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As a caring pet parent, one of the most important decisions you can make is the food you feed your dog. That’s because the brand you choose will serve as your dog’s primary source of nutrition.
To help you make an informed decision, we evaluated Evolve Maintenance Formula based upon eight nutritional measures that we believe are critical to making a great food. In the following comparison, we discovered that this brand of Evolve dog food does not contain guaranteed amounts of probiotics, omega-3 fatty acids or vitamins A, C and E, nor does it contain prebiotics.
If you are thinking about or are currently feeding your dog Evolve Maintenance Formula, we urge you to consider trying Life’s Abundance to help your dog achieve and maintain optimum health.
IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE PRICE!
Do you really know what's in your dog's food?
Your dog eats the same food every day. The brand you feed is your dog's main source of nutrition and vital to a long and healthy life. As a caring pet parent, it is important to see through clever marketing ploys when choosing a food worthy of your best friend.
Although you may think all pet food manufacturers have your pet’s best interests in mind, this is not always the case. Some manufacturers use ingredients that you would never knowingly feed your dog. In fact, you may be shocked to learn what some brands of dog food really contains.
Life’s Abundance All Life Stage Dog Food is formulated with safe and wholesome ingredients, including a blend of vitamins and minerals, high-quality proteins, whole grains, an antioxidant system, omega fatty acids, calcium and phosphorus for healthy teeth and strong bones and dietary fiber to help maintain a healthy digestive tract. Life’s Abundance contains no artificial flavors or colors. And there’s no corn, corn gluten, wheat or wheat gluten.
Our commitment to you and your pet.
We are an employee-owned company comprised almost entirely of pet parents and we are dedicated to improving the health and happiness of companion animals.
Every single ingredient in every single product is chosen based on its quality and safety.
We never use artificial colors or flavors and never use corn, corn gluten, wheat or wheat gluten.
Life’s Abundance is cooked to perfection to help retain its high nutritional value.
Our food is delivered to your door straight from one of our own climate controlled warehouses. Some store-bought pet food could be anywhere from six months to one year old.
Our mission of caring doesn’t stop at making pet products. We created The Dr. Jane Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting a variety of animal rescue groups, all of which are dedicated to helping to rescue neglected and unwanted animals in the U.S. Every purchase helps to support the important work of this extraordinary foundation, devoted to helping these animals find homes and lead happier lives. It’s just one more reason to feel good about purchasing Life’s Abundance products.
BEYOND THE FIRST FIVE INGREDIENTS
While the first five ingredients play a significant role in the nutritional make-up of your dog’s food, every single ingredient is important. Each and every ingredient in Life’s Abundance food is carefully chosen to work with the other to supply your companion animal with a highly nutritious and perfectly balanced meal every day, every year over a lifetime.
HIGH-QUALITY PROTEINS - Proteins are the building blocks of all living organisms. Protein is essential for all bodily functions including those of the brain, heart, skin, skeleton and many others. Life’s Abundance contains at least 26% of high-quality protein. Look for identifiable animal proteins such as "chicken meal" rather generic terms like "poultry meal," which can consist of any fowl (turkey, chicken, geese, etc.).
CHICKEN MEAL VS. CHICKEN - Some foods contain chicken meat or chicken parts, which naturally hold a fair amount of water. We prefer to use chicken meal because most of the water has been removed, which makes it a concentrated source of protein. This means that there is a greater “protein content” in one pound of chicken meal versus one pound of chicken meat. That’s why high-quality chicken meal is a key ingredient in Life’s Abundance foods.
WHOLE GRAINS - Whole grains are an excellent source of protein, fiber, B vitamins, iron, zinc and other essential minerals. They also provide the kind of carbohydrates that deliver sustained energy to your dog. We include the natural goodness of Ground Brown Rice and Oat Groats in Life’s Abundance Dog Food.
VITAMINS AND MINERALS – The proprietary blend of vitamins and minerals in Life’s Abundance foods was carefully selected to work in concert with all of the other ingredients to enhance the overall nutritional value of the food.
ANTIOXIDANT SYSTEM – Among other nutrients, our antioxidant system includes vitamins A, C and E.
CHICKEN FAT - We believe the primary fat source in dog food should be animal-based because these fats contain a profile of fatty acids that are easily metabolized and generally more available to the body. Animal fats can vary in quality, so look for a species-specific fat like “chicken fat” (versus “animal fat”) to be certain of the kind of fat your dog is eating.
OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS – Omega-3 fatty acids are some of the most extensively researched natural nutritional ingredients in the world. Among its many health benefits, the omega-3’s in Life’s Abundance help support healthy skin and a shiny coat. We also include flaxseed meal for its outstanding nutritional profile and its contribution to healthy skin and coat.
DIETARY FIBER - Fiber is required in every diet to maintain healthy intestinal tract and good nutrient absorption.
PROBIOTICS – Our species-specific probiotics help support healthy immune and digestive systems.
This comparison has been created by Life's Abundance and is meant to illustrate the differences between pet food it provides under the mark Life’s Abundance® and those provided by other companies. All entries related to nutritional content and feeding in the comparison table have been made on the basis of information available on respective product websites and product labeling April 2020. All prices are based on typical suggested retail or list price of each brand, gathered from searching various online retailers April 2020. Life’s Abundance® price is based on Autoship price of a 20 lb. bag. Life's Abundance is in no way associated, sponsored, or affiliated with any of the manufacturers listed. Artemis® Fresh Mix Adult Formula Dry Dog Food is a registered trademark of Artemis Company, Bil-Jac® Adult Select Formula is a registered trademark of Bil-Jac Foods Corporation, Blue® Life Protection Formula for Adult Dogs is a registered trademark of The Blue Buffalo Co., Chicken Soup for the Soul© Adult Dog Food is a registered trademark of Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC, Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance® Original Ultra Premium Formula For Dogs is a registered trademark of Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc., , Fromm Chicken A La Veg® Adult Dry Dog Food is a registered trademark of Fromm Family Foods LLC, Halo® Holistic Chicken & Chicken Liver Recipe Dry Dog Food is a brand name of Halo, Purely for Pets, Inc., Hill’s Science Diet® Adult Chicken & Barley Recipe is a registered trademark of Hills Pet Nutrition, Inc., Merrick Classic Healthy Grains Chicken + Brown Rice Recipe with Ancient Grains is a brand name of Merrick Pet Care Ltd., Newman's Own Organics® Adult Dry Dog Formula is a registered trademark of NO Limit, LLC, Nutro® Wholesome Essentials Chicken, Brown Rice and Sweet Potato Recipe is a registered trademark of The Nutro Company, Orijen® Original Adult Formula Dry Dog Food is a registered trademark of Champion Petfoods Ltd., Beyond® Simply 9 White Meat Chicken & Whole Barley Recipe is a registered trademark of The Nestlé Group, Rachael Ray Dish® Chicken & Brown Rice is a registered trademark of Ray Marks Co. LLC, Royal Canin® Medium Breed Adult Dry Dog Food is a registered trademark of Royal Canin SAS Societe, Solid Gold Hund-N-Flocken® Adult Dog Food is a registered trademark of Solid Gold Health Products for Pets, Inc., Taste of the Wild® Wetlands Formula Dog Food is a registered trademark of Schell & Kampeter, Inc., Victor Chicken Meal & Brown Rice with Lamb Meal is a registered trademark of Mid America Pet Food, LLC, Wellness® Complete Health Deboned Chicken & Oatmeal Dog Food is a registered trademark of WellPet LLC.
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The Clever Grasshopper
Although men may sit at the helm of most of the nation’s large and well-funded environmental institutions, when it comes to grassroots organizing, women are leading the way, whether Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, or the thousands of community leaders, organizers and mothers working behind the scenes. 25-year-old Melinda Kramer is the one connecting them. Kramer got her start as an intern— and later a coordinator— for Pacific Environment building coalitions of environmentalists along the Pacific Rim. At an international conference that she was organizing, a member of the Russian delegation pulled her aside. “In our Aleut tradition, we give nicknames to special people,” he said. “We would like you to be Umni Kunyetchik—or, Clever Grasshopper.” The name makes sense; she’s full of sprightly energy—and you can practically see the gears turning in her head as she figures out how to implement new ideas.
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Jordan Rhodes, Hope Akpan, Adam Henley: The last Blackburn Rovers team to beat Preston North End
Rovers travel to Deepdale with the intention of ending their barren run against Preston North End
Jaquob CrookeBlackburn Rovers Writer
It was a drop of fortune as Blackburn Rovers celebrate Jordan Pickford's own goal in 2015.
It's been five years and three days since Blackburn Rovers' last victory over Preston North End which, too put it bluntly, hasn't been good enough.
Even a two-goal cushion was not enough to prevent defeat in their last outing at Deepdale and as we head into an important fixture for both sides, Rovers cannot afford to be haunted by previous encounters.
In a bid to serve a dose of inspiration ahead of tonight's match, we decided to go back to November 2015 and dig up the Rovers side that last emerged victorious over North End.
An own goal from Jordan Pickford and Jordan Rhodes' penalty sufficed as Paul Lambert chalked up a 2-1 win on his Rovers debut, fending off a PNE comeback after Joe Garner had reduced the deficit for the hosts before Bailey Wright was sent off in the closing stages.
After a nine-month exile from football following his dismissal at Aston Villa, a derby in Lambert's first game back was an occasion he relished.
"We played a terrific game of football," Lambert told BBC Radio Lancashire after the game. "The atmosphere was great in the stadium and we scored two goals against a team that hadn't conceded in six games. The team deserves so much credit for that and I think we looked a threat every time we went forward.
"Today is a marker that we can win games. The back four were colossal for us. They were proper men, proper defenders."
Do you remember who featured in that victory on that day? Bonus points if you guess all 14.
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Steele joined Rovers permanently after a successful loan spell during the 2014-15 season.
A collection of individual errors were to follow before the goalkeeper moved onto Sunderland in 2017.
He's now at Brighton, accompanied by former Rovers loanee Christian Walton.
Adam Henley
Progressed through the Rovers Academy to first team and touted for a bright future.
Earned international recognition with Wales and made 80 league appearances for Rovers before slipping down the pecking order and departing for the US.
Recently signed for Chorley alongside another former Rover in Willem Tomlinson.
Some questionable defending in the build-up to Garner's strike. Put your boot through it!
Two years at Ewood Park before *that* unceremonious ending.
Proceeded to clock over 100 appearances for Brighton, helping them to Premier League promotion before securing his 'dream move' to Celtic in the summer.
Grant Hanley
A big friendly giant, Hanley was club captain in 2016 but left soon after he picked up his Player of the Season award.
The centre-back moved to Newcastle where he got no game time and was subsequently offloaded to Norwich City, where he remains now.
Marcus Olsson
The Swede was consistently overshadowed by his twin brother Martin until he left for Norwich but Marcus stayed on, remaining loyal to the club who had given him his opportunity in England.
A three-year spell at Derby County followed before he returned to his native Sweden this summer to join Helsingborgs IF.
The curious case of Ben Marshall. The winger was seemingly destined for a Premier League switch and after playing a part in Wolves' promotion from the Championship, Marshall had a loan spell with Millwall before an ill-fated time at Norwich.
Where can you find him now? Stoneclough FC, of course.
Corry Evans
Rovers' current longest-serving player and he's experienced it all during his time with the club.
Struck the woodwork in the build-up to the opening goal with a sublime strike from the edge of the area.
Only win against North End is not a good omen though, and even if he had the best intentions of amending that on Tuesday evening, injury ensures he will play no part.
Hope Akpan
Produced the shot that Pickford bundled into his own net.
Signed from Reading in 2015, Akpan enjoyed two campaigns with Rovers before being released at the end of the 2016-17 season and joined League One side Burton Albion.
The 29-year-old midfielder is now a free agent having left League Two club Bradford City.
Craig Conway
Blackburn Rovers' Craig Conway challenges Norwich City's Emi Buendia
Conway spent six-and-a-half glorious years at Rovers, clocking over 200 appearances and the Scottish wing wizard was a popular figure among supporters.
The former Dundee United and Cardiff winger was snapped up by Salford following his release. He's now back in Scotland with St Johnstone.
A brief spell at Rovers seen him clock up two goals in 21 appearances before his loan contract ended midway through the 2015-16 campaign. An injury after 33 minutes forced him off early in this matchup.
He subsequently joined Cardiff City on loan until the end of the season, and then enjoyed a productive spell with Ipswich Town.
Will now find him at Derby County, where he was sentenced for drink driving last year along with team-mate Mason Bennett.
Jordan Rhodes
It hurts seeing him struggle, doesn't it?
His career hasn't quite panned out as many had hoped following his departure from Rovers. Regardless of his frustrations elsewhere, he was a glorified success at Ewood.
In this fixture he dispatched the penalty won by Chris Taylor, slotting beyond Pickford down to his bottom right.
A first-half substitute and won the penalty to ultimately seal the game.
It would be his final season at Ewood, joining Bolton the following campaign after his contract expired.
He's now teamed up with David Dunn at Barrow.
Bangali-Fode Koita
Remember this chap? I think the fact Rovers managed to get a fee from Kasimpasa for him can go down as an excellent piece of business.
Ultimately Koita's time in England didn't work out but he's been a hit in Turkey where he's now in his fourth year with the Super Lig club.
Showed glimpses of his talent but was forever injured or two-dimensional.
Guthrie pursued opportunities in Indonesia after his release, and is now with League Two side Walsall.
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Atletico de Madrid downs Sevilla 2-0
Madrid, Jan 12 (efe-epa).- Atletico de Madrid notched a 2-0 victory over visiting Sevilla on Tuesday on goals by Angel Correa and Saul Ñiguez, further cementing its position at the top of the La Liga table.
The match was played at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium before empty stands due to coronavirus gathering restrictions.
Atletico now stands four points ahead of Real Madrid, seven in front of Barcelona and nine ahead of Villarreal, the No. 2, 3 and 4 teams in Spanish soccer’s First Division.
The Madrid powerhouse – an ambitious, steady and reliable squad managed by Diego Simeone – has now won 5 of its last 6 league matches.
It was Correa on the scene in the 17th minute to take a pass from Kieran Trippier in the box, whereupon he finessed the ball before turning and firing a tallying strike past goaltender Yassine Bono low right into the net to give the hosts the lead.
Trippier – who was back in the lineup after having his 10-week FIFA ban for violating betting rules suspended – almost got another assist in the 25th minute when he passed the ball to Luis Suarez for a close-range shot, although Bono charged out and blocked what looked like it was going to be an early 2-0 tally.
Sevilla was unable to get anything on the scoreboard, although it had a few – but very few – chances during the contest.
Late in the match, it was Ñiguez coming off the bench for the second goal in the 76th minute after Marcos Llorente took the ball down the right edge of the pitch before knocking a pass to his teammate, who took his time getting closer to firing position but ultimately sent the ball home from the edge of the area.
With the loss, Sevilla sits in sixth position on the table with 30 points, tied with fifth-ranked Real Sociedad.
Lineups:
Atletico de Madrid: Oblak; Trippier, Savic, Gimenez, Hermoso, Carrasco (Felipe, m. 88); Correa (Joao Felix, m. 65), Llorente, Koke, Lemar (Saul, m. 65); Luis Suarez (Torreira, m. 82).
Sevilla: Bono; Jesus Navas (Oliver Torres, m. 78), Kounde, Diego Carlos, Acuña; Jordan (Oscar Rodriguez, m. 59), Fernando, Rakitic; Ocampos, Suso (De Jong, m. 78), En-Nesyri (Munir, m. 84).
Official Estrada Fernandez showed yellow cards to Koke and Savic.
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Alfred Lasbury
Name Alfred Lasbury
Born 1841 Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Baptism of Alfred Lasbury
Also Known As Arthur
Residence 1841 Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK [1]
Parliament Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire UK
Baptism 28 Mar 1841 Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Family Search ID MNPB-M4N
Died 1842 Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Buried 25 Apr 1842 Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Old Chapel, Stroud, Gloucestershire UK
Father Thomas Lasbury
b. 1787, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England, UK
d. 9 Jun 1866, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK (Age 79 years)
Mother Martha Hogg
b. 7 Feb 1802, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK
d. 5 Dec 1858, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK (Age 56 years)
Married 24 Jun 1822 Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Marriage by Banns
Marriage of Thomas Lasbury & Martha Hogg
Marriage Witness James Hogg & J. Howell
Family ID F65 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Born - 1841 - Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK
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Baptism - 28 Mar 1841 - Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK
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UK - 25 Apr 1842 - Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK
[S21] 1841 England & Wales Census.
1841 England, Wales & Scotland Census, GBC/1841/0001482100, Archive reference: HO107, Piece number: 349, , https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC/1841/0001482100
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Intrepid Travel tantalizes with far-flung Expeditions
Intrepid Travel’s Expedition Djibouti tour includes getting close to whale sharks during a snorkeling adventure.
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By Phil Marty
Veteran travelers tired of same-old, same-old destinations and itineraries will want to take a look at the Expeditions series of adventures offered by Intrepid Travel. The 12 new trips offered for 2016-2017 have limited departures and span the spectrum, from running a marathon on the Great Wall of China to heading into the mountain passes of Ladakh, India, in search of snow leopards. For a country that’s not on many travelers’ bucket lists, there’s Expedition Djibouti — Footsteps of the Afar. This is a 13-day/12-night exploration of the tiny country in northeast Africa and includes snorkeling with whale sharks, a hike in Day Forest National Park and a camel trek to Lake Assal, the lowest point on land in the African continent. The trip is scheduled for November and priced from $3,255 per person, double occupancy. International air is extra. You can browse all of the Expeditions at https://tinyurl.com/jza6h4p.
Hottest hotel guests?
Time for another “best of” list, so you can either say, “What were they thinking?” or “Attaboy.” The list this time around is Jetsetter.com’s annual Best of the Best Hotel Awards. It compiles this by sending a list of categories to more than 200 travel correspondents around the world, adding some suggestions from the Jetsetter office and then making selections. There are 20 categories, and they range from the useful, such as Best Big City Sleep (Cotton House Hotel, Autograph Collection, Barcelona, Spain) to the frivolous, such as Best Looking Guests (Soho House Istanbul). European hotels dominated, with six, while the U.S. had five and the Caribbean, four. See what you think at https://tinyurl.com/zu2u24d.
Holidays on the merry Mississippi
If “rollin’ on the river” sounds like a good way to celebrate the holidays, the American Queen Steamboat Co. has you covered. The company’s American Queen paddle-wheel riverboat will be traveling the lower Mississippi River from November through the end of the year with itineraries featuring holiday-themed events. Cruises will be between New Orleans and Memphis, Tenn., with the embarkation point alternating. All itineraries include some hotel days and will explore towns such as St. Francisville, La.; Natchez and Vicksburg, Miss.; and Helena, Ark. The Nov. 20 cruise will include a gala Thanksgiving dinner, while Dec. 4, 11 and 18 sailings will visit Christmas markets, have onboard holiday entertainment and be serenaded by carolers in some towns. The Dec. 25 itinerary, which starts with a hotel stay in Memphis, will include a New Year’s Eve gala aboard the Queen. Reduced prices are being offered for bookings before Sept. 1, with payment in full required. Info: 888-749-5280, https://tinyurl.com/j5pn96c.
Phil Marty is a freelance reporter.
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A modern reimagining of Shirley Jackson’s iconic novel, The Haunting of Hill House explores a group of siblings who, as children, grew up in what would go on to become the most famous haunted house in the country. Now adults, and forced back together in the face of tragedy, the family must finally confront the ghosts of their past – some of which still lurk in their minds while others may actually be stalking the shadows of Hill House.
Created, directed and executive-produced by Mike Flanagan (Hush, Oculus, Gerald’s Game), The Haunting of Hill House is a complex family drama wrapped in a chilling horror story. Trevor Macy serves as executive producer alongside Flanagan. Meredith Averill acts as co-showrunner and executive producer. Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank executive produce, as well.
Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth Reaser, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Henry Thomas, Kate Siegel and Victoria Pedretti star, as well as Lulu Wilson, McKenna Grace, Paxton Singleton, Violet McGraw and Julian Hilliard.
The Haunting of Hill House is produced for Netflix by Amblin TV and Paramount Television.
It hits Netflix on 12th October 2018.
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The Protector ebook
Harold Bindloss
Vayne was 27 years old. And nine of which he spent on scott, canoeing, chopping trees and searching for minerals. He and his friend discovered valuable mineral property several months earlier. They were aiming for a better life and wanted to grow their business. However, not everything is so easy.
Ranching for Sylvia
Blake’s Burden
The Wilderness Mine
Thurston of Orchard Valley
Prescott of Saskatchewan
Partners of the Out-Trail
Larry of Lonesome Lake
The Intriguers
Hawtrey’s Deputy
In the Misty Seas. A Story of the Sealers of Behring Strait
Masters of the Wheat-Lands
The Broken Trail
Carmen’s Messenger
The Dust of Conflict
Alton of Somasco
Brandon of the Engineers
The Lute Player
Bolesław Prus
CHAPTER I. A FRIEND IN NEED
CHAPTER II. A BREEZE OF WIND
CHAPTER III. AN AFTERNOON ASHORE
CHAPTER IV. A CHANGE OF ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER V. THE OLD COUNTRY
CHAPTER VI. UPON THE HEIGHTS
CHAPTER VII. STORM-STAYED
CHAPTER VIII. LUCY VANE
CHAPTER IX. CHISHOLM PROVES AMENABLE
CHAPTER X. WITH THE OTTER HOUNDS
CHAPTER XI. VANE WITHDRAWS
CHAPTER XII. VANE GROWS RESTLESS
CHAPTER XIII. A NEW PROJECT
CHAPTER XIV. VANE SAILS NORTH
CHAPTER XV. THE FIRST MISADVENTURE
CHAPTER XVI. THE BUSH
CHAPTER XVII. VANE POSTPONES THE SEARCH
CHAPTER XVIII. JESSIE CONFERS A FAVOUR
CHAPTER XIX. VANE FORESEES TROUBLE
CHAPTER XX. THE FLOOD
CHAPTER XXI. VANE YIELDS A POINT
CHAPTER XXII. EVELYN GOES FOR A SAIL
CHAPTER XXIII. VANE PROVES OBDURATE
CHAPTER XXIV. JESSIE STRIKES
CHAPTER XXV. THE INTERCEPTED LETTER
CHAPTER XXVI. ON THE TRAIL
CHAPTER XXVII. THE END OF THE SEARCH
CHAPTER XXVIII. CARROLL SEEKS HELP
CHAPTER XXIX. JESSIE’S CONTRITION
CHAPTER XXX. CONVINCING TESTIMONY
CHAPTER XXXI. VANE IS REINSTATED
CHAPTER I–A FRIEND IN NEED
A light breeze was blowing down the inlet, scented with the smell of the firs, and the tiny ripples it chased across the water splashed musically against the bows of the canoe. There was a thud as the blade struck the water, and the long, light hull forged onwards with slightly lifted, bird’s-head prow, while the two men swung forward for the next stroke with a rhythmic grace of motion. They knelt, facing forward, in the bottom of the craft; and dissimilar as they were in features and, to some extent, in character, the likeness between them was stronger than the difference. Both bore the unmistakable stamp of a wholesome life spent in vigorous labour in the open. Their eyes were clear, and like those of most bushmen singularly steady; their skin was weather-darkened, and they were leanly muscular.
On either side of the lane of green water giant firs, Cedars and balsams, crept down the rocky hills to the whitened driftwood fringe. They formed part of the great coniferous forest which rolls westwards from the wet coast range of Canada’s Pacific province, and, overleaping the Strait, spreads across the rugged and beautiful wilderness of Vancouver Island. Ahead, clusters of little frame houses showed up here and there in openings among the trees, and a small sloop, towards which the canoe was heading, lay anchored near the wharf.
The men had plied the paddle during most of that day, from inclination rather than necessity, because they could have hired Siwash Indians to undertake the labour for them, had they been so minded. They were, though their appearance did not suggest it, moderately prosperous; but their prosperity was of recent date, and they had been accustomed to doing everything for themselves, as are most of the men who dwell among the woods and ranges of British Columbia.
Vane, who knelt nearest the bows, was twenty-seven years of age, and he had spent nine of them chopping trees, driving cattle, poling canoes, and assisting in the search for useful minerals among the snow-clad ranges. He wore a wide, grey felt hat which had lost its shape from frequent wettings, an old shirt of the same colour, and blue duck trousers, rent in places; but the light attire revealed a fine muscular symmetry. He had brown hair and brown eyes, and a certain warmth of colouring which showed through the deep bronze of his skin hinted at a sanguine and somewhat impatient temperament.
His companion, Carroll, had lighter hair and grey eyes, and his appearance was a little less vigorous and a little more refined, though he, too, had toiled hard and borne many privations in the wilderness. His dress resembled Vane’s. The two had located a valuable mineral property some months earlier, and though this does not invariably follow, had held their own against city financiers during the negotiations that preceded the floating of a company to work the mine. That they had succeeded in securing a good deal of the stock was largely due to Vane’s pertinacity, and said something for his acumen; but both had been trained in a very hard school.
As the wooden houses ahead rose higher and the sloop’s grey hull grew into sharper shape upon the clear green shining of the brine, Vane broke into a snatch of song.
“Had I the wings of a dove, I would fly, Just for to-night, to the Old Country.”
He stopped and laughed. “It’s nine years since I’ve seen it, but I can’t get those lines out of my head. Perhaps it’s because of the girl who sang them. Somehow, I felt sorry for her. She had remarkably fine eyes.”
“Sea-blue,” said his companion. “I don’t grasp the connection between the last two remarks.”
“Neither do I,” Vane admitted. “I suppose there isn’t one. But they weren’t sea-blue, unless you mean the depth of indigo, when you’re out of sounding. They’re Irish eyes.”
“You’re not Irish. There’s not a trace of the Celt in you, unless it’s your habit of getting indignant with the folks who don’t share your views.”
“No, sir,” answered Vane. “By birth, I’m North Country–England, I mean. Over there, we’re respectable before everything, and smart at getting hold of whatever’s worth having. As a matter of fact, you Ontario Scotsmen are mighty like us.”
“You certainly came out well ahead of those city men who put up the dollars,” said Carroll. “I guess it’s in the blood, though I fancied they would take the mine from you.”
Vane brought his paddle down with a thud. “"Just for to-night, to the Old Country,’” he hummed, and added: “It sticks to one.”
“Why did you leave the Old Country?”
“That’s a blamed injudicious question to ask, but you shall have an answer. There was a row at home–I was a sentimentalist then and just eighteen–and as the result of it I came out to Canada.” His voice changed and grew softer. “I hadn’t many relatives, and except one sister, they’re all gone now. That reminds me–she’s not going to lecture for the county education authorities any longer.”
The sloop was close ahead, and, slackening the paddling they ran alongside. Vane glanced at his watch when they had climbed on board.
“Supper will be finished at the hotel,” he remarked. “You had better get the stove lighted. It’s your turn, and that rascally Siwash seems to have gone off again. If he’s not back when we’re ready, we’ll sail without him.”
Carroll, accordingly, prepared the meal, and when they had finished it they lay on deck smoking with a content which was not altogether accounted for by a satisfied appetite. They had spent several anxious months, during which they had come very near the end of their slender resources, arranging for the exploitation of the mine, and now at last the work was over. Vane had that day made his final plans for the construction of a road and wharf by which the ore could be economically shipped for reduction, or as the alternative to this, for the erection of a small smelting plant. They had bought the sloop as a convenient means of conveyance and shelter, since they could live in some comfort on board. Now they could take their ease for a while, which was a very unusual thing to both of them.
“I suppose you’re bent on sailing this craft back?” Carroll said at length, “We could hire a couple of Siwash to take her home while we rode across the island and got the cars to Victoria. Besides, there’s that steamboat coming down the coast to-night.”
“Either way would cost a good deal extra, Vane pointed out.
“That’s true,” Carroll agreed with an amused look, “You could charge it to the Company.”
Vane laughed. “You and I have a big stake in the concern, and I haven’t got used to spending money unnecessarily yet. I’ve been mighty glad to earn 2.50 by working from sun-up until dark, though I didn’t always get it afterwards. So have you.”
“How are you going to dispose of your dollars, then? You have a balance in cash, as well as the shares.”
“It has occurred to me that I might spend a few months in the Old Country. Have you ever been over?”
“I was across some time ago, but if you would sooner I went with you, I’ll come along. We could start as soon as we’ve arranged the few matters left open in Vancouver.”
Vane was glad to hear it. He knew little about Carroll’s antecedents, but the latter was obviously a man of education, and they had been comrades for the last three years. During that time they had learnt to trust each other, and to bear with each other’s idiosyncrasies. Filling his pipe again as he lay in the fading sunlight, Vane looked back on the nine years he had passed in Canada; and allowing for the periods of exposure to cold and wet, and the almost ceaseless toil, he admitted that he might have spent them more unpleasantly.
Having quarrelled with his relatives, he had come out with only a few pounds and had promptly set about earning a living with his hands. When he had been in the country several years, however, a friend of the family had sent him a small sum, and the young man had made a judicious use of the money. The lot he bought outside a wooden town doubled in value, and the share he took in a new orchard paid him well; but he had held aloof from the cities, and his only recklessness had been prospecting journeys into the wilderness. Prospecting for minerals is at once an art and a gamble, but even in this direction, in which he had had keen wits against him, Vane had held his own; but there was one side of life with which he was practically unacquainted.
There are no social amenities on the rangeside or in the bush, and women are scarce. Vane had lived in Spartan simplicity; his passions had remained unstirred, and now he was seven-and-twenty, sound and vigorous of body and, as a rule, level of head. At length, however, there was to be a change. He had earned an interlude of leisure, and he meant to enjoy it, without, as he prudently determined, making a fool of himself.
Presently Carroll took his pipe from his mouth.
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GREENSBORO, NC (July 9, 2020) – Mack Trucks, the “Official Hauler of NASCAR®,” unveiled two customized truck wrap designs for its Mack Anthem® haulers as part of the NASCAR Salutes Refreshed by Coca-Cola campaign. Fans cast their votes for four wraps, choosing designs that will decorate two trucks from NASCAR’s fleet of Mack Anthem haulers.
NASCAR Salutes is an annual demonstration of gratitude and respect for the men and women who serve and have served in the United States Armed Forces. In addition to military heroes, this year’s NASCAR Salutes effort will also honor front-line workers battling the coronavirus pandemic.
“We depend on the incredible efforts of our front-line heroes to help combat the coronavirus pandemic,” said John Walsh, Mack Trucks vice president of marketing. “We at Mack are proud to show our support not only for those fighting the virus, but also for our Armed Forces as they work tirelessly to defend our country.”
Two of NASCAR’s Mack Anthem models will feature the winning wraps for the duration of the season. This is the third consecutive year Mack has wrapped its trucks in support of NASCAR Salutes.
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Innate Pharma : Reports Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results and Business Update
Lacutamab granted PRIME designation in Sézary Syndrome by the European Medicines Agency
Monalizumab Phase 3 study initiated, triggering $50 million milestone payment
Cash position of €163.6 million1 as of September 30, 2020
MARSEILLE, France, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Innate Pharma SA (Euronext Paris: IPH – ISIN: FR0010331421; Nasdaq: IPHA) (“Innate” or the “Company”) today announced its revenues and cash position for the first nine months of 2020.
“In November, we were very pleased that our lead proprietary asset, lacutamab, was awarded PRIME designation in Sézary Syndrome by the European Medicines Agency, which follows the US Fast Track designation by the FDA last year. Lacutamab is an important part of our strategy to build a focused proprietary pipeline, and these regulatory milestones further validate the unmet need in this patient population,” said Mondher Mahjoubi, Chief Executive Officer of Innate Pharma. “In addition, the Phase 3 monalizumab clinical trial recently initiated by AstraZeneca is an important achievement for the Company, as it both validates our scientific approach while fortifying our cash position until the end of 2022. Collectively, these milestones are strong proof points in executing on our strategy and accelerating our efforts to deliver meaningful medicines to patients.”
Third quarter 2020 and post-period events:
Lacutamab (IPH4102, anti-KIR3DL2 antibody):
The Company recently announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted PRIME designation to lacutamab for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory Sézary syndrome (SS) who have received at least two prior systemic therapies.
The TELLOMAK Phase 2 clinical trial, which is evaluating the efficacy and safety of lacutamab in patients with advanced cutaneous T-cell lymphomas, is now fully open to enrollment.
Monalizumab (anti-NKG2A antibody), partnered with AstraZeneca:
As recently announced, AstraZeneca has dosed the first patient in its Phase 3 clinical trial, INTERLINK-1, evaluating monalizumab in combination with cetuximab in patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (R/M SCCHN) who have been previously treated with platinum-based chemotherapy and PD-(L)1 inhibitors. Dosing of the first patient in this trial, which occurred in October 2020, has triggered a $50 million milestone upcoming payment from AstraZeneca to Innate. Upon this milestone payment, the Company will have received a total of $400 million to date from the AstraZeneca partnership.
Updated data from the IPH2201-203 Phase 2 trial regarding patients previously treated with a platinum-based chemotherapy and a PD(L)1 inhibitor will be presented via an e-poster at the ESMO Immuno-Oncology Virtual Congress in December 2020.
Avdoralimab in Inflammation (IPH5401, anti-C5aR antibody):
The first patient has been dosed in the investigator-sponsored Phase 2 clinical trial in bullous pemphigoid (BP) where the C5aR1 pathway has been shown to be involved in the physiopathology of the disease. The trial is investigating the clinical efficacy of avdoralimab in addition to topical steroids compared to topical steroids alone in BP patients. More information on this study can be found at clinical trials.gov.
Avdoralimab in COVID-19:
The investigator-sponsored Phase 2 clinical trial, FORCE (FOR COVID-19 Elimination), is ongoing. A third cohort was recently added to the trial, which is addressing COVID-19 related Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) patients requiring mechanical ventilation. More information on this study can be found at clinical trials.gov.
The investigator-sponsored Phase 2 clinical trial, ImmunoONCOVID-20, has resumed. This study is exploring the potential efficacy of monalizumab and avdoralimab amongst other treatment arms, against COVID-19 in cancer patients with mild symptoms and pneumonia respectively.
Lumoxiti, a first-in-class marketed product for the treatment of relapsed or refractory hairy cell leukemia:
The global COVID-19 pandemic and slower adoption rate continues to impact the sales of Lumoxiti in 2020.
As previously stated, following completion of the transition of US Lumoxiti commercial operations from AstraZeneca, sales will be fully booked by Innate beginning in Q4 2020.
The Lumoxiti EU regulatory decision remains on track for 1H 2021.
Cash, cash equivalents and financial assets of the Company amounted to €163.6 million as of September 30, 2020. As it is a post closing event, the $50 million milestone upcoming payment for the first patient dosed in the Interlink-1 Phase 3 study of monalizumab are not included in those figures. Financial liabilities amounted to €19.8 million.
For the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2019 and 2020, revenue from collaboration and licensing agreements mainly results from the spreading of the initial payments received under our agreements with AstraZeneca. Due to accounting rules and the timing of costs related to development activities under the collaboration with AstraZeneca, the recognition of this revenue can vary on a quarter by quarter each year. As a reminder, this has no impact on cash. Revenues for the first nine-months of 2020 amounted to €33.6 million, compared to €65.4 million for the same period in 2019.
About Innate Pharma:
Innate Pharma S.A. is a commercial stage oncology-focused biotech company dedicated to improving treatment and clinical outcomes for patients through therapeutic antibodies that harness the immune system to fight cancer.
Innate Pharma’s commercial-stage product, Lumoxiti, in-licensed from AstraZeneca in the US, EU and Switzerland, was approved by the FDA in September 2018. Lumoxiti is a first-in class specialty oncology product for hairy cell leukemia. Innate Pharma’s broad pipeline of antibodies includes several potentially first-in-class clinical and preclinical candidates in cancers with high unmet medical need.
Innate has been a pioneer in the understanding of natural killer cell biology and has expanded its expertise in the tumor microenvironment and tumor-antigens, as well as antibody engineering. This innovative approach has resulted in a diversified proprietary portfolio and major alliances with leaders in the biopharmaceutical industry including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novo Nordisk A/S, Sanofi, and a multi-products collaboration with AstraZeneca.
Based in Marseille, France, Innate Pharma is listed on Euronext Paris and Nasdaq in the US.
Learn more about Innate Pharma at www.innate-pharma.com
Information about Innate Pharma shares:
Ticker code
LEI FR0010331421
Euronext: IPH Nasdaq: IPHA
9695002Y8420ZB8HJE29
Disclaimer on forward-looking information and risk factors:
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including those within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.The use of certain words, including “believe,” “potential,” “expect” and “will” and similar expressions, is intended to identify forward-looking statements. Although the company believes its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, the uncertainties inherent in research and development, including related to safety, progression of and results from its ongoing and planned clinical trials and preclinical studies, review and approvals by regulatory authorities of its product candidates, the Company’s commercialization efforts, the Company’s continued ability to raise capital to fund its development and the overall impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the global healthcare system as well as the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations. For an additional discussion of risks and uncertainties which could cause the company's actual results, financial condition, performance or achievements to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, please refer to the Risk Factors (“Facteurs de Risque") section of the Universal Registration Document filed with the French Financial Markets Authority (“AMF”), which is available on the AMF website http://www.amf-france.org or on Innate Pharma’s website, and public filings and reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2019, and subsequent filings and reports filed with the AMF or SEC, or otherwise made public, by the Company.
This press release and the information contained herein do not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe to shares in Innate Pharma in any country.
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1 Including short term investments (€15.5 million) and non-current financial instruments (€37.3 million). Not including the $50mn milestone payment from AstraZeneca for the first patient dosed in the Interlink-1 Phase 3 study of monalizumab.
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Sales 2020 85,7 M 103 M 103 M
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Net cash 2020 152 M 183 M 183 M
P/E ratio 2020 -5,47x
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Home>State Energy Officials Announce $250,000 in Support for Early-Stage Clean Energy Companies
State Energy Officials Announce $250,000 in Support for Early-Stage Clean Energy Companies
Feb 3, 2016 –
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Interim CEO Stephen Pike today announced $250,000 in funding for five early-stage clean energy companies. Under MassCEC’s new AccelerateMass program, the funds will help new graduates of business accelerator programs develop new technologies and business plans and attract additional sources of funding.
“By supporting these companies after they graduate from accelerator programs, we’re addressing a persistent funding challenge for them while increasing opportunities for job creation and innovation in this thriving sector,” said MassCEC Interim CEO Pike.
In its inaugural round, AccelerateMass was developed to support companies graduating from business accelerator programs, which provide mentorship, guidance and prize competitions to promising startup companies. This round of funding was open to recent Massachusetts-based clean energy graduates of MassChallenge and Cleantech Open Northeast.
“Supporting cleantech startups fuels local business growth, while driving clean energy technology breakthroughs that cut energy use and help the Commonwealth meet our ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals,” said Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton, who chairs MassCEC’s Board of Directors. “Innovative startups like these help Massachusetts continue to be a leader in clean energy and energy efficiency.”
If the AccelerateMass companies meet specific milestones – such as manufacturing prototypes, raising capital or securing customers – they are eligible to apply for an additional $100,000 each in funding.
The following companies will receive $50,000 each:
Blackburn Energy (Amesbury) – The company is developing a power unit that produces electricity from a truck’s driveline, which can provide heat and air conditioning for sleeper cabs and can eliminate overnight engine idling. Blackburn Energy’s product promises to save up to $10,000 in fuel and 21 tons of carbon dioxide annually per truck.
EverVest (Boston) – The company is developing a software platform that provides financial risk analysis and cash flow modelling information to renewable energy investors, allowing for new forms of capital to efficiently participate in the growing renewable energy market.
PSM Clean Energy (Cambridge) – The company is developing an online platform that enables accredited investors to make direct impact investments in local commercial solar projects. PSM intends to use its user base, standards and platform to accelerate capital flow to other underserved clean energy projects.
Tank Utility (Boston) – The company is developing technology that unifies propane tank monitoring hardware with operational software to remotely measure the actual fill level of consumers’ propane tanks. Tank Utility’s innovation cuts the number of deliveries needed in half, while providing consumers real-time visibility of energy consumption and eliminating the risk of running out of propane.
Tessolar (Cambridge) – The company is developing a solar panel manufacturing process that allows for the economical use of high performance materials and lean, low-cost, fully automated assembly, potentially saving up to 30 percent of the capital expense to install a solar electric system and reducing the lifetime cost of solar-generated electricity by 35 percent.
The clean energy industry in Massachusetts has grown 64 percent since 2010 and employs 99,000 workers across the state. A majority of clean energy businesses are small, with 57 percent having 10 employees or fewer. Nineteen percent of the clean energy jobs in Massachusetts are in engineering and research. The Massachusetts clean energy sector is an $11 billion industry.
"MassCEC has been a leader in developing our clean tech cluster, which has been critical to attracting and retaining top startups," said MassChallenge Boston Managing Director Scott Bailey. " I'm proud to be a member of this community that recognizes the value of helping early-stage entrepreneurs, and I look forward to supporting some new clean tech startups in MassChallenge this summer."
"AccelerateMass is an important funding mechanism for cleantech startups across the Massachusetts ecosystem," said Cleantech Open Northeast Executive Director Katie McDonald. "Cleantech Open Northeast is thrilled that four of the five 2015 AccelerateMass winners are Cleantech Open alumni and we look forward to further collaboration with the MassCEC investment team as they extend and increase the impact of this program."
