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Physical Therapy in Musculoskeletal Healthcare and Rehabilitation
UCL - University College London · Division of Surgery and Interventional Science
A minimum of a second-class UK Bachelor's degree in a related medical, biological science or bioengineering discipline, a clinical qualification, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.
If your education has not been conducted in the English language, you will be expected to demonstrate evidence of an adequate level of English proficiency.
The English language level for this programme is: Advanced.
Further information can be found on our English language requirements page.
This unique programme is designed to provide an education in the underlying scientific principles of physical therapy - physiotherapy, osteopathy, sports therapy - and an opportunity to experience the clinical application of specialist rehabilitation techniques with expert clinicians at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH).
This programme is unique in that it covers the basic science informing a physical therapy approach to treatment. The programme encourages students to integrate knowledge across modules and to use a multi-dimensional approach to patient management.
The programme is delivered through a partnership between internationally renowned UCL academics and world-leading specialist clinicians at the RNOH, providing students with excellent networking opportunities with academics, clinical professionals and like-minded peers.
UCL was rated as the best university for research strength in the UK in the latest Research Excellence Framework (December 2014). The RNOH has a worldwide reputation for ground-breaking neuro-musculoskeletal healthcare and specialist rehabilitation.
Please see UCL website for full information about fees and costs for this programme.
The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, case-based studies, workshops and practical classes. Assessment is through MCQ examinations; coursework, including narrative reviews, structured questions and case studies; and poster presentation. The research project is assessed by a written dissertation and viva examination.
The programme will be taught mostly at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, London. Some teaching will also take place in Bloomsbury.
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NETGEAR reduces complexity and cost of professional AV over IP
Purpose built to streamline audio-visual solutions over IP by reducing the complexity and cost, the new additions to the line of switches from NETGEAR are now available for purchase.
The new additions to the M4300 line of switches and the introduction of the new M4500 series 100 Gigabit Network Switches are NETGEAR’s answer to the tremendous demand for AV over IP.
NETGEAR advances professional AV over IP with new additions to the M4300 line of switches, 16, 24, and 48-port 10 Gigabit models, previously debuted at InfoComm, and that are now available for purchase. Additionally, the new M4500 series 100 Gigabit Network Switches have been added to the NETGEAR managed switch line. All of these new offerings are, says the company, purpose built to streamline audio-visual solutions over IP by reducing the complexity and cost of networked deployments but are equally applicable to standard IT network deployments.
To address the expansive growth of AV deployments over ethernet, NETGEAR is introducing the M4500-32C and M4500-48XF8C, a new class of switches for the market. These AV over IP-ready 100G and 10G Ethernet switches combine the configurability of an AV matrix switcher with the power and scalability of Ethernet to support hundreds of AV over IP endpoints, at a price point that is dramatically lower than comparable matrix switchers.
Making it easier to connect
Removing the need for complicated Layer 3 PIM routing, these new switches offer NETGEAR-engineered IGMP Plus which greatly simplifies system architectures with the same well-known L2 techniques across the entire AV over IP network. The M4500-32C 32-port 100Gbps switch can be leveraged to aggregate the edge switches for a complete set up for large projects up to 320×320 SDVoE (10G) devices in a single architecture. Installers opting to use M4500-48XF8C switch in their installation will find that it is already preconfigured out of the box enabling true AV and multicast Zero Touch network configuration. Connect AV endpoints, and power on the switch. It just works!
“NETGEAR is driving the technology transition for the audio-visual space by offering more managed switches that can ease the move from the traditional complexities and expense of disseminating video and audio to big screens,” said John McHugh, senior vice president of SMB and services at NETGEAR. “We now offer a range of port options to meet the needs of smaller deployments such as in home or small business and the 100G option will address the growing demands of providing the highest quality video to the stadium level displays.”
Lowering the cost of fibre-based installations
Meanwhile, the M4300-16X is the world’s first 16-port 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10GBASE-T copper switch with an option for PoE+ across all ports in full provisioning mode. The M4300-16X is a half-width 1U switch that comes either with a non-PoE power supply or with a power supply capable of providing 500W of PoE power to the 16 ports.
The M4300-24XF is a 24-port 10GBASE-X SFP+ fibre switch with two shared 10GBASE-T copper ports. The M4300-24XF is a half-width 1U switch that dramatically lowers the cost of fibre-based project installations up to 24 nodes.
NETGEAR is also introducing the M4300-48XF, a 48-port 10GBASE-X SFP+ fibre switch with two shared 10GBASE-T copper ports. The M4300-48XF is a full-width 1U switch that dramatically lowers the cost of fibre-based project installations up to 48 nodes.
All M4300 models are certified for Software Defined Video over Ethernet (SDVoE) devices for the ultimate in AV over IP deployments. They are also ideal in any IT deployment that need fast, reliable and cost-effective networking.
Lower cost, increased distances and a wider range of applications are rapidly growing the percentage of audio-visual distribution moving to Ethernet networks, and as an industry leader in AV over IP networking, NETGEAR is dedicated to support individuals and businesses following this upward trend with the M4300 and M4500 series switches.
Follow the link to learn more about these new managed switches from NETGEAR.
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UMass Amherst sets agency roster to boost enrollment
October 24, 2013 by Virgil Dickson
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has enlisted a roster of firms to boost its profile among prospective students.
AMHERST, MA: The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has enlisted a roster of firms to boost its profile among prospective students.
The Amherst branch is the flagship campus of the UMass system with 25,000 students.
Element Productions won the first of two contracts that was put up for bid. The account is worth $450,000 and runs through May 2014. It is a new assignment.
“The goal is to raise the profile of the university on a national level and local level, and to showcase the core attributes of the university,” said Eran Lobel, CEO of the firm.
Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications will provide PR support as a subcontractor, while Element works on content creation and paid efforts such as TV advertisements.
The university wants to create a campaign that will lead to increased enrollment by making it students' first choice as they pick schools, according to agency search documents.
Element and Rasky Baerlein will conduct promotional activities for the campus' upcoming 150th anniversary. A key event will be “Stand for UMass” day in Boston, scheduled for Friday.
The RFP for the account was issued after a year of research about the university branch's brand. The results showed the importance of emphasizing the good the university has done for the state, such as its economic impact of $1.4 billion annually, according to John Kennedy, vice chancellor for university relations.
“It was clear to us that we needed to start telling our story and all the valuable things [happening] on our campus or we would suffer,” he said.
Marketing firm Gravity Switch won a second account to specifically promote UMass Amherst's Stockbridge School of Agriculture. The $50,000 contract will run through June 2014.
The scope of the account spans PR, Web development, and meeting support, according to the RFP.
The school is facing an enrollment struggle of sorts, said Gravity co-founder Jason Mark, who added that “a lot of what we're doing is understanding how they are positioning themselves now and how they are going to reposition themselves.”
University officials did not return requests for comment.
Last fall, the University of Massachusetts system hired O'Neill and Associates to provide PR services for its president's office.
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Study Shows Air Conditioners Can Spread Coronavirus
Open your windows instead.
by Clifford Olanday
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In an early release article from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), researchers associated air conditioning with the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
According to the study, nine people from three families were infected by one person in an air-conditioned restaurant in Guangzhou, China. The infected diner and his family were seated in a table in between two other families. An air-conditioning unit situated at one end of the line of tables blew air toward the three family clusters as well as circulated air in the windowless room.
“We conclude that in this outbreak, droplet transmission was prompted by air-conditioned ventilation. The key factor for infection was the direction of the airflow,” said the study, which will be finalized and published in the July 2020 volume of Emerging Infectious Diseases journal.
In an article by Forbes, experts have now advised against the use of air conditioners, including central air conditioning systems, as they can be pathways of viral particles.
According to a study by researchers from the University of Oregon and University of California-Dav, “[h]igher outside air fractions and higher air exchange rates in buildings may help to dilute the indoor contaminants, including viral particles...” The report further suggests the opening of windows to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Qingyan Chen, another expert who spoke to Forbes, shares a similar view. “My advice: Supply households with 100% outside air, do not use recirculated air,” said Chen, James. G. Dwyer Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. The professor also suggests staying away from the air conditioning exhaust and using gloves to handle its filter (or avoiding it entirely in the meantime).
However, while researchers have cautioned against air conditioners, the CDCP study notes how 73 diners and eight employees, who were also present in the Guangzhou restaurant, were not infected by coronavirus.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic: Insurer Insights into Challenges, Implications, and Lessons Learned
Publisher: Urban Institute
Publication: U.S. Health Reform - Monitoring and Impact
Author(s): Lucia K, Blumberg L, Curran E, Holahan J, Wengle E, Hoppe O, and Corlette S
Entering the COVID-19 crisis on strong financial ground, insurers acted quickly to reduce cost barriers to care for consumers and provide financial assistance to providers, but uncertainty remains on longer term impacts.
Even after months into the COVID-19 pandemic, little is known about the experiences of the health insurers who reimburse the health care providers for the care they deliver, as well as insurers’ insights into what the pandemic might mean for public and private insurance coverage, insurance premiums, and benefits going forward.
Researchers interviewed executives from 25 health insurance plans between April and June 2020 to understand insurers’ experiences during the COVID-19 crisis. Key findings include:
Insurers appear well-positioned financially to navigate the COVID-19 crisis, at least for now.
While insurers expect the economic downturn to have a significant impact on their employer business, to date, most insurers report that their employer block of business remains surprising stable. Still, there are concerns that small employers, in particular, will begin to drop coverage in the coming months.
Medicaid enrollment is on the rise, but expected increases in individual market enrollment have yet to materialize in a significant way.
Most insurers are concerned that the financial impact of COVID-19 on some medical practices will lead to further consolidation among providers.
Though insurers face a significant degree of uncertainty, they believe the crisis will have less of an impact on 2021 premiums than initially feared.
Most insurers feel that the COVID-19 crisis has not prompted a need to change benefit designs to any great degree, though they believe telehealth benefits are here to stay.
Insurers acknowledge that further changes to the health care system are needed to address health disparities, especially racial and ethnic disparities.
Insurers’ experiences during COVID-19 can inform policies that could improve the United States’ ability to respond to future pandemics, economic downturns, or other disruptions.
About the Urban Institute
The nonprofit Urban Institute is dedicated to elevating the debate on social and economic policy. For nearly five decades, Urban scholars have conducted research and offered evidence-based solutions that improve lives and strengthen communities across a rapidly urbanizing world. Their objective research helps expand opportunities for all, reduce hardship among the most vulnerable, and strengthen the effectiveness of the public sector. Visit the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center for more information specific to its staff and its recent research.
About Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute–Center on Health Insurance Reforms
The Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute is a nonpartisan, expert team of faculty and staff dedicated to conducting research on the complex and developing relationship between state and federal oversight of the health insurance marketplace.
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Alan Cumming:The Head that Wears a Crown
Featuring Speeches for Royal Men by William Shakespeare
Internationally acclaimed actor and Tony Award Winner, Alan Cumming performs Shakespeare’s most important and beloved Royal speeches including, “To be or not to be,” “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,” “Now is the winter of our discontent,” “O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,” and many more. These speeches from As You Like It, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Henry V, Henry VIII, King Lear, MacBeth, Richard II, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus and Twelfth Night,were personally chosen by Cumming. Michael Boyd, recent Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company explaimed, “Alan Cumming brings to Shakespeare the lyricism of a genuine singer, the sharp edge of a wicked comic, and the embodied intelligence of a major actor.”
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rhythm, pitch, accents, everything, render Alan Cumming one of the
greatest chameleons of Shakespeare’s words and worlds. His voice and this
album take you on a journey of story, and that's the whole point of Shakespeare.
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Saved lists, including Registry and Wishlists, is not an available feature at this time. We are consistently rolling out new features, though, so please check back in the future!
Do you offer any gift wrapping or gift card services?
We don't currently offer gift wrapping, however we are constantly looking for ways to improve our services and website features, so keep checking back for more information and updates.
I've broken one of my favorite items and the pattern isn't available on your website. Can I still order a replacement?
The stock on our website tends to only be our very latest ranges or recently discontinued products. We suggest you can try chinasearch.co.uk or search for other replacement tableware or collectible services online.
How secure are my details?
Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At Royal Doulton we take every step to keep your financial information private and safe, and all transactions occur in a secure area of our site so that you can buy online with confidence.
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If you have already checked the product page and still can’t find the answer, then please contact Customer Care.
What is Royal Doulton made of?
All of our casual tableware collections are made using either porcelain or stoneware, making all modern Royal Doulton Plates, Royal Doulton Bowls, Royal Doulton Mugs, and Royal Doulton Serving Platters free from animal products such as bone.
What are Royal Doulton figurines made of?
Most Royal Doulton figurines are made using the highest quality bone china—older Royal Doulton dinner sets may be made from bone china too.
Royal Doulton fine bone china is manufactured with a type of soft-paste porcelain, which contains greater than 35% tricalcium orthophosphate. This makes our china extremely hard, durable and can't absorb fluids or food. The processing of the china results in a beautiful translucent white appearance, which is considered among the strongest types in the industry. Our (fine) bone china contains bone ash in the ingredients.
Royal Doulton collaborations
We have lots of friends that we work and collaborate with. Find a list of our latest collaborations below and simply click the link to shop!
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Why do my plates have grey marks on them?
Some Royal Doulton stoneware owners notice grey marks or 'scratches' on their dinnerware. Don't panic—this isn't a defect.These marks can occur when metal utensils are used and meet the hard glazes typically used by most stoneware manufacturers.
Stoneware glazes look and feel very smooth—however the surface is made up of microscopic 'peaks and valleys'. When metal utensils touch the surface of the stoneware, often being softer than the glaze, tiny metal particles get caught in the microscopic valleys, causing those grey marks.
Though some customers refer to these as scratches, there's not usually any actual damage to the glaze or the stoneware body. The good news is that metal deposits can be removed with a variety of cleansers such as Bar Keepers Friend. The combination of chemical action and a mild abrasive in the cleaner easily removes the metal particles from the glaze... Phew!
What are your recommended care instructions?
We recommend visiting our Care Guide for information regarding our products.
There's nothing quite like getting your hands on Royal Doulton designs and seeing them with your own eyes, however we know that this isn't always possible. How the colors of products appear on our website has a lot to do with your monitor or phone screen resolution. To help you visualize our products, we strive to provide you with the best imagery.
Can you provide me with valuations for selling or insurance purposes?
Unfortunately, we're unable to give valuations for any purposes for our products. We recommend that you contact your local antiques dealer to discuss this.
How to identify Royal Doulton stamps?
We get lots of people contacting us asking 'How much is Royal Doulton worth?', 'How to value Royal Doulton', 'How to date Royal Doulton marks and numbers?' and 'How to identify my Royal Doulton patterns?'... Due to our small team of Customer Care Advisors, we sadly don't always get the chance to search for products or patterns through back-catalogs. If you have any questions like this, we suggest you try the following site for more information before contacting us:
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Who are Royal Doulton and what is the history of Royal Doulton?
When was Royal Doulton made? Royal Doulton history dates back to 1815. With our roots in salt-glazed half-dipped pottery, you can shop desings inspired by our heritage, suitably called the Royal Doulton 1815 Collection. The Royal Doulton Coffee Studio and Bowls of Plenty collections give nod to our recognizable dipped glazing technique too.
Starting on the bank of the River Thames in 1815, Martha Jones, John Watts and John Doulton joined forces to become Doulton & Watts Pottery. The factory specialized in manufacturing salt-glaze and stoneware ceramics, jars, bottles, and flasks. In 1835 Henry Doulton joined the firm and business boomed due to his role in the 'sanitary revolution' - pioneering the general use of stoneware drain pipes and water filters to improve living conditions.
In 1854 John Watts retired from the business and it became known as Doulton & Company. In 1860, the business started working with pupils from the neighboring Lambeth School of Art. The pieces they created at Doulton & Co were the opposite of the previous industrial pieces we'd been known for. These delicate, brightly colored and exquisitely decorated designs were very popular.
In 1882 we opened a factory on Nile Street in Burslem, Stoke-onTrent, aka 'The Potteries'. In 1901 Edward VII granted Doulton to add the 'Royal' to the start of our name so we became Royal Doulton in London and around the world. In 1955, new city regulations prohibited salt glaze production, forcing the Lambeth factory to close and transfer all production to Stoke.
Want to know the link between Royal Doulton and Wedgwood? Well, in 2005 Waterford Wedgwood completed a takeover of Royal Doulton, which then turned into WWRD.
Though still very popular today, we make more than just Royal Doulton figurines. In 2010, we started to embrace more of the urban culture and eclectic style of the city. Over the years we've collaborated with many different chefs, designers, artists and personalities such as Barber Osgerby, Gordon Ramsay, Ellen DeGeneres, Pure Evil and Sir Terence Conran.
In 2015 we were take over by Fiskars (making the everyday extraordinary) and we are still part of the Fiskars family of brands today. What makes Royal Doulton special? Watch our new brand video, launched at the beginning of 2020 to find the answer... There have been so many changes over the years, but we have lots more exciting projects and collections on the horizon, so are here to stay. Watch this space!
Where are Royal Doulton products made?
We often get asked 'Is Royal Doulton made in England?' or 'Are Royal Doulton products made in the UK?'. Here you'll find the answer to your questions...
For nearly 200 years, Royal Doulton Product Design and Development has taken place in the United Kingdom, guaranteeing English authenticity and values. Today, Fiskars Group maintains exactly the same engineering excellence and proven quality control in all our owned facilities, where we continue to produce products and adhere to our world-famous standards.
Our Design Team are all based in Royal Doulton HQ in Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, England. Like many luxury brands, we work with the best partners across the world whose skills and quality standards are as high as ours. To ensure that production from our manufacturing and sourcing resources mirrors all Stoke-on-Trent manufacturing activities, developments and precise tolerances for complete customer satisfaction, Royal Doulton staff from the United Kingdom transfer to or work with the teams to train, maintain and manage the production processes.
Depending on our product requirements, we carry out production in all locations. Around the world, the vision of Royal Doulton, based on the brand values of quality, craftsmanship and innovation, has not changed and continues to be 100% British.
What is Royal Doulton's stance on sustainability?
We're constantly looking for new ways to increase the use of recycled or renewable materials in our products, reduce unnecessary packaging and be as thoughtful, efficient and sustainable as possible. Read Fiskars Group's Sustainability Strategy and find out more about what we're doing specifically for Royal Doulton on our dedicated Sustainability page.
Does Royal Doulton have a museum?
Unfortunately, there isn't currently a Royal Doulton Museum. You can find examples of our work in museums, galleries, and in architecture around the world though. To see some of our history, a good place to start would be the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent or the V&A in London, where you can view the famous Doulton tile frieze of pottery through the ages.
How can I find out the latest news from Royal Doulton?
We love sharing our latest news and keeping you inspired with fresh ideas, trends, and collections. To stay up to date, sign up to our email Newsletter, subscribe to our Blog, and don't forget to follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest, and tag us in your photos!
Where are Royal Doulton based?
The Royal Doulton Head Office is based in the UK. Our registered office address is: Wedgwood Drive, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST12 9ER.
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Khattar should be stepped down #KhattarMustResign
Published Aug 26, 2017, 5:10 pm IST
Updated Aug 26, 2017, 5:14 pm IST
The social media is flooded with the messages of people lambasting at the BJP led government in Haryana for the violence erupted after the verdict against the dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has slammed the Khattar government for its failure to handle the situation in Panchkula and Haryana. The court lashed out against Khattar government for surrendering to the agitators. Before the verdict, section 144 of CrPc was imposed in Panchkula. However, the followers gathered in the city and around 1.5 lakh followers were present in the city despite the imposition of section 144.
After the verdict against the dera head, the situation worsened in Panchkula that led to 31 deaths. The state government should have taken the appropriate measures in the beginning but the government woke up at eleventh hour.
It seems that the Haryana government led by Manohar Lal Khattar somehow helped the dera head as sect had lend its support to BJP in 2014 Vidhan Sabha elections. Pictures of the BJP leaders of Haryana, Maharashtra and Delhi with Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh went viral on social media.
The pictures showed that the BJP leaders giving their respect to the self styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
A trend on twitter #KhattarMustResign trending since the morning and the twitter users have accused the Khattar for not maintaining law and order in the state.
Even after the verdict, the dera head was taken to Rohtak jail by helicopter. A woman named Honeypreet Kaur who was carrying bags with her accompanied Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in helicopter.
Why the authorities allowed the woman to accompany the accused in helicopter? The Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said that Khattar should be sacked if he doesn’t resign.
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From steaks to Speedos, Chiefs coach Reid unflappable
By Amy Tennery
MIAMI (Reuters) - Whether the topic is steaks or Speedos, Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid is up for anything.
FILE PHOTO: Jan 19, 2020; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid during the first half against the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Championship Game at Arrowhead Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports
A reliable fixture in the NFL for nearly three decades, the jovial, mustachioed veteran coach remained serene on Monday as throngs of reporters shouted a series of bizarre questions during the Super Bowl Opening Night in Miami.
The rumor he once ate three steaks in one sitting?
“Fake news,” quipped Reid.
Any thoughts on his good friend and celebrity chef Guy Fieri?
“Heck of a chef.”
Hemmed in on all sides at Marlins Park for the annual rowdy media event, a long-time tradition of Super Bowl week, Reid nimbly navigated even the touchiest of subjects.
One reporter wanted to know whether he planned to hit the soft-sand beaches of Miami in a Speedo during his downtime.
“No Speedos,” said Reid, with the firmness of a coach who has seen 28 post-season appearances.
He also took the time to note his mustache was real, as one reporter dressed as his doppelganger wanted to know, and that he was fine with dress codes -- as long as Tommy Bahama leisurewear was involved.
Reid and his Kansas City Chiefs face the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl 54 on Sunday.
Editing by Peter Rutherford
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Four Indian soldiers, three militants killed in Kashmir gunbattle
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Four Indian army soldiers and three militants were killed in Kashmir on Sunday, an Indian Defence Ministry spokesperson said, in the bloodiest gunbattle in the disputed region since April this year.
An army patrol noticed suspicious movement along the LOC in the early hours of Sunday, Defence Ministry spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said.
“Army troops were rushed to the area and militant movement was tracked by surveillance devices. A heavy gun battle followed in which three militants were killed,” he said.
Four army soldiers were killed in the gunbattle, he said.
This is the highest number of army casualties along the Line of Control in Kashmir since April this year. Five Indian troops and an equal number of militants were killed in April this year when armed militants were challenged by Indian troops in the area.
Reporting by Fayaz Bukhari in Srinagar, Writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky
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By BETH CUTLER
BORDEAUX – South African Nicole Garcia and Nanna Koerstz Madsen of Denmark share the lead after the second round of the Lacoste Ladies Open de France at Golf du Médoc.
Garcia posted a two-under-par 69 in ideal conditions to set the target at eight-under and was later joined by Madsen, who had a six-under 65, the joint lowest score of the day.
A maiden Ladies European Tour victory for Garcia would see her into The Evian Championship next week, while Madsen is already qualified and looking for her second win on the LET after the 2016 Tipsport Masters in Pilsen.
The pair lead by one ahead of the overnight leader Julia Engstrom, with the powerful hitter Anne Van Dam from the Netherlands a stroke further back. Scotland’s Carly Booth is tied for fifth with Australian Sarah Kemp, Sweden’s Lynn Carlsson and Marion Ricordeau from France.
Garcia, 27, from Johannesburg, said: “I didn’t hit the ball as well as yesterday, but yesterday I hit it unbelievably well, so I didn’t expect to come out and do the same. I was happy with two-under in the end.
“It was a good front nine and a bit of a struggle over the first few holes again, but I managed to get a birdie on the seventh and a chip-in for eagle on the ninth, so that was quite nice.
“Unfortunately, I couldn’t keep it going but I’m happy with the end result. It was nice to get the birdie on 17 because I felt like I needed another one coming in to get a bit of an extra advantage going into tomorrow. I was really happy with the way I finished.”
Koerstz Madsen carded six birdies and said afterwards: “I just didn’t make that many mistakes and a birdie came here and there and I ended up being six-under. It was pretty steady.
“I came in on Wednesday evening and Nicole Broch Larsen, who I travel with, had a bit of trouble with her suitcases so we had to go shopping and we have seen a bit of Bordeaux.”
Rookie professional Engström, who spent the morning catching up on her psychology homework, had a level par round of 71, containing a pair of birdies on the eighth and ninth holes and two bogeys on the 11th and 16th.
The 17-year-old from Halmstad said: “I played very solid but didn’t get the putts to roll in. I still played solid and hopefully they’ll roll in tomorrow. I think for a good round you need everything perfect, like yesterday when I hit 18 greens. Today I hit 16. It was almost the same, but I didn’t roll in the putts and I think that’s the difference. You roll in a few long putts and you get in the flow and that’s important for scoring.
“This is my first year so I’m just learning about being up on the leader board, one shot from the lead. I’m looking forward to the weekend and seeing how far it takes me.”
Anne Van Dam from the Netherlands is on six-under-par after a 67 and felt that her driving and putting were strong, but her approach shots needed to be sharper.
“I’m hitting basically every fairway out there. I don’t have very long irons going into the greens so if I work on that and hole a few more putts, it should be fun,” she said.
Comrie's Carly Booth, who tied the low round of the day with Koerstz Madsen and Kemp, was upbeat after posting her lowest competitive score on tour since the 2015 Lacoste Ladies Open de France.
She said: “I played solid. I hit 14 out of 14 fairways, missed four greens and had 26 putts, so it was a solid round of golf.
“My golf has not been far away all year; it’s just a little bit of the five inches between the ears. Robbie (my caddie) has been great for me the last couple of days. I’m being confident with what I know I can do and that’s really all it was today with committing to each shot and believing in myself.”
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Adam Lallana and Fernando Forestieri lead PFA Fans' Player of the Month awards for March
By Oliver Yew
Friday 1 April 2016 10:58, UK
Image: Adam Lallana has been named PFA Fans' Player of the Month in the Premier League
Adam Lallana, Fernando Forestieri, Will Grigg and Ollie Watkins have been named the PFA Fans' Players of the Month for March.
Adam Lallana was in superb form for Liverpool in March, helping Liverpool to two wins from their three Premier League matches.
The England midfielder, who picked up two assists in March, scored once in Jurgen Klopp's side's 3-0 win over Manchester City on his way to beating Norwich defender Timm Klose and Tottenham striker Harry Kane on his way to the top-flight award.
In the Championship, Sheffield Wednesday forward Fernando Forestieri has won the award for the second time this season.
Image: Sheffield Wednesday's Fernando Forestieri picks up the Championship award for the second time
The 26-year-old, who also picked up the award back in October, put in some commanding performances for Wednesday in March, scoring once and picking up an assist as Carlos Carvalhal's side claimed back-to-back 3-0 wins.
The votes came in in their droves as Forestieri saw off competition from Leeds United striker Mirco Antenucci and Bristol City forward Lee Tomlin.
Wigan striker Will Grigg topped the poll for the League One award ahead of former winner Shrewsbury Town's Sullay Kaikai and Oldham's Aaron Amadi-Holloway.
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Image: Wigan Athletic's Will Grigg scored four times in March
Grigg scored four goals as promotion chasing Wigan picked up three wins and three draws in March, moving one point away from Burton at the top of League One.
Finally, the League Two award went to Exeter City striker Ollie Watkins, who claimed more votes than Hartlepool midfielder Lewis Hawkins and Northampton forward John-Joe O'Toole.
Image: Ollie Watkins was in fine form for Exeter City in March
Every month throughout the English football season, fans will have the opportunity to vote on skysports.com for who they think has been the best player in the Barclays Premier League, Sky Bet Championship and Leagues One and Two after Sky Sports teamed up with the PFA to be the digital platform for the Awards.
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Before the vote opens each month, an expert panel produce a shortlist of contenders. Fans are then able to vote for the player they think deserves the award.
The panel includes Sky Sports football pundits Paul Merson, Ian Holloway and Peter Beagrie.
That trio are then joined by Mike Riley, general manager of Professional Game Match Officials, and Malcolm Clarke, chairman of the Football Supporters Federation, as well as the winning fan from each month.
The winning fans who will take their places on next month's shortlisting panel and make the awards to players will be announced in due course.
PFA Fans' Player of the Month awards for March
Premier League: Adam Lallana (Liverpool)
Championship: Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday)
League One: Will Grigg (Wigan Athletic)
League Two: Ollie Watkins (Exeter City)
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Jurgen Klopp's impact on Liverpool hailed by Pep Lijnders
Lijnders: "We really feel that we are a team. We prepare together, we plan together, we act together, we coach together."
Wednesday 18 March 2020 12:37, UK
Image: Pep Lijnders and Jurgen Klopp celebrate winning the 2019 Champions League in Madrid
Liverpool assistant manager Pep Lijnders believes the impossible pursuit of perfection has driven the club to their current position as the Premier League's best.
The Reds have run away with the Premier League this season, dropping just five points in 29 matches as they opened up a 25-point gap over defending champions Manchester City before the suspension of all football due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Image: Lijnders on Klopp: "He is very intelligent. His brain works differently to many others, that's for sure."
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"See how our pitches are prepared each day by our ground staff... these things make us consistent.
"Each department is searching for and has the ambition and passion. I believe that only comes first from your leader and second, that it's trust and everybody wants to give one per cent more, so the team is better prepared for the next game.
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They added to that this season with victory in the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup, the one trophy which had evaded them.
Everything revolves around the charismatic German, whose larger-than-life personality has the effect of lifting all those who work with him and energising them to excel.
"He is very intelligent. His brain works differently to many others, that's for sure. Each day he surprises me - and we worked how long together? Four-and-a-half or five years. He changes perception in five minutes," added Lijnders.
"We really feel that we are a team. We prepare together, we plan together, we act together, we coach together.
Image: Lijnders: "We really feel that we are a team. We prepare together, we plan together, we act together, we coach together."
"I'm responsible for the training process, Peter (Krawietz) is really responsible for the analysis of the opposition and analysis of our team.
"All the ideas Jurgen has and the way he wants to set up and be competitive in each game, we just try to support him in the best way possible.
"Three brains can do much more than one brain, if the three brains think in a common way and have the same messages and same passion and same dedication.
"That's the secret if you are working with a team, that everybody wants the same and understands the way we want to play and the way we want to develop on the training pitch."
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How Old Is Too Old to Rent a Car?
Senior Travel Jun 19, 2017
Sarah Schlichter
Deputy Executive Editor Sarah Schlichter's idea of a perfect trip includes spotting exotic animals, hiking through pristine landscapes, exploring new neighborhoods on foot, and soaking up as much art as she can. She often attempts to recreate recipes from her international travels after she gets home (which has twice resulted in accidental kitchen fires—no humans or animals were harmed).
Sarah joined the SmarterTravel team in 2017 after more than a decade at the helm of IndependentTraveler.com. Sarah's practical travel advice has been featured in dozens of news outlets including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Budget Travel, and Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio. Follow her on Twitter @TravelEditor.
The Handy Item I Always Pack: "A journal. Even years later, reading my notes from a trip can bring back incredibly vivid memories."
Ultimate Bucket List Experience: "Road tripping and hiking through the rugged mountains of Patagonia."
Travel Motto: "'To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.'—Freya Stark"
Aisle, Window, or Middle Seat: "Aisle. I get restless on long flights and like to be able to move around without disturbing anyone else."
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Age has its privileges — such as grandkids, retirement, a lifetime’s worth of passport stamps and, of course, those enticing senior discounts. But older travelers could find themselves facing a few unpleasant surprises as well. As we caution in International Car Rental Tips: “Be aware that many countries have a minimum and maximum age for renters. Drivers under the age of 25 or over the age of 70 may face surcharges or not be permitted to rent at all.”
Here in the U.S., the idea of a maximum rental age is nearly unheard of. But if you’re a senior traveler headed overseas, it’s important to check ahead.
For example, Auto Europe’s Web site states that renters in Ireland may not be over age 75, and that those over 70 may be subject to additional fees. (Editor’s Note: An Auto Europe spokesperson tells us that this maximum age does not necessarily apply to all of the company’s suppliers.) On Budget Rent a Car’s Web site, we found maximum ages of 75 in Aruba, 65 in Jamaica and just 60 in Morocco. Apollo Car Rental in Australia permits renters over the age of 75, but only with a doctor’s note.
Are Traveling Seniors Too Old to Drive in Europe?
Seniors can often evade these restrictions by shopping around, as terms and conditions vary widely from company to company. An 80-year-old traveler looking to rent in Ireland can try booking with Hertz, which permits renters over 75 as long as they’re willing to jump through a few hoops. “Customers aged over 75 can rent with specific conditions,” says a pop-up on the Hertz Web site. “You must drive on a regular basis, you will need to provide to the counter a letter from your doctor to state you have been in good health for at least 12 months and a letter from your insurance company to state you have not had an accident within the last 5 years, that you hold a current policy of motor insurance with them and that you are currently driving.” An 80-year-old reader recently reported that she was able to rent a car at the Dublin airport through Dan Dooley Car Rental, a local outfit.
Never book a car without reading the fine print. If you’re traveling with a younger companion, you can save money and avoid hassle by naming that person as the driver on your rental contract. If all else fails, look into guided tours or local public transportation instead.
Older travelers, have you ever had trouble renting a car overseas?
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Announcements from Sony’s Future of Gaming Event, The Witcher Season 2 Starts Filming (Again) and More!
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Actress Olivia Munn has just signed on to the lead role in Replay, an action film with sci-fi elements currently being likened to John Wick and The Terminator. Munn will star as Erin Staffer, a woman whose husband is kidnapped and murdered. Armed with illegal, bleeding edge technology, she makes a dangerous bid to change the past and save him. Replay is written and directed by Jimmy Loweree, and CAA Media Finance shopping the film to domestic buyers.
The Witcher Season 2 Sets Production Return for August
According to Deadline, Arborfield Studios is among the UK-based production houses that are set to resume filming in the coming months. Mentioned by managing director Bob Terry and seemingly confirmed by schedules shared on Production Weekly, Netflix’s hit series The Witcher will resume its Season 2 filming in the first week of August. Production for the second season was already underway at Arborfield when Netflix closed the studio in March. Despite resuming partly through production, it is most likely that fans will see The Witcher Season 2 during the 2021 release window.
AppleTV+ Sets Premiere Date for Tom Hanks “Greyhound”
After acquiring the film from Sony in May, AppleTV+ has set an official premiere date for the World War II Tom Hanks film titled Greyhound. Originally intended for a theatrical release, Greyhound is a submarine thriller about Captain Ernest Krause, played by Hanks, as he leads a convoy of Allied ships as they are pursued by Nazi U-boats during the war. Based on C.S. Forester’s novel The Good Shepherd, Greyhound will debut on AppleTV+ on July 10th.
Sony Reveals the “Future of Gaming” in PlayStation 5 Conference
On Thursday afternoon, Sony unveiled a massive showcase of PlayStation 5 games currently in development, as well as the sleek new system itself. Players will have two options of console at launch- a PS5 with an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive, and a Digital Edition without the disc drive. Massive game announcements include Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, a sequel to Horizon: Zero Dawn titled Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, and a remake of Demon’s Souls. There is no specific release date for the PlayStation 5 yet, but the console and several of its headliner titles are aiming for a Holiday 2020 launch.
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Sustainable Nourishment: The Golden Temple-Langar Class
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Medhavi Arora,TNN | Jun 9, 2014, 07.30 AM IST
Starting June 8, 13 students from the University of Michigan (UoM) are spending a month in Amritsar to learn about sustainable nourishment through the langar at the Golden Temple.
Students from different cultural and academic backgrounds will prepare the food in the kitchen that feeds 60,000 mouths a day.
The langar is a historically sustained nutrition programme that is important for the study of sustainable living, especially because it is not government sanctioned but instead based on a foundation of volunteerism.
The University of Michigan wants to make India a major partner, given its growing importance on the world stage and has begun with the study of community nourishment at the Golden Temple. According to Jasprit Singh, professor, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UoM, the students wish to study and participate in langar as an "engineering challenge" and explore the motives of the volunteers, 75% of whom are not Sikh.
The students had been preparing since January to ensure a smooth transition into Indian culture without disturbing it. Once they return, they are going to replicate the langar model to prepare a community meal for 10,000 people to be showcased at the university.
"Whereas in the past the West tended to teach other cultures how to live, now the focus is shifting and cultures are learning from each other. There is a growing acceptance to a two-way flow of information between developed and developing countries. Especially in the case of sustainability, developed countries can learn lessons from developing ones," says Singh.
Jessica was interviewed by The Times of India on June 16, 2014, here are excerpts from her interview!
"Coming here is an all-in-one package as it has not only allowed me to study this diversity but also to explore my interests in health, nutrition, access to education and related inequalities. I am here to learn the concept of sustainable nourishment by working in the community kitchen or langar at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. We take part in activities like chopping vegetables, preparing chapatis and doing the dishes in small groups. Volunteers are quiet and meditative while working — they bond through non-verbal communication. I can feel the love and serenity in the air here and am amazed at how everyday physical tasks can be so harmonious and spiritual.
There is a lot here that differs from my expectations. Initially, I was under the impression that women in India kept their entire body covered. I am relieved to know that this is not the case and I can freely wear short sleeves. Another aspect that surprised me was the loud music played in the prayer halls. At first, I wondered how people manage to think and pray. I have realised that the music contributes to the peaceful atmosphere and positive interaction, and helps to spread the eternal message of God.
The Sikh community emphasises that service to others is service to self and God, and thus, they manage the mammoth task of feeding thousands of mouths a day. I want to apply the lessons I have learnt here back home and demonstrate the importance of transcending differences, finding
commonalities and uniting for a cause."
