattooing incoming Jewish prisoners with the dehumanizing numbers their SS captors use to identify them. When the Tätowierer, as he is called, meets fellow prisoner Gita Furman, 17, he is immediately smitten. Eventually, the attraction becomes mutual. Lale proves himself an operator, at once cagey and courageous: As the Tätowierer, he is granted special privileges and manages to smuggle food to starving prisoners. Through female prisoners who catalog the belongings confiscated from fellow inmates, Lale gains access to jewels, which he trades to a pair of local villagers for chocolate, medicine, and other items. Meanwhile, despite overwhelming odds, Lale and Gita are able to meet privately from time to time and become lovers. In 1944, just ahead of the arrival of Russian troops, Lale and Gita separately leave the concentration camp and experience harrowingly close calls. Suffice it to say they both survive. To her credit, the author doesn’t flinch from describing the depravity of the SS in Auschwitz and the unimaginable suffering of their victims—no gauzy evasions here, as in Boy in the Striped Pajamas. She also manages to raise, if not really explore, some trickier issues—the guilt of those Jews, like the tattooist, who survived by doing the Nazis’ bidding, in a sense betraying their fellow Jews; and the complicity of those non-Jews, like the Slovaks in Lale’s hometown, who failed to come to the aid of their beleaguered countrymen.
The writing is merely serviceable, and one can’t help but wish the author had found a way to present her material as nonfiction. Still, this is a powerful, gut-wrenching tale that is hard to shake off.
Pub Date: Sept. 4, 2018
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 2018
Categories: RELIGIOUS FICTION | HISTORICAL FICTION
More by Heather Morris
Though gripping, even moving at times, the novel doesn’t do justice to the solemn history from which it is drawn.
by Heather Morris ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 2019
In this follow-up to the widely read The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2018), a young concentration camp survivor is sentenced to 15 years’ hard labor in a Russian gulag.
The novel begins with the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops in 1945. In the camp, 16-year-old Cecilia "Cilka" Klein—one of the Jewish prisoners introduced in Tattooist—was forced to become the mistress of two Nazi commandants. The Russians accuse her of collaborating—they also think she might be a spy—and send her to the Vorkuta Gulag in Siberia. There, another nightmarish scenario unfolds: Cilka, now 18, and the other women in her hut are routinely raped at night by criminal-class prisoners with special “privileges”; by day, the near-starving women haul coal from the local mines in frigid weather. The narrative is intercut with Cilka’s grim memories of Auschwitz as well as her happier recollections of life with her parents and sister before the war. At Vorkuta, her lot improves when she starts work as a nurse trainee at the camp hospital under the supervision of a sympathetic woman doctor who tries to protect her. Cilka also begins to feel the stirrings of romantic love for Alexandr, a fellow prisoner. Though believing she is cursed, Cilka shows great courage and fortitude throughout: Indeed, her ability to endure trauma—as well her heroism in ministering to the sick and wounded—almost defies credulity. The novel is ostensibly based on a true story, but a central element in the book—Cilka’s sexual relationship with the SS officers—has been challenged by the Auschwitz Memorial Research Center and by the real Cilka’s stepson, who says it is false. As in Tattooist, the writing itself is workmanlike at best and often overwrought.
Publisher: St. Martin's
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Prosecutor: Student with guns in dorm studied mass shootings
by: JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press
Posted: Aug 28, 2019 / 03:51 PM PDT / Updated: Aug 28, 2019 / 04:48 PM PDT
This undated mugshot provided by the High Point Police Department shows Paul A. Steber, 19, a North Carolina university student who has been charged with two counts of having a gun on campus and a charge of making threats of mass violence. A High Point Police Department statement said Steber was arrested after officers responded Tuesday, August 27, 2019 to reports of a student with two firearms and ammunition in a High Point University dorm. (High Point Police Department via AP)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina university student arrested with guns and ammunition in his dorm room had studied mass shootings and was making plans to kill his roommate and himself if he didn’t get into a fraternity, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Paul A. Steber, a 19-year-old freshman from Boston attending High Point University, was arrested Tuesday and charged with two felony counts of having a gun on campus and a charge of making threats of mass violence, the High Point Police Department said in a statement.
No one was hurt and there was no immediate threat to others on campus, the university said in a separate statement. Another student turned Steber in, the statement said.
“This incident illustrates the importance of the public reporting suspicious activity to authorities,” the police statement said. “Information from the public is often the critical first step in preventing acts of mass violence.”
Steber had been watching videos to learn how to carry out a mass shooting, Assistant District Attorney Lori Wickline said in court.
“He told officers that he definitely had a plan, something that he had been thinking about since Christmas of last year,” she said.
She later added: “And he had been recently watching videos of the Charleston mass shooting down in South Carolina and other mass shootings so that he could learn what to do and what not to do.”
He had bought the guns within the past week and planned to shoot himself and his roommate if Steber didn’t get into a fraternity and the roommate did, Wickline said. She said it wasn’t clear if he bought the guns legally.
She said Steber didn’t appear to have any criminal history.
The court set his bond on the firearms charges at $2 million.
His father, who came down from Massachusetts, sat in court for the brief hearing where Steber appeared via video link.
“This is any parent’s worst nightmare,” defense attorney John Bryson said in court. “He’s obviously very concerned about his son.”
Bryson declined further comment in an email after the hearing.
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Wind turbine repairs too costly to keep it running
Gale Rose
The cost of repairs for a wind turbine at Kiowa County High School have gotten so high, the district has decided to dismantle the unit.
It's time to cut losses and move ahead at Kiowa County High School. That was the decision that signaled the end of a wind turbine generator at the school.
District Superintendent Staci Derstein said they were in the process of getting the tower and turbine decommissioned and taken down. The take down has to wait until the wind dies down so it could happen this week or some time next week, depending on the wind speed. A crane is used to take the tower down.
It was costing the district money to keep the turbine, that was installed at the school in 2010, in repairs and running so the decision was made to take the turbine and tower down.
"The repairs were very costly," Derstein said.
A wind turbine, made by the same company that made the school wind generator, collapsed at the Kiowa County Memorial Hospital. The maintenance company the school uses determined the school wind turbine had the same problem as the hospital tower and it would be very hard to fix, Derstein said.
While the turbine was running, the district was seeing a seven to eight percent decrease in electric bills for the main building.
But, when the turbine broke down, it was very hard to get parts because the company that made the wind generation system, Endurance Turbine, was based in Canada plus it was hard to get people to come to Greensburg to make repairs. Since no parts were being manufactured, the district had to look for replacement parts that would work and that was a challenge.
There was no one locally that could maintain the system. The closest service technicians available were from Colorado and the district had to wait for service when it fit into their schedule.
The turbine suffered two lightning strikes and the turbine was down from five to six months for each lightning strike. Over the past few years it hasn't run much.
"It hasn't been producing electricity in the last year and a half," Derstein said. "We weren't seeing any savings on electricity when we looked at expenses for the wind turbine."
There are no plans to replace the wind generator at this time. For one thing, funding is not available at this time to put up a new system.
But Derstein said she liked having a working wind generator because it did reduce the district electric bills.
"I think its a great concept. I wish it was simpler than it was," Derstein said.
When it was working, the wind generator would produce 50 kilowatts of electricity. It wasn't an easy decision to get rid of the generator but it was costing the school more money in repairs than it was saving on the electric bill.
"It wasn't an easy decision but we have to be fiscally responsible," Derstein said.
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Review of The Promised Land: Property Law Reform (ed Rennie)
15th September 2008 | David Brand
It is almost 10 years since Donald Dewar presented the first legislative programme of the first Scottish Executive to the new Scottish Parliament, with land law reform as the vanguard of social and democratic change for a new, vibrant Scotland in the 21st century. Beginning with the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc (Scotland) Act 2000, a series of Acts, based on the work of the Scottish Law Commission, has substantially overhauled and modernised property law, making it more modern and coherent.
Although this process is not yet complete, with the ongoing land registration project a large piece still to be fitted into the new jigsaw, the time is right to take a step back and analyse the progress made, and question whether the reforms have achieved their aim. Professor Robert Rennie of Glasgow University has assembled a team of 11 leading writers and practitioners to reflect on the various reforms in this very welcome volume of essays. It is handsomely produced in hardback form, and although relatively small in appearance, it is weighty in content.
It was inevitable that the promised land of property reform would not be one entirely of milk and honey, and that problems would persist or be created anew. However, as Lord Gill emphasises in his foreword, the legislation has achieved more radical and valuable reforms within a few years than had been achieved in the previous century. The reforms have been intended to make property law in practice more efficient and coherent, and the great value of these essays is that all the authors subject the reforms to critical academic analysis but do so in the context of how the law operates in practice, which is what Scottish solicitors involved in this field want to know. It is true that some topics covered in the book are more relevant than others. For instance, the average conveyancer will be more concerned with interest to enforce real burdens than sepulture rights in servitudes. However, all the essays are very relevant to the practice of property law, and the large majority of the book covers matters which are significant for day-to-day practice.
The essays cover all the major areas of reform including servitudes, access rights, tenements, the Lands Tribunal, and the new financial provisions on termination of cohabitation under the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006. Professor George Gretton provides a welcome overview of the current land registration project, and there is a very useful essay on automated registration of title to land by Stewart Brymer and John Davis in which the authors rightly encourage the profession to embrace ARTL now.
Perhaps the most useful chapters, however, are the three on various aspects of real burdens by Professor Rennie, Scott Wortley and Professor Kenneth Reid. Although the reforms under the 2000 Act and the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 made significant improvements, practical problems continue, especially in relation to burdens created previously. Professor Rennie discusses interest to enforce real burdens, Scott Wortley looks in depth at personal bar (one of the welcome improvements to the regime for real burdens, but not without pitfalls), and Professor Reid examines the very real problems posed by ss 52 and 53 of the Title Conditions Act regarding common schemes and related properties in third party enforcement rights. This is a particularly thorny area and cannot be ignored with impunity.
It is one of the challenges for a modern day solicitor that the ever increasing pressures of day-to-day practice make it difficult to keep pace with every detail of changes in the law, even within an area of specialisation. Property and conveyancing lawyers are no exception. Completing transactions correctly to clients’ satisfaction and taking care that nothing will come back to haunt you is the order of the day. Time to contemplate the intricacies of property law is not available. Professor Reid in his contribution rather cuttingly refers to a low level of knowledge of the law amongst conveyancers. The number of professional negligence cases on conveyancing would seem to bear this out. As the economic climate starts to bite and property transactions are slowing down significantly, it is an ideal time for solicitors specialising in property law and conveyancing to purchase and carefully read the 250 pages of this book. It will be rewarding reading.
David A Brand, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Diploma in Legal Practice, University of Dundeee
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Sarah Palin calls herself a "Bible-believing Christian." She was baptized in the Roman Catholic church but then raised in the Assemblies of God denomination from the time she was four-years-old until 2002. Today she no longer considers herself a Pentecostal. In high school, she led her local Fellowship of Christian Athletes group.
Sarah Palin's Political Profile
Birthdate: February 11, 1964
Education: University of Idaho, B.S., 1987
Experience: Former Governor of Alaska, Chairwoman, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission; 2-Term Mayor, Wasilla, Alaska; 2-Term City Council, Wasilla, Alaska.
Declared Candidacy: Named John McCain's vice presidential running mate in the 2008 elections.
Religion/Church: Evangelical Christian; Non-Denominational
Palin was rebaptized at age 12 in the Wasilla Assembly of God. When she left the church in 2002, she and her family joined Wasilla Bible Church as their place of worship. According to the National Catholic Reporter, today Palin frequents an independent, non-denominational Christian church known as Church on the Rock, located in Wasilla, Alaska. It was also reported in the past by an Associated Press religion writer, that Palin sometimes attended the Juneau Christian Center in Juneau, Alaska.
Sarah Palin's Expressions of Faith
When early testing showed that Palin's fifth child would be born with Down syndrome, Palin's pro-life stance and undoubtedly her Christian faith, kept her from ever considering ending the pregnancy. When little "Trig" was born, Sarah told the Anchorage Daily News, "she was sad at first but they now feel blessed that God chose them." This press statement from the Palin family explains in more detail:
"Trig is beautiful and already adored by us. We knew through early testing he would face special challenges, and we feel privileged that God would entrust us with this gift and allow us unspeakable joy as he entered our lives. We have faith that every baby is created for good purpose and has potential to make this world a better place. We are truly blessed."
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Palin opposes abortion in all cases, except to save the life of the mother. As governor of Alaska, she stated:
"Faith is very important to so many of us here in America, and I would never support any government effort to stifle our freedom of religion or freedom of expression or freedom of speech.”
Also as governor of Alaska, Palin strengthened the faith-based initiatives that had been set up by her predecessor. She supported capital punishment and favored schools teaching both evolution and creationism. She opposed embryonic stem cell research and said: “We should not create human life, create an embryo and then destroy it for research if there are other options out there.”
In a 2008 vice presidential debate, Palin said she is “tolerant of adults in America choosing their partners,” but “I don’t support defining marriage as anything but between one man and one woman.” She also indicated that she would support a federal constitutional amendment, like the one in Alaska, banning same-sex marriage.
Michael Paulson, a religion writer for the Boston Globe, put together this faith perspective called, "Sarah Palin on faith, life, and creation." In it he includes this portion of a 2006 Anchorage Daily News article:
"Her Christian faith, they say, came from her mother, who took her children to area Bible churches as they were growing up (Sarah is the third of four siblings). They say her faith has been steady since high school, when she led the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and grew stronger as she sought out believers in her college years. Palin doesn't brandish her religion on the campaign trail, but that doesn't prevent others from doing so."
During her 2008 campaign for the vice-presidency, Palin spoke at the Wasilla Assembly of God, asking members to pray "for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right also for this country," and "that our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure we're praying for: that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan."
A longtime Alaska resident, Chas St. George, said, "Wearing her faith quietly fits more with Palin's personality."
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Leonidas Foundation set to honor Patrick Murray's family; advance goals
Entering its second year, the Leonidas Foundation remains determined to keep the spirit of athletic competitiveness and entrepreneurship alive. In other words, the spirit of Leo Vagias.
The former Don Bosco Prep/University of Rhode Island place kicker was killed in a car accident along with classmate and close friend Sam Cali in June of 2016. The Leonidas Foundation was created in honor of the student-athlete from Montville with many goals in mind.
Chief among them has been the start of the LEO (Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Opportunity) Program at Don Bosco Prep. This is a business-centric curriculum for a select group of students at the school.
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To mark the organization’s anniversary, the Foundation will host a Kickoff party at The Waterside Restaurant in North Bergen on Thursday, April 19.
“We don’t want to stop what we’re doing,” foundation president Matt Perricone said. “We want to continue with what we are doing, especially the positive impacts that the program has had in a relatively short time.”
At the dinner, the organization will honor the entire Murray family with its Leadership Award. Patrick Murray was a standout kicker for Don Bosco Prep and Fordham and is now with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Murray appeared in 12 games for the Bucs finishing 19 of 23 on field goals in 2017. Leo’s name is one of four that Patrick puts on a piece of tape on his wrist before every game.
From 2015: From left, current Leonidas Foundation President Matt Perricone, Coach Aidan Murray, Ethan Cordero and Leo Vagias. (Photo11: Courtesy Leonidas Foundation)
Patrick’s brother Aidan kicked and punted at Don Bosco before playing for Rutgers. The boys father, also Aidan, has coached kickers and punters at Don Bosco for over a decade and Linda Murray works at the school.
“They just embody with our foundation is all about,” Leo’s father Teddy Vagias said last week. “We want to work on the mind, body and spirit and all four of them work with the minds, making you feel good about what you can achieve, they work with the spirit and keeping brotherhood in the mix. They are just awesome, and we love the number four, because it was Leo’s number.”
Perricone was also a special teams ace for the Ironmen and retains a deep connection to the Murray family. The younger Aidan Murray was Perricone’s and Leo Vagias’ “Ironman for a Day” partner when they were looking at the school, and he served as a mentor for the two of them at Don Bosco.
“What’s better than honoring an entire family where every single member has touched Leo’s life and so many other young people in a long period of time,” Perricone said. “It’s just the perfect fit.”
The winner of the Leadership Award last year was former Don Bosco Prep football coach Greg Toal.
Vagias said one of the key principles of the foundation is the idea of paying it forward for students and athletes. In business, this means networking and helping the next person in line advance. In that vein, the organization is considering creating a college scholarship opportunity for a high school student who starts as a walk-on.
“That’s one of the things that got Leo fired up,” Teddy Vagias said. “The concept of a walk-on was important to him. A player can earn a scholarship his sophomore year or junior year, but that first year, he will know someone believes in me.”
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While the program is deeply connected to its athletic roots (there was also a Sam Cali Invitational wrestling tournament in the winter), it’s easy to see the enthusiasm Vagias and Perricone have for the business program. Perricone said that the organization is in discussions with expanding the academic program at a handful of other schools in North Jersey.
“The LEO program has been a real success for our young men at Don Bosco Prep,” Don Bosco athletic director Brian McAleer said. “It’s been a great way of keeping Leo’s memory alive, while offering a new and unique academic experience for the students.”
Teddy Vagias sees a day where high school entrepreneurs are recruited just as much as talented athletes.
“What we want is colleges to line up at the doors of Don Bosco or other high schools and say I understand you have young entrepreneurs and we want to recruit them for our business school,” said Vagias.
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Leslie Kemp Poole is the author of two histories. Saving Florida: Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century is her most recent work. She is an adjunct professor of environmental studies and history at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.
SAVING FLORIDA
Florida is renowned for its beautiful beaches, natural springs, and subtropical wilderness. However, dredge-and-fill projects, air pollution, and pesticides spread so uncontrollably during the twentieth century that they sparked an environmental movement. Those who engaged in and led the fight were often women.
Saving Florida reveals how women's clubs prompted legislation to establish Florida's first state park, which later became the core of Everglades National Park, in 1916--before women even had the right to vote. It tells the story of Doris Leeper, who convinced her community and the federal government to protect a 24-mile beach that is now Canaveral National Seashore. It remembers Clara Dommerich, who organized the first meeting of the Florida Audubon Society in her living room in 1900. And it celebrates the towering environmental legacy of the three "Marjories": author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, scientist/activist Marjorie Harris Carr, and journalist/activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
These and many other women led the fight for unprecedented changes in how the Sunshine State reveres its unique natural resources. They set the foundation for this century's environmental agenda, which came to include the idea of sustainable development. As a collective force they forever altered how others saw women's roles in society.
Maitland, known by members of the Seminole tribe as Fumecheliga (the muskmelon place), has a history as diverse and beautiful as its tranquil lake-studded Florida landscape. Named for a soldier who never saw it, the city got its start as an army fort in the Second Seminole War. Later its temperate climate and rich soil drew settlers who put their dreams, sweat, and savings into the soil, growing vegetable crops, raising cattle, and planting extensive citrus groves. Others soon followed, including a number of wealthy winter residents who sought refuge from northern winters and better health in the warmer climate. Together they built a city that served as a center of commerce, learning, and art for the area. Today much of the citrus industry is gone, replaced with subdivisions, thriving office centers, and a cultural corridor, but Maitland remains a place where people move to make better lives.
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Why you won’t see Sweethearts ‘conversation hearts’ this year
Amanda O'Donnell, Austin American-Statesman
There are a million ways to say “I love you.” But this Valentine’s Day, there’ll be one less.
The famed, divisive, some might say “chalk-like,” Sweethearts candy you’ve been celebrating Valentine’s Day with since maybe forever, will not be readily available this year, Better Homes and Gardens reports.
The candy, which was first sold in 1886, has historically been produced by the New England Confectionery Company, or NECCO. NECCO announced in 2018 that it would need to abruptly close. Following this development the Sweethearts candy brand, and its popular “conversation hearts,” were sold to Spangler Candy Co. Given the time of the sale, the Spangler Candy Co. did not have enough time to produce the conversation hearts for 2019, Better Homes and Gardens reports. The company, however, promised that the candy would be available again in 2020.
You might be able to locate a spare box in, who knows, the back of a dark drawer in your kitchen, or maybe an online retailer. But with any luck you’ll find another, less expired, way to express your love this year.
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The Patent Dispute between Nokia and Daimler: Brakes for the “Internet of Things”?
On August 18, 2020, the Regional Court in Mannheim handed a victory to Nokia in its litigation with Daimler, which could allow Nokia to block a large part of Daimler’s car sales in Germany. The ruling found that Daimler is violating a Nokia patent related to mobile communication, used in the telematics units of many Daimler vehicles. Prof. Joachim Henkel of the TUM School of Management researches patent management, technology acquisitions, digitalization, and open innovation. He assesses the verdict in an interview.
Cars, trucks and many other products are increasingly networked. Wireless networking via mobile communication technologies is particularly important, especially via the LTE standard – who are the most important patent holders?
Prof. Henkel: “Standards in communication technology are covered by large numbers of patents. For LTE alone, there are several thousand individual patents in Germany. Important patent holders include Samsung, Qualcomm, Huawei, Nokia, and Ericsson. Anyone who incorporates mobile communications technology into their products requires licences from the patent holders.”
Who is required to take a license?
Prof. Henkel: “This is hotly debated. In most industries, including the automotive industry, it is common for suppliers to take care of the patent licenses necessary for their components. In the case of mobile phones, on the other hand, it is usually the device manufacturer who concludes the licensing agreements. Nokia and other mobile communication patent holders would like to apply the same practice to other industries. They argue that this is the only way to adapt the license fee to the product: More should be paid for a car than for a wireless sensor, they argue, because the mobile phone technology in a car creates a higher value.
Daimler – and ultimately all other car manufacturers as well – feel that their suppliers, such as Continental, should be licensed. They believe that Nokia is legally obliged to offer the suppliers a license. An economic reason for their position is that a car manufacturer’s supply chain would become even more complex if, in addition to the components, it had to take care of the patent rights for those components.
So a very fundamental question…
Prof. Henkel: “Indeed. The German competition authorities, the Bundeskartellamt, had suggested that it be clarified by the European Court of Justice. The same thing happened in 2015, when a German court referred a patent dispute between the Chinese mobile phone companies Huawei and ZTE to the ECJ. In fact, the ECJ ruling on that dispute serves as the basis for the Mannheim court’s criterion of ‘willingness to grant a licence.’ Since, in the opinion of the court, neither Daimler nor the suppliers involved in the dispute were seriously willing to take a license on so-called ‘fair and reasonable’ terms, the question of to whom Nokia would have to offer a license would be moot, so the court argues.”
Does this ruling have repercussions beyond this specific case?
Prof. Henkel: “Absolutely. It goes far beyond the fight between Nokia and Daimler, with implications for the Internet of Things in general. Nokia and other patent holders want to make it the norm for manufacturers of end products such as cars to take patent licenses – even though it is mostly the manufacturers of mobile phone chips such as Qualcomm and Intel who incorporate the patented technologies into their products.
Just like with mobile phones?
Prof. Henkel: “Yes, like with mobile phones. But unlike mobile phone manufacturers, IoT device makers have usually no expertise in mobile communication technology and its patents. To the extent that such competence is required for licensing, it is difficult to negotiate licenses on an equal footing, and it becomes even more problematic if small manufacturers of networked products must take licenses. Like Daimler, they lack the technical competence – but they also lack the money for technical and legal advice.
Moreover, there are about a dozen manufacturers of mobile phone chips, but in the near future there will be thousands or tens of thousands of manufacturers of networked products. Each patent licensor must therefore conclude not a dozen, but thousands or tens of thousands of license agreements. In economic terms, this effort involves very high ‘transaction costs.’ Due to the problematic situation of small device manufacturers, especially young companies, and the high transaction costs, there is a risk that the licensing of end products sought by Nokia and other patent holders will slow down the uptake of the Internet of Things.
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Название: Lieutenant John Irving, of H.M.S. Terror, in Sir John Franklin`s Last Expedition to the Arctic Regions: A Memorial Sketch with Letters (1881)
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Описание: Juan Diego's little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret - Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. And sometimes she knows more. What a terrible burden it is to know - or to think you know - your future, or worse, the future of someone you love. What might a young girl be driven to do if she thought she had the power to change what lies ahead? Later in life, Juan Diego embarks on a journey to fulfil a promise he made in his youth. It is a long story and it has long awaited an ending, but Juan Diego is unable to write the final chapters. This is the story of what happens when the future collides with the past.
Название: The World According to Garp
Описание: The bestselling coming-of-age classic novel by John Irving--a limited 40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author.
"A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking."--The Washington Post
The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication 40 years ago, Irving's classic deserves to be introduced to a whole new generation of readers.
The World According to Garp is filled with stories inside stories about T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes--even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries--with more than ten million copies in print--this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."
Описание: John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.
As we grow older most of all, in what we remember and what we dream we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.
As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. An aura of fate had marked him, John Irving writes, of Juan Diego. The chain of events, the links in our lives what leads us where we re going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we don t see coming, and what we do all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious.
"Avenue of Mysteries "is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past in Mexico collides with his future."
In "Avenue of Mysteries," Juan Diego a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what "has" happened, as opposed to what "will, " Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you.
Lupe doesn't know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the future especially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future?
As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow older most of all, in what we remember and what we dream we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.
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Bolsa de Valores de Lima goes live with MillenniumIT trading technology
LSEG All Share Acquisition of Refinitiv – European Commission Approval
Balbir Bakhshi to join LSEG as Chief Risk Officer
LSEG announces new CEO of London Stock Exchange plc
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Results of LSEG General Meeting
UPDATE RE CIRCULAR AND GENERAL MEETING
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Millennium Exchange™ provides ultra low-latency trading across all asset classes for Peruvian exchange
Millennium SOR™ establishes multi-asset connectivity throughout MILA region
Next generation MAP™ underpins entire trading platform
Represents first live implementation for MillenniumIT in LatAm
MillenniumIT, the provider of ultra-low latency, flexible and scalable capital markets solutions, and part of London Stock Exchange Group, today announced that Bolsa de Valores de Lima (BVL), the Peruvian stock exchange, has gone live with a MillenniumIT trading technology solution.
BVL exchange has replaced its legacy trading technology infrastructure with the multi-asset trading platform Millennium Exchange™ and Smart Order Router (Millennium SOR™) for equities and fixed income trading and connectivity throughout the MILA (Mercado Integrado Latino Americano) region. Both products are underpinned by Millennium Advanced Platform (MAP™), a next generation integration solution that supports the exchange’s entire trading operation and ensures it meets the market’s evolving regulatory requirements.
The complete MillenniumIT solution has been adapted to meet the unique connectivity and language requirements of the market in Peru as well as the extended MILA region of Mexico, Chile and Colombia, and includes a fully integrated Trader Workstation in Spanish. The deployment represents the first live implementation for MillenniumIT in Latin America.
Mack Gill, CEO of MillenniumIT, said: “Going live with our MillenniumIT solution at Bolsa de Valores de Lima in Peru represents a significant milestone for our organisation and is an important step toward creating new business and investment opportunities in this market. Every financial institution has unique requirements, and our technology is designed to meet those needs in a timely and efficient way. By tailoring our solution to the local requirements of BVL, we have been able to support their entire trading operation and ensure it is fully equipped to meet the future challenges of international growth. Our technology will also enable the exchange to connect to additional markets in the MILA region. We look forward to playing our part in the next stage of BVL’s development.”
Francis Stenning, CEO of Bolsa de Valores de Lima, commented: "Upgrading our existing platform with next generation technology will allow us to offer more efficient services to the capital markets. With this new platform from MillenniumIT, supported by London Stock Exchange Group, the benefits of globalisation will take advantage; achieving a faster interconnection with the markets in our region, beginning with MILA. We have combined our great global knowledge of the capital markets with real flexibility to provide a solution that is uniquely suited to our local needs.”
Christian Laub, President of Bolsa de Valores de Lima, added: "We are ready to interconnect with other markets in an easier way. With the implementation of this new platform, we aim to position the BVL as a representative institution of economic development, preparing Peru to turn into the gateway of capital and financial hub of the Andean region. In the short term, the use of this new platform will allow us to perform nationwide operations and keep up with other world markets.”
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The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; Borsa Italiana; MTS, Europe's leading fixed income market; and Turquoise, a pan-European equities MTF. It is also home to one of the world’s leading growth markets for SMEs, AIM. Through its platforms, the Group offers international business and investors’ unrivalled access to Europe's capital markets.
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The Group is a global leader in indexing and analytic solutions. FTSE and Russell Indexes offer thousands of indices that measure and benchmark markets around the world. The Group also provides customers with an extensive range of real time and reference data products, including SEDOL, UnaVista, Proquote and RNS.
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INGMAR BERGMAN - INTERVIEWS - LIVRO
Toward the end of his 1971 conversation with Richard Meryman, easily the best interview in this collection, Bergman says that "to make a film is to try to open up the roof--so we can breathe" (p. 112). This is as good a one-line characterization of Bergman's project as I know. Bergman's films defy easy analysis, sometimes because they're poorly conceived, as Bergman himself admits (he thinks, for example, that "Through a Glass Darkly" is a prime example), sometimes because even Bergman in retrospect isn't quite sure what he was trying to do, but sometimes because there's simply a great deal of depth to them. How, for example, to collapse the message of loneliness, despair, human nature, and hope conveyed in "The Silence" into a couple of sentences? But what Bergman at his best does succeed in doing is expanding us, opening up the roofs of our worldviews, inviting us--sometimes forcing us--to breathe in an atmosphere that's crisp and thin and heady.
Readers who pick up Raphael Shargel's collection of Bergman interviews in the hope that the master will explain what his films are about will be disappointed. Bergman tells us that he wants to elicit emotional experiences first and cerebral ones second in his films; that dreams have influenced his scripts and his director's eye; that he works best when his days are rigorously scheduled; that he thinks a film is "selected reality" (p. 106), which reminds me of Tarkovksy's beautiful characterization of film-making as "sculpting time"; that he thinks a certain "childishness"--a naivete, an openness to experience--is essential for good art. But what Bergman doesn't do, appropriately enough, is tell us how to interpret his films. So in many ways, his intervews are as mysterious as his artworks.
The interviews collected by Shargel vary in quality. As I've mentioned, Richard Meryman's is the best of the lot, closely followed by A. Alvarez's. The "Playboy" interview conducted by Cynthia Grenier is worse than worthless, and seems intent on focusing on little else than sex in "The Silence" (the interview was conducted shortly after the film's American debut). There are numerous typos in the text. "Feeling" is consistently spelled "felling," for example, and at one point Bergman is referred to as the "15 year old creator of 'The Silence'"! The only other book I've read by the University of Mississippi Press was also poorly proofed. Strange that an academic press is so careless in its copyediting.
Shargel's collection is a decent starting point for readers new to Bergman, but better ones include Bergman's memoirs, The Magic Lantern (2007) and Images (1995). Jesse Kalin's The Films of Ingmar Bergman (2003) is highly recommended for serious students.
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Ai Weiwei's Archway Art Gets Green-Lit and Christmas Tree Move Has Villagers Seeing Red
Bedford + Bowery, September 2017. Find the original article here.
Photo: Courtesy of Kickstarter
The Christmas tree that usually resides underneath the Washington Square Arch during the holiday season will be displaced by the work of an internationally acclaimed artist, and it’s got some people in a Grinch-like mood.
As part of a far-reaching exhibition by the Public Art Fund in celebration of its 40th anniversary, a large-scale installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will be featured underneath the Washington Square Arch from Oct. 12 to Feb. 11.
The project, “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors,” features over 300 works across several boroughs, and will transform metal-wire security fencing into a series of artworks that discuss the international migration crisis. In short, the fences are a metaphor for our newfound culture of divisiveness.
But not everyone’s reaction to the idea is “Yes, Wei!”
The plans moved forward after an unsuccessful appeal by the Washington Square Association to have the project withdrawn, mostly because the metal installation will usurp the 45-foot Christmas tree that has been a holiday tradition in Washington Square Park since it was first presented Dec. 24, 1924. (I’m pretty sure Santa Claus isn’t even that old!)
The matter was voted on by members of Community Board 2 on Tuesday night, with a 26-8 tally in favor of erecting Weiwei’s work under the arch. Nicolas Baume, director and chief curator of the Public Art Fund, said that he was delighted by the resolution.
“I was very heartened to hear such passionate statements of support from so many people… this exhibition as a whole has had more attention in the lead-up than any exhibition we’ve ever done. Ai Weiwei is an artist people are incredibly interested in. He’s truly a global figure.”
The Public Art Fund launched a Kickstarter campaign to support the city-wide project with a goal of $80,000, and blew past that Wednesday night with over $96,000 in donations. Baume said that all money raised in excess of the original benchmark will support the exhibition.
When asked whether his organization had considered waiting until after the holiday season to install the piece, so that the Christmas tree tradition wouldn’t be disturbed, he said that “Good Neighbors” is coordinated to be built simultaneously.