“MassCEC’s support for entrepreneurs through AccelerateMass and other innovative programs are a key part of the solution to ensuring that the Commonwealth’s most promising cleantech startups coming out of the leading accelerators are bridged to being commercial and investor ready,” said NECEC President Peter Rothstein.
Funding for AccelerateMass comes from MassCEC’s Renewable Energy Trust. The Renewable Energy Trust was created by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1998 as part of the deregulation of the electric utility market. The trust is funded by a systems benefit charge paid by Massachusetts electric customers of investor-owned utilities, such as Eversource and National Grid, as well as municipal electric departments that have opted to participate in the program.
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US says navy ship 'destroyed' Iranian drone in Gulf
Steve Holland & Idrees Ali & Reuters
Published 19 Jul 2019, 2:24 am
The United States said on Thursday that a US Navy ship had “destroyed” an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the aircraft threatened the vessel, but Iran said it had no information about losing a drone.
In the latest episode to stir tensions in the Gulf, US President Donald Trump told an event at the White House that the drone had flown to within 1,000 yards (metres) of the USS Boxer and had ignored “multiple calls to stand down.”
“This is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions by Iran against vessels operating in international waters. The United States reserves the right to defend our personnel, facilities and interests,” Trump said.
“The drone was immediately destroyed,” he added.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters at the United Nations: “We have no information about losing a drone today.”
The Pentagon said in a statement that the USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship, had taken “defensive action” against a drone on Thursday morning as the Boxer was moving into the Strait of Hormuz.
“We do assess it was an Iranian drone,” said Commander Rebecca Rebarich, a Pentagon spokeswoman.
Tensions in the Gulf region are high, with fears that the United States and Iran could stumble into war.
The United States has blamed Iran for a series of attacks since mid-May on shipping around the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important oil artery. Tehran rejects the allegations.
Iran in June shot down a US military surveillance drone in the Gulf with a surface-to-air missile. Iran says the drone was in its airspace, but Washington says it was in international skies.
Trump said at the time the United States had come close to launching a military strike on Iran in retaliation for the downing of the US drone.
The increased use of drones by Iran and its allies for surveillance and attacks across the Middle East is raising alarms in Washington.
The United States believes that Iran-linked militia in Iraq has recently increased their surveillance of American troops and bases in the country by using off-the-shelf, commercially available drones, US officials say.
A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the drone on Thursday was brought down through electronic jamming.
Relations between the United States and Iran have worsened since last year when Trump abandoned a 2015 deal between world powers and Iran in which Tehran agreed to restrict nuclear work in return for the lifting of sanctions.
The United States has reimposed sanctions to throttle Iran’s oil trade and says it wants to increase pressure on Tehran to renegotiate the accord, discuss its ballistic missile program and modify its behaviour in the Middle East, where Washington is allied to several Arab states opposed to Iran.
Iran’s clerical rulers have ruled out renegotiating the nuclear deal or holding talks on its missile programme, which it says is purely defensive.
But Zarif told reporters on Thursday that Iran had offered to make a concession on its nuclear program - to ratify a document prescribing more intrusive inspections - if the United States abandoned its economic sanctions - a proposal that drew US scepticism.
“If Iran wants to make a serious gesture, it should start by ending uranium enrichment immediately,” a US senior administration official said, adding any talks should include “a permanent end to Iran’s malign nuclear ambitions, including its development of nuclear-capable missiles.”
Earlier on Thursday, the United States demanded Iran immediately release a vessel it seized in the Gulf, and a US military commander in the region said the United States would work “aggressively” to ensure free passage of vessels through the vital waterway.
Iran played down the seizure of the ship, which it said was a small vessel that was smuggling oil.
Iranian state TV aired footage of a vessel called “RIAH.”
The Panamanian-flagged oil tanker MT Riah disappeared off trackers in Iranian territorial waters days ago.
“We do this (inspecting ships) every day. These are people who smuggle our oil,” Iran’s Press TV quoted Zarif as saying, adding: “It was a small ship used to smuggle 1 million litres – not 1 million barrels – of crude oil.”
Washington has recently beefed up its military presence and the US Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, says that Gulf Arab states have stepped up patrols.
Revolutionary Guards commander-in-chief Hossein Salami said on Thursday that Iran had adopted a defensive strategy, but warned that “if our enemies make any mistakes ... our strategy can become an offensive one.”
Oil prices jumped on Thursday after news of the ship seizure. They later fell, however, on weakness in US equities markets and an expectation that crude output would rise in the Gulf of Mexico following last week’s hurricane in the region.
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on an international network of companies and their agents it said were involved in the procurement of materials for Iran’s nuclear programme.
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Europeans take first step to punish Iran over nuclear pact breaches
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Times Avenue units 70pc snapped up before Nov launch
TIMES Avenue, a RM160 million office and retail project on Jalan Imbi, Kuala Lumpur, has been 70 per cent sold, one month ahead of its launch in November.
The space was bought mainly by a Hong Kong private equity group, said Datuk Lennon Tan, founder and chairman of developer Takashimaya Construction & Development Sdn Bhd.
Times Avenue is located next to Berjaya Times Square. The 15-storey building has nine levels of executive office suites, three floors of retail lots, two levels of penthouse offices and a sky lounge. Construction will start in December and is due for completion by end-2013.
Tan plans to sell the remaining space to local investors.
"I am bullish on the market for office space and expect the whole project to be sold by the end of this year," Tan said yesterday in Kuala Lumpur, after unveiling the project.
Times Avenue is the first commercial building to feature a high-tech multi-level automated valet car parking system. This is its selling point.
The RM10 million system uses technology from South Korea and is widely used in Europe.
It allows customers to initiate their vehicle retrieval simply by scanning their bar coded valet parking ticket at the built-in reader. Their vehicle is automatically stacked vertically alongside the building, saving them time to look for parking.
"We hope to set a new benchmark in office space where security and safety is concerned. We hope land owners and developers will look into the system, which is a high selling point for their projects," Tan said.
Takashimaya was set up in 2004 by Tan and Fanny Foo Youe Moi, an entrepreneur.
Tan said Takashimaya has no links to Berjaya Group, or its founder Tan Sri Vincent Tan.
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Cagamas may issue another sukuk worth up to RM2b
NATIONAL mortgage company Cagamas Bhd will issue another landmark sukuk, with size estimated to be between RM500 million and RM2 billion.
Chief executive officer Steven Choy said the size of the Islamic debt paper will depend on the home loans that banks sell to Cagamas.
"If they sell us big loans, it will be bigger, if small loans, it will be small," Choy told reporters on the sidelines of the Global Islamic Finance Forum in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
On the significance of the latest debt paper, Choy said: "We haven't worked out yet on the assets that are coming in, so it is not the right time to talk about it."
It is understood that the sukuk will be launched by the year-end.
Sources told Business Times that the latest Cagamas sukuk will be based on Ar Rahnu concept, or pledging.
"It is termed as covered sukuk (an Islamic version of covered bond)," one of the sources said.
Covered sukuk is an Islamic version of covered bonds, which are debt securities backed by cash flows from mortgages or public sector loans. They are similar in many ways to asset-backed securities created in securitisation, but covered bond assets remain on the issuer's consolidated balance sheet.
Business Times had earlier reported that the new Cagamas sukuk will not incorporate "doubtful" principles, just like its previous benchmark Sukuk Al-Amanah Li Al-Istithmar (Sukuk ALIm), launched in mid-July.
While Sukuk ALIm was designed to meet the requirements of broader investors especially from the Middle East, Cagamas' new sukuk is expected to attract local institutional investors.
Last year, the country's biggest buyer of home loans sold RM11.3 billion worth of bonds, down by more than half from the record RM25 billion in 1999. About 40 per cent, or RM4.3 billion, were sukuk.
Cagamas issues bonds or debt securities to finance the purchase of housing loans from banks, freeing up lenders to give out more loans.
It is the second biggest issuer of debt papers after the government and carries the highest credit rating of "AAA" from local rating agencies. This means that its paper is highly sought after by investors because the probability of a default is very low.
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KLIB unit to sell land for RM58mil
PETALING JAYA: Equine Capital Bhd’s wholly-owned subsidiary Kuala Lumpur Industries Bhd (KLIB) has proposed the disposal of four parcels of land together with Wisma KLIH for up to RM58mil cash to Wonderful Vantage Sdn Bhd.
In a filing with Bursa Malaysia, Equine said the land was with a 14-storey purpose built office building known as Wisma KLIH located at Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur.
It said the disposal consideration comprises RM48mil for the disposal of the property and RM10mil for renovation and refurbishment of the property, subject to the terms of the renovation and refurbishment option.
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Commercial property sales rebound in 3Q
NEW YORK: Two of the world's largest commercial real estate services companies reported sharply improved earnings on Tuesday, Oct 26, fueled chiefly by a pickup in building sales and leasing, particularly in the United States.
After more than a year of nearly no activity, US property sales have begun to pick up as buyers and sellers agreed on prices. That helped Jones Lang LaSalle Inc and CB Richard Ellis Group Inc record strong earnings growth in the third quarter.
Boston Properties, which has been on a buying spree over the past couple of months, reported better-than-expected results.
Luxury mall owner Taubman Centers Inc reported earnings that were hurt by an unexpected drop in lease cancellation fees. But the company raised its full-year forecast after sales at its malls rose 13% per square foot.
The slow rebirth of the US commercial mortgage backed securities market (CMBS) and loosening of lending by banks have greatly improved US commercial real estate sales this year. Real Estate research firm Real Capital Analytics expects sales to top US$100 billion (RM310 billion) in 2010, nearly double the US$54.4 billion in 2009.
US companies also have begun to lease more space as they become more confident about the economy.
Sales and leasing transactions are the bread and butter of real estate services companies, providing higher margins than property management or corporate services.
"We've seen sales and leasing improve all year," JMP analyst Will Marks said. "Third-quarter results really picked up from 2009 levels, but they're still nowhere near the levels at the peak."
CB Richard Ellis, based in Los Angeles, posted third-quarter earnings, excluding charges, of US$62.4 million, or 20 US cents per diluted share up from US$21.6 million, or eight US cents a share in the year-earlier quarter.
Analysts on average expected 17 US cents per share, according Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue rose 24% to US$1.3 billion. That was driven in part by a 26% revenue increase from the Americas region, with property sales up 69% and leasing revenue up 36%.
Jones Lang LaSalle posted third-quarter adjusted earnings of US$38 million, or 86 US cents per share, compared with US$27 million or 61 US cents per share in the year-earlier quarter.
Analysts on average expected 95 US cents per share.
Chicago-based Jones Lang LaSalle said its revenue rose 20% to US$708 million. In the Americas, revenue rose 29%, with leasing revenue up 38%, and sales and hotels up 127%.
Taubman reported third-quarter adjusted funds from operations of US$33 million or 59 US cents per square foot compared with a loss of US$67 million, or US$1.26 per share in the year ago period.
Analysts had expected third-quarter FFO of 67 US cents per share. FFO is a real estate investment trust performance metric, which removes the profit-reducing effect of depreciation from earnings.
The company, based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan raised it 2010 FFO forecast to a range to US$2.77 per share to US$2.82 per share from US$2.65 per share to US$2.75 per share based on improving rents and higher lease cancellation and recoveries.
Boston Properties reported FFO of US$150.8 million, or US$1.07 per share diluted compared with US$158.5 million, or US$1.13 per share.
Analysts expected FFO of US$1.03 per share.
Boston Properties said it expects to report fourth quarter FFO of US$1.09 per share to US$1.12 per share.
The companies reported after the close of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday. Jones Lang LaSalle shares closed down 0.7% at US$85.37. CB Richard Ellis shares closed up 0.2% at US$18.90 and were at US$19.06 after hours. Taubman shares closed down 1.1% at US$48.30, and were at US$48.76 in after-hours trade. Boston Properties shares closed down 1% at US$89.87.
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Canning Street
The street was named after George Canning, who was born in London of Irish descent.
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The early Australian press keenly followed political events in Britain at the time and regularly reported the debates of the House of Commons. Canning became a name well-known and highly esteemed by many Australians.
Sir Roger Therry’ Supreme Court judge in Victoria (1845-1846), had edited Canning’s speeches while in England and made him the subject of many public lectures in Australia, especially to Mechanics’ Institutes.
So North Melbourne bracketed its Canning Street with its Brougham Street.(1)
Source. Northern Advertiser 13/1/1972. Blanchard collection, “What’s in a Name” at North Melbourne Library.
North Melbourne VIC 3051
Style Victorian, Mid: 1860-1875
Also known as Address Bangalore.
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Initiative offers financial support for novel approaches and enabling technologies in crop research
Bayer opens application window for Grants4Ag
Bayer supports the search for new approaches that lead to innovative solutions in plant research.
Monheim, September 21, 2020 – Bayer announced today that it has opened the application window for its Grants4Ag initiative. First introduced in 2015, the initiative has evolved in 2020 to offer researchers financial and scientific support to develop ideas for novel solutions across all research and development areas in the Division of Crop Science. Deadline for submissions is October 31, 2020.
“Our previous Grants4 programs succeeded in attracting top proposals in targeted niches – particularly biotech traits and biologicals,” said Phil Taylor, Open Innovation Business Partner for the Crop Science division. “The new Grants4Ag model expands the reach to a greater number of potential applicants, and therefore more diverse innovations.”
As with previous Grants4 programs, there are no formal reporting requirements and applicants retain ownership of any intellectual property developed. Taylor says the company views these grants as an initial investment with the potential to become larger-scale, longer-term collaborations with Bayer.
In addition to the grants (typically ranging from 5,000 to 15,000 euros), each recipient will be partnered up with a Bayer scientist who will provide guidance and feedback on the project. Previous grant recipients say the latter sets the Grants4 program apart from traditional funding programs.
“The Bayer Grants4 program is easy to apply for and allows us to test technologies with feasibility experiments whose results can bridge current and future projects,” said Hank W. Bass, Professor of Biological Science at Florida State University, who was awarded a grant in 2019 to study corn plants’ response to flooding.
In total, last year’s grants program received submissions from 17 countries around the world. A total of 21 grants were awarded.
For the 2020 Grants4Ag submission period, Bayer is partnering with Halo, a marketplace that helps companies connect with scientists through an intuitive, streamlined interface.
“We created Halo to help companies discover and collaborate with scientists to solve today’s challenges and stay a step ahead of tomorrow’s,” said Kevin Leland, CEO and Founder of Halo. "Bayer has long been a champion of open innovation and we’re thrilled to be powering this latest search so even more scientists from universities and startups can benefit from its resources and industry knowledge.”
Full details on the programs’ sought-after solutions, application process and submission rules are available at halo.science/company/bayer-crop-science.
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MediaCom wins Adweek Media Plan of the Year for VW campaign
"The Beetle Shark Cage" drives away with Best Use of Branded Content/Entertainment
MediaCom today has been named the winner of Adweek’s Media Plan of the Year competition in the Best Use of Branded Content/Entertainment category for its Volkswagen of America campaign, “The Beetle Shark Cage.”
The monstrously successful original content series transformed the Volkswagen Beetle into a fully-operational underwater shark cage for Discovery Channel’s Shark Week 2012. Now the longest-running cable TV programming event in history, The Atlantic has described Shark Week as a “pop culture leviathan,” and Steven Colbert named it the “second holiest annual holiday after Christmas.”
Plunging the VW Beetle into Shark Week storytelling has already yielded numerous accolades, including two Cannes Lions, a Creative Media Award, a One Show Entertainment Award and recognition from both the Festival of Media Awards and M&M Global Awards. The initiative was so successful that MediaCom and partners Deutsch LA and Edelman brought Volkswagen back this year as presenting sponsor, complete with a new, tricked-out Beetle Convertible shark cage that can actually fly through water. Fans can follow the cage’s Subaquatic Road Trip here.
“We started with a simple question: How do we get more men to buy the Beetle?” said Sasha Savic, CEO of MediaCom USA. “What we created was an immersive experience that pitted Volkswagen against one of the most dangerous creatures on the planet. More than 2 million people saw the Beetle swim with sharks on TV, and nearly 29 million dove into the experience on the Web just a few weeks ago. What could be better than that?”
“MediaCom has been a great partner in helping us find creative ways to extend the brand through both traditional and alternative marketing channels,” said Justin Osborne, general manager, marketing communications, Volkswagen of America. “Without a doubt, the Beetle shark cage campaign has been a real success for Volkswagen, allowing us to effectively reach a very engaged audience with some really unique content.”
MediaCom has dubbed today “Beetle Monday,” and is celebrating the win with various festivities at their headquarters. Adweek’s full Media Plan of the Year feature is available today in print and online.
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Definitions for "Exploration"
Keywords: geophysics, drilled, discovery, geochemistry, geochemical
Related Terms: Exploratory well, Exploration well, Exploration drilling, Prospect, Proven reserves, Reserves, Geophysical survey, Discovery well, Delineation well, Development well, Mineral resource, Resource, Ore reserves, Orebody, Development drilling, Resources, Play, Production well, Dry hole, Mineral resources, Development, Seismic survey, Mineral reserves, Prospecting, Appraisal well, Mining, Oil well, Ore reserve, Oilfield, Deposit, Trap, Mineral reserve, Stratigraphic trap, Rock mechanics, Core sample, Show, Development, Infill drilling, Recoverable reserves, Tar sands, Proved reserves, Completion, Wildcat , Petrography, Reserve, Stratigraphy, Wildcat well, Structural trap, Tar sand
The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries
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physical examination.
A general term referring to all efforts made in the search for new deposits of oil and gas.
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Generally, the act of searching for potential subsurface reservoirs of gas or oil. Methods include the use of magnetometers, gravity meters, seismic exploration, surface mapping, exploratory drillings, and other such methods.
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The search for oil and gas. Exploration operations include: aerial surveys, geophysical surveys, geological studies, core testing and the drilling of test wells.
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The process of searching for minerals, such as oil and gas, before development and production. Exploration activities include geophysical surveys, drilling to locate an oil or gas reservoir, and the drilling of additional wells after a discovery to determine the boundaries of an underground reservoir. It enables an oil or gas company to determine whether to proceed with development and production.
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the search for reservoirs of oil and gas, including aerial and geophysical surveys, geological studies, core testing, and drilling of wildcats.
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In the broad sense, the whole range of mining activity from searching for and developing mineral deposits to developing the mine. In the strict sense, the search for mineral deposits up to discovery and includes the deliniation of the deposit by means of drilling and sampling.
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The identification of areas that may warrant examination and to examine specific areas that are considered to have prospects of containing oil and gas reserves, including drilling exploratory wells and exploratory-type stratigraphic test wells. Exploration costs may be incurred both before acquiring the related property (sometimes referred to in part as prospecting costs) and after acquiring the property.
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activities associated with ascertaining the existence, location, extent or quality of mineralised material, including economic and technical evaluations of mineralised material. to top
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The prospecting, diamond drilling or other work involved in searching for ore.
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to travel for the purpose of discovery
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a careful systematic search
a systematic consideration; "he called for a careful exploration of the consequences"
a voyage into the unknown
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to search in unknown places.
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The work involved in looking for ore. It may include geologic reconnaissance, e.g. remote sensing, photogeology, geophysical and geochemical methods, and both surface and underground investigations.
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Prospecting, sampling, mapping, diamond drilling and other work involved in the search for mineralisation.
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The process of locating and proving that a mineral occurrence is an orebody and that it is large enough, and contains enough mineral, to be mined profitably.
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Oil and natural gas exploration that includes land surveys, geological and geophysical studies, seismic data gathering and analysis, and well drilling.
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the search, using varied techniques, with the objective to discover and evaluate natural resource deposits of economic value Exposure any geological feature that is visible, whether on surface or underground.
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Prospecting, sampling, mapping, diamond drilling, and other work involved in searching for ore.
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Exploration is the process of identifying a prospective hydrocarbon region and structure, mainly by reference to regional, and specific, geochemical, geological and geophysical (seismic) surveys. An Exploration Well is a well drilled to test a potential but unproven hydrocarbon trap or structure where good reservoir rock and a seal or closure combine with a potential source of hydrocarbons.
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The various activities applied in the search for a deposit of minerals suitable for commercial extraction, e.g., prospecting, sampling, mapping, diamond drilling, etc.
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To investigate and explore an area in the search for mineral resources such as crude oil or natural gas. For successful exploration, it is important to discover oil and gas-bearing structures (deposits, fields) using suitable geophysical processes at sea or on land rather than by means of expensive drilling.
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Work involved in searching for ore, including sampling, assaying, drilling or driving a drift.
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Work involved in searching for ore, usually by prospecting, geology, geophysics, geochemistry, drilling or driving a drift.
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The search for economic deposits of minerals, ore, and other materials though practices of geology, geochemistry, geophysics, drilling, and/or mapping.
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The search for mineral deposits and the work done to prove or establish the extent of a mineral deposit. Alt: Prospecting and subsequent evaluation.
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The search for natural accumulations of oil and natural gas by any geological, geophysical or other suitable means.
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Students learn most about a particular subject when they learn how to build knowledge for oneself through discovery.
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Those investors who follow the mining sector will often use the term "exploration company" to describe younger, more speculative firms which are prospecting, but not producing. This sector may be inappropriate for many investors, but, for those with a higher degree of risk tolerance, the returns can be truly extraordinary as these firms represent the most highly-leveraged "play" on the price of the metal being mined. I have followed the exploration sector for many years and my conclusion is that, ultimately, the single most important determinant of success is the credibility and quality of the management. As such, I make it my business to know the people involved in such firms and to become intimately familiar with their track records.
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European explorers who went to unknown places for different reasons; to find out about the place, to map the land, to spread religion, to look for wealth, to open up trade routes
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Exploration is the act of searching or traveling for the purpose of discovery, e.g. of unknown regions, including space (space exploration), for oil, gas, coal, ores, caves, water (also known as prospecting), or information.
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Keywords: lyoko, ninth, premiered, episode, september
"Exploration" is the twenty-ninth episode of the French animated television series Code Lyoko. It premiered in France on September 14, 2005 and in the United States on September 21, 2005.
Keywords: reif, eksplr, journey, find, examination
7eksplR:5reiF[n / n. an examination of an area or journey through it in order to find out what is there or what it is like
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Keywords: curiosity, unexpected, vocabulary, innovative, unusual
practical investigation and analysis which leads to the gaining of knowledge, skills and understanding. Exploration may arise from the needs of a given situation (e.g. It needs to be blue and shiny. What material should I use?), but may also be stimulated by curiosity, extending personal vocabulary or style, and may result in unexpected, unusual or innovative outcomes.
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Keywords: unfamiliar, learn, lab, supposed, listened
the act of travelling through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it.
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a conventional exercise in which the student is supposed to learn a lab technique by following step-by-step instructions
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a writing assignment in which you communicate what you discover and learn about something you have read, watched, listened to or discussed
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Keywords: introduce, classroom, week, categories, intensive
an intensive week-long look at a particular field or area of interest and is offered in seven different categories designed to introduce you to a world of opportunities
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an intensive week-long look at a particular field or area of interest designed to introduce you to new skills through laboratory, classroom, and field experiences
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can be divided into three basic categories
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Keywords: rehearsal, arrive, choices, ideas, try
All the different choices and ideas you try in rehearsal to arrive at a performance.
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Keywords: radiological, exam, shots, ray, images
a radiological exam, each exam may have one or more X-ray images or shots
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Keywords: expeditions, plant, collecting
Plant-collecting expeditions.
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Keywords: chases, opinions, question, string
a string of opinions where question chases after question
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Inter-marital affair could destroy what’s left of the leadership of a major neo-Nazi group
By Jack Smith IV
One of the foundational beliefs of white nationalists is that whiteness is under siege by a sexual threat from black and brown men, who will seduce white women and break apart the traditional family structure. But it seems a couple of America’s white nationalists should have looked closer to home.
On Tuesday morning, Matthew Heimbach — one of the country’s most prominent neo-Nazis — was arrested and charged with assaulting his wife, Brooke Heimbach, and his spokesman, Matt Parrott, in Paoli, Indiana. The story involves a sexual sting operation, public embarrassment and revenge that may destabilize the leadership at the heart of a piece American neo-Nazi organizing.
Heimbach, the leader of the Traditionalist Worker Party — one of the largest avowed neo-Nazi groups in the country — might be remembered from footage of the August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which TWP members wore black helmets and Dickies work shirts. Over the past year, Heimbach has coordinated rallies in Kentucky and Tennessee, and were seen outside at one of Richard Spencer’s recent college appearances, fighting with and throwing rocks at protesters.
Matthew Heimbach, a dedicated white nationalist since college, co-founded the Traditionalist Worker Party with Matt Parrott. His affair with Parrott’s wife allegedly lasted three months. Scott Olson/Getty Images
The other key player here is Jessica Parrott, who is married to Matthew Parrott. Much of the rest of this story is based on a police report, and testimony by the four given to the arresting officer.
Jessica Parrott was, according to the police report, in a three-month sexual affair with Matthew Heimbach. When she said that the affair was over, the Parrotts set up a sort of romantic sting operation for Heimbach, luring him to Parrott’s trailer on Tuesday morning. The purpose of the sting was to see if Heimbach would try to seduce Parrott’s wife again, even though he’d agreed to the end the affair. Matt Parrott and Brooke Heimbach watched through a window from outside, with Parrott standing on a box.
It’s unclear between recorded reports from various parties if Matthew Heimbach and Jessica Parrott either had sex, or just prepared to have sex that day. According to the police report, Heimbach’s wife Brooke fled the scene, and the box Matt Parrott was standing on suddenly broke. At this point, he ran around the trailer to confront Matthew Heimbach, poking him in the chest and telling him to get off his property.
But Heimbach wouldn’t leave. Instead, he put Parrott in a chokehold until Parrott lost consciousness. When Parrott woke up, he tried to kick Heimbach out again. But Heimbach still wouldn’t leave, so Parrott threw a chair at him. Heimbach put him in another choke hold, and Parrott passed out again.
When he woke up again, Matt Parrott took his 4-month-old daughter to a nearby Walmart, where called the police, telling them he’d been assaulted by his “wife and her boyfriend.” After taking Parrott’s statement, the officer travelled to Heimbach’s house, and agreed to wait outside while Brooke put her kids to sleep. While the officer was outside, Heimbach demanded his wife send the police away. But she wouldn’t.
“I refused, he kicked the wall, and then grabbed my cheeks, making them bleed, and then threw me ... into the bed,” Brooke wrote in her battery affidavit. “I have a recording of this.”
The officer then entered the home and instructed Heimbach to come out of the bedroom. He took statements, then transported Heimbach to Orange County Jail.
In the police report, all participants listed their profession as “white nationalist.”
Then, Matt Parrott took his revenge. He regularly wrote fascistic blog posts for the TWP, and apparently helped administer the group’s website. Shortly after Heimbach’s arrest, Parrott took down the TWP site and began destroying all of the digital infrastructure for the organization.
“All of the information systems are completely air-gapped and will be destroyed within a few hours in order to guarantee all membership information literally no longer exists anywhere,” Parrott wrote on Gab, a social media site that’s become a home to Twitter-banned white nationalists.
There’s one last detail, if you’ve followed so far: Brooke Heimbach is Matt Parrott’s step-daughter from a previous marriage. So that makes Matt Parrott Heimbach’s father-in-law — and Jessica Parrott Heimbach’s stepmother-in-law.
Brooke Heimbach’s statement to police. Paoli Police Department
From the police report, it appears that Jessica Parrott is also Brooke Heimbach’s landlord. That detail came up in Brooke Heimbach’s testimony.
It’s unclear what will become of the TWP after this schism in its leadership and the loss of their membership rolls.
The drama comes after white nationalist figurehead Spencer suspended all of his public appearances this week, saying that protests against his college speeches have become too extreme and that “antifa is winning.” It’s difficult not to conclude that what remains of the so-called alt-right is falling apart, at least at the level of popular leadership.
The key players in the Traditionalist Worker Party drama: Matthew Heimbach, Matt Parrott, Brooke Heimbach and Jessica Parrott. Mic/Getty and Facebook
Mic reached out to Heimbach on Tuesday night, but was unable to reach him for comment. Parrott gave a brief statement to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the foremost institution tracking right-wing extremism.
“I’m done. I’m out,” Parrott said. “SPLC has won. Matt Parrott is out of the game. Y’all have a nice life.”
Heimbach, who was released Tuesday, is free on a $1,000 bond. A probation hearing is set in Kentucky on June 1, according to the SPLC.
March 15, 2018: 3:20 p.m.: This story has been updated.
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Disney Women of Food & Beverage – Part One
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March is National Women’s History Month, an opportunity to celebrate the contribution and achievements of women throughout history … and in our day-to-day lives. With over 22,000 cast members in Food & Beverage at Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort, I wanted to shine the spotlight on just a few of the many talented and passionate women that make a difference each and every day for our guests and fellow cast members.
On every Thursday this month, I will give you a glimpse of the breadth and depth of female talent Disney has to offer. All of these ladies perform different roles within Disney, and have varied life journeys – personally, educationally, and professionally. But they all have one thing in common: a dedication to excellence. Whether that be one plate/glass at a time in their restaurant, mentoring/teaching fellow cast members behind the scenes, or making Disney magic for our guests.
Let me introduce you to the first of our Disney Women of Food & Beverage!
Aimée Rivera
Hometown: Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Years in the Food & Beverage Industry: 23 years
Year Started with Disney: 2002
Current Role: Chef de Cuisine, Victoria & Albert’s, Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, Walt Disney World Resort
Education/Accomplishments: Johnson & Wales University; Aimée is at the helm of the celebrated Victoria & Albert’s kitchen – the only restaurant in Florida to receive the AAA Five Diamond Award and Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Award
Delicious Details: Culinary style is classic with modern influences; her mother is her biggest inspiration and taught her to make the best buñuelos; tweezers are her favorite kitchen gadget; has a passion for lipstick; black pepper is her favorite spice (it enhances almost any dish); described as energetic, passionate, and detail-oriented.
What advice would you give young women wanting to get into the food and beverage industry?
Food & Beverage is a challenging industry that is very demanding. You need to be firm in what you believe and work with integrity.
Hometown: Howell, Mich.
Years in the Food & Beverage Industry: Since she was 16 … many years!
Current Role: Senior Production Manager, Food & Beverage at Disney California Adventure Park West, Disneyland Resort
Education/Accomplishments: Community college; industry and operational training and experience; Court of Master Sommeliers – Introductory Sommelier Diploma Level Two; Spirit of Disneyland Award
Delicious Details: LOVES her kitchen gadgets and always has a really sharp knife – well actually 10 sharp knives; makes a mean lasagna and her sons are partial to her stuffed shells; feels a perfect wine list has something for everyone but is not overwhelming; avid reader and a fan of murder or police mysteries; described as passionate, positive, and authentic.
First of all, eat out often. Then, jump in with both feet! It’s an amazing business and there is so much potential to do so many things. Always start at the bottom and work every role so you can truly understand what you ask of others as you become the leader. Don’t let others derail you – go after what you want.
Debbi Sacleux
Hometown: Summerville, S.C.
Current Role: Proprietor, Cinderella’s Royal Table, Magic Kingdom Park, Walt Disney World Resort
Education/Accomplishments: University of South Carolina; Court of Master Sommeliers – Introductory Sommelier Diploma Level One; Walt Disney World Legacy Award
Delicious Details: Started in Euro Disney (Disneyland Paris); Cherries Jubilee is her fondest food memory; creating new memories through food and beverage is her favorite part of the job; loves a bold cabernet sauvignon; best advice from mom: 99% of what we do in life is just breathing so don’t stress over things you cannot control; described as diva, funny, and energetic.
It is not for everyone. It is very demanding and if you are not a person who likes to “serve” you will not be successful. You have to enjoy being a “foodie.” My advice to anyone who comes into the service industry is to be true to who you are and work hard. Hard work does pay off and really, it’s not hard work if you have fun doing what you do.
Julia Thrash
Hometown: St. Clairsville, Ohio
Years in the Food & Beverage Industry: 9 years
Year Started with Disney: 2009 on the Disney College Program
Current Role: Chef, Liberty Tree Tavern, Magic Kingdom Park, Walt Disney World Resort
Education/Accomplishments: Le Cordon Blue (Pittsburgh)
Delicious Details: Started as a music major in college but realized culinary was her passion and transferred to culinary school; Julia Child is her inspiration as she never let rejection discourage her and proved you can have success at any point in life; loves antique shopping and collecting books; described as creative, passionate, and organized.
Never be afraid to ask questions. Work hard and focus on even the small task that may seem meaningless. There is always something to learn from each situation. Try to gain as much knowledge from everyone you meet and most importantly never give up. The journey will not be easy, but it is worth it.
Mechelle Miller
Hometown: Anaheim, Calif.
Current Role: Production Manager, Ventures and Festivals, Disneyland Resort, leading a Cast of over 250
Education/Accomplishments: Cal State Fullerton; Cicerone® Program Certified Beer Server Level One
Delicious Details: Started working at Disneyland at 16 years old; daughter, Ava, is the inspiration behind everything Mechelle does – teaching her the importance of balance in life; surfer; loves red wine, pizza, and making her mom’s lasagna; described as ambitious, driven, and caring.
Educate yourself as much as possible and never stop learning. You can learn so much from your peers and fellow Cast Members about the industry and the latest trends. Surround yourself with mentors that push you outside of your comfort zone and that you can learn from. And lastly, be very passionate about what you do as it will show with your Cast and with the guests.
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BMW i3 Pick-Up Truck – BMW presents unique concept for sustainable express delivery
BMW is breaking new ground with the BMW i3 Pick-up Truck. The unique BMW will be used as a fast delivery service-car internally.
Exceptional vehicle concepts are not new to BMW. Some years ago, BMW surprised us all with the launch of the BMW M3 pick-up truck, based on the BMW M3 E93 Convertible. Ultimately the company told us about the car on April 1st, so everyone believed in an April Fool’s gift. But it turned out, the car was real. The exclusive M3 today serves as a transporter for the M company, even though not on a daily but regular base.
The same will await the brand new BMW i3 Pick-Up Truck.
Once again BMW chooses a special date to present the all-electric BMW i3 truck, which not only comes with an open space, but also with a more powerful battery. As rumored previous, the new battery will see an increase of capacity to 32.9 kWh (previously 22). The changes will push the BMW i3’s range to over 124 miles on the European testing cycle (230 km).
The new BMW i3 Pick-Up will not only be an eye-catcher, but also a sustainable supplier-car between different production locations of the BMW Group in Germany.
Thanks to its new range, the car can also manage larger distances. Like the one between the BMW Headquarter in Munich and the BMW i plant in Leipzig.
The two cities are connected by the A9 Autobahn. On the 420 kilometers, BMW and partner E.ON installed a fast charging network last fall. So the i3 can complete the race between the cities with just one or two stops, and each of them will take only 30 minutes thanks to fast charging.
The BMW pick-up will remain an exclusive single object, according to a spokesperson at BMW. The company sees an extraordinary ambassador to the streets in it; showing electromobility in a new way and untypical everyday scenarios.
In the past few months, BMW had already presented the i3 as an authority vehicle for police and firefighters.
The stronger battery in the BMW i3 production vehicle will be introduced over the coming months, BMW CEO Harald Krüger announced at the annual conference some weeks ago. Albeit an official launch date is not confirmed yet.
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As you might have already anticipated, this hole article on BMW MOTOR SHOW BLOG about the BMW i3 Pick-Up Truck is … fake. It is our April Fools’ prank for 2016. We are sorry to disappoint everyone who thought it was real. But maybe, BMW is hearing you – we’ll never know 😉
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Northwood's play-off hopes dead after Marlow run riot
Woods well beaten as chances for top-five fade away at Northwood Park, reports Jack Green
On target: Karl Oliyide
Northwood 2-7 Marlow
Northwood's playoff ambitions were well and truly dashed as they slumped to a 7-2 defeat against Marlow at Northwood Park.
A goal for the visitors in the opening minutes set the tone for the rout, which saw Jon Bennett bag four in a starring role.
Player-manager Mark Burgess was absent for the game, and his stand-in as captain, James Duncan, felt the side missed his leadership at the back.
He said: “He's a big miss because obviously he's the manager but he's also a very good player and he leads us well.”
“We had Steve Brown missing as well. They've formed a really good partnership at the back and it's ripped the heart out of the team.”
The Woods were forced to play two young central defenders from the club's youth setup, and Marlow, who travelled to Chestnut Avenue having lost eight of their last nine games, quickly put them to the sword.
The visitors took the lead just three minutes in – a long ball found Ian Davies on the right hand side, and his ball into the box was hammered home by Bennett.
Northwood struggled to string passes together in attack, and they conceded again in the 26th minute when James Rusby's free kick from the left evaded a cluster of players and found its way into the far corner of the net.
The hosts' task was then made even harded as two quickfire goals from Bennett saw them go into the interval 4-0 down and in dire need of a lift.
The Woods made a poor start to the half, however, as Bennett netted his fourth just three minutes after the break.
Northwood were given a glimmer of hope in the 59th minute, as Niko Muir raced through and found the bottom corner for his 20th league goal of the season.
Karl Oliyide then capitalised on a defensive mistake to make it 5-2, coolly slotting home past Simon Grant.
But Marlow soon put the game beyond doubt. Marcus Mealing found the net in the 82nd minute, before substitute Carl Davies completed the drubbing, scoring with his first touch.
Duncan believes that the absentees in defence were no excuse for the Woods' performance.
He said: “We've let ourselves down a lot today. We're disappointed because that's our play-off hopes over.
“It's a brand new back four and we've given a chance to two under-18 centre halves, but all of us take responsibility for the result. The senior players have got to play better, including myself”
The full back was disappointed that his side have dropped points over the course of the season in winnable games.
He added: “The small margins and key moments in games have cost us six points that could have had us closer to the play-offs.”
Northwood have been plagued by inconsistency this season, and a good string of results could have seen them compete for a play-off spot. They travel to Aylesbury on Tuesday as they look to finish the season on a high.
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Hayes and Yeading FC
United hopeful over deals for Oxford and Crystal Palace duo
Babb believes he can negotiate loan extensions for youngsters following three postponements in seven days
Negotiations: Phil Babb
Phil Babb is hopeful Crystal Palace and Oxford United will be sympathetic after three postponements in seven days have meant the Hayes & Yeading boss has been unable to give debuts to his new loan signings.
United manager Babb has dipped into the loan market following the departures of top scorer Jake Reid and fans’ favourite Louis Soares in an effort to breathe new life to his thinning squad at Kingfield.
Aiden Hawtin has arrived from the Us and Derek Tieku has come in from Premier League side Palace after impressing Babb in an U21 fixture, however both are still waiting to make their United bows after being frustrated by mother nature.
The duo are in line to make their first Hayes & Yeading appearances at Concord Rangers on Saturday, however the clock has already been ticking down on their month-long stays with the Conference South outfit.
Babb says the youngsters have impressed in training and is excited about seeing them in first-team action, but already has one eye on loan extensions for the pair and reckons their parent clubs will be open to a longer spell, given the recent lack of game-time.
“We’re looking to freshen things up and Aiden is only young but is a dynamic player with great technique,” Babb said. “If he works hard then he’ll get his opportunity. Derek Tieku is still with us and it’s just unfortunate that there’s been no games. He’s a very good player who I watched for Palace U21s against Fulham and he shone in that game. He’s a smaller forward to add to the bigger lads we’ve got up there.
“I think both Oxford and Palace will be sympathetic that the games have been called off and we’d hope that we’d be able to extend those loans. There’s no substitute for playing against men when there’s more at stake. When you’re playing in a league, vying for a play-off place, it’s sink or swim. They don’t sink or swim at development level. I wouldn’t say it’s pressure but the motivation is certainly different.”
United’s trip to Gosport last night was the latest fixture to fall victim to the weather, however conditions are set to improve later in the week and some football could finally be played this weekend.
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Judge Tentatively Rules in Favor of City in Alleged Campaign Violation Case
Orange County Superior Court Judge James Crandall tentatively ruled in favor of the city of Newport Beach Wednesday in the case local lawyer Phil Greer filed on April 12 representing NB resident Martha Peyton. It alleges that Councilman Scott Peotter violated the campaign contribution limit.
Greer explains in the suit that Mayor Marshall “Duffy” Duffield and his wife, Teresa, and Woody’s Wharf co-owner Greg Pappas had already reached their maximum donation limit, as indicated by the mid-2017 public record filings, when they contributed goods and services to a fundraiser event for Peotter on Dec. 6 at Pappas’ Balboa Peninsula restaurant and bar.
Pappas co-hosted the event, which included a “holiday harbor cruise” on Duffield’s “private yacht.”
Peotter’s financial filings omitted the costs associated with the event, like the value of the food and beverages, valet parking, room rental, fuel, fair market value of the cruise, and other in-kind contributions donated to the event.
Greer also alleges that Harp has a conflict of interest, because his “client,” the whole of City Council, includes Peotter and Duffield, who are part of the “Team Newport” majority.
Although Crandall disagreed in his tentative ruling.
“There is no duty whatsoever in the cited provisions of the Newport Beach Municipal Code to ‘declare a conflict,’” Crandall wrote, and that the city code “does not create a mandatory duty for the City Council to appoint a special attorney.”
Crandall found that “there is no actual controversy relating to the legal rights and duties of the respective parties as framed by the petition.”