The article as published by University of Michigan
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Prof. Jasprit Singh has been updating us on his GIEU cohort's experiences in Amritsar, India
Every single day, over 40,000 people enjoy a free, delicious, and nutritious vegetarian meal in Harmandar Sahib ('The Golden Temple'), Amritsar, a six-hour train ride from Delhi. People voluntarily switch from being served to serving, eliding distinctions of class, caste, gender, age, and even faiths - although the meal takes place in a temple, participants are of many and varied belief systems and most of the volunteers are not Sikh. Sitting together on a jute runner on the floor, people share a common meal whose roots extend more than 400 years.
This GIEU program is examining the Langar of Harmandar Sahib as a model of holistic and coherent action. Students trace food from farm to mouth in order to tackle issues of food sustainability as well as serve in the community kitchen in order to learn how to cook at such a massive scale. Prof. Singh is especially focused on asking how the vocabulary and practices that may be culturally rooted in the land (the Punjab in India), the religion (the Sikh faith), and the culture (of India, where the concept of karma and its understanding flows through each person, even if the interpretations of karma may vary) be transformed for other lands and people and cultures.
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Prof Jasprit singh (Michigan University) wrote internationally acclaimed text books on Semiconductor and Quantum Physics .His book on quantum mechanics starts with a Slok(je sau chanda ugvey ..) from Guru Amardass ji and few illustrations depicts a kid with patka :grinningsingh: i was amazed on seeing that on an internationally respected book !!
He wrote on YOGA also .
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Superb Welbeck, Fantastic Iwobi – The best & the worst rated Arsenal stars in the 3-1 win vs Brentford
by Sebastian Jacob September 27, 2018, 3:24 am
Arsenal Player Ratings vs Brentford: Here’s how the Gunners fared
Thanks to a first-half brace from Danny Welbeck, Arsenal were able to pick up a 3-1 win against Brentford in the League Cup. The Gunners dominated the game for much of the first half that saw Welbeck score a superb brace before Alan Judge restored some hope by curling in his free-kick in the second half.
But all those hopes faded away when substitute and in-form striker Alexandre Lacazette came off the bench to score a third in stoppage time. Arsenal continued their winning form under Unai Emery after losing two of their opening fixtures of the season.
Arsenal Player Ratings
Bernd Leno (6.5/10)
He was unable to do anything about the goal but did look comfortable with the ball at his feet. He certainly helped the defenders feel more at ease. Leno also made a couple of decent saves on the night.
Stephan Lichtsteiner (7/10)
His pace, energy and intelligence were all on display as the former Juventus man put in a good shift. He also made a couple of vital tackles late in the second half.
Shkodran Mustafi (5/10)
The German was once again nervy and made clumsy decisions at times. But he did make a few important clearances in the first half.
Rob Holding (7/10)
Holding’s ability on the ball is phenomenal. His decision making was brilliant and he is starting to get better.
Nacho Monreal (7/10)
A good display from the Spaniard who has been consistent for the Gunners. He picked up the assist for Welbeck’s second goal but didn’t offer much going forward apart from that. He was defensively solid.
Matteo Guendouzi (7.5/10)
The teenager was fruitful with his distribution and was excellent in possession. But the Frenchman needs to watch his tackles.
Mohamed Elneny (8/10)
A solid performance from the Egyptian who was exceptionally calm and composed in possession. He was impressive pushing forward with the ball from deep areas.
Alex Iwobi (7/10)
Iwobi looks a transformed player under Unai Emery. He is more decisive and clinical in the final third. The Nigerian was always trying to make things happen.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (6.5/10)
Not the best performance from the Armenian but he did get going in the final third. His passing was excellent but he did occasionally overplay the game a little.
Emile Smith Rowe (6/10)
Showed energy and intensity in the final third but a lot of what he tried didn’t come off. He pressed high and worked hard off the ball as well. The youngster will definitely improve under Emery.
Danny Welbeck (9/10)
Man of the match performance from the former Manchester United striker who scored two superb goals and linked up well with his teammates.
Alexandre Lacazette (6/10)
Scored the third and final goal but also wasted a couple of chances before that. He also missed a one-on-one and gave away the ball under pressure.
Lucas Torreira (6/10)
Came on and showed tenacity in the middle of the park. Torreira will definitely pay dividends for the Gunners in the long-term.
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The AC Greyhound Sports Car
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The AC Greyhound sports car, was launched in 1959 and, at first sight, somewhat resembled an enlarged Aceca, even though it was a totally redesigned model.
In 1958, the dated two and four seater AC 2-Litre saloon was finally discontinued, at which point it was realised that what was now needed was a sporty family four seater. Hence the Greyhound.
It had a new, square tubular chassis, and was both lighter and slightly small er than the 2-Litre saloon, and was not short of internal luxury. Interestingly, the front/rear weight distribution was 50/50.
The prototype Greyhound was premiered at the 1959 London Motor Show, where its body styling was not well received.
However, this was addressed in the production version, which included a wrap around rear window, and a smaller front grille.
Launched later in 1959, the AC Greyhound was a two door, fixed head 2+2, with links to the AC Ace and Aceca. Its features included:
Body panels were made of aluminium
Steel chassis in a ladder frame fomat
All round independent suspension using coil springs
Four speed gearbox with an optional overdrive on the top three gears
Rack and pinion steering replacing the previous worm gear
11.75 inch front disc brakes and 11 inch rear drums
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Production 1961-1963
Engine, cc 1971
Cylinders, bhp 6, 130
Top Speed mph 115
0-60 mph, secs 9.0
Torque ft/lbs 128
0-100 mph, secs 29.8
A variety of straight 6-cylinder engines were used over the life of the Greyhound, and included:
From 1959 to 1961, AC's own 1991 cc, overhead cam unit developing 80 bhp at 4500 rpm initially, which later increased to 100 bhp
From 1961 to 1963, a 1971 cc, D-Series overhead valve unit from Bristol Cars which developed 130 bhp at 5750 rpm
From 1961 to 1963, as an alternative, a 2216 cc unit from Bristol Cars which was a slightly detuned B-Series version developing 105 bhp at 4700 rpm
From 1961 to 1963, as another alternative, a 2553 cc Ruddspeed tuned Ford Zephyr unit, developing up to 170 bhp at 5500 rpm, depending upon the level of tuning
The 1971 cc Bristol powered Greyhound, built between 1961 and 1963, and fitted with an overdrive unit, produced a top speed of 115 mph, with a 0-60 mph time of 9.0 secs, and an overall fuel consumption of 22 mpg.
Production ended in 1963 when a total of 83 Greyhounds had been built, of which three were constructed with left hand drive.
Its lacklustre sales performance was due in part to the lack of an adequately powerful engine, coupled with indifferent road test reports.
Of the 83 Greyhounds, the vast majority were fitted with the straight 6-cylinder Bristol engine in either the 2 litre or 2.2 litre versions.
In fact, records have shown that only three Greyhounds were powered by the 2.6 litre Ford Zephyr engine.
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On August 27, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued further guidance through its FAQ’s addressing certain scenarios related to school closures, partial school closures and remote learning.
You may recall that the Family First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) provides 10 weeks of paid leave, and up to 12 weeks of total extended Family Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") leave, to employees caring for their children whose school or childcare center is closed or care provider is unavailable due to COVID-19 related reasons. The DOL further clarified whether employees qualify for paid leave when a child attends a school that operates on alternate days, when an employee-parent chooses remote learning despite available in-person instruction, and when a school begins the year with remote learning but may move to in-person instruction.
Does an employee qualify for paid leave if their child attends a school that is operating on alternate days?
Yes. Employees can take paid leave on the days that the school requires remote learning and no other suitable person is available to care for their child during that time. The schools are considered “closed” to students the days the students cannot attend in person.
Can an employee qualify for paid leave when they choose remote learning if their child's school offers in-person instruction?
No. Since the school is open for in-person attendance, it is not “closed” as required by the FFCRA. Employees are not eligible for paid leave under the FFCRA when their child’s school is open.
Is paid leave available to an employee if their child’s school begins with remote learning but may evaluate the local circumstances and decide to open the school later in the school year?
Yes, employees are eligible for paid leave under the FFCRA during the time that the school is engaging in remote learning. If the school opens, paid leave under the FFCRA may be available depending on the circumstances.
The DOL has an online tool for employees to determine their paid leave eligibility. A tool for employers is "coming soon".
The DOL's FAQs provide more guidance.
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KPATUNGU: Niger Community where the dead enjoy 24-hour electricity
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From JOHN ADAMS, Minna
While a majority of Nigerians are daily burdened by epileptic power supply which had adversely affected economic and social activities, residents of Kpatungu, a community in the heart of Minna, the Niger State capital, have a positive testimony; they witness round-the-clock power supply in their neighbourhood, but ironically, not for their use.
Here, the dead enjoy privileges the living lack, and uninterrupted electricity is one of such. At the Kpatungu cemetery, a public burial ground for Muslims, the dead have their graveyards illuminated with 99 solar powers, which provides light 24 hours daily.
It is to provide them comfort of sorts, to enable them rest in peace, protected from dare-devil robbers of human body parts contracted by unsympathetic persons engaged in rituals under the cover of darkness. And until recently when respite came their way, the souls of deceased persons whose bodies were buried at the Kpatungu cemetery were said to be serially tormented.
“It was a daily occurrence; every morning, we wake up to see a corpse exhumed and abandoned on the surface after a part had been removed. The act went on for a very long time, and we were not able to arrest anybody because they usually came at night when nobody could see them as there was no light”, says Yunusa Idris, an attendant at the cemetery.
In a bid to relieve the dead of sustained attacks by men of the underworld, managers of the cemetery initiated an electrification project in 2007, which was however, stalled shortly after its commencement due to lack of funds as the project was driven by donations from individuals. More than eight years after, only a lighting point was provided for the cemetery spanning over two hectares of land.
The situation remained the same until a flicker of hope was raised by the incumbent Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Ahmed Marafa Guni, who donated N250, 000 in furtherance of the project, when he attended the burial of one of his friends at the cemetery.
That too, was like a drop of water in the ocean, but worried by the plight of the dead, authorities of the cemetery officially sought intervention of the state government. “The Speaker gave us N250, 000, but at the end, it did not take us far until we wrote a letter to the government begging for its assistance. The government approved the request and directed provision of solar power for 24-hour electricity supply to the cemetery”, Idris told our correspondent.
It was however, gathered that apart from Kpatungu, the state government also gave approval for the electrification of two other cemeteries, including the one used by Christians on David Mark Road in the state capital, but nothing has so far been done on them.
“I don’t know what you want me to say. It might be okay to cater for the dead in terms of comfort and their security, but I don’t think it should be done at the expense of the living. Here, the dead sleep with light at night; they enjoy uninterrupted electricity supply to protect them from attack by hoodlums. But we who are still alive are abandoned to our fate, left with no light, no security”, lamented Ahmed, a resident of Minna.
But he says the state government should accord equal privilege to the dead at all public cemeteries since that seemed to be one of its priorities. “Kpatungu is not the only public cemetery in the state capital. If they deem it fit to provide electricity for the cemetery, it is also necessary to do same at the other public cemeteries, whether Muslim or Christian. But they should remember that we are living in darkness”, he added.
For the dead at Kpatungu, they no longer need to turn in their graves over incursions by hunters of human parts, who had troubled their souls over the years.
“Cases of ritualists coming to exhume corpses still occur, but not as frequent because of the electricity. We now experience it once in a while, not like before when we must rebury a body or two daily”, Idris said.
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Throughout the year Steph runs pop up restaurants and demonstrates her skills at cookery masterclasses and food festivals around the country.
To keep up with Steph’s whereabouts, please follow this page for the latest updates. As soon as we can confirm live events for 2021, we’ll be sure to let you know.
Sadly it’s been a year of cancellations for 2020 but why not catch up with Steph at one of her virtual events shown below.
Virtual Northern Food & Drink Festival 2020
For the charity Hospitality Action in Steph’s back garden!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2wH_Rilfuk
Great Yorkshire Show 2020
Virtual cook off between Rosemary Shrager and Steph
https://virtual.greatyorkshireshow.co.uk/wednesday/yorkshire-bbq-cook-off-rosemary-shrager-vs-stephanie-moon/
Garbutt and Elliott Virtual Food and Drink Awards 2020
Steph was very proud to be asked to Judge and present the overall winner prize
https://www.garbutt-elliott.co.uk/food-awards/overall-winner/
Guild of Fine Food – Great Taste Northern Golden Fork winners 2020
Steph was delighted to be asked to present this award virtually to… the three-star winner, The Lost Barn Coffee Roasters
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Ice Cream & Artisan Food Show 2022
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The Pied Piper is often wrong, but makes you think critically
I ran across another Desiring God post (through twitter). In this post, Piper answered the question “can a woman preach if elders affirm it?” on his blog. It received 69,386 views on YouTube (by my count on October 12). You can watch the video (and read the really lively comment discussion), but the tweet already gave his answer: “All men and women should be active in ministry. The question is how. Pastor John explains why God reserves Sunday-morning preaching for men.”.
(As a church historian, I could spend the rest of this post just on that one sentence. Why is Sunday-morning singled out as the authoritative event reserved by God when Sunday-preaching itself as the focal event for churches is a late historical addition? By itself, this statement demonstrates how tied complementarian theology is to modern North American Christianity and not representative of either the historic past or the global present. Moreover, why is preaching so clearly reserved for men? In Women, Ministry, and the Gospel: Exploring New Paradigms, editor and Wheaton professor Timothy Larsen shows how evangelicals were ONCE committed to women in ministry. As he writes, “Many of the most prominent male leaders of evangelicalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were vocal champions of women in public ministry.” The Evangelical Free Church of America, for example, which is now committed to complementarianism was once more egalitarian. In 1925 the Evangelical Free Church specified that “a candidate for ordination shall request a reference from the church which he or she is a member.” Larsen unpacks this statement for us: “the Evangelical Free Church of America not only welcomed women into public ministry but also went out of its way to make this explicit by using gender-inclusive statements in its constitution.” I actually tweeted this article just a few days ago, and the response was really surprising. Evangelicals simply do not know the long history of women’s involvement in church leadership and ministry ….
Why I am Speaking Out for Evangelical Women -Beth Allison Barr
Lance Wallnau: Revive us, repair the house of God, and rebuild the walls of the nation
For we are slaves; yet our God has not abandoned us in our bondage, but has extended lovingkindness to us before the kings of Persia, to revive us to rebuild the house of our God, to repair the site of its ruins and to give us a wall [of protection] in Judah and Jerusalem.
-Ezra 9:9 (AMP)
How we teach the story of the woman at the well exposes our self-righteousness, sanctimony, and hypocrisy
Sue Edwards:
she's been a wife to five different men and she lives with a man who isn't her husband now. But could there be other explanations for her marital past?
Here are a few possibilities based on research by Dr. Lynn Cohick, associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, and author of "Women in the World of the Earliest Christians, Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life". She asks:
Could she have been widowed? In the first century, almost all women were married. Families arranged these marriages for their daughters, often at thirteen or fourteen, and usually to older men. Life expectancy was drastically shorter and widowhood was common, as was remarriage, especially if no son or male relative was available to care for them. She could easily have been widowed more than once.
Could she have been barren and thus divorced? A woman's main value depended on her ability to produce a male heir to care for the family and carry on the name. If she was barren, more than one discontent husband might have divorced her. Jewish law in general reserved the right of divorce to the husband. Some commentators have suggested that she must have filed for divorce five times, but among the handful of Greek and Aramaic Jewish divorce documents available, only one seems to be initiated by a wife, and she needed a male representative to help her. It's far more likely that several husbands may have divorced her, leaving her abandoned in a harsh culture for women without financial means and male protection.
Could she have been in a forced relationship as a concubine? In the Greco-Roman world, women concubines were common, preferable to a life on the streets. She might have currently been in a relationship with a Roman citizen who could not legally marry her because she was below him in social rank. She might have been waiting on a dowry.
Could she have been someone's second wife? Although rare, historical evidence shows that polygamous relationships did exist in the first century. It's possible that her new companion was already married to someone else.
Examining first century legal records and contracts make for varying possibilities and situations foreign to us today. As we look back into the customs of the day, we can devise a number of reasonable scenarios that explain why she had five husbands and her current companion was not legally her husband. Was she a "bad girl"? We don't know, but we have evidence in the full text that she might not have been.
For centuries accounts of biblical women have lacked the same rigorous scholarship we usually afford accounts of biblical men. As a result, these women often come off as shallow, scant, one dimensional, and this neglect quickly places women in the temptress, bad girl category, without digging into the cultural societal situations which may explain why some of them don't belong there.
The woman at the well is just one example of how we've possibly mischaracterized some women in the Bible. Why was the account included in the Scriptures? Women need role models to encourage them to become all-in Christ followers just like men. Would the family, the church, and our communities look different if more women followed in the footsteps of the woman at the well?
Wouldn't it be tragic if all these years, God meant for this true story to encourage women to be bold for Him, but God's real message has been buried beneath an unintentional focus on her sexuality instead of going deep into the passage to glean the whole story. Selah.
Fresh perspectives on Biblical Women--The Woman at the Well -Sue Edwards
The trauma that needs healing at Willow and your church too
In the last seven months, Willow Creek Community Church (WCCC) has experienced a traumatic rupture in its’ family. Trauma occurs when something happens that greatly alters the predictable patterns of people’s need for trust. WCCC, for many, much like a family, was the cocoon into which members entered to feel fed, encouraged, safe, understood, and protected against the storms of life. The Unspoken Known was that here is a place that is led by this father-figure, Bill Hybels, who reassured everyone that they were loved and treasured by a heavenly Father who is quick to offer grace as the antidote for failure and sin.
It was so reassuring to trust that this father-like figure was up in front giving us an example of someone who walked and talked with God, and encouraged everyone to do the same. Attenders looked at the beauty and organization of the church and felt awed by its’ ability to reflect such a wonderful image of success. Everyone could trust WCCC and its’ leadership. Right? Attenders could trust the message of God’s grace and could trust the leaders, because they were seeking to lead the church towards a faithful representation of God’s Kingdom. It was such a well-oiled machine, that attenders had to believe that whatever was behind all of this had to be good, moral, virtuous,and God-led.
Into this somewhat peaceful and comforting church family came the quaking of a foundational rupture. The quiet peace and sense of pride, that many felt by association with this organization, was suddenly fractured profoundly. At first, as in any shocking event, the implications could not be fully understood or embraced. The need to believe that it was not true was great. The desire to maintain the status quo, was powerful, causing even elders and leaders we trusted, to go into overdrive to deny its’ truth and devastation. Thus began a long, and arduous process, of slowly, with great resistance, peeling back the layers of deceit, and finally, grudgingly, acknowledging that this trusted father-figure had betrayed his church. He had done what no one wanted to acknowledge. He had betrayed women, violated their rights and respect, and took, selfishly, what was not his to take. The man who was so closely identified with everything that is WCCC had betrayed the sacred trust of the people.
The true collateral damage to WCCC is the faithful flock of parishioners. They responded to every challenge Bill gave to give, both financially and in terms of volunteer time. He painted such a compelling picture of what the church was supposed to look like. His charismatic enthusiasm swept parishioners along in this grand notion that the church was hope of the world. The man who had claimed the gift of leadership, had led them down a path of self-sacrifice, while he, in fact, was self indulgent. These people, initially, so wanted to believe that this all was not true, and that the false narrative floated by this man was correct. His self-protective story was that a cabal of women were out to get him, to ruin his reputation. We so want our heroes to stay true and virtuous...
...The Spoken Known
As the carnage of WCCC unfolds, it strikes me that the solution that is being offered is to work as quickly as possible to put a tourniquet on the bleeding. The problem is that the ones seeking to solve the problems have been bred in the solution-oriented values of their fallen leader.
...People need to sit and speak about what they know. Their trust is shattered. They have a right to question the decisions of leaders who are still at WCCC and were groomed by a man who has proved to be deceptive.
Every traumatic event in our culture is followed by generating counseling resources to process the emotional components of the experience. It is well known that when people cannot share the emotional aspects of a traumatic event they tend to develop unhealthy patterns of coping.
...Rather than letting this life changing trauma be acknowledged and spoken about collectively, the leaders that remain seem to be bent on only staying in the realm of information. Updates about who is doing what, who is choosing elders, who is doing the investigation. The real issues, which are going to create lasting consequences to the church, are being ignored. People are leaving because they do not feel heard, or conclude that the church is not interested in the pain that has been inflicted. The church is focusing on strategic interventions, but not the emotional healing that is necessary to a long term mending of broken souls.
Solution-oriented people look at emotions as impediments to progress. They do not want to wallow in the pain. But God does want us to sit in our pain. He does want us to fully embrace the level of hurt that occurs when people do not follow His ways. The leadership of WCCC needs to embrace the level of pain that exists, because pain teaches a profound lesson. Do not do what you have done in the past that creates the destructive level of this pain! God wants us to fully sit with the pain to get how serious it is when leaders act in ways that are inconsistent with His will. Check out the prophets of old who sat in sack cloth and ashes. Sitting too little in pain dulls the reality of how we created it in the first place, and how deeply important it is to learn the lessons that help to prevent it in the future.
If the institutional pain is not properly processed, by sitting with people who are encouraged to speak and share the impact that this trauma has had on their lives, both emotionally and spiritually, I fear that the patch sown on a leaky life raft will eventually be torn away. The truth is that the leader of WCCC, BH, had very poor emotional and social intelligence. That is why the leaders who were groomed by him, are not focusing on the emotional and spiritual carnage of this trauma. They, like him, are solution focused. They look out there and not in here. They look to strategy and not to processing. Damaged souls at WCCC must have a forum to process and heal. To speak what they know. To be given validity to the anger, hurt, sadness, distrust, fear, loss, and betrayal that they have experienced. It is interesting but I (and many others) as a systems oriented Christian psychologist who specializes in the emotional impact of trauma, have not been sought out or consulted. Our culture, which does not have a spiritual orientation, looks to people who deal with trauma to help people heal. WCCC, it seems, looks to strategic experts.
Everything that I am observing by current leaders is just a continuation of the “trust us” deceptive model of communication that has existed at WCCC for all of its existence. Do the present leaders really not understand the tendency to distrust leadership at WCCC? The relevant question is how, when these groomed leaders seek to create a new governance model, can anyone trust that they know what they are doing? They tend to go to experts and try to get the attenders to trust that just because they have engaged experts we should trust them. But how do we know that they have the competence to even select experts? Their lack of addressing The Unspoken Known elements of the emotional trauma that exists in the membership of the church speaks to a possible lack of expertise in truly solving the problems that this trauma has created.
Do the current WCCC leaders really grasp the problems of the church that has led to this current debacle? How do we know that they have gotten it, when they refuse to really sit with the people and process the level of pain that has been inflicted on so many?
Personally, I am not impressed with all the experts that are being called in to fix the church. It seems clear to me that the pain that exists has never been fully listened to and acknowledged. You cannot treat a disease that is not properly diagnosed. And the disease at WCCC is the un-dealt with emotional pain and trauma that exists as a result of the betrayal of trust by Bill Hybels. Only when the extent of the pain is explored can a diagnosis and solution be formulated in the context of truth. There has been scant talk about Bill’s behavior and its destructive impact on the church. Everyone knows it but no one wants to speak to its’ traumatic consequences. Placing a bandage over a festering, uncleaned sore will never allow healing.
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As demand for delivery surges, food deliverers are not seeing returns
Grab launched a pilot programme allowing its driver-partners to provide on-demand parcel and food delivery services during off-peak commute hours.PHOTO: ST FILE
Hidayah Iskandar
Apr 14, 2020, 1:00 pm SGT
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SINGAPORE (THE NEW PAPER) - The ban on dining-in under the circuit breaker measures has been a shot in the arm for food delivery services.
But while food orders have shot up, many delivery riders claim that they have not been reaping the benefits.
In fact, 47 out of 58 riders, or 81 per cent, told The New Paper that they are earning less now than before.
Several of these riders, who work with the three major food delivery platforms here - Deliveroo, Foodpanda and GrabFood - believe they are facing more competition with the influx of new riders during the coronavirus outbreak.
GrabFood rider Jack Lim, 38, said: "It is a huge misconception that we are getting more money now with the increased demand for food deliveries.
"There are more orders, but there are also a lot more riders as more people are getting retrenched due to Covid-19."
Mr Lim, who has been with GrabFood for a year and rides a power-assisted bicycle for deliveries, said he used to earn about $100 a day. But his earnings have now dropped to about $20 a day, making it tougher for him to provide for his wife and toddler.
His colleague, Mr Abdul Azziz, 57, said his earnings started to drop last month.
"Not only do we have to compete with people who got laid off, now we also have to compete with private-hire drivers for orders," added Mr Abdul, who has been with GrabFood since last November.
In September last year, Grab launched a pilot programme allowing its driver-partners to provide on-demand parcel and food delivery services during off-peak commute hours.
Last month, Grab started discussing with LTA to extend the deadline of and increase the number of driver-partners under the GrabExpress Car pilot programme.
Its spokesman told TNP: "Thousands of Grab driver-partners have signed up for the GrabExpress Car pilot programme."
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While it is unclear why some riders are earning less than before, TNP understands that their earnings are dependent on many factors and vary based on how they choose to work.
But the spokesman said that GrabFood is prepared for the surge in orders during this period and is helping its delivery-partners by having in place tech capabilities such as Grouped Orders to allow them to fulfil more orders within a given hour.
"We will continue to monitor the situation closely and explore various solutions to ensure that operations are optimised and continue to run smoothly," she said.
Like GrabFood, Deliveroo said that discrepancies in earning power of its riders would depend on each individual.
But it acknowledged a surge in rider applications, with its spokesman saying: "Deliveroo saw an 80 per cent rise in rider applications since March 16 compared with a normal week."
The platform has welcomed 600 new restaurant-partners since late January and now has a fleet of 6,000 riders.
The spokesman said: "Since March 1, there has been a 50 per cent jump in the number of restaurant sign-ups, compared with the previous month."
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To balance the supply and demand of riders and orders, Deliveroo has rolled out initiatives such as giving riders detailed guides on the best time and places to work.
The spokesman said: "Our team uses data analytics to match supply and demand, ensuring that we have the right number of riders on the road in the right place at any one time."
Foodpanda also has a similar situation, with managing director Luc Andreani telling TNP: "We are seeing an increase in the number of riders who would like to join our well-established fleet of freelancers.
"As we expect more sign-ups in the coming days, Foodpanda is collaborating with Enterprise Singapore to make it easier for restaurants to go digital."
In the last month, Foodpanda has got on board 200 per cent more of food and beverage partners to offer online deliveries, he said.
Mr Andreani said Foodpanda had not received any feedback from its riders on lower earnings.
To help those finding it difficult to get orders, Foodpanda, which rewards its riders per delivery, is allowing them to plan their shift hours a week ahead.
But some riders say they are still finding it hard to get shifts.
Mr Ariff Zaharuddin, 21, said: "With more people joining the platform, it is extremely difficult to get shifts now.
"I was not able to book my shifts for next week as none was available, the first time this has happened in my three years with Foodpanda."
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Mr Mohd Sopfian Faizal Ismail, 21, who joined GrabFood three weeks ago after being laid off as an operations assistant, said he got off to a good start by being more mobile.
"The older guys tend to stay at the same spot. I realised that to earn more, you have to move around more," said the cyclist, who covers Kranji, Woodlands, Yishun and Sembawang and took home about $50 a day.
"But times are harder now. Every day, I have to come up with a different game plan, such as what time I have to be at each location to earn the most money," he said. "It is challenging with a lot of riders fighting for orders. Everyone wants a piece of the same cake."
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Council member hosts
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Austin City Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison will host a District 1 town hall discussion of Austin’s land development code revision process from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex, 1156 Hargrave St.
Patrick Howard, executive director of the Housing Authority of Travis County and the District 1 appointee to the Planning Commission, will join Harper-Madison and her staff to answer questions, hear concerns and discuss solutions to improve affordability, mobility and equity in Austin.
Two public meetings
set on Wilbarger Creek
Two public meetings will be held to help identify and quantify areas of concern and discuss possible solutions for a floodplain study of the Wilbarger Creek watershed.
Meetings will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Pflugerville Public Library, 1008 W. Pfluger St.; and 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the city of Manor Council Chambers, 105 E. Eggleston St.
Bastrop County, with participation from Travis County and the city of Pflugerville, recently was awarded a Texas Water Development Board Flood Protection Planning Grant to conduct the study. The study will determine floodplain extents and investigate structural and nonstructural flood damage reduction projects that will be used to develop a comprehensive Flood Protection Plan for Wilbarger Creek.
For an online questionnaire: surveymonkey.com/r/3SCHVW3.
take part in forum Tuesday
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce, 1 Chamber Way, will host a City Council District 1 candidate forum from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
The free forum will feature the three candidates running for the seat, followed by a discussion on the county transportation bond. The candidate elected to fill the vacancy will complete the remainder of the term ending in May 2021.
Early in-person voting will run Oct. 21 through Nov. 1. Voters may cast ballots at any early voting location in Williamson County. Election Day is Nov. 5 and voters may cast ballots at any vote center location in Williamson County.
For a list of polling places, dates and times: wilco.org/elections.
CAMPO to share info
on transportation plans
The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization will host an open house to share information on the Regional Transit Study and amendments to the 2019-22 Transportation Improvement Program and 2040 Regional Transportation Plan.
The open house will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Georgetown Public Library, 402 W. Eighth St. The event will be a come-and-go format, and children’s activities will be available.
Open houses are also offered online at campotexas.org/get-involved, where users can submit comments. The public can submit comments on the Transportation Improvement Program and Regional Transportation Plan amendments through Nov. 8, and comments for the Regional Transit Study through Nov. 22.
NAMI Central Texas offers
mental health workshop
NAMI Central Texas, the local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, will offer a free 90-minute workshop for people who have loved ones with a mental health diagnosis.
The workshop will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Friendship Bible Baptist Church, 1903 Pecan St.
The workshop will teach participants about diagnosis, treatment, recovery, communication strategies, crisis preparation and resources.
Registration required at namicentraltx.org/families/workshops.
Lanes of Springs Lane
to partially close for 2 days
Springs Lane and the outer westbound lane of U.S. 290 will be partially closed to allow contractors to begin repaving of the street and driveways that access off of Spring Lane on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The work is expected to last two days but may extend into a third day based on weather and progress. One-half of the street will remain open for vehicular access; guests are reminded to use caution during this time.
VETERANS' BIRTHDAYS
World War II veteran H. Allen Larsen of Lakeway turned 95 on Tuesday.
World War II veteran Raymond L. Smith of Austin turned 92 on Saturday.
We print birthdays for World War II veterans from Central Texas on Sundays as space allows. Email the name, birth date and current hometown to communitynews@statesman.com.
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Soccer evokes emotion, passion, and excitement. And when fans think of their favorite sport, technology isn’t usually the first thing that springs to mind.
Gugu Lourie
By SAP
Technology is a central theme that runs through all business and sporting operations at Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.
Thus, on closer inspection, what might first appear to be just another match day in Germany’s primary soccer league is actually the result of sophisticated interaction between innovative IT solutions.
Technology is a central theme that runs through all business and sporting operations at Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Soccer evokes emotion, passion, and excitement. And when fans think of their favorite sport, technology isn’t usually the first thing that springs to mind. TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, now firmly established in the Bundesliga ‒one of the world’s most competitive leagues ‒ for a decade, has always focused on being an innovative club.
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TSG managing director Dr. Peter Görlich is therefore especially proud to have SAP as a long-standing partner with a similar thirst for innovation. Thanks to its holistic approach, SAP enables TSG to deploy technology from a single source in all areas of the club’s operations. And they share one view in particular: Software must be simple.
Match days begin long before the game itself kicks off: Not just for the players, but for club staff and for many fans, too. SAP software is at the heart of the action. In the merchandise store, for example, TSG personnel benefit from the SAP Customer Checkout solution, which not only helps them handle merchandise sales efficiently, but also facilitates sales figure reporting in real time and the integration of special offers and loyalty cards.
So, while fans can buy their team scarves and shirts quickly and easily, Dr. Görlich and his colleagues have greater transparency on revenues. In addition, the cloud-based omni-channel commerce platform SAP Hybris seamlessly links TSG’s online and mobile shops, offering fans direct, personalized interaction and an end-to-end shopping experience across all channels.
It’s nearly time for the kick-off: Fans are moving through the turnstiles and their tickets are being scanned. This is where the SAP Event Ticketing solution comes into play. It allows the club to handle all of its ticket sales for the entire season ‒ flexibly, easily, and securely ‒ to trigger marketing campaigns, inform fans about special offers, and manage subscriptions and season tickets via any channel, whether it’s the stadium ticket office, call center, Website, or a mobile device.
Through integrated campaign management and budget monitoring, the software also enables TSG to specify each step of its individual ticket marketing activities and to analyze fans’ buying patterns and preferences in detail. This all helps the club identify the relevant factors for improving its fan services and driving revenue.
Finally, having supplied its supporters with tickets and merchandise, the club also needs to provide refreshments. It goes without saying that TSG’s stadium catering service uses SAP Customer Checkout to process sales of beer and sausages.
All this data needs to converge in a central location. At TSG, that’s the job of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP ERP) – one of the fundamental SAP solutions.
The focus here is on end-to-end, real-time internal and external financial accounting, with SAP ERP forming the central accounting interface for all the software solutions used. Alongside SAP ERP, TSG Hoffenheim uses the cloud-based CRM solution SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer (SAP Hybris C4C) to manage fan-related communication and processes ‒ including sending smartphone messages to fans at the stadium inviting them to attend shirt-printing events, autograph sessions, and similar activities.
By contacting them directly in this way, the club can build up valuable personal relationships with its fans.
As is customary with SAP software, all the solutions are interconnected and offer an end-to-end overview. So, whenever TSG’s managing directors, Dr. Peter Görlich and Frank Briel, check the system, they know they’ll see that SAP software is keeping everything running smoothly, both inside and outside the stadium.
Software for sporting insights
Let’s now visit TSG Hoffenheim’s training ground, where the squad has gathered to prepare for today’s match. The influence of technology is strong here too. Because Peter Görlich knows that, in the modern game, success depends as much on the interaction between managers, coaches, and medical personnel as it does on player performance. Software can make this interaction a whole lot easier.
TSG’s central solution here is SAP Sports One. From team management, training planning, player fitness, and performance analyses through scouting and talent-spotting, it manages all of the club’s coaching operations, starting with the U19 squad and going all the way up to first-team level.
While coaches and physiotherapists gain detailed visibility into each athlete’s training status, physical condition, and match performance, the players themselves receive personalized training and health plans and tips for optimal match preparation. Together, staff and players can develop winning tactics, assess in-game and training situations on the fly, and adjust their strategies accordingly.
So, when the referee finally gets the match underway, motivated fans get to watch a perfectly prepared team play. Which is exactly what the TSG philosophy is all about: garnering all-round success by combining effective structures, simple financial accounting, and smooth logistics with strong sporting achievement.
SAP software has given TSG 1899 Hoffenheim the key to more control, more marketing opportunities, greater effectiveness, greater revenue, and more success. Not just at today’s match, but in the future too.
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Bipasha Mandal Gaming Oct 6, 2020, 1:40 pm
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Xbox One is finally blessed with Nickelodeon Kart Racers and the 9Th Dawn III games. In a recent tweet made by Larry Hyrb, it came to the front that the Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix is now finally available on Xbox One.
The Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix is obviously a multiplayer game. The gamers have the option to choose from 30 playable racers and could take up to 70 team members to assemble the ultimate pit crew.
Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix is now available for Xbox One https://t.co/S4QKRiQjIv
— Larry Hryb (@majornelson) October 6, 2020
For their pit crew, the gamers can choose from the all-time favourites and Nickelodeon’s hall of fame which includes names such as JoJo Siwa, SpongeBob SquarePants, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the babies from Rugrats, the cool kids from Hey Arnold!, Ren and Stimpy, Lincoln Loud and his sisters, and many more. The game offers more characters, more carts for an outstanding experience.
As for the gameplay, the players need to speed their way across a variety of obstacles and hurdles which include slime-filled tracks, finishing which, the players will be prompted to shift into the next gear.
In the first part of the game on the slime tracks, the players could win cups and over 80 upgrades for their Karts. In the next level of the game, the players can choose to play against their friends in online multiplayer option or choose to stay in the local arena multiplayer to see who finishes the line first. The players will also be presented with the option to handle the wild arena challenges.
As mentioned earlier, the players can choose from the beloved Nickelodeon characters. The new game, the Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix presents the opportunity to its fans to choose from 100 Nick characters.
The 70 pit crew members are each endowed with powers that are unique to their own, and which, in the end, will help the player to win. Strategizing will obviously come in handy to increase the level of attack or defense.
For the multiplayer mode, the game offers local multiplayer up to 4 players, and online multiplayer up to 8 players. The latest from GameMill Entertainment is available for purchase at $35.99.
9th Dawn III from @Valorware is now available for Xbox One https://t.co/EbwTuVnfUn
Another game that has been released on Xbox One is the 9Th Dawn III which is a 2D open-world Role Playing Game. The player will set out in an adventure in the depth of the darkest dungeons, across the fields of Ashwick, the snowy regions of Halstom, dense forests of Vlak, facing over 200 monsters, looking for treasure and other rare materials.
On their adventure, the players will be presented with the opportunity to collect 1400 uniquely drawn items. The fantasy game includes all the traditional tropes of a role-playing game, such as spells, developing skills to evolve into a warrior, develop crafting skills such as cooking, enchanting, weapon-smithing, etc.