“There was really no way to change the timing,” said Baume, while rattling off the litany of people needed to pull off such an ambitious project. (Hint: It’s A LOT.)
The Public Art Fund first presented its plans to CB 2 on Sept. 6, but Trevor Sumner, president of the Washington Square Association, said they waited too long to reveal them, and there should have been more collaboration with the neighborhood throughout the process.
“I think they intentionally held the project [until Sept. 6] so we couldn’t have a meaningful discussion of it,” said Sumner. “All of that waiting was to intentionally short-circuit the process so they got what they want.”
Sumner was equally frustrated by how long the installation will be in the park. “To put it in our face for four months – and tell us that we have to bow to [the Public Art Fund’s] desires without any meaningful conversation – it’s just hard to swallow.”
He wanted, for example, to discuss putting the exhibit up for eight weeks after the holidays, so they could accommodate the tree. “It’s the second oldest tree lighting in the city. Ninety-four years running… you’re not going to be able to see it down Fifth Avenue, that iconic view that people enjoy. The tree’s going to be hidden this year.”
The only thing left to do, according to him, is make the best of it. “We’ll do what we can to make our tree lighting magical.”
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Consumer Ambivalence Towards Self-Driving Cars
by Jack Loechner , Staff Writer @mp_research, April 29, 2019
According to Chris Beer, recent research by GlobalWebIndex reveals internet users in the UK and the U.S. are ambivalent about self-driving cars. Internet users in the UK and U.S. are split down the middle between enthusiasm and concern about autonomous cars.
Younger internet users are more open to the prospect of having self-driving cars on the road, whereas older internet users are more conservative.
This is likely linked to another finding from the survey. We also asked about why consumers would be concerned or excited about self-driving cars on the road. The biggest concerns across age groups were safety factors, with hacking and unexpected situations (like weather) the biggest threats cited.
But there’s a difference in age for not trusting computers with life-or-death decisions, with 37% of 16-24s worried about it, compared to 48% of 55-64s.
The other notable demographic breakdown for these concerns is gender. Men are more enthusiastic about the prospect of self-driving cars, with women tending to be more apprehensive. Male respondents are also willing to go further in terms of the level of autonomy they’re happy to drive with; 36% of male drivers would be willing to drive a car with “eyes off” or “minds off” autonomy (what are called “level 3” and “level 4” of autonomy respectively), compared to 27% of female drivers.
The survey points out that only 10% of drivers in the U.S. would pay more than $10,000 for a self-driving car, which is quite a conservative estimate of how much more a self-driving car would cost in reality. More of them (15%) expected to pay the same amount as a normal car, though 31% were willing to pay up to $10,000 more. More revealingly, a quarter of drivers in both markets say they would never buy a car with self-driving technology.
The next 5-10 years will likely see continued investment and testing from tech companies, automobile manufacturers, and mobility providers. But as they pump billions into self-driving technology, there is still work to be done in converting those who will drive it, or share the road with it.
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Kirk Augustin from Mr., April 29, 2019 at 8:24 p.m.
Autonomous vehicles are really silly. They do not work at all. No one has been able to get them to work on snow, in rain, when GPS goes down with the solar maxima, etc. They can fake a nice demo, but they can't even navigate a parking lot.
Marcelo Salup from Iffective LLC, April 30, 2019 at 10:11 a.m.
Self driving cars are absolutely great for 75% of our driving and I already have a couple of friends with the self-driving or at least more or less self-driving option on their Teslas.
However, self driving cars will not be popular until we have another option. In addition to the ludicrous button on the Tesla (and if you don't know what it is, perhaps you ought to go back to driving Toyota Avalons or something) we need one that says BTW (as in Balls to the Wall) where the car cruises at 120 mph in the middle of traffic using all the radar and technology to avoid crashes. Now, that would be a self-driving car I could get behind!
Jack Loechner is the Editor of The Center for Media Research's daily Research Brief. You can reach him at jack@mediapost.com.
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13 Facts About A Prayer for Owen Meany
BY Erin McCarthy
(Updated: September 7, 2020)
The first sentence of John Irving's seventh novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, begins, "I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice ..."
Author John Irving’s novel about a boy with a “wrecked voice” who believes he’s an instrument of God is a staple on high school summer reading lists. Here are a few things you might not have known about it. (Spoilers for the novel below.)
1. The first sentence of A Prayer for Owen Meany is John Irving’s favorite.
Irving always writes the ends of his novels first, and Owen Meany was no different: He wrote the penultimate paragraph of the novel first, and added the last paragraph two days later. “I never write the first sentence until I know all the important things that happen in the story, especially—and I mean exactly—what happens at the end of the novel,” he wrote after the book was published [PDF]. “If I haven’t already written the ending—and I mean more than a rough draft—I can’t write the first sentence.”
In the case of Owen Meany, Irving didn't write the first sentence (“I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany”) until at least a year later. “I may one day write a better first sentence to a novel than that of A Prayer for Owen Meany, but I doubt it," Irving wrote. “What makes the first sentence of A Prayer for Owen Meany such a good one is that the whole novel is contained in it.”
2. John Irving based Owen Meany on a childhood friend.
The author was home in Exeter, New Hampshire, for Christmas in the early ‘80s, where he and his childhood friends were discussing other friends who had gone to Vietnam and never come back, or who had come back but were messed up from the experience. “Suddenly one of my friends mentioned a name that drew a blank with me—a Russell somebody,” Irving wrote. “Then another one of my friends reminded me that, in Sunday School, we used to lift up this little boy; he was our age, about eight or nine, but he was so tiny that we could pass him back and forth over our heads.”
That jogged Irving’s memory. Russell had moved away before they had become teenagers, and had been killed in Vietnam. “I was amazed,” Irving writes. “I said one of the stupidest things I’ve ever said. ‘But he was too small to go to Vietnam!’ My friends looked at me with pity and concern. ‘Johnny,’ one of them said, ‘I presume he grew.’ That night I lay awake in bed, pondering the ‘What if...’ that is the beginning of every novel for me. What if he didn’t grow? I was thinking.” Irving would later incorporate the memory of passing Russell over the heads of kids in Sunday School into a scene in Owen Meany.
3. A Prayer for Owen Meany is full of homages to other novels.
In the novel, Johnny’s mother is killed by a baseball hit by Owen Meany—which, Irving said in an interview with the Denver Post, is an homage to the Robertson Davies novel Fifth Business, in which the protagonist’s mom is killed by a snowball. “I love that novel,” Irving said. “And Owen Meany has the same initials as Oskar Matzerath—the hero of Günter Grass's novel The Tin Drum.” (And, like Irving’s Meany, Oskar Matzerath refuses to grow.) “Many writers become writers because of something they read,” he told the Post. “Homage is simply recognizing and acknowledging your ancestors.”
4. Hester in A Prayer for Owen Meany is similar to another of Irving’s characters.
If Johnny’s abrasive cousin Hester in Owen Meany sounds familiar, it might be because you’ve read Irving’s 1985 novel The Cider House Rules. “Certain minor characters repeat themselves,” Irving told Readers Read in 2005. “Melony in Cider House is reborn as Hester in A Prayer for Owen Meany, and they are both reborn and enlarged upon in the character of Emma in Until I Find You.”
5. John Irving plagiarized himself in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
“The physical description of Owen Meany who is first described as looking embryonic, not yet born, was a passage I lifted from the physical description of the orphan Fuzzy Stone who dies of respiratory failure in The Cider House Rules, the novel before I wrote, A Prayer for Owen Meany,” Irving said at a 2006 charity event with Stephen King and J.K. Rowling. “I am unaware if it's possible to get in trouble for plagiarizing yourself but I did. If you look at the physical description of Fuzzy Stone and the physical description of Owen Meany, they're almost word for word the same.”
6. John Irving did his research before writing A Prayer for Owen Meany.
In an interview with Powells, Irving said he looked into both the quarry business and being a body escort to write Owen Meany. “I feel I have to be the dutiful journalist,” he said. “I have to put myself in the hands of someone whose life that is and learn it. You just have to know that stuff or you shouldn't write about it.”
7. Owen Meany’s voice is probably caused by “Singers’ Polyps.”
The author writes Owen’s weird “wrecked voice” in all caps. When asked to describe what the voice sounds like to him, Irving told the Denver Post that “There's gravel damage, rock dust, granite quarry residue, in Owen's throat; he probably has what they call ‘singers' polyps.’ It is a damaged-sounding voice; it has to strain. It's always a little harsh-sounding—never soft. It's irritating to listen to—like the effect of those capital letters, I thought. It's an insistent voice—one that demands to be heard.” Another important reason it was necessary: In the novel's climactic scene, where he saves a group of Vietnamese children at an airport from the grenade-wielding half-brother of a dead soldier, “Owen has to have a voice the Vietnamese children will pay attention to, which is why he also has to be small,” Irving said.
8. A Prayer for Owen Meany is partially a commentary on Americans’ obsession with sports.
Johnny’s mother is killed by a baseball, hit by Owen; his dog is killed when he’s hit by a truck chasing a football; and Owen dies after lobbing a grenade out a bathroom window—a move he and Johnny had perfected by practicing basketball dunking for years. “I think sports are altogether too important to American society,” Irving, a former wrestler, told the Denver Post:
“We certainly celebrate sports, and sports heroes, more than we honor the arts, or any number of intellectual achievements. We are a sports culture. … This is a novel about the damage Americans do to themselves; sports are a part of that damage. If world news were covered as extensively, and in such detail, as the ceaseless March Madness over college basketball, wouldn't Americans be better informed about the world, and our place in it, than we are? … It's not literally, of course, that sports are killing us; but what we pay intense attention to it, and what we ignore is surely doing us some harm. And, as a former wrestler who is bored to tears by basketball, I thought: What possibly good reason can there be for insanely practicing sinking a basketball when you're Owen Meany's size? Well, how about saving the lives of children? In my view, there's no other good reason for it!”
9. Like John Wheelwright, John Irving never went to Vietnam …
In A Prayer for Owen Meany, Johnny Wheelwright escapes Vietnam after Owen cuts off part of his trigger finger with a diamond wheel—but Irving didn’t qualify for service because he was a Kennedy father.
“In 1963, relatively early in the Vietnam War, President Kennedy issued an executive order saying if you were the father of a child, and that child's necessary means of support, you were not to be drafted into military service,” Irving told the Denver Post. The author got married and had a son while he was still in college, so he went from a student deferment to a Kennedy father deferment. But that didn’t make him feel lucky. “I felt disappointed. I wanted to be a writer; therefore, I wanted to see what the war was like,” he said. “Years later, of course, I realized how lucky I'd been. That child—he's in his 40s now, with children of his own—reminds me from time to time about it. Whenever we get in an argument of some kind, he says, ‘Don't forget who kept you out of Vietnam.’” The deferment ended in 1970.
10. … But John Irving insists the character isn’t autobiographical.
Still, despite the similarities between Irving and John Wheelwright—they share a similar childhood history, didn’t go to Vietnam, and both, as adults, live in Toronto—Irving emphasizes that he’s not Wheelwright. “I wouldn't be playing fair if I did not admit to sharing some of his opinions emotionally, but the point about Johnny Wheelwright is that he has no distance; he has no perspective,” Irving told the New York Times in 1989. “He is puerile. His sense of political outrage is strictly emotional.”
He doesn’t share John Wheelwright’s religious fervor, either. “I'm not religious,” he told the Denver Post. “In writing A Prayer for Owen Meany, I asked myself a fairly straightforward question—namely, what would it take to make a believer out of me? The answer is that I would have to meet someone like Owen Meany. If I'd had Johnny Wheelwright's experience in that novel, I would probably be a believer too. But I haven't had that experience—I only imagined it.”
11. A Prayer for Owen Meany could have been John Irving’s fourth number one novel.
The World According to Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire, and The Cider House Rules all hit number one on the bestsellers charts—and Owen Meany, released in 1989, might have, too, if not for Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, which got a sales boost thanks to the fatwa against him. “I called Salman briefly after he went into hiding back then,” Irving told Parade. “I told him congratulations, since we were one-two on bestseller lists all over the world. Rushdie laughed and came right back at me. ‘You want to switch places?’”
12. John Irving has mixed feelings about the book’s spot on high school reading lists.
Irving told Nashville Scene in an email interview in 2008 that “It's ironic to me that the three of my eleven published novels most taught in A.P. English classes in high schools, and in colleges and universities, are the same three novels that have been banned in various schools—and in some libraries. (A Prayer for Owen Meany is the most frequently taught at the high-school level; The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp get more exposure in colleges and universities.)”
He had mixed feelings about the required part, he said:
“I remember—this was mainly in high school—hating some of the novels I was required to read, though in most cases these required books introduced me to many of my favorite authors. In the area of Vermont where I live, I visit schools where my novels are taught; I've attended a fair number of A.P. English classes, just to talk to the kids and answer their questions. I'm lucky, as a writer, that I've always maintained a very young audience; that my novels are taught in courses, both in high school and at colleges and universities, helps to keep the age of my audience young. That matters more to me at sixty-six than it once did.”
13. A Prayer for Owen Meany was adapted into a movie.
Irving, who penned the screenplay for his the film adaptation of his novel The Cider House Rules over the course of 13 years—all the while writing novels—decided he was too busy and “had neither the desire nor the stamina to revisit the Vietnam years” to try to adapt a screenplay for a film version of Owen Meany. “Therefore, when Mark Steven Johnson approached me not to write a screenplay of A Prayer for Owen Meany but to allow him to write and direct the picture, I was very happy to let him try,” Irving wrote in a letter posted on Ain’t It Cool News. But he had some conditions: “I said I wanted to read the shooting script and decide at that time if I wanted them to use my title and the names of my characters. Mark agreed.”
Irving liked the script, he said, which was quite different from the novel: Everything about Vietnam had been excised and the ending was changed. “I felt it would mislead the novel's many readers to see a film of that same title which was so different from the book,” Irving said, and so he asked that the name be changed. The resulting movie, which starred Ashley Judd, Jim Carrey, and Oliver Platt, was called Simon Birch and hit theaters in 1998. “Simon Birch is really Mark Steven Johnson's story—with Owen Meany's beginning,” Irving said. “I think it was, therefore, a happy resolution for both Mark and me that he was able to make his film, which clearly was ‘suggested by’ (as credits say) A Prayer for Owen Meany, but which is clearly not A Prayer for Owen Meany.”
Afterward, rumors circulated that Irving had hated the movie. “Mark took an unfair bashing in the American press,” Irving told The Guardian. “People wrote that I hated the film and took my title away. That is untrue.” According to Irving, the book is unfilmable because “film is two-dimensional. What you see is real. To visualize Owen's miracle is to make it unbelievable. It would be like those biblical movies of the 1950s and early 1960s. When the Red Sea actually does part, the audience just doesn't believe it.” The book has since been adapted into a stage play, a college production, and a BBC radio play.
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Cronyism: Green Car Edition
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Since 2009, the Department of Energy (DOE) provided guaranteed loans through its Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program valued at approximately $8.4 billion to Ford, Nissan, Fisker Automotive, and other car manufacturers. The DOE touted the ATVM loan program as a tool for boosting America’s “clean energy economy” by adding nearly 38,700 jobs. Far less attention was paid to how the loan commitments exposed taxpayers to excessive risk, to the tune of about $217,028 per job “created or saved.”
The first chart breaks down the distribution of ATVM loans. The second chart presents estimates of total taxpayer exposure for every job “created or saved” by recipients, as reported by the DOE. The DOE’s job numbers include jobs that were created as a result of the loan guarantee; jobs that once existed but have since been eliminated; jobs that exist independent of the loan program; and jobs that already existed but are now considered “green jobs.” For example, the DOE reports that the loan “converted” nearly 33,000 existing Ford jobs to green manufacturing jobs. Also, it is worth noting that DOE still attributes 2,000 jobs to Fisker, even though the company’s workforce shrank to 50 following the latest round of firings.
Many are referring to Fisker Automotive a $529 million recipient of ATVM loans hovering at the brink of bankruptcy as the Solyndra of the electric car industry. The worst part of this story, once again, is that most of the money guaranteed by the Department of Energy went to companies that should have borrowed money on their own. Instead, the government played venture capitalist with our money, causing systemic and unintended distortions to the market.
Data note: Calculations are based on data from the US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office. The figures in the chart represent the total loan amounts received by a recipient, divided by the reported number of jobs “created or saved.”
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Assessing the Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program
Who Benefits from the Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program?
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Loss won't keep Patti Smith from loving
Posted By Jerilyn Jordan on Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 1:05 PM
Steven Sebring
When the package arrived, it was the day before my 29th birthday. I knew what it was before reading the name on the address label. It smelled like stale cigarettes. Included was a card with writing on both sides, trailing onto the back. “Forgive yourself,” it read, “and remember she loved you. Happy Birthday.”
I pulled a copy of Patti Smith’s 1978 book Babel from the Manila sleeve using only my fingertips. It was a relic held together with layers of clear tape crosshatched over the binding and looked as if it had been buried and unburied, only to become the surface on which my mother must have painted her nails — silver streaks across the cover image of Smith’s face. I flipped the pages within an inch of my face and inhaled the scent of mildew and Newports. For a brief moment, my mother was alive.
When I talk to Smith, she is in transit. She warns me that if the call cuts out it’s because she is driving to West Virginia with her son, Jackson, and longtime bandmate and friend, Lenny Kaye. Her late husband, MC5 guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith, will be inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame two days later.
“It’s snowy,” she says. “We’ve been driving in the snow.”
“And the face of love is nothing but the whiteness of winter blanketing limbs of trees fallen through holes colorless skies,” Smith says in the first pages of Devotion, her latest book, a meditative short story bookended by narration and postscripts, published by Yale University Press as part of its “Why I Write” series. Though brief, it is densely packed with obscure references, and an aching desire to be home.
I like to think Smith is writing several versions of this very line as she caravans through the Midwest with her family, dragging her fingertips against the windshield fog. This is what Smith does to her devoted readers — she provokes memory, isolation, and the desire to make something out of the mundane.
It is here that I feel cheap to suggest that a commercial holiday like Valentine’s Day might mean something to Smith, the godmother of punk. As it turns out, she quite likes the idea of something so sweet and considers her opportunity to read from Devotion on Valentine’s Day in Detroit as serendipitous and poetic.
“There’s a lot to speak to. Not just in terms of the book but devotion to family, devotion to a city, devotion to one’s loved ones, the departed,” she says. “One can be devoted to their cat or dog. It’s a form of trust. It’s loyalty. It’s whatever you make it. I’m thinking of it in terms of various aspects of love. And because Valentine’s Day is a romantic holiday, I can also do a song or two for Fred.”
Smith met Fred at Detroit’s Lafayette Coney Island in 1976. She can recall the exact date (March 9), what he was wearing (a blue overcoat), where he was standing (against the radiator), and that she was certain that she would marry him moments before they were formally introduced (she did). They would live together in St. Clair Shores until Fred’s death in 1994.
Like most of Smith’s writing, 2015’s M Train is dizzying and lush. Her relationship with Fred is detailed here and presented with a sliding and dreamlike free association. It is thick with descriptive precision, just as 2010’s Just Kids — a sweeping true-life documentation of Smith’s friendship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe and the magic and peril they experienced together on the streets of New York City. Mapplethorpe died of AIDS on March 9, 1989.
Smith can describe distant, past scents and textures as if they were in the present. She can call to mind room numbers of the Chelsea Hotel, who occupied them and when. She can quote Arthur Rimbaud and paint the way streetlights kissed Mapplethorpe’s face that afternoon they went to Coney Island. Devotion, though a departure from her previous books, does not deviate from Smith’s remarkable gift.
“I can remember my entire childhood,” Smith says. “I can go on a major tour for three months and just have certain memories of it. It just depends, I suppose, where you’re most present. I don’t have a memory like that for everything. I’m still the kind of person that rushes up the stairs to get something and forgets what they came upstairs for. The memories that are for myself are for myself. They just are.”
Smith suggests that any calling — even writing — requires a treatment similar to a human relationship. “Stay connected with it, whatever it is,” she explains. “Human relationships, even at their best, are difficult. You have to work through them. You have to work hard. Communication is key. You have to talk things out. It’s always good to have your own way to work things out and writing is a good vehicle for those things.”
As Smith says this, I peel open the front cover of my beloved and tattered talisman, a vestige of misunderstood love. On the inside front cover, my mother had written her name alongside the name of her first husband, Eric, in marker — and then in blue ink, Eric’s name had been crossed off and replaced with the words: “This book is all mine, like my life, like my mind.” Something must have resonated within the pages of Smith’s prose for her to return to the book and stake claim with ink.
I think of all the names I have crossed out. Smith assures me that loss should not keep love at bay. Rather it should serve as an invitation.
“I lost my brother, but I have a dear sister,” Smith says. “I lost my husband, but I have two children that I love. I love my friends. I love my work. Love is an essential human ingredient.”
“I don’t fear love," Smith says. "I’m happy to have it within me.”
Patti Smith will perform followed by a Q&A on Wednesday, Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Detroit Film Theatre; 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-833-7900, dia.org; Tickets are $20 and include a copy of Devotion.
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Penn State ex-officials, accused of cover-up, set for court
FILE - In these Nov. 7, 2011, file photo combination, former Penn State vice president Gary Schultz, left, and former Penn State director of athletics Tim Curley, right, and on July 29, 2013, former Penn State president Graham Spanier, center, are seen in Harrisburg, Pa. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 that will determine whether the in the case of the three former Penn State administrators all accused of criminal cover-up in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, had their legal rights compromised by appearing before a grand jury investigating Sandusky nearly three years ago. (AP Photo/Brad Bower, left, Matt Rourke, right, File)AP
HARRISBURG, Pa. >> Lawyers for three former Penn State officials accused of covering up child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky are headed to a Pennsylvania courthouse this week.
The hearing scheduled to start Tuesday in Harrisburg will focus on their claim that their right to legal representation was severely compromised when they appeared before an investigative grand jury.
The defendants are the school’s former athletic director Tim Curley, former vice president Gary Schultz and former president Graham Spanier (SPAN’-yer). The case has lasted more than two years since charges were first filed and there isn’t a trial date in sight.
They have argued the charges of perjury, obstruction, conspiracy, child endangerment and failure to properly report suspected child abuse should be dismissed.
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The 2004 defense is based on selective military duty with an initial service of eight months and comprises about 5,500 men. In 1996, Estonia adopted a four-year plan with a new doctrine based on future NATO membership. The defense is organized with five infantry battalions, three patrol boats and a semi-military Border Guard unit comprising 2,600 men organized in a regiment. Estonia has no fighter aircraft. To see related acronyms about this country, please check ABBREVIATIONFINDER where you can see that EST stands for Estonia. The reserves amount to 24,000 people.
Estonia aims to militarily protect its own territory and its borders. A cooperation agreement with the other Baltic states was signed in 1996 with the aim of coordinating border surveillance of the countries' eastern borders. A coherent maritime surveillance system along all the three Baltic states has been established, including Swedish aid. After all, lack of financial resources, voluntary, educated staff and competing societal needs with regard to conscience-related young men limit the growth rate of the defense structure.
Estonia, like other Baltic states, applied for membership in NATO in 1997 and became a member in 2004. Defense spending in 1996 amounted to 2.4% of GDP and in 2001 had decreased to 1.2%. Estonia participates in UN peacekeeping efforts, including by joining Swedish UN unions in the long term to build up their own competence.
Tallinn, ty. and so on. Reval, the capital of Estonia, located on the Gulf of Finland; 426,500 (2013), of which 54% are Estonians and 37% are Russian speakers.
Tallinn's Old Town is characterized by the city's medieval history. In the lower part of the city center is the town hall square, which with the town hall from 1300-t. has been a center of business, as well as the Holy Spirit Church with Bernt Notke's famous altarpiece (c. 1485), St. Nicholas Church (1200-1400-t.) and St. Olav's Church (first mentioned 1267), whose 124 m high spire is the city's landmarks. Other popular tourist destinations are the Dominican Monastery (1246) and the Cannon Tower (1457). The old part of the old town is surrounded by a ring wall and towers from the late Middle Ages, built with bastions from the Swedish era. Here lies, among other things. the cathedral, founded immediately after the Danish conquest and through time used as a burial church, as well as the parliament building opposite the Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral from the 1890's. The old town is occupied by UNESCO World Heritage List.
Finnish architects have erected several of the city's newer buildings, among others. theater and concert hall Estonia (1910-13 by Armas Lindgren, 1874-1929). The ferry port, Vanasadam, with traffic connections to Helsinki, Mariehamn, Stockholm and Skt. Petersburg is a few hundred meters from the old city.
East of the center facing the Gulf of Tallinn is the Kadriorg Park with the presidential residence and a baroque castle built in the 1720's for Peter the Great; Here also lies the mighty Song Festival Stand (1960). Tallinn Technical University (founded 1918; 13,500 students) is growing. Following Estonia's regained independence in 1991, Tallinn is the dynamic center of the country's business development and greatly increased international contact. More than half of the country's GDP is generated here, with 76% of foreign investment (2004). In 2011, the city was European Capital of Culture together with Turku.
The place was already known in ancient times as a port and commercial center. The town, first mentioned 1154, was conquered in 1219 by Valdemar Victory, who in 1248 introduced Libyan law. In 1285 it became a member of the Hanseatic League. At Estonia's sale in 1346, Tallinn went to the German Order. The city was under Sweden from 1561 until it was conquered by Russia in 1710 during the Great Nordic War. During the 1700-t. it became an important Russian port city and sea fortress.
With the beginning of industrial development in the late 1800's. the city got a financial recovery. After becoming the center of the Russian government of Estonia, Tallinn became the capital of independent Estonia in 1918-40 and after the annexation the capital of the Soviet Republic of the same name. Tallinn was occupied by the Germans 1941-44; In March 1944, more than 1/3 of the city destroyed during the Soviet bombings. In 1991, the city again became the capital of an independent Estonia.
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The Hall of Fame Case: Livan Hernandez
MIAMI - OCTOBER 1: Livan Hernandez #61 of the Florida Marlins pitches during Game two of the 1997 National League Divisional Series against the San Francisco Giants at Pro Player Stadium on October 1, 1997 in Miami, Florida. The Marlins defeated the Giants 7-6. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
The likes of Trevor Hoffman and Vladimir Guerrero -- and even first-timers like Jim Thome and Chipper Jones -- shouldn't have too much trouble racking up National Baseball Hall of Fame votes. But there are plenty of other players on the 2018 ballot who require a little more voter-cajoling. Players who may not have the on-field resume, but deserve an impassioned Hall of Fame case nonetheless. Players like ... Livan Hernandez.
The 1997 postseason
A 22-year-old rookie at the time with just 17 career Major League starts to his name, Hernandez shut down the Braves with a 15-strikeout, complete game performance just two days after getting the Game 3 win with 1 2/3 innings of relief work. He was untouchable. If ever there was a time to announce his presence with authority, this was it.
He followed his NLCS MVP performance with a World Series MVP -- collecting two victories in the Marlins' seven-game thriller.
The Rubber Arm
His performance on the national stage at such a young age surely created elevated expectations for Hernandez going forward. But that would be missing what made Hernandez so special: He was the most throwback of pitchers.
In today's game, most starters are almost stretched-out relievers. They throw 90-mph-plus and are pulled after two trips through the order. That wasn't Hernandez, who seemed to be doing his best Old Hoss Radbourn impersonation. Sure, maybe Hernandez's ERA and K/9 totals would have been better if he focused on throwing the ball harder, but instead he became a rubber-armed cog in the rotation.
He led the league in innings-pitched and batters-faced three times. He topped 200 innings 10 times, and fell short of an 11th by 1/3 of an inning. During his career, he threw 3,189 innings. That led all hurlers that pitched between 1996 and 2012, including Jamie Moyer (also on the ballot), Andy Pettitte, Hall of Famer Greg Maddux and others.
Even better: He did it with an average fastball that was down in the low-80s for the last decade of his career. As Philip Humber said after another successful Hernandez start: "They think he doesn't have anything. But there's not many guys that can actually throw a ball that slow."
Just look at how he shut down the Reds in 2010:
The many-uniformed hero
He was a hero for the Marlins during their first World Series title. He then played a crucial part for the Giants in their race to the World Series in 2002 -- though this time Hernandez couldn't help the team bring home the trophy.
Traded to Montreal before the 2003 season, he was the staff ace for three years -- including in 2003 when the team went a surprising 83-79. He stayed with the team when they moved to Washington and took the bump for the first time in Nationals history. That earned him a bobblehead in 2015, as the club celebrated their 10th anniversary.
Congrats to @aliciamprince, who won tix to our 5/4 game -- where we'll be giving away a Livan Hernandez bobblehead! pic.twitter.com/AR2iLVWmc7
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) February 3, 2015
He then traveled through half the Major Leagues, because, well, he loved pitching. That's apparent by how he negotiated his contract with Nationals GM Mike Rizzo after his resurgent 2010 season: He handed Rizzo a piece of paper and said that's how much he would play for. The number was $1 million. According to Fangraphs, his value in '10 was $17.7 million.
You like pitchers who rake? Look no further than Hernandez, who smashed ten dingers in his career.
Of course, just because he could go deep, it doesn't mean he couldn't bunt them in:
My personal love for Hernandez
Hernandez may be on the ballot for the first time, but he's been in my heart for a long time. You see, I wrote a poem to Hernandez after his dominant NLCS. I was in fifth grade at the time and thought it was the most amazing performance of my life. I thought I would never see something so glorious again.
Look, you can read the glorious poem and wonder why this wasn't given a Pulitzer (yes, I know the meter is off):
Is that not enough to put him in the Hall of Fame -- one boy's outpouring of love? (I'll have you know, another poem was about Rey Ordonez. Obviously, they should both be in the Hall.)
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Why do the A's wear green? You can thank Charlie Finley
Today, almost every Major League team will take the field decked out in the most beautiful of emerald greens to honor St. Patrick and his ability to drive the snakes out of Ireland and turn beer green. But when St. Patty's Day is over, each of the clubs will revert back to their blues and reds and black-and-yellows. Every club, that is, except the A's.
How did the A's become the lone supporter of the most verdant of shades? That's thanks to Charlie Finley, the team's eccentric/genius/cheap (take your pick) owner from 1960-1980.
Before Finley came on board, the then-Kansas City A's wore baseball's standard blue-and-red combination.
In 1963, that all changed as Finley outfitted the team in glorious gold (Finley said it was the same shade the United States Naval Academy used) and kelly green for the very first time. While the rest of the league would follow suit with a kaleidoscope of color a decade later, it was Finley that was willing to challenge the norms of uniform culture.
(Courtesy Marc Okkonen)
The A's needed special permission from the league to even change the unis under section 1.11 of the rule book -- a section originally drafted in 1886 to ensure consistency in team uniform styles. It stated that the home uniform must be white and the road uniform gray. That wasn't exciting enough for Finley.
Though he was known for his green-and-gold jackets, Finley wasn't making the change just to match his own personal style. As he said before the 1963 season, "There was a time when most of the cars were black, but in modern times, cars are red and blue and green and gold … bright and attractive."
He made sure the official unveiling of the uniforms was an event that would "dazzle and overwhelm the crowd." Even in today's game, where teams have special events to announce uniforms, I'm not sure you'd get a fireworks show complete with green-and-gold balloons that dropped tickets over the baseball faithful.
The colorful uniforms weren't an immediate hit, though. As Dan Daniel noted in the April 27, 1963 issue of The Sporting News, many of the A's players "hated their Finleyized uniforms" and were confident of going back to more "orthodox attire."
Ralph Houk, the manager of the tradition-rich Yankees, liked them even less. "There isn't a single case on record of a club gaining a single notch in the standings because of the screwball uniforms."
Not only were Houk and the A's players wrong, but Finley would actually double down. Sheep, covered in green and gold, appeared beyond the outfield fence. Soon, Finley introduced white caps for the coaches to wear. That included Joe DiMaggio, looking every bit like someone trapped in an alternate reality.
When the A's moved to Oakland, they kept the colors. As other teams began to adopt brighter hues, Finley's A's continued to push the limits: The greens became darker and the yellows (somehow) brighter. They even adopted the pullovers that would define '70s baseball. Depending on when you arrived at the Oakland Coliseum, you might see any combination of green, gold and even plain old white.
Unfortunately, despite the A's holding the title of Major League Baseball's lone green club, they only wore the green tops with green pants for a handful of times in 1973:
Very cool shot of 1973 vintage Reggie Jackson in A's green monochrome uni. pic.twitter.com/o5Sq0fysxj
— Phil Hecken (@PhilHecken) June 13, 2013
Though many of Finley's ideas have now faded away into the annals of baseball history -- there are no more hot pants days, mules named "Charlie O" or orange baseballs filling your broadcast -- the Athletics are synonymous with the green and gold.