Crandall wrote that he “struggled” with the motion by the city and Harp to disqualify Greer, filed after Councilman Jeff Herdman shared emails with Greer that referred to the case.
He ultimately denied the motion after they failed to submit enough evidence to convince him that the emails were shared without the consent of the city attorney or other counsel.
“That having been said, the court does not approve of the conduct of attorney Greer as established by the evidence,” Crandall wrote.
According to the Rules of Professional Conduct, Greer should have replied that he could not discuss the lawsuit with Herdman without city attorney approval. And if Herdman persisted, Greer should have excused himself.
Crandall added that he opposed some of the language used in Peyton’s opposition to the motion.
“Finally, the court actively discourages the type of ad hominin attacks, name calling, and rank speculation contained in the petitioner’s opposition,” Crandall concluded. “The respondent’s motion was in no way frivolous, and there is no requirement in Rule 2-100 that the matters discussed be privileged, or even confidential.”
Peyton can file an amended petition within 10 days. The tentative ruling will be carried over to when the hearing resumes on Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
Phil Greer
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Hiring in India expected to increase in the coming quarter: ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey
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ManpowerGroup interviewed over 59,000 employers in 44 countries and territories to forecast labor market activity* in the fourth quarter of 2019.
According to the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey released today, the survey of 5,131 employers across India, indicates optimistic hiring plans for the upcoming three months. Sectors expected to lead job market growth include Public Administration & Education, Wholesale & Retail Trade and Services sectors. Medium-sized companies, as well as employers in the East region, are forecasting the strongest Outlooks in the country for the fourth quarter of 2019.
A senior spokesperson of ManpowerGroup India said, “The slew of measures announced by the Government of India is multi-sectoral and multi-dimensional. The special focus is currently to boost the MSME. Further, the government is considering to bring a legislation to ensure payments to MSMEs within 45 days of supplying a product. The minister has also asked global multilateral lending agencies to reduce the cost of capital for the MSME sector. The Government has been designing policies and schemes with the theme “Budget Ease of Living” with special attention towards promoting facilitating entrepreneurs, who are the job (and wealth) creators of India. Further, the Central Government plans to disburse US$ 1 billion to states for introducing skill development initiatives. India’s higher education segment is expected to surge to US$ 35.03 billion by 2025. Government and corporations are taking up training and upskilling initiatives to fill the skill gap and the education sector will be a strategic priority of the Indian Government with an allowance of 100% FDI in the education sector. Opportunities are expected to remain favorable for candidates with the right skills and flexibility. All these measures are likely to give a major boost to the economy, industrial activity and overall growth trajectory.”
“Lack of desired skillsets is what makes it difficult for Indian employers to fill job positions. Corporate India’s hiring intention is better as employers collaborate with the education bodies to ensure a skilled labour pool in the coming years.” added the senior spokesperson.
Sectoral Trends
According to our survey, India’s job market, overall, looks bright when compared to the last quarter with a seasonally adjusted Net Employment Outlook of +19%.
Workforce gains strengthen in all seven industry sectors in the coming quarter. Public Administration & Education employers report the strongest hiring intentions with a Net Employment Outlook of +27%. Respectable payroll gains are also forecast in two sectors with Outlooks of +25% in the Wholesale & Retail Trade sector and +22% in the Services sector. Positive hiring opportunities are expected in the Manufacturing sector and the Mining and Construction sector, where Outlooks stand at +16% and +13%, and in the Transportation & Utilities sector with an Outlook of +11%.
India’s Regional Trends
Hiring is expected to increase in all four regions during the coming quarter. Employers in all four regions expect to add to payrolls during the forthcoming quarter. The strongest labor market is expected in the East, where the Net Employment Outlook stands at +38%. Steady workforce gains are also forecast in all the other three regions, South, West and North with Outlooks of +19%, +18% and +16%, respectively.
In the East, employers report quite a strong improvement of as high as 29 percentage points when compared with the previous quarter. Outlooks improved for all other regions as well.
ManpowerGroup interviewed over 59,000 employers in 44 countries and territories to forecast labor market activity* in the fourth quarter of 2019. All participants were asked, “How do you anticipate total employment at your location to change in the three months to the end of December 2019 as compared to the current quarter?”
The ManpowerGroup research for the fourth quarter of 2019 reveals that employers expect workforce gains in 43 of 44 countries and territories surveyed in the period up to the end of December 2019.
When compared with the previous quarter, employers in 15 out of 44 countries and territories report stronger hiring prospects, while employers in 23 countries report weaker hiring plans which also includes 6 who anticipates “no change”.
The strongest hiring sentiment is reported in Japan (+26%), Taiwan (+21%), U.S. (+20%), India (+19%) and Greece (+18%), while the weakest hiring activity is expected in Spain (0%), the Czech Republic (+2%), Argentina (+3%), Costa Rica (+3%), and Switzerland (+3%). Chinese employers (+4%) expect a cautious hiring climate in the coming quarter, reporting their weakest Outlook in two years.
ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey
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Our latest statement on reopening and coronavirus (COVID-19)
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Published : 05 Mar 2020 Last update : 05 Jan 2021
Our latest statement on coronavirus (COVID-19)
Following the Prime Minister's announcement of a new lockdown in England, our gardens, parks and countryside will remain open for local people to exercise. The safety of our staff, volunteers and visitors from the nearby community remains our priority.
Our Director-General Hilary McGrady said: 'We know how important it will be for people to seek fresh air, space and nature but we urge visitors to stick to the rules and stay local.'
Our shops in England will close under the new restrictions, but some cafés will be able to offer basic takeaway refreshments.
The booking system remains in place to restrict capacity and help with social distancing and visitors are asked to look at the property website for information before planning a visit.
In Wales, all National Trust places are currently closed in line with Welsh government restrictions and in Northern Ireland, in line with Executive restrictions, houses, shops and visitors centres are closed. Cafés are takeaway only.
In line with Northern Ireland Executive restrictions, our houses, shops and visitor centres in Northern Ireland will be closed for six weeks from 26 December to restrict the spread of coronavirus. Our outdoor spaces will remain open for local walkers to enjoy and cafés will offer a limited takeaway service.
The safety of our staff, volunteers, visitors and local communities remains our priority. We urge people to follow government guidance and stay local.
Many of our places remain open across all tiers in England. In tiers 1 and 2, houses, shops and cafés can open. In tiers 3 and 4, outdoor spaces and toilets can open, and cafes are takeaway only. In tier four, shops are closed. Please visit our website to book your visit, and to check opening times and facilities before visiting.
The safety of our staff, volunteers, visitors and local communities remains our priority. We urge people to follow government guidance and restrictions for their local tier.
In line with Welsh government guidance, all of our places in Wales will temporarily close from Monday 14 December as part of the national effort to bring coronavirus under control.
The safety of our staff, volunteers, visitors and local communities remains our priority. We will continue to follow Welsh government restrictions and encourage everybody to follow the latest guidelines. We look forward to welcoming you back when we're able to.
Following the end of the Northern Ireland Executive circuit break restrictions, National Trust places in Northern Ireland have now reopened.
Wednesday 2 December 2020
In line with Welsh government legislation, our indoor visitor attractions in Wales will be closed from Saturday 5 December to restrict the spread of coronavirus. Many of our shops, cafés, gardens and parks, along with our coast and countryside sites, will remain open to residents living in Wales and to groups of four or less (excluding children below 11) unless they are from the same household.
The safety of our staff, volunteers, visitors and local communities remains our priority. We will continue to follow Welsh government restrictions and should they change will act accordingly. We await the Welsh government’s announcement later this week on travel.
In England, gardens, parks and outdoor spaces have been open through the current lockdown. From 2 December, we're reopening some houses and seating areas in cafés. In tier 3, indoor areas will remain closed and cafés will be takeaway only. Please follow your area's tiering system and government guidance when planning a visit.
Following Welsh government guidance, all places in Wales are now open for Wales residents.
Following clarification on Northern Ireland Executive circuit break restrictions, our gardens and parks in Northern Ireland will open from 28 November. All houses, shops and visitors centres will stay closed during the circuit break until 11 December, and cafés will be takeaway only.
In line with Northern Ireland Executive legislation and the ‘circuit break’ lockdown, our houses, gardens and parks in Northern Ireland will temporarily close from Friday 27 November until 11 December to restrict the spread of coronavirus. Local walkers can continue to enjoy our open countryside and coastal sites.
The safety of our staff, volunteers, visitors and local communities remains our priority. We urge people to follow government guidance and stay local. We look forward to welcoming you back when we’re able to.
Thursday 5 November 2020
We're reopening our places in Wales from Monday 9 November in line with Welsh government guidelines following the firebreak lockdown. Under the new Welsh government legislation, our places are only open to Wales residents and to groups of four or less (excluding children under 11) unless they are from the same household.
Opening times vary as some of our places have moved to their winter opening schedules and are not open daily, so please check the website before visiting.
The safety and well-being of our staff, volunteers, visitors and local communities is our priority and we will continue to monitor the situation, following Welsh government advice.
Access to outdoor spaces has never been more important and we're looking forward to welcoming visitors from Wales back to enjoy nature, beauty and history.
Monday 2 November 2020
Following the government’s announcement of a four-week lockdown in England, we intend to keep our gardens, parks and countryside sites open but will close our houses, shops and holiday accommodation in England from Thursday 5 November.
Our coast and countryside sites and car parks will remain open. We intend to keep our gardens and parklands open with pre-booking to encourage local people to enjoy open space while adhering to the government’s guidance and maintaining social distancing.
Our Director-General Hilary McGrady said: 'We follow government advice and guidance at all times, in each of the nations we serve.
'We know how important access to green space, nature and fresh air are to people, and we’ll do everything we can to provide them during the next phase. Our priorities will remain the safety and wellbeing of visitors, staff and volunteers.'
Where possible visitors will still be able to get takeaway food and drink and outdoor play areas will remain open in line with government guidance.
Our online shop will continue to offer customers gifts, garden and homeware, books and clothing.
Hilary continued: 'We know this month is going to be tough for everyone and we want to give members and visitors as much pleasure, rest and enjoyment as we can.'
Wales is already a week into its fire break lockdown but will be reopening on 9 November and we look forward to welcoming visitors back to our places in Wales.
In Northern Ireland we've closed all historic houses, and cafés are only offering a takeaway service. The Giant’s Causeway Visitor Centre has also had to close. Grounds, shops and holiday cottages however remain open.
We were forced to make spending cuts and redundancies last month after the crippling financial effect of the coronavirus and have said we're likely to use the government’s furlough scheme again to avoid further redundancies.
In line with Welsh Government legislation and the ‘fire break’ lockdown, all of our places in Wales will temporarily close from Saturday 24 October to Monday 9 November to restrict the spread of coronavirus.
The safety of our staff, volunteers, visitors and local communities remains our priority. We urge people to follow government legislation, stay at home and not to travel at this time. We look forward to welcoming you back when we’re able to.
Staff, volunteers and visitors at our houses, shops and indoor areas in Wales are required to wear a face covering, in line with updated Welsh Government guidance.
Visitors in England and Northern Ireland are also required to wear a face covering following updated government guidelines on 10 August.
Those who do not have one may be refused entry, although this will be at the manager's discretion. Those under 11 or with health conditions are exempt from the government guidelines and there may be mitigating factors where visitors and shoppers do not have to wear one.
We'll not be able to provide face coverings at our places and, while some may be available to buy in our shops, we would urge all visitors to bring something with them.
From Monday 10 August visitors to National Trust houses and indoor areas in England and Northern Ireland are required to wear a face covering, in line with updated government guidelines.
Those who do not have one may be refused entry, although this will be at the manager’s discretion. Those under 11 or with disabilities are exempt from the government guidelines and there may be mitigating factors where visitors and shoppers do not have to wear one.
We will not be able to provide face coverings at our places and, while some may be available to buy in our shops, we would urge all visitors to bring something with them.
From Friday 24 July all visitors at National Trust shops and indoor cafés offering counter service in England will be required to wear a face covering, in line with current government guidelines. Where possible, staff and volunteers will be on hand to politely request that visitors wear a face covering and those refusing to do so may be refused entry at the manager’s discretion.
It is not currently compulsory under the guidelines for staff to wear one, although they may do so at their own discretion.
Those under 11 or with disabilities are exempt from the government guidelines and there may be mitigating factors where visitors and shoppers do not have to wear one.
Unfortunately, we will not be able to provide face coverings to visitors. There may be a limited supply available to buy in our shops, but we would encourage everyone to bring one for their visit.
Visitors in Northern Ireland and Wales do not currently have to wear a face covering, although we will review this in line with government policy.
We will also continue to employ a range of safety measures including social distancing, hand sanitising stations, Perspex screens at tills and, where possible, one-way systems.
From Monday 3 August more than 80 National Trust cafés will be taking part in the Government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme. This entitles visitors to our cafés to 50 per cent off their bill, up to a maximum of £10 per head on food consumed in the café/food outlet. The scheme applies from Monday to Wednesdays only, until 31 August.
Monday 13 July 2020
From Monday 13 July we’re opening seven of our houses for the first time since the lockdown as part of a phased approach to welcome back visitors.
The safety of visitors, staff and volunteers is central to the reopening, with one-way systems and measures to ensure social distancing is in place. Hand sanitising gel will be made available and doors left open, while comment cards and other interactive elements of displays have been removed.
We’ve carefully selected the seven sites across England and Northern Ireland to reflect the challenges of opening a range of different types of properties in the coming weeks and months. Five will open on Monday 13, another two later in the week.
The pilot will ensure that measures put in place enable people to explore and enjoy the properties safely. Advance bookings are necessary to maintain safety while reopening gradually. The same booking system will be used to allow access to the house and gardens on the same ticket. Visitors will need to book a ticket in advance that is valid for entry to the house and gardens but, due to limits on capacity, it may not be possible for everyone to access the house during their visit.
Although every effort is being made to enable access to places, some houses may not be able to open all of their rooms due to the measures being put in place.
The houses which will be reopening from Monday 13 July are:
Opening on Monday 13 July:
Lyme, Cheshire
Petworth House, West Sussex
Kingston Lacy, Dorset
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
Barrington Court, Somerset
Opening on Wednesday 15 July:
The Argory. County Armagh
Open on Friday 17 July:
Packwood House, Warwickshire
John Orna-Ornstein, National Trust Director of Culture and Engagement says, ‘It is just over 16 weeks since we closed all our houses back in March because of coronavirus and we know people have been really keen to get back inside and see their favourite properties and collections once more. The lockdown has taught us how important it is for people to engage with our cultural heritage and connecting with cultural activities.
‘Our houses are remarkable places, full of hidden corners and many packed with treasures – but that in itself can create the challenges for us to re-open and meet the guidance safely. It isn’t as simple as just taking the dust sheets off the furniture and opening the doors, our plans have involved working out how many people can be in a room safely, how long they might spend there, while trying to ensure as much as possible they can still enjoy their time with us.
‘But it is right that we take a cautious approach, so we ask visitors to remain patient a little longer while we work through how best to make sure everyone who wants to visit is safe and enjoys themselves.”
We aim to reopen further properties in the coming weeks, building on the experience of those in the pilot. However, it is expected to be a slow and steady process which may take some time.
Since starting to reopen our gardens and parklands on 3 June, we've also been working on plans to reopen our houses.
We're continuing to closely follow government guidance, and we're now considering the updated easing of restrictions in England announced on Tuesday 23 June, and how this affects the opening of our houses.
As with our gardens and parklands, any reopening of our houses will need to be phased and gradual, and visitors will need to book. We're also exploring a number of ways to maintain social distancing within our houses.
We will be piloting plans at a small number of properties first before extending opening further. Details about our houses reopening will be published as soon as possible.
The safety of our staff, volunteers, visitors and local communities remains our priority, and we are very grateful to our members and supporters for helping us work through these plans, and for their continued loyal support.
This week we welcome the updated guidance from the Welsh government and Northern Ireland executive.
From Monday 22 June we'll begin to reopen all our coast and countryside car parks in Wales for local use only, in line with Welsh government guidance. We will need the support of everyone to enable us to keep places open safely and we urge people to stay local.
We're also preparing to reopen some of our gardens and parklands in Wales via a booking system. When we reopen gardens and parklands in Wales, it will be phased, gradual and controlled, as was the case when we started reopening our places in England and Northern Ireland.
We also welcome the news from the Northern Ireland executive to allow caravan parks, camping sites and self-catering accommodation to open from 26 June, and for restaurants, cafes, coffee shops and visitor attractions to open from 3 July.
We are now developing our plans to effectively manage social distancing and begin reopening more of our places. We will be publishing details on our website as soon as possible.
Most of our car parks in England and Northern Ireland are now open, and many of our gardens and parklands in both are also opened. Visits to gardens and parklands must be booked via our website.
The safety of our staff, visitors, volunteers and local communities remains our top priority. We know people have been missing open space, nature and fresh air and we want to thank our members and supporters for their patience and support.
Friday 29 May 2020 - updated 7pm
We knew that once we started a gradual opening of our gardens and parklands, tickets for our places would be very popular; particularly with such fine weather. With 5.8million members and about 70,000 tickets available in this first week, some of the initial 29 gardens and parklands have reached capacity very quickly, but more will be available next Friday for the following week and we'll also be reopening more of our places.
We've made careful decisions about which gardens and parklands can open, and we have limited their capacity to ensure everyone can adhere to social distancing to maintain the safety of our visitors, staff and volunteers, which remains our top priority.
On Thursday, a day before our booking system opened, we emailed the two million members for whom we had email addresses to make them aware the booking system was opening, and we're delighted that well over 90 per cent of our tickets have been booked by our members. Unfortunately, charity tax law does not allow us to give exclusive access to members. We're sorry if some have been unable to book in this first phase, but more slots will be available every Friday, and over the coming weeks more places will gradually start to reopen.
We are so thankful that our members and supporters have stood by us as we work through these unprecedented times, and we ask for their continued support as we make this gradual transition a success so we can get back to offering nature, beauty and history for everyone.
From 3 June we'll begin a phased reopening of some of our gardens and parklands in England and Northern Ireland, with advance bookings needed to limit visitor numbers and maintain public safety.
This announcement comes after the UK government updated its advice on ticketed garden venues on 23 May, confirming that people in England can now visit gardens and land maintained for public use. And in Northern Ireland, the Executive permitted the reopening of outdoor spaces as part of step one in its Pathway to Recovery Plan.
Over the coming weeks more places will begin reopening. Visitors will be able to book their tickets in advance on property web pages from today (29 May). They'll be free for National Trust members, and other visitors will pay an admission fee.
All National Trust houses, shops, holiday cottages and campsites remain closed in line with government guidelines. All car parks and properties in Wales remain closed in line with Welsh Government guidance.
We'll begin to reopen gardens and open spaces in England and Northern Ireland where social distancing can be observed, and will open to around a third of their normal capacity at any one time. Visitors arriving at reopening properties by car will be asked to show pre-booked tickets through their vehicle window before parking. Those arriving on foot will have bookings checked by a small team of staff who will adhere to social distancing.
Most of our countryside and coastal car parks are now open, but car parks with a risk of high demand may need to be closed, and some may need to be booked in advance. Visitors are asked to check property web pages before travelling to see what is open and what needs to be booked. All admission to gardens and parklands will be by pre-booked ticket only.
Our Director-General, Hilary McGrady said: 'We want to provide safe, local, welcoming spaces for people, and wherever possible we will open our gardens and parks, and coast and countryside car parks.
'The fresh air, birdsong, big skies and open spaces people have missed will be there, but things will be very different, particularly at first. We want to thank people for their patience and support while we gradually begin reopening and welcoming our visitors.'
The booking system will be available on individual property web pages.
We're also urging visitors to limit how many visits they book, to stay local if they can and to avoid busy hot-spots. Signs at properties and information ahead of visits will advise visitors how to stay safe during their visit and routes will be marked out.
Hilary McGrady said: 'I am so thankful that our members and supporters have stood by us as we work through these unprecedented times. We know they desperately want to return to our places, and we need their support to do our vital conservation work to look after the coastline, countryside, rivers and properties in our care.
'Like so many other organisations, the Trust has been badly affected by the coronavirus lockdown, not least our vital conservation work and our finances. Reopening is the first phase of our recovery, and we need our members and supporters to help us make this gradual transition a success so we can get back to offering nature, beauty and history for everyone.'
The latest information and updates on which places and facilities are opened can be found on individual property web pages, and all visitors are urged to check online before planning a visit. The ticket booking system is also available on our website from today (29 May).
On Monday 18 May a booking system will open on our website for some of our larger car parks so you can once again get access to more open green spaces and nature.
The opening of larger car parks in England will come days after we start opening some of our smaller car parks in line with government advice. We will be opening up some of our larger car parks in England from Thursday 21 May to visitors who’ve booked their spaces.
Property web pages will contain the details about which car parks are bookable. We're urging visitors to check online for the latest details and booking instructions before travelling. Members will be able to book a space for free, while non-members will need to pay in advance for their space.
For now, while the First Minister in Wales and the Northern Ireland Executive reiterate the 'stay at home' message, all cark parks in Wales and Northern Ireland will unfortunately remain closed.
Sadly, for the time being our houses, gardens and parklands will need to remain closed, due to the latest government guidance restricting the public’s use of outdoor ticketed venues.
When we get the chance to reopen our houses, gardens and parklands it will be phased and gradual to ensure that we protect any local communities from being overwhelmed. In order to maintain social distancing when they reopen, we plan to introduce a booking system.
For several weeks we have been working on plans to reopen our places. We're really looking forward to welcoming visitors back.
We’re closely following government guidance at all times and are now considering the detailed plan published yesterday afternoon to further inform our own plans. The safety of our staff, volunteers, visitors and local communities remains our priority.
From tomorrow (Wednesday 13 May) we will start opening some car parks in England, in line with government advice, so people can access fresh air, open space and nature. Car parks which are staffed and have facilities, will take longer.
However, all car parks in Wales and Northern Ireland will remain closed after the First Minister in Wales and the Northern Ireland Executive reiterated the 'stay at home' message.
All opening decisions will be guided by local judgement. It’s important that we avoid hotspots developing for the safety of visitors and local communities, and we may not open places where this is too great a risk.
For the moment our houses, gardens and parkland remain closed. Any reopening will need to be phased and gradual. In order to maintain social distancing when they reopen, we plan to introduce a booking system. The latest government guidance about outdoor ticketed venues means they remain closed for now.
We are very grateful to our members and supporters for helping us work through these plans, and for their continued loyal support.
For several weeks, while our places remain closed, we have been working on plans to gradually reopen them.
The safety of our staff, volunteers and public is our priority. We are following government guidance and will respond to any changes in this as quickly as we can.
Any reopening will need to be gradual and phased and visitors’ experience is likely to be different from usual, including the need to manage volume at our houses, gardens and parklands.
Countryside and coastal car park opening will also be phased.
We will need the support of everyone to enable us to keep places open safely. We will be updating the website with details of how and when things might change. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
National Trust car parks will be closed by the end of Tuesday 24 March in a further attempt to help restrict the spread of coronavirus and to encourage the public to stay local and observe social distancing.
The move comes as the Trust ramps up its efforts to help the nation fight the spread of the virus, which has already seen it temporarily close its houses, shops, cafes, parks and gardens.
Director General Hilary McGrady said:
'Following the scenes we saw at the weekend, where visitors travelled to coast and countryside, it is really important that we do all we can to discourage travel, and ask people instead to stay local and observe social distancing as guided by the government. It is so important that people stay at home. We must all work together and not see a repeat of those weekend scenes.
'There is so much the public can do at home, and over the coming weeks our website, social media feeds, podcasts and video will become even more important, ensuring the places of nature, beauty and history that we care for on behalf of the nation can remain open for business virtually while we are temporarily closed.
'We will also be ramping up our efforts to help people connect with nature wherever they are and to find moments of joy in the world around them. We will be providing rich content and staying in touch with our members and followers throughout this time.'
We've sadly taken the decision to close all our gated parks and gardens, in addition to our houses, shops and cafés, to help restrict the spread of coronavirus.
Many of our car parks for countryside and coastal locations will also have to close due to high demand. We urge people to stay local and observe social distancing. Please do not travel.
The move follows the closure of pubs, restaurants, cafes, gyms and leisure centres announced by the government, and tightening travel restrictions and public health advice.
National Trust Director-General Hilary McGrady said:
'We know that people are likely to need space and fresh air in the coming weeks and months and we will do all we can to provide access wherever possible.
'Our countryside and coastal locations remain open with parking charges waived, but we encourage people to stay local and observe social distancing measures.
'Over the coming weeks our digital platforms - our website, social media feeds, podcasts and video - will become even more important, ensuring the places of nature, beauty and history that we care for on behalf of the nation can remain open for business virtually while we are temporarily closed.
The latest government information on coronavirus can be found on the Department for Health and Social Care’s website. Follow the link below:
Department for Health and Social Care
Reopening and coronavirus FAQs
Find answers to some of the coronavirus-related questions we’re hearing the most in light of the current situation at our places.
Check our coronavirus-related FAQs
Visitors walking beside the river at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, North Yorkshire National Trust Images/Chris Lacey
How to book your visit and what to expect
In England and Northern Ireland, our gardens, parks and countryside remain open for local people to exercise. Shops, houses and other indoor areas are closed, and cafes are takeaway only. The safety of our staff, volunteers and visitors from the nearby community remains our priority and we urge you to book your visits in advance and stay local. All places in Wales are currently closed. Please check the property webpage before you travel.
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Natural Gas Supply Declining? Not Before 2015, Says Raymond James
Raymond James & Associates Inc.’s 2Q2012 U.S. natural gas production survey confirms an “upward growth trend among publicly traded producers,” which indicated another sequential supply increase of 0.49% (0.17 Bcf/d), or 7% year/year (2.45 Bcf/d).
The survey, which was published on Tuesday, did not include the impact of shut ins, which are estimated to be about 0.22 Bcf/d for the quarter, said analysts J. Marshall Adkins and John Freeman. After taking into account the latest Energy Information Agency (EIA) 914 data for June (see related story), which indicated a decline of 0.18 Bf/d, “this compares favorably to the…growth rate of 0.3%,” the analysts said.
For more than a decade Raymond James analysts have tracked reported natural gas output from publicly traded U.S. producers that together comprise roughly half of the total domestic gas output in the country. The figures act as a “fact check” on the EIA 914 data, and Raymond James’ compilation has been a near mirror in tracking underlying supply trends.
As Adkins and Freeman pointed out, in some cases as in early 2009 they had front-run broad-based revisions and/or trend changes in EIA gas supply data. “It took long enough, but we finally saw the economic reaction to low natural gas prices beginning in October,” wrote the duo. “Since then, the market has shed 300 horizontal gas rigs, 440 total gas rigs, and continues to ‘whack them.'”
The trend, said the analysts, “has gone from ‘grow, grow, grow’ to ‘moderate, moderate, moderate.’ Considering that we’ve dropped over 440 gas rigs in less than a year, all we can say is that it’s about dang time. We’re still projecting y/y growth of 4 Bcf/d in 2012, but we’ve lowered our 2013 y/y growth outlook to just 0.5 Bcf/d, down from 2 Bcf/d previously.
“Interestingly, we’re still projecting gas production growth through 2014 and although it’s very marginal growth, we believe that is a testament to both drilling efficiencies and the impact of associated gas from the oil plays.”
However, “it could take further serious reductions in the rig count before we start to see supply rollover. In fact, we don’t see supply actually declining until 2015!” Why? The reasons, they said, are “three-fold”:
“Better rigs, pad drilling and improved completion techniques are just a few of many items that are making the oilpatch more efficient at getting resources out of the ground,” wrote Adkins and Freeman. “That being said, we don’t expect the industry to take any steps backward, nor should the market.”
Incomplete data on a few plays kept the Raymond James team from fully discussing 2Q2012 findings or the 1Q2012 findings on the Marcellus Shale. However, based on the data verified to date, “the numbers have been right on cue sans the Haynesville, which is likely attributable to higher-than-expected shut-ins from the play.”
Although they didn’t include the Marcellus in their calculations, the analysts said they were sure that growth from the region had “rivaled the 2009-2011 growth seen out of the Haynesville and expect the play to be the “King of the Gas Shales” by 2015 at the latest. “Much of the current constraints from an already rampant growth rate have been on the infrastructure side, which is reasonable given the play’s large aerial extent. However, this type of constraint is likely just a near-to-medium term issue that should be resolved by 2015 as well.”
Onshore oil production also has remained “robust,” said the analysts. According to the survey, output was up 800,000 b/d in 2Q2012. The Gulf of Mexico was a “drag on growth” during the quarter and “will be again in 3Q2012 due to the shutdowns related to Hurricane Isaac.
“Accordingly, we’ve tweaked our assumptions for the Gulf, in addition to updating our production by play estimates. We are now forecasting full-year 2012 and 2013 oil production of 6.394 million b/d (736,000 b/d of growth) and 7.246 million b/d (852,000 b/d of growth).”
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National University Cancer Institute (NCIS)
Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All
The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for National University Cancer Institute (NCIS) published between 1 October 2019 - 30 September 2020 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.
Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.
Outputs by subject (Share)
Life Sciences 34 0.75
Chemistry 3 0.03
Physical Sciences 6 0.09
Top articles by Altmetric score in current window
Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes
A SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralization test based on antibody-mediated blockage of ACE2–spike protein–protein interaction
The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
A calcineurin–Hoxb13 axis regulates growth mode of mammalian cardiomyocytes
Two linear epitopes on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that elicit neutralising antibodies in COVID-19 patients
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
42.24% Domestic
57.76% International
Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (20 total)
National University Cancer Institute (NCIS), Singapore
Domestic institution
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (10.33)
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore (3.42)
Duke-National University of Singapore (Duke-NUS), Singapore (1.90)
Singapore Health Services Pte. Ltd. (SingHealth), Singapore (1.44)
National University Heart Centre, Singapore (NUHCS), Singapore (0.97)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore (0.74)
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore (0.37)
National Healthcare Group (NHG), Singapore (0.20)
National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Singapore (0.11)
DSO National Laboratories, Singapore (0.09)
Top 10 international collaborators by Share (742 total)
Foreign institution
Harvard University, United States of America (USA) (2.54)
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, United States of America (USA) (1.45)
Buck Institute for Research on Aging, United States of America (USA) (1.31)
Duke University, United States of America (USA) (1.15)
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Cedars-Sinai), United States of America (USA) (0.88)
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA) (0.83)
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) (0.76)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) (0.73)
Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) (0.52)
University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) (0.45)
Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.
Department of Haematology-Oncology, NCIS
Division of Surgical Oncology, NCIS
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore
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Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory (CNEL), UF, United States of America (USA)
Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory (CNEL), UF
No articles found. Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory (CNEL), UF did not contribute to any primary research papers from Nature Index journals in the current 12 month window.
University of Florida (UF)
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Biodiversity Institute, UF
Center for Latin American Studies, UF
Center for Macromolecular Science and Engineering (CMSE), UF
Center for Nutritional Sciences, UF
Center for Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation (CRRR), UF
Center for Smell and Taste (UFCST), UF
Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, UF
Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), UF
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), UF
Department of Animal Sciences, UF
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), UF
Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC), UF
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF
Department of Agronomy, UF
Department of Entomology and Nematology, UF
Department of Environmental Horticulture, UF
Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition (FSHN), UF
Department of Horticultural Sciences, UF
Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, UF
Department of Plant Pathology, UF
Department of Soil and Water Sciences, UF
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (WEC), UF
Environmental Water Quality Laboratory (EWQL), UF
Everglades Research and Education Center (EREC), UF
Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, UF
Gulf Coast Research and Education Center (GCREC), UF
Indian River Research and Education Center (IRREC), UF
North Florida Research and Education Center (NFREC), UF
Plant Innovation Center (PIC), UF
Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (PMCB), UF
Range Cattle Research and Education Center (RCREC), UF
School of Forest Resources and Conservation (SFRC), UF
Program of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, SFRC, UF
Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, Program of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, UF
College of Dentistry, UF
Department of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science (CDBS), UF
Department of Oral Biology, UF
College of Health and Human Performance (HHP), UF
Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology (APK), UF
Department of Tourism, Recreation, and Sports Management, UF
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), UF
Department of Anthropology, UF
Department of Astronomy, UF
Department of Biology, UF
Department of Chemistry, UF
Center for Catalysis, UF
Center for Research at Bio/Nano Interface, UF
Florida Center for Heterocyclic Compounds, UF
George and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, UF
Department of Geography, UF
Quantitative Disease Ecology and Conservation Laboratory Group (QDEC), UF
Department of Geological Sciences, UF
Department of History, UL
Department of Mathematics, UF
Department of Physics, UF
Institute for Fundamental Theory (IFT), UF
Department of Psychology, UF
Department of Statistics, UF
Land Use and Environmental Change Institute (LUECI), UF
College of Medicine, UF
Center for Addiction Research and Education (CARE), UF
Center for Inflammation and Mucosal Immunology (CIMI), UF
Center for NeuroGenetics (CNG), UF
Center for Structural Biology (CSB), UF
Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND), UF
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology (ACB), UF
Department of Anesthesiology, UF
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UF
Department of Emergency Medicine, UF
Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI), UF
Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, UF
Department of Medicine, UF
Center for Regenerative Medicine (CRM), UF
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UF
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, UF
Division of General Internal Medicine, UF
Division of Hematology and Oncology, UF
Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, UF
Division of Nephrology, Hypertension, and Renal Transplantation, UF
Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, UF
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), UF
Department of Neurology, UF
Department of Neuroscience, UF
Department of Ophthalmology, UF
Department of Otolaryngology, UF
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, UF
Department of Pediatrics, UF
Division of Cellular and Molecular Therapy, UF
Division of Pediatric Neurology, UF
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, UF
Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, UF
Department of Psychiatry, UF
Department of Radiation Oncology, UF
Department of Radiology, UF
Department of Surgery, UF
Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, UF
Department of Urology, UF
Institute on Aging (IOA), UF
Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, UF
Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery, UF
Myology Institute, UF
Powell Gene Therapy Center, UF
College of Medicine-Jacksonville, UF
College of Nursing, UF
College of Pharmacy, UF
Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development (CNPD3), UF
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, UF
Department of Pharmaceutics, UF
Department of Pharmacodynamics, UF
Department of Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, UF
Infectious Disease Pharmacokinetics Laboratory (IDPL), UF
College of Public Health and Health Professions (PHHP), UF
Department of Environmental and Global Health, UF
Department of Physical Therapy, UF
College of Veterinary Medicine, UF
Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology, UF
Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology (IDI), UF
Department of Physiological Sciences, UF
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences (SACS), UF
Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI), UF
Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment (ESSIE), UF
Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, UF
Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences (EES), UF
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, UF
Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH)
Department of Natural History, FLMNH
Division of Herpetology, FLMNH
Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, FLMNH
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity, FLMNH
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, UF
Department of Chemical Engineering, UF
Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), UF
Systems Biology Laboratory (SBL), UF
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), UF
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), UF
Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), UF
Nuclear Engineering Program, UF
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), UF
Institute for Cell and Tissue Science and Engineering (ICTSE), UF
Interdisciplinary Microsystems Group (IMG), UF
J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, UF
Research Service Centers, UF
Hinkley Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, UF
Informatics Institute, UF
Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR), UF
Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technology (NIMET), UF
Particle Engineering Research Center (PERC), UF
Powell Gene Therapy Center (PGTC), UF
School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), UF
Spatial Ecology and Conservation Laboratory (SPEC), UF
The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, UF
Tropical Research and Education Center (TREC), UF
Water Institute, UF
How our brains learn language
Nanosheets dissipate heat in all directions
A portal into drug design for Epstein–Barr virus
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
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Work From Home @NAVA+: A Chat with Tessa Intanya & Terence Wong
When one thinks about it, ‘work from home’ culture should command a larger importance in today’s society than it currently holds.
Factor in the wide range of communication technology at our disposal coupled with a worldwide need to ease congestion by finding more efficient ways of working, working from home should be part and parcel of many companies’ working agenda.
But as things stand, they aren’t.
There are many factors at play here of course. The perceived ineffectiveness of remote working as well as the real downsides of diminished physical contact between colleagues both play a role on the working world being as it is.
However, as with many things, the novel coronavirus pandemic that has swept the globe over the last 50 or so days, has turned this notion on its head. Slowly but surely, more and more of the global workforce has been moved into employees’ private domiciles.
What effect has this had on employees who are actually undergoing WFH?
This month we caught up with two integral members of the NAVA+ family, Tessa Intanya and Terence Wong, Activation Planner and Creative Director for Iris Indonesia respectively, who have between them spent over a month working from home.
So what are the challenges working from home brings? How did the situation develop? What long-lasting effects had it brought? These are some of the questions our two interviewees hope to answer.
So guys, paint me a picture of how the process of working from home started to develop?
TW: Well, it was a gradual process for sure. As a matter of corporate policy, teams throughout NAVA+ had already been instructed to take turns to work from the office. So, a kind of rolling working policy, if you will. Half the team would start working for certain days of the week while the other half would cover for the remaining days. This started to take into effect by the second week of March, I think from the 17th.
TI: Yes, we started taking turns coming to work from the office. However, I did ask for an exemption, as I unfortunately suffer from asthma, so didn’t want to take unnecessary risks. But at the end of the day, it didn’t make much difference as this policy, which was supposed to last for two full weeks, lasted for only about a week before the domestic situation started to take a turn for the worse, and pretty much all of us found ourselves working from home effectively from the third week of March onwards.
How was the first week like? What was the first things you guys had to adapt to?
TI: Actually the first week was pretty okay. Spirits were still high, you know. We were still quite excited about working from home. You know how it is (laughs). But the thing is, us in the activation team, we’re used to having this motto of never returning home before the sun sets. So we’re used to very long hours. So it was quite curious and exciting to see how working from home would pan out.
TW: Well the first week was definitely challenging because you know, it’s not something one does so often, right? It almost feels like a luxury. So all of us within the creative team were trying our best to adapt to these new conditions we found ourselves in. Because naturally, in these situations, one needs a lot of self discipline. But at the same time, it was also kind of relaxing (laughs). We knew we had things to do, lots of it actually, but we were able to just go with the flow, so to speak. But after the second week rolled by, we were pretty much already adapted to it.
Which brings me nicely to the next question. How have the subsequent weeks been? Has it been tougher, or easier, or pretty much the same?
TI: Well personally, I found this last week (second week of April), to be the hardest day yet, which coincidentally, marks exactly 30 days since I started working from home! But that’s pretty much a gradual thing, starting from the second week of March onwards. But you know, we’re all in the same boat really.
So from my team, we’d always find ways of managing and making sure the tedium doesn’t affect our work. And I particularly appreciate the efforts of Mrs. Maneha Widarso (Director of Operations at NAVA+), who set up the Iris Agile initiative, which is essentially designed to bring together clients and teams throughout NAVA+ to be able to ‘think outside the box’ and come up with novel solutions for each other’s problems. That has been a real pleasure to work with.
TW: As I said, by the second week, we started to have a much clearer picture of how to get about doing our work from home. But on a personal level, because I don’t get to see my team in person anymore, I had to start scheduling a compulsory daily skype call between everyone, just so we can keep things as ‘normal’ as possible as well as making sure that everyone is kept updated on all activities surrounding the team.
And essentially, I had two teams to handle, being the Iris creative team and also the Pathfinders creative team. So I would schedule two different timings in a day to ensure that both are handled in a correct fashion.
So how do you guys maintain self-discipline at home? Surely it can’t be that easy?
TW: I think in terms of productivity, it has been much higher. And that’s because I think one finds way fewer distractions at home compared to the office. I mean of course there are distractions at home, but I think the work output is much faster from home. There aren’t half a dozen colleagues calling you asking for this, that and the other (laughs).
As far as self-discipline is concerned, well I think the kay is sticking to the basics. You know, go about your daily routine as you would do at work. Make sure to wake up at the same time, eat breakfast at the same time, and dress as you would at work. Don’t work in your pyjamas (laughs).
TI: Well I definitely don’t dress like I’m going to the office (laughs), but I think it’s alright as long as the self-discipline is there. But other than the dress-code, I pretty much keep everything as close as possible as I would do in the office.
For instance, I would always make a point of writing notes down, instead of typing it on a laptop/mobile phone, as I would at the office. And I’ve found myself journaling my daily activities. I find this very important in keeping myself sane (laughs).
But I’d also make clear working hours to ensure I have enough ‘downtime’. I would clearly set my hours, for instance between 9am and 7pm, and would do my best to stick within those boundaries. And I think it has been working perfectly so far.
Finally, how do you guys see things change post COVID-19? How will the working culture be affected?
TW: Well first of all, nobody has any clue when things will start to ‘normalise’. But whenever that may be, be it four weeks or six months down the line, I think the biggest challenge would be how to readjust back to working from the office. Because the WFH culture is rapidly becoming the new norm, right?
I mean think about when you go on a two-week holiday. Once you return, everything changes right? One needs to re-adapt back to office-life. This will be the same, but many times over. And I think we’d end up really cherishing the time we got to work from home. And in the long run, I think things will change. Things can perhaps be set up way more efficiently, based on this invaluable experience we’re all going through.
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What You Need to Know About Secure Messaging Apps
You probably use messaging for communications every day, but how secure are your messages? Messaging apps are as susceptible to hackers as any other type of electronic communication, and if you are concerned about privacy then it’s time to learn the basics about secure messaging apps.