To improve their combat skills, the players could recruit monsters, and turn them into powerful allies. The sidequests include taking time out of the main quest to help the townsfolk with their problems. The game is priced at $15.99.
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Curtis Sagmoen, found guilty of threatening sex worker, to be released for time served
Sagmoen’s time in custody credits him with more than three years served
Curtis Sagmoen, 38, who has been found guilty of threatening a sex worker with a firearm, is to be released on time served and 36 months of probation.
Justice Alison Beames found the man who lived near Falkland guilty of disguising his face with intent to commit an indictable offence, use of a firearm during an indictable offence and possession of methamphetamine. He was found not guilty of uttering threats and intentionally discharging a firearm.
Sagmoen has been sentenced to two years, minus one day, but his time served since his September 2017 arrest credits him with three years and three months and he’s expected to walk.
Sagmoen will be on probation for three years, the court heard. Conditions of his probation include no contact with sex workers, no contact with the victim and a ban from websites advertising or soliciting escort services.
Justice Beames accepted the joint submission by Crown and defence for two years and 36 months probation.
The Crown is seeking just under two years incarceration and 36 months probation for Sagmoen’s three counts found guilty this morning.
— Brendan Shykora (@brendanshykora) December 20, 2019
She delivered her decision Friday, Dec. 20, in B.C. Supreme Court in Vernon following a three-week trial.
The man accused of threatening a sex worker with a shotgun in August 2017, who has been in custody since then, had one charge of uttering threats dropped Wednesday.
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Justice Beames dropped the charge Dec. 18, following the complainant’s testimony yesterday.
The complainant, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, was unable to recall having heard her assailant say anything.
The complainant recounted the night in August, on Tuesday, when she was allegedly threatened with a firearm by a man on Salmon River Road — after she’d received a text responding to her ad on an online escort service, asking for a “playdate.”
The complainant agreed to meet up that night.
When the complainant arrived at Salmon River Road, she received another text. The person she was scheduled to meet said he mistakenly gave her his old address, and he now resided further up the road. She drove to the new location, following the person’s texted instructions.
The complainant said she stopped in front of a bridge on a driveway, which was blocked by a closed gate. She got out of her car and heard a rustling in the bushes before a man emerged holding a gun.
The woman had to race to her vehicle but the man was in tow, she said he came to the driver’s side of the vehicle and pointed the weapon through the open window. She reportedly pushed the gun away with her hand and escaped the vehicle and ran, barefoot, and hid near a neighbouring property until daybreak. She said she had lost her sandals during the incident.
“I was afraid he was going to shoot me,” she said yesterday. “I’m forever grateful that I’m not dead.”
In October 2017, the Sagmoen family property became the subject of an extensive search. The remains of Traci Genereaux were found on the Salmon River Road property.
Throughout the trial, several protesters have made their voices heard on the steps of the Vernon Law Courts, bearing signs and chanting slogans in remembrance of Genereaux, and calling for justice for all missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Chants of “gone, but not forgotten,” “our sisters deserve justice,” and “all women’s lives are sacred,” rang out from the stairs outside the Vernon courts.
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Swim coach Lopez announces return to America
SHOCK: Sergio Lopez is joining the Auburn University's swimming team, reported Swimswam, a leading US swimming website.
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SSA exploring options after national swim coach announces return to US
Lim Say Heng
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He was only 15 months into his five-year contract as Singapore swimming's head coach, but Sergio Lopez is leaving to return to the Unites States.
In a shock announcement yesterday, Lopez revealed he will step down at the Rio Olympics in August.
The 47-year-old American, who started work with the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) in January last year, said in a statement: "When I took up this job, it was because it was more than a job; it was a role in which I felt I could make a real difference in.
"I've had a wonderful journey over the past 15 months and garnered much success with the wonderful talents in Singapore.
"However, I have received a good opportunity to move back to the US with my family and made the tough decision to leave my role here and return home."
Swimswam, a leading US swimming website, announced yesterday that Lopez would be joining Auburn University as associate swimming head coach later this year. The university is known to offer generous pay packages.
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SSA secretary general Oon Jin Teik said in the statement that the association will "search for world-class expertise that will take us to the next level in our vision".
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He added: "We will ensure that there will be minimal, if any, disruptions to our athletes' training progress and development.
"We can count on the outstanding support of our elite-level coaches and officials whom Sergio worked with to guide our programmes and efforts in enhancing capability development."
Assistant national coach Gary Tan, a former Singapore swimmer, could be an option, but The New Paper understands that all options are open, with Lopez pledging to help the SSA in this process.
Lopez broke the news to the National Training Centre (NTC) swimmers yesterday evening, leaving many in shock.
A distraught Quah Ting Wen said: "We've got to know him more this past year and he is more than just a coach to us.
"We have built a relationship with him and it is painful when this relationship is suddenly broken, and not by our own will.
"I've always wanted to train under Sergio and I am happy and grateful that it happened."
Lopez sparked the national swim team to a record 23 golds at last year's SEA Games on home soil, better than the previous mark of 21 golds achieved on home soil at the 1973 South-east Asian Peninsular Games.
One national swimmer said Lopez had to fight hard to put his plans in place.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the swimmer said: "Some days, he would come to training tired and dazed, and sometimes he would tell us a plan, but later say that it was cancelled because it was not approved.
"But I think it's just normal, and part and parcel of how things work here."
Despite quitting, Lopez will still commit himself to preparing Singapore's swimmers for August's Olympics in Rio.
Other than Joseph Schooling, who trains under Eddie Reese in the University of Texas, Quah Zheng Wen is the only other Singapore swimmer who has made the "A" cut, which guarantees him an Olympic spot.
However, swimmers like Ting Wen, Danny Yeo, Lionel Khoo and Amanda Lim have made the "B" cut and will find out after July 3 if they will be in the final squad.
All the swimmers will leave for the US at the end of next month for final Olympic preparations under Lopez, while Tan will oversee the NTC squad as acting head coach, TNP understands.
Said Lopez: "I am very focused on preparing our Singapore team for Rio. I remain committed to achieving the best for our swimmers and for Singapore, the country I've called home the last 15 months.
"I will ensure that my impending departure will not distract the swimmers in any way."
"I remain committed to achieving the best for our swimmers and for Singapore... I will ensure that my impending departure will not distract the swimmers in any way." - Sergio Lopez (left) says he will honour his commitment of preparing Singapore’s swimmers for August’s Olympics, despite quitting as national coach
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What’s the difference between Gmail and Email – Often, when working on the Internet, a question always comes to our mind that what is the difference between Gmail and E-mail, because Gmail and E-mail are similar in viewing and listening. People do not have much technical knowledge, they have difficulty in understanding what is Gmail and what is E-mail and after all what is the difference between Email and Gmail. Answers are going to be found in this post, so let’s know what is the difference between Email and Gmail? And you can read more articles visit to Spotify Premium Apk
What is Email
Email history
Who invented email
What is email id
Email address structure
What is Gmail
Benefits of Gmail Account
In the olden times, for sending correspondence, a mail was sent which was written on a postcard and the address of both the recipient and the sender was inscribed on it as well as the area in which it was sent. The PIN code number of the area is being sent to the mail (PinCode Number) was also written, after this the mail was going to the Post Office and put in the Post Box.
After which the postman used to collect it from there and sent it to the concerned city through Transport, then the local Postman of that city used to deliver it to the fixed address of that letter, this process took many days. For people, it was also a cause of trouble, mostly people with a job profession received information and Job Letters and invitation letters sometimes after passing time.
If you need to send immediate Information to someone, then Telegram was used but sending Telegram was not so easy, it used electrical signals for which the Telegraph Machine was used. Was used for which the sender and receiver needed to know a particular type of code language which was not possible for everyone.
But in 1971, American-origin computer programmer Ray Tomlinson invented a technology that could send a message to two computers connected to the Internet Network, so he was the father of e-mail. It is also said that Ray Tomlinson sent an email to himself as a test email message.
In which he wrote some text, which was “QWERTYUIOP”. These were not specific words, but all the keys on the top line of the typewriters keys of the board were pressed to send mail to Arpanet. ) Network was used
This invention has brought a revolution in the technical world. The message sent by electronic means or if the mail was sent was called E-mail i.e. Electronice Mail, so if your computer is connected to an Internet, the email was born. So you can send your message through Electronic mail in Seconds anywhere in the world.
As the benefits of sending information from e-mail became known, e-mail became more popular, Ray Tomlinson was honored with the Internet Hall of Fame Award in 2012 for this invention. This award is the LifeTime Achivment Award given by the Internet Society.
Email has been discovered, but the way in which you organize the email was not done. The credit for this important invention also goes to India. Currently the computer program which is used to send email, which comes in Inbox for receiving email, Outbox for arranging the sent email and if you want to send a document with email, then there was also the option of Attachment and this program was created by VA Shiva Ayyadurai (Indian) Native American scientists were
By email, you have already understood that email means electronic mail, now let’s understand what an Email Id is, for example, to send a letter, both the sender and the recipient of the address need Same way an address is required to send an e-mail, let’s understand
When you send a letter, it writes the recipient’s name (Address) and its address (address) followed by doubt (Message) and then the sender’s name (Sender), similarly the recipient’s name (Receiver) And his email address (E-mail address) is followed by email body (Message) and then the sender’s e-mail address. Every person has a unique email address called e-mail Id It is said that to get an e-mail id, you have to create an email account.
There are currently a lot of email Service Provider Company for creating e-mail account like Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, Rediffmail. All these companies provide the facility to create free email when you visit any of these websites. When you register to create a mail account, then you are given a unique email address which you also know by the name of e-mail id or mail address for example example@gmail.com.
An email id is made up of two parts, the first user name and the second domain name. These two parts are divided by the sign of @. In fact, the at sign (@) is the full form at the rate, which is used to rate someone in mathematics. It is done to determine.
But in email, it is not used to determine the rate of someone but to indicate the name of the email service provider or the name of the social networking site. This indicates which site your account is on, or simply states that you are “located at” and that the at sign (@) was also invented by Ray Tomlinson and the same email was so vast.
Let me tell you that any email ID is in two parts. A portion that precedes @. It contains your name or the letter or number you choose and the second part is the one that comes after the @ sign, in which the domain name of the email service provider is written.
So by now you have understood what is email, what is an e-mail address or email id, who created it and what are the benefits of using it, let’s now know about gmail
Like we told you above that to send any email, it is necessary to create an email account and for that you have to register on any webmail service providing site so that you can send and receive email in the same way. 21 March 2004 Has released its web based email facility named gmail which can be used by anyone through their web browser, for which they have to register on gmail
After this, you can login on the website of gmail and see and send all your emails, the biggest advantage of web based email service is that all the data of the email is always online, there is no need to download and keep all the data google No data is saved on your computer.
When you log in to a gmail account, all the emails from google’s server start appearing in your web browser. When you create a free account on gmail, then you are given 15GB of free space on google’s cloud storage, which benefits you Lets also pick up other services related to gmail. Let us know what benefits you get from a gmail id and where you need a gmail id.
You need to have a mail ID to enter the world of Internet and if that email ID is Gmail then you can take advantage of other features along with sending your email.
When you create a new Email Account on Gmail for the first time, then you are given 15 GB of free cloud storage from Google.
With the creation of Gmail ID, you can also take advantage of other features provided by Google for free including Top Online Services like Youtube, Google Drive, Blogger, Google Photo, Google Meet, Google Docs, Google My Business, Google Classroom, Google Calendar Are included
When you bring a new Android phone, you also need a Gmail ID, without gmail id, you cannot download any application and game in Android Phone from Google’s Play Store.
If you have gmail id then it makes your business and your job profile strong. You can stay in touch with customers by creating email id for your business. By entering email id while registering on any job search site, you will get job will get notification
If you do not want to share the mobile number with any person and also want to be in contact with them, then email id is the best option.
To make Chennel on YouTube, you also have to have a Gmail Id, so that you can reach your information to others as well as online Earning.
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Phoma macrostoma: Natural weed control
By Madeleine Baerg
Twenty years after realising they might be onto something, a small team of Saskatoon-based scientists is working towards clearing the final regulatory hurdles to gain approval for Canada’s first-ever Prairie cropland bioherbicide. Designed to counter some of agriculture’s toughest broadleaf weeds, including Canada thistle, dandelion and wild mustard, the breakthrough product is safe, effective and – most noteworthy – derived from an entirely natural fungus. The bioherbicide represents a major step towards diversifying Canadian agriculture’s weed management options.
“It’s a really good product. But just as importantly, we’ve made major steps to advance the field of bioherbicides, which opens the door for others to advance the field further,” says team lead Dr. Karen Bailey, a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). “Industry, farmers and the research community will herald this as a big win, absolutely.”
The next-best thing to no weeds in a field is weeds that emerge from the ground a sickly, photobleached white, doomed even as they are just getting started. This is the magic of Phoma macrostoma. When isolated, concentrated, granulized and broadcast on fields for pre-emergent weed control, this naturally occurring fungus packs a two-part punch. First, it releases a phytotoxin that, when absorbed by germinating seedlings, destroys the seedling’s ability to feed themselves. Meanwhile, it infects the susceptible weed’s root structure, producing further phytotoxin from inside the plant. Phoma offers 50 to 80 per cent control of Canada thistle and 80 to 90 per cent (equal to conventional herbicide) control of dandelion and wild mustard.
From a safety perspective, Phoma is everything regulators and farmers want in a herbicide. It is extremely non-competitive in the soil, which means that if any other organism comes near it, its population drops sharply back to naturally occurring, virtually undetectable levels. It stays neatly in place: its effective radius is within five centimetres of where it was broadcast, so there is no concern with drift to neighbouring fields or waterways. It has a broad host range: it attacks many dicots (clovers, lentils, other broadleaf plants) but monocots (grasses, cereal crops) and all trees and shrubs are very resistant. Interestingly, alfalfa is susceptible in its year of establishment, but untouched if the Phoma is applied in subsequent years. And, regulatory approval is far simpler because Phoma already exists all across Canada (likely tagging along to Canada from the United Kingdom when Canada thistle was first brought in with animal hay by early pioneers).
Phoma’s application as a bioherbicide came to be through painstaking study, educated guesswork and serendipitous luck. Bailey and her team first decided to attack the problem of Canada thistle in the early 1990s. Their initial approach was to cast their nets widely: they asked agronomists and researchers across the country to send in any Canada thistle plants showing evidence of disease. The team then analyzed the sick looking plants to isolate which organisms were causing the symptoms.
Bailey isolated Phoma macrostoma as an agent of Canada thistle disease in 1994, but the research had, in fact, only begun. Though tests proved Phoma caused the plant to become diseased, when the fungus was isolated and sprayed onto the leaves of healthy plants, only partial results occurred, not nearly effective enough to suggest a real future as a bioherbicide.
But then luck stepped in, says Bailey. A dandelion growing alongside the test area flowered and, by complete accident, the seeds fell into a pot that held a plant that had been treated with the fungus. When the dandelion seeds sprouted in the pot, the emerging seedlings were white.
“That’s when we realised it had to be applied to the ground as a pre-emergent. It really was a chance occurrence - serendipity if you will - but it was the crucial step we otherwise would have missed,” she says.
The team then set about finding the most effective isolate of Phoma macrostoma and, by the early 2000s, had enough data to patent the effect of the organism. Since then, they have been working with industry partners to isolate and produce Phoma and to collect the multiple years of data on multiple crops required by regulators. They also continue to work on perfecting their product.
“Yes, it is naturally occurring, but what we are doing is maximizing what it produces for phytotoxin so we can reduce the level that needs to be applied to achieve effective results. Bioherbicides tend to be on the more expensive side, so we’re trying to maximize its effectiveness. Right now we’ve got costs reasonable for a turf grass situation, but we’re not quite there for agriculture. We’re working on different ways to grow it better, different formulations to help it disperse most effectively,” says Bailey.
While Phoma is best applied on pre-emergent seedlings, it can also provide effective control of more mature plants. However, to achieve control on older weeds, Phoma needs to be applied more than once and at higher quantities, a serious challenge to its cost effectiveness in a commercial application.
Phoma is currently registered for use in turf grass applications. Registration for feed and food use, the registration required to allow the bioherbicide to be used in Prairie crops, is still three to four years away. The researchers intend to collect a final year of field data before submitting their findings to an 18- to 24-month long regulatory approval process.
If it gains final approval, Phoma will be the first of many bioherbicides developed for use in Canadian agriculture, says Bailey.
“Bioherbicides are pretty unique. Our group in Saskatoon is the only one in Canada and some of just a handful of researchers around the world looking at bioherbicides,” she says.
“We’d like bioherbicides to become a mainstream way of control. I don’t see them as better to conventional herbicides. But, they are another option and one that might suit some farmers’ needs. And, bioherbicides are usually a little better at fending off herbicide resistance due to multiple modes of action, compared with conventional herbicides which only have single modes of action, which may become increasingly important.”
Following final data collection, the next priority is to find a suitable industry partner to take the product to market. Bailey anticipates such a partner stepping in once the data collection phase is complete and the team is ready to move into the regulatory approval process.
Industry support for the product is strong. Certainly organic producers will be particularly enthusiastic should this product hit the market, as it may prove the long-awaited, all-natural solution to the growing and very challenging Canada thistle problem. That said, bioherbicide research is currently on the fringes of agricultural study, which means that research dollars can be harder to access than if the field of study were more conventional.
“The problem we have as researchers who work on bioherbicides is that we have to work in a very isolated manner. Most researchers working on conventional products can form clusters with industry to generate research dollars. But, because industry really isn’t involved at the early stages of bioherbicide development, it’s more of a struggle to find research dollars. We do get dollars from government and from producer groups; we are well supported. But I’m a researcher; we always need money.”
Certainly, other challenges lie ahead. However, most of the biggest steps en route to commercializing Phoma are now complete, a major accomplishment for the researchers and for Canadian agriculture as a whole.
“Proving all of the biology and safety finding economical ways to grow it, manufacture it, and distribute it, there are many pieces to the puzzle,” she says. “But it has come together for us, perhaps against the odds.”
Test plot five weeks after broadcast application of granular Phoma macrostoma to soil. Saskatoon-based scientists are working towards clearing the final regulatory hurdles to gain approval for Canada's first-ever Prairie cropland bioherbicide.
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Subdued Brewing halts efforts to open
On Friday afternoon we received an email from Dave Morales of Subdued Brewing Company announcing that the team will be halting efforts to open the brewery in the Gifford Grocery on Elm St. Subdued Brewing would have added to the incredible number of breweries that have opened up in Bellingham and the surrounding area over the past two years.
The team couldn’t justify moving forward with the project in the Gifford’s space because the finances didn’t add up. While they aren’t opening in the Gifford’s space the team is open to any opportunities that may present themselves. For the time being, the effort is on hold.
Subdued Brewing began as a team effort between Dave Morales and Chris Chris McClanahan in the spring of 2015. They then brought on Patrick McEvoy, owner of Elizabeth Station, as an investor and adviser. Even the mere discussion of opening the brewery shook up the quiet Columbia Neighborhood. The proposed brewery would have been right next to houses and the neighbors questioned whether they wanted an establishment that served alcohol right next door.
Subdued Brewing public meeting – April 2015
Many of these concerns were voiced – and quelled – at the public meeting Subdued Brewing held a few months later. The community and neighborhood showed that most supported the project and looked forward to it bringing life and culture to their doorstep. But some were concerned about late night noise and disturbing the neighborhood. Both Dave and Chris live very close to the proposed location and were excite to add something positive to their neighborhoods.
Chris and Dave are well known in the community and both excel at home brewing. Dave had commercial brewing experience with jobs at Pike Brewing, Pyramid and finally at Boundary Bay. Dave also opened up The Bottle Shoppe on Holly St. in 2005. Bellingham’s first craft beer bottle shop. In our interview last year, Chris had this to say about Subdued’s place in the community…
We want our taproom space to be a relaxing place for locals to meet up with their families and neighbors to enjoy a pint and perhaps take home a growler. Lots of bike parking…children welcome…community-centered. – Chris McClanahan, Subdued Brewing
Dave Morales on the left and Chris McClanahan on the right.
Dave always told us and the community that the brewery was a long way from opening when the whole thing started. With so many popping up it was generally assumed by the community that it was a foregone conclusion. The question was just, “When?” They knew what to expect and Bellingham was all too excited to watch them progress and add to Bellingham’s growing craft brewery scene.
With Subdued Brewing closing, Bellingham still has new breweries planned, including Illuminati Brewing, that hopes to open sometime this winter.
With the stratospheric growth of craft beer in Bellingham it is sometimes forgotten that opening a brewery is actually
very difficult and fraught with hurdles and unknowns. Many of these hurdles revolve around funding. Some reports were that the financing needed to fund Subdued were hovering around the $1 million mark. As you’ll see below in their press release, these were the very reasons the project didn’t move forward.
The national craft brewery market has slowed and there have been layoffs at Stone Brewing. The craft market is moving towards a more hyperlocal model, where distribution is less important. More money is made in the taproom, where margins are much higher. But this is also a model that is less attractive to investors as it takes a longer time to capture the principal investment.
While it may be harder to capture investors, hyperlocal breweries support communities, are instilled in our local stories and provide character to our neighborhoods. Subdued Brewing would have been a welcome addition to all of these and the Bellingham. We thank them for bringing excitement and intrigue to our craft community and we wish them luck on their next ventures.
Subdued Brewing Press Release
Hello Subdued fans,
After taking a cold, hard look at all of the numbers, our financial situation, and all of the options available to us to gather the needed funding, we have decided that the risk is just too great to responsibly open Subdued Brewing Co in the Gifford’s space. Even with our conservative numbers, the hole of debt that we would create just to open the doors meant there would be a high likelihood of failure.
Combining the enormous construction costs (both specific to the brewery and city requirements) and the time frame needed for securing any debt-based funds to add to the investor dollars we had, it was just too much. The margin of error became nearly zero. It all came down to a basic and unavoidable fact: the build-out costs to create a brewery in that space were too high to warrant moving forward given our means.
There was pressure on us to just “go for it” and see where things landed. If it had only been our money and the gaps in funding smaller, we may have done just that. While we understand that risks are inherent with start-ups, we also understand that when the risks are too great, it’s better to just cut your losses and move on. There were so many people who helped us along the way both professionally and via casual chats, and we never would have gotten as far as we did, or learned as much as we did, without them. We humbly thank all of you.
While it was a gut-wrenching and emotional decision, we feel it is the right one. Too many people’s time, money, and potential futures were being put at too high a risk. We still own the trademark, have a functioning LLC, our killer logo, and vetted boilerplate documents for any potential future attempt at making Subdued Brewing Co happen. While we do not have another plan at the moment, there is no scenario or model too crazy to ponder. We are open to and will approach any new ideas the same way this idea got started, “Let’s just keep talking about it until it doesn’t make sense to.”
Hopefully we’ll see you over a pint soon.
The Subdued Brewing Crew:
Chris McClanahan
Dave Morales
Patrick McEvoy
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The Sun welcomed the New Year by releasing magnetic strings from the Southern Hemisphere. The eruptions occurred on January 2, setting off an explosion of energy that could hit the Earth. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed the Sun’s particles as they were falling into deep space.
A short burst can be seen around the six-second mark from the video, followed by another 11-second explosion.
Experts said the flares were caused by the accumulation of magnetic filaments deep inside the Sun’s core.
When the filaments accumulate enough, they release a coronal ejection mass (CME) in the solar system.
According to the Space Weather astronomy website, particles are flying through the solar system and could hit Earth in the coming days.
The site said: “On January 2, 2021, two dark strands of magnetism erupted in the southern hemisphere of the sun.
This movie from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captures both.
“The double eruption threw a close pair of coronal masses projected toward the ground. The first eruption was slow, and the second was faster.
“This could cause two CMEs to build up one on top of the other, intensifying their impact. NOAA Prediction Models indicate reaching Earth on January 6th.”
Read more: The Space Observatory captures an unusual photo of sunspots
The solar wind can heat the Earth’s outer atmosphere, causing it to expand.
This could affect satellites in orbit, which could lead to a lack of GPS navigation, mobile phone signal, and satellite channels such as Sky.
In addition, particle eruption can lead to high currents in the magnetosphere, which can lead to higher than normal electricity in power lines, resulting in electrical transformers and power stations to explode and power losses.
READ This epic space cloud sums up our goodbye for 2020
Rarely does an event like this happen, with the arrival of the biggest solar storm disrupting the technology in 1859, when an increase in electricity during what is now known as the Carrington Event was so strong that telegraph systems broke down across Europe.
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Damage pegged near $10M in pig farm blaze
6,000 pigs killed in fire near Tillsonburg
Megan Stacey • The London Free Press
Feb 02, 2020 • February 2, 2020 • 1 minute read
Fire crews battle a massive fire at a pig farm near Tillsonburg on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. The owners told fire crews there are 6,000 pigs in the barn, estimating damage will be between $8 million and $10 million. Photo by Tillsonburg Fire and Rescue Services Facebook)
A massive fire at a farm near Tillsonburg killed thousands of pigs and left an estimated $10 million worth of damage in its wake.
The barn fire began early Saturday, police and firefighters say. Crews were called to the scene at 5 a.m.
Damage pegged near $10M in pig farm blaze Back to video
Hawkins Road, west of Tillsonburg, was closed between Dereham and Culloden lines all morning.
“We’re still involved in trying to contain the fire,” South-West Oxford fire chief Jeff VanRybroeck said midday, adding it was too early to know what caused the flames.
“We have the fire under control, but we’re still working on hotspots and embers. We have excavators on scene now that are helping us to remove the roof off portions so we can get at the fire better.”
The property owners pegged damage at $8 million to $10 million between property and content, including their livestock, VanRybroeck said. Fire crews have been told there are 6,000 pigs involved.
Hawkins Road re-opened Saturday afternoon.
Three fire departments battled the blaze, including South-West Oxford and crews from Tillsonburg and Bayham.
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5 'Little House on the Prairie' Episodes to Stream on Amazon Prime Video
John Griffiths March 23, 2019, 3:00 pm
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Parched for some pioneer spirit?
Through nine seasons of homespun drama on Little House on the Prairie (1974–83), the Ingalls family of Minnesota — lumber mill worker Charles, wife Caroline and daughters Mary, Laura and Carrie (Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Sue Anderson, Melissa Gilbert and Lindsay Greenbush) — stood tight through money woes and tragedies galore circa 1870. (Laura Ingalls Wilder's autobiographical books inspired the series.)
The pack's mix of love and faith proved as sturdy as the mighty trees Charles milled: House was still a Top 30 hit when Landon, also an executive producer, and the gang wrapped up the NBC series after 204 episodes. Now that they've all arrived on Prime Video this month, we picked some of the highlights.
10 Best First-Day-of-School TV Episodes (PHOTOS)
From 'Full House' to 'Little House on the Prairie,' see which episodes made the list.
"The Richest Man in Walnut Grove" (Season 2, Episode 1)
The proud Ingalls family, stiffed by a boss and in debt to general store owners Nels Oleson (Richard Bull) and snide wife Harriet (scene-stealer Katherine MacGregor), work side jobs like crazy to make things right. Take that, Mrs. Oleson!
"I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away, Parts 1 and 2" (Season 4, Episodes 21 and 22)
Over 20 million homes tuned in to this gripping two-parter: Scarlett fever robs Mary of her sight. In a bittersweet twist, she falls for the also-blind Adam (Linwood Boomer). Anderson, at a then-groundbreaking 15 years old, scored a Best Actress Emmy nomination.
"Back to School, Parts 1 and 2" (Season 6, Episodes 1 and 2)
Laura, now a teenager and smitten with older future husband Almanzo (Dean Butler), asks Pa to stop calling her "Half-Pint." While that's a heart-tugger, Laura's mud fight with jealous Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) is a riot.
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From the fabulous costumes to the delicious cosmos — relive your favorite memories.
"Growing Pains" (Season 8, Episode 3)
James (Jason Bateman), the troubled orphan taken in by the Ingalls clan, runs away. (Another orphan, Matthew Labyorteaux's Albert, joined the family a few seasons earlier.)
"Once Upon a Time" (Season 9, Episode 15)
In the final season (branded Little House: A New Beginning), Laura writes a book inspired by her family's heartbreaks and triumphs. A pox on the editor who demands some silly changes!
Little House on the Prairie, Seasons 1–9, Streaming now, Amazon Prime Video
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Homeopathy and why it's so controversial
Lionel Milgrom
Of all the complementary therapies, homeopathy is arguably the most controversial, primarily because its remedies are so diluted, little or nothing of the original substance remains. Yet in the teeth of conflicting objective data at best, homeopathy still manages to enjoy consumer-led demand.
Its lack of general acceptance, however, can be blamed not only on difficulties in obtaining consistent empirical effects in conventional medical trials, but also on the absence of any overall theory to explain its results. In fact, homeopathy is unique in medical history for being only weakly supported by experimental facts, yet highly endorsed by circumstantial and anecdotal evidence.
So how could it work? Since Benveniste’s controversial work, the memory of water hypothesis has been cited as a possible ‘local’ cause for homeopathy's effects, and this is an on-going research area. Yet while suggesting new physical and biochemical insights into the nature of water, it is not obvious how to extrapolate from water memory effects to a pharmacological explanation of homeopathy.
This is because modern pharmacology’s ideas about ‘cure’ are deterministically based on the notion of actual drug molecules interacting with protein-based cellular receptor sites, leading to measurable biological responses.
Homeopathy is therefore burdened with having to provide convincing evidence of ‘nothing doing something’ within bio-medicine's deterministic local reality paradigm, and via its accepted trials methodology. The result is ideological stalemate.
Breaking this dead-lock may require the assumption that homeopathy is just not explicable in deterministic bio-medical terms, and that perhaps the search for theoretical models should be conducted in areas of science where non-locality rules, such as quantum theory and complexity theory. Such theoretical models are now taking shape.
Lionel was guest speaker at the x-change held at the Dana Centre in April.
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M Mphahlwa on Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE)
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01-Dec-08, 09:57 AM #1
Media statement on the Ministerial Briefing regarding Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE)
Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment BBBEE Post Transitional Period
Since the gazetting of the Codes of Good Practice in February 2007, considerable progress has been made in the implementation of BBBEE. The period post 31 August 2008 effectively marked the unconditional application of the Codes throughout the economy.
Today, 28 November 2008, the Minister of Trade and Industry (DTI), engaged key stakeholders, including Business Unity South Africa (BUSA), Black Management Forum (BMF), Chamber of Mines, Labour, Civic Society and Industry Associations, amongst others, and briefed the media on the progress made towards the implementation of BBBEE. The closed session is being held at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Convention Centre, in Pretoria.
Via the ministerial briefing, the DTI hopes to respond to a number of uncertainties and concerns that have recently been highlighted in the media and elsewhere, regarding the BBBEE policy.
In keeping wit the department's aim to raise awareness of BBBEE implementation among stakeholders and the public, the following represents a synopsis of important milestones achieved in this regard:
* Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Advisory Council
The Presidential Advisory Council on BEE is a key and strategic institution that seeks to provide guidance and overall monitoring of the performance of BBBEE across the economy. In particular, the council will, among other responsibilities, make policy recommendations to address challenges confronted during the implementation phase, and review progress in achieving BBBEE.
The process of identifying, vetting and selecting potential candidates to serve on the BEE advisory council has been finalised and the minister is expected to make an announcement to this effect.
BEE information technology (IT) portal
The DTI launched the BBBEE IT portal in September 2008. This virtual innovation is the nation's first ever interactive and publicly accessible information technology site, which features a variety of user friendly tools to assist companies in understanding and completing their BBBEE status self assessment.
It enables business to network with local investors and seek new business opportunities. The portal will also be used by the DTI to manage reported cases of fronting, information management and B-BBEE advocacy. In particular, this will ensure that the DTI provides the market with the overall status of BBBEE as part of reviewing progress made.
Various stakeholders, including Verification Agencies (VAs), state owned entities, Charter Councils and the general public will be able to feed information into the portal. This portal will also link to provincial governments and state owned enterprises and various industry associations to ensure value addition for those that have registered on it. Since its inception, more than 1 000 companies have registered on the website.
BBBEE verification
Verification manual
BBBEE verification is an important aspect of measuring progress on the implementation of BBBEE. To this end, the DTI launched and gazetted the Verification Manual on 18 July 2008. The objective of the manual is to outline the procedures to be followed in providing assurance on whether the requirements and objectives of the Codes have been met. The verification manual is also utilised as part of the accreditation process.
Accreditation of Verification Agencies by South African National Accreditation System (SANAS)
In ensuring that there is uniformity and credibility of VAs, the DTI mandated the SANAS to conduct the accreditation process. Although this process is still marked with delays, there has been significant progress in accrediting these Agencies.
There are presently 75 VAs that have applied for accreditation. All the applicants are currently at various stages of the accreditation process, which comprise the following:
The process of document review entails
Compliance with the accreditation standards (R47), requirements and guidance documents. A report on non-compliance or areas where actions are needed will be issued to the VA. There are 51 VAs that are still in the process of correcting their documents.
The pre-assessment is carried out at the central office of the VA to:
* discuss any findings related to the documentation
* seek further information on the verification system
* briefly examine the systems that have been established and
* discuss any arrangements that have been made to include multiple locations, and
* determine whether any further technical assessors will be required.
After pre-assessment, the VA may need to make changes to its policies, procedures and programmes prior to SANAS acknowledgement that the organisation's documented systems comply with the requirements of R47.
Final Assessment
The BBBEE assessment must be conducted at central including multiple offices. This also entails the witnessing of application of the Verification Manual. Sixteen (16) VAs are in the process of final assessment. It is anticipated that the approval process will be completed by January 2009.
Alignment of Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act PPPFA and BBBEE Act
The DTI has done considerable work to advance the objectives of BBBEE within the preferential procurement system, to ensure that preference is given to BBBEE compliant entities in the procurement of goods and services. This, to enhance transformation in the South African economy.
The Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA) is prescribed by National Treasury, which employs percentage points to score bidding service providers, to empower Historically Disadvantaged Individuals (HDIs), women equity ownership and physically challenged. What remains now is for the National Treasury to complete the work of amending the Act.
Sector Charters
The Sector Charters play a pivotal role in transforming the economy, thereby assisting in achieving government’s growth and employment objectives, in particular, by addressing sector-specific peculiarities.
Five (5) Sector Charters were submitted before the end of the transitional period, all of which were vetted, analysed for compliance and recommended for gazetting. These are Forestry, Construction, Financial Sector Charter (FSC), Transport, Media and Communication (MAC) and Tourism.
The DTI intends to finalise the charter processes by the end of March 2009, and will continue to play both a strategic and technical role in guiding these charters and others to advance the objectives envisaged in the BBBEE Act and strategy.
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And still no properly accredited verification agencies...
19-Mar-09, 08:12 PM #3
Sibusiso Nkosi
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Verification Agencies were finally Accredited. Big names appeared on the list and some were shockingly on the list due to a lack of technical knowledge of the Codes of Good Practice.
I worked for the to 2 verification agencies and I knew that they would make the cut. But some of our former competitors who were way below also made it. I guess they had less non-comformances.
20-Mar-09, 07:23 AM #4
Interesting observation, Sibusiso.
Who would you rate as the top verification agencies that people can trust?
NERA. They have 3 Branches that were accredited. That shows just how a strong player they are. The have brilliant document controll systems, they have brilliant training programmes, and they have all resources required to perform an audit (Competent Legal Personell for the assesment ownership which is very cruicial).
Originally Posted by Sibusiso Nkosi
(Competent Legal Personell for the assesment ownership which is very cruicial).
Why the emphasis on the ownerhip component?
I would have thought all elements were important.
Ownership is the most difficult to asses. If you do not have legal personell to read through shareholders agreements and the sale of shares agreements you will miss the indicators of fronting and therefore all of the certificates out there will reflect an untrue ownership status.
Yes, all the elements are vital. they are all worth points, but ownership assesments, as my previous boss would say, "is nie pap and vleis".
You need to ensure that properly qualified people offer support in that department.
Even my organization has partnered with one of the most credible legal firms as support when I am advising on the ownership element.
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These ten boys grew up to become successful men. The two things they have in common is that they all put to good use the talents and gifts they had, and they all believed that God had given them to be used.
Paul Brand took medicine into new lands to bring hope to the sick, Ghillean Prance's love of the world around him led to Kew Gardens, still a centre of excellence in studying God’s creation, C S Lewis opened the door into Narnia and opened the hearts of many to new faith; C T Studd excelled on the cricket and the mission field; Wilfred Grenfell was an energetic explorer of the Arctic; J S Bach's music still inspires millions, as Christ inspired him; James Clerk Maxwell’s faith in God’s ordering of the universe led to key discoveries in science; Samuel Morse patented many inventions one of which has saved many lives; George Washington governed a country as he followed the Lord; John Bunyan was imprisoned to shut him up yet wrote a classic that still speaks today.
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Transphobic Violence is a Global Crisis
A study of global transphobic violence paints a distressing picture — and should serve as a call to arms for each of us.
Chanel Kennerly holds a candle during a vigil for the Transgender Day of Remembrance at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul in downtown Boston on Nov. 17, 2019.Boston Globe
Content Warning: This article discusses violence against transgender people.
November 20 marks the 20th observance of Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), an occasion acknowledging both the ongoing epidemic of transphobic violence and our trans siblings who have been ripped from us by this crisis. Besides honoring the lives of those we’ve lost, TDoR strives to fuel greater global awareness about the unique and countless precarities of living as a trans person, particularly for Black trans women and other trans women of color.