When you watch all the green on the field for St. Patricks Day, don't just thank the 1978 Reds for being the first to start the tradition. Thank Charlie Finley for proving, long before the days of alternate jerseys, that fans do want colorful unis.
Additional sources: "Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic," by Jason Turbow, Sporting News archives
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Rain delays start of Cubs-Rox series finale
By Thomas Harding
DENVER -- Wednesday afternoon's finale of the three-game series between the Cubs and Rockies at Coors Field was delayed by rain as rough weather continued in the area. The game is expected to start at 2 p.m. MT/3 p.m. CT. Monday's series opener was postponed after an afternoon hailstorm was followed
DENVER -- Wednesday afternoon's finale of the three-game series between the Cubs and Rockies at Coors Field was delayed by rain as rough weather continued in the area. The game is expected to start at 2 p.m. MT/3 p.m. CT.
Monday's series opener was postponed after an afternoon hailstorm was followed by steady rain. The teams split a doubleheader Tuesday. The Rockies won the first game, 10-4, and the Cubs took the second, 8-1.
Thomas Harding has covered the Rockies since 2000, and for MLB.com since 2002. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb and** like his Facebook page**.
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Cole: Yanks 'thrilled, humbled' to open 2020
Montgomery to start July 29 vs. Phils; Chapman staying in shape in quarantine
By Bryan Hoch @BryanHoch
The Yankees’ Acela Express train rumbled through the northeast corridor on Wednesday afternoon, bound for Union Station in Washington, D.C. Gerrit Cole peered out the window and admired the scenery, whizzing past at speeds greater than the 100 mph fastballs he plans to fire from the Nationals Park mound. After
The Yankees’ Acela Express train rumbled through the northeast corridor on Wednesday afternoon, bound for Union Station in Washington, D.C. Gerrit Cole peered out the window and admired the scenery, whizzing past at speeds greater than the 100 mph fastballs he plans to fire from the Nationals Park mound.
After going through the introductory news conference, a month of Spring Training and then Summer Camp, it would be a massive understatement to say that Cole is amped to finally have a chance to button a road-gray jersey with "NEW YORK" stitched across the chest and pitch for the Yankees in a game that counts.
“I'm stoked,” Cole said. “I'm already having trouble sleeping, I'm so excited. What a wonderful opportunity to lead the game into existence here in 2020. As a team, we're thrilled and we're humbled to have that honor.”
Opening Day jitters 😬 @GerritCole45 pic.twitter.com/46eMwpTlU2
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) July 22, 2020
Opening Day brings Cole back to the scene of his most recent big league start, a victory over the Nationals in Game 5 of the World Series. Cole outpitched right-hander Joe Ross in that contest, a 7-1 Astros victory, and he is thrilled for the opportunity to face ace right-hander Max Scherzer in a reprise of the pitching matchup from World Series Game 1 (Washington took that one, 5-4).
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said that he envisions Cole throwing between 90 and 100 pitches in Thursday’s start, with Cole having been capped near 85 in his prior two intrasquad games. Cole called Scherzer “the ultimate competitor,” and Boone said that he will take a moment to appreciate the ace pairing.
“Knowing that they're kicking off our season, a unique season, one where we know there'll be so many eyes on it -- I think it'll be emotional,” Boone said. “I think it'll be emotional for sports fans being able to see baseball return and see that kind of marquee matchup. I absolutely have an appreciation for that, and hopefully we can go out and put on a good show.”
As his new teammates can attest after two weeks of uncomfortable Summer Camp at-bats, Cole should be no picnic for the defending champions. General manager Brian Cashman called Cole his “great white whale” after securing his services with a nine-year, $324 million contract, a time period during which Cole said he expected to bring multiple championships to The Bronx.
“It's been an amazing journey,” Cole said. “I feel really blessed to be able to be here and humbled to be on this team around such great talent. We’re grateful for the opportunity to be here, and we'll be able to find some excitement and some joy, because it's the game that we love.”
Splish splash
The Yankees had planned to hold a late-afternoon workout at Nationals Park on Wednesday, but heavy rain limited their activities to mostly take place indoors. As such, DJ LeMahieu was unable to take on-field at-bats, and Boone said that the Yanks are “still working through” the infielder’s availability for Opening Day.
“We'll do what we can underneath,” Boone said. “A couple of pitchers actually raced out to try and get a little bit of catch-play out on the field. Guys will play catch a little bit underneath. We have the cage down there, so guys will go in there and hit in the cage. We'll just kind of adapt.”
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Boone confirmed that left-hander Jordan Montgomery is scheduled to start the sixth game of the season, which will be the Yankees’ home opener against the Phillies on July 29. Though Montgomery was technically optioned to the team’s alternate training site, he is traveling with the team and is scheduled to throw a simulated game on Friday in order to prepare for that start.
By optioning Montgomery, the Yankees were able to carry catcher Chris Iannetta, left-hander Luis Avilán and right-hander David Hale, all of whom were added to the 40-man roster on Tuesday. Boone said that they liked the idea of carrying a veteran third catcher in Iannetta, and he views 31-year-old Avilán as an experienced reliever who can get both lefties and righties out with his changeup.
The Yanks’ three exhibition games against the Mets and Phillies offered a valuable preview of what the 60-game regular season will look and feel like, according to Boone, who said that the level of competition did not appear to suffer in the empty stadiums.
“I was surprised, for being an exhibition game, how immediately competitive it felt at 7 o'clock,” Boone said. “I do think there was something to be learned for our players to play in an empty stadium with crowd noise and effects that are different than what you're used to … to go through the routine of the day, how we talk with the media, how we eat our food, how we work out, how we get ready for the game.”
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Aroldis Chapman has remained quarantined in New York since testing positive for COVID-19, according to Cashman, who said that the left-hander has yet to test negative. Chapman is experiencing mild symptoms at this time, though he recently posted several workout videos to Instagram. Boone has said that Zack Britton will take over as the closer in Chapman’s absence.
“We’re without our star closer, so the depth of this franchise is going to be tested once again, right out of the gate,” Cashman said. “We have a lot of players on this roster that are capable of a lot of different roles, more so than ever. We're going to be leaning on those players to step into roles that they're maybe not used to, but in this case, Zack Britton has obviously done this before.”
It’s Opening Day at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., as the Yankees and Nationals are scheduled to begin the regular season at 7:08 p.m. ET on Thursday. Cole and Scherzer comprise the pitching matchup, and Dr. Anthony Fauci is scheduled to throw the ceremonial first pitch. The game will be broadcast by ESPN and can be heard in the New York area on WFAN and WADO.
Bryan Hoch has covered the Yankees for MLB.com since 2007. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch and Facebook.
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Pudge says Hall visit gave him 'goosebumps'
Former Rangers catcher and soon-to-be Hall of Famer visits camp
By Dave Sessions
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Back in uniform Sunday for his yearly visit to Spring Training and fresh off a trip to Cooperstown the week before, former Rangers star and Hall of Fame electee Ivan Rodriguez reflected on what it meant to join the elite fraternity of 317 baseball legends enshrined in
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Back in uniform Sunday for his yearly visit to Spring Training and fresh off a trip to Cooperstown the week before, former Rangers star and Hall of Fame electee Ivan Rodriguez reflected on what it meant to join the elite fraternity of 317 baseball legends enshrined in the sport's most hallowed place.
"Knowing that I came from Puerto Rico a long time ago and established myself in this beautiful game that we play every day around here called Major League Baseball -- to be able to play that many years, and five years later, having a plaque in Cooperstown -- you can't beat that," said Rodriguez, a 14-time All-Star who will be inducted on July 30.
In addition to being one of the game's all-time greatest catchers, Rodriguez was something of a giddy tourist in his trip to the Hall.
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"From the entry all the way to the end, all the memorabilia, bats, records, spikes and all these great things that you see there, it's amazing. … It took me like three hours, I loved to read and see every little thing," Rodriguez said.
Pudge also got to do something no sightseer can do -- he autographed the wall that will soon bear his likeness on a plaque, the second one depicting a player in a Rangers hat after former battery-mate Nolan Ryan.
"They asked me to sign it and I got goosebumps when I was signing it," Rodriguez said. "Imagine when I've got the plaque in my hand."
Rodriguez said he took photos of Ryan's plaque, as well as those of Roberto Clemente -- another beloved Puerto Rican ballplayer -- and Johnny Bench, who is often regarded as the greatest catcher in history.
He has written his speech -- "eight minutes, no more … right to the point," he said -- but Rodriguez said he'll be content with whatever is inscribed on his plaque.
"Just being there is more than enough," Rodriguez said. "I'm happy just to be part of that group and I just can't wait until July 30, just to be on that stage, and when I look behind me I'm going to see so many Hall of Famers. That's going to be an unbelievable moment. It's going to be a great day. "
Rodriguez will have plenty of friends and family in attendance, of course. Asked how many, he quipped, "Probably 3.5 million Puerto Ricans," roughly the island's entire population.
The recent visit helped Rodriguez realize the gravity of what it means to have a plaque in the Hall of Fame.
"It's going to be there forever," Rodriguez said. "Even myself, after this year, my commitment is to go every year and support the Hall of Famers that are coming in."
Rodriguez tossed out the first pitch at the Rangers' game against the Cubs in Surprise on Sunday and will go to Mexico soon to watch Puerto Rico play in the World Baseball Classic. The Rangers will retire his No. 7 on Aug. 12 at Globe Life Park before their game against the Astros.
Dave Sessions is a contributor to MLB.com.
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Rain to delay start of Pirates-Nationals game
By Bill Ladson
WASHINGTON -- The start of Saturday's game between the Nationals and Pirates was delayed because of inclement weather, the Nationals announced. The game will start at approximately 8:15 p.m. ET.When the game gets underway, Tanner Roark will start for the Nationals, while Gerrit Cole will take the hill for the
WASHINGTON -- The start of Saturday's game between the Nationals and Pirates was delayed because of inclement weather, the Nationals announced. The game will start at approximately 8:15 p.m. ET.
When the game gets underway, Tanner Roark will start for the Nationals, while Gerrit Cole will take the hill for the Pirates.
Bill Ladson has covered the Nationals/Expos for MLB.com since 2002 and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the Time. He also can be found on Twitter @WashingNats.
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Lawrence Tech anchoring Midtown Detroit development, joining neighborhood's boom
Updated Apr 03, 2019; Posted May 07, 2013
Lawrence Tech in Detroit's Midtown
Gallery: Lawrence Tech in Detroit's Midtown
By Dustin Block | dblock@mlive.com
Future space for Lawrence Tech in Midtown Detroit.
DETROIT, MI - Architecture and design school Lawrence Tech will anchor a long-awaited development in Midtown at the corner of Woodward and Willis.
The project was announced Tuesday morning at Midtown Detroit Inc.'s annual Community Briefing.
The two-story, all-commercial building is scheduled to begin construction this summer and will take about a year, said Sue Mosey, executive director of Midtown Detroit Inc.
Amy Deines, of the Southfield-based Lawrence Tech, said the building will consolidate classrooms, a gallery and exhibition space, a consultant arm, a digital fabrication lab, and space for visiting scholars. The school now has space in Downtown in the Dime Building, in New Center, and a gallery on Woodward Avenue.
"It's a great opportunity to bring a lot of students into Detroit," Deines said.
The building is a long-planned structure on the vacant lot atWoodward and Willis. Mosey said plans for a mixed-use building fell through in 2008 when the economy collapsed. Five years later, the project is ready to move forward as an all-commercial building anchored by Lawrence Tech with additional space for "Class A" creative companies.
Mosey credited Lawrence Tech for making the project happen.
"We really need an anchor tenant to move forward," she said.
Mosey and Deines announced the project Tuesday during a rundown of dozens of projects in the works for Midtown and its surrounding neighborhoods. Mosey detailed millions of dollars in development underway or in the works, ranging from new bike lanes to huge apartment buildings.
"Housing, housing, housing" is Midtown Detroit Inc.'s main focus, Mosey said. With occupancy rates at 96 percent, she said she's heard from many people who wanted to move into Midtown, but couldn't find an apartment.
Mosey said there are 1,000 units of housing at various stages of development in Midtown. One major project: The Forest Arms building at 4625 Second Ave. The long empty building that survived a fire in 2008 is close to renovation, Mosey said. Past plans called for 70 apartments in the building.
"Within two months we're going to have this thing closed," Mosey said. "It's the highest priority project for our organization at this point."
Mosey also said work would begin within 30 days on the former Agave restaurant building on Woodward. Plans call for four apartments upstairs and a restaurant downstairs. Midtown Detroit Inc. bought the building to control its use, Mosey said.
"One of the reasons we wanted to own this property is to ensure it remains a restaurant," she said.
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The First Tree brings a deep and captivating journey to Android and iOS
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The First Tree is a game that dates from 2017 when it reached consoles and PC. After three years, the game with a rich and profound journey is reaching Android and iOS devices. The game tells two parallel stories: A Fox that tries to find his family again, and a son that seeks to reconnect with his father, from who he left, in Alaska. The game has a beautiful art style and a narrative and is available on Android and iOS for a full retail price of $4.99.
The First Tree is a premium and offline game of the “walking simulator” genre. Worth noting that the game is short with just 2 hours of the campaign. However, it’s a complete title that shines on most of its aspects like graphics, gameplay, and soundtrack. It’s an excellent product that perfectly fits mobile handsets.
The game seems to be inspired by Okami legend, and Capcom’s game, it’s a relaxing and captivating game. It brings a positive message and sometimes thrilling. This is a perfect game if you want to take time from action games with boss fights or from battle-royales. It’s a nice story to uncover in these dark days plagued by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The title was developed by the very talented David Wehle. He even has a YouTube channel where he shares some of its stories as an Indie developer. As aforementioned it’s a premium game. However, gacha elements will never harass you in this journey.
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Style Blogger Jason Jean Shakes Up the Fashion Industry
Jul 26, 2012 | Career, Fashion | 0
Photo Credit: CitizenCouture.com
Socialite Olivia Palermo, Russian designer Ulyana Sergeenko, model Frida Gustavsson—these are just some of the fashion heavyhitters that Jason Jean, founder of the blog Citizen Couture, has worked with. Loved for its street-style photos, Citizen Couture has helped change the conversation about media in the fashion industry.
Jean, an American-born Taiwanese based in New York, first started Citizen Couture in 2009 as an outlet for artistic expression. At the time, he was working as an accountant but found time to squeeze in shoots of Fashion Week in New York. His interest in art and clean design started at an early age. “I used to sketch a lot when I was younger,” Jean says. These days, he says, “I love to find people on the street and capture them in that moment. Although I consider myself an introvert at times, I find street photography very refreshing and real. Meeting people and seeing how the clothes they wear come alive always intrigues me.”
The title of Jean’s blog, Citizen Couture, came during a moment of inspiration and represents his knack for capturing fashion in everyday settings. In each impeccably designed blog post, he showcases a portrait shot that shows a person with an ensemble of their choice—a style which has become his signature trademark. The design of the blog, with a portrait image, has become his signature.
Not surprisingly, Jean’s a firm believer in quality over quantity, and many of his posts feature the smallest details and design elements. “I’m more focused on the photography aspect of it, documenting people and fashion,” he says of his philosophy. “Blogging is a great way to reach the public, but I probably won’t be able to write an entire excerpt on a trend.”
As a part-time fashion blogger, Jean juggles a number of different projects. “I’m fortunate that my day job allows me to take time off for assignments and travels, but I always feel that there aren’t enough hours in a day. Being organized and able to prioritize task helps me manage my day job and blogging.”
With bloggers like Jean on the rise, there’s no argument that new media is helping to reinvent the fashion industry. Many bloggers have sat in the front row at fashion shows and consulted with designers. They can connect to readers and give voice to a new generation of fashion lovers. Social media in particular has been a powerful role in this, Jean believes. “The fashion industry isn’t necessarily more exclusive to a certain group of people, but we’re seeing it becoming smarter and opening the doors to the public by collaborating with style bloggers and individuals inside and outside of the industry.”
Along with his work on Citizen Couture, there are a few exciting projects on Jean’s horizon, like working with Allure magazine. Of course, none of this happened overnight. He encourages aspiring fashion bloggers to network with others in the fashion industry to remember that, at the end of the day, it’s still a business and you need to connect with people in order to get exposure. But most importantly, Jean believes that one of the biggest things that pushed him to learn and grow was to take on new challenges. It might have been said before, but Jean will say it again: “Remember to get out of your comfort zone!”
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Fresco on reinforced cement in a galvanized-steel framework, 94 1/8 x 74 3/16" (239 x 188.5 cm). Museo Dolores Olmedo, Xochimilco, Mexico. © 2011 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, México, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph © Eumelia Hernández and Ricardo Alvarado; Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes
In Frozen Assets, Rivera coupled his appreciation for New York’s distinctive vertical architecture with a potent critique of the city's economic inequities. The panel’s upper register features a dramatic sequence of largely recognizable skyscrapers, most completed within a few years of Rivera’s arrival in New York. In the middle section, a steel-and-glass shed serves as a shelter for rows of sleeping men, pointing to the dispossessed labor that made such extraordinary growth possible during a period of economic turmoil. Below, a bank’s waiting room accommodates a guard, a clerk, and a trio of figures eager to inspect their mounting assets in the vault beyond. Rivera’s jarring vision of the city—in which the masses trudge to work, the homeless are warehoused, and the wealthy squirrel away their money—struck a chord in 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression.
The skyline of Frozen Assets offers a pantheon of the moment’s newest architectural icons. Fueled by the labor made available by vast unemployment during the Depression, giant structures were built across the city at breakneck speed, rapidly transforming New York’s topography. Rivera departs from Manhattan’s true layout: this is a composite image, made by moving landmarks from their actual positions in the city’s grid to create a dense, almost uninterrupted sequence of towering modern buildings.
IRVING TRUST BUILDING
Voorhees, Gmelin, and Walker. One Wall Street. 1931
Irving Trust building. c. 1931. Photograph by Irving Underhill. Courtesy BNYMellon Archives, New York
Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells. 220 East 42 Street. 1929
Daily News building. c. 1930. Unknown photographer. The Museum of Modern Art, Department of Architecture and Design. Photograph © The Museum of Modern Art, New York
BANK OF MANHATTAN COMPANY BUILDING
H. Craig Severance and Yasuo Matsui. 40 Wall Street. 1930
Bank of Manhattan Company building. c. 1930. Photograph by Irving Underhill. The Library of Congress
BANKERS TRUST BUILDING
Trowbridge & Livingston. 14 Wall Street. 1912
Bankers Trust building. c. 1915. Unknown photographer. The Library of Congress
Complex of buildings between Fifth and Sixth avenues and 48th and 51st streets
Rockefeller Center under construction. 1932. Photograph by Hamilton M. Wright. The Library of Congress; New York World-Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
In July 1931 the architect Raymond Hood and his team broke ground on Rockefeller Center, at the time the largest building project ever funded wholly by private capital. The site, which took seven years to complete, was a vital source of employment in New York. During a moment when 64 percent of the city's construction workers were unemployed, the building of Rockefeller Center was second only to the undertakings of the Works Progress Administration in temporary job creation.
William Van Alen. 405 Lexington Avenue. 1930
Chrysler building. 1930. Photograph by Peyser and Patzig from Photographic views of New York City, 1870’s–1970’s (1986). Milstein Division of United States History, Local History & Genealogy, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
MCGRAW-HILL BUILDING
Raymond Hood with Godley & Fouilhoux. 330 West 42 St. 1931
McGraw-Hill building. c. 1931. Photograph from the exhibition album Modern Architecture: International Exhibition. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. Photograph courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, Department of Imaging Services
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon. 350 Fifth Avenue. 1931
Empire State building. c. 1931. Unknown Photographer. The Museum of Modern Art, Department of Architecture and Design
EQUITABLE TRUST BUILDING
Trowbridge & Livingston. 15 Broad Street. 1928
Equitable Trust building. 1933. Photograph by Percy L. Sperr from Photographic views of New York City, 1870’s–1970’s (1986). Milstein Division of United States History, Local History & Genealogy, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Reginald Marsh (American, 1898–1954). The El. c. 1928. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40" (76.2 x 101.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Felicia Meyer Marsh Bequest 80.31.9. © 2011 Estate of Reginald Marsh/Art Students League, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph courtesy Whitney Museum of Art, New York
At the time of Rivera's visit to New York, the city’s system of elevated trains was still operational. This is probably a stop on the Third Avenue line. Rivera’s passengers, an anonymous mass crowded onto a station platform, are dwarfed by the enormous buildings that rise behind them. His bleak vision contrasts with images of the city’s transit system by American artists like Reginald Marsh, who similarly pinpointed trains as a hallmark of urban life in the city. In images like The El (c. 1928), Marsh focuses on the spectacle that unfolds inside the train, offering a relatively picturesque view.
Shantytown in New York’s Central Park. 1933. Photograph by the New York Daily News. Courtesy New York Daily News via Getty Images
The central section of Frozen Assets pictures a steel-and-glass shed—identified by Fortune magazine as the Municipal Pier at East 25th Street—filled with sleeping men who are watched by a guard. The Depression’s impact on the city would have been immediately visible to Rivera in the winter of 1931–32: bread lines served tens of thousands of meals a day, roughly half of New York's manufacturing plants were closed, and makeshift shacks housed scores of newly homeless men and women throughout the city.
In 1931, The New Yorker reported that the bank vault found in this fresco panel's lower section was inspired by Rivera's trip to the Irving Trust building at One Wall Street, which at the time bragged that its underground repository was "the most impregnable ever constructed." Financial institutions figure prominently in this work's imagined skyline, creating a constellation of buildings that connect to the theme of hidden wealth.
Diego Rivera. Wall Street Banquet. 1926. Fresco, approx. 80 3⁄4 x 61" (205 x 155 cm). North wall, Patio de las Fiestas (Courtyard of Fiestas), third floor, Secretaria de Educacion Pública, Mexico City. © 2011 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, México, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Schalkwijk/Art Resource, New York
Rivera seems to have included a sly jab at the Rockefellers—key backers of his show at MoMA and future patrons of his ill-fated mural at Rockefeller Center—in the lower register of Frozen Assets. The man waiting to examine his security box bears more than a passing likeness to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the craggy profile of the clerk on the far left brings to mind John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Years earlier, Rivera had used a portrait of the elder Rockefeller in a panel at the Secretaría de Educación Pública in Mexico that openly disparaged U.S. capitalism.
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MUSEUM JOBS
The International Job Site for the Cultural Sector.
Job Title: Assistant Director, Heritage Collections and Curation
Organisation: University of St Andrews
Salary: £52,559 - 59,135 p.a.
Type: Full-Time Position
Location: St Andrews, Scotland
Closing Date: Thursday, February 4th, 2021
Job Ref No: AD1436NB
Assistant Director, Heritage Collections and Curation
Libraries and Museums
Ref: AD1436NB
This is an exciting opportunity to join the University of St Andrews, in a dynamic new role with responsibility for stewardship of and engagement with its internationally-important heritage collections.
The Assistant Director, Heritage Collections and Curation will lead the convergence of museum and special collections teams and services, redesigning research and teaching support services and expanding digitisation and online engagement, while also contributing to the development of a new capital project for a Heritage Collections Research Centre.
They will work flexibly and collaboratively as part of the Directors’ Team to develop and lead the strategic direction of Libraries and Museums at St Andrews, and be an active and articulate advocate for heritage collections, developing strong relationships within the University, as well as in the wider HE and libraries, archives and museums sectors.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for and proven expertise in at least one of the areas covered by the heritage collections, experience in a senior management or leadership role in a research-intensive organisation, and be a problem-solver who can inspire and motivate their team in developing and delivering ambitious projects and initiatives.
Further information and informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Catherine Eagleton, Director of Libraries and Museums (director.lam@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Jennifer Louden, Deputy Director of Libraries and Museums (jal9@st-andrews.ac.uk).
Applications are particularly welcome from women, people from the Black, Asian, Minority or Ethnic (BAME) community and other protected characteristics who are under-represented in Managerial, Specialist & Administrative posts at the University.
The University is committed to equality for all, demonstrated through our working on diversity awards (ECU Athena SWAN/Race Charters; Carer Positive; LGBT Charter; and Stonewall). More details can be found at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/diversityawards/.
This post will not be primarily based at the University’s new Eden Campus at Guardbridge, but part of the Library team and core collections will be. Museum and Special Collections staff and collections are based in a number of different locations around St Andrews, so travel to different sites and buildings will be required for this role, although the postholder will initially be based in the Main Library building.
Please submit with your application a CV and covering letter.
Closing Date: Thursday 4 February 2021.
We encourage applicants to apply online at http://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/welcome.aspx, however if you are unable to do this, please call +44 (0)1334 462571 for an application pack.
Please quote ref: AD1436NB.
The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland (No SC013532).
Contact Tel: +44 (0)1334 462571
Website: http://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/welcome.aspx
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CAROLINA EYCK, LIVE FROM BERLIN
Wednesday 29 April 2020 | 19:00 CEST | online
A livestreamed concert from Berlin with the great artist Carolina Eyck. The thereminist Carolina Eyck visited Música en Segura in 2018 with her unusual instrument and her own compositions and improvisations. From her home in Berlin she will share live her distinctive sound and rich musical universe. As well as playing an online live recital, she will be answering questions on the live chat.
Carolina Eyck is one of the world's most prominent theremin virtuosos. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has given concerts all over the world and has collaborated with ensembles such as the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. Finnish composer Kalevi Aho dedicated a theremin concerto to Carolina, which she premiered in 2012. This concert was released by BIS Records in July 2014. The recording was awarded in 2015 with the German ECHO-Classic Award. Carolina has held workshops, conferences and master classes around the world. In 2006, she published the first extensive book on theremin technique titled "The Art of Playing Theremin". Since 2010 she has been artistic director of the Theremin Summer Academy in Colmar (France) and the Theremin Spring Academy in Leipzig (Germany).
CAROLINA EYCK, theremin and vocals
You will receive the link to the livestream in your ticket confirmation email.
Wednesday, 29. April 2020 — Livestream concert (~40 minutes)
PDT (Los Angeles) — 10:00am
CDT (Chicago) – 12:00pm
EDT (New York) — 01:00pm
BST (London) — 06:00pm
CET (Berlin) — 07:00pm
TRT (Istanbul) — 08:00pm
Tickets €3
(approximately 40 minutes long)
Prepare YouTube on your Smart TV or digital device to enjoy this event with maximum comfort.
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Strategic appointments at CSA Group
By PEM Magazine
April 2, 2014 – Ash Sahi, president and CEO, CSA Group, today announced the appointment of Magali Depras to the new position of chief operating officer (COO), effective immediately. Depras will be based in Montreal and will be responsible for global business strategy, execution and profit and loss for CSA Group’s testing and certification businesses.
Ralf Schunk will take over as regional vice president, Europe on June 1, and will be based in Frankfurt, Germany. Ralf Schunk will take over Depras’ previous role as regional vice president, Europe, and will be responsible for the strategic growth of CSA Group’s European services and offerings.
“Magali has proven to be an invaluable asset since she joined CSA Group in 2011,” said Sahi. “Her leadership and business skills have been instrumental in our global growth strategy over the past three years, and I know she will continue to excel in her new role. In addition to numerous pivotal acquisitions throughout Europe, Magali has overseen the opening of our European headquarters in Frankfurt and the building of new state-of-the-art labs in Germany and UK. With Magali’s knowledge and expertise, CSA Group is well-positioned to continue our strategic growth plan and deliver efficient, highly-sophisticated testing and certification services to our customers around the world.”
Depras has helped CSA Group grow its offices in Germany and the U.K. and expand into Switzerland, Italy and Turkey. In addition to leading the European Division, Depras is also a member of the Board of Directors with CSA – China Inspection and Certification Organization (CCIC) Joint Venture (JV) where she provides strategic guidance to local operations.
Depras holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from IAE Paris Sorbonne and a Master’s degree in Foreign Languages applied to Business and Trade from the University of Lille as well as an International Executive degree and Finance for Executives degree from INSEAD business school, Fontainebleau/Singapore.
“I am really pleased that Ralf Schunk is joining CSA Group,” said Depras. “Ralf has a wealth of knowledge in testing and certification and has been very successful in spearheading growth in the European market. I look forward to working with Ralf to continue the successful global expansion of CSA Group.”
Ralf Schunk joins CSA Group from TÜV Rheinland where he was managing director and CEO of TÜV Rheinland Italia S.r.l. Prior to that he was regional head of Management Systems of TÜV Rheinland Asia overlooking 11 countries and 300 employees. Schunk has 20 years of experience in the testing and certification business and has been instrumental in turning around businesses and in expanding into new markets.
Schunk holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from FH Aachen, University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
CSA Group is an independent, not-for-profit membership association dedicated to safety, social good and sustainability. Its knowledge and expertise encompass standards development; training and advisory solutions; global testing and certification services across key business areas including hazardous locations and industrial, plumbing and construction, medical, safety and technology, appliances and gas, alternative energy, lighting and sustainability; as well as consumer product evaluation services. The CSA certification mark appears on billions of products worldwide. For more information about CSA Group visit www.csagroup.org.
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Purnell Academy student, 16, killed on Interstate 78
Pamela MacKenzie
@pammackenziemcj
WARREN – State Police say a teenager from China was killed when she was struck by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 78.
Sixteen-year-old Lizhi Hao was struck around 3:15 a.m. Saturday in an eastbound lane of I-78 in the township. Authorities say she was a student who was staying in the township, and her family in China has been notified of her death. Police said she was struck in the right eastbound lane near mile marker 37.3. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
It's not clear why Hao was in the roadway. No other injuries were reported in the accident, which remains under investigation.
Hao was a student at Purnell Academy, an all-girls boarding school in Pottersville, according to nj.com.
The school's co-head, Donna Ruggiero, released the following statement to nj.com Monday afternoon:
"Purnell School is mourning the loss of a beloved member of our community, Lizhi Hao. This is an extraordinarily difficult time for the School as we grieve this terrible tragedy. We ask that you respect the privacy of our school and community."
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The Beach Boys will dig up more good vibrations in Naples come February.
The legendary Southern California band has added a second show, a 3 p.m. matinee, for Feb. 18 at Artis—Naples. The 7 o'clock show that night already sold out.
Tickets range from $79 to $125, excluding fees. They are on sale now at artisnaples.org.
The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame band last appeared at the venue in 2015, performing for more than two hours.
Their hits have included "Little Deuce Coupe," "Get Around," "Fun, Fun, Fun," "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations."
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Home /Recent Post/RSS rally turns violent in Bangalore, one killed
RSS rally turns violent in Bangalore, one killed
FascismJanuary 21, 2007
Agencies,January 21, 2007
BANGALORE: One person was killed and three were wounded when police opened fire to quell communal violence during a RSS function in the Cantonment area on Sunday, two days after protests against the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
"One person was killed and three others have received bullet injuries", Bangalore City Police Commissioner N Achut Rao informed.
Hundreds of people burned shops owned by a religious community and set vehicles ablaze here on Sunday, police and witnesses said.
The violence occurred as activists moved through the city to join a rally organised by the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh.
On Friday, thousands of demonstrators protesting against last month's execution of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, clashed with police and destroyed shops and cars in the city.
Bangalore is home to about 1,500 global and Indian IT firms. Their operations were not affected by the violence as they are located on the city outskirts.
Police used teargas and batons to disperse the crowds and prohibition orders, restricting movement of four or more people together, were issued in central Bangalore.
More than 2,000 police officers patrolled the affected areas as mobs targeted shops and vehicles, forcing the closure of some businesses, witnesses said.
Police said there were no injuries but witnesses said about five people were wounded in stone-throwing incidents.
“Prohibitory orders will be in force until Tuesday,” city police chief N Achuta Rao said.
He said there had been some arrests but did not give a number.
Karnataka, of which Bangalore is the capital, is ruled by a coalition of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a regional party.
In Tirur, Kerala, an RSS activist was hacked to death and another seriously injured in an attack carried out by a six-member gang late on Saturday night, police said.
The RSS had called for a dawn-to-dusk shutdown in Malappuram district in protest against the incident and it was `partial' and `peaceful' so far, police said.
Ravi and Babu, the RSS volunteers, were waylaid by the gang near a school here and attacked with lethal weapons.
Local people who noticed the duo bleeding with serious injuries, took them to a nearby hospital. While Ravi was declared brought dead, Babu was moved to the Kozhikode Medical College hospital, police said.
The six-member gang, who reportedly came in three motorbikes managed to escape under the cover of darkness, they said.
A tense situation was prevailing in the district following the shutdown, police said.
The RSS has accused the National Development Front of killing its volunteer.
Even as the RSS took out a protest march in the morning, some workers allegedly attacked a passerby belonging to the minority community. The victim, identified as Mohammad Rafeeq, was taken to the Kozhikode Medical College hospital.
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About Kosher Israeli Wine
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The last thing Nevo Hazan ever thought he would do was return to Mata Village where he had grown up and live off the land as his grandparents had.