Why You Need a Secure Messaging App
We use messaging more and more to communicate, but we don’t always realize how many eavesdroppers there may be. Those eavesdroppers may include internet service providers, government agencies, and hackers. If your messaging involves your company, it might be the target of industrial espionage. These are all good reasons to consider using a secure messaging app.
What Makes a Messaging App Secure?
We probably all remember playing around with coded messages as a kid, but never dreamed that coded messages might become important in our day-to-day communications. As it turns out, one of the key aspects of a messaging app is end-to-end encryption.
When your messages are encrypted, that means they are encoded in such a way as to make it extremely difficult for someone to eavesdrop on the information being transferred. The messages are basically scrambled, and in order to unscramble them, you must have the correct key. In the case of an end-to-end encrypted message app, only the sender and the receiver have the decryption keys.
There are messaging apps that offer encryption, but encryption is not the default setting. That means that you would have to navigate to the settings for your messaging app and turn on encryption – if it even offers that feature.
Metadata can still be an issue even with encryption. Metadata includes things like who you talk to based on your contact list, how much time you spend talking to them, your phone number, your IP address, and more. You should avoid messaging apps that collect metadata.
Believe it or not, one of the signs of a secure messaging app’s integrity is making its source code available to the public. Open source code is actually better than proprietary code because it provides experts access to the code for review. Experts who did not develop the code will be far more likely to notice vulnerabilities and bugs that could be exploited. The result is a highly robust source code and a bulletproof app.
Secure Message Apps
There are several messaging apps on the market that qualify as secure messaging apps. What follows are five of the top options that are available for Android and iOS operating systems.
Dust: If you want messages that don’t hang around, then Dust is your app! Messages disappear within 100 seconds of being read or within 24 hours – your choice. You’ll also be notified if any screenshots are taken. It includes end-to-end encryption, no permanent storage, and you can even erase your message off someone else’s phone. The major drawback of Dust is that its source code has never been released.
Signal: The Signal messaging platform uses end-to-end encryption and its source code has been released. There is an option that makes messages disappear after a certain amount of time has passed and it can be password protected. It only stores the metadata it needs to function properly on your device. As far as drawbacks go, there are virtually none associated with Signal.
Telegram: The Telegram app was banned in Russia because they refused to hand over the encryption keys. It offers end-to-end encryption through a feature called “Secret Chat” that must be turned on. It can be locked by a passcode and has a Self-Destruct timer option for Secret Chat messages. The drawback of Telegram is that it lacks transparency about the protocol that it uses.
WhatsApp: With WhatsApp, end-to-end encryption is the default and provides an option for you to verify that encryption is in place. Messages are not stored on your phone, and it makes available a two-step verification feature. WhatsApp’s major drawback is that it does keep track of metadata and backups of messages are not encrypted for Android users.
Wickr : Unlike most messaging apps, Wickr offers both a personal (Wickr Me) and an enterprise edition. It provides end-to-end encryption and a host of additional features that make it one of the best options for businesses that are looking to keep their messages secure. It recently released its cryptographic protocol. And when Wickr deletes things, it “shreds” them so that they cannot be recovered. Wickr doesn’t really have any drawbacks from a security perspective.
Not all secure messaging apps are equally as effective. When selecting one, you should look for end-to-end encryption (and by default is even better) and the storage of little to no metadata. Also, keep in mind that companies that have released the source code behind their app are considered more reliable and their apps more robust. If privacy is important to you, then it’s time to check out secure messaging apps.
Before installing or investing in any messaging app…always consult with your technical support provider.
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VATICAN CITY – Both Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI have received the first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 after the Vatican started vaccinating its employees and residents January 13.
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6325 West Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48209, United States
Fort Wayne is situated on the Detroit River at a point where it is about a mile to the Canadian shore. The original 1848 limestone barracks (with later brick additions) still stands, as does the 1845 star fortification (renovated in 1863 with brick exterior facing)....
Henry Ford Estate - Fair Lane
4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI, 48128, United States
Ford Estate-Fair Lane, A National Historic Landmark, is located on the campus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Visit the magnificent home that the Model T built. Tour this nationally acclaimed historic estate for a glimpse into the auto baron lifestyle and...
Dearborn Historical Museum
21950 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn, MI, 48124, United States
Come and discover your local history at the Dearborn Historical Museum. Our facilities feature three historic buildings that include the 1831 Richard Gardner House and two buildings from the former Detroit Arsenal in Dearbornville (1833-1875); the 1833 Commandant’s...
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1100 Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI, 48236, United States
The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House became the new residence of the Edsel and Eleanor Ford family in 1929. Edsel Ford was the son of Henry Ford and an executive at Ford Motor Company. The estate's buildings were designed by architect Albert Kahn, its site plan and...
Selinsky-Green Farmhouse Museum
22500 Eleven Mile Road, Saint Clair Shores, MI, 48081, United States
The Selinsky-Green Farmhouse Museum represents the history of a typical family of the late 19th century. When you visit you will learn about rural life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in St. Clair Shores through changing exhibits, period-decorated rooms,...
Birmingham Historical Museum & Park
556 West Maple Road, Birmingham, MI, 48009, United States
The Birmingham Historical Museum & Park, established in May, 2001, features the 1822 John West Hunter House and the 1928 Allen House. These historic structures are linked by the History Plaza (dedicated in September, 2007), which serves as a gateway to the beautiful...
Westland Historical Museum
857 North Wayne Road , Westland, MI, 48185, United States
Our mission is to collect and preserve historical objects, materials, buildings, and sites relating to the history of Westland.
Cranbrook House and Gardens
380 Lone Pine Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 48303, United States
Cranbrook House and Gardens stands as a centerpiece of Cranbrook’s 319-acre National Historic Landmark campus. From May through October, visitors can experience the grandeur of both the House and the Gardens with guided and self-guided tours. Stroll in gardens...
Governor Warner Museum
33805 Grand River Ave, Farmington, MI, 48335, United States
The Governor Warner Museum is a Victorian Italianate structure built in 1867 by P. D. Warner, the Governor’s father, and is furnished in late Victorian style. Sitting on almost three acres, the house is surrounded by gardens lovingly tended by the Museum Garden...
Saarinen House + Gardens
39221 N. Woodward, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 48301, United States
See the restored home of Finnish-American designers Eliel and Loja Saarinen. The house was designed as a work of art, combining elements of the Arts and Crafts Movement with more modern Art Deco elements. Eliel designed most of the buildings of Cranbrook and was the...
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Sandals MBJ Unveils Two New Restaurants
Sandals Montego Bay, the company’s flagship resort, has recently opened two new restaurants – Butch’s Steak & Seafood and Soy – and has now completed the property’s transformation.
“Sandals Resorts was built on the simple principle of exceeding guests’ expectations, and this especially rings true today with the complete transformation of our flagship resort, Sandals Montego Bay,” said Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, chairman and founder of Sandals Resorts. “I am very proud of how far Sandals has come since 1981, and I am very proud of where we’re going. We will continue to redefine the Luxury Included® experience and, of course, exceed our guests’ wildest expectations in the process.”
Sandals Montego Bay now features 12 dining options as part of Sandals 5-Star Global Gourmet™ program, and six bars, including the new Latitudes Overwater Bar.
For more information, agents can contact their local Sandals Business Development Manager or call Inside Sales at 1-800-545-8283.
Photo: Dawn Smith (left), hotel manager, Sandals Montego Bay celebrates the official ribbon cutting at the new Butch’s Steak & Seafood with Sandals Select guests Chantel Gauthier and Jean Yves Lépine from Montreal, QC.
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Scottish Grand National 2016 Outsiders
Hot on the heels of the Grand National at Aintree – in which we managed third and fourth from our three, generously-priced selections – the Scottish Grand National, run over 4 miles at Ayr on 16th April, gives another chance for a tilt at the ring. Eight of the last ten winners went off at double-figure prices, including 66/1, 40/1, 33/1 and 25/1 so, once again, we shouldn’t be afraid to dabble at the ‘wrong’ end of the market.
Golden Chieftain (25/1) is unlucky not to be chasing a hat-trick, having fallen the last twice with the race seemingly at his mercy, including in the Midlands Grand National at Uttoxeter four weeks ago. A 4lb rise in the weights seems more than fair and, with plenty of winning form on soft and heavy going, it’s something of a mystery why he can be backed at such long-odds, even if he is on a career-high mark.
Not for the first time, Shotgun Paddy (25/1) was pulled-up in the Midlands Grand National, but had previously been running creditably in defeat in decent company and remains well-handicapped on his best form. He’s yet to win beyond 3 miles 5 furlongs, but his second of 17, beaten 9 lengths, behind easy winner Rocking Blues in the Eider, over the testing 4 miles ½ furlong at Newcastle, in February was a solid effort and he’s 2lb lower in the weights this time.
The progressive Berea Boru (33/1) has been making hay at a lower level in recent months and deserves a crack at a big prize. He has stamina to prove, having yet to race, never mind win, beyond 3 miles over hurdles or fences and has done all his winning on heavy going. However, with heavy, thundery rain forecast for the West Midlands on Thursday and Friday, his ability to act under testing conditions could be a blessing come Saturday afternoon and his unproven stamina is factored into his price.
Selections: Golden Chieftain (25/1 with Coral), Shotgun Paddy (25/1 generally available), Berea Boru (33/1 with Boylesports, Ladbrokes and William Hill)
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T-Mobile and Leap Wireless Complete AWS Spectrum Exchange
By Humberto Saabedra on April 9, 2012
In separate announcements this morning, both T-Mobile USA and Leap Wireless, parent company of Cricket have announced the pending completion of an AWS spectrum exchange. The exchange breaks down with T-Mobile giving Leap spectrum holdings in several markets in Alabama, Illinois, Missouri and Minnesota, a 1:1 spectrum exchange in Philadelphia, Wilmington, DE and Atlantic City, NJ as well as several markets in Texas and New Mexico while T-Mobile will receive spectrum from Leap Wireless and the associated Savary Island venture in Alabama, Illinois, Missouri and Minnesota.
The swap represents the desires for both companies to take the best advantage of their AWS spectrum holdings in markets where they will be able to expand coverage and lay the groundwork for their respective transitions to LTE, as T-Mobile will roll out its future LTE network on its AWS frequency and Leap has signed wholesale agreements with Clearwire and Sprint to lease LTE access on their future networks that will also run on its own AWS spectrum holdings.
While T-Mobile is currently rebuilding after the failure of the AT&T merger and purchase late last year, Leap along with Cricket are also treading water while trying to develop its transition plan to LTE, as the carrier is now operating as a Sprint MVNO while shedding any real traces of its previous native coverage footprint in an attempt to drive new customers and similarly ridding itself of expensive real estate and relying almost exclusively on third-party dealers such as Best Buy for national sales.
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How Do The Ravens Work On 'Game of Thrones,' Anyway?
By Dan Hamamura | Game of Thrones | July 25, 2017 |
On the last Game of Thrones, Jon received a raven from Daenerys (via Tyrion) to join her side, and Sansa asked some very reasonable questions about the message, specifically how does Jon know it’s not an impostor or a trap.
Other than beginning to move a couple of our favorite pieces toward each other, this was not a particularly noteworthy moment; after all, these sorts of messages are exchanged throughout Westeros all the time. It did remind me, however, that seven years in, I still have some questions about how this whole raven message service (or RMS) works.
Look, I know we have to accept that long-distance communication just kind of happens in Westeros. After all, there are many extraordinary things within Game of Thrones that are outside our personal frameworks of reality; so many that if we try to question the logic of all these little pieces, we’re going to end up going back and forth all day like Bruce and JGL dissecting time travel theory in a diner.
But what can I say? I love thinking about the weird bits of infrastructure we take for granted almost as much as George Takei loves monorails. Which means I would really love to get answers to the following questions:
1. Do messages ever get dropped?
This seems like it could happen in a number of ways: ravens could be lost or killed, the message could be damaged by inclement weather, or even dislodged (and thus literally dropped). I’m just wondering what the error rate is for RMS, because this seems like it has the potential to lead to some serious communication gaps, kind of like when my friend Steve told me that he wasn’t getting any of my texts.
2. If you wanted to disrupt communication throughout Westeros, wouldn’t you keep an eye out for ravens and try to shoot them?
It seems like a person could learn quite a bit by doing this, especially since this is a communication method preferred by the heads of various factions.
And look, I’m happy to admit that capturing or killing a bird is no easy feat. It would certainly require a very particular skillset. But given how many extraordinary killers we’ve met thus far, are you honestly going to tell me that not one of them has specialized in shooting down ravens? There’s no Borron the Ravenkiller out there in the wilderness, intercepting some of the chatter? Couldn’t this be how some people like Littlefinger seems to know everything?
Speaking of Littlefinger, if he hadn’t sent the Knights of the Vale to save Jon and company, wouldn’t “Raven? What raven? I received no raven, perhaps somebody shot the messenger,” be, I don’t know, at least a semi-reasonable excuse? It would certainly be a better excuse than the one my supposed friend Steve gave me when he said that texting had completely stopped working on his phone and I should call him, but then when I did the call went to voicemail after like one and a half rings which YOU KNOW means he hit the ‘ignore’ button.
3. If white ravens are so much better, why would you only use them for special messages from The Citadel about the weather?
Why is The Citadel purposefully neglecting to roll out the latest and greatest in ornithologically-based communication technology? Are they too expensive? Too hard to breed? What’s the downside to fully deploying the kingdom’s most trustworthy RMS network around? Are the maesters the Westerosi equivalent to Sprint?
4. How long does it take to train a raven, anyway?
We know that the maesters in residence tend to them at the various castles, but what does training them actually require? Can you just show the ravens a map? Or do they actually have to travel the route first?
And even if the raven can be taught the route without being guided, can they make the journey in both directions? Or are they like homing pigeons, trained to return to their “home” regardless of where they begin their journey? And if that’s true, then does that mean there are perpetually a number of raven transporters out in the world, moving ravens from one castle to another? Are they just forever on the road, struggling to keep up with the Sisyphean task of keeping the kingdoms stocked with ravens? What’s their delivery window like? Will they be there between two and five fortnights? Or will they just say they’ll be there and then never show up, like my former friend Steve, who always responds “Yes” to Facebook events and Evites and Papersless Post but never shows, only to text later and say “sorry bro things got crazy” and now I’m like wait not only did you not show up to Dina’s surprise party but also now you’re texting me after YOU LITERALLY SAID YOU COULDN’T TEXT?
Basically, what I’m saying is I know there are precious few hours left for us to spend in Westeros. But I wouldn’t mind if we got to see Samwell spending a few minutes reading “Intermediate Raven Care” or whatever, you know those maesters have a thousand-page book on it somewhere in that library.
Also, Steve, if you’re reading this, please call me, I left my good tupperware at your housewarming party two years ago and I’d really like to get it back.
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Great Abington Hall 5606
Great Abington, England, Cambridgeshire, South Cambridgeshire
Features of Great Abington Hall include stables, drives, a walled garden and an ornamental canal.
Great Abington Hall was established in the early-18th century as a private residence.
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Western did much rebuilding and having built new stables to the north west of the hall, started to lay out an ornamental canal on a stretch of the River Granta that flowed through his land.
Later the park around the house was laid out by Humphry Repton in 1803 for John Mortlock, the Cambridge banker. The park is approached by two long drives, which converge on a lime avenue widening into a broad sweep at the entrance to the hall.
Behind the stable block was a productive walled garden with box-edged paths, espalier and walled fruit trees, lean-to plant houses and 7 heated pits with stoke holes. There is an attractive view across the park to the village church.
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Great Abington
The original medieval manor house of the Earls of Oxford has long since disappeared. In 1712 a house was built for Maximillian Western, the son of a wealthy London ironmonger. This was incorporated into the present late-18th-century hall, which still retains its iron veranda along the south front.
After the Second World War, the property was sold to the British Welding Research Association and the house is now converted into flats and offices.
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Home Scoops & Analysis Buyouts Snapshot: Former Bain Ventures, Spectrum execs target $350 mln for debut
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Buyouts Snapshot: Former Bain Ventures, Spectrum execs target $350 mln for debut
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Silversmith Capital Partners set a $350 million target for its debut private equity fund, sources familiar with the firm told Buyouts.
The University of Michigan Board of Regents will consider a $25 million commitment to Boston, Massachusetts-based Silversmith at its July 16 meeting, according to endowment documents.
Former Bain Capital Ventures Managing Directors Jeffrey Crisan and Todd MacLean joined with James Quagliaroli to launch Silversmith earlier this year. Co-founder Lori Whelan, the former CFO of pizza restaurant chain Papa Gino’s, is the firm’s chief operating partner, according to her LinkedIn.
Silversmith Capital Partners I will invest in lower middle market companies in the technology and healthcare sectors, targeting companies in “the growth space between late stage venture capital and large scale private equity,” according to University of Michigan documents.
In its technology vertical, Silversmith will invest in software-as-a-service and information services companies, with a focus on application software, financial technology and data services businesses with subscription or transaction-based customer models. The healthcare component of the strategy will also focus on software companies, with an emphasis on those that address inefficiencies in payment services or patient treatment outcomes, according to University of Michigan documents.
The firm’s investment officers boast impressive resumes in the venture capital and growth equity sectors, according to their LinkedIn pages. Crisan worked for Bain Capital Ventures for 16 years before leaving to launch Silversmith. Prior to Bain Capital Ventures, MacLean was an executive at firms such as Accel Partners, Summit Partners and Bain & Company. Quagliaroli was a managing director for Spectrum Equity for more than a decade.
The firm’s partners did not respond to requests for comment.
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Pay per Head Sportsbooks: Ramires in the dark about Barcelona and Real Madrid links
Ramires, Chelsea midfielder and a rising star with pay per head sportsbooks, spoke to the Brazilian media, saying that he does not know anything about reports linking him with a move away from the Blues.
According to recent reports, Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid were lining up moves for Ramires, and pay per head sportsbooks also heard these rumours, and were wondering about the player’s future.
But price per head services found out that the Brazilian international insisted that he is completely unaware of the rumours – he only wants to do his best for the Blues, and Chelsea fans could not be any happier.
“Many people are asking about the supposed interest from other clubs in my football but I don’t know anything, apart from what was reported in press,” Ramires told Lancenet.
“I am under contract with Chelsea and my attention resides solely in keeping on doing the good job done at the club.”
As Ramires turns his attentions to Brazil, the player is keen to keep his place in Luiz Felipe Scolari’s squad with next summer’s World Cup finals in mind after playing in the recent friendlies that took place against Honduras and Chile – matches that were very closely followed by pay per head sportsbooks.
“It’s always better to win and thank God I returned home with another fulfilled goal,” added Ramires.
“We are in the final stretch for the World Cup so whenever I had the chance to play I try to always do my best so I can assure my place in the squad for this competition, which is the most important one in Brazil’s national team history.
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“We played our last friendly of the year and now I am focusing again on Chelsea until the next national team call-ups.”
Without a doubt, Chelsea’s fans want to see Ramires completely focus on their side, and pay per head sportsbooks will closely follow developments on the player.
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These Are the Super Seeds Your Dog Needs
July 24, 2020 Diana Laverdure-Dunetz, Khareem Sudlow, MS, Poop4U
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If you think seeds are just for the birds, think again. Seeds are miracles of the plant kingdom, the result of a complex fertilization process that begins when flowers are pollinated. By producing and spreading seeds, plants keep their population alive. Each tiny seed contains the embryo of what will eventually become an entire plant. This embryo is encased within a protective outer coating, along with some food to nourish it. As the embryo grows, roots sprout from one end and stems from the other. A plant is born.
Because seeds contain the building blocks of entire plants, they are nutritional powerhouses. Seeds are rich in fiber, protein, essential fats and many important vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Adding seeds to your dog’s diet can help supercharge his health. Your dog will love them, and he won’t even know they’re good for him!
Let’s take a closer look at three of my favorite seeds — hemp, flax and chia — their health benefits and some fun feeding tips.
Remember those braided hemp bracelets you made in camp as a kid? The fiber comes from the cannabis plant, which also produces dietary hemp. Hemp is one of the oldest domesticated crops and a superfood.
While hemp seeds come from the cannabis plant, they are not marijuana. Dietary hemp comes from a different strain of cannabis called Cannabis Sativa L. So, while your dog won’t get high eating hemp seeds, he will get happy from their nutritional benefits.
Because they contain a tough outer shell, hemp seeds are commonly sold hulled as “hemp hearts.” They are soft with a mild, nutty flavor and bursting with nutrition.
Hemp is a protein powerhouse. About 25% of the calories come from protein, compared with about 16% in chia and 18% in flax. The majority — 60% to 80% — comes from edestin, a biologically active plant protein found only in hemp seeds that is similar to the globular proteins found in blood plasma. Edestin is used to make antibodies, which promote a strong immune system, and it can even help repair damage to cellular DNA. It is also highly digestible and anti-allergenic. Score!
Hemp hearts are also rich in two essential fatty acids, linoleic acid (omega-6) and alpha-linolenic acid (omega-3). They also contain gamma linolenic acid (GLA), an anti-inflammatory fatty acid often used to treat chronic skin conditions in dogs.
Hemp’s omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acid ratio is about 3:1, which is rare in nature and optimal for fighting inflammation and protecting against chronic inflammatory diseases like arthritis, autoimmune disorders, heart disease and cancer.
Hemp hearts are also an excellent source of several vitamins and minerals, including Vitamin E, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc and iron. Good news for dogs with sensitive stomachs: The nutrition in hemp hearts is highly available without crushing, soaking or cooking the seeds.
Flax is another ancient crop used for thousands of years as both a textile and a superfood. In fact, the word “linen” comes from the flax plant’s Latin name, Linum usitatissimum. First cultivated around 3000 B.C., flax seeds have been prized throughout history for their health benefits.
Flax seeds work their magic mainly due to high levels of alpha-linolenic acid, lignans and fiber. One tablespoon of flax seeds contains a whopping 6.7 grams of alpha linolenic acid, which supports a healthy heart, blocks the growth of tumor cells
and helps prevent chronic inflammatory diseases.
Lignans in flax seeds are natural plant chemicals that act as antioxidants and mimic estrogen in the body. Lignans have been found to protect against a variety of cancers, particularly breast, colon and prostate. Flax lignans are also used as a natural method to lower the hormone estradiol in dogs with Cushing’s disease. Flax seeds contain up to 800 times more lignans than any other food.
The soluble and insoluble fiber in flax helps promote healthy digestion, control weight gain by creating a feeling of fullness, stabilize blood sugar levels and lower cholesterol.
Flax seeds have a tough outer shell that must be broken down to release the nutrients.
Purchase ground flax seeds, also called flax meal, or grind them yourself in a spice or coffee grinder. Store the ground seeds in the refrigerator and replace every couple of months, as they quickly go rancid.
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Chia seeds come from Salvia hispanica, a flowering desert plant in the mint family. Chia was first cultivated around 3500 B.C. in Mexico and Guatemala and was an important part of the diet of many ancient cultures, including the Aztecs and Mayans.
The Mayans believed chia seeds contained supernatural powers. In Mayan, chia means “strength.” Like hemp and flax seeds, chia is rich in essential fatty acids, antioxidants and fiber that support optimum health.
Chia seeds are higher in alpha-linolenic acid than any other plant food, beating even flax seed. Combined with high levels of antioxidants, they are a powerful anti-inflammatory food. A Canadian study in people with Type 2 diabetes found that consuming about 37 grams of chia seeds daily reduced C-reactive protein, a blood marker for inflammation, by about 40%.
More than 80% of the carbohydrates in chia seeds are made up of fiber, making them a good choice to help regulate weight and stabilize blood sugar. Chia seeds also have an amazing sponge-like quality — able to soak up about 10 times their weight in water. When mixed with liquid, the seeds expand and form into a gel, providing a feeling of fullness without adding extra calories. Chia seeds are high in several minerals: calcium, copper, iron, magnesium and zinc.
Chia seeds come in black and white varieties. The black seeds are slightly smaller, but there is no significant nutritional difference between the two. Chia seeds do not need to be ground before eating. However, because they expand when mixed with liquid, pre-soak them before giving them to your dog to avoid a choking hazard.
Make a chia seed pudding for your dog
Stir 4 tablespoons chia seeds into 1 cup unsweetened, dog-friendly, plant-based milk (organic hemp, almond, soy, coconut and rice work well).
Add 2 teaspoons maple syrup (optional).
Stir, let rest a few minutes, stir again. Refrigerate covered overnight. Stir again before portioning.
Kick it up with your favorite dog-friendly fruit. Store in a closed container in the refrigerator for up to four days.
Seed essentials
When feeding seeds to your dog, remember not to give too much of a good thing, which could cause gastric upset. Holistic veterinarian Dr. Jean Dodds recommends one teaspoon of hemp, flax or chia seeds per day per 40 pounds of the dog’s body weight.
Opt for organic seeds whenever possible. Conventional seeds may be sprayed with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and chemical fertilizers — all of which you want to avoid giving your dog.
Most of all, have fun adding seeds to your dog’s diet. The nourishment you provide him today can “sow the seeds” of a long, healthy life. And there’s nothing seedy about that.
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The schoolchildren who drafted their own emergency climate bill
Frustrated by the government’s response to the climate crisis, young people in England and Scotland are taking matters into their own hands
Positive News September 29, 2020
Students in Scotland have launched a campaign to get the Scottish government to provide young people with the skills they need to live sustainably.
It follows the launch of a similar campaign in England, where students drafted an emergency Climate Emergency Education Bill and presented it to MPs earlier this year. The bill has not yet entered parliament.
Both campaigns were launched by Teach the Future, a student-led group that aims to “urgently repurpose” the education system around the climate emergency.
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Teach the Future wants the climate emergency and ecological crisis to be incorporated in teacher training, as well as a new professional teaching qualification to improve the standard of education on the subject.
Other demands from Teach the Future include retrofitting all existing building stock used in state education to become net-zero by 2030. The bill was inspired by a 1950s education law in the US, which aimed to boost science, technology, engineering and maths education across the system as part of a wider strategy to win the space race. It is believed to be the first education legislation written up by children.
Mary Skuodas, 15, one of the students involved in the UK campaign, said: “[The US government] did that so they could win the space race, and they did. We now need a similar massive investment in our education system, so we can combat the climate emergency.”
“We just want to be taught the truth and supported to make a difference,” added Joe Brindle, 17, another Teach the Future campaigner.
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Potrero Annex-Terrace Redevelopment Continues
Published on December, 2020 in Development/News by Don MacRitchie
Last fall Bridge Housing released 2020 Rebuild Potrero Impact Report, which reviews progress redeveloping the Potrero Annex-Terrace housing complex on Potrero Hill’s southside. The “Rebuild Potrero” project was launched in 2008 by the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development and Bridge Housing Corporation, a nonprofit headquartered in San Francisco.
Bridge Housing operates twenty-one properties in the City. These include 1101 Connecticut, the first of five-phased Rebuild Potrero, consisting of 72 units of affordable housing located at Connecticut and 25th streets that began accepting residents last year.
Rebuild Potrero will ultimately create roughly 1,000 new mixed-income apartments, including one for one replacement of public units located at 619 Potrero Terrace. According to Lyn Hikida, Bridge Housing vice president of communications, substitute residences will be “similarly sized or larger” than present Annex-Terrace housing. Once completed Annex-Terrace ownership and management will be transferred from the San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA) to Bridge, with the underlying land leased to Bridge by SFHA.
Past public housing revitalizations in San Francisco have resulted in fewer total housing units and displacement of long-term tenants. Rebuild Potrero has been planned with resident input, provision of support services focused on retaining existing occupants and early intervention to assist those at displacement risk due to non-payment of rent.
1101 Connecticut replaced 53 public housing units with an equal number of upgraded homes, plus 18 apartments for households with 50 to 60 percent of average median income (AMI), between $64,050 and $76,850 for a family of four. Fifty-three families were successfully relocated. No eviction notices have been issued, nor have there been any lease violations.
According to Ms. Hikida, the project surpassed its job creation and resident work goals, with employment of 12 Annex-Terrace residents during construction of 1101 Connecticut, another 17 residents at other SFHA building projects, and 54 inhabitants finding employment in the healthcare sector, or at a nonprofit or government entity. Phase 1 construction created a total of 1,600 jobs.
Between 2016 and 2019 there’s been a seven percent rise in residents employed in higher paying jobs, in management, business, science and the arts, with a 25 percent decline in occupants with service jobs over the period. Employment levels amongst Annex-Terrace inhabitants rose from 30 percent to 58 percent between 2013 and 2019.
Rebuild Potrero is funded in part by Proposition A, a $600 million affordable housing bond passed in 2019. “Affordable housing operations are sustained through rents,” said Ms. Hikida. “Future market-rate sites are planned as either rental apartments or for-sale units and while the majority of the market-rate sites are currently projected to be rental apartments, the market and economy are important factors that may change this dynamic and include more for-sale components.”
According to Ms.Hikida, none of the eventual 619 low income public housing replacement units will ever be converted into market rate housing.
Phase 2 is underway at the block bounded by 25th, 26th and Connecticut streets. “The demolition of the existing buildings located on Phase 2 was completed in June 2020,” said Ms. Hikida. “The infrastructure start date is January 18, 2021. Infrastructure improvements include new streetscape and new utilities for the streets directly surrounding the Phase 2 project as well as the creation of an extension of Arkansas Street. Arkansas Street will be extended south to dissect the Phase 2 Block into two separate housing parcels, Block A, market rate, and Block B, affordable. The vertical construction start has moved to August 2021. Vertical Construction on the Block B site includes 157 affordable units, 118 public housing replacement units and 39 new units for 30 to 60 percent AMI households, a childcare center, a resident courtyard and a public mini park located on the corner of Connecticut Street and 25th Street”.
All five phases of Rebuild Potrero are scheduled to be completed and available for occupancy by 2029.
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British Journalism Awards 2012 showcase: Breaking News finalists
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British Journalism Awards 2012 showcase: Sports Journalist of the Year finalists
By Camilla Turner Twitter
A showcase of the public interest journalism (in every sense) which saw these reporters commended by the British Journalism Awards judges as sports category finalists.
Winner: David Walsh (The Sunday Times)
Chief sports writer of The Sunday Times, David Walsh, was named Sports Journalist of the Year.
The award was in recognition of Walsh’s thirteen-year investigation that has led to the exposure of cyclist Lance Armstrong, inclduing this feature: Broken on the wheel of truth.
Judges said: “David Walsh became a pariah for years in his chosen sport in order to get to the truth of this story. He pursued it and pursued it. The US Anti-Doping Agency would never have taken Armstrong on if it hadn’t been for David Walsh. “It was a fine example of great investigative journalism.”
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Kevin Eason, motor racing correspondent of The Times, submitted a series of articles about the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix.
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The Premier League owner who was being paid £11m while his club were being relegated – football club owner, Own Oyston of Blackpool, who used his position to pocket £11m while the club struggled to survive in the Premier League and trained in rundown facilities.
Banned rugby star Martin Gleeson claims his game's governing body were involved in the doping scandal that wrecked his life – a number of rugby league players at Hull FC took banned drugs by accident, which spiralled into a web of lies, deceit and cover-up.
Tindall: I won't be the first person to get hammered and realise it wasn't a great idea – an interview with former captain of the England ruby union team Mike Tindall, who was at the heart of a scandalous night out at the 2011 rugby World Cup.
Paul Kelso (The Daily Telegraph)
Fear and loathing eating away at the heart of the MCC, the game's most exclusive club – Kelso revealed the depth of the dispute at Lord's cricket ground and the levels of bitterness over the dropping of plans to redevelop the home of cricket.
London 2012 Olympics: LaShawn Merritt's victory in drugs ban test case gives hope to banned Britons – Kelso broke the story that led to former drugs cheats competing for Team GB at the London Olympics.
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Do people ever actually tell other people who sent them?
§ April 3rd, 2013 § Filed under this week's comics § 7 Comments
So after my recent Great B.P.R.D. Reread Project (status: complete; next Great Reread Project yet to be decided) and the issue numbering concerns thereof, I thought I should mention that this new Abe Sapien #1, “An All New Ongoing Series” as it says there, is in fact, according to the inside front cover, #11 in the overall history of Abe Sapien solo series and / or one-shots. So:
Anyway, the series takes off from recent events in the B.P.R.D. comics, following the even-further mutated Abe as he eludes his former pals at the Bureau. I don’t know if this is really a good jumping-on point for new readers…dialogue-driven exposition for recent Hellboy-Universe-Events-That-Don’t-Really-Involve-Hellboy, in particular Abe’s recent changes, catches folks up, but it seems more like preaching to the converted rather than its own thing. This may just be symptomatic of the series’ origins in B.P.R.D. and the ongoing circumstances there, and it feels more like another B.P.R.D. mini rather than an Abe Sapien solo title. We’ll see what happens once the series begins to form its own identity a few issues down the road.
As I said on Twitter yesterday, I was bracing myself to read a Thanos story that didn’t involve Jim Starlin somehow, but so far Jason Aaron and Simone Bianchi aren’t doing too bad a job telling the adventures of Li’l Thanos. It lacks the inherent weirdness of Starlin’s storytelling, and thus is a more conventional “here are the bad things that formed this bad guy” tale. Still, it’s a solid enough introduction to the character, and will likely make a nice trade paperback (or, more likely, hardcover) to sell to the curious once Marvel’s Phase Two films (presumably involving Thanos) start making more of an impact.
It’s Hulk versus Thor as drawn by Walt Simonson. If reading that sentence doesn’t make you immediately pull out your wallet and start throwing money at the computer screen, well, I don’t know that I can help you. But pick up that money and go throw it at Ye Olde Local Comic Booke Seller instead, because publishers getting Simonson to draw comics is a behavior I’d like to encourage. And things look like they really begin to pick up in Part the Second, so jump on now, he said like the funnybook salesman he is.
This is probably the first of the New 52 Swamp Thing comics to feel like an old Swamp Thing comic. In particular, like the Alan Moore or Rick Veitch issues where Swamp Thing would encounter some established bit of the DC Universe and we’re suddenly given a new and almost certainly creepy take on it. Well, that was then, this is now, and it’s hard to do a creepy take on a character like the Scarecrow when the trend lately in the Bat-books has been to make things especially weird and creepy in the first place. Instead, the fun here is in Swamp Thing’s reaction and interaction with the Scarecrow, rather than any kind of dramatic reinterpretation.
Also, new writer Charles Soule takes a few panels to explain the deal with Swamp Thing’s New 52 status quo, his relation to the previous Alec Holland-less Swamp Thing, recent events in the comic, and so on. Probably a good issue to sample if you’ve been tempted, but didn’t want to jump into the middle of the 300-part “Rotworld” crossover.
It’s Popeye and Barney Google! CRISIS OF GRANDPA’S INFINITE COMIC STRIPS! I actually didn’t get into this issue as much as past installments of this series…Barney Google isn’t a strip character for whom I have any particular affinity, and the horseracing gags weren’t really my thing. But, even an issue of Popeye that doesn’t quite butter my bread is still a whole lot better than just about anything else, so I ain’t complainin’. Plus, series writer Roger Langridge takes on the art chores yet again and everything looks flawless and beautiful…and Langridge even gives us a boxing back-up story starring Swee’pea, and it’s plenty cute.
And for the digital comic inclined, there’s Task Force Rad Squad . Click the link, pay what you want (or even nothing at all, but c’mon, give ’em a buck at least) and download in your choice of format. It reminds me of late ’80s/early ’90s crazy indie comics…I sort of get a Tank Girl vibe off it, but maybe that’s just me. Anyway, it’s lots of fun packed into 36 pages, and you get a sizable preview prior to throwing your money down. Go check it out, and tell ’em Mike sent you. If they ask “who’s Mike?” just say “you know, Mike” and that should do it.
7 Responses to “Do people ever actually tell other people who sent them?”
Thelonious_Nick says:
That Hulk cover is really pushing the right fanboy buttons, for me at least. I’m not following Hulk right now, and it’s at the dreaded $3.99 price point, but this is one of those now-rare covers that actually sells the contents.
I’ll at least thumb through this issue and likely pick it up. Way to go, comic retailer and Marvel cover artist!
“and the horseracing gags weren’t really my thing”
and talk about OUTDATED!
swamp mark says:
I just got back from the store and was shocked to see that Swampy didn’t show up at Cliff’s funeral in Animal Man #19! After what the two of them went through together,you’d think Lemire would have got Swampy to pay his respects.How rude!
Acelister says:
Turns out my local comic retailer doesn’t give me merchandise when I just turn up and throw money at him… He just quietly picks it up, thanks me and pockets it… Next time I’ll grab the book first…
Michael-Sensei says:
“Whatever knows fear burns at the Scarecrow’s touch!”
cainmark says:
I would think that CRISIS OF GRANDPA’S INFINITE COMIC STRIPS! was “Who Censored Roger Rabbit?”
Hulk vs. Thor…drawn by Walt Simonson?
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
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Flop of the month: Green Party wrong-footed by off-colour remarks
February 09, 2015 by Ian Griggs
Those inclusive, liberal, lefty types at the Green Party never seem to put a foot wrong when appealing to their core constituency of sandal-wearing, muesli-knitting tree lovers. Do they?
Recent weeks saw the twin pratfalls of the party’s candidate for Cambridge, Rupert Read, being forced to issue an apology for "disappointing" comments he made about transgender people, while party leader Natalie Bennett said it should not be a crime to belong to ISIS.
Read wrote he was troubled by the word ‘cisgender’ to refer to someone who is not transgender and referred to transgender women as "an opt-in version of what it is to be a woman". He later clarified he was not against the word cisgender and that his remarks were an attempt to "discuss a hypothetical philosophical position".
But the party, which has its heartland in the gay-friendly city of Brighton, was forced on to the back foot and Bennett issued a statement that the leadership was "disappointed" by the remarks. Bennett also raised eyebrows when she said, in an interview with BBC1’s Sunday Politics show, that joining Al-Qaeda or ISIS should not be a crime and people should only be punished for supporting or inciting acts of violence rather than what they thought.
All of which points to a party that has suddenly found itself in the deep end. Perhaps its new sobriquet of ‘the UKIP of the left’ is not so wide of the mark.
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Black Lives Matter and the diversity of British PR: A collective call to action
Flop of the Month: Dominic Cummings
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Home » Technology » Provision Holding, Inc. Issues Letter to Shareholders
Provision Holding, Inc. Issues Letter to Shareholders
by Randy Whitney
CHATSWORTH, Calif., Aug. 09, 2017, PVHO, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Provision Holding, Inc. (OTCQB:PVHO) announced today that it has issued a shareholder update letter from Curt Thornton, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, to the Company’s shareholders.
Dear Provision Shareholder,
We are pleased to update you, our valued shareholder, on the exciting events occurring throughout our business and steps we are taking to provide additional visibility into our progress going forward. The rapid pace at which we are expanding our retail channel and advertising agency partner networks has further validated our proprietary 3D holographic display platform and provided the company significant operating momentum, as we move into the second half of the year, and positions Provision for an exciting 2018 and beyond.
While we believe our stock price has not yet begun to reflect these recent achievements and the tremendous opportunities they represent, we wanted to provide some additional context to these recent announcements, as part of our commitment to transparency and communication with our shareholders and building long-term shareholder value.
We acknowledge that our stock and the perception of our company has been hampered over the past few years by the pace and scale of the commercial rollout into the Rite Aid chain of pharmacy stores. Although our agreements with Rite Aid called for us to install Provision 3D Savings Center kiosks across its more than 4,500 U.S. retail location footprint, the rollout stalled in 2016, as Rite Aid’s focus was on their acquisition by Walgreens.
As a result of the recent termination of their merger, and the subsequent agreement for Walgreens to acquire about half of the Rite Aid store portfolio, Provision continues to explore all avenues towards fulfilling its Rite Aid contract. While there is not yet a clear understanding of the outcome, Provision remains committed to servicing the installed base of approximately 700 Rite Aid stores across the top 10 demographics in the United States.
The location base within Rite Aid remains significant, as it positions Provision on a path to reach “critical mass” with advertisers, who tend to participate in national ad campaigns with companies with around 1,000 outlets, and that provide a high level of visibility for the advertiser. Against this backdrop, we are encouraged by our prospects for reaching, and soon, far exceeding this threshold. Ahead of this expected milestone, we have been laying the groundwork with leading advertisers such as PRN, a leading provider of in-store shopper marketing solutions, with whom we announced a new partnership in July.
To reach the goal of 1,000 stores, Provision has been working diligently to diversify its retail channel footprint. Our results in this regard have been extremely fruitful thus far in 2017, with recently announced deals that will provide Provision access to the grocery and convenience store channels, respectively.
As we mentioned in the June SEC filing, Provision entered into a five-year strategic alliance with Coinstar, which owns and operates approximately 17,000 self-service coin counting kiosks and is a ubiquitous presence at grocery store locations across the United States, in retailers including Walmart, Albertsons/Safeway, Kroger, and others.
Under the agreement, Provision and Coinstar will integrate Provision’s patented 3D “Holovision” display systems into Coinstar kiosks nationwide. The Provision 3D holographic display will “bolt-on” to the top of the existing Coinstar kiosk as an attractive “topper”. Our couponing and loyalty card system software will be integrated into the Coinstar touch-screen interface. The firms will evenly divide the monthly net advertising revenues, after deducting promotional retailer commissions. Provision believes that the monthly advertising revenue potential in this channel should exceed that of a retail pharmacy chain. Initial internal pro-forma forecasts suggest that at critical mass, the gross monthly advertising revenue pool could potentially exceed $20 million.