Each year since it was founded in 2009, the Trans Murder Monitoring Project (TMMP) has studied the extent of global violence against trans and gender-nonconforming folx. Today, Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide, the organization that has coordinated the TMMP over the last decade, released its most recent report. Its findings are deeply distressing — and should represent a powerful call to action for each of us to work toward curbing this international crisis.
According to the report, a total of 331 TGNC people were reported killed between October 1st, 2018 and September 30th, 2019. The report shows the international nature of the epidemic, with the majority of recorded murders occurring in Brazil (130), Mexico (63), and the US (31), followed by Argentina (13), Malaysia (4), India (11), and Italy (1), along with 22 other nations.
More broadly, the report also estimates that since the TMMP first started collecting data in 2008, an estimated 3,314 TGNC folks have died at the hands of transphobic violence. These murders have occurred on every continent (except Antarctica) and in 74 countries. They’ve been carried out via shooting (1,252), stabbing (653), and beating (334). 61% of murders recorded by the TMMP involved sex workers. Perhaps most importantly, the report underscores that these numbers represent only an estimate of all murders committed against TGNC; the true figure is likely much higher as many nations do not recognize murders of TGNC people as distinct from those of anyone else.
Since its inception in 2009, the Trans Murder Monitoring Project has measured the global epidemic of anti-trans violence.
Transrespect Versus Transphobia Worldwide
These statistics are as terrifying as they are demoralizing. But that is not to say that trans folks are simply terrified and demoralized. So too, we (they) are emboldened. We (they) are resilient. (These parenthetical distinctions are meant to convey that while I consider myself a member of the trans community, I am statistically far less likely to experience the same level of danger or marginalization as my trans siblings of color; my capacity to be emboldened and for resilience must be recognized relative to this truth.) In fact, every year since 2014, social justice advocacy organization Forward Together has reimagined TDoR as Trans Day of Resilience, a revision intended to call attention to the importance of honoring and celebrating trans folks in life, not just in death.
Other efforts toward mobilizing the pain associated with TDoR into action include “The Trans Obituaries Project,” a recent series of articles from Out magazine; it includes an invaluable 13-step plan, “How We Can End the Violence Against Trans Women of Color”, compiled by trans activist and Out executive editor Raquel Willis. In addition, them. recently published a series of perspectives on combating this epidemic from LGBTQ+ advocates, representing nearly a dozen activist organizations. Both of these important pieces embody not only a productive means of observing Trans Day of Remembrance / Trans Day of Resilience, but also a productive means of beginning the work of ending the global crisis of anti-trans violence.
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David James Gilhooly
Biography to Display:
1943Born Auburn, California
2013Died Newport, Oregon
1965BA University of California, Davis, Davis, California
1966MA University of California, Davis
PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE
1967-1969San Jose State College, San Jose, California
1969-1971University of Saskatchewan, Regina, Canada
1971-1977York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1975-1976University of California, Davis
1978-1979California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, California
1995-2013Studio Potter, Newport, Oregon
David Gilhooly is known primarily for his ceramic sculpture of animals, food, planets and the FrogWorld. Gilhooly used his FrogWorld series to examine the world, past and present. It also allowed him to comment on social and political issues of the day. The frog theme reoccurred in his work for most of his career.
Gilhooly's use of low fired white earthenware allowed him to work with the very vibrant colors he needed for his food pieces. In the 1960s he studied at ceramics at UC Davis with Robert Arneson. It was there that, together with Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher and Margaret Dodd, Gilhooly formed part of what would become the San Francisco Bay Area Funk Ceramic Movement.
In 1982, Gilhooly started exploring the media of plexiglass, but still produced a number of ceramic pieces. In 1996 he left ceramics to work on plexiglass boxes reminiscent of the work of assemblage artist Joseph Cornell.
Public Collections to Display:
Arizona State University Museum of Art, Tempe, Arizona
Australia National Council, Canberra, Australia
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, California
De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, California
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawai’i
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Bibliography to Display:
Baker, Kenneth. David Gilhooly. Davis, California: John Natsoulas Press, 1992.
Bloom, Gordon. A Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection. Santa Clara, California: Triton Museum of Art. 1995.
Clark, Garth and Suzanne Foley Clark. A Fire for Ceramics: Contemporary Art from the Daniel Jacobs and Derek Mason Collection. Richmond, VA: Hand Workshop Art Center, 1998.
DePaoli, Geri, ed. Elvis and Marilyn: 2X Immortal. New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications Inc., 1994.
Landauer, Susan and Karen Kienzle. The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration. San Jose, California: San Jose Museum of Art, 2000.
Lauria, Jo. Color and Fire, Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2000.
Levin, Elaine. The History of American Ceramics from Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms. New York, NY: Henry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1988.
Peterson, Susan. Working with Clay. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.
Zhou, Guangzhe, Po, "David Gilhooly and His Frog World.” Artist Magazine, 1997.
__________________. American Ceramic Artists Today. Beijing, People's Republic of China.1998.
CV or Resume: Click Here to Download
Source: http://www.davidgilhooly.com/
Source: Elaine Levin Archive, University of Southern California
Typical Marks
Frogifix
Form: Sculpture
Method: Hand Built
Surface Technique: Glaze
Photo: TMP
Courtesy Rago Arts and Auction
Boris Frogloff
Materials: Earthenware
Photo: John Polak
Everson Museum of Art Collection, Gift of Les levine, 1984
Brother Frog with 43 Baby Frogs-Covered Jar
Date: 1970 to 1975
Method: Thrown and Altered, Hand Built
E John Bullard Collection
Cubist Pigeon
Bowl of Chocolate Mousse
Photo: Alison Portello
Courtesy Elaine Levin Archive, University of Southern California
Exotic Wedding Cake
Method: Thrown, Hand Built
Novogreek Urn The Lion's Revenge on Hercufrog
Method: Thrown and Altered
Dimensional Last Supper 3
Sundae Sculpture
Citation: "The Marks Project." Last modified June 2, 2019. http://www.themarksproject.org:443/marks/gilhooly
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Home / Breaking / featured / International / News / Sad / SEA Games / ‘We don’t have anything’: Timor Leste pleads for help to quarantine citizens in Bali
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Timor Leste Planning and Strategic Investment Minister Xanana Gusmao confirmed that the country had requested assistance from Indonesia to put 17 of its citizens who are soon to be repatriated from China because of the coronavirus outbreak into quarantine in Bali, despite a prior refusal by the island's administration.
The Timor Leste government made the request since the country lacked the proper infrastructure and equipment to handle coronavirus cases, Gusmao said after a meeting with Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Mahfud MD in Jakarta on Tuesday.
“We don’t have the proper facilities. We don’t have anything, which is why we requested assistance just like any other country. It’s not like we’re asking for exclusive treatment,” said the former Timor Leste president as quoted by tribunnews.com.
Xanana Gusmao, East Timor's former first president, visits Alm's grave. B.J Habibie, Indonesia former third president at the Heroes Cemetery, Kalibata, Jakarta, on Sunday, September 15, 2019. (JP/Narabeto Korohama)
He said he was confident that Indonesia was better equipped to handle coronavirus cases than Timor Leste.
“This is a global issue, not something that [only affects] Timor Leste and Indonesia. I believe Indonesia is more capable [of handling coronavirus cases] than us and will therefore help us resolve this issue,” Gusmao added.
The Bali provincial administration confirmed that Timor Leste had asked for Indonesian permits and assistance to quarantine 17 of its citizens on the island. The request was made through the Indonesian Embassy in Dili.
However, a meeting held by the administration on Monday decided to reject Timor Leste’s request to put its citizens into quarantine on the island.
“The relevant parties in the province did not agree to grant the request; therefore, it’s difficult for us to accept it," Bali Deputy Governor Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati said on Monday, as quoted by kompas.com.
The decision was made based on considerations and input from several tourism stakeholders in Bali. (rfa)
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We made the agonising decision to switch off our baby’s life support – then she started breathing on her own
Lucy Jones, Digital Health & Fitness Reporter
5 Sep 2019, 11:24
A MUM has told of her heartbreaking decision to switch off her baby girl's life support machine - only to watch her start breathing on her own moments later.
Little Ambika was 'blue' when she was born after her mum displayed signs of sepsis while she was pregnant.
Ambika was 'blue' when she was born after her mum displayed signs of sepsis while she was pregnantCredit: Kennedy News and Media
The tot had to be resuscitated minutes after she was delivered before being rushed off for cooling treatment and to be placed on a ventilator.
First time parents Manisha, 27, and Pyush Anand, 28, were left with little choice but to decide to switch off Ambika’s life support machine, after advice from "top medics".
They claim doctors told them Ambika's brain scans were "the worst they had ever seen" and she would be in a "complete vegetative state" if she survived - which would be "unfair".
And Manisha says that the doctors didn't seem to want to give little Ambika a chance and left her feeling guilty if she didn't switch off the life support.
Ambika had to be resuscitated minutes after she was deliveredCredit: Kennedy News and Media
Doctors claimed Ambika's brain scans were 'the worst they had ever seen'Credit: Kennedy News and Media
The night before the ventilator was due to be switched off, Ambika's devastated parents were given time to say "goodbye" to their baby and sobbed as they talked about planning a funeral.
However, at 2am, Pyush burst into Manisha's hospital room to say Ambika was breathing on her own and had been for half an hour, which the mum thought was 'a dream' at first.
Seeing their baby breathing unaided for the first time was like "witnessing a miracle" for Manisha and Pyush who were able to take Ambika home a month later.
While the 22-month-old tot has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy that limits her mobility and development, Ambika is a happy little girl defying all the doctors' expectations.
The night before the ventilator was due to be switched off, Ambika started breathing on her ownCredit: Kennedy News and Media
Former finance adviser Manisha, of Stretford, Greater Manchester, said: "We had a meeting with the doctors and they told us we needed to think about switching her life support off.
"I was a wreck. I couldn't cry, I couldn't really speak. I just couldn't register what was going on.
"We had the top doctor telling us that Ambika's brain scans were the worst they had ever seen. Her head was huge and the swelling was pushing her brain into her spine.
"The doctor told us Ambika wouldn't survive and if she miraculously did survive she would be in a complete vegetative state which would be unfair.
The doctor told us Ambika wouldn't survive and if she miraculously did survive she would be in a complete vegetative state which would be unfair
Manisha Anand
"They explained that they couldn't tell us to switch it off but hearing everything they said made me feel so guilty.
"I know they can't give you false hope but when I think about it now it seems ridiculous. They hadn't even given her a chance. It's crazy.
"We came out of that meeting and all spoke about it as a family and decided we would switch it off. It was horrific.
"We started talking about her funeral. It was the worst conversation we've ever had to have.
Ambika is now a happy little girl defying all the doctors' expectationsCredit: Kennedy News and Media
Ambika's parents had started making funeral plansCredit: Kennedy News and Media
"Everyone was crying and Pyush kept saying 'but I've done her room, we can't go back to an empty room'.
"Seeing him like that was when I fully broke down for the first time because he had been the backbone keeping us all strong. That was when it all really hit me.
"Family time with Ambika that night was horrible. There are no words to explain how it feels to say goodbye to your child when they've only been in this world a few weeks.
"I had to go back to my room because I couldn't cope being around anyone. Then my husband came in saying 'she's breathing'.
"My first thought was 'I'm hallucinating'. It felt like a dream. But he kept saying 'she's breathing' and explained that she had been for about half an hour.
"We rushed to Ambika's room and called the doctors. She was breathing and she kept breathing. It was the most amazing feeling.
"I think Ambika was saying 'no don't switch off the life support, I'm still here'. It was like watching a miracle happen right in front of us. We finally had some hope."
Ambika has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy that limits her mobility and developmentCredit: Kennedy News and Media
The first-time mum started to feel unwell in the last month of her pregnancy with cold and flu-like symptoms.
And when Manisha reached 39 weeks she deteriorated significantly with abdominal pains, a fever and vomiting.
After a particularly bad night, Manisha called maternity triage at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, at 5.46am on 31 October 2017 but was allegedly told not to attend hospital and to try having a hot bath.
Upon contacting the triage unit again at 7.50am to say she was still being sick and in excruciating pain, Manisha claims she was told the midwife was busy.
The midwife called Manisha back 15 minutes later at 8.05am and this time advised the mum to come in to be checked which she did.
Ambika's parents have called her a "miracle" after she started breathing on her ownCredit: Kennedy News and Media
Manisha said: "At 39 weeks and four days, I remember feeling really rundown all day. When I got into bed that night I was shaking.
"I managed to sleep for a few hours but when I woke up I really didn't feel well and I had this ache in my belly.
"I phoned my mum and she told me I might be in labour. I tried to ride it out for another hour but the pain kept getting worse and I started throwing up so I called maternity triage.
"She told me it was probably early labour and to try having a hot bath. I felt like she was ignoring what I'd told her about how I was feeling. But she was the midwife so I believed her.
There are no words to explain how it feels to say goodbye to your child when they've only been in this world a few weeks
"I tried to force myself back to sleep but suddenly everything got so much worse. Suddenly I couldn't feel Ambika, I was in agony and I had a really high temperature.
"I phoned again and they said the midwife was busy and would call me back. By the time she called back I was screaming in pain. I was so scared.
"We rushed to the hospital. My mum still thought I was in labour but the pain was all over the place and it wasn't coming and going. I knew something wasn't right.
"I had deteriorated so quickly. I had gone so pale, my skin was transparent and I was in so much pain I couldn't even walk. I needed a wheelchair.
"I felt like the midwife and nurses were looking at me like I was just experiencing contractions but then I projectile vomited and my stomach lining was coming up."
Manisha deteriorated significantly with abdominal pains, a fever and vomiting when she was 39 weeks pregnantCredit: Kennedy News and Media
Ambika's parents have installed a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to help control her seizuresCredit: Kennedy News and Media
When Ambika's heart rate dropped significantly at 9.25am, a decision was made to deliver her by emergency c-section.
The baby girl had to be resuscitated before she was rushed to St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, for cooling treatment and placed on a ventilator.
Following the traumatic birth, Manisha had to spend three weeks separated from her poorly little girl, fighting sepsis and a Strep A infection in intensive care at Wythenshawe Hospital.
Ambika, who had severe brain damage, was also found to have a Strep A infection.
Strep A, which would account for Manisha's cold and flu symptoms throughout the last month of her pregnancy, is not usually serious and can be easily treated with antibiotics.
However when left untreated or in people with lowered immune systems, such as pregnant women, Strep A infections can become invasive and lead to more serious conditions like sepsis.
Symptoms of sepsis
Sepsis, or blood poisoning, is a serious complication of an infection, and claims 50,000 lives in Britain each year.
Thousands more who survive the illness are left with disabilities and life-changing consequences.
It's important to know the symptoms to look out for.
The early symptoms can include a high temperature, shivering, a fast heartbeat, changes to your breathing or feeling different to normal.
In more severe cases, blood pressure drops to a dangerously low level and according to the NHS, further symptoms can include:
Feeling dizzy or faint
A change in mental state, such as confusion or disorientation
Severe muscle pain
Severe breathlessness
Less urine production than normal – for example, not urinating for a day
Cold, clammy and pale or mottled skin
It's also vital to know the signs to look out for in children - as up to 4,000 under-fives die every year from the condition.
Go straight to A&E or call 999 if your child has any of these symptoms:
Looks mottled, bluish or pale
Very lethargic or difficult to wake
Feels abnormally cold to touch
Breathing is very fast
A rash that does not
Manisha said: "When Ambika was born, she was completely blue. They didn't know how long she had been starved of oxygen. She showed no signs of life for about eight minutes.
“It was awful. What was supposed to be the best day of our lives, turned out to be so heartbreaking. It was a traumatic and scary time for the three of us and our whole family.
"Being separated from Ambika for so long while I was in the ICU was horrific. I was so unwell and out of it, I didn't really know what was going on or how she was.
"For any first-time parents, parenthood is a scary, new and emotional experience but this was on a whole new level and so far from what we expected.
"But through it all, we have tried to be as strong as possible for our baby girl and provide her with all the care and love she needs.
“I also want to raise awareness of the need for pregnant women who report such severe signs of illness to be taken seriously when they ring midwives and not just dismissed as being in the early stages of labour.
"It’s frightening to think of this happening to any other families because I was so unwell and basically could have died."
Ambika's family have set up a gofundme page for herCredit: Kennedy News and Media
After starting to breathe on her own, Ambika was removed from the ventilator and transferred back to Wythenshawe Hospital.
Despite the terrible prognosis, the baby girl started doing things nobody can explain, opening her eyes and taking bottles of milk.
By the time, their daughter was fully bottle fed in mid-December 2017, Manisha and Pyush were told they could take Ambika home.
While this should have been a completely happy occasion, Manisha admits that they were filled with "anxiety" due to Ambika's complex needs.
At first it seemed the parents' fears were coming true as Ambika screamed in pain 24 hours a day, suffered regular seizures and experienced such severe muscle spasms her whole body would arch.
According to Manisha, doctors put this all down as life with brain damage but the mum and her husband Pyush were determined not to give up on their girl and researched alternative treatments.
Ambika was switched to goats milk which resolved her reflux, put on an all organic diet, natural supplements and undergoes regular physiotherapy, sensory play and massages.
Manisha had to spend three weeks separated from her poorly little girl, fighting sepsis and a Strep A infectionCredit: Kennedy News and Media
The proud parents have even installed a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to help control Ambika's seizures and help with her healing.
It hasn't been an easy road for the family but in the last year, Ambika has come on in ways nobody ever expected.
The "happy and smiley" little girl can now sit in a pushchair to go out and about and has gone from needing ten medications for seizures to just two.
Manisha and Pyush believe with enough therapy, Ambika's brain will be able to learn to process these senses.
While she is still too young to know exactly what her future will hold, Ambika's family will never stop fighting for her and have set up a gofundme page.
I'll never forget the day Ambika was finally well enough for us to hold her without all the tubes and wires for the first time
Manisha said: "I'll never forget the day Ambika was finally well enough for us to hold her without all the tubes and wires for the first time. She was five weeks old. It was just surreal.
"I felt an instant bond with her. It was the best feeling. I really felt like god was on our side.
"We were told she would never be able to bottle feed but by the time we left hospital she was fully bottle fed.
"Taking her home should have been a happy occasion but instead I was filled with anxiety. I was so scared we wouldn't be able to give her what she needed.
"She would scream non-stop. It was so distressing and we didn't know what to do. The doctors seemed to be telling us this was just life with a child with brain damage.
"Then I don't know what came over me but I just decided to stop listening to them and do our own research into alternative treatments.
Ambika can now sit in a pushchair to go out and about and has gone from needing ten medications for seizures to just twoCredit: Kennedy News and Media
"Since then, she has been the most happy baby. Whenever she hears my voice she smiles and she is really alert.
"We are so so proud of her. She has come such a huge way. I just look at her in awe.
"She is so strong and seeing her and how well she is doing, gives us the strength to keep fighting.
"She is defying everyone's expectations. The doctors don't even speculate about her future anymore. They can't because she has already defied so much."
Following the incidents surrounding Ambika's birth, Wythenshawe Hospital are undertaking its own internal investigation.
Ambika’s family has now instructed brain injury specialists at JMW Solicitors to investigate the treatment provided to Manisha and Ambika to find out if the poor care they faced caused the baby's brain damage.
Ambika’s family has now instructed solicitors to investigate the treatment provided to Manisha and AmbikaCredit: Kennedy News and Media
Sally Leonards, a partner at JMW Solicitors, specialising in brain injuries, has significant concerns about the care provided.
Sally said: "Tragically Ambika has suffered catastrophic brain damage and is likely to have very significant care needs for the rest of her life.
"It is very early in terms of our investigation and we will be examining the care provided very thoroughly to find out what caused Ambika’s brain damage and if this could have been prevented.
"I am particularly concerned that Manisha was not told to attend hospital when she called with symptoms of an infection which can pose a significant risk to mother and baby.
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"First-time mums are frequently advised not to come to hospital in the early stages of labour but clearly adequate steps need to be taken to ensure those in need of urgent care are seen straight away.”
A spokesperson for Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, on behalf of Wythenshwe Hospital and St Mary's Hospital, said: "We understand how difficult this is for the family but are unable to comment as the investigation is ongoing."
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Tottenham adamant they do not want to sell Eric Dier but Manchester United will test resolve with £40m bid
It is believed Jose Mourinho has identified the England man as one of his top summer transfer targets
11 May 2017, 9:57
Updated: 11 May 2017, 10:29
TOTTENHAM are confident they can keep Eric Dier amid rumours Manchester United are plotting to swoop for the England man.
Reports suggest Jose Mourinho is set to tempt the London club with a £40million bid, but Spurs supremo Daniel Levy is confident of keeping his man.
Eric Dier is the subject of transfer rumour linking him with a move to Manchester UnitedCredit: Reuters
But in a huge boost to supporters, and boss Mauricio Pochettino, chairman Daniel Levy has insisted the club will continue to add an improve the squad, rather than threaten to weaken it.
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In a meeting with the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust last week, the Spurs supremo said that “the stadium issues had no bearing on transfer dealings”, but that “success on the field was obviously important.”
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He then re-iterated that “no player would be sold who they didn’t want to sell for non-footballing reasons.”
Dier, 23, is one of a number of Mauricio Pochetino’s promising squad to sign new long-term deals this season.
But the versatile England international – who joined Spurs from Sporting Lisbon for £4m in 2014 – is not a guaranteed starter.
Eric Dier's versatility is one of the key attraction to Manchester United boss Jose MourinhoCredit: PA:Press Association
The arrival of Victor Wanyama has forced Dier to compete for his place, with his ability to play in defence helping out.
And United chief Jose Mourinho has identified the youngster as a top target as he is capable of plugging several gaps.
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HomeEconomy & BusinessGovernment seeks quick and amicable end to Sierra Rutile industrial dispute
Government seeks quick and amicable end to Sierra Rutile industrial dispute
November 27, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas Economy & Business 1
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2018:
After months of industrial action and upheaval at the Sierra Rutile mines in southern Sierra Leone, which started under the government of president Ernest Bai Koroma, president Julius Maada Bio and senior government ministers have moved one step closer to finding a negotiated settlement to the dispute.
According to report from State House, the president, vice president, the chief minister and key sector ministers, met with the leadership of the Workers Union and Sierra Rutile/Iluka leadership yesterday, Monday 26th November 2018, at State House.
The purpose of the meeting was to resolve the ongoing impasse between the Workers Union and Sierra Rutile/Iluka leadership, as part of Government’s efforts to provide the enabling environment for uninterrupted operations at the Sierra Rutile Mines. (Photo: President Bio and vice president Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh).
Rutile mining is the country’s largest single commodity export, and the dispute has seriously affected not only government revenue, but the local economy and households’ income.
Returning the rutile mines to normal production is crucial as the iron ore mining sector continues to remain dormant after the Chinese owners pulled out last year, leaving a massive shortfall in government revenue, with hundreds of workers out of work.
Following yesterday’s meeting which was aimed at resolving the rutile mining dispute, president Bio and his ministers were able to get the leadership of the Workers Union and Sierra Rutile/Iluka leadership to agree the following resolution:
That there should be an immediate de-escalation of the impasse;
That Sierra Rutile/Iluka leadership should positively engage, consult and dialogue with the Workers Union;
That Sierra Rutile/Iluka leadership should reinstate the four (4) suspended Workers Union leaders;
That Sierra Rutile/Iluka leadership should not suspend or sack the proposed fifty (50) workers involved in the strike action;
That Sierra Rutile/Iluka leadership should abandon the plan to evacuate its international staff as there was no security threat to them;
That Sierra Rutile should resume company operations as soon as possible and
That His Excellency the President directed the establishment of a Special Task Force to investigate the fundamental grievances/concerns/issues of the workers, the Rutile Community and the Sierra Rutile/Iluka and make actionable recommendations
A return to normal production at Sierra Rutile will certainly boost the country’s economy, as the government looks to more foreign investors for the development of the tourism, fisheries, and agro-processing industries.
Sierra Leone needs an estimated $500 million to kickstart its ailing industries, so as to create jobs for the millions of people that are languishing in poverty.
The Bio-led SLPP government has only been in office for seven months. But expectations are high. And many in Sierra Leone are waiting impatiently for those jobs to arrive.
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Andrew Mckenzie says:
I really do hope that all the industrial and economic problems we are seeing in the country since president Bio took over in April, were not deliberately engineered by the outgoing Koroma APC government after suffering electoral defeat.
I recall the statement made publicly during the elections by the APC presidential candidate – Dr Samura Kamara, saying: “We will make this country ungovernable if we lose the elections”. Here we are today, Sierra Leone is anything but governable.
The Chinese iron ore miners left Sierra Leone once they knew that their communist APC friends will lose the elections; Sierra Rutile crisis started during the APC rule; the value of the Leone plummeted under the APC and is struggling to recover as exports decline.
The IMF cancelled financing arrangement with Sierra Leone under APC because of financial mismanagement. Now the Bio government is struggling to generate enough revenue to run the country. But they are trying very hard to balance the books. Well done.
I honestly think that APC sabotaged the economy before leaving office. Bad losers. They care less about their own people, and more about themselves and their families. Bad people and they should never again be voted into power. They must be held accountable for their wicked actions.
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Alexkor: ‘no due diligence carried out’ on Gupta-linked company
The alleged Gupta-linked company reportedly had no diamond trading license prior to scoring the Alexkor tender.
by Olebogeng Motse
The Commission of Inquiry into State Capture this week heard allegations that the former boss of the Northern Cape diamond mine partnered by state-owned Alexkor lied to forensic auditors about carrying out due diligence on Gupta-linked Scarlet Sky Investments (SSI).
GOBODO REPORT FINDS TENDER PROCESSES WERE FLOUTED
The former executive director of Gobodo Forensics, Albert Torres testified before Deputy Justice, Raymond Zondo, that the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Pooling and Sharing Joint Venture (PSJV) formed between Alexkor SOC and the Richtersveld Mining Company (RMC) Mervyn Carstens, maintained throughout the forensic investigation that he carried out due diligence on SSI before the contract came into effect in March 2015. Torres went on to say that PSJV Company Secretary, Raygen Phillips, later conceded that this was not the case.
Phillips has alluded to this being a lie, telling the South African that she will be forwarding a supplementary affidavit to the commission on this and other misrepresentations made on Friday, 8 January 2021.
SSI HAD NO TRADING LICENCE WHEN SUBMITTING THEIR TENDER
Torres has gone on to say that SSI appeared to be a shelf company when it submitted its tender to market and sell diamonds to the PSJV tender board. Furthermore, SSI reportedly did not have a diamond trading licence up until they roped in Daniel Nathan as a director – Nathan’s company, which is now known as the Alexander Bay Diamond Company did have a trading licence beforehand. The directors of SSI were later found to include Kubentheran Moodley who is a Gupta-linked affiliate who assisted in Trillian in their endeavours previously.
SSI CONTRACT TERMINATED IN 2020
Meanwhile based off of the Gobodo report, SSI’s marketing and sales contract has been terminated. However legal documents reveal the company – represented by Hector North Inc Attorneys – is in the process of challenging the termination.
A letter from the firms states “the agreement entered into by and between you and our client on 6 October 2016 remains of full force and effect and our client requires compliance with the terms of the agreement. Your conduct is unlawful and the agreement has not been lawfully terminated and remains binding”.
PSJV CONTRACTOR SIDE-LINED
A second witness disgruntled contractor Gavin Craythorne told the Commission on Friday that when he began probing SSI due to the low return on the sale of diamonds mined by them, PSJV management – including Carstens – allegedly ostracised him, denied him access to the PSJV and later slapped him with a series of defamation suits.
CCMA AWARDS PSJV BOSS OVER R3 MILLION
No mention was made during the Zondo Commission of Carstens’ recent victory at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) which found that the PSJV board and the administrator Lloyd Mcpatie, erred in suspending Carstens in early 2020. In the award CCMA Commissioner Chitane Soza, says Alexkor failed to adhere to its own disciplinary code when suspending Carstens and did not afford the PSJV boss an opportunity to defend the allegations made against him by Craythorne and company.
The CEO says nothing was communicated to him regarding disciplinary proceedings, prior to the date of his suspension. In fact, he was only notified of his suspension while representing the PSJV at the Mining Ndaba in Cape Town in early February 2020.
As a result Soza found in favour of Carstens and determined that he needed to be remunerated over R 3,2 million which is the equivalent to a year’s salary.
MORE RETRENCHMENT ON THE CARDS
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) confirms the PSJV has forcibly laid off 56 more mineworkers, whilst eight opted for voluntary severance packages and cut their losses with the highly indebted mine during the festive season. This is in addition to the 190 workers retrenched in 2019, some of whom are yet to receive their retrenchment packages. The Department of Public Enterprises and Alexkor are yet to comment on the retrenchments despite queries being sent in December 2020.
NUM Western Cape Regional Secretary Siso Fisa has lamented the state of affairs at PSJV, adding that NUM is worried about the “swinging economic activity in the Northern Cape and the mining areas in particular”. Fisa said NUM has relayed their concerns to the DPE and Minister Pravin Gordhan but to date, the department has not intervened to save the sinking ship that is the mine.
To this end, however, NUM is in the process of launching court action against the PSJV, Alexkor and DPE over a separate issue that has a bearing over the retrenchments. Fisa has declined to get into the exact details of the matter, but the former Company Secretary of PSJV, Raygen Phillips has shed some light on the issue.
When Phillips stepped down from her role as the PSJV company secretary on 24 August 2020, she maintained in her resignation letter that the mine joint board was not properly constituted therefore rendering all decisions made by the board – including the retrenchments – unlawful. The mine joint board is supposed to be made up of three members of the Richtersveld Mining Company (RMC) and three non-executive directors of Alexkor.
She reveals in the resignation letter, that the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Alexkor, Lemogang Pitsoe had been appointed as the interim PSJV CEO in early 2020 and went further to appoint himself as Chairperson of the joint board. The latter appointment can only be made by Minister Pravin Gordhan says Phillips. She delves further into the issues at hand in her August 2020 resignation letter.
In this regard we have obtained two legal opinions from Senior Counsel advising that only the Minister of Public Enterprises can appoint the Chairperson of the JB. This after an attempt by the Alexkor CEO in March 2020, Mr Pitso to appoint himself as the Chairperson of the JB and Alexkor Financial Manager as representatives for Alexkor on the Joint Board. Senior Counsel advised that in terms of the Alexkor MOI the Alexkor representatives needed to be non-executive directors of Alexkor for an appointment to the joint board.
Former PSJV Company Secretary Raygen Phillips.
Fisa has not given any indication as to when their court bid will sit.
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Anthony Martial makes honest admission about his Man United situation
Anthony Martial reflects on his start to the season at Manchester United under Jose Mourinho
By The Sport Review
Wednesday 8 November 2017, 07:00 UK
Manchester United striker Anthony Martial Photo: The Sport Review
Anthony Martial has admitted that he would love to play more often for Manchester United but has accepted that he must fight his way back into the first team at the club.
The striker has found his first team opportunities to be somewhat restricted this season under Jose Mourinho, with the forward having been largely limited to appearances from the bench.
The 21-year-old forward has made 10 Premier League appearances so far this season, but he has only started three of those games.
His goal return is impressive, however, with the striker having already netted seven goals and made four assists in all competitions so far this season.
Martial will naturally be hoping to hold down more of a regular starting spot at Old Trafford in the coming weeks and months.
However, the Frenchman appears ready to try and prove to Mourinho that he is worthy of a more regular spot in the first team at the club.
Martial is quoted as saying by the Daily Express: “When you score and you’re a forward, you’re happy. It’s going well. Even though I’m a substitute, I play often.
“I’ve played three, two games in the Champions League, I play one game in two.
“It’s going well. I’d like to play more – that’s going to come through my performances.”
Martial will be hoping to feature for Manchester United when the Red Devils return to Premier League action after the international break with a crunch home clash against Newcastle at Old Trafford on 18 November.
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How to Trade Apple Stock Ahead of Earnings
Apple is less than a week away from posting record earnings numbers; here's how to trade the stock.
Jonas Elmerraji
Jan 26, 2018 12:38 PM EST
After ripping higher for all of 2017, Apple Inc. (AAPL) - Get Report is pumping the brakes this year.
Year to date, Apple has gained all of 1% and change, making it the worst performer of the FAANG stocks -- the group of stocks made up of Facebook (FB) - Get Report , Apple, Amazon (AMZN) - Get Report , Netflix (NFLX) - Get Report , and Google's parent company Alphabet (GOOG) - Get Report (GOOGL) - Get Report . Apple isn't trailing by a little, either: The average FAANG is up almost 20% in the first few weeks of 2018.
But Apple could be about to make up for lost time here. The firm's first-quarter earnings call for 2018 is on deck next week, and it could be the catalyst shares need to play catch-up with the rest of Apple's peer group.
On average, analysts are looking for a profit of $3.81 per share for the quarter. That's a big number -- it beats last year's record Q1 numbers by almost 50 cents per share. But Apple has a winning streak of beating analysts' estimates under its belt.
It's done so for 19 out of the last 20 quarters, in fact.
The stakes are higher now, and not just because Apple has been lagging the other FAANGs. It's also a big quarter because Apple is actually teetering on the edge of breakout territory again.
To figure out how to trade it, we're turning to the chart for a technical look:
Two things are pretty clear, looking at Apple's chart.
First, shares have been in a very well-defined uptrend for the last year, bouncing higher on every test of trendline support along the way. That consistent glut of buying pressure on the other side of support provides a technical backstop for Apple's price action.
Meanwhile, there's resistance up at the $177.50 level. That price has posed a challenge for Apple's upside momentum since the beginning of November. So, Apple will need to overcome somewhat of a selling barrier at that price level.
Things get interesting here because trendline support is close to converging with the $177.50 resistance level for shares of AAPL. Simply put, this trade is going to resolve one way or the other: Either with a big breakout through $177.50, or with a violation of the uptrend that's propelled Apple's price tag higher for more than a year now.
And earnings could be the catalyst that tips this stock's momentum in one direction vs. the other.
For now, advantage goes to the buyers. Apple's long-term uptrend is being tested here, and a bounce higher in the next session would be a clear-cut indicator that buyers remain in control of shares at lower levels. A bounce off of support is a good opportunity to build a starter position in AAPL, with a plan to scale into a full-sized position if buyers can muster the strength to push through $177.50 before (or after) earnings.
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Share this Story: Accused Sudbury killer headed to bail court
Accused Sudbury killer headed to bail court
Harold Carmichael
Sudbury Courthouse.
The woman charged in the death of a Donovan man over the Christmas holidays is headed to an appearance in video bail remand court later this month.
Felicity Altiman, 40, appeared in bail court on Jan. 8, at which time a return date of Jan. 28 in video bail remand court was set.
Accused Sudbury killer headed to bail court Back to video
Altiman, who was arrested on Jan. 7, is charged with second-degree murder and indignity to a dead body in the death of Robert Keskinen.
A second person – Matthieu Doucet, 36 – has also been charged with accessory after the fact.
Greater Sudbury Police say Keskinen, 75, was killed in his apartment at the former International Hotel on Kathleen Street. The building is now a 29-unit residence comprised of bachelor apartments. A family member found his body on Boxing Day and called 911 to report the murder.
A post-mortem exam determined Keskinen was stabbed multiple times.
Keskinen was known for his carpentry skills. After apprenticing, he built his first home and workshop.
Altiman is no stranger to the courts and has a violent criminal history.
“It’s obvious Altiman’s drug addiction is the root cause of her criminal behaviour and until this is addressed, her lifestyle isn’t likely to change,” Superior Court Justice Patricia Hennessy said during one of Altiman’s court cases. “In my view, the faster and sooner you get some treatment, and you make that move, the better.”
In March 2006, Altiman pleaded guilty to assaulting a female inmate inside the Sudbury Jail in December of 2005. The court heard the assault was unprovoked following the sharing of a cigarette.
Also in March 2006, Altiman was before the courts for an assault in which she hit a woman over the head with a pool cue during a drunken brawl. In that incident, Altiman was stabbed in the forehead and on an arm.
In July 2013, Altiman was back in court and sentenced on nine charges, many of them drug-related.
In September of 2013, Altiman set a fire outside her cell at the Sudbury Jail and fed it with toilet paper. She was charged with arson endangering life.
“You have chosen to do life in jail on the instalment plan. It’s very sad because you have children,” Ontario Court Justice Richard Humphrey told Altiman at the time. “You are apart from them while in custody. And when you are in custody, you do something as foolish as this, which gets you here today.”
hcarmichael@postmedia.com
Twitter: @HaroldCarmichae
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‘CHILD OF THE HOOD’
African history prof Jessica A Krug who pretended to be black ‘boycotted prom & planned flag burning’ at private school
Dan Keane
Mollie Mansfield
4 Sep 2020, 9:22
Updated: 4 Sep 2020, 10:12
A WHITE professor of African-American history who faked being black boycotted her prom and planned a flag burning at the private school she graduated from, a former classmate has said.
Jessica Krug, 39, revealed on Thursday that she had lied about being black for her entire career teaching history at George Washington University.
African-American history professor Jessica Krug lied about being black Credit: Duke University Press
Krug attended the exclusive Barstow school in Kansas City, it has been revealedCredit: IraasColumbia
Krug - who described herself as an “unrepentant and unreformed child of the hood” - in fact attended the exclusive fee paying Barstow school in Kansas City, graduating in 1999.
A former classmate, who did not wish to be named, told DailyMail.Com that she was “very political” at school, and identified as a white Jewish girl.