As a young man, after his mandated army service, Nevo left the moshav for the lights and pace of Tel Aviv and a career as a delivery driver. But on one of his weekly runs to a small village near Bethlehem, a Palestinian terrorist changed the course of his life.
The terrorist appeared suddenly, and shot Nevo’s armed guard in the head, just meters from Nevo. The terrorist then turned the gun on Nevo, pulled the trigger twice… but his gun jammed. Nevo reacted like the trained soldier he was, and scanned the scenery desperately for a viable escape route. He jumped down a steep embankment and ran, dodging bullets as he sped through the fields.
When Nevo was certain the shooter had fled, he returned to the scene to assist his guard. Nevo rushed him to the hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery that saved his life.
Afterward, Nevo immediately returned to his routine, giving no credence to the experience. He had served in the army during the first intifada, and refused to believe that this incident should faze him. He continued his delivery job, even returning to that exact same location every week.
Slowly, however, Nevo began to experience unexplained, incapacitating physical pain. His wife worried and his employer fretted. The doctors pronounced him healthy, and Nevo did not make the connection between his symptoms and the terror attack. But when he heard about an American, Jewish professor who was working with traumatized vets returning from Iraq, suddenly things clicked.
Nevo began Prolonged Exposure Therapy, returning to the site of the attack and recreating as many of the conditions of the trauma as possible. These repeated experiences enabled his brain to rewire, breaking the traumatic associations.
He welcomed the long-awaited feeling of peace and began considering additional life changes to foster fulfillment. In 1997, he left Tel Aviv and moved back to Mata Village with his wife and children, seeking a quieter life and a return to the land.
Nevo longed for a change in profession as well; prolonged exposure to the land of his forefathers had begun to affect him, stirring a deeply embedded Zionist drive which motivated him both spiritually and practically.
And then his beloved auntie got sick. The Big Sick. It was cancer.
Nevo’s Auntie Leah had been away from the village for years, but she needed to be near Jerusalem for a full year of chemotherapy treatments, so she moved in with Nevo. Leah was a true child of the moshav and a woman of the land. Between her treatments, she picked fruit. She made jam. She baked homemade bread in the outdoor oven. She showed Nevo’s children how to handpick the grapes that grew naturally in the area, stomp on them (barefoot!) and leave them in barrels for a few weeks until they turned into wine.
The wine – simple, handpicked, local wine – was marvelous.
And Nevo was hooked.
At the end of the year, Leah was thankfully cancer-free. Before she left, Nevo admitted to his auntie, and to himself, that winemaking had touched his heart and was pulling at him to dedicate himself to the land. Nevo never drove a truck again.
The Israeli government offered Nevo, as compensation for the terror attack, a way to retrain and leave his delivery profession behind so he could move forward and distance himself from the attack. He enrolled in a government-sponsored winemaking course on a kibbutz. Nevo then moved on to specialized courses in France, Spain and Italy. His connection to the land of Israel and to the generations who preceded him in Mata Village grew stronger and more vibrant every day. He built wine making structures with his own two hands. Today, the practice of making wine involves every fiber of his being – from his hands to his mind to his gut feelings.
“To make wine, you have to be half engineer and half artist. You have to be precise. But you also need to know when to rely on your sixth sense. It’s like creating musical masterpieces… all from the heart and soul of Israel.”
Nevo Winery
HaElla st. 57, Moshav Matta
Sunday to Thursday – by appointment
Friday – up to two hours before Shabbat
Closed on Saturday
Come visit:
At the visitor center you will have a special experience full of rich and high-quality styles, starting with a professional tour of the wine cellar, an explanation of the wine production process and then continue on to a culinary experience in an enchanting atmosphere.
The visitor Center is open during the week by appointment.
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DJ Khaled Announces Another One With His Entrance Into The CBD Lifestyle & Wellness Sector
Thursday, December 17th, 2020 - ACN Newswire Pte Ltd
The Music Mogul Partners with Endexx Corporation to Launch a Premium CBD Company in 2021
Cave Creek, AZ, Dec 16, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - via NewMediaWire - Endexx Corporation (OTC: EDXC): Music magnate, mega producer and GRAMMY(R) Award-winning artist DJ Khaled announces his entrance into the CBD industry. Inspired by his personal wellness journey, Khaled, in partnership with Endexx, a leading producer and manufacturer of hemp-derived CBD wellness products, will introduce his new company and debut the first collection in 2021.
Although most well-known for his contributions to the music world, the self-made businessman turned international music icon is also a dedicated family man -- committed to instilling the importance of health and wellness into everyday life. Grateful to be a father, he released two albums in honor of his children, Father of Asahd in 2019 and Grateful in 2017. With all of these blessings, Khaled continues building his legacy and success by focusing his energies on the health and wellness sector.
"As a father, an entrepreneur, a music exec and visionary I am blessed with daily inspiration, a drive to work hard and a passion for success. CBD has become a part of my daily routine and allows me to focus myself and my energies, while striving to better myself every day," says DJ Khaled. "I was drawn to Endexx Corporation because they're an innovative company that has proven they have the keys to deliver consistent, top of the line, high-quality products."
"We are excited to announce our partnership with DJ Khaled," stated Todd Davis, CEO of Endexx Corporation. "Khaled's knowledge and passion for CBD is bountiful and we realized we are aligned in our approach towards product quality and business acumen. We understand and share the values that a brand goes beyond physical products; it needs to help people feel good about themselves and be part of a day-to-day lifestyle."
Miami based IMPACT Brokers, the third party in the joint venture, will be spearheading sales and integrated marketing efforts on behalf of the brand. "We are committed to accelerating innovation and diversity throughout this developing industry while offering strategic guidance to best-in-class CBD suppliers. IMPACT Brokers sits at the forefront of culture and has the ability to predict industry trends. We look forward to taking this newest business nationwide," says Ryan Stender, CEO of IMPACT Brokers.
The hemp-derived, cannabidiol-rich collection is anticipated to launch in early 2021.
About DJ Khaled
For over two decades, the very mention of DJ Khaled has implied an elevated level of musical greatness, entrepreneurial excellence, and cultural impact. You've heard him across a GRAMMY(R) Award-winning multiplatinum catalog, seen him in blockbusters such as Bad Boys For Life, caught him on the cover of Rolling Stone, watched him on numerous television programs, and felt his presence from the streets all the way up to the Barack Obama White House. He has achieved dozens of multiplatinum and gold certifications, including the sextuple-platinum Billboard Hot 100 #1 "I'm The One" [feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, & Lil Wayne], quadruple-platinum "Wild Thoughts" [feat. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller], and double-platinum "No Brainer" [feat. Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper, & Quavo]. The latter propelled his 2019 album, Father of Asahd [We The Best Music Group/Epic Records], to the top of the charts. Not only did it garner a platinum certification, but it also became his third consecutive Top 2 debut on the Billboard Top 200 and emerged as the "#1 Most-Streamed Record" upon release. To date, he has moved 20 million singles and 6 million albums in addition to gathering 4 billion-plus streams.
Not to mention, he launched We The Best Music Group - a record label, management, publishing, and production company and in-demand studio. As a committed philanthropist, he founded his 501(c)3 organization The We The Best Foundation. It uplifts individuals throughout underserved communities across the United States and supports various non-profits. He has supported the fight against COVID-19. U2 frontman Bono recruited him as the first social media ambassador for Project Red, and he serves as the national spokesperson for Get Schooled. Now, the power of this legacy defines his thirteenth full-length album - which bears his birth name - Khaled Khaled [We The Best Music Group/Epic Records], preceded by two chart-busting bangers alongside frequent collaborator Drake, namely "POPSTAR" and "GREECE."
About Endexx Corporation
Endexx Corporation, a/k/a CBD Unlimited, through its operating division CBD Unlimited, develops and distributes all-natural CBD products derived from cannabis sativa plant (Hemp), containing less than 0.01% THC. Its products range from oils, capsules, topicals, and pet products, all with the shared purpose of therapeutic and pain relief for humans and pets. Phyto-Bites are CBD soft chews for animal use that are formulated to promote health and support the reduction of separation anxiety, pain, and inflammation. The science behind these products involves over half a decade of clinical research in the field and lab work to provide accuracy in dosage and delivery of optimal absorption per serving.
About IMPACT Brokers
Founded in 2020, IMPACT Brokers provides total brand management services that deliver authentic connections between clients and the consumer. Through innovative strategies IMPACT provides unmatched access to an expansive network of over 300,000 unique retailers across North America. With over 75 years of collective experience in consumer-packaged goods, beverages, wine and spirits, hospitality, and entertainment, the company turns products into legacy high value brands. The long-standing relationships ensure best in class CBD suppliers get their products on and off the ever-evolving retail shelf.
IMPACT Brokers
Jessica Meisels
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CBD Unlimited, Inc
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Syria Hit By Missiles Just Hours After Russia and Turkey Make Deal
World International Affairs Syria War Missiles
Syria's west coast was reportedly targeted by missiles of yet unknown origin, just hours after Russia and Turkey announced a deal over the fate of the country's last province to be under the control of an Islamist-led insurgency.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency cited a military source as saying the country's air defenses were engaging "hostile rockets" coming from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea and that the Technical Industries Agency in the coastal city of Latakia was targeted. No casualties have yet been announced as state-run television footage showed missile defenses firing for up to 45 minutes and the Syrian Defense Ministry said a number of incoming missiles had been neutralized.
The U.K.-based, pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights cited its own sources as saying the missiles were either fired by Israel or the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), both of whom have targeted the Syrian government in the past. The activist monitor said that warehouses of the Technical Industries Agency had been targeted and that the skies of Latakia, Tartous and Baniyas were illuminates by explosions that "rocked the coast" and caused power outages in the region.
Pentagon spokesman Navy Commander Sean Robertson told Voice of America that he "can unequivocally say this is not us."
Missile fire is seen from Damascus, Syria, May 10, 2018. Israel has targeted Syrian military positions suspected of being associated with Iran on multiple occasions and the U.S. has twice attacked Syrian government sites in response to alleged chemical attacks, with support from France and the U.K. Omar Sanadiki/Reuters
In a separate incident, the Syrian Defense Ministry blamed Israel for an attack near the Damascus International Airport on Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israeli warplanes targeted a depot of weapons belonging to Iran or its ally, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim Hezbollah, in that incident. Israel routinely denies commenting on its alleged role in such attacks, but announced last month that it has launched up to 200 strikes in neighboring Syria in the past two years in an effort to stem the growing influence there of its top foe Iran.
Iran and Russia are allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and have helped him regain most of the country in spite of a 2011 rebellion that was sponsored by the West, Turkey, Israel and Gulf Arab states. While the U.S. and its Western allies have focused on battling ISIS, they have joined Turkey in warning Assad and his international partners from pursuing an all-out assault on Idlib, which has a population of up to 3 million and is dominated by the jihadi Hayat Tahrir al-Sham coalition.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip visited the Black Sea city of Sochi on Monday to discuss the Idlib situation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the two struck a deal to create a 15 to 20-kilometer demilitarized zone in Idlib by October 15 as well as to facilitate the withdrawal of jihadi groups and the removal of heavy weapons. Turkey and the West have warned of a humanitarian crisis should the Syrian military move to retake Idlib, where militants have launched drone attacks and have shelled government-held cities.
A map shows areas of control in northwestern Syria as of September 13 and strategic areas likely to be targeted by the Syrian military in the event of an operation to retake the last province under the control of an Islamist-led insurgency. Institute for the Study of War/Suriye Gündemi/Reuters
The U.S. and Russia both have a heavy military presence in the Mediterranean Sea and Russia has two major installations on the coast: the Hmeymim air base near Latakia and a naval facility in Tartous. The two powers have warned one another against intervening in Idlib and Moscow recently staged large-scale exercises as a war of words with Washington began to heat up.
The U.S. has previously attacked Syrian government sites twice in response to alleged chemical weapons attacks and threatened further action should poison gas be used. Russia, Iran and Syria have claimed the West was conspiring with local militants to stage a chemical incident to falsely provoke international action.
Russia, Turkey Talk Syria: A Lot's Changed in a Year
Russia Says It's Doing More for Civilians Than U.S.
U.S. Warns Russia Not to Attack in Syria, Begins Drills
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Sammy Keyes and the Grateful Author: The long-running series set on the Central Coast comes to an end
By Ryan Miller
SAMMY KEYES INTERNATIONAL: Pictured are covers from Sammy Keyes and Hotel Thief from (left to right, starting from top left) Denmark, Holland, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.
It starts with a wave.
The Sammy Keyes book series opens with a girl assuring the reader she wasn’t trying to get in trouble. This about-to-be-junior-higher is merely bored on account of being trapped in the seniors-only apartment where she’s illegally living with her grandma while her mother tries to succeed in Hollywood. Due to complications triggered by a particularly nosy neighbor, our heroine is frequently stuck indoors lest someone discover the unusual housing arrangement and get everyone involved into trouble. So, armed with little more than a pair of binoculars and too much time, she scans the hotel across the street and happens to spot a burglary in progress. The burglar, in turn, spots her watching him.
“Then I did something really, really stupid,” Sammy Keyes admits.
She’s startled. So she waves.
If we wanted to get all science-y about it, we could ponder the nature of waves. A physics professor might explain that a wave is a disturbance that travels through space. In fluid dynamics, a wave is a ripple along the plane where two different substances meet. To see the force in action, drop a pebble into a pond and follow the circles that radiate outward where the water touches the air.
A “hello-there” wave is something different—but not altogether different. What is a friendly gesture of the hand but a vibration in otherwise mundane space, an action that emphasizes the meeting of two different personalities? Who knows what ripples we might start rolling with a casual flick of our fingers? Anything could happen if we answer T.S. Elliot in the affirmative: Yes, I do dare disturb the universe!
Sammy Keyes’ unthinking gesture on page 6 of Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief set quite a bit in motion. Not only did it kick off a mystery subsequently solved by a girl many reviewers have dubbed a modern-day Nancy Drew, it led to 17 more titles published regularly by Random House and Knopf since 1998.
PHOTO BY RYAN MILLER
ON THE SCENE: In late August, a two-man crew traveled from Washington to Santa Maria to film author Wendelin Van Draanen in front of locations that inspired the setting for her Sammy Keyes series—including this high rise, the basis for the senor building where Sammy illegally lives with her grandma. Van Draanen’s husband and fellow author Mark Parsons helped by holding with some of the shots by holding equipment.
The final book in the series, Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye, hits bookstores on Sept. 9, capping a sizeable shelf’s worth of stories that take the main characters through the trials and triumphs of seventh and eighth grade. There are mysteries, yes, involving thefts and drugs and gangs and attempted murders and corpses in and around Sammy’s hometown of Santa Martina—a loosely fictionalized Santa Maria.
But the books are also explorations of modern life in all its messy complexity. Sammy’s family is about as non-traditional as they come, given that her absentee mother is a hopeful actress; her father’s identity is a secret, even from her; and her single grandmother acts as her harried guardian but has to pretend she merely has a granddaughter who visits a lot.
Life at William Rose Junior High is no less convoluted, given that a snotty fellow classmate decides to make Sammy her enemy on Day One—and that Sammy ultimately falls for this arch-nemesis’ brother. Lessons in dealing with conflict, peer pressure, and honesty abound.
Even the supporting characters deal with financial stresses, troubled home situations, and, well, life.
Sammy’s first wave caught more than the attention of a dangerous burglar, though serious further notice took some time. Author Wendelin Van Draanen had written four books about Sammy Keyes before she found them a home at a major publishing house. While she wrote, she submitted manuscript after manuscript, trying to find an interested editor. The rejection slips rolled in for 10 years.
“It wasn’t until I think that I was well into the fourth book that I realized I was following Sammy through junior high school,” Van Draanen said. “And of course, at the fourth book, I didn’t have a contract. … I was just following this girl because I liked her so much.”
Van Draanen eventually found success with How I Survived Being a Girl, a standalone novel about a sixth-grader named Carolyn who enjoys getting dirty and doesn’t trust anyone who wears Mary Janes. Nancy Siscoe, then an editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books, received a query letter, was intrigued, and asked for the manuscript.
CROSS-COUNTRY: Wendelin Van Draanen and Mark Parsons drove a van across the lower half of the country earlier this year, stopping at independent bookstores and speaking at events along the way. That route is marked in green on this map. The couple is now set to embark on a northern section of the tour, with stops marked in orange.
“I really distinctly remember reading it on Amtrak,” Siscoe said. “I read a lot on the train.”
She fondly recalls laughing hysterically at the book, noting that she fell in love with the character. As How I Survived Being a Girl went to print, Siscoe and Van Draanen discussed what could come next, and both admitted a fondness for mystery series.
“We connected on the idea of that right away,” Siscoe said. “Then she sent the first Sammy Keyes, and I was totally blown away by the voice. It was exactly what I was looking for.”
She added: “I think Wendelin and I had both read Nancy Drew and a million other kid mysteries, and we wanted one who wasn’t so well placed … who had her own demons to deal with.”
Around this time, Siscoe was also moving from HarperCollins to Knopf, a division of Random House. Van Draanen came along with her and signed a contract for the four books she’d already written.
Now senior executive editor of Knopf Books for Young Readers, Siscoe marvels at the fact that she’s worked with Van Draanen on all of the author’s books, which include the 18 Sammy Keyes titles, two other series of four books each, and half a dozen standalones—including Flipped, which Rob Reiner made into a movie in 2010.
The series itself isn’t exactly a regular occurrence. Siscoe explained that there are many middle-grade trilogies. Longer series might boast four or five titles.
“Eighteen is incredibly uncommon,” she said. “… It’s been really quite a ride to have something last for so long. For me, as an editor, it’s amazing.”
Almost two decades of close collaboration have also worked to bring Siscoe and Van Draanen together: “I’m certainly friendly with all of my authors, but there’s something different and special with this relationship,” she said.
“Wendelin’s become one of my best friends. I can’t imagine life without her.”
Van Draanen revealed that she has a new standalone book in the works, so that professional relationship doesn’t have to end. But Sammy’s final bow does represent the closing of one door, at least—and it’s a door that’s been open for about 20 years.
“This is going to be the hardest part for me,” Siscoe said of the final Sammy Keyes book’s arrival. “… It’s like a person you don’t get to see very often, and now I don’t get to see her again. It feels like a loss to me.”
Sammy’s wave also drew the attention of critics, who praised the heroine for her ingenuity and spunk. The first of the series, Hotel Thief, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, and more of Van Draanen’s titles have been nominated for that honor in the years since.
Before that, however, a man who would become one of Sammy’s biggest fans already had his eye on Van Draanen. Tim Wadham, a professional librarian for almost 30 years and currently director of library services at Puyallup Public Library near Seattle, was serving on the Newbery Committee when How I Survived Being a Girl came out, and he recommended that book for the honor. While it didn’t make it to the final round in 1998’s competition (Out of the Dust won the medal), the librarian paid attention when Van Draanen began producing the Sammy Keyes books. They corresponded, as librarians and authors do, and so when the director found himself organizing the Puyallup Festival of Books, set for Oct. 3 and 4 of this year—less than a month after The Kiss Goodbye’s publication—he knew he wanted to do something huge.
“I began planning this big party,” he said, “because I love Wendelin. It’s the party she’s not doing herself.”
PHOTO BY WENDY THIES SELL
SWEET FINISH: Several friends celebrated Wendelin Van Draanen in the weeks before the release of her final Sammy Keyes book. Some of them collaborated on a cake made to resemble a bookshelf with individual chocolates designed to replicate each title in the series.
Van Draanen—along with her husband and fellow author Mark Parsons—will be attending as special guests for the event, but that’s not all. Armed with a marketing budget to promote the festival, funded by lodging-tax revenue, Wadham set his sights on a publicity set piece that could double as a documentary.
So he traveled from Washington to the Central Coast with Dave Kellman—a director, videographer, and editor who works for a government television channel out of Tacoma—to create a short film about Van Draanen, Sammy Keyes, and the real-world locations that inspired the fictional town of Santa Martina.
Van Draanen lived and taught in Santa Maria for a time. It’s where she began raising a family of her own while bringing Sammy Keyes to life on the page. Residents of the city will recognize many of the landmarks that appear in the Sammy Keyes books, and the two-man film crew explored the sights the weekend of Aug. 23, getting Van Draanen’s comments at the police station, across from the mall, near a senior high rise, driving through the cemetery, in the City Hall parking lot, and from the bushes in front of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church.
The author climbed into a raised planter presided over by a statue of the Virgin Mary to demonstrate for the camera how Sammy and her best friend Marissa hid among the leaves (and spiders) in an attempt to catch the culprit in Hotel Thief. Van Draanen cautioned, however, that while the physical locales inspired settings in the Sammy Keyes books, she rearranged the town as she saw fit. Thus, not every bush that appears in the series has a physical counterpart.
“It’s a fictionalized place, so you don’t have to be 100 percent accurate, but I think I’ve crouched in enough bushes in my youth and my adulthood—embarrassing as that is to admit—I’m pretty familiar with the process,” she said.
Another difference: The multi-story building that became the basis for the high rise where Sammy Keyes lives with her senior grandmother has no fire escape a teenager can use for furtively sneaking up and down. And the Heavenly Hotel’s analog on Broadway, the Town Center Hotel—damaged by fire late in 2013—isn’t exactly directly across the street.
All of this information went onto a memory card, from which the short documentary will be edited. Wadham plans to show the film at the Puyallup Festival of Books, where a videographer will collect more footage to add to an updated version.
As he spent the day with Van Draanen, seeing her former home—now boarded up, from the windows to the basement that inspired a climactic, black widow-infested scene in Search for Snake Eyes—and hearing her explain how Sammy and her city came to virtual life, Wadham only half-jokingly said that while his primary goals are to attract attention to the festival and showcase Van Draanen and her books, his secondary aim is to win an Oscar.
Of course, the first person at whom Sammy Keyes waved—before the editor, before the librarians and teachers who invite her to speak around the country, before the legions of fans who call themselves Sammiacs—was Van Draanen herself.
“I think that Sammy served as a really good guide for broadening my perspective on things,” she said.
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY: Wendelin Van Draanen drew heavily on real Santa Maria sites and landmarks to create the fictional city of Santa Martina. She gave a documentary crew a tour of some of the main stops, including St. Mary of the Assumption Church, where the author climbed into the bushes to demonstrate how two of her main characters hid in an attempt to catch a criminal in Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief.
Remember, that’s about 30 years of perspective shifting, which might explain why Van Draanen burst into tears when she finally wrote the last words of the last book.
“Sobbing does not understate it. You know, it’s been bottled up for many, many years—that last sentence,” she said, her voice wavering. “And knowing what that last sentence was for years and years, and then just getting it out: There it was. I guess there was a lot of emotional buildup to the writing of those last two words.”
While 17 of the books are told in Sammy’s voice, this final story opens with the main character out of commission, so a new narrator is required. Van Draanen said she initially toyed with the idea of Death delivering the tale, but she instead opted to steer away from that route and use her own voice instead. That way, Sammy’s final story is being told by a real person.
“And I don’t think Death would have had the sense of humor that I injected,” Van Draanen said.
Though this is far from the end of Van Draanen’s writing career, the completion of Sammy’s story arc has prompted a lot of introspection. Van Draanen said that if she could choose to bring any of her characters to life, she would pick Sammy.
“And I would go back to middle school with her,” she said, “to do it all over again with her. … If you did [junior high] with Sammy, there would be an awesome factor to it.”
But, of course, Sammy can’t step from her pages into reality any more than time can reverse to take adults back to junior high for a do-over. All any of us can do is move forward, no matter what that future brings and how relationships change as we progress through life.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN: Wendelin Van Draanen and her husband and fellow author Mark Parsons completed a national book tour earlier this summer, and they’re set now to embark on another. For their first journey, they drove a van bedecked in their book covers across the lower half of the country. Now, they’re heading north, stopping at more than 40 independent bookstores between here and Milwaukee. The first stop is at Coalesce in Morro Bay on Saturday, Sept. 13, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For more information about the Sammy Keyes series—and a possible forthcoming TV series based on the books!—visit etrtr.blogspot.com, follow @WendelinVanD on Twitter, or like facebook.com/sammykeyesbooks.
“I think that it’s probably akin to a mom seeing her kid go off to college, and knowing that you’re gonna miss them, and it’s going to be hard on you. But you set out in life to make them independent. So there they are: independent. And that is your goal,” Van Draanen said. “I was really fortunate to be able to see her off at 18. Eighteen books.
“I saw my sons off to college,” she continued. “That’s just kind of the evolution of growth. You get to the place you have to cut the apron strings. That is the best thing for all involved. …
“I can always go back and visit Sammy. There are 18 adventures I can pick up and look through at any time. I can go and visit Sammy at any time.”
Here, her voice broke.
“It’s really hard,” she said, then paused. The silence stretched as she composed herself. “But in a good way, you know? Like, what a blessing.”
For three decades, Sammy has been on Van Draanen’s horizon, waving her forward, beckoning the author on to each next new book. That plane is now clear, however, waiting for the next force to ripple outward and disturb the universe.
Executive Editor Ryan Miller still says Billy Pratt is his favorite character. Send comments to rmiller@newtimesslo.com.
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East Haven Police Sergeant Pleads Guilty to Federal Civil Rights Charge
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Mary Galligan, Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that East Haven Police Sergeant JOHN MILLER, 43, pleaded guilty today, before Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford, to violating an individual’s civil rights by using unreasonable force during the course of an arrest.
On January 18, 2012, a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment charging MILLER and three other East Haven Police officers with various civil rights offenses. Today, MILLER pleaded guilty to count 10 of the indictment, which charges him with depriving an individual of his right to be free from the use of excessive force by a law enforcement officer. MILLER admitted that on January 3, 2010, in the course of making an arrest, he struck a handcuffed individual while the victim was in the secure custody of two other East Haven Police officers.
“The conduct of this officer, in striking a defenseless individual, is abhorrent,” stated U.S. Attorney Fein. “Police officers serve the people of Connecticut with dedication and distinction, putting their safety on the line to protect others. This case reminds us that no one is above the law. This police officer abused his authority and violated the civil rights of a person he is sworn to protect. Such conduct will never be tolerated.”
“When a police officer uses excessive force, he not only victimizes the person whose civil rights he violated, he undermines public trust in the professionals who are sworn to protect and serve, and do so honorably,” stated FBI Acting Assistant Director in Charge Galligan. “The integrity of our profession requires that law enforcement officers never be above the law.”
Chief Judge Thompson has scheduled sentencing for February 1, 2013, at which time MILLER faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years and a fine of up to $250,000.
As part of his plea agreement, MILLER has agreed to cooperate fully with the government in the investigation and prosecution of this matter.
MILLER is currently on administrative leave from the East Haven Police Department.
U.S. Attorney Fein stated that the investigation is ongoing and encouraged individuals with information that may be helpful to the investigation to call the FBI at 212-384-2240.
As to the other defendants who are awaiting trial, U.S. Attorney Fein stressed that an indictment is not evidence of guilt. Charges are only allegations, and each defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
This matter is being investigated by the Civil Rights Squad of the FBI’s New York Field Office. Deputy United States Attorney Deirdre M. Daly and Assistant United States Attorney Krishna R. Patel are prosecuting the case with assistance from the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division.
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Is co-housing one of the solutions for fighting loneliness in old age?
By Nina Steele
A few weeks ago, the media reported the opening of the first ‘UK senior co-housing project’. It had taken 18 years to come to fruition. I was naturally interested in the project because, as I wrote many times before, it pays to plan for old age well in advance, particularly if you live in the West, were isolation and loneliness in old age is a major issue.
Unfortunately, if you are a man living in the UK, this project is not for you, as it is only available to women. However, with an ageing population and the subject of loneliness in old age regularly front page news, I believe it is a matter of time before the project is copied across the UK, with both sexes being catered for. Although this may be the first of its kind in the UK, the concept originated in Denmark in the 1960s and is widespread in other parts of Europe and North America.
Co-housing is defined as: “a type of intentional community, in which people make a conscious choice to live together as a group. However, it’s not the same thing as a commune, in which a group of families jointly own a plot of land and share all their income and other resources. Instead, cohousing is more like a cross between individual and communal living”.
I do understand that as a concept, it may not be to everyone’s taste. However, if there is one thing I have learnt in my 8 years of working for an old people’s charity, it is that health is what ultimately determines where people will end their days. If you are blessed with good health throughout your life, including in old age, then chances are that you will remain in your own home until the end.
Unfortunately, as I have written before, a sizeable number of old people are not so lucky and suffer from poor health, which results in many of them having to move into a care home.
I do also understand that people living in the developing world may not encounter the same issues in old age, because of the different family structure. In the Ivory Coast for example (and Africa as a whole), elderly people often live with a relative. And if you are middle class, you will always have extended family members from rural areas willing to move in with you. They look after you and in return, they get the chance to live in an urban area, with all the perks that come with it.
As someone living in the West and who also likes to plan well in advance, how and where my husband and I will end our days is naturally a subject that is often discussed in our household. Understandably, because it can be a rather depressing subject, some may be tempted to ignore it until they actually get to old age. I will advise against doing so. I have witnessed too many heart-breaking stories in my time working for an old people’s charity to know that leaving things to chance is a mistake, likely to end in tears.
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Introducing Columns by 13 Ways!
Columns is a platform developed to provide syndicated content to rural community newspapers. Two columnists, Doug Griffiths and Preston Pouteux, write weekly articles that are relevant to ALL rural communities.
This platform has been created due to frequent requests from newspapers all over the country to run articles related to the book written by our founder, Doug Griffiths. His book, 13 Ways To Kill Your Community is a national bestseller and became popular because it takes an honest, tongue in cheek approach to talking about matters that are important to Rural communities. He also speaks nationally at conferences and community events – inspiring rural communities and their leaders to change their attitudes and approach to community and economic development.
The Columists:
YOUR TOWN is based on the national best-selling book, 13 Ways to Kill Your Community, by Doug Griffiths, MBA. The original 13 columns appear in hundreds of newspapers, which inspired the book, and now the book has inspired the weekly column about ongoing community issues. Each week’s column explores strategies that can be employed to make communities more successful or identifies pitfalls that cause them to fail. Changing attitudes is critical to changing fortunes. Through 20 years of working on community building, Griffiths has always asserted that building stronger communities is the most important ingredient to building stronger families and a stronger nation. The content will drive healthy and constructive debate in your community. Much like the book, communities will see themselves in the stories and that will push them to discuss the present situation of the community, and what it wants to be in the future.
INTO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD is a weekly column written by Dr. Preston Pouteaux, a neighbourhood enthusiast, author, beekeeper, and pastor. The column has been printed over one million times in local newspapers and since 2015 has become a welcome addition for editors looking for thoughtful, timely, and hopeful content. Into the Neighbourhood explores themes of neighbourhood and faith in a way that encourages us to bring out the best in others and reminds us that everyone matters. Written in an approachable and personal style, Into the Neighbourhood tells stories, inspires action, surprises, and encourages us to never give up as we work to find meaning and joy in the communities we call home. Created to be read from our front porch, readers of Pouteaux’s column describe it as a welcome weekly reflection with a fresh tone that sparks new conversations and connections.
For more information about Columns, please visit the website at https://columns.13ways.ca/
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Posted on December 15, 2020 by Ofer Abarbanel
ParAccel
ParAccel, Inc. was a California-based software company.
It provided a database management system designed to provide advanced analytics for business intelligence. ParAccel was acquired by Actian in April 2013.[1]
ParAccel was a venture-backed company focused on developing software for data analysis. It acquired some intellectual property from the company XPrime, which ended operations in 2005.[2][3] It was officially incorporated in February 2006, founded by Barry Zane who became chief technology officer, and was first funded by angel investors.
In August 2006 the first series of venture capital came from Mohr Davidow Ventures, Bay Partners and Tao Venture Partners.
In 2007 the company was based in San Diego, California, with an office in Ann Arbor, Michigan. David J. Ehrlich was chief executive, and Bruce Scott, vice president of engineering.[4] In November 2007, a second round of $20 million included previous investors and was led by Walden Ventures.[5] In December the company opened an office in Cupertino, California (part of Silicon Valley).[6]
A third round of $22 million in June 2009 was led by Menlo Ventures. In January 2010 Mark Lockareff replaced Ehrlich as interim chief executive.[7] In March 2010 the Wall Street Journal listed ParAccel in a list of venture backed companies that included Solyndra.[8] A result from the TPC-H benchmark from the Transaction Processing Performance Council in April 2010 had record performance at 1 TB data size using VMware.[9][10] Charles W. Berger was appointed chairman and CEO in September 2010.[7]
By early 2011 many of its competitors had been acquired.[11] During its July 2011 funding round, existing investors were led by Amazon.com.[12] In December 2012, the Amazon Redshift database service was announced (and generally available in early 2013) using ParAccel technology.[13][14]
ParAccel was based in California with offices in Campbell and San Diego. Competitors included Greenplum (from Pivotal), EXASOL, Vertica (from Hewlett-Packard), Netezza (from IBM), Oracle Corporation, and Teradata (including its Aster Data Systems technology).[15][12] ParAccel was acquired by Actian in April 2013.[1][16] Berger left at that time to become CEO of Extreme Networks.[17]
In 2008 ParAccel offered two different products: Amigo and Maverick.[18] Amigo was designed to accelerate queries directed at an existing data warehouse while leaving the data warehouse as the database of record. In contrast Maverick was designed as a stand-alone data store.[18][19] ParAccel discontinued Amigo in favor of the stand-alone offering which evolved into the ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB).[when?]