We are pleased with the initial progress towards moving to the deployment phase for Coinstar. The Provision “topper” has been designed by an award winning industrial designer, and we plan to assemble the prototype this month. The software teams have begun the required integration work, and we anticipate a working prototype in October. We have targeted up to 300 locations for rollout by the end of 2017, with broader deployment scheduled for 2018. We have not been able to disclose much detail on this transformational agreement thus far, due to tactical and strategic decisions made by our partners. We look forward to sharing updates and the announcement of key milestones in the agreement as it advances.
Last week, Provision announced a multi-year agreement with Prosperity Investments, under its Joyful ATM brand, that provides entry into the global convenience store and ATM market. Similar to the Coinstar deal, Provision’s 3D holographic display and coupon/loyalty card software platforms will be integrated into Joyful ATMs to drive in-store engagement and purchases at point-of-sale. Like Coinstar, Provision will design an attractive ‘topper’ assembly for the 3D holographic display which will be integrated on top of the ATM, and also develop the software integration platform for the coupon and loyalty application. We expect engineering efforts to begin in September.
The deal calls for an initial 2,000 Joyful ATM units integrated with Provision’s 3D technology to be deployed throughout the United States in the first half of 2018, and more than 48,000 units to be deployed across the United States and an additional 68 countries over the agreement period, at locations including banks, convenience stores, gas stations, and government buildings. The initial rollout of 200 systems will span the Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, Illinois, and Texas markets. Upon mutual agreement, a tiered U.S. rollout schedule will then commence, with Prosperity installations at retail locations among its channel partners in the top 10 U.S. advertising markets, and progressing through each decile ranking, in consultation with Provision.
Utilizing a nominal initial internal advertising revenue forecast of $500 per month/store and a 10,000 retail location footprint, at critical mass, gross advertising revenues would exceed $5 million monthly.
Prosperity Investments has maintained public silence on its national media rollout campaign planned for the “Joyful ATM” brand in January 2018 for competitive reasons. However, the official Joyful website is planned to be active on August 15th and provide basic information on Joyful Financial Services and new innovative features for its ATM and online clients. Later this month, Prosperity will publicly announce its primary supplier, a leader in the global ATM industry with well over 100,000 conventional ATMs actively operating in the global marketplace. Joyful’s retail, fuel service station, and convenience store chain partners plan on issuing monthly joint press releases commencing January 2018, as additional U.S. States in the Joyful ATM network come online.
Although Joyful has limited name recognition and public presence compared with the likes of Coinstar or Rite Aid, we are excited by this opportunity to further expand Provision’s customer reach which will, importantly, influence higher future advertising rates.
Lastly, I wanted to touch upon our other deal, announced in the second quarter, with Discount Drug Mart, a 70 store pharmacy chain located in the Midwestern United States. This will add to our pharmacy store locations. We also see opportunities to further broaden our pharmacy channel presence beyond Rite Aid, and have been actively discussing the Provision 3D platform with additional chains, both regional and national in scale.
In corporate marketing materials, we have posed the question, “If we build it, will they come?” taking inspiration from the classic film Field of Dreams. At Provision, we believe that recent events go a long way towards answering that question. We are gratified by the acceptance of our proprietary holographic display platform by our retail channel partners, advertising agency partners and consumers, which we believe represents a “Triple Win” in the retail channel. This can be further validated by the published case studies showing an average coupon redemption rate of 17%, with some brands enjoying redemption rates as high as 44%.
We remain firmly confident in our ability to execute on this growth strategy, and believe that the multiple commercial-stage announcements highlighted here that encompass multiple retail channels represent transformational achievements since our previous shareholder letter. We are also extremely proud to have been able to invest in R&D to secure new patents that we expect will ultimately position Provision to enter into partnerships for markets that do not yet exist today. Examples of the markets for which we see clear applicability for Provision’s technology include at-home consumer products and telemedicine, two areas which industry research suggests will represent the fastest growing markets for holographic displays.
As we have hopefully been able to communicate in this letter, Provision is committed to sharing its progress and engaging its current and future shareholders. To that end, we have recently engaged an Investor Relations firm, KCSA Strategic Communications, to assist us in these regards.
In short, we have never been more confident in the future prospects for Provision, and will continue to work tirelessly, and will not stop even once the progress we have made is more fairly reflected in the Company’s stock valuation.
Thank you for your interest in Provision and your continued support.
Curt Thornton
Provision Holding, Inc.
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Durham’s Grand Slam Sparks Curve; Marte Back With A Homer
State College Spikes� 6,� Mahoning Valley Scrappers� 4 (box)
Both 1B Matt Curry and RF Cole White went 3-for-3 tonight as the Spikes held on for the win, despite late-inning rallies by the Scrappers.� Curry singled in both the 1st and 4th innings, but did not score either time.� White was hit by a pitch in the 2nd but was forced out at second base.� Then he led off the 5th inning with a single, and moved to second base on C Matt Skirving’s sacrifice bunt.� 3B Kelson Brown also singled, and CF Mel Rojas doubled both of them in, to give the Spikes a 2-0 lead.
Curry led off the 6th inning with his third single and he stole second base.� DH Chase Lyles walked, and both runners moved up a base when SS Walker Gourley grounded out.� White’s second hit of the game brought Curry home.� Then Lyles stole home while White stole second base, and the Spikes had increased their lead to 4-0.� Both Curry and White reached base in the 8th inning, when the Spikes added another two runs.� Curry led off with a walk, Lyles singled, and Gourley sacrifice bunted the two into scoring position.� White’s third single drove in both runners.
Zack Von Rosenberg pitched 4 scoreless innings in his start.� He gave up 3 hits and a walk, and struck out 3 batters.� He also hit a batter, and made an error on a pick-off throw to first. He had two runners on only in the 4th inning, with the walk and a single, but got out of the inning with a timely double play.� Zack Dodson relieved Von Rosenberg to begin the 5th.� He threw 2 scoreless innings, but got into trouble in the 7th with two lead-off walks.� A passed ball moved the runners to second and third, and the lead runner scored (unearned) on a round out.� After a strikeout and a third walk, Ryan Beckman relieved Dodson and finished the inning.� Beckman gave up two runs int he 8th, on a hit batter, a walk, an RBI single, and an RBI ground out.� That cut the Spikes’ lead to 6-3.� Jason Townsend gave up another run in the bottom of the 9th, with a one-out single, a walk, and an RBI single.� But that last runner was thrown out by Skirving as he tried to steal second base, ending the rally and the game.
GCL Pirates� 10,� GCL Yankees� 4 (box)
CF Starling Marte returned to action in his rehab work for his left hand, and was back with a bang.� Rehabbing C Eric Fryer led off the bottom of the 1st inning with a walk, and Marte followed by blasting a 2-run homer.� The Yankees had a solo homer in the top of the 2nd, but the Pirates came right back with 2 more in the bottom of the frame.� LF Exicardo Cayonez was hit by a pitch and DH Elias Diaz walked.� SS Jorge Bishop grounded into a force out at second (Diaz out), then Cayonez and Bishop pulled off a double steal, with Cayonez scoring.� Bishop scored on an RBI single by 3B Kevin Mort.
The Yankees’ starter hit two more batters with a pitch in the 3rd inning: Marte, to lead off, and 2B Luis Solano later in the inning.� Marte stole second, and rehabbing RF/CF Wes Freeman walked, then Marte and Freeman did the double steal.� Solano loaded the bases when he was hit, and Cayonez walked, forcing in Marte.� Freeman scored on a wild pitch.� Back-to-back home runs by Diaz (3 runs) and Bishop (solo, of course) gave the Pirates 6 runs in the inning, and a 10-1 lead.
Yerfi Taveras gave up that Yankees’ home run in the 2nd, then another solo homer in the 4th.� He began the 5th with three singles for one run.� He was replaced by Dinesh Patel, who walked a batter to load the bases, then a sacrifice fly brought in another run (charged to Taveras).� A ground out ended the inning.� Barrett Phillips earned the win with 3 scoreless innings.� Phillips gave up one single and had a batter reach on a fielding error, but got out of the inning with a double play.� Dovydas Neverauskas pitched the 9th inning, giving up a lead-off double, then retiring the next three batters.
Fryer went 0-for-3 at the plate, with a walk.� Marte was 1-for-2 with the home run.� Freeman went 1-for-3 with a walk.
West Virginia Power � 8, �Hagerstown Suns �4 (box)
LF Rogelios Noris and RF Jose Hernandez both homered and Hernandez, 1B Aaron Baker, and CF David Rubinstein all collected 2 hits as the Power took the first game of the double header from the Suns. �The Power scored 3 runs in each of the 2nd and 3rd innings. � Noris’ 3-run homer got the Power onto the scoreboard in the 2nd inning, after Baker walked and Rubinstein singled. �In the 3rd, 3B Elevys Gonzalez led off with a triple and Hernandez homered. �Rubinstein reached base on a fielding error after the home run, then stole second base. �He scored on the second fielding error of the inning.
The Power added two more runs late in the game. �In the 5th (that’s “late” in 7-inning double header games), three consecutive singles by Hernandez, Baker, and Rubinstein plated Hernandez. �2B Jarek Cunningham began the 7th with a single, advanced to third on Baker’s second single, and scored on an RBI ground out by Rubinstein.
Brett Lorin pitched 4 innings in his start for the Power. He gave up only 2 hits, and those were a single and a home run in the 2nd inning. �Lorin also walked 2 batters and struck out 4. �Elicier Navarro earned his first win with the Power, pitching the last 3 innings. �He allowed 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th, on two singles, a sacrifice fly, and a triple, but ended the inning and the game when he got a strikeout with runners on the corners.
Suns �9, �Power �3 (box)
The Suns took out their frustrations in the night-cap, scoring 7 runs in the bottom of the 1st inning and knocking Quinton Miller, just up from State College, out of the game. �Miller gave up two singles, then got a fly out. �Then a triple, a fielder’s choice without an out, and another single brought in two runs. �After a strikeout, Miller surrendered another triple, a 2-run homer, and a walk, and at that point, he was sent to the showers. �Mike Williams came on in relief, and got out of the inning when C Jairo Marquez threw out that last batter/runner trying to steal second base. �Williams pitched 4 more innings and gave up 2 runs in the 3rd on two singles and a double. �Maurice Bankston pitched the final inning for the Power, and allowed only a walk.
The Power scored one unearned run in the top of the 1st inning, when Jarek Cunningham reached third base on a fielding error in center field. �He scored on Jose Hernandez’s RBI ground out. �They scored again in the 5th, also aide by an error. �Marquez led off with a single and reached third base on Elevys Gonzalez’s double. �Both runners scored when CF Evan Chambers reached base on a fielding error at shortstop.
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China’s ‘Jade Rabbit’ lunar rover freezes to death on moon
It’s a sad day for space exploration. China’s lunar rover Yutu (translation: Jade Rabbit) is dead. The lunar rover was supposed to enter hibernation for two Earth weeks (one lunar day), but it failed to fold up one of its solar panels and enter sleep mode. As a result of being a tough guy, Yutu froze to death on the moon.
China’s ECNS news reports all hope of restoring communication with Jade Rabbit is gone. According to New Scientist "When temperatures plunge, the rover’s mast is designed to fold down to protect delicate instruments, which can then be kept warm by a radioactive heat source."
Yutu’s moon escapade was originally scheduled to last three months. On December 14, 2013, China’s Chang’e-3 moon lander successfully landed on the moon and deployed Yutu. While its mission was cut short, thanks to Yutu, we got to see this gorgeous panorama from our natural satellite.
It isn’t all solemn news. China’s Chang’e-3 moon lander is up and operational after waking up from its lunar slumber, although it’s unclear what the next plan for the remainder of the lunar mission will be, now that Yutu is useless.
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Auckland: unsung parking reform champ
Posted by Paul Barter on January 11, 2019
Auckland, New Zealand, which has carried out progressive parking reforms that were remarkably bold and successful, is the focus for Episode 8 of the Reinventing Parking podcast.
[Reinventing Parking is back after an illness-induced break. I am well again and back in action. Sorry for the long gap since the last post/episode.]
I found Auckland's parking progress really encouraging. I hope you do too.
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Auckland abolished most (although not all) of its parking minimums a few years ago and is reaping the dividends.
A graphic from Auckland's Generation Zero during the successful
campaign to rid Auckland of its formerly excessive parking minimums.
It has also set up an effective approach to on-street parking management, including demand-responsive parking fees. It has rolled these out to busy areas across the city, not just in the city centre.
Not bad for a car-dependent city (struggling to turn itself around).
And it's a measure of Auckland's parking success that the changes are now broadly accepted. There was controversy at first, but now it mostly just works as intended.
My informant on Auckland's parking is Matt Lowrie, coordinator and writer on the Greater Auckland blog, which was one of several organizations that helped bring about Auckland’s parking reforms.
By the way, Matt (and his colleague, Patrick Reynolds) also featured in a recent episode of the Reinventing Transport podcast about Auckland’s transport transformation and the role of the Greater Auckland blog.
How to digest this:
READ the brief highlights below, and follow the links in the 'Learn More' section.
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Get it as a podcast. Listen with your usual podcast player app and subscribe (it's free). Search for 'Reinventing Parking' in your podcast player app or you can click the symbol that looks like a wifi icon in the player above.
Highlights from the conversation
[2:11] We started by talking about Auckland's on-street parking reforms.
These involve:
a new consistent approach with clear warrants based on data to trigger different kinds of parking management intervention, depending on the situation.
a demand-based approach to setting the parking prices. The prices are adjusted up or down in regular price reviews with the aim of always having a few vacancies.
This started in the city centre and has since been expanded to various other areas.
A ten-minute grace period was introduced to allow quick errands without messing with parking payments.
The system seems to be working well. It met with some early scepticism from motoring organisations and retailers but now seems uncontroversial.
In fact, it has been rolled out to new areas (even some that never had parking meters before) and has been well received. Retailers and motorists have found that it is easier to find parking and less circling for parking. And it has encouraged use of existing off-street parking.
A pilot-like approach helped too, with six-month trials of the new pricing approach as it expanded. The step-by-step expansion of the demand-based parking pricing system also allowed early successes in the initial areas help persuade people in other centres that it was worth a try.
Some areas got parking fees for the first time, always a tougher proposition. Kingsland, a hip inner area near the Eden Park stadium was an example. Nevertheless, the successes elsewhere helped win over the local business association, which lobbied its members to accept parking pricing for the first time and to try the new approach to price setting.
So far there are no time-of-day variations in price but the on-street price per hour does escalate after the first hour to emphasise that on-street parking is for short-stay parking.
The revenue surplus is not earmarked for local purposes (as in Shoupista lore) but does go to Auckland Transport itself, not the general revenue pot.
[14:12] Then we moved on to Auckland's partial abolition of parking minimums.
The opportunity for change grew out of the council amalgamation that created the metropolitan-wide City of Auckland.
The subsequent process to create a Unitary Plan for the new local body had an important requirement - it had to be evidence based.
This opened the way for the well-known critiques of the flimsy evidence base for parking minimums to come into play. And a growing coalition, including Generation Zero and the Greater Auckland blog (then Transport Blog) got involved.
The city centre had for some time already had maximums and no minimums. This was also helpful because experience there showed various benefits and few problems.
The result was that the Unitary Plan abolished parking minimums across most zones types across the city. The main exception is areas zoned for single family housing. There are also some modest compromises on retail due to lobbying by large retailers, who opposed the changes, seeking to keep their competitive advantage over traditional main streets and smaller retail clusters.
The effects of the change are already evident with 'parking lite' and even zero parking buildings appearing in various places, even (transit-oriented) places far from the city centre.
Of course, Auckland hears the usual fears about residents and users of such buildings clogging the streets with their parking. But Matt said Auckland Transport pushes back on these. It is confident its on-street parking management toolbox is up to any such challenges.
The inner suburbs are seeing more and more buildings with unbundled parking. Many new apartments buildings have fewer than one car park per apartment and these are sold separately from the apartments. You only buy one if you need a parking space.
Towards the end of our conversation ...
We wrapped up with several specific examples of parking controversies in particular areas of Auckland.
These highlighted how the parking changes are playing out, how attitudes have been changing (and in some cases not changing) and how things are generally moving in a very positive and encouraging direction.
The parking changes have enabled numerous other good things to happen, including bus lanes through previously unthinkable locations, bicycle lanes, and sensitive infill development that was previously blocked by parking concerns.
Again, taking things step by step seems to be key.
Here's where you can find out more about Auckland's parking changes, debates and policies
Greater Auckland blog (with searches for parking terms)
Chapter E27 (pdf) of Auckland's Unitary Plan has the details on current parking requirements (or the lack of them in many areas). Page 2 has a concise summary of the key facts on the parking minimums and maximums.
Find out more from Auckland Transport about their parking management strategies. And here is a short video they produced.
About Matt Lowrie
Matt Lowrie is long-time coordinator of the Greater Auckland blog (formerly Transport Blog) and one of its most prolific writers.
This profile/interview provides more insight into Matt and Greater Auckland and its influence on Auckland's urban and transport debates. It has a picture of Matt too!
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Further progress towards parking reforms in Auckland / NZ could be progressed if Central Government:
(i) Allowed Auckland Transport to charge more than the administrative cost for residential parking schemes. Ideally these should be Dutch Auctions with a cap per household.
(ii) Increased the fine for parking in a bus lane to same level as driving in the bus lane. If you drive in a bus lane the fine is $150NZ, but if you have your car parked in a bus lane, high occupancy lane, clearway the fine is $40NZ.
Paul Barter January 24, 2019 at 8:08 AM
Good points. Many thanks.
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Why Did Pat Robertson Advocate For a Congolese Dictator?
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There’s a lot of news these days, so you could be forgiven for missing this interesting tidbit about a surprising connection between famous televangelist Pat Robertson and Mobutu Sese Seko, a Congolese dictator with a lengthy list of human rights violation allegations who passed away in 1997.
The scoop comes courtesy Anna Massoglia, a nonprofits and FARA researcher at the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington D.C. Her research uncovered a record in which NRA leader David Keene, Jack Abramoff and political operative Paul Erickson washed their hands of Robertson, claiming he was entirely uninvolved in their attempts to secure a visa for President Mobutu.
FARA records that revealed David Keene, Jack Abramoff & Paul Erickson lobbying together had a note about “Pat Robertson freelancing,” claiming “we have no knowledge of “what he may do next.”
So why was a televangelist advocating for a dictator accused of human rights violations? pic.twitter.com/QmaQEZQk9f
— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) December 10, 2018
So just what was Robertson up to? Well, try to keep up, because this gets a little complex.
Robertson’s business interests in Zaire weren’t exactly a secret, although he may well wish they were. A 2001 Time Magazine piece found that Robertson’s “Operation Blessing” planes, while paid for by Robertson supporters who believed they were giving to evangelism efforts, were also transporting diamond-mining equipment to Zaire. Robertson was running what he called the African Development Corporation (ADC), a company that claimed to be mining diamonds and gold with the intention of using the profits for humanitarian causes. The ADC was started in cooperation with President Mobutu, for whom diamonds were a principle source of his vast wealth.
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The ADC was co-run by a man named Bill Lovick, a one-time Assemblies of God minister who was dismissed from the church in 1985 following a church investigation that revealed “a lack of ethics in raising Assemblies of God monies.” Lovick told Time that the diamond-mining operation had been “a very good thing for the President and a very good thing for Dr. Robertson.”
In addition to the somewhat dubious wisdom of entering into business with a brutal dictator, Robertson’s work ran afoul U.S. law. Robertson had claimed that his Operation Blessing planes were helping Rwandan refugees escape genocide, so the revelation that they were actually being used for diamond mining raised the eyebrows of Virginia’s Office of Consumer Affairs, who determined that Robertson had “willfully induced contributions from the public through the use of misleading statements and other implications.” The office recommended prosecuting Robertson for unethical claims in 1999, but was overruled by the attorney general’s office. The attorney general at the time, Mark Earley, had accepted a thirty-five thousand dollar campaign contribution from Robertson two years prior.
This information, while not particularly well known, isn’t new. So why is it being discussed now? Well, the three men who disavowed any knowledge of what Robertson was up to — Erickson, Abramoff and Keene — are currently caught up in the mess around Maria Butina, the now-infamous alleged Russian spy who will plead guilty to espionage.
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Italy's latest measures to curb COVID to take effect from Friday: PM's office
FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte addresses members of the lower house of parliament during a session on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation, in Rome, Italy November 2, 2020. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government’s latest measures to try to curb its coronavirus epidemic will come into force from Friday instead of Thursday as previously announced, the prime minister’s office said.
The delay “will allow everyone to have enough time to organise their activities,” the statement said.
The measures, to be illustrated by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at a news conference later on Wednesday, include dividing the country into red (high risk), orange (medium risk) and green (low risk) zones.
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US STOCKS-Dow closes above 29,000 after China and U.S. sign trade truce
* Target shares slump as holiday sales miss
* UnitedHealth rises after backing full-year forecast
* Indexes: Dow +0.31%, S&P 500 +0.19%, Nasdaq +0.08% (Updates with close)
Jan 15 (Reuters) - The Dow ended above 29,000 for the first time on Wednesday and the S&P 500 also closed at a record high after the United States and China signed a Phase 1 trade agreement and pledged to resolve a tariff dispute that has roiled Wall Street for over a year.
The centerpiece of the truce is a pledge by China to purchase at least an additional $200 billion worth of U.S. farm products and other goods and services over two years, over a baseline of $186 billion in purchases in 2017.
The trade agreement clears the way for investors to focus on upcoming quarterly earnings reports, including the outlooks companies provide in light of the deal.
“There’s no question from a psychological viewpoint it’s a big relief for the market,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York. “There are still CEOs that are dubious, but this might help capital investments, and that was the biggest missing link to the economy over the last few years.”
Trump said he would remove all U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports as soon as the two countries complete the Phase 2 trade agreement, on which negotiations will start soon.
“I am sure as people dissect (the agreement), there is going to be criticism of it - it’s not doing enough, or it’s not doing this, or whatever. But the market, had it not gotten signed ... would have reacted negatively,” said Chuck Carlson, chief executive of Horizon Investment Services in Hammond, Indiana.
The three main stock indexes gave up earlier intraday record highs, with disappointing earnings reports from Bank of America pushing the S&P financial index down 0.55%.
Bank of America Corp reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit, but warned of weak net interest income in the first half of 2020, knocking its shares down 1.8%.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc slipped 0.2% after reporting a bigger-than-expected fall in profit as it set aside more money to cover legal costs.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.31% to 29,030.22 points, ending above 29,000 for the first time.
The S&P 500 gained 0.19% to 3,289.3, its highest ever close.
The Nasdaq Composite added 0.08% to 9,258.70, just short of its record high close set on Monday.
UnitedHealth Group Inc, the largest U.S. health insurer, rose 2.8% as it affirmed its full-year outlook for 2020 adjusted earnings. The S&P healthcare index climbed 1.0%.
Retailer Target Corp slumped 6.6% after it missed its own expectations for 2019 holiday season sales after reporting a drop in online growth and demand for toys and electronics.
Toymakers Mattel Inc and Hasbro Inc fell 4.6% and 2.1%, respectively, while electronics seller Best Buy dropped 1.7%.
Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.35-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.31-to-1 ratio favored advancers.
The S&P 500 posted 74 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 151 new highs and 20 new lows.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was 7.3 billion shares, compared with an average of 7.0 billion shares over the last 20 trading days. (Additional reporting by Sruthi Shankar and Susan Mathew in Bengaluru; Editing by Bernadette Baum and Jonathan Oatis)
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Home Sports Watch … the first pictures from inside the house where Maradona died,...
Watch … the first pictures from inside the house where Maradona died, and the details of his last days
Al-Marsad newspaper: The Spanish newspaper “Marca” published photos of the house in which Argentine Diego Maradona spent his last moments before his death.
And Maradona stayed in a makeshift bedroom on the ground floor of the house, which is located in the San Andres neighborhood of Tigre, Argentina, containing a private bathroom, and the room was connected to a kitchenette, which is a place where noise is raised, among other things, that affect his ability to rest.
The newspaper said that there is no clear answer about how and why Maradona did not rent a better place, but his poor condition was another factor in the chain of errors that led Judge Orlando Diaz to change the title to “wrong death” after the investigation into the cause of death began, according to Russia Today.
The house had 4 rooms on the first floor, but Maradona couldn’t go up or down the stairs, so they put together a room with a double bed, a 32-inch TV, a portable toilet, a massage chair, and air conditioning.
At night, Maradona was completely alone and separated from those who slept at home, and of course there was no place for the nurses.
Although Maradona did not die as a result of discomfort at home, the San Isidro prosecutor’s office believes that the heart attack that ended his life could have been avoided if the conditions at home were better, and for this reason the investigation is continuing, according to the Spanish newspaper.
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Super Mar. 10 in Book Form
Image by MikesPhotos from Pixabay.
Today is March 10. Mar. 10. Mario. Get it?
Let's say we describe a few books, replacing character names, places, and other things with those from the many Super Mario games out there. Would you be able to guess what stories we're talking about? Anyone can play - don't worry about whether you're familiar with the games or not, and of course, we aren't rolling with anything too obscure. Try your hand at our game and tell us if you managed to guess them all! The answers are all the way at the bottom.
Challenge 1: Mario lives in the Mushroom Kingdom where he frequently uses his Raccoon powers to fly around with all of his friends. He just wants to play all day, but soon realizes the Toadstools he watches over need more than a leader for mischief and adventure - they need a royal ruler (or mother, even). So Mario flies to a far-off land and brings back the lovely and gentle Princess Peach, where she maintains peace and harmony over the Mushroom Kingdom.
Challenge 2: Peach is anything but a weak, dainty lady. When her sister is called to participate in what results in an annual bloodbath, she volunteers as tribute instead in order to save the Mushroom Kingdom from the tyranny of President Bowser. She emerges victorious, but at what cost? And who will she choose to be by her side, Mario or Luigi?
Challenge 3: Mario and Toad set out on an adventure to destroy the One Coin. They're joined by other Toadstools, as well as a few other friends, and brave their way through Forest of Illusion, Vanilla Dome, and other treachery such as Mario's brief, but terrifying transformations into Wario, before they make it to Bowser's Lava Lair, where they must complete their quest.
Challenge 4: Rosalina loves to learn, and she especially loves reading. At her new school, however, the principal, Kammy Koopa, can't stand to see happy children and believes them all to be a nuisance, doling out unreasonable punishments at the drop of a hat. Rosalina decides to put an end to it, using some newfound magical powers to prank and haunt Kammy and scare her away.
Challenge 5: Luigi had everything going his way toward a promising future in the Mushroom Kingdom, but he was surrounded by some greedy Koopalings, who had him locked away in a dungeon far away in Water Land, and took his beloved Rosalina away. In the dungeon, he met Professor E. Gadd, who trains him in all the ways he can best the Koopalings and get his life back. Upon his escape from the dungeon, he exacts his revenge.
Challenge 6: Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Daisy are far from home and looking for adventure. Daisy finds it through a Warp Pipe behind some dusty coats, leading them all to the Ice Land, which is under the control of a witch. Luigi becomes enchanted and betrays the rest, who then set out to seek the help of Toadsworth. They break the spell, and Ice Land mets into the beautiful Grass Land it was meant to be.
Challenge 7: After fighting in a war, Mario is trapped on Chocolate Island, where Wendy Koopa has fallen in love with him and kept him captive for several years. Mario, however, remains true to his one and only Peach. When he finally escapes, he faces the wrath of Iggy Koopa, who wrecks his ship out at sea. Mario takes a long time to make it home, having stopped along another faraway land to hear and tell stories, and faces a final trial when he finds his beloved has been swarmed by suitors the entire time he's been gone.
Check your answers:
1. Peter Pan
2. The Hunger Games
3. The Lord of the Rings
4. Matilda
5. The Count of Monte Cristo
6. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
7. The Odyssey
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The romance novel that lets you pick your path, follow your heart, and find happily ever after.
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For readers craving a humorous antidote to the sound and the fury of American politics, this clever satire, written in iambic pentameter in the style of Shakespeare, wittily fictionalizes the events of the first two years of the Trump administration.
BOOK The Onion Presents: Love, Sex, and Other Natural Disasters
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We bought our sailboat in March of 2017 and lived on her in Toronto all summer. Our plan was to spend the winter wandering around by sailboat (and of course, escaping the cold Canadian weather). We set sail from Toronto on September 27th, 2017, and did just that. We returned to Miami in March of 2018 - and will soon be headed back to our careers driving boats (Trev) and airplanes (Jamie). It won't be long before were sailing again I'm sure, but in the mean time - we've still got a bit of content to put out from the trip! Enjoy!
Some Questions we get asked a lot...
Why DID YOU DO this?
When Trevor was 17, he and his friend Alex sailed from Toronto to the Dominican Republic in a Contessa 26' called 'Knotty Bouys' (yes, as you can see, the word 'Buoys' was spelled incorrectly on the actual boat). He picked the boat up for $2000, put a bit of work into it, then just left! He had already been heavily exposed to boating through his dad & started working on boats when he was very young - but this trip got him hooked on the idea of sailing larger adventures one day. He went on to get a variety of yachting certifications, and started working on boats all over the world. Now that he knows more than he did in the Contessa days - he looks forward to doing it again, this time with some better equipment and more experience (and a better looking first mate... sorry Alex).
Above is a picture of Jamie's grandparents Alberg 37', which they cruised around the Caribbean for almost 2 years when they were a young couple. Sailing has always been in her family. She grew up around Queen City Yacht Club on Toronto Island where her parents kept a sailboat. She started taking official sailing lessons at age 8, and became a certified sailing instructor at age 16. She still works with SailCanada as an Instructor Evaluator, teaching and mentoring young instructors. Her experience pretty much ends at dinghy sailing and keelboat racing (i.e. no offshore/long distance cruising experience), but that hasn't stopped her from dreaming of cruising her own keelboat like her grandparents did!
How do you get to the ocean from Toronto harbour?
Fair question. Lake Ontario connects to the Atlantic a few ways, but we chose the most commonly used route for cruisers: the New York State canal system. This is a barge canal that starts in Oswego, NY (kitty corner to Toronto on Lake Ontario). It features many locks & a scenic route through upstate New York, eventually connecting to the top of the Hudson River at Albany, New York. From there, you can proceed all the way down the Hudson to New York City - and there you are in the Atlantic Ocean!
Then how DID YOU GET to the caribbean?
As you can see from the map below - we progressed down the eastern seaboard by combination of motoring down the ICW (Intracoastal Waterway) and short offshore jumps. We arrived in Miami on December 1st, 2017 (below is our actual track along the eastern seaboard). We hopped over to Bimini from Miami on January 1st, and explored the islands for 2 and a half months.
- the Boat -
Sailing Vessel Frannie C
(SOLD... new owner is @ www.nobleshift.com)
Make/Model: Bayfield 29
Build: Thick fibreglass, long keel...
Dimensions: 29' long / 10.2' wide / 3.5' draft
Rigging: Tan bark (pirate-y red) & cutter rigged (3 sails)
Sails: Pretty slow & doesn't point very high 😂
For more information, see our blog!
- the Crew -
Trevor Turl
Jamie Ingall
Born: Puerto Rico
Raised: BVI & Canada
Works as a: Yacht Captain
Side Job: Scuba Diving Instructor
Born: Canada
Raised: Canada
Works as a: Commercial Pilot
Side Job: Sailing Instructor
Rawai, Thailand
Popoyo, Nicaragua
San Blas, Mexico
Port Credit, ON
Muskoka, ON
We have known each other through Toronto's boating industry for many years. Jamie was a sailing instructor & Trevor a tender Captain at the same yacht club in Toronto.
Trevor went off to get his UK tickets and started working on yachts in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Oceania, Nordic Europe, & the Arctic. Meanwhile, Jamie got a Bachelor of Environmental Studies & became a Commercial Pilot.
We reconnected when Trevor came home to do his pilot's license (a childhood dream of his). After doing a little bit of travelling together & sharing our sailing dreams, we decided to buy a boat!
Are we selling everything and leaving forever? No. We love our jobs in the marine and aviation industries, but hope you will follow along with us on this (slightly extended) vacation.
sailingfrannie@gmail.com
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RACIALLY JUST UTAH-RJU
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New Juvenile Justice Laws and Your Student-Brochure
On August 16th Racially Just Utah and our partners released brochures to empower guardians and students with information on their new rights and options available due to the recent juvenile justice reforms. Multilingual brochures coming soon! Here is the English brochure for now>>>http://www.acluutah.org/images/HB239-Brochure-English.pdf
“We want to be sure that Utah’s youth, and the adults in their lives, are aware that there are new rules about how youth are to be treated when they come into contact with the juvenile justice system.”
Many youth across the state of Utah will be back in school next week. Several Utah non-profit organizations wish to remind these youth – and those who care for and about them – that positive changes have been made to Utah laws regarding the juvenile justice system.
“We want to be sure that Utah’s youth, and the adults in their lives, are aware that there are new rules about how youth are to be treated when they come into contact with the juvenile justice system,” said Lincoln Nehring, CEO of Voices for Utah Children. “These new rules should result in better outcomes for youth who find themselves being disciplined at school or appearing in court, but these reforms will only succeed if community members know about them.”
The new brochure is currently available in English, with translated versions soon to be available in Spanish, Somali, Tongan and Samoan.
This is an opportunity for parents, guardians, friends and counselors to be informed and knowledgeable about how the new law requires youth to be treated, in the juvenile justice system.
If you are an adult who suspects that a young person in your care or community is not being treated lawfully, or want more information about the new laws, you are encouraged to contact one of these participating community organizations, or the Utah Board of Juvenile Justice (801-538-1031).
Here is a complete list of the organizations that have contributed to the creation of this informational brochure:
Voices for Utah Children, YWCA Utah, Racially Just Utah, Ogden Branch NAACP, Utahns Against Hunger, Utah Coalition of La Raza, Educators for Social Justice, The Disability Law Center, The ACLU of Utah.
Misbehavior or Misdemeanor? A Report on the Utah’s School to Prison Pipeline-2017
School disciplinary actions are decreasing in Utah’s public school system, but disparities in the amount of discipline administered along racial lines continues to exist and in some cases has worsened, according to a new joint report released today by the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and Voices for Utah Children, a non-profit in Salt Lake City focused on children’s issues.
The report, Misbehavior or Misdemeanor? A Report on the Utah’s School to Prison Pipeline, builds on two earlier reports produced by the S.J. Quinney College of Law Public Policy Clinic focused on the current state of Utah’s school-to-prison pipeline. In October 2014, the clinic released “From Fingerpaint to Fingerprints: The School to Prison Pipeline in Utah” and in May 2015, the clinic released “Disparities in Discipline: A Look at School Disciplinary Actions for Utah’s American Indian Students”.
Safe (AKA Sanctuary) School Model Resolution and resources
Racially Just Utah is hoping to serve as a resource, advisor, and sounding board for people looking to organize throughout Utah on Safe Schools. Please email us at raciallyjustutah@gmail.com to inquire about how we can partner to propose a safe school resolution in your community. One resource we are providing is a model safe school resolution that the ACLU of Utah and Racially Just Utah partnered to create. Find it here.
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Link to ACLU of Utah page with resources and information here.
Racial Disparities in Utah’s Juvenile Justice System
This report explores the racial disparities that result from flaws in Utah’s current juvenile justice system and outlines specific recommendations for reform.
Racially Just Utah, in partnership with multiple community stakeholders - including the YWCA of Utah, Voices for Utah Children, The ACLU of Utah and Ogden Branch NAACP – has released a new report detailing serious racial disparities in Utah’s Juvenile Justice System. Early release copies were made available at a brief press event on Saturday, February 11, as part of the second annual Breaking the Pipeline Symposium at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.
Access the report for free www.acluutah.org/images/JJRD-BriefingPaper.pdf
Students: Know Your Rights
In school, young people not only learn about their constitutional rights, but they also see firsthand how those rights may be affected by the actions of others. The ACLU of Utah is dedicated to protecting the constitutional rights of students and to helping students understand their rights in school. Visit the ACLU of Utah website to learn more information and to view their complete guide to students' rights: www.acluutah.org/student-rights
From Fingerpaints to Fingerprints
The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law released a 2014 report, titled "From Fingerpaints to Fingerprints: The School-to-Prison Pipeline in Utah," that revealed Utah students are being disciplined in alarmingly high numbers beginning in elementary school. Students of color, particularly American Indian students, and students with disabilities are disproportionately the target of extreme disciplinary actions, such as arrest or expulsion.
Find out more information here: From Fingerpaints to Fingerprints
Disparities in Discipline: A look at school disciplinary actions for Utah's American Indian Students
Access the report for free here. This report was produced by Vanessa Walsh, J.D. candidate and memberof the Public Policy Clinic at the S. J. Quinney College of Law, under the supervision of Associate Professor Emily Chiang.
Guiding Principles for Juvenile Justice Reform
Racially Just Utah and several community-based partner organizations have presented this document to Utah's Juvenile Justice Working Group, to help frame a recently-launched effort to improve Utah's juvenile justice system.
Breaking Down the School-to-Prison Pipeline
An educational blog series
This links to the introductory post in a series of monthly blog posts explaining the many dimensions of the School-To-Prison-Pipeline.
School-to-Prison Pipeline Reading Corner
This is a collection of material to help you understand the issue of the School-to-Prison Pipeline locally and nationally. Find these resources here.
Preferred Pronouns 101
What are preferred pronouns? Find information here
Know your rights while facing suspension and expulsion
Find link to printable brochure by the Public Policy Clinic at S.J. Quinney College of Law and the ACLU of Utah here.
Excellent Toolkit on the School to prison pipeline
Find information on the school-to-prison pipeline and find a checklist to compare your school or your child's school's policy to. Find it here.
The Sexual abuse to prison pipeline.
Information about how gender, gender based violence, and race play into the school-to-prison pipeline. Report can be found here
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-- The Royal Australian Mint is closing to Visitors --
In light of current COVID-19 health warnings, the Royal Australian Mint will be closed to visitors from 5.00 pm today until further notice. As an essential service, the Mint's factory will continue to operate as normal.
Purchases can still be made via our online store https://eshop.ramint.gov.au or by calling 1300 652 020. Existing orders will be processed and dispatched as normal.
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-- Eureka! Roadshow and Coin Swap Event Update --
The Royal Australian Mint has recently delayed the first stage of the Eureka! Roadshow and suspended Coin Swap events due to the unfolding Coronavirus situation.
At this time we wish to assure our loyal and dedicated collectors that the Mint will resume Roadshow and Coin Swap events once they are deemed safe for our staff and attendees. At which time the Mint will strive to visit as many towns and cities across each state and territory as is achievable within the time-frame.
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-- Gallery Closure --
The Royal Australian Mint has temporarily closed its upstairs Gallery to the public in light of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) health warnings. All other areas of the Mint will remain open including the retail shop and takeaway food and beverages from the Mint’s Café. This change is effective immediately and will continue until further notice. Thank you for your understanding.
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International orders deliveries from the Royal Australian Mint are currently experiencing delays due to the coronavirus COVID19.
Australia Post is working with partner airlines and other postal operators to move items as quickly as possible. However due to the ever-changing situation, delays may occur in all destination countries.
For details about your specific location please visit: https://auspost.com.au/about-us/news-media/important-updates/coronavirus
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Cash Usage Regarding COVID-19
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The health and safety of staff, customers and visitors continues to be the Mint’s first priority.
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The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption by Lee Lawrence
2020 Costa Biography Award Winner
The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption by Lee Lawrence quantity
ISBN: 9780751581034 Category: Biography & Misc Non-Fiction Tags: Bookgroups Non-Fiction 2021, Costa 20, Lee Lawrence, Little Brown Book Group
What would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime against you? Who would you turn to? And how long would you fight them for?
On 28th September 1985, Lee Lawrence’s mother Cherry Groce was wrongly shot by police during a raid on her Brixton home. The bullet shattered her spine and she never walked again. In the chaos that followed, 11-year-old Lee watched in horror as the News falsely pronounced his mother dead. In Brixton, already a powder keg because of the deep racism that the community was experiencing, it was the spark needed to trigger two days of rioting that saw buildings brought down by petrol bombs, cars torched and shops looted.
But for Lee, it was a spark that lit a flame that would burn for the next 30 years as he fought to get the police to recognise their wrongdoing. His life had changed forever: he was now his mother’s carer, he had seen first-hand the prejudice that existed in his country, and he was at the mercy of a society that was working against him. And yet that flame – for justice, for peace, for change – kept him going.
The Louder I Will Sing is a powerful, compelling and uplifting memoir about growing up in modern Britain as a young Black man. It’s a story both of people and politics, of the underlying racism beneath many of our most important institutions, but also the positive power that hope, faith and love can bring in response.
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Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980 by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
The Second Baby Book: How to cope with pregnancy number two and create a happy h by Sarah Ockwell-Smith
The Betel Nut Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu
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Inquest into fatal Radiohead stage collapse underway in Toronto
Drum technician was killed when a massive structure crashed down on him at Downsview Park
Mar. 25, 2019 10:18 a.m.
The father of a man killed when the stage collapsed at a Radiohead concert in Toronto nearly seven years ago says he hopes a coroner’s inquest into his son’s death will bring some closure.
Speaking outside the inquest that began Monday, Ken Johnson says he has thought of his son, Scott Johnson, every day since the incident that claimed his life on June 16, 2012.