She called me white trash, which is ironic
Jessica's neighbour Anna
Anna Anderson, her current neighbour in New York city, said that Krug referred to her as “white trash”, and hit out at her for “gentrifying” the neighbourhood by going running.
Following an argument about their bikes, Anderson said that Krug asked her: “Do you know what the police do to black people like me?"
Anderson added: “She called me white trash, which is ironic.”
Krug blamed her identification on 'mental health demons'
In a post announcing that she had lied about her race, the professor attributed her identification issues to her "mental health demons," but explained that her mental welfare does not condone nor excuse what she did.
Krug, from George Washington University, then continued to grovel about the issue, dubbing herself as a "coward" and "culture leech."
Critics questioned the sincerity of her confession, saying she only admitted it because she had been caught out.
"For the better part of my adult life, every move I’ve made, every relationship I’ve formed, has been rooted in the napalm toxic soil of lies. Not just any lies," she wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
"To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness.
"I have not only claimed these identities as my own when I had absolutely no right to do so — when doing so is the very epitome of violence, of thievery and appropriation, of the myriad ways in which non-Black people continue to use and abuse Black identities and cultures — but I have formed intimate relationships with loving, compassionate people who have trusted and cared for me when I have deserved neither trust nor caring.
Photo from Krug's school yearbook
Krug dubbed herself as a 'coward' and a 'culture leech'Credit: George Washington University
Krug said she should be 'cancelled' Credit: Embassy of the Republic of Haiti
"People have fought together with me and have fought for me, and my continued appropriation of a Black Caribbean identity is not only, in the starkest terms, wrong — unethical, immoral, anti-Black, colonial — but it means that every step I’ve taken has gaslighted those whom I love."
Commenting on cancel culture, she wrote: "I should absolutely be cancelled.
"No. I don't write in passive voice, ever, because I believe we must name power. So.
"You should absolutely cancel me, and I absolutely cancel myself."
However, Hari Ziyad, who said she called Krug "a friend up until this morning" insisted that the professor only confessed after she was caught.
"She didn't do it out of benevolence," Ziyad tweeted. "She did it because she had been found out."
Critics said Krug only made the admission because she had been found outCredit: Embassy of the Republic of Haiti
Dr Yomaira Figueroa, an associate professor of Afro Diaspora Studies at Michigan State University, backed Ziyad's claim.
"Krug got ahead of the story because she was caught & she knew the clock was ticking bec folks started to confront her & ask questions," Figeuroa wrote.
"Do not believe for one second that she would have come out with the truth on her own."
The doctor also said that a black and latina junior scholar spoke to two of the senior scholars about concerns she had with Krug's identity and alleged that she provided evidence that she was lying.
Krug posted a blog post outing herselfCredit: Jessica A. Krug
"There was no witch hunt, but there was a need to draw the line," Figeuroa added.
Krug has written extensively about her alleged heritage - including a 2019 essay where she described herself as a "boricua," a term used for Puerto Ricans, according to the Washington Post.
She also referred to herself as "an unrepentant and unreformed child of the hood," the outlet reported.
In her book, Fugitive Modernities, Krug acknowledges: "My ancestors, unknown, unnamed, who bled life into a future they had no reason to believe could or should exist…Those whose names I cannot say for their own safety, whether in my barrio, in Angola, or in Brazil."
The post was uploaded on ThursdayCredit: Jessica A. Krug
In a video posted in June, Krug - under her activist pseudonym Jessica La Bombalera - denounced "all these white New Yorkers who waited four hours with us to be able to speak and then did not yield their time for Black and Brown indigenous New Yorkers.
"Much power to all my siblings who were standing up, my black and brown siblings who were standing."
Crystal Nosal, a university spokesperson, told the Post that officials are aware of the blog post and are looking into the situation.
Krug's admission comes years after former college instructor Rachel Dolezal, who legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, was outed for claiming to be black, when she is a white American.
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The ruse worked for years until 2015, when her parents, with whom she has long feuded, told reporters that their daughter was born white but was presenting herself as a black activist in the Spokane region.
The story became an international sensation, and she was fired as head of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and kicked off a police ombudsman commission.
She also lost her job teaching African studies at Eastern Washington University.
Krug's story rings similar to that of Rachel DolezalCredit: AP:Associated Press
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Pictures of Top Attractions in Verona, Italy
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Martha Bakerjian is an Italian travel expert who uses her home in northern Tuscany as a base for her in-depth explorations of the country.
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Verona is a city in northern Italy known for Romeo and Juliet and for its Roman Arena, the third largest arena in Italy and one of the top venues for opera performances.
Verona's picturesque medieval center holds many interesting sights including beautiful squares, medieval towers, and the Romanesque cathedral complex. Castelvecchio, a 14th-century fortress and residence, has an excellent museum. In addition to the Roman Arena, Verona has a smaller Roman theater with a museum and remains of several Roman sites.
Take a virtual tour of Verona with these photos. Piazza delle Erbe is on the site of the Roman forum and was Verona's market square. In the center of the square is a 14th-century fountain with a Roman statue. The square is a great place to go for a coffee or before dinner drink in one of the cafes.
Roman Arena in Piazza Bra
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Verona's Roman arena is Italy's third largest Roman arena. Next to the arena is Piazza Bra lined with elegant buildings. The Roman arena is a top venue for summer music festivals in Italy.
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Inside the Roman Arena
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Verona's Roman arena is a top venue for opera performances. Plays and concerts are also held inside the arena. Buy Verona Arena opera tickets from Select Italy.
Juliet's Statue, House and Balcony
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Verona is home to the famous lovers, Romeo and Juliet. This photo shows Juliet's balcony and statue - people rub her left breast for good luck.
Frescoes in Piazza delle Erbe
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Buildings of medieval origin around Verona's Piazza delle Erbe are beautifully decorated with frescoes.
Verona Roman Theater and Archaeology Museum
The Verona Roman Theater and Archeology Museum are across the river from Verona's historic center. The Roman Theater dates from the 1st century.
Roman Mosaic in Archeology Museum
The Archaeology Museum is in a former convent above the Roman theater. In the museum are Roman mosaics, Etruscan and Roman bronzes, and Roman sculptures and inscriptions.
View of Piazza delle Erbe from Above
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This photo of Piazza delle Erbe was taken from Lamberti Tower, a good place to go for views of Verona.
Verona Duomo or Cathedral
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Verona's Duomo is Romanesque and has a 16th-century bell tower. The fascinating complex includes a 12th-century Baptistery and remains of a 4th-century church.
Lamberti Tower in Piazza dei Signori
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Visitors can go to the top of the medieval Lamberti Tower for great views of Verona. Statues of famous men adorn buildings in Piazza dei Signori, below the tower.
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Photo of Castelvecchio Courtyard
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Verona's Castelvecchio Fortress has an interesting museum, entered through this courtyard.
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Piazza Bra is a huge piazza inside the main gate into Verona. The piazza, by the Arena, has a broad walkway and elegant buildings with cafes and restaurants.
Horse and Carriage by the Roman Arena
Horse-drawn carriage rides through Verona are available near the Roman Arena in Piazza Bar.
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The Finest Tour Areas In Costa Rica
November 24, 2019, costa rica tours
Rainforest journeys, scuba diving, snorkeling, and a grand journey await you if you consider Costa Rica. Rolling into the mountains, you may pass verdant espresso plantations and different lovely scenery of the Costa Rican countryside. The location additionally leads by offering more than 360,000 user-generated opinions of its excursions and activities on supply – about thrice greater than different sites.
This includes a fourteen day journey exploring the entire charming sites in Costa Rica. Lastly, no journey to Costa Rica is full with out visiting the almost 300 seashores from the Pacific Coast on the west and the more tranquil Caribbean on the east. The Atlantic coast, meanwhile, was populated with African staff during the seventeenth and 18th centuries.
Furthermore, one could discover the volcanic constructions throughout Costa Rica vacations. We had a beautiful journey to Costa Rica. Corcovado National Park is dwelling to tapir, large cats and all four of Costa Rica’s monkey species: the White-headed Capuchin, Mantled Howler, Geoffroy’s Spider Monkey and the Central American Squirrel Monkey.
Costa Rica is a small country yet best for vacations and abroad adventure travel due its rich wildlife reserves and forest as well as Pacific and Caribbean beaches. The Caribbean coast has other variations from the rest of Costa Rica as effectively: the delicacies, the music and the language are all influenced by the Caribbean. Dance-oriented genres, similar to soca , salsa , bachata , merengue , cumbia and Costa Rican swing are loved more and more by older moderately than younger folks.
Communicate to others who have been to Costa Rica and you’ll doubtless hear plenty of stories of harmless tourists like you signing up for an adventure tour, paying their cash upfront (which might come to several hundred dollars relying on what you need to do) and then being left high and try as a dodgy tout suddenly disappears and leaves you with nothing.
We awoke at 5am to see the foreign country that we had simply spent the evening in. We had been staying in a wonderful hostel build right into the rocks, owned by an American from North Carolina that moved into the bush simply to climb Cerro Chirripo as typically as he needed.
Certainly one of Costa Rica’s best-saved secrets, this nationwide park is the unspoilt paradise you have been searching for. The tropical local weather of Costa Rica averages about seventy two degrees Fahrenheit though it can be considerably hotter within the coastal or seaside areas and much cooler within the mountainous areas.
Our tour supervisor was nice, our driver was high notch and the folks I met on the journey have been the cherry in high. Other locations to go to in San Jose can be there famed pedestrian only shopping area, located on Avenida Central and spans for about 10 blocks within the city middle.
Costa Rica is as near paradise as it gets: the weather is perfect and the range of wildlife is astounding. Violent crime is just about non-existent exterior of San Jose and the fishing, ecotourism, and volcanoes really do live up to their world-class status. An active volcano positioned within the north-western space of Costa Rica, few kilometers from town middle of San Jose.
Malpais on the central Pacific coast is one among my favourite beaches. Caravan’s vacation packages include complimentary arrival transfers from Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) in San José, Costa Rica to your resort in San José on the day the tour begins.
Costa Rica seashores are notably good places for other water activities like windsurfing, snorkeling, swimming, scuba diving, white water rafting, kayaking and and many others. Day 4 Journey requires to the small village of Tucurrique for a brief cooking lesson from the natives in making tortillas and other authentic Costa Rican cuisines.
In December 2012, Expedia , the world’s largest on-line journey company, hinted that it has launched into a multi-yr push to make thousands of excursions and actions obtainable for booking online, in addition to the small choice that it already sells. Nestled within an archipelago of volcanic islands, Tortuguero Nationwide Park in Costa Rica is thought for its rich biodiversity and is home to eleven distinct habitats including mangroves, rain forests, lagoons and beaches.
Huge Reductions On Costa Rica Holidays, Costa Rica Travel
Eco tourism in Costa Rica can take many types, is enjoyed or experienced in numerous ways, affects guests in varied ways, and produces different societal penalties-some obvious, some not. The other day at a bookstore studying I was bragging about a $350 roundtrip fare I would found from San Francisco – Costa Rica, and a reader handed me a flier for a $200 flight on that very same route. The northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica has essentially the most sun and the greatest variety of lodging options.
Casual put on is suggested for sightseeing and daytime travelling. Famous for its beautiful resorts and seashores, you’ll experience a extremely cool and exciting surfing expertise with several of their unparalleled seashores that is visited mostly by surfers just like the Playa Dominical and the Playa Manzanillo.
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Store for rocking chairs, carved masks and ceramics in San Jose’s Central Market. And what a tour it’s: Often, travelers have to choose from amongst Costa Rica’s beaches, volcanoes and rain forests.
My children are 6 and 8 years and I felt they were old enough to join me and my husband on considered one of my research trips, mixed with a family vacation to Costa Rica. You will be consuming your lunch at totally different Costa Rican restaurants having the panoramic view as your backdrop. Explore the tropical rainforest ecosystem, go for a relaxing swim and indulge in different coastal delights at the Manuel Antonio Nationwide Park.
When Johannes landed a day early in Beijing, he spent his time wandering the streets, not figuring out the place to go or what to do. It wasn’t until Tao arrived on the scene to act as a local information that the duo had been in a position to totally experience their destination.
Giovanni, our tour guide, was knowledgeable, humorous and excellent at protecting 37 folks on time. The distinguished 53-yr-previous Caravan Tours has scheduled just about every day departures there all through January, February and March for its escorted 10-day tour.
Costa Rica straddles Central America and has coastlines on each the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with both black and white sand seashores that sunbathers take pleasure in. After all, Individuals accounted for fifty four{828d93fdfe7f4ac7f2e648a0f77f888cffb682dfed2e48aa4a360095fbd8ac69} of the 1.9 million visitors that traveled to Costa Rica in 2007.
Excursions To Costa Rica
Costa Rica projects an image of rainforest canopy excursions, crystal clear blue water, and the free-spirited Pura Vida mentality. Nevertheless, eco tourism on this tropical land is extra diverse than chicken watching, taking a photography tour, or mountain climbing jungle trails to beautiful waterfalls-which brings us to an internationally acknowledged but little recognized and relatively little visited place often known as the Tirimbina Rainforest Heart.
An Intel microprocessor facility in Costa Rica that was, at one time, responsible for 20{828d93fdfe7f4ac7f2e648a0f77f888cffb682dfed2e48aa4a360095fbd8ac69} of Costa Rican exports and 5{828d93fdfe7f4ac7f2e648a0f77f888cffb682dfed2e48aa4a360095fbd8ac69} of the country’s GDP. Costa Rica was the point where the Mesoamerican and South American native cultures met. Just a few hours” drive north of San Jose, the Arenal space is lush and inexperienced, thanks to fertile volcanic soil from nearby Arenal Volcano.
Costa Rica Vacation And Journey Planner
Costa Rica is one in every of my favorite destinations – there’s a lot natural magnificence crammed on this small country of 19,600 sq. miles. Expertise the Costa Rican rail system with a short train journey, and then hop in your bike for a two-wheeled tour around Cartago’s historic streets. Journey companies in Costa Rica would simply love to take you on a cruise to see the canals of Tortuguero, wetlands of Cano Negro and mangroves of the Damas the place you possibly can just chill out and savor the pure view of the waters.
The first night is usually whenever you’re getting settled into your hotel and then day 2 is to start by visiting a espresso plantation since coffee is the products produced out of Costa Rica that is was properly a mainstay of their economic background.
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Arriving in San Jose on your journey to Costa Rica? Some packages even embody guided excursions throughout your visit. Peasants In opposition to Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Poas Volcano is one of the nation’s most visited volcanoes. Costa Ricans (or Ticos and Ticas) are recognized for his or her laid-back demeanour, joyful outlook and conflict-averse nature.
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Articles | Biographies
Walter Belgrove, the man with a magic pencil
Donald Healey said that he was “the first real British designer”. This would suffice to define Walter Belgrove. The Triumph myth owns much to the work, imagination and creativity of this artist and designer. Even today we remain captured by the lines of the Triumph that he shaped: suffice it to think of TR2 and TR3, not to say ofth e mythical “Flow-Free” of the ‘30s. Walter Belgrove is one of those figures that, as a Triumph enthusiast, I would like to have met once in my life, but unfortunately the time-machine is not invented yet. But we can luckily know him a bit more closer thanks to our friend Tom Robinson, that I wholeheartedly thanks, that tells us of his meeting with Walter, occurred in the 70s. In this article we tried to tell the works of this great British designer, even if we are fully aware that many aspects should be studied in more depth and clarified. We therefore thanks in advance all those that could provide us with more information on the life and works of Walter Belgrove.
You can find a list of the articles translated in English here.
Models: Roadster TRX / Roadster TR2 / Roadster TR3
Keywords: Canley / Walter Belgrove
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By Giancarlo Cavallini (translated by Giovanni Uguccioni), July 20, 2014
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Atlas, a van for all seasons
Atlas: this name is unfamiliar to most, but the Atlas was a popular van built by Standard Triumph. Not only sports cars, then, but commercial vehicles too. Let's discover this fascinating vehicle built in Coventry.
Models: Atlas Atlas / Atlas Major
Keywords: Bodywork / Commercial vehicles
By Giancarlo Cavallini (translated by Giovanni Uguccioni), February 23, 2015
Captains Courageous: Salvatore Ruffino and his Italia
When in November 1944 Sir John Black bought the ruins of Triumph, he had a dream: he wanted to use the brand “Triumph” to compete with his friend William Lyons, the owner of SS Cars Ltd ( later to become Jaguar ) to whom the “Standard Motor Company” had been a long time engines supplier. In 1958 when Salvatore Ruffino decided to build his coupe, Edmonds, the representative of Standard in Italy, thought that the dream of Sir John Black (who had since left the Standard ) could find be fulfilled. However Coventry did not understand the project and its potential and lost the opportunity to have the most beautiful GT ever to carry the name “Triumph”: the Italia 2000. The Italia 2000 was also the dream of a man who was a very successful entrepreneur who lived a very intense life. Today we would like to remember this italian man, Salvatore Ruffino, who gave us a car in front of which our French cousins would use only one word: "Chapeau!"
Models: Italia 2000 Italia 2000
Keywords: Giovanni Michelotti / Salvatore Ruffino
By Giancarlo Cavallini (translated by Giovanni Uguccioni), April 17, 2015
Articles | Travels
Flying on wheels
Early ’60s. While contrasting signals between war and peace cross the world, Michael Sullivan, a young USA Navy pilot based in the UK, drives his TR3A across our continent. His memories of those summers give us a fresco of the Europe that was.
Models: Roadster TR3
Keywords: Travels
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Jonny Harris (middle) crashes a circus school class run by Alvin and Jada Tam in Lumby last January, while filing Still Standing Season 5. (CBC photo)
WATCH: Lumby goes live on Still Standing
Film crews started rolling back in January for the comedy reality show
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Grab the popcorn and settle in.
The Village of Lumby is set to make its debut on CBC’s Still Standing tonight, Tuesday, Nov. 26, at 8 p.m.
The film crew arrived in the small North Okanagan town in January to start production of the part comedy, part reality show that follows Newfoundland comedian Jonny Harris as he explores small towns across Canada.
The Still Standing staff began filming at the Pat Duke Memorial Arena to shoot some skating before making their way to the Community Centre to film some of the town’s Circus Arts program and toes and tutus, a ballet class.
“It’s always hard to say exactly what we’ll be filming since so much depends on what happens to be going on in town on any given day, and in a vibrant community like Lumby, there are way more events happening than we have time to shoot,” Still Standing executive producer Anne Francis said around 10 months ago.
“A lot of things we film are planned in advance, segments where our host gets to meet some of the people who live in town.
”Our week-long shoots are really a combination of finding things on the fly and doing our best to tell the story of Lumby through a few conversations with locals.”
The overall essence of the episode explores the village’s reinvention of its identity following the closure of its three major lumber mills.
“Lumby lost not only hundreds of jobs and local businesses, but also its sense of identity,” the episode description reads.
“Now the town is emerging, hopeful with a diverse economy that includes arts, culture and a 40-acre grow-op that’s hoping to make pot for pets.”
The episode airs on Tuesday, 8 p.m., on CBC and the free CBC Gem streaming service.
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LaCie Reveals New Drives and Hubs with Thunderbolt Technology
It appears there's no stopping the Thunderbolt train. Ever since it was announced back in February of 2011, the super-fast interface has quickly found its way to every Mac product (besides the Mac Pro) and several big name hard drives. Now, LaCie is hopping on the high-speed train with some exciting equipment of their own.
At CES 2012, LaCie revealed a 2big RAID that uses the new Thunderbolt technology. It come with hot-swappable disks for emergency hard drive failures, the ability to daisy-chain multiple drives (something that Apple and Intel have been touting about Thunderbolt for a while now), and of course, the solid aluminum build that we've all come to expect from a company like LaCie. The 2big RAID drive will come in flavors up to 8TB and will have sport an incredibly fast transfer rate of 311 MB/s, making this one sweet workhorse for video editing.
The drive will be available in the first quarter of 2012, but no pricing has yet been announced. What's even more interesting is that LaCie has also designed a new eSATA hub using Thunderbolt in order to hook up to 2 eSATA drives to a Thunderbolt interface at full eSATA speeds. In addition, the hub includes another Thunderbolt port for daisy-chaining making it possible to use up to 12 eSATA drives via a single Thunderbolt connection at the full 3GB/s speed.
Innovations like these make getting a Mac or PC (when they are available) with a Thunderbolt port a huge consideration when purchasing a computer, especially now that HD recording is the norm among video shooters. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to hook up more than one eSATA drive to my computer when searching for an old project or just to be able to keep multiple hard drives connected to my computer for easy access. Now, with an adapter like this one from LaCie, it is more than possible to do.
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Get More Bag for Your Buck at the cinda b Factory Outlet Sale!
By Katie R. on Nov. 13, 2013
Do you need an excuse to round up the girls for a girls day out? Are you looking to start your Christmas shopping a little early? Or, have you really just been itching to splurge a little and get yourself a new bag or some sort? Well, you are in luck! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday, cinda b. will be hosting their factory outlet sale right here in Fort Wayne! cinda b is a company located in Fort Wayne via designer, and cinda b creator, Cinda Boomershine. They are one of the nation’s fastest growing handbag, travel bag, and tote company, and everything is produced here in the United States. While their headquarters are here in Fort Wayne, their products are sold all over the US! If you've been in a boutique, gift shop, or lifestyle niche shop, chances are you've seen cinda b products. Cinda says she was inspired to start cinda b while running around between clients, and was on the search for the perfect on-the-go bag. Since then, cinda b has expanded into handbags, duffles, luggage, tech cases, laptop bags, and more that are both stylish and functional.
The cinda b Factory Outlet Sale will take place this Thursday (November 14), Friday (November 15), and Saturday (November 16) at the cinda b Corporate Headquarters. The merchandise on hand will consist of factory seconds, and retired colors and styles, at a heavily discounted price - meaning great deals are ahead! cinda b encourages those planning to attend to shop on Thursday for the best selection of merchandise, and to come on Friday to meet Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Cinda Boomershine. Cinda will be available for a meet & greet and bag signings.
The hours for the cinda b Factory Outlet Sale are as follows:
Thursday, November 14: 2pm-8pm
Friday, November 15: 9am-6pm
Saturday, November 16: 9am-2pm
cinda b is located at 1530 Progress Road. Fort Wayne, IN 46808.
Cash and credit cards will be accepted at checkout, so come prepared to shop until you drop! For more information on the cinda b Factory Outlet Sale, or everything cinda b has to offer, check out Visit Fort Wayne, or the cinda b website.
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Katie R.
Katie Robinson was born and raised in the Summit City, and has been an advocate for it her whole life. After graduating from Ball State University with a degree in Public Relations in May of 2013, Katie moved back and planted permanent roots in her hometown. A former Visit Fort Wayner, Katie currently works for the Fort Wayne-Allen County Airport Authority as Marketing Specialist. She is actively involved with the groups Young Leaders of Northeast Indiana (YLNI) and the Emerging Leaders Alliance (ELA), working to play an active role in shaping and telling Fort Wayne, and Northeast Indiana's, story. In her spare time, you can find Katie spending time with her little family made up of her husband, Joe, daughter, Honora, and their dog, Gidget. She also loves to read (if she ever has the time), write, bake, and explore her city!
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Utopia Global Receives SAP® APJ Partner Excellence Award 2018 for SAP Solution Extensions
Katie Mowery | March 05, 2018 | 3 min read
SINGAPORE — March 5, 2018 – Utopia Global has announced it is the recipient of an SAP® APJ Partner Excellence Award 2018 for SAP Solution Extensions. Awards were presented by SAP (NYSE: SAP) to the top-performing SAP partners in the APJ region that have made outstanding contributions to driving SAP customers’ digital transformation. Recipients of this year’s awards have been – in partnership with SAP – helping customers adopt innovation easily, gain results rapidly, grow sustainably and run more simply with SAP solutions.
Selected from SAP’s wide-ranging partner base, nominations for the SAP Partner Excellence Awards were based on internal SAP sales data. A steering committee composed of regional and global SAP representatives determined winning partners in each category according to numerous criteria such as sales achievement and performance. Awards were presented in a variety of categories, including overall sales, innovation, technology, services and solution-specific areas.
“The SAP Partner Excellence Awards exemplify the shared purpose, commitment and success that allow our partners, together with SAP, to deliver value to our customers on an ongoing basis,” said Rodolpho Cardenuto, President, Global Channels & General Business, SAP. “To that end, I am pleased and honored to recognize and congratulate Utopia Global as the recipient of the SAP APJ Partner Excellence Award 2018 for SAP Solution Extensions. We look forward to continuing to work closely together with Utopia to realize even greater success in 2018.”
Utopia became an SAP partner in 2009 focused on Enterprise Asset Management. Throughout the 9-year history of partnership, Utopia has launched three Solution Extensions under the SAP product portfolio for SAP Master Data Governance and serves customers in over 40 countries.
“We are delighted at this recognition,” said Arvind Singh, Utopia CEO. “Being honored as an SAP APJ Partner Excellence Award 2018 recipient is a reflection of our commitment to helping SAP’s customers in Asia Pacific Japan achieve their digital transformation goals and the importance of data quality and data governance in delivering trusted, high integrity analytics for decision making.”
Utopia Global received its award during the SAP Field Kick-Off Meeting Sydney, an annual gathering of SAP executives, SAP field employees and partners. It is SAP’s largest yearly sales meeting, intended to gain and exchange information on SAP’s strategy, sales methodology, business growth opportunities and product innovations as well as drive success during the upcoming year.
David Watkins, Utopia Global Regional Director, APJ, receives SAP® APJ Partner Excellence Award 2018 for SAP Solution Extensions at SAP FKOM 2018.
About Utopia Global
Utopia Global, Inc is a software and services company and leader in Enterprise Information Management. Utopia’s suite of solutions and “build, fix and sustain” approach to accurate master data, helps ensure that critical business decisions are based on reliable, trustworthy information. Our software portfolio includes extensions for SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) including: Enterprise Asset management (EAM) and Retail & Fashion Management (RFM). In 2017, we introduced a new solution: SAP Asset Information Workbench by Utopia, to help manage structured data and unstructured content across multiple systems of record. Utopia’s solutions provide a critical bridge for enterprises who understand that data is a valuable currency and the key to a successful journey to digital transformation.
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B.F.A. Entertainment Design
Do you love to create your own characters or animated films?
Degree Type Bachelor of Fine Arts
UW-Stout's Bachelor of Fine Arts in Entertainment Design (ENTD) provides you with the skills and flexibility to succeed in animation. Our concentration in animation includes collaborative and cross-disciplinary projects that combine art and technology. You'll explore two-dimensional, three-dimensional, character and stop-motion animation techniques.
You’ll graduate StoutProud with a portfolio showcasing your artistic voice, visual style and the ability to tell moving stories through animation. / UW-Stout
Our industry renown faculty will teach you how to create imaginative characters and visuals to tell original stories that move an audience emotionally and intellectually. Our program is an exceptional value compared to other animation schools offering you a strong foundation in art and design, as well as:
Focus on both storytelling and technique
Modern animation studios, labs and technology
Domestic and international internship opportunities
Energetic, engaged and innovative faculty
Rigorous program with a strong professional advisory board
Great value compared to other animation schools in the region
We're here to help you become an innovative, creative leader in animation. There are no limits to how far your imagination will take with an entertainment design degree.
"I was very fortunate to work on the Memorial Student Center design team as a digital signage and animation designer. It gave me a taste of real world experiences, what it is like to work for clients with specific requests and visions."
-- Grace Raddenbach
Use the Request Information form to receive a program summary and learn more about the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Entertainment Design.
B.F.A. Admissions Requirements
Beginning in Spring 2020, students will be admitted as a Pre-Bachelor of Fine Arts (Pre-BFA) student. As a Pre-BFA participant, you will join an exciting community of first-year art and design students with classes and events geared towards preparing you for a successful application to the intended BFA program.
As a student accepted into one of the six BFA programs, please be aware of the following:
You will be required to submit a portfolio in the spring semester of your freshmen year to apply for acceptance into the intended BFA program. Portfolios will be evaluated by School of Art and Design faculty. Through your first-year experience, you will be given the tools and skills required to prepare and submit the portfolio, and the necessary support to navigate the application process.
All transfer students will be admitted as a Pre-Bachelor of Fine Arts (Pre-BFA) student. Submit a portfolio and essay to be reviewed by a committee of School of Art & Design faculty, who will determine direct admissions into the BFA major of your choice. The priority deadline is no later than Midnight on October 1st for spring admission and March 1st for fall admission. You will receive direction on how to submit your portfolio in your acceptance letter to UW-Stout.
Submissions may be made after the priority date; however, there is no guarantee when it will be reviewed for a decision nor what art-specific coursework you may be able to get into after the review is completed and whether or not registration for the next semester has begun. There is a $10 application fee assessed at the time you electronically submit your portfolio.
Transfer students are considered both fall and spring. This includes portfolio and essay submission priority dates. Students applying for one of the BFA programs will remain admitted as a "Pre-BFA" student if you:
do not submit a portfolio/essay
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You may then apply for a change of major in subsequent semesters, depending upon available openings in the program. If needed, BFA Foundations courses will be available to "Pre-BFA" students pending seat availability.
Entertainment Design Careers
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Entertainment Designer Salaries (Animator, Digital Artist, Digital Cinema)
Entry-level salary $27,000 – $34,000
Average mean salary in the Minneapolis area $53,300 – $55,200
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Our students gain experience working on real-world projects with a unique combination of art and technology. We'll teach you the foundations to create both 2D and 3D animations for fine art, film, games, and visualization. You'll explore everything from visual storytelling to stop-motion modeling and concept design to 3D printing. Check out the student gallery of recent work.
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Animation Career Review is an online resource for people aspiring for careers in animation, game design, graphic design, digital art, and related fields. UW-Stout's B.S. Entertainment Design program was ranked by Animation Career Review as one of the top schools for aspiring animation and game design professionals.
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Modern studio classrooms provide open, creative environments for learning. Extensive open studio hours allow access to these spaces outside of class periods.
Two galleries are housed in the School of Art and Design, a student gallery and the John Furlong Gallery. These, along with other spaces on and off campus, provide student, faculty and outside exhibition opportunities throughout the academic year.
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Barron Trump Has a Decent Day, Meets Famous Soccer Player
Being the youngest son of Donald Trump isn’t easy, but it comes with its perks.
By Erika Harwood
By Cheriss May/NurPhoto/Getty Images.
Life is presumably very strange for Barron Trump. Donald Trump’s youngest child has to deal with his father being, well, Donald Trump, constant media attention surrounding his controversial family, and the everyday perils that come with being a 12-year-old boy. But not all is bad in the world of young Barron, who spends most of his life well away from the spotlight. The soccer fan got to mingle with D.C. United player Wayne Rooney and his wife, Coleen, at the White House Christmas party, where he took photos alongside Rooney and two of his sons.
“Coleen and Wayne were stunned when they received a personal invite from Donald inviting them to the White House,” a source told The Sun. “It wasn’t political. For them, this was a chance to go inside one of the most iconic buildings in the world and give their children this experience of being there for the Christmas party, which is always spectacular. They were also given a guided tour of President Trump’s private rooms, but the Oval Office was off-limits.”
According to The Sun’s “insider,” the couple was invited by the Trump family, in part because of Barron’s love for the D.C. soccer team.
It was undoubtedly a good day for the Trump son, who recently became a debated topic on Twitter after New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait tweeted a joke about him.
“My darkhorse chief of staff pick: Barron Trump,” he wrote. “1. Looks like Trump 2. Will not make Trump work 3. Cannot be tried as an adult.”
Former First Child Chelsea Clinton chimed in, replying to Chait, “Please leave Barron Trump out of ‘jokes’ & analyses. He’s a kid and private citizen and deserves to be left alone. Thank you.”
No word on if Barron Trump found the joke funny or appreciated Clinton coming to his defense, or if he was too busy being a 12-year-old playing soccer to even be aware that Twitter was talking about him at all.
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Honest I Do!!!
Much of this week’s “Honest I Do” focus was spent listening to more examples of the tune. Joe played a couple of versions from the Alabama-born, Detroit-based harp player and vocalist, Little Sonny (Aaron Willis). A relatively obscure player, Sonny’s career dates back to the ‘50s including recording stints with the Stax, Duke, Excello, P-Vine, and Sequel labels. A great stage presence with a powerful voice, Little Sonny zeroed in on the sweet spots of the harmonica. His nervous vibrato was certainly inspired by one of his earliest heroes, Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller). You’ll hear that vibrato in his 1958 single, “I Gotta Find My Baby.” As far as we know, the 81-year-old Little Sonny still lives in Detroit, but has never made an appearance in Chicago.
Now for Little Sonny’s versions of “Honest I Do.” We listened to two live recordings:
1972 Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival (Michigan). Get the album.
1994 Park Tower Blues Festival (Tokyo, Japan). Mr. OH YEAH – fellow musician and B1 buddy – was at this show in Tokyo 20 years ago and shared fond memories with the class after seeing Little Sonny perform.
If you’re looking for more Little Sonny samples, Joe recommends his 1970 album, New King of the Blues Harmonica. Get it here. You can also listen to a clip of Little Sonny’s recorded version of “Honest I Do” from the Black & Blue album.
Then, Shoji shared this playlist with us:
Lazy Lester’s 2007 version of “Honest I Do” from the album, Texas Harmonica Rumble. Buy the album.
“Please Accept My Love” – B.B. King (1958): The bridge may differ from Jimmy Reed’s classic, but B.B. brings the same spirit and groove (sans harmonica)
“I Love The Life I’m Living” – Slim Harpo (1963): same groove and form as “Honest I Do” without the bridge. The feel and talking verse will remind you of “Rainin’ In My Heart”.
“I’ll Change My Style” – Jimmy Reed (1962). No bridge in this version either, but it has that “Honest I Do” feel. Who said you can’t be inspired by your own songs.
By the way, it was great to see B1’s own Carlos Orellana visiting us from Atlanta. Great to see and hear you, Carlos!
Harmonica Einstein's Midnite Harmonica Muffler: "The Huffler"!!!
Last week, B1’s own Harmonica Einstein, Highway RickEy, showed us how to use a soft pillow to help soften those blow bends you practice. Never one for sitting still, RickEy spent last week inventing the Midnite Harmonica Muffler…also known as The Huffler.
Here’s Einstein’s pitch:
Are the dogs howling while you practice?
Is your spouse harping about your harping?
Do you want to practice more after midnight?
Then you need . . .
The HUFFLER SM
Yes, a muffler for your harmonica! The Huffler is a handy device that muffles and cuts the volume in half when you practice.
Stop Jimmy Reed from rolling over in his grave and PRE-ORDER ONE TODAY! Only $19.99
Another super invention by Harmonica Einstein!
"What will he think of next?"
Connect with us at info@youmissedmonday.com and we’ll connect you with The Huffler inventor!
Mark Your Calendars!!!
Join Charlie Yost at a backyard house party/blues jam on July 19:
4922 N. Moody
Lots of food and beverage
July 19, 3-6pm
Bring instruments and amps
- Kirk Manley and Grant Kessler, B1 Blues Crew
Posted by B1 Blues Crew at 3:11 PM
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Senco updates auto-feed screwdriver line
Originally launched in 2001, the updated line includes three corded and three 18-volt cordless models.
“The main reason woodworkers like these is they can help improve efficiency, especially in an industrial setting where you can drive a whole lot more screws in a shorter period of time,” product manager Mike Desmond says. “There are 50 screws on a plastic strip that’s automatically indexed into position. There’s a whole safety element because it allows one hand to be free and you don’t have to deal with dropping a lot of screws.”
“I know in a lot of woodworking applications it’s very useful to be able to hold the workpiece with one hand while driving screws with the other, whereas if you’re doing them loosely you have to clamp everything together and use both hands — one to hold the screw on the end of the bit and the other one to drive it forward.”
The drivers also feature a locking depth of drive adjustment and Senco’s patent-pending corner-fit feed system for better access and screw placement in tight spaces. There is also a tool-free screw length adjustment (1” to 2”) and a belt hook.
The tools are ergonomically designed for use with one hand, while a second, cushioned second hand grip helps minimize wrist and arm fatigue by reducing the exertion needed to complete each drive, according to the company.
The corded versions sell from $129 to $159. The cordless models, which come with two lithium-ion batteries, sell for $249 to $279. .
Contact: Senco Brands Inc. Tel: 513-388-2000. www.senco.com
This article originally appeared in the February 2014 issue.
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What it's like to have a cell phone with 5000mAh battery
Cell phones used to have great battery life, lasting weeks. Credit the low-res, monochrome screen for that. Then a decade ago Apple came up with a power-sucking full-screen phone where most of the innards consisted of a battery that might power the phone for most of a day.
It is sad that technology crucial to our daily lives can't make it through a single one of our daily lives. Recall the post-iPhone launch scenes at airports of desperate-looking business people squatting next to precious power outlets -- assuming that the airport made any available to the public, or wasn't suing its customers for theft of power.
Even the simple solution of removable battery packs has been taken away from us; for designers, catwalk-thin phones trump Walmart jeans. Admittedly, double-power batteries are annoyingly fat, doubling the thickness of any phone lucky enough to allow them. I got them for two phones. The Mugen 4400mHr replacement battery, for example, makes my Samsung K Zoom phone 20mm thick -- over 3/4". (That phone, by the way, sports a 10x optical zoom.)
The advent of cheap, lightweight portable battery chargers partially alleviates the problem today -- although they become just one more thing to take along.