The ParAccel Analytic Database was a parallel relational database system using a shared-nothing architecture with a columnar orientation, adaptive compression, memory-centric design.[20] ParAccel’s DBMS engine is built for analytics, initially based on PostgreSQL. ParAccel began phasing in a new optimizer (Omne) in release 2.0 and made significant changes to Omne in subsequent releases (3.1 released in June 2011). ParAccel implements compiled queries, and a proprietary interconnect protocol for inter-node communications.
ParAccel offered on-demand integration (ODI) modules for analytics and data outside of the ParAccel Analytic Platform.
^ Jump up to:ab Maria Duetscher (April 29, 2013). “Actian Picks Up ParAccel to Boost Analytics Portfolio”. Silicon Angle. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
^Philip Howard (December 13, 2005). “Warehouse appliances: boom or bust?”. The Register. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
^Philip Howard (March 30, 2006). “ParACCEL up and running: The new boy on the data warehouse appliance block”. The Register. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
^“Company: Accelerating Business Intelligence”. Old ParAccel web page. Archived from the original on August 20, 2007. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
^“Notice of Sale of Securities [Regulation D and Section 4(6) of the Securities Act of 1933], item 06” (PDF). US Securities and Exchange Commission. November 28, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
^“ParAccel Secures $20 Million in Venture Financing and Opens Cupertino Office” (PDF). Press release. December 10, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 17, 2008. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
^ Jump up to:ab “ParAccel Appoints Charles W. Berger as CEO”. Press release. September 8, 2010. Archived from the original on September 12, 2010. Retrieved December 6,2013.
^“The Next Big Thing: The Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies”. The Wall Street Journal. March 9, 2010. Archived from the original on March 12, 2010. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
^“ParAccel, VMware Break 1TB TPC-H Performance Record with World’s First Virtualized TPC-H”. Press release. April 12, 2010. Archived from the original on October 24, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
^“VMware ESXi platform/HP DL380/ParAccel Analytic”. TPC-H Result Highlight. April 11, 2010. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
^Derrick Harris (March 11, 2011). “Why ParAccel’s Time on the Big Data Singles Circuit Won’t Be Long”. Giga Om. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
^ Jump up to:ab Derrick Harris (July 7, 2011). “Amazon invests big in big data startup”. Giga Om. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
^Doug Henschen (December 6, 2012). “Amazon Redshift Leaves On-Premises Opening, Says ParAccel”. Information Week. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
^Barb Darrow (February 15, 2013). “Watch out HP, IBM, Teradata, Oracle: Amazon Redshift is here”. Giga Om. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
^Curt Monash (August 19, 2008). “Comparing Vertica, ParAccel and Exasol”. Information Week. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
^Doug Henschen (April 25, 2013). “Actian Acquires ParAccel, Fuel Behind Amazon RedShift”. Information Week. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
^Jim Duffy (April 25, 2013). “Extreme Networks replaces its CEO again”. Network World. Archived from the originalon December 12, 2013. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
^ Jump up to:ab Thomas C. Briggs (February 25, 2008). “Getting to Know ParAccel, Part II”. Full Table Scan blog. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
^“ParAccel Corporate Brief” (PDF). HP partner web site. March 4, 2009. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
^Yijou Chen, Richard L. Cole, William J. McKennal, Sergei Perfilov, Aman Sinha, Eugene Szedenits, Jr. (June 29, 2009). “Partial join order optimization in the paraccel analytic database”. Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data: 905–908. doi:10.1145/1559845.1559945. ISBN 978-1-60558-551-2.
Ofer Abarbanel is a 25 year securities lending broker and expert who has advised many Israeli regulators, among them the Israel Tax Authority, with respect to stock loans, repurchase agreements and credit derivatives. Founder of TBIL.co STATX Fund.
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The Pill | Article
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)
From the Collection: Women in American History
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-margaret-sanger-1879-1966/
Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women.
Born in 1879, Sanger came of age during the heyday of the Comstock Act, a federal statute that criminalized contraceptives. Margaret Sanger believed that the only way to change the law was to break it. Starting in the 1910s, Sanger actively challenged federal and state Comstock laws to bring birth control information and contraceptive devices to women. Her fervent ambition was to find the perfect contraceptive to relieve women from the horrible strain of repeated, unwanted pregnancies.
Tragedy Leads to Commitment
Sanger's commitment to birth control sprung from personal tragedy. One of eleven children born to a working class Irish Catholic family in Corning, New York, at age nineteen Margaret watched her mother die of tuberculosis. Just 50 years old, her mother had wasted away from the strain of eleven childbirths and seven miscarriages. Facing her father over her mother's coffin, Margaret lashed out, "You caused this. Mother is dead from having too many children."
Nurses Botched Abortions
Determined to escape her mother's fate, Sanger fled Corning to attend nursing school in the Catskills. Eventually, she found work in New York City as a visiting nurse on the Lower East Side. It was there that Sanger saw her personal tragedy writ large in the lives of poor, immigrant women. Lacking effective contraceptives, many women, when faced with another unwanted pregnancy, resorted to five-dollar back-alley abortions. It was after these botched abortions that Sanger was usually called in to care for the women. After experiencing many women's trauma and suffering, Sanger began to shift her attention from nursing to the need for better contraceptives.
Anger Turns to Action
Sanger began to devote more and more of her time to her mission. In 1914 she coined the term "birth control" and soon began to provide women with information and contraceptives. Indicted in 1915 for sending diaphragms through the mail and arrested in 1916 for opening the first birth control clinic in the country, Sanger would not be deterred. In 1921 she founded the American Birth Control League, the precursor to the Planned Parenthood Federation, and spent her next three decades campaigning to bring safe and effective birth control into the American mainstream.
Still More to Do
But by the 1950s, although she had won many legal victories, Sanger was far from content. After 40 years of fighting to help women control their fertility, Sanger was extremely frustrated with the limited birth control options available to women. Since the 1842 invention of the diaphragm in Europe and the introduction of the first full-length rubber condom in the U.S. in 1869, there had been no new advances in contraceptive methods. Sanger had championed the diaphragm, but after promoting it for decades, she knew it was still the least popular birth control method in America. The diaphragm was highly effective, but it was expensive, awkward -- and most women were too embarrassed to use it.
Worried about Population Growth
But Sanger, now in her seventies and in poor health, was not ready to give up. She had been dreaming of a "magic pill" for contraception since 1912. She was no longer just concerned about women suffering from unwanted pregnancies. Now, a firm believer in the theory of population control, she was also worried about the potential toll of unchecked population growth on the world's limited natural resources.
A "Magic Pill"
Tired of waiting for science or industry to turn its attention to the problem, Margaret Sanger set out on a mission. She sought someone to realize her vision of a contraceptive pill as easy to take as an aspirin. She wanted a pill that could provide women with cheap, safe, effective and female-controlled contraception. Her search ended in 1951 when she met Gregory Pincus, a medical expert in human reproduction who was willing to take on the project. Soon after, she found a sponsor for the research: International Harvester heiress Katharine McCormick. Their collaboration would lead to the FDA approval of Enovid, the first oral contraceptive, in 1960. With the advent of the Pill, Sanger accomplished her life-long goal of bringing safe and effective contraception to the masses.
A Dream Achieved
Not only did Sanger live to see the realization of her "magic pill," but four years later, at the age of 81, Sanger witnessed the undoing of the Comstock laws. In the 1965 Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, the court ruled that the private use of contraceptives was a constitutional right. When Sanger passed away a year later, after more than half a century of fighting for the right of women to control their own fertility, she died knowing she had won the battle.
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Mr. Tornado
Mr. Tornado is the remarkable story of the man whose groundbreaking work in research and applied science saved thousands of lives and helped Americans prepare for and respond to dangerous weather phenomena.
How the Pill Works
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Roots of the Pill
Katharine McCormick and Margaret Sanger set out to improve women's lives through "birth control," a phrase Sanger coined.
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Donor Intent at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Dec 04, 2020 Joanne Florino
You may have read in the past few months that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is under fire for its allegedly inadequate response to the call for racial justice. In June a group of the organization’s black employees sent a letter to Priscilla Chan (who runs the operations of CZI) accusing her and her husband, Mark Zuckerberg, of failing to uphold their commitment “to making CZI a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable organization.”
In mid-August the Washington Post ran a piece on CZI’s “race problem” that detailed complaints about both internal employment practices and the philosophy driving CZI’s grantmaking. At the end of August, Ray Holgado, who had joined CZI in September 2018, resigned from his position as program officer in the Criminal Justice Reform team. And on November 9, he filed a racial discrimination claim against CZI with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
In a piece Holgado recently authored, “Performative Philanthropy and the Cost of Silence,” he lays out his case against CZI, mixing allegedly discriminatory practices toward black employees with his concerns that CZI “did not value [his] professional expertise, identity, or lived experience.” These are two very different things. It would be inappropriate and unfair to discuss the employment complaints that Holgado has lodged against CZI here; they will be reviewed and decided elsewhere. His complaints about his inability to influence the philosophy behind CZI’s grantmaking, however, involve questions around governance and power in philanthropy that do warrant our comment.
Holgado is particularly dismayed that CZI’s grantmaking “operates devoid of racial analysis,” pointing particularly to an admonition he received from a senior member of the Criminal Justice Reform team. “I was warned,” he writes, “…that I should avoid pushing for grantmaking strategies that centered racial equity, as Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan did not believe race was relevant to the issue of mass incarceration.” Twice in 2019, Holgado proposed bringing Edgar Villanueva, philanthropy executive and author of Decolonizing Wealth, to speak at CZI, and twice his suggestion was declined. That he was frustrated is understandable. And he certainly has a right to his opinion that it is “irresponsible and dangerous for an organization of [CZI’s] magnitude and influence to operate without care or consideration for race while tackling issues related to voting rights, housing, criminal justice, immigration, and education.”
But CZI’s donors also have rights, as discussed in Preserving Your Legacy: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Honoring and Protecting Donor Intent. Given that CZI is not a private foundation but a philanthropic LLC, its donors have maximum flexibility and control to exercise their right to determine the organization’s philanthropic direction based on their understanding of what will, or will not, be effective, and the right to bring on staff members who will assist them in pursuing that direction.
Yes, they should listen to and consider other voices, including those of the communities they seek to serve, those of their program (and other) staffers, and those of other philanthropic leaders. They would most certainly find a broad variety of opinions about how best to move forward in their areas of focus and about the wisdom of viewing their grantmaking through a racial lens. But in the end, CZI’s grantmaking will—and should—represent the final decisions made by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg.
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TripAdvisor sees further financial dampening as instant booking takes hold
By Kevin May | May 5, 2016
TripAdvisor says its performance will continue to be impaired during 2016 as it switches models from media advertising to instant booking for hotels.
The company saw revenues fall by 3% in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the same period in 2015, from $363 million to $352 million.
As a result, total adjusted EBITDA fell by 33% from $127 million to $85 million between Q1 2015 to Q1 2016.
Revenues from hotel-related activities fell by 5% to $303 million in the first three months of the year, compared to those from its non-hotel business which climbed by 14% to $49 million.
TripAdvisor said in Feburary this year that the ongoing roll-out of instant booking would negatively affect its revenues in the immediate future, primarily due to the introduction of instant booking.
In the latest earnings report issued this week, CEO Steve Kaufer says its introduction "remains dilutive to our financials and drove significant deceleration" to the hotel segment wedge of revenues.
Chief financial officer Ernst Teunissen goes a step further and explains why:
"Given business model shifts towards transaction-based revenue in both the hotel and non-hotel segments, we now have a higher percentage of revenue recognized at stay, or when a ticket or a reservation is use, compared to the comparable period last year."
In other words, there's less money coming in as the value of a click is lower on instant booking than the existing model, plus many of those participating in instant booking are not collecting the guest revenue until the stay takes place, long after TripAdvisor's involvement in the shopping process.
Teunissen says the "near-term financial results are masking our near-term progress", with the US - where instant booking was launched first - showing a "substantially lower headwind" compared to other markets where it is gradually being introduced.
Despite this, he adds:
"We are driving more awareness, higher engagement, improving conversion, and more repeat bookings. These trends give us confidence that our other markets will exhibit similar improvements over time."
Still, TripAdvisor says it is seeing an improvement in the percentage of repeat visits from those that have previously used instant booking.
Instant booking is now available fully in the UK, US and Canada, with the rest of Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America expected to be completed during the first half of this year.
Elsewhere, TripAdvisor says its goal of making its attractions division its next "billion-dollar business" is continuing.
Kaufer says the company is "moving quickly to further cement our leadership position in this category".
Viator's Marketplace platform has increased the number of bookable products by almost 30% during the first quarter of 2016, with 655,000 attractions now listed on the site.
This is "a tremendous greenfield opportunity in front of us", Kaufer claims.
Instant booking on the TripAdvisor apps for attractions launched during the first quarter of this year, giving what Kaufer says is a "better user experience".
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They May Have Been Gone, But They’re Still Classic
By Isa Barnett
Classic Television
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David Boreanaz – Earning His Bones
David Boreanaz stars in “Bones.”
by Jay S. Jacobs
Originally posted on September 9, 2006.
Most actors go their entire career looking for a role on a long-running series. With the second season premiere of his popular FOX forensic drama Bones, David Boreanaz is now making his mark on his third multi-year show.
Boreanaz knows that he is lucky to be in this position and he does not take it for granted. However he also knows that he has a certain skill which has opened these doors for him. Boreanaz is not one to reminisce on past jobs. He is always looking forward to making his current role better.
“I’m fortunate to work and continue,” Boreanaz says, “just work on where I want to go. To me I don’t think of it always as a means to an end, but as a new door opening – whatever that may be. Taking on those challenges. I never thought about that or never really kind of invested my time in that. I invest my time and put my energy into work presently, not the past. I work moment to moment. For me that helps. That’s just the way I operate.”
Television might be in Boreanaz’s blood, as his father is long-time Philadelphia weatherman Dave Roberts (Roberts chose his assumed last name as a young meteorologist). Through his dad he did get a little insight to the television world, however Boreanaz insists that family connection did not lead him in front to the camera.
“My dad was a big influence on me,” Boreanaz says, “just not in regards to getting involved in acting. In anything that I did, first and foremost [there] was his support – from my mom and my dad. I remember him saying to me, ‘You know, whatever you decide to do, there’s always going to be good times, bad times. You have to work through those, no matter what profession you’re in.’ He instilled that into me and was always supportive of whatever I was interested in or what I wanted to surround myself in, as long as it was healthy for me. He was responsible for that. So he’s a big influence on me, but it was something I kind of found through discovery. I moved to Philadelphia and got involved in some plays. Went to New York and saw some Broadway stuff. From there it just blossomed into a career for me. When I came out to Los Angeles I decided to go after it and be surrounded by that. It’s been a great work in progress for me so far.”
This work in progress has led Boreanaz steadily up the Hollywood food chain. He first garnered notice as Kelly Bundy’s boyfriend in an episode of Married… With Children. However, he really made his mark a few years later when he was brought in to portray the Angel, the vampire love interest on the cult TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character started out just as a recurring role, however the actor quickly became so popular that he ended up being in over 50 episodes over two seasons. Then, the character was spun off to its own show. Angel ran for four more seasons.
This turn of luck – going from a recurring to a series regular – has made Boreanaz very conscious of actors going through the same experience on his series.
“It’s great to see people emerge from guest spots,” Boreanaz acknowledges, “to have a strong impact on a show. Coming from that world – I started as a recurring character. If you’re fortunate they take the character and spin off from that. It’s always great to see strong characters come on and really have an impact, not only with the characters, but also move off of that. I enjoy watching that happen if that happens.”
He also enjoys the fact that many of the fans that he made on Buffy and Angel seem to have followed him to Bones – a similarly dark and funny, but otherwise very different show.
“I think they’ve embraced it considerably,” he says. “I think that the numbers speak volumes. To me, it’s just a fantastic outlook on how they can embrace that and move with you. Some may like it, some may hate it. I can’t control that. I’m just there for the work.”
While he is happy for his experience in Buffy, he can’t even start to contrast it with his new series.
“Not much really to compare,” Boreanaz states. “Two different shows. Two different genres. They’re just two different levels of experiences that I went through for different types of characters. No comparison.”
No comparison, because as much as he loves his old shows, Boreanaz is strongly, staunchly proud of his latest as his finest work. He feels passionately that his byplay with costar Emily Deschanel is taking this already good extremely show to new, rarified heights. Deschanel plays Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan, the genius forensic doctor who becomes a de facto partner to Boreanaz’s tough fed Special Agent Seeley Booth.
“Best pairing you’re ever going to see,” he states boldly. “I’ll tell you that right now. This season will be the best pairing as far as television characters are concerned. You won’t see a dynamic between two characters who I feel have such love for each other and respect at the same time and continue to grow off each other. I say that with utmost confidence. Obviously, my opinion is a little different than other people because I work in it and I’m there in it on a daily basis,” he laughs, “but the momentum we had coming out of last season, going into this season, it’s day and night. It’s really a totally different show this season. I’m really excited about it.”
What causes that excitement in Boreanaz is how the show juggles the personal and professional lives of the characters. This balancing act is becoming even more important to the series as it settles in and matures in the new season.
“You have the procedural through line which is always consistent with each episode, which will somehow mirror what each character is going through personally” Boreanaz explains. “Which will always be ongoing, the personal stuff. For me, I’d like to see it as an 80/20 split. More character, as far as I approach the show is concerned. It’s more interesting to watch that trying to solve a crime. There are shows out there that focus 100% on just the procedural. You know, that’s great. People like that. But, I don’t really. I prefer the characters to come to the forefront of it. Get invested in their lives and invested into how they solve these specific crimes. How horrific they are. How they affect them as they deal with their personal stuff.”
Last season ended with a storm of personal problems for Dr. Brennan. Her long-lost mother was found dead. She had to try to reconcile with her estranged brother. Then, she learned at the cliffhanger that her father – who had disappeared with her mother and she had long assumed was also dead – was still alive. The season premiere touches on this cliffhanger plot briefly, but it is still far from being resolved.
“Towards the end of this first show, she does actually go and visit her mother’s grave and we find out that her father was there, visiting her,” Boreanaz says. “The plot kind of thickens. On the car ride into the first big accident that we have and discovery, we touch on it. It will definitely come out later on as the season progresses. It’s a case in work. It’s not one of those easy cases.
“Other characters that were from last season – last year, we had this character Epps, who was a serial killer. (Epps was played by Heath Freeman in the episode ‘A Man on Death Row.’) We just did an episode again with him. You never know what they can do with him. They can bring him out; he can be involved with the Mafia, her father… They can go so many ways with this. It’s really opened the door creatively for the writers to expand off.”
Of course, there is another personal dimension of the show – and one that Boreanaz finds intoxicating. It is the personal interaction and obvious attraction the Booth and Bones feel for each other and the outside forces that keep them apart. In this season there will be even more roadblocks.
“Last year, there was a decision to bring somebody on who I thought that would have been good for the show – as far as bringing in another female character that would give a different perspective,” Boreanaz says. “Someone who was coming between Booth and Brennan. Cam is the new head of forensics at the Jeffersonian, came from the New York area, worked in labs in basements without the best facilities. We’ve known each other and we have a past, so you’re going to bring that relationship to the forefront, which is going to cause problems and tensions early on and throughout the season. How we handle that. How I handle that. Do I go back to that? I think we’ll see that as we progress in the episodes. It’ll cause some interesting sparks between us and Bones. Even the mother of my child – Jessica Capshaw is playing [her] – is going to bring in some interesting stuff. I’m surrounded by a lot of interesting women this year. For Booth it will bring up some stuff from his past that’s going to be fun to watch him handle.
“We’re definitely going to see it on all characters, prospectively. The fascinating part of this series has always been the characters and how we draw these stories. What their personal lives are all about and how they handle their personal lives when they’re in their professional lives. How they bring that into their professional lives. How it affects them. That’s always going to be running. It’s not going just to be for this season, it was last year.”
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British Gypsum Puts Pedal To The Metal In Search For Driver Of The Year
4 April 2014 By Danny Leave a Comment
British Gypsum, UK leader in plaster and drylining solutions, will be hosting the 2014 Saint-Gobain Driver of the Year and Transport Team of the Year competition, which recognises sustainability efforts in the transport industry and the importance of ongoing professional development for drivers.
Launched in 2013 by British Gypsum, as a result of its success the competition has now expanded across the Saint-Gobain Group and forms part of the Group’s ongoing commitment to sustainable development.
The competition aims to not only reduce the carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles, but develop and engage employees – ultimately resulting in the best teams delivering the best results for customers.
Drivers taking part have six months to demo
nstrate their driving capability against set criteria, with support provided from a team of mentors. Regular progress meetings are also to take place which will enable drivers to compete with their colleagues from across the UK.
Even the smallest adjustments to the way vehicles are driven, such as accelerating and braking more gently, driving at a slower speed, or switching the engine off when at a standstill, can make a big difference to fuel consumption. This can significantly cut carbon emissions, minimising the impact on the environment.
When the competition ends, on the 31st August 2014, the most sustainable drivers from each site, and those who have shown most improvement, as well as the best-performing transport teams, will be invited to an awards ceremony for the announcement of Driver of the Year and Transport Team of the Year.
Brian Fisher, project leader for British Gypsum’s Driver of the Year, said: “It is no longer enough for transport used by construction materials suppliers simply to be speedy and efficient; it needs to be sustainable as well to support customers’ environmental efforts and help them meet their own carbon emissions reduction targets. To achieve this, it is vital that we, as an industry, do all we can to encourage fuel efficient, safe and environmentally friendly practices among our drivers.
“Driver of the Year is a great way of spreading this message, and of recognising the fantastic work of our drivers.”
The awards this year are sponsored by MAN Truck & Bus UK Ltd., the Swindon-based subsidiary of the global commercial vehicles manufacturer, which has donated prizes for winning drivers.
“We’re very pleased to be supporting British Gypsum’s efforts in promoting better driving practices,” said MAN’s CEO in the UK, Des Evans. “MAN invests heavily in developing its next generation of engines, with a keen focus on producing the cleanest, most productive drive-technologies possible. For the driver especially, MAN is a leader in training, ensuring that even the most experienced driver fully maximises the performance and economy from his MAN truck.”
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Ginza/Shimbashi/Yurakucho
Japanese, Kaiseki, Washoku
Tokuchiyama
Anniversary Services
A Japanese restaurant in Ginza, which is a branch of a famous restaurant, that continues to evolve
“Tokuchiyama”, which is a 3-minute walk from Tokyo Metro Higashi-Ginza Station, is located on the 1st floor of the building behind the Kabuki-za Theater. It is here that the second generation owner, Keisuke Kimura, showcases his skills.
Owner Kimura is from Hakodate, Hokkaido. He aspired to be a chef and studied at a Japanese restaurant, before entering Tokyo “Ginza Uchiyama”. Junya Kudo, who trained together with Kimura-san, was allowed to open a branch of Uchiyama and became the owner of “Tokuchiyama” in 2011. The restaurant quickly became prosperous and in 2017, he opened “Ginza Kudou”, which was named after him. Because of this, Mr. Kimura, who was also from “Ginza Uchiyama”, was selected as the next owner of the restaurant after “Tokuchiyama” and became the second owner. The traditional Japanese cuisine that has been passed down from “Ginza Uchiyama” will continue to fascinate even more customers with the flavor of the Kudo school.
The signature dish is "Ochazuke” (rice with tea poured over it) which is also a famous dish in “Ginza Uchiyama”. It is a nutritious ochazuke, with red sea bream from Awaji, covered with sesame sauce, and gyokuro tea from Uji poured over it. This is a popular well-loved dish from “Ginza Uchiyama” that they have served for a long time, and can be said to be the representative of the restaurant. The restaurant also serves "Grilled Sesame Tofu", which has an exquisite fluffy texture due to the extensive kneading time during its preparation. It goes well with thick sesame sauce. The course menu consists of various dishes from mukozuke, stewed dishes, grilled dishes and pickles, which you can thoroughly enjoy and experience the true essence of Japanese cuisine. The drinks paired with the dishes are made with sake from famous brewing areas such as "Juyondai" in Yamagata. They also have beer, shochu, and champagne for special occasions such as anniversaries.
The restaurant has a wood-grain counter and tables with black chairs and a calm atmosphere that is typical of a Japanese restaurant. There are only 8 seats at the counter. It is recommended for those who want to enjoy the special experience of being able to see the chef's work in front of them and enjoy conversation. There are 2 tables for 2 -6 people, and if the partition between the tables is removed, it can accommodate up to 12 people sitting together. In addition, there is a complete private room for up to 4 people for those who wish to dine separately.
The delicious flavors of its dishes (that Kimura-san is so proud of) and its perfect location in Ginza mean that this restaurant can be enjoyed during every season for any occasion, from dining or dating with family and friends, to business receptions or providing hospitality for overseas guests.
* The availability of this webpage does not guarantee that the restaurant presented provides services in English, unless otherwise stated. Please be aware that English services may also depend on staff availability at the restaurant.
A 3-minute walk from Higashi-Ginza Station (Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line)
Kaiseki Course
Tokuchiyama [徳うち山]
6:00pm - 10:00pm (L.O.8:00pm)
Sunday, Public Holidays
3-12-9, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
http://toku-uchiyama.co.jp/
Ginza Adachi Naoto
Japanese, Kaiseki, Washoku Ginza/Shimbashi/Yurakucho
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Shigematsu
Ginza Kudo
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Pathways, Inc. Board Chooses New President and CEO
Following the retirement of Dr. Edward J. Lukomski, as of June 30, 2019, the Pathways, Inc. Board of Directors has appointed Joseph M. Cevette, M.P.S. the next President & Chief Executive Officer beginning July 1.
Corning, NY—June 24, 2019—Following the retirement of Dr. Edward J. Lukomski, as of June 30, 2019, the Pathways, Inc. Board of Directors has appointed Joseph M. Cevette, M.P.S. the next President & Chief Executive Officer beginning July 1.
Cevette has been employed with Pathways, Inc. since July 2000, first, as the Director of Quality Assurance, then in 2011, he was promoted to Executive Vice President of Program Operations and then Senior Executive Vice President of Program Operations in 2018. Cevette earned a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Mansfield University and a Master’s degree in Community Services Administration from Alfred University.
“Pathways, Inc. has undergone tremendous growth over the past 16 years, and we are fortunate to be able to draw from within for our next generation of leadership to carry the organization forward,” said Robert Locker, Ph.D., Chairman of the Pathways, Inc. Board of Directors. “Joe Cevette has been a part of the leadership team that has propelled the organization into its current unprecedented growth and we are confident that the experience he has gained will allow him to lead the organization to new levels of success in the future. The Board of Directors looks forward to continuing our close working relationship with Joe and we all wish him well in his new role.”
For more information about Pathways, Inc. call Stephanie Miller, Executive Vice President, Public Relations and Development (607) 937-3200.
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'This will blow over': In states without stay-at-home orders, Americans celebrate freedom as death toll climbs
Marco della CavaUSA TODAY
As of midday Thursday, 90% of the nation — that’s roughly 300 million citizens — was under either a state- or city-mandated shelter-in-place order in an effort to halt the spread of novel coronavirus.
So what’s life like for the other 10%? Are some Americans still chatting at the local barbershop, meeting for post-work happy hours and gathering for backyard barbecues?
Not so much. The reality is a complicated and even conflicted mix of respect for a deadly pathogen, concern over its economic implications, and a desire to maintain a sense of American independence in the face of a collective tragedy.
Many people are no longer shaking hands or crowding into stores, but they are still going shopping, buying cars and some are even heading out to work each day.
“We’re doing what we would do for the flu, with older people sheltering in place and the rest of us taking the best care we can,” says Brian Joens, whose Iowa City eatery, Joensy’s, is doing a brisk take-out business of its fabled pork tenderloin.
“But let’s be honest, what country do we live in?” says Joens. “It’s the USA, which is freedom, freedom to choose. When we get notes from the government saying do this or do that, it feels like that’s not what this country is built on. People should be smart, and you live with your choices.”
Iowa and four other states — North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Arkansas — as yet have no state-wide orders. Seven states — Wyoming, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Alabama and South Carolina — have at least one city with shelter-in-place rules. As of now, 38 states have full lock-down orders from the top.
Initial skepticism about whether social distancing orders are needed to combat the virus is fading fast. On Wednesday, 80% of Americans were under a full or partial lockdown. By Thursday, the figure grew to 90% after Florida and Georgia added state mandates.
USA TODAY reached out to residents in eight states without specific lockdown orders to get a sense of how people are confronting the growing coronavirus outbreak.
In every case, there was a clear understanding of the lethal nature of COVID-19, which to date has infected nearly 230,000 Americans and killed 5,648, from hero physicians to celebrated artists such as jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis.
But many also were uneasy with state-ordered health directives, arguing that residents should make smart decisions for themselves. And some blamed the media for overplaying a pandemic that is expected to threaten lives across the globe for much of 2020.
“I’m looking out the window of my dealership, and people are everywhere, it’s unbelievable,” says Chris Mayes, who owns Big Red Kia and Oklahoma Motorcars along the Mile of Cars commercial strip in Norman. “We’re not on lockdown here.”
At his Big Red Kia, which remains open, Mayes makes sure salespeople stay six feet away from customers. With nearly 900 positive virus cases, and 34 deaths, Oklahoma’s numbers are not among the worst in the nation. But Mayes is worried those statistics will cause some to be complacent.
“When I see images from other U.S. cities, where there’s just no one in the streets, very few cars out, that is the total opposite of what we’re seeing here,” he says, adding that he rarely strays from his showroom. “And I’m absolutely worried about it.”
In some states, residents predict coronavirus 'will blow over'
Over in the northwestern corner of Alabama near the Tennessee border, Andrew Sorrell says the streets of Florence are shockingly busy. He attributes that to a mix of optimism and fierce individualism.Still, he says, residents have stopped greeting each other without a handshake or hug for the time being.
“I think most people expect this will blow over, although when it does it will have implications we don’t understand yet,” says Sorrell, a Republican state representative out of Muscle Shoals and the co-owner of Gold, Guns and Guitars, two pawn shops doing a huge business in gun sales. “When will we shake hands again?”
Sorrell says that despite having no state-wide order to stay home, many of his constituents are doing just that, especially the elderly. His own parents declined to invite his in-laws over to live-stream a church service the other day.
But others, he says, claim the dangers are being hyped by the media. He himself isn’t for a state-wide mandate but rather more personal responsibility.
“I have liberty concerns with a shelter in place order,” Sorrell says. “People just need to be more responsible for themselves with what they’re doing, where they’re going.”
For some who live in states with no gubernatorial edict on COVID-19 behavior, the anger isn’t toward a government institution that might curtail their rights but rather at the virus itself.
“I want to be safe but I don’t like the virus dictating what I can and can’t do,” says Tessa Moberg, who runs Wolf Pup Daycare in Watford City, a small town of 6,500 in the western, oil-field-rich part of North Dakota. The state so far has 150 or so coronavirus cases and three deaths.
Normally, Moberg’s business oversees more than 200 children; currently, her skeleton staff is looking after nine, mostly the kids of essential workers who still head to their jobs. While she has fears about the virus, she also claims her immune system is “through the roof” after years of working with young children.
Moberg says she cut back her staff "with my heels dug in deep, and though I miss those kids so much I do understand what’s going on even if I don’t like it." Moberg admits that when she goes out to shop “it’s just weird now, you don’t want to talk or even breathe, even if it’s desolate out here.”
In the arid, rock- and mountain-studded state of Utah, which has only 37 people per square mile, the state’s patchwork array of orders is the result of a range of factors, including a Western rugged individualist mentality and many isolated rural counties, residents say.
Instead of issuing a state-wide COVID-19 order to shelter in place, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert last week urged citizens to “Stay Safe, Stay Home,” and offered guidance on closing public facilities and restricting food service businesses to take-out only.
So far, of the 13 state health departments that oversee Utah’s 29 counties, only three have urged their counties to go beyond the governor’s broad directives, says Cameron Diehl, executive director of the Utah League of Cities and Towns, which represents 249 Utah cities.