Scott Johnson, Radiohead’s drum technician, was killed when a massive structure crashed down on him just hours before the band was set to take the stage at Downsview Park.
Charges in the case were stayed because the case took too long to get to trial.
The inquest, which is expected to last three weeks and hear from roughly 25 witnesses, will examine the circumstances around Johnson’s death, but will not assign blame.
A jury may make recommendations aimed at preventing similar incidents.
Ken Johnson and Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke have been highly critical of the judicial process.
“I still have a problem with that, that causes me great concern that the case wasn’t completed,” Johnson said Monday outside the coroner’s court. “So yeah it’s painful but I’m quite happy that events here will resolve all that.”
When the British band played in Toronto last summer for the first time since the incident, Yorke did not hold back.
“The people who should be held accountable are still not being held accountable,” he told the crowd at Scotiabank Arena in July 2018.
After an investigation, 13 charges were laid under provincial health and safety laws against the show’s promoter, Live Nation, contractor Optex Staging and engineer Domenic Cugliari.
The case went off the rails when the presiding judge at trial declared he had lost jurisdiction after being appointed to a higher court. Another judge declared a mistrial and a new hearing was planned.
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Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson (11) congratulates Golden State Warriors center JaVale McGee (1) after dunking in the first quarter of Game 2 of the First Round of the Western Conference 2017 NBA Playoffs against the Portland Trail Blazers at Oracle Arena on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 in Oakland, Calif. (Emma Marie Chiang/Special to the S.F. Examiner)
Depth overcomes lack of KD, Warriors roll Blazers in Game 2
Jacob C. Palmer
Apr. 20, 2017 12:00 a.m.
OAKLAND — Undeterred by a gutting Game 7 in the NBA Finals last season, the Golden State Warriors recycled their “Strength in Numbers” slogan for this year’s playoffs.
In Game 2 of the first round, the Dubs proved that it’s an apt motto — even if it does conjure unfortunate memories.
Admittedly, there were few adverse moments against the Blazers last year in the playoffs, and there were none on Wednesday, when the Warriors won 110-81.
the playoffs are here, therefore it’s time for lots of Strength in Numbers talk. #Warriors pic.twitter.com/wOjDBBEdVd
— jacob c. palmer (@jacobc_palmer) April 20, 2017
Playing on adrenaline and without a former MVP in Kevin Durant, the Warriors were able to extend their first-quarter lead to as many as 16. Meanwhile, they held the Blazers to 27.3 percent shooting while forcing the away team into eight turnovers.
That lead waned in the second, when Kerr was forced to split up his remaining three stars and play the reserves. With 4:01 on the clock, the Warriors head coach was forced to call a timeout in an attempt to shift momentum after the Blazers cut the Golden State lead to four. Patrick McCaw had looked timid when catching the ball on the perimeter and was passing up open shots.
After the break, the rookie played like a switch had been flipped.
“The main thing I liked was that he was unafraid,” Kerr said afterward.
At the same point of the game, JaVale McGee checked into the game.
On his next attempt, McCaw rose and shot the ball with confidence, drilling a 3-pointer to restore the Warriors’ four-point lead — a margin they wouldn’t fall below again.
In the final four minutes of the second quarter, McGee and McCaw combined to score all 12 of their team’s points.
But, it was the third quarter when the Warriors landed the knockout blow. Portland managed just 12 points on 27.3 percent shooting. On the other end, the Golden State starting backcourt shook out of its shooting slump and poured in 19 points.
The defining moment of the game — and possibly the series if it wraps up in four — came when Klay Thompson stuffed Damian Lillard’s block attempt at the rim, ran up the floor, caught a skip pass from Stephen Curry, and hit a transition 3-pointer.
#Warriors vs Blazers — @KlayThompson w/ the block then drains the three pic.twitter.com/b5J8Wjtcdw
— Laurence Scott (@LaurenceScott) April 20, 2017
“For him to go vertical and then just block the shot like that was a pretty monstrous block,” Green said. “You know, it was fitting that he got a three at the end. That’s what Klay’s all about. He’s about getting his shots up.”
Curry would go on to finish with a game-high 19 points (and +32, also the best of anyone who played), while Thompson scored 16.
Before the game, Kerr explained why the Warriors were holding Durant out of action.
“It’s not worth it,” the third-year head coach said.
Kerr’s players then validated his statement time and time again en route to a 2-0 lead in a series that now moves to Portland.
Meyers Leonard hit Green with clothesline in the early third quarter. Green hit the deck and the referees dispersed to review the hit.
They came back with a decision it was a common foul.
That led Green to share some words with the officials as he shot his two free throws.
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It was yet another tumultuous and contentious week filled with hate-talk from Donald Trump – replete with a call to arms for his gun-toting supporters to essentially assassinate Hillary Clinton. After having read and listened to various journalists dissect the continuing unhinged behavior of this corporate psychopath – cut from the same cloth as Patrick Bateman – the words of one particular pundit hit home for me.
Esquire's Charlie Pierce, speaking on MSNBC, described the recent phenomena in the Republican party, leading up to Trump's rise, as a "free-floating dark energy" which had essentially been looking for a host and found one in the flamboyant and frightening businessman-turned-presidential-candidate [paraphrasing].
The idea that Trump has been giving his base crowd (a double ententre!) exactly what it was asking for is perhaps nothing new. Certainly it's a well-known trait of psychopaths – or, people with psychopathic tendencies – to mimic those around them so they can seamlessly blend in. But viewing the penultimate act of this year's political theatre in energetic form is particularly nuanced and spiritual sophisticated for a mainstream news pundit.
One need only squint one's eyes, and let go of analytical frameworks, to feel the underlying vortex of angry energy that's been brewing in the crowds. And frankly when one sees it this way – perhaps in sci-fi terms for the spiritually ill-adept – one might almost feels sorry for the weak and insecure Trump.. taking that whole black swirling mass of energy in. But he's arguably done so willingly as their voluntary invective-spewing emissary.
Hatred and fury are energies drawn to spiritual vacuums. Where there is an emptiness, bereft of joy, wholeness, balance, fulfillment and yes, love, diseases take hold – be they literal or be they maladies of the soul. And we live in times when brands pretend to care, blind sycophants worship at the altar of Apple or whatever tech products they're enamored with, and capitalism has essentially taken the place of community or religion in society.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not espousing organized religion – but rather some higher purpose (be it caring for the downtrodden, connecting with others or feeling a sense of one's life calling). Some find this through spirituality and faith (organized or disorganized) while others may find it through nature and the ecology. It's that ethereal 'thing' underpinning all that we do, the top of Ambraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs. And it doesn't come from playing Pokemon go or buying a new sports car.
I don't believe there's a Devil – in the sense outlined in Christian ideology – but I do believe that Evil as a (low) energetic configuration exists. And like a meme, it seeks to propagate – perhaps not consciously in the way that humans do via analytical faculties, but consciously the way a disease seeks to spread. And like disease, it thrives when its host is depleted and weak (sleep-deprived, stressed out, depressed, in other words not mentally or physically healthy).
What does this remind me of? That fateful day at Altamont Speedway Festival in California, immortalized in the 1970 rock documentary Gimme Shelter, in which a feeble Mick Jagger attempts to calm a boisterous and unruly crowd which clashes with the Hell's Angels stationed at the concert to oversee security for The Rollings Stones and other bands. Ironically, he couldn't make it through 'Sympathy for the Devil' without another melé starting up. This incident resulted in the death by stabbing of an audience member... and is poignantly remembered – along with the Charles Manson murders – as having signaled the death of the peace, love and flower power decade.
Now, the noughties were hardly pace, love and flower power – they started with September 11th, continued with the Iraq War, overseas they were followed by 7-7 and the London Riots and numerous terrorist attacks and gun violence from Florida to France. So it's impossible to claim complete parity between them.
What we can learn from watching episodes of violence at Trump rallies alongside those final minutes of Gimme Shelter is that dark energy is some powerful stuff and it is infectious when left unattended or allowed to roam indignant and wild. Jagger wasn't channeling the rage of his crowd as Trump has been doing with his hordes; if anything the former was fearfully trying to reign the bad vibes in and get on with things as they were – "Why are we fighting?" he repeated, almost unconvinced by his own words.
So how does one reign in the anger that's permeating the masses and throbbing like a feverish boil? It starts with a single person and moves on to a single relationship, a single family, a single community. Positive energy also spreads and it's many times more powerful than the darkness. Of course there's always a bit of Yin-Yang involved, and a largely positive energy sometimes needs contrast, some 'bite,' something to 'fight for' — obviously within reason.
When I lived in New York, I observed a fascinating phenomenon of energy permeating the city in the course of a few hours. You could literally feel it. First you'd hear arguing in the streets — a bagel vendor and an angry patron, a couple getting into an argument, and the like — and by the end of the day it would be a full on bad vibe fest. Likewise, good energy, a single act of kindness goes a long way in a densely populated, highly foot-trafficked city like Manhattan, where the good vibes can be 'paid forward' on a given day.
NYC is just a microcosm of this energy and a good example because it's a city full of passionate, intense people and as mentioned, its populace is confined and packed onto the small island. But this energy growth naturally occurs in other milieus and it's important to remind ourselves of this every day as we watch the (bad) news. To be a receptacle for the free-floating light energy out there, we have to be welcoming hosts – complete in ourselves, emotionally healthy, already fulfilled with what we have and full of faith.
Short and Sweet..
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Mums confess: “I sedated my kids for peace and quiet
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According to a national study, one in five families reach for the Phenergan to dope their kids on long road trips. Is it dangerous and does it really work?
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Sedating children is a highly controversial topic. Some mums are against using medication for sedation, while others will try anything for a few moments of silence. Once upon a time, the tried and tested solution was hot milk with whisky, a few sips of wine or Benadryl. Now, mums around the country are reaching for the Phenergan.
Phenergan, a so-called magic elixir, is a an over-the-counter antihistamine commonly used for rashes, itchiness, motion sickness and runny noses. However, it can also double as a sleeping aid. So we asked some mums who have sedated their kids what the effects were. The responses were a mixed bag.
It made them super hyper
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“My daughter had an ongoing skin rash when she was smaller. The doctor prescribed Phenergan, however, it just made her nuts and she went completely off the rails and hyper!”
“I gave my first child Phenergan when he was 23 months old for his first flight from Australia to New Zealand. It helped him sleep on the way over, but on the way back it had the opposite effect and he was super hyper.”
“I used it on my daughter on a flight to Hawaii. She just went super hyper.”
“My son drank some Phenergan, which I had planned to slip him on a long-haul flight to Heathrow. He ended up having over three times the recommended dose. We rushed him to emergency. I expected it would have made him sleepy, but no, it was like he had ants in his pants for the next six hours.”
It had no effect whatsoever
“Tried Phenergan on my children, but it had no effect whatsoever. Our kids have travelled a lot with us, but we haven’t experienced any trouble keeping them quiet. I have seen kids scream on planes for what seems like an eternity and wish their parents had tried to sedate them.”
It made my daughter bark like a dog
“I gave my 3-year-old daughter a small dose to try and calm her down while we were having dinner with my husband’s big boss. It ended up having the opposite effect. She crawled under the glass table where we were all having dinner and barked like a dog, up and down the length of the table, refusing to come out and dodging my attempts to grab her. I’ve never been so embarrassed and never tried it again.”
It worked well for my child
“I gave Phenergan to my first child when she was 10 months old for a plane trip to my big sister’s wedding. I gave her half the recommended dose and she slept for half the flight. A sleeping child equals a happy mum.”
As with all medications, they can have unwanted side effects. According to WebMD these can include irritability, restlessness and hallucinations.
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I really wonder why is it so complex for many Muslims to accept the prohibition of homosexuality in Islam without inventing false justifications to deem it some sort of evil modern Western satanic trend. As a Muslim I had never had any issue in accepting the prohibition of homosexuality merely because Allah said so. That was enough, because it's a matter of belief. In many aspects, Islam do demand you to believe without questioning (for example, in dietary restrictions).
Nonetheless, I never considered this topic simple. It is precisely this compulsive need many Muslims have to deem homosexuality as something repulsive, satanic, and a Western evil trend (not merely because Allah made it haram) that does real harm to queer people, especially those in Muslim/Arab/South Asian settings.
Let's check this topic itself, through a few quotes:
2 hours ago, aashiq-e-hussain said:
there has been an uptick in LGBTQ issues to to the recent need to be "different", as emphasized in so many places.
In most places in the world, being different in the sense you are LGBTQ is a serious disadvantage. The norm is that it's not something you desire to be.
but 10-14 is a bit young to be identifying your god given sex, so you might want to reflect.
That's your opinion. The opinion of a straight person with an evident predisposition to think this is an unnatural social trend. Ask queer people, after all, they know better than anyone (wait, no, they are the ONLY people who really know when you start identifying your sexual preferences and gender condition).
if ALL major world religions say that something is wrong, then it is surely ought to be wrong.
Do I have to explain why this is a fallacy?
If it contains things that are harmful and unnatural
First thing I was told in the first year in Pharmacy studies was "natural doesn't mean healthy, and viceversa". The professor later told us the number of people who died in my city every year because they made drinks with some leaves that grow here, thinking it's a healthy tea.
On 11/16/2020 at 4:26 PM, Nightclaw said:
However, the fact of the matter is that the anus was not made for intercourse and the vagina was.
You realize that anal sex is permissible in Islam right (although makrooh)? What is impermissible is homosexuality. You can't kiss a man you love if you are a man, but you can have anal sex with your wife or your slave. It's not a matter of what is more natural. It's a matter of a moral code you accept when you accept Islam. And we can go even deeper if we want to talk about the thighing fatwa, but I don't want to use filthy tactics in this debate.
In any case, it's important to understand that Islam doesn't draw the line merely on health principles. If you smoke, you can keep smoking. You can eat like a pig, and have a terribly sedentary lifestyle. It's a moral code, not a set of healthy lifestyle guidelines.
On 11/16/2020 at 11:10 AM, Ashvazdanghe said:
by encouraging humans to stop creating new generations
We need more human beings! fast, reproduce! Kill those who dare not to bring more children to this overpopulated world where in most places there is an alarming number of children suffering from hunger and lack of shelter.
This one really amazes me, because suddenly unborn kids are more important that those who are dying out of hunger right now.
On 11/16/2020 at 10:52 AM, Zainuu said:
Because this form of relationship has no future. What is the motive of a relationship? Is it only sex? No, it has many reasons.
This one surprised me, because it looks at homosexuality as something purely sexual. A homosexual relationship has very similar goals to a heterosexual one. It's difference here seems to rely in its inability to biologically give birth (though that is still possible in cis-male/trans-male couples). But indeed, as everyone, queer people do also need life companions, care, attention, intimacy, etc. These are real needs to keep a healthy lifestyle *checks his healthy life guidelines*
On 11/16/2020 at 12:06 PM, Randle McMurphy said:
3) Many religions rely on gender segregation in order to prevent sexual desires interfering with certain objectives (e.g. religious schooling, sport, health care etc.). Homosexuality allows this gender segregation to become ineffective.
This is probably my favorite paragraph in this thread, because it specifically answers the OP's question from a social approach, because it points at the core problem of religious LGBTQphobia. It's not a matter of health, nor filthyness. Neither it's a matter of reproduction. It's a matter of hegemonic education and culture. Non-normative people (queer people) are always unwelcome by its own society. Thus, even queer people who won't fall into any of the above mentioned fallacies, such as asexual people, or non binary people, will always be excluded and marginalised. It's easier for the hegemonic culture to exclude queer people than to understand them, unless there is a systematic, organized and never exhausted force to keep pressuring for a change. There is a very interesting and fundamental read on this topic (though it is significantly wider than the issue of homosexuality, as it talks about non-normativity), which is Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann's Spiral of Silence.
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I see what you are saying! But I just don't see why you have to call yourself homosexual. Why not just call yourself effeminate....
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when a person sins and it becomes routine for him, it becomes like a daily routine for him and not a sin anymore. If you want to know if what you are doing is sin or not, please ponder over its effects. The effect of homosexuality lies in understanding the fact that if all human becomes homosexual, who will give birth to infants and how will new human race come to life. It is an immoral atomic bomb which I hope you will realize someday.
Because homosexual people aren't inherently effeminate. The condition of homosexuality, however, do question the idea of masculinity, and thus, effeminacy has both become a sign of identity historically used by homosexuals (in different times and places) and a characteristic to insult them.
As for the reason of calling yourself homosexual, it is mostly political nowaday. If LGBTQphobia didn't exist, and there didn't existthe heavy assumption that all people are straight (and must/should be straight), there would be no need to call yourself homosexual. The same way there is no need to say you are straight.
Neumann studied public opinion as some sort of social control where individuals adapted their behaviour to what the dominant part of society considered tolerable and not tolerable. Anyone who dares to question the dominant public opinion is putting himself at risk of social exclusion and marginalisation.
Then it turns out it was harmful to oneself, which is in turn prohibited in Islam.
I do not believe the first part of what you said for the following reasons:
“The one who has intercourse with his wife in her back passage has disavowed himself of that which was revealed to Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).”
Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Allaah will not look at a man who has intercourse with a woman in her back passage.”
Narrated by al-Tirmidhi (1165); classed as saheeh by Ibn Daqeeq al-‘Eid in al-Ilmaam (2/660) and by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi.
Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “He has been cursed, who goes into his wife from her back side.”
Source: Sunan Abī Dāwūd 2162; classified as hasan (acceptable) according to Al-Arna’ut.
As for your initial claim that it is permissible, it is clearly proven that this is not the case. It is completely prohibited. About this "thighing fatwa", I have no idea what this is, but I pray you know what you are talking about. If you want to try and be "filthy", go ahead. If you attack, I am going to attack as well. Be respectful and the same treatment will be upon you. However, play nasty. I am very good at playing the games of others.
How much do you actually know about Islam to make this claim? Smoking is not allowed, as it is harmful. Muslims do it anyway - but that does not make it permissible. You are giving these fatwas as if you are able to. Stop that, because you are not [presumably] a Muslim - and you a certainly no Mufti.
Edited November 18, 2020 by Nightclaw
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Salam , I didn't mean these nonsense things but problem of hunger & lack of shelter for children is due poor management & corruption of officials in third world countries & oppression of so called first world countries by stopping or destroying necessary resources for providing food & shelter but it doesn't relate to your nonsense logic.
Being effeminate is insulting? I don't think so. Everyone is has more or less masculine/feminine traits in different proportions and degrees. Everyone is so different. For example, some guys appear to be so masculine in almost everything except for something so small, they may have a feminine trait (like being particularly sensitive about a certain matter, or about crossing their legs). Everyone is so different in different ways. masculine and feminine traits or qualities are spread apart in so many different shades, degrees, and ways! It isn't BLACK AND WHITE. This is the problem with identification. It restricts someone to JUST ONE THING.
It is not merely about what you "call" yourself. Like I would call myself heterosexual. But I am clearly not "attached" to this label in the way you seem to be attached to being homosexual. It seems to stir something within you and others here who identify as homosexual. I am not talking about a mere name or a label here.. I am talking about a strong belief that YOU ARE THIS and NOT THAT.
Look, if someone saw me and for SOME reason, in their head they felt I was gay, and they told me.. " you are gay right?".. I couldn't care less. I would say, No, I am hetero (because I am not into guys).. but I wouldn't feel offended by them calling me gay.
Being effeminate is insulting? I don't think so.
It's not, of course it's not. Nonetheless, homosexuals have historically been identified as effeminate, and in the male chauvinist world we live in, this is perceived as a negative trait by many people, thus it's used as an insult (both men and women). You have most likely heard "gay" used as an insult to call a man coward, for example, because "he is not man enough" (addressing the, wrongly seen as manly, characteristic to be brave). On top of that, effeminate men and masculine women are non-normative within society, and they will perceive those non-normative traits somehow unwelcome in certain environments.
It isn't BLACK AND WHITE. This is the problem with identification. It restricts someone to JUST ONE THING.
It isn't black and white, I totally agree. Identification isn't necessarily restrictive. Nonetheless, you may perceive it so due to understanding being gay as being in one single specific way. The fact is that gays are as diverse as straights. There are tall, fat, thin, stupid, intelligent, educated, ignorant, masculine, effeminate, etc. I fear you may be referring to the white effeminate rich gay stereotype.
I am not talking about a mere name or a label here.. I am talking about a strong belief that YOU ARE THIS and NOT THAT.
I wouldnt feel offended by someone assuming I'm hetero. In my former post, I addressed the assumption of being heterosexual as an example of the dominant expected condition we perceive, not because it annoys me by itself. If you were gay, you probably would notice the pressure of this assumption in many aspects, because being gay isn't perceived as something normal (in the statistical sense of the word). For example, in a South Asian or Arab family, this assumption may translate in constant pressure to marry, rumours about you being gay (as if it is something bad and affects the honor of your family), etc.
I really wish we didn't feel the need to say I'm gay. But the lack of references and the importance of being socially visible to raise awareness is enough reason to be like that. For many of us, this political action is not ideological preference, it is survival. For example, every year at the university I tell my students that I'm homosexual. It seems stupid because there is no reason to know the sexual orientaton of your teacher. Nonetheless, every year I get at least a dozen emails thanking me for telling that, because it helped them to feel safe to say who they really are and have an LGBT professional reference. It does help, it does make a change, and harms nobody.
Indeed, but it was natural. That was the point. Natural doesn't equate good/halal, unnatural doesn't equate bad/haram.
If the wife is consenting, regardless of it being strongly makrooh, it is halal from a fiqhi standpoint. As far as I am aware, it's not regular people who decide what is halal or haram according to the narrations, but scholars. Who do you follow to say that anal sex is haram? Or am I wrong assuming you are shiite?
You can do your own research on the thighing fatwa, it was just an example of what can be socially perceived as unnatural and sick, being discussed if haram or halal. I'm not attacking nor threating anyone, just saying I feel it is unnecessary to bring extreme (yet real) examples in a topic that should be understood with more simple ones. I find that way of debating somewhat filthy, I don't like to bring extreme examples.
Smoking is not allowed, as it is harmful. Muslims do it anyway - but that does not make it permissible. You are giving these fatwas as if you are able to. Stop that, because you are not [presumably] a Muslim - and you a certainly no Mufti.
I'm not giving any fatwa. Do your own research man, what the heck. You say "smoking is haram" when there is a huge diversity of opinions in the matter, especially if you are already a smoker. To start smoking is an entirely different issue. Do your own research before questioning me, you are falling in the errors you accuse me of doing.
I'm not a Muslim anymore, that doesn't mean I haven't been one for over a decade.
Pigs have worms and parasites that you cannot get rid of, even with the right amount of cooking.
You realize that "eating like pigs" isn't "eating pig" right?
For Gods' sake...
1 hour ago, Ashvazdanghe said:
It doesn't relate but in some way it does. You won't see anti-abortion and anti-LGBT people worried about kids dying in Africa, or about ecology, because it's not about the kids nor the continuity of our species, it's about ideology, THEIR ideology and THEIR agenda. That a small percentage of population is gay isn't going to affect the human species continuity. Ferocious Capitalism, ecological degradation of our planet, and wars are a real threat. I feel that speaking about the continuity of human species when talking about homosexuality is somewhat pointless, because it really doesn't matter. And what the heck, this is the reality man. What do you want me to do, to go and marry a girl I don't like, to make kids I don't want? Just to save humanity? Do you realize the lack of connection with reality?
Read what I said - unnatural and harmful. Not unnatural alone. Computers are unnatural - am I sinning by using them? No.
I am not a Shi'a. I am a Sunni/Salafi/Athari. I have given you hadith from authentic narrations by the Messenger (may the peace and blessings be upon him) that state this action of anal intercourse is prohibited. No problem if you initially assumed I am Shi'a - this is a Shi'a website, after all.
I have just read it [the hadith] in Arabic and there is no mention of the word "thighing". The word actually translates to "friction, to rub oneself against (usually sexually)", but easily referred to in English as "thighing" - which is a false.. It is not present. That is why you should not take things from outside sources trying to look within.
Bring a single fatwa from a Sunni scholar saying smoking is permissible. Just one.
A lot of people are ex-Muslim nowadays, aren't they? I am curious - what drove you to lead Islam? I know it was not the religion itself, but perhaps something else. What is it? Well, what was it?
It is clear I misread. All you had to do was clarify.
2 minutes ago, Nightclaw said:
If you are not shia, this entire point isn't valid for you. My bad, I assumed you were shiite. In the mobile version of this site I don't see which religion you have. Same goes for the thighing fatwa.
Yeah, it keeps valid, unnatural and harmful. Again, can't talk for sunni hadiths on smoking, but in shia Islam, if you are already a smoker, most scholars say you can continue doing so. It is unnatural AND harmful, yet it is halal.
Unnecessary yet necessary disclaimer: In no way I want to talk about homosexuality being halal, it is haram in Islam. I just want to point about the reasons given in this topic for it to be haram. Questioning the reasons here is in no way questioning the fact that in Islam it is haram.
I disliked most Muslims for my entire life, but I never took a step away from religion because of that, I refused to be like that. I left because I truly believe humans ourselves bring sense, and make sense of our lives, in the Existentialist sense of it. In the other hand, I believe in progress through mistakes (not in the sense of sins, but in the sense of beliefs), I don't think we can find what perfection is (Islam) and be perfect (Muslim). Lastly, for me, morality is socially built, without any doubt. I do believe in God, and follow a moral code/discipline nonetheless.
Yeah, no problem, I was just amazed you could think I was saying that Muslims eat pig. Even myself, as an ex-Muslim, will never eat pig in my life hahah.
You are the person that has lack of connection with reality because sterilization (hidden genocide) of so called first world countries is doing undercover of humanist projects in third world countries that majority of these so called humanist (Satanic) projects are supporting by groups that they are supporting LGBT+ & etc under umbrella of so called Humanist project that maybe no there is a small percentage of population already are gays but the Evil organizations have the agenda to make LGBT + Gay & etc a dominant thing around the world by fake Humanist slogans like your nonsense slogan .
Why did you dislike Muslims? What did they do, exactly? I am always curious for more information.
Secondly, if morality is socially built, then you would have to be okay with slavery. Everyone at a certain period of time was accepting of slavery and the dehumanization foreigners [i.e., the Europeans to the non-Europeans], especially Africans. As an African-American, I dislike the idea of the fact you accept morality is socially built. This entails that if a society decides raping women is morally acceptable, then that is fine. Or raping babies. Or burning people alive. Or sacrificing people for the sake of it. If all of these are socially ingrained within a society, you would accept it? Surely not.
This one surprised me, because it looks at homosexuality as something purely sexual
You didn't read all my posts. I clarified above that problem is not with making love. You can love anyone. Your father, mother, brother, sister etc, all are lovable. Any one, anywhere, in this world or not, you can love. It is a different notion. But you cannot fall in relationship and you don't need one (relationship) to express love.
Problem of homosexual relationship is purely sexual if you break it down.
Just now, Nightclaw said:
Why did you dislike Muslims? What did they do, exactly? I am always curious for more information
Oh, I have been surrounded by the worst examples of "Muslims". I was aware of that, and refused to judge Islam itself by the unfortunate bad examples I have seen in my life.
Secondly, if morality is socially built, then you would have to be okay with slavery.
It is the exact contrary. If it is socially built, it can change and be constantly revised. Nonetheless, in Islam slavery is still halal, and will always be, forever.
This should go in an entirely new thread (maybe I should start one hahah), but the thing isn't about "social constructs" that become moral dogmas. But that morality is an inherent part of the creation of society (in the contractualist sense), that happens in its own creation, and that is adopted by the members of society not out of personal interest but as a moral code than belongs to them. Thus, a person without religion that is part of society will be able to naturally experience morality in a honest altruist way. I will, God willing, write a thread on the topic soon.
I don't know why you left Islam but none of your opinions can ever bother a sane muslim. No one is perfect and no one can be. But a quest to become perfect can atleast make you progress at a good pace.
May Allah be your helper and your guide and your protector.
Hmm, I should have explained myself better, sorry. I was referring to romantic love, not just love as a concept. This type of bond is necessary for most (as it is sex as well). Not needing it usually means the person isn't fit for monogamy nor polygamy, but agamy.
none of your opinions can ever bother a sane muslim.
It works the same way around, to be honest, and that's ok. We shouldn't expect others to follow our paths. I really feel that religious people should stay religious if it works for them, and I'm happy for them.
You again mistook me. Problem with homosexuality is solely focused on sex, whether it is through romantic love or not, it doesn't matter.
Sex: the very act itself
Just now, Zainuu said:
Okay, now I got your point.
Every person has his own path. What matters is that a human in his nature should be humble, accepting and free in choosing by reason, logic, philosophy, wisdom etc.
Rest, Allah is the guide and he will surely guide.
Look at this story:
https://medium.com/prismnpen/when-did-you-know-you-were-gay-ecd3c6833e00
This person realized he was gay while doing his homework as a sixth grader. The homework, had nothing to do with his sexual orientation by the way!
i mean this is crazy!! Clearly this is like a psychic entity that took over him as a kid. @Bakir hey Bakir, don’t you think this crazy as well? Or is it just me? This CLEARLY a jinn or some psychic residual effect of some other human lingering and randomly leeching on to a host.
I remember this moment as if I could go back and relive it. I was in sixth grade. It was after school on a random weekday and I was alone in the house. Lured there by the family cat, I was doing my social studies homework on my parents’ bed.
As my colored pencil scratched across the map of Egypt I was outlining, I suddenly jolted and thought oh my god, I’m gay.
I have no idea what spurred this realization — probably the random wanderings of the mind that typically occur when a lonely sixth-grader is doing uninspiring homework to the accompanying purr of a cat.
I put down the colored pencil as tears filled my eyes and all these heavy realizations hit me like black lightning bolts: people are going to dislike me based on something I can’t change, my own family might reject me, I’m automatically different from a vast majority of people, it will be harder for me to find love, and there’s not a single thing I can do to change any of it.
These are deep thoughts for a 12-year-old, but that’s a byproduct of marginalized people being forced to mature more quickly than our non-marginalized counterparts as we come to terms with the pressing weight of the world on our shoulders.
Hahah, enjoyed the read. The djinn must have been the cat purring lol. To be honest, I find the story a bit crazy, but I guess it's coz it's different for each one. I didn't fully realize "I'm gay" until 11, yet I knew when I was 6-7. It didn't start as something specifically sexual, but you know you aren't like the rest of men, and project your future differently. You also get annoyed when you see your relatives disliled gay people on TV, or using synonyms of gay as an insult. You don't identify as "gay", the word isn't you, but in certain sense, you realize it's related to a reality you experience and cannot escape. Buuuut, I never realized it in a specific moment and cried for it, to be honest. It happened slowly, it was definitely a slow process. To be honest I never cried for being gay nor felt sad about my condition, except when asking forgiveness and help from Allah. That used to happen quite a lot. For a few years, actually. In my case, the way I experienced religion wasn't toxic at all though. Like, I never thought Allah hated me for that or anything. I always understood it as one condition I live with, but the path to Allah is the same for all. Some have difficulties to walk in certain parts of the path, others have other problems. In that sense, I considered the path to Allah equally just for all, and I still do.
You don't identify as "gay", the word isn't you, but in certain sense, you realize it's related to a reality you experience and cannot escape.
I don't understand this, who told you that you are a 'gay'? How certain feelings projected you towards something that is so different and you accepted this as a reality? Knowing that their are only 2 types of body configurations in the world (neglecting the disablities), how you found yourself different from men.
Bakir and Ashvazdanghe
7 hours ago, Nightclaw said:
If their source is permissible, we are allowed to take it. If it contains things that are harmful and unnatural - then it is impermissible. I do not know where you get this from.
Medicine is literally unnatural. It's manmade. That makes it unnatural. If you deny that, then your definition of unnatural is messed and you have no real reason for saying being gay is unnatural or whatever, because clearly the definition means nothing to you.
The recent whole LGBTQ culture has had a negative effect on the youth of today
How a homosexual relationship can be a healthy contribution to the society
Literally I just said. They give kids a home.
Already, the statistics are their which show the youth population graph going upside down. And you know, in this case adoption will not effect.
Every kid is important dude. If a gay couple adopts 1 kid, and helps them, that's important.
I'll check page 2 later.
Being 'gay' has nothing to do with adoption. I don't have a problem with two men taking care of an orphan. May Allah reward them for that.
But I am talking about a sexual relation between them, it is pointless in every aspect.
If someone steals and also helps the poor, it doesn't justify stealing.
I do not know if it is hard for you to understand, but the criteria was unnatural and harmful. You keep singling unnatural out to find a flaw but you are excluding what the criteria makes up. Anything unnatural AND harmful is prohibited.
You are correct - it will always be halal forever, providing that one obtains these slaves during war and only this. There is also a method of treating them.
Things do not just happen inherently or randomly. Humans cannot guide themselves because they themselves are flawed. Even with the proper guidance, people go astray - how can we set up our own morals? There are a lot of places that show throughout history what happens when you have society guided by their own morals. Take for example Ancient Greece and Rome - having sex with little boys was a norm, even going so far as the rape them. Take a look at the Mongols - raping, burning and killing the women and children of the Turks. It is clear what having a morally driven society based off of the individuals themselves is not practical.
Anywho, I look forward to this thread you will write. I am always interested in discussing these things.
I think being homeless is better than being raised homosexual as a kid, a prevert raised by preverts who believes preversion is okay, probably having preverted things done to them as kids in order to make them feel that preversion and homosex is fine, dandy and "natural". I would much rather be a kid in Yemen, earn jannah and avoid having garbage spoon fed to me or worse, or have any sympathy for homoism to face all eternities burning in fire.
50 minutes ago, The Green Knight said:
People always seem to forget that the prophet had sympathy and respect for even his enemies, and by saying that you shouldn’t have sympathy for gay people, you’re inadvertently implying that gay people are worse than the enemies of the prophet and I hope you know how messed up that is.
I haven't read all the responses. I'm a firm believing Shia and 100% straight, but I've got to say that my heart goes out to anyone who is attracted to people of the same gender. I can't imagine what it feels like to be gay, but it must be a real test from God to have to deal with such conflicting feelings. I've often wondered how I'd react if one of my kids or close family members told me they were gay. You see, I certainly can empathise with people who are gay, and unlike most Muslims, I don't feel disgusted by the idea that someone could feel this way. IMO it's not a sin to feel this way as one has little/no control over it, but rather it's a sin to act upon it. I'm not grossed out by it, but I simply accept the wisdom of Allah that acting upon it would be haram. May Allah give strength to any unfortunate soul who is in this heart wrenching predicament.
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1 hour ago, The Green Knight said:
With respect, this is not a value adding post.
People always seem to forget that the prophet had sympathy and respect for even his enemies
Sympathy and respect. I think your understanding of the words is flawed.
There is always sympathy for someone in all actions. Some times for the enemies, other times for other creatures to protect them from the enemies and sometimes even for ourselves. The only thing that mattered to him was to execute the Divine Will in the best manner possible. When Imam Ali (عليه السلام) killed two homos as punishment for their crime of practicing homo sex, and then burning their bodies, even then he was sympathetic because the punishment erased their otherwise unforgivable sin, and burning their bodies is out of respect for nature. It is what you do not understand. Before he would fight he offered his adversaries peace, invitation to peace or accepting their protection, but when the enemy insisted to wage war upon all he stood for, the sympathy was for the human society which would profit from the removal of evil.
You are preaching homosexuality, advocating it, the same team making and floating threads regularly, openly admitting to your greater sin. What sympathy do you expect? As for respect, show me where have I been disrespectful? Is warning you of your unthinkable fate disrespect? I am the most sympathetic person here for you because I am sincere to you and have given it to you straight and honestly. All of you. Hell is just a word. The reality is unthinkable. It is not far and it is unthinkably a bad place. Death and judgement are unavoidable. You should amend your ways and repent. It is the sympathy of our Creator that you should seek but which you will not taste if you do not. Rather you proudly confess of it and are easing people towards it. Even talking of kids, most innocent things in this world, to let evil adopt them and bring them up according to their way, and you call it "helping the society". Well I am in a 180 degrees of disagreement on all things. It is your kind who should respect society and have mercy on it. Have mercy on this website and give up preaching homosexuality.
Please. Have mercy on me and other believers like me who come on to Shiachat expecting to meet Shias and hear about our beliefs. Instead some of us get really tired reading Sodomites posting pompously on a forum rather meant for us. Don't gays have their own forums, your own clubs etc.? Why do you ruin everyone's taste by defiling this place by proudly advocating a greater sin like homosexuality? It would be extremely sympathetic of you to simply not make us aware of your sin or existences. But since you won't, I have already been even more sympathetic than you could ever be and warned you of your destination if you continue down this path. No disrespect and no cruelty imaginable compares to what is waiting at its end which is very near.
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Meanwhile to help ease potential backlogs of incoming lorries in the next few months, they have opted to phase in verification of imports, with full checks on goods only from July.
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It’s just you; your body, your mind and a pair of trunks. If you’re not afraid of doing a dive it’s probably not a good sign. It’s something you have to overcome. You need to feel fear.
Imagine you are standing on the edge of a cliff. You can feel a gentle breeze bristling the hair on your arms. Looking down, the water below you looks impossibly far away. Shuffling your feet to find a comfortable position that doesn’t really exist calms your nerves, provides an action to focus on. You close your eyes and visualise the next few seconds. In direct contradiction of every human instinct that you hold, you will leap from the rock. Your muscles twitch, anticipating their imminent task. You picture the cliff rushing past your eyeline, providing the visual clues you need to perfectly time this gymnastic falling. You prepare yourself for the moment your body will tear through the water, and the crushing impact that even a perfectly executed entry brings. Opening your eyes, you shuffle your feet once more, take a deep breath and launch into the blue.
‘No matter how experienced you are, you carry the weight of fear when you’re on the platform. It is a deeply lonely place,’ Andy Jones describes. ‘It’s just you; your body, your mind and a pair of trunks. If you’re not afraid of doing a dive it’s probably not a good sign. It’s something you have to overcome. You need to feel fear.’
The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series has been running since 2009. During that time, a small group of elite-level divers (including former pool-diving World Champions) have toured the globe, competing at the highest level. Dives take place from between 26m and 28m. As with a competition in a swimming pool, dives are scored against execution and degree of difficulty. Cliff diving brings its own challenges though; the height of take-off is the equivalent of the eighth floor of a building, meaning divers will reach speeds in excess of 80kph when they hit the water – an impact of 5 g-force. Divers must be in supreme physical condition, not just to execute the complex, balletic manoeuvres, but to survive the landing without injury. With varying weather and dive conditions, and the pressure of elite competition, this is a sport that deserves the ‘extreme’ tag that can now sometimes feel clichéd.
David Colturi’s favourite part of the cliff dive is that moment of take-off. ‘Everything builds up to that point. You have so many emotions and thoughts and fears. Everything is running through your mind and your body and you are trying to calm down and control it. Getting overwhelmed is the worst thing that can happen. So you’re really just having this inner battle, trying to stay confident, thinking of some simple things to help you do this crazy act safely and successfully.
‘As soon as you leave the platform, everything disappears. Your mind goes blank, you’re totally on autopilot, you’re trusting your training and your capabilities. That first lift-off into the moment of flight is just magical. It is hard to describe with words, but it’s something that only a handful of people around this world can really experience and it’s something that we get to share as a cliff-diving family. It’s truly an amazing thing.’
For an outsider, to even stand on that platform and stare into the abyss feels utterly unreachable. It’s easy to forget that even the superstars had a first time. They too shared the same emotions, the same tightening of their stomach and weak knees. For you and me, these perfectly normal physical responses to life-endangering exposure are enough to make us step back from the edge or never even approach it. Yet for that select few, conquering the mind is part of the draw.
Blake Aldridge describes the first time he dived from 27m. ‘I walked to the end of the platform, looked over the edge and even I was intimidated because you’ve got nothing around you; it’s so high up. But once you do it and you get a feeling for it, it’s the best feeling in the world to really question yourself and challenge yourself. Then you do it and it’s OK, and then that feeling afterwards! Let’s get up and do it again…’
Watching a diver take flight – and for a split second, it really does look like flight as they hang in the air, arms wide, back arched – it is impossible not to be impressed by the athletic beauty of this sport. Perhaps what is most impressive is that competitors complete these aerial gymnastics against a backdrop of palpable danger. Added height doesn’t just bring with it greater risk, though; it brings opportunity. A 27m freefall gives more time for the diver to manoeuvre and contort their body, twisting and tumbling through the air, before they prepare for entry, pencil-straight and piercing the water.
As soon as you leave the platform, everything disappears. Your mind goes blank, you’re totally on autopilot, you’re trusting your training and your capabilities. That first lift-off into the moment of flight is just magical.
You have to believe in yourself and in the process, but really, though, you’re jumping into the unknown. That’s a pretty hard thing to deal with mentally, but if you can, you have mastered the art of cliff diving.
As well as completing standard, required dives, Red Bull competitors must push the boundaries of their sport by creating and executing their own dives. The process of learning a new dive begins far away from the eyes of spectators and the fresh air of the cliffs, bridges and even rooftops of the World Series.
‘You need new dives to stay in contention,’ Aldridge says. ‘The progression of the sport never stops. It all starts in the pool before you go out to 27m. Learning a new dive is exciting, scary and inspiring.