But then something changed. I haven't read about it in the tech press, so I don't what is involved. The Umidigi Super (which I owned earlier this year) came with a 4000mAh battery, yet is a fraction of a millimeter thicker than an iPhone. The battery lasts comfortably all day, which means Android never, ever squawked at me about that 15% danger level.
Now I own the ASUS ZenFone 3 Zoom (see figure at left), whose signature feature is a second camera with a 2.3x optical zoom. Its battery is rated at 5000mAh, yet is thinner than the Super. See table below.
What's it like to carry around a phone as thin as an iPhone 6 Plus yet has a monster battery capacity? At the end of each day, it typically has 75% battery life remaining. The projected life span by the battery app is 2-3 days. (See figure at right.) One night I didn't plug it in properly, and so the phone did not charge. It ran all the next day to about 45%.
The battery is so strong that the phone's USB-C port can be used to recharge other devices. Suddenly, that ten-year-long worry about phones dying is gone -- poof!
Thickness of 5.5" Phones
Apple iPhone 6 Plus (2900mAh) 7.3mm
Umidigi Super (4000mAh) 8.5mm
ASUS ZenFone 3 Zoom (5000mAh) 7.7mm
Peak Technology
I've argued in the past that technology reaches a peak after manufacturers are done with seeing how much better they can make a product. Price competition kicks in, and they start removing functions to make the product cheaper to build, and less useful to customers to operate.
ASUS reached peak technology with the ZenFone 3 Zoom. Even as I write this, ASUS is announcing its ZenFone 4 Pro model (not to be confused with the ZenPhone 4 it released three years ago), which has worser specs in areas that I care about. The battery is down 3600mAh, the optical zoom is reduced to 2.0x, yet the thickness is similar at 7.6mm. Who knows what's going on inside?
Posted at 01:51 AM in Android & iOS | Permalink
It's great there is a larger battery, but the other problem is, the cell phone manufacturer doesn't let the owner replace there own battery. Please tell me why not? My own conclusion is they want us to buy another device sooner. Why doesn't the government look into it, an pass a law where the owner's of a device can change there own battery????....
Posted by: Taylor | Aug 06, 2020 at 02:22 PM
My zenfone max is dying even if I do not charge it for a day
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Poised Between Two Worlds
This representation of Avalokiteshvara, known as Gwaneum in Korea, is a way station between tension and repose, between petitioners and gods
By Lee Lawrence
Jan. 31, 2020 11:31 am ET
On loan from the National Museum of Korea and on view at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington through March 22, the lithe figure sits on a pedestal, left leg dangling over the edge, right leg drawn up. Effortlessly, its arm drapes over the raised knee, wrist bowing to gravity. But there is a small but telling point of tension in that hand, as middle finger curls to meet thumb. The man portrayed may be at “royal ease,” as this pose is described, but he is neither lax nor disengaged.
In such details does the power of this relatively small statue reside—though what first catches our eye is the gilt. It covers skin, robes, earrings, bracelets, armlets, strands of ornaments and the confection of floral and flame motifs that forms a crown encircling the only non-gilded feature: the topknot of hair whose loose strands flow like streams over the shoulders. Such lavish adornment identifies him as a bodhisattva, a being committed to helping others reach spiritual enlightenment. The pose further tells us he is the Water-Moon representation of Avalokiteshvara, known as Gwaneum in Korea (Guanyin in China, Kannon in Japan).
Extensive analysis and conservation conducted by the National Museum of Korea from 2008 to 2014 reveal that artists created this 2.2-foot-high statue by stapling and nailing together 15 pieces of wood, adapting a woodblock construction technique used in China for large-scale works. They also carved the individual pieces before assembly, allowing them to place crystal disks behind the lowered eyelids, a technique artists may have developed locally or possibly imported from Japan. This also created a hollow interior where monks placed sacred texts and symbolic objects. These, too, were examined and they show that the statue underwent two dedication ceremonies. The first took place at its completion; the second, sometime after the mid-15th century. Together, they might yield insights into the evolution of rituals, especially since tests show the statue to be a century or more older than previously thought.
With 95% certainty, carbon testing determined that the figure was made between 1220 and 1285, during a particularly turbulent period in the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392). A military faction was in power; Mongols repeatedly attacked, with devastating effects; and when in 1270 Goryeo scholar-officials reclaimed the reins, Korea became a Mongol vassal state in exchange for peace. Little wonder the ever-compassionate Gwaneum was widely popular. But while numerous Goryeo-period paintings and bronzes of the bodhisattva in the royal ease pose survive, its revised age makes this sculpture the only such work in wood that’s been identified. It remarkably withstood subsequent wars. It even kept its crown. The only significant losses were the left hand, which conservators replaced, and possibly a small Buddha from the crown, a standard feature of Avalokiteshvara.
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Ben Good wins 2018 YQ 300
(KTVF)
By Devin Fry
Published: Feb. 6, 2018 at 9:21 PM AKST
While we're on the subject of mushing, the YQ300, the 300 mile edition of the Yukon Quest, found it's champion.
Ben Good won the race by coming into the Central Finish line late last night. Good finished the Race from Fairbanks to Central in 2 days, five hours and 43 minutes.
This is the first time he has won that race. Runner-up Joanna Jagow finished just two minutes later while Chase Tingle took third place 10 hours LATER.
All but four mushers in this year's YQ 300 have now crossed the finish line.
There was a smaller field for the 300 this year as the race started with 17 mushers after 7 withdrew before the start.
Five more withdrew during the race, including Ellen King who had to receive medical attention after accidentally drinking fuel, which was being stored in an empty water bottle.
King was discharged from the Hospital and has returned home in good health.
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materialPREIS 2017
Architecture Award Concrete
German Timber Construction Award 2017
Comparing sustainability rating systems
Dawns that have not yet broken…
Happy Birthday, Werner Sobek!
Delegation to Middle East
Sustainability in the Urban Grid
Engineering Yearbook 2018
NEST Unit Installed
TKT Grand Opening
In memoriam: rosalie
27 April 2017, Stuttgart/Germany
14 December 2017, Stuttgart/Germany
Our Commitment for Tomorrow
05 March 2017, Paris/France
13 July 2017, TKT Rottweil/Germany
31 August 2017, Spreitenbach/Switzerland
21 September 2017, Dresden/Germany
3 October 2017, Bern/Switzerland
5 October 2017, Lucerne/Switzerland
6 October 2017, Constance/Germany
24 October 2017, Vienna/Austria
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20 March 2017, Bochum/Germany
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The show goes on: Watch the 'Caps vs. NYCFC in eMLS action on Saturday
March 20, 20204:45PM PDT
The show goes on.
Although our MLS match vs. New York City FC, previously scheduled for Saturday, has been postponed, the clubs will still go head-to-head in eMLS action as our official eSports gamer Alex "Exraa" Gonzalez takes on reigning eChampions League winner Chris Holly from NYCFC. The two-legged FIFA 20 match will be streamed live on Twitch, free to viewers, on Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m. PT.
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Gonzalez, who is in the midst of his first year as Vancouver's eMLS representative, grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico. At age 12 he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia before later landing in Regina, Saskatchewan. As a soccer player with FC Regina, he spent time playing in the Whitecaps FC BMO Saskatchewan Academy Centre.
Gonzalez made a run to the semifinals in his first official eMLS competition earlier this year and is ranked fourth in the league heading into eMLS Cup, one spot behind Holly from NYCFC.
At 18 years old, Gonzalez is the second youngest player in the competition.
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In a Gift Rut? Hurry and Buy These 15 It Girl-Recommended Beauty Products
by Caitie Schlisserman
Buying a gift for the beauty lover in your life can be… challenging. They're always testing and swatching and have a vanity full of products. They're the ones who know the exact shade of lipstick that would look perfect on you or just the face wash that'll whip your skin into shape. Basically, these people know what's up, so you can't just gift them any beauty item wrapped in a pretty bow and call it a day. It most definitely has to be a tried-and-true favorite among It girls all over.
So if you've left gift shopping to the last-minute (2020, amirite?), you'll be thankful to know that I tapped a crew of five super-stylish beauty-loving ladies—from makeup artists and content creators to beauty editors and YouTubers—to share the most gift-worthy products they were able to find at Walmart. No matter who you are gifting, they'll be pleased with one (or all) of these items.
Jasmine Fox-Suliaman, Who What Wear Audience Engagement Editor
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Juicy Couture Viva La Juicy Eau De Parfum ($32)
"I'm always open to trying new beauty products, but the one thing that stays unchanged within my beauty routine is my fragrance. I've been wearing Juicy Couture's Viva La Juicy Eau De Parfum for as long as I can remember, and for good reason. With hints of jasmine, sandalwood, vanilla, and berries, it is the most comforting scent. And for me, the best gift is a scent that you (or they) can relish and find comfort in every time it's sprayed."
Urban Decay Naked Heat Eyeshadow Palette ($36)
"Pre-pandemic, I was all about serving a lip while running errands. Now, as I regularly wear masks, I've been exploring eye shadow more, and there's not a more essential eye shadow palette or exploration or makeup mastery than Urban Decay's Naked Heat. With every nude hue perfect for nailing bronzed and brown smokey eye looks, it's the best gift for makeup newbies and fanatics alike who relish being both safe and serving a full look simultaneously."
SheaMoisture Strengthen & Restore Jamaican Black Castor Oil Holiday Gift Set ($15)
"As someone with extremely curly hair, I can attest to the fact that the best thing you can buy the coily-haired cutie on your gift list is hair products. But if you're not sure which signature products they swear by, then I recommend SheaMoisture's Strengthen & Restore Jamaican Black Castor Oil Holiday Gift Set. Whether they're transitioning to their natural texture or looking to try something new, this is a product line I swear by for embracing and caring for each curl."
Shahd Batal, Beauty and Fashion Creator
Shahd Batal
Grande Cosmetics GrandeLash MD Eyelash Formula ($30)
"This product truly transformed my lashes and eliminated the need or want for false lashes. It makes your lashes thicker and longer." And who doesn't want the gift of longer lashes?
The Lip Bar Easy Holiday Glam Collection ($25)
"This collection set is a great way to get introduced to this amazing Black-owned brand. I've been a fan, and love the lip products and range of colors."
Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Eau De Parfum Spray ($87)
"This is the perfect warm and spicy scent for the wintertime!" It contains notes of orange blossom, bergamot, and jasmine sambac, but once the scent settles, it smells of musk and vanilla.
Erin Jahns, Who What Wear Beauty Editor
@erin_jahns
Stila Glitter and Glow Liquid Eye Shadow in Diamond Dust ( $24) $20
"I'll just say it straight—if you're after a shimmery holiday look or want to gift something festive and fun to a loved one, there's no better glitter on the market than these iconic doe-foot wands from Stila. I've been collecting every hue and finish since the brand launched the product years ago, and it's become my signature (all year round!) to tap a little bit of this one (called Diamond Dust) over my lids. The effect is so pretty and surprisingly subtle, and I love that it instantly adds something extra to my beauty look even if I only have five minutes."
Juliette Has a Gun Miss Charming Eau De Parfum Spray ( $145) $74
"I'm always nervous to recommend specific perfumes as gifts because fragrance is such a deeply personal thing and individual tastes vary greatly. That said, this is one of my all-time favorite bottles, and I have a perfect track record (so far!) when it comes to suggesting it to the people I love. It's simplistic yet complex; fresh yet rich; and everyone I know fawns over the fact that it contains one singular note, cetalox, which is typically used as a warming base note to enhance enveloping, woodsy scents within the perfume industry. It's hypoallergenic, and another fun-fact I love is that the brand's creator, Romano Ricci, is the great-grandson of fragrance legend Nina Ricci."
Nars Audacious Lipstick in Mona ( $34) $27
"It doesn't get any more classic than a beautiful lipstick, and a sleek bullet like this is not only timeless but also the perfect size for stockings. Choosing a lipstick that's too matte or too lustrous is always a bit risky if you're gifting (both finishes can be tricky and aren't always flattering), so the velvety satin texture of this formula from Nars couldn't be more perfect. It keeps your pout supple and hydrated, and it will stay put longer than most lipsticks on the market. Whenever I need a boost of confidence or am going for more of a statement, I reach for the shade Mona. It's become one of my signature reds, and surprisingly, it's universally flattering. The brand describes it as "mahogany," and the touch of brown makes it more neutral than a true red. I'm pretty sure it's one of those classic shades I'll wear and trust for the rest of my life."
Melody Acevedo, Hair and Beauty YouTuber
Melody Acevedo
Gucci Bloom Eau De Parfum ( $128) $75
"This scent never fails to make me feel beautiful, so it's an obvious choice to gift. It's a lovely jasmine floral scent, and it's long-lasting."
Urban Decay Naked3 Eyeshadow Palette ($51)
"I personally don't do much with my eye makeup, but I love that this palette comes with so many pretty glittery shadows, so when I'm in the mood, I know I can play with them. It also just feels extra festive and appropriate to gift this year."
Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer ($450)
"If you want to treat yourself or someone you love this holiday season, look no further because this hair dryer is the perfect gift. I love how fast my hair dries and how shiny, bouncy, and frizz-free my curls look every time I use it!"
Megs Cahill, Makeup Artist
Megs Cahill
iHome Mirror with Bluetooth Audio, LED Lighting ( $80) $50
"Music is essential when I’m getting ready so a Bluetooth light up mirror is everything I could hope for. There are so many cool features and the $50 price tag is pretty unbeatable. It's definitely a memorable gift to give."
Bond No. 9 Lafayette Street Eau De Parfum ($32)
"I've tried many fragrances, and let me tell you: Bond No. 9 is a brand of perfume that actually lasts. Everyone needs a good staple perfume, and I feel like this is it. It has notes of bergamot, floral, vanilla, and dry wood, and I get endless compliments when I’m wearing it (or any of the Bond No. 9 line products). It's such a great holiday gift!"
Dyson Airwrap™ Complete Styler ($778)
"I’m all about the messy '90s waves and the Dyson Air Wrap can achieve that seamlessly. It's definitely pricey, but it's worth every penny and would make anyone on your list happy."
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By ASHRAF KHALIL and LOLITA C. BALDOR
Published: Jan. 14, 2021 at 5:11 AM CST|Updated: Jan. 14, 2021 at 3:34 PM CST
WASHINGTON (AP) — All through downtown Washington, the primary sound for several blocks was the beeping of forklifts unloading more fencing.
There were no cars or scooters and seemingly no tourists Wednesday, just the occasional jogger and multiple construction crews at work. The U.S. Capitol, which proved such a soft target last week, was visible only through lines of tall, black fence.
Two blocks from the White House, a group of uniformed National Guard troops emerged from a tour bus and headed into a hotel as a state of lockdown descended on Washington that will last through the Jan. 20 inauguration.
The number of National Guard troops coming to Washington to assist with security has so far grown to about 21,000, Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, told Vice President Mike Pence at a briefing Thursday. And officials have said the number could grow as law enforcement agencies review the ongoing threats.
“Clearly we are in uncharted waters,” said Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Last week’s “violent insurrection” at the Capitol by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump has “impacted the way we are approaching working with our federal partners in planning for the 59th inauguration,” Bowser said Wednesday.
The FBI has warned that armed protests by violent Trump supporters were being planned in all 50 state capitals as well as in Washington for the days leading up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Between the pandemic and the security threat, Bowser is flat-out asking people not to come to the District of Columbia for the inauguration. And at Bowser’s request, a National Special Security Event declaration was moved up to Jan. 13, a distinction she said “puts in place an entirely different command and control structure” for security.
The NSSE status is normal for a presidential inauguration and other major events like an international summit or the Super Bowl. But it’s rare to start the lockdown so far in advance of the event.
Police vehicles sealed off a huge swath of downtown D.C. on Wednesday, causing immediate traffic snarls. Starting Wednesday, Bowser said, anyone inside the inauguration perimeter might be stopped and questioned. Starting Friday, all parking garages in the downtown restricted zone will be sealed through the inauguration. Bowser is asking D.C. residents to avoid the downtown area entirely, and the city announced that 13 Metro stations inside the security perimeter will shut down for several days.
Bowser is also being pushed to deny lodging options to potentially violent protesters. The local Black Lives Matter affiliate and Shutdown DC issued a joint statement Wednesday urging all downtown hotels to voluntarily close and pay their staffs. In addition to the threat of violence, the activist groups say Trump supporters are a threat to the health of hotel staff for their general refusal to wear facemasks during the pandemic. Several downtown hotels, including one which had become a favorite hangout of the militant Proud Boy faction, chose to avoid trouble by closing last week.
“Closing hotels completely for these six nights is the only way to guarantee the safety of hotel workers, neighbors, vulnerable and unhoused residents, incoming administration officials, members of Congress, and our democracy,” the statement said. “If hotels do not willingly close, we ask Mayor Bowser to extend today’s emergency order and close all hotels in the city.”
On Wednesday, Airbnb announced it was canceling all reservations in the Washington metro area. Bowser said she had been in regular contact with Airbnb officials since last week, but did not specifically request this step.
“We are aware of reports emerging yesterday afternoon regarding armed militias and known hate groups that are attempting to travel and disrupt the Inauguration,” a company statement said. “We are continuing our work to ensure hate group members are not part of the Airbnb community.”
On the ground, much of the most visible security will come in the form of the National Guard troops, some of them armed. Pentagon officials approved requests to have some of them carry either long guns or handguns, particularly those assigned near the Capitol building. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss security details.
National Guard members operate under strict rules of engagement on the use of force. But generally speaking, troops can use lethal force to protect the lives of others and themselves.
D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee estimated Wednesday that more than 20,000 National Guard members would be active in the city on Inauguration Day. But officials said Thursday that law enforcement had requested many more, and the number approved by the Pentagon is now 21,000.
As of Thursday, there were roughly 7,000 already in the city, with thousands more en route. The length of their missions may vary, but Defense Department officials were authorized to deploy the Guard for up to 30 days for the inauguration and surrounding protests.
U.S. defense officials say state leaders have made it clear that their priority is to protect their own capitals, which are on alert against violent protests or attacks, but they also have given assurances that they will have enough troops to send some support to the U.S. Capitol.
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What Is Physical Attractiveness?
Jacob Queen
Physical attractiveness is a term describing the way people judge the physical appearances of others, usually from the perspective of sexual selection. There are many different factors that come together to create what people perceive as attractiveness, including instinctive elements as well as cultural ideals and personal preferences. Many scientists have studied attraction over the years and have actually found specific mathematical elements in the way people perceive the attractiveness of others on a universal level, including things like symmetry and body size ratios. Men and women tend to have slightly different criteria for judging attractiveness, and most of these are thought to have primitive evolutionary roots
Men and women tend to have different criteria for judging attractiveness.
Overall, most of the research generally suggests that the elements of physical attractiveness tend to be primarily instinctive. When people look for mates, they are often searching for very obvious signs of physical health and strong genetics. For example, many studies have generally suggested that people are most attractive when they are young and in good physical condition, while people get less attractive as they get older, and they may also be less attractive if they fall out of decent physical condition by gaining too much weight or eating too little food to maintain a decent shape. Generally speaking, people tend to be drawn to symmetry of body and face, while disliking extreme physical characteristics.
Studies show that body language can play a role in physical attractiveness.
There are some elements of physical attractiveness that seem to be more cultural than anything else. Some cultures may like certain styles of dress and there may be physical characteristics that are specifically liked by certain groups of people. This sort of specific cultural preference tends to drift over time, which is why the ideals of beauty tend to change over the years.
Some people consider confident body language to be very attractive.
Many elements of physical attractiveness are specific to the sexes. For example, women tend to prefer men with narrow hips, broad shoulders, and square jaws. Men tend to prefer women with softer features, along with wider hips and larger breasts. When someone actually judges another person’s physical attractiveness, however, it is often really based more on a total package and not specific to any one element. The person generally takes in the other person’s symmetry, shape, and health, combining these elements with cultural cues and personal preferences to make a very quick judgment.
Some studies have also shown that body language can play a large role in physical attractiveness. For example, men who walk with a swagger and women who sway their hips both tend to get rated as more attractive. Many experts think there are more complicated body language cues as well, and there is a theory that people use body language to try and get a sense of another person’s personality without actually having to speak to them, which may be immediately factored into the perception of attractiveness.
Bodies that closely conform to the Golden Ratio are considered the most attractive.
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Lippert Components names chief information officer
(photo courtesy of Lippert Components)
by: Reed Parker, Inside INdiana Business
ELKHART, Ind. (Inside INdiana Business) — Elkhart-based Lippert Components Inc. has promoted Vince Doepker to chief information officer to lead its global information and technology division. Doepker most recently served as vice president of IT operations for the company.
Doepker’s new role also places him on the executive leadership team of the company.
“Vince’s loyalty and work ethic are second to none; he’s poured his heart and soul into this company and our teams over the last 23 years, and for that we are so thankful,” said Chief Executive Officer Jason Lippert. “We are all so proud and excited for Vince as he enters his new role as CIO of LCI.”
Doepker takes over for Jamie Schnur, who was recently promoted to group president of aftermarket.
“Jamie has done some incredible things at Lippert, and I am certainly looking forward to building on his successes,” said Doepker. “I admire all the hard work that has gone into getting us where we are today, and I am eager to step up to the plate and drive innovation with technology in Lippert and the RV industry as a whole.”
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Trade unions stage scattered protests on Amazon’s Black Friday
By Kayla Costa
Scattered protests of Amazon workers took place around the world on Black Friday, which kicks off the holiday gift shopping season and a sharp increase in workloads, speed-up and hours for the company’s global workforce. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the increased workloads are creating even more deadly conditions for workers, despite the massive advertising campaign by Amazon to claim that its warehouses are safe.
As small businesses have been forced to close over the course of 2020, Amazon has reaped record profits from increased online sales and the use of labor-saving technology. Its share values have skyrocketed, largely due to the bipartisan bailout of the stock markets in late March.
Amazon has hired over 400,000 new employees since January, meaning that over 1 million workers now confront a global conglomerate worth $1.5 trillion and run by the world’s richest man. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has seen his personal fortune increase by $80 billion during the pandemic. After concealing the outbreak of cases for months, Amazon acknowledged in October that nearly 20,000 Amazon and Whole Foods workers have tested positive for the virus, a likely underestimation due to limited testing and contact tracing.
There is no shortage of opposition among Amazon workers to these extreme working conditions and broader inequality. However, relatively few workers responded to the Black Friday “day of action” called by an assortment of unions and pseudo-left organizations that make up the allegedly “grassroots” campaign called #MakeAmazonPay.
While media outlets universally proclaimed that there existed an internationally coordinated protest of workers in 15 countries, on every continent except Africa, the World Socialist Web Site confirmed participation of actual workers in only a few places, and even there the trade unions isolated the strikes within a narrow framework.
In Germany, workers participated in strikes at seven warehouses, in a one-day action that is regularly called by unions Verdi and UNI Global on Amazon Prime Day and Black Friday. Similar one-day walkouts and strikes were organized in Spain. The turnout this year appears remarkably lower than the Black Friday action called by the same unions in 2018, with no media accounts of the alleged actions in France, Italy, and Poland.
Workers on strike at Amazon facilities in Germany - Twitter Credit @AmazonWorkersIn
Dozens of highly exploited garment workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, who produce clothing that is sold on Amazon, participated in a protest organized by the union Sammilito Garments Sramik Federation (Combined Garments Workers Federation). In April, thousands of these same garment workers crowded around factory doors hoping to return to work or receive pay after a 10-day government shutdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, only to be informed by management that they were laid off with no pay. The union did nothing but issue empty statements at that time.
In the Philippines, call center workers under contract with Amazon Ring held a “virtual action.” These workers are employed by French company Teleperformance, which negotiates low-wage contracts for workers to provide call center customer service for companies like Netflix and Amazon. In 2019, workers reported 24-hour shifts that forced them to sleep on the floor at work. This year, they have reported lack of sanitation and social distancing, high workloads, lack of safe and affordable housing accommodations, and the usual low wages.
Garment workers on strike in Bangladesh - Twitter Credit @NazmaAkter73
The remaining “actions” cited by media sources mostly consisted of media stunts led by various middle-class “left” organizations, pro-corporate unions, climate activist groups, civil rights organizations and tax reform advocates, with minimal participation of workers.
Protests were organized outside of Amazon buildings by the environmental group Extinction Rebellion in Luxembourg, various unions and activist groups in India and Brazil, former Amazon worker and union promoter Christian Smalls in Seattle, “social justice” organizations in Virginia, and the GMB Union in London. Many of these protests were limited to a handful of people projecting the slogan “Make Amazon Pay” onto the side of Amazon buildings and one of CEO Jeff Bezos’ mansion in Washington, DC.
Like the May Day “general strike” earlier this year, the majority of Amazon workers had not heard of, let alone played an active role in these protest actions prior to seeing the media hoopla. This is because the actions were organized from above by professional political operatives and union bureaucrats as an attempt to direct class opposition behind capitalist political parties and unions before Amazon workers take independent action and organize their own fight.
The #MakeAmazonPay coalition is led by the Progressive International (PI), a movement launched in 2018 by US Senator Bernie Sanders, former Syriza member and Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, and similar upper-middle class figures who provide a “left” and “socialist” cover to capitalist parties, austerity and nationalism.
Projection on Amazon headquarters building in Hyderabad, India - Twitter credit @ProgressiveInternational
The list of coalition supporters include the Jacobin and Nation publications, the Sunrise Movement, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, several members of the Worker's Party of Brazil, former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, Niki Ashton of the Canadian New Democratic Party, Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau, and many more similar figures. Their Amazon coalition has attracted even more organizations and unions, including Our Revolution, Oxfam, Greenpeace, the Athena Coalition, Public Services International, UNI Global Union, International Trade Union Confederation and the Amazon Workers International.
The coalition is demanding that “Amazon change its policies and governments change their laws” in order to make Amazon pay “its debts to workers, the planet, and society.” The specific demands relate to “improving the workplace, providing job security to all, respecting workers’ universal rights, operating sustainably, and paying back to society.”
Some of the demands appeal to the genuine, healthy sentiments of Amazon workers to unite on a broad international basis and carry out a struggle against the conditions in which they are forced to work, stating that a struggle is needed “across national borders and narrow spheres of activism.”
However, the real program of this fraudulent “international” coalition is to strengthen the unions and sow illusions in the capitalist parties of every country. They call upon Amazon to allow “unions access to Amazon worksites to inform workers on the benefits of unionization,” and “invite progressive lawmakers across the globe to join us” and “build legislative power.”
These organizations deliberately conceal the fact that the struggle against this transnational giant requires a political fight by the working class against the whole capitalist economic and political set-up, which gives a single individual the “right” to privately own and control a vast global conglomerate, which dictates policy to governments around the world. These organizations would have workers believe that Amazon can be transformed into a humane “corporate citizen” by the same “left” capitalist parties and unions that have sabotaged workers’ struggles, carried out policies of militarism and budget cuts, and facilitated the growth of social inequality for decades.
The bankruptcy of this perspective is exemplified by the role of Yanis Varoufakis, whose Syriza (Coalition of the Radical Left) movement in Greece came to power in 2015, promising to fight the austerity measures of the European Union, only to carry out the most brutal cost-cutting measures in history along with savage attacks on immigrant workers.
Amazon workers cannot allow these treacherous organizations to hijack their struggle. The trade unions want only a seat at the table with management so they can prevent strikes and workplace actions, negotiate agreements to impose the profit needs of the corporations upon the workers, and expand their rolls of dues-paying members.
After decades of collaborating with the employers, the membership of the unions is at historic lows. The income of the union apparatus, however, continues to swell, with union executives trading wage and benefit concessions they impose on workers for corporate seats, control of vast pension funds and shares of corporate stock. The most glaring example of the anti-working-class character of these organizations has been their collusion with corporate management in forcing workers to stay on the job in the midst of the deadly pandemic.
To defend themselves, workers need to build independent rank-and-file committees, democratically controlled by workers themselves, in every Amazon warehouse and office around the world. These committees should fight for control of health and safety and line speed, along with decent wages and against corporate spying and retaliation.
At the same time, these committees must unite Amazon workers with logistics, delivery, auto, health care, education, transit, and other workers in the US and around the world. This struggle should be combined with the political struggle for socialism, including the transformation of Amazon into a public utility and the seizure of the private fortune of Bezos to provide the resources necessary to contain and eradicate the virus and address the vast social crisis.
The International Amazon Workers Voice (IAWV), published by the World Socialist Web Site, is the leading organizational and political center for Amazon workers to carry out this fight. We encourage all workers who are interested to sign up for our newsletter and contact us today to get involved.
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Citizen’s Trash is Federal Treasure
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Nikky Raney
The Federal Government has once again stomped on the Constitution. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are now allowed to search through the trash of citizens in America – without a warrant.
So basically, the FBI will now become dumpster divers and trash pickers – so don’t be surprised to find a man in a suit standing outside searching through trash cans that just so happen to contain mass amounts of cat litter and food wrappers. Could these items found be used as evidence if there is a lost cat in the area? Could the food wrappers be evidence if a local grocery store was recently robbed?
The FBI will now replace Oscar The Grouch of Sesame Street and spend time going through bags that most likely contain used tampons, condoms, baby diapers, soda cans and perhaps even some plastic utensils. Could the FBI arrest the citizen for not recycling those soda cans?
The New York Times reports the following:
The new rules will also relax a restriction on administering lie-detector tests and searching people’s trash. Under current rules, agents cannot use such techniques until they open a “preliminary investigation,” which — unlike an assessment — requires a factual basis for suspecting someone of wrongdoing. But soon agents will be allowed to use those techniques for one kind of assessment, too: when they are evaluating a target as a potential informant.
Agents have asked for that power in part because they want the ability to use information found in a subject’s trash to put pressure on that person to assist the government in the investigation of others. But Ms. Caproni said information gathered that way could also be useful for other reasons, like determining whether the subject might pose a threat to agents.
CBS News uses a witty headline to grab attention: Coming soon to a trash bin near you: The FBI This includes:
Under the FBI’s rules, agents are allowed to retain personal information obtained about a subject even if no evidence turns up of any wrongdoing. Agents were also authorized to “proactively” begin investigations (the lowest level of which is termed an “assessment”) on potential targets, even without specific justification; and restrictions on the use of intrusive techniques (such as infiltrating organizations, use of informants, or photographing subjects) were loosened.
Harvey A. Silvergate, a writer, a criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer, and author of “Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.” of Cambridge, Massachusetts wrote a letter to the Editor of the New York Times. He included many examples of how this could lead to increased government surveillance:
“The average law-abiding person probably engages in some act during the course of a typical day that an inventive agent or prosecutor can use as the basis for threatening a prosecution in the absence of “cooperation.” And once the citizen’s decision is made to cooperate, the feds excel at teaching their cooperators to become witnesses who know not only how to sing but also how to compose.”
So, it will be fun to see how this plays out.
Nikky Raney wrote this with contributions from Dennis Rose.
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Inlander: A Polish artist’s first U.S. solo show lands in Spokane
FIRST FRIDAY: BARTOSZ BEDA
A Polish artist’s first U.S. solo show lands in Spokane
By Kristi Luccetta
The work of Polish painter Bartosz Beda is coming to the Marmot Art Space.
Polish artist Bartosz Beda is coming to Spokane, carrying with him some hype for his first solo show in the U.S. at Marmot Art Space in Kendall Yards. The exhibition opens on First Friday and will last through July, with pieces reflecting on social anxieties and lessons of history.
Audiences can capture his style by taking in new paintings for which Beda applies a method called impasto. This is a technique where the paint is laid thickly enough on the canvas to allow brushing and knife-like strokes, providing texture along with the appearance that the paint is coming out of the canvas.
Beda’s work often explores the relation between daily life and human nature, and he describes humanity as a chocolate cake. Beneath the icing there lies more puzzling mixtures of fears and social pathology.
Marmot Art Space curator Marshall Peterson says that there’s a new aspect to this particular exhibition that he’s never experienced with any other visiting artist. Collectors are purchasing Beda’s pieces, with the intent of selling them for three to eight times their original price in the years to come. In the past three years, his works have increased in value by 500 percent.
The opening reception takes place Friday, July 1, from 5 to 8 pm at Marmot Art Space (1206 W. Summit Pkwy.)
For a complete listing of First Friday events around Spokane this month, visitInlander.com/FirstFriday.
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MLS Matchday #2 – Vancouver Whitecaps at Sporting Kansas City
MLS MATCHDAY #2
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CHILDREN’S MERCY PARK, KANSAS CITY, KS
10-men ‘Caps fall 2-1 to Sporting KC – Whitecaps FC
Dom Dwyer led the way for SKC with a first-half brace, including a spectacular 30-yard strike in the fifth minute. The ‘Caps, who were reduced to 10 men just before halftime, responded with a 70th-minute Pedro Morales penalty kick to make things interesting but couldn’t find an equalizer.
Whitecaps Lose Second Straight to Start Season – Eighty-Six Forever
It was always going to be difficult to break down Sporting Kansas City during their home opener at the newly named Children’s Mercy Park, but the Vancouver Whitecaps didn’t do themselves any favours with a self-sabotaging performance on Saturday night.
Vancouver Whitecaps fall in Kansas – Soccer Shorts
Carl Robinson has had tremendous success in bringing new players to the Vancouver Whitecaps and also in letting young players develop but after the 2-1 defeat against Sporting Kansas City on Saturday evening we can probably say that he has got at least two things wrong; Jordan Smith isn’t good enough to be a regular right back in Major League Soccer and Deybi Flores isn’t yet ready to earn valuable starting minutes.
Ouch! Whitecaps beat selves again in KC – Whitecaps Fan Blog
Oh dear. For the second game on the trot the Vancouver Whitecaps shot themselves in the foot, and in doing so, lost 2-1 to Western Conference rival Sporting Kansas City.
Vancouver’s David Ousted explains loss in KC: “The urgency wasn’t there” – MLS
Even before losing right back Jordan Smith to a straight red card late in the first half, the Vancouver Whitecaps were in serious trouble in their own end of the pitch.
Report and Reaction: Defending, discipline and a Dom Dwyer double do the damage as Vancouver Whitecaps fall to Sporting KC – AFTN
Vancouver Whitecaps 2016 season went from bad to worse at Sporting Kansas City on Saturday night, after a terrible defensive display and a lack of composure saw the ‘Caps fall to a 2-1 loss and play over a half of the game with ten men.
Dwyer brace bags Caps – Prost Amerika
Dom Dwyer stepped up as his first half brace was more than enough to defeat the 10 man Vancouver Whitecaps in front of a boisterous crowd at Children’s Mercy Park.
Sporting KC rave about Dom Dwyer in win: “He’s getting better and better” – Sporting KC
Dom Dwyer’s first two goals of 2016 were both the stuff of highlight reels – and for entirely different reasons. That’s what Sporting Kansas City like to see from their star center forward, who continues to evolve and develop his game as he enters his fifth season as a pro.
Takeaways from the Sporting KC Win Over the ‘Caps – Reporting KC
Another game for Sporting Kansas City, another win against opposition with 10 men, and another 3 points. Sporting Kansas City got a win against the very skillful and speedy Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday. Children’s Mercy Park was rocking as always and there was something extra in the air because it was the first game of the season (The Cauldron and the South Stand Supporters both had incredibly amazing tifos for this game).
Match Preview: Sporting Kansas City v Vancouver Whitecaps – can the ‘Caps bounce back? – AFTN
While there were some positives to be taken from the Whitecaps’ 3-2 loss to Montreal Impact on Sunday, in Carl Robinson’s words, a “lot of improvements” are needed throughout the team is the ‘Caps are to get their season off and running at Sporting KC on Saturday night.
Match Preview: Whitecaps at Sporting KC – Eighty-Six Forever
The Vancouver Whitecaps will try their luck on the road this weekend, as they battle Sporting Kansas City away from the confines of BC Place. The Whitecaps are looking for their first win of the season, while Sporting KC topped the Seattle Sounders 1-0 to kick off their 2016 season. This is the first road match of the season for Vancouver, who were 7-7-3 in that regard last year.
Whitecaps FC acquire midfielder Andrew Jacobson from New York City FC – Whitecaps FC
Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced on Friday that the club has acquired midfielder Andrew Jacobson from New York City FC in exchange for targeted allocation money – pending receipt of his international transfer certificate, Canadian work permit and visa.
Preview: Whitecaps FC off to Sporting KC for first road match of 2016 – Whitecaps FC
As far as regular season losses go, they don’t hurt much more than Vancouver Whitecaps FC’s heartbreaking 4-3 defeat to Sporting KC in August of last year – a match that saw the visiting ‘Caps squander a 3-1 lead in the final 10 minutes.
Vancouver Whitecaps looking for a repeat of last season’s road success – Times Colonist
The Vancouver Whitecaps are hoping history repeats itself after another home disappointment on opening weekend. The club fell 3-2 to the Montreal Impact on Sunday, a loss that in many ways mirrored Vancouver’s 3-1 defeat to Toronto FC at B.C. Place Stadium on the first day of the 2015 season. The Whitecaps won their next two games at expansion Orlando City FC and the lowly Chicago Fire last year to set the stage for a franchise-record 53-point campaign that would include the top away record in Major League Soccer at 7-7-3.
Whitecaps focused on Kansas City trip – Goal
Having dusted themselves off following a season-opening loss to Montreal, Vancouver is looking to bounce back at Sporting KC this weekend.
Know thy enemy: Sporting Kansas City – Whitecaps FC
Kansas City star sports writer Sam McDowell gives us the scouting report on Sporting Kansas City ahead of Saturday’s match against Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
Key Matchups: Sporting KC versus Vancouver – Reporting KC
So what individual matchups can or should Sporting Kansas City fans look forward to in the upcoming game against the Vancouver Whitecaps (Saturday, March 12, 5:30 PT)? Here are three possible contests to keep an eye on.