“Everyone sees what’s happening out there in the world, but how you respond really depends on where you live,” says Diehl, noting the inherent differences between Utah tourist meccas such as the Summit County ski areas and Moab mountain biking region, and far more sparsely inhabited parts of the state. "Everyone seems to take a look at their own situation when it comes to health care, and makes a decision."
Local leaders take some precautions to stop coronavirus outbreak
Gail Terry lives in the classically rural frontier town of Cody, just east of Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park and named after Western icon Buffalo Bill Cody.
Terry says that while only the tourism destination city of Jackson is under self-quarantine, people in Cody are taking coronavirus very seriously. Those who sell food limit the number of people coming in to shop, deliveries have stepped up, and cash donations to the local food bank she helps oversee, the Cody Cupboard, have increased as food has become more scarce.
“The data looks good for us right now,” says Terry, noting that there are 150 COVID-19 cases in the state and only one in her county. “We will keep doing what we need to on our own. But if the governor asked every one of us to shelter in place, I think people would. We watch the news, we see what’s going on.”
Many say regional reactions to COVID-19 have a lot to do with everything from the varied political views that exist across the nation to the hardships that some encounter annually because of geography.
"We are in tornado alley, so you can have a beautiful day and then a terrible storm, so we’re used to that for Arkansans," says Meg Matthews, deputy chief of communications for the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism. "We’re a sturdy group of people, we take situation and make the best of it."
Matthews says that although there is no state-wide order to stay home, various departments are taking action as needed. State parks had started to see an influx of visitors from locals and those outside the state in the past week, leading to a few exceedingly crowded trails, which has since been closed.
"The feeling I get from most people is that we’re about a 6 out of 10 if a 10 is totally freaking out," says Matthews, whose state has more than 500 cases and eight deaths. "We are all taking precautions and being practical."
In American lore, there are perhaps few states with as fierce an independent streak as the Lone Star State of Texas. Born out of a history filled with clashes with other nations, indigenous peoples and each other, many Texans epitomize a do-it-yourself ethic that is a key ingredient in the American mythos.
Penny McBride was born and raised in the Texas Hill county town of Fredericksburg, which was settled 174 years ago by German immigrants who named it after Prince Frederick of Prussia.
There has so far been a conflicted response to coronavirus in a state that has no government mandate to shelter in place.
McBride, who runs the local chamber of commerce, says that while many businesses in the area are closed, including the Hill Country’s tourist-draw wineries, some retailers were eager to stay open while following health official recommendations for keeping customers apart and shelves sanitized.
“As the chamber, that’s made us the enforcement agency, so we’re working with different agencies now to understand some clarity,” she says, adding that a request recently made by the local hospital, Hill Country Memorial, for a shelter-in-place order for Gillespie County has so far not been acted on.
“There are 900 members of the chamber of commerce, and commerce means business, I understand that,” she says. “But if we crater our health care system, that’s an impact we just can’t take.”
McBride remains confident that despite continued debates over how to best tackle a crisis no one could anticipate, her fellow Texans’ will do the right thing even if government decrees aren’t issued.
“All the stereotypes are true, we are very independent people who like to think of ourselves as always doing things our own way,” says McBride. “But those German roots also mean we are tight-knit. So there’s the Texas maverick side, but also a part of us that will absolutely step up to take care of our own.”
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Another Reason Elections Matter for ESG Investors
by Ethan Birchard
For many of us, this year’s election looms larger than any in memory. The issues at stake, from healthcare to the pandemic response, racial justice to immigration, climate change to the Supreme Court, all somehow feel more urgent and immediate than ever before. For investors specifically concerned about environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, two rules recently put forward by the current administration are acute reminders of how election results can ultimately shape even less widely understood aspects of commerce, and of life.
While the country grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic in late June, the Department of Labor (DOL) quietly proposed rule changes to “update and clarify” its regulations around private, employer-sponsored retirement plans. The proposed changes specifically target ESG investing, and would limit the ability of retirement plan sponsors to offer 401(k)-type plans that include a focus on ESG factors among their investment criteria.
Despite an unusually short public comment period (of just one month), the proposal received more than 8,700 comments, of which at least one analysis found an overwhelming 95% opposed to the proposed rule change. Firms as prominent as Fidelity commented that the proposal “would result in harmful, far-reaching consequences for ERISA plans and participants.” Others, like BlackRock, shared concerns that the proposal “creates an overly prescriptive and burdensome standard that would interfere with plan fiduciaries’ ability and willingness to consider financially material ESG factors, regardless of their potential effect on the return and risk of an investment.” Industry groups such as the American Benefits Council, the Insured Retirement Institute, and even the US Chamber of Commerce also submitted comments opposing the rule as written.
Of the many flaws we find in the proposed rule, we believe the most egregious is the assumption that consideration of ESG factors runs counter to investors’ financial interests. As pointed out by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, “numerous sophisticated investors have indicated that their ESG investments, social benefits notwithstanding, are fundamentally driven by expected financial returns.” This sentiment, echoed again and again in the public response to the proposed rules, is one we wholeheartedly endorse. It is one we hope the DOL will come to better understand before deciding whether to put the rules into effect.
At the same time the new DOL rules were proposed, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was preparing to enact previously proposed rule changes to limit the ability of shareholders to file resolutions at the annual meetings of companies they own a stake in. Previously, the SEC required any shareholder who wished to file a resolution to hold at least $2,000 in shares for at least a year. The updated rules require holding $25,000 for at least a year, $15,000 for at least two years, or $2,000 for at least three years, a dramatic raising of the bar for investor-owners who wish to take action on concerns they have about the companies they own. In a parallel and no less significant set of changes, the SEC also raised the vote threshold required to resubmit such resolutions in subsequent years, going from required vote support of 3%, 6% and 10% in each of the first three years, respectively, to 5%, 10% and 25% in each of the first three years under the new rules.
While the SEC describes the rule changes as a “modernization,” there is little doubt that the goal is to limit the ability of smaller shareholders to file resolutions. Commenting on the passage of the new rules after a 3-2 September vote, Commissioner Elad Roisman confirmed that the amendments “ensure that shareholder-proponents demonstrate a sufficient economic stake or investment interest in a company before they are able to submit proposals to be included in a company’s proxy statement.”
In their own public statements following the vote, the two dissenting SEC commissioners offered strong words in opposition, including those of Commissioner Allison Herren Lee, who said that taken with other recent changes, the new rules “put a thumb on the scale for management in the balance of power between companies and their owners.” Lee’s words echo those found in hundreds of public comments, including from many US Senators, members of Congress, state and local governments, state securities regulators, asset managers, pension funds, labor unions, universities, and even the SEC’s own Investor Advisory Committee. Mindy Lubber, CEO and President of Ceres (a prominent investor advocacy network), declared that the rule “will undermine the functioning system of shareholder democracy in the United States.” And in a revelation that became notorious, Bloomberg reported during the comment period that two separate groups, funded by or associated with the National Association of Manufacturers, had submitted fake letters of support for the rule from “Main Street” investors, including supposed veterans, retirees, a public servant and a single mom. These letters were prominently cited by SEC Chairman Jay Clayton when he announced the proposed new rules.
Both the DOL and SEC proposals were put forward by political appointees; in the case of the SEC rule changes, every voting commissioner was installed by the current administration. Elections matter. As ESG investors, we must remember this applies not only to the most highly visible issues, but also to our opportunity to own a stake in a company based on the conviction that long-term value creation is impossible without prioritizing people and planet.
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ISU, UNI faculty groups back UI 'no confidence' votes
Members of faculty groups at the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University have issued statements of support for the "no confidence" votes taken last week against the Iowa Board of Regents by the University of Iowa Faculty Senate and the student governments.
The statements — which were issued by the chapters of the American Association of University Professors at both universities — criticized the process by which the regents came unanimously to approve the hire of former IBM executive Bruce Harreld as UI's 21st president. The groups found problems with the speed of the process, the lack of diversity among the finalists and the minimal voice given to UI faculty during the final phases of the search.
"The issues described above leads the United Faculty-AAUP Chapter of the University of Northern Iowa to give our full support to the statement made by the University of Iowa-AAUP Chapter deploring the actions of the Iowa Board of Regents in conducting their presidential search for the University of Iowa," wrote Joe Gorton, president of United Faculty-AAUP, the union representing the roughly 550 faculty at UNI.
RELATED: Rastetter responds to 'no convidence' votes
In response to the regents hiring Harreld despite the UI community's expressed concerns over his qualifications, the statement from the ISU chapter found the regents' decision to be "a clear violation of both the spirit and the letter" of principles of the regents' own policies and the national AAUP's statements on the government of colleges and universities.
The UI AAUP chapter has scheduled a forum this week to provide an opportunity for the broader UI community to gather and reflect on questions of how universities should operate in the 21st century. The discussion will also focus on the negative collective response among UI faculty, staff and student governments to the process by which a new UI president was chosen by the regents.
Discussion will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday in Room 1505 of the Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences on the UI campus. Information is available at http://aaup.org.uiowa.edu.
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Aha Moment: Kenneth Goldsmith & John Cage
August 09, 2013 · 4:00 AM EDT
Kenneth Goldsmith trained as a visual artist at the Rhode Island School of Design. In the 1980s, his work became wildly popular with collectors and was shown at some of the best galleries in New York City. But he grew frustrated with the byproducts of that success. "What I had become was a businessman," Goldsmith says. "And I did this so I wouldn't have to become a businessman!" Goldsmith quit the art world. Looking for his next move, he remembered a book from his college days: Silence, the 1961 collection of lectures and essays by avant-garde composer John Cage. "I began seeing that there was a whole other way to be an artist in the world other than that which I was taught," Goldsmith says. "Cage gave me license to become an artist by doing less and saying less and fearing less." He turned to poetry, transcribing and reframing a year of radio weather reports into a narrative of the four seasons. Although he served as the first poet laureate at the Museum of Modern Art, Goldsmith admits he hasn't been able to make a living off of his poetry alone. But he has no regrets. "When we give up things, we get something else – and I think that's Cage's message." → Is there a poem, song, book, or another work of art that has changed your life? Tell us in a comment below, or by e-mail.
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Does size matter in PR?
17th July 2014 PR Insight 5 minute read
Before detailing the pros and cons of working for different sized businesses, I have to declare an interest. Having worked for all sizes of outfits, from the huge accountancy firm Ernst & Young to being a freelancer, I am a fan of the small and perfectly formed. I like the independence and lack of bureaucracy.
A less biased view comes from Sean Williams, deputy managing director of London agency, Brazil, who appreciates the benefits of both large and small firms. He says: “Working for different sized PR agencies offers pros and cons at every level. Having been brought up, so to speak, in a large agency in London, I learnt a lot about structure and process. Now I help lead a small London agency, I understand how it can offer more in the way of ‘on the job’ experience as well as to allow juniors direct contact with clients and journalists from a very early stage.
“There is a point at which a small agency becomes a mid-sized, then a large business. Each brings many challenges, including maintaining a work culture which is thriving, encouraging for all and fundamentally enjoyable to be a part of.”
Below three PROs discuss their preference when it comes to size.
Paul Middleton, PR manager, corporate comms at PR firm Ketchum:
“I joined a big agency because I wanted to learn from the very best in the business. I was confident in my ability and excited about the prospect of testing myself at a global firm.”
“I’d served my apprenticeship in a small comms team, and to be fair, I learned something new every single day, forged some amazing friendships, and had a legendary boss. But I knew that to continue growing, sometimes a fish needs a bigger pond.”
“In a large agency, if you choose carefully, you can still find an extraordinarily entrepreneurial spirit – especially right now as the PR business model is changing. Just don’t assume that good IT, a nice office and a pension are sufficient proof of the right culture.”
“I asked one of the senior bosses here how he likes people to operate. He answered that I should ‘Let people know what they can do, rather than what they can’t.’ At that moment I knew I was in the right place.”
“So choose carefully and you’ll get to work at an agency where experts are paid to help you reach your potential, where there are big imaginative clients and where you get amazing perks, parties and pastries. Where you can fulfil your Cannes dreams, own your share of success, and learn from the brightest talent in communications.”
“And you won’t even have to fix your own computer.”
Medium offers the most
Caroline Tarbett, MD of freelance consultancy, Fierce PR:
“I once heard an ex-boss say there's a 'Goldilocks' size of a PR agency; when the company's not too big, not too small, but just right. For him (and others I have chatted to) the ideal size of company is 25 to 30 people max – big enough to offer clients a range of skills and personalities, small enough so the CEO still knows everyone. For me, that's the point.”
“Over the last 18 years I have worked in big agencies, small ones, large and small in-house teams and, to my mind, there's definitely a point (usually when the agency gets to 30+ people) when you start to lose touch with what everyone's doing, and a sense of what's motivating people. Certainly, the most successful ones I've worked for have retained a boutique air where employees feel that they're working together as one team; rather than in small disparate groups. I also think it's important for the health and motivation of teams that they feel that senior leadership know and care about them – and that's not always the case in the larger organisations – whether agency or client side.”
Small is superior
Sam Howard, founder of the freelance collective, The Comms Crowd, and former head of PR for a mid-size tech agency:
“Call me shallow, but I admit, sometimes I miss the agency hierarchy. Once you go solo, however glorious your job title was in a past life it is really of no consequence. As a freelancer, you’re only as good as your last job, which is in itself liberating, but sometimes, you get a brief at noon on a Friday and there’s an expectation that you’ll work through the weekend or you have the temerity to clock off at 7.30 pm; or you’re setting up conference calls or hunting down clips. I do hanker back to the days, when I’d waft into a meeting, the client was thrilled I could spare an hour, I’d say clever things, and someone would write them down and a whole team would implement them. Ahh the power, the glory …”
“But the real power comes when you can take charge of your career and your life and work for yourself, you pick your hours, your fellow collaborators and your clients. Once you experience that, the keys to the executive washroom somehow lose their lustre.”
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Like the rest of the world, we at PSR watched with disgust and disbelief as thousands of rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol yesterday. PSR condemns the actions of these extremists, and those of President Trump, who incited them to violence.
The president’s actions yesterday are the latest and most disturbing example of his increasingly irresponsible and reckless behavior since he lost his bid for reelection in November. It should put to rest any doubt about the danger posed by giving any president sole authority for the decision to launch a nuclear weapon. While the incident yesterday did not directly involve that power, President Trump’s alarming conduct demonstrated incontrovertibly why providing a president with the sole authority to launch a nuclear weapon needs to be changed—right now. Other officials should be included in such a decision, providing checks and balances and a basic defense against mistakes, accidents, misjudgment or recklessness.
Furthermore, it’s important to remember that people all over the world were watching yesterday’s events and they have every reason to be frightened by what they saw, as the president of a country with one of the two largest nuclear weapons arsenals in the world incited a violent attack on our seat of government. In light of the present situation, there has never been a better time to reassure the world that the U.S. will never be the first to use a nuclear weapon, regardless of the circumstances.
Of course, the best way to protect ourselves and the rest of the world from the danger posed by the dysfunctional leadership of a nuclear-armed nation is to eliminate nuclear weapons altogether. The incoming Biden administration should embrace the principles of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and lead negotiations that move us toward a nuclear-weapons free world.
With less than two weeks to go in the Trump presidency, members of Congress and Administration officials should do whatever they can within the parameters of their constitutional authority to keep our country and the world safe.
Finally, it was impossible to miss the sight of the Confederate flag, a symbol of hatred and white supremacy, being carried by those who broke into the Capitol yesterday—yet another reminder of the responsibility we all have to dismantle racism and the racist underpinnings of our society.
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QSC and Theatre Concepts Blanket the Largest Auditorium in South India’s Adiparashakthi College Group with Perfect Sound
Kalavai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA (November 25, 2020) — Established in 1978, the Adiparashakthi Charitable Medical, Educational, and Cultural Trust (ACMEC) operates major educational and cultural centers across the state of Tamil Nadu. Among them is the Adiparashakthi Agricultural and Medical Colleges, where a 1,200-seat auditorium hosts live performances and spiritual gatherings as well as educational events. When the trustees needed a sound system worthy of the impressive hall, systems integrator Theatre Concepts crafted and end-to-end QSC solution comprised of twenty WideLine10 line array loudspeakers supported by ten PLD Series power amplifiers, eight K12.2 and four K8.2 active loudspeakers , and a TouchMix-30 Pro digital mixer for front-of-house. The house, control room, and a rehearsal room are interlinked via the Q-SYS audio ecosystem, including a Core…
QSC Proves Perfect Fit for Automated Modern Multi-Band Rehearsal Spaces at Taylor Sound
Saint Louis Park, MN (November 17, 2020) — [Fr, De, Es] — Taylor Sound is a full-service studio serving musicians in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. Located just west of Minneapolis, the complex features rehearsal rooms, on-site recording, and even music video production in a massive, green-screen-equipped room. Facilities manager T. Perry Bowers wanted to increase access for local bands and artists who lacked the budget to lock out a rehearsal space of their own, so he created the Band Share program, in which bands pay for one or two nights per week in a room equipped with a drum kit, backline, and P.A. For the latter, he chose QSC TouchMix-8 and TouchMix-16 touchscreen digital mixers as well as the full range of QSC K.2 Series active loudspeakers. “All three of our Band Share rooms are bookable online, and you can get an access code and come in without…
A Generous Donor Helps The Shepherd’s House Church Achieve a Major Sonic Upgrade with QSC
Fort Worth, TX (October 8, 2020) — [De, Fr, Es] — Robert Wirtz hails from a 30-year career as a recording engineer, a role he still plays at Fort Worth’s Legendary Sound Studio and as proprietor of Ardub Music. Whenever he can, he puts his passion for perfect sound into the service of houses of worship. In nearby Lewisville, the Shepherd’s House Church was struggling with the patchwork P.A. system when, in July, thanks to a last-minute, anonymous donor, the church was able to commission Rob to design the optimal system for their sanctuary. After extensive computer analysis of the room, Wirtz recommended a QSC KLA Series line array consisting of a total of eight KLA12 active line array cabinets and four KS118 active subwoofers — an install twice as large as their original plans. “For every system I install, my philosophy is that I want it to sound as good as the nicest…
Designer and Integrator AVkraft Elevates India’s Sacred Heart Forane Church with Crystal Clear QSC Sound
Kerala, India (September 24, 2020) — [De, Fr, Es] — Sacred Heart Forane Church is a Syro-Malabar Catholic church situated in Thiruvambady, Kozhikode District, Kerala, India. Established in 1944, the church is one of the largest in its Diocese, with more than 1500 families and approximately 5,000 members. After almost 60 years, the church underwent renovation of its altar as well as the addition of a new sound system from QSC designed and implemented by Mathew George, founder and owner of systems integrator AVkraft. The system consists of a series of K12.2 active loudspeakers as well as CP8 and CP12 compact active loudspeakers. Mathew, who has a background in sound engineering, is also the chief designer at AVkraft and enjoys working on sound in churches because of the creative freedom. He first became aware of the church’s sonic needs when the parish priest invited…
White Train Entertainment Uplifts Crossroads Community Church with QSC Line Array
WINNEBAGO, IL (July 9, 2020) — When the Winnebago, Illinois campus of Crossroads Community Church moved into their own building after years of meeting in various rented spaces, they needed a sonic upgrade to replace the portable P.A. systems volunteers had been setting up for their pastors and exuberant worship bands. After performing a thorough analysis of Crossroads’ new home, events specialists White Train Entertainment knew that a QSC active line array would be the perfect fit. They flew four KLA12 cabinets on either side of the stage, tucked a pair of KS212C active cardioid subwoofers underneath, placed two K8.2 active loudspeakers onstage as monitors, and hid two more as front fills. “The capacity is just under 200 people, so it was a big jump for Crossroads to move to a professionally installed line array as opposed to a couple of mobile loudspeakers,” says…
QSC Announces the Premiere of [email protected]
Costa Mesa, CA (April 28, 2020) — [De, Fr, Es, Cn] — QSC is proud to announce the premiere of [email protected], a comprehensive online launch point dedicated to users’ success across a vast range of solutions and applications. Through its “Connect, Learn and Experience” architecture, [email protected] visitors are treated to unique collection of online training, tutorials, certification, webinars, entertainment and live online support from company experts, all of which is constantly curated and updated. [email protected] is a valuable tool for everyone from systems contractors, integrators, A/V IT technicians, A/V consultants, musicians, artists, djs, live sound engineers, recording pros, HOW musical directors, cinema technicians, cinema dealers and end users at all levels of expertise. [email protected] programs are offered completely free-of-charge and are available in a variety of time zones and…
QSC Strengthens its Presence in the Netherlands
Sinsheim (March 30, 2020) – [De] – QSC announces the opening of QSC Netherlands BV, effective April 1, 2020. Based in Geldermalsen, QSC Netherlands BV will serve as the business development hub for Live Sound & Systems in the Benelux region as well as house QSC’s EMEA service repair operation. The facility will offer service repair trainings for QSC distributor’s service staff while also handling service and repair for QSC in Germany. QSC Netherlands also includes demonstration and training facilities for customers to experience QSC products first hand and receive hands-on classroom training. “QSC Netherlands BV is the next strategic step in expanding our regional footprint in the European region”, says Ron Marchant, Senior Director Sales & Marketing, QSC EMEA. “This enables QSC to get closer to the market and to deliver even better customer experiences. We look…
QSC Brings the Sound of the Miami Symphony to an Architectural Landmark
MIAMI, FL (March 17, 2020) — [De, Fr, Es] — Miami is known for doing everything with a certain high style, and its symphony is no exception. Conductor Eduardo Marturet wields a Swarovski crystal baton, leading the orchestra through repertoire that ranges from Brahms and Beethoven to jazz, Latin, and film scores. For their concerts in unique venues such as the Moore Elastika Building — originally a 1920s furniture store and now an art gallery and event space in the heart of the Design District — events contractor Pete Diaz Productions turned to QSC, specifically a host of CP8 compact powered loudspeakers, K12.2 active loudspeakers and KW181 active subwoofers. “The Moore Building is a centerpiece of the Miami Design District, and the Miami Symphony does several shows there every season,” says Peter Diaz Jr. “We’re their preferred vendor for audio; we use QSC speakers…
QSC EMEA goes direct in Austria
Sinsheim, March 13, 2020 - [De] - As of January 1, 2020, QSC EMEA has opened a new office in Wattens to distribute the QSC Live Sound and Systems product portfolio in Austria. This change will allow QSC to foster closer relationships to all Austrian customers, providing extensive training, pre- and after-sales as well as both technical, repair and marketing support. In his role as Director, Gerd Kostial will oversee the Austrian QSC office as well as manage direct sales to key system integrators. Kostial has decades of experience in the pro audio and AV industry, and most recently held the position of Director at Shure Distribution Austria. Patrik Heider will join Kostial as Sales Manager, mainly concentrating on Live Sound accounts. Additional technical, sales and marketing support will be provided by the QSC EMEA branch located in Sinsheim, Germany. “As one of the…
QSC GX Amplifiers Power the Great American Legacy of Rock-Ola Jukeboxes
TORRANCE, CA (February 27, 2020) — [De, Es, Fr] — If music is meant to be shared, no means of sharing it has endured quite like the jukebox. In turn, no brand embodies the jukebox like Rock-Ola. The name implies rock music only by happy coincidence. It’s actually the name of the founder, David Cullen Rockola, who started by manufacturing coin-operated scales in 1927 and moved into amusement machines shortly thereafter. When Alexander Walder-Smith bought the company just over a year ago, he was as passionate about Rock-Ola’s history of American ingenuity as he was about sound quality. One of his first orders of business was to specify QSC GX Series power amplifiers as the heart of every new Rock-Ola jukebox. “I had been a customer of Rock-Ola for about 20 years, supplying their jukeboxes to the market in the United Kingdom,” explains Walder-Smith. “I was very aware of…
QSC collaborates with Audiologic to serve the UK and Ireland with Live Sound portfolio
London, January 29, 2020 - - As of January 1, 2020, QSC has appointed Audiologic as a UK exclusive distribution partner for Live Sound. Audiologic will provide a holistic customer support, from daily interaction to service and training. Audiologic is a leading provider of pro-audio and commercial sound equipment who has already successfully worked as Industry Market Partner for the QSC Systems portfolio. Audiologic is one of the AV industry’s most respected providers in the UK and Ireland combining detailed product knowledge with excellent standards of customer service. “We are extremely proud to be awarded the exclusive UK distribution for QSC Live Sound products”, says Andy Lewis, Managing Director at Audiologic. “Over the past two years, we have demonstrated real in-market value for QSC with their Systems portfolio with proven system design services, technical…
Jason Moss Joins QSC as Vice President, Alliances and Market Development
Costa Mesa, Calif. (January 23, 2020) – [De, Es, Fr] – QSC is excited to announce Jason Moss joins the company as Vice President, Alliances and Market Development. As part of the QSC Executive Team led by Joe Pham, President and CEO, Moss will be responsible for developing and managing strategic alliances with leading AV/IT collaboration manufacturers and service providers globally. Jason Moss joins QSC from Logitech where he most recently served as Head of Go-to-Market & Alliances, Video Collaboration. With over 20 years in the industry, Moss spent the last nine years developing partnerships with top collaboration and SaaS companies, and drove adoption and integration of Logitech products into many applications and markets. He also led global OEM strategic accounts, setting strategy and directing sales and business development initiatives. “As our Systems business…
QSC K Series Inducted into the NAMM TECnology Hall of Fame
COSTA MESA, CA (January 22, 2020) — [De, Fr, Es] — QSC is proud to announce that K Series active loudspeakers have been inducted into the TECnology Hall of Fame at the 2020 Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. Founded in 2004 by former Mix magazine editor George Petersen, the TECnology Hall of Fame honors and recognizes audio products that have made a significant contribution to the advancement of recording, live sound, and audio technology. To be eligible for consideration, products must have been on the market for at least ten years. Launched in 2009, the QSC K Series sported a best-in-class 1,000 watts of extremely clean amplification in an ABS enclosure that combined a 1.75-inch compression tweeter with either an 8-, 10-, or 12-inch woofer. A dual-12-inch KSub active subwoofer completed the line. The K Series remarkably delivered both studio-quality sound as…
QSC CP Series Nominated for a 2020 Sound on Sound Award
Costa Mesa, CA -- QSC, LLC is pleased to announce that it has been nominated for a 2020 Sound on Sound Award by the readers of Sound on Sound magazine for its CP Series of compact, powered loudspeakers. Introduced last year, CP represents the best-in-class active loudspeaker solution for customers who desire QSC performance, quality and reliability at a value price point. Further enhancing the products’ appeal, an ultra-compact form factor and light weight combine to offer effortless transport and deployment in both portable and installed applications. The SOS Awards were launched in 2010 with a mission to honor and celebrate the finest products in the industry. Now in its 10th year, each voting category consists of a shortlist of nomination selected by the SOS editorial team, and voted on by the industry. The results will be compiled and announced in time for…
QSC Named 2019 Sound Reinforcement Line of the Year in the Annual Dealers’ Choice Awards by Musical Merchandise Review (MMR)
Costa Mesa, CA (December 20, 2019) – QSC is very proud to announce that it has been named Sound Reinforcement Line of the Year in the 27th Annual Musical Merchandise Review "MMR" Magazine Dealers’ Choice Awards. The election of QSC by musical instrument retailers as the top sound reinforcement brand caps an already monumental year for the company, highlighted by the introduction of the KS118 subwoofer in October and already a runaway best-seller. MMR Magazine states, “Our voters decided this year that QSC is delivering on their mission statement to be the ‘leading and most trusted provider of high quality professional audio/ video systems. QSC understands that sound reinforcement isn’t just about concert and club-thumping beats. Sure, their loudspeakers serve thousands – if not millions – of eager concertgoers in any given year, but the California-based company taps…
Montreal’s Musicopratik Rehearsal Studios Upgrades with QSC CP Series Loudspeakers
MONTREAL, QC (December 18, 2019) — [De, Fr] — For 15 years, Musicopratik has been one of the premier band rehearsal studios in Montreal, and the only one in the artistically and culturally vibrant borough of Verdun. “We know we’re not the only game in the whole city, so we like to stand out by offering our customers very high-quality equipment to practice on, from backline to speakers,” says co-owner Patrick Mainville. Ever in pursuit of that high standard, Musicopratik recently swapped out every single main and monitor speaker in their rehearsal rooms for QSC CP12 compact active loudspeakers. “We have five rehearsal rooms, ranging from 15 by 15 feet to about 20 by 24. We also have a recording studio with a prep area, and the CP12s went in all of them,” Mainville continues. “Since we started in 2005, we’ve owned many major brands of powered stage monitors except QSC.…
QSC EMEA takes Live Sound business direct in Germany, the UK and Ireland
Sinsheim, December 16, 2019 - [De] - As of January 1, 2020, QSC EMEA will become the exclusive distributor of its live sound portfolio in Germany and in the UK and Ireland. QSC is pleased to announce its new distribution organization. Freddy Sicko, Director Live Sound Central Europe, will lead the organization in those countries. Sicko, who joined QSC EMEA at the beginning of 2019, brings decades of pro-audio industry experience in various leadership positions to the company. Most recently, he was General Manager of Shure MEA’s office in Dubai. QSC EMEA welcomes two seasoned sales professionals Carsten Schiedeck, Sales Manager Retail, Germany, and Emma O’Sullivan, Sales Manager Retail, the UK and Ireland, who will be responsible for MI retailers in those countries respectively. Jens Stellmacher, Director Business Development, AV Rental, will be responsible for…
QSC KS118 Active Subwoofer Nominated for 2019 Best Loudspeaker in 34th Annual Music and Sound Dealer Awards
Costa Mesa, CA (December 5, 2019) — [De, Fr, Es] — QSC, LLC is proud to announce that its KS118 active subwoofer has been nominated as the 2019 Best Loudspeaker of the Year in the 34th Annual Music & Sound Dealer Awards presented by Music and Sound Retailer magazine. The KS118, a very high output active subwoofer producing impressive low frequencies, is the newest member of the popular KS Series family. It features robust design, legendary QSC amplification and versatile DSP features, making it an ideal choice for mobile entertainment, AV rental, event production, clubs and performance venues for which dynamic sound reproduction and commanding low frequency performance are needed. The KS118 joins a number of other QSC Live Sound products that have been honored with Music and Sound Dealer nominations and awards in recent years, including the QSC K.2 Series™ active…
Rentex Upgrades AV Rental Portfolio with QSC CP Series
CANTON, MA (November 4, 2019) – Founded in 1980, with locations in major cities from coast to coast, Rentex is one of the largest and most trusted wholesale renters of audio-visual equipment in the USA. Providing equipment to AV rental, staging, production and other live event companies, their business model thrives by partnering with their customers, ensuring that that contractors and event producers can handle any scenario their clients might throw at them. In fulfillment of this goal, Rentex offers a mammoth selection of meticulously maintained and quality-checked equipment - that assortment most recently enhanced with the purchase of 200 QSC CP Series CP12 compact powered loudspeakers. “We house and maintain a very large inventory with the goal of augmenting our clients’ inventories,” says Director of Technology Ken Carmichael. “We can have gear at any…
QSC Welcomes William Chan and Promotes Andy Pearce and Ron Marchant
Costa Mesa, Calif. (October 30, 2019) – [De, Es, Fr] – QSC is pleased to announce William Chan has joined QSC as Senior Director, North Asia reporting to Markus Winkler, SVP Asia and EMEA. In this newly created role, William is responsible for sales and business operations in the North Asia region, including a focus on driving new revenue growth in Greater China and Japan for QSC Live Sound, Cinema, and Systems portfolios. Additionally, William will be part of the APAC leadership team developing and implementing the long term expansion of QSC’s sales and support infrastructure across Asia. William brings with him a highly successful career leading Asia sales and marketing teams, with over fifteen years in senior leadership roles. Prior to QSC, William served as Managing Director for Shure Asia Limited, where he drove strategic direction and management of all vertical…
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31st Annual Jim McDonnell Lake Swim Returns to Lake Audubon
RestonNow.com May 24, 2018 at 1:30pm
The Reston Masters Swim Team will host the 31st annual Jim McDonnell Lake Swim on Sunday at Lake Audubon.
The swim has been held every Memorial Day weekend since 1988, according to the team’s website. In 1999, it was named in honor of McDonnell, a founding member of the team who was on the committee that first organized the swim. McDonnell died from lymphoma in 2016.
“Reston Masters is excited to host the 2018 U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS) Middle Distance Open Water National Championship,” said Reston Masters President Brian Evans. “Our 2-mile swim is the kickoff race of the USMS championship series and we are ready to deliver a top-notch, well-organized experience for JMLS competitors.”
Up to 200 swimmers will vie for national champion status. Swimmers take part in a two-mile open water loop around Lake Audubon. This year, two visually impaired swimmers are competing, along with a young woman trying to qualify for the U.S. Special Olympics
A practice swim will take place on Saturday.