‘The most important thing about learning a new dive is making sure that you are confident enough to do it, but you have to be realistic as well. Your body and mind really have to work together. First of all you have to work out what dive you are going to learn – the combination of moves that will make up the whole. You have to go to the 10m pool and break the start, the middle and the end down. Then you have to repeat the process over and over again, until you can visualise the whole thing in your head. That’s hard though, because you’ve never completed the dive in its entirety.
‘When you get to the location, you need mental strength. You have to believe in yourself and in the process, but really, though, you’re jumping into the unknown. That’s a pretty hard thing to deal with mentally, but if you can, you have mastered the art of cliff diving.’
Divers live for those brief seconds in the air. They tell similar stories of quiet and mental calm, which seems so far removed from the external drama and dynamism that they are playing out. A combination of muscle memory and hours of visualisation means that there is a sense of simply executing what they have trained for, without the need for conscious thought.
‘It is pure flight, pure bliss, it’s just a magical moment,’ Colturi enthuses. ‘As soon as your toes leave that platform and you are suspended in the air, that feeling of freefall, but having the control to do your rotations, do your dive, is really like you’re mastering gravity. Flying through the air, you cannot even explain it with words, it’s a feeling like nothing else on Earth.’
Perhaps the real beauty of the sport is that while the divers construct ever more complex dives, seeking to execute them with ever more precision, it is within the tightest pocket of control. Despite their mastery and athleticism, they will never avoid the inevitable, never defy gravity. Their flight will always be short lived and, as the truism goes, it’s not the falling that kills you, it’s the landing.
‘And that moment right after your feet go through and as soon as your head’s under the water you know immediately if you’re OK,’ Colturi says. ‘The water can rip your limbs, you can take a shot to your chin. If it goes wrong you’re going to be sore for days or even weeks. As soon as you realise you are OK, even with your head still under water, you turn your mind to the score and whether you executed the dive well.’
It’s the fleeting nature of diving that draws this select bunch, the balance of technical athleticism with real danger. And because gravity will always win, they must keep returning, climbing to the top of the cliff and standing alone again. Deep breath, eyes closed, visualising the leap that they are about to take.
Three Seconds is a Single Moment story by David Colturi in Sidetracked Volume Eight
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Global funds tiptoe from share slump into China's 'new economy' firms
By Nichola Saminather
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Global funds are cautiously venturing back into Chinese equities after prices collapsed to 4-1/2-year lows in February, taking advantage of cheaper valuations to buy stocks they believe will benefit from China’s shift to a consumption-led economy.
Foreign investors are tentatively buying in sectors linked to the main themes of the 13th Five-Year Plan released earlier this month, including urbanization, consumption, internet growth, green development and innovation.
The MSCI China index has gained 17 percent since Feb. 12 and while foreign investors are still net sellers the scale of net selling has shrunk to $272 million from March 1 to March 25 versus an average of $2.1 billion over the previous four months, according to EPFR Global data.
Most investors are focusing on specific “new economy” industries, which make up only a small proportion of the market, while avoiding those sectors linked to the “old economy”.
“China’s transition to a consumption and service-led economy is likely to be a bit painful, and it’s worse for the stock market because 70-80 percent of the market is highly dependent on the infrastructure and investment-led economy,” said Tan Eng Teck, senior portfolio manager at Nikko Asset Management in Singapore.
“But the remaining 20-30 percent is growing, and we like those sectors because they’re in a multi-year growth phase.”
Beijing’s five-year plan aims to create at least 10 million urban jobs, boost research and development investment to 2.5 percent of gross domestic product by 2020, develop alternative energy sources and reduce emissions, and expand internet penetration.
Tan’s prefered sectors include tourism, insurance, environment and healthcare. Among the biggest holdings in Nikko’s China equity fund and Shenton Greater China Fund are Ping An Insurance, internet firm Tencent and China Traditional Chinese Medicine Co..
M&G Investments combines the internet and consumption growth themes, with recent purchases including an online travel agency listed in the U.S., said Matthew Vaight, M&G portfolio manager for global emerging markets in London.
Internet firm Baidu and mobile operator China Unicom are among the top 10 holdings of M&G’s Global Emerging Markets fund.
However, Vaight cautions that some “new economy” stocks are overvalued, and sees opportunities for value investors in “relatively dull but under-appreciated areas of the market,” such as some packaging and plastic pipe companies.
Banks and commodity sectors are seen as value traps. Vaight warns that banks are keeping many struggling “old economy” companies going when they should not.
Tan cautions overcapacity in commodities sectors such as steel and aluminium means that prices, despite very low valuations, could yet fall further.
Barings Asset Management also favours “beneficiaries of rising consumption and technological outfitting as Chinese companies move up the value chain,” investment director William Fong said in a note last month.
For instance, Barings is investing in China’s population expansion and improving environmental standards through a utility company that supplies water to Hong Kong, Shenzen and Dongguan, he said.
Barings also likes Chinese entertainment companies, betting on increases in both the number of cinemagoers and locally produced films.
“With share price valuations having moved quite sharply in recent weeks, we have taken the opportunity to reassess companies we previously liked but where we felt the price was too high,” said Fong.
(Reporting By Nichola Saminather; Editing by Eric Meijer)
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Decoding Security 122: Shut The Front Door
In Cybersecurity News, SiteLock Podcast
We continue to hear about cyberattacks and data breaches around the world. Last week, the European retailer, Dixons Carphone, admitted to a huge data breach involving 5.9 million credit cards and 1.2 million personal data records. Meanwhile in the United States, net neutrality has officially been repealed. The rules that required internet service providers to offer equal access to all web content are no longer in effect as of June 11, 2018.
Decoding Security 121: Is Your Website Certifiable?
Gamers and music lovers alike may want to reset their passwords after reading the latest headlines. Last week, gaming client Steam announced they had found, and fixed, a severe security flaw that left local systems vulnerable for the past 10 years. The vulnerability would have allowed cybercriminals to infect any of its 15 million users with malware. A few days earlier, ticket distribution website Ticketfly fell victim to a cyberattack. The cybercriminal responsible defaced the website and claims to have a file of user and customer information taken from its database.
Decoding Security 120: We Could All Use A Good WAF
Making headlines last week, the spam campaign Brain Food has been feeding email recipients a steady diet of junk messages, infecting over 5,000 compromised websites over the last four months. Additionally, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took control of a large cyber-attack aimed at Ukraine in late May 2018. The massive malware campaign infected up to 500,000 routers, many located in small businesses and home offices around the world.
Decoding Security 119: Hacking Politics
Cybersecurity issues can occur anywhere, even in cardiac devices and pacemakers. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced an upgrade to the firmware installed on certain vulnerable cardiac devices. The update protects these devices from unauthorized access that could be harmful to patients. Also making headlines last week, Georgia’s governor vetoed a bill that would have criminalized unauthorized computer access. The bill received blowback from the state’s booming cybersecurity industry for claiming vulnerabilities in important computer systems would not be uncovered and disclosed responsibly. As a result, cybercriminals would be able to exploit them with ease.
Decoding Security 118: No Small Thing
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Decoding Security is celebrating National Small Business week by sharing simple recommendations that small businesses can use to protect themselves from today’s ever evolving cyberthreats. But first, we take a look at what’s trending in the news. Two additional security updates were released by the Drupal security team last month as part of continuing maintenance efforts after the discovery of the initial Drupalgeddon2 vulnerability in March. Drupal is urging its users to implement these updates immediately to avoid possible compromise. Meanwhile, the RSA Security Conference took place in San Francisco last month, drawing thousands of attendees from across the globe. However, the third-party mobile app built for the mega IT security conference was found to have a vulnerability, which could have potentially leaked the first and last names of attendees.
Decoding Security 117: Security on the Go
Continuing to deal with the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, last week, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, testified before U.S. Congress admitting he never audited Cambridge Analytica to ensure the Facebook user data collected had been deleted. Also in the news this week, Panera Bread experienced a data breach that exposed millions of customers’ personal data for as long as eight months. Despite being warned by multiple security researchers, Panera did not disclose or address the leak until last week.
Decoding Security 116: Homegrown Cybersecurity
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Facebook has recently dominated cybersecurity headlines following the revelation that a third party analytics firm collected data on over 50 million unknowing users. Many Facebook app users were shocked to learn the social network recorded their personal calls and text messages, not realizing they had inadvertently given the company permission to do so.
Decoding Security 115: Getting the Right Web Security
The Equifax breach dominated headlines in September 2017, and is once again making news. Last week former Equifax CIO, Jun Ying, was found guilty of selling all of his company stock, knowing it would soon be worthless, before the 2017 security breach was made public. In other cybersecurity news, your Decoding Security hosts also discuss the recently disclosed RyzenFall vulnerability, which could allow cybercriminals to copy data from secure areas of millions of computers.
Decoding Security 114: Spring Cleaning
Gearing up for another annual spring cleaning? Add a digital deep clean to your to-do list! Our hosts, Jessica Ortega and Ramuel Gall, share easy and valuable tips for conducting a digital spring clean of your website and everyday devices. With their help, you’ll be able to spring into the rest of the year with updated and more secure devices!
Decoding Security 113: What A Disaster
The 2018 Winter Olympics got off to a shaky start this year thanks to a cyberattack. The attack took down the official Olympics website, preventing access to tickets, thus preventing many ticket holders from attending the opening ceremonies. This kind of cyberattack could happen to any size organization at any time. In fact, it could happen to any person at any time. Cybercriminals often hack into individuals’ personal computers, allowing them access to private online assets, like family photos. No matter who you are, it’s important to put together an incident response plan (IRP) to protect your information should a crisis occur. In this week’s episode, our hosts share a few simple steps that anyone can take to create a response plan.
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Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America
Vaccines are one of science’s greatest achievements. Yet, fears and anxieties about immunization persist. In this week’s eSkeptic, Christian Orlic reviews Mark A. Largent’s new book Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America (2012, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 978-1421406077).
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Engaging the Anti-vaxxers
a book review by Christian Orlic
On May 14, 1796, Edward Jenner developed and tested the first vaccine. He was able to protect people from smallpox by inoculating them with cowpox. Two centuries later vaccines have eradicated diseases and are often described as one of public health’s greatest achievements. According to the CDC vaccines have been highly successful and by 1996 there was 97.8% decrease in the incidence of rubella, diphtheria, haemophilus influenza type b, measles, mumps, pertussis, polio and tetanus (20).
Nevertheless, American parents appear to be more anxious than ever about vaccinating their children. Currently, American children receive at least 36 vaccinations before their sixth birthday. Some vaccines protect children and people against devastating communicable diseases that if when left unvaccinated would result in epidemics within communities. Nowadays about 40% of American parents chose to delay or refuse vaccinations for their children (15). Most of the children who have received no vaccines have slipped through the cracks: they are poor and have no insurance (20–40% of unvaccinated children). About 11.5% of American parents have “consciously refused” vaccines recommended by pediatricians, and about 23% have delayed some vaccines (32). Currently, all U.S. states allow vaccine exemptions for medical reasons, 48 states also allow children to be exempt for religious reasons, and some have even begun accepting philosophical objections.
Mark A. Largent is a historian of biology and director of Science, Technology, Environment, Public Policy (STEPPS) at Michigan State University. Largent’s previous book, Breeding Contempt, deals with the history of coerced sterilization in the United States. In Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America, Largent couples historical scholarship, keen cultural observations, and personal experiences in order to explore the American debate surrounding vaccination. Largent’s provocative but compelling argument suggests that the debate about the science, safety and efficacy of vaccination is a proxy for a set of unaddressed underlying anxieties regarding vaccines; therefore, science is not enough to resolve it, “no scientific finding and no agreement among physicians and scientists can possibly bring it [the debate] to an end” (173).
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The book sets out to explore these anxieties and understand where and how they originated. Largent’s insightful observations provide ways in which the debate can be moved forward by addressing the anxieties parents have directly, rather than bickering about “simplistic stand-ins” (1). The anxieties that motivate the debate are over the number of vaccinations required, the diseases for which we vaccinate, the contents of vaccines, a perception that pharmaceutical companies care more about profits than safety, recent public health emergencies, fears over the long term effects of vaccinations, a belief that natural is better, as well as an overall frustration with the state of medical care. These underlying anxieties, Largent argues, must be addressed in order to continue enjoying high levels of vaccine compliance: “our continuing success in vaccinating children depends on whether the public has confidence in the scientists, doctors, and policy makers (including industry) who shape these programs” (136).
The current debate surrounding vaccinations is bipartisan, and those who oppose vaccines use both liberal and conservative arguments. The anti-vaccine movement was influenced by alternative medicine and recent events. For example, when AIDS was first described, Eva Lee Snead claimed it was linked to the polio vaccine (52). Some concerns about vaccines are and have been legitimate. When polio vaccines were first developed, kidney tissue from chimpanzees was used. In fact, this process was unsafe, and tens of millions of people were unintentionally infected with SV40 (53). The fears expressed by Snead were thus not unwarranted; if one virus could make the cross-species jump, others could too. Since then, however, studies have disproven the link between the polio inoculations and HIV. Likewise, the alleged link between Gulf War Syndrome and vaccines given to soldiers is now debunked. Largent concludes that both of these public health emergencies fed suspicions about the safety of vaccines.
The claim that vaccines were linked to autism emerged at the same time in the U.S. and in the UK. These claims could only emerge because “modern concerns about vaccines were already in place” (67). Largent may come off as too sympathetic to Dr. Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy, “the iconic vaccine-anxious parent” (139); however, I submit, that this is required for both good history and understanding. By at least momentarily embracing the views of those who opposed vaccination, we come to understand why they hold these views and how they developed them. Chapter 3 and 4 of Largent’s book explore how Wakefield and McCarthy came to believe that vaccines cause autism and how they became spokespeople for an already anxious community. Their rapid rise to celebrity within their community supports the assertion that British and American parents were already anxious. Therefore, it should not surprise observers “how easily they adopted an explanation that was critical of the modern vaccine schedule” (73). The alleged link between thimerosal and autism, as well as that of the MMR vaccine with digestive problems resulting in developmental problems, provided “a ready-made venue for discussing their concerns about vaccines within a group of like-minded advocates”(12). While Largent recognizes that there is no evidence to support either Wakefield or McCarthy claims, he thinks that their outright dismissal is detrimental to maintaining high levels of vaccine compliance.
Largent argues that by ignoring the underlying anxieties, public health officials and vaccine advocates have misconstrued the reasons parents chose not to vaccinate, or to delay vaccination. Secondly, public health officials prefer to discuss the efficacy and safety of vaccines because this is within their professional realm. Vaccine advocates often claim that ignorance is one of the reasons parents are anxious about vaccinating their children. They claim that this refusal to vaccinate is predicated by an ignorance of the severity of the diseases for which vaccines protect. Whereas, data demonstrates that the more educated parents are the more likely they are to have reservations about the recommended vaccine schedule (34). These parents for the most part are making conscious, non-religious, decisions to refuse or delay vaccinating their children. Further antagonizing them rather than addressing underlying anxieties is likely to reduce vaccine compliance.
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One of the most important observations made by Largent is that not all vaccines are the same. Some vaccines protect against devastating diseases (MMR, DPT), others protect against dangerous ones (Hep A, Hep B, Hib, rotavirus, PCV) but the likelihood that an infant may be exposed to these is low, and other vaccinations provide protection against diseases with extremely low mortality rates (chickenpox). The distinction between the diseases each vaccine protects from are often forgotten. For example, Largent argues that some of the diseases we vaccinate newly born babies against may be unnecessary, such as HepB, a disease that an infant could only “contract by having sex with an infected person or by sharing contaminated needles with an infected drug addict” could wait (2). Public health officials should keep in mind that it is preferable for children to be under vaccinated than not vaccinated at all. Unfortunately, the vaccine debate is polarized. Amanda Peet, who supports vaccination, referred to the parents of unvaccinated children as “parasites” (she later apologized). Recognizing that not all vaccines are equal could sooth the rhetoric of the debate and allow for a more fruitful discussion. Otherwise, parents who are anxious about the amount of vaccines or one specific vaccine may be pushed not to vaccinate at all. Failing to recognize the differences between different inoculations results in an all or nothing approach (167).
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What happens when you combine cellular phone technology with the cellular aberrations in disease? Or create a bridge between the digital revolution with the medical revolution? How will minute biological sensors alter the way we treat lethal illnesses, such as heart attacks or cancer? These questions, and more, are answered by Dr. Eric Topol, a leading cardiologist, gene hunter and medical thinker. Topol’s analysis draws us to the very frontlines of medicine and leaves us with a view of a landscape that is both foreign and daunting.
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There is no alternative medicine; there is just scientific medicine and everything else that has yet to be tested. This book is an excellent guide to the confusions and contradictions of alternative medicine written with clarity, integrity and authority. What works? Who can you trust? What alternative cures have positive results? What medical authorities are included in their “Top ten culprits in the promotion of unproven and disproven medicine?” Includes extensive information on the big four: acupuncture, homeopathy, herbs, and chiropractic, plus a “Rapid guide to Alternative Therapies.” Not just a great read, but also a vital reference source on where to turn when disease or illness strikes you or someone you know, to get the straight facts about what science really has to say on the subject.
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SNAICC
National Voice for our Children
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Media Release 12 December 2018 – SNAICC welcomes announcement of formal partnership approach to Closing the Gap refresh
Melbourne, Australia: SNAICC – National Voice for our Children welcomes today’s joint communiqué from COAG and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peaks that commits to the establishment of a formalised partnership arrangement to oversee the Closing the Gap ‘refresh’ process.
Over the past year, SNAICC and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak bodies have raised significant concerns over the limited involvement of our communities and representatives throughout the ‘refresh’ process.
The Closing the Gap strategy will only succeed through the real and meaningful participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.”
– Muriel Bamblett, SNAICC Chairperson
The Closing the Gap strategy represents the major framework adopted by all Australian governments to promote better outcomes and achieve equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. It is essential that the framework for the refreshed strategy has the buy-in and support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their representative organisations and peak bodies.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak bodies play a unique role in this space, representing the interests of our peoples across the service sector, and they must be at the very centre of the strategy design process.”
The structure proposed by COAG today, that nominates states as having lead responsibility for target areas of national concern – including in relation to child protection – is problematic.
The Commonwealth has significant responsibility across many of the key sectors that can meaningfully address the over-representation of our children in out-of-home care.
“The Commonwealth must step up and lead a national approach to end the crisis level of intervention in the lives of our families.”
Achieving equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within a generation necessitates a focus on children and young people. We have a shared responsibility to ensure the right of every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child to be safe and thrive in family, community and culture.
Accordingly, SNAICC welcomes the inclusion of a strengthened draft Closing the Gap target around early childhood development outlined in the COAG communiqué.
We note that a target to eliminate the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care is being considered alongside a target to eliminate violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children. These are two devastating issues that require separate, nuanced strategies, and must both be individually and adequately resourced. Sub-targets that address the underlying causes of child protection intervention will also be critical to changing outcomes for children.
While these Closing the Gap targets will be important to drive and focus efforts to improve outcomes for our children, even more important will be the strategies adopted to achieve them. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are over 10 times more likely to be removed from their parents than non-Indigenous children. This represents a crisis level of intervention in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family life that requires a national and cross-government response. SNAICC is calling for the development of a comprehensive COAG-level national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children’s strategy, led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children’s strategy is absolutely vital to ensuring a refreshed Closing the Gap leads to actual, sustained, positive change for our children.”
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Thread for the T&T vs Grenada Game (29-Apr-2017)
Author Topic: Thread for the T&T vs Grenada Game (29-Apr-2017) (Read 9296 times)
Hero Warrior
A Trini 4 Real.
As usual, any updates/scores, shout-outs, reports, predictions, views, etc, on the T&T vs Grenada game in Grenada on the 29th of April 2017 will be posted here, this way, we can maintain the message board and not make it look too scrappy with un-necessary or related headlines and postings on game day.
For the internet users, you can follow the game at:
To be updated.
Possible Online Streams.
I95.5.FM (7:30pm EST)
Possible TV Station.
Trinidad & Tobago Squad
Marvin Phillip (Point Fortin Civic Centre), Glenroy Samuel (Ma Pau Stars), Jan-Michael Williams (North East Stars).
Defenders:
Keston George (Central FC), Curtis Gonzales (Defence Force), Triston Hodge (W Connection), Alvin Jones (W Connection), Seon Power (Central FC), Yohance Marshall (Murcielagos FC), Carlos Edwards (Central FC), Taryk Sampson (Central FC).
Midfielders:
Marcus Joseph (W Connection), Kevon Goddard (W Connection), Nathan Lewis (San Juan Jabloteh), Jared London (Club Sando), Leston Paul (North East Stars), Hughton Hector (W Connection), Hashim Arcia (Defence Force), Keron Cummings (Central FC), Jomal Williams (Murcielagos FC).
Akeem Roach (Central FC), Shahdon Winchester (Murcielagos FC), Jerrel Britto (Honduras Progreso), Jamille Boatswain (Defence Force).
Coach - Dennis Lawrence.
Grenada Squad
Coach - To be updated.
Updates to follow as we get more info, so keep checking back.
« Last Edit: April 28, 2017, 04:48:42 AM by Flex »
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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Grenada Game (29-Apr-2017)
I hope DJW try to get a game against canada AND Venezuela before the USA game
http://www.youtube.com/v/sh8SeGmzai4
Quote from: Trini _2018 on April 04, 2017, 07:47:58 AM
More likely against Guyana, Grenada, and Defence Force
Carlos "The Rolls Royce" Edwards
~~~ JUMBIE ~~~
no Central FC?
T&T Senior Men to play Grenada on April 29 in St George’s
TTFA Media.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Senior Men will travel to St George’s, Grenada to play the Grenada Men’s Senior Team in an International Friendly on April 29th.
The match will be part of the official opening of the Grenada National Football League.
Trinidad and Tobago head coach Dennis Lawrence will use the match as another tune up for his home-based players as the country looks ahead to the 2018 World Cup qualifier away to the United States on June 8th and Costa Rica on June 13th.
“This international game will be useful in terms of it being part of the preparations for our squad ahead of the next set of World Cup qualifiers in June. It’s a good opportunity for myself and the coaching staff to have a further look at the players who are on the fringe of World Cup team selection, also including those who were involved in the past two qualifying matches,” Lawrence told TTFA Media.
“It will be a good opportunity for us to have the players together again, particularly for those who are in off season as it gives us a chance to continue implementing some of the things that we started a few weeks ago in the lead up to the last set of games against Barbados, Panama and Mexico,” Lawrence added
Lawrence will announce his Roster for the match later this month.
No matter how you look at it....playing Grenada in Grenada and say you preppin players to play against USA and Mexico away is ultimately a futile exercise
Unsure how this could be of any benefit to a team supposedly seeking to qualify for the Wold Cup 2018
asylumseeker
Quote from: palos on April 04, 2017, 04:50:32 PM
I suppose the idea is to let the local-based come to terms with how Dennis wishes to play (movements etc.). Always easier to imprint these versus comparable opposition. The challenge is replicating it up the ladder. But, getting the imprint is fundamental.
« Last Edit: April 04, 2017, 06:28:13 PM by asylumseeker »
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Well sorry I see this encounter as useless preparation before playing the quality of the US. If we going to use mostly locals in this match against Grenada who will not play against the US then are we preparing them for the next Caribbean Cup cycle ? and even if we were to use our best players in a match against Grenada in the middle of a final WC campaign how does that prepare them? What happened to playing a South American nation?
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Quote from: asylumseeker on April 04, 2017, 06:26:36 PM
I think so seeker, best yuh try to instill and excute yuh philosophy and plays to the locals against a Grenada, rather than straight out going and embarass your charges and youself against a Higher caliber team. If things work out and the plays are positive, yuh try it again against harder opposition. If they do not work, chances are you may still have a decent run and positive result with normal player abilities. But to go and try stuff out against say , Colombia, or Peru, and it not working, they might just never want to waste their time with us again.
Quote from: maxg on April 04, 2017, 08:54:47 PM
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Quote from: palos on April 04, 2017, 11:07:17 AM
Doh worry who don't hear will feel! when time comes everyone will ask what we did wrong
mr greggle71
semi match fit
This is what you call a SMART objective
play the football.
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I see this as a "make work" project for the senior mens national team coaching staff
The reality is this......when playing any kind of meaningful match....the senior mens national team will not be relying on the local based players to fill the vast majority of positions.
People made observations about Joevin Jones when he went to Udinese on trial and how he looked hopelessly out of depth. And he was. At the time, he was arguably also the best player in the Pro League.
In order for Joevin to approach fulfilling his talent, he had to go abroad. He is where he is now...considered one of the best left backs in MLS.
Jut like oil......he had to be refined. We have ZERO football refineries in T&T. That's just the truth.
So keep Dennis Lawrence and co busy...sure. But until we start to develop those refineries...we'll be dependent on our players being refined in REPUTABLE leagues abroad.
And by REPUTABLE, I NOT talking about leagues in Phillipines, India, Vietnam etc.
BTW......it is NOT Dennis Lawrence and his coaching staff's responsibility to refine our players. Players should come to a senior national team already refined. We know in too many cases, that's just not the case.
Jefferz
"hopelessly faithful"
Warrior Nation Member #44
since ah born or at least circa Copa Caribe
It's a Pro League all star team posing as a national team. The notion about having local players in a camp continuously training is laudable but is not the international norm and it comes at a cost too.
But the opposition is at a pro league level so let them play.
Quote from: g on April 05, 2017, 02:43:19 PM
1 - Don't then try to sell it as a warm up match for world cup qualifying.
2 - Strengthens my claim that this is just a make work project for the national team coaching staff. A CEPEP for football as it were
Optics........ People were clamoring for warm up games, some right here in this forum, albeit against better opposition but always wanting the national team to be actively training or in game mode. I have a fundamental disagreement with this approach. It takes the responsibility out of the club system for developing their players and puts it on the national team. The national team is not a club.
Every time I see a Pro League team grouped in CONCACAF champions league I cringe, because every time is a hiding, especially away from home. The very best of what we have locally from a player and coaching perspective... licks! Who is our Technical Director again? What is the purpose of the TTFA technical committee? Do they assess the overall standard of play, the developmental system from grassroots to senior? Do they establish benchmarks on fitness, nutrition, tactics and coaching to develop systematic action plans?
So yea it's a make work project, apparently its an exhibition for the opening of the Grenada domestic season. So if nothing else go, get a good result and build some confidence.
Adam Lake
Full Warrior
For the life of me I cya understand how we gone from Playing Teams Like Argentina, China, Mexico and Uruguay under Tim Kee's Administration to now playing Barbados and Grenada under DJW. Even worse, this is during an all important WC qualification....
we on the same page. Except for calling it what it really is
A fete match for local based players. Some local based players will get the opportunity to get a match in....even though it's a fete match.
Makes me question whether the TTFA is truly invested in qualifying for the 2018 world cup
Plenty on this site does cuss Conto for his theories......but most does only see what they want to see too.
would u like to buy an 'O'.........
Quote from: Adam Lake on April 05, 2017, 03:37:21 PM
team development was undermined from the word go.........whether it was ah clumsy attempts to earn caps for pro league players or worse an attempt to rack losses to justify hart's ouster, it was still in poor taste and represented, to me, a nasty disregard the progress that had been made previously.......we can't move forward in ANY sport developmentally as long as succession is seen as break down to build back up and is consistently poisoned by small minded jealousies and frenism, which to me has defined DJWs presidency and precipitated the string successes turned failure we have witnessed......upward trajectory has been shot to shit by d PDF man and he minions
« Last Edit: April 05, 2017, 04:02:39 PM by lefty »
I pity the fool....
Let's look at it another way..The next FIFA intl break is june 5th to 13th, means
Trinidad & Tobago Squad becomes
Jan-Michael Williams (Central FC), Marvin Phillip (Morvant Caledonia United), Glenroy Samuel (Ma Pau Stars).
Radanfah Abu Bakr (FK Sūduva Marijampolė—LTU), Aubrey David (PS Kemi Kings—FIN), Curtis Gonzales (Defence Force), Sheldon Bateau (Krylia Sovetov Samara—RUS), Daneil Cyrus (W Connection), Mekeil Williams (Colorado Rapids—USA), Tristan Hodge (W Connection), Carlos Edwards (Ma Pau Stars), Alvin Jones (W Connection).
Andre Boucaud (Dagenham & Redbridge—ENG), Joevin Jones (Seattle Sounders FC—USA), Nathan Lewis (San Juan Jabloteh), Khaleem Hyland (KVC Westerlo—BEL), Kevan George (Jacksonville Armada—USA), Hughtun Hector (W Connection), Hashim Arcia (Defence Force), Kevin Molino (Minnesota United FC—USA), Leston Paul (Central FC), Levi Garcia (AZ Alkmaar—NED).
Cordell Cato (San Jose Earthquakes—USA), Kenwyne Jones (Atlanta United—USA), Willis Plaza (East Bengal FC—IND), Jamille Boatswain (Defence Force).
+ any National team trialist
So you really want to play C teams from Argentina, China, Mexico and Uruguay and the like with the guys possibly available and expect it to be really helpful ? oor do a "make work project" and take the opportunity to cement/develop the current selectees and a few possible candidates to physically and mentally practice the system you will attempt to establish during the limited time, you will have all of the team together against an opposition that will give them the time and chance to first do it slowly and then hopefully later at a faster pace, peaking when it matters most. I think the latter is the purpose. If you choose opposition where they do not have time or opportunity to learn and execute, then it would be best we avoid any games at all. You can't take all elementary or all High school kids and teach them high-ed University programs. Providing we agree our ProLeague players are operating in an elemetary setting. Yes, there is talent, yes, there is potential, but prerequisites must be covered and at many cases mastered, before the final exams. No player left behind, sort of. Yet, one or two will still fail, the manager job is without any major stress, try to prepare the guys he will eventually select and then from those actually take a guess as to which would most likely succeed. However, it's still a team sport, thus he also have to determine the correct chemical combination to ensure success. So he needs to do these little test, rather than no test at all. My thoughts anyway.
add: in the long run, he and those selected still might get it wrong, but at least they would have tried all available processes.
« Last Edit: April 05, 2017, 09:29:12 PM by maxg »
Deeks
Palos, playing Grenada nowadays is no longer a fete match. Maybe 20 yrs ago. It appears that DJW cannot get a high-profile time to play in the FIFA window. If he cannot get a high-profile, then just get a team willing to play. It appears Grenada willing. The Euro and MLS pros will not get released( are discouraged by their clubs teams) unless it is a WC game. Some of us have been clamouring a Trin-Zuela home and away series. But .... no takers.
Might start a rivalry an interfere with the immigration, gun and body organ trafficking 👹
injunchile
Look on the bright side, some of the local players getting a sweat against Grenada can boast that they played for Trinidad & Tobago and that they played International football.
Secondly we have to find work for Dennis and his staff so what better incentive than a three days holiday in Grenada .
I prefer to use the term "training exeercise" as opposed to make work project.
I agree with what you say here palos, but that leaves DL with two options:
1. Accept that the local based players are substandard and throw them in at the deep end, or
2. Try to do something to better prepare them before throwing them in at the deep end.
I prefer option 2.
Quote from: Mose on April 06, 2017, 08:39:25 AM
And how has this option 2 worked for past coaching staff?
Couldn't really tell you as I'm not in a position to know if it improved anyone or not. And from a team perspective there's no way to undo what you did and go back and play the same games to say one way or the other. Are you seriously insinuating though that option 1 is the better play? If you have another option, feel free to propose it. I'm all for the betterment of the team.
Quote from: Mose on April 06, 2017, 12:40:07 PM
I'm NOT for spinnin top in mud...which is what we doing with these kinds of games
SH took a mainly local based team to play China, Peru, etc and take copious lixx. Not that the China trip would have yielded any other results just based on travel time and lack of acclimatization
Saintfiet played Gold Cup qualifying games at home against Haiti & Suriname with a majority local based squad and ended up with zero points AT HOME
Maybe Lawrence is a miracle worker. Daz what we seem to be hoping for.
At this point....we're f**ked. It doh matter who we play. The solution is a long term solution with NO HALF MEASURES.
Properly develop players at the youth level and ensure that facilities, coaching, support resources etc are of a professional standard.
The old adage is very true in this case.....
Fail to prepare (properly). Prepare to (properly) fail.
« Last Edit: April 06, 2017, 12:49:27 PM by palos »
Exactly! Iz either we have short memory or just hope in miracles. We have been down this road before recently with moistly local based teams and suffered heavy consequences.
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Jack Simpson of Bournemouth during the Pre-Season Friendly match between AFC Bournemouth and SS Lazio at Vitality Stadium on August 02, 2019 in Bournemouth, England. (Getty Images)
Why Derby County should go all out to sign Bournemouth’s Jack Simpson
According to the Sky Sports, Derby County are among a number of Championship clubs keen on the loan signature of Bournemouth defender Jack Simpson.
Jack Simpson, 23, has made only 7 appearances for the Cherries this season; three in the Premier League, two in EFL Cup and two in the FA Cup. The Cherries are expected to make a decision on whether to let the centre-back go on loan, with Middlesbrough and Stoke City also keen, the report adds.
Derby County are keen to bolster their defence during this transfer window as they look to move up the Championship table during the second half of the campaign.
Jack Simpson of AFC Bournemouth looks on during the Carabao Cup Third Round match between Burton Albion and AFC Bournemouth at Pirelli Stadium on September 25, 2019 in Burton-upon-Trent, England. (Getty Images)
They have struggled with inconsistency throughout the campaign under Phillip Cocu, showing very little signs of competing for a playoff berth.
One of the main reasons for Derby’s downfall this season has been their poor defending, with Cocu’s side leaking 39 goals in 29 games so far.
They are really short in that department following Richard Keogh’s sacking back in September. In Keogh’s absence, the Rams have lacked a leader at the back, someone who’ll take the responsibility and marshal the troops.
Curtis Davies hasn’t been at his authoritative best this season and looks past his prime. Matthew Clarke arrived on loan from Brighton before the start of the season but has struggled with injury problems.
Derby County coach Phillip Cocu. (Getty Images)
Why Derby County should reignite their interest in Bart Ramselaar
Why Matthew Pennington would be a smart signing for Derby County
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Jack Simpson has only featured in three league games this season and his only minutes this year have come in the FA Cup but the Englishman is a promising young defender could add some much-needed freshness to Derby’s backline.
The Rams must stop conceding goals if they are to give themselves a chance of reaching the playoffs. The addition of Simpson on loan would add another player to their backline, so Cocu should bring the defender before the transfer window slams shut.
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Poetry. This book gathers a decade of Caroline Bergvall's innovative pieces, from her long out-of-print performance text Goan Atom, inspired by the graphic contortions of Hans Bellmer's Doll and violent love fantasies of other radical body-inspired artists, The Shorter Chaucer, a series of contemporary tales exploring social mores in a feisty mix of languages, and the hybrid and visual prose pieces Cropper, Cat in the Throat, and Middling English. This volume—rich, multi-layered, acerbic, humorous—creates a strong case for how new literature can provide speculative and performative excursions into post-urban lives and idoms and explore renewed visions for languages.
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Game recaps and the latest news on your favorite Canadian NHL teams.
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SPECTOR’S NOTE: I think Schenn earned his spurs with the Flyers this season. He enjoyed his best season to date (26 goals, 59 points) and was much more physical, especially in the playoffs against the Capitals. I no longer consider him a trade candidate. While MacDonald showed improvement, it won’t be enough to convince a club to take him off their hands, even if they agree to pick up part of his $5 million annual cap hit. As for Gostisbehere, who has a year left on his contract at $925 K, it’ll be interesting to see if he agrees to a long-term deal or prefers a short-term one taking him up to UFA status in four years time.
As for the Florida Panthers, Custance suggests they bring back Jaromir Jagr for another season, re-signing RFA center Vincent Trocheck to a long-term deal and pursue Chicago Blackhawks left wing Andrew Ladd via free agency.
SPECTOR’S NOTE: The Panthers are keen to bring back Jagr. If he feels he has another good season left in him, he’ll return on another one-year, bonus-laden deal. Trocheck broke out in a big way this season (53 points) centering the Panthers second line. An RFA this year, he’ll be getting a nice raise, the only question being for how many years. As for Ladd, he was linked to the Panthers in the rumor mill leading up to the trade deadline. They’ll have the cap space to sign him, but do they want to invest over $6 million annually on a six-year deal? That was his rumored asking price from the Jets. I don’t think GM Dale Tallon will pay that much for his services.
More Rangers speculation.
NEW YORK POST: Brett Cyrgalis notes the Rangers being pressed against the salary-cap ceiling for next season could result in some hard assessments of several high-salaried veterans. Topping the list is winger Rick Nash, who has two seasons at a cap hit of $7.8 million remaining on his contract plus a limited no-trade clause. Cyrgalis observes Nash’s playoff numbers pale in comparison to his regular-season stats and suggests trading him is the most obvious way to receive much-needed cap relief. While that cap space could be used to re-sign defenseman Keith Yandle, Cyrgalis points out the blueliner’s good and bad were both on display this season. As for Dan Girardi, he suggests a buyout is an option if trading the remaining four years at $5.5 million per season (with a no-movement clause for next season) is not.
NORTHJERSEY.COM: Andrew Gross believes the Rangers will have a different look next season. He also advocates moving Nash, even if they have to pick up part of his $7.8 million cap hit. He also suggests buying out Girardi, feeling a trade is unlikely. Gross questions the wisdom of retaining Yandle as that would add another aging, expensive rearguard to their blueline corps. Gross believes Kevin Klein could be their best trade chip among their defensemen. He believes the Rangers biggest need is landing a true first-line center.
USA TODAY: Kevin Allen also believes the Rangers could be forced to peddle a veteran or two to clear cap space to re-sign their key RFAs (Chris Kreider, J.T. Miller and Kevin Hayes) and address depth issues elsewhere. Like Crygalis and Gross, he thinks moving Nash is the best way to clear cap space and also wonders if Girardi could become a buyout candidate.
SPECTOR’S NOTE: The Rangers have nearly $57 million invested in 16 players for 2016-17. Re-signing Kreider, Miller and Hayes will eat up a good chunk of that cap space, leaving little to re-sign or replace their remaining free agents. Moving Nash is the obvious choice, but also not an easy one. Given his playoff numbers compared to his regular season ones, his age (he turns 32 in June) and salary, the Blueshirts could be forced to pick up part of his cap hit. Finding a destination among the 12 he would consider suitable could also hamper things. I’m not suggesting Nash won’t garner any interest in this summer’s trade market, but it won’t be as intense as it was in the summer of 2012.
Girardi could be even tougher to shop. A buyout will provide significant immediate relief for next season, though it would be more costly over the subsequent three years. I don’t see them using any freed-up cap space to re-sign Yandle. If they shed Girardi, they’ll certainly retain Klein.
scott on April 25, 2016 at 10:30 am
Agree that MacDonald is untradeable. The Flyers will have to make room for Provorov, who either has to be with the flyers or go back to Junior (where he already has outgrown. I can see them moving Streit who after his July 1 bonus is paid-is very affordable to a non cap team. His leadership makes sense for a team like the coyotes.
Also a buyout of Umberger will likely happen.
Also Medvedov won’t be resigned. Projected 7-D of Ghost, Manning, Gudas, Schultz, Provorov, Macdonald, with Sam Morin pushing for a spot. The protected 3 in the expansion draft would be Gudas, Ghost, and Morin.
Paul on April 25, 2016 at 12:37 pm
Ignore my other comment. I forgot 1st and 2nd year players on entry level contract are exempt from draft. So as I understand it Morin and Provorov would be exempt.
What about DEl Zotto?
The Mikal on April 25, 2016 at 3:23 pm
You forgot Michael Del Zotto!
scott on April 25, 2016 at 4:08 pm
@paul-good point. Del Zotto has been hurt for so long I forgot about him.
Striker on April 25, 2016 at 4:59 pm
Del Zotto is scheduled to be a UFA following the 2016-17 season.
@Striker-yes, but indications are the flyers want to sign MDZ. I guess like everyone else-depending on $$$.
And to correct my comment earlier Morin would be exempt from the expansion draft, as would Sanheim and Provorov.
There are so many grey areas currently with expansion but thankfully we only have 2 months & we’ll know the plan.
I’m really looking forward to this summer. It is shaping up to be 1 of the more interesting off seasons in decades. Hopefully were not disappointed.
4th Hanson brother on April 25, 2016 at 10:55 am
I had suggested Vanek back to Buffalo a few weeks ago. Most Sabres’ fans were not keen on the idea, believing HGTV may have not been the best teammate. I know the Bruins hated playing against him.
Sabres could use some help on the wings.
Mike on April 25, 2016 at 1:14 pm
No, no and no again been there done that, Vanek has not come close to the level of production he had in Buffalo Murray would be wise to steer clear of that albatross. Also want no part of that attitude in the room with the young guys, also doesn’t really fit Murrays mold of young tough and hard to play against.
4th Hanson brother on April 25, 2016 at 1:26 pm
too many kids that wanna make a difference – we need to give the kids a chance
Chris on April 25, 2016 at 2:04 pm
While I agree that the Sabres are better served looking elsewhere, I am not sure where people are getting “Vanek is a bad teammate” from. Has there been quotes in papers from his teammates indicating as such? If so, I haven’t seen any. All I know is about the whole gambling thing, but I don’t see how that translates into “bad teammate”.