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Landmark Study Finds Masks Are Ineffective
The first randomized controlled trial1,2 to assess the effectiveness of surgical face masks against SARS-CoV-2 infection specifically — which journals initially refused to publish — is finally seeing the light of day.
The so-called “Danmask-19 Trial,” published November 18, 2020, in the Annals of Internal Medicine,3 included 3,030 individuals assigned to wear a surgical face mask and 2,994 unmasked controls. Of them, 80.7% completed the study.
To qualify, participants had to spend at least three hours per day outside the home and not be required to wear a mask during their daily work. At the end of the study, participants reported having spent a median of 4.5 hours per day outside the home.
For one month, participants in the mask group were instructed to wear a mask whenever they were outside their home. Surgical face masks with a filtration rate of 98% were supplied. In accordance with recommendations from the World Health Organization, participants were instructed to change their mask after eight hours.
Antibody testing was performed before the outset and at the end of the study period. At the end of the month, they also submitted a nasal swab sample for PCR testing.
What the Danmask-19 Trial Found
The primary outcome was a positive PCR test, a positive antibody test result (IgM or IgG) during the study period, or a hospital-based diagnosis of COVID-19. Secondary end points included PCR evidence of infection with other respiratory viruses.
Based on the adherence scores reported, 46% of participants always wore the mask as recommended, 47% predominantly as recommended and 7% failed to follow recommendations. So, what did they find? As you might expect, there’s a reason why the researchers had such a hard time getting this study published:
Among mask wearers, 1.8% (42 participants) ended up testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, compared to 2.1% (53) among controls. When they removed the people who reported not adhering to the recommendations for use, the results remained the same — 1.8% (40 people), which suggests adherence makes no significant difference.
1.4% (33 participants) tested positive for antibodies compared to 1.8% (44) of controls.
Among those who reported wearing their face mask “exactly as instructed,” 2% (22 participants) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 compared to 2.1% (53) of the controls.
52 participants in the mask group and 39 in the control group reported COVID-19 in their household. Of these, two participants in the mask group and one in the control group developed SARS-CoV-2 infection — a finding that suggests “the source of most observed infections was outside the home.”
0.5% (nine participants) in the mask group and 0.6% (11 individuals) tested positive for one or more respiratory viruses other than SARS-CoV-2 (secondary outcome).
Masks May Lower, or Raise, Infection Risk
All in all, this landmark COVID-19-specific study failed to deliver good news to those who insist face masks are a crucial component of the pandemic response. Masks may reduce your risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection by as much as 46%, or it may increase your risk by 23%. In other words, the preponderance of evidence still shows that masks have virtually no impact on viral transmission.
Another take-home point that you get from this study, which Del Bigtree points out in The Highwire video report above, is that the vast majority — 97.9% of those who didn’t wear masks, and 98.2% of those who did — remained infection free.
So, we are destroying economies and lives around the world, for what, exactly? To protect a small minority from getting a positive PCR test result which, as detailed in “Asymptomatic ‘Casedemic’ Is a Perpetuation of Needless Fear,” means little to nothing. As reported by the authors:4
“Although no statistically significant difference in SARS-CoV-2 incidence was observed, the 95% CIs are compatible with a possible 46% reduction to 23% increase in infection among mask wearers.
These findings do offer evidence about the degree of protection mask wearers can anticipate in a setting where others are not wearing masks and where other public health measures, including social distancing, are in effect …
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 may take place through multiple routes. It has been argued that for the primary route of SARS-CoV-2 spread — that is, via droplets — face masks would be considered effective, whereas masks would not be effective against spread via aerosols, which might penetrate or circumnavigate a face mask. Thus, spread of SARS-CoV-2 via aerosols would at least partially explain the present findings …
The present findings are compatible with the findings of a review of randomized controlled trials of the efficacy of face masks for prevention (as personal protective equipment) against influenza virus …
Our results suggest that the recommendation to wear a surgical mask when outside the home among others did not reduce, at conventional levels of statistical significance, the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in mask wearers in a setting where social distancing and other public health measures were in effect, mask recommendations were not among those measures, and community use of masks was uncommon.”
Government Tyrants Double Down on Mask Mandates
The researchers point out that results could potentially turn out differently if everyone were wearing a mask. At the time of the study, Danish authorities did not recommend universal mask use and most Danes did not wear them. Hence “participants’ exposure was overwhelmingly to persons not wearing masks.”
That possibility, however, is a big “if,” and not sufficient to mandate universal mask wearing. Any claim to such effect is nothing but a wholly unscientific guess. Despite that, many local leaders are now doubling down on mask mandates, some even requiring them to be worn inside your own home when anyone outside the family is present and even if physical distancing can be maintained.5
As an example of extremes, a June 2020 Harvard University paper6,7 even suggested couples should wear face masks during sex. Others are tripling down on masks, recommending you wear two or even three at the same time.8 Former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb is urging Americans to wear N95 surgical masks whenever possible.9
Epidemic of Spineless Leadership
Missing entirely from most recommendations is common-sense health guidance known to improve your immune function and lower your infection risk naturally, such as supplementing with vitamin D, NAC, melatonin, quercetin and zinc.
As noted by Angela Rasmussen, a virologist and affiliate of the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security, in a November 15, 2020, op-ed in The Guardian,10 our immune systems know how to handle the virus; it’s our politicians who have failed to cope with it. She writes:11
“Most of the evidence in both COVID-19 patients and animal models shows that the immune response to this is quite typical for an acute viral infection. Initially, the body ramps up high levels of IgG antibodies, but after the infection is cleared, those antibodies drop to a baseline level, which may be below the limit of detection of some serological tests.
Antibodies are produced by B-cells, a specialized type of immune cell that recognizes a specific antigen, or viral target. When an infection is cleared, B-cells producing antibodies convert from being plasma cells, which are specialized to pump out massive quantities of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies, to being memory B-cells.
These cells produce lower levels of IgG antibody; but, importantly they persist in the body for years. If they are re-exposed to SARS-CoV-2, they rapidly convert to plasma cells and begin producing high levels of antibody again.
There is no indication that most COVID-19 patients are not developing immune memory, and animals experimentally infected with SARS-CoV-2 are protected against rechallenge with high doses of virus …
Furthermore, antibodies are not the only important part of the immune system. T-cells are also a key component to the immune response. They come in two flavors: helper T-cells, which coordinate immune responses and facilitate immunological memory, and killer T-cells, which kill infected cells. Previous studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 infection induces robust T-cell responses.”
As noted by Rasmussen, the data collected on the responses of T-cells to SARS-CoV-2 infection “underscore that SARS-CoV-2 is not an anomalous virus capable of miraculous feats of immune evasion.”
No matter how strictly mask laws are enforced nor the level of mask compliance the population follows, cases all fall and rise around the same time. ~ Yinon Weiss
In other words, provided your immune function is normal, the virus is as vulnerable as any other virus and you’re not destined to die just because you develop symptoms. So, the reason we’re in the situation we’re now in, Rasmussen says, is not because SARS-CoV-2 is somehow different or more lethal than anything that has come before. We’re in this situation due to political failures.
Mask Mandates Have Had No Impact on Infection Trends
Other data analyses that add support to the Danish study’s results include Yinon Weiss’ work presented in his article12 “These 12 Graphs Show Mask Mandates Do Nothing to Stop COVID.” In it, he shows that states’ mask rules appear to have had nothing to do with infection rates, which is what you’d expect if masks don’t work.
Weiss points out that “No matter how strictly mask laws are enforced nor the level of mask compliance the population follows, cases all fall and rise around the same time.” To see all of the graphs, check out Weiss’ article13 or Twitter thread.14 Here are just a select few to bring home the point:
Masks Delay Inevitable Acceptance of COVID-19 Reality
What everyone needs to come to terms with is that we have a new respiratory virus in town — one that may stay with us indefinitely. The question then becomes, just how long do we lock ourselves in our homes and shun all social relationships?
How long do we neglect our children’s education and social development by keeping schools closed? How long do we leave our elderly family members to languish in isolation? A better part of the global population has essentially stopped living altogether, and for what? For fear of an illness that 99.7% of people recover from15 — an illness that is as likely to kill you as the seasonal influenza if you’re under 60.16
Data clearly show that COVID-19 has not resulted in excess mortality, meaning the same number of people who die in any given year, on average, have died in this year of the pandemic.17,18 Several studies19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26 also suggest immunity against SARS-CoV-2 infection is far more widespread than anyone imagined.
In an October 28, 2020, Wall Street Journal opinion piece,27 Joseph Ladapo, an associate professor at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, points out that we really must accept reality and move on with life, unpredictable as it may be. He writes:
“By paying outsize and scientifically unjustified attention to masking, mask mandates have the unintended consequence of delaying public acceptance of the unavoidable truth.
In countries with active community transmission and no herd immunity, nothing short of inhumane lockdowns can stop the spread of COVID-19, so the most sensible and sustainable path forward is to learn to live with the virus.
Shifting focus away from mask mandates and toward the reality of respiratory viral spread will free up time and resources to protect the most vulnerable Americans ...
Until the reality of viral spread in the U.S. … is accepted, political leaders will continue to feel justified in keeping schools and businesses closed, robbing young people of the opportunity to invest in their futures, and restricting activities that make life worthwhile.”
There’s Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Hopefully, if you’ve been reading this newsletter, you’re no longer incapacitated with fear and are capable of making more level-headed decisions based on the data at hand rather than the fear porn published in the daily papers. For the latest news and top tips for combating COVID-19, check out my Coronavirus Resource Page.
Everything really points to this pandemic being overblown and prolonged for purposes that have nothing to do with saving lives and everything to do with “resetting” the global financial and power structures — none of which will benefit us.
The lockdowns are essentially just conditioning you to accept a radically new way of life — one in which we have limited ability to travel or work, one in which we’re conditioned to being partially or wholly dependent on a government handout, one in which we must submit to being tracked and surveilled with little or no right to privacy, one in which the government dictates how you can spend your time, where you can go, who you can spend time with and for how long.
Eventually, once the global economies are in irreparable shambles, the central banks will roll out a debt erasure program to solve all our problems. The price will be your humanity, your freedom. Will you pay it? Or will you resist the whole deviled scheme while you still can?
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New Trends Emerging for Land & Sea-Based EO Systems
Category: Defence Industry
In a new analysis, "The Market for Land & Sea-Based Electro-Optical Systems," Forecast International is projecting that an estimated $8.36 billion will be spent on the development and production of key land- and sea-based electro-optical (EO) systems over the next 10 years.
The pressing need for the all-important troop-level systems, such as night vision goggles and thermal viewing systems, will drive procurement in this market segment for the next few years. Still, the introduction of some significant, new EO systems is fast emerging as a major market force for the years ahead.
The market leaders among land- and sea-based EO system providers are ITT, DRS Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Thales, and Australia's Electro Optic Systems. The Australian company is expected to produce an estimated 5,724 of its Electro-Optic Fire Control Systems (EFCS) over the next 10 years, at a value of $954 million. EFCS is being considered for some significant European and Middle Eastern programs, and is currently fitted to Singapore's Bionix infantry fighting vehicle (IFV).
ITT will likely continue to dominate the EO market for its key involvement in one of the most ubiquitous systems on the modern battlefield: the night vision goggle. Production of the company's PVS-14 for the U.S. military alone will run at 50,000-70,000 units per year well into the next decade. A recent $33 million order from Norway for 4,400 units will significantly boost the system's international production line.
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Katja entered the kitchen and grabbed a handful of fried potatoes and an apple that the chambermaid polished against her gray stained dress. Katja winked at Merph as she joined him in the corner. "Did you make anything today?" She set the apple down and flicked her fingers. "Explode?"
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The cooks and other maids ignored Merph as he unfolded the paper and traced his fingers over the words. There were too many black scratches and letters, but Merph recognized two words. Powder, and power.
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"Where did you find this?" asked Merph.
"In one of the rooms I cleaned." She leaned forward smelling of rosemary and thyme. "Bet you can't read that."
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"It says all that?"
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"You'll teach me to read?"
"One day," said Merph. When she reached out for the piece of paper, he held it away from her. "This must be Healer Kluvenstrom's. I should return it to him.
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A sound popped behind Merph and he spun to see Kluvenstrom holding Katja's folded piece of paper. The healer opened a palm filled with the pearlescent glow of moon powder. "Do you know what this says?"
Merph took a step backwards away from the healer.
"No! This is an astral plane and one can become lost here. The paper is gibberish. A trap. You should not have come down here." The healer placed the paper in the boy's hands. "Hold this. It'll take you back."
Merph looked up at the healer hearing something in the man's words. The man looked distant. "What about you?"
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Merph found himself sprawled on the floor of the cellar and he scrambled to his feet. The floor was empty with no sign of the box that he'd opened or Kluvenstrom. His hands held a dozen grains of moon powder. His skin crawled as the shadows cast by the moon powder seemed to move. Merph ran up the stairs.
Merph burst through the doorway at the top of the cellar and ran into Mortok. The boy stepped backwards. "I'm sorry."
"What are you doing?" asked Mortok. "That powder in your hand is Kluvenstrom's. Where is he?"
The neighboring Lord's son scared and confused Merph who stepped back against the wall. Merph didn't understand why the sun shone into the hallway. It had been night. He whitened. "I... I..."
Mortok yelled down the hallway. "Servant!" He waited until footsteps ran towards them. "Bring Lord Calle here." Mortok turned Merph towards the cellar. "Let us investigate."
Merph lowered his chin. "I have the moon powder, I can light the way."
"Nonsense." Mortok chuckled. "I saw the healer enter the cellar. Some apprentices can become greedy. Has that happened with you?" Mortok withdrew a cube from the pocket of his coat and the black runes on the sides glowed red.
The stairs creaked as they descended. The cellar had the boxes the same as always against the edge of the room. Mortok closed his eyes holding out his arms and sniffing. He stopped and his eyes popped open. "I sense the otherworld here. We need Lord Calle and my master, Tvinnrun to investigate." Mortok turned and his cloak brushed the stone walls leaving marks in the darkness.
As the red light faded, faint moon powder glowed on the floor. The powder hadn't been there before, Merph was sure of that. It created a six letter word, but Merph didn't know what it meant. He memorized the shapes. _Listen._ He bounded up the stairs.
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AidanF October 25, 2010 at 10:51 PM
Author's note. As I was editing this week's version I realized I had three characters with names starting with M. I didn't really have a choice with Mortok and Merph since they came from two different story-lines and I wanted to merge them together. I'm hoping that the sounds and characters will be different enough to keep one from confusing the two of them together. However, Mary (now Katja) was a new character and had only been mentioned once last week so I took the liberty of changing the name hoping that this will make it easier for the reader. Of course, it may just make it confusing for those reading this as I post.
Tessa October 26, 2010 at 10:07 AM
This seems like the beginning to a novel rather than a short story. I hope you keep going with it.
AidanF October 26, 2010 at 11:01 AM
This series is approx. a novella in length (and I hope the story ends satisfyingly, but there is room for more stories in the world). I plan on keeping this series running.
Stephen Watkins November 1, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Just popping by to say I continue to read with interest. :)
I'm curious who this trap was meant for...?
AidanF November 1, 2010 at 9:32 PM
@Stephen, Good to know that you are enjoying these. Yes, this was a trap. I hope that who the trap was laid for will become clear later in the series.
Aidan Fritz Writes:
Aidan Fritz lives on an island in the San Francisco Bay Area and works part of the time in Sweden. His writing captures the magic of varied perspectives through which different cultures view the world. When not writing, he can be found baking artisan breads, practicing his Swedish, playing the hammered dulcimer, or occasionally on stage as a Scottish Highland dancer. An avid sand-dune climber, he has the metabolism of a hummingbird.
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Looking At The Past To Defy The Present
Repeatedly I am asked to explain how my painting evolved. To me there is no past or future in art. If a work cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.
1923, Pablo Picasso in an interview with artist and dealer Marius Zayas, when defending his controversial practice of working simultaneously in Cubist and naturalist styles
In the 80s and 90s I went to alternative scene rock concerts with my friend designer Ian Bateson. In my ignorance I would tell him that I liked the group we were listening to. His usual answer always upset me, “Alex it’s been done before and its been done better. These chaps are derivative.” I would show Bateson some of my recent photographs that I was particularly proud of. He would look at them (almost in a perfunctory manner) and simply say, “It’s been done before.” For years I was never able to find some sort of counter statement to shut him up. For a while I stopped showing him my photographs.
Édouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass, 1863
It was sometime in the late 90s that it must have hit me in the middle of the night. I suddenly knew. I showed Bateson a nude. He looked at it and said, as expected, “It’s been done before. It’s old hat.” I looked at him (and if memory does not fail me) and I shouted at him, “But I have not done it, yet!”
It was at about this time that I began exhibiting in local galleries and I would frequent openings in galleries. Every once in a while I would see a roomful of “boring” landscape nudes. These landscape nudes are the usual product of a young or inexperienced photographer or artist who will say to you, “Have you noticed how a reclining female nude is so similar to a Sahara Desert dune?” At first I felt superior to these landscape nude artists. After all I had gone through that state in the mid 70s. But in the light of what I had told Bateson I began to understand that all of us go through predictable stages in our life as photographers and or artists. Some go through these stages slowly and some of us circumvent or skip them. Ultimately (it is my opinion) you begin with the landscape nude and you up the ante to the portrait nude. From there you might “regress” to bits and pieces of the body, not as sand dunes but as body parts that are beautiful in their own way. From parts you might flirt with bondage photography or esoteric eroticism.
Luncheon on the Grass (after Manet) 20 February 1960
Ultimately you are faced with pornography. I must admit that I was close to the brink and that I skirted it but in the end I understood that pornography is a personal exercise in bad taste. If one has some sort of innate idea of what is beautiful and what is in good taste one cannot do pornography. And so I never made pornography. I understood the process and I became less critical of those who had yet to proceed from the landscape nude (as we all do when boredom strikes) to the next stage. They simply had not done it yet. It was also then I understood that a recognizable personal style in photography much like in a similar one in painting had to first come from the looking at pictures by others. It came from understanding and figuring out the intention of those other artists. It came from out an out imitation and how this imitation soon led to variations when the resulting images lost some of their origins and adopted the intentions and style of the would-be-copier.
Luncheon on the Grass (after Manet) Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
In fact I tell my photography students, “The Holy Grail of photography is the identifiable personal style. In order to achieve it you must first rip off as many of the photographers you admire. You will soon find your own voice.
While I never studied art or its history I have read enough, gone to enough major galleries and purchased enough books to have a middling idea of where art came from. I would almost assert that I may be fairly well versed on the subject. Of art I tell my students:
Las Meninas, Diego de Velázquez, 1656
When you are confronted with the most difficult element of photography, one that is almost certain to produce failure and this is a sterile studio, a gray wall, a lovely or handsome model, your camera, a light or lights and you behind the camera, nothing will happen. Nothing good will happen, unless you draw on two elements. One of them is nostalgia. I photographed not too long ago a beautiful woman with a fan. The resulting image while possibly arresting to a few (I used Hollywood lighting) was completely justifiable for me as it was based on my going to see Mexican actress Dolores del Río in 1959 in Mexico City with my mother. She had appeared in a Spanish translation stage production of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. My photograph was an exercise in personal nostalgia. It mattered to me regardless of what it might mean to anybody else. Nostalgia fueled my inspiration and my studio was not sterile anymore. In my imagination I could hear Dolores’s del Rió’s wonderful voice.
Las Meninas (after Velázquez) 17 August 1957
The second source of inspiration in the sterile studio is the inspiration of a work of art or artist that one might admire. A woman in profile in a photograph can have elements (if only in one’s memory) of a da Vinci Madonna. A fine b+w or even colour portrait of a person by a window can be inspired by knowledge of Vermeer or Rogier van der Weyden.
Sometime in the late 80s Vancouver Magazine art director, Chris Dahl told me he liked Irving Penn’s b+w cover portraits for Vanity Fair. “Can you imitate some of them for me?” I did to the point that Dahl told me one day, “I cannot run this, it’s too much like Irving Penn.” I was not offended in the least as understood that I could now modify Penn’s technique and adapt it to my own person needs and still make my portraits look like my own.
Las Meninas (after Velázquez) , Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
The irony of all the above is that the “It’s been done before” man himself, Ian Bateson recently returned from a trip to England. He visited the Tate Gallery in Liverpool and was blown away by a special Picasso show there. He brought me a book which serves to illustrate elements of the show. The book is called Picasso – Challenging the Past.
Before Bateson gave me the book we had lunch. While walking on Robson near Seymour he stopped to tell me, “Picasso says that there is no such thing as original art. It’s all been done before. It’s all derivative."
Ingres, Grand Odalisque, 1814
I have read the book from cover to cover and understood how little I know of Picasso. I never did know that the artist was a consummate copyist and that he copied and was inspired by the art of not only his contemporaries but by such masters as Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Doménikos Theotokópulos, “El Greco”, Édouard Manet, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn and many more. Bateson’s gift had pages and pages of Picasso's copy work, his variations and derivatives of these masters.
Of his derivative work, as explained by one of the contributors to the book, Elizabeth Cowling in the chapter called Competition and Collaboration: Picasso and the Old Masters, writes:
Grand Odalisque, Pablo Picasso 1907
But whichever form the ‘collaboration’ took it never involved the respectful, self-effacing submission normally associated with copying. On the contrary , as Picasso explained to André Malroux during a long discussion on the latter’s concept of the ‘Museum Without Walls’, although he lived ‘with’ the painters who mattered to him – lived ‘as much with’ them as with the people with whom he shared his life,
“I paint against the canvases that are important to me, but I paint in accord with everything that’s still missing from the Museum of yours… You’ve got to make what does not exist, what has never been made before. That’s painting: for a painter it means wrestling with painting.”
Una Siesta en Goya (after Ingres and Goya) Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
The final chapter of the book written by Simonetta Fraquelli is called Looking at the Past to Defy the Present: Picasso’s Painting 1946-1973.
I am certainly no Picasso, not even a portion of his shadow. But that title is enough to keep me going and I will burn midnight oil in the erstwhile sterile mind of my imagination.
And more derivative "art" follows bellow aided by Blogger's new feature of being able to put captions under my photographs.
Igor Stravinsky by Arnold Newman
Rodney Graham by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
Alice, Balthus 1933
Helen, Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
Franz Wynans with Rembrandt's The Art Dealer
Self portrait with Rembrandt's self portrait
Self Portrait, Leonardo da Vinci
Robertson Davies by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
Link to: Looking At The Past To Defy The Present
On June 9th I boarded with my wife Rosemary, the Ocean Watch. She was docked at the Government Pier in Deep Cove. Sam Sullivan (below, left) and his wife Lynn had chartered the Ocean Watch and invited former friends of Abraham Rogatnick, including architects Geoff Massey (right) and Bruno Freschi) for the ceremony of spreading our friend’s (Rogatnick) ashes somewhere in Indian Arm. He had died August 29 of the previous year.
Lynn Zanatta had suggested that some beautiful falls would be an appropriate location. Two (Freschi and I) objected to the idea as we both had the opinion that Rogatnick was more a man of logic than of romance and a waterfall would have had no significance to the man’s life particularly in that he wanted no ceremony after his death, “After me, the deluge,” he often told me as he stressed his non belief in an afterlife.
It was obvious to me that the elaborate memorial service his friends (including this one) organized on September 2009 was for our benefit as it helped us cope with the loss of an admired and much loved man.
Freschi and I both convinced those on the Ocean Watch that a piece of architecture was the better choice and than no better would be the now retired (and ghostly) power station designed by British-born architect Francis Rattenbury who most know at the man who gave us the Provincial Legislature and the Empress Hotel in Victoria and Law Court in Vancouver that was adapted by Arthur Erickson to be our Vancouver Art Gallery.
Zanatta, the gracious Zanatta we all know, had brought along delicious munchies and wine for what was supposed to be the happy celebration of a man’s life. The day was cold, gray and gloomy. A biting wind sprayed us with a persistent drizzle. It was to me, not a happy time.
I kept looking at a man with a beautiful and imposing profile who was sitting sat a corner of the stern and staring impassively, with a touch of melancholy, into the water. He was architect Geoff Massey. I had first met him in the meetings we had at Sam Sullivan’s to organize Rogatnick’s memorial in September 2009. I had been first attracted by his imposing presence, every bit of it, 100% the vision we all have of “The Architect”. I was then warmed to his low key and intelligent conversation (with a voice that would have made him rich in radio had he forfeited his career as an architect).
Because of the vagueries of fortune I got to photograph Evelyn Hart but never Karen Kain. Through similar circumstances I had been fortunate to photograph architects Arthur Erickson, Ned Pratt, Ron Thom but not Geoff Massey who was from the same generation even though Pratt and Thom where somewhat older.
It was Abraham Rogatnick who had told me of Massey and of his influence in British Columbia. When Arthur Erickson died in May 2009; Rogatnick gave the keynote speech in Erickson’s memorial service in Simon Fraser University. I was not there as I was in Texas at the time, but Rogatnick read the speech to me in his home and then explained, “Alex I wanted to make sure that everybody knew that Simon Fraser University was designe not by one architect but by two. The other was Geoff Massey. I made sure to mention the man and to give credit where credit is due.” Rogatnick explained that Geoff Massey was a quiet and self-effacing man, a gentleman’s gentleman, not only an architect’s architect, who would never complain or demand credit for the work he did.
It was in the early 50s that a youngish Rogatnick had entered Harvard’s School of Architecture. He was unhappy with his dormitory arrangements and decided he needed to move out into smaller quarters. In the school’s bulletin board he noticed a request for a fourth man to join an out of campus living arrangement. Rogatnick went and was subjected to an intense screening. One of the men was Geoff Massey. Rogatnick was in.
Around 1954 Rogatnick and his loving partner Alvin Balkind decided to travel a bit in their VW Beetle. Rogatnick told Massey of the trip so Massey indicated that he be looked up if he happened to pass by Vancouver.
When Rogatnick and Balkind arrived in Vancouver they instantly fell in love with our then provincial city, so provincial, it didn’t have a serious art gallery of any kind. Rogatnick rang the bell outside of Massey’s home in the West End. The door opened. The man facing them was not Massey. Massey was out of town on his honey moon. The man at the door was Massey’s architecture partner, Arthur Erickson. Erickson and Rogatnick became friends for life.
As I watched Massey on the Ocean Watch I wondered how much of the above story he was thinking about and how he had been the catalyst between Erickson and Rogatnick. I wondered what else Massey had contributed to our city’s well being. Will we ever know? Will anybody set the record straight?
As I watched Sullivan scoop the remnant’s of great man’s life from a plastic bag into a plastic cup and throw the ashes into the water I thought at first that it was obscene. I then immediately downgraded the act to that of inconsequential. It served nobody.
In this blog, that is my diary, I felt I could not write about the occasion with any kind of eloquence. I pretty well forgot of that gloomy day on Indian Arm.e A few days ago I found a roll of undeveloped Kodak Tri-X. I processed it and found some the pictures you see here. As gloom set in on today Sunday (as I write this Friday, October 22 blog) I have come to understand that the inconsequential act of spreading Rogatnick’s ashes in the shadow of the Rattenbury power station has suddenly pressed me with the writing of this account. Rogatnick is still around and teaching me more stuff about how important it is to live now.
That inconsequential act has helped me understand that I have been most lucky in having met and photographed (and in some cases befriended) the likes of Ned Pratt, Ron Thom, Abraham Rogatncik, Arthur Erickson and now through that single roll of Kodak Tri-X that other man of consequence, that architect, Geoffrey Massey.
In a February 17, 1998 interview with Arthur Erickson by author Jim Donaldson here I found this delightful information that links the three men I mention above:
No this was’53. And so, and also I had this terrible habit of not liking the kind of sandwiches that you had and then getting a loaf of bread and a piece of cheese, smelly cheese, and a little bottle of wine. And I put the bread uncovered in- you know, it wasn’t sliced, it wasn’t packaged bread, it was raw, baked bread, and I would put it in the drafting drawer and it was sticking out with the cheese in one hand and this was just not acceptable in that office where everyone had white shirts and steel armbands too to keep their cuffs off the drafting board. Terribly neat. So then I went with Chuck Thompson and Pratt, and I was equally useless there. I was working under Ron Thom, trying to sort of follow his Wrightian style, I mean, which, you know, I was sympathetic with and had some understanding, but the dynamics of architects as a business hadn’t gotten through to me and so I guess I didn’t accomplish very much there either. So then I was jobless and at this time, I had met Geoff Massey. He’d come out, ‘cause at that time, this was when Vancouver architecture had become known all over the Eastern States and Vancouver was considered one of the pioneers in modern architecture. And of course, so young students were coming from the Eastern universities to work in Vancouver and that’s how Geoff came out and several others came out from Harvard with him, Abe Rogatnik and Alvin Balkin and of course, Peter Oberlander, ex-McGill, from Harvard as well, because it seemed to be the promised land for new Urban Planning and Architecture. So I met Geoff at Bert Binnings’s and we became good friends and Geoff persuaded me to share a house with him, which we did for a couple of years and it was- at that time, we were both working with Sharp and Thompson, then I lost my job and that’s when Gordon Smith came to us and said, “Would you design a house for me?” So Geoff was still working at Thompson, Berwick, Pratt, and so I was left at the house working on Gordon’s new site, and so we did the house, the working drawings and everything else, and Geoff would work on it in the evening when he got back and it was built, Gordon got a carpenter and built it, and it was one of the first Massey Medals.
Arthur Erickson
Link to: The Architect
More Than Human - A Case of Conscience
As I attempt to convince my 13 year-old granddaughter of the wonders of reading I have been looking through my book shelves for a volume that might just do the trick. I have yet to find it but the exercise points me in the directions of books that have not been lately in my mind. Seeing them brings the excitement I felt when I first read them. One that I found today was A Case of Conscience by James Blish.
I read it not long after it came out in 1958. This science fiction novel is about a Jesuit, Father Ruiz-Sanchez who is sent to, Lithia, a remote planet in another star system. It is in this planet that where his insoluble beliefs and ethics suddenly become in conflict. I have read this novel, at least thrice. It is so good that a few years back (1996) I was startled to find another science fiction novel, The Sparrow, by first time novelist Mary Doria Russell. In it, a Jesuit, Father Emilio Sandoz has flashbacks after an expedition to a planet, Rakhat, in another solar system. There are enough similarities in both books that made me wonder if the latter novel had derived from the other. In a lengthy acknowledgement the author even mentions Dorothy Dunnet (a writer of medieval historical novels) but Blish is not mentioned. It could be just plain coincidence.
In one of the further readings of A Case of Conscience I marked some passages with little plastic stickum tags. These are two that caught my eye:
1. Not that the count was a drone. At last reports, he had been involved in some highly esoteric tampering with the Haertel equations – that description of the space-time continuum which, by swallowing up the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction exactly as Einstein had swallowed Newton (that is, alive) had made interstellar flight possible. Ruiz-Sanchez did not understand a word of it, but, he reflected with amusement, it was doubtless perfectly simple once you understood it. [note by present blogger that all science fiction novels of the 50s had to have something like this with lots of mumbo jumbo to justify faster that light speed ships].
Almost all knowledge, after all, fell into that category. It was either perfectly simple once you understood it, or else it fell apart into fiction. As a Jesuit, even here, fifty light years from Rome – Ruiz-Sanchez knew something about knowledge that Lucien le Comte des Bois-d’Averoigne had forgotten, and that Cleaver would never learn: that all knowledge goes through both [italics by author] stages, the annunciation out of noise into fact, and the disintegration back into noise again. The process involved was the making of increasingly finer distinctions. The outcome was an endless series of theoretical catastrophes.
The residium was faith.
2. A lifetime of meditation over just such cases of conscience had made Ruiz-Sanchez, like most other gifted members of his order, quick to find his way to a decision through all but the most complicated of ethical labyrinths. All Catholics must be devout; but a Jesuit must be in addition, agile.
It struck me as I read the above quotes how science fiction has always inspired me even if I don’t read it much anymore. All this comes to mind as my friend Graham Walker and I were sitting having Earl Grey tea at the Vancouver Public Library last Saturday. I saw a man I had never met come out so I stopped him. “How are you Mr. Robinson?” I asked him. Spider Robinson and I had a longish and most pleasant chat. I mentioned to him that I had discovered an interest in the science fiction books I had read in the 50s and that I was going to try, again to read Theodore Sturgeon’s More Than Human. With a smile and in a gentle voice Robinson said, “I always liked Ted. I met him once. He was a fine writer and I guarantee you will enjoy the book this second time around.”
I cannot but think that More Than Human explores stuff no different, and as challenging in matters of conscience and ethics, from that written by James Blish and Mary Doria Russell. But I also did read More Than Human first and I can only wonder if it will blow me away for the second time.
Link to: More Than Human - A Case of Conscience
A Memorial To Follies Past & Future
When I was a late teenager when I lived in Mexico City I was a fan of frontón, or jai-alai. The Frontón (the building where the game was played) was situated at the Plaza de La Revolución. It was named so because before the Mexican revolution of 1910 when the dictator Porfiro Díaz was finally overthrown he had only managed to build the front entrance of the splendid palace he had planned for himself. Most chilangos (Mexico City inhabitants) would readily agree that the Monumento de La Revolucíon Mexicana is one of the ugliest in the country. What saves it for me and for others is the sheer size of it. It is, if anything, a monumentally large monument.
Putting on my best tie and jacket (the Frontón had strict dress rules) I always went to the game hoping they would let me in as I was a minor and since the game involved gambling we minors were barred from entry. I do not remember being turned back. The frontón needed my entry fee.
I lived in Mexico until 1975 when my New Dublin, Ontario born wife Rosemary persuaded me that our family would be better off in Canada where we would be far away from political corruption, corrupt cops, and a terrible postal system.
It is only in the last ten years that I have come to realize that all that I escaped from in Mexico has spread around the world. It is one of the byproducts of globalization.
While gangsters or drug traffickers are not entering Canadian hospitals to shoot patients, as is happening in Northern Mexico, violence in our fair Vancouver is escalating and one might think twice about eating in a restaurant in Richmond or in East Broadway that serves meals with chopsticks. An equally important warning could be given about parking in a shopping mall, or chain restaurant. We could in Canada use the same arguments that the Mexican government gives, about guns that kill coming from the USA.
In my time in Mexico and in Argentina we used to comment that nobody really intelligent would ever want to be a politician. We would further add that the difference between Mexicans/Argentines and Americans was that Mexicans and Argentines expected politicians to be dishonest while Americans were always disappointed when they found out their politicians were not honest. It would seem to me that Canada, or at the very least we in British Columbia can now feel that same disappointment in finding out how dishonest our politicians are.
Mexicans point out that they have lots of patience and tolerance for injustice. It took until 1810 to eject the Spaniards and then it wasn't until 1910 that dictators were history, too. It is now 2010 and violence is again gripping Mexico. Will it take another 100 years for violence to diminish?
I ask the above question because I ask myself how much more do we have to be exposed to the questionable practices of our current British Columbia (hush money is the latest scandal) politicians before we cry, in unison, “ Enough!”
No, this is not a rant in the classic sense. It is about a smaller matter that might be considered insignificant and yet it only proves that my Vancouver of 2010 may be no different from my Mexico City of 1975.
Argentines like to complain about their politicians and bureaucrats and like to use the epithet prepotente (which means a lot more than arrogant and high-handed). What it means is that someone in power exercises it without regard to those below (and not so powerful) simply because they can.
In the last few years I have noticed how more politicians, Crown Corporations, City Hall Planning Committees, have circumvented normal democratic channels to give us more of what we distinctly do not want. I need not go further than the virtual explosion of gambling or the building of laudable bike lanes in which minutes after the authorization had been pushed through, trucks were ripping up pavement and setting up barriers.
The insignificant event of which I write above I wrote something about back in March 31, 2006. You can seek that blog or read below:
When architect Frank Allen's Terry Fox Memorial, at the foot of Robson and Beatty Street, was inaugurated in 1984, it instantly became Vancouver's most hated structure. Could it be too small to reflect Terry Fox's huge feat? Nearby BC Place Stadium also dwarfs the structure. The monument is now mostly forgotten, even though there are many positive aspects to it. I met and photographed Frank Allen a bit later. He stuck to his guns and stayed in town in spite of the terrible and long media campaign against his memorial. Allen had a tidy little office somewhere on West 14th or 15th Avenue, just West of Granville. In the garden he had one of the fibre glass lions, that was the model for the four that grace each of the memorial's corners. I like to think of them as our city lions. There is another lion on the top floor balcony of the Marine Building but that is another story. In the memorial arch walls there are two, 5ft by 18 ft, steel etchings. One is based on the iconic photograph of Terry Fox running and the other is a map of Canada showing his cross country route. I happen to know the artist on whose pointillist style drawings the etchings are based. He is Ian Bateson. Ian has never believed in participating in fashionable or popular projects that might further his career. He believes in following his heart and his principles. As for the gentle Frank Allen I have no idea where he might be.
I took the memorial photograph here in one shot. I used a Pentax MX with a 15mm rectilinear wide angle lens and Kodak Tri-X. The beautiful Maddalena Di Gregorio placed her hand near my lens and I used a tiny flash. I kept the shutter open for 35 seconds at f-5.6. I processed the film in Perfection Micrograin using the technique called extended range night photography.
Today in my Vancouver Sun I read that the Terry Fox Memorial is going to be torn down. The article did not bother to mention the most beautiful double steel etching which was a contribution of my friend designer and illustrator Ian Bateson. Without the map of Terry Fox’s intended journey and the fine pointillist illustration of the brave young man, the monument in itself would have been meaningless.