Proceeds from this year’s event will be donated to Lymphoma charities. In the past, recipients have included Herndon-Reston Fish, Inc. and the Lymphoma Research Foundation.
More information about the event is available online.
Here’s more about the event from the organizers:
Swimmers of all abilities compete every year. This year’s field includes elite swimmers like 66-year old Shirley Loftus-Charley, a USMS All-American and All-Stars champion and record holder, who is competing in her 31st consecutive JMLS.
Swimmers in the 30-34 year age group will be watching out for distance swimmer and triathlete Shannon Greene. Shannon has placed first in the 1-mile race three times, and has taken first in the 2-mile twice.
“You can expect to see some fast swim times,” said Evans.
One swimmer is hoping to score a qualifying time to compete with Special Olympics USA, and two visually impaired swimmers are also taking on the challenge.
Competitors will swim counter-clockwise around buoys over a 1-mile course. Those swimming the 2-mile race will make the trip twice.
Photo by Ryan Dawson
Lake Audubon Memorial Day Reston Masters Swimming swimming
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Death toll rises in Azerbaijan-Armenia border clashes
By Nvard Hovhannisyan, Nailia Bagirova
BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) - Seven Azeri soldiers and a civilian and four Armenian servicemen were killed on Tuesday in the third day of border clashes between countries that fought a war in the 1990s over the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The international community worries about clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan in part because of the threat to instability in the South Caucasus, a region that serves as a corridor for pipelines taking oil and gas to world markets.
Azerbaijan and Armenia both said exchanges of fire that began on Sunday had continued into Tuesday, and each accused the other of ceasefire violations and shelling.
An army major-general and a colonel were among seven Azeri servicemen killed, Azeri deputy defence minister Kerem Veliyev said, adding: “Devastating blows were inflicted on the enemy.”
Armenia’s Defence Ministry said four of its servicemen, including a major and a captain, had been killed in skirmishes. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan said the city of Berd had been shelled near the border but Armenian forces had “destroyed the Azeri bases” that fired on it.
Armenia and Azerbaijan, two former Soviet republics, have long been in conflict over Azerbaijan’s breakaway, mainly ethnic Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh. But the latest clashes occurred around the Tavush region in northeast Armenia, some 300 km (190 miles) from the enclave.
Russia urged the two sides to cease fire and show restraint, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Moscow was ready to act as a mediator.
NATO called on Azerbaijan and Armenia to take all necessary measures to prevent further escalation, according to James Appathurai, the U.S.-led alliance’s special representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia.
President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would stand against any attack on Azerbaijan, with which it has strong historical and cultural ties and is involved in joint energy projects.
“It is our binding duty to mobilise all our political, diplomatic, social relations in our region and our world in this direction,” he told a news conference.
Ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh declared independence in the enclave during a conflict that broke out as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Though a ceasefire was agreed in 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia continue to accuse each other of shooting attacks around Nagorno-Karabakh and along the separate Azeri-Armenian frontier.
Additional reporting by Andrey Kuzmin in Moscow, Margarita Antidze in Tbilisi, Ali Kucukgocmen in Istanbul; Writing by Margarita Antidze; Editing by Timothy Heritage/Mark Heinrich/Catherine Evans
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You are here: Home / Fires/Accidents/Disasters / Davenport to investigate plan for protecting water treatment plant
Davenport to investigate plan for protecting water treatment plant
Downtown Davenport flooding.
After this year’s record-setting Mississippi River flooding, a study will soon be launched on how to best protect the Water Pollution Control Plant in Iowa’s third-largest city.
Nicole Gleason, Davenport’s Public Works director, says during the spring flood, the river at the Quad Cities rose to seven-point-seven feet over flood stage, or to a level of 22-point-seven feet — higher than ever before. Gleason says, “Because it’s never happened, we couldn’t say for sure, but with what we were seeing as far as flows into the plant and how the motors and things were all reacting, that’s where we felt somewhere between 24 and 25 would be our uh-oh moment.”
The plant serves Davenport, Bettendorf, Riverdale and Panorama Park, with a total population of around 170-thousand. Gleason says an engineering firm will come up with a list of projects and their costs to help the city decide how to pay for them. “Having the plant operational impacts all citizens, not just the people directly in the flood plain,” Gleason says. “We believe there would be a good chance of receiving grant money ahead of some of the other projects that may happen long-term.”
The study will take about six months to complete and cost 110-thousand dollars. At one point during the flood, as the water rose to dangerously high levels, employees lived in the plant for about nine days, sleeping on cots and working 12-hour shifts.
(By Herb Trix, WVIK, Rock Island)
Filed Under: Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News, Weather
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Rancho Santa Fe Association picks bank to refinance clubhouse loan
By Karen Billing
The Rancho Santa Fe Association has selected a Pacific Western Bank to refinance the Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club’s clubhouse renovation loan.
Back in 2006, the Golf Club took out two loans to pay for the balance of the cost to renovate the clubhouse. The renovation costs were not-to-exceed $11,833,000 million; the Association paid for some of the costs in cash. The loans included a larger one in the amount of $6 million and the smaller loan was for $2,148,418.
RSF Association Manager Pete Smith said the original intent was for the loans to be paid off in 10 years based on an enrollment of 45 new memberships a year. However, Smith said, after the economic downturn that number dropped to an average of 15 new memberships a year so it became clear that the loans would not be paid off at that rate.
The Golf Club and the Association came to a consensus last year to refinance and lock into a fixed rate loan rather than a variable rate loan. The first step, already completed, was that the Association replace the 5.75 percent, $1,650,000 million variable rate loan with a fixed 2 percent loan with a 10-year amortization and an annual payment of $182,184.
Their next step, was to pursue a fixed rate loan to replace the current loan in the amount of about $5,394,665 (the payoff amount as of Aug. 1, 2012). From five proposals, they selected the Pacific Western Bank’s terms.
Pacific Western Bank’s loan terms are an unsecured 4 percent fixed rate loan, with a 10-year balloon, built-in index rate that allows the Association to reset the loan at maturity.
Smith said the good news is that the monthly payment of $34,590 falls within the amount collected through the golf club special debt assessment and in 10 years they will have a total outstanding balance on both loans of $2.9 million, which they could pay off in another five years.
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An Epic Binge Watch You Can’t Refuse
January 31, 2016 January 31, 2016 Rex Hammock
Next time you’re looking for a binge classic, this is it.
I can’t believe I’ve never heard of The Godfather 1902-1959: The Complete Epic. Apparently neither has Rotten Tomatoes, as it has no reviews. First released in 1981, Epic is a re-edited seven-hour version of The Godfather and Godfather II, remixed into a “chronological” narrative instead of Coppola’s masterful flashbacks in the original films. Epic also added some scenes that didn’t make it into the original theatrical versions.
I vaguely recall there was a version of I & II re-edited into a TV mini-series called The Godfather Saga, but that version stuck to the original story sequence and edited out what Emily Litella used to call “violins on television” and dirty words.
Epic aired on HBO last Sunday (Jan. 24, 2016) and this link (at least, temporarily) has information about more showings and the film’s on-demand options (HBO Go, HBO Now, Cable company apps, etc.) and future air dates.
The Godfather for the Binge-watch Era
While I was not able to “binge watch” it at one stretch (it took me most of a week), I can’t imagine there being a greater example of how to remix two classic films into the perfect binge whole. Epic successfully appropriates and changes an existing work of art to create something completely new and completely different, and, in its own way, completely great. However…
Two things to note about Epic:
1 | It wisely doesn’t appropriate anything from the god-awful Godfather III. In fact, I think it was released even before there was a Godfather III.
2 | If you have never seen Godfather I & II, don’t watch Epic first. Here’s a quote from The AV Club’ review of Epic that explains why:
“While this sequential edit is an interesting way to rewatch the films after you’ve already seen them a half dozen times, it does lose some of the cinematic magic that made these films the classics they are today. The tragedy of Michael’s missteps as the Corleone patriarch is diminished somewhat when no longer juxtaposed with his father’s rise to power.”
That said, the reviewer goes on to admit:
…”(such) trifling criticisms are mitigated by glimpses at reinstated scenes like a conversation between Michael and his father about the need to avenge the murder of the eldest Corleone son, Santino (Sonny).”
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Some info about RUSSIAN
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Which family does Russian belong to?
Pусский язык, russkiy yazyk, also known as the great Russian to distinguish it from the small Russian or Ukrainian and from the White Russian or Belarusian, is the most important of the Slavic languages, spoken as mother tongue by over 100 million people, but also used as a spoken and written language by all inhabitants of Russia, who study it at school since the second elementary class. With the Ukrainian and Belarusian, it forms the Eastern group of the Slavic languages.
Where does Russian come from?
The first literary documents date back to the mid-XI century (Ostromir’s Gospel); the first texts are written in Old Slavonic or Church Slavonic, which spread in Russia together with Glagolitic script first, and Cyrillic then. For a long time Church Slavonic remained the exclusive language of liturgy, religion and the official documents, while the spoken language as well developed, partly on its own and partly modeled by the cultured/written language itself, similarly to what happened to the Romance languages in relation to Latin.
This first phase, known as Old Russian, was centered in Kiev, the capital city of the first strong political formation, and ended with the XV century. In fact, the emergence of Moscow increased the importance of its dialect, first as the language of the Chancellery, and then as the literary language, finally relegating the Church Slavonic to liturgy use.
This second phase, known as Medium Russian (XVI-XVII centuries), marked the final breakthrough of the language of Moscow, which also found its first codification in the Grammar by Smotritzkij (1648) and in the compilation of the first Dictionaries.
A third phase, known as Modern Russian, began with the reign of Peter I the Great (1689-1725), who started Russia 's westernization trend, also as concerned the language: in particular the lexicon was enriched with many terms of the Western languages: German, French and also Italian.
The attempt of M. V. Lomonosov to recover the Church Slavonic did not interrupt the development of spoken Russian, to which Pushkin first, and then the other great writers of the XIX century, further gave complete autonomy and rich expressive possibilities.
What are the main linguistic features of Russian?
The main features that differentiate Russian from the other Slavic languages are:
1.- The passage of short i and u respectively to e and o;
2.- The passage of the original er, or, el, ol, when followed by a consonant, to ere, oro, ele, olo;
3.- Russian keeps a movable accent, which instead has been fixed in other languages on certain syllables;
4 .- It has two numbers (singular and plural, but until the XV century there are traces of a dual), three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), six cases (Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Instrumental, Prepositional) with some remnants of a seventh (Vocative);
5 .- It marks the article, both definite and indefinite;
6 .- In the organization of the verbal system, "aspect" prevails on tense.
The vocabulary has absorbed many foreign elements due to the historical events of Russia: many terms have bee imported from Greek, Latin, Scandinavian, Slavonic, German, French, Italian, Iranian, Mongolian, which have greatly enriched the still overwhelmingly prevailing Slavic heritage.
Today there are three main dialect areas: Northern, Southern and Central. Northern dialects are generally less advanced than the Central-Southern: the main difference between these two areas is the different pronunciation of pre-tonic o, which remains o in the Northern dialects (the phenomenon is called okan'e), while in the Central-Southern dialects it tends to a pronunciation quite close to a (the phenomenon is called akan'e). The literary and cultured language, developing from the central dialect of Moscow, has the akan'è. The dialectal differences are still mainly phonetic, making mutual understanding virtually complete even among speakers of distant regions.
Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet; it originally included 43 signs, but it gradually simplified: the last spelling reform, a decree of People's Commissars of October 1918, on the basis of a resolution by the Academy of Sciences, 1917, has led to a list of 32 letters, eliminating those that only accounted for etymological information devoid of practical import. The writing reproduces with sufficient accuracy the phonological features of the spoken language.
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2013 posts driest quarter on record
The Sierra Nevada experienced the driest first quarter in more than 100 years, the National Weather Service reported on Tuesday.
According to readings taken at Tahoe City, only 2.68 inches of moisture fell during the first three months of 2013, less than the previous record of 3.62 inches set in 1976. On average, the west shore of Lake Tahoe receives 16.3 inches of precipitation during the first three months.
Normally one of the best producing months of the water year, Minden reported receiving .29 inches during March, or 26 percent of average. Ebbetts Pass at the top of the Carson River basin recorded 4.1 inches of moisture during the month, or slightly more than half of average. Because of a wet December, Ebbetts is still at 80 percent of average and Minden has 89 percent of average of the year.
Last weekend’s storm left a tenth of an inch of rain in parts of the Valley.
Rain is forecast for Thursday and Friday bringing up to a half inch in the Sierra and up to .1 inches in Carson Valley.
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Posted on December 15, 2020 by Record Herald
Vaccinations ramp up as 2nd COVID shot nears
By Matthew Perrone, Lauran Neergaard and David Porter - AP Health Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds more hospitals around the country began dispensing COVID-19 shots to their workers in a rapid expansion of the U.S. vaccination drive Tuesday, while a second vaccine moved to the cusp of government authorization.
A day after the rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus shots, the Food and Drug Administration said its preliminary analysis confirmed the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine developed by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health. A panel of outside experts is expected to vote to recommend the formula on Thursday, with the FDA’s green light coming soon thereafter.
The Moderna vaccine uses the same technology as Pfizer-BioNTech’s and showed similarly strong protection against COVID-19 but is easier to handle because it does not need to be kept in the deep freeze at minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 70 Celsius).
Another weapon against the outbreak can’t come soon enough: The number of dead in the U.S. passed a staggering 300,000 on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University, with about 2,400 deaths and over 210,000 new cases per day on average.
The devastating toll is only expected to grow in coming weeks, fueled by holiday travel, family gatherings and lax adherence to mask-wearing and other precautions.
Packed in dry ice, shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine began arriving Tuesday at more than 400 additional hospitals and other distribution sites.
The first 3 million shots are being strictly rationed to front-line health workers and nursing home patients, with hundreds of millions more shots needed over the coming months to protect most Americans.
The rollout provided a measure of encouragement to exhausted doctors, nurses and other hospital staffers around the country.
Maritza Beniquez has had a front-row seat to the devastation the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought on communities of color in New Jersey, so she jumped at the chance to take the vaccine that is being hailed as a turning point in the long and grueling battle against the virus.
The 56-year-old emergency room nurse at Newark’s University Hospital became the first person in New Jersey to receive the vaccine on Tuesday. All recipients will get a second shot a few weeks later.
“I’m happy that in another month and a half I won’t have to be afraid to go into a room anymore. I won’t have to be afraid to perform chest compressions or be present when they’re intubating a patient,” Beniquez said. “I don’t want to be afraid anymore, and I don’t want to have that risk of taking it home to my own family and my own friends.”
Widespread acceptance of the vaccine is critical to eventually protecting enough of the U.S. population to defeat the outbreak. But just half of Americans say they want to get vaccinated, while about a quarter don’t and the rest are unsure, according to a recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Health Research.
In Manchester, New Hampshire, intensive care unit nurse Heidi Kukla said she volunteered to get the shot first to help dispel fears about the vaccine’s long-term effects and the speed with which it was developed.
“I know a lot of people have reservations about getting the vaccine,” she said after getting vaccinated at Elliot Hospital. “But I can assure you that there is absolutely nothing worse than being a patient on a ventilator in an ICU anywhere in this country right now with COVID.”
The federal government is planning hundreds more shipments through the weekend.
Shots for nursing home residents won’t start in most states until next week, when some 1,100 facilities are set to begin vaccinations. Government officials project that 20 million Americans will be able to get their first shots by the end of December, and 30 million more in January.
That projection assumes swift authorization of the Moderna vaccine, which also requires two shots for full protection. The U.S. government has purchased 100 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and orders for 200 million doses of the Moderna serum. Assuming no manufacturing or distribution delays, that would be enough to vaccinate 150 million Americans by mid-2021.
Elsewhere around the world, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is being given in Britain and Canada. And European Union regulators moved up a meeting to assess the vaccine to Dec. 21, more than a week earlier than planned, under pressure from Germany and other countries on the continent.
In scrutinizing early results of a 30,000-person study, the FDA found that Moderna’s vaccine worked just about the same as Pfizer-BioNTech’s.
The Moderna vaccine was more than 94% effective overall at preventing COVID-19 illness, and 86% effective in people 65 and older. The FDA uncovered no major safety problems. Side effects can include fever, fatigue and aches as the vaccine revs up the immune system.
Even such a large study can’t detect very rare problems. But the FDA looked carefully for signs of allergic reactions after Britain last week reported some possible reactions among people with a history of severe allergies who received the Pfizer-BioNTech shot.
The FDA found no serious allergic reactions in the Moderna study. About 1.5% of vaccine recipients and 1.1% who got dummy shots reported possible smaller, “hypersensitivity” reactions.
Both Moderna’s and Pfizer-BioNTech’s shots are so-called mRNA vaccines. They aren’t made with the coronavirus itself, meaning there is no chance anyone could catch it from the shots. Instead, the vaccine contains a piece of genetic code that trains the immune system to recognize the spiked protein on the surface of the virus.
By Matthew Perrone, Lauran Neergaard and David Porter
AP Health Writer
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Popular Britain's Got Talent star Antonio Francis has died under tragic circumstances
He had been suffering with bad health for a long time
Antonio Francis, who found fame on Britain's Got Talent, has passed away at the age of 54.
It is reported that the 2011 semi-finalist, who was also known as 'Popeye', died after suffering a stoke.
Antonio competed in the 2011 series of the hit ITV talent show, and quickly became one of the most memorable contestants thanks to his unique talent of being able to pop his eyeballs out of their sockets.
But after sadly falling ill, his devastated family confirmed that he passed away on Saturday August 18.
A message from his family revealed that Antonio briefly lived in Barbados before returning to Britain, and faced a number of health issues since he competed in Britain's Got Talent in 2011.
His son Dan Francis, who appeared on the same reality talent show two years after his father, said: "A week ago a family friend found him in his room on the floor unconscious where he had a stroke."
"What's crazy is he was there for at least six days so he'd survived for at least six days before we got him into hospital and for the first two days he was breathing by himself."
"This morning we woke up and I saw him take his last breath and then he stopped breathing."
Britain's Got Talent star and nurse Simonne Samantha Kerr reportedly stabbed to death
The Francis family are now raising funds as they hope to hold Antonio's funeral in Barbados.
"One of my dad's wishes which he's been saying for the last two years if I pass I want to be buried in Barbadoes and that's going to cost a crazy amount of money so what we're doing is we're going to try and raise as much money as possible," Dan explained.
"If we can get enough then we will send him to Barbados... we would love to bury his body in Barbados."
Antonio battled with several health complications, including memory loss, a minor stroke, heart failure and high blood pressure amongst other issues before his death.
The ITV star also found himself homeless at one point, when he returned to London after visiting his grandmother in Barbados.
Dan said: "Over the last ten years he's been in and out of hospital 90 per cent of the time."
"He was back and forth from Barbados where he was staying with our grandma and he started losing his memory."
"He randomly came back to London, we didn't know why because he had nowhere to stay so he started sleeping rough."
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"We found out he was sleeping on buses at night and staying round friend's houses and travelling up and down the country."
His son continued: "We didn't really know what was wrong, because he wouldn't tell us, plus he was losing his memory."
A fundraising page has been set up in Antonio's memory to help fund his funeral, and has already nearly met it's target of £5,000 since being launched on Monday.
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Ryder Cup Trophy Tour schedule
On August 26, 2016, 3:12pm EDT
The Ryder Cup is hitting the road – and you are invited.
Golf fans across the Unites States will have an extraordinary opportunity to show their support for the American team, and get up-close and personal with the Ryder Cup, as the Trophy makes an unprecedented tour this summer—traveling 5,000 miles and making 13 stops.
The month-long tour, a part of the “We Are 13” fan-engagement initiative to connect, energize and educate fans on the Ryder Cup, tees off on Aug. 29 and concludes Sept. 23, four days before the biennial tradition of golf’s pre-eminent event begins at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota. “We Are 13” refers to American golf fans across the country who will support the team like the 13th contestant on the 12-player squad.
Here is where you can see the Ryder Cup:
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29-Aug: Today Show, CNBC Squawk Box, Facebook Live, New York, NY
31-Aug: Golf Galaxy, Paramus, NJ, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
1-Sep: Chelsea Piers, New York, NY, 9 to 10 a.m.
1-Sep: Samsung 837, New York, NY, Noon to 3 p.m.
2-Sep: Whistling Straits at Destination Kohler, Kohler, WI
3-Sep: Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, Georgia vs. North Carolina, Atlanta, GA*
4-Sep: Topgolf Austin, Austin, TX, 1:30 to 5 p.m.
4-Sep: Texas vs. Notre Dame at Darrel K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, TX*
5-Sep: Ole Miss vs. Florida State at the Camping World Kickoff, Orlando, FL*
7-Sep: PGA Junior League Golf at Cog Hill Country Club, Lemont, IL, 2 to 3 p.m.
10-Sep: UNLV vs. UCLA at the Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, CA*
16-Sep: Brewers vs. Cubs at Wrigley Field Chicago, IL, Noon to 1 p.m.
17-Sep: Michigan State vs. Notre Dame at Notre Dame Stadium, South Bend, IN
20-Sep: Ryder Cup Preview at Star Tribune, Minneapolis, MN, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
20-Sep: Ryder Cup Night Tigers vs. Twins at Target Field, Minneapolis, MN, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
21-Sep: PGA Shop at MSP International Airport, Minneapolis, MN, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
23-Sep: Grand Opening of the Ryder Cup Shop at Hazeltine National, Chaska, MN, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
23-Sep: Under Armour Brand House at Mall of America, Bloomington, MN, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
* The Ryder Cup Trophy will be on the field during a select time of the game.
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Access to a Bastion Road property in Sunnybrae was blocked with officers on scene on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (File photo)
Report clears RCMP actions that led to fatal shooting of Shuswap suspect
Independent Investigations Office of BC releases findings on Jan. 7 incident in Tappen
Dec. 3, 2020 11:30 a.m.
The Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIOBC)has concluded its investigation into the death of a man who was shot by police in the Shuswap in January.
The report from IIOBC, the independent organization charged with investigating injuries and death resulting from interactions with the police, concluded the officers involved were not negligent in their use of tear gas, and there are no reasonable grounds to conclude the officer who shot the driver of a vehicle driving towards him did so unlawfully.
On the evening of Jan. 7, Salmon Arm RCMP officers responded to reports of serious mischief at a rural property north of Shuswap Lake. A witness told police that a trailer parked on the road outside their home had been seriously damaged, apparently struck by an axe or similar implement. Officers tracked a suspect to his residence using footprints in the snow, and when they tried to arrest him he brandished a knife and an axe. The RCMP officers withdrew and called backup including an Emergency Response Team (ERT).
@iiobc is issuing a public report today regarding the death of a male while being apprehended by members of the RCMP in Tappen https://t.co/hG7SKMB7GE
— IIOBC (@iiobc) December 3, 2020
According to the IIOBC report, efforts by ERT officers to negotiate with the suspect in the home were unsuccessful. A warrant was obtained authorizing officers to enter the home and arrest the man. The report states that tear gas was deployed and the suspect exited the home; he attempted to flee the scene in his vehicle before shots were fired and he was fatally wounded.
The man came out of the home three times in the early hours of the morning before trying to flee in his vehicle. He exited briefly with the axe in his hands shortly before 2 a.m., and then came out again about half an hour later to make obscene gestures at police and record video of them using a cell phone. He recorded the officers who initially tried to arrest him using a video camera and both recordings were considered in the IIO investigation.
The suspect exited the building a third time very close to officers who were attempting to deliver a cell phone through a broken window in order to allow them to communicate with him directly. One of the officers, who the report states feared for the safety of the others, fired a ‘less lethal’ 40mm sponge round at the man. Knocked to the ground by the sponge round, the suspect crawled back inside the house.
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The man inside the house was unresponsive to attempts by police to communicate with him using the cell phone and from windows broken throughout the incident.
Once the tear gas was deployed through one of the broken windows, the man exited the house and then tried to go back inside. Another officer tried to stop him with a less-lethal round but did not succeed. As the officer was reloading his launcher the man dashed from the house toward his parked vehicle. One of the officers had placed a spike strip beneath its tires earlier in the incident.
Now behind the wheel of his vehicle, the man drove around the house and onto a driveway towards the street. Two officers moved to cut off his flight from the driveway. One of the officers told investigators he believed the situation would result in the man fleeing on foot and being tracked down by a police dog.
Witness reports considered by investigators, which were given by RCMP officers and a civilian witness, describe the vehicle travelling down the driveway towards the two officers at the end. One officer who witnessed the incident estimated its speed at 30 to 40 km/h.
As the vehicle was travelling down the driveway an officer hit it in the windshield with a less lethal round but it did not stop. The IIO report states one of the officers at bottom of the driveway fired his rifle as the vehicle was travelling down the driveway towards him.
Examination of the fleeing vehicle shows it was struck by five bullets. The driver was hit in head, chest and forearm.
The vehicle quickly came to a stop in a snow bank. Officers removed the man from the vehicle and attempted to get him clear of the tear gas spilling from the residence. They began life-saving measures assisted by paramedics but at 3:36 a.m. the man was pronounced dead.
A toxicology report showed the man had no drugs in his system except a very low level of THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.
The report concludes officers took appropriate steps attempting to communicate with the man before tear gas was used. It also found the use of tear gas to force him from the building was appropriate.
Possible errors in not completely immobilizing the vehicle were acknowledged in the report but it found they do not amount to criminal negligence. The report goes on to state that once the man was in the vehicle, officers on foot were in imminent danger of serious harm or death.
The report did not reach a firm conclusion on whether the man behind the wheel of the vehicle was deliberately driving towards the officer who shot him or if he was blinded by darkness and the tear gas. Due to the slippery conditions and snow banks, getting out of the vehicle’s way was potentially hazardous, and it was reasonable for the officer to use his firearm to protect himself.
The morning after the incidents described in the IIO report, police investigators were seen around a property on Bastion Road in Sunnybrae.
jim.elliot@saobserver.net
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THE UPSTAIRS
Settle in for a long story of how River's Edge Cabinetry came to be.
Joe Foltz was 14 years old when he got his first job building custom homes and cabinetry. He loved it and stuck with the job through high school but when the owner decided to retire, Joe faced a big decision: buy the business or find something else to do. So in 2004, at the ripe old age of 19, Joe bought the business and set up Joe Foltz Construction in a tiny shed in New York Mills. It wasn't glamorous but it was a start.
Around this same time, Joe met Tasha. We'll spare you the details but these high school sweethearts love each other and their relationship is the foundation of everything we do. They were married in 2006 and started their life together. While Joe built custom homes and cabinets, Tasha finished nursing school and began her career as a delivery room nurse. Life flew by and their family grew quickly to include four beautiful daughters they love dearly.
Eventually the business outgrew the New York Mills location so in 2008, Joe and Tasha decided to relocate to a large shop near Perham on the Ottertail River. Just like that, River's Edge Cabinetry was born. We handcraft every piece of our cabinetry in this shop, and we love how the serene location inspires our team and influences our work.
Something a lot of people don't know about the cabinetry business: if you don't love it, you won't make it. Custom cabinets are one of the main features of a dream home which means they have to be perfect, and the process takes time. That's why in 2014 Tasha left her lucrative nursing career and devoted herself to River's Edge Cabinetry full-time. Thankfully, the good Lord provides. Clients love working and designing with Tasha, and our cabinetry business has continued to grow.
In May 2019, we opened the River's Edge Cabinetry showroom on Main Street in Perham. Although humble by nature, we are excited to show off our work which today is much more than cabinetry. We now offer Cambria countertops, custom furniture, outdoor grills, built-ins, fireplaces, windows and more. It took another leap of faith but as a company built on hard work and Christian values, we are confident the good Lord will see us through. Please stop in and say hi. We'd love to see you!
TASHA FOLTZ
OWNER | DESIGNER
JOE FOLTZ
OWNER | GM
This talented crew is vital to our success.
After graduating from Perham High School (where he took 4 years of cabinetry classes!) Jake got a degree in cabinetry, then spent the next 20 years building custom cabinets and trade show displays for some of the largest companies in the world. This experience taught him how to build almost anything, using almost any material, and we are truly blessed to have him on our team. Jake and his family live near Big Pine Lake in a home he finished using lumber sourced on site. Take one step inside his home and you'll see why we hired him on the spot.
JAKE HOLZER
Some men were born to work with their hands and Greg Meyer is one of those men. He first joined our team in 2012 doing construction but in his words "it's not detailed enough" so he moved over to our cabinetry shop about five years ago. He's a highly skilled perfectionist with a sharp eye for design or in other words, the perfect guy to outfit your dream home. The only bad thing we have to say about Greg is that he's a Packers fan! He and his growing family have called Perham home for several years, and he's an indispensable member of our team.
GREG MEYER
Joshua came to us five years ago based on the recommendation of Mr. Skow at Perham High School, so we knew he'd be good. A man of few words, he says you need two things to properly install cabinets: muscles and patience. He's known for his big smile, craftsmanship, and get-it-done attitude. He recently bought his first house and immediately started improving it, because that's what Joshua does.
JOSHUA YOUNG
With over 20 years in the design business, Bridget brings us a wide range of expertise in all aspects of design as well as knowledge in marketing. Her passion has always been designing a project from start to finish. Bridget loves working with people and adding their personality into a design. She is friendly, always willing to help and fun. Outside of work she loves spending her time with friends and family. Bridget's super power is her smile.
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Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Ukrainian: Майдан Незалежності [mɐjˈdɑn nezɐˈlɛʒnosʲtʲi], literally "Independence Square") is the central square of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine. One of the city's main squares, it is located on Khreshchatyk Street in the Shevchenko Raion. The square has been known under many different names, but often it is called simply Maidan ("square"). In the 19th century, the square contained buildings of the city council and noble assembly. Since the start of Ukraine's independence movement in 1990, the square has been the traditional place for political rallies, including four large-scale radical protest campaigns: the 1990 student "Revolution on Granite", the 2001 "Ukraine without Kuchma", the 2004 Orange Revolution, and the 2013–14 Euromaidan. Maidan is also a regular site for non-political displays and events, however since 2014 most of them were moved to Sofiyivska Square or elsewhere, because making entertainment on a place where people were killed during Euromaidan was considered inappropriate. Most notably, Christmas Fairs and New Year celebrations were moved to Sofiyivska Square.
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What does the airline owe me if a screaming infant ruins my flight?
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Ed Perkins
A nationally recognized reporter, writer, and consumer advocate, Ed Perkins focuses on how travelers can find the best deals and avoid scams.
He is the author of "Online Travel" (2000) and "Business Travel: When It's Your Money" (2004), the first step-by-step guide specifically written for small business and self-employed professional travelers. He was also the co-author of the annual "Best Travel Deals" series from Consumers Union.
Perkins' advice for business travelers is featured on MyBusinessTravel.com, a website devoted to helping small business and self-employed professional travelers find the best value for their travel dollars.
Perkins was founding editor of Consumer Reports Travel Letter, one of the country's most influential travel publications, from which he retired in 1998. He has also written for Business Traveller magazine (London).
Perkins' travel expertise has led to frequent television appearances, including ABC's "Good Morning America" and "This Week with David Brinkley," "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather," CNN, and numerous local TV and radio stations.
Before editing Consumer Reports Travel Letter, Perkins spent 25 years in travel research and consulting with assignments ranging from national tourism development strategies to the design of computer-based tourism models.
Born in Evanston, Illinois, Perkins lives in Ashland, Oregon with his wife.
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A reader says, “I recently spent eight hours on a transatlantic flight in which an infant two rows ahead of me screamed the entire time. When I asked the flight attendant to move the family with the screaming infant away from my section, I was told that the airline could not force the family to move. The flight attendant was also unwilling to move me into an empty seat in first class (away from the infant) because I had purchased a coach ticket. The screaming infant ruined my flight. Do I have any recourse now? Should the airline have moved me to a different seat as I requested?”
At this point, your chances of legal recourse are slim. You might want to submit a formal complaint, and the airline might offer you something as a “gesture of good will,” but it doesn’t have to do anything at all.
Airlines have a legal responsibility to fulfill the terms of the ticket: to get you safely to your destination. If an airline fails to do this in a timely manner, for reasons other than weather or some external “force majeure” problem, you’re probably due some compensation. Federal law specifies compensation when you’re bumped due to overbooking, and the airlines’ own policy statements require them to provide meals and overnight accommodations in cases of extended delays. While no specific rules or regulations cover other circumstances, general contract law provides adequate recourse for consumers.
Although airlines are required to provide a seat, however, nothing entitles you to a specific seat or a seat that is not near a crying baby–or, for that matter, a seat that isn’t next to someone who hasn’t showered in a week or who chews gum noisily. Flight attendants are supposed to solve such problems with tact, on the spot where possible. In such cases, the normal solution is to move you to a different seat. But when all other seats are full, there isn’t much you or the airline can do.