Sabres moved backwards after Briere and Dury left. Remaining core players failed to fill the leadership void which led alotta people to question the core players’ character. I saw the Sabres in Atlanta late in the season when they were “fighting” to get into playoffs. There wasn’t much fight in them.
As for Vanek, I really had no issue with him. Teams like the Bruins hated to play him. He played through injury and never had a problem working around the net. That’s I floated the suggestion of bringing him back if the price was right.
Durtmchurtt on April 25, 2016 at 11:30 am
I doubt Girardi would want to be dealt to the Leafs at this point in his career, but if he did I’d like to see someone with experience paired with Gardener or Reilly. The Leafs are lacking in right shot defencemen and have extra picks and cap room. Depending on the cost and if he’s willing of course.
Noel on April 25, 2016 at 1:45 pm
I think picks would be coming to the leafs if they took Girardi, he’s 31 now singed till 19/20 with a hit of $5.5M. He might be ok for one more year but he’s already slowing down and not the Girardi of years past who is a shutdown #1 guy.
I don’t see Girardi moving at all, especially to the leafs at this point. If he moves it would be to a contender looking to fill a 3 or 4 spot on D.
Striker on April 25, 2016 at 11:43 am
Minny will buy out Vanek. His actually salary in his final season of his contract is 7.5 so he hits that cap for essentially 2.5 for 2 years but free’s up 4 million next season. If Minny ate even as much as 1/2 his cap hit to move him this summer they are better served against the cap in year 2 of the buy out.
I don’t get the Minny needs a C, so RNH is a great fit. Koivu, Granlund, Coyle & Haula are all C’s. Coyle can play RW & has often. Granlund recently played some LW with Parise out but he is Minny’s #2 C. Why would Minny want RNH at a cap hit of 6 mil for the next 5 years. That’s a ton of money for a player that’s never scored more than 56 points in 5 years playing in the NHL.
The only other team in the NHL as badly positioned for expansion as Minny is Columbus. They need to remove assets for futures or players that are expansion exempt; players with less than 2 years of NHL contractual experience, or they are going to lose a very good player, potentially 2 if Quebec is awarded a franchise as well.
Man do I dislike long-term contracts with no trade/no movement clauses. Talk about having your hands tied by a player who no longer warrants his contract. But then again – you tied them by agreeing to such a deal.
Deeeeeeee on April 25, 2016 at 12:33 pm
The Rags and the Penguins really are going in different directions. The Rags are now the old team with not much going on in the draft and develop department while the Penguins are currently enjoying the benefits of very good later round drafting. The kids like Rust, Kuhnhackle, Sheary, and Wilson are just the tip of the iceberg they still have Sprong, Sundqvist, Simon, Bluger and Jarry waiting in the wings and giving them cheap yet effective help throughout the lineup. The only changes I can see them making this summer are trying to find some young defensive depth and maybe moving MAF. I wonder what they could get for Fleury in the way of defensive prospects and a first round? Then they would have the option of going very young in goal with Murray and Jarry or signing a quality, experienced backup. They now have Maguire to become the goalie on the farm so they are really going to be developing 3 very young goalies and obviously Murray is going to be something special but Jarry had a very good season in WBS and projects as a future NHL starter. I would re-sign Justin Shultz and let Ben Lovejoy go. If the Penguins go deep in the playoffs Lovejoy will get 3-4 mill on the open market and he is not worth anywhere near that. This is the first time in a long time where the roster is almost perfect right where it is. They just have to figure out where Sprong fits in because going back to juniors is a waste of time for him, he’s too talented for the CHL and too young for the AHL. These are all good problems to have. It seems like the Rangers will have a major overhaul and will look like a new team next year. Oh well can’t wait for the Cals series I think the Penguins have the talent and the fire to beat the Caps, and any other team in the NhL for that matter.
Durtmchurtt on April 25, 2016 at 12:37 pm
I take it you’re a Pens fan lol
Folks have talked about the real age of the Rangers’ lineup – not really that old if you look at them. Big difference between Rangers and Pens? speed – NYR misses Hagelin and St. Louis’ speed. Rags need speed and a number one center.
Rangers don’t have a pivot that can control a shift.
Nyr4life on April 25, 2016 at 1:34 pm
4th Hanson,
I couldn’t agree more. I don’t thimk people really saw how much Hagelins departure was going to hurt.
NYR – I think the lack of a #1 center is their biggest issue. Amazing how well they have done the past few seasons without one.
I didn’t watch much of the NYR@PIT series, hi lights or low lights if you prefer. I choose to watch the TB@Det series instead as I wanted to see Drouin’s contribution.
Did anyone have NYR to beat Pit? I didn’t & based on the 7 pools I went in no 1 else did either that I know of.
Let’s lay the blame where do. Lundquist was terrible & had been since the March 2nd trade deadline. With goaltending like that your dead before it even starts. Add in Vigneault’s propensity to play E. Staal who brought nothing to this team but faceoff abilities. His contribution made NYR worse not better. Factor in McDonaugh’s injury & the fact that Staal & Girardi just aren’t the Dman they were even last season & what you see is what you get. It had very little to do with team speed at forward but bad goaltending, questionable defense & E. Staal getting way more ice time than he deserved or earned.
As stated yesterday I don’t see significant changes. Boyle & Yandle are gone for sure, replaced by Skjei & MciLrath. NYR’s top 9 forwards with the exception of Nash are all young. The old men in the group are Zuccarello & Brassard who are 27 & 28 respectively.
The team speed issue you raise leaves me puzzled as with the exception of Nash & Hayes the other 7 players are all great skaters & several can out right fly. Brassard, Zuccarello, Stepan, Kredier, Miller, Lindberg & Fast.
E. Staal played 5 playoff games, ZERO points & finished minus 7. The next closest forward was minus 3. He finished 6th for TOI/GP at forward & 8th for PP TOI/GP for all players in the playoffs for NYR!
His acquisition next to Lundquist’s struggles may be the biggest factor on NYR not showing better.
Pittsburgh is on a roll they will take out the Caps.
Nyr4life on April 26, 2016 at 12:45 am
Striker, you should have stopped at ” I didn’t watch the series” the rest was obvious! To lay that series on Lundqvist is pretty obvious you need to watch more than highlights! watch, then watch again! How many of those goals came off 3 on 2’s, 2 on 1’s or flat out breakaways! Jaysus!
Chad on April 25, 2016 at 3:45 pm
Haven’t been involved much on the forums this past weekend, my Wife gave birth to our 2nd son early Saturday morning… it was almost 6 weeks early and is a pre-term so he’s currently in the intensive care nursery. So we’ve been in and out of there the past couple of days. Haven’t had much time to check the rumors and follow the playoffs.
“Craig Custance believes the Minnesota Wild must hire a new coach in the offseason, acquire a young top-six forward and cut ties with the disappointing Thomas Vanek”
If Tampa Bay is still looking to move Drouin in the off season and although he’s come around as of late (attitude and performance), I still believe Yzerman will entertain offers for the young forward. Minnesota may be a good fit. The Wild have some young defenseman, maybe not Dumba but there are others that Tampa or any team for that matter would be interested in. I’d look to package Drouin and a pick for one of those defenseman if the Wild intend on moving one of them.
Yankee Fan on April 25, 2016 at 3:55 pm
Congrats Chad and family! Praying for the best.
Thanks! He’ll be there for 1-2 weeks, was only 6.2 pounds so he can’t regulate temperature or blood sugar… struggling to eat enough to make a big difference so they had to do a feeding tube. Should be all fine in a few weeks.
Chad.
Congratulations. My 1st child was born 6 & a 1/2 weeks early as well. The concern as you know is we don’t have full organ development until the end of the 34th week. Here in BC they call pediatric intensive care, special care! Don’t want to freak those new parents out. Ha-ha!
He turned out fine, well as fine as any teenager can be. He will be 19 in November. Had serious jawndous issues for the 1st few months leading to numerous hospital stays & was 13 before he garnered proper bladder control in the evenings but other than that turned out normal, a good kid, bit of a dweeb; computer geek, but as a parent nothing wrong with that.
Congratulations to you & your family in the new addition.
Thanks Striker! I think they did say he was 36 weeks and all of the organs were done developing… problem is he has no brown fat (not sure why they call it that) but essentially he’s burning all of this energy to keep his body temp up, then his blood sugar falls. He’s very tired so there’s not much drive to eat a lot and right now he needs to eat. I feel everything will turn out fine, glad to hear yours did as well.
bigbear on April 25, 2016 at 8:05 pm
congrats chad!!
Chad on April 25, 2016 at 10:31 pm
Thanks bigbear!
Lyle Richardson on April 25, 2016 at 5:52 pm
Congratulations, Chad, and here’s hoping your son is out of IC soon.
Thanks for the positive thoughts!
mikeyj on April 25, 2016 at 6:22 pm
Chad….congrats to you…best wishes to your wife and the little new guy!!!!!!
Thanks for the best wishes! He’s doing well tonight
Chad. All the best to you and your family and congratulations on the birth of your son.
Thanks! He’s doing a bit better today… still will be a couple weeks before he can come home but all positives
What does everyone think the Rangers will get for Rick Nash, even if they do retain some of the salary? IMO he’s had 1 great season with them and that was last year when he exploded for 42 goals but aside from that his seasons recently have been average at best, barely cracking 40 points and nothing like what he did with the Blue Jackets. If anything it’s more of a salary dump than a trade chip. I’d expect a pick, maybe two 2nd round picks. If Eric Staal could net two, then I’d say Nash could net 2 as well. The big issue is his cap hit, playoff performance, and subpar regular seasons (besides 14-15). All of those will hurt his value significantly.
For me it all relates to expansion requirements & although I have an opinion on how I think the NMC issue will play; They won’t have to be protected & can be exposed, out I see it being in NYR’s interests to retain Nash & expose him in expansion to meet the 25% of the previous seasons salary requirement.
If you look at NYR’s current roster situation baring significant trades this summer they are essentially committed to the 7F, 3D & 1 G formula. Based on all the current assets the only way NYR can expose 18+ million will be with Nash’s contract exposed. Unless players with NMC’s can be exposed.
Thankfully we will have clarity on all the issue’s before the draft in June.
Good point, this upcoming season then for the Rangers may prove to be quite difficult as far as signings / improvements are concerned. Especially if they opt to not move Nash and expose him next year… this expansion draft is going to create a lot of movement in the NHL.
Striker,
A week ago you had Nash being on the protected list in Ny? Until o reminded you it was his last year? Lol. I think you had Hayes on that list too?
Mark on April 25, 2016 at 9:17 pm
Perhaps Chia gets Jagr to sign with the Oil.I believe he would like to work with some of the young talent the team has.
Obe on April 26, 2016 at 1:32 am
Congrats Chad I have two boys as well but much older. I was 6 and a half pounds when born and I was biggest of four in our family lol. I had Rangers beating Pens in 7 based on goaltending alone. I guess that’s why they play the games cuz you never know what happens when the game is played on ice. Not sure St. Louis the Sharks and Islanders would have been picked also.
Lenny on April 26, 2016 at 8:06 am
From reading the posts it seems the NYR’s need a first line center why not clear as much cap space as possible and go after Stamkos. Since Custance suggested Buffalo take Vanek back why not trade for Nash which helps both teams and Buffalo has Nash for 2 years at 7.8 or less if the Rags hold a small portion of his salary (1.8M) and of course Nash agrees to the trade. Sabres have Nash for 2 yrs at 6 m, at the end of the contract is the time Eichel’s and Rinehart’s ELC’s are up and due a big raise. Good start at clearing salary to go after Stamkos for Rags and Sabres get a top six forward to start their quest to makes the playoffs next year.
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Over half of Washington homes most at risk of wildfire are in Spokane area, report says
Thu., Oct. 27, 2016
In this Aug. 21, 2016 file photo, a fast-moving wildfire approaches homes on the north side of Beacon Hill in Spokane. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)
By Scott Maben scottm@spokesman.com(509) 459-5528
Over 18,000 single-family homes in the Spokane-Spokane Valley area are at high risk of wildfire damage, with more than half of those rated at extreme risk, according to a new report from real estate data firm CoreLogic.
It would cost an estimated $4.2 billion to replace those homes, the company said.
More than half of all the homes in Washington that are at extreme or high risk of wildfire damage are in the Spokane area.
Another 4,500 homes in the metro area are at moderate wildfire damage risk, representing over $1 billion in reconstruction value, CoreLogic said.
The CoreLogic Wildfire Risk analysis used computer models and geographic information to examine slope, aspect and fuels to assess wildfire risk in the 13 Western states.
The analysis concluded that 98 percent of vulnerable Washington homes are at low risk of wildfire damage.
But of the 18,323 homes at extreme risk, just over half are in the Spokane area. Another 14,272 homes in the state are at high risk, with 61 percent of them in the Spokane area.
Spokane’s wildfire risk stems from its close proximity to forested areas with volatile fuels and the relatively large population extending from the urban area into the borderland between the urban and wildland areas, said CoreLogic’s senior hazard scientist, Tom Jeffery.
“Residential growth outward from cities located in areas with wildfire-based fuels – conifer forest – often puts many of those homes at risk, as well as the homes located in subdivisions on the outskirts of urban development,” Jeffery said.
So compared to other parts of Washington, the Spokane area has a large number of homes in close proximity to, or completely within, high-risk areas, he said.
The Washington Department of Natural Resources pays a lot of attention to wildfire dangers around Spokane, said Joe Smillie, spokesman for the agency.
“Some of that stemmed from Firestorm ’91, but there is a long history of wildfires in the Spokane area because it is relatively dry and elevated,” Smillie said.
“Wildfires around Spokane can also be very volatile because of the heavy winds that come out of the Columbia Basin,” he said. “If you look at a lot of the burn patterns from fires around Spokane, they look like cigars. That’s because fast winds tend to grow fires in rapid, narrow paths. Canyons and hills also tend to contain fires to narrow valleys. Those same fast winds make fires less predictable, increasing the threat to homes.”
Idaho has more than twice as many homes than Washington at extreme or high risk of damage, placing it fifth nationally behind California, Texas, Colorado and Oregon on the high end of the scale. Idaho has 67,877 homes in those high-risk categories, with a potential replacement cost of $15.4 billion.
Idaho has 41,230 homes at extreme risk and 26,647 at high risk, the CoreLogic analysis shows.
In 2015, wildfires scorched 10 million acres in the U.S. for the first time, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
The average burned acreage per year over the previous 20 years was 5.8 million acres.
DNR puts a lot of focus on trying to reduce the threat that wildfires pose to homes in Spokane’s wildland-urban interface, Smillie said. That includes reducing the amount of fire fuels, such as brush and tree thickets, on thousands of acres.
“We will be asking the Legislature in the upcoming session for $3.5 million to reduce the wildfire threat on 7,980 acres around Spokane,” he said. “We’ll also be asking for funding to do some prescribed burns in the area.”
The state has helped a dozen communities become fire-wise by taking steps such as reducing fire fuels around homes and widening streets, and it’s working with four more neighborhoods now.
“In addition, we have provided grants to nearly all of the rural fire districts around Spokane so they can have quality wildfire fighting equipment, and will be asking the legislature for another $5.5 million to add to that program in the coming biennium,” Smillie said.
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"I posted the picture to end the rumor mill" - Dominic Thiem on his new relationship with Lili Paul-Roncalli
Dominic Thiem at the 2020 French Open
Namit Kumar
Dominic Thiem made heads turn last week by posting a picture of Lili Paul-Roncalli on his Instagram 'stories' and captioning it with a heart emoji. The World No. 3 has now spoken a little more about his new romance in an interview with Kronen Zeitung, claiming he uploaded the story in order to end the rumors.
There had been immense speculation about Thiem and Paul-Roncalli last month, and the Austrian's Instagram post was widely seen as a confirmation of the relationship. But Thiem refused to delve too deep into the matter, insisting that there was 'nothing more to say'.
"I posted the picture to end the rumor mill," Thiem said. "It's all very fresh, the last few weeks have been nice. There is nothing more to say for the time being."
Dominic Thiem got a new girlfriend. Her name's Lili-Paul Roncalli, she is an Austrian Circus Performer and dancer 👩❤️💋👨
(📸 @ThiemDomi) pic.twitter.com/0i5iINOxGk
— We Are Tennis (@WeAreTennis) January 8, 2021
Dominic Thiem also confirmed that Lili Paul-Roncalli would not be joining him along with his team in Australia, given the very strict COVID-19 regulations in place at Melbourne.
I am lucky that I play tennis because it's a sport where you don't have to hurt anyone: Dominic Thiem
Gunter Bresnik (L) and Dominic Thiem
Dominic Thiem is reportedly nearing the end of his long-standing legal battle with former coach Gunter Bresnik. The Austrian terminated his association with Bresnik in the early days of 2019, following a 15-year partnership on tour. But the coach took legal action against the US Open-champion, claiming he is still entitled to his income.
Although the legal battle may be coming to end through an out-of-court settlement, the 27-year-old recently opened up about his time with Bresnik and his delight at being able to work with current coach Nicolas Massu.
"Right from the start, Nico gave me a lot more freedom (as compared to Bresnik)," said Dominic Thiem.
Speaking about the bitter end with his former coach, the Austrian said: "At some point all the joy of playing was gone."
Dominic Thiem and his former coach and manager Günter Bresnik met in court today. Bresnik sued Thiem for around 450.000 EUR: For sponsoring and equipment deals he finalised while he was still working with Thiem, and which are still running today.https://t.co/TVmMAV2UOK
— Lukas Zahrer (@ZahrerLukas) December 18, 2020
Bresnik's approach is considered to be a very aggressive one; the Austrian coach is known to have a style that is hands-on and relentless. Although the professional relationship between the pair has come to a disappointing end, Thiem asserted that he doesn't wish for there to be any acrimony between him and Bresnik, who has had an intimate relationship with the entire Thiem family over the years.
"I like things to be harmonious (between him and Bresnik)," Dominic Thiem said. "I am lucky that I play tennis because it's a sport where you don't have to hurt anyone."
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Reerslev Church
Hedehusene, Denmark
The oldest parts of the Reerslev Church, nave and the chancel, date back to the 12th century and are in the Romanesque style. In the 15th century, a chapel, a vestry and an extension of the nave to the west were added in the late-Gothic style. Cross vaults were also added during this period.
The cross vaults were decorated by the Isefjord school around 1450. After the Reformation, they were covered with limewash for centuries until they were uncovered and partly restored by Jacob Kornerup in 1873. They present pictures of Christ's birth, the Three Kings, children being killed under Herod's orders, the flight to Egypt and the arrival in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. There are also scenes of the Last Supper, Jesus praying in Gethsemane, Pilot washing his hands, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.
The church's altar with its panels from 1590 and the pulpit from 1609 are also of interest.
Medieval churches in Denmark
The First Kingdom (Denmark)
M W Gjøes Vej 18, Hedehusene, Denmark
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Founded: 12th century
Historical period: The First Kingdom (Denmark)
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Reusse: Resurgent Gophers hockey quieting many anxious voices
The latest numbers are sobering: On average, 91 people a day die from an opioid-related overdose, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Minnesota is far from immune to the pain pill problem. Health officials say prescribed drugs, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, were responsible for most of the state’s opioid-involved deaths last year.
While doctors and legislators are taking steps to address the situation, there’s another critical line of defense: loved ones who can spot the telltale signs of opioid addiction.
“A lot of family members will say, ‘Oh, gosh, looking back, yeah, I see it.’ Because it happens so gradually and so insidiously typically,” said Dr. W. Michael Hooten, professor of anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and an expert in pain medicine.
We asked Hooten and Dr. Charles Reznikoff, an addiction specialist at Hennepin County Medical Center, for advice on what to look for if you suspect someone you love is addicted to opioids:
1. A preoccupation with the drug
This can take several different forms, Hooten said. Some people may become very concerned or focused on the timing of their medication. With others, a lot of their daily activities revolve around the time when they take their medicine. They’ll make sure nothing will interfere with that time — even if that means skipping important events.
They also may pay a lot of attention to ensuring that their refills aren’t threatened in any way. And some people will want to increase their dosage to treat their pain.
2. Intoxication
Small pupils, slowed speech and heavy, drooping eyelids are classic signs that someone is intoxicated from opioid use, the doctors say.
“Two things make your pupils small — sunlight and opioids,” Reznikoff said.
The person also might have trouble processing complex information. “It doesn’t knock down the IQ points, but it takes somebody twice as long to do something that they would have done very quickly before,” Hooten said.
People who are extremely intoxicated from opioids will do something called “nodding off” — falling asleep while seated upright, Reznikoff said. “They’ll maintain their posture but they’ll fall asleep. They often fall asleep in the middle of their sentence. They’ll just drift off and then they’ll wake up and finish their sentence as if nothing’s wrong,” he said.
3. Retreating from social events
Families may notice people becoming increasingly withdrawn and secretive about how they’re using the drug — much like alcoholics who will try to hide their booze, Hooten said.
Even when they are surrounded by family, addicts will seek to distance themselves. “They’re going to retreat to their room, close the door, and give the appearance of sleeping a lot,” Reznikoff said. “They’re not really sleeping — they’re nodding off.”
While people addicted to alcohol or cocaine often become loud or manic in their behavior, opioid addicts tend to be mellow. “These patients are going to be content to go off into a quiet room and just relax,” he said. “They’re not frantically on the computer, or going out to the bar and getting into fistfights. They’re very low-key.”
4. Withdrawal symptoms
“A patient of mine, his family observed that the first two days of every family vacation he was in his room alone, feeling sick,” Reznikoff said. “ ‘How did he get the flu at the beginning of every family vacation?’ they wondered. Well it wasn’t the flu. It was withdrawal.”
When addicts are cut off from their supply of opioids, they go through withdrawal for a couple of days. Symptoms include diarrhea or vomiting, sweating, large pupils, and goose bumps.
“They may be moving around a lot,” Reznikoff continued. “They will feel anxious, irritable. They’ll say they’re in pain. Some people get headaches or abdominal pain or back pain.”
5. Drug paraphernalia
Opioid users may swallow a pill. They may snort it. They may smoke it. Or they may inject it.
If they’re smoking or injecting it, there will be a lot of paraphernalia around, Reznikoff said.
Look for needles, cotton balls, syringes and spoons. Spoons are often used to melt the drugs. The cotton balls, he explained, are used as a filter. “They’ll have some of the drug melted in liquid form, and then they’ll draw it into the needle through the cotton ball, believing that impurities are caught in the cotton.”
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Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows:
Uganda's electoral commission said Saturday that President Yoweri Museveni won a sixth five-year term, extending his rule to four decades, while top opposition challenger Bobi Wine dismissed "cooked-up, fraudulent results" and officials struggled to explain how polling results were compiled amid an internet blackout.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right party chose Armin Laschet, the pragmatic governor of Germany's most populous state, as its new leader Saturday, sending a signal of continuity months before an election in which voters will decide who becomes the new chancellor.
Tevlin: Minn. pharmacist who faced addiction demons now helps teens
Historic $1.55M St. Paul home was hangout for a young F. Scott Fitzgerald • Home & Garden
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A young Minnesota Native filmmaker's 'Wild' ride to Sundance • Movies
Home listings: What $249,900 buys in the Twin Cities area • Home & Garden
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Security high as pro-Trump rally at the Capitol remains lowkey gathering
Stock your fridge and pantry with these 12 products made by Twin Cities restaurants
Some years ago, the New Yorker had a cartoon in which a woman was saying to her seemingly unhappy husband: “Just because you’re declining doesn’t mean Western civilization is declining.”
I thought of this when I read “Americans offer glum appraisal of U.S. condition” (Jan. 21). Is it possible that the aging of our citizens is making us more pessimistic?
We do have many problems, but there are many good things happening in America. A realistic view shouldn’t ignore them.
Richard W. Duncan, Minneapolis
Commentary? Fail. Cover photo? Fail.
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Regarding “A helpful translation of Obama’s foreign-policy initiatives” (Jan. 22): I’m surprised at Bloomberg News for allowing this kind of writing — and at the Star Tribune for printing it.
Not only are members of the GOP Congress overstepping protocol by inviting Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to speak to them (“Boehner raises stakes over Iran,” Jan. 22), but we must read Josh Rogin’s interpretation of one of the finest State of the Union addresses. I guess it’s smart to jump on the anti-Obama bandwagon, but to most of us it is fearful, because such criticism and anti-peacemaking rhetoric could bring us to another war. These critics never give Obama credit for trying to keep us out of war and trying to settle problems diplomatically. They would rather ridicule for political gain regardless of where their ideas would lead us. The future is frightening.
Connie Metcalf, Fridley
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If anyone ever doubted the power of imagery to drive a narrative, they need look no further than the front-page picture (Jan. 21) of the president during his State of the Union address. The Star Tribune could have picked a picture in which both Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner were standing and applauding. It could have used a picture where they were both sitting and listening. It could have used a picture with Biden scratching his forehead in the background. But instead, it used the picture of Biden standing and applauding and Boehner with his eyes closed. Come on — really? How about a picture of President Obama with his eyes closed?
Dave Conklin, Victoria
In his State of the Union speech focusing on middle-class economics, President Obama did an outstanding job of describing some of the hurdles and hardships people encounter in trying to get ahead and his suggestions for helping them. He also suggested that we levy higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans and reduce taxes for the middle class.
The one thing he left out that would have tied everything together is that the wealth accumulated at the top came from the middle class and the poor. Some of it was in the form of modest, fair profits, but more of it came from unfair banking fees and swipe fees, lower taxes on investment income than on earned income, excessive profits on a whole range of electronics and PDAs, price-fixing, union-busting, unconscionably low wages and monopolies. (Add your own suggestions here.) So, it’s not fair to call it a transfer of wealth to adjust the tax rates as he suggested. It’s a return of what was unfairly taken. And it’s about time.
Mary McLeod, St. Paul
How’s this for a contrast to the Star Tribune’s Jan. 21 editorial (“Raising the stakes on inequality”): Obama’s plan is nothing other than redistribution of income via edict.
Free community college. Laughable! There is nothing free. Pay for it by taking from others is what it is all about.
He’s a socialist liberal, and he proved it again Tuesday night.
He got his head handed to him in November 2014. However, his ego won’t let him acknowledge it, since his main objective is his legacy.
Advice to conservative Republicans and moderate Democrats: Flood him with all those bills — more than 300 that never got to the Senate floor because of then-Majority Leader Harry Reid’s blocking.
Just inundate Obama with bills. Maybe then he’ll have to spend more time in the Oval Office. His desk may then seem somewhat cluttered, for in every other picture you see of his desk, it is without paper of any kind.
Final comment: Obama owns the left-wing liberal press, and the editorial referenced above is once again proof-positive.
Jim Farrell, Bloomington
Most of us have played the game of “Monopoly.” It is interesting how the game mirrors our current lives in the United States. The goal of the game, of course, is for the players to capture money and property until one person has it all. The game ends, and several players walk away broke and disheartened.
This appears to be the destiny of poor and middle-class citizens as the very rich progressively capture most of the available wealth.
Are most of us going to walk away broke and disheartened, or are the very rich going to even the score a little?
Donovan Robinson, Elk River
MET COUNCIL
Events illustrate why it should be elected
There have been many opinions expressed about Gov. Mark Dayton’s appointment of a new chair for the Metropolitan Council. This position should be an elected position, as should the other members of the board. The communities governed by the Met Council would be better served with members being elected rather than appointed.
John T. Bower, May Township (Washington County)
CHANGE AND RESISTANCE
Palestinians do take nonviolent measures
A Jan. 21 letter writer wondered why the Palestinians do not practice nonviolent resistance in the manner of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The Palestinians do practice nonviolent resistance in a hundred ways every day, but the Israeli reaction is quite different from that in the United States. This is epitomized in the Academy Award-nominated film “5 Broken Cameras,” in which the Palestinian residents of the village Bil’in are nonviolently protesting the Israeli barrier wall encroaching on their village. In the film, there is a scene in which two Israeli soldiers hold a nonviolent protester while a third Israeli solder casually, in cold blood, shoots the protester in the leg. This is a typical Israeli reaction to nonviolent protesters, along with tear gas, rubber bullets, stun grenades and live ammunition.
Just recently, the Palestinians applied for membership in the International Court (a nonviolent protest). Israel immediately, and illegally, began to withhold taxes collected by Israel to be paid to the Palestinian Authority, as well as threatening a number of other severe retributions.
Donald Empson, Stillwater
Unlike other media, it is an honest broker
Steve Sack can criticize the Fox News Channel all he wants (editorial cartoon, Jan. 22), but it remains the most watched and most reliable news source available. It doesn’t “manufacture” news like the regular media do, and it owns up to any factual errors when they happen. Just because the network isn’t complicit with the Obama administration, the regular news sources hate it.
Larry A. Sorenson, Arlington, Minn.
Local Security high as pro-Trump rally at the Capitol remains lowkey gathering
Minnesota is on edge as Biden's inauguration approaches
The Jan. 6 attack on nation's Capitol should be bringing state leaders together.
Readers Write: Impeachment, riots, big tech
Skip the trial, seek real reform.
Tom Berg
Fifty years later, is a 'Minnesota Miracle' even imaginable?
Times have changed, but bipartisan work shouldn't be impossible.
Union has a chance to start over after Bob Kroll
Divisive Minneapolis Police Federation president will not be missed in retirement.
John Rash, Rash Report
America's divide seen in a clash of symbols
The Capitol attack, including the desecration of the American flag and unfurling of the Confederate one, shows the power of symbols.
Readers Write: Impeachment, riots, big tech • Letters
Readers Write: COVID vaccinations, riots past and present, unity and polarization, Kamala Harris • Letters
Readers Write: Impeachment, the future of the GOP, electric cars • Letters
Readers Write: Bob Kroll's departure, 'gaslighting' at the Legislature, Capitol insurrection • Letters
Readers Write: Trump's debts, Minneapolis police, Excelsior construction rules • Letters
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Grass fire extinguished along Highway 22 near Lyons
A grass fire along Highway 22 in the Santiam Canyon has been knocked down after multiple agencies responded Tuesday.
Units from Mill City Fire Department responded to a report of a grass fire along the highway this morning between mileposts 24 and 27, according to officials.
Responding crews found several small fires along the highway and called for assistance from Stayton about 10:30 a.m., said Captain George Crosiar,
Tuesday's duty officer for the Stayton Fire District.
The largest of the fires was contained to about a quarter of an acre on the shoulder slope near milepost 25 by about 20 crew members from fire agencies and about six crew members from Oregon Department of Forestry.
"With these winds, we can get small fires that grow fairly rapidly," Crosiar said. "Be cautious out in wildlands, fire can escape and spread quickly."
Wind gusts up to 20 miles per hour were recorded by a weather station seven miles from the fire location.
Because of the location of the fire, the cause is under investigation by the Oregon Department of Forestry.
Units from the Marion County Sheriff's Department and Oregon Department of Transportation assisted with traffic control in the area.
Traffic was delayed while fire equipment occupied a westbound lane during the response.
Today's fire comes about six weeks after a large wildfire burned 189 acres in and around the nearby North Santiam State Recreation Area in March.
Santiam Park Fire:Fire 100 percent contained as cleanup work begins on North Santiam State Park
David Davis is a reporter at the Statesman Journal. Contact him at dtdavis@statesmanjournal.com, 503-399-6897 or follow on Twitter @DavidDavisSJ
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Home Theater Geeks Podcast
Podcast 3: Andy Parsons
Scott Wilkinson | Dec 30, 2009 | First Published: Dec 31, 2009 | 0 comments
Andy Parsons, Senior VP of Advanced Product Development at Pioneer and a spokesman for the Blu-ray Disc Association, discusses the newly finalized 3D Blu-ray spec, 3D technology in general, why Pioneer got out of the plasma business, and more.
Run Time: 51:16
Podcast 2: Joe Kane
Pre-eminent video guru Joe Kane, creator of the Digital Video Essentials: HD Basics setup and test Blu-ray, offers invaluable insight into projection screens, video calibration, the Samsung projectors he helped design, and more.
Run Time: 1:07:24
Podcast 1: Tomlinson Holman
Tomlinson Holman (the "TH" in THX) talks about his distinguished audio career at Advent and Lucasfilm, the early history of THX, 10.2-channel audio, his current work at Audyssey and USC, and more.
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Keep America Great
Home Democrats
Sen. Graham: “The Walls Are Closing In, People Are Beginning To Talk… Aug 5, I’m Calling Sally Yates” To Testify
[Image source: Fox News video screenshot. Senator Lindsey Graham on Fox News' "Hannity" July 20, 2020.]
Posted By: Lindsey Michelle July 21, 2020
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spoke with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Monday over his committees investigation into Russia collusion and the release of the newly declassified documents that they say “significantly undercut” the “reliability” of the infamous Steele dossier from the Russia probe, as well as the accuracy and reliability of the factual assertions in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Senator Graham told Hannity that he “found a memo that was put together after the interview with the Russian Sub-source”, referring to a document that is a 57-page summary of a three-day interview the FBI conducted with ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele’s so-called “Primary Sub-source” in January of 2017. Steele authored the unverified anti-Trump dossier of claims about alleged ties between Donald Trump and Russia that served as the basis for FISA warrants obtained against Carter Page.
“Without the Russian dossier, they couldn’t obtain a warrant” against Carter Page, Senator Graham told Hannity. “They tried to get a FISA warrant against Carter Page and it was rejected. They find the dossier and all of a sudden they get a warrant.”
“[Inspector General Michael] Horowitz said without the dossier, there’s not warrant,” he continued. “So from January 24 through January 27th, the FBI interviews the Russian sub-source who put the dossier together. They created a 40 page memo showing it was a bunch of garbage, not reliable at all. Here’s the question: How could it be that they continued to use the dossier in April and June 2017, knowing in January the dossier was completely discredited by the person who put it together?”
“Did the intel analyst that put the memo together tell anybody up the chain ‘Oh, by the way, our case just fell apart?'” Senator Graham asked. “I find it impossible to believe senior people at the FBI were not told that in January 2017, the case fell apart against Carter Page.”
Sean Hannity responded and asked the South Carolina Senator “That now confirms now completely that even [Peter] Strzok knew. But they did it anyway. What happens to Americans when they lie to a court and they know they’re lying to a court?” Continued Below
“You should go to jail,” Senator Graham responded, regarding those who lied to the FISA court. “To get a warrant, the court relies on affidavits signed by law enforcement officials.”
Then, he announced: “On August 5, I’m calling Sally Yates” to testify before his committee. “She was the number two at the Justice Department. … Remember on January 4, 2017, the FBI agents involved on the ground said, ‘Let’s drop [Michael] Flynn from Crossfire Hurricane. We found no evidence at all that he was working with the Russians. Let’s take him out of the investigation’. That’s when Strzok tells those people, ‘No, the 7th floor wants to keep going'”.
“So the next day, January 5, they meet with President Obama and Vice President Biden to continue to surveil General Flynn. And here’s what’s shocking: Sally Yates, the number two at the Justice Department did not even know they were following Flynn, but Obama did,” Sen. Graham said. Continued Below
Senator Lindsey Graham revealed three things he wants to ask Sally Yates when she appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee:
If you knew then what you know now, would you have signed the warrant application against Carter Page?
Did you hear Joe Biden say what about the Logan Act when it comes to General Flynn?
Is it true you were surprised the president knew about the surveillance of Flynn and you did not?
Hannity told Graham: “I am told we have now found not only the person that was the main source for the dirty Steele Russian dossier; you’re smiling, that means I’m probably over the target. And I’ve also heard, that there are people [FBI] that are …. now beginning to talk. They’re beginning to tell stories– that they warned everybody not to do certain things and they were ignored, which means that’s even worse than what we thought.”
“The walls are closing in,” Graham declared. “People are beginning to talk. Remember in the affidavit somebody told the court, the sub-source, the Russian guy was truthful and cooperative? Nothing could be more untruthful than that. He was truthful, but he destroyed the reliability of the dossier. They misled the court. If you can find the person who said that, you’re off to the races. It’s impossible they wrote this 40 page memo and didn’t share it with the top.” Video Below
Senator Graham also pointed out what Peter Strzok said in February 2017: “Again, we’re unaware of any Trump advisers engaging in conversations with Russian intelligence officials.”
“Here’s the question: Why the hell was [Robert] Mueller appointed to begin with if in February they had no evidence of Trump officials talking to the Russians, working with them? What happened between February and May 2017?” he wondered.
(Related: Sen. Graham Set To Call Mueller To Testify After The Former Special Counsel Pens An Op-Ed On Roger Stone)
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Alicia Keys announces intimate concert at the Hard Rock in Tampa
The Grammy-winning superstar is scaling down from the arenas she’s used to.
Alicia Keys is in a stripped-down state of mind.
The Grammy-winning singer typically plays arenas all over the world, but for her upcoming summer and fall tour, she’ll simplify things by booking more intimate venues, including a relatively new spot in Tampa: the new performance space at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, which opened last fall.
It’s the most intimate local venue Keys has played since a David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts show in 2005, but it comes at a cost. Tickets go on presale Wednesday starting at a princely $200, which exceeds even the prices for tickets to the venue’s grand opening concert by Keith Urban in October. That’s if you can get them — a lot of the tickets will no doubt go to casino VIPs and high rollers.
Related: Keith Urban opens Tampa Hard Rock's new venue with VIP-friendly bash
But if you do get in, it should be a grand show. In addition to hits like Fallin’, No One, Girl on Fire and Empire State of Mind, she’ll be touring behind a new album, Alicia, due in March. And she’s hosting the Grammys this weekend on CBS.
Click here for details on the show.
Up next:Nickelback sets summer tour date in Tampa
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Welcome to The Rabbi Barry H. Greene
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
~ William Butler Yeats
The Rabbi Barry H. Greene Early Childhood Center at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun provides the highest quality Early Childhood, Kindergarten, and After-School Programming in the tri-state area. With a philosophy and curricula that nurtures each child’s unique growth and development, TBJ’s mission is to foster a love of learning in every child. TBJ’s warm, welcoming and inclusive environment serves children ages 4 months through 6 years.
At all grade levels our curriculum is child-centered, multisensory, play and thematically based and integrates all domains, including social-emotional development, oral language, literacy, emergent writing, science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics, (STEAM), social studies, music, languages, and physical development.
Small group instruction, differentiated teaching, and a multi-sensory approach ensures that TBJ students develop an authentic feeling of pride in true accomplishment, a growth mindset, grit, determination to persist at challenging tasks, optimism, confidence, and a love of learning that will promote success now and in the future. TBJ is truly a thriving learning community in which all children flourish!
Through the celebration of Shabbat, the Jewish holidays, Tikkun Olam, and our connection to Israel, our children experience the beauty and joy of their Jewish culture, tradition and heritage.
Our mission is to foster a love of learning in every child we teach. We achieve this goal by skillfully weaving meaningful, creative and enriching experiences into each and every day, empowering our students to follow their own curiosity, to think creatively, to work both independently and cooperatively with others, and to become self-confident, inquisitive and enthusiastic learners
Whether this is your child(ren)’s first school year at TBJ or your family has been with us for years, please know that you and your children have a home-away-from-home with us here in our ECC. The relationships and bonds that form within our doors and in the larger TBJ community, truly will transcend the early childhood years. We consider this precious time to be the foundation of what will hopefully be a lifetime of engagement in learning, curiosity, creativity, spirituality, friendship, kindness, gratitude, zest, and a love for others, life, and our planet.
We are proud that ECC Tuition includes Temple Membership at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun. Our clergy, faculty, and leadership hope you feel embraced by our thriving community and, in turn, embrace all the opportunities TBJ creates to live and learn, celebrate and flourish, in our Synagogue and School. If your oldest child is enrolled in our Early Childhood Center, membership is included with your child(ren)’s tuition.
Our Early Arrival and Extended Day Programs provide support to families in need of a longer school day. For information about TBJ’s outstanding Early Childhood Programs, dynamic Kindergarten, After School Activities, Early Arrival Options, Extended Day Hours until 6:00 pm and/or to schedule a tour for the 2020-2021 school year please contact us at ecc@tbj.org or 973-671-6678.
Please take the opportunity to get involved in many of our ECC initiatives, to join our Parents’ Association meetings and programs and to become a vital part of our warm & vibrant TBJ family! Most importantly, please know that we never take your trust for granted and we appreciate you entrusting us with your most precious gifts.
We look forward to partnering with you to experience the awe and amazement that comes with raising and teaching young children!
Michele Feingold
Director, Early Childhood Center
ECC 2020-2021 ENROLLMENT INFORMATION
If you are new to TBJ, prior to enrolling, please complete a Membership Form at www.tbj.org/form/tbjmembership
Current Members, please go to:
www.tbj.org ->My Account->Start Enrollment->
Scroll Down to ECC 2020/2021->Select Grade Level
Deposits are due at the time of enrollment. There is an option to pay by E-Check or Credit Card.
An ECC Initial Tuition Payment of $1,000 is due by March 30, 2020.
The balance can be paid in full by August 14, 2020 or you can set up a monthly payment plan from April 30, 2020 through December 31, 2020.
Both ECC Deposits and Initial Tuition Balance Payments are non-refundable and non-transferable to other “non-TBJ ECC” Temple programs.
A 20% Sibling Discount is credited to the younger sibling(s)’s tuition.
ECC Tuition includes Temple Membership at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun. Our clergy, leadership and faculty hope you feel embraced by our thriving community and, in turn, embrace all the opportunities TBJ creates to live and learn, celebrate and flourish, in our Synagogue and School.
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