My friend, architect Abraham Rogatnick, who died last year, rather liked the monument. We spoke often of it. We both liked the projection system that it had (it worked for a few months after it was inaugurated in 1984. Special projectors showed images of British Columbia. We both agreed that the problem with the monument was more the fact that it was not monumentally large enough and it was lost in comparison the huge BC Place Stadium that was so near. We both agreed that walking through the monument, the 18ft height of Bateson’s steel etchings was a thrill.
The Vancouver Sun article by Jeff Lee revealed that Warren Buckley, the president and CEO of PavCo (BC Pavilion Corporation) has informed us (through the Sun, I presume) that the memorial is going to be torn down to facilitate renovation of the Terry Fox Plaza as part of the $563-million revitalization of BC Place. This is what shocked me when I read the piece:
He [Buckley] said he discussed the matter with the Fox family, which agreed to allow the memorial to be removed and replaced with something designed by Coupland, who wrote a 2005 fundraiser book about Terry Fox and had designed a Fox Memorial in Toronto.
By any definition the actions of the BC Pavilion Corporation are a clear case of good old Latin American “prepotencia”. Why ask the citizens of the city? Perhaps the Fox family can also tell us that they have decided that our Vancouver Airport should be called The Terry Fox Memorial Airport and that the new Terry Fox Memorial Airport Logo will be designed by the multitasking, peripatetic typographer Douglas Coupland.
The Monumento de La Revolución has served Mexicans as a reminder of a dictarship of the past and the folly of a man who in his “prepotencia” did as he pleased until Mexicans finally lost their patience. The tearing down of the Terry Fox Memorial to me seems like a future reminder on how democracy in our city and province is in a decline. Luckily it is still safe to be in a Vancouver hospital so I will not be moving back to Mexico in the next while.
The photographs here of the Monumento de La Revolución are by Mexican photographer Héctor García. The photograph of Terry Fox on the steel etching is by Ian Bateson. In the second photograph by Héctor García the Mexican populace perched on the equine statue, they are doing so on the shoulders of Carlos IV of Spain. This monument was called El Caballito for many years and it was eventually moved to a less prominent position. Few in Mexico would hold any affection for the long dead Spanish monarch.
There is a lesson to be learned in the move of El Caballito. The monument was not destroyed. In its different location it serves to remind anybody who may be interested of the follies of men from the past who thinking that because of their prepotencia they could rule forever. I believe that the Terry Fox Monument should be moved but certainly not destroyed. Some memories have to be kept.
Link to: A Memorial To Follies Past & Future
A Face
I do believe that the most beautiful woman I ever photographed was a woman of Finnish extraction called Lisa Montonen. When I met her she was hanger on with Vancouver’s then beautiful crowd. One day she decided to enter a beauty competition that was held at the Drake Strip Bar. It was odd to see women keep their clothes on (it was oddly erotic) as they paraded their bodies on the platform of the bar. Lisa did not win and she was in tears. I attempted to comfort her by telling her that the other women were all very pretty but that only she was beautiful. She never did understand.
Some weeks ago as I was taking my granddaughter Rebecca to watch a laser show of Pink Floyd’s The Wall at the Planetarium she told me, “Papi I am depressed because a boy at school told me I was kind of pretty.”
I realized that she was living a moment similar to Lisa Montonen’s. We live in a time when all those women who appear in Hollywood films all seem to have the same perfect features and the same hair. The only one of them all that intrigues me is Lady Gaga because you can really never see her face. She is almost a mystery.
I tried to explain to Rebecca that her own face has a complexity and not that stamped-out uniformity of so many beautiful women of our times. I told her about such stars as Gene Tierney, Monica Vitti, and my ever favourite Charlotte Rampling and Molly Parker. I think I may have gotten through to Rebecca. I am aware that at age 13 how one is seen by others is far more important than in our later years. I further told her that her friend might just be a bit more perceptive than most when he called her "kinda pretty".
Meanwhile I enjoy taking pictures of that face.
Link to: A Face
Fractals & Three Mandelbrots
I first encountered fractals in William Gibson’s 1996 novel Idoru. In it a smart young woman decides to look her best and to furnish her house as best she can in order to look good for a video conference with a woman in the Far East. She purchases designer clothing and furnishes her house with the best. But should anybody have been present as she faced her computer with its 1996 soon to be as common as Osterizers, her webcam you might have noticed that she would have either been wearing nothing or nothing to write home about. Her living room would have been shabby or just plain. Gibson in 1996 was predicting that some day we will dress up with make-believe dress up clothing that is 100% virtual.
But had you been spying behind the woman in the Far East in the two-way video communication you would have admired the dress and makeup and the look of the living room she was viewing. You might have noticed little important details like the not-brand-new but lived in and comfortable (but expensive) sofa. The room, with a thin coat of dust, here and there, and the sofa with creases in the right places would have made the room look authentic. Something called fractals would have added the dust and the creases. The fractals in some way made digital perfection more perfect by making it less so. Sort of, like Ivory’s 99 44/100% pure soap – this side of perfection, perfection.
The man who invented and coined the word fractals, a new class of mathematical shapes whose uneven contours could mimic the irregularities found in nature, Benoît Mandelbrot died this past Thursday. He was 85.
When I read his most interesting career in the obituary of the New York Times I thought of another Mandelbrot I had met in my past, more precisely sometime in April of 1999.
The man whose real name was Stephen Osborne is the editor of Geist the Vancouver intellectual/art magazine. He was very pleased to be my photographic subject for a Georgia Straight article. Pleased enough that he sent me a signed copy of his very nice book of essays, Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the new World. Mr. Osborne also founded Pulp Press Book Publishers which became Arsenal Pulp Press one of the few publishing firms left in Vancouver. He confessed to me that he was an amateur photographer and that when he published or someone published his photographs he used the name Mandelbrot.
A few years after I sent queries about contributing to his magazine. I never did receive a reply. It would seem that the amateur Mandelbrot did not want an amateur writer Mandelbrot writing for Geist! Years later I sent queries to that other Vancouver arts magazine, The Vancouver Review. This time I received a satisfactory (in that my existence was at least acknowledged) rejection that my writing was not the type of writing pursued by the publication.
To this day I treasure a pleasant letter (it did have some praise) of rejection from Bill Bufford who was editor of Granta in the 80s. If only I could apply some fractals to what I write and modify its lack of perfection. I could achieve a potential Ivory.
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An Old Soldier & The Perfect Model
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-by.
General Douglas MacArthurs at Joint session of Congress, April 19, 1951
In 1978 I read William Manchester’s American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964. Reading about Douglas MacArthuur was like reading about an old friend. On my mother’s side of the family most had either been born or lived in the Philippines. I had an aunt Pilar de Irureta Goyena (my grandmother Dolores de Irureta Goyena often described her , diplomatically though euphemistically, “She dresses like a man and rides like a man.”) who in a visit to Vancouver in the late 80s showed me a photograph in which she posed by a beautiful horse and the handsome General who was giving her a riding trophy. My Aunt Pilar was very proud of that occasion. Many others in the family had their own MacArthur stories. I learned fast that unless you had a good press agent (as MacArthur had) and made sure that right people were there when you uttered such important stuff as “I shall return,” you would never be noticed through your brief passage through human affairs on our blue planet.
In the 80s and 90s I had in Vancouver (a small blue pond in the realm of universal human affairs) a fair amount of fame as a good photographer. If some famous personality were to come to town all I had to do to secure a photographic sitting was to call the press agent. As things stand right now I don’t even know how to get in touch with those press agents. Luckily my ambition to get that shot is no longer an imperative and I am content to do as a small MacArthur and just fade away like a badly fixed photographic print. But it sometimes hurts when I ask to photograph someone and I am denied without much of an explanation. In my profession you are only as good as your last photograph. That photograph cannot be a Time cover in the 80s or a photograph of William Gibson in Vanity Fair in the 90s. It has to be something now. But styles such as mine are in the wane and there is a clamor for paparazzi type portraits that are taken as a fly on the wall or simply on the fly. That has never been my style at all. A portrait on the fly will never really have a personal style, one’s stamp. It will simply be a snap of Justin Bieber emerging from the Vancouver Airport. It will be a photograph with a short time value.
So I do get melancholy at times when I am unable to get people to pose for me. “I am not ready for photographs yet,” they say to me. “Maybe in a few years,” will I be alive when that happens? While all this goes on I am most aware that a photographer has to take photographs to be one. One cannot expect to progress as one, from past (and fading) files.
I am happy to report that I have a plan B. My plan B is my granddaughter Rebecca who is, in my opinion, (perhaps to be taken lightly as it is that of a fading photographer) is the perfect model. In New York or even in Toronto she would be able to support her parents.
She is high strung like a cat and when I photograph her I can feel her energy. I can call her up and tell her of ideas and she will listen, after a bit of protest. Or, as I did on Saturday when I told her, “In 30 minutes I would like to take some tight portraits of you in the living room. You can perhaps do your hair as you like and do whatever with makeup. Here are two for your perusal.
Thanks to Rebecca I can still call myself a photographer even though I may not be an archival one.
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Connaught Place, CP, Garlic Bread, Pizza, sbarro
By Nikita Saxena
Nestled cosily in a warm corner of N Block, Connaught Place, Sbarro is set to delight all kinds of pizza lovers alike with its varied, sumptuous menu of pizzas, other Italian dishes and desserts. I recently had the opportunity to visit its most recent outlet in the National Capital Region of Delhi, and was warmly given a tour of the place by Jayant, Sbarro’s manager of marketing of the North and East regions of the country. Sbarro currently has one more outlet in HUDA City Centre, Gurgaon, which opened on the 4th of October this same year.
Sbarro dates back to as far as 1956, beginning as the brainchild of Italian immigrants Genarro and Carmela Sbarro, who journeyed from Naples, Italy to New York, U.S.A. The two established their first Italian restaurant, “Salumeria”, in the locale of Brooklyn. Now, Sbarro, currently headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the leading international pizza quick serving restaurants, with a thousand outlets worldwide in more than thirty-four countries. In India, Sbarro is franchised by Jyoti International Foods Private Limited, which is headed by Mr. Akhil Puri.
I soon sat down with Rahul Gladwin Massey, the head chef, who wasted no time in giving me the veritable walkthrough through the elaborate menu, and little unknown interesting facts that are otherwise unknown to most. The menu, which like in all other Sbarro branches all over the world, follows 60% of the original menu with a few modifications made in order to suit the Indian palate. Such modifications include inclusion of ethnic flavours, such as tandoori and tikka, and the replacement of beef and pork by chicken in most pizza variants, the exception being pepperoni pizza. Rahul also told me that Sbarro believes that an excellent pizza must always be served fresh and piping hot, and then explained all the rigorous rules they followed to maintain this standard.
Fresh dough is made every day in the store, adhering to the strict guidelines of shelf life, as well as fresh sauce, which is manufactured from imported tomatoes. A major distinguishing feature that sets Sbarro apart is their use of 100% dairy cheese, which leads their products to have a lesser shelf life, but more flavour, as opposed to other pizza chains that use 40% dairy cheese with a mix of other chemical and cooking substitutes. The menu at this outlet has a huge range of pizza slices, with nine New York style pizzas (thin-crusted, but sturdy enough to hold its toppings; a novel way to eat it is by folding it from the middle) that Sbarro is known to specialize in, four pan pizzas (thicker crusts with more bread to appeal to the Indian user), two Chicago deep dish pizzas, eight pastas (which use both spaghetti and penne), three amazing desserts and a plethora of hot and cold beverages to deliciously wrap it up.
The white pizza is an absolute must-have for the cheese lover, with ricotta and mozzarella cheese lavishly spread over a thin crust, and no tomato sauce base, making it a novel one-of-a-kind eating experience. As someone who does not have a natural affinity towards pineapple, the ham and pineapple pizza completely won me over with its perfect blend of minutely diced pineapple and ham pieces wrapped in oodles of melting cheese. A similarly themed offering to watch out for is the cheese pizza, which includes Sbarro’s signature tomato sauce blend.
The mushroom olive pizza is yet another specialty one can find only at Sbarro, with cheesy slices decked heavily only with the aforementioned toppings, for the more exotic and variant pizza eater. According to Rahul, the pepperoni pizza has been a hit with the other NCR outlet as well. Other thin crust pizzas (starting from Rs. 49 onwards a slice) include chicken tikka, which has a classic Mughlai twist to it, supreme, spicy paneer, and vegetable supreme.
The four pan pizzas include veggie delight, paneer supreme, super supreme, and sausage jalapeno. But what really will make you have a wholesome, stuffed-to-the-brim meal, is the new variety of stuffed pizzas Sbarro has introduced here (priced at Rs. 179 a slice, and Rs.1199 a whole pan), which includes vegetable extravaganza, paneer makhani, sausage & pepperoni, and garden style. I had the chicken makhani stuffed pizza, and needless to say, I was blown away by the seamless blend of popular Indian curry flavours and Italian herbs and spices.
Next came the breads, which are bound to fill you right up and leave you rubbing your belly in satisfaction. The garlic bread (priced at Rs. 59) was freshly baked with a light garnishing of finely chopped garlic pieces on the top. Apart from this, I had the sausage & cheese stromboli (priced at Rs. 149), which are pieces of bread stuffed liberally with cheese and in this case, a non-vegetarian filling of chicken sausage pieces. This was followed by a quick tasting of the wide array of Sbarro’s pastas (priced at Rs. 159, and Rs. 179) which are traditionally served with a piece of garlic bread. The saucy sausage pasta was a brilliant gastronomic experience, with light, natural tomato flavours that will make your taste buds reach cloud nine with its sausage pieces of chicken ham dipped in tangy red spaghetti. I also had the arrabiata pasta, which in a surprising but flavourful take, had pieces of corn within the whole dish. Among the white sauce types of pastas, the alfredo parmesan was a wonderful pick, with liberal amounts of dairy cheese and mushrooms that will knock one right off their seats.
Among the beverages, I tasted both the orange and cucumber lemonades (both priced at Rs. 50), each with a refreshing and unique flavour of its own, with the former having a tangy, tantalizing, and sweet taste to it, and the latter having an offbeat, relaxed taste, which would prove to be a hit in the harsh Delhi summer months. The dessert menu was otherworldly, with three dishes to satisfy your sweet tooth. The New York cheesecake was firm, filling, and made with Philadelphia cream cheese. The frosted carrot cake was something to be truly relished, consisting of a soft pastry with a hint of cinnamon and a sizeable frosting of cream cheese. The fudge nut brownies were served hot, and with a dash of hot chocolate sauce, and melted right in the mouth.
Apart from the food, the other best parts of eating at Sbarro were its ambience and its open air kitchen in full view of every customer. With a minimalist theme in black, red, green, and white colours, Sbarro has a setting that will not bear down on you, but only serve to give you the Italian rustic feeling when you sit down to eat. Another bonus point to this outlet was its fire safety standardizations, with many extinguishers and pipelines located at different strategic points in the restaurant area, which is exceptional to find in a restaurant.
Sbarro plans to expand to home delivery soon, as it is expecting a huge turnout in its Connaught Place outlet, as it is in a prime location in the heart of the city. However, I highly recommend everyone to visit Sbarro soon, and have an unforgettable time eating out your favourite Italian dishes.
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INTRODUCING THE NEW RANGE ROVER EVOQUE, THE LUXURY SUV FOR THE CITY AND BEYOND
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The next-generation Range Rover Evoque premiered with a high-energy dynamic display in London’s creative hub
The New Range Rover Evoque sets new standards of refinement, capability and sustainability in the compact SUV segment, created from an all-new vehicle architecture
Featuring a modernist exterior design, with a luxurious technology-rich interior with new materials crafted from eucalyptus, wool and recycled plastics
Available with a range of efficient four-cylinder diesel and petrol engines and Land Rover’s first mild-hybrid electric technology (MHEV)
Range Rover fans, including Guy Ritchie, Richard Madden, Taron Egerton, Luke Evans, Stephen Graham, Edith Bowman and Mollie King attended the reveal and an exclusive Boiler Room X Evoque gig curated by activist and model Adwoa Aboah
Adwoa Aboah stunned at the star-studded launch wearing a specially commissioned dress by designer Ashley Williams, crafted using the responsibly-sourced materials from the Evoque
British Fashion House Mulberry collaborates with Range Rover on a concept travel bag collection using the eucalyptus textile from the Evoque seats
Range Rover partnership with legendary Swiss watch brand Zenith continues, with a 200-piece limited edition, available to buy now
Premium audio company Master & Dynamic presents Range Rover Evoque-inspired limited edition concept wireless earphones
Three-day ‘pop up’ experience will be open this weekend at London’s Truman Brewery for first customers to take a test drive
View the reveal film at YouTube.com/LandRover
Available to order now the New Range Rover Evoque is priced from £31,600* in the UK – View our offers at grange.co.uk
Specify your own vehicle at landrover.com
London, UK, 22 November 2018 – Land Rover’s highly-anticipated luxury compact SUV, the New Range Rover Evoque, has been revealed in London’s creative East End with a high-energy display which saw a number of vehicles driving across digital skylines around the globe.
Gerry McGovern, Land Rover Chief Design Officer, said: “When Range Rover Evoque made its debut back in 2010, it transformed the world of compact SUVs and the new model is set to continue that remarkable journey. This characterful vehicle combines refinement and fun to create that all important emotional reaction that will turn heads and make people smile.”
Having pioneered the luxury compact SUV market, with global sales of over 772,096 and more than 217 international awards, the new Range Rover Evoque is a sophisticated evolution of the original. Combining unrivalled Range Rover heritage with cutting-edge technology – designed, engineered and manufactured in Britain – it meets the needs of today’s customers. Tech firsts include ‘see through bonnet’ technology and a rear-view mirror that turns into an HD screen displaying a camera feed of what’s behind the vehicle.
Nick Rogers, Executive Director, Product Engineering, Jaguar Land Rover, said: “Underneath the skin is an engineering and technical revolution. The architecture is all-new to accommodate both plug-in and mild hybrid systems, with only the door hinges remaining unchanged on the body. The new chassis makes the most of the stiffer body, ensuring the characteristic ride comfort and refinement of a Range Rover.
“Evoque is now smarter than ever. The software that sits behind our infotainment system has been refined to provide a more intuitive customer experience. On top of that, we’ve added Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for seamless smartphone integration.”
Land Rover also collaborated with a number of fashion and technology brands to bring the design, innovation and sustainability characteristics of the New Range Rover Evoque to life.
British activist and model Adwoa Aboah wore a specially commissioned dress designed by Ashley Williams, crafted using the vehicle’s suedecloth textile. This interior textile is made from recycled polyester microfibres, from items such as plastic bottles – in fact the equivalent of 53 plastic bottles go into each vehicle specified with these seats.
British luxury brand Mulberry has created a travel collection inspired by the new Range Rover Evoque SUV. The Weekender bag is quilted with the car’s grille pattern using the same sustainably-sourced Eucalyptus material featured on the car’s interior. Available in Large and Small, there are two colour options: Ebony fabric with Ebony leather trim, or Ebony fabric with Oxblood leather trim – both are accompanied by a matching key fob. The concept collection is not yet available to buy, but customers can register their interest at www.mulberry.com/range-rover
Premium audio company, New York-based Master & Dynamic, created two bespoke concept Range Rover Evoque x Master & Dynamic MW07 Wireless Earphones. Each pair is made from handcrafted acetate inspired by the launch colours of the New Range Rover Evoque, featuring a bespoke grille pattern in copper and silver accents. The wireless earphones connect via Bluetooth to personal devices and are housed in a polished stainless steel wireless charging case to deliver the ultimate mobile listening experience. For more information visit www.masteranddynamic.com
The latest Zenith watch from the DEFY Classic collection was specially co-developed by design and technical engineering teams working in close harmony. The 200-piece limited edition is a combination of unmistakable elements drawn from its automotive inspiration, from the colour to the design itself. The Range Rover Evoque Zenith watch is available to buy now through Zenith’s retail network or limited Land Rover dealerships from early 2019.
Fans can follow the story using #LiveForTheCity or #HelloEvoque or by visiting landrover.com/liveforthecity/
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With Age, Wisdom
With respect to the two words “general welfare,” I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.
— James Madison
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Queens Makes History
New York City’s Borough of Queens made American history on Tuesday November 3, 2009. It elected the first openly Pagan public official in America. Dan Halloran, who is openly Pagan or Heathen – specifically he’s a Th�odsman – won the race for City Councilman in New York City’s 19th District in northeast Queens.
What seems to come as a jarring shock to many people is that, not only is Dan Halloran a Heathen – his sect prefers that term over Pagan – he’s a Republican.� Mr. Halloran dispelled the entwined myths that Pagans are Liberals and that the GOP is a Christian party.
Halloran won a decisive 52.5 – 47.5% victory over his Democrat opponent, Kevin Kim, in a bitter election struggle in which Kim, his Asian constituents, and the NY Democrat party used every dirty political trick in the book to defeat him.
Chief among these tactics was, of course, to use Halloran’s religion against him. They tried to both scare the Catholics and to paint Th�odism, a Norse-based folkway, as a White Supremacist, Neo-Nazi cult to scare the non-Whites.
In the end the campaign of fear, prejudice, and religious intolerance waged by Kevin Kim and the Democrats failed. Not even allegedly busing in voters from out of the district and possibly out of state was sufficient to secure the 19th District’s NY City Council seat for Kim.
And so it came to pass that the borough of Queens, of all the unexpected places, was the first place in US History to elect an openly Pagan or Heathen public official.
Now the Pagan community is being forced to reassess who it’s members are, since they’ve been axe slapped with a fact that they had largely heretofore refused to see – that we’re not all, or even mostly, Liberals and/or Democrats. And now the people of America are going to have to reassess just who makes up the GOP and the Conservative movement; it’s not just the Christian Right and never has been just them.
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 1:32 pm and is filed under Politics, Religion. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
5 Responses to “Queens Makes History”
Personal Failure Says:
That’s like UNRR, a fellow atheist blogger who is a far right conservative. It’s a little odd, but no group is without its outliers.
jonolan Says:
You’d be surprised at how many Pagans are also Conservatives. Halloran isn’t really an outlier; he’s just one of many.
Also, you in particular might be surprised at how many Agnostics and Atheists are politically Conservative and often quite far to the Right.
In both cases, since the myth is that they’re outliers or oddities, they tend to keep to themselves more than the Pagans and Atheists who “fit the mold.”
zhann Says:
Jonolan, I have always been curious, what faith do you follow/practice? I have seen you mention that you are Pagan, but I have never caught your belief.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:03 am
zhann,
I’m primarily a follower of Morr�gu and Cernunnos, though I offer prayers to other Gods and Goddesses as seems appropriate given any singular set of circumstances. Essentially I follow the ways of Celtic Paganism with a strong leaning towards Celtic Traditionalism. You might say that I’m a Fundamentalist Pagan. 😉
Not too surprisingly to anyone who’s interacted with me, I follow the Warrior’s path.
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The latest yogaplazasul.com from the decade-old Pyramid group is Pyramid Digital. Launched in November of last year, the company moved into new premises in Byfleet with its two UK installation firsts – the Scitex XLjet 3m grand-format inkjet printer and the superior finishing capabilities of the Miller Weldmaster 112 Sign & Billboard finishing system.
For most companies getting to grips with the machines would have been the undeniable first priority. For Pyramid, explains director Justin Murray, the first problem for the new enterprise was the building. Untouched for forty years, the rebuilding and restoration work was far greater than anyone had anticipated.
Indeed on the company’s press open day last year, there were still some hidden no go areas and the definite whiff of fresh paint!
The Pyramid group was established by Murray ten years ago, eventually establishing itself in vehicle and fleet graphics. The move into wide-format digital was a natural evolution for the company. “We felt that digital was and is still an expanding market, and therefore could accommodate yet another player.” says Murray.
“David Watson from Scitex Vision is a great salesman and a really good guy,” says Murray, “and after comparing print quality at the end of the day he convinced us to go with the XLjet. Being the first in the UK was, we believe an advantage, also the fact that it prints virtually on any media and the price was competitive.”
In addition, Pyramid was turned onto Scitex because, says Murray, of its attitude to environmental issues for the future, for example its work with water-based inks. .
Pyramid has a staff of 13 and mostly everyone can interchange jobs, if the need arises. The company works for trade clients outputting in the main onto PVC and between 20-25 percent of work on self-adhesive and 15 percent on fabrics. Pyramid is working very closely with Spandex and has also formed a close association with Avery.
Bread and butter work includes, as you would expect, banners, vehicle wraps, curtains and building wraps. Going big on digital represented not one, but two learning curves that had to be dealt with simultaneously. Not only did Pyramid have to get to grips with the XLjet, but it had to chart a course in an area of the industry it wasn’t very familiar with – which as Murray says, turned out to be harder than anticipated.
What Murray also learned in the beginning that wastage of materials wasn’t in the 5-7 percent zone but in the region of 25-30 percent. In addition, he is keen to point out that more education is required in the migration of solvents. “Ideally,” he says, “you need a good 24 hour drying time when printing on self adhesive vinyl with solvents and to help speed this process up we have fabricated the UK’s first solvent migration cabinet to accelerate the migration.”
To compliment its grand-format print output, Pyramid went straight in for the kill purchasing an open-frame Miller Weldmaster 112 finishing system, enabling it to offer specialist finishing to other grand-format providers. Miller Weldmaster, recognised as the leader in the development in hot air sealing technology, uses a unique combination of heat pressure and speed along with exclusive vacuum holding technology to create durable and inconspicuous seals and seams very quickly.
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Release Day Blitz: Dirty Kisses (3:AM Kisses #10) by Addison Moore
Posted September 13, 2016 by bookstobreathe in Book Blitz/Promo, New Release / 0 Comments
Title: Dirty Kisses
Author: Addison Moore
Series: 3:AM Kisses #10
Publisher: Hollis Thatcher Press Ltd
Genre: Erotic Romance, New Adult, Romantic Comedy
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Jet Madden is notoriously good in bed. It’s not a fact I can confirm through experience, but, according to the lust-driven grapevine at Whitney Briggs University, he’s a sexual force to be reckoned with—many, many times in a single savory night.
The day my world crashes around me, I’m shuttled off to live with the ratted, tatted, roided-up hulk. Regardless of the fact, I’ll do anything to keep my distance from that egotistical, giant ball of muscles. The last thing I want is to become another notch on that totem pole of seduction he keeps tucked in his pants. The very last thing I want is to befriend or, God forbid, fall for Hollow Brook’s resident wick dipper.
But that sheet rock chest, those steel cut abs—a girl can only hold up her resistance for so long before she slowly goes insane. I’m trying to resist him, really I am, but I have to see if those rumors are true.
Each night I dream of falling asleep in Jet Madden’s arms, and each day I pretend as if I loathe his existence. It’s all a lie. We’re a lie. Staying away from Jet Madden is proving impossible. My body demands to collide with his, even if all it will ever amount to is our dirty little secret.
Dirty Kisses.
He’s afraid to get too attached.
She’s afraid of losing control.
Series: 3:AM Kisses
Genre: Erotic NA Romantic Comedy
3:AM Kisses (3:AM Kisses #1)
Baya Brighton is looking forward to her first year at Whitney Briggs University, new friends, dorm life, and finally being close to her brother again. Love is the last thing on the list, but when Baya meets her brother’s roommate she begins to have thoughts and feelings that make even her blush.
Bryson Edwards has a secret he prefers buried in the past and long forgotten. He keeps himself busy with the important things, loose girls, fast cars, and long nights working at the string of bars his family owns. When his roommate’s sister shows up on the scene, she’s far too innocent and sweet for him but he can’t shake Baya out of his mind and worse, it looks like she’s seeping into his heart as well.
Baya seems determined to show her brother she’s not a little kid and equally determined to use Bryson’s body to prove her point. It’s been made pretty clear that Baya is off limits to Bryson but their undeniable sparks explode into a whole lot more than just a few 3:AM Kisses.
Winter Kisses (3:AM Kisses #2)
Ryder Capwell crushed her heart. When Laney is auctioned off as a prize at the drama department fundraiser the last person she expects to trade cold hard cash for her company is Ryder.
Laney Sawyer used to believe in love and all of the trappings that happily ever after could provide until Ryder Capwell is in love with Laney Sawyer. One year ago she walked out of his life and took the light of his world right along with her. Ryder would do anything to have another chance with Laney, including purchasing her for the evening courtesy of Whitney Briggs University, and he does just that.One thing leads to whiskey, which leads to a one-night stand. She thinks it’s revenge sex–he thinks its make-up sex. Things can only go wrong from here.
Sugar Kisses (3:AM Kisses #3)
Roxy Capwell couldn’t be more miserable. She just had her heart stomped on by her cheating boyfriend, and the last thing she’s looking for is love. She hates men. Cole Brighton couldn’t be happier. He’s a player of the highest order, there’s not a girl at Whitney Briggs University that he can’t tag and bag. He loves the ladies.
Roxy’s dream is to own and operate her own bakery one day, but with no oven in her dorm, and a lucrative baking competition on the horizon, she agrees to move in with her best friend’s brother, the obnoxious, womanizing, Cole Brighton.
Between the heavenly scent of baked goods, and Roxy’s perfect body strutting around the apartment, Cole can’t think straight. So when Roxy’s ex starts sniffing around again, Cole volunteers to play the part of her new boy-toy and things get heated both in and out of the kitchen.
Roxy discovers she might not hate every man on the planet, and Cole discovers nothing tastes better than Roxy and her late night SUGAR KISSES.
Roxy is a ball of stress and anger.
Cole is all ego and sex.
Their attraction is unstoppable.
Whiskey Kisses (3:AM Kisses #4)
Izzy Sawyer has always been the it girl. She believes she’s the last person on earth who deserves a happily ever after. Holt Edwards has always been the player that women voluntarily fall to their knees for.
When it comes to love, Holt doesn’t believe in fairy-tale endings. Once Izzy dives back into the dating pool, Holt is right there, ready and willing to offer tips and tricks to get her through an entire army of blind dates–starting with a bone-melting demonstration on how to deliver mouthwatering kisses.
One thing leads to whiskey and Izzy is starting to think happily ever after doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. Holt is starting to rethink his stance on fairy-tale endings. But Izzy has a secret that has turned her world upside down. Holt has a secret of his own that cost him far more than he ever bargained for.
Sometimes life doesn’t give you the happily ever after. Sometimes it’s best to leave fairy-tale endings on the bookshelf where they belong. Izzy can’t stop thinking about Holt. Holt can’t seem to quit his favorite new addiction–Izzy.
The mercury is rising–secrets are percolating–and their lust for one another is just about to detonate.
Izzy needs just one more hit of Holt and his late night Whiskey kisses, but deep down she knows that will never be enough. She wants all of him–every bone-melting kiss he has to offer.
Izzy wants Holt.
Holt worships Izzy.
Summer in Hollow Brook just heated up.
Sparks are flying.
Together Izzy and Holt are unstoppably electric.
Rock Candy Kisses (3:AM Kisses #5)
Annie Edwards was born deaf, but she’s never let that define her. She’s settling in as a freshman at Whitney Briggs University, loves her dorm, her roommate, her classes, but something feels as though it’s missing—enter Blake Daniels. He’s everything Annie is not—a rocker, a player, a college dropout.
Her friends want to sleep with him, her brothers want to kill him, and all Annie wants is a chance to see where her heart takes her. As the lead singer of 12 Deadly Sins, Blake has had his fair share of rock candy. But Annie has taken over his body, his mind, his heart—three things he’s never lost control of before.
Often first love and first heartbreak go hand in hand.
Sometimes the thrill of one is worth risking the other.
Velvet Kisses (3:AM Kisses #6)
Marley Jackson has an axe to grind with the entire male population. After having her heart brutally broken, she’s out to prove to herself, and the world, that a woman only needs one thing from a man—and it isn’t love.
Wyatt James isn’t interested in anything that resembles a commitment. He’s self-made, secure, and happy to entertain a one-night stand any day of the week—enter Marley. Marley quickly dispels the idea that she’s anybody’s one-night stand. What Marley has in store for Wyatt is far more complex and requires a binding contract to back it. Marley and Wyatt aren’t in it for love.
Marley is looking to glean some expertise in the bedroom. Wyatt is looking to find some solace after a string of nameless faces that have rocked his bed. But when feelings change, and that four-letter word takes ahold of both their hearts, they’re left to face the fact they might be in deeper than either of them thought possible.
Marley and Wyatt smolder beneath the sheets. She’s eager to learn—yet, bossy as hell. He’s eager to lay down one hard lesson after the other, yet determined to save her from herself. Sometimes heartbreak is the greatest teacher. Sometimes it leads you into the arms of the one you belonged with right from the start.
Wild Kisses (3:AM Kisses #7)
Piper thinks Owen Vincent is a tool. Once they finish up with their internship, she never wants to see him again.
Piper James’ first year at Whitney Briggs is starting off great, new friends, a potential sorority, and plenty of guys to choose from. Once she secures a spot in Alpha Chi, she’ll have the greatest freshman year on record. But it just takes one look at the Alpha Chi “hit list” of things she needs to do to get in and she know there’s trouble—and trouble’s name is Owen Vincent.
Taming a player sounds impossible. Owen is the only player she knows and he certainly fits the bill, cocky, too many notches to count on his bedpost, and an aversion to relationships. Making Owen believe she wants him is pretty low, even if this entire fling is just a means to an end. But now she can’t stop thinking about him. Yeah, he thinks he’s God’s gift to women, but now a part of her is kind of starting to agree. Girls are still dripping all over him like honey. Piper thinks there’s no way he’d be interested in a commitment with her. Maybe Alpha Chi isn’t what she wants. Maybe it’s Owen?
It’s a brand new year at Whitney Briggs and things are about to get wild.
Country Kisses (3:AM Kisses #8)
I fell hard for Cade the moment I met up with those bedroom eyes of his, but it’s not my heart I’m interested in gifting him.
Cade James is my best friend’s brother, well bred and well bed. To him I’m just another plaything, but I can’t blame him for that. I’m not much to look at, and there’s not a man on the planet that would be willing to make me his own.
But Cade is pulling me deeper, asking questions, wanting to know what makes me tick–wanting to know who gave me the scar that takes up the landscape over half my face.Cade wants far more than what I’m willing to give him.
If I let him in, let him into the most sacred chamber of my heart, I might end up with a wound far greater than the one that left that scar.
The wound Cade James has the power to inflict could never heal.
Forbidden Kisses (3:AM Kisses #9)
Rex Toberman is obnoxious and pretentious. So what if he’s the star quarterback? So what if my father is dating his mother? I can’t wait until he’s out of my life for good. The day our parents announce their impending wedding becomes the worst day of my existence. Not only has Rex cemented himself in my social circle, but he’s about to cement himself into my family.
I don’t trust his mother. And I don’t want anything to do with her egotistical, womanizing son, but deep down the only way to get rid of them both is to do something unimaginable with Rex himself. I’m playing with fire, dancing in the flames of his wicked grin, and soon enough I’m melting. The last thing I want is to become another victim of Rex Toberman’s egotistical, womanizing ways.
But there’s something about those bedroom eyes, that lewd smile, that body made of steel I cannot resist. Yes, getting rid of my soon-to-be stepbrother is tougher than I ever imagined—especially now that I never want him to leave.
Stolen Kisses (3:AM Kisses #11)
Coming November 13th!
Tall, tatted, and drop dead gorgeous? Grant Jones is sex on a stick —which explains why every female at Whitney Briggs University gravitates in his direction. Every girl wants to bed him, and every guy wants to be him. Grant is the whole package, and I cannot wait to do a little unwrapping.
Ava is the most beautiful girl I have ever laid eyes on. But I’ve tried relationships, and they don’t work out for me. The truth is, I’ve never let the deep wound of losing my sister, Steph, heal properly. I’m taking a break from relationships to mend my heart the right way.
But Ava isn’t giving up. She’s sweet, and fun, and that soul melting smile of hers gets me every time. Maybe letting Ava in will be far more healing than trying to do this on my own. Stephanie would want me to be happy. I know she would.
And just as soon as a ray of happiness enters my world, I’m faced with the crushing truth about who Ava really is. Instead of healing, I’ve managed to split my heart wide open. The devastating truth is, Ava and I were never meant to be in the same room—let alone spend a lifetime together. Unless another twist of fate intervenes, our time together will never amount to more than a few Stolen Kisses.
About Addison Moore
Addison Moore is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author who writes contemporary and paranormal romance. Her work has been featured in Cosmopolitan magazine. Previously she worked for nearly a decade as a therapist on a locked psychiatric unit. She resides with her husband, four wonderful children, and two dogs on the West Coast where she eats too much chocolate and stays up way too late. When she’s not writing, she’s reading.
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About: 1962 Los Angeles State Diablos football team
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The 1962 Los Angeles State Diablos football team represented Los Angeles State during the 1962 NCAA College Division football season. Los Angeles State competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by twelfth-year head coach Leonard (Bud) Adams. Coach Adams had been the leader of the team since the school started playing intercollegiate football in 1951, and this was his last year as head coach. They finished the season with a record of two wins and eight losses (2–8, 0–6 CCAA).
The 1962 Los Angeles State Diablos football team represented Los Angeles State during the 1962 NCAA College Division football season. Los Angeles State competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by twelfth-year head coach Leonard (Bud) Adams. Coach Adams had been the leader of the team since the school started playing intercollegiate football in 1951, and this was his last year as head coach. They finished the season with a record of two wins and eight losses (2–8, 0–6 CCAA). (en)
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