On your flight, the attendant should have moved you to that available first-class seat regardless of the fare you paid. I’ve heard of many such instances when a coach passenger in a bad seating situation was allowed to move to first class if no coach seats were available. It was your bad luck to run into a stickler for details. But now, after the fact, you can’t do anything about that.
Write a formal complaint letter to the airline, noting the distress you experienced and the attendant’s refusal to move you to an available seat in first class. Ask for some modest compensation–something like a discount voucher toward a future flight or, say, 5,000 additional frequent flyer miles.
If you get no reply, or a brushoff, you might think about taking the airline to small claims court. But your chances there would be iffy–and maybe not worth the hassle. It’s your call.
This Q&A is part of Ed Perkins’ new weekly series, AskEd & AnswerEd, exclusively for SmarterTravel.com. If you have a question or think you were mistreated during a recent travel experience, ask Ed how to fix the problem. E-mail your question to advice@smartertravel.com.
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'I Thought My Son Was Going to Die from an Allergy Attack'
A mom writes about her harrowing experience as a mother of a child with severe allergies
by Karen M. Soriano . Sep 9, 2018
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I am a single mother to a 12-year-old boy who has been suffering from allergies and anaphylaxis since he was an infant. Anaphylaxis, as defined by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, is a severe, whole-body allergic reaction to a chemical that has become an allergen (i.e., a substance that can cause an allergic reaction). It is a life-threatening type of allergic reaction.
Allergy runs in our family. My siblings and I all have allergies, but my son is the one with the most alarming manifestations. I first discovered that he had allergies when he was just four months old. I was breastfeeding at that time, and I kept eating egg pie. He would get rashes all over. His pediatrician ruled out neonatal rashes, then referred us to an allergologist. We did a skin test of many allergens, and we confirmed that my son was allergic to egg, among many other things.
Through the years, aside from managing his skin asthma, allergic asthma, and allergic rhinitis, we’ve had to run to the emergency room numerous times after he unknowingly ingested peanuts, or other nuts, or crustaceans. During an anaphylaxis bout, his eyes and lips would swell, and he would develop hives on his face. If it were nuts he had ingested, his throat would feel very itchy.
These things would all happen less than five minutes after ingesting the allergen. Back then, Benadryl was enough to serve as his first-aid treatment before we rushed him to the E.R. to get additional intravenous medication and shots.
We have always been very careful when it comes to handling his food, and I make sure to inform the school and the parents of his friends about his food allergies, especially since he already attends parties without me or a yaya.
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Worst attack
On July 5, 2014, my son attended his friend’s birthday party, held at a venue that was pretty far from reputable hospitals in Metro Manila. Three hours into the party, I received a phone call from his friend’s mom. She told me that she and my son were on their way to Medical City, after he had eaten a slice of cake, which neither she nor he was aware contained nuts. There was no allergen warning on the cake box.
My son complained of difficulty breathing, saying that it felt like his throat was closing. While in transit, he began to vomit. He was given Benadryl en route several times, because he couldn’t keep it down. At this time, we still didn’t have access to epinephrine auto injectors (orEpiPens, which are injections prescribed for anaphylactic emergencies), so we had to get him to the hospital as quickly as possible.
I arrived at the hospital before he did, and informed the staff that my son was on his way, suffering from his worst bout of anaphylaxis. I had to stay on the phone with my son the whole time he was on the road, to keep him awake and to coach him to focus on his breathing. It was the longest forty minutes of my life.
Once he arrived at the hospital, it took some time for medications to be administered because he had to be fully assessed. It was only when he started vomiting again and his eyes swelled up that the required and requested medications were given. After his condition had stabilized and he had already been observed for several hours, I requested that he be released and transferred to the hospital where his doctors are affiliated, for after-care consultation.
That night, as my son and I were preparing to sleep, he told me that he thought he was going to die, and that he was so scared because he was having such a hard time getting air in. There isn’t a day after that incident that I do not worry about receiving another phone call, either from the school or his friends’ parents. Though he now carries an EpiPen and diphenhydramine ampule (both for fi rst-aid) at all times, and is far more astute when it comes to what he eats, the fear will always be there—especially in our country where there isn’t much allergy awareness.
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“Allergy is an overdrive of one’s immune system, which is the body’s defense mechanism against substances thought to be foreign, but are usually harmless substances,” says allergologist Ma. Carmela Agustin Kasala M.D.
Family history is the greatest predictor, says allergologist Dr. Julia De Leon M.D. “If the parents have it, or even if it is just one parent, or if a sibling has it, then the child is already considered high risk for developing any form of allergic disease,” she explains. Around 15 percent of patients have no family history of allergic disease at all.
“Clinical manifestations usually appear as early as the first few months of life. These are the babies who have reactions to milk formula or, if they are exclusively breastfed, sometimes the mothers are taking something their kids are reacting to. It happens, but not very often,” explains Dr. De Leon, who has her clinic at Cardinal Santos Medical Center. “Sometimes you have kids reacting to food that is given to them during infancy. More often, it is one of the top eight foods: cow’s milk, egg, wheat, soy, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, and peanuts.”
Dr. Agustin-Kasala says that anaphylaxis occurs when there is a severe allergic reaction involving multiple organs, such as the skin, eyes, nose, larynx, lungs. According to a census conducted by Dr. De Leon and her team in a tertiary-care government hospital, there were 138 reported cases of anaphylaxis, with one recorded death from 2010 to 2014. The ages of the patients ranged from infant to over 60. The triggers were medication and food.
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Some children outgrow their allergies, although Dr. De Leon says this is not likely for people who developed allergies as adults. Some parents give little doses of what the child is allergic to, to build up his or her tolerance, but this is risky. Allergen immunotherapy is available—my son is undergoing it for his severe allergy to dust mites, which he cannot avoid, unlike food allergens—but it is a long-term commitment, and it can be costly.
So, what’s a mother to do? The only way to prevent anaphylaxis is to completely avoid the offending food and substances. This requires vigilance, which you will have to teach your child, as well as his or her yaya. Below are a few tips. Still, consult with your physician, particularly for medication that’s specific for the person with allergies.
• Always read the labels of pre-packed food products to check for allergens.
• When dining out, let the server know about food allergies and how severe they are. Read the menu carefully. Make sure there is no cross-contamination with allergens, as just a speck of nut or a drop of the allergen is enough to cause ananaphylactic shock.
• If you are not confident about a particular product or establishment, err on the side of caution, and look for another product or another place.
• If your child already goes to school and attends parties, make sure to inform his or her teachers of food allergies. Inform the celebrant’s parents ahead of time about food and substance allergies, and give them instructions in case of an emergency.
• Request for diphenhydramine and epinephrine kits from an allergologist, or get hold of EpiPens (only available abroad), and have them in your bag and with instructions on dosage and method of administration. My son has his EpiPen on his body at all times when he goes to school or on play dates. I put it in a small belt bag, along with his salbutamol inhaler (to help open up the airway as needed), which he hides under his button-down polo. I have also given the school infirmary an epinephrine and diphenhydramine kit, complete with instructions from his allergologist.
• Have your child wear a medical ID dogtag necklace with allergen information and what medications he needs to be given in case of an emergency, along with the names of his doctors and emergency contact details, including yours.
Awareness is key, and one can never be too careful. Food labels and complete disclosure of ingredients of pre-packed food products go a long way. Restaurants with fully trained staff that are informed about basic allergens present in their food is a big help to us consumers in making fully informed decisions about what to eat.
As of this writing, I am slowly reaching out to restaurateurs and food sellers to be more conscientious and comprehensive when it comes to labeling their products, disclosing their ingredients, and full yeducating their staff about food allergens and their dangers. After all, awareness saves lives.
This story originally appeared in the October 2015 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine Philippines. Minor edits have been made by the Smartparenting.com.ph editors.
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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park occupies some of the most biologically diverse forest on the globe, and the recently competed Species Mapper offers the opportunity to explore that diversity from a computer screen.
The Species Mapper is an online database featuring a drop-down menu of more than 1,800 park species. Pick one, and an interactive map appears, showing where that species is likely to be found in the park.
“Prior to us building out this application, we were saying that the park has one of the greatest biodiversity footprints, but there was no way to convince the public of that,” says Tom Colson, the architect of the project, which came into being thanks to some $50,000 from the park budget as well as a partnership with the University of Tennessee’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and its School of Arts.
Tom Remaley, the park’s inventory and monitoring program manager, says they also hope to integrate the tool into interpretation programs in order to further educate youth on the myriad of species that live in the park.
That’s not to say the project is complete. In fact, Remaley and Colson are already embarking on phase two. They’re working to enhance the mapper’s ability, perhaps creating a smartphone app, as well as creating species groupings such as fall wildflowers or butterflies.
Over time, the Species Mapper will also include more species in its drop-down menu. The 1,500 currently displayed represent just a small subset of the more than 19,000 species that have been documented inside the park. Some of them were left out for good reason.
“There are species that if you release the information, there’s a possibility of harm coming to that species or the habitat that species lives in,” Remaley says. “Ginseng is very valuable. If you do a distribution map, you’re basically helping out the poachers.”
Some species need clarification of the data points. For example, if data on black bears were fed straight into the computer with no curation, the map would show that black bears prefer campgrounds as their habitat. That’s not really true, but many black bear sightings occur in campgrounds when bears become artificially habituated to human food. For most species, however, the team just needs more time to crunch the data into the Species Mapper.
The Species Mapper is available at science.nature.nps.gov/ parks/grsm/species.
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February 23, 2012 Philip Mboya
Inter And Bayern Suffer Late Defeats
It was a night of shocks in the Champions League as Inter Milan and Bayern Munich both suffered late defeats to dent their chances of progressing onto the quarter finals of the tournament.
In Marseille, it took a 93rd minute header from Andre Ayew to hand the home side a significant advantage ahead of the return leg in two weeks time while Swiss club Basel broke the hearts of many Bayern fans with Valentin Stocker’s 86th minute strike.
Though both teams are not quite out of it just yet, the losses do show just what we should expect from both teams going into the last leg. I have to admit Inter had no one to blame but themselves.
For all the chances they created, it is a shame they were not 2 goals up going into the break. Things are starting to get a bit difficult for Ranieri who on Friday last week suffered a humiliating 3-0 home loss to Bologna.
The Italian tactician revealed that conceeding eespecially in the dying minutes of the game was a big blow.
“They played good football, they counter-attacked well and they made more chances than Marseille,” he said
“They lost, but they didn’t deserve to lose.”
Pressure is definitely mounting for Ranieri as his tenure at the club looks to becoming to an end after a series of poor results. His opposite number Didier Deschamps was however pleased with the win liken it to the Italian’s style of play.
“When we scored, there was no chance for them to come back,” Deschamps said.
“It’s true that it feels good when you’re on the right side of it. Often it’s the Italian sides who do that, but tonight it was us.”
“Compared to last season, we’ve progressed,” said the Frenchman, whose side are fifth in Ligue 1 and still competing in both domestic cup competitions. We had a 0-0 then (against United), now it’s 1-0. It’s a source of pride for me and my players, because they believed right until the end.”
Meanwhile in the Swiss city of Basel, another European giant was humbled. 2010 finalists Bayern Munich suffered a similar 1-0 loss to FC Basel thanks to a Valentin Stocker strike 4 minutes from time.
The 4 time European champions are currently experiencing a bad run of form which has seen them win only 3 of their last 7 games. Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer cut a distraught figure after the goal was scored and was later quoted as saying that his team deserved to lose.
“It’s of course a very bitter defeat for us,” he said.
“You can’t even say it wasn’t deserved, we didn’t play well and didn’t take our chances. We have to deal with this internally now and fix the problems quickly. There were too many mistakes and we have to cut them out.”
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Am a passionate football fan who enjoys every aspect of the game. When am not watching or writing about it, then you can find me on the pitch trying out some of Ronaldinho's neat flicks and tricks!
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Dongho and His Bride Will Have a Private Wedding
by K. Do
Former U-KISS member Dongho intends to have a private wedding.
According to iWedding, who is in charge of his wedding plans, the groom will get married to his one-year older girlfriend at Patio9’s wedding hall which is located in the Gangnam district of Seoul. On November 25, a representative revealed, “The bride-to-be is a non-celebrity and both sides want to have a quiet wedding. There are no plans for a press conference and any media exposure.” It appears as though they want to have their wedding as private as possible.
Dongho had previously explained his desire to get married at a young age due to the couple’s love for one another.
Their wedding is scheduled to take place on November 28 with comedian Byun Ki Soo emceeing and Super Junior’s Kyuhyun and McKay Kim singing congratulatory songs.
Congratulations to the happy couple!
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2008 Suzuki GSX-R750 - Added by Csaba.nospam.aol.com on 05-Oct-2020
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Suzuki GSX-R750 is a family of 750 cc sports motorcycles from Suzuki's GSX-R series of motorcycles. Looking like a Suzuki Endurance racer, it can be considered to be the first affordable, modern racer-replica suitable for road use. It was introduced at the Cologne Motorcycle Show in October 1984.
Air and oil cooled
The air and oil cooled models can be divided into the first generation and second generation, colloquially referred to as 'slabbies' and 'slingshots' respectively. The 1985-1987 models featured very flat bodies compared to modern sport-bikes, hence the term 'slab-sided'. The 1988-1991 (1992 USA) models are sometimes referred to as slingshots because the carburetors introduced in 1988 were marketed as slingshot carburetors (slingshot describes the cross section of the semi-flat slide carbs).
GSX-R750 (F) 1985
The original model featured a lightweight aluminum alloy frame, flatslide carbs, twin discs with 4-pot calipers, and 460-millimetre (18 in) tyres both front and rear. To save weight, the designers specified an air-and-oil-cooled engine, rather than a water-cooled engine. The seat has separate front and rear sections but from 1986 onwards all models have a one-piece seat.
GSX-R750 (G) 1986
The 1986 model received a 25 mm longer swing arm to improve the handling. Apart from a modified belly pan and upgraded headlamps there is very little difference between the 1985 and 1986 models. 1986 is the first year the model was introduced to the US.
GSX-R750R 1986
Racing homologation Limited Edition model, limited production. Including a dry clutch system, steel tank, solo seat rear section bodywork and Limited Edition graphics, as well as the GSX-R 1100's adjustable anti-dive forks.GSXR1100 rims large discs and 1100 calipers
GSX-R750 (H) 1987
The 1987 model received upgraded 41 mm front forks with NEAS (New Electrically Activated Suspension) from the previous year's RR and a steering damper was fitted as standard. The fuel tank capacity was increased to 21 litres.
GSX-R750 (J) 1988
First major revision. New chassis design, engine revisions and body work. Introduction of a new short-stroke version of the oil-cooled engine, now displacing 748 cc. Engine had 73 mm bore and 44.7 mm stoke and could achieve higher engine speeds (13,000 rpm redline indicated, but rev limiter engaged at 13,500 according to the Suzuki shop manual). Internal engine dimensions changed to accommodate the new bore and stroke. This engine used larger valves and carburetors than previous years. Mikuni model BST36SS 'Slingshot' carbs were 36 mm diameter and featured vacuum operated slides; the slide cross section resembled the shape of a slingshot. A four spring clutch was used on the short stroke motor. New styling, and twin black silencers. Wheels were now a 17-inch (430 mm) diameter, three spoke design and used a 160/60VR17 in the rear and 120/70VR17 in the front. Slingshot graphic first appeared on the bodywork. Forks now used a cartridge design and were 43 mm in diameter. The second generation model was heavier than the first but had a stiffer frame and more power.
GSX-R750 (K) 1989
Minor changes such as: modified lower bodywork, changes to graphics and silver exhaust silencers. Magazines reported that the exhaust manifold now featured small chamfers on the collector for increased ground clearance. Cycle magazines also reported a change to the rear shock mounting geometry and front fork length to improve ground clearance. Graphics/paint schemes varied slightly between global markets. US models were available in blue/white and red/white schemes. The SACS acronym decal, located on the lower body work of the blue/white models, changed from a diagonal lettering to a straight lettering.
Limited edition racing homologation model. The redesigned engine reverted to the original long stroke (70 x 48.7 mm) configuration. The crankcase, crankshaft connecting rods and clutch were upgraded to serve as a ready to race platform. The RR also received new 40 mm Slingshot carbs and 4-into-1 exhaust pipe, close-ratio gearbox, braced rear swing arm, single-seat unit and 19 l aluminium fuel tank. Only 150 were sold in US.
GSXR750RK 1989
The GSX-R750RK, also known as the RR, was a limited edition a version first produced in 1989. Out of 500 made, 200 went to Europe and none to the US.
GSX-R750 (L) 1990
Although this model looks very similar to the previous '89 model many changes were made. The 90 model featured changes to the engine, suspension, body work, brakes and chassis. This was the first GSX-R to be fitted with inverted forks as standard (USA models retained the conventional forks until 1991), and returned to the bore and stroke of the original long-stroke engine.
The engine returned to the 749 cc engine bore and stroke dimensions of the original long-stroke engine but still maintained the 13,000 rpm redline. It now featured mm valve (smaller than the 88-89 short stroke but larger than the 85-87) and used larger carburetors.
The new Mikuni model BST38SS carburetors were 38 mm diameter and featured an additional "Powerjet" high-speed circuit that was used to fine tune fuel mixture from 10,000 rpm to the rev limiter. In the unrestricted USA bikes, the Powerjet circuit was jetted with a "zero" sized jet and activating the circuit simply required replacing the "zero" jet with a #57.5 to #62.5 jet. All other worldwide bikes with the 38 mm carbs came equipped with a functioning Powerjet circuit. The slide breathers were now divorced from air box.
The exhaust system was also changed, gone were the dual silencers and replaced with one stainless steel silencer on the right side. The transmission output shaft was lengthened to accommodate a wider wheel. A new curved oil-cooler design and oil lines (attached to the oil pan similar to the original 85-87 engines) were installed.
The frame was changed for 1990 and used some of the features from the 1989 GSX-R 1100 frame. The rake was now 25.5 degrees and wheelbase 55.7 inches (1,410 mm). The front suspension now had inverted forks, the triple clamps (yokes) and handlebars were changed to accommodate the new forks. The rear suspension featured a new damper (shock) and swingarm. The rear damper (shock) now had a remote reservoir and damping adjustment. The revised swingarm now featured cast ends for the axle adjustment. The rear wheel was widened to 5.5 inches (140 mm) (previously 4.5 inches (110 mm)) but the tire size remained the same. A non-adjustable steering damper was added which attached from the left frame rail to a clamp on the left fork (US models did not receive the damper but the frame had the tapped mounting holes). The rear sprocket carrier and sprocket changed to a six-bolt design (previously five). The front brake rotors changed to a slotted design (previously cross drilled holes).
The body work changed slightly also. The side vents became less rectangular and in a slightly different position. Anew fender was also used with the inverted forks (except US).
GSX-R750 (M) 1991
The '91 GSX-R750M gained 15 kg over the previous model. The most notable feature of the " M " are the faired in headlamps and a slanted nose, both of which were designed to reduce drag. Also fitted was a new larger seat and new rear body work that featured twin tail lamps. This was the last GSX-R to use the oil-cooled SACS engine (except for US). Internal engine changes included a new valvetrain that used one dedicated cam lobe and rocker arm (finger follower) per valve (previous models used one lobe and one forked rocker per two valves). Valve clearance (lash) was now adjusted with shims (previous models used a screw and nut). The cam duration and indexing changed slightly as well as the porting according to a magazine article. The rear tyre width was increased to a 170 mm section width. The gauges also changed to white coloured needles (previously amber coloured).
GSX-R750 (N) 1992 Oil Cooled
1992 US California models are the same as the 1991 with different paint and graphics (Tiger). All other markets got the new water-cooled GSX-R 750. Mikuni Carburetor 36
GSX-R750 (WN) 1992
New water-cooled engine and revised frame, bodywork and suspension. USA market models retained the oil-cooled engine and the USA 1992 model is basically the same as the 91 model with different graphics. A sleeved down version was available as the GSXR-600 for 92 and 93, both years were available with inverted forks. The 1992 GSXR-600 was water-cooled for the US market while the 750 had to wait one more year.
GSX-R750 (WP) 1993
Mostly cosmetic changes, major revision of engine internals, the crank & connecting rods were forged steel instead of cast iron. Valve-train was revised as well which allowed for a significant increase in power.
GSX-R750 (WR) 1994
Reduced power and weight on last years model. The inverted forks for this year were blue anodized. Swinging arm now has upper bracing (similar to 750RK) rather than 'banana' style of previous model.
GSX-R750 SPR 1994-1995
The 'SPR' limited-edition racing homologation model has special factory parts including wide-mouthed TRM40 carbs, close-ratio gearbox, magnesium engine covers, alloy water pump, six-piston brake calipers, and a new braced swingarm. A wider rear wheel holding a wider 180 rear section tyre was also fitted. The 'SPR' was 10 kilos lighter than the WP.
GSX-R750 (WS) 1995
Last model to use the double-cradle for more stiffness over the 94 model year and the top fairing was all new with lighter, twin reflector beam headlights. Touted by Motorcyclist as having the most ground clearance leant over, just behind a Ducati 916.
SRAD
The SRAD (Suzuki Ram Air Direct) provides air intakes at the front that force air directly into the airbox. All models as of 1996 have employed this design.
GSX-R750 (T) 1996
The 1996 GSX-R introduced a new twin-spar frame which was derived from Suzuki's RGV 500 GP racer. A new compact and lightweight engine incorporated magnesium covers on the cylinder head, starter motor and clutch cover to aid weight reduction. These changes resulted in a decrease in weight by 20 kg to 179 kg, while power had increased to a 128 hp (95 kW). This year's model finally addressed the weight problems that had plagued the GSX-R through the first half of the 90s.
Other features included electronically controlled "main jet block off under decel" system (for emissions purposes) 39mm Mikuni carburetors and 43 mm inverted forks which were fully adjustable. Also a 17in rear rim was fitted as standard with a 180/50-17 size tire as fitted to all models from 1996 to 1999.
GSX-R750 (V) 1997
Minor internal tweaks on the 1996 model, improved aerodynamics.
GSX-R750 (W) 1998
Introduction of electronic fuel injection. Gain in power to 134 bhp.
GSX-R750 (X) 1999
Only minor modifications were carried out on the 1999 model consisting of new graphics and a few internal tweaks. The 1999 Model year GSX-R won the sport bike of the year award and produced 134 Crank Horsepower for the final year of the SRAD design. The manual also lists the rear wheel as having increased to 190mm from 180mm in the previous years. A 6" rear wheel was supplied on UK model bikes from 1998 Model WW. This rim took a 190/50/17 tyre.
GSX-R750 Y 2000
All New Model covering 2000 through 2003 -Lighter Stronger Faster: Sometimes called superman bike because of headlight shape.
Engine: Much smaller yet stronger motor, upgraded fuel injection with improved fueling correction for barometric pressure / altitude, redesigned narrower cylinder head with straighter intake tracts, bigger air box, better ram air, stainless steel 4 into 1 exhaust, lighter stronger engine components and covers, increased cooling capacity.
Body: More aerodynamic bodywork, smaller frontal area, redesigned instrument cluster, new LCD information (odometer, coolant temperature, clock).
Frame: New re-designed twin spar frame, extended swingarm, lighter front brakes to reduce un-sprung mass, lighter cast wheels to reduce rotating mass.
GSX-R750 K1 2001
Transmission had a number of parts changed due to design defect that caused 2nd gear to slip and cause transmission failures. The input shaft and a number of other parts were upgraded and an internal service bulletin issued by Suzuki to its dealerships.
Few minor tweaks for 2002: Changes to the EFI, new adjustable swingarm, new mirrors, and new fully brushed exhaust.
Colours changed. First year that bikes have lights on 24 hrs (UK). Redesign year (Not UK).
Refined version of the 00-03 model years. ECU now 32 bit, from 16 bit, titanium valves, new body work, black powdercoated frame and swingarm, and 4-piston radially mounted Tokico brakes.
The engine produced 147 hp (110 kW) claimed power at crank shaft; 127.3 hp (94.9 kW) at 12,750 rpm rear wheel hp tested by bike magazine on uncertified dynamometer, and torque of 79 N.m (58.2 ft.lbf) @ 10,750 rpm. Redline was 14,500 rpm.
Dry weight was just 163 kg (359 lb) making it one of the lightest GSX-R's ever produced.
Besides changing color on the motorcycle, Suzuki celebrated their 20th anniversary by launching the Suzuki 20th Anniversary GSX-R 750, which included custom paint, custom exhaust and sunex brake rotors.... EL blue chain, blue seat and 20th anniversary placards.
GSX-R750 K6, K7 2006-2007
Redesign year. New frame and swingarm and motor. Stroke increased and transmission is now stacked. Rotors also went from 300 mm to 310 mm. Modifications compared to previous model include all new compact and lightweight 4-stroke, 4-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine designed for overall weight reduction, optimum combustion efficiency and power delivery Re-designed cylinder head with narrower valve angles creating a more compact combustion chamber design, higher 12.5:1 compression ratio, large intake and exhaust ports for improved intake and exhaust efficiency and high power output Valve bucket diameters are increased to work with more aggressive camshafts Lightweight titanium valves with steel alloy springs and aluminum spring retainers operated by thin-wall hollow camshafts to reduce weight and inertia
GSX-R750 K8, K9, L0 2008-2010
New model - revised headlights, new colors, multi-mode power adjustments. At the rear wheel, the engine produces 123 hp (92 kW) at 12,500 rpm, and torque of 53.4 lbf·ft (72.4 N·m) @ 11,200 rpm. The dry weight is 394 lb (179 kg).
GSX-R750 (L1-L7) 2011-2017
Currently the longest ever produced GSX-R 750 series without any major changes. New model, clean and sleek body style, new headlight, addition of Italian made Brembo brake calipers (front) and Nissin (back). The 2011 model is about 9 kilograms (20 lb) lighter than the previous year's model. It has a "back torque limiting" clutch that allows for slicker downshifting. A lightweight Showa Big Piston Fork (BPF) comes standard along with a Showa rear shock. Features a more compacted instrument panel which was inspired by the GSX-R1000 instrument panel. The engine power produced at the rear wheel is 127.9 hp (95.4 kW) @ 12,600 rpm. Torque at the rear wheel is 55.7 lbf·ft (75.5 N·m) @ 11,100 rpm. Wet Weight is 194.1 kg (428 lb).
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2004 Suzuki GSX-R600 - Added by Bryan.Croteau.nospam.msn.com on 25-Sep-2020
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The Suzuki GSX-R600 is a 600 cc class, or supersport, sport bike in Suzuki's GSX-R series of motorcycles.
Launched with a water-cooled 599 cc (36.6 cu in) inline-4 engine. The first model had the same body specifications as the 1992 GSX-R750, with the smaller engine and carried over through to the 1993 model year with no changes. It was not imported to UK.
Not produced.
Redesigned with the introduction of Suzuki Ram Air Direct (SRAD) and carried over through to the 2000 model year.
Redesigned with the introduction of fuel injection and carried over through to the 2003 model year with very few changes.
Redesigned which carried over through to the 2005 model year. Total redesign of the fairings and fuel tank. Inverted forks with radial-mounted brakes. Titanium valves, 32-bit ECU were some of the changes on the engine side.
Suzuki introduced an all-new GSX-R600. Underslung exhaust and slipper clutch introduced. Motor is a completely new, but with the same bore and stroke as before.
New subframe, bodywork, and fuel tank. Introduction of new Suzuki Drive Mode Selector (S-DMS).
9 kg Lighter overall, Showa Big Piston Fork (BPF), Brembo monobloc front brake calipers. New gauge cluster similar to those used on the GSX-R1000.
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2006 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R - Added by dmaninchrg.nospam.hotmail.com on 26-Sep-2020
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More Information on the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R
The Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R or ZX 1000 E is a Kawasaki sport bike, the successor to the ZX-9R. It was originally released in 2004 with minor revisions in 2005. It combines an ultra-narrow chassis, low weight, and radial brakes. In 2004 and 2005 the ZX-10R won Best Superbike from Cycle World magazine, and the international Masterbike competition.
Kawasaki engineers used a stacked design for a liquid-cooled, 998 cc (60.9 cu in) inline four-cylinder engine. The crankshaft axis, input shaft and output shaft of the Ninja ZX-10R engine are positioned in a triangular layout to reduce engine length, while the high-speed generator is placed behind the cylinder bank to reduce engine width. With a bore and stroke of 76 mm × 55 mm (3.0 in × 2.2 in), the ZX-10R engine's one-piece cylinder and crankcase assembly reduces weight and increases rigidity. The DOHC are machined from chromoly steel built for strength, four valves per cylinder improve high-rpm breathing, and the forged, lightweight pistons offer high heat resistance to further enhance the bike's power-to-weight ratio.
In addition to liquid cooling, the ZX-10R engine has an oil cooler adjacent to the oil filter to reduce oil temperatures. Slosh analysis was also used to design the internal structure of the oil pan, thereby reducing windage losses and helping to maintain low oil temperatures.
A multi-plate wet slipper clutch transfers power to a six-speed, close-ratio transmission ideal for closed-course competition. The back-torque limiter automatically disengages the clutch (partially) under hard downshifting at high engine speeds to prevent rear wheel hop during corner entry.
A new six spoke wheel design is claimed to be almost as light as special purpose race wheels. Since the 2006 model the sidewall profile of the rear tire has been increased from 190/50/ZR17 to 190/55/ZR17.
The 2004 model was the debut of the Ninja ZX-10R. It was compact with a short wheelbase and a high power-to-weight ratio, which helped the handling. The exhaust system was fully titanium with single muffler.
Among other changes, the 2006 model had twin underseat exhausts which contributed to a 5 kg (11 lb) increase in dry weight. The engine remained largely unchanged.
The 2006 ZX1000D6F model carried over to the 2007 model year, with only color scheme changes. The most noticeable difference between 2006 and 2007 is that the heat-shields on the exhaust pipes are black on the 2007 ZX10R, and 2006 came with silver ones.
The ZX-10R was all new for its launch for the 2008 model year. There was a dramatic change in appearance with the bike with a much more angular front end. Kawasaki moved away from the twin underseat exhausts of the 2006–2007 model to a more conventional single side exhaust. The compression ratio of the engine was raised.
The 2009 model received only slight changes from the 2008 model.
The 2010 model received slight changes from the 2009 model, including, upgraded Öhlins steering damper, upgraded transmission, and revised bodywork.
The 2011 ZX-10R underwent major overhaul both mechanically and visually. Most notably, Kawasaki introduced their Sport Kawasaki Traction Control (S-KTRC) system as standard. It predicts when traction will be lost and adapts accordingly. Also new are an ABS option called Kawasaki Intelligent Braking System (KIBS), a completely new design, adjustable foot-pegs, larger throttle bodies, a horizontal rear suspension, lighter three-spoke wheels, Showa Big Piston Fork (BPF) front suspension, and an LCD panel dashboard. The 2012 model is identical to the 2011 with the only exception being the slightly different paint schemes offered. In 2013 the models went under another small revision where the colors offered changed again and the front dampener was replaced with an Ohlins electronic front steering dampener. In 2014 the only changes were different colors. In 2015 the only color offered was black, alongside a 30th anniversary edition (in EU, a green color is also offered).
Tom Sykes in 2013 became the first Superbike World Champion for Kawasaki since Scott Russell and the first on a ZX-10R. Stuart Easton won the 2014 Macau Grand Prix. Jonathan Rea won the 2015 Superbike World Championship season. Jeremy Toye holds the Heavyweight (Open) lap record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.
The 2016 ZX-10R received a major update. With a claimed 210 hp with ram-air intake at 13,000 rpm. The electronics now use a Bosch five-axis Internal Measurement Unit (IMU). A sixth degree is calculated by proprietary Kawasaki software. The S-KTRC updated with a added launch control mode a quickshifter and engine brake control. Also optional smarter KIBS cornering ABS. Because of its predictive as opposed to reactive nature, Kawasaki touts this system of S-KTRC as the most advanced of all current traction control systems. Some of the changes mechanically that are now lighter are the slipper clutch, balancer,crankshaft as well as pistons. A less restrictive air filter and larger air box as well as a lighter less restrictive exhaust system. A new transmission that is cassette style is vertically stacked. The previous petal rotors that have been in use since 2004 are now replaced with circular rotors. They are now also larger from 310 mm (12.2 in) to now 330 mm (13.0 in). The calipers are now Brembo M50 Monoblock and the master cylinder is a radial Brembo. The brake lines are now braided stainless-steel. A first for production sport bikes a 43 mm Showa Balance Free Fork derived from WSBK. Kawasaki also offers Race Kit parts for chassis and engine.
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http://www.kawasaki.com/Products/2015-Ninja-ZX-10R-ABS
http://www.mcnews.com/mcn/technical/2013JanPerfIndx.pdf
http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/157/8505/Motorcycle-Article/2011-Kawasaki-Ninja-ZX-10R-First-Ride.aspx